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This page contains several satirical columns and two cartoons critiquing contemporary politics and social issues circa late 1800s. The upper cartoon depicts a disheveled figure, likely representing political corruption or incompetence. The lower cartoon, titled "The Scotch Collection," shows a man confronting what appears to be a street vendor or beggar, satirizing either poverty, fraud, or economic inequality. The text discusses various topics: Kansas voting irregularities, Grover Cleveland's political positioning, Mrs. Edmonds' sanity, women's suffrage, and congressional failures. One column references an "earthquake in Vermont on Easter Sunday," though whether literal or metaphorical is unclear. The satire consistently targets government incompetence, electoral fraud, and social contradictions of the era, particularly around women's voting rights and political hypocrisy.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. vsrep stan 1S ADVASCE. One copy Art Department Piitos THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Co Park W 82> We guarantee at fean matirical paper yuh Hisers a larger eireulation at cheaper rates than any Amer Al, YES; let us mi ay, like South Carolina oF the inter-state commerce bill formally began by tof that proceeding until further noti TWENTY THC ing to arrange th there. SAND WOMEN of Kansas failed to vote because, paus hair and bonnets, the polls closed before they got AN EXCHANGE says congress isa liar. This is one of those com- posite insults that it is impossible to resent and that it is therefore safe to present. ‘Ur 18 NOT TRUE, as stated, th: out of the Democratic selfii at Grover C id has fired himself «arty, because, you know, he never fired him Carter TARRISON HAVING permanently retired, the people of ro are now atllicted with smallpox. But of course they can get along with that IT ts DOUBTLESS TRUE that Mrs. Emmons is insane; but let us not proposition that that may: be an improvement on her the Troy Press calls the Democratic party f the tail of the snake, but it was never proved A Mr. Buatr do not present th scheme, but the be viously did it ne from it They used to say that taken te anew atching balls fired fromacannon. We s who pre- er recovered ive UMBRaiLys | == \caned ar rue “ey M. T Ww, ae cording to the Troy Telegram, would, as a presidential candi date, go through the count like a whirlwind, Destructi man! what would he want to do that for? NGRESS FAILED vive for the fi and sunset guns at th mili TO PRO- of sunrise ariOUs stations, and in con sequence half the army is sleeping itself to death, while the other half is perishing of + insomnia. THE PEOPLE OF Ir are to be invited by the ge ernment to resist.a law that no other people in the world would submit to. Let them submit, however, and they will eventually knock the — carruds all t'roo th* fourt’ ward fer th’ sale."* THE McSHTEW COLLECTION. Brornee ov THE pecraseD—" It’s me that's bin app'inted exicitoor av th’ eshtate, an’ I've sint nt higher than Mr. Gilderoy’s kite. It is a terrible blow at their self-respect, but the government can’t stand it half as wel they can. THEY HAD AN EARTHQUAKE in Vermont on Easter Sund your uncle Edmunds remarked with a look of extreme surprise, that they murdered the girl found dead at Rahway; but in onde make the amusement binding one of them at least should be THe rs amistake, The people down there deserved much punishment result of nullification and the first gun on Sumter, but they've suffered enough PROHIBITION 18 GOOD from ove point of view. When the traveler strikes Mi Kansas the commercial traveler remarks to him, Don't drink till you get beyond the border. If you do the liquor 'll kill you.” “WHERE EXTREM the Pittsburg Dispatch. bye. There they of the audience. Rosert T. Linc nd Sherman hh ities that we 1 the Main MAY MEET” is a question discussed by the The only proper place is the sweet by-and. ain destroy each other without damage to the rest x, who visited New York shortly after Blaine howed such utter ference to jl in to look upon him as a first-rate man for the tail of THE SAUCE FOR BOTH. Mrs. Hooker would have policemen shoot burglars in the legs reciprocal understanding of this nature would be beneficial, 7 other night a Brooklyn burglar shot aman through the heart didn’t you hit my dog with your pistol instead of shooting him?” in- nd the dead dog's owner,“ Vy ded no’ ze tog come at me viz he ‘as the conclusive answer, N labor and an un in the country, That is the gre an insult ) re has been no gen est political conundrum this THE FUSION BETW! nt ing of it. s yet k eral rebu country | * LOOK HERE, aimed John Sherman with great wrath directly after the reception of his bill a southern hotel; ** this is an- other of those diabolical outrages. [ll orde ongressional investi tion to-morrow as sure’s you Ti A LONG ARTICLE in the Evening Sun tells why Mr. Blaine went to Eureka Springs. But we must not comp If Mr. Blaine hadn't taken that journey we should have had long telling why he didn’t go to Eureka Springs, WHAT IF THEY SHOULD VOTE? Many women in Kansas failed to vote at the recent election be- cause other women threatened, if they did, to tell what they knew of them. That settles the ques tion of the possibility of gen eral woman suffrage. The most innocent woman in the world wouldn't voluntarily in- vite detraction. shrink from it more the larger her claim to the title of lady. ly a new kind of argument against the suffrage -kind of equality, even if one overlooks the sanguinary state of things that, with woman suffrage in vogue, would pres- ently establish itself among men. In other words, while it is right that there should be equality as to suffrage, it comes so deuced high that we mustn't have it. It MUST BE ADMITTED that when Herr Most got out of the penitentiary hedrank beer with a zeal and ability wor thy of an excellent cause: and it is much in his favor that on retiring after his cele. comicbooks.com