Judge — April 18, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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18 JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK W. J. Arweit. AnD GILLAM 1M. Gu Editor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. OWITED STATES AND CANADA. I ADVANCE, One copy, one year.or s2 numbers $5.00 One copy. six months. oF 26 numbers 2.50 One copy: for 13 weeks nas Toclading the Curistaas Juncs. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To ali for ‘tign countries in the postal union. 6 a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BuiLpING), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York. $97 We guarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American satirical paper published. Tie Juocn it for sale at Brentane's, 17 Avenue de COps Newspaper agency at 1s Kine William street, Strand, W. 6 American Exchange, Maine, Germany. HUMBERT'S MINISTERS remark in general terms that they will administer things without fear or Fava. Paris, by the American Londen, and at Saarbach's eae, e TTACKS on Mr. Depew merely serve to show the gentleman what troops and great armies of friends he has. eoeks ‘THE DEBT of the Dominion is two hundred and ninety million dol- lars, and rapidly increasing. No, Dominion; no annexation yet. cess F THE MUSTACHE of our Jones were really that of Humbert he would demand immediate reparation and indemnity from D. B. Hill. eee SUGAR COSTS less than it did because of the McKinley bill; but the free-tariff liar will not have his salary reduced until after the next national election. eee WRITER recently saw Amelie Rives, and talks at length of her great, soul- ful eyes and her golden hair. The title of the lady’s new book is not given. eae HE KAISER telegraphed congratulations to Bismarck on his recent birthday. The dispatch is believed to have read Many happy returns—of the same kind.” | T 1S NOT just that Mr. Parnell should be aten ; but as he is beaten the cause of Ireland should present him with a pair of .., POLICEMAN (fv a. 5 Why don't you move on spectacles large enough to enable him to "Funpreny (illus recognize the fact. wantsh to cross th’ . procession to get by.” HOW WOULD it be for this government to demand of the Italians indemnity for the murder of Chief Hen- nessy and dozens of other victims of the Mafia? It’s a poor rule that doesn't work both ways. wus ° seTTHE AMBITION of my life,*.says the princess of Wales, “has been to mind my own business.” It is a noble ambition; but, in view of her sex, her royal highness* must at times have been very unhappy. NEARL sixty thousand dollars was raised for a Sherman statue by the New York Recorder within five weeks. That is so remarkable that it demonstrates the Recorder's right, and it hereby has our per- mission, to live, MB. BLAINE has been commended for his Behring-sea position by Harper's Weekly, and for. bis stand-on the New Orleans igcident by the New York Z/mes. Let Mri‘Blaine be careful. If he should get the unqualified support of the mugwump press he would be totally ruined. QUACKERY IN FINANCE. THE MINE-OWNING advocates of {ree silver, whose inspiration was helpfulness of their own fortune, have injected just enough temptation into their proposition to clinch on the public greed. If within thirty years the thirty millionaires of this country have increased to three thousand by getting something for nothing or selling to the public cheap investments at a higher price, why should not all grow richer by a similar process? The great holders of wealth have not, it is claimed, been creators, but simply manipulators. The wealth of the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goulds, HE WOULDN'T BREAK THE RANKS, Flaglers, Armours and others is the difference between low cost and high sales, between the buying for a dollar and selling for ten. They have marketed their shrewdness for cash and have the money. Why should not Dullness share and have also an extra dollar or two in | pocket? This, specious as it is, is regarded as logic. The fact is over- looked that all wealth must be labored for first, even if larcenied afterward. Yet, why not, the semi-socialist says, tax accumulations to a point of di- vision, so wealth may bear all the burdens and pay all the costs of govern- ment? The apostle of the great financial “faith-cure” does not propose to divide his little competence with the tramp, but his little competence is to be enlarged by division only with the millionaire. Tats: It is unwise for cither of the great parties to delude itself with the idea that the new force of the farmers’ alliance is simply.a craze, and a temporary one. In the west it is thoroughly under discipline. It is not only a secret organization, but it is Pinkerton in its watchfulness, and makes provision against desertion or treachery. The shepherds will not trust their lambs out of sight. They carefully environ their flo: barbed fences, and, no matter how tempting the pasture of “ green outside, no nibbling is allowed. t* In the state of New York the alliance is forcing its way eastward. The grange, which was and is simply an agricultural association barred from helping political ambition and interdicting political discussion, is gradually being abraded and absorbed by the larger and more aggressive force. Politically the recruits of the alliance are about one-third Democrats and two-thirds Republicans. To-day in the counties westward and southward of the centre of the state the alliance holds and will use the balance of power. It intends by independent nominations, or by selecting nominees who accept and will assist its policy, to largely control coming state and national legislation. The alliance is not likely to be affected by the usual abhorrent forces of per- suasion. It is puritanic as well as prejudiced in its convictions. It cares little for tariff re- tention or tariff “reform.” It does not accuse protection of depression, does not expect af- fluence from free trade. The one central idea around which the alliance just now revolves is, a financial one. The rock on which it claims to be founded is arithmetic. It masti statistics and ruminates the possibility of individual betterment by a national increase of silver certificates. It is opposed to national banks based on national bonds, and in de- —"* What's the matter with you? manding a greater volume of money by free at the street-lamps)—"*Cause | Seinage of silver it expects to enhance the reet, an’ I'sh waitin’ for th’ torch-light Value of farm products and the compensa- tions of labor. It is not opposed to the pen- sioning of the soldier, as by such disburse- ments money more swiftly reaches the producer of food, It favors liberal outlay for national defenses on land and sea also, to slowly, but as surely, reach the same result. tate t ‘At present the alliance 1s hesitating as to political partnership. It is flirting, The Democracy is waving its silver locks and soliciting its Tespect. It looks on Mr. Cleveland's anti-silver letter as an attempt at suicide with a pen, but believes after the “temporary insanity” is passed the temptation of a nomination will work a change. The skill of Gov- enor Hill as a machinist excites more admiration than confidence. His utterances on reform are regarded as the meaningless echoes of Samuel Mephistopheles Tilden, and his posing on the silver question as attitudi- nizing as a sphinx. t stag: The Republican measures on currency are not broad enough. The alliance believes we can take in not only the silver of Nevada and Colorado but:that of the world. It dreams that if this republic makes itself a mint for the German surplus and Mexican products our absorbent power will be added to that of Hindoostan and China, and the white metal equally with the yellow will become: the common currency of the world. t tt The alliance i 2isw York is disgruntled at the lavish appropriation for the state canals. They are regarded as channels to cheapen the trans- portation of competitive western products at our domestic expense. Its Republican contingent has despaired of a party leader and is turning to this new love, having lost faith in the old, managed by generals over- selfish and cunning or too unfortunately slow. 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