Judge, 1889-06-15 · page 2 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains editorial commentary and brief satirical items rather than a single political cartoon. The main visual is titled "TOO VALUABLE TO CAGE UP," depicting a Recorder's Court scene where a police officer presents a prisoner to a judge, with dialogue about the prisoner's name. The satire appears to mock judicial inefficiency—specifically, a prisoner being released or transferred rather than properly detained, suggesting the justice system wastes resources on bureaucratic procedures instead of actual punishment. The surrounding text items are social commentary on various topics: Pennsylvania poverty, doctor-patient relationships, and romantic murders. Without specific historical context about the cases or figures referenced, the precise targets of satire remain unclear, though the overall tone criticizes institutional failures and social problems of the era.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher WW. J. AnwELt Department + Baxnnano Gira diter 7+ + 1M. Gaecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE One copy. one year,or s2 numbers - $4.00 oer ‘six months, or 26 numbers - 2.00 ory weeks == te ile Copies, ro cents each SUBSCRIPTION $s a year THe JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupcr BurLpiNe), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York. To alt for: we TAT s ewaranter advertisers a an satirical paper published. Jove ts for sale at Rrentane rand, Londo reer circulation at cheaper rates than any other 7 Avenue de COpera, Paris, and at Brentane’s, THE JUDGE will receive contributions for the sufferers in the great Pennsyl- a disaster, acknowledge the same in its columns, giving names and amounts, and apply the money to purposes suggested by the givers or for the general good of the survivors, THE TRIUMPH of Hyppolite in Hayti unav ruler is Ilegitime. Mk: GILLAM doesn’t put the accent on the last syllable, but he went to the = — sacrifice just as if he did. A PAY IN JUNE isa June day, and there is nothing in the language wherewith to pay it a higher compliment. THE CZAR says Russia has one friend. As to himself he isn’t so extrava- gant. He frequently thinks he hasn't any. ‘0 DOCTOR: men, the undertaker is a deserving man, but it is al- ways best to have the death before the funeral. ag ore lably shows that the ex- RECORDERS Courr J — Gentle- ERVIEW shows that Brother Roswell P, Flower would still like to be president. We think so be- cause he says he wouldn't, THE MEN who murdered Dr. Cronin are not good financiers, but there ought to be no delay Pouce justice — Pxisoxtk —" Jones, your honor.” Potter yusrick — Peisoxee —" John.” obliging them Ponce, justice. final oe THE TICKER has come to be a nece o abolish it because it is abused would be like abolishing gas because it occasionally produces an explosion, to render thei ‘counts, Ms. MAYBRICK, the Mobile woman who has poisoned her husband, a Liverpool banker, will undoubtedly come to the gallows, and be hoped that instrument will suspender with all possible dispatch, isto see BEN HARRISON does wrong to appoint his relatives to office; and by the same token if a man prays for the salvation of his sister he has wasted supplication that belonged only to a woman beyond the family. HENRY CLEWS says,“ Lam a firm believer in sledge-hammer blows. ‘The only way to kill a snake is to stamp on it.” Right, Henry! As Mr. Hooligan says, strike straight from the shoulder and do it with both feet. A CLERGYMAN has been deposed for saying, “ If my son is a mouse | will make | eporter, ciled ; and as to the questi ted his own opinion him a minister, and if he is a man he shall be a newspaper ind the mouse have been somewhat recon- n which is which the reader is hereby permit- Thus Mahomet TOO VALUABLE TO CAGE UP. What's your name?" What's your first name?" r “Vou are discharged. A man that can lie like that ought not to be allowed away from a newspaper-oftice. ETER B. SWEENY comes to New York occasionally because he is lonesome. and immediately flits to Paris for company. One may steal and not be legally punished for it; but the unspoken condemnation of men is almost as cruel as a thief's acquaintance with himseli. vee R. PULITZER is at the head of one of the greatest trusts in the world, and it differs from other trusts only in the fact that he takes most of the profits. This is a plutocracy of one, and it will be reprehensi- ble until Mr. Pulitzer circulates the funds and goes out without scrip, after the manner of the twelve apostles. THE GREAT DIVIDE. RIEF HAS NOT the words necessary to do justice to the calamity in northern Pennsylvania. ‘The living are as voiceless as the dead. The pained mouth, the staring eyes, the look of despair, the clinched hands, the awe, the fear, the sorrow, are carried into every house and every count ing-room precisely as they have been carried to the grave. There is an imaginary line between those thousands of dead and we millions of the living. and the privilege of remembrance and generosity bridges it as if all were still one family—and that is so. WE TRAMPS. THE PROBLEM where to live is so distracting that in frequent cases the sufferer, having his way, would prefer not to live at all If, for instance, he were to reach that bourne, etc., there would not be the inevitable spring question, or yet the fall question of how to return and where to remain, or yet the question of boarding or house- keeping. Simply a rest, and no trouble about so slight a thing as the shingles or the grass on the roof. Yet it is nice to be alive—everybody must admit that. A CURIOUS STUDY. HIS IS a period of chiv- alry, and yet there is a mania for killing whenever anything goes wrong. ‘The young kills his sweetheart, the hus- band his wife, and the fiend the woman of the town. It women man is a consoling retlection that the murderers generally. kill themselves as well; but the yearning to make way with the defenseless and let the Officer, take him down to Newspaper row. strong go is cowardly as anything in the records of crime. ‘There is an exception to far more than their expecta ndous argument, THIS ANNOYING DELAY. T WAS proposed to argue the right to hang a certain man some years after the period of his execution. and the Presbyterian general assembly decides to submit the question of predestined damnation and salvation to the ballot-box, the vote to be counted when we are in heaven or else- where in the limitless be However, there are numerous births, and y become of us it is well to wish good luck to our posterity in the Sullivan-Kilrain case, and good luc tion to both of the principals in that trem pnd. UTOPIA FROM CHICOPE! EPWARD BELLAMY wants everything done by a general government It is a beautiful scheme, and all that is necessary to its successful de- velopment is divine wisdom on the part of the ‘government and infinite submission on the part of the governed. It is our impression that this perfection is impossible this side of the heavenly mansions ; though, to be sure, Edward may have discounted the necessary ity of judgment and mercy th uh the kindness of some of the higher angels. Edward, however, while he hails from Chicopee, starts his church in Boston, and that’s a tremendous argument in his favor. comicbooks.com