Judge — August 11, 1888 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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HIN TORS . UTILIZING MISFORTUNE. Mrs, Le Prontox—* Aren't you going, Jack ?” Certainly.” “Why don't you get ready?” 1am ready.” “What, with your flannels on 7 . Le PRonos—" Vas, "Since my failure you don’t know how gauge the effect of little things.” lower the wages of American workingmen, but will care equally for American employers and employees. Democratic theory If manufacturers, according to the * grow so enormously rich,” let it be American manu- turers rather than European, Wealth gained here stays here. It will 1 houses, endow schools, construct hospitals, be expended in improve- nents, invested in railroads, and in a hundred ways give wages for work. and dollars earned and staying in the United States is better for all than a thousand dollars transferred to the + side for the benefit GAUNDRY, ae] OAR. nglish manu- and mine owners are the wealthiest class in the world. Yet one out of every thirty people of isted by a poor-tax. average capital per person s larger there than here, onclusively showing that aggregation of wealth is in fewer hands. It should be well con- red that when ten dol- ars is expended for a suit of clothing of American vool, woven by American abor and constructed by \merican hands, even when the suit is worn out ten dollars stays with omething of the gift of etalliferous immortality, ind passes from hand to This was that gentle old grocery-store cat as hand, adding to the con- Hassitt reached out to pat her, and AN OPTICAL ILLUSION. Ms. Lr Prontox—"' 1 hardly understand you?" Mr. Le Prone Several ‘of my creditors are at the hotel, and as we drive by T want to show them how badly I feel, by looking like a glass of beer with the froth blown off.” Mrs. Le Paonox—" You make superb froth in that dress !" served wealth of the country. If the ten dollars be expended in- making a purchase in a foreign land, when the garments are worn out the ten dollars also is gone, gone to that bourne whence no dollar ever returns. THAT CIVIL- SERVIC BLADE. R, CLEVELAND'S complacency is likely to lead him astray. posing as a philosopher by instinet and statesman by accident, it is not surprising that he should take up the role of a humorist. ‘The delicacy of his satire in his last utter ance on civil service is one of the best jokes of July. The mugwump press. however, seem to take it inearnest. It (we use the neuter gender consider- ately) knows that no pres- ident has so ponderous record asa political decap- itator, The Democratic guillotine worked at chop- ping off Republican heads till the guides of the blade grew hot with the speed of its motion, Yet the mugwump continues to worship and applaud the new Moloch, and excuses the executive by saying. “While his heart is right the speed of the machine has grown beyond his con- trol.” There isno Republi- can protest t Repub- lican displacement; itis the cant that is contemptible, VRUNOR ZY, —this is as she appeared to him when she returned the salutation, comicbooks.com