Judge, 1886-07-31 · page 2 of 16
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This cartoon satirizes a newly-appointed police officer attempting to break up a saloon brawl. The caption reads: "Saloon-keeper—'Hey, officer, come quick! der vas some shootin' goin' on in my house.' Newly-appointed Officer—'Had luck to yes! an' do yes suppose thin such a fool as to make a target of myself?'" The joke targets the incompetence or cowardice of inexperienced police appointments. The officer refuses to intervene in the violent dispute, defeating the purpose of law enforcement. The German accent of the saloon-keeper suggests immigrant working-class urban settings where such establishments and violence were common. The satire mocks inadequate policing and the challenges of maintaining public order in cities during this era.
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~ JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President - Vice-President Art Department — Paitor ~ . Manager - = Bewswann Gutas = 1M. Gaxoory GW. Houmea, Je. Advertising Manager - Paxpenice W. NosTeaxt TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Is ADVANCE, Single coples 10 cents each. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., FRaKLOT SAU ARE, 27.5. por ts for sale regularly at the American F: change in Paris and the American Exchange in London, Do NoT TRUST implicitly to appearances. Some of our millionaires are in state prison. Mrs. CRawForv's EFFORT to make herself out a lewd woman is worthy of all astonishment. ANXIOUS QUESTION of office-holder to Guard- ian-angel Cleveland— Father, may [ goout to ne THE PRESEN of the police during the recent ig of Cleveland and Hill added much to the harmony of the occasi It MAY BE suspected that the impending bachelor in journalism will be a man more wedded to his college than his art. PosstBLy THE RUMOR that Mrs. Grant had a tumor arose from an effort to boom the monu- ment fund. If so it was ill-advised. AN ASPIRANT for literary honors quotes the words ‘There is always room at the top.” We are afraid that is peculiarly the truth in your case, dear child. _ THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS to boycott the boycotters. This is just ; and now let us have boycotters whose duty it shall be to boycott the men who boycott the boycotters, Isit Not a foregone conclusion that men who speak of each other as liars and black- guards are subjecting the language to inexcus- able waste? Do not the words prove it beyond doubt ? Woutp tnat our president might be induced to look upon Canada as an offensive partisan, or perhaps a soldier who had his arm shot off in defence of the Union during the late civil disturbance. IT WAS REPORTED that Mr. Garland would disgorge, and in less than twelve hours the re- port was indignantly denied. Mr. Garland may keep his pockets closed, but his eyes and ears, not to say his hands, are wide open. Ir 1s POOR POLITICS to whine over the misfor JUDGE. tunes of John Roach and charge then upon this Democratic administration. The Repub- n party has some editors who had better re- e instruction in the g art of common sense, THE INDIVIDUAL who sent us idea and dia- logue for picture “Twenty Miles from No- where” should have had the honesty—possibly he knows the meaning of the word ?—to credit the same to Harper's Bazar, as we do here and now, trying to discover s should go to an angel. De- angel. require nary w We imagine that Angel Garland will x, each as large as those of an ordi- d-mill. A NEW POSTALSTAMP for the English service is | to havea picture of Victoria asshe appears now. It is mistaken enterprise. There is nothing pleasing about the features of our aged friend, and in our opinion the stamp won't sell half as well as the earlier ones, Miss CLEVELAND says that when she becomes an editor she will, so far from assuming con- spicuity, live quietly with her maid. Here is a hint as to editorial life that during our long experience we have never thought of. By Jove! we shall immediately proceed to live quietly with ours. OUR WHOOPEST WuHo0P. The big and little Indians of the wild east, the cowboys and the bucking ponies, the one imported from the rowdy west. Nothing could be more suggestive than Old-man-afraid- of-his-party trying to ride the dancing Demo- cratic mule; and the pan-electric dance of the victim at the stake, the same being Man-who- | create a good deal of excitement and some lit- tle sympathy. pends some upon the size and quality of the| squaw and the papoose are continually giving a show of their own quite as amusing as the various editorial warriors around the shrieking | can't-get-rid-of-his-reputation, is calculated to The other details of the great show are shown in the talking papers of the period, issued morning and evening. The ruling passion appears to be an ardent desire ys, and perhaps few are more inviting to the whooping savages than that of Young, buck-from-Bostor gles- his - words, that of Old-man-w the. secrets - of - thi n- to- the -flying-winds, George Francis Train once noted a pe }method some Indians had of wearing a ment of civilization, and thereupon remarked “Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Clothes at the front and leaves ait hare behind.” On mature reflection we think so ourselves, LESS POLITICS AND MORE PISH. Justa hint. The less polities this state has this year the better. Therearesome important questions, as to labor and temperance for in- stance, which had better be left to regulate themselves, They cannot be‘ resolooted upon with any kind of satisfaction or justi during the existing incompleteness, and the man who talks without saying anything loosens his gab to the sacrifice of his sense. A conve tion that does that is additionally idiotic to the extent of its large bulk. The weather is war and the fishing is good. The more fish and the less politics the better. AN OPFICE-HOLDER T0 OFFICE-NOLDERS. The president sends out a pretty little note Iders, telling them just how much and how little they must have to do with poli It will strike his excellency some day, us it has already struck the people, that in that patronizing bit of advice he is attending to business which is peculiarly not his own. Office-holders are men grown, and they under- stand the political and other proprieties of life without any special instruction from the presi- dent or anybody else; and indeed the note in question is a proclamation of personal polities, having the acquirement of personal capital in which would be looked upon as uncon scious impudence if it were not so unfortun: as to be unconscious foolishness instead. What business is it of the president how office-hold ) OF NOT THAT KIND 3ALOON-KEEPER—“ Hey, officer, come kavick Ni a target o' mesilf 7” EWLY-APPOINTED OFFICER—‘‘ Bad loock to ye: OF PEACE-MAKER. ! der vas some shoodin’ goin’ on in my house.” ez! an’ do yez suppose Oim such a fool as to make comicbooks.com