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# "The Lion and the Sheep" - Judge Magazine Cartoon This political allegory depicts a **lion (representing a powerful force, likely protectionism or Northern industrial interests)** confronting a **sheep (representing the South or agricultural interests)**. The lion claims the sheep owes it something, while the sheep protests innocence. The accompanying article discusses the **tariff debate dividing North and South**: Northern manufacturers favored protective tariffs; Southern agricultural producers opposed them as economically harmful. The text references how these regions represent fundamentally different civilizations with incompatible economic systems. The cartoon satirizes this sectional conflict, suggesting the North's aggressive economic demands on the South resemble predatory behavior. The piece critiques how tariff policy perpetuates regional hostility rather than national unity.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. Awennt Bras Giieast TM. Guncory President : Unt Departowent TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Gre copy, for 45 weeks, : FOREIGN SURSCKIPTIO. Tue Juoce Pusrisnina Company (Pores BuiLoiNe), Park How, New York American satirical paper published. The Jomcn fx for sale at Brentano's, a7 A Liem at cheaper rates than any other Lop WHEN “OLD HUTCH” goes off he had better take along a fan. S° BY TAMMANY eral thousand stron} “We are coming, Father Abram, some sev- SPEAKING OF BOODLERS, Arthur has been McQuade and has been found beating the scales of justice. Muscwunpery. ‘That the people are not capable of governing themselves, wumps must take ¢ and therefore the few guardian angels called mug: re of them, [P TAKES a man of brains to be a crank, and your father Abram is one of the brainiest men in this town, SOON as the senate tariff bill was reported the house THE LION N_ UNSUSPECTING was browzing « reach of a Hungry E that W; for Nothing. Lion with Unaffected. “Come down and Li began to discuss the question « Affection that Seemel adjournment. H'm! E ARE COLUMNS of argument to show why Cleveland should indorse Hill, and it would take him just two minutes to do it, thatis! 4 T IS PROPOSED to clothe the feet of the London police with rubber. side of their heads were clothed with a few brains that answer the purpose better. course, How singular Perhaps if the in- would ROVER AND DAVID are first-rate friends, but it is only the part of wisdom for neither to turn his back to the other, Sometimes there strange accidents with knives are ‘THE KAISER and Francis Joseph do their shooting from a carriage, ‘That is com- fortable for the shooters, but we have places for butchering over here. ROVER CLEVELAND is as much hidden in this canvass as if he had made up his mind to retire before the sth of March, E LOOK UPON Charles A, Dana as the only bare-back rider who ever succeeded in riding two horses going in opposite directions without breaking his dear old neck. HE. Tribune is printing a series of articles on the tariff the general idea of which and the particular ideas of every article of which are drawn from ex-Senator Arkell’s tariff articles in the JUDGE. In Horace Grecley’s time the 7rbune had ideas enough of its own without going around seek- ing to surreptitiously devour those of its best friends. THE TARIFF NORTH AND SOUTH. HERE. IS a sprinkling of men in the Democratic party that claim to be in favor of protection, ‘The vast_ majority, however, are in state- ment, purpose and interest opposed to it. New York city and northern importers, as well as southern consumers, are consistently in favor of the AND THE SHEED with much Wool i High Cliff, far out of the lish Lion on a Rock Below nted Mutton and did not know how to Get it by Me," said the to be Frank and Which side shall 1 lie on?" Sheep, lifting his nose from the succulent’ Grass, Ob," said the Lion with Great Love and Friend- ship, “on the Inside, of ‘There is no other Room for You. Moral. What would be good for our Free Trade Enemy, would THE LION AND THE SHEEP. lowest possible tariff, and the longest and strongest stride toward free trade. ‘The northern producers on farm or in factory are naturally of fostering the home in preference to calling on a foreign market. ‘The free trader holding a loose alliance to the Republican party, and only tied by thin and weakening associ xravitate to the Der party must ultimate! or be driven out, The nearby election will result in a national selection of policy, a policy not only far-reaching but vital in its results. ‘The by-paths of side issues are closed. We stand at the fork of two great roads, both beaten with the foot-fall of millions of vigorous or millions of slothful feet. ‘The ¢ road running northward and west is margined with lines polished into silver by the whirring wheels of commerce. Along its length, from the Atlantic beach to the Golden gate, it is beaded with active villages, busy factories and vigorous cities, Chicago is an eastern seedling, and San Francisco, equally with Denver, Duluth, Minneapolis, Omaha, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo, is born of northern blood. It sweeps the great fields of the west, whose fleece of yellow wheat falls before the shears of the har- vester, and travels the illimitable acres, whose millions of fingers of corr. are packed to the tip with rings of golden pearls, . ‘The other road trends southward, and traverses another civilization, through slow and sluggish settlements, worn fields, decaying hamlets, through cotton fields white with harvest and black with labor. that here and * there some scattered growths have planted themselv and shine by contrast like lonely a darkened sky. New England and Virginia Were twins as to time of settle- ment. Jamestown and New York were not born far apart. nd fertile soil welcomed to Virginia the English A. barren coast, repellent soil and chilly skies reluctantly accepted the puritans, In fact, two different civilizations paralleled each other on the new continent. ally springing from the same Norman-Saxon English stock, they themselves through their own sympathies and assoviations; the Norman clement sunshining itself in the n favor pns on issues now past, will wcracy. ‘The few protectionists in the Democratic leave it voluntaril It is true northern stars, SHEEP. A salubrious climate cavaliers, asked the Origin- reselected be death Saxon clement con- north. ‘These family yet divergent forces (the conser- vative and progressive) still exist. The two great political and contending parties are the men- tal outgrowth of this related yet separated civilization. Like two trees rooted in the carth, and ing leafy palms to the sun, the one is a branchless metto, tufted only at the top, and the other a broad-armed_ pro- tective oak. he southern civilization is still largely unchanged. It is- patriarchal by hereditary instinct. The planters’ resources depend on the lowest- priced labor, the highest-priced markets, and the cheapest cost of supplies. ‘The northern market is to the northern producer vastly the largest; we export but ten and consume ninety per cent, ‘The south consumes little and exports sixty. ‘The self-reliance of the north ts the outgrowth of its enterprise, The dependence of the south is in its system. The broad and national policy is to protect even the south in spite of itself. It proposes to utilize its vast water-power and stimulate its consumption with the products of its own fields, weaving into webs of cotton its raw material to supply the world, It would put the factory Within arms’ length of the plantation, just as the northern flour-mill is margined by the acreage of wheat. the disease of southern decay by the vaccination of northern vitality, polic |t IS AGAIN demonstrated that Pasteur's treatment for hydrophobia is a failure. We had hoped to employ this man against the Demo- rabies, but that must apparently run its course to the inevitable south, the quering th ident to its slowness and Protection will be a panacea to cure 1d vigor. wa comicbooks.com