Judge — June 17, 1882 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, 34 and 36 North Moore Street, N.Y. VUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrren Stare axb Caxatns BUSHING Co, 34 amd 34 N NoTIcE: st put their valuat ct toa price we may ourselves x), they will “das gratul sel for return postage, with nat wish (o regain their declined articles, Speaker Keifer's Mallet. Ip Speaker Keifer, of the National Mouse of Representatives, would come to New York, and consult with the chairmen of political rganizations here, he might which would be of service to | tempts to establish order in the body over which he is making such disastrous attempts to pre Beatinga desk into splinters with a 20-pound mallet will never do the work he ‘ks to smplish. We most respectfully | him to John J. O'Brien, Hubert 0. Thompson, John Kelly and Henry D. Purroy, | FNew York, and venture the prediction that er a careful study of their tactics that he can get if we may be et some points nin his at. | ide. the drop on the boys,” pardoned for referring to. our repre: sentatives in Congress as ‘ bo Drop the | mallet, Mr. Speaker, and follow THe Jupce’s ivice, and the frowns of members will soon give way to smiles, and their jecrs will fade | that would charm the most in- | den in the land. ugust into lan hocent mé The Chinaman’s Reply ‘Tur double-page cartoon which we present | this week is no fancy picture, but one that ean be seen almost any day at Castle Garden, the landing place of thousands of immigrants from 'y quarter of the globe. Tuk Jupce visited that abode of cosmopoli- tan smells the other day, and beheld the swarms of the scum that the Old World is vomiting into the lap of the Western hemi- sphere. , American, proud of his country and hopeful for her future greatne it was not a it calculated to swell his heart with pride. Ot course the general idea is that all should be welcome to our shores; that the land of liberty should be the refuge of th an poor, op pressed, and down-trodden of the earth. This is a poetic ideal, but is there not danger in allowing it to too far? This m of Europe, Asia, and parts of Afr being thrust upon us at an alarming Mii able Italians and still inferior Russian and THE JUDGE. Polish Jews are coming here by the steamer | load. ‘They were good for nothing in the | lands they then come from; they have proved Ives to be social and political nuisances and | The rulers of the countries tl come from were glad to get rid of them, In some inst ed them out of their domains, willing to have them go anywhere away from them: sts. ances they fi nd can any rational being believe that they will be any better here? A stream of water never rises higher than its and what is there here tot rant, clannish people rise above the d radation in which they have willin, voluntarily wallowed for centuries upon een. | turies? Mud may be lost and not taint a lai river—that is to say, certain quantities of it may not; but if enough of it is thrown even into the Mississippi it will in time not only destroy its purity, but choke up its channels and turn its current in other directions. mares ke an ‘The mud of the Old World is being dumped into the comparatively pure waters of the New at a rate that is perfectly alarming to a close observer, and in the natural course of things this mud will poison our social and political well-being, until we, as a nation, ean no longer stand this unh 8, and fall to decay and cl as older countries have that have suffered from such citizens. They have cursed the Old World; what is to hinder them from cursing the New? An inspection of the filthy, ignorant, igoted hordes who crowd into Castle Gar- den—the gate to the New World—will quickly satisfy any one interested that these immi- grants cannot but injure any country that is unfortunate enough to have them within its borders. The country is new and vast, and of course wants immigration; it wants young | blood and muscle to help develop it, but at the same time it wants brains aud a pro rate of intelligence with the muscle that comes to people our wild wood but, with few ple brutes inst Apropos of this condition of things the Chinaman to the front. Much has been said against him, and he has been dread- fully traduced, and by whom? Who but this scum of E nd Asia, whe are in- finitely their and who have bgtter right here than they. Hygieni socially, morally, politically, and wally, the Chinaman is vastly superior to these dictatorial hordes who are coming here. And yet the ery goes forth that he must g ‘The country is iree to the vile brutes who h crawled for ages like vermin over the body, social and politic, of the Old World, but the Chinaman, who has a history, a country he has honored and developed, a literature and schools of art, belonging to a race that made themselves famous and the world better before the fathers of these vile hordes had emerged from the condition of cavesiwellers to the one but little above it, which they now oceupy— these Chinamen must go! But the thoughtful Chinaman has his re- venge in all this, Behold him as the artist has placed him in the cartoon. See the con- | trast between him and the arriving swarms who say he must His natural nd subdue our prairies; exceptions, we are getting sim- ad of men and women, comes no ally, intellect. go! good | nature and as hh nationalitie en keeps him from b Jooks at the mixed and « who are acceptable to well may be say: Vel are the people that Amer citizens, I don't wish to remain among them. They need not tell me to‘ own accord, and gladly.” cynical, graded Au well, if these rie cans, at wants for go. 1 go of my This may not be exactly the way a China- man would speak, but it embodies his senti- ments in the matter most undoubted; Only encourage the immigration of Italians, lower grade Scandinavians, Russian and Polish Jews, lower grade Irish and English, igno- rant French peasantry, and the Chinaman need not be told to “ go,” water will not mix. civilized Oiland Graduates of West Point THe week at West Point glorious by the graduating exercises at the Military Academy. Youths who been educated at their country’s expense are now expected tog were turned out 0 fuss and fury of other is been made and who forth in her defense, stitution with all the cars. The distinguish. ed gentlemen composing the Board of Visitors were shown through the place by that Chris- tian soldier, General O. O. Howard, and it is to be hoped that the wined. We say, if not wit were well dined, if not * because it given out that General Howard se- L himself to his fellow members in the West Point Temperane: furnish wines and liquors th Bourd of Visitors, has bee cretly ple Society not to year for the It has been currently re- ported, however, that each member of the Board was well supplied with pocket tlasks before he started for West Point, and that his apparent | awing, may have been occ by the faet that the flasks were empty, and the additional fact that he desired to eseape to some more I We can hardly credit the of the graduating found perfeet in the study, ‘ How of the enemy in the dark,” a study first introduced when the colored boy Whitts ker became a cadet in the Academy, Th hibition of Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan w mous for the nerve the spectators, and it is not to be wondered at that some of the graduates gasp- for breath when they were directed to “follow in the footsteps of those illustrious men.” Yet, notwithstanding the many little annoyances which beset. the graduates and visitors, the week was one long to be remem: bered, and the country has 18 shown in the d hospita place. story that each member # class wa to get rid whieh was ex- 8, perhaps, a little too e' of some ed good reason to feel assured that the expense of maintainin; the youthful soldiers through the renrainder of their lives will be paid out of the national treasury; that the young men will grow up to enjoy frolies with the Indians on the plains, or with bar-tenders in the great citi in due course of time all of them will be can- didates for the Presidency. ‘Tae students of the Stevens Institute in Hoboken have begun to adopt the Os Wilde style of knee-breeches, and thus th re seared from the beautiful grounds. 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