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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from *Judge* contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"The Mountain and the Giant"** (main article): A lengthy political commentary on labor-capital relations. The text advocates for national arbitration to resolve disputes between workers and corporations, arguing both sides have rights but must be regulated fairly. It critiques monopolistic capital while defending workers' right to organize. **"Splitting the Difference"** (top cartoon): Shows a countryman negotiating with a photographer over portrait costs. The countryman offers a quarter instead of fifty cents for a side-view photo—a visual pun suggesting "splitting the difference" by literally cutting the face in half. This satirizes cheap negotiating tactics. **"How She Puts On Her Trousers"** (bottom section): A humorous piece about women's dress reform, joking that Dr. Mary Walker (a real 19th-century women's rights activist) dons trousers backwards. It playfully suggests women are naturally adapted to stealing from their husbands' pockets—a period sexist joke about female shopping habits. The page blends serious labor politics with lighter social satire typical of *Judge's* mixed content.
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THE MOUNTAIN AND THE n has views of th it is the n Every It isa liv mountain of thou has been in labor ountry for that something would be produced at gton more or less remotely ith silver and the tariff; but the pro- | before which the country st astonished has todo with beth without par- of the nature especially of either. An t dollar means the cheating of the | ove every other. Unjust taxat means his rebbery he has not the e: ital wherewith to protect himself. A. tariff that does not pt ell as capital is a bad tariff, jon for all home eap ital and hh is the Jupcr’s best principle: m labor question ain issue of the ciated duetion poor man si him as v 1 prot industry But he lifts himself above all the issues which indircetly belong to him. He is He is the mountain greater than the mother and of more moment than the pangs that produced him. He is th at whose 1 and threatening presence dwarfs all ordinary things How shall labor and capital be reconciled | one to the other ? Th himself the issue. jestic » JUDGE has pronounced for arbitration by disinterested parties—by the state, as in the disputes between labor and the elevated and surface roads of this city; but the schits of Lab 1 national or; tothe same extent that ¢: mal rather tl apital i monopoly re ization vital has come to be individual value. comb ainst’ labor—this is It is proper and just that labor should combine against capital—this is self- defense. Neither r ale w but there is wrong » bet opposing interests has been refu putes that have arisen in too If there can't be conference the general public demands adjustment by 4 bitration or by the law, All loc i ent, and suits at law are vex Sta arbitration is well enough as far as it goes, but it is a national matter. If it is in the power of congress to pass a law providing for adjustment in that will be well; but the proper remedy would appear to be a national commi 1 laws expensive. ery case nem ILLUSTRATED “AD.” arty confined to his room woud like son: light emp! nent to occupy his mind.” JUDGK. SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE. Covstrymas—" How much PuotocrarieR—" Fifty « Covstrymay powered to decide between the parties in dis pute and to enforce Labor will not object to that, and capital should not oly ject to it, The might better overworked and underp: principle that entery decisions. profits of lai wrporations from the public than from Labor, It is a solid » should have profits commens! te with extraordil But for that: we should have no great railroads and t enterprise of any kind such as the £ ht not y But the profits must not come altogether or in Our orkiman is a voting man and must have the privileges fit him for voti r 1 toy of it. Capital has a rig of the republican. ki Lit to be a republican sovervign ary risk. ide. or gener ment very large part from labor, necessary t generous. That is ands, for with Ditration all th all his size and confidi f 1; hh he is thus {: s gentle HOW SHE PLTS ON HER TROTSERS. nd one that the seien sely, that Dr. Mary vel ts her trousers on hind side It would sec adaptation to the better sex, We an argued that it is to. some education, habit of metaphorically putting themselves into the garment every day—and we think without pass over their headseither; bu on the other hand, it is well known that no lady can go into her husband's pockets, when the gentleman is asleep in the still hours of the morning, without accidentally emptying their ontents on the floor—such of them at le: | are not adapted to her financial necessities —and It is a significant fact, tist cannot study too. Walker 1 before. to indicate a natural on the part of the re that it may be pt a are ext tas Jo you eh “Here's a quarter ura fortygraft” ! picture me a side face. going into the other room with the proud « n: ring sciousness that her surreptitious fin ever be discovered. it is only fair to suppose that there are differences in pockets and differe The trul of poe sin women. genious women will find any kind ay time of the day or night, and t such of its cont sary to her luxury or will ex! ats are neces. nmfort—but then there Pockets, how formation of late an has been frequently to dive for his loose If to get it, © himself But Dr. Mary ety are no truly in; ious women ever, have dill years so that many ¢ puzzled t know whet ound behind him nt dang with the weapon at th Walker, it is all never disarranges the when, lifting } sleep r of shoot: hip. ed, nev misses a poe! garment of her choi self fre of ad ck in the n Is the exact change for a pint thrusts the wrong leg in the one of the two receptacles provided. for her t seven o'e her wife dem of cream; ne clongatory suppleness, and invariably takes off her trousers without putting her left toe to th right extension of the goods or balancing ainstthe bed-post the better to pre quilibrium in this son her times ex ly perilous nightly necessity. The reader observe that here mbination of gra ul adaptation which no has yet reached. While it is much to be able intuitively to distinguish ween the front and the hind part of a pair of trousers, it is far more to be able to take off or put on a pair of trousers without walking all around the room, smoking perhaps the stub end of a ancing forward and back with pletiveness by way of an ac will isa ep and natu T a but htly remark, ou needn't necessa the exercis . and finally snapping ing the» The JUDGE is not informed as to the littk comicbooks.com