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The cartoon depicts a figure (labeled as appearing to represent a political or public official) who has apparently misunderstood something crucial—suggested by the caption about "the night oasis the boys." The figure seems caught in an awkward or compromising situation, surrounded by what appear to be satirical elements of confusion or chaos. The accompanying text references political debates about tariffs, manufacturing, and labor policy—issues central to turn-of-century American politics. The broader page discusses Republican governance, trade policy, and economic competition with Europe. Without clearer identification of the specific figure or date, the precise political target remains unclear, but the cartoon satirizes political misunderstanding or incompetence regarding economic policy during this era of intense tariff debates.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK Presiden W. J. Anns Aditi ata . 1M. Gaercony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. ne copys sis (ne Cops forty weeks, Singie cop © 52 numbers, ths. oF mbers, FORE Tue Junce PUBLISHING ComPANy (orth Iieinnise), Park Row, New York ON SUBSCRIFTIONS Te all fo Peital unie ou at cheaper rates than any other al fe The Jooce is for THE TARIFF FIGHT—The bill's Mill leat Brentane's, 17 Aveune de L’Opera, Paris QUE “21'S” new baby is one of the best of the very best kind, but it can never be president. T THIS SEASON Mr. Cleveland counts his fish as if they were ma- jorities; but he hasn't the fish or the electoral votes to show for it Ww THINK sometimes that Mr. Cleveland is guilty onthe second-term question ; but he does “indirection n't care anything about it HE DEAFNESS of the new emperor of Germany is some excuse for his top-lofty rhetoric; but if he could hear the rhetoric would fall off of it and bre his imperial neck. read he LAY ON, Macduff; and damned be he who first cries," Hold! tis snuff.” —.1. G. Thurman, 1s, HILL sometimes thinks he will; then he thinks he ‘t, and then that he can’t. OEM—They can keep their red bandana; for behold © to have New York and Indiana. you! we B, LOCKWOOD frankly ad- * mits that she has seen fifty-four years, but she claims that some of them were very little ones. Wily DON'T the Diss Debars hold a little seance and sing themselves from be- hind the bars? Surely if they believe in the pictures of the spirit black- smiths they ought to laugh at all the earthly locksmiths. principle in a handkerchief ? in a light catarrh > JHE CRY of the worker just now—"1 say! lend breeze and the foam of a beaker, won't you?" at St. Louis makes as well as D. B Uscur Bes (A cactus bed) deestric® rg spent the might wily SHOULD there beg i What music is there, after all me a bit of sea- THE PLATFORM adopted so that Allen G no mention of the bandana H. has hi snubbed. ad his nose UESTION IN 1988—How rich are the lawyers in the Stewart will case, and will the surviving contestants be apt to get out of the alms-house ? , LET US TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. THE DISCUSSION of the Mills tariff reduction bill in congress, what ever be its detention or outcome, will be resumed before the people. November will seal it with approval or kill it with its veto, Cleveland's platform is detinite. His guides and his creatures alike clearly expound. its: purpose. : It is free. or “freer,” trade to A SLIGHT MISAPPREHENSION. A the B’gosh, I never knowed “skecters ter bite so hard sence I've been jestice o° this labor, and a lessening of wage and work for our own, This plat built of free Canadian lumber, spiked with English nails driven wit! English hammer. teoned and bannered with an English red bandana. It is carpeted with free English woven wool and. { The anti-taritf Jependents crowd under it and uphold it on their lifting hands. On ¢ platforia stands the old southern legion, Its. planks are crowded wit hundred thousand federal officials, who present purses. and on. sig xre s did the band of janizaries surrounding a sultan, * Democracy and Grover is our profit It has been sneeringly said that a republican form of government is series of experiments formulated by incompetent or irresponsible guid It must be conceded, however, that a government more or less of thi is preferable to one of hereditary tyranny or hereditary stupidity {nor sophistry will long cajole a million voters. Bayonets never thir a people that reads wi They have learned, or will, that the farmer can never grow rich by changing consumers into competitors. They will ask why it is that pen: nts” seek this country for betterment if non-prot. ch employment and free trade is such a boon? ‘IL know that no nation has ever prospered that diminished the employn of its citizens; that agricultural compensation depends for its reward the consumption of its products less “assisted immig’ tion gives som If a city or village gives such warm welcome to any enterprise pror ising work to its idle, is it wise to advocate or belp a policy that wo exile manufacturing three thousand miles away ? It was the imposition of a tariff duty that created our manufact it was not manufacturing that created a tariff, Free trade and low wa are financial twins, Labs paid twice as well here as Europe; living cost less. averages ‘That part of the body « der the vest is more expensive than the cover. interested in bread steak than in broadcloth ‘The Democratic mugwump free traders denounce asa war tariff our customs duties forgetting that the old Wh: party advocated and adopted this poli as brief as its power) years b» fore the war. The tariff ther as now, was desi bor is more and t press and (with a national prosperity ed to make the United States independent of Europe and supply our ow people with employment. ‘The internal revenue system i only war measure. This administration repels its repeal as lessening reven preventing a surplus, thus avoid ing menace to our industries and destroying the loaves and fishes that to feed the Democratic crowd that hunger after official spoils. boys, finds himself im the morning in the PLACE. my firmest faith in spiritualism, Have you a house and about you ?—Madame Diss Debar. THERE WERE a-many booms, and we are reminded to remark tha for a brief period a new boom sweeps clean. OHN A, BROOKS of Missouri, who runs with C. B, Fisk © national prohibition ticket, was a confederate during the war naturally wants to hurt the Republican party as much as he can. IF THERE are, indications of a storm in a certain amount of grow! ny thunder, do not be making a De handkerchief. larmed ; it will merely be your Unele ‘Thur nocratic speech with his nose in the folds of his emblen« HERE HASN'T been such a powerful boss as Boss Cleveland sin « the periods of Bosses Tweed, Tilden and Kelly. ‘This boss hast dollar to his name. or yet a state or a voting residence: but what a me nificent whip he wields! comicbooks.com