Judge — October 26, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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A WHILE wi great men they never do, Mr. Halstead. men make mistakes; but if they are THE CZAR and the kaiser had such an intensely af- fectionate that itis feared there will be war with- in a few days, meeting REMONT COLE means well, but nobody can open his mouth sufficiently to swal- low his head without being very sorry for it. TERPRISE is good; but when the [orld employs two totally unmarried girls to go about buying bogus ba- bies, that is carrying the war into Circassia. retro, » yf pe OTHING CAN reduce the admiration of a_ prohibi- tionist for his tail-feathers ; but we should think the result in Connecticut would — bleed comb. his f OUGHT to clad rule that no progress electricity or anything else shall be formally accepted un- til it is established that it won't kill the parties who want to or have to use it, That would seem to be a business proposition, because if they die they can’t buy. be an iron- in HERE WAS an intention in Mr. Cleveland's name a Hill's convention to leave Grover well as his chief principle out of the platform; but there was mention as well as repudiation of the two as a matter of second thought—precisely as Mr. Hill was mentioned and cursed with faint praise in the Democratic state convention in this years a y a couple of 7 1S DIFFICULT to estimate value. For instance, what Shanks of the Star lacks in purse he makes up in check. But we should think Mr. C. P. Huntingdon would get tired of paying him his salary and paying the cost of his mismanagement. Of course he mismanages with great ability, but that kind of check is too much of a luxury for a bogus millionaire REGULATE YOUR DISCOVERIES. HEN ONE considers the deaths by wire in this city one wonders that there were ever breakwaters against the Atlantic ocean and New York bay. ‘Those waters are of great public benetit all, they ought to be kept within bound. : but, after An oven is a good thing for be ofr the pie business; but you don’t burn up men and women to bake a pie, and properly-harnessed fire is as safe as a conflagration is destruc- Is it not amazing that, giving full value to the benefit of elec- tricity, it should be permitted to run loose in this city like a wild tiger? tive. VERY ANCIENT PAIN. SUTHE ANTIQUITY of colic” is a subject of thought suggested by the New York Sun, as a result of the statement that watermelon seeds were found in an Egyptian tomb three thousand years old. We suppose colic is as old as the human race. It is contemporary with the race's birth, Adam had colic as soon as he was born, and Eve had it some time previous to her advent. The tadpole had it. The lizard suf- fered from it, But that watermelon-seeds could live three thousand years without sprouting or dying is so palpably, enormously a fabrication that it ought to be a part of the chronic Democratic platform of this day. GIVE US TEMPERATE TEMPERANCE, HERE is no question that the verdict in the New England states, and in the newer. western states, against the intolerance of tem- perance, in the defeat of the proposition for absolute prohibition, is a popular and not a_ partisan verdict. Republicans aswell as Democrats voted against a sumptuary and coercive edict. Without a large Republican protest the defeat of constitu- tional prohibition would not have been possible. ‘The three parties present to the consideration and judgment of the voter in this direction three direct and radically differ- ent propositions, The Demo- cratic party, appealing to and depending largely for its sup- port on a free-and-easy and bibulous constituency, dare no:, without hazarding a party ir: surrection, do other than defer to and place itself under the direction of the compact and well-organized liquor interest. Their treasury and Bacchus is one of i if not its chiefest. Among the ancient while Osiris preme over all, each geograph- ical locality and each part of the human body had a sue pervisory deity; the chief of the minor divinities was “the god of the bell: While modern thought has exorcised the old mythology, there still remains, without ritual or idol, a vast body of its fervent devotee: There always have been and will be zealots, idealists and enthusi aiming to expurgate all evils by human endeavor or enactment. Mahom- etism has its dervishes; the earlier church had its anchorites ; the modern Roman church has its monasteries and nunneries, where the reclus Zemoved from worldly temptations, is vows or prohibitory inclosures. The doctrine of prohibition leaves nothing to free agency, nothing to the human will, self-reliance or personal judgment. It stiffens, slows and restrains the play of every muscle by the armor of prohibitory protection. It assumes that without this some stray or infernal shaft will annihilate the morals of the race. It should however be remembered that the tyranny of the multitude, or of the monarch, always oversteps and defeats itself. The autocracy of Russia has its nihilism. Dictatorship of the many, or of the one, breeds revolution. The enactments even of the Decalogue are not absolute! successful. The crimes condemned still exist and have existed for six thousand years. Human assistance and restriction are essential even to their partial enforcement. If the voice of the people is the voice of God it is evident that the popular verdict is as likely to be transgressed as the command of the Deity. Evil of any kind is not suppressible by resolution. Intemperance is as old as the race. It is suppressible | So.Oxford Street, Proohlyn fA Faery ee Iin-42 aan Ta Gow h Ge 4 te thom, on ttn, Egyp- tians, was) su- protected from evil by prohibitory comicbooks.com