Judge, 1891-01-10 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 249 **Top Cartoons:** The left cartoon depicts a man in formal dress playfully kicking at a pole while a child watches—captioned as commentary on someone opening a "skin-game" (gambling operation). The right cartoon shows men outside an "Alaska Furs" shop, labeled "A Selling Race," suggesting competition over fur trading or sales. **Main Article: "Troublesome Majorities"** This political commentary addresses post-Reconstruction Southern politics. It argues against Black political participation, claiming "negro-rule" failed in South Carolina and Louisiana after the Civil War. The piece advocates restricting Black voting rights, presenting this as protecting "foundation of our political system." **Bottom Illustration:** Shows well-dressed men (appears to be political/social figures) in winter dress, though context is unclear from visible text. The page reflects late 19th-century racist political discourse opposing Reconstruction-era voting rights.
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A SELLING RACE, “Say, Mr. Komstock !" TS. S. V.—"* What is it, my child?” “A feller has jest opened a skin-game ‘round th’ corner. You'd better take a look at it.” MB: BIG FOOT surrendered just a few days before Christmas. No; the Indian can never be civilized. eee STONED OLIV We suppose some of the four hundred have been ignorantly swallowing the pits. eee F LITTLE WILDER had a larger face he would have a bigger smile ; but ‘twill do, as Mercutio remarked of his wound—‘twill suffice. eee SERVIA PAYS ex-King Milan one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars a year to keep away from her; and he is worth that as a ruler as long as he doesn’t rule. now. MBS. O'SHEA js said to have won the affection of Par- nell by being an accomplished musician; and this reminds us of the old proverb that they who dance must remember the violinist. OBERT LINCOLN is again mentioned for president ; but he preserves the same dignified silence that has heretofore characterized him, and casually observes that Mr. Blaine is in the prime of health. THE OTHER DAY a Canadian sheriff died of heart- failure at the very moment he was to have hanged a man, What a fine argument for the silly-billies who hold that a man should not be killed merely because he killed another man. ENATOR-ELECT IRBY killed a man. Then he defied the authorities of a town, Then he made a “nigger” horsewhip a white man who had offended him. Now he is a Baptist and a senator. One can never tell what a bad southern man will come to until he gets there, TROUBLESOME MAJORITIES. T IS OPEN talk in southern Democratic newspapers now that the black man must not be permitted to rule whether he has votes enough to be elected or not. It must be confessed that the experiment of negro-rule was. not successful in South Carolina and Louisiana just after the war, and we do not know what the whites of this state would do if they were asked to submit to the same exper- iment; but on the other hand the rights of the majority are sacred, and to deny them is to embarrass the founda- tion of our political system. If we say, for instance, that we will not submit peacefully to the rule of a black major- ity in the south, what is to prevent our conclusion that we will not submit to the rule of the criminal classes in this Warts —'* Hello! Potts—"* Yes, her little finger.” Mr. Komstocx —‘* Well, my stars!" city? The criminal classes have not the majority here, but they are so used by the greatest local political organization that they are a balance of power which is successful at every election. It is a shame, and a very costly one—quite as much a shame and an expense as the domination of the southern black; but if we rule certain voting classes out of the right to govern there ensues a greater danger still, and it includes a number of questions leading up to the matter of blood and the hereditary principle which had better be avoided. On the whole, the dem- cocratic theory that the majority have a right to rule is the best and safest. Let us stick to it until we find something fairer and better. HE HARDLY LOOKED IT. Isn't that Bigley with his new wife?” He's quite domesticated now, They say she just wraps him around comicbooks.com