Judge — January 28, 1882 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Nos. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Mormonism Mr. Wat pnts us witha very striking and suggestive cartoon this week on this timely and aggressive subject. ‘Timely, be- cause it is looking us full in the face day: aggressive, because it continues to flaunt, push, and flourish in the eyes of the world a like an unwhole- some fungus on the civilization of the nine- teenth century, We will not say anything about the monstrousness of the e for, of course, everybody not a Mormon admits that it is a disgrace to the age in which we live; butis it not strange that so glaring a smooch on the brow of liberty does not bring out one or more master opposers, as the evil of President Arthur struck the off obnoxious upas tre finish hewing it down. Other Presidents have made suggestions of a like nature, but still nothing has been done, Still the poi Mormonism flourishes; still the shakes his fist score or more sp ver relic of barbarism, growin, and invited Congress to ous tree o} disgusting old Mormon le at law and decency; while hi of “wives” continue in their bondage and degradation, Not only in Utah, but in the ‘Territories, is thi J eancer spreading, and r finds it stronger than before. nd emigration are swelling their numbers from without, and an unnatural inerease, which civilization stamps as illegiti- mate, makes them so much m ous, year by year, that we should be amazed if we only knew the truth, A fev ye of such growth will well nigh enable them to out the threats they have made of openly the reproof of « and the arm of reig re numer: rs me the law, And yet nothing is done towards pricking this Congressmen g social fest ling or gr thing but what the country blushes on account of and demands them to attend to. President Arthu deep, but no Congres ward to t of de Right here Tue Jupee would like to ask one or more questions which he considers ex- ceedingly pertinent, althongh possibly they Ly appes Isthere a man in Congress who has a moral and political record clean enough to come boldly out and attack this evil of Mormonism, about, wra r private axes, engaged in “s axe went scarcely skin ne for- it up and become the champion man has yet ed eney. 0 ra tritle personal, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, Pi a» + | enough and stron; THE JUDGE. ditt ism ev the front? If there i. even if he is such an one, has hi de patriot thus to rd, utriotism, tizh in his composition to me with such es not possess the will not his nate al seltishness prompt him to win immortality. inst Lof perishable dimes and dollars? And still no one rward, no cham- nes add the social stink still rises to snite the face of offended Heaven, Therefi n only conelude that there is not a soli tary member of Co pion a caus not the brains to that their own me rs, we ¢ rress who dares to cham- eney, either because he has » they fear lo so, or be ale them to pple with a moral reform of the Mormon nough to en # thought it is for Whitney's Father-in-law A TALL, elegant gentleman, with a bla mustache and gold-e who wears full evening dress when he attends Dem- cratic gathering her than William C, Whitney, the high and mighty Counsel to the Corporations of the City and County of New York. i clerks rolling i tloor of the Staats Whitney is just now deeply engrossed in are the Democratic nomination of his father-in-law for the Presidency. Strange as it may seem, this father-in-law is an Ohio man—Payne, of Ohio, who is deep in the pment of railroads, and who short time ago ran foul of that prix ilroad wr samuel J. Tilden, In fact, Mr. Whitney hi much engaged in the great Work of bringing w tothe front that when none ¢ has an army of assistants y chairs in the third Zeitung Ymilding. Mr. ning to sect mana been so his loving father-i recently eal to give testim nary department over which the Dock Com- missioners have had such interrupted sway for so many years, he found difficulty in ex- plai said that his It was formerly $15 propr for the last y spartment was in the neighborhood of $60,000, he said. but he did not know whether that included hit not. His memory was painfully deficient concerning like trifles. Tow would it do to have a Corporation Counsel for the at city and county of New York who know something about his office, and who is not pulling wires to make his father-in-law President of the United States? now $12,000 000, The jation expenses of his lary ¢ Thompson's Little Bill. It is understood among statesmen that the bill which Hubert 0, Thompson, the Commissioner of Public Works, and his rapa- ang of heel seed by the Legislature of 1881, but which was vetoed 1 reappearance in Albany this is ostensibly This bill s succeeded in having | wernor Cornell, will make its | or a further supply of water to | the city,” but is, in fret, for a furth nds, and bank 2 of politicians that even "supply of gin, diam ints for weed in his Under ad by it Thompson would have millions of dollar horde worst days would have shrunk tron the power cont at his disposal, and 1 patronage whieh Tweed had would sink into i ance by comparison with that’ which How Thompson expects to suceced any better this year than he did last year is a secret known only to himself, but it will be a year for the tax-payers to keep their eves wide open. Let them pray that Governor Cornell Will not becom the politi¢ Thompson would. control. lrowsy. Asked and Answered. Ur it may may Lhe permitted to int: Why are Jersey luse Raw ask instruction o men called Spaniard Newark, N. J, Ja 12, see. Certainly—and with pleasure. Not heeause they they do not. Not bee speech or courage, for both ar ty. Not be » old and stale x about New y being “out of the "for it never was. Not beeazse of the r quality and character of local mud adhering to the Jerseyman Spain they have no red clay, and the majority of Spaniards The real son why Jerseymen are called Spaniards this: In Spain the contmon form of saiuta- tion is, “How do you stand?” In Jersey (note the similarity of expression!) it is, “What are you going to stand?” Verb, sap. See? uble Spaniards, ti use of either the fthe Duteh boots, for in ave no boots, Ergo. We believe that the old suggested prevent: ive for railroad collisions (making a director ride on the cow-catcher} could be improved upon, We suggest a di the train, tor on each end of It has leaked out that the opposition to a man’s marrying his deceased wife's sister comes from the wives themselves. ‘They somehow think they would live longer if it continues to be illegal for good-looking si: ters to succeed them, Tur exodus of e red people from South Carolina is a queer affair, if we can credit of the newspaper reports, One of them, commenting upon the dark moving cloud, says: ‘No negroes have migrated from South Carolina, There was no good caus why they should go, ud they t article can nd name his and we are gla The writer of th on THE JuD¢ are gone.” have a positi¢ own salary. Tue everlas ul question is up before the people again. It is a sort of ser- pentine nightmare that continually haunts the Empire State. Why not stock it with fish, and let the people have a chance to reap ome benefit from it 7 ‘Tue sniffing around for “tones” has already commenced in many State capitals. comicbooks.com