Judge — November 1, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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MILLS is a candidate for the next speakership, and very likely for the kingdom of heaven. T IS THOUGHT by some that leading prohibitionists are largely interested in the opium. business. MALL BOY in his papa’s trousers, not sufficiently cut down—" They come high, but I must have ‘em. +6 {NOTHER EFFECT of the McKinley prices,” sadly remarked the western hief as the vigilance committee pulled horse: the rop T COST thirty-cight million dollars to gov- ern New York last y d_ yet, odd as it may seem, every office-holder is not a mil- lionaire. cee HE KING of Portugal feels as it his official head were tied on with a thread and every other person he meets wants to bite it in two. THESE ARE such hard times, owi the election and the tariff law, that May- or Grant can give no more ten-thousand - dollar checks to. Flossie. OH, THAT WE door, Bob?" Yes, dear.” ee Le Bos—"* S6LTIS FAVORITE. beverage,” says M. Halstead, speaking of Mr. Cleveland, “is apollinaris.”” Well, now ! that really looks as if Grover were better than his party. OVERNOR HILL is the Sun's candidate for president. ‘The Utica Observer says the governor is as much a tariff-reformer as Carlisle or Mills; but we dare say that when the question of avoirdupois is up the Sun doesn’t care for a little thing like that. EVARTS, OF THEE. HE ANNOUNCEMENT of Mr. Evarts that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the senate brings out a great deal of comment as to his career as man and senator, and we believe there is not a dissenting voice with regard to his purity and ability, the press of both parties giving him unstinted praise. If he has failed at all it has been as a farmer, but that is his amusement; and the man who produces milk at the same cost per quart as champagne has the right of a hardy yeoman to the calloused palm and the Evarts article of hat. THE IGNORANT VOTE. HILE UNDER the new ballot-law the political scales are as yet un- tipped, and the complexion of the future legislature is undefined, all JUDGE Voice. Frost Up-stains —"* Have you locked the front What are you doing now 7° tting the automatic cook for buckwheats, poached eggs, rolls and coffee in the morning.” prophecies are necessarily delphic. Democratic leaders feel confident and are burrowing with silence and skill. The paster-ballot, devised to guide the illiterate voter and make safe his persuaded verdict, was intended to be and will be a probable Demo- cratic help. It is a fact that the gum-backed tickets are already in prepa- ration, that no mistake can be made in their using. The original proposi- tion for ballot reform was for the use of a single official ballot and required that the voter objecting to a candidate should erase a name and replace it, or not, with another. The Democratic amendment to the bill was the sul stitution of the paster. A Democratic paster put on a Democratic origi- nal will count. If on and canceling a Republican it will be the same; the design and contrivance being intended to avoid even the struggle to read, and allowing a gummed ticket to offset the most considerate politi- cal judgment. A vast vote by this device will still be an ignorant and di- rected vote. It is a humiliating but truthful confession that twenty per cent. of the rural vote is corruptible. Three-quarters of this, if it gra tates unswerved to its own liking, is Democratic. The Italian vote is almost wholly mercenary. The Teutonic vote is divided and reasonably clean. The Irish vote, as usual with that impulsive race, is, singular as it may seem, an English free-trade vote through a Democratic channel. The experiment of a new system is to both parties a puzzle. In the cities where clumsy voters are being drilled it will be likely to favor largely Democratic majorities. Republicans seem to be more dependent on the intelligence than the discipline of their forces. Furthermore, the tendency of a large immigrant population to become stranded in the larger towns, drawn there by ties of kin, nationality and the quicker market for labor, draws a large afflu- en: into the political rut of prior Democratic affinity and clanship. +t + Four-fifths of the wealth and enterprise of New York city is in the hands of men of Republican predilections. Yet as a seaport dependent on foreign exchange it necessarily has a large body of importers, European in origin and interest, and contributing little to the expenses of the state or national govern- ments, The majority of these, however, are not voters and are only interested in federal affairs when questions of tariff legislation threaten their profits. ‘The bulk, neverthless, of the city population that does vote is a for- sign vote. The policy and personnel of both Democratic organizations is an overgrown European graft on a slim American stock. It is the autocracy of ignorance that is to be dreaded, and if possible prevented. The only seeming safety to our institutions, based on an intelligent comprehension of their val- ue, is to temporarily narrow the number by raising the qualification of the voter. The new law is but one step forward. While it is likely to be offensive to the over-sensitive it will not embarrass ignorance, as an idiot would dance where angels hesitate to tread. If the suffrage should or could be made to depend on higher qualifications it would be a stimulant to their attain- ment No American sovereign should rule unless qualified to be a king. It is a part of our July oratory to deride the transatlantic monarchies - as represented by mediocrity, senility, stupidity, selfishness and utter dis regard of the general good. Notwithstanding our self-glorification can- not the same be said of a large part of the six or more millions of Ameri- can sovereigns? Would it not be a subject of satire if the emperor of Germany could not read or speak German ; if the president of France knew nothing of the history or tongue of the people he was guiding; if the czar in running the larger Tammany of his empire was ignorant of the resources and requirements of his rule? Good government depends on intelligent selection of its servants. The ballot-box, hitherto a common dumping-ground, needs further filtra tion and protection. No, illiterate voting, no citizenship without knowl- edge of the national tongue and a fair comprehension of our methods of government. We are very squeamish about the “ inherent rights of man- hood,” yet the most enthusiastic theorist would not trust an inexperienced driver with the lives of his family—why with the welfare of a people? The republics of the past were undermined and ultimately wrecked by the enlarged powers grasped by ignorance and numbers. ‘The past is a warning. The present should have a remedy, not in narrowing citizenship but in elevating and purifying it. Je. MAY GET HER! . f comicbooks.com