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# "Hum of the Court": A Judge Magazine Political Satire This page satirizes late-19th-century international politics through mock "quotes" from world leaders. The top section shows sequential cartoon panels (numbered 1-7) depicting what appears to be a farming/harvesting disaster with a "Clam's" branded cart—likely illustrating the page's title story about "The Muddy Road and the Wabbling Wheels." The main content ridicules various monarchs and national leaders through invented statements. References include Dom Pedro of Brazil, King Alfonso of Spain (regarding Cuba), Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, the Pope (Humbert of Italy), and Tsar Alexander of Russia. The satire mocks their political anxieties: colonial ambitions, fear of American expansion, anarchist bomb threats, and religious authority. The central illustration shows well-dressed diplomats in apparent conversation. The satire suggests these leaders are hypocritical—concerned with maintaining power while offering sanctimonious justifications for their policies. The "Interrupted Essay" section particularly skewers pretentious diplomatic language about self-government and democracy.
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HUM OF THE COURT. LOOK UP, my child! Where'er you are you'll find that Iam flopping there.— The fla; HAT I WANT abduct me.—Canada, MY CHIEF FEAR is the United States of America, because 1 think perhaps it means to take aw i S THRUE that Oi belave in the grane above the rid, but Oi've niver said it should go above the rid, whoite an’ blue—O' Hooligan. THE GRADUAT “Bring on your world- I'll conquer it or die! P.S. —Label it, so that I won't knock off the heads of some other planets.” WHEN the crowned heads awake to the knowl edge that it is the fourth of July they put aside their in- signia of office and roll over for another nightmare, [§ MY OPINION the Unit- ed States is a nation, or are a nation, just as those sovereigns of those states choose to select their gram- Vinky-Wum of South Africa. LOOK upon much of my success as a result of my failure to interfere with the civil war in America, and 1 always attended to my own business just_as much y European contempo- raries would let me.—Fran- is to be coaxed, and if that doesn’t answer you must THE MUDDY ROAD AND ‘THE WABBLING A TALE OF DISASTER. ma.—Carnot and Vicky. THE contin RESOLVED, this being the fourth of July, that we will never attempt to take the United States by way of Mexico or the isthmus of Pana- T was created for the democracy. To-day it strikes me more forcibly than ever that as a monarchist I ought to have lost my head as well as my crown.—Dom Pedro, late of Brazil. my little Cuba.—A/fonso. | there are times when there is NTERRUPTED ESSAY. tMoRE—"'T believe, sir, in i . and profound consideration. Tite BUTLER —"* Plaze, sor, Mrs, Singleton says if you'll kindly shtep off her thrain riably treating women with the utmost politeness, SE LF-GOVERNMENT solves the problem of the hations ; but so much of it that it makes my head swim. There, for instance, was Jefferson Davis. Uncle Sam. THs COUNTRY isan asylum for the whole world; but the people who occupy it must observe the rules, and the refractory for- cigner who tries to run it-as a means to revenge will be blown into outer darkness by his own bomb. So You WANT the pope, do you? Oh, very well, my Jonathan. Take him, with my blessing. I've had all I want of him, and the spirit of my predecessor says so too. His holiness worries me, and 1 never did want his old Vatican.—Humbert of Italy. Y PA supported the un- ion of your states when ngland and France opposed and besides he liberated several million serfs about the time you liberated your slaves. I suppose I ought to be bombed, but it’s deuced mean in you to afford an abiding place for the men who want to do the bombing. cts Joseph of Austria, she'd like t! move on. Aleck of Russia. comicbooks.com