Judge, 1886-04-10 · page 3 of 17
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**"Drawing the Line"** (left cartoon): A farmer and "Jolly Tramp" negotiate. The farmer offers work; the tramp refuses, saying he'll do "anything but work." This satirizes vagrants and the tension between labor and idleness in the Gilded Age—a common Judge theme mocking both poverty and reluctance to work. **"A New Intellectual Force"** (center text): Sarcastically praises a "cowboy evangelist," suggesting cowboys lack education yet presume to teach. This mocks the perceived contradiction of rough frontiersmen positioned as moral/intellectual authorities—likely referencing actual evangelical movements of the era. **"The Man Without a Country"** (center): Attacks "mugwumps"—independent voters/reformers who rejected party loyalty. Judge's conservative stance condemns their refusal to align with either Republican or Democratic machines, calling them rootless and dangerous to majority rule. **Right column**: Includes lighter social satire about Sunday amusements and a brief comedic dialogue about dancing. The page reflects 1880s anxieties: labor unrest, distrust of "educated" pretenders, and contempt for political independents.
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JUDGE. DRAWING. THE LINE. | 1 Farmer JoLLy * You say you are willing to de Tramp. “In course—anything but work give such missionaries as we ' r ridic-) but the middle intellect is ne sly send to them, Lett) us bet- middle apprec . and so ter business and social customs and they will home at last tl rob the prison of half its terrors and a like the means to that desirable end. number of its occupants, He He has recent The cowboy has his uses teach us literature. new ideas assumes to yiven us A NEW INTELLECTUAL FORCE. Ibis quite natural that there should be a) osophy. cowboy evangelist. We know of no one more calculated to impress the popular mind with the glories of heaven and the penalties of to music. He h broad divide between his catt nd our phil- Let him throw his theological lasso and we shall have to follow him, how: r his persuasiveness may be interlarded with the unint I but forcible explosive ru sin than the individual ness of the prtirie portion of the English ers, a bowie-knife or tw | owing to the parti ealed split . received in an encounter wit] who talks great small grammar, and ps not as much from what is gitimate culture as from the broad and limitless edu of the unending The tendencies of the period turn all There are thou but he is the The ranche is the Nazareth, and the! cowboy was born of the turf and suckled by the winds of heaven. One virtu of the fact that the m: is worth a thousand to the worthy man who) rule and the minority, inherits that number. The public loves the| guaranteed them throug exception and is indifferent to the rule. always belong to le Il politics But the cowl it to submit. The mugwump is a good as the ot t. He belongs nowhere. He has ke a profession of soul savir °| no affiliations which any party man is bound who do much good, T! to respect, If he were to rule the majority much of a kind. From son Ham-) would have no rights. It is better to repudi- mond—than whom there was never a more] ate his assumption of authority than to ignore consummate innocent with the i hts of the millions to whom he is op- his nobl ones and the cowboy, | posed. Let him go into a corner and ha there are but the small steps th imself to death—that is his only proper m among the laps” of time, and these barbarians lead up to salvation in spite of th personal unworthiness, They touch the popu-| Pasteur 1 t, and we that is worth! great n Mr. Beecher n Hall might) deny sal talk to it from the evening meal to breakfast | and it would never respond to their words;{ mi whose cruclest things in the topics of th » mentions them as neither flesh, fish nor fowl, but on the cont a somethi ly hun worse, But 0 of the Republ the Democ ground for manly or fai really plains. their eyes to this cowboy, sands of men better than ry n which is far the opinion ps that of mira party n view have a right to ain. privileges neies which his credit s lost just one patient out of a but tl are those who would ion if they knew that even as bad nas Charles Guiteau had been sent to tor- it. saving. SENDAY FOR THE PEOPLE. There was a question as to whether it would be proper to open Mr. Klunder’s great flower exhibition at the Metropolitan opera | Sunday. It would be | whether flowers should blot that day, or whether trees sh spring life to the open |should sing or water sli out ald send their r, or whether birds ld The tlowers in-doors as well as out-of-doors, Id as enthusiastic a mul- ps Which gathered in the ut into the country highwa And what an exhibit What wealth of bloom and prand fi siturated the air of this home of oper in were shown and the opera house titude as the 1 and ran oro nit w nee and ran from box to box and from ceiling to floor in the v iceless mu: > whieh charms the heart nay fail to reach the ear! The problem of Sunday amusements ought to be |solved by Mr. Klunder’s experiment. There is no good and proper thing which is not as Jappropriate to Sun there iT however it + hundreds of thousands of people who opportunity for reereation only day of the seven which the Lord ha them for their own use her days, and nthe ven THE ROMANCE SQUEEZED OUT. Cora (a little jealouslyy—" When is your ndal in the air) y more?” (wiping a tear off the end of her nose) —"* Ob lo!" Cora (surprised) —* Wh the matter be?” Mamie (bursting into tears)—** Oh, I went hear Talmage. [always thought marriages were made in heaven, but from what he said I'm sure they must be lived in hel. Don't Wwe » then, what can ALL DEPENDS ON THAT. | Ithought Thad made myself very clear to jher. “Inductive electricity, Edison's new- You see how he can communicate with I said conductor.” | Swett—Do you dance this evening, Miss Caroline OLD Main—" Oh, with pleasure.” | Sweut—" With whom?” | Fliegende Blactter, comicbooks.com