Judge, 1892-05-21 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 21, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces critiquing social and political issues of the era: **Warner Miller** section discusses accusations against him, suggesting extenuating circumstances exist. **Governor Tilman** (likely Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina) is mocked for his contradictory positions on heaven/hell and enemies. **"The Most Unkindest Cut"** cartoon depicts a child expressing ambitions, satirizing parental expectations. **"Let Us Have More Fighting"** argues duels should be encouraged, using ironic logic that dueling improves society—clear satire of violent culture. **"The Woman"** section opposes women's suffrage, arguing women lack the right to vote despite custom. The cartoons below ("Avenging the Insult") appear to mock masculine honor codes through exaggerated fighting scenes. The page satirizes Victorian-era attitudes toward violence, gender roles, and political hypocrisy.
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ARNER MILLER is skip- ping around like one who fears the office is secking the : ij man and he is the man. MAY, FIRST THOUGHT of a Paris : WY Yi), jury—"If the accused is { Yi h an anarchist it is obvious that H f i Oa yf i there must be extenuating cir- Y/f) cumstane: NOBODY QUESTIONS the statement of Governor Tillman of South Carolina that he would rather go to hell his friends than to heaven with his enemies, and why doesn’t he start? WILLIAM ASTOR started on his last and longest journey without a cent in his slight clothing. How impossible equality is this side of the grave, and how unavoidable it is when you get there. [8 HIS “Automatic Wife” W. H. Ballou tells some of his characteristically interesting lies, and succeeds admirably in de- picting various impossible results of a philosophy obviously afflict- ed with delirium tremens. We know of few writers more per- sistently absurd, and they are THE MOST UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL, LitTLe ‘Tommy (to Ais sister's bean)—"* Say, Mr. Petitt, I'm going to be a banker when I grow up. What are you going to be when you grow up?” LET US HAVE MORE FIGHTING. THE DUEL should be encouraged. People who contemplate duels are fools, and experience in dueling improves them even if they die, But they do not die. They rarely draw blood. They are frightened against the possibility of straight shooting, and are as afraid of killing as of getting killed. When they get through with their firearms they are relieved and affectionate, and after the requisite conviviality become fast friends, each knowing the other to be as much of a coward and a fool as he is, himself, Good-fellowship demands more duels; though, to be sure, the duel that kills both combatants is far better than the one now popular. THE WOMAN. MB: GLADSTONE is emphatic in his opposition to woman suffrage. And that's right. Nobody denies the right of a woman to vote, but everybody questions the propriety of it. ‘That may be a matter of custom, and again there are male voters who have no more right to e hay vote than so many dogs; but it is shocking to think of a woman exercising any right that cus- READY BOR TUE CEALTS tom has forbidden her through the centuries. It is her privilege to be convicted by-a jury and ‘phwell, and phwat do ye think of me, darlint?” £0 to prison or the scaffold quite as if she were a man; but if she acts as a juror she unsexes “Shure, ye look jist illigent, but I phwisht it wura herself, loses her delicacy, and becomes an object of pity or contempt. mask-ball !"" AVENGING THE INSULT. Cocoanut Mikr (to new arrival) —"* Fore I'd be a convict !” THE NEW ARRIVAL—"* 'Fore T wouldn’t have no tail!” comicbooks.com