Judge, 1886-10-30 · page 10 of 16
Judge — October 30, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on American politics and social issues circa the Gilded Age. **"Judge's Charge: The Political Fabrication"** mocks the normalization of campaign lies in politics. Judge argues that removing lies from politics would eliminate politics itself—suggesting political dishonesty is fundamental to the system. **"A Law-Breaking"** criticizes wealthy lawyers who defend criminals and enable moral corruption. It references James Fisk Jr. (a notorious 1870s financier/robber baron), arguing that rich lawyers demoralizing the legal profession deserve blame for undermining reform. **"The Latest Conjuring Trick"** (bottom illustration) shows a magician making a cook disappear—likely satirizing either labor disputes, servant shortages, or immigration issues of the era. The opening scene "near Charleston" appears to mock Southern expectations following an earthquake, possibly referencing post-Civil War regional tensions. Throughout, Judge adopts a moralistic tone criticizing corruption, legal malfeasance, and political dishonesty while reflecting era-typical social anxieties.
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ape: Scene, near Charleston. ll, we didn’t get the earthquake after all.” , an’ it’s too bad arter 1 " away my ch in’ in the old hen-coop for more'n a week.” > Judge’s Charge. have THE POLITICAL FABRICATION, The Phifadelphia News asks, ‘* What is the use of:thé campaign lie?” assuming that nobody believes it and that it hurts the invent- or more han the person lied about. Has it u r thought of the fun the inventor has, and the satisfaction he gets when his victim win and exhibits signs of agony? Why ! if w take the lie out of politics wo, shall have poli- tics considerably without politics. But ean a n and tell the cam- paign lie? Ah, that is a stumper indeed. We AL LAW-BREAKING, tion of lawyer deed. Ithis wo lingness of law rula stolen mone: Buffalo Con aceeptance of | the inter Fisk, jr. couragin reform |: remarkable It is very ¢ reflects on the wil- ive all and to accept for their services. Asthe Advertiser sa rs by rich lawyers snaves like the late James ore demoralizing and d point that all the moral ir to overlook. Why this tedness, Mr. Field ¢ 5 1 4AT PREVARICATE. ker Howe of Boston $100 y hands you twenty-one » begin with. Then she rs a month interest time or arithmetic teaches her in that w She deals owever, much in 1 Hamilton indorses her hematics. The reader will | as just got out of the pen- d Ward, poor fellow ! has. et to serve ; and perhaps freedom. we shall learn that woman will she can’t. You give § and she im dollars as i pa without end that she car only with w: her favor (hii method and lier remember t!) itentiary, a number 0! before he gv! oceasionall you se TH There ar things to make the baby *| pretty, |cry 1 Its attire is made up to a consid-|and there is no pain there.“ Thi erable extent of pins, and they are, itself, and like 2 to the mot \inserted with great carelessness. The singular. Do you happen, madam, to remem- very slightest change in its diet gives it ber a similar experience on my part?) Why, the most excruciating pain. Frequently | see here, old lady ! I'm comfortable. \ it is put in the cradle or carriage Do you hear that ?—I'm real comfortable.” Sudd ‘.'y most uncomfortable position, and it|its face assumes all the wrinkles of old age. is too fat to move itself or roll over. Sometimes, in an effort to put its toes it pitches backward and and would smother but for its ability to Then it loses its bottle, and the nurse half a block - in its mouth i gets its h under the pillo = shriek the wild alarm. away, talking to a strange young man Again it is cross, as it has a right tc be, for no reason what following the example set it by the old er members of the family, who deem | the gums, ver ; it is thus Its eyes have an expression of mingled aston- ishment and disgust, and they immedi close so tightly that it seems as if there were no eyes atall. It doubles its small hands till they look like lumps of dough, and beats them into the bed-clothes with great vigor. There is a new pain. It is in a new place. It is in The baby yells. The mothertakes the yells complacently, and even with a feeling of gratification. “Ido believe,” she says, ‘the baby is going to cut its teeth.” To the court this isa development indeed. It never occur- > it their privilege at times to go around | red to him before that babies had to cut teeth. scowling and hateful and mouthing in| mild tones a thousand meaner things wild- est flights of anger, pain, or indigna- than the baby ever uttered i tion. The court hopes to see the time when teeth will be looked upon as a relic of an effete civilization, if not of absolute may victuals, but trouble with that The affliction begins when the baby has about reached the conclusion that it hickens| |barbarism. To have no teeth condemn one to spoon better that than conti: abomination, had better rest its lungs. pretty well acquainted each with the othe and things have been smoothly for about ten minutes. smiles and therel well, ¢ It slightly tosee if there are any inadvertent p and behold there are not. idering. ‘At that period tho | happiness h: mother and the baby and the nurse have got! aimless running on_ pretty /fi The baby | wrinkled face. pnounces that it is doing the face to smile ! moves itself {t mentally con-| ment. “ How long before it will be over ?” he says to the woman, calculating to go out for an hour and let the woman and the baby have it out alone, “See!” says the woman, looking into the baby’s open mouth. “Its weenty-teenty gums are all red and swollen.” ‘* How long will it take !” screams the court in order to | overcome the baby’s yells and his own nervous- jness. ‘ About a month,” says the woman, as if ja nonth of that noise were the most natural |thing in the world. The court goes out. His hopes of peace and ve preceded him. He wanders here, there im those frantic yells, those pounding those thrashing legs und feet, that A month, and the woman had A reign of terror, and there |e flashes of joy all over the woman's face! It is the old conspiracy with a new develop- Ah, heavens ! what a weary, weary templates the small rotundity of its abdomen, | world it is. THE LATEST CONJURING TRICK. ‘The vanishing lady—Our cook.