Judge — October 31, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WERK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. | (Ustreo States aso Casapa) One copy, one year, or 52 oumbers, Ove copy, ais me One copy, for 13 weeks, . HO 20 LZ tha, or 8 pumbers ples 19 cents each; THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, | 824, 326 and $28 Pearl St., NEW YORK Ee-ConnesroxnesTs Ws. FLEAS TARR NOTICE THAT THEY WaERe sTAMrs ATER, AB FAR AS POS BILITY FOR #UCH 7P AYPLXED RY THE WRITER, ORATUTTOCS, AXD $0 RURSE. BEVERY CASE, CONTRIBCTIONS WILL BE REN: MONOPQLY IN THE SADDLE. When the United tes government en- dowel the Union Pacific Railroad with a principality from the public lands, built the road and handed it over to the projectors and made them presents of millions of dol- lars from the public treasury besides, it was thought by some people that Uncle Sam had been tolerably generoas to this corporation and that they ought to be satisfied. Some unreasonable citizens went so far as to say that the enterprise, with its “* Credit Mobe- lier insides and its outward disregard of the terms of the subsidy, was a disgrace and a fraud on the nation; but these crisics were probably “communists” and must be put pat down. Of course, the argument in favor of this great gift was that the Pacific road would open up the country and band the continent together—in short, prove a public benefit. And it undeniably proved, and may con- tinue to be such, if it confine itself to its legal and legitimate business of common carrier. There were millions in the busi- ness, at that, aside from the wealth conferred || upon the road by the government. Was || that not enough? Is anything enough for a hog? Did any man ever use a monopoly moderately? ‘The Union Pacific road, by the obstructive use of its monopoly as the only carrier, squeezed out of life and into its own hands every pro- fitable coal mine, factory, hotel and business ‘on the line of tho road, | The United States is a partner of the THE JUDGE. road and the U. S. army stands ready at the call of the monopoly to suppress all forcible resistance against this tyranny—and no other resistance is left to the robbed and oppressed people of Nebraskaand Wyoming. Absolute power, law and the authority of the govern- ment of the United States all are against the people. By-and-by, some one out there may be reviving phrases that were once the rallying- cries of rebels: ‘Resistance to tyrants is obedience to di.” “When a government becomes subversive of rights it is the duty of the people to alter or abolish it.” For over a hundred years these have been the sentiments of patriotism and loyalty to the United States. In which character shall they continue to be used in Nebraska and Wyoming? JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE. Prophesying is the noble infirmity of great campaign papers, and may not THe JupGE prophesy? Do not giant intellects of par- tisan warfare brag while they may? Go to. Do they eat their words, either side, after election? Does the failure of his phrophesy ever phaze a prophet in religion, politics, spirit- ualism or finance? Have not the great financial authorities continued for, lo! these seven years to pre- dict that silver will, must, shall “drive out gold!” And it driveth not. Nevertheless, do they cease to stand on the walle, and in tall towers and the Treasury top and eke the White House steps and prophesy the eame unto this day, undismayed? Go to, then, shall Tue JupGe be abashed asa prophet? No, i’ faith, So long as it can distinguish a stock-speculator from a hand-saw, it will picture and predict as reality that which it most devoutly wishes to have come true. Tue Juvoe did nothing in the prophesy- ing business before the Ohio election, so it brings up arrearages on New York, with two cartoons and this blast: New York is ours. Or, if it be not, Tur Jupce will simply ‘take the papers and reserve its decision” until next year. RULINGS. Tue worn doesn’t owe anybody a living, but it owes a good many chaps a killing. High time it began to pay up, too. A Lovisvitte Lawyer has written an explanatory card to the Times of that city asa ‘‘tribute to truth.” This is the tough- est tax ever imposed on any man. A New York Democratic paper, after the Ohio election, yelled for the faithful to “brace up.” ‘They have been splicing the main brace ever since. ‘THE MOST STARTLING testimony we have seen to the bitterness of Democratic disgust in Ohio, is the allegation that thousands of them, to spite Cleveland, voted the Prohib- ition ticket. Sixce THE New York dailies fell to writing articles about candidates the * per- sonal” columns of the Herald and World have risen to comparative respectability in the scale of journalism. A certaty Democratic editor's idea of civil service reform seems to be to put the C. S. R. Commission into the hands of such reformers us Ch Dana, Hubert 0. Thompson and Thos, A. Hendricks, Tue piscLosure or the fact that Bos Tweed came down with $10,000 to the mira Gazette when D. B. Hill was running it, has turned all the other Democratic pa- pers in the state green with regret and envy, On THE Eve of the Ohio election a Dem- ocratic paper exhorted the faithful not to borrow trouble about the result. They didn’t have to. Their friends, the enemy— neighborly fellows!—fairly forced it on them—lots of it. THE BROADEST FUN in the western humorous papers now is from Sam, Jones's “sermons.” They’re funny, rather, but the prevailing tone of irreverence in them must offend the religious sensibilities of most people. Those western editors are a godless set, we fear. WE HAVE NO SYMPATHY with the effort to undervalue Col. Jones’s service in leading the Sixth Massachusetts through Baltimore in’61. Any man who went half way through that snakes’ den at that time deserves the gratitude of his country. « Tur New Sovtu,” politically, seems to mean the South ruled by bogus ballots in- | stead of bulldozing; by cooking returns in- stead of darkies, ‘The intelligence of the South has superseded its muscle. There is no objection to Republicans’ voting so long | 88 Democrats monoplize the counting. IT Is FLATTERING to us, who shall con- tinue to hold that post of honor, the private station, to know that however the election goes next week, this state is sure to have for governor a man who is a hypocrite, drunk- ard, imbecile and knave. We know it from reading all the party papers. It is the only point they agree upon. We know | that the thought of it comforts the editors from their unctious dwelling on it. comicbooks.com