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The main cartoon depicts a grotesque figure labeled "JUDGE" - a personified representation of the magazine itself as moral arbiter. The illustration shows Judge as a disheveled, heavy-set character, establishing the satirical tone. The text addresses contemporary political issues: criticism of the Pan-Electric stock scheme, discussion of free trade versus protectionism, and commentary on socialist labor organizing in London. The article "FREE TRADE AND FIRE STRIKE" critiques both wealthy capitalists and socialist organizers, suggesting they're equally problematic. "WOMAN AND DRESS" appears to be social satire about women's fashion and comportment. Overall, this page represents Judge's role as political satirist commenting on labor disputes, economic policy, and social morality during the Gilded Age.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. AMKELL Hanay KMart Renswano GiLtas 1. M. Gregory GV, Howe Advertising Ma Farenice W, Nosn TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA ‘Tue President's view of it—Keep the ras in. Tue President stand and kee nothing by Garland and La the Pan Electric stock This adminstr ‘and it will be lucky if 1 that which he got fe m but one te y throw it gets “TkNow not what the country will say of me after Tam dead, dd General Wash ington on a mem sion; “but this I know—it cannot remark that [ever parted my hair in the middle or had the acquaintance Ben Butler.” Youso Mr. Washington monial case, the low heart site side remark ost his first matri- uty who won | ecidin, but his exper the next time he secur gentleman on the oppo- widow Custis and was entirely su Mr. Wastuxatos always slept at the hind side of the bed, and didn’t grow! about it either, It must. be stated, how be truthful—that du} aceupied the entire bre the addition satisfactic must 's absence he th of it and pa of 1 circumference with the serenest Tue Jer the American 13th page of tod that the circulation joubled since it passed into its present h Any business man who is calls attention to a note from s Company, printed on the This f the paper has 1 » shows arly nds “s issue, urious in such mat- and if he to our 8 to our boo! will get a passat the business offi press room as well As honest dollar has the : y should excusable for cl twenty cents ‘alue of a hundred dealer in silver be more his customers out of lar of silver than a would be for cheating his of twenty noe rin wheat cents on every market are the other, and the honest bushel and— the | the rival interests of the | to make | bad stomach JUDGK.. honest dollar will hold their own as sue- | brought thousands of English laborers to such cessfully est gove will the honest man and the hon pment. oop, square fight is a good thing rmination of the administratic Bell monopoly in onder to vindic worthy of the firmness and force of the d arted J If the Bell is crushed, however, while the Pan Electric will hav be gratified and become a monopoly itself, the principle involved in Mr. Garla of stock which he got for nothin session of which reflects to crush itself is every reason to d's retention dl the pos pon his official honor as a Cabinet minister, will be as effectually ruptured as if the crushing were to occur the other side, That is a little matter which our well-meaning president cannot consider too seriously. The public cares very little for Bell and the Pan Electric except so far as matters of govern wal hi and the vet ad propriety are con us fact is that Mr. ¢ y his stock or give up his situa- should give tion FREE TRADE AND FREE STRIKE. The tr Fn of the point riots rialists in London illus: the Jepce would like possible st which as plain and an can be no kind a thief by hou f syn nature and s fora socialist workingman there thy. A socialist is inclination, and the living is an honest willing to pay for There are persons who put ke nizations list organizations They associate the 1 republ f the nihilist and the skull of the pirate who works who is nd se ry a right to a fail labor. Un nizations have been false argument to appear in processi these pre but tha men—and in this country we are all ngmen, rich and poor alike—h y sympathy with them is an fair day's a few labor ong: with workin sional outlaws; assumption ats Let us make this dis nso broad that nobody can fail to.un ud it, It is proper fair pay for fair work and to ast all ization that forbids that justice, It proper for men to that the wes them a living unless they pay and the chaps who drip theory aloi idleness and beer, claiming that thes rights which they have not won and paid work, are pests of unjust as it is tineti derst ask is not ame world for, in money « ern y who ought in merey to the to be stamped out with the merciless that they would stamp out system eney if they had the « The mechanics” of London who led ; are frauds as well as scoun drels. They steal the livery of the working: man to do the deeds of the devil in. They re not workingmen at all. It is another case of Lord George Gordon and ery.” Itis nt and sc “no pop- ther matter of vicious laziness, nd bad beer, and it isa great pity that it was not ended by a sudden visi- tation of steel and gunpowder. At the san danger time, there o1 of riot in London, wheth labor riot or some worse name of free trade, if half that is claimed for it is warranted, should re! the clamor of th that of the discontented la it to be no rit be called The blessi mob as well borer, Between a | | substane It is true enough that free trade has | a pointof enduran » subsist ad once in mis so pretty that th the loafers wl ‘¢ who do that. OUR GREAT SHOW. assume virtue and pat Tie itself v Jains: the and t s that it is merely necessury to men nto secure the patronage which a enerous public is always willing and anxious ward to. rit eat Wax-work show ex Probably ttraetions, no show Here we have Roseoe Conkling alled 1. in his un Pooh-Bah; Hill ar seph, ina coat of mat vod Mr, Childs of Phi s beauty; Messrs. I assumption of id and Jones in ch character rus Ficld, after the Irving, with his habitual English, you know;” Gar . remarking with Topsy “T's so wicked ; Mr. Evarts as the sleeping beauty, with the manuscript of his coming speech v the effectionate embrace wh lie meetings; € properly Uncle Tilden as Pulitzer in his great act as Lib frightening the World; our old friend as a truly good In serving him as a pillow; period; G lating th civil servi inocu fant with the virus of p and the Al fe e with him; the chamber ors, with Hubert Thompson and Alex aler as la Ben Butler in his old chars ne fisherman; Chas AL Dana mntribution box to the tune Hewitt, little free. Edmunds as th Pherson as thesnake-charmer, th 1 odd nese nic ander as 1 as the danein “Tm I nd Carlisle ids from school; nee. sblane to that of Bee! arm used having to do with silver; Thomas C. guificent col lection, but they explain themselves as plainly 1 ten cents, and witness an exhibition the like of which you will probably never see again. WOMAN AND DRESS. The Jepar declares and hereby inaugurates a war to the point of the needle against foolish women, On another page some of the weak nesses of these deplorably objectionable persons are presented in cold type, and on still another page the pencil of the artist depicts them with a froze itude calculated to surround and y to know precisely where the heart of the society woman is located. If it is in her back it is probably frozen to the point of insensibility already. If it is at the front it is in the same peril, for there is not the of a hair between it and the too a preciative world. They tell of a youth watering place who, having bathed in an un conventional manne nd having had clothes stolen by an unconventional d ntlet of a thousand enquiring e, ran t to his room and assume the rments requisite to an effete civilization, comicbooks.com