Judge — May 12, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. — 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St, (Pramblin Squa PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBS( SOME SENSIBLE IRISHMEN. Tiere a are harmless ferocions, ators and agitators ; some and even salutary, and some are cowardly As it Irishman is eriminal a would seem that a the ter for congratulati worn to agi- tatio} ks tly upward, itis a mat- when he contents him- self with the former innocent methods, and of » allowance for the per- pronounces disapproval of the latter. course We must ma verse streak that seems to pervade class of Trish human natur clares itself in of u certain and which de- ition to every f of constitutional authority. Pat, when he land- ed at Castle Garden, and, without pau ask how things were waved Here government !" is a run over here his sh lagh in the air and shouted Tam, and I'm agin the readi rizable ‘There utter for cot real and type of his countrymen, . we repeat, it is no small r Hlation when a le and representative like that rec of Irishmen, ly held at Philadelphia, gets ical tire crack- und practical- and his hellish dynamite out of the convention. Irishmen, though they may not che by no means exempt fre coming ther neidental to our fallen nature: nei- it at all likely that all f fora few pounds of dynamite 1 hs ed the sympathy ¢ history will reverse i Violence wili_ accomp! already well 1 h nothing, gh alien Irish cause. Coolne civiliz: m the and may accomplish men can give it a and black- If Ireland is ever free (by the way, have t triots made up the mind what to do with they do get the chains off her?)—if Ireland is ever free, that result will be found to have been accom- plished by brains, not by dynamite: by men like the representatives who met in Philadel- and not by big-mouthed, blatant. pro- novan Re trial without making outlaws guards of themselv THE JUDGE. SOLVING THE INDIAN PROBLEM. id ** the only good Indian the truth, numb have tried, and tried ineffectually to which the inborn HE man who adead Indian” was not far fr Experiments without been : the treatment ery of the red-skin ered. Of course tid in favor of the He was here first: the soil was his long before a white man ever set foot vield has yet to be dis there is a great deal to be Indian's rights. on the continent. Indeed, people wh in favor of the Land League in [reland, and ery * No landlords! Ireland for the Irish !” would find it difficult, with « escape from the lo; are tency, to 1 consequence of their arguments, and to refrain’ from America for the India chouti But there are a few white people in America, and as they to remain here it behooves them to with the Indian problem as intelli- gently as may be. Disabu riminds, then, of all preju * of fiction, -day to b gthe * noble sav oft A lazy, idle, thieving, murdering reprot what ind the India an incumbrance to the soil, and his neighbors; a man who subsists on ment bounty, and also lives (while he is not murdering and looting among the whites) on rvation, Valuable criticed by him every year of desirable land are forbi a government rm lives Large tracts on tu settlers by him and remain unimproved by the extend- ing march of emigration and) civilization: And in return for this, of what use is he? None, absolutely A drunken aussin, a dirty reugh—h ullowed importance enough to becom F nal problem. And how is this p lem to be solved? Our civilization will not allow us to wipe the law- less band of ruftians from the face of the country: fortunately the problem is itself. Whit beginning to ta solving ettlers-on the fro the law are into their own zon the red-skins almost daily outrages suffe The lly fight among har ad are retaliati . being beli ach othe ‘omplish the apable of. A few more years of war and frontier whisky will no ad will Te J that there are ‘ood Indians. THE LIFE-SAVING CORPS OF OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT. valuable addition to. th Department, already (he department per excellence of which our city has reason to be At the re ganized branch, at French’s Hotel, an exhi- proud, ent trial of this newly or- bition was given which might f profe t many a nal gymnast to the blus pleasant to feel that tine and it is rtions of these ellows will ve directed, not toouramu The fearful | ment, but to our security. | that of the Milwau pee be willing to admit | | way, should be so spasmodic of life which has attended on recent. tires— © hotel, for example has struck terror to the heart of everyone who lives in the upper stories of large build- nd the popularity of apartment houses brings a large proportion of our population into this cat . Everything that human should be done to re proof in the first instan failing that, to render the loss of human li in the event of a catastrophe as small as po: buildin sible. Our tire laddies are ge way to work toaccomplish the Is this direction atum, and their efforts in should be applauded and enco who risk their liv and property of their fellow-citizens deserve well of the proud of her Fire Department. daily to community, and OUR SPASMODIC MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. Pronanry, as city the government of New York city works fairly: it does its duty indifferently well, and citi- eruments zens live or die, wax rich or poor, and enjoy under it, much ‘The trouble with it is t or benvoan existen do elsewhe It is naturally a dilettante, r thinks of them, nd clerks who get fleeced themselves fleece profusion, no one he their employers to get even, till suddenly something rouses the municipal giant; it it may be but all of the pre: any one of a thousand other ¢ at once his diseased activity spri are raided, noth- rd of but the suppression of vice, lice officials are rampant. But the y runs its nt sinks back into apathetic sl , and the city < before, So with the Excise Law. > fine Sunday th up to find his matutinal co world w itizen wakes ail is unattain- and his post-prandial cigar a thing dif ficult to be compassed. AML thi the red the bar-rooms to dispense their fluids for a score of prece- ding Sabbaths. What a pity that all th tivity, which is so excellent a thing in its able, too, under me law which suff as to be simply ridiculous, What a pity that the law cannot be evenly enforced (the objectionable parts of it would then be quickly repealed), and the very fact of a law’s existence on the statute books be deemed r igh for its en- forcement. modically that no one knows why the done, or when they will be done. Of course, ho one is responsible for this, for our city vovernment is hydra-headed, and every head has a convenient pair of shoulders on to which blame can be shifted. T' of all this evidently points to the nature of chills and fever—a activity and ultra-oflicious enforcement every law: a chill of apathy, during which no notice is taken of anytht comicbooks.com