Judge, 1891-01-10 · page 10 of 16
Judge — January 10, 1891 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes Irish Home Rule politics through an interview with Owen Dennis McManus, a Tipperary League figure. The central joke is an extended allegory: McManus tells a story about O'Halloran's pig—three men fighting over it, taking the dispute to court, where lawyers drag out proceedings with legal Latin terms (habeas corpus, certiorari) throughout winter. The judge finally orders the pig returned, but O'Halloran keeps it anyway. **The satire:** The pig represents Ireland itself. McManus's point—directed at squabbling Irish Home Rule leaders—is that while they litigate endlessly over who controls Ireland, someone (implicitly England or practical politicians) simply keeps it. The cartoon mocks both Irish factional fighting and the absurdity of legal processes that enrich lawyers while resolving nothing. The moral: stop quarreling or Ireland will be lost to those actually holding power.
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JUDGE THE IRISH SITUATION. MR. HENNERY FLYNN of the JUDGE staff was sent to inter- view Mr. Owen Dennis McManus on the present unhappy division in the camp of the home-rulers of Ire- land. Mr. McManus is high actu- ary of the Tipperary league and often gets high in the councils of the party. It was after office-hours when our reporter called and found Mr. McManus in his pleasant home on One hundred and fifty-eighth street, and he was. solacing his nervous system with a pipe. He expressed himself as willing to be interviewed. To the question, “What do you advise as to the present unhappy division in the home-rule party 2” he responded : “Did yez iver hear av O'Halloran’s pig?” We informed him that the legend had never been imparted to us, and he spoke substantially as follows : “In Ballydrag in O'Connell's time the counthry was broke up to a degree, an’ movable property like hins an’ pigs was scatthered abroad an’ loiable at toimes to be missin’ altogither.. Wan day a foine black-an’-white pig the soize av a baby was runnin’ loose in the shtreets an’ the divil's own hullabaloo av byes an’ger-rils a-purshooin’ av it along, an’ its bein’ a strange pig an’ en- toicin’ in its demeanor for roastin’. Whan the pig was comered three BONNY SCOTLAND AT THE EDEN MUS! minkwor on topiayin, MANAGER —" Well, Sandy?” : k an’ it a-squalin’ for ECENT yAl.—"* Nae, mon, it’s no’ Sondy, but Jamie MacTash ; an’ loife. Dimpsey, Don- he was told he could aye get an’ engeegement skeert-doncing.” nelly an’ Durfee claimed the pig, aich av thim holdin’ be wan leg. None av thim wud lave go to foight, d’ye moind? Father Connor kem along an’ they left it to the praste who shud have the pig. He walked all around thim, but cudn't decoide; but he touldt thim to lave the pig wid Tim O'Halloran till the matther cud be umpired bechuxt thim. * Well, sor, they wint into the law an’ it was adjourned sine gua non an’ ad valorem wid writs of certiorari an’ ad captandum all troo wan winter, an’ in the shpring the judge issud a habeas cor- pus on the three min, an’ O'Halloran was ordered into court; an’ the first t'ing the judge say * Where the divil is the pig annyway?’ An’ a lawyer reshponds, ‘O'Halloran has the pig.” A "CYCLE OF CATHAY. tonor k woe bared Sineran: [ite ue lg’ Dedad! ie Goo uat denuoad'ead ie Lee The emperor of China has ordered a consignment of . 2 2 Pi lad! the case was dismissed wid the lawyers to bicycles for the use of palace officials —P'al/ Mall Gasette. pay the costs, an’ O'Halloran wor ahead the vally av the pig.” We have much pleasure in presenting to our “The moral of this is?” asked the reporter. Fercyet tnacinn euler mata eens eit “To — wid the quarrelin’ leaders, but let Oireland luke out for the pig!" roared McManus. ing without aid from the palace past the palace The interview was over, and on the whole our sympathies are with the pig. palisade. AL, woxDEN, A CASE OF NECESSITY, Mrcrim —" Why do you nail your canvas on the wall instead of using an McR: “*T have to till I sell the picture, dear boy. I've nowhere easel?” else to sleep.’ 2 comicbooks.com