Judge — July 27, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher W. J. Auxett Art Departme + Bexnnar ‘Editor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS, UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN. ADVANCE, ‘One copy, one year, or 52 numbers - $4.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - "So s fortyweels set tam ingle copies, 10 cents each. One cop FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all fe ‘ign countries in the postal union, $3 4 year. THe Jupoe PUBLISHING ComPANY (Jupcr ButLpiNc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York. a paper published Pinte de'Brentane'n 17 Avenue de COper Paris, and o IVAN didn’t murder Dr. Cronin, but he mustn't do it T WAS ALLEGED that Mrs. Langtry was genuinely sick at Long Branch; and as she is well enough to go to Europe we hope she has been, IOKE—George 0. Jones has called a greenback convention, the same to meet early in September. SOUTHERN PROGRESS—The cases of Editor Dawson of Charles- ton and John M, Clayton of Arkansas. PRETTY WOMAN never grows ; and if she lies about it. th: le proof that she is even younger than when she was a baby. eee IGHTING is noble and and at the same time don’t meet a prize-fighter alone if you have more money and self-respect he has. eee T NEVER occurs to a thief that he pays a million per cent. for every dollar he steals, Because if he had brains enough to have it occur to him he wouldn't be a thief. sews HANKS of the Star is a good fellow with some ugliness and a consequent tendency to growl We don't want to spank Shanks, because that would be hitting too far below the belt. HEY SAY that Robert Browning will marry Mrs. Bloomfield Moore of Philadelphia, who is three million years old and has a fortune of sixty dollars. And that is good poetry which knows on which side its bread is buttered. PARTY ADDRESSED. Passencer —'* You'll do. be a townsman of mine of his real old Allegheny cigars.” THE CRIME OF THRIFT. THE GENERAL denunciation of wealth is getting to be monoto- nous. There is a vast amount of cant and hypocrisy in the con- demning. Wealth is simply relative; one man’s accumulation would be a richer man’s poverty. It is said that John Jacob Astor remarked, {a man had a million, he might be as comfortable as if he were rich.” The laborer or mechanic, toiling for his dollar and a half or two dollars a day, with no vacation or holiday, and full subtraction through sickness, looks at the untrimmed revenues of the pastor of a wealthy flock as affluence; the pastor receives for a single sermon as much as he earns in six months, Demagogues denounce wealth to obtain a position to gain it. The press prints homilies on it to increase its circu- lation. Pandering to a popular prejudice, or creating one, pays. Envy and discontent, always in a majority, clamor for and are comforted by the echo, in print, of their own complaint. The chief objection to considerable possession is that it is in the wrong hands—in the hands of others, and not of ourselves. The general desire to divide is not to share with the poorer, but the richer. Anarchy howls against property, JUST OUTSIDE THE HOOK. Deck STATE-ROOM PASSENGER —''Are you th’ hall-boy 2” “No, sir; steward, si I think th’ gent in th’ next room must Pittsburg. little or large; it is aiming to fileh, ‘The communist curses because its drones, who have as good appetites, cannot feed as freely as the work- ers. If it is a crinte to be rich it is wicked to have a competence, and the only saint (in the abstract) would be a tramp. While all men have the “inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” the first is a gift of nature, the second the equal- ity of manhood, and it follows that the pursuit of happiness must be within legitimate bounds, that will avoid the trespass on, or the restric- tion of, the rights of others. ‘The marked success of poor men achiev- ing fortunes shows an equality of opportunity, and emphasizes that there is a difference in circumstance or capacity. In the domain of nature there are various growths, projected by heredity, and dwarfed or nour- ished by varied soils. The same tree that is stunted on a barren hill- side would, were it so placed, wave luxurious plumes in the flat alluvial of the streams. The bird with strongest and swiftest wing soars the highest; and while the “air is common to all," the twittering sparrow, though of a feather, never can reach the same sweep. If human nat- ure were shaped in an average mold its monotonous level would bar progress. The exceptional skill that created and the alertness that manages a locomotive give to the crowd it pulls swiftly and safely a transportation cheaper and better than a whole herd of donkies could draw. If no reward followed endeavor, if pos- session vanished with discovery, if the white-wash brush and that of the artist should be placed on the same level, if skill shared with clumsiness the result of its deftness, what progressive stimu- lus would remain? If nature is not able enough, or kind enough, to give equal gifts:to all, can human nature be expected to be So philanthropic as to share its labor equally with the whole world? It is the perversion, not the pos- session, of wealth that should be con- demned, + It-is only when wealth is used as a weapon, when the hand that directs it is that of a tyrant, that its ownership has the flavor of crime. The millionaires who, to gra fy their love of display, build great conservatoriés and flood the market with surplus flowers, and drive out the small gardeners whose family helpers are thus shorn of a scant living, are guilty of a great _mean- ness, ‘The constructors of vast ware- houses, filled with the widest range of supplies, from the laces of Lyons to the little corn-plow, purposely to over- shadow domestic labor by its ab- normal competition, or press it to serfdom, may possibly be good school- teachers, but are bad Samaritans. Capital has its rights; it also has its duties, It has also sharers in its bene- fits. While religion has dotted the country with churches, and the state cares for the education of its ens, large-hearted and liberal and fortunate men have en- dowed colleges, libraries, universities, almshouses, and hospitals, placing within the reach of the humblest the best skill to alleviate suffering, and an opportunity for as high a knowledge as wealth could obtain, Neither will Conemaugh nor Seattle forget the millions that were poured out into the flooded valley of Pennsylvania and the burnt city ‘on the arm of the Pacific sea. 7 Wealth that distributes itself is a benefactor. Every mansion it raises, prompted by taste or ambition, tithes its coffers and transfers its dollars to labor or art. All material is valueless until the human hand touches it and is paid for its work according to its skill. Great fortunes can never, in this country, be overlong of existence, Ultimate division and redivision is a political and financial safety. The law, with its keen edge, severs and slices estates, and in a generation or two, or three at the longest, the last has to begin as the first. No sight draft can be purchased in this, for uses in the next world. No capitalist can carry his earnings to heaven. “He that is rich is poor, For, like the mule, whose back with golden ingots bows, He bears his riches but a journey, and death unloads him.” Ask him if he can spare me one coming ¢ comicbooks.com