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# Understanding This Judge Magazine Page This page from Judge satirizes Irish-American sensitivities regarding May 24th—Queen Victoria's birthday, celebrated in Britain and Ireland. The cartoon ridicules what the editors see as excessive Irish outrage over the date's official recognition, particularly regarding the Brooklyn Bridge opening. The "Sensitive Irishmen" article argues that Irish immigrants are overly prone to taking offense at perceived slights, comparing them to spoiled children. It mocks their readiness to see anti-Irish conspiracies in routine administrative decisions. The "Danger Ahead" section uses Dean Swift's coaching parable to critique President Arthur's leadership, suggesting he recklessly follows advisors (like the Irish-American politician Chandler, likely) without independent judgment—driving the nation toward disaster like a blind coachman on a precipice. The overall message reflects late-19th-century WASP attitudes: Irish-Americans are simultaneously portrayed as thin-skinned troublemakers and as wielding dangerous political influence over weak leadership.
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THE JUDGE. $24. 326 and 328 Pearl St. (Franklin Square.) TERMS TO SUBSCK SENSITIVE IRISHMEN. Is the pres wale udition of this world, a many pec rh every day, and we have r 1 for that the twenty-fourth of May i than any other supposing volitic day of the vear An Viet Britain non that day by the 1 Queen of ad Treland juently, with true Hibs h fellow-mortals 4 itself Con tency, our Ir day whereon Qu born, thor it isa qpict, inoffen- sive sort of y. differing in no essen. tial particu! pimediate the sor. twer or its immediate But when this able one for openin successor, the twenty-fifth ordinarily quiet and inoffensive day wa ignated as a tit the Brooklyn Bridse if a delib- slur hid le Ireland. A at outery was raised by these insular ref not merely by their it seemed 4 nH put upon nfants and dren, but by grown up people, whe, would suppose, had lived long The Hit tail had been trodden upon ina whole world to know better manner, and the Of cou fence at a thing lik nian wearer squ lustily. who takes ¢ this i y to be wehilt wh the wind for blowing reasoned with thay temper w his f in the avers bo mind ument and dynamite und as dy nam which the big br would find peculiarly convineing. the. tris: tees had better Ir vit that the Fay charge is carefully 4 “lon that day dynamite respe hing. and Irish. men would he wing yy Americas Trent blowing rament vern- ber would be almost the point for THE JUDGE. that he et that it would be extremely di harmeny’s sake, the were it realizes cult to select any day in the year whieh is not the natal chiy © lis! child 1 Irish igne ferred to a community ni strikes us ance and prejudice are being ¢ litth . woman oF s which, it that too much already in this Grant a baby all its silly, baby- ish requests and vou will spoil it: though ling: tin class of Erishmen would be some In both dificult a task as making fools and for the same reason, cuses nature has stalled art. DANGER AHEAD! Ir was Dean Swift. who. when he was about engaging a coachman, put to the ap: plic How Some st the position the erucial question, r would you drive ood within sea precipice?” at full the eusure te feet: but forall the Dean hey would ventur ny or se few vard. abyss, and some even reduced: this of their prow had but one to suit. At leng swer to the of them scemed 2 an Trish = How nigh none quest toa precipice, ra, 1 way from itz Ewndn’ wr nigh I” ‘The Dean conchaded that s the sort of couchman he wanted, and U him aceordin the hind of coachman the Repub- The road that the set with pit- 1 precipices enongh without courti roby fer driver skirting an abyss when a Above all, the ientious and relial th is practicable should be careful, cor He gerous road, and all his senses should be on the alert. and all his skill) should be exereis- ed. And, beyond this, he should drive the coach in the interests of his employe Iriving a precious freight over ad hot in aceordance with instruction ned by loiterers on’ the wayside, and expressly d signed to land the whole party in the diteh, Arthur, on should render him the chief It is bad enough when President whose of His party. and the cireumstances of whi accession to power should be fresh enot in his mind to stimulate his pru common sense, if utitine it is bad enough when uffers himself to he driven at the put when he blindly obevs guidance of aman like Chand] less blindly vs the instructions of a man whose inte int in the iet a fearful d ction in whieh ter te the party when it ineets its first serious obstacle on the da r ons road it is traveling, THE THREATENED CIGARETTE FAMINE. A Terninne cal h en one of be. sit Pr so caret makers have struck, and the dudes are threatened with a ci; With the merits or demerits of the strike itself Tue Jepee has nothing to do. | Whether the young ladies, whose fairy fingers in Havana (culled fro stumps which had outlived their us in th irette famine, the fragrant dainty papier de riz, underpaid Tie duper Were overpaid of aunHOt NOW pause to consider: his whole being ved in sympathy for the pitiable condition of the dude dude's For, consider! the is the it is ut of his only comfort. te means ibsistenee and drink to him: it is the soktee never-ending leisure, th whieh he can turn if his coachman’s coat kleat the back, if his beautiful pantaloons should bag at the knee, or— split at the should wr which is more probabh ahem, the other extremity And the case is aggravated by the brains dude whieh we rank among th les: niition of the his very idioey, beautiful of When yo men, from the eph down to. the mo: t him, present, have 1 for the scarcity of the future out of f the present: but what dude could be expected to possess forethought % As well look for it in the butterfly, or the grasshopp the abundane or the croton t iy other amental and entirely usele fe to suy that single dude who ha purely or It is there lives nol sect. in all duded Under done? Tue circumstances, what is to be JCDGE asks the to be done munity piteously, what i sutte icf orname one of the fe 1 adornments muntey, to perish from the face of the earth for lack Nev thro our of their customary pabulum ¥ The duty of supporting the dudes gh the present appallin volves ne dep He will head the list with an entire, unbroken pp ete risis « upon the public, and’ popular subseription. shown t all st =upy acknowledged in these columns, JepGE will see that ubscriptions of they reach the proper than o ote will be received. for the charitabl CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. 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