Judge, 1887-10-22 · page 2 of 16
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The main cartoon titled "A SUSPENDED LUXURY" depicts a disheveled man in tattered clothes sitting amid ruins, with the caption: "It's a shame to have Mullins's square pianos go to ruin, so it is." This appears to be satirizing wealth disparity during economic hardship—likely referencing the Panic of 1893 or similar period. The joke contrasts luxurious pianos deteriorating while the man is destitute, mocking the absurdity of preserving wealthy people's possessions while poor citizens suffer. The surrounding editorial text discusses various political matters: Judge Roger's legal authority, potato cultivation policy, hereditary office-holding, and other contemporary concerns. The overall tone criticizes government inefficiency and social injustice. Without specific dating or clearer identification of "Mullins," precise historical context remains uncertain.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. Nowe Mawny K. Haxr Mawsnane GILtaM 1M. Grxoory POREIO) TBSC] TH all foreign conntricn in the postal wn THE JUDGE PUBLISHING ComPANy (Porter BuILbr Park Row, New York, tor Wey laryer circulation at ehraper rates than any Amer sean satirical paper p THERE IS ANOTHER and some say a better World, ALL RoapSs run to Rome, and all telegraph wires run to the monopoly. We HAVE Lost Harry Hill; but let us not be disconsolat still have David B. AcTRESS POTTER reminds us of John Shern has learned how to fence. THE SMU "Ss BUSTLE is a bistle, and by the same t Thustle is not the Thistle. FANEUIL HALL is the cradle of liberty and the lacteal fountain of the naval service of the United States Mrs. CLEVELAND makes no speeches, and verily by that token the Jepar’s | 1 shall be elected. It USED to be said that too many Cooks spoil the broth; but they credit Frederick of Roches- ter with that misfortuneallalone by himself ALL FEDERAL OFFICE-HOLD- are expected to work for ver from now on; but it is Hicial orders that they mustn't make a deuced fuss about it cise the force a attempt to do so to be adjudged guilty of treason and shot on sight Iv Is PossIBLE that the pres- ident hooked his bald-headedness from the Any n Cycloped but we rather prefer to credit it direct to that of Brother Charles y identical peculi and perhaps four or five mt here that we cannot WHY NOT HAVE JUSTICE? Judge Ruger is an honest man; but is it legally or morally just that the taxpayers should be made to pay thousinds of dollars for it technical hiteh in the law which obviously does not interfere with a proper punishment of proved and convicted crime? Isthe technicality of more importance than the guilt or innocence of the prisoner? There is too much kaw and too little just How would it be to insist that guilt shall be punished and innocence acquitted ¢ Nokopy THOUGHT your uncle Edmunds would discuss agricul- ture; but he will ma up for his reticence with a winter lecture on the congealed alue of the frozen north If 1s BELIEVED by our nor that potatoes should be sow: the rate of a pee tribute a full bushel over that larg ount of space. A TYPICAL ENGLISH PAUPER. The fourth marquis of Ailesbu properly, hus been ruled off the heath therefore the London Times si office-holding as it exists in th is one that was reac! but that a disho Pn nelusion re ing people the world o toon the turf should be t one of many eurious things in English politics and high lif This fellow isa brawling ruff a professional rake, the kind “sport” that we call a brniser, and whom no gent nizes; with loud voice, loud col- Jar, loud 1 ad loud ways like the denizens of our Baxter street; yet, had he controlled himself sufficiently to assume a virtue that belonged elsewhere, he mieht remained a pbstructor Years to come. Itis raging to find the London Times advocating the elective system for the house of lords: but how many worse though still more illustrious objects of char- ity there are in that body, and long they have controlled ETT will prob- Ly and his from some point about of the ocean, having te! wires running from his yacht in both diree- tions. HER MAJESTY'S MISFORTUNE. When the queen of hearts is the trump card there ought to be success; but there are players who could not win with it if they had a very excellent land That is A SUSPENDED LUXURY back of it. The JupGe is reluct- OAN—" It's a ahem to have Mulline’s shpare voines 5 . Mr. George. How would it be to call Jay Gould the gor pnt and give lim control of the postal as well as of the telegraph system of our beloved country ? HELLOY They do say that William Collins Whitney wants to run for gov- ernor in 1888 and for president in 189 he has the affectic support of Grover Cle nd in that ition. v also that little man at Albany who can give him points in polities and beat him at any kind of game he is anxious to take part in. Iv 18 sat that Count Mitkiewicz has failed; but we must remem- that he has two or three countries yet to be born in, and that he may even invent a new article of personal poesy. THE SCIENTISTS of the newspapers have no fear of cholera now, notwithstanding the cases in quarantine; but they think it will be antly obliged. to confess that its ite in this game is lament ably handicapped, and can by no possibility win; but let her come to the front as the player rather than a mere card of the pack and she will take every trick and run considerably over into the next game. ME DAY Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hawley may swing around the presidential circle too din that vi of the case it pleases us much to observe that the general is visibly growing younger. Exma ABBoTT recently spoke right out in meeting, rebuking a an who had abused her profession. Of course, she didn’t eon- his reverence—that kind of man is proof against argument; but she did convert the congrega’ THE MARYLAND REBELLION, The M. nd Democratic revolt is quii It veally is not ant te a government made up of professional murderers, burglars, ballot-box stuffers and cheap th the repugnance comicbooks.com