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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from *Judge* satirizes anti-Black racial pseudoscience and restrictive voting policies circa the Gilded Age. **"An Unexpected Guest"** (top): A Yale professor, invited to Sunday dinner, launches into a racist tirade about "Aryan races" being naturally superior and "colored people of the south" being unfit for political participation. The cartoon mocks such guests who weaponize pseudoscientific racism in polite company. **The editorial text** argues for literacy and residency requirements for voting—framed as "elevating the question of citizenship" but clearly designed to disenfranchise Black voters and immigrants. The author attacks both European monarchies and American "sovereigns, idiotic or ignorant," while paradoxically advocating restrictions that would exclude precisely those deemed "ignorant." **"An Innocent"** (center): depicts a fishing scene with a caption about a lynched North Carolina man posthumously proven innocent—dark satire on mob violence and its irreversible consequences. The page's various brief items mock contemporary follies: an Ohio infant's tiny size, Cleveland's unremarkable ordinariness, census-taking absurdities.

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AN UNEXPECTED GUEST. Mrs. Phacines (of Gramercy park)—"' It's a note from Herman, dear. He's coming on to pass Sunday at home and wants to bring one of the Yale professors with him. You've no objecti Mr. P: How fortunate that we've had the library new : Mr. Herwan PLactpes (the next day) mother, Father, Profe THE PROFESSOR — ‘mon der kid's account. domination of the black. The Aryan races are many thousands of years in advan n, and it would be as unwise to allow them to co trol or direct the interests of the southern states as it would be to allow an Indian, skilled only in riding a pony, to run a locomotive. It needs no statement to convince the country that the mass of the colored people of the south are destitute of the higher elements of civilization. rank mormonism in their social relations, and in small things ha a communist's idea of property. ‘They delude themselves with the idea that the attainment of political rights conveys social equ: What, if any, is the solution of the problem of restrictior gun is but a better equipment of brute against brute, and must fail from its barbarity. Is it not worth while to try another and possibly successful test by elevating the qu ion for citizenship? Make ignorance a bar to the voter! Enact a broad law, to be equally enforced east and west, north and south, a federal requirement that all voters for presidential electors and representatives in congress be required to be able to at least read, not like a reciting parrot, but any simple lish presented, Let every man that polls a vote be at least a resident for seven years, and possibly many of the evils that trouble all sec- tions of the country will, if not canceled, be restricted. We scoff at the monarchic: systems in Europe, ruled by a juvenile or incompetent. We yet allow ereigns, idiotic or ignorant, to pass on policies they do not and cannot understand. Has not the generosity of proffered citizenship reached a limit? Is it not now time to prepare for re- strictions? The pearls have been thrown to swine long enough, and now, if ever, is the hour to conserve and treasure our political jewels, rich enough, if saved, still to ransom the conti- nent. ‘The shot- our ATIA —"* Where now, EODORE —"* Stag-part Teddy 7” ya, fishing afier you get MAN in Minnesota has slept for twelve y nore he must have! HANKS of the —" Professor Cribbey, this is my boxing tutor.” Tut out yer soft dukes till I shakes ars, Good gracious, what a ar ought to be elected to the chair in every instance, because that is his only way to warm his intellect. HERE ARE sm. ler men than William 1 ott is thought by his min- ers to be, but they have to condense themselves with great ability. HE CE nif 'S BUR rding to the Washington Capital, has must puzzle Robert Porter to keep A MAN in North Carolina AN INNOCENT. y at Greenwich for white-b ind sent from Kentucky) — o arrange it so we girls ca join in the and a joy to the heart.” It about him, lynched has been shown to be guiltless of the murder with which he was charged. ‘The lynchers are very sorry indeed, but the poor fellow stays dead. HEY TELL of an Ohio infant so small that it wears a thimble for a bon net. Here is a dangerous to you, ernor Cooper of Colorado, that we thrimble for your future. R. CL without rival so VELAND these attracting more attention than an ordinary man; and by the way we observe the same thing of John Smith, who is that way too. T THIS office will be sold stamps at the lowest possible price, and the registering of letters will be attended to with neatness dispatch. Patronage respectfully so- licited ; and all goods war- ranted the best of their kind. streets, any and comicbooks.com