Judge, 1888-12-22 · page 3 of 18
Judge — December 22, 1888 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces: **"Stupid Mamma"** (top cartoon): A young woman tells her mother about a suitor's attentions, but the mother dismisses him as "heartless" and "at his misfortune." The satire mocks mothers who reject suitable matches based on superficial judgments rather than actual character. **"At Shogmarthe Castle"** (middle cartoon): A British lord asks his American wife to suggest entertainment for tenants. She proposes a "spelling-bee"—a distinctly American middle-class activity. The joke satirizes American cultural practices as crude or out-of-place in aristocratic British settings, playing on transatlantic class differences. **"Boycott the North!"** (text section): Judge criticizes a Georgia newspaper's call for economic boycotts against Northern states post-election. The editorial argues such regional hostility is foolish and that the South should accept democratic results gracefully rather than nurse grievances. The page's primary focus is post-Civil War sectional tensions and the persistence of North-South antagonism.
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Ema (just in from the KINpieaRten’ 4A Eman (/ushing ) stupid, ignorant or greedy voter, who accepts a gift, and on incarcerated in a pri not fre- quently so much punished by steady employment, and a not unbearable prison domicile, as his wife and little ones, who weakly struggle with want, or are the shunned objects of charity. In this way a semi-sym- pathy for the family shields the cal- loused “citizen,” and incontinently continues the crime. Why not punish the purchaser? Are not all who contribute to politi- cal expenses purchasers? Punish- ment if justly meted would smite alike the highest and the lowest official, and run its smart from presi- dent to postmaster. Why not pro- hibit the sale by taking the salable vote out of the market? If a man will not sell he is a patriot. If he could not it would be a political blessing. A thorough and general registry law would embarrass fraud, and disfranchisement for selling suffrage would be just. Anyone who puts his vote in the market should lose it, A five-dollar-bill man is not an American citizen, but is a political deserter for a bribe. A law should be so framed that a disfranchi ment penalty would follow conv tion, based on evidence of two or three impartial witnesses and the verdict of a justice of the peace. All political parties and every prospec- tive nominee would be solicitous of paring down “ the list™ tothe honest - and intelligent stratum. Financial STUPID MAMMA. art}—" Oh, mamma! Thad a lovely time to-day, and, the best o how heartless you are at his misfortune. He must h: that, I mean he spoke to me of —er- AT SHOGMARTHE CASTLE. Lorb SHOGMARTIE (twho has brought home an American wife) —" V want to show the tenantry a little attention in the way of a celebration, my dear, What would you suggest 7” Laby SHocMaRTHE (coho has never been a metropolitan)—* Wow does a spelling-bee strike you, Hector 2” prudence would join hands with decentambition, ‘The political road, of the briars and obstacles, would open itself to those who are not strong enough to push a bag- xage-wagon to the front Is it not the better kind of civil: service reform that would address itself to the correction of the great- ‘The present effort is very much like cutting the hair of Brother Jonathan to a sanitary shortness, 2 to the gangrene in his limbs—re- form in fact that is beginning at the wrong end, est evil first ? ind showing indifference NORTH! the Greensboro (Ga.) Herald, “Don't sell anything to the north, and don't buy any- thing of the north.” Dear southern brother, that is foolishness, If you must cut off your own nose, why cut off ours? The election was fair, and to the victors belong the spoils. A Tittle disappointment hurts the heart, but it needn’t mash the soul. Get off your high horse, southern brother, and go afoot till you are tired enough to go to sleep and behave yourself. ‘*Roycort exclaims CALL the attention of the next st tare ks of President Cleveland. , amusing; see that none of them get away. ongress to the are very comicbooks.com