Judge, 1886-03-20 · page 4 of 20
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# Analysis for Modern Readers This page contains three distinct satirical pieces from *Judge* magazine: **"Abandoned at Sea"** (top left): A nautical engraving criticizes Congress for neglecting American shipping interests. The accompanying poem laments that U.S. maritime power has declined—ships are being abandoned while other nations' vessels thrive. This reflects late-19th-century anxieties about American naval/commercial competitiveness. **"Our Pan Electric Garland"** (right): A mock testimonial from "Pickwick, M.C." (a congressman) praising a "Pan Electric Garland"—apparently a therapeutic headpiece. The satire targets Democratic politicians, suggesting the device magically cured the writer's partisan zeal and desire to "turn the rascals out," transforming him into a compliant moderate. This ridicules political flip-flopping. **"Our Ocean Trade"** and **"Arbitration"** (lower sections): These articles debate tariff policy, ocean commerce, and railroad regulation—issues central to Gilded Age political debate between protectionists and free-traders. The cartoons mock both political parties' hypocrisy and industrial-era governance challenges.
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JUDGE. ABANDONED AT SEA—THE U. S. FLAG. OUR PAN ELECTRIC GARLAND, Testimonials to our Pan be worn on the head of the us from every lover and both h solitary love from every s his kind indeed whom we have presented with one of our su ively attractive sly remedial chaplets. We hav only do miriecu room for ingenuous and pathetic sir—I hasten to testify to the neous and ative shock produc nd on my hi cup your Pan d_political deportment icireled my brow with it me over my entire phy metaphysical constitution. My — insatiable Democratic disposition to get in on the ground Wdenly subsided Hoor and turn the rascals out was s subdued, all “ innocuous desuetud within me, the hunger and thirst of offensive partisn * ceased to gnaw, and Timm ately Ho the truth” and drink fresh will the incidental cireu | stance that my conspicuously ental nd was a lowed to deter | well as Jeffersonianly sirup! nt from the company be « from commending it to every member of congress and every friend of secret service reform. Yours, Pickwick, M. C. ODE TO THE DERELICT. ARBITRATION, | [It is stated that congress will do nothing this season for the encouragement of American ships | When twomen ortwo firms can’t agree, their and ship bi } | interests being naturally opposed, the one set Ye mariners of Uncle Sam | y rll meet no other foe of interests to th «p in the deep j to the law as known these fifty years | the stormy winds do blow | justice, it bein nd no breeze, | While others’ strifes rage loud and long | and of nothing And the stormy winds do blow, A later Campbell. other set, there is an appeal nv the law takes no account of its duty to t > of itself } else. ‘It is obliged to confine itself to the matter fixed for its observance by } or I: and " air's breadth from the strict i “dam clam.” It is not known that | surplus of many millions: Lyi of the observe without subjecting ing Der und it must be permitted to do nobody | itself to impeachment. This is not arbitration r water, whether that liquid be the pure, the any good. Me. Tilden advised its use in It isacostly and in most eases a whi quality of epithet Who've gone beneath the seas, Whose fla No battle Come, droop that banner once again, some loc: n val + law-making powe = fat g idle in the | lett y not verats have any great partiality treasury ly un puddled or the salted article; but there is a ning the defenses of the coast, and | necessary subjection of mutual interests to an riticism in these two cases stion was a very good one. Some | authority whieh, however good it may be, has which isquite s tive. “ Ascoldasa frog” use of it would seem to be advisable, the cow- | no right to decide in individual cases which anily proposition and ‘tas undemonstrative asa clam let it lie and rust be involve questions peculiar only to themsel haps as dangerous as the one to do some- | and whieh the expressions which the world will not willingly | px ‘annot possibly understand. } let die. And, alas! they come from the par with itat the peril of an adverse publ The railroad commission has shown reason i i tisan friends of the gentlemen thus rudely | sentiment. Anything is betterthan cowardice, | why it should continue to exist. in two very | criticised. as the experience of the resolute and courageous | important cases. In the strike against the il —= Republican party since 1 nd that of the 1 OR OCEAN TRADE. cowardly Democratic party for the sume period, | L bas amply shows. There is a surplus amount of FOUND, | The term is a misnomer. We have no| labor here, and a revival of our s! ' ocean trade, A nation of nearly sixty millions | ests would give employment to som 1h of people is almost totally unrepresented inthe | create commerce would be t 1 impetus . : maritime commerceof the world. LittleSouth | to business which is sadly ne Withevers ii American states beat us, They send their I vods to Europe, and they ce and material tom world, with p treasury whieh is r,and with therein involved. It is with |abor unemployed or w the United States commercial bottom as with — 4 the United States navy. T ne in congress wise ¢ States navy, whatever promise there may be in means for a nt of that situ: the United States cruisers now being built, and That is bad statesmanship. It is rath the little republic of Chili might send out any utter absence of statesmansh It is an as day iron-elads that would destroy every city sumption of wisdom as us as an inflated t, including the great one that balloon or the bass drum which gives out ives succor and shelter to the JUDGE. only sound. It isa i that congress will donothit : in behalf of our shipping interests this session. A new work with the title * What I Know The question with respect to our supposititious Not at All” ought to ha’ rr s, it appears, as dan sraphical advant. the finest ships in th millions in t are brou aropean vessels, w constantly necessary cost of additional and wholly 1 amount of r starvation and th ugh to provi transportatio s, we have no oce re is no United no ng the ¢ heen composed of rous as the | as many volumes as a high-priced cyclopedia. nd the tariff, All —— us, and thereforeno | Last words of Samuel J. Tilden up to date— | A spot of dry ground. If not claimed wit ched. There is a | I still live an trade questions regarding si lange questions are dar question must b | three days, finder will consider it his own. comicbooks.com