Judge, 1892-07-30 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 30, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two main sections: **"The Happiest Time"** — A nostalgic poem about lost youth and aging, with an accompanying sketch of a solitary figure. **"Labor Against Law"** — A political editorial criticizing labor organizing. It argues that organized labor's coercive tactics—forcing workers to join, controlling who can work—violate democratic principles and individual liberty. The piece condemns labor leaders as tyrants and compares organized labor's methods unfavorably to even criminal activity. **"At Ocean Grove"** — A comic strip below showing a couple at a beach interrupted by a policeman enforcing a curfew ("ten o'clock"). The editorial represents Judge's anti-labor stance during the early-to-mid 20th century, opposing unionization as tyrannical while defending business interests and individual "freedom" to work without union participation.
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WHENEVER life's song is out of rhyme And fate and my plans won't thrive, ‘Then I love to muse ¢n that glorious time, ¢ The time when I wasn’t alive. ‘Those dear old days! When I let the years and the ages flee In the most uncounted way, ‘And never looked in the glass to see If my hair were growing gray. LABOR AGAINST LAW. ‘THE CONTEST at Homestead is not a struggle between labor and capital; it is a conflict between labor and law. Labor is, or at least is attempting, to trample on the principles of the declaration of independ- ence, and is scorning the inalienable right of every man to choose his path and pursuit, It is delegating to irresponsible and often treacherous leaders absolute direction and a tyrannical control of manliness and judg- ment—leaders who will for the glory of leadership sever the sinews of the bread-winners in the race. Has the dog absolute right to the manger? Is not the tyranny that starves any worker by robbing him of work worse than any other and more cowardly, as it assassinates below the belt? The ultimate outcome of a policy of dictation and proscription is not socialism; it is anarchy. When an organization assumes the selection who shall work, what restriction is to prevent, in case of real or fancied need, the same power selecting the more favored squads of its own mem- bership? It is conceded (at least stated) that this insurrection is not for wages (the daily earning being from two to nearly ten dollars per day), but a stronger oligarchy, which purposes to choose who shall and who shall not in a free country have the chance and selection of a livelihood. Organized labor, through its leaders, proclaims against all ‘other with equal rights ‘to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It threatens How they haunt me yet With dreams of content and bliss ; When there wasn't a hurt I could possibly get, Nor a joy I could lose nor miss. Chey may prate of the wondrous things that are Which existence alone can give ; But I know that my happiest days, by far Were the days when I didn’t live, Nor would 1 compare the pleasures shown In the present's frivolous scene With the endless raptures that were sof known, ‘The bliss that has never been. What wonder that still I love to speak Of this kingdom grand and free, That vanished away at the first wild shriek Of the infant known as me? I don’t care a jot how fortune flows ‘To the men on each side of me ; For the fellows I envy the most are those Who have not begun to be. MADRLINE 5. meIDGES, to murder the claimant and pillage its protector, No Arab slave-dealer. no African chief, has shown more barbarity than this. There is no more pitiable spectacle than that of a press, fattening on the excitement, cheer- ing on a contest of outrage and blood to reap a revenue therefrom. It is a safe crime—safer but more cowardly than that of the bandit who lures the unwary to loot and death. The contest can end in but one way, bitter and bloody as is its path. The menace to-day is against one manufacturing plant. Next it will take in other and lesser holdings, and why should it stop till the cottage is reached and shared by the tramp? Organized burglary asserts its right, and why not (if condoned) take all it cam teach? It is not the Homestead works that are threatened, but all property, from the largest to the least. aA RUINED BY HIS HONESTY. T MUST BE SAID for Grover that he has defined his position on the silver question, whatever his “ friends” in! congress may do about it; though, to be sure, the definition was so destructive that he will be called upon for no official action if the free-coinage bill passes during the next four years. We know precisely where he stands, and likewise how he is going to get out of the procession. AT OCEAN GROVE. * Darling, I could sit here forever listening to your words of love POLICEMAN —"* No, you can’t. Git off the beach—it's ten o'clock !” comicbooks.com