Judge — May 23, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. W. J. Anxmit. LM. Grecony, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. TRO STATES AND CAXADA, IN ADVANCE. one year. or s7 numbers - $5.00 One copy One caps. THe JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BuILDINe), Cor. Fifth Ave, and 16th St., New York. nice advertiters a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other if paper published. Jovan ts for tane's. 17 Avenue de LOpera. by the American per acency at 1s Kine rect, Strand, W. C.. Lor wed at Saarbach's JuockaKe, [@ WOULD have been money in Mrs. Barnaby’s pocket if she hadn't had a cent. JOHN DREW and A. Daly have finally come to be two and consider- ably separable. THE SAILING away of that Chilian eruiser may be mentioned, perhaps, as a coup d'lt ORTHODOX — You needn't believe in hell, but if you preach against it you'll hear from it. ONES is too frank and innocent to be cunning. Puta pen in his hands and he'll stab himself to death. see MAXEY CLERGYMEN ike the Reverend Doctor Bridgman need not look fora pulpit; the pulpit looks for them. WE DON’T believe there is a For- er movement against. Major McKinley, and really the major can be successful without it. a ee A SPRING OPENING. P. HUNTINGTON doesn’t want the earth. Some recent rumors satisfied with the Continent. that he is more than TOR FASSETT is nominated for vice-president by the Bath Courier, and we all know that New York ought to be safe for the Republican electoral ticket. one PAPER says the president had accommodations during the tour that the czar could not command. Undoubtedly. Why should a mere czar command such things? A HOTEL recently had as guests John L, Sullivan and General Lew Wallace. The hotel was crowded with admirers of greatness, but the general was very lonesome. IIE CHINESE have their ideas as to American invasion; and really if Brother Blair were to go among them they would escape to this country if they had to come by wings or balloon. N HIS LATEST pictures in the daily press Roswell P. Flower wears a new kind of smile. It is turned down at the corners and hemmed on both sides, and there is a curious mixture of curiosity, amusement and perturbation in the expression of the eyes and the wrinkles at the outer edges thereof, ‘The middle of the smile looks as if Roswell were about to remark, “ Wh-what’s the matter with Jones?” IMMIGRATION — THE FIRST LAW. THE WIFE and daughter of Dr. Bontecou of Troy were insulted by two boatmen in Venice because they were Americans; and Wil Jacques of Newton, Massachusetts, riding with his daughter in in Florence, was ¢ by a mob and pelted with stones, the d: being severely injured. The Italian government is not responsible for these outrages and undoubtedly many like them which are not reported, and will probably do all it can to prevent their recurrence; but the Amer- ican public can get a very fair idea of the character of the ruffianism which is hospitably received and kindly tolerated here, to such disadvantage to our laboring people that many of them have to work for starvation wages, and others have not the privilege of work at all. While Messrs. Bontecou and Jacques will probably not ask for indemnity at the hands of the Ital- ian government, the next congress will be recreant to its duty if it does not pass, as its first law, an act regulating and very materially restricting the immigration to this country of criminals, common ruffians and paupers. SO MOTE IT BE, HE NOISE made by certain articles in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper has apparently not disturbed Mr. James G. Blaine. That gentleman, dignified, manly, wearing his greatness easily and gracefully, and happy in the confidence of his party and the people, -goes right on with his great work with his accustomed serenity, and no word or blink of his eyelids shows that there is aught in the political atmosphere that is not as he would have selected it. If others are disturbed or anxious, he is not. He has work to do and he does it, and does it well. That is enough for him at this stage of the various and somewhat unique developments, A GRAND JURY INDEED. ‘THE JUDGMENT of the grand jury of the parish of Orleans has the indorsement of every American, It might well be followed by claims for damages from the Italian government, if the theory is right that th: nation is responsible for the matters of states and counties. For years New Orleans has been to a considerable extent at the mercy of Sicilian and other criminals of the Mafia. ‘They have broken its laws, shot its guardians of the law, corrupted its courts, bulldozed its juries, controlled certain of its business, and caused it intolerable expense and humiliation. The law of the people that took the | of a few of these scoundrels was un- avoidable, In no other way could the honest men of New Orleans have rid themselves of a power that was rapidly reducing them to the condition of peo- ple who have no law but that of rob- bers and murderers, Hurrah for the grand jury of the parish of Orleans! THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE, HERE IS a vast amount of fool- ishness in the discussion of the prospective party competition of presidential candidates. It is not neces- sary nor wise to pivot the welfare of a great public policy on one Repub- lican or another. It should be remembered that the division of the party and the defeat of Mr. Blaine was not a defeat on party lines, but a defeat purely through personal loyalty to Mr. Conkling which was stronger than fealty to a principle. Mr. Cleveland's success was only through the acci- dent of a feud. Republican defection, narrowed as it was by the popu- larity of Mr. Blaine, was nevertheless, like the war of the Roses, the bitterest and most implacable, 4 The statement that the secretary is not a candidate is at once con- strued by his admirers, as well as Democratic intriguers desirous of utiliz~ ing the ferment of a fatal jealousy in the Republican party, as the selfish inspiration of the president. It is safe to say that neither Mr. Harrison nor any one of his family or friends is the creator of the statement. Mr. Blaine’s expressions to his nearest confidants have been unjustly warped into an act of renunciation, Is there no title to greatness except it be sealed by elective sanction? In the annals of the republic there have hardly been a half-dozen great men who attained the presidency, but numbers of political puppets and pigmies have. In European history who were its makers? In the long roll of French rulers there was but one Napoleon. It was Pitt, not the Hanoverian, who strengthened and broadened English do- minion ; and later Disraeli who consolidated it into an empire. In Ger- many was it the Hohenzollern, crowned at Versailles through von Moltke's conquest of France, or Bismarck, who stands, and will stand, as the his- ic figure? toric figure? palicar There are greater men than emperors or kings or presidents. Mr. Blaine is not likely to be dwarfed by his surroundings. If he chooses the laurel of national rather than the hazard of political success, and through his policy and counsel brings brighter and more affluent results to his coun- try, there need be no fear that the republic will forget or history ignore his services. Joa. comicbooks.com