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254 William Butler Yeats
Paul Ruttledge. I think you have something to say,
Colonel Lawley?
Colonel Lawley. I have undoubtedly. I want to
know when law and order are to be reestablished. The
police have been quite unable to cope with the disorder.
Some of them have themselves got drunk. If my advice
had been taken the military would have been called in.
Mr. Green. The military are not indispensable on
occasions like the present. There are plenty of police
coming now. We have wired to Dublin for them, they
will be here by the four o clock train.
Paul Ruttledge. But you have not told me what you
have come here for. Is there anything I can do for
you?
Mr. Green. We have come to request you to go to the
public-houses, to stop the free drinks, to send the people
back to their work. As for those tinkers, the law will
deal with them when the police arrive.
Paul Ruttledge. I wanted to give a little pleasure to
my fellow-creatures.
Mr. Dowler. This seems rather a low form of pleas
ure.
Paul Ruttledge. I daresay it seems to you a little vio
lent. But the poor have very few hours in which to en
joy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they
haven t the time to cook it. Have we not tried sobriety?
Do you like it ? I found it very dull. . . . Think what
it is to them to have their imagination like a blazing tar-
barrel for a whole week. Work could never bring them
such blessedness as that.
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