Judge — July 4, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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a THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep States axp Caxapa) 1s ADVANCE Ove copy. one year, or numbers, . 5. ha, oF 38 numbers, single coples Weeats each: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 328 Pearl St., NEW YORK. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. EP-CoRRESTCNOESTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NoTICR THAT TurY exsp Mat To THIS OFFICE AT THEIR OWN REN. WHERE STANTS IRE FURSISHED WE WILL RETURS REJECTED MATTER, a8 FAM AS TOS BLE, OCT WE DISTINCTLY REFUDLATE ALL RESPONHIRILITY FOR SUCH WHERE & PRICE E8 SOT AFVIXED AY THE WRITER, WILL RE REGARDED AS ORATCTTODS, AND 50 SCRSE- QUEST CLAIM FOR RENCSERATION WILL RE ENTERTAINED, WHERE A PART OSLY OF CONTRIDCTIONS 18 OXED, THAT PART WILL BE PAID FOR PRO RATA O¥ THE FRICE AOREED CTON FOR TUE WHOLE ‘conmasaest. THE BIRTH OF LIBERTY. In time of revolution, when Our land was in its youth, Yet strong in mutinous anger then, And brave in hate of ruth; When battling men died every hour To save our honest Right, One cannon yet confined its power In still, majestic might Its force was pent, its mouth was calm, No bellow rent its breath; Around it writhed, in bloody balm, ‘The agonies of death, Its stern, dark cylinder 0’ The wounded and the d ‘The sulphurous air their only shroud Upon this battle-bed. But look! who by the cannon passed? ‘Two men, both worn and pale, Bat strength enough to fire the last Sure shot—"" Great Victory! hail! The fight is won! Come, steady aim— And fire! Our land is free And from the cannon-jaw there came The goddess, Liberty! As Venus, from the soft sea-foam, Rose up in sensuous grace, So, in the cannon’s smoky home Were seen the form and face Of fair, pure Liberty, to soar Draped in the flag’s proud wan; Born as our idol evermore, America’s Adored! ALIEN AMERICANS. Some one sarcastically says, “God shows what he thinks of money by the men he THE JUDGE. gives itto.” Tue Jupce suggests, “ Mon shows us its character in the demoralization | of its pos rs.” Was there ever a more glaring exhibition of human meanness than the wealthy men of New York show on all patriotic occasions? For instance their denial of a home to the Statue of Liberty. Money makes men selfish, cold, narrow, | hard and heartless everywhere. But above all its cursed effects is its destruction of the sentiment of patriotism in a free country. | It is to the institutions of their country, its equal and unequalled chances to rise by one’s own efforts, its peace, protection and | | prosperity, that these dudes of opulence owe their success. They owe the country more than any other class of citizens do, because they have pros- pered more with less brains and energy than have any others. And they are the first to become d ionalized, the ones least grate- ful to their ive land, the most un-Amer- ican of all its population. There is no character in Humanity’s chamber of horrors more revolting than he who, enjoying the greatest advantages, pleasures and refinements of life, his hard nature remains incapable of any amelioration thereby; a man upon whom the best bles- sings of the land being showered, he becomes a double traitor to it by not only witholding from it the tribute of affection and the sup- port of voice and purse, but bestowing on another government all the allegiance of his heart and the veneration of his nature. True, gold has not left in our wealthy | Anglomaniacs much heart and nature; but it is their total capacity for patriotism and it is bestowed on England. Their allegiance | and veneration are their all of sentiment and | feeling, albeit it is an order of allegiance and veneration much like to that exhibited | by their English pugs. CHESTERFIELDIAN POLICEMEN. When the new superintendent of New York police, full of the zeal of his first offi- | cial life, announced that all policemen must be polite and accomodating, a broad smile wreathed Father Knickerbocker’s face. There was mirth and incredulity mixed in | the smile. It is the season for mixed smiles. Tlistory and reason are against the belief in such a possibility as Supt. Murray promises to compass. A policeman is set to prevent | disorder and repress crime. _He’s the city’s | Bouncer; Law-and-Order’s Knocker-out. What has he to do with deportment? He leaves that to Turveydrops and—membera of the Produce Exchange. What has he to do with furnishing intel- ligence—he or the daily press? He has to! knock people senseless, not sensible. It is much if he do not strike the wrong man. What the new Supt. may require is | | that the police shall not knock the wrong man senseless. Let him compel them to keep | sometimes. hands off the citizen already sensible enough to behave himself. ‘That will keep Mr. Murray busy enough, | without his bending his energies to convert- ing the police into perambulating intelli- gence offices and pablic general utility men. The instructions that Tue JupGe would issue to the police would be about these: 1. Be sure to hit the right man on the right place at the right time. 2. Hands off the other fellows. RULINGS. Tue ReForM movement of this adminis- tration proved to be a very early-closing movement. Ir 1s too painfully evident that Justice is blindfolded, and why it wasdone. Suppose we take off the bandages and turn her loose. Tiere are on the pension rolls 19,512 widows of soldiers of the war of 1812. Evi- dently, our army then was all composed of Mormons. Wuenx a cabinet minister talks about “weeding out parasites” and “ uprooting barnacles,” Te JUDGE. protests against thus Hibernianizing the administration. Ir 1s the irony of fate that just ata time when so many Republican officials are turn- ing out offensively there should be an epi- demic craze for enforcing old statutes against profanity. Civi Service is to be reformed, by simply putting off the Republican and put- ting on the Democratic form. It is pre- sume i that there is quite as much human nature in a Democrat as in a Republican. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS are rendering their unhappy country a very poor service in disputing the statements published by Bishop O'Connor in a Dublin paper that sure ruin and misery wait any Irishman who goes to America. Shut up! Perhaps some of “em will believe the Bishop. A Desocratic organ proposes to amend the rules of the Civil Service examination so that candidates shall be asked only one all- embracing, conclusive question: ‘Are youa good Democrat?” It is a significant cir- cumstance that this proposed test involves a contradiction of terms and cannot be an- swered either in the affirmative or negative. A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT reports that Asst. P. M. Gen. Hay is well enough to get very mnch irritated over the continued reports of his feebleness. It works that way It is said that the President and cabinet are non-offensively partisan enough to be very much irritated over the continued reports of their adhesion to civil-service reform. comicbooks.com