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# Judge Magazine Political Satire Page Analysis This page contains political commentary on the new Republican administration (likely 1889, following Harrison's election). **Main Editorial Content:** The left column discusses governance challenges: protecting America's now-vulnerable borders (due to improved Atlantic steamship technology), managing federal surplus revenue, and addressing the core political crisis—Southern Congressional representation. **The Representation Crisis:** The text argues that Black voters, newly enfranchised after Reconstruction, were being systematically suppressed in the South. Yet those states counted Black populations for Congressional apportionment while denying them votes, giving Southern states disproportionate representation. The satire's point: this is fundamentally unjust—either count all voters or don't count suppressed populations. **Cartoon Illustrations:** Two domestic scenes mock "resurrected style"—women reviving outdated fashions (feathered hats), with crude references to primitive ancestors. The "Five Years Later" cartoon depicts marital discord, likely satirizing how quickly new things become old. **Overall Message:** A serious Republican publication grappling with post-Reconstruction governance failures while using lighter social satire as counterpoint.
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a slower form of calamity. The new administration has before it no holiday work. Mechanical science has so narrowed the Atlantic tha that which fifty y a barrier is now a roadway, and makes Europe a next door neighbor. Continental insulation is no longer possi- ble. While the United State spreading as it does between two seas, and touching the chilled and tropic zones, is ilsing with vitality and in- ternal strength, the giant is nevertheless vulnerable from its very size. ars ago Was The new secretary of state will need the acutest diplomatic wisdom to main- tain the decorum and dignity of the republic while we are preparing to protect. with adequate defense its salient points. There seems to be but little probability of foreign attack. Defenselessness is, however, a temptation to na- tional humiliation. While the late election can be positively n indorsement of American ection, tempered from time to time by a prudent revision of the tariff in the industrial interests of the country, the management of unused revenues, avoiding at once extravagant expenditure and useless accumulation, is no light problem. It se possible in cither of two ways to obtain relief: by the abo- lition of the federal revenue tax and a collection by the states, to be covered into the nstrued as respective treasuries, of a sum equivalent to the present tax on liquor consumed within their borders, or by the ap- propriation of the surplus for the redemption of the $350 009,000 of greenbacks, 1 placing them with € of deposit, and so makin national bill as good all the world overasthe bullion itself The financial problems before the new adminis- tration are less difficult of settlement than the question of southern representation, The enfranchisement of the negro. gave an enormous increase of population as the basis of representation, The suppression of this vote thet fore gives to every southern state an unequal congres- sional representati The average vote south for select- ing a member of congress is less than ten thousand, ‘The average vote in the north ex- ds thirty-five thousand. If the negro vote is suppressed why should it be represented ? THAT RESURRECTED STYLE. Mrs. De Hoves— Mm so glad, Alice, that feathers are coming in headulressing. I've just found this beautiful set that belonged to your grea mother. Le PauL Is grandma His moriex—"* Why, yes; de 1 to the party that wa ‘you like them, dear ? mamma?” Paut (who has read Rider Haggant)—"* Where's her war-club an’ axe?" FIVE YEARS LATER. but the time-t to rush off and get myself a drink, w just after we were married you stepped off at s been changed since then, and I've just had time yal It is unfortunate that it is an ignorant and largely an irre- sponsible class. ‘The north, however, has its illiterate voters, and the slums of our cities cast their equal reasoning votes, and they counted. Unless some pra quiring an intelligent qualiti- cation, in place of a voter simply being a male twenty one years of of representation should be changed to a voting instead . the basis: of simply an existing popula tion, ‘The permanent unity and peace between the north- crn and southern portions of the republic must. be based pros portionate representation These are some of the knots to be untied by the Re- publican administration, and in their disentanglement lies one of its greatest opportuni- ties. on abstract justic THE UNAVOIDABL CALAMITY. THE World is pained be- cause the Republican party has too much money. A surplus is always sad, but happily there are ways to get rid of it, The money-owners might distribute it to the gen- cral public, after the manner proposed by the commune, ‘They might give it to the for cign missions, We haven't heard that Mr. Pulitzer ha: so acted with his money, but perhaps he is waiting for the Republican party to set the example. But the truth is, after all, that no man objects to more money than he or to the opportunity to make it, ‘That is a matter of hu- man nature, and before there can be the distribution the World seems to want the human nature must be recon- structed, S DOING SUICIDE Richard 1 did the only creditable act of his life, If he had killed himself b fore he was born he mi have saved his reputation, NEXT SUMMER. Gov- ernor Hill is going to introduce himself to the pe ple of the west. He will make a tour with a brass band and a Brooklyn regiment of Hereto- fore David has traveled with a stopwatch, but things have the n: | guard. changed, comicbooks.com