Judge — August 29, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Pannee = THE JUDGE. | | and less than a third of what LISHED ONCY A WRK TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS THE JUDGE PUBLISHING 924, 326 and 3: COMPANY, Pearl St, NEW YORK TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. CAN HE CATCH ON? As Gould is the Great American Absorber of tel and Vanderbilt the Great American Gobbler of railroads, Garrett is American who will not be either absorbed or gobbled. Garrett is a stayer: stays out of the sharks’ maws, ‘The nearest they have came to pturing the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph was on paper. Sag aph the Gre: Jeal” consisted in sending one of the ring, over to London to telegraph back that Garrett (who is in E rope) was fishing for a bid for the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph. An extensive corres- pondence was kept up per cable, and the is given out here that the B & O. was about to surrender to the monopoly and go the way of all the other opposition tele- graphs, On the strength of this W. U. stock went up 14 points, When Garrett heard of it he “spotted ” the whole correspondence as stoc lies. Lies the despatches were, as their publi- ti on demonstrated. tock-jobbing it was, as the advances of Western Union show The Buccaneer of the Wires still finds the Bk. & O. as far out of his reach as ever. But he must be several hundred thousand dollars ahead, if he enough. They who follow the pira profession always did make their money easily. news wa jobbing unloaded promptly THE JUDGE. WILL IT OVERTAKE THEM ? ‘The papers tell us that trade begins to revive, and that we m: come of the tide o} There is also a ¢ hope the turn bas affairs. rk cloud gathering in of the government, png to overtake and overwhelm id capital before they can reach shelter. With the amount of cireulating medium at less than half what it was a few years England has out, it no wonder that business was | impeded. With twelve millions more gold in the treasury than there was a few years ago the overnment went shinning to borrow gold —“up to twenty muillions—” distrust. more creating It has stacked away six millions of this borrowed cuin, adding more contrs tion to distrust. It has thirty million legal tender in its vaults, which by law, it is ordered to pay out and keep in circulation, but holds— adding more contraction. It has two hundred millions of idle coin hourded and refuses to buy bonds with it, stop interest and release the money to invig- orate the life-currents of trade—adding more contraction and continuing est on the bonds. than all this, is the ten greater contraction of forcing all good property down to the gold basis of va to pay inter- More times and by continuing to The steady and ‘decline of means that the out goods with, gnize only gold as irinkage of value: of * we measure getting longer; iu gold has been getting more scarce and high. Rising gold h over the world mone years past, been kicked down goods all nd this is why depression is world-wide. Our government, banks and gold ments th simoom in collusion with our gamblers, are the ele- are rising like a threatening 1 the weary path of capital and labor, together seeking better times. May they escape to refuge before the storm bre: THE GIANT THAT DRIVES THEM. Civil service reform seems to have re- sold itself under this administration into a simple matter of time. The spoils are to be distributed to the victors as usual, only President Cleveland wants to go a little slow. The party is in a hur very hungry It has been and very thirsty a long time. It is treading on the heels of its representa- tives and its representatives are urging the President and all his department chiefs to work the guillotine faster. But Mr, Cleveland won the place on pledges of civil service reform and began | of the Democra much show of re ges. Naturally, he does not his duties with ming the ple¢ want to bein a hurry to brand him tender and fra He wants time to himself down eu to the old spoils whither he is surely tendin For a snail and with It a pre- let sily system of nt as well De ie to impede rawlish mi. nt, as the President and representatives try tand an clepl the ponderous tre: trumpeti towards plunder. If there is not 1 of the Democratic “Give! Give!” as it adv land of 0 the promised more haste in seattering the boodle some one is going to get stepped on, RULINGS. NeWsParens still wrar Let To tie the place of G peace. gover it’s burial: him have Dewoer high offi “ structura Laws. chiefs busy DEPARTMENT and seem to be very finding “akness ” in the Civil Service THE GUILLOTINE KEPT at’ work during Cleveland's the Adirondacks. ‘The President employs more deputies than the Buifalo Sherif did. absence in Tuene ts talk of starting an out-and-out administration organ in this city. We ean out-and-out na- We have plenty of would much rather s tional organ starte local papers now. Democratic cre Star-E, is dis of the ship of ed Goddess as 2 If sh overed before the voyage ends (1888) over she'll go and. shift for herself, whether she has anything on or not. re, the “Ir is Time,” saysa discriminated Phila- delphia paper “to let go of Keiley.” Great Scott, we can’t. Might as well tell a dog to let go of the turtle appended (o his tail. Just about a specimen of a Philadelphia paper’s pe Ir ts fortunate for this country that there has been a silver lining to the cloud of business adversity the past three years. If it had been a cloud weighted with gold only, there would have been a series of financial cyclones and not enough cellars to retreat to, Ir “TRANSPIRE newspaper Eng- lish—that five Republicans pass the civil ser- vice examinations to one Democrat qualified thereto. It was either an unerring instinct or an intimate knowledge of Demo- cratic scholarship that prompted so gi opposition to civil service rules on the part Hendricks knows who is neral ic press. what he is at. comicbooks.com