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

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher + Art Department Raiqor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE, umbers, $4.00 numbers, . 3.00 One copy, one year. or s IGN SUBSCRIPTIONS eign countries in the por Tue Jupce Pustisnine Company (Porrex Burtpixe), Park Row, New York BOF We guarantee advertisers a larger cireniat American satinical paper publithed. The Joucn ix for hale at Brenta To alt for at cheaper rates than any other o't 17 Avenue de L’Opera, Paris FRE PLAYERS’ CLUB—It seems to be stuffed. THE LAST castle in Spain—The ice palace at Montreal. C,, M,_ DEPEW is occasionally mentioned as the bully boy with a + glass leg. pare [f DOES SEEM to us that Mr. Cleveland ought to be nominated in 1892. That would be poctic as political and tariffic justice ROVERB—When admirers of actors carry real pistols there is an end to the advertising. [LOOKS very Legitimeand "! both trying to sink the F republic. BY Actor BELLEW—1 will select my Coffin to suit myself,and I propose to take my own time for it. much as if ppolyte were aytien sae HERE IS LIKELY to be a good deal of Americanism in the incoming administration, and it will make good politics for this entire continent. ITH DUE RESPECT to the mother of some of the presidents, it looks to us as if Boss Mahone were going to be secre- tary merely of his own business. AMERICANISM. R. BISMARCK of Germany exhibits a comb large and flammable enough for a lic rooster, and the imperial cub he manages is probably so impress- ed with his own importance that he thinks the exhibition is ad- It may be; and yet the American flag at Samoa is as much entitled to respect as it is here, and one involuntarily re- calls at times the order of John A. Dix, “If any man hauls down the American flag shoot him on the spot." That is the policy that has given greatness to England ; and to-day a citizen of England is as safe any- where else in the world as he is at home. This government has forced respect for our flag at Hayti. It ought to be as wide-awake for American honor at Samoa, It is its duty to protect its good name in Canadian waters and on the land beyond the Rio Grande. It cost millions of dollars and a hundred thousand lives tocstablish the supremacy of the flagat home. No foreign nation must touch those stars and stripes with intentional dis- respect. We have no standing army, but every voter 1s a soldier, We have no navy worth mentioning ; but American invention can give us with- sn six months the best as well the most original navy the world ever saw. Is this a spread of the eagle? Not at all, This is fact. The eagle does not scream in these days. He is a very quiet bird, and he devotes ‘his time to thought rather than to noise. Mr, Bismarck is an able man, but he is older than he was when he was young. POSTMASTER AT THE s'pose that Hob Oatcake ain't oblig because he lives in a big town? lieves that visable. That METROPOLITAN ARROGANCE REBUKED. i Farser Oatcake—"TI'd like to know, Mr. Renton, why you hi ‘ere letter 0” mine, instead o' sending it down to my nephew in N‘ York ROADS—"* ‘Cause ‘tain't peoperly directed. 4 to have city, county ‘one country postmaster, at least, who be- ork don’t own the union!” DISFRANCHISE THE VOTE-SELLER. N ALL the various schemes for the purification of the ballot little of practical value has been suggested. ‘The existing laws of many of the states are already stringent enough, and if enforced the punishment of purchased and purchaser would double the population of our prisons. It is the attempt to do so much that defeats the object. The simplest and least harmful plan is the only one practicable. ‘The rural districts are fully as venal as the cities, and probably more expensive. The writer knows farmers who are well-to-do, and have lands valued at ten thousand to twenty thousand dollars, who nevertheless linger at the polling place, reluctant and declining to vote till they have canvassed the chance of compensation, and bartered from side to side to increase the bid for their suffrages, Strikes by small combines are so usual as to be common, the leaders soliciting a lump and liberal sum before the sovereigns can be persuaded to exercise thei With a given and known num- on increases their cost, and it is not infrequent that opposing political solicitors combine in self-protection and dally purposely with the salesmen till the polls are closed and greed has disfranchised itself. The ballot is held too cheap. Like water, or air, plentitude degener- Only denial or diminution will give it value and entitle it to re It is but thin sentimentality, simulated virtue, or an hypocriti cover to attempt to defeat by an impracticable proposition to punistr by imprisonment, and fine anyone offering or receiving a consider ation for a vote. The sugges- tion to make the voter solicited an informer, and exempt from punishment as a witness, would transfer a vast number of proven unscrupulous men into black- mailers, It would be putting a premium on conspiracy and cre- ate a new and defenseless form of robbery. It cannot be ignored that politi Political vultures starve, however, where political carrion is absent. Men do not make offers for anything unpurchasable, Even Wall street would not waste a bid on the “silver” moon, as it is out of reach and not on the market. The voter who holds, because a gilt, his suffrage as valucless, ex- cept when it can be transmuted into cash, commits a liliputian treason and should be disarmed of his misdirected weapon. If the calculating leaders of the late confederacy went un- punished, would it be magnani- mous to inflict a penalty on the conspicuous and ignorant citi- prerogative. ber of votes “ persuadable,” competi ates it, spect. DENTON. Pot vultures exist. zen for a lesser and unmialicious offence? could a held this Furthermore, how judge on the bench, the prosecuting or defending attor- ney, the jury in the box, all of whom at some time had directly or indirectly contributed to elec tion expenses, winking at the known crookedness of the expenditure. in a verdict or pronounce judgment on the accused only conspi more guilty by detection than themselves ? As all other methods have failed, let disfranchisement hav trial, Authorize by law the justice court in the locality where the vote- seller resides to take testimony, and on the evidence of not less than two witnesses, on proof, bar him from the polls; for the first offence three years, for the second five, and for the third for always. Have registry applicable to all the voting precincts in the state. Increase where needed, and locate the voting places so that it will be no longer, as it is now in rural districts, impossible to vote without the consumption to and fro of a day in travel for the purpose. This experiment would be worth tr It might possibly lead even toa higher suffrage qualification. A property qualification at this day is absurd. Wealth and wisdom do not always go hand in hand. No one asks if Washington or Lincoln were millionaires. In the great convulsive uplifts for national liberation Do you n’ state put on his letters comicbooks.com