Judge — January 17, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Braxwaro Giitas. W. J. Ancent. LM TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 1NADVANCE, One copy, one year.or «2 numbers - $3.00 Fi One copy, six months. or 26 numbers - 2.50 One cops. for 13 weexs = us Including the Cunistmas Ju FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS Teall for ign countries in the postal union, $6 @ year Tue JuDGe PUBLISHING Company (Junce BuiLpinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St.. New York ware American The Je warantes advertisers a irical paper publithed. am ix for sale at Brentano's.r7 Avenue de Oper: sper agency at 15 Kine William street, Strand, W reer circulation at cheaper rates than EVERY SURGEON in Ireland prays incessantly for home rule. E LANCEY NICOLL has named his assistants; but let us be pa- tient in judgment—they have not yet been convicted. M&S. STANLEY is two inches taller than her husband; but Henry says he measures far more as to his waist and fame. THE PRIDE with which morality puts its foot on Parnell reminds one of the kick that generally belongs to the fallen man. monument fund the Boston Traveller, “is not growing now.” Dear boy, what is the Grant monument fund? GOP MADE both the Indian and tho Strawberry, and we know that the latter best answers the purpose of its creation when it gives it up. S A SENATOR to which pary would Mr. Dana naturally belong, and what would be the probable cause of his effort to club it to death? ERY DAY the grave of Stone- wall Jackson is crowned with flow= ers by some unknown person. Was it a mistake to save this government ? way Never BRacer — HERE HAVE been educated pigs, and some breeds of fleas have been taught to be amusing; but the wolf and the Indian are too powerful to be instructed. SMITH WEED as a protectionist believes in his ideas; but as a Demo- crat in search of office he is a free lance with the privilege of stab- s principles to death. SULAR how opposed the Democratic party was to the clections bill when it was the opinion of every member of the party that its passage would bury Republicanism some forty feet deep. Some- times we suspect the Democratic press of talking for the gratification of its large and beautiful ears. THE MODESTY WE LOVE. IING in the felicitations of the first day of the new year was more pleasurable than were the boasts of the daily newspapers with regard to their triumphs in the old one. We observe that one of these papers is entitled to all the credit that belongs to Dr. Koch's remedy ; but another declares that it beat all its contemporaries by the temporary union of the legs of a boy and a dog. Still another congratulates itself over the recovery of the pope from an imaginary sickness; while a more modest journal is content with the premature advent of a new prince to his majesty of Germany. “Aha!” said a journalist of the period anterior to type, “we were the first to give the news of the destruction of Mr. Abel by his brother Cain.” “ Mark the man’s impudence !" exclaimed a rival, “Doubtless the hydra-headed menial would claim the creation were he not A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. CREANT McGrecor—" My stars, Bracer! how'd yer git that I'm goin’ t' Sandy Walker's funeral. ‘ford t' put on mournin’, so I jest fell inter th’ gas-house coal-bin.” acquainted with the well-known historical fact that we were the only newspaper man present by special invitation, and that we saw it from the inchoate space to the first singing of the morning stars.” HOW DEMOCRATS WOULD RUN REPUBLICANISM. ‘0 THE GENERAL OB VER of current political propositions the first impression would be that the Republican party, following Demo- cratic advice, would be wise to abandon the principle of industrial pro- tection and promptly repeal the McKinley bill. That it should also re- enforce the new Democratic insanity vote for free silver. a cheap dollar and financial inflation. That it should abandon the policy of assisting our mercantile marine and leave to divine Providence and foreign ships the enlarging of our opportunities for international rade. Not only that, but if Republicans were patriotic they would wink at political intimidation in the south, and welcome ballot-cheating for peace’s sake. It is advised that not even the kindly resolutions of “the spider to the fly” be referred to the committee on grievances. It is suggested that the Republican party mugwump itself, slime itself to political perdition, and dog-face its countenance into servile watchfulness of the wishes of that resurrected Democratic dictatorship that howls with Alabama bluster, and if balked again promises blows. This adroit Mephistopheles, smoothing its scowl with a smile, leers into the listening northern ear that its investments will be jeopardized by justice; that the perpetration of political wrongs means safety to property. It appeals to the sordid part of human nature and hopefully indorses the assertion of one of its most conspicuous leaders that “the American people prefer moral rottenness to the semblance of being robbed.” fab Ost The fair elections bill, nicknamed the “force” bill, and against the enact- ment of which are gathered all the Democratic hostiles of the “bad lands” and a few Republican squaw-men who dread diminished rations from the alli- ance agency, is as necessary a provision for honest elections in the north as in, the south, The preposterous dread of negro supremacy is not more menac- ional welfare than the foreign clanship that makes Kilkenny supreme in the metropolis and changes the political traditions of all New Eng- land by the avalanche of the French Canadian vote —a vote that is as plas- tic and directable as was the peasantry of the middle. ages, and like it is petrified by ignorance and guided by superstition, No fair-thinking citizen in any part of this republic wishes to see the control of public affairs shaped by the blinded guidance of the des- cendants of the Congo or the Gaul, Celt or Dago. Yet any one familiar with the prevalent feeling of the south knows that social ostracism follows any differing from the dominant political opinion; that, in fact, to be a Republican is to be a pariah, and that a dissentant from the Democratic faith commits the unpardonable sin. + fF forthern Republicans are not effusive of affection for the negro. They do not wander around anxious to associate with or embrace the unfortunate color. Social equality or social admixture does not follow the desire to be just. Civil rights do not involve or obtain any other than strictly civil rights. There has been conferred on the colored man free- dom. The result of the rebeilion transferred the ownership by the master to himself. The gift of citizenship wisely or unwisely followed, and the right should be acknowledged or the gift be withdraw: hypocrisy to offer bread and then juggle by exchanging it for a stone. The south in municipal, state, county and town (or parish) regulates elections in its own way, and by its own methods its manner of accepting or suppressing a vote. Is it also to dominate and control by its dictation in the selection of federal representatives? We have nothing to say and no right to say aught in its local or state management. It becomes our affair, however, if fear of property or life suppresses a vast vote, to the voicing of a few and the selection of a member of congress by the casting of a thousand or three thousand votes while elsewhere it requires thirty * thousand. One hundred Democratic votes south of the Potomac are by ing methods made equal in weight and influence to a thousand north of it. The question before the federal senate is not one of senatorial courtesy but of national honor and national justice. ra SAD Couldn't Tt is. national comicbooks.com