Judge — February 8, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher + + W.J AR Art Department ~~ Baenwano Gitta Editor. = 1M. Guncony. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year, or s2 numbers = $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy. for 13 weeks = + = 1.25 Including the Criststas Jupcr. "TIONS —Toalt for- cigs countries in the postal union, $8 @ year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (Jupce BuiLpINc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York, T2-We guarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American satirical paper published The Jubcn is for tale at Brentanc's, 17 Avenue de COpera, Paris, and at Brentane's, 430 Strand, London A,, FOREPAUGH said as he was about departing,“ Please notice that + © Til get there ahead of P. T. Barnum,” S4SHALL we talk while we dance?” asks a contemporary. Certainly, but the most of it must be done with the legs. Yew York prohibitionists are alive,” says the New York Pioneer. Dear, dear! And that funeral has to be done over again? PORTUGAL howling “Down with England" reminds one to shed a few neglected tears over the late val- iant animal that bayed at the moon. eee QUR STATE FAIR will be held this year at Syracuse. Time moves on, and the hamlets are slowly but surely forging their way to the front, see VIRGINIA refuses to allow women to practice law. Virginia is the mother of presidents and the grand- mother of the progress that walks with its heels to the front. eae HAVE the whip-hand so far as the scoundrel of the Saratogran is concerned, He says we have the grip, whe ha, ha!—it is merely a little matter of paralysi eee F AGNUS, the great obituary poet of the Baltimore American, Tu nonowt has had to do so much verse lately gint—gintle. M : F 5 Mk. Pike— that his pocket is stuffed with green- is soul with joy. THE INSANITY of Mr. Ruskin is as polished and graceful as any- thing of the kind that was ever known. The man is unique and finished in everything he does. buck-shot fer bear. ANADEUS has just died. He was of middle age, and yet when one considers the danger he outlived as king of Spain one cannot help thinking of him as a very old man. A CASHIER of our post-office is just dead, of suicide, He had been cashier many years. ‘The true idea of civil service would have drawn him away from temptation and so saved his honor and his life. HE CROWN JEWELS of Russia are worth eleven million dollars, and the czar would give them all for the little jewel safety, which to ordinary men comes without cost and remains without expense. HE CLERGY of Minneapolis have concluded to destroy the Sunday press. It is sometimes the best way, though not the fairest, to put the heel on opposition and crush it to death; but frequently it can’t be done. UCH AID of the Fassett committee of in ation being com- posed largely of hayseeds. Of course the parties to be investigated know more about the business than the haysceds do, and so why not turn the matter altogether into the hands of their representatives? IT HAS REACHED PIKE COUNTY. A TILDEN MONUMENT. T# E SUGGESTION of Congressman Cummings that the government erect a monument to Samuel J. Tilden and the inscription on it be to the effect that he was a president of the United States was made ap- parently with the purpose of creating comment, for certainly the congress- man knew that it would not be adopted. Even a Democratic congress would not adopt it; and besides it is not the business of congress to spend the people's money in that way. But perhaps a monument to Mr. Tilden as a great lawyer would be a good thing; and in that behalf Mr. Cum- mings ought to open a subscription-book, or perhaps the Suz might en- gincer a Tilden fund with the double purpose of destroying Mr. Hayes and giving Tilden a posthumous boost. It is most unfortunate that the money Mr. Tilden conferred on the city for the purpose of a Tilden library should have gone to the good old man’s natural heirs; but he was a great lawyer for all that, and if his legal admirers and his clients would express their admiration by contribution he would have a monument worthy of his name and services. ENGLISH CAPITAL— TAKE CARE OF ALASKA! EXTRAORDINARY and enormous investments of English cap- ital in American productive interests do not as yet excite as much alarm as astonishment. What will be the possible outcome? Great Britain is and has been the great pawnbroker of the world. It holds the tickets of almost every government at the harvest interest of the money-lender, Its mortgages are not confined to civilized, but cov- er semi-civilized lands. The tax- gatherers of the Nile as well as the Bosphorus extort hard-earned sequins to stuff its insatiable maw, The snow plains of Russia shelter the growing wheat that is to pay on Russian debt the English toll, The very seas are shorn, by the keels of its commercial marine, Wherever the prow of an English steamer pokes itself, it snuffs ins of gold, to sneeze back on ] h soil, This is all very well. The mines, banks, manufactures and ships of the tight little island have made it the commercial mistress of the world, It is a glorious material success, The grandeur of an empire girdled with unbroken daylight is a proud tribute to the audacity, grasp sand greed of the Anglo-Saxon race. Civilization is helped, and the world bettered, by this carnal salvation of Crassus. We also admire, with a McGint—McGint—McGintle. McGint—gint— touch of the pride of kinship, the t"—— (Spang /) in’t goin’ ter have no New York dude-bird comin’ up here makin’ fun of honest folks even if th’ ole gun és loaded with the sea, + wealth of our rich relative across It is, however, a yet unanswered query, are we wise, although willing, to sell to Jacob our birth-right for a temporary bellyful of pottage? It may be that the breweries, paper-mills, flour-mills, elevators and lines. of lake-marine are well sold, and that the guaranteed dividends can be assured, even if pared from the edges of the retained stock, It may also be that John is satisfied with a lesser margin than Jonathan, The added solace of continued management, under American direction, is likely to be but temporary. Ownership will soon control both pay and selection of employés. England is overflowing with sharp and capable men, unused to liberal pay, that will sooner or later displace our own. England provides for its poor by colonization. It has pro- jected another policy of provision for a crowd of its competent sub- jects, by the purchase of productive businesses. Hindoostan is already full, Egypt has its quota. Every trading island, peninsula, and port all the world around is picketed representatives of English enter- prise. Railroads, wherever built with English money, and even the Canadian Pacific, are manned with and man: re we also in the line ‘of conquest by capital, and re-coloniza by British purchase? While the English mind leans to the liberality of republicanism, it should be remembered that it is tinctured with a weakness it takes two or three generations to wean it of—a hereditary indifference to ability and great respect for a title. Is there any danger to us, our institutions or interest, in this golden march of the British guineas? Is there to be no stay or breastwork to stop the invasion by investment of ranch and public lands; or are the sellers but ambuscading to weleome the coming gold to the grave CoMmichooks-cory