Judge — January 26, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher W. J. Awwet ‘rt Department Bersnano Giecast Editor’ 1M. Guecory TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. One copy, one year. or s2 numbers. . $4.00 ne copy, six months. or 26 numbers, . 2.00 One copy, for +3 weeks, hoo ingle copies, vo cents each, FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To alt for- cin countries im the postal union, $5.0 year. Tue Jupce Pustisiino Company (Vorrer Buitvino), Park Row, New York. C97 We euarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates tham any other American satirical paper published. The Jovon ts for hale at Brentano's, 17 Avenue de L’Opera, Paris HE IS NOP a bold man who protests against bold if he follows his own advice. HE GR KNOT now worn is very becoming to the wearers. Do not drop a sickle in the knot. [N THIS CITY when a politician is to be disciplined by his brethren he puts red pepper on the tloor, possibly to indicate that he is ready to be sneezed at. pping, but he is very DO WE WANT CANADA NOW? O FAR as the discussion, favorable and otherwise, of the proposition for Canadian annexation has gone, it is more Platonic than ardent. It is evident that the suggestions of political marriage are mercenary, for a union of convenience rather than affection. During the present flirtation there is evident a careful estimate of the dower on the one side, and on the other a careful calculation of the advantage as to title, influence and admission to the society of nations, Canada as a colony necessarily occu- subordinate, infantile, and uninfluential position, It is a nebulous rather than weighty part of a great British whole. It is one of a very large imperial household—a growing, but juvenile heifer in the family of John Bull, It shakes its embryo horns, priding itself on its increasing bulk, and even occasionally frightens itself with the resonance of its own voice. It amuses the outside world, as, on hearing any unusual sound, it scampers with bovine alacrity to the shelter of its mother. Neither the people of Canada nor those of the United States are warmly anxious for the union, No desperate or important exigency has arisen calling for it. The little flushes of pulse are not from deep-seated fervor, but are induced by experimental and temporary hypodermic injec- tions of political physicians, When the United States acquired Louisiana by purchase, and Cali- fornia as a Mexican indemnity, although the two thus added were about as large as Germany at the time of their absorption, their total white popu- lation, scattered as it was, would hard- ly equal that of a little northern city. WHY DID CLEOPATRA have no pocketin her wardrobe? Because she carried her wiper in her bosom. THE RAILROADS are living up to their exception of that inevitable other one. A MAN sto ja ts to jump the Genese falls, Rochester, just as atch did. Very well let us hope he will. HIS GOVERNMENT has the fast- est cruiser in the world, That kind of cruiser is very convenient in an emergency. reement, with the single ERBERT BISMARC some of the ability of his father. That is to say, he is stubborn and has abad temper. *6] BEGIN to feel,” ike an old rebel indeed.” Verily it is a long street that has no turn, shows says General Longstreet, eee F FRANCE were to h: quake sinking half the country, Boulanger would insist on running to fill the vacancy. 7 I" MAY BE that doctors never take their own medicines. It is certain that Wiggins is never destroyed by one of his own cyclones, ve an earth- Miss Kirtison— gen'leman, Professor Brown.” fish twist.” A GOOSE with her wings tied went over Niagara falls successfully. It takes a goose to do that kind of business successfully—or otherwise. A NEW LABOR PROBLEM. REAT DEAL of cheap labor is done in the south, black men who d:.:.ot know their own rights. It is said that these black men propose to get fair wages for fair work, and that this is at the bottom of many recent disturhances that are infelicitously called incidents in a race ar, Some months since black men were ruled out of a labor convention of northern and southern men held in a southern locality. How would it be if that kind of race war were stopped? ‘The interests of labor are confined to no locality,and any man who works is entitled to some respect. There are millions of acres of southern land, and southern resources yet to be developed, that are of no practical use to the general public because of the differences between labor and capital in the south, What if the northern worker were to join with the southern worker in an honest effort for reformation ? It is done by DELICATE SOLICITUDE. FLoor-MANAGER Brows—"' Yo'll "xcuse me, Miss Kittison, ef T says a word dat 's a liddle pussonal ?” T allus knowed yo" couldn’ be nuffin bud a FLOOR-MANAGER (i1 a whisper)—" De hay is comin’ out'n yo" The slow settlement of the southern and the swift occupancy of the western area was by growth in the first and transfetced citizenship in the second, There was no new addition to the union of a population other than that of a common identity of interest. It followed, therefore, that there was not the slightest resistance to, but anxiety for, assimilation. That portion of the Dominion westward of the province of Quebec is almost wholly Anglo. and enterprising in its population. The lower St. Lawrence and Atlantic por- tion is degenerate French; that is, French without French enthusiasm and enterprise, but still retaining the lan guage, habits of thought, religion and superstition, with but little advance on the character and still less of the en- terprise of its earlier settlers. It is a petrified slice of the middle ages trans- ferred tothe new continent. The nar- rowness of its borean belt has not driven its people to newer and more promis- ing fields, and_ excepting its squeezed overflow southward and over the bor- der its population, satisfied with little, still struggles with the unresponsiv soil. . New England, settled with an- other race, notwithstanding similarity of climate and even less fertile fields, has scattered its brood of restless and ambitious children over the continent and impressed its every part with their alertness, independence and vigor. There are, therefore, political prob- lems as well as financial ones to be well considered before soliciting Canadian union. ‘The vast area of the land in the northwest of the Dominion, promising in its growth of wheat, its mountains plethoric with minerals, and its buried mines of limitless coal, would be without a doubt a temptation to settlers and speculators. Is it, however, the high- est wisdom to add simply to the area of the national farm and neglect its own fertile and affluent fields? With a Canadian debt three times as large as ours, measured per capita, and still larger measured by visible resources; with a debt in- creased this year twelve millions of dollars, and a balance of trade against it of twenty millions, or an increase of liability equal to five dollars per person, as against the balance of trade against the United States of thirty- seven millions, or an increase of liability of fifty cents per person a question if it would not be wiser to formulate an adjustment of mutual advantageous commercial exchange rather than load up with embarrass- ments, added to those that we have of our own still unsolved. i axon it becomes comicbooks.com