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# "The Craze" - Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis The central cartoon depicts a street scene where a well-dressed man in a top hat appears to be selling or distributing something to poor, ragged citizens. The caption reads: "Immigrant vendor: 'Ere's yer last fresh'n' waffles. I ch'us blanocratin' less confetto.'" The poorly-rendered dialect suggests immigrant speech. This satirizes economic exploitation and likely the emerging consumer culture of the era. The contrast between the well-off vendor and desperate-looking customers suggests commentary on how immigrants or working poor were being sold cheap goods or false promises. The "craze" referenced in the title probably mocks a contemporary fad or speculative bubble affecting vulnerable populations. The surrounding text discusses labor, wages, and manufacturing—suggesting broader economic anxieties of Gilded Age America.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK Editor LM. Geecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Tes ASD CANADA, IN ADYARE PUREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—Te all foreign eonutries in the rate THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (Porter BUILDING), Park How, New York, EO We guarantee autvertivers a larger cirentation at cheaper rates than any Amer- fean mattivical paper published The Jewar. is fur eateat Ie enne de LQpera, Paris Brer Watney of t avy is lyin: tty low too, Mr. GARLAND'S VALENTINE, forgiven.” “Come home, dear, and all shall be VALENTINE FROM Abram S. Hewitt A postscript to the last install- ment of one of his voluminous messages, YounG Joseru HOFFMAN 1s not to be overworked. » manges his ex- quer who is thus alficted. Ttis the man TAMMANY HALL is for Cleveland on the assumption that it loves to be kicked. N doesn't love to be ki and if it assum virtue of patience it doesn't have it Brotuek Futon has the right to use a squirtgun with whi to squeleh the Cathe chureh, but he has ne. right toe eit with dirty water 2: THE DESTRUC- of Lily Langt the New ¥ dailies have been rath dull; but we noti We Look AHEAD to 1900 for very lively legal proceedings regarding Miser Paine’s will; because the miser left much money, and neither the bench nor the bar has a surfeit of that commodity. Inixerast vex Miss AxGLos—" C Trem! do let's stop Lun THE HARD 8! and a gratif; f Johii Sherman at this crisis seems like another gf return to specie payments. Bany Buytixe should not appeal for a new trial. What he wants to do is to appeal for death and a resurrection. It ts UST worth mentioning that Roswell P. Flower will not run for governor unless D. B. Hill runs for presiden good deal of rather suggestive polities. : and therein is S having been driven ont of the salvs bustle, let us hope that : nd the | on army because unin the world will the better. From Grover to David : “Oo And lo T'll be thy valentine: From David to Grove Tur Jubak has always had a fervent be lization. Tt feels that it Monday morning. fi fin the progress of civ is at last vindicated, bec a recent minutes after twelve o'clock, Madison-square use on THE CRAZE. Ere’s yer nice fraish ‘ot wattles, Lelw ays hinwigoratin’ han’ comfortin nd tisten a little, garden was so filled that thousands of applicants for admission had to be turned away, It was x foot-race. LABOR AND PROTECTION. all political discussions much pulp surrounds the kernel of the bulk of amplitude and excessive in’ its abuy This, perhaps by its very the vital principle it envelopes and is intended toshelte of a political proposition thus hidden in the ponderousness of discus. sion is like an apple, for an illus jacket, its tightly-packed globe of erystals and juices ing atmosphere of perfume; yet is all this snug packi T this alchemy of root and sap, this night and day cheiistey of ves, waving their pearly and green fans in the ¥ for the toothsome pleasure of the Partly, Thisvirth of nui sped nd the savior of its life. This sphere that rolls down the hil new ground is helped in its babyhood by this susrdian ship till it can feed on the ¢ soil: with surrounding and ags stalwart equips its pre off on the winds with little h to feed th Ni ion, with its round red, waterpmof nd its surround blossoms and air this se and partly only, round the seed, ition is nature's prote very where and always gives the firs lesson in protection, and inexorably executes thy law that the weak or the least wary, must go to the wall The farmer who fences his fields; the householder who ards his door yard: the natic fortifies its coast, are protectionists, — Protee- tion is selfishness. In the individual it is tak ing care of number one govern nent it is for millions of \. com, napeti gle of pers est cimount « nt of available labor, without the interposition construction (such tariff), will win, Ifa laborer without tools engages to. move by the handful, for a certain sum, avgiven quantity of earth, he will fail as to time and compenss tion if he competes with one who has a wheelbarrow and The tool capital with labor; the bare hand is labor alone n manufacturers have the double adviutage of cheaper capital and sper labor, They are the John L. Sullivans who can clillenge any contestant. England has been trained under a protective tariff for three hundred years; until its capital of brawn and scle of plentiful workers enuble it successfully to contend against any weak ling. It should be remembered that all real values depend on labor. The scarcer the labor, or the better paid, the higher the cost of produc tion. The pinch of cotton-seed dropped in the soil is next to valueless The many times cultivated plant costs labor; the picking is labor: the ginning out the seed is labor; the pressed bale is labor; the carlead is labor—it goes over railroads built by labor and is pushed on riils the nore of which was worthless in. the soil till worked and riled by abor;—the spun yarn is labor; the woven fabric and its ornaments tion and transfer to market are all but steps of labor. So that from nothing, or near to nothing, labor wraps the valueless materi:!! wround with increased worth. If all this labor be abject and poorly paid. % poorly paid that it is half starved and half clothed, these valursare the less. The question for the Amerigan people is, do we want sucli ! y we need such cheap woolens that they will shut our own factories and drive the sheep from the farms? Do we want a policy for the better ment of the European manufacturers, to the closing of our own mills and by this closing turn into the already full ranks of aber su surplusage of unemployed as will lower all along the line, and in almost every calling, the wages of other workers ? Thaven't heard such pure E since we left shovel. Pune sabundant m comicbooks.com