Judge — October 5, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Burd Grubb we should—h’m !—we should be elected governor of New Jere es: OPULAR SONG by every Democratic edit- or in the country—" That's what's the matter with Tanner.” ececte 66 CQOATS to the rear!” G orders the Tele- gram. Second the motion; and let them carry their horns there too. one's THE MAN who likes his wife unconsciously pays himself very large compli- ment, Therefore every man ought to like his wife. eee AS WE have said, Cen- tral park is the wrong place for the great fair, al- ways excepting that portion of it which has been selected for the same. eee OULANGER has been killed again ; but he has still several lives and the funeral is, unhappily, again postponed. eee RECORDER SMYTH got so mad in court the other day that he ought to have fined himself for contempt of ermine. eee R. DANA goes to Europe, and Mr. Pulitzer says maliciously that if he is given Europe enough he'll hang himself to death. eee ger! ET US SUGGE that Shanks of the Sfar have an appropriation in behalf of his editorial staff, or in other words for the protection of his calves, A PIANO MUFFLER is advo not go to all that trouble, fingers. eee ted by the Press of this city. Let us Let us merely put a felon one of the girl's WING TO Jersey justice and circumstances beyond her control, Mrs, Robert Hamilton will not appear on the stage during the next two years. F ONE DIE of the faith cure one is himself to blame. There should be no complaint against his physician, for that is the way one chooses to take one’s medicine. THE WRONG ANGLE. Witp HENRY THE SCOUT (coho has found a mirror in a stolen emigrant-pack)—"' By gin- Lain’t changed nor nothin’ in ten years, hev 1?" ‘ N LONDON the “scab "is called a “ blackleg.” Evidently a skin dis- ease in both cases; and yet the hide of the wretch is as thick as the bark of a dog with a bad cold. . MR. BOB YOUNGER, thief and assassin, has died of consumption in a Michigan penitentiary. He was not without virtue; otherwise he would have gone on with his living. eae (OUR INFORMER—Woodruff, for instance—is a weak as well as a bad man; but there seems to be the impression that you can believe him excepting when he is under oath. N ONE of his agricultural addresses, D. B. Hill says it would take him five times as long to tell what he didn’t know of agriculture as what he did. We begin to suspect that David doesn’t know as much as beans. SACREDNESS OF THE BALLOT. HERE are more serious problems confronting the country than those of the tariff, pension, or civil service, that the present administration cannot shirk or sleep over, even if it wish. The quality of the Republican party is such that it will meet great questions with courage. The present Republican somnolence is a siesta for recuperation. Still the long “nooning” after the labor of the campaign should speedily end. The narrow Republican majority in the house of representatives will embarrass + the formation of any effect- ive policy. The tactics of the opposition will be to stagnate and make impos- sible any beneficial legisla- tion, It will be secking expected opportunities by strangling any proposition of relief as undesirable be- cause not originating with itself. Congress is, for the first time in fifteen years, Re- publican, with a Republican executive; and yet Republi- can by so narrow a margin of numbers, and with the resources of embarrassment in the hands of an almost balanced political minorit that it is more than likely it will simply be a debating society rather than a legis- lature. ‘The president may propose ever so sensible a programme ; as long as the opponents of and the adher- ents to a Republican policy are so near in equipoise lit- tle that is effective can be expected. It will be a struggle of two vigor- ous contestants for a political prize; if the one cannot reach it he will attempt to obstruct and prevent the other. While the blind contention is enacting on the edge of a precipice, and within touch of a catastrophe, the negro problem, at first no bigger than a man’s hand, but broadening, will spread, as the days pass by, all across the sky, with a threat of storm and destruction, There is no historic parallel to the race difficulty we have to solve. No nation, under any circumstances, can indicate by precedent any suggestion of solution. When the emperor Alexander re- lieved from serfdom four millions of his people it was not the emancipa- tion of an alien or imported race, but four millions of Russians. In the generous judgment of his imperial will he elevated to political manhood in a day a class which it had taken feudal Europe, by slow processes of struggle and time, a century to degrade. The emancipation of the negro race, ignorant by nature and de- graded by a century of bondage, was a measure of national salv. The race was lifted at a stroke of the sword from slavery to ship—an act which stands unique and unparalleled in history. have yet to learn if this act, in all its breadth, was a wise one. was given than the African race could intelligently use. It was like the gift of a jewel to a barbarian unaware of the difference between a bead and a diamond. It is manliness, not political heresy, to acknowledge a mistake and barricade a blunder from further harm, The Republican party should not, if it could, subordinate the welfare of the white citizens of the south to the comicbooks.com