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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis The main cartoon titled "PLAIN SPEAKING" depicts a domestic scene of marital negotiation. A woman and man appear to be discussing money—she demands financial support while he claims to despise wealth but wants her to "spend your money 'right and left.'" The satire mocks the hypocrisy of radical political figures (likely referencing 19th-century prohibition advocates) who preach one ideology while practicing another. The surrounding editorial commentary attacks various targets: Charles Fairchild's eligibility for high office (apparently disqualified by wearing a monocle), Augustus Garland's "snuff-dipping" habit (considered undignified for government officials), and Democratic Governor Cleveland's appointment of a Republican (creating political discord, compared to a bear raiding a beehive). The overall theme satirizes political inconsistency and the gap between public principles and private behavior among Gilded Age politicians and reformers.
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Aiages 3 against parts of the old Congregational creed hich arv an abomination to justice and com- mon sense; but, besides and far more import- ant, he is the only man in Rochester who docen’t believe he is large enough to fill the vacancy. A CONTEMPORARY COMMENDS the Argus al- valuable publication and the election tables given in it, especially those of the last presidential election, are more satis- y which havec factory th ; i If there is anything hollow mockery that that is utterly to be condemned it is those election tables. Still, the structural formation of the ably s HE I NOT CON columns is toler- nmetrical. The Rev. Myron Adams of Rochester, who is prominently mentioned as Beecher’s successor, bel guspel of love rather than that of punish- ment, but if his congre- gation fail to follow him he applies the lash as if that were his prim- est article of faith, LETUSHIRE AN EXPERT, Mrs. Livermore there are 227 tions open to women, as against seven at the beginning of the ty. It must be remem- bered, however, that nd mathemat- ics never greed ex- cept when the latter ac- cepted the proposition that wrong right at the bottom of the col- umn; and thee woman who looks back to the beginning of a century is so utterly lost in con- fusion that she has to call in her husband to button her own women a A SPECIMEN RADICAL. ¢ off your cap, ked St. Peter adead pro- “5 sharply to e tort. What | Sur—“ 0--Clarence and not for my wealt He— Be assured, my dear, I have an utter disdain for money spend your money ‘ right and left.’" | much to be lamented in connection with thi administration. We should like to be able to forgive Augustus Garland, but snuff-dipping is the most un abominations, CHARLES'S INELIGIBILITY. The declaration that the president won't | les S. Fairchild to the head of the worth considering. tation that makes aman wear kind; but in order to prevent misapprehension and make himself eligible to the honor how easy it would be for him to damage the optic that is not thus adorned. That would give and wrong in all cases, the debased vote being really as much divided as the orthodox one; but when women vote all that will be remedied and we shall move right on to wisdom and | virtue with the utmost rapidity. TIE BEAR AND THE BEES, Our Democratic governor in appointing a Republican to prominent office apparently suc- ceeded mostly in creating a great agitation over the resultant question ‘* What did he do it for 2” One y there was a diplomatic additional honey, stolen boring hive, into the hiv swarm of bees not entirely. supplic recipients ¥ PLAIN SPEAKING. hibitionist.” know 1 with m: “Not if I self,” was the spiteful reply. “Igo in or not atall.” ‘Ver said St. Peter promptly. ‘I am r ionist myself and two of that kind can't get along here. We prohibit both cap and impudence, and off you go.” And at last accounts that positive gentleman was gnash- ing his teeth in the outer darkness by way of emphasizing his contempt for all who didn’t exactly agree with him. AN INSNUPFERABLE OFFENCE. Snutf-dipping is said to have been revived by some of the fair ladies of Washington. If the statement is false it isa mean lie. If it is true it is a great deal meaner truth. And in either event, as to the dipping or the lying, it is Jeffersonian simplicity gone wild. There is | so. objectior | him two glasses instead of the one that is ble; and to tell the truth we | never did know a wise man to have one orna- ment of that kind who did not immediately experience an urgent desire to have another. NPALLIBLE WOMAN. Kate Field says that when women vote every unprincipled man will prevail upon every un: principled woman to exercise that right, and that good women must vote as a matter of self-defence. We observe from this that there | can be only one side to the average political question. Good people will vote one w: nd bad people another. Everything is on the | level of a moral proposition as to which there can be no reasonable difference. It has some- | what puzzled men to distinguish between right ! if Lonly were surethat you wished me to be yours for my ownsake | if you wereonce mine 'd— | Grovey Cleveland and Abey Lincoln. picious and so mad that they immediately des- troyed that and the reg- ular supply and franti- cally turned themselves outof house, honey, and home. Undoubtedly the bear had some ulte- rior purpose, but the present was good hon- ey ;andas it was beyond the season of warmth and flowers the home- less little wretclies per- ished of cold and starva- tion—those of them at least that hadn't pre- viously quarreled them- selves to death, THE RED, WHITE, AND GREEN. Lots of those Irish boys who paraded on the 17th wore the green as gracefully as they did the blue a quarter of a century ago; but therehascrept into their hair a color quite as honorable, though not so much a favorite of the fashions which flare themselves against time and fling their gorgeous banners from the bat- tlements of youth and middle age. PETS IN POLITICS. Women, according to Gail Hamilton, can | never hope to rule the state until they give up To appreciate the force of think of Rossie Conkling, And yet there is nothing ridiculous in the baby names as at present used; and perhups of tl two alternatives they had better let the state alone. their baby names. this suggestion THE GERMAN PROFUNDITY. Mark Twain is said to be the most popular of American writers in Germany. You never know how to rate the German mind. It is as likely to skim the surface as to plough the depths. It is only safe to remark of it that it is never cons:rvative. It is either foam or dress, and in its selection of the two in instance it shows its most unclouded