Judge, 1889-09-28 · page 2 of 16
Judge — September 28, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes political figures of the era through exaggerated facial features. The accompanying text discusses competing civilizations—likely referencing post-Civil War tensions between North and South. The satire criticizes what it calls "dudish patriotism" and "accumulations of the precedent generation," suggesting younger political leaders lack substance. The figures appear caricatured as racial or ethnic stereotypes common to 1890s-era Judge magazine. The "rocky physiognomy" title suggests the artist is mocking politicians' literal and figurative hardness or lack of refinement. References to "cotton barons" and plantation disputes indicate this addresses Reconstruction-era political conflicts and class divisions, though specific identities remain unclear from the image alone.
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JUD PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher W. J. Arce drt Department « SHakd Gitta Piliter d 1. M,C “Dee TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AXD CAXADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, oF s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers © 2.30 One copy frig weeks ie ‘Single copies, 10 cents cach. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To a: ign countries in the postal wnion, $6 a year. piper publi vale dt Brentano's, 17 Avenue de C Opera, Paris, and at Brentanc’s, EVERYBODY on the coast was in the swim for many days. THE ONLY safe elixir comes from the glands of hair-dye, paint, false teeth, and more or less cotton, NGLAND believes honestly in free trade, but she wants the rest of the world to pay the expense of it. A HUMBUG is not without hope of redemption until he claims to have gone over the falls. THE ONLY truthful description of how n and Brodie went over Niagara—They didn’t go. ‘0 YOUNG MR, LOGAN—Let bygones be bygones. There much in what you say, but what is the use of saying it? . GHANKS of the Star is consti- tutionally unamiable, and is therefore never so happy as when he works his grower. THE UNIVERSITY of Johns Hopkins must be preserved even to the superfluous letter of the first quarter of its name. ‘4 BEDAD,” says Mr, O'Hooli- gan, “give us a few more storrums an’ we'll foind the say- shore in th’ middle 0’ the oshun.” ONE THEORY regarding the Whitechapel murderer is that he is a policeman; but the main theory is that the fiend has too much brain to be anything of that kind. . TANNER has a large mouth, but it never opened to half the extent of the Democratic orifice when Tanner was removed. Conpucror—"* Ti COMMUTER s Conpuctox (apo. got an almighty hard you've seen my tically) —* Reg face to remember.” HE LA’ MR. CAIN regretted much his rashness; but he could not retrieve the original murder because he wasn’t Abel. E MUST never forget that, as Count Edison recentty sugyested, if there were no mothers-in-law we could never have any wives. Dd! 4 h NS OF MEN have perished of electricity within a few weeks, and the case of Murderer Kemmler of Buffalo is still under . It IS WELL that men be courageous in their convictions, and the wa that John L. Sullivan and D, B. Hill join in the expression “I am a Democrat " is quite impressive. ‘THE TALK about Republican harmony on the part of the Democratic politicians is frequently interrupted by the most frightful expletives be- cause they can’t have harmony among themselves. GE AT A RECENT meeting of greenbackers Washington's farewell ad- dress was read and drew out much applause. How blessed a thing would be a farewell address by George 0. Jones and-his lieutenants. WHEN A MOVE was made to put handcuffs on the wrists of Henry S. Ives, that distinguished thief said indignantly, “I won't wear ‘em! I want to go out like a gentleman.” A condition precedent to that exer- young man, is that one shall come in like a gentleman. US of the Baltimore American is making almost as tion us an obituary poct as Brother Childs, He mod- estly affixes to his lines the words," By Her Mother,” “ By Her Husband and Children,” ete.; but they deceive nobody—the verses are by the good Felix Agnus. THE WAR IN AFRICA. THE STATE LEAGUE of colored men of Pennsylvania have passed resolutions to the effect that the Republican party doesn’t whack up with them as to the offices, that the blacks of the south had better clasp hands with the followers of Grover Cleveland, and that they want the Republican party to understand that they “will no longer be hewers of wood and drawers of water.” It is well to be definite. How many offices do they want to resume their loyalty? If principle is a commodity what is the price of it? Surely a compromise, our col- ored brother, is preferable to being breakers of stone and drawers of whi THE SOLDIER'S RIGHTS. HERE is something very meteor- ological in the rise and ebb of public opinion. Fear always de- presses and enthusiasm exalts. An area of high pressure is followed by one of lower. The swelling tide of sentiment as it recedes exposes the wreck and garbage hid by the cor- onet of its glistening crest. Mean- ness is only exaggerated prudence. Liberality multiplied is squandering. Unfortunate cour. ness, Daring that is successful is heroi i It is doubtful if the north, had it been beaten in the struggle with the confederacy, would have held, as does the south, with the same per- sistence and pride, the claim of be- ing right. The north is of mixed and adulterated blood. The south is of pertinacious and pure Anglo- Saxon stock. Its very institutions, its black embankment of a servile race, barred every state from the in- flux and corrosion of an ignorant and hungry European tide. ‘The most docile of all the human races was domesticated and utilized by the most masterful. Two repellant civilizations stood side by side. Brave and ticket four times already on this trip.” your pardon ; but you see, sir, you've . blundering as were the cotton barons, their feudalism bent, and broke under the pressure. It was the inspiration of a national Marseillaise against the aristocracy of the plantation ; thirty millions steadily asserting simple human rights against the assumption of ten aiming to dominate the republic with their ideal of society, master and sla ‘The junior generation of dudish patriotism, sporting on the sacrifices and accumulations of the preceding, does not forget, as it never knew, the scorch of the fires that welded this people of struggling contestants into one. As the light and airy youth of Athens laughed at the limp of the heroes of Marathon, who equally, perhaps, for bounty as for patriotism built a bloody wall against the Persian—the Persian who if victor would have detained for centuries and degraded the civilization of the world—so the modern manikin scoffs at the veteran of the rebellion, and, shielding its pocket with gloved hand, responds to the stricken soldier, "Aw, you were well paid for your chancing, a bounty and thirteen dollars a month. It was a contract, you know, and was filled.” Truly enough, and more than filled. The white memorial pickets at Arlington that are never relieved; those in the national cemeteries in comicbooks.com