Judge — May 5, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. DGE. | (Franklin Squate.) LISHED ONCE A WEEK. THE JU 321, 3. d TERMS TO SUBSC RIBER (Usitip States axo Casaba 3 Vearl Sty NOTICE. OUTSIDE THE FOLD. a flock v its religions y UMANITY is a good deal like and humanity is even m essentially ovine ervday lif Where " Dlindly, impulsively, once herd religious thereof, than in its ev- the rest follow, But tion unr mingly. humanit ° and let it «let some old bell-wether lox, any s nates become ntog pen orthe doeility, and forthwith vanishe nd in its place appei ance. ‘The a man of a de- proclaim it all the a very bovine (and human) in Rov. Henry Ward Beecher cided character, and he has put his mark very plainly on the people amongst whor ‘The sheep-like part of his is in a minority, and the self-assertive human ovine has lived. part na large maje for himself, and act ties on his for him part which render If—peculian- him an ex- rof the ¢ . indeed, of any she tremely recalcitrant membe gational sheepfld— fold. The inmates of t sver in Brooklyn or « gre- here may or may be wrong in their ideas on the adjust- spiritual, both here and here- after: but to bring Mr. Beecher back to their way of thinking, they will have ta ment of matte onvince his reason, and his reasoning powers prob bly outweigh by more than a little the aggre- entire flock ‘The pastor of Plym- ment of the at him. gate mental endow that is bleating math Cl born to be nd not a follower of sheey + to retain his guidanc ch wa a leader of men, so if his flock they had bet- ly after him into the pasture he has selected fur them THE CANDIDATES’ RACE. to be the rd running be aw of develop- good exercise, at should be 1 well-develop- The prize is worth a contest; it ¢ than free Iedgi at the for four years, and a good fat vething m White Ifo | come to the front on the home-stretch, } country nee | zens on } y. It isthe Ie ve in the history of the country, and a for making a record (be it good or pes such as falls to the lot of few men in a ne Of the number of possible can- lida ates in th dd, Tue Jepce is inclines . asthe wife of Bath said of her de- ed husban re just tolerable e are bad.” the Presidential race contains an entry or two which we would with great pleasure see The she always has needed and always will need—a firm, 0 at the head of her affairs. here two such men—searcely more—whose face ig the starters in the Presi- dential obstacle ra nd that one of this mi- nority may win is the hope of Tue JupGe ght, able man are one or and of every honest citizen throughout the | country. And the fact that, among so many aspirants, there are so few who are qualific dorn the place should they ever attain it, need not di » the majority; for the men who form good Presidential timber are few indeed, and a man who is eminently caleu- lated to adorn many another sphere might seem puny and ridiculous in the strong light that beats upon the lives of rulers. And not the country had com: for ov of the representative men ef either party to come tu the front? In sucha position, better anything than weakness. Welcome knavery, if better cannot be, rather than inc our too much of wea promise Presidents? Is it not time ipetency. THAT PRECIOUS NEW CODE. We never ted the limi which we ean afford than now, amount of ote to one wish to de more uk of the 1 when we day in the would be insuflicient to about it—a remnant suffered to exist on the one Volum I that might be of the blue laws, statute-books of this wee less pandering to the | unreasonable prejad of a few strait-laced etics who would, if they could, forbid the sun from shining on the Sabbath day, who have never, by act of grace or chi deserved well of their fellow-creatures, that has been set apart by divine ordi- nance and by immemorial tradition as a day of rest and recreation, is perverted by these fanatics to a day of restraint and. pri and for some whimsical reason our legi aid and abet them in their fanaticism. y not fish on Sunday—that gentlest oth, the quiet of the man may get drunk on Sun- day, and it costs him no e than if he had tponed his orgies till Monday, or taken time by the for and filled up on Satur- day. In short, in everyway in which short- sighted legislation could aid and abet narrow- minded prejudice, the workingman’s only mann day of reereation has veen spoiled for him. Fortunately the workingman ‘as a voice in theelection ef those who govern hita, and the idership of a great people; | y add, however, that | the temptation of plagiarism. | tal resemblance. | ‘In mem w code enacted to govern citi- | | Berlin. | every election, on. the next election may teach some of our Puri legislators, to their cost, that the class against whose comfort they have been legislating has been observing them all the time. ‘There is a rod in pickle for the men who e tonly curtailed the pe ment, or Tue JUDGE wan- ile’s innocent enjoy: very much mistaken. ‘LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE, AND ON THIS." Mr. J. Kerrier, of Puck, alents, even if they have secured more ition than they are worth, we have al- as snflicient to raise him above Yet if any- one will take the trouble to compare the front artoon in the issue of Puck be April 1th, with the s Gerlach & Schenck’s ‘ Alle bleme.” he will trace more is an artist whose ring md picture in prein und Em- than an acciden- Mr. picture, ap, trans- ferred it to his paper, and with unblushing effrontery signed his initials ** J. K. The guild of artists hi ave designate this 5 species of self- It is not petty larceny, but it is somcthing similar. Let us recapitulate: Gerlach & Schenck, of Vienna, publish a picture of a female figure holding a book in one hand and acirclet in the other. It is an allegory, and they call it Die Ewigheit, or Eternity. Mr. Keppler publishes a picture of a fen figure, identical in every detail of pose, in one This was what pler did: he traced the whole school-boys trace the outlines of a in the word to »propriation. corner. and feature, holding a boo and a civic nd rown in the other, He acds a picture of Mr. Cooper, and calls the whole ry of our best citizen.” With Mr. urge facilities forconsulting foreign nd works of art, Keppler’s engravings we may expect to find Puck's cartoons in future fully up to the standard of the best works of Vienna and THE MACHINE IN POLITICS. THERE ation wa a great deal of good vituper- ted every election, and during the riod of preparation which precedes machine. cording to its fluent det ful engine for evil; seething This ma- it attracts every- thing bad and repels everything good that comes within the sphere of its influence, and, like the heart of man, is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. From mere force of reiteration this abuse has acquired certain weight, and unthinking people are upt to uecept the mere accusation of belor ing to the hine as a stigma—or some thing that ought to be arded stigma —on aman, Does anyone ever stop to con- sider that where two or more men meet to- gether to accomplish any purpose, there, of an is a machine. There an object to be fulfilled and ways and means of fulfilling it; a pro mme, sity, is nda and a prog | and all this is of the very nature and essence of what has been contemptuously designated comicbooks.com