Judge — May 23, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Osirep Stares asp Cavapa.) 18 ADvaNce, Ove copy, one year, oF nbers, One copy, #1 montha, ofS humbers, . One copy, fo Sin Weenta cach; THE JUDGE PUBLISH COMPANY, 924, 326 and $28 Pearl St., NEW YORK. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. CONRESTORDESTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THEY ND Mak TO THUS OFFICE AT THEIR OWS Rink, WHERE STAMPS res WILL RETCRS REJECTED MATTER, A8 FAR AS POS BLE, BUT WE DICTISCTLY REFUDIATE ALL RESPOSAIRILITY FOR SUCH VERT case WHERE A PRICE U8 SOT AFFIXED MY THE WRITER, COSTRIMETIONS WILL NE REDARDED AS ORATCITOCR, AND $0 ECRSE QCEST CLAIM YOR REMCWERATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED. WRERE A PART OSLY OF COSTRIDCTIONS IA CAED, THAT PART WILL Bx YOR FRO RATA O8 TUE PRICE AGREED CFOX FOR THE wNOte WHY WE WAVE. ‘Ten appointments by President Cleveland conferred on ex-confederate soldiers, to one given to a defender of the Union. ‘Two ex- confederate generals in his cabinet, not one ex-Union officer. A Union soldier who lefta leg at Gettysburg turned out to make room fora Democrat who at the time of that battle was cowardly plotting against the government. Union soldiers’ orphans and widows receive their very pensions from a secret enemy of their cause, a man who sig- nalized his advent to power over Union sol- diers’ fortunes by an attempt to oust from office a dead Union officer’s daughter, against whom he admitted that there was no cause of complaint. These and a hundred more such acts of aid and comfort cannot be waved aside with the cry of ‘Bloody shirt.” The Union side represented something as wellas did the Confederate side. Union men had a “ con- viction that they were right,” as deep and moving as that that stirred the Confederates; and, Mr. Cleveland’s policy to the contrary notwithstanding, the Union side is entitled to at least egual honor and protection from the U. S. government with that accorded to its late enemies. To plain people who love their country and its flag, the Union is still ‘a live issue” —the more since that side is discriminated against. They will not be deterred by any cry of “bloody shirt” from manifesting their patriotic indignation, andif ‘sectional animosities”’ are revived, the party that has re-inaugurated proscription of Union de- fenders will be held responsible. THE UNSPEAKABLE POLICEMAN. Is it possible to secure passably-decent men to administer city governments in this country? Why do the enormities and de- formities of human depravity always come on top in the Metropolis? Why is it possible to find only black- lers to suppress gambling and prostitu- tion, beer-guzzlers to execute the license- laws, wolves to guard the sheep? Fora variety and a surprise, why cannot we have one department of law administered by others than law breakers? Does Toe Juv rant? All the world has read the investigations of police con- | spiracy with gambling houses, dance houses, prostitution houses for the protection of the one and the profit of the other. inspector's son wa A police- a living witness to what ought to have been the damnation of the service and to have caused a popular up- heaval of reform, Did anything come of it? Policeman Conroy commits a most brutal murder, and gets simple imprisonment to be ended with speedy pardon by some Demo- cratic governor at the behest of Democratic pals, probably. A police sergant poses before the public in the brilliant role of ravisher of young girls. ‘These savage beasts are not placed over a helpless people by a conquering tyrant. They are the full blossom of the attempt at self-government! Of all the unspeakable crimes to be charged up by Ilistory against the Democratic party, the record of its gov- ernment of the Metropolis is the foulest category. This is ‘‘ how we live now.” What are the Intelligence, Culture, Wealth, Feminine-Refinement, Christianity of New York going to do about it? THE LADY OF THE LAKE. “ When it is not one thing it is something else” that agitates the mind and threatens the health of the New Yorker. His favorite health resort, Central Park, is now pro- nounced infected. Its drainage doesn’t drain; its waters are covered with scum so thick that the little tailless tadpoles take their cues and go gamboling on the green; the statues and the obelisks are shaky, the lawns are forlorn, and the Lady of the Lake paddles about with a gondola in the shape of acoffin. All this in the minds of nervous | citizens, | If “the Lungs of New York” aro | diseased, through what shall it breathe? | Where shall the sole find rest from malaria? Indeed, between mularia out of doors and tumbling dwellings when in-doors, there | seems to be only one safe resort, only one | secure style of habitation for the urban. He might as well emigrate to Greenwood or Cypress Hill at once. Bat there is another suggestion: Supposo all these sanitary scares are the result of a collusion between the fecund reporter and the versatile Coney Island speculator! Itisa noticeable coincidence that the malaria and the summer resort seasons open together. ‘There's matter in this, an one could find it out. To the poor and crowded population the condition of our parks is no trifling matter, and next to insuring safe and wholesome housing, the city authorities should guard from infection the only outing places of half amillion of our people. But they wont, probably. City officials can be safely de- pended on to do only one thing—draw their salaries regularly. RULINGS. Censvs Carr, with more’n a thousand men, m hed up to Hill and then marched down again. “ENGiisut damsels are learning to fence.” Quite natural, with the English government learning to hedge. Watt Str derbilt a be is Van- ‘The anti-monopolists and Pedestal funders say no, he’s another sort of animal. T has been asking, “Tue playground of the soul, poetic: hom is the I title that a clergyman gives the n face, ‘There seem to be a good many rough and bloody games on that campus, Tue Democratic party seems to be playing under the new balk line rule Northern Democrats who want appointments softly sigh, “Oh, carom me back to Ole Virginny.” Boss MANnNino has ordered the wires taken off the Treasury building. ‘The nnder- ground wires will be worked with renewed vigor till the close of this administration, And yet the Western Union says this thing is impracticable. “Them Two Cents.” It was high time for a change of adminis- tration, The new Democratic Treasurer counted the millions in Uncle Sam’s cash box and detected a deficit of two cents. The deficit was $2.02 at one time, but they found two silver dollars that had rolled out of one of the bays and escaped the hungry eyes of the new employes. The missing two cents will be advertised for, and if the Republican party does not restore them it will be tarned out. Who’s got them two cents? P. S. and very N. B.—The lost treasure isfound. It had leaked out of a bag and rolled into the corner, After the count had been concluded and the Treasurer bad turned all the new rascais out, a scrubbing woman detected and gobbled it. As she had already been suspected of indecent parti- sanship in consequence of having volunteered to work in the wards—of a Union Army hospital, during the war—she was promptly discharged. ‘This is but the beginning of reform and economy in the present adminis- tration, comicbooks.com