Judge — March 29, 1890 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publither ~~ WY Ane, Art Department ~~” Bexsward Gian, Baitor I. M. Guecony, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AXD CANADA, IN. ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or 2 numbers- $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - "3.30 One copy. for iyweeks ens 18s Tnclading the Cwmstuas Jupce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all for sign countries in the postal union, $6 a year THE JupGE PUBLISHING Company (Jupcr. Buitnine Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York. AmkET He guarantee adverguers a merican satirical paper published. The Juve ts for sale at Brentans's, 17 Avenue de Opera ap Sada, Londo * reer circulation at cheaper rates than any other Paris, and at Brentano's, E JUD that the Wordd thinks Mr, W thunder with Bedlam’s island. dom proposes to play HERE IS GREAT complaint over bogus lard; and yet we, think Chicago ought to have the fair because she got the most votes HE DAILIES recently amused themselves. by kidnapping Jay Gould ; but Jay is no youth, and never was the kind of kid that is caught with his eyes shut. BIRCHELL is reported a lark. It is only the innocent who show guilt and have doubt of their ability to prove innocence. 1E CREDITORS of Prince Hatz- feldt are clamorous and merciless, ‘They seem to think Miss Huntington married a perambulating receipt-in-full, T THIS SEASON eggs are pecul-* iarly eggs; and we bethink us.6f the inadvertence of the gentleman who remarked, “A bad egg is bad all through; I prefer mine like good old wine.” eek < THE FIRST™of April it is thatthe supply of foots is unusually large; aad: if one the who attempt deception there can be no possible doubt of it THE DEATH of ex-Congressman Taulbce appears to be chiefly regretted by the Washington corre- supposed counts persons. see Mr. CxowLey — afther aich male. spondents because it subjects Mr. Kincaid to a ALASKA—NEWSPAPER ED A CONTEMPORARY which has enterprise as well as ability is Frazt Leslie's Mlustrated Newspaper. We look upon it as perhaps the most promising of our illustrated exchanges. On the second of April Mr. E. H. Wells and Mr. A. B. Schanz head an expedition of one hundred men to and through the unexplored regions of Alaska, and will be accom- panied by artists and writers of Frank Leslie's, the 1 havé the benefit of their experien already covered two thotisand miles competent to lead the expedition. ships journey good deal of annoyance. ERPRISE. aders of which will and discoveries, Mr, Wells has in Alaska, and is therefore thoroughly His last journey met with many hard- nd was attended with some loss of life. We trust the present will’be attended with no misfortune, and will be as successful i the securing of information as the capital and enterprise involved promise to make it, THIS EASTER. re changing in behalf of Baster in this latitude. imported bouquet will presently be raised in the home garden and without the aid of the hot-house—not, perhaps, in the bunch and with the confining ribbon, but in all other convenient ways. All winter the grass has been Buds have pushed themselves into open the trees and shrubbery, There has been a continuous sys- tem of premature resurrection from the silence of November to the gen- green in the parks, existence THE PROPER CAPER. Mus. CrowLey (after supper) —* Do it feel good, Tim?" "t that, Tim Thim nobs where Katy wur-rks has finger-bowls filled wid sour limonade The. eral but timid opening of April. Birds have been as bold as buds, and notes that belong to May have come to us at intervals every month of the later autumn, the winter and the carly spring. Shall we have the form and bloom of Easter presently a good many times a year? Well, there is that in human as well as inanimate nature—sometimes barring the lenten period—which would surely make it profitable. THE BALLOT-—THE BLACK AND THE IMMIGRANT. HE DEMOCRATIC denunciation of the enfranchisement of the negro is based and emphasized (at least such is the claim) on the stolid ignorance of the race—its tendency without thought or discretion to blindly follow a partisan leadership. Ballot-reform and restriction are demanded by southern statesmen as helpful to the prosperity and as the salvation of that section. The white race to the manor born purpose by all possible means, to the point of suffrage repression, to gain and retain control on the claim that its intelligence entitles it to the guidance of public affairs. It is added that the heredity of two hundred years of a ruling race cannot without the gravest hazard be even partially placed in the hands of the blacks, who, here and in Africa, as far back as history runs, have shown no capacity for organization and little marked devel- opment. ‘The exceptional examples of negro ability, scant and rare in propor- tion to the seven millions of the race, it is asserted are traceable to the injection of Anglo-Saxon blood. One thing is evident, that the colored man pure and simple is by nature docile, faithful and unambitious, The mulatto, however, exhibits the rest- lessness of restraint. Excluded from higher opportunities by the attainder of color and repellant to the darker race from which he cannot be loosed, his ambition is wrecked between a black Scylla and a white Charybdis. ‘The organized opposition to bal- lot restriction for the suppression or control of an ignorant vote, if impoli- in the south, is equally unwise in the north, The enormous yearly ad- dition of foreigners to our population is comparatively recent. When the inviting hand of this republic first beckoned Europeans to these shores the cost and hazard of a sea-passage were self-selective of a better class. To-day the half-million of annus immigration is from the very cheapness moe ‘ of transit contributive to the lower This uncultured and igno- rant mass, pushed by hunger, is im- pelled by no desire of political lib- erty or personal independence, and is goaded to change only by the stom- ach, It drags to us the human gar- bage of Poland, Hungary and the Italian peninsula. Are we to welcome int this addition to our political forces simply because the lier ones were welcome? Is the door open as freely to the tramp as it to the self-reliant man ? The easy and cheap present of the suffrage lowers its value. foreigner grows to regard it, like his labor, as something to sell. Citizen- ship, once a prerogative and representing an opinion, is degraded to as cheap a commodity as an image of plaster or a tune from a hand-organ. While our material civilization has advanced, our political has lowered or stood still. It is a shame rather than a glory that, conquer and control as we may the natural forces, the foundation of our political structure is rotting, away. The ballot is not a right, but a grant. are exacted. A voter must be a resident of the state, county, town, or city ward, He also must be twenty-one years of age, as common law assumes that this is the blossom period of common sense. ‘These limita- tions are therefore precedent for others. The restrictions of ballot, the requirement of registration, the demand as a:qualification of the ability to read the language are hot in opposition to suffrage or elements of disfran- ‘The battle for the national protection of ihe ballot-box may be checked, the tide may be temporarily stayed. The forces of public opinion are too strong, however, for tong resistance, and their opponents, defeated at last, must and will surrender to the demand of a higher and a better law. fa classes. shed me hands befoor Oi ate.” it's th’ shtyle we're afther. was The In its use certain conditions chisement. comicbooks.com