Judge, 1888-05-12 · page 13 of 16
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This single-panel cartoon satirizes Socialist hypocrisy regarding equality. A working-class saloonkeeper confronts a Socialist who accused him of cheating ("trying to beat me out of ein glass bler"). The Socialist had just proclaimed "all men were born equal," but when challenged to practice this principle by sitting alongside the saloonkeeper as an equal, he threatens violence instead: "you shoost try to keep me from sitting on you till de policemans comes." The joke mocks Socialists for preaching universal equality while maintaining class superiority in actual conduct. The heavy ethnic dialects (German-inflected English) suggest working-class characters, emphasizing the irony that the Socialist movement claims to champion workers while displaying contempt for them. The cartoon represents typical late-19th-century American skepticism toward Socialist ideology as hypocritical and impractical.
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