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# Judge Magazine Page 59 Analysis This page contains three satirical pieces typical of Gilded Age American commentary: **"At the Hunt Ball"** mocks the upper class. Mr. Burke's comment about Mr. Blenaerhasset falling repeatedly from his horse satirizes wealthy sportsmen who pursue fashionable activities (fox hunting) despite lacking actual competence. **"In Defence of His Locality"** features a newly elected legislator from rural areas (called "hayseeds" by Albany politicians) defending his constituents' intelligence. The satire targets urban condescension toward rural voters while also gently mocking provincial defensiveness. **"When the Green Gits Back"** and related text discuss spring and immigration policy. The editorial passages critique mass European immigration, framing incoming poor as a "refuge" potentially degrading America into a "dumping ground for the ignorance and menacing poverty of Europe"—reflecting period anxieties about immigrant populations and their social impact. These pieces collectively satirize class divisions, urban-rural tensions, and nativist concerns prevalent in late 19th-century America.
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Miss Cros ‘The annual ex- “from the other side political structure. odus, comes a more languid welcome than before, equaling yearly a volume of added population large enough, if it could possibly be concentrated in a western territory, to warrant a de- mand for another state; large enough every three years to make more than another New York city, and in a little over a single decade equaling the present population of the empire state. Is there not in this affluent hu- man tide another problem also to be solved? Half a century ago the cost of a sea passage required a fair competency. gration was also higher, and_ its quality of the best. Now pauper- ism can and does compass a pas- sage, One of the questions, and ‘one of nearest interest, is how to braid such legal meshes as to screen the coarseness out of the laden tide; how to save this “refuge land” from, degenerating into simply a dumping ground for the ignorance and men- acing poverty of Europe. wil The motive of emi- “WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK.” T IS the jocund spring, as a mil- lion poets remind us, It is the rosy spring ; that of the water-cress, the brook trout, and some hints of Hig hig Wait i (lh AT THE HUNT BALL. SEY—"' I understand that Mr. Blenaerhasset over there is one of your hardest riders. Mk. BuRKE—" He ought to be, anyway. He fell off so.many times to-day T should thin IN DEFENCE OF HIS LOCALITY. Mn. GENESEE (making his maiden speech in the legislature)—" You may think, gentlemen, that my constituents are what you are pleased here in Albany: to term * hayseeds,” but E want you to understand that you can’t fool us—not by a colossal majority !" SHOE i J be actually calloused.” daisy and dandelion, It is the spring * that puts patches of green on every tree, and promises the blossoms of the apple and the peach. There are glimpses to the lively imagination of the hollyhock glory in a corner of the garden and over the porch of the old house on the farm, Directly there will be home radishes and the tender onion, and the brush of the whitewash will make becoming the village fences. Oh, who would take a sion to get away from these things ? And how many are unhappy because they cannot get it! nd mornings foreign mis- THE LATE MR. ARNOLD. REPustics ARE. not only not ungrateful—th How the spirit of Benedict Arnold must rejoice that the name it went 1 during the re generous, by was hardly mention at times as that of rememby and when a bad man’s grave is level with the common ground it 1s time to drop him from everything but history. At the same time, i Arnold, or Mr those fellows, born themselves iot, or they must expect no immunity of punishment, Enough is a feast, but few en joy a feast in this world. comicbooks.com