Whitelaw Reid: “Whatever is done, it would be unreasonable to expect unbroken success or exemption from a learner's mistakes and…”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?