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# Explaining This Page from Judge Magazine This page contains three separate satirical pieces about prominent 19th-century figures: **"Tecumseh and the Press"** attacks General William Tecumseh Sherman for publicly criticizing newspapers after removals from his administration. The satire argues Sherman hypocritically blames the press while using removals "for cause" inconsistently—a form of political cowardice masked as principle. **"She Knew Him"** (top illustration) depicts a sarcastic domestic scene where a woman pretends ignorance about her husband's affairs, likely mocking marital hypocrisy or infidelity. **"His Song of the Shirt"** and the "Gough" section discuss John B. Gough, a famous temperance lecturer who made money advocating sobriety while allegedly struggling with alcoholism himself. The satire highlights the contradiction between his public messaging and private behavior. The overall theme: powerful men who publicly condemn vices or institutions they privately depend upon or engage with—a classic target of satirical magazines attacking public hypocrisy.
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UDG. under discussion, however, and SHE KNEW HIM. nitted that the president is de the ma it must be plorably inconsistent in declaring that he will make no removals except for cause and then using to make public tl roe movals. Every man who goes out under the cireumstances goes under cloud, though the It is a mixture of mugwumpery and oftic st hair in his head, y not be d seercey Which is vastly threatening to eve and brings up the propositi that publ asa means to public distrust and. suspicion. lish lice is not so much a public trust t the president drop his mugwump f ood nn f such honest men as have been removed solely for partisun reasons, TECUMSEH AND THE PRESS. Whenever aman feels particularly: sore or cuilty he pitches into the newspapers. This is ISherman’s method of throwing off bik and relieving pain, — He doesn't stop to that he thus puts himself in the con of such men as Fentinand Wand Fish, and other conviets who owe their pun as much to the newspapers as to the courts and who will curse the press as long general is not tender at the live sole, but he is as sensitive stic Wire Coming hor cible asa wet hen, P STAYING ObT LATE HUsnasD—* Y it knowit asic Wirk—* Well, put this letter in the first mail in the morning, and if you meet the milk kieks his servants man tell him to leave two. as usual, Ts of a bad man with his rarts,”” jout as if they were created, like Dundrvary’s body servant, for the sole purpe rets for the toe of his boot es the press for it pain within the as there will bea rebellion : al They have not that gentleman's tsto think that would be a publie‘evil. firmness or his ability from any point of Why, it would be nuts f © of appetite, which enable him to mount his high horse again and | Mr. There is the weakness ve bowels he shoots kill off a few thow tthe press; and when he He ca dies if there is any doubt as te nst the press t him It would view. There is the dise undity of his dyspep neve of which ception, It ise ldicted to ineb at but for this allliction;” but the truth is breast and his conse sof his fellow-citizens, of will nfortable turbance calling for shot and shell, the slightest of out his anathema tobe nd happy until of the heavenly mansion® he will shout fi rit is his profession to kill and mutilate and to the earth that the press las compromised destroy es they could not be great in the justice of heaven. Tecumseh, the press is better t y y were great—if they Men ought to live toget wisdomand patience, fromevery pointof view, It takes more brains en like Mr, Webster or Stephen nt Tf this herman doesn't know any better than vd jue the si man ina good newspaper successfully: than it thers of their kind—they would in spite of it Let us throw aside the pity fo sto mareh a fe nto his second childhood before his Ther stor handi be lost « is brain enongh ¢ nd if meanwhile he whines and pukes York newspaper t and frets like a sick baby, he had better be put you and lea » public knee and) spanked like common sense. He thinks Tittle eccentricities 1 pped Ss which is supposed mised through addiction to the inebria liquid. The drank ant to. Suppose, however eat surplus for en press is moral, is honest, is just, whatever its al isa weak 1 ud if he were to be at all times he would. still be vof that mor and nothing is more certain hin BL Gou have won — his way, from the | GOUGH. to his nature, if he h: or if he had been a habitual drink Jobn B. Gough made very large money by | He was a great and sticking toa principle. He v entitled toevery penny he made, and at th sume time it has always puzzled the JUDGE someth The may be, entleman, you pass your hand around — totally s« r head and seeifthere weak isn’t some superfluous bigness there thatought bid symy to be soaked out than that . HIS SONG OF THE SHIRT. portic h belonged unk a drop I his life nd a thoroughly con | pidopti scientious man; that is « of him, without making any reference to the mostly in y tribulation through which he know how he could have been so infernally | passed. | had for 4 3 dso strongly and con —- i - scientiously able and good for so many. His en Erie: say tlio ut ile nessa person Seeretary Garland has been the 1 wicked of any attack on a public official thi he remembers. But the general must admit that if there had been nothing in the facts the attack would have had no effect except tom the papers ridiculous, The pr isa very important one, pity that the seeretary should have set himself to k to destroy it, however guiltless of inten doit little experience in the slums was his capital rightly enoug was as br » however, His imagination an actor, and he ch of his humiliation the nees. That is the actor's art, and nobody ean object to ity but the truth is that Mr. Gough could ne been a pronounced drunkard, had he labored tend ever so much, He had teomuch He had too much common sense, He opportunity with his first effort at king, and he proposed all the dn't wear the thing if he'd give it to me. | fice which men who want to suceced No, sir; yer Uncle Silas takes the old fashion ing to underg: Dru kind, that you wears under yer coat, everytime.” | the kind of stuff of as his ability y invented m: uc better to impress his iple involve nd itis a gi have Ithave been. There to play with than saw hi irland hasonly hiniself to bl speceh sacri Moody and Si in Texas, may the Lord sive Moody and Sankey comicbooks.com