Judge — April 1, 1882 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Ss" “at the insigniti “ments, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, Nos. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. To suascrisers. TERMS, v NoTice: Contribators must pat thelr valuatioa apo the t toa pr red a tnclosed for return pos regain thetr declined arti Modesty in Mourning Witat a mournfal set of creatures our Con- are, to be sure. Whenever there is an occasion for them to go into mourning, they gush! How copious are the deep and genuine the feclings they evince! The bill of seven thousand dollars which has lately been presented on account of the mourning they did for President Garfield is very modest, all things considered, Only about two thou- sand dollars are charged to champagne, ‘“cock- tails,” cigars, and other funeral accompani- Think of it! How could such a body of mourners be expected to drown their sor row ina lesser quantity? We are surprised nce of the sum. And yet gressme how tears, how f2z8ome of our cotemporaries are mean enough Ap 4 to find fault with this modest Congressional “mourning, and they actually call it a shame. “ful debanch, It 'y evident that growlers did not sympathize in the national aflliction, or they would know that a great sor- row like thatealls fe thing bracing, even #n modest men like our Congressmen, is v these som Comstock as a Hypocrite. Tas fellow, Anthony Comstock, is pretty well known by this time asa cheap but dirty tyrant, a sneak and a hypocrite few whose bumps of charity abnormal, shake their heads and intimate that his alleged mental works are not right, seeing that he goes from point to point in such an erratic manner, Charity covers a multitude of sins, but her blanket is not la enough to successfully tuck in Anthony Com: stock. His latest exploit was in connection with a firm of soap¢nakers, Higgins, Brother & Fowler, whom he said were ; while nota © somewhat exactly lating the lottery law, simply offered prizes for those who bought a ¢ number of their cakes of soap, do the same thin bat this disinfecting spy never went for them, either beeau: or were not susceptible of being tain ‘The tea stores Wl to the Soci He n raffles and iotter ause they belon; ion of View. for chureh fi THE JUDGE. Loflices,” and other capturing money Oh, no, the hypocrite kn wo hurches would be defiling inno. from the unw ws that sown nest. But behind it ali there is a reason that is more potent than all others, se parties whom he arrested and sought to restrain are the president of the graces, and natural in the same Dus society that Comstock ¢ ly enough we point of view, and not ina movul one. moral to make soap, but very into opposition with the President of the s ety for the Preventio any enterprise whatever. How much longer will public opinion sus- iety whose officers make use of the 1 to further their How many more times can obnoxious to him in a business It is pmoral to come of Vice, by manifesting tainas pow: own selfish ends? this hypocritical spy, this fellow who borrows the livery of decency to serve the devil show his cards without rousing indignation sufficient to hurl him and his equally hypo- critical associates from the positions where they have not only the power to do so much mischief, but to traduce the good name of lity and reform while working for their own selfish ends, r conferred upon th mo Hudson County Rampant. Tur, Jerseyman’s creed is grab, but he doesn't fancy wholesale plucking roost has to sutler that the nests of railroad be nicely feathered. Hence ud indignation over “Senate Bill No 167." Hence the great ado about the invaded constitutional rights of riparian owners; and hence the big delegation which when his own monopolists 1: the pother (headed by Mayor Taussig, and composed of | the interested freeholders and sore-head fish ers in the Jersey City flesh-pots) waited on Ludlow a few days since, and im- portuned him to veto the aforesaid bill. Fifty odd highly reputable Hudson County gray- beards insist that there's an immense African in the legislative wood-pile, and enter vehie- ment protest against what they make no bones of calling a snide plan toscize the whole river front of their local habitation for the aggran- dizement of divers railroad corpe nor ations, As ‘Tue JupcE makes passing record of this coun- ter-action, it is rumored that the Governor may put on his official embargo, and defeat the bill; but His Honor is much mistaken in the weight of certain influence (known to the initiated ) if Executive Ludlow does anything of the kind, as Hens: is one of the disadvantages of despotic pvernment. A discontented member of the Greek Church in Strumnit an apostate, Before doing so he roundly cursed the hat and beard of the bishop.under whose ¢ astical jurisdiction he had lived, For this scandalous gin he is to undergo trial. How different would have been the case had his discontented Greek Church memb 1 resident of New York. Ur ened form of civil and religions liberty, Turkey, beeame ¢ been ler our enlight- ing the hat and beard or even the breeches of v bishop (like Bishop Snow, for example) may | is plu y indulged in with neither accompany: pe nid most striking proof of our national superiority. pains nor Lowell's Logic A GENTLEMAN, erateur, a builder « ist ps wherever renown asa lit. able verse, a humor whose metrical badinage has made the “Hosea Big known ughter ripples, is, unfortunately and th was nt United States Minister and ordinary to Great Britain, At a most critical juncture in diplomatic Mr. wrong man ina wdonym of ow for himsel ountry in whieh hi born, the pr Envoy Extr attains, dames Russell Lowell proves to be the klish place. be more intent on hob-nobbing with royalty, He seems to and dancing attendance on coteries and drawing-rooms than a of his position, THe Mr. Lowell credit for tional equity, and, an unpatriotic intention to disregard home sentiment the imprisonment of Amer gland by arbitrary Our people come restive, tending to the duties Jupce is willing to give fair knowles Iso, to acquit him of eof in- touching an cit sin E «land think, ul have spoken in now > through their representatives in Con- . The Secretary of State has forwarded instructions to Mr, Lowell which that gentl tit to pr ring to accept British de evidence, and abandon to their fate (with an indifference that is akin to criminal neglect) naturalized citizens of this Republic, whose zeal in a cause where patriotism with discretion, has placed them within the grasp of the English constabula Mr. La ell may selfishly reason that he can better ent ploy his time than by attending to the inter. ests of the nation he sign: but at will result in a collapse of his home popularity ‘They have man has sec ver wars ly mi it isa Ira school for dramatic art is founded in America, where will a competent tutor 1 und for Booth, Barrett, McCullough, and similarly aspiring “amateurs” in the If Ed Harrigan were not s ged in the high tragedy busi- ness, we would suggest his being employ their instructor. Ir the Rev. Joe Cook s1 tempt to hold the world down in India, he will find more business of the sam ing for him in ) ceeds in his at ort in wait- But t the is quite another and sw Jersey on his retur it is only fair to give him warning Barnegat Sand irate different sort of person from the contemplative Par: of nil) nd rather a more difficult er to wrestle with, also, But Rev. ky, and that’s half the battle. cus RaTHER late in the day, but better late than never, is the proposition to er ument to Miles O'Reilly. Miles was once an English subject: but he wasn't a spy—neith Ergo: Cyrus W. ta mon- was he hanged. Wan not apply. comicbooks.com