Judge, 1887-04-23 · page 4 of 16
Judge — April 23, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This is a satirical magazine page mixing political commentary with humor pieces. The main cartoon, "Darktown's Infliction," uses racist caricature (common to the era) to mock African Americans, depicting them discussing trivial complaints—a figure claims he has plumbago from "suckin' lead-pencils." The text section "Hum of the Court" collects brief satirical jabs at contemporary figures and issues: - **Jay Gould**: Mocked for claiming to have a "big heart" while being a ruthless robber baron - **Theodore Roosevelt**: Referenced as recently out of politics - **James G. Blaine**: A politician allegedly losing his magnetism with voters - **General Pulitzer** (likely Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher): Criticized for reducing his workforce, then allegedly hiring someone to punch him weekly - Various critiques of railroads, tobacco use by police, and social hypocrisy The satire targets wealthy industrialists, politicians, and social pretension typical of Gilded Age *Judge* content—though delivered alongside deeply offensive racial material.
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DARKTOWN’S INFLICTION. matter wid de be got plumbago i Hexnaxo Wire” uch echlicatton, Masia, what's. says be his side from suckin’ lead-pencils. e Court. “Tix sweet to be eemembered.” Ham of t Song of the mn with a cork leg: Th was aman named Carter Harrison hows Where is that party It may be true that Jay Gould has a big heart—he says so himself; but how much is it watered ? % Theodor: Roosevelt being out of polities, it is not untikely that he Its gowns, according to « Boston: paper, ane poems, re too thin? onish him that his mother is t to an esteemed contemporary—"The Spotter is nothing if i: is not truthful; so it is nothing.” the heading ** Let no Dog Bark,” and immedi- a long editorial article. till their emotiona the Philadel- gymnasium is this? Oshkosh having elected doctor mayor, let it immediately tuke the medic ne necessary to purge itself of its name. Some day there will be an office that a Ia and then the rest of us will fight ourselves to death in order to says some dreams goes to show that it y true. It may be, but our the kind that is never dreamed. The Boston Courier says Tennyson's fame staggers badly. We observe the same peculiarity in the seuse and metre of his later poems. The Troy Press says Blaine may magnetize the people till me home n won't care. Why should have the cows to do with this Why should either? W! it wtte-smokers have organized opposition to some conspictious tyranny by putting up the placard “No smoking of museu allowed here.” A Paris court open his wi ay be right in its decision tha: e's letters, by sidered is the a man may the more important thing to be con- isturhanee in the The duke of Argyll has, it 1, the face of a mud-carter: but he is not so fortunate, if Lady Churehill and Princess Louise ave to be believed, with regard to his offspring. A writer for the Evening Sun tells how to live to be old. Dat comes fron: What nonsense is this?) What sensible men want to , . know is how to live to be young. mean man conceive a prejudic snother and he will hate that mi won't permit him to prove it. and create a lie nto the death be Detroit Free Press, The old eduea. tional idea was to put the nine colleges in one building, The Chicago Mail has a long story about the stealing of agreat hole. If this kind of theft is to become popular one will never be sure of the head on his own shoulders, The Mobile Register says John Sherman has not cap tured the south by his speeches in that section. That'sodd. His brother Tecumseh captured it without any speeches at all. “Let me come over and e you som ercise,” said Professor Sullivan to the president. “No, thanks,” sid the president, wi * Professors Pulitzer and Dana have ‘tended to me.” One railroad says it will make $1,000 a day the abot ishment of the pass system. * That may be; but consider the loss to the gentlemen who had te paper and who are not half as able to stand it. It is the opinion of Mrs. I. B. Hooker that policemen should not use tobacco. We have often thought that a man addicted to that vile habit could not arrest a fellow-citizen with half the ability of the man who didn’t. It is understood that General Pulitz ing reduced the World force to a humiliating st ion, has hired a stal: wart man tocome in and get his head punched three or four times a week. le of subjec with an insuflic t shall she the waist, she risks the The morality of the w keep her out of the bal quisite amplitude abov her immortal soul? y of shank may in if, having: the re hibition and loss of One day a man went into Major Pangborn’s offlee in Jersey City tw remonstrate without his gloves. It was about something that had appeared in the Journal, He has not appeared since. has gone to that Pangborn wl ho traveler returns They suy he Hannibal Hamlin, who is seventy-nine, at a recent reunion danced every set and went home with the prettie rl inthe morning. Well there is this comfort for the boys of his locality—the old man | life so much that he'll hate to die more than anybody else. Geronimo says he looks upon Providence, the president, and his wife and children in the same light. It is the unconscious but genuine poetry that comes to the coarsest of men and is especially peculiar to the Indian, It is the plain speech of the ignorant-wise man given to few words, which is often tl ssence of poetry. — But the honor. able gentleman ought to see the president! ‘A RADICAL CHANGE. Hannah always said that my face wuz too short fer my neck, but “— comicbooks.com