Judge — August 10, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publither —~ +) W. J. Ameett Art Department Bexsnann G dito ne TA Gancony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE, ‘One copy, one year.or 2 numbers - $4.00 ‘One copy, Six months, or 26 numbers - "2.00 One copy; for 13 week ss tee Single copies, 10 cents each, FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all for- ign countries in the pottal union, $5 4 year, THe JuDGe PuBLisHING COMPANY (Juncr Bettnixc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 10th St., New York OT-We guarantee advertiser The Juocn #1 for sale at Bren con Strand, reer circulation al cheaper rates tha any other 17 Avenue de COpera, id at Brentano's, M®- WILLIAM NY is posing in Paris as the awful tower. DON PIATT will be happy only when he goes to heaven so Donn Piatt will never be happy. [t SEEMS STRANGE, but when a man “barks up the wrong tree" he is liable to hoarseness in his leg LEN A MAN gets to be a grandfather he sighs as he thinks how old his wife is. OME PEOPLE posed to trusts that they want to destroy that which is placed in the Lord, well as his voice, re SO Op= IVE MEN in the Tombs are to be day. follow hanged on the same will Mr. Dana’s advice and get together. OUISE, got about $1,000,000 in presents on her wedding- day ; whereupon the Marquis of Macduff remarked that blanked be he who first Hold! enough.” 5g HENEVER ability sends a man to the front it is popular to say he ha the big-head—that is, you had better say it if you are a fool and have the small one. EW AFFLICTIONS equal the agony of the young hus- hand who finds that the baby is born without teeth; and if the child come in In other words, the cried * accident or Mx, FRELINGHUYSE: Miss BrRDsey Mr. FReLINGIU he summer he reproaches himself with the reflection that he didn’t have it born with a summer hat on and a suficiency of rufiles to clothe its frightful nakedness. HIE DUKE OF FIFE is Scotch, like poor Lorne, who married the duchess’s aunt; but he has vast property as well as a will of his own, and a girl need not necessarily be the niece of her aunt any more tha man must be the nephew of his uncle. NOW AND IN 1992. THERE IS TALK in South America of a world’s fair in honor of the discovery of America, propriate: but in the hundred years to come, as'a result of the great continental congress soon to be held in Washington, South and Central America will develop sufficiently to make such an enterprise the great success that it could not possibly be in 1892, ‘The coming Columbus world’s fair will consequently be held here, and in 1992 we will all vote for Buenos Ayres or some other one of the more southern of the United States of Ame That would seem to be “ THE COLUMBUS DAYS. EW YORK can accommodate thrice its population ai its visitors giving all II the comfort and luxury they ask for, without straining its facilities for business and entertainment. ‘That was demonstrated during HER ESCAPED PET. Did you say anyt'ing jess now, Miss Rirdseye 2” the days of the late centennial, when the hundreds of thousands of guests were fed, lodged, and taken care of by the best police force in the world. at such small cost that there was not a growl from one end of the city to the other, or on the conveyances that bore the visitors home. This conti- nent has not another city that can do that kind of business half as well, y of the old world has made the record that New York did last And ‘92 will show a prouder record yet. UP-TOWN WITH THE POST-OFFICE! THE CITY-HALL PARK belongs to the poorer people down-town, who without it in its present shape would have small chance for fresh air and a place to breathe and rest in. If the city must have additional buildings the post-office is to be had on-reasonable terms, and has, \ the necessary alterations, the requisite room, The post-office belongs up- town, Business and the general public require it. ‘The march of enter- is in that direction more and more every y ed must be made. pris r, and it is only a ques- tion of a brief period when the change su Now is the time to move in the matter, before the park is shut out from the public —before the only green spot between the Battery and Fourteenth street is choked out of sight by the proposed new public buildings, ‘There are fh may be had now for a reasonable price, but the sites in plenty for the new post-office, any one of w cost of which will be many times Up- town with the post-office—up- larger some months hence. town! That is the advice of the authorities at Washington, and that is the demand of a vast majority of the people of the city. THE TARIFF, THE DEBT, THE SURPLUS. THERE SEEMS to be litle cause for calling an extra session of congress, The po- litical reasons are not impera- and the ones, according to the statement of the treasury, are certainly not menacing. of the government tive, financial ‘The accumulations are in the hands of the depository. ban and only about fourteen mil- lions are in the vaults at Wash- ington. The government of the United States is the only one in the world whose revenues large- ly exceed its outlay. Yet the unused sum is not so cnormous as to be threatening, The total plus is but about one dollar per person of the population of the he Democratic proposition and purpose to lower the duties, for the purpose of diminishing the revenues, in the past experience of the country has had an oppesite effect. so enormously that, altnough lessened in the amount levied, the enlarge- ment of quantity increvsed instead of diminished the revenue. There is no reason to assume it would be different now from what it hy heretofore. Some pussen whad doan’ dare fer 1” of the s country. Lower duties increased importations been It is a grave delusion to imagine that if we bought more foreign ger foreign market. The United States, nce, is purchasing more largely of Germany to-day than ten We buy of Brazil thirty-six million dol- lars of its products, and sell back to Brazil but about seven million dollars. England will not call for more than it can possibly consume. what may be proffered, John Bull's capacity for consumption cannot be in- creased, even if all our mills and furnaces were made idle to stimulate pur- at Britain, In fact, there is no certain, reliable, and expansive market outside of our own. If the manufacturers, and their employés, of the United States, by strait of foreign competition, or any other cause, should be driven to agricultural instead of industrial production, the inevitable re- sult would be lower prices for farm products, and for a time higher costs of imported goods, impoverishing, at once, ours for the benefit of the for- While this is not likely to occur, it is nevertheless t goods we should have a inst and is selling far less in return. No matter chases in G eign producer. comicbooks.com