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This satirical piece presents a father advising his son about reform movements. The central argument: **effective reformers must be fanatics who refuse compromise**. The satirist argues paradoxically that while prohibitionists and reformers are "rather apt to be fanatics," this fanaticism is necessary and praiseworthy—they must "smash things" to accomplish anything. The piece contrasts this with "Reform & Compromise," dismissed as a failed business venture. Historical examples support this: Luther, Cromwell, Washington, Adams, and abolitionists all succeeded through violent upheaval, not moderation. **The satire's target**: likely Progressive Era reformers of the 1890s-1900s who claimed moral superiority while making pragmatic political deals. By praising *only* uncompromising fanatics and ridiculing moderate reformers, Judge ironically exposes reformism's contradiction—claiming moral clarity while inevitably negotiating with power. This reflects Judge magazine's skeptical stance toward reform movements popular during this period.

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So also the drunken man is, immoderately violent when he howls and. breaks win- dows, smashes furniture and fires bricks at the street lamps. If you must choose between two violent men, stand by the one who knows what he is violent about. I like to see a reformer smash things: then I know he is in earnest. The firm of Reform & Compromise, after being in business one year, couldn't pay two cents on the dollar, Luther had to smash things; so did Crom- well ; George Washington and his crowd and the Adams family had to turn things upside down; the old Aboli- tionists foamed at the mouth and rent the heavens with shrieks of fury every time anybody said “Compromise.” When the Christ came into his ** Father's house” there | was no three days’ notice and a gradual eviction, but | the scourge was applied at once, the tables overthrown, the polluting money strewn upon the ground and the offenders, man and beast, driven out, What have you there, my son, a pair of pillows? 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