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This cartoon satirizes a conversation between two figures at a voting machine labeled "1891." The well-dressed gentleman (appearing to be a political operative or party boss) is explaining something to a woman holding a sign reading "RAY YOUR TICKET" (likely "MARK YOUR TICKET"). The joke appears to mock voter manipulation or instruction—the man is presumably explaining how to vote "correctly" or for the "right" candidate. The woman's confused expression and the title "An Opportune Explanation" suggest the satire targets political corruption and the coaching of voters, likely by party machines. This reflects Gilded Age concerns about election fraud and the lack of secret balloting, when political operatives openly influenced how citizens voted.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher oe WAY. Annet, Art Department "+" Beexnanh Greta Rater. TM Gaecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. One copy, one year. or sz numbers, . $4.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers, . 2.00 One copy, forty weeks, sey 100 ‘Single copies, 10 cents €ach. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — Te all for eign countriaa in the postal union, ‘$5 a year Tue Jupoe Puscisnina Company (Jupce Buitoinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York. JUDGE tes than any other BAT We guarantee advertivers a larger circulation at cheaper American Riper published. The Juven is for sale at Brentan aye Strand, Leniton. ~ DR RAR ADR LRRD DADA AAA pr br 17 Avenue de L’Opera, Parit, and at Brentano's, MOTTO FOR OKLAHOMA™—Free speech, free soil, free shoot. go together because the latter has grown to the former's knowledge? Let us fold our ambitious wings and hope not, for that would mean the des- truction of the nicest little world that any of us ever occupied. THE COMING MILLIONS. STATES is, by the proffer of political liberty, the assured personal proprietorship of every man ig himself, the lessening of the difficulties in the conflict of life, and the broadening of opportunity, an at- tractive force, drawing to itself vast masses of population from the older world, Notwithstanding the temptation of the favorable climate of Brazil, and the bounty of free and fertile land offered by the Argentine republic, the competitive emigration to the southern portion of this continent is oken and thin, The Latin races, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French, have never ‘oven persistent or successful as a colonizing people. It was greed of old, and not home-seeking, that stimulated the Spaniard, The Castilian ete adventurer, or Portuguese don, expected to reap a quick fortune through TIlE FINEST THING in the Easter bonnet was the girl that had iton. th NCLE THURMAN calls Wanamaker “a pious cuss.” That is tosay that Wanamaker, being pious, is’ curse; and how truly Democratic te that is! eee WHEN THE STATUE to B. Franklin had its face washed it was _s¢ discovered, to the astonishment of all, that the face was adorned ol with a fine old smile. SHALL. protest while I have a breath of body in my life, GZ. Erwin. aT YOUR eee WEIGHT REAT TRUTH —To the lamp held out by Byrnes the Vilest sinner oft returns, HERE ISaquestion. Where, for instance, will be the birds that sing a hundred. years to come ? .q THe slot Ano ZY ic Les URELY OKLAHOMA should be admitted as a state. The delay has been too long by at least five minutes, THE OTHER world is princi- pally good because your wife is there too and so you don't have to button your own collar, R. STEVENS, the World's searcher, is believed by some to be such a liar that the New York Herald can't believe a rd wa 1¢ peonage of the subdued Indian or the enslaved negro. ‘The new world as to these early sojourners with “ magnificent expectations ” just what uba is to them now, and what this country is in a narrower way to the an and Chinamen—simply a foraging ground, The harvest mporary Ital of luck or labor, when gathered, the chevalier of fortune, as now the oldier of the spade, expected to transport with his returning self to his ld home. The Latin, and the Asiatic like the Latin, races are simply birds of passage, winging to a feeding and fattening ground, and returning quick as they may to their old nesting-place. The Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon peo- ples differ in this: tney swarm and seek new fields for hiving, and stay. Unlike the southern European nationalities, they do not build bridges for retreat, but burn them behind them. Even English loyalty becomes here a thin veneer, soon desiccated to nothingness by the chemistry of a freer air, The blood that bred Cromwell and evolved Milton, that pulsed in the veins of every igner of the declaration of in- dependence, is not likely, either with the strain of Puritan or cavalier, to crawl back to its old compressment after feeling the freedom of broader channels. The Germanic races, while touched with respectful pride and remembrance of the “father- land,” and glorying in the politi- cal solidification of their native principalities into a definite na- him. ; AN OPFORTUNE EXPLANATION. tionality, never thicken the thread aT . oe : . of their sentimentality into a re- THE CosticAN—"* Look 'r th’ decait av thot machine, Barney. Sure an calling bond. ellypant wouldn’ weigh th’ like 0° thot FERkican (Aluntly)—"* Vex ho blatherin’ fool!” NEXT CENTENNIAL. DURING THE nest hundred’ years we shall have bal- loons. There will be such means to safety in traveling, in buildings, in everything, that nobody will die except of old age. A new kind of ‘phone will preserve whatever has been sung or spoken, with a universal, self- acting cat to edit the matter and scratch out the objectionable portions of it. One will hear from his friend at the north pole, if he happen to be at the south pole, with as little trouble as if the friend were in the next room with the intervening door ‘open. If the moon is inhabited our second cousins will live there and they will drop to see us, or we shall drop in to see them, at any moment. ‘There will be continuous communication between every shore and every vessel that departs from it until the latter reaches its destination, and no vessel will go down without leaving the occupants of it safer than they were before. Weather observers will not only pre- dict cyclones and blizzards, but supply the means to prevent them, Ex- plorers will ride winged steeds through the little stars and shoot the meteors off in great blazes of celestial fireworks. ‘The sense of hearing, or the means to its development, will be so improved that we shall have music from the angelic choir at stated intervals, without money and without price. Will Uncle Sam rule the universe? Probably not, for he will be sion of the continent. Will heaven and earth come satisfied with poss The human contribution to this continent from the Emerald isle, large as it is, is not the wth’ ticket oop-side down, yez largest. Yet the race is at once unique in being a race with characteristi solely its own, Fervid, if also fitful, in its love, Devout rather than dis- criminating in its faith ; with a wit so quaint in its stumbling as to pass for mental agility » touched with an enthusiasm southern in its fervor, and with more than Holland shrewdness in its methods. Hungry for political recog- nition, denied to it at home, and demandingly dominating, just in propor- tion to its previous political repression, It has no twin, nor even national family resemblance, on the planet. Clannish, yet self-contentious. Ador- ing a saint not of its own blood, Glorying in a banner under which it has won few successes at home and no victories abroad, With sons brave with unwonted heroism, yet winning laurels under another flag. With singers so sweet that the world listens wondering to their song; with an oratory so fascinating that its eloquence seems a second inspiration. This contributive race comes to us as marked in its faults as in its virtues, and comes to stay; turning perhaps with a remembrance, as did the Hebrews in the wilderness, to the meadows by the Nile, but not a love strong enough for returning. These composite peoples, assimilating some slowly and others speedily, are builded, not without flaw and temporary weakness, in our