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This Judge magazine cartoon satirizes the **Boycott movement** threatening the American South. The central figure appears to be a Southern politician or representative, shown stumbling amid explosive danger—literally labeled "DANGER" on falling debris and "BLAST" powder nearby. The accompanying text discusses how Southern politicians are dismissing the boycott threat, arguing the North won't sustain it due to financial self-interest. The satire suggests Southern confidence is misplaced; they're walking into danger while denying its existence. The cartoon likely references **post-Reconstruction era tensions** (1870s-1890s) regarding Southern economic relations and Northern pressure regarding labor or political practices. The South's refusal to take the boycott threat seriously is presented as dangerously naive.
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JUD PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. t. Beennano Gitast TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCY One copy, one year.or sz numbers - $5.0 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copysfor iy weeks = == tas Including the Cuuistatas Jupcr. ISCKIPTIONS—To all for- in the postal union, $6 a year THE JuDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupar Burnin Cor. Fifth Ave, and 16th St, New York UMW guarantee advertisers a larger circulation ut cheaper rates than any other an satirical paper published. The Junce is for sale at Brentans't, 17 Avenue de COpera, Paris, and by the Amer- ican Newspaper agency at 1s Ning William street, Strand, W.C., London. THERE ARE many flies on this weather, ‘0. MEN who want to be president — Don’t shoot off your gun till you get the powder in it. a T IS SAFE to say anything against Mrs. Astor, because, you know, you mean the other Mrs. Astor. ZALOUS JIM is a good boy. ous of the rights of Amer- ican sealefishers too, If we were J. J. we should be jeal- RINCE GEORGE is not a syndicate. He doesn’t want to buy the United States of America—he just wants to look at it. GENERALLY the Atlanta Constitution is a good paper; but are times when it staggers around as if it had lost its head. there **THERE IS NOTHID says the Stu, “that will bring Democrats together like Democracy.” That is so they generally take it with no sugar in it. THE EDITOR of the ing Post is so strictly that, bearing in mind the col- lateral evidence, he would hang a man for murder if he didn’t part his defense in the middle. and SOMETHING MCIIAGGAN (indignantly) —* Foorst it's an’ thin it's movin’ it t’ th’ other, all th’ bli HE, BOYCOTT potato was taken up with frantic haste and dropped with frightful velocit or is dancing wildly and blow y. and now the hysterical southern edit- ng through his fingers. A SEA-BATH taken by the president gave a daily paper material for two solid columns. If the president should go into the sea every morning for a week the paper would be totally swamped. HE. KING of DAHOMEY promises not to take France if France will kindly consent not to take Dahomey. That is so manifestly undiplo- matic and fair that of course the French cannot think of it for a moment. OR TWENTY-EIGHT millions in money the company returns fourteen millions in prizes, with the usual heavy discounts, Is it possible that even persons of feeble intellect will con- tinue to buck against that bank ? Louisiana lottery N A RECENT speech Mr. Damit Voorhees of Indiana quoted : Judge ye if hell, though it may damn, Can add a curse to what IT am. It would be quite superfluous, Damit—quite superfluous, HERE IS TALK of permitting the duke of Orleans to join the French army. It will be remembered that little Napoleon went to Zululand with the English and got killed there; but the duke, we think, GE would prefer to have a few Germans driven before him occasionally, that he might practice on them with his little gun, That would be less fatiguing and more safe. = DON'T SEE how the editor of the New York Commerctal can say of his own knowledge that there is “nothing in the JUDGE to interest a soul.” He sold his soul for a quarter of a dollar years ago, and when it was thrown away by the purchaser he didn’t have the six-horse power magnifying-glass necessary to find it and put it back in the pore which had unconsciously harbored it. GIVE US ALECK. HE ENGLISH PRESS pays high compliment to Mr. Blaine for his part of the Behring-sea correspondence; and adds that the question is too small to lead to war, but if there is a failure to reach satisfactory terms the kaiser would be a good arbitrator. That is good, solid sense; but it occurs to us that Aleck of Russia would arbitrate more disinterestedly. RETURNS from the back counties show that the golden-rod_ has been chosen the state flower. It will be remembered that we expressed our preference for the golden-rod a number of years ago, and condemned the rose, its chief competitor, in no stinted terms. Formerly the rose was respectable enough, but latterly it has been not- ed chiefly as a receptacle for green buys, the which it has accommodated to the satiety of a tenement-house in its relations with the more rep- rehensible classes of human- ity. Out upon that mug- wump flower, the once toler able but now wholly degener- ated rose! BOYS BOYS! THE BOYCOTT threatened by various portions of the south in connection with the Lodge bill seems juvenil gush of southern ind attending the thr one of the blazing rhetoric of the southern press just. pre- vious to the collapse of the rebellion. ‘The south does not favor the boycotting—it is the politicians who do, as it was the politicians who inaugurat- ed the rebellion. ‘The south wants to devote itself to busi ness and let politics alone as far as that is possible. It s nothing more in the Lodge bill than a desire to right wrongs that it knows exist; and it sees further that the north can do awithout it better than it can do without the north. It wants northern mone! northern sympathy; and so far as southern progress is concerned it knows that boycotting would be as bad policy, so f business is concerned, as secession was, Won't the southern politicians leave the business of the south alone? They got it into one very bad scrape, and it ought to be impossible to get it into another. OUR GOLDEN-ROD. at_ reminds: has IMMINENT. movin’ th’ sign t’ wan ind 0° th’ ditch, ssid day !" es, ind GIVE THE JOKE AND TAKE IT. HE RIGHT of caricature is as undisputed as the right to sleep. No great man who is worthy of that kind of attention ever objected to it, however it might hurt him personally or from a political point of view — indeed, all great men enjoy it and consider it the compliment it undoubtedly is. Some races object to it; but there was never an Amer- ican, north or south, so far as we have heard, who ever did. Artist and writer are most pleased when. with pen or pencil, an opponent gets the best of them. We observe that Mr. William H. Ballou proposes to What He is the man most fit for that amusement, be- cause he is the most conspicuous man. Probably he enjoys it as much as other men do, Is there sharpness in a cartoon? show that the president of these states shouldn't be caricatured. foolishness that is! Very well; so much the better for the picture, and the object of it is supposed to have got out of his long clothes, and perhaps to be absolutely weaned, fe comicbooks.com