Judge — January 10, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. rather calms—are such, that for six mouths THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WERK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep Staves asp asada) 19 apvasce, (One copy, one year, or St numt ‘ra, One copy, alx montha, or 3 numbers One copy. for 13 weeks, : ingle coptes 10 cents each; Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, $24, $26 and $23 Pearl St., NEW YORK. CORRESPONDENTS. (a7 ConnEsroNDENTs WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THT WITH THE NEW YEAR, we beg to call our readers’ attention to | the rapid and marked improvement exhibited | both in cartoons and in | in Tne Jcpce, This improvement, we intend, shall continue letter press, during the past year. until no room for improvement is left; for we are determind to make Tue Jupce the BEST COMIC ILLUSTRATED PAPER ever pub- lished in America, and to keep it so. With the close of the year many of our friends’ subscriptions expire. We respectfully solicit a renewal from our old friends, and orders from our new ones—for we are making new friends every week. 1885, and no matter how hard times are, it will be money well invested. A good langh is often better than money, and that | (the laugh, not the money) we can promise you fifty-two times @ year. THE NICARACUA CANAL TREATY. Since M. de Lesseps first demonstrated the value of a ship canal in ocean commerce by his great work at Saez, tho project of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by a similar canal through some part of the Cen- | tral America isthmus has been much dis- cussed A practical move in that direction, however, has only recently been made, and work is even now in progress on the Panama canal, The Nicaraguan route, concerning which so much is being said, has many points to recommend it over the Panama route. It is claimed that the prevailing winds—or | eee Subscribe now for | of the year no sailing vessel will be approach within several hundred miles of the Pacific entrance to th that the river C to torrents which would make it uit to keep the canal in repair, und, finally, it ed that in the event of this country bee: broiled in a European w would be closed to com: Henco the Nicaraguan project, which excites much discuss and very contemplation has had the effect « setting the British lion’s hair on end. The canal would be mericun enterprise, and E) tit would leave her out in th her. We do not think that England’ hhension will disquiet Unele He has his Nicaraguan treaty safe, he has pre-empted the claim, and if he feels like s handred million dollars in ad gua, he will be very r, the Panama route on here, whose an exclusively 2 land fears tl am very ser king a few ura apt to do it without the The consulting matter, or those of any other country. questions of finance und expediency only ones that enter into the matt ording as they resolve themscives t Nica I will be dug let Europe to the contrary notwiths preferences in gua HARD TIMES. Tne. well-earned and prov of the United § threatened serious blow in the shape of a ‘bial pre ates is winter ss feels tist represents it, uncommonly ‘hard tim Busine itself insecure—as our it is riding over snow-covered rocks with no security that the ve plunge it into some uns next step will enand unfathon abyes. So bneinces isc be; and capital is timid xs it the result is that mills are naces blown ont, employment all over that still have employmen time or even less for a bar this is bad enongh in m becomes worse when we cannot immediate prospects of a chango for the men thrown ont of eco | better. Well, tho country wanted a chang they told us before election. The Republi- cans had been in power long enough, and it was time for Democracy to have an innings, | Well, the country a vengeance, and Tr apes it likes it. Tho worst of it is, that this rain affliction falls with eqnal fury upon the and upon the unjust—upon those © spirits who panted for a change and v for Cleveland, and on those more cor tive souls who were content to let well cnou alone and who voted for Blaine. Tt does seem incredible, looking back npon the pre- election days, and recaliing the solemn and reiterated warnings which the people re- ceivcd, that they have consented to vote a —£0 ay | their own bi and the cou und butter—but so it is, ry must c’en make the best of d bargain. if Grover Cleveland— a shocking L whom erican citizens seem to to their wages—will be the eatsuch a time as » how any Democratic nfidence, overnmel | doubt the e in many m evil, 3 now And, as jows before, so , the stag- ast the strust of th on of bus coming event the ¢ nat moneyed ¢| the misery of the poor, of gove from which must accompany every change 1 which are Democratic rule felt. Those cannon that were fired in honor of Cleveland's election were peey volley ove ave of slaughtered Ameri- can prosy THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE. ernment, a , are already t as thinking well knew even then, the requiem voters of the United States r themselves an image, even and since now there is frem it for four years 8 in office never die) 1 better make up their minds to ently as may be all the bles- spect of a releas st (for Demoer ic government which they ded in vot themselves. These , so far (as THE nts out) inempty work- But four years will nen the American people ing their mistake. that they have er will continue to while a shred of it holds Wm. Curtis will hate to e could do wrong, but most of ates will have dict, enough and to spare of Democracy before they are four Just listen to how the situation old a looker-on at politics a y of the San Francisco Argonaut: tin in politics that is Everything, however, nsist main made a mistak worship his im together. that the citizens of the United § hal, we venture to years older. seems to Frank Pi * Nothin years is cer away. will lie between Cleveland If neither gentleman should we have never heard of a candidate y dy that part of the which’ shall have been provided lice, and that part of the Republican w in office who shall hold over under ice rntes, the bolters and Indepen- I not by that time bave scen . will insist upon the lacy of Mr. Cleveland, and he will take it, if he can get it—they always do; nobody ever declined # Presidential nomina- tion who ever had the remotest possible show of getting it, The Republicans will renom- inate Blaine. The nomination of Cleveland will make every Democrat who wants an office and don't get it, mad; and, as they all want office, they will, at the end of four years, all be mad. The few in office won't comicbooks.com