Judge — July 25, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. A WERK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. py. for 13 week: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 328 Pearl St, EW YORK. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. EP-CoRREAFCNDENTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICR TAT THEY TeevERY cask WHERE 4 Pick ces FOR REMESERATION WILL PAID YOR PRO RATA OX THE PRICE 40 oNsiaNMEST. AN OPHTHALMIC PHENOMENON. A strange disease seems to affect the of Metropolitan police, which renders them unable to see large objects near at hand, but quite able to discern much smaller things at much greater distances. The de- fect which makes a person far-sighted is ather unusual in common enough, but it is the practice of ophthalmic surgeons, we be- lieve, to find the same patient who is thus affected, also una 3 on the opposite side of the street, or to read a sign against which he is leaning. Cases have been known where a captain ble to sce hous or superintendent could see as far aw as Central Park, for instance, so small a thing asa child playing on inhibited while a large and very disorderly house near head- quarters was totally invisible. It is strange visual phenomenon that po- licemen who could not see a crowd of people going and coming into a dive across the street, have been able to discern a glass of beer several blocks away through a side door, two screens and a cherry counter— donble discounting Sam Weller’s supposed miracle of seeing Mr. Pickwick kiss Mra, Bardell “through a flight of stairs and a deal door” without the aid of “a pair of patent double million gas microscopes of hextra power.” And yet, in near perspec- tive, their ‘wision is limited” so much more than Sam’ Various causes are assigned by practition- ers for this double ophthalmic defect. It is sometimes attributed to dust raised by men of influence; sometimes to green paper or yellow metal getting before the eyes of the THE JUDGE. ; sometimes to the charueter of liquid unfortun! taken by the triment Various remedies have hut as yet nothing ns We think that the the correct treatment till they have more necurately diignosed the as We believe that the apt to mect all ulists will not uses of the e3 of this strange visual aberration will ultimately be found to be congenital. If the police were borne with these defective, and excessive, perceptions it is of little use to try to im. prove them and it will probably be found necessary to put other men in their pla CIVILIZING THE WORLD. When the armies of this free republic set | out to enlighten benighted Mexico (and ex- tend the blessings of African slavery), zeal- onaries marched by the side of the cannon; and it was proposed to expedite the work of introducing Christian civilization by putting the bibles and tracts into the cannon and injecting them, as it were, into the hearts and lives of the Mexicans, ‘The proposition was logically and theolog cally sound. Conviction must go before conversion, and we must mi a sinner penitent before we can secure his sul It is executing on a larger scale that family discipline which ‘breaks the will” of a child to make him love the Sunday-school, and that divine Providence which, we ure told, remorselessly afflicts men to “wean them from the world,” and make them will- ing to die. It is in this sound and philanthropic spirit that the emissaries of civilization have ever carried its blessings to the heathen. Knowing that the untutored savage can at first understand and respect only power, we show him the power of guns and ships first. We instruct him in the superiority of civ- ilization over barbarism by putting the one under the foot of the other. To show him that brain is better than muscle, mind superior to matter, we subdue his rebellious nature by the quieter forces of peace—whiskey, opium and the diseases of civilized life. He is now in a mellowed condition and ready to receive the gospel with its attend- ant blessings of hypocrisy, covetousness, slander, lying, stealing, licentiousness and ultimately party politics, reforms, strikes, | starvation, monopolies and law-and- | order "—for the rich, Development is slow and barbarian hearts are ungrateful and hard. But civilization cannot be impeded. ‘The progress of the race is irresistable. All tribes that will not be civilized must go and give up their lands to Christian syndicates. It is destiny. It is divine will. For have we not with us the Bible and the approval of all the “ only true gions” th.t have been given to man by revelation and the votes of popes and of theological caucusses generally. ous mis: ‘ation, | | | tion, all ma NOT THREE OF A KIND. Of course, there is no comparison between the moral responsibility of acarefully-reared and correctly indoctrinated manu, and that of a graduate of the slums, oreven of a poor laboring man. ‘The same offense in these different men, while perhaps the same in the eye of statute law, is not the same in moral law. Some philosophers even say that crime is a disease, the result of a countability in the transgressor. Men break laws usually without any appreciation of the consequences to follow. wck of sense of ac- Such an excuse is not to be entertained in behalf of a son of orderly, pious parents, who have given him the best educa advantages that the wealth and wisdom of the mighty nation, over which he is one day to rule, could devise or pay for, and who well understands the responsibilities of the grand eminence on which he is placed. His inheritance, rearing, rank, prospects and posi- a trifling immorality in him a more grievous offense than a gross transgres- sion in one of his prospective subjects would be. What then shall be said, if the heir-ap- parent to the proudest place on earth be found engaged in debaucheries so foul that the types of sensational papers refuse to print the nasty and cruel details? To Tim McCarthy, the Oak street di keeper, and Pudney the sexton of St. George Church, convicted of tampering with little girls, the cartoonist owes an apology for placing them in the same group with the royal roue. It is the first time they have had injustice done them, They have good ground for an action of defamation of char- acter in this slanderous pictorial association. SOME ENGLISH TRAGEDY. Lord Ashleigh met a working girl And chucked her pretty chin; The world looked on and frowned to see ‘The b ness of the si For lo! Lord Ashleigh’s touch was death, Black was his soul within, from some And wept in sad surprise, God belp the girl! the world cried out, ¢ should have been more wise.” ‘The types ¢ And se “A A life is wrecked “This —this is to The indignant world replied bt up the dreadful sin amed it far an js lost! An ang * the God help the world that mildly frowns On the crime but little ki But hides its face with horror's trace When the press gets but its own God help Lord Ashleigh and the world, For their guilt none can aton nen, comicbooks.com