16 MAY 1908, Page 3

Punch of Wednesday contains a cartoon which proves once more

the extraordinary power possessed by our con- temporary of focussing "the better opinion " of the nation in a joke or "chief cut." The picture shows an elephant marked " Old-Age Pensions," " Uncle Asquith," and a small boy, Johnny Bull, who is possessed of a large bag of buns marked "21,200,000." The boy asks, without enthusiasm, " Will he want all the buns I have got here ? " " Yes, my boy," replies Uncle Asquith, "and all the buns you are ever likely to get." Punch, we freely confess, has put into six lines what we have expressed in a year or more of leading articles. Unquestion- ably the voracity of the pensions elephant will, prove unlimited.