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The main cartoon, titled "UNNECESSARILY CONFESSED," depicts a health officer interrogating a woman, asking "Have you ever been inoculated?" The woman responds with evasive answers about various ailments and strains. **The satire targets** public health bureaucracy and the then-emerging practice of vaccination/inoculation. The joke relies on the woman's deliberately obtuse responses, treating medical questions as moral confessions rather than straightforward health inquiries. **Historical context**: This likely dates to early 1900s, when public health measures and mandatory inoculation programs were controversial and often met with suspicion or evasion from the public. The surrounding text discusses various political topics including Democratic criticism of Republican policies and gubernatorial debates about federal versus state authority—typical Judge magazine editorial content mixing humor with political commentary.
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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. Amant 1. M. G Braxnano Gittas Koony, Editor. TERMS TO SUBSCKIBEKS, UNFTRO STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVAXCE. One copy, one year. or 52 numbers = $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers "2.50 One copy: for 13 weeks = = 435 Including the Cumisratas Jeoc FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS To all for- ‘ign countries 1m the postal union, $6 @ yea THE JUDGE PuBLisHiING COMPANY (Jupce Buripinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St, New York BW e guaranter advertisers a Américan sativical paper published reer circulation at cheaper rates than any other PoeEx to the mosquito—Ouch ! HERE IS RECIPROCITY between all the states of this union, and nobody has called it free trade so far. E JUDGE from the advice of the newspapers that the time for workers to strike is the thirteenth month of the year. R. CLEVELAND now writes a letter every time he catches a fish. It will be seen that he has cast his fish- lines in pleasant places. HE ATTACKS on the ad- ministration are again cen- Baby McKee, with an occasional reference to the president's hat. How dreadful this is! tered on eee R. R.W.'GILDER is doi ng some fine verse nowaday: but his descriptions of details ly well done that he forgets to tell what the verse are so. exceeding! T that the LET us su draped statuary of Detroit be draped according to the sea blazers for hot weather and the comfortable ulster from De- cember to June. son Heart opricer —"* What for?” Mr. BReEMLEY—" Wonst fer stea see when I jined d’ Masons.” GREAT MANY boys have been searching around for fragments of themselves since the fourth of July; but some were so far gone that they couldn't come back to save the pieces. THE CHILIANS are much agitated over polities, and many antici pate another revolution. This will be great news for Peru, though perhaps that fact will prevent the revolution. LARGE PICTURE of the always delightful Mrs, Cleveland which has recently appeared in a popular periodical would seem to indi- cate that she, too, is in favor of tariff reform. R. BLAINE can utter no word which does not ag’ political situation. We believe, everything conside! Blaine has regained his physical, mental, and polit ‘ate the whole ed, that Mr. al health. N HIS arraignment of the federal authority Governor Hill omitted one thing—the persistency with which Washington persists in being the national capital notwithstanding the claims of Richmond, Va. HERE WERE. great expectations of Robert Pattison a few years go, but they died all over. Still there are advantages in that. He has been forgotten, and therefore he appears to-day as a ney UNNECESSARILY CONFESSED. Heaurit oFricer —" Have you ever bee! Mr. BREMLEY (rather apologetically)—" Free times, boss; da’s all.” ILLIAM C, WHITNEY says he is out of politics, and that decla- ration is very wise in view of his underhanded leadership of Tam- many hall. William is very much in politics, and little Dan Lamont is his right-hand man. cee N EXCHANGE has an article on a recent defalcation entitled “Finding out where the money has gone.” What a tremendous problem it is! and, more curious still, the less money a man has the more it bothers him. For A TIME after every convention it seems as if the wrong had won; bet the second thought at,the polls, whichever ticket wins, shows that the caucus and the convention have been all right, either as to winning or getting licked. Put that in your shoe when you feel like kicking. HERE ARE long accounts of Marie Bashkirtseff's funeral in a good many of the later papers, though the precocious child was buried in November of 1884. It will do no harm if the funeral ends all, now that the death has ‘been so unnecessarily and surprisingly prolonged. FROTH OF THE CENSUS. HE CENSUS has brought St. Paul and Minneapolis, as well as many other places, to the verge of war, each claiming that it is by right larger than the other, regardless of the figures. Might we venture to suggest a union of the two under one municipal flag and with one destiny ? Otherwise the two will make themselves as disgraceful presently as Chicago and St. Louis. KEEP COOL— DON'T SHOOT. BOUT ONCE every six months the Democratic press gets the idea that the liber- ties of the people are threatened by the Republican party. This time the trouble is the Lodge bill, and the Democratic editor i tated about it that he froths at the mouth, It is curi- ous to see this man and his press so disturbed, and to remember in that connection the calmness with which they viewed the armies of the confederacy for a considerable period, though the union was in more danger dur- ing that period than it will ever be again, and the liberties of the southern white man were wiped out entirely. Now these are warm days and it is dangerous ‘to get excited. Keep cool, y apprehensive man. Many things that troubled you in the's: y during the war and subsequent thereto came out all right, and the union and the liberties have not only been preserved, but have been added to in the most encouraging way. Possess. your soul in patience, dear man, and all will yet be well. inoculated ? chick'ns, wonst fer ‘sault ‘n batt'ry, an’ A VERY OLD QUESTION. HE SPEECH of our governor at Indianapolis was in admirable con- trast with the ponderous platitude of Grover Cleveland. It was alert: c, quick with the ideas of the hour, and shrewd in its partisan judg- ment. So far as ability is concerned, one wonders that the Democratic party should be in doubt as to Grover and David; but circumstance favors the Democratic clephant rather than the Democratic hound. But this protest against centralization, g. Aaron Burr and Jeffer- son Davis wanted no central authority; and there is no filibuster, dead or modern, who hasn't had schemes for the lifting of small places to the level of the kind of independence that belongs to Bulgaria, whose chief purpose appears to be, innocently enough perhaps, the creation of war. Hill st centralization talks for the sovereignty of states. Now that has been fought out. It is really and seriously true that the general power at Washington is as sacred as the local power of states and smaller sections, General Lee admitted that. Aleck Stephens admitted it. Both went with their states under protest and against their frequently expressed ideas against that course. Has the general government a right to protect itself? Has it any right which a Democrat is bound to respect? Governor his zeal ag: comicbooks.com