Judge — September 21, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher + W. J. Aewent, Art Departme Baxxnaxo Gritase Baiter : | Gaecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS, UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year,or sa numbers - $4.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - "3.00 One copy; for 3 weeks =n te jingle copies, 10 cents each, im the post. $5 @ year. THe JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JuDcr BUILDING), Cor. Fifth Ave, and 16th St, New York. SFT We euaranter advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates tham any other ‘ical paper published. The Jovon ts for tale at Brentano's, 17 Avenue de LOpera, Se and at Brentano's, London. WE SHOULD such sublime satisfaction to save that amount by discharging him. eee HEN GEORGE 0. JONES and his fourteen lieutenants get together in convention it is noticed that Tyranny wobbles on her tottering throne. DA8 LAMONT is to have ten thousand dollars a year as secretary of a Tennessee iron com- pany, and will draw his salary with ghoulish glee. sae THE DEMOCRACY will talk free trade straight out in the next national campaign. ‘They have peddled bogus ba- bies enough. [It Is JUS’ worth suggesting that if Grover Cleveland had had a son while president ahe Republican press would have treated him fairly or not mentioned him at all. eee F ONE associate with beg- gars one must cease to be a gentleman; otherwise they will rob him, and he will be fortunate if he escapes with his life. That at least is the opinion of Lawyer Hamilton. THE DEMOCRACY are willing to toe the mark on the tariff question, but they want the mark placed at the rear simultaneously with the order to go forward. widout batin’ th’ life out av him, sions LEGITIME undoubtedly leaves his country for his country’s good, and let us concede that he might have done it if he hadn’t been kicked out of it. Wherefore let us hurrah for Legitime. aria <5 CAMPBELL of Ohio ought to send his barrel over the falls, as Graham did his. While he would lose the barrel, the notoriety acquired would give him a fair chance to make another. MB: SULLIVAN says that when he is in congress he can compel the house to listen to him. We guess that is so; but for heaven's sake Jet him learn to talk with his mouth as well as his muscle. Siege HE BOARD of civil service of this city costs the tax-payers of the city twenty-five thousand dollars a year. If that money might be burned it would be that amount of relief from a great public nuisance. THE ANXIETY of the Democrats regarding harmony between War- ner Miller and his party is almost as large and gloomy as the oppres- sive silence between the friends of David and the friends of Grover. HE MEETING of the governor and Boss McLaughlin at Monticello was accidental—quite so; and when the two mingled tears over the vote in Brooklyn last fall they were so sad that you could hear a pin drop. HARDLY AN IMPROVEMENT. ant t' murther Danny wid that cudgel ?” i doan’t, but he's afther blowin’ chewed paper at me ll, tek wan o' my shlippers. THE SOCIALISTS will have their state ticket too. What with the la- bor ticket, the washerwoman’s ticket, the slumgullion ticket, and the various other crank tickets, things look dark for the crazy prohibition ticket. aieis GREAT HEAD has the prince of Wales even in the evening. He has made the remarkable discovery that three studs make a man’s shirt set better than two; and after that he ought to be king without any fur- ther delay. pag ‘4RED JIM" McDERMOTT says he married a rich countess and is therefore rich and a count. The story is a lie: for otherwise he would have been guillotined for murdering the countess directly after he married her. LABOR THERE AND HERE. 'HERE is a lesson in the London strike. The American workman can read the story of the strait and starvation of low-priced labor. ‘The dockmen who transfer to and from the vast number of vessels that crowd the Thames have been receiving five pence (ten cents) an hour for irregu- lar and uncertain work; twelve cents an hour for work before six in the morning and after eight at night. The strike of over one hundred thou- sand men was caused by the dock companies refusing to give for spasmodic work twelve cents an hour be- tween six and six, and sixteen cents per hour for labor before and after. The dock compa- nies claim that the demanded increase of pay would drive commerce to cheaper ports, or that they could import workers from other parts of Europe at less than the demanded price to replace the dissatisfied stri ers, One dollar a day in a great and expensive city, and that amount of wage uncer- tain, is not an attractive figure to hold up before our “dow: trodden” tariff-protected worl men. Even the Democratic press of New York city is de- nouncing the ghastly greed of the cigar-manufacturers who force their workmen down to twelve dollars per week as coining human lives into money. The struggle of the English stevedore is not for brown-stone fronts, is not for a division of the vast wealth with which that island over- flows, and which is striving for investment as gathered capital drawn from the sweat and blood of its people. It is simply an asking for such compensation for daily toil as will cement in the cheapest way body and soul together. While the so- called “ iron-barons " of Pittsburg are being denounced for their accumu- lations of wealth, it is shown by igation of their pay-rolls that at even the late reduction the ordinary skilled worker averages over twelve hun- dred dollars per year, It should also be remembered that by the use of recent mechanical appliances, while the product of the furnace is trebled, the labor that was heretofore exhaustive, and as hot as hades, now requires little else than alert supervision of machinery in a temperature but a little higher than that of a summer day, The iron and coal mines are the marked and almost the only industries that, on account of the influx of cheap foreign and unskilled labor, are especially depressed in the amount of pay, It is a singular fact that many of our Democratic and conspicuous free-trade politicians, so earnest to help the abused workers of the country, are the owners or controllers of the properties that give the lowest and most irregular price for work. It is not claimed that there is any philan- thropy in business, Charity cannot be continuously or indiscriminately in- corporated in a pay-roll. It looks nevertheless wonderfully like cant for the Gradgrinds of the mines to apostrophize with one hand the benefi- cence of free trade and with the other garrote labor to its last possible liv- ing gasp. It ought to be and is the wish of every thoughtful man that labor in this broad land may be so sheltered in its opportunity that the industrious It’s enough good it'll do him, comicbooks.com