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# "The Judge" Page Analysis This page contains political and social commentary typical of late 19th-century American satire. **Main Cartoon ("Enterprise of American Canvassers"):** A thin, shabby man approaches a richly-dressed, bearded gentleman (appearing to represent wealth or authority) with a clipboard, asking him to buy an insurance policy. The satire mocks aggressive insurance salesmen pestering the public, and possibly critiques the booming insurance industry's hard-sell tactics. **Text Sections:** Articles discuss labor strikes in Pennsylvania iron regions (workers striking at economically poor timing), theater etiquette (complaining about disruptive audience members), and Governor Cleveland's veto of a street-rail construction bill in New York. **"Garden County Hunt":** A poetic satire mocking wealthy Long Island society—their pretentious escorts, affected speech ("Yer kno," "American-Anglo swell"), and obsession with riding whips and fashionable display during fox hunts. The overall tone criticizes labor conflict, social rudeness, government obstruction, and upper-class affectation.
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] j 1 1 t { f STRIKES. Axotien strike in the Iron regions is If the workin! . they could searcely have made imminent, men have wrongs to vindicat a worse selection of the time to vindicate them Prices are low, production has been and the trade empty. ‘The treasury is are inno condition to make a long or successful struggle with capital, and many employers would just now welcome a strike as a golden opportunity for shutting down and che But have the workmen king production. imate cause of complaint? ‘Them intelligent among them think not, and certainly the contracts which they dictated a year and two ye: Is Labor tempting te since have been rved, ing vessivey If so, it and he crowd capital? thank when it win gaged in a very ss task, Labor, even always suffers more in: these stru, < tha scapital. It goes without br that it may force capital to do with | butter, A the justice 1 it never does win unless of the cause rests with it, and The men may be r the privations of the —but we fear this will be weary. dard summer fi strike well now many a woman and child in Pennsylvania and Ohio, IN another column mention is made of the all-too-frequent habit among a cert class of theatre goers of disturbi by audible conversation on various subjects. This is a real metro pecially pi litan evil, and it is es- valent in suman perhaps be- cause the conversers imagine that there not so much going on on the stage worthy of their attention as during the regular f such be their opin much better stay away haps tl n they had together, Or per- + frequency of suel nterru tions in summer arises from the fact that this se off time,” and attend the theatres in nis the actors’ they consequently greater nut And dead heads are no- toriously the most persistent disturbers of other people’s enjoyment, — Because their eveni ‘s entertainment costs them nothing they are apt to value it proporti tely, and This is vs its money aid on the stage, and which, though often inane enough, is asa rule far preferable to the bald chat that among the dead-heads, At loud tion during the action of a play is ¢ bad breeding and worse taste. amuse themselves in other ways. not fair to the public, which } to hear what is onve GoveRNonk CLEVELAND has vetoed a bill struction of street rail- roads, and which. though nominally apply- ing to every city, town and village in the State, evidently imed exclusively at New York. The bill contained some mis- chievous provisions, and the veto was a wi one. But meantime we have only one line relating to the ¢ st now that seems more than doubtful. | E Canvasser ror U, Cann.—Can 1 put you down fora Paliey in your. amily! between 2d street and ar across the city, rt Harlem) running A. cross-town road at et would be and cond st asible, useful Inuble. Tt will soon be indispensable, Why put off its construction any longer? THE GARDEN COUNTY HUNT. O THow who keep'st Le I pray that thou some thi Who are these people in thi Island Ferry wait » they go or from whence do they comer ing sprightly maidens, tall Who talk and move with ever jaunty Who, in th A contrast Who are these escorts, selfeonceit imbued, With labored talk and rs of the “*dude;” Who often say “Ah y “Yer kno” and “well In tones of the American-Anglo swell? And wherefore hese whips These whips and riding-sticks in bundles strapped? I pray that as to this thou'lt set me right And o'er my mental darkness shed some light.” 1g FO« Al spare, adr ir excorts thus expres? most modi ther wrapped? “ My friend, that group com They are fox-hunters often to this place, 0 the chase, “0 farmer, against trespassers in Defender of truck-garden and As o'er this sandy | A most astounding sight I wondering spied. From out the scruboak woos there swiftly ran What to my startled vision seemed a man; Who o'er the ground behind appeared to drag By a long string a curious looking bag Full speed, right through a hedge he reckless dove, Emerged unburt and dashed off to a grove— © farmer of the market-garden caste, What was the wondrous thing that thus rushed past?” ir, ‘tis most plain thou'rt stranger to thexe parts, TERPRISE OF AMERICAN CANVASS . Mereat Acerpest to me will state . ARS. ASSOCIATION TO. THE our Accident Association ? NEWLY-CROWNED Grand thing for then, O Before there cam First came, with ner kind, it was not le toward me a nighty throng. ppish yelp and howl and yell A pack of English d full pell-metl Then c which o'er the b Whil abc And way rolled Js controlled. poth:picked ways there in dress, to horsemanship laid etin. ulies in thei riding suits Anu youths in searlet dL brown top-boc a fence or hedge their course would ¢ too great a risk of broken neck, And all would for out-rider mildly wait Till he took down three bars of four-bar f thee T pray? ner, What was thi ind ix very blunt pat was the maddening, wild rush of the hunt.” 6.8. WILLIAMS, * You nephew,” think he is most too you think » = Well. Ladmit, when the boy is a andante” And then she said he was * but she met him of my little for my pert 1 ious. Don’t r. 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