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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine, Issue 135 This page contains several satirical pieces on political and social topics: **Upper section:** Editorial commentary on labor disputes, anarchism, and autonomism—comparing non-union workers' rights to union claims, while mocking anarchist rhetoric as contemptible and autonomists as hypocritical "thieves." **"A Georgia Cracker":** A story about Watson of Georgia (likely Thomas E. Watson, a Populist politician) reporting to the House of Representatives on alleged "tattletale-monger" behavior among schoolchildren—satirizing what the author considers absurdly trivial matters being investigated by Congress. **Cartoons:** Several humorous illustrations accompany these pieces, including one with a caption "I hope the driver won't see me" (depicting someone hiding from a vehicle) and another labeled "A Great Thought," mocking political or social pretensions. The page reflects late 19th/early 20th-century American political satire.
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SUPPOSE the non-union men say the union men shall not work? Their side has the right of dictation just as much as the other side. AN ANARCHIST speaks with scorn and contempt of “the paid vassals of the press.” There was never any loftier contempt, ex- cept, perhaps, that of the hog in the gutter. see AUTONOMISTS call anarchists cowards, and anarchists call autonomists thugs and thieves. After all, there is something com- mendable about these fellows. Their opinions of one another are absolutely correct. eee HE WORLD formerly put plumes in the cap of Bismarck. Now the old man is so anxious for ornament that he does the pluming himself, and is continually catching A/a cold in his garrulous mouth and Z his bald old head. NOT VERY FLATTERING. Dumtzy—" Miss Ethel paid me such a ridiculous compliment, dontcher- Du ‘Miss Sweet—"* Indeed! What did she say?” Dumtey—"' That Homer could not have seen a more heroic figure than Miss Sweet—" That's so. Homer was blind." A GEORGIA CRACKER. was WATSON of Georgia sent to the house of representatives to reform it, to report its weaknesses, to ignore its worth, to act the part of that tattle-monger among school-children whom every other scholar thinks it advisable and excusable to kick? The man’s ignorance of the world’s ways is almost as startling as his nauseating noise and fanati- * cism. The house ought to be ashamed to investigate any of his discov- Oh, what a delightful— A GREAT THOUGHT. Deacon (entering the reom)—"*Gosh! look at dat, T'll playa four in policy to-morrer, certain.” comicbooks.com