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The main cartoon titled "THE UNDETECTED KNAVÉS" depicts two figures labeled Fish and Ward in prison cells. Based on the accompanying text, this satirizes their trial and imprisonment for financial crimes, with the passage noting they "are tried and in their cells; after their honesty tested goods for other people's money they are still." The political commentary criticizes corruption in business and Wall Street, suggesting these men's crimes—manipulating exchanges and "systematized robbery"—were widespread practices dressed up as legitimate commerce. The right-hand "RULINGS" section contains miscellaneous political commentary on contemporary issues including New York Democratic politics and election disputes, typical of Judge's satirical coverage of 1880s American political life.
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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WERK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Csrrep States asp Casaba) THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 26 and $23 Pearl St., NEW YORK TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. Wares THE UNDETECTED NAVES. Fish and Ward are tried and in their cells after their fevered grab for other people money the still, Small favors thank- » Mme. Justicia, and larger ones in proportion, The source of all this tion of business that produced Ward is in the exchanges and bankers’ offices, st up this h atures, treasures in dead evil condi- seething sea that ca less FP is full of horrid er m skulls, and creatures feasting on men, at Clarence saw in his dream of The villainy that Ward executed he learned in Wall strect and it is daily prac tised there still, unpunished. Other grea broken there, other fortunes stolen, other lives blasted, and still it goes on inthe name of business. — ‘* These Ya kees go round sheating each oder und steel- ach oder all day, und dey call dot ezne said the like those t drowning. hearts are n= ! pee-e-ezness!” Frenchman. Justitia needs to order hundreds, thons- nd fit them to the of the exchang For the instances of knavery that come to the surface and float within rea gaff are few and not the most injurious ones. ‘The whole system of speculation in stocks ands of striped suits pe-e-e-ezness "? men and gambling in produvts is an injury to the trade and industry of the countr: ivery farmer, operative, manufacturer nt has inst the ion is only another name for robbery of a nation. case excha THE JUDGE. WARFARE. are changed since Napoleon de- ored the advance clared thy heaviest battalions: cti Providence always that was a gre in tactical philosophy, albeit pious people on either side have n tothe God of t even yete battles to ased pray- ing favor both in the sci- ‘True, the art improved, so that murder on Ivance ence of war of killing has) much whol ale ten t all; but Ivanced in s grand, when we do it of d cience lomacy has Chri in civilization ht men to he much better than they can fight, so that now we have Mars bounc 1 foot with red tape, and the big ts settle all lof spilling blood they spill ink. General Prevarication commands, Fusillades is do better execution than fusillades My maries, and Krupp gives way to »pheles. All this ** for common.” tead of rifled cannon they On extraordin- When id there is nd nations © more money and men than their bor- ny ¢ ons nations must fight. population gets to crowding over-production of merchandise, ha ders will accomodate, then they must have blood-letting and squandering to restore the equilibrium, Then for a space men will stop lying and fall to killing. Diplom- acy fails sometimes, and the only trust is in God power. HOW POLITICAL FIELDS ARE WON. It’s a prett when beaten, ¢ by di reasons which ou poor stick of a partisan who, nnot account for the result creditable to the victors, ht to make the insolent foe bow his head in shame and remorse, But they never bow. Men and roosters will crow, and the more they are whipped the more vigorously the , usually. id after the Novem- 8 did after find any- triumph won by debauchery and _ ballot-box stufling, you are welcome to your racket.” One thing is certain: If the people are dsand made mo: with the idea that the Ives, the result is ever that sone to fill the offices, abu: the trusts and draw the salaries and steal- reasons crow So the Republicans & Deimoe if you thing to exult over in a corruption, ber elections, as the those of October, “ gloriovsly humbugg sriously there is sor “| ings with religious punctuality and zeal. ON ELection Niout Tammany had fewer members in good and regular standing than at any time ina year. But theircase was as nothing to the lay-out of the boys who, like | MeSorly,” ‘don’t belong to anny | soc-si-e-ty.”” RULINGS, MANY ane called [scoundrels] but few are chosen [delegates to Sing Sing. ] “Tie PLOATING VorE” was gotten to the p of New York by the bosses on floods of beer. “Mes ane per Cur of a larger growth,” and some of them are not made a prodigious sight larger, either, ATTORNEY telephone ring nation that must feel res a true Democrat. GENERAL will not FARLAND, of the It is the Mr. G,. is res ned. THERE AKE NINTY-PIVE cieties in W: alms-giving so- shington, it is announced, and their resources are sorely taxed by visiting stat and men of Democratic prof boodle pretensions. sion It hard-line 1s Not probable that the election * the democrats are in line” will be true until the last of them has been—like Ole Bull’s famous violin obligato—executed ‘on one string. ALL THE DEAD WAL of New York during the campaign were covered with the Democratic war ery— “No Civil Service.” It’s an old issue, “Even Irish servants long since adopted that policy. Cason Farrar thinks President Cleve- land is well informed. That’s what the Democracy complain about, THe’s_ so. well informed that he will not trust many of them with the official responsibility. rn, of Yale College, has got With a whoop he bounds into the arena flourishing a shillalah of a pam- phlet labelled ‘* Protectionism.” — Tle aching to have some protectionist ‘ thread on the tail av me coat.” A MAN TRIED to get a nomination for a city office by Tammany last month wasn’t born in Ireland. He barely escaped with his life. Me has emigrated to Ireland, where an American has a better chance for recognition than in New York, Th Is A cLuB in this city f, the ‘Society to Promote As it has arrayed against it a Society to Promote Injustice, which seems to include pretty nearly all the rest of society, we do not look to sce Justice even brevetted this year. who called, by Justice.” Democratic LEADE AND MANAGERS are now of opinion that the Mugwumps are “not to be trusted.” Singularly enough, the Mugwumps think so, too. More singu- larly, Democratic voters think their mana gers are not to be trusted and demand spot | cash before voting. comicbooks.com