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This page contains multiple satirical pieces attacking free-trade Democrats and praising protective tariffs (a Republican position). The main editorial text argues that free trade has repeatedly damaged American prosperity—citing the 1832 tariff reduction and the 1846 Democratic policy as economic disasters that paralyzed industry and commerce, while protective Republican tariffs restored prosperity. The author contrasts low bond-interest rates under Republican protection versus high rates under Democratic free trade. The cartoons appear to be: - "It Had the Necessary Strength": A captain proposing to arm sailors with butter as a weapon—likely mocking some absurd Democratic proposal - "A Mascot": A domestic scene (unclear exact reference) - "Down with Free Whisky": A drunk man at night, seemingly satirizing the effects of Democratic policy on working people The page reflects late-19th-century partisan economic debate, with Judge magazine taking the Republican protectionist side against Democratic free-trade policies.

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Clay said in a speech at that time that * property jues were by this policy slaughtered more than fif- ty per cent.” ‘The tariff of 1824 re- stored national prosperity. Free trade in 1832 age cancelled values by tariff “for revenue onl: strangling both industry and commerce, In 1842, exhausted by experiment, misrule ind free trade, the coun- try restored the Whig party, with a dominant policy of protection. to power. The south, seeing its “peculiar institution” threatened by the wonder- ful prosperity of the north, and the probability of its < of political suprema- tyrannized the Demo- cratic party into practical 1846 this political combination, de- and destructive, again established sub: tial free trade. The old trage large quantity of this butter?” Mrs. Hfasnerren (gushin, the xcellent butter 7” CAPTAIN 5, 1 intend arming m serfdom, In fensive y was repeated. Business was paralyzed, and ruin undermined the work of the laborious and prosperous years. Exports fell off from sixty-eight to twenty-one million dollars per annum, yet our importations under the lowered rate of duty were doubled. ‘The only reason a wider-spread disaster did not again overwhelm us was that we paid our European indebtedness of nearly a thousand millions of dol- lars from the newly-discovered treasures of California. In 1857 the free-trade south again demanded through the Demo- © party a lowering of the already low rate of duties. Cotton and of which the south held the monoply in the world’s market, ed it beyond ¢ompetition, and it remained uninjured. Northern enterprises, however, were stopped, public works abandoned, and tens of thousands of employees, laboring in manufactorics and mines, were thrown out of work and glutted the already overloaded channels of labor. The government itself, lacking revenues for its expenses from so low a tariff, resorted with a shaken credit to loans. It paid as a rate of interest as high as twelve per cent. on its bonds, that under the protective policy of the Republican party have been marketed at two and a half and three per cent Is there in this any lesson to be learned, or is knowl edge again to be reached by punishment > ha eral tol HE NEW KAISER is going to get his coun- try in a dreadful scrape nd then he military” as some day, won't be as he is now. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY does not relieve in protection, and vs between England and itself it is at the mercy of the sad se: waves. IT HAD THE NECESSARY STRENGTH. CAPTAIN SaLtTHORS® (fo dandlady)—'"* Mrs, Hashetter, can you tell me where I can purchase a ‘ow, my dear captain ! y marines with it in place of cutlasses, as my experience with it here convinces me it's a great thing to repel boarders.” 333 Judge Muller — received $50,000 on condition that the governor sign his name toacertain document, that a hurt in the house of a compatriot which cannot be made to heal. THE JUDGE does not expect impossibilities of Postmaster Pearson; but if the government of the United States is too stingy to give him the men and the means neces- sary to a good postal ser- vice, it had better adjourn itself in behalf of some private enterprise that un- derstands its business. DOWN WITH FREE WHISKY ! It was 2 aM. He was standing on a street corner, his arm tenderly encircling an clectric-light pole. The glare of the lamp above shining on his rubescent nose suffused it with a pink glow. As he swayed to and fro like a wooden Indian in & gale this is what he said: What can you want of a quantity of “"Rah fer Thevelan’ an’ Clurman! down wizzher ‘Publ’can party. “Sno good; bilieves ‘n free whizzhgey; | don’ bilieve ‘n free whizzeh— whizzhgey; I'm temp—temmera Dem'crat; down wizzher free whizz ‘ “Let's see,” remarked the blue-coat who led him away; “didn’t I find you on this same corner, bawling against high license, one night last winter 2” *Yeazhir; zazh wazh me: diff'ren’ zhing zhat wazh, al’ogezher dif- fren’; bay mare ‘nozzher color; down wizzher free whizzhgey, whoop! zash me, ye hear ? WAFTED FROM THE LAKE’S BOSOM. * How I pity the poor Indians who lived in this section only of hundred years ago!" remarked Budweiser 2 couple to Bartholomay after they had trolled about the lake all day without getting « “strike” “ just think, they had to depend largely on the fish they caught for a living.” . “Oh, but they used to spear them, you know,” Bartholom: ell, 1 don't managed to do rejoine see how the: that even, “LT believe they used to invoke the aid of their Manitou, the Great Spear- it,” answered Bartholo- may, and then the silence became as vast and deep and broad and long as the waves themselves. APROPOS. “You shouldn't read lying down, my daughter. Yon know how weak your HEN a Democratic paper like the Brooklyn Eagle, which has A MASCOT. eyes are.” “Oh, Just let mamma. this yes, me finish been very friendly to G ernor Hill, says a. friend of the governor—to wit, Jounny (piously)—" P: FAatuen (offering grace) — Jousny thunder to-day hile you're pra Yes, my child | name it Well, please just put ina word for our nine, ‘ ing, will you pray for something for me 2” nse we want to lick the Hucktowns like article. “ What is it about ~ Care of the eyes. comicbooks.com