Judge — June 27, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUDLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usirep States axp Caxapa) One copy, one y: 2 numbers, One copy, #4 m or 3 numbers THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 324, 326 and 329 Pearl St., Ww YORK. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. PerConnesrcspests with rurase 9D Mak. TO THI OFFICK AT THEIR 2 FURNISHED We WH IAL, RCT WE DISTINCTLY REFUDE um evERY ¢ WHene 4 re TARR soTICR THAT THEY ws nix, WHERE staxre isen, W 2 PART OsLY OF cosTRIOCTY THAT FeRT wits PAID FOR FRO RATA O¥ THE FRICE AGREKD CTOX FOR THE WHOLE ‘conmanaest. QUEST CLADE FOR RENTWFRA BURLESQUE STATESMANSHIP. If there ever was taken by a nation that step from the sublime which lands in the ridiculous, England so put her foot into it when she suspended the serious Afghan and joudanese business to defend her ’alf-and- alf. If Gladstone had desired tories and the crown with ridicule for the factiou’s opposition of the one and the un- concealed dislike of the other, he could not have done it more skillfully than by making the issue, as he did, on the question of tax- ing beer to sustain the military prowess of the government. Jt is rather Harlequin politics, but the whole joke—if such it may be called, in so serious a juncture—is on the opponents of Gladstone. John Bull, of course, does not see the humor of the thing, and he thinks he has downed Gladstone and saved his beer and honor at the same time. But future history will sec that Gladstone only stooped to con- quer and that this is the cleverest ruse of his career, albeit not the most dignified. In his too-easy fall we can hardly think of him as the Grand Old Man; but when he again comes in power, as he surely will if his life be spared, the prophetic instinct which served him so well in accepting defeat on so absurd an issue will become apparent. Gladstone never dealt the moribund Tory cause so severe a blow as when he went down before their ally, the foaming beer tankard. to cover the THE JUDGE. THE GREAT USURPATION. ‘This was once considered a government by the people. But in its financial policy there has been for years a flat antagonism between the people and the government. for bimetal- lism—their treasury has for seven years ‘The people decided long steadily pursued a monometallic poli The nation has ordained that silver, equally with gold, shall be money. Secreta ries of the ‘Treasury and Presidents, Repub- lican and Democratic, have decided that silver shall not be money. ‘The constitution of the United States, the statute laws of the country are alike nullified by one branch of the government. ‘The financial usurpation is the more dan- gerous and discreditable because it is made to work the benefit of a banking syndi- te. So that, in money matters, we have the people ruled and their edicts over-raled by a joint-platocricy of the ‘Treasury and the New York Clearing House. Under this rule the gold is delivered into the banks, and the Treasury takes all the silver. Each keeps what it can lay hands on, and keeps it out of circulation. Meanwhile, paper is discredited, and trade is made timid by the lack of circulating me- dium and the destruction of confidence. Who dares extend his operations when he sees a syndicate of bankers directing the policy of the government against law and constitution; when specie, the basis of all circulation, is sequestered and monopolized? Who can foresee the future under a finan- cial policy that is alike monopolizing. What chance is there for Confidence, the life of trade, so long as the whole fis administration is an usurpation? Trade will be lean and hangry so long as Jack Sprat in New York and his wife in hington take all there is on the board and lick the platter clean of Confidence. law-defying and CATCH-PENNY PLEASURES. They tell us that Americans do not know how to play—that we make a serious, earnest business even of our fun. It is not true. Americans think as much of a holiday, and forget care as completely at such times as any people who have to work for a living. Witness the enthusiasm and unanimity with which everybody yoes in for half a holiday on Saturday—with pay fora full-day’s work, of course. In one thing, however, we are rather too practical. We, or some of us, insist on turning all pleasure-secking into a catch- penny business, This is not so very re markable since we also insist on making money out of religious observances, patriotic celebrations, and even out of weddings and funerals. You can’t tell of what denomination or name half the church edifices are; but you never fail to find an undertaker’s sign on the grandest sacred structures. stone att at once the sorrow and business enterprise of the survivo Preying on pleasure seed on Coney Island. Even the tomb- ekers has gone to Once the popular ling-off place, it has be- show of the metropolis, People now go there to see the cireus and get tired and hot. hey ask a sight of “Old Oc s melancholy waste” and they are given— the grey and melancholy waist of the lathe- and-plaster elephant. The ‘ mournful murmur of the surge ” is come the drowned by the more mournful clamor of brass instruments qt ‘They can look at the from the elevator. If they—her tir Nature Heave uss showmen, a—for five cents, ildren—seek rest on breast, they are given instead, great a whirl on the merry-go-aront othing is free in this city of Fukirs. The trail of ma Stay. Thought is free. home and singing between g ly stretches of for is the wild echo of the hermit thrush's plaint; of desolate ¢ mmon is over everything. We can stay at dream of — babblin banks; of where the onl brooks Lasy lone- sound nons where the garish sun of those silent lakes where the red deer daintily crop the lily-pads and the piratical pickerel lie under the shadow of great rocks unscarei From all these drea open his eyes to—beer! thing! never comes; the citizen must Five cents for auy- ms RULINGS. Assistant Port-Master prove a man of straw in office—Hey? will not Tue Meoweses are unwilling to admit their di in Cleveland, ‘They should remember that confession is good for the sold. ppointment Two surgeons in Denver have succeeded in restoring to life and canine festivity a dog that had been dead three hours and a half. Try it on horizontal Morrison! Try Bill. Tuey have decided in Washington that “Chiefs of Divisions” do not come under the Civil Service Law. Neither do the conductors of ** Substraction and Silence.” It needed no cabinet council of reformers to veto the U. S. Law in such case, Undoubtedly, Gov. Hutt’s objection to the Arcade Railway bill is that it was snaked through the legislature in a way that raises a sus picion of crookedness in the birth of-the bill. Does Gov. Hill understand that such objection would demand a veto of nearly all the bills that pass? He might as well veto the legislature and have done with it. comicbooks.com