Judge, 1886-03-27 · page 7 of 16
Judge — March 27, 1886 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains "The Judge's Charge," a lengthy editorial (left column) paired with satirical illustrations labeled "Settling a Political Argument in Shantytown" (right side). **The Editorial's Main Points:** The text addresses moral hypocrisy, particularly regarding seduction and abandonment of women. It critiques wealthy men who betray women while maintaining social respectability—arguing they deserve public shaming alongside their victims. The piece also discusses the "Newark boys sent to Paris" (an inoculation experiment) and references statues of Shakespeare, Bobby Burns, and Fitz Greene Halleck, using them to critique artistic and moral decline. **The Cartoon Series:** The right side shows six small illustrations depicting working-class men ("shantytown" residents) in heated political debate, with captions: "Agitation," "Irritation," "Explication," "Aggravation," and "Gratification." These humorously depict escalating argument stages among ordinary citizens. **The Satire:** The contrast juxtaposes elite hypocrisy (editorial) with common people's straightforward quarreling, suggesting working-class honesty contrasts with upper-class moral corruption.
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JUDG Kk. CYARGU. te wholly treacherous to. th fairly honorable to beso? There is nothing so pitiful in this world as the spectacle of a dis- honored woman who has been deserted by the cowardly rascal who wrought her destructi There should be one pillory for both, and U1 society that protests against it is not the kind | of society that any white man should respect THE JUNG'S at, and think it There is not much promise of spring. A alk through Central park and a spurt be- yond Harlem bridge, with now and then visit to the Batter of investigation to the condition as well as the thing worth men ot their bran Pr purpose of promised buds, disclose 1 Th trees sh atl tioning, | the elabor hes with cold-w: jouds, and never hits them. There is | 7 atest swelling of buds, but it is | for the most part apologet r binds rcome dis: either The Newark boys who were sent to Paris have thus far had no hydrophobia, The sue: cess of the experiment is accordingly pretty well demonstrated, and there ought to be e stablished at once a system of innoculation inst a great many evils other than hydro: phobia. It is like that cures like. Let us therefore obtain the curative agency from thie burglars, murderers, betrayers of ‘omen, perjurers, and bad men generally. The doctrine of the gi x1 to the great. est number is perfectly | », and animals raged, ined ut of their musical Shakespeare genius. The late Mr. he appears at the Mall wears in his countenance a look of reproach for the exposure he subjected to all these weary mont Burns metaphorically turns up his eyes to the unspe: and yearns for good fellowship in some friendly inn. The statue of Fitz Greene Halleck would in drop its pen, which is so continually poised to. inspira to be sickening to ——— to think no wrong of and act no wrong to women; and when the Court recalls the count- less little and larger assemblages which devote themselves to the story which reflects on womanly purity he feels that such a societ: urgently needed. The question is, however, as to the responsibility of the man in the cases alluded to by Joseph Cook. Is it not shameful to think that the thief should be just to his | confederates and the gambler to his, and that the man who has betrayed a necessarily better article of flesh and blood than his own should sists in large part of low-necked dresses the most elaborate of dinners. TI no objection to offer, prie' re both legitimate at certain times and places, and the president and his household must and should conduct themselves according to the dignity of the office and the White house; but what an awakening there is for the ickwoods Democrat who changes his rely once a week, takes his beverage without er, and looks upon shoe-blacking with the most pronounced of all contempt. nd | subjected to vivisection not because they | itself and destructive to all inspiration; and animals, but because their sufferings are | the bust of Joseph ni turns anxious but necessary to the alleviation of human misery. | furtive expressions to the ground in the vain 1 The life of a bad man is not excessively val- | hope of getting down to that level and going if his death can save thousands | Somewhere else has no logical right to live. | _-The Court does not propose to change the Court will begin with ——On second | seasons or their too deliberate progress. He t the Court will not begin at all. He | sees that there are thi belonging to them bears in mind various sins of omission for | which deserve to be reformed altogether—the which he isalone responsible, and these reform: | seven months of cold and storm in. penitence . y if too much en: | for the barely three months of deliciousness, courag . Let us confine | for instance; but the Lord rules and the jury our killing to the cats and dogs. The Court | js not competent to any reform of this kind. rs to believe that the average man can be | But what a burst of melody and charm there easily reformed in the good old-fash- | will be a few days hence! Every tree will ioned way ee bear itself with the dignity beauty of a H on the level occupied by the women | Chemist and manufactured by no artist. in } betrayed. The jury will observ welry, The hedges will be filled with glory carefully the word “betrayed.” No bad | ind from every altitude there will be the un is going to be betrayed by anybody. cultured music wh 1 culture exerts itself | good men are betrayed | 14 Fival, The bay at the Battery will shine ! day, and nobody has | 1 in blissful confidence to the spring overcoat hoaccpens and the first spring ribbons. An overwhelm isa principle in what is called man- | ing wealth of green will take the park by select Jiness—and often properly A surprise and serene storm, and every man and may object to the discreditable things to w OIAi Wi! hicie nd will laugh to it, the it is often applied—which is never violated by | Siitdren of them « pring themselves haif to manly man, whether it relate to losses at | death in theexhileration of their unconscious aris or losses in honor. The man who steals | hayniness. We talk sometimes about the fool- tries to be fairly just to hisconfederates. No | i.hness of the proposition that there is to be a man should risk ‘considerable sums at cards, | Nourrection. cit there wore not resurrectiona but if he does so he will pay such losses as his day, kad a general Mansscclion oeee foolishness may happen to incur without a a ° : whir It is the purpose of the White Cross soe , to which the Court has before alluded, It appears that Jeffersonian simplicity con- , is shirt | SETTLING A POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN SHANTYTOWN, (whi te, quitter.) AGITATION, IRRITATION, APPLICATION. AGGRAVATION. GRATIFICATION. comicbooks.com