Judge — February 14, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. Aww. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN) ADVANCE One copy, one year.or s2 numbers $5.00 One copy, six months, of 26 numbers - 2.50 for 13 weeks 135, jing the Cristitas Jupae. BSCRIP TIONS To al for ign countries in the postal union. $6 a year THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (JupceE burnine), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York EB We guarantes advertiners a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American tativical paper published. The Juoc is for sale at Brentane's, 17 Avenue de Opera. Paris, nd by the Aneers ican Newspaper agency at ts Kine | Loniton. HEN WE GET to compulsory voting we shall be quite near to compulsory prayer. RATTLE HIS BONES over the stones; he's only a statesman whose name is Jones.—D. BR. Hill. CLOTURE WILL have its triumph, but it may have to wait till the adjournment of congress. THERE ARE NOW six new cures for every known disease, and a few for those which are merely expected. eee SOME RECENT rumors as to Mayor Grant's power of vision remind us to remark that he had better mind his eye. SWEDENBORGIAN says angels have no wings. We are glad of that, The traditionary angel might be- come too fly. COLLECTIONS OF SPOON a fashion writer, is the Why, that’s not new. Ben Butler started that fad nearly thirty years ago. CASE is reported of a man accident- ally hypnotizing a child. ‘The child slept long, and it was hours before the doctor could dislocate the hyp. SPECIAL ° LEGISLATION of silver is well enough. in behalf corked one.” Of course legislation for black men is out of place because, slavery having been abolished, they own themselves. WHEN THE POSTMAN brings Uncle Sam a valentine and the same is a picture of Pfeffer he will remark, sneezing with great violence, that this caricaturing has got to be stopped. HERE IS ONE rumor about Mr, Ingalls which we do not remem- ber to have seen. It accredits him with an offer of the kingship of the Sandwich islands at a salary of a million a y wants every man to make his own Still, THE FARMERS’ ALLIAN money and calls for the destruction of the Republican party. it is indisputable that some people think it is not crazy T IS A GOOD TIME to remedy the meanness arid injustice that brought about the late Indian war; but a surrendered enemy is apt to be forgotten until it becomes necessary to bury him. TIS TRUE that Pagilist Sullivan is absent, but this is not wh commend the Elks in dismissing htm from that societ However, as a matter of self-defense perhaps the Elks had better put up their front hoofs. TIT FOR TAT, “By Jove, old man, that tile on top of your ulster makes you look like a corked bottle!” “And your seal-skin cap makes you look like an un- PRIVATE GREED AND PUBLIC SACRIFICE. HE DEATH of Secretary Windom by its tragic emphasis will draw close, and perhaps solemn, attention to his last words of financial counsel. He died asa sentry at his post, the thread of life worn by per- sistent duty to the breaking. His last utterances were guides for the future and warnings in defense of the honor of the country—protests against any scheme, however glossed by greed, that beneath the abrasion would show rottenness, personal or national. tft It seems to be the fate of the great parties of the country that at not very remote intervals some immature schemes, born of crude endeavor for betterment without labor or thrift, should seize the public mind. The new schemes proposed by the leaders of the farmers’ alliance are absolute and somewhat rival insanities. The proposed confiscation of railroads, to be run at simple cost of transportation, the balance of the burden falling as much on the unuser as the user, and the demand for government loans on real estate at two per cent., are the resurrection in a more virulent form of the greenback craze. Already the bare exploiting of such theo- ries has lowered confidence in western investments. If persisted in it will result in an absolutely broken credit. A prudent man will no more trust a state, or the separate individuals that aggregate a state, while in- dulging in such financial illusions than he would exhibit confidence in any one boasting beforehand his purpose to be a thief. ttt While it is the moral strength, it is the political weakness; while it is the in- tellectual glory, it is the political shame of the Republican party that its cohesiveness and prowess are threatened by the erratic independence of its members. It is sur- prising that upon the straight path of public policy, national honesty and honor there are so many stragglers whose wan- derings, if from any other organization, would brand them as deserters. Cam- cron, just re-elected by the Pennsylvania legislature, is really in purpose and action a bourbon of South Carolina—a millionaire in purse, a pauper in principle, who for personal profit has played the Judas. “If Pennsylvania has any state respect it will demand of him the emptying of the sen- atorial chair and swiftly degrade him again tothe ranks. yyy In no country in the world except- ing this is the control or direction of national legislation jeopardized in its hon- the paramount personal interests aw-makers. The great mining kings, Stewart, Wolcott and McCullom, tossed by the lift of successful and per- haps unscrupulous venture, have seeming- ly debauched their constituents to achieve a representative position, and now purpose to use the national legislature, as they would their mules, to draw their smeltings to the market of the federal mint— to sell to the people of the United States through free coinage eighty-three cents’ worth of silver for a dollar, simply gorging the octopus for millions of annual profit.” The bulk of the hungry Democracy and a host of credu- lous western Republicans indulge in the delusion that plenty of so-called money means valuable money and prosperity. They are forgetful of the thirty-years-ago issues of the confederacy, when it required a thousand dollars of degraded bills to buy a basket of eggs. Free silver with all Europe emptying its unusable accumulations in exchange for gold is likely to bring us also to the payment of a pound of silver for a peck of fruit. ttt It is not modern or new that the gangrene of gain poisons the blood and skews the political vision. Plunder now, as heretofore if all times, is very apt to tread on the heel of unwatched or unrestricted power When Stanford, protesting against the dilatoriness of the senate, yet him- self the greatest absentee, added to the length of his record of shirking by attendance at a horse-sale he not only misrepresented his constituency but condoned and assisted the Gorham tyranny of home rule by political repression and Southern boycott. Republicanism bends in shame at a delinquency of its representatives that solidifies into treachery. The scant minority is all that is left of its “legion of honor.” ‘The empire state of New York. however, is proud to be saved the humiliation of finding its senators among either the bulldozed or the brigands. Joke . comicbooks.com