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# Explaining This Page from Judge Magazine This page contains three political cartoons and commentary from Judge, a late-19th-century American satirical magazine. **Top cartoon**: Mr. O'Flanagan (Irish stereotype, indicated by dialect) returns from a wake and observes Lady Liberty offering cigars. The joke satirizes American patriotism and Irish-American immigrants—suggesting absurdity in expecting the "Goddess of Liberty" to interact with ordinary citizens. **Middle section titled "A Plea for Temperance"**: Political commentary arguing both Republican and Democratic parties avoid taking strong stances on alcohol regulation out of partisan self-interest. The satirist advocates moderation without criminalizing drinking. **Lower cartoon "A Necessary Accompaniment"**: Depicts a doctor prescribing an automatic drink-counter device to an intoxicated patient—satirizing the notion that mechanical gadgets can cure alcoholism through shame or fear. The page reflects late-1800s American debates over temperance, immigration, and partisan politics while mocking both excessive drinking and overly-simplistic "technological" solutions to social problems.
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g. O'FLANIGAN (returning from a wake)—“ Och! an’ shure a great counthry nddess oi liberthy condesinds toi sthand on a box an’ offer a gintleman a siga JUDGE. 3 is this, whin with care ; and, as was suggested in the JUDGE some weeks ago, if the habitual imbiber were to carry about with him an automatic register that would mark the number of his drinks he might occasionally be frightened into going home sober. Give us more of the delicate ma- chinery whose purpose it is to make men hon- est and toconfine'them to the ways of rectitude. at our neighbors, w ion that itis urgently needed ; to say x of certain spasms of doubt that, oddly have at times afflicted our own true in- A PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE. Neither party will take radical ground on |the temperance quest if both parti wise enough to keepsober. If the Republicans are pro-temperance their opponents will be anti-temper as a matter of self-defence, and we feel certain that their tendencies in that direction are sufficiently pronounced al- ready. Let not drive our adversaries into the gutter ; and let us preserve our own tem- ice in every respect. ‘This is beer, is remarked the well-balanced political philosopher. ‘* Ah ! that’s good. Taken mod- erately, it is very good. I drink perdition to the mean man who sells it ; but, my brethren, the t be protecti for the farny nd ‘home industry, and we must not lose N Jersey through any dishke of her applejack. | And this is beef ¢ Well, there was aman who {choked to death with a small portion of that jsubstance, and I am aware that there are glut- |tons; but do I propose to starve myself to death because of that? Not any. Their sins shall not be my punishment—I have enough of my own to suffer for.” | fired upon by Canadian authorities, Mr. Bayard | who might be happy and innocent at home if| will enter into communication with England they had been obliged to punch and re; and in the course of time there will be a settle- ment, the parties injured meanwhile dying of old age and the insults going right on as if there had been no inquiry at all, | Is there present a gentleman named Blaine ?) THE GAME WHICH DIDN'T COUNT. Theclosing game of base ball on the Wash- ington diamond was not intended to settle pub- lic opinion as to the relative merits of the ) Oh dear, no! It wasa game for ex- i purposes, and the crowd on the benches. Kected to cheer for one side just as much as for the other, The Democratic free-trader| nine desired to show that they had not for-| gotten how to bat or to kick, and the Demo- cratic protection boys were anxious to demon- strate the fact that they were still acquainted with the rules of the game. Naturaliy, the game was played largely with the mouth, and i said that there was a great deal of fair show of enthusiasm ; but for al results we must wait patie tly—well,| h the bogus? For our part we think it is. DELIVERERS FROM TEMPTATION, If this system of registering and bell-punch- ing goes much further it will enter into all the affairs of life. The assumption that leads to it in many instances is that even an honest man cannot withstand temptation, and truth to tell itis merciful to him to take the temptation out of his reach. There are a good many cashiers A NECESSARY ACCOMPANIMENT. ~ COURT JOURNALS. Murat Halstead 1s the only editor whom John A. Logan has taken-a jSenatorial speech to, and the only editor who op- poses the Saturday half holiday. The Elmira Gazette declares positively that \there are rats that snore, {We had hoped that dur ing the continuance of this warm weather the invention of — massive 2 \proportions would be liar pre- varicates th round. Charles E. Smith, ed- jtor of the Republican Philadelphia Press, is likewise the head of a Democratic paper in Bal- timore. It is a rule of temperance never to mix iquids:; but if the rule | were invariably followed weshould have no punch. The Albany _ papers were for a time devoted jexclusively to the news lof two hundred years ago. One felt every time he got hold of one jof them as if he had the | Ulster County Gazette Dr.—* I will leaye you this medicine to take after each meal.” and smaller men in Canada at thismoment — Mixe—" And will yez be koind enough to leave the meal too, docthor.” of January 4,1800, again. comicbooks.com