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# Analysis: "The Magic of the Horse-Shoe" This page contains two main pieces of satirical commentary: **"Liberty, Not License"** addresses dynamite violence, likely referencing anarchist bombings of the 1880s (such as the Haymarket affair). The editorial praises Senator Edmunds's bill prohibiting dynamite manufacture for illegal purposes, arguing that while free speech must be protected, the U.S. shouldn't tolerate violent foreign agitators entering the country. It criticizes European immigrants who bring "atrocities" and use explosives. **"The Magic of the Horse-Shoe"** appears to be a lighter piece using the folk superstition about lucky horseshoes as an extended metaphor—likely satirizing political figures' attempts to capitalize on fortune or luck. The specific reference is unclear without seeing the full article, but it seems to mock how politicians, like those seeking the horseshoe's benefits, must preserve and properly manage opportunities or lose their advantage. The page reflects 1880s anxieties about immigration, labor violence, and political corruption.

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WERK TERMS TO (Wsrrep 8 UBSCRIBER: rr asy CANADA) One copy, one year, oF One copy, alx months, or Ope copy, for 13 wera Address, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING 324, 3: COMPANY, and 328 Pearl St, NEW YORK, CORRESPONDENTS, a9 Con! eaxp Maa. to TH ang esctosny we w AINLE, ROT We DISTINCTLY ESYOREIBILITY FOR 8 TOITOCR, ASD HO AUER! OUR NEW HEADING. We present ourselves to our readers with ek, and we hope our readers will think it an improvement. We At rb, we are still | don’t you forget it. anew heading this w do, but ‘itis all a matter of taste.” rate, under whatever the same old Jur ‘any LIBERTY, NOT LICENSE. Sexaton Epwenps, in introducing his bill prohibiting the manufacture and expor- | tation of dynamite for illegal pu done will entitle him to the respect and gratitude not only of foreign 1 The world seems to be ‘ood deed, and one that ons, but of Americans as well. full of ¢ grain, cowardly blackguards have no hig’ destruction, and, unforte ed-in-the- now, who jer ambitions no omurder and | tely, the nitro explosive offers them a cheap aud easy meat of gratifying their sav instinets. It not that the ut portion of hamanity should regard the dynamiters and their kin with loathing and detestation, Such wretches must be coerced by the laws, enough dec and if the laws they exist cannot reach | them, others must be framed to meet their cases, In the large accession to our population, which we annually receive from Europe, we | are compelled to take the good with the bad, and many are welcomed to these shores whom we could well consent to do without. The | sewers of Europe are constantly pouring ont | their noxious contents upon us, We feel | the effects in such incen: meetings that which recently took place in Chicag in such over it and cowardly vengeance as instigated the dynamite explo- ry acts of maligns THE JUDGE. t Norwalk. well as our authorities abre ma It is already our interest juty to co-operate with the 1 to suppress these not be interfered with, and yet we should check the preaching of incen- diary doctrines. ‘The liberty of the Press ached, ar rt ow crimes, may remain unim ean con the ently suppress such publications as Monthly Tur Jepoe O'Donovan’s that Mr. Ed- s bill could have been made sweepi Dynamite and wishes h toembrace these printsand speech it stands, it is a step in the direction 1 the rest will follow. United States is already tired of being re- r um of pean nation vantage ground whither they can retire when 1 by th they can launeh their hard pre laws they have brok and when urder ous schemes at our friends across the wat as soon us tho: nto fruition The United schemes rip under our protecting States still has a warm we grants; bat they mi faith, not flying a t be emigrants in . who merely el our hospitality that they may escape the | ronsequences of their past atrocities and e leisure to scheme fresh ones. The great American public has no sym- pathy for dynamiters, THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE. JupGe desires to tell his read tory—the legend of the horse g to that pleasant fiction show aybody he be The But to corral , as it were, it is not sufficient to merely find the horse-shoe. It must be picked up and preserved; otherwise, if it be left behind, the luck is diverted and t" omen is evil. horse-shoe accidentally a road, is especially regarded as the favorite of foi him luck. to ne. iron cre: this luck ent bri Probably ninety-nine ot of Tue Je s friends are familiar with this legend; but Tne JepGe prefers that ninety and nine should hear it for the sec- ond or forty-second time, rather than that one should remain in ignorance of it, and of every hundred hurt our artist’s feeling with the inquiry— “what the dickens is he drivingat, anyhow?” Many years ago Grover Cleveland picked upat carefully preserved it, and it has proved a veritable gold mine ever sin By its virtue he was elected Sheriff, nd finally President. The Democratic party has gladly embraced Clevel: fully with its burden along the primro: shor Mayor, Governor, nd, horse-shoe and all, and trots glee- path of power. It is natural that Democracy should con- cede that there is much virtue in a hot shoe. But this horse-shoe of Cleveland taken in conjunction with Cleveland, is a pretty big load, and all that Dem¢ y well carry. Consequently, when in the course of his walk our Democratic friend can The | ome for emi- | comes upon a road fairly strewn with horse- » What is he going todo about it? Here is luck enough to lust him till the millen- nium if he could only take hold. horse Here are all shapes and sizes, stretching away in an endless vista, as far hoe be taken up and carried away, end to the luck that they may vem; but, unfortunatel, hoes o! the eye ht all to ‘There is no bring with can reach, — These horse ou. Democracy is not in a position to handle one of them. ‘They are all beyond him nd yet so far. The t shoe is uround his nec He ean 1 n stagger under. t lay it down in favorof the National i hoe, or the Tariff horse- > Treaty horse-shoe. tent to pass them by, and leave his luck be- hind him, hoe, Ile must be con- ‘The Romans, who found the horse-shoes of th cient world, if ever a nation did, and who broke down eventually because they foun little y noe For the benefit of too many of them, had a very pungent overb, ‘This wasit, ** One nimium Democracy in general, | and Grover Cleveland in particular, this r be translated freely: thing is good for nothing much of a good THE LONDON OUTRAGES. week, when the ci to us the news of the Ia dynamiters, a sens Last ble flashed across st exploit of the tion of horror was experi- enced here in New York scarcely inferior to that which agitated itself. The utter folly and uselessness of the deed were dwelt upon. Could even Irishmen hope to further the few pounds of dynamite in London? there was the disgust at su dalism London ause of Ireland by exploding a Then chan act of van- ttemptin troy an old his- J landmark like the Tower of London, and such a beautiful masterpiece of archi- tecture the building: Westminster. And along with these feelings there was a thrill of indignation at the dastardly, cowardly toric miscreants who could wantonly Prattling, smiling babyhood, toddling children, delicate imperil so many innocent lives. women—those formed the majority of the vic- tims whom the gallant dealers in dynamite sought to immolate. If such be the outcome of their ideas of liberty, the whole cause for which they profess to be fighting is not worth a single hair on one of those innocent heads, And, to add to the horror and disgust which the news inspired on this side of the Atlantic, it is well known that we have, among us, things that look like men, and answer to Christian names, who aid, abet, encourage and sympathize with such out- r Such men, as the Sun remarked is the meanest and lowest of swindlers, adroit enough to evade the law, and daring enough to rob Is here, and perhaps murder them in London, o law can reach them or take cognizance of such acts as they commit next morning, we know on’ servant comicbooks.com