Judge, 1887-09-03 · page 3 of 16
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This page contains several satirical pieces attacking political and social figures: **"A Carpet Knight"** cartoon mocks a man recounting a fight, interrupted when a woman's "rubber bustle" bursts—suggesting his story is as insubstantial as ladies' fashion. **"Her Eloquent Acquiescence"** praises Mrs. Cleveland (wife of President Grover Cleveland) for her silence during the political crisis, sarcastically suggesting her saying nothing is worth "a thousand men." The satire implies women's value lies in quiet compliance rather than meaningful contribution. **Anti-Socialist commentary** dismisses socialist orators as insincere and dangerous, comparing them to those who "cut throats and scuttle ships"—reflecting the era's fierce opposition to labor movements. **Other pieces** ridicule claims of female stutterers (asserting women never stutter), mock Whitelaw Reid's alleged financial misconduct, and criticize prohibition advocates—typical of Judge's conservative, anti-reform stance during the Gilded Age. The tone throughout is smugly elitist, mocking both progressive movements and ordinary people's experiences.
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wage: ly a detriment to its easy movement when there are heat and humidity. They are better away, and they will do better work when they return because of their rest. Let them enjoy themselves to the utmost and believe that they are having just the fun that belongs to them, no more and no less. ays he knows the socialists are as sincere Undoubtedly. And their smile are as sweet as those of the traditional man who devotes hiniself to cut- ting throats and scut- tling ships. A SOCIALIST ORATOR men as ever worked in a Joun Swinton died a lovely as well as an impressive death, There wasn't a whine in it, or yet a convulsive sob. But he really had less mason to mourn over it than the cause of labor, which secms to more stony-hearted indifferent than be aud he is. THERE ARE NO STUT- TERING WOMEN. We observe great ima cy in the news- papers of two or three sections of this state. One of them says that there is an ** expert nat ural woman. stutterer” in the Catskills, and the others declare that there are three other women stutterers in the same number of rural local- ities in Onei id Mad- ison counties. Now it is possible that there have been cases of sud- denly relieved loc! had that re- nd there may hav been sicknesses which been as startlingly unfortunate the JupcE deel is that no won ra stutterer birth or ever acquired that affliction at the sub- sequent period when she began to talk. Nei ther is there anything in the air of Greene, Oneida and Madison counties to produ stuttering: so that the ral statements are r out-and-out false- hoods or — inventions Without any substantial foundation in fact. We have heard with more or less interest of white blackbirds, and bay homes clad in white coats, and honest Demo- ts. and — temperate prohibitionists, and pos- have more or an existence; there was never yet 4 stuttering woman and there never will be. Set that down, Hang itup. Send it abroad. wus an alleged woman who stutters and we will show you an individual who has no right to wear the gown AT Last accounts Whitelaw Reid was camping in the Adiron- Jacks, having mysteriously returned from Jones river. The amount { Mr. Reid’s defalcation. is not mentioned, but it is at least to his credit that he isn’t mean enough to confine himself to Canada. Cot. Loxonow. tearing into the trench beslds ‘A CARPET KNIGHT. “It was the toughest fight Lever naw ; Notwithstanding the short fuse I p And that reprehensible rubber bustle had to burst and apoil the rest of the story, HER BLOQUENT ACQUIBSCENCE. The Jupar's boom of Mrs. Cleveland goes on and on like the resistless, ever-moving, overwhelming waves. The newspapers are filled with compliments of her which, as they all know, she eminently deserves, and every smile upon that bugle-horn, if we may be permit- ted the expression, is worth a thousand men. And she is as wise in her xilence as in her conversation. She has nothing to say, and that in this crisis, as the other presidential aspirants know, is the best of all possible utter- ances. . THE IMMIGRANT comes here, as did the to enjoy the ssing of perfect free- dom, and finds before he gets out of Castle Garden that it means ten cents for u glass of beer and thirteen dollars for railroad tickets that cost all other parties about five dollars A MAN tried to pick a cartridge to pieces with a pin, and the cartridge got so much the better of him that it was at first thought he would have to have three funerals. Things are so decep- tive that it is always safe to most let alone that which we least un- and right in the middle of ita twelve-pound shell came — derstand. 4 had just time to hurlttover the ‘ma little tired.” PROHIBITION 18 be- coming unpopular in Towa. They say it makes sneaks of men, and when it doesn’t do that it drives them to opium —which, after all, xbout the same thing. But, worse still, it makes some of them prohibitionists—and as to that there is no redemption, GOT IT FOR NOTHING. The labor men at Syracuse proved w against temptation in refusing to fraternize with the socialists. Had they accepted the prof. fered support and friendship they would have ruined themselves without the formality of a verdict ut the polls; and as things are they have secured the social- istic vote without sac ficing an iota of any thing for it—for of course the socialists have nowhere else to goand no other party to vote with, ‘siete Mk. Curtis says the tariff will not be an issue in the next national canvass because’ the Democracy will not let it be an issue. There was man who insisted, when he stood up to be hanged, that the knot should go under the right ear, but the officiating deputy had his way. Juparn from the loss of Ives’s books and those of several large busi ness institutions, the borrowers are putting in their finest work,