Judge, 1885-07-04 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 4, 1885 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Revenge Is Sweet" - Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's social commentary. The main cartoon, captioned "The Chinese are excluded, but not the crackers!," appears to reference **Chinese Exclusion Act** tensions of the 1880s-90s. The image shows a figure (likely representing a white American "cracker" or lower-class white person) engaged in behavior the cartoonist presents as equally objectionable to Chinese immigration, creating ironic commentary: white criminals/undesirables aren't excluded from America despite being "unfit," yet Chinese laborers face blanket exclusion. The surrounding text snippets offer general satirical observations about writing, poverty, and urban life—typical Judge fare mocking pretentious literary aspirations and economic hardship. The juxtaposition suggests Judge's critique: America excludes Chinese people wholesale while tolerating native-born social problems.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Hh } — = | = parerigignaer = a | THE JUDGE. 3 Me, | | oo = = tg | | Queer Quidbles. | ‘ (A | A dime museam “freak "—putting the iS | gitimate drama on its stage. ‘The autobiographical writer onght-to-be- - a-graphical and interesting scribe, but he | | i | seldom is. i | Cana blind man see out of his mind's || \ The dead-broke youthlet who sponged aronnd; He. Without a cent his heart to eleer:— i A | nies—sits on the ground, | {Ve | ‘omes a fin-ant-sce’r. | y ‘Tis hard to write of marble halls | A western brewer's name is Chris, Adam. | And spend one’s nights in palace walls, All people don’t to the water-cock for Where ever musically falls | Adam's Ale” in that locality A fountain cool and slay: The Ticket o’ Leave Man"—an office- | . pat th seeker with one of Cleveland’s appointments b | 1 ft in his pocket to go abroad, | i Hall bed-room when 4 wiped your pen a ae nse | . And owing your landlady An for an ‘i,’ and a ‘2nd.’ for a NY | “Tia Tinka toi wetteor waned * 2th,’ as the typo said while correcting some | | | With vianils riel atid will boars’ head, with him he ever had, and 1 matter: | { | Where wi se. and burdeels fel) pad the buteher weigh him,” The man who spends a dime for “tmdg | | While y peruller; “Oh, he hain’t got no scales to weigh Had better with it buy Tae Jener:, Much cust requires the brain | trout with, He uwin’t no fisherman, they yuny \ . | A To write about a courtly trai | buteher ain't.” blown of iy race-—eliasing ‘one’s atifl” hat; | oy | When only small beers teft to gain “ But our own scales only made him weigh | Vown off on a windy day. \| if | “The pageant life and color, twa pour and a half, pop.” Yung Hock, a Chinaman, was murdered ! 1] . uae oratl | “Eh?—what? Gracious! [hadn't any in New York the other day. Old Hock, the iy y | Selon aun | idea trouts shrunk like that, Bob. : an, is ‘still in | atte olt 5 | e fromm | must have made a mistake, and the butcher, | bawn shop stant on te Powery,” however. Hy | In the way of a lt | i 3 { | Penned by a waning taper, ie 6:-wo dnt Come Ee The stormy, frosty winter days; { | T think it is to fancy 1 lan yeaa ne and weigh | Have shuflled down the Past, aud gone; | || Mave werd an hciress on the s The thing was getting tiresome to old | (And ‘tis now th side hotel clork polishes a And, waking, find the marti Parker now, and he blurted out: up his Lake G » diamond, and while |! f/ le on papert 1, L don’t care what he weighs now. thinking of his Nov. to June low rate of ral | Pasta Dutascy Puasox. | [only know what he did weigh yesterday. | w: realizing that his services are Pal | Now clear out, and let me read in‘peace.” now indisper rikes his ** boss” for i Old Parker's Trout. Hopeful, from his point of retreat, the The Me erian, sal’ry raise,” A. a doorway, switched suddenly from mundane ielore the sammer's ade beam) in | Old Parker, deep in the leading editorial | Bround to celestial. A jd Parker, deep e leading editorial | 8roNn' ‘A coms | | the Bunadarte i : ly “There won't no fishermen go to heaven, |, ‘ This new pollytickle charge of offensi- Bhi ll] fodaneeeies wha oe ; tive partitionship fills all the clerks in Wash. || \ ha pipe ies ante a * Clear out!” roared his dad, “or 'I—”| ington with great trepsidation just now,” |. — what d's a sv that trout weighed, the bible says no li—” | quoth Mrs, Smitherkins; “+ why, they w bS SOL ROne: poande: tives ker bounced to a perpendicular, | afraid to describe any money for firing a sa- || ag quarters, Bob. [t's a whacker, isn’t. it? | but Bob bounded away like a black-tail buck | lute to Senator Logan, and a ten-cent pres | | iy: |, | Phat waa-th ct weight when taken ont | of the Bad Lands, the sire settling down to | scription had to be raised in the rural ine || \ 1 | eethe eaten? | the pabulum offered by his favorite paper, | stinets and city superbs for the purpose. | \p | “Do trouts go back on themselves, pop, | the Bungstarter, SE SLOKUM. | WP, JOSLYN. is | wh "re ketchee \- — - || ug | * Go back on themselves? What do you | REVENGE IS SWEET. | if |} mean by that, Bobs 7 “Do th a pound or two apiece i} over night? | | “Lose that much in weight, I s'pose you | ian mean? Bless you, no. ‘They shrink some {| its in weight, L s’pose, of course.” HS | “Tow much had a four-pound-three- | ounces-and-three quarters trout’ oughter lose, pop, “tween last night and now?” | ' N “Qh, the odd oun haps. “No'more'n that? ‘Then eome one’s been ‘an here und played roots on us, pop, and took ie our trout and left a snide.” | i “Nonsense, Bob. | “Nonsense nothing, pop. The trout | eid j that’s out there now don’t weigh only two ie |. pounds and seven ounces. Why don’t you ea || come ont and look at him, and sce ‘f he’s | your'n, Would you know the one you | ketched, pop, by sight?” i i | “Know him? of conrse—know him uny- rm.) | where.” oa | Come and look at this one, then, ’eause ai | some one’s played a snide on us, pop.” } “Nonsense, I tell you again. Your ; | mother’s probably cleaned it, Bob, which a, | accounts for the shrinkage.” f i) q | “No, she hasn’t, pop; the trout’s got all | (he i | BES comicbooks.com