Judge — June 20, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE. A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep States asp Casapa.) One copy, for 3 weeks, wave g Single coples 10 cents each: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 328 Pearl St., NEW YORK. TS AND CONTRIBUTERS. TO CORRESPON! HOr-ConnesroxperTs wit PLEASE TAKE exp Mex To THIS OFC YORSISHED WE WILL RETCRS DISTINCTLY REFY QuEST chase A FART ONLY OF CONTRIDCTH vary wil FOR FRO RATA ON THE PRICE AGREED CFOS FOR THE WHOLE xSIOSMEST. ABSURD AND IMPUDENT. When you lay down the principle that all nen are honest who belong to this church or this party, and all who belong to that church or party are dishonest, you will be laughed at. “It is an absurd and impudent assumption. But how far different from this absurdity and impudence, is President Cleveland's present position that reform can be en- trusted only to Democrats? He advances from the spoils-grabbers’ de- mand: “turn the rascals ou to that of, turn the Democrats in because only they are honest. Mr. Cleveland’s attitude is only greed plus cant; spoils clothed with hyprocrisy. The whole matter of appointments has in three short months drifted back to the old Jack- sonian methods, only an executive Pecksniff asks a blessing on the spoils-grabbing, say- ing: Republicans are all bad; let me have holy democrats to handle mails, keep ac- counts and draw salarics.”” As usual when hyprocrisy and false pre- tence rule, the practice is vicious. The ap- pointment of such men as Higgins, Chase, Meiere, Pillsbury, Cameron (the ex-convict | and swindler, as treasury agent), and other | such, are legitimate fruits of falsehood in motive, “Like man like master.” system needs and will secure dishonest agents. Turning rascals in is a legitimate and necessary sequence of turning out old A dishonest THE JUDGE. and tried officials on false charges, to carry out an administration of cant and hy pocrisy. HONEST, IF TIED. It takes a long time to learn that human nature is weak; that it is not safe to evtrust men with power and expose them to temp- tation unwatched and unhindered. Men, business men, are asa rule honest, because the consequences of dishonesty are too serious to be faced. But when you get over the line of safety and offer a temptation greater than the consequences of yielding, few men will hesitate to take the greater chances. If, in addition to the large profits of dis- | honesty, you let the tempted man believe he can purchase safety and success with his boodle, it is hardly human nature to refuse the chance at a good thing. Such a chance rises above the line of crime into the reaim of business, To steal a hundred thousand and return fifty per cent of it for exemption from prosecution, is a good speculation! How does it differ from stock watering and railroad wrecking? Is it not a shade decenter than working a corner in grain, which steals millions from hungry people and does not return a cent? If it comes to that, is not the cashier's frank steal better than the director’s specu- lation with trust fands and smashing up on other people’s money. Nay, verily, are not the president and directors who do not watch the cashiers and keep away temptation and the possibility of crime, as their duty to depositors requires, more guilty than the cashiers? Who shall put chains and padlocks on the directors? Who shall preside over the president? THE UNCERTAIN WHITE MAN'S POLICY. Injustice tinctured with weakness, is the the best policy to make the Indian alter- nately dependent and rebellions. Coddling and cheating do not mix well in dealing with the child of nature, nor eke with the children of civilization. The untutored mind of the savage is quite capable of perceiving when he is de- franded; he requires no expensive educa- tion to understand the meaning of lies, broken treaties and repeated extraditions from his home. But it takes a liberal course of culture, moral and intellectual, to make an Indian understand the real inten- tion of government bounty, Small wonder— for the government does not itself under- stand that policy. There is no policy in our treatment of the Indian. If it have any coherent motive, it is to dispose of the original Native American Party by a long course of wiping out. It consists of destroying his little spark of manhood, by keeping him dependent on government pap and feeding him whiskey; and then of goading him into savagery by lying and cheating him. Then, when he kicks and kills the first pale-face he can find, exterminate him. It | would have been infinitely more kind and less expensive to have exterminated him by | the short cut and wholesale. But perhaps | that would not have been quite so civilized and Christian. RULINGS. It nEGLNS to look as if the political revo- lution ordered last November, had not been | countermanded, | Tue svrrort of virtue has its own re- reward, Brer Beecher’s son has received a fat oflice from Brer Cleveland. “OrreNsive and malignant post-masters” is what President Cleveland is now gunning for, with Vilas as pointer and the whole Democratic party to bag game. Tuere have been reports of strained cabinet relations at Washington. Judging by some of the cases of nepotism it is evi- dent that the official strainer has too coarse amesh, It lets some cabinet relations into office that ought to be skimmed out. Tue Postmaster Gene: an “ offensive postmaster” incumbent who allowed loafers in the Post- Office, And yet the P. M. General is doing his best to put more Democrats in Post offices. al’s definition of sa Republican The Offensive Lamb and the Reform Wolf. | A Wolf and a Lamb came to the Union stream to drink. The Lamb had been there some time taking water straight and cropping bits of herbage when the Wolf arrived. ““Wat’r yer ’bout roiling up this yer branch soagentleman can’t drink?” yelled the Wolf as he thrust a Civil Service Reform Pole into the water and stirred it up. “To my unpracticed eye, Colonel,” replied the Lamb meekly, ‘it looks as if you were the individual who does most of the roiling. You have turned this blue water all a con- federate gray.” “Well, if you didn’t soil the wattah, your father did with his gun during the wah, and you must answer for it.” “How could that be, when. my father i fore the war?” asked the lamb, hen you were in the service, eh? You are an Offensive Partisan, and in the interest of Reform and the burial of Sectional Ani- mosities it is my painful duty to absorb you. | I’ve been wanting to turn you inside out for | «long time.” So the Wolf got outside of the Lamb | and they lay down together to celebrate the | era of Good Feeling. Hoc fabula docet, that it is easy to be a reformer and a non-partisan so long as you get your share of the mutton. comicbooks.com