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# Understanding This 1884 Judge Magazine Page This page contains **political commentary** rather than cartoons. The masthead shows *The Judge* magazine's publication details from New York. **Main articles:** 1. **"The Mendicant Hayes"** attacks former President Rutherford B. Hayes as a desperate office-seeker. After losing the presidency (apparently through disputed means—"fraud"), Hayes now begs for any government position: senatorship, postmaster, anything. The satire mocks his fall from "purple to rags of political mendicity." 2. **"Wall Street"** criticizes financial inactivity and brokers' speculation, arguing real wealth comes from actual business (minerals, cattle, railroads), not market quotations. 3. **"A Solution of the Telegraph-ic Trouble"** addresses the recent telegraph operators' strike. The piece argues the telegraph system should operate under government control (like the postal service), dismissing private operators' complaints as Western Union propaganda. The overall tone reflects Gilded Age concerns: corrupt politics, financial speculation, and labor disputes.
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THE JUDGE. _ | whe THE JUDGE. 1, 326 and 325 Pearl St, (Franklin Square.) TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. One copy, six n copy. for 12 Aittress al que aber PupLisHt PANY (IN bh 28 Pearl St, New York evr Tue Istrasaniosat News ( FAN AGENTS THE MENDICANT HAYES. We have had quite a variety of Pre ¥ none whom the uni- ntry has so strongly therford 1. Hayes. nomination as he did by an ac- his eh cident, n by a fraud, he oveu- pied the White House for fe entity, and when he relapsed into « t the end of the United es fairly hoped that they had heard the tofhim. Als Mr. Hayes sweets of office, and years as a u- his term, d being an Ohio man, could not brook obseu- much better fitted he orn it than a more exalted sta- He wants an ¢ rity, no matter how might be tod tion. apa furnished ily whetted nying stamp dls out his tencd voters of his on G ake, for senatorship, a post- Poor fell from the Pre urple to the rags of political mendic from the luxury of the White Hou vated by the hy in his fall, ex- and no one knows Hayes what Rt tership—anything. ad case—to sink by the wayside of O| better t WALL STREET. vertop of dal and inactivity on of rm or decline prices and the two, is rather brokers; bat it d of the country y and festive real wealth > the extent of adollar. The not affect th um and the cattle and the backbone are worth just and the pet the minerals which constitut of the country’s busines much as they ever were railr wfactured property of really ¢ even the and acquired and ma that nature have not preciated, < would seem to sa mich line as they rotations to the intrinsically the day after the d were the day before | trary notwithstandi Wa tii best, a feverish and uneasy p | knows this better than the t selv m- at noone ; but as every decline is followed by a ction, and in due course by anoth the result, on an avera except to those whose ill Inck keeps th matically on the wrong side of the m A SOLUTION OF THE TELEGRAPH- IC TROUBLE. uphers and their strike have od and discussed by the pre public and the public’s wife until there w left to seem to be nothi say about them; | yet the subject is to 1s a one to be dis- missed as wearisome before some method of settlement has b n arrived at for the pres 1, bef as been provided petition state of affairs in the future, THE is far from blaming the operators. ent, ani curity (uate of such Jepe The man to strik man or working wo- such an indefeasible one bsurd for anye impugn it—though pay been found to do so. that the utterances of such pay that it seems sons have been inspired by the Western Un- ion, and this fact, coupled with the utter impracticability of the px sed the publi ard them as of little moment, But in the permanent solution of the difliculty the whole country is interest with ti hey have sumed, has ¢ large to re- 1, and the whole country, unimportant exceptions. arriving at the conclusion that solution will b takes the matte builds and operates hi ‘The influential press of the Uni headed by the New York Hera ly advocati gradually rmanent arrived at until Unele Sam into his own lines for himself. g this view, vantages apparent front lin Government are so great and perated by the wide-spread that any objections which may be made to the scheme must sccm trivial in comparison. It is certain that, sooner or later, the tele- n of the country, like its postal system, must pass under Governn and in a matter like this there is no time like the pre In ind the teleg been fully and satisfactorily ac for graphi nt control; ph has ninis- 1 nnmber of tered by the Government years, and there is no on why this country should not follow so good an exam- ple. Let Uncle Sam build his own lines, and the squabbles of corporations with their okers them. | rands, and | employees will soon cease to interest the pub- lic, having first ccas » inconvenience it POLITICAL PLEASANTRIES. MERCHANTS, manufacturer and niry ison the vergs eal er which has too much bad legislat cians are happy. for, v to their it is all grist which comes mill, Thr Irish noble army of honest ratic polit we tax-payers and ve f this city hav her todo or d-dried ti and continue | now nothin, but vote the regulat Fall election, | the Muldoons unlin comin ted power and un uuthority to appropriate the uh, Sels dinay O'Briny fieldian ex-( alleged ditferences many Tal ma y the public tended bickerings | its offshoots, Anti-Kelly a cracy, both or ina anty Dy gz buta lusion anda snare” to deceive the public d keep the ec of the city in the hands of the Muldoons. . Tur: periodical r 1 ructions between the s¢ great city m al factions of Trish rulers of this ist be highly amusing and com- American and Ger- York. It like the < over the bene: the The unfe 8, No mat- forting to tl of New fight of the two man voter | bone has no hand in the fight | tunate tax-payer the bi ter which faction of Er must fe AND now another aspiring Demoer patriot is strack w Presidential lig | This time it is the Hon. rb . | the financial Cor New York | city. Re the regula- tion Bi ‘little faded flower,” he | a prospective presidentis 2 can “ Bull” the political m at “margin.” We can’t much tap 3 bar’) will “ Bea he i "it may t | before he reaches the P, ‘om whe is new but a candidate, provid rket tell with sidential chair, Merci Bien. Tie JupGe improves every no more like Tue Jcpor: of a year x the ripe apple is like the little green apple, | that is worse than a toy pistol in the hands of the small boy.—Grit. comicbooks.com