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This page contains several brief political commentaries typical of Judge's satirical style, along with one cartoon illustration showing what appears to be two figures at a gate or fence. The main cartoon (titled "IN DANGER") depicts figures in period dress at an ornate gate, likely satirizing a political or social situation, though the specific reference is unclear from the image alone. The text sections mock various political figures and situations: Kaiser Wilhelm's appeal to German socialists, debate over hosting the 1893 World's Fair (Chicago vs. New York), and criticism of Senator Taubee of Kentucky regarding decorum in Congress. The overall tone is typical Judge satire—mocking political incompetence, regional rivalries, and institutional failings through brief, sharp commentary rather than detailed explanation, assuming readers followed current events.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK, Publisher» W. J. Ancnus det Department | Besa Guias Editor’ 1. M. Geecony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IY. ADVANCE One copy, one year. or s2 numbers = $5.0 Que copy, six months, of 26 numbers - 2.30 One copy, for 13 135, Tacluding the Cwerstatas Junae FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all for cign countries in the postal union udge: $6 a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (JupGr Buipinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York. arantes advertisers a ireulation at cheaper rates than any other é. 17 Avenue de COpera, Paris, and at Brentano's, SONG by Colonel Fellows—Harle hare) hark {sgh Boodle are ‘com: ing to town; none in rags, and all in jags, and all in velvet brown, *6(QOME, brother,” says the editor of the Voicé, prohibition paper, “let us stand side by side as we look into the glass.” Very well, brother, very well; here's looking at you. [F WE could get as many nice congratulations on our seventieth birthday as Susan 1. Anthony did on hers we should feel that the majority were with us whether they voted that way or not. XN aN) NS ree re WY} Wi ye ont France is as good a republic as its geographical position will, permit, and if anybody is going to do pe- titioning it had better be for ‘ the volcano. oY : ayn ie ny i" [7 DOES seem strange that New York should have put up fifteen millions and Chicago about two, and yet that the latter should win; but in this kind of poker, as well as some other kinds, it is bluff that tloes the business. Ae N ONE DAY Colonel Shep- ard of the Mail and press was suggested as a war- Tammany hall and a candidate for governor of this state, Perhaps if Colonel Shepard has any prayers to shed he had better shed them now. s yo" pop swine dunno, rior for : EXPECT Charles Emory Smith 10 so edit the Russian govern- ment, surreptitiously but forcibly, that Russians may have a trial before being sent to Siberia, a that he can’t eat a good American dinner when he comes home. and not to so accustom himself to candles. SOMEBODY called our Chauncey “Columbus” the other de mediately our Chauncey said with much violenc of here or I'll put you in irons and hang you at the y for some reason the t “You go right out ard-arm!" Because m is a misfit, regardless of the complete measure- ment made for its original production. $ ently directed to fall from a ferry- $s soon as he recovered was sent to Central park to have @ horse run away with him, As he still lives perhaps it would be well to send him abroad to shoot some dynamite at the czar of Russia; though, to be sure, a less expensive method would be to hire an Italian to kill him for a quarter of a dollar. A sak TER of the World was r IN DANGER, Why?" Ef d’ moon 's bright I’ dat chick’n fer d hook ‘n ladder ball suppah, JUDGE PAPER called LigAt,copying portions of two articles from the JUDGE and putting them in the deadly parallel, reaches the conclusion, that the JUDGE is “asinine.” The paper is about eight days old, and there- fore cannot see as well as it will when it gets the strength necessary to open its eyes and flop its cars as a signal to its putative parent to proceed its funeral. PRINCE, KAISER, AND SOCIALIST. THE SOCIALISTS of Germany are so powerful that the emperor personally appeals to them; but they respond so unsatisfactorily that his majesty will have to appeal against them. The difference be- tween the government and the socialists is that the former wants their help in an electoral emergency, whereas their necessity looks them in the face all the time. It was Bismarck’s policy to fight them above- board. The kaiser would offer conciliation with the sword in reserve. The end will be the same, whichever wins the means to that conclusion. THE FAIR—THE WHERE AND THE WHEN. THE JUDGE regrets that the world’s fair should have been sent to Chicago; but it repeats its suggestion that, that being the case, every- body should join in making the exhibition a success. It is true that New York city has the money and the geo- graphical location, and is ready to put up fifteen million dol- lars against. a possible two million by Chicago; but the decision in bebalf of Chicago was won by fair mea a bargain is a bargain. If, however, Chicago, finding her- self unable to take the re- sponsibility she has chooses to avoid it, that presents regarding the that remains to be considercd Chicago wants ten mi from the national treasury. whereas New York doesn’t ask a dollar from that per- ennial fountain of wealth. The Chicago newspapers are assiduously debating the ques- tion whether Chicago can get ready to have the fair in ‘92 —trul momentous question —and whether it wouldn't be well to it in ‘93. If there is to be a postponement York will, of course, have much to say regarding that. ‘The JUDGE took the ground some weeks since that ‘93 was the earliest period to have a successful fair, of course with the supposition in view that the fair would be held in New York, If it is to be held in Chicago and there is to be a really great fair in that town, perhaps it might be well to postpone the fair to ‘94 or ‘95. But if it is to be held in New York, ‘93 is the time for it, as the Jur v In other words New York and a promise of all have use he’s ash-truck t'-night, Maud?” laik t come up heah an’ kinder borry KENTUCKY AT WASHINGTON. CAPITOL at Washington is not a good place to shoot people in. Kincaid of Kentucky should have thought of that when he shot bee of Kentucky. But the capitol was not built as a place for pulling noses. Mr. Taulbee, as an ex-member of congress, should have known that the privileges of debate include nothing more serious than the threat to mu kill, the overt transaction to take place somewhere else. Paus’ remark that Mr. Taulbee evidently got what he advertised for, for Mr. Kincaid obviously could not give up his life to the work of running away, we cannot urge with too much emphasis the pro- priety of Kentuckians settling their little affairs outside of the building which is supposed to be largely devoted to the making of laws. THE M comicbooks.com