Judge — September 20, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. $24, 326 and 323 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep Starea asp Caxapa) 1 apvance, One copy, one year, or St punibers, « One copy. atx months, or 36 numbers One copy. for 18 weeks, (yrresrsok rammed Address, ‘THE JUDOB PUBLISHING COMPASY. ‘24, 8 and 28 Peart St, New York Contributors mast pat thet send to a8 (rahjoct to a price they will be regarder as gratuitous Stamps shoul be inelost for return postage, with name and address, if writers wish to regain thelr declined articles. ~~ CORRESPONDENTS. pom i a ean is Me re rein ae sores mat oe AUDLE, BCT WEE DISTINCTLY REFCDIATE ALL RESTORSIRILITY FOR AUCH AS EVERY CARR WHERE 4 PRICK 18 SOT AFYITED BY THE WRITER, COSTRIBCTIONS WILL ME REDARDED AS GRATTITOCR, AND 20 OUREE. GOFF CLAIM POR REMUNERATION WILL BE EXTERTAINED. FOR THE” CAMPAIGN. (97 We wns sexo “Tux Jeooe” von sxx « ADDRES, POSTAQE FREE FOU $230, OB FoR OxE REFUDLICAN CLURS *MOCLD KEE THAT “Tne JDO! WILE (8 THEIR ROpus, AXD UROK THEIR FRIEXDS TO TAK CLUB RATES. Tus Jevor will bo furnished to clubs at the following rates 1 year. ry «on se 5 Coptes (each) wine rs »- * Single copies 10 cents each. fASend for specimen copy. —_ GRESSOR. Frog the little boy who eats green apples and suffers for his folly in colic pains, up to the malefactor who tukes life and yields his own to the law in return, human sin entails human suffering, and the way of tho trans- gressor is hard. Several years ago when Grover Cleveland, athen younger and possibly slighter man than he is now, first looked with eyes of deciro upon Maria Halpin, and won her regards in return, it is not probable that he gave a thought to the oventual ontcomo of the path on which he was entering blindfeld. Ie committed the initial transgression, and he stands associated with it forever. Perhaps, had Cleveland acted a more manly part thronghout his connection with the unhappy Maria Halpin, and had sought to sever the tic that bonnd him to her less brutally and violently, the world would have been more disposed to condone his offence. But Cleveland’s conduct in the matter was not that of a gentleman—it was scarcely that of aman. ‘The original crime was bad enough—inexcusable in a public man, and “reform” advocate; his method of escape was even worse, and would have been repre- hensible in a ward politician. And 60 his sin finds him out. From the side of Muria Halpin he is dragged to the obscurity of the Black Maria—the prison van which is to take him, tried, convicted, and sentenced, to suffer his penalty—und the penalty is political death, ‘Truly, the way of the transgressor is hard. THE CHAMPION MIXER. Ben. Butter, more power to him, mis- took his vocation in life when he became anything elso but a bar-tender. He is the champion mixer of this or any other age. See him in the present campaign, for instance. He has mixed things up so that the best informed Democrat does not know whether he is on his head or on his heels. He has caught a great many of Cleveland’s voters and mixed them up with a few of Blaine’s and an occasional St. John man, and the result is an infusion which it would puzzle Dr. Doremus toanalyze. To be sure, a great deal of the contents can only be character- ized as refuse, but Butler does not lack a leaven of solid support to make the entire mixture ‘‘slab and good.” —_ He is cordiully supported by the New York Sun, than which Democracy never had a better or an abler exponent. He is believed in by many an honest and good workman, and, as between himself and Cleveland, Tue Jcpoe is in- clined to share the workingman’s belief. To be sure, the workingman who follows Ben. Butler to the end will find himself in queer company; but no queerer than he would find himself in if he pinned his faith to Cleve- land. On the whole, the average Democrat who cannot so far disassociate himself from old prejudices as to vote the Republican ticket would do well to get himself shaken up in Butler’s mixture, were it only in the way of flavoring. A PIECE OF IMPERTINENCE. A aoop many department employees have received circulars from Mr. Geo, Wm. Cur- tis’ committee threatening them with prose- cution under the Civil Service Law, if they dare to subscribe a single cent towards Re- publican campaign purposes. The present ia the first sear in which Mr. Geo. Wm. Curtis has felt it to be his duty to uphold the civil service law and its sanctions so actively. The reason that Mr. Geo. Wm. Cartis is so terribly afraid that money will be forthcoming for campaign expenses this year is because Mr. Geo, Wm. Curtis and his friends were in an insignisicant minority in the Republican nominating convention, and that consequently neither Mr. ..:0, Wm. Curtis, nor any of his friends received the Presidential nomination from the Republi- can party. And that is all there is to it. But for the comfort and reassurance of Mr. Geo. Wm. Curtis and his committee, Tue JunGe can safely say that department employees can, as a rule, be very safcly trusted to administer their own pecuniary affairs aud look out for their own interests, and in all other respects, both of law and custom, to do as they ought to do, without any dictation from Mr. Geo, Wm. Curtis and his honorable and officious committee. DESPERATE DEMOCRACY. Serr-Preservation is the first law of nature, but it isa rule which, like a great many others, is apt to work both ways, For instance, Tom, being starving, considers himself justified in stubbing John, in order that he may rob him with moro ‘facility and procure the food for which he is perishing. In this case Tom’s crime is clearly the out- come of the instinct of self-preservation, yet society does not so regard it, and Tom, it caught, will be hung asa common murderer. On the other hand, if Juhn, secing Tom rushing upon him with uplifted knife, shoots and kills his aseailant, he is acting in self- defence, and society will bear him out, and say he has donea noble and courageous decd. Which is what socicty is compelled to do, if it would remain a social organization at all, and yet, to the philosopher, Tom’s act arose from self-preservation quite as much as did John’s. To apply the case politically. Democracy is in its death throes, and it is fighting any- how—with any weapons, in obedience tothe glorious instinct of eelf-preservation that Providence has implanted in every heart, Therefore, being more philusophical than society, we should not blame Democracy if it holds the knife of Free Trade to the throat of the American workman, and says, “* Perish that I may live.” Democracy is etarving— out of its mind—desperate. In such straits is it that it is hardly more responsible than a madman; but it is quite as inexpedient as dangerous. Wherefore, if the working man, thus menaced, dashes the knife from his throat and slays Democracy, who can blame him? Ie is acting on the law, “ Sclf- preservation is the first law of uature,” even and Democracy itself is acting; but the work- ingman has this advantage, that eociety praises his act as a noble and courageous one, and wonld call him a fool and adastard if he yielded up his life and prosperity to the highwayman knife of his desperute useail- ant. Wherefore, oh workingman of America, Tue JupGE recommends son todefend your- self. The jury and public opinion will acquit you. nseless to attempt to conceal the mger; Blaine is so unpopular in that he has no chance of getting the Mexican vote. comicbooks.com