The major of ‘s Gravenhage has forbidden a large demonstration for Universal Suffrage and Voting Rights on the grounds that the Medical Inspector did not consider it desirable, at this time when cholera threatens us, to gather a great multitude of persons from all parts of the country!
(Abraham Prikkie’s op- en aanmerkingen, Rotterdam, 1892)
BRAM: “Halt, Royal Quartermaster! The law applies to all of us!”
ROYAL QUARTERMASTER: “The laws fall silent before weapons and trumpets!”
Sic Transit Pestilentia 