Judge, 1892-10-15 · page 2 of 16
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The main cartoon titled "Those Out-of-Town Lots" depicts a well-dressed stranger pitching worthless real estate to a naive buyer near the water. The stranger claims the lots are "on the corner of Twelfth avenue and One hundred and twenty-first street" in what appears to be Manhattan, encouraging the buyer to visit "when the tide goes out to see the beauties of the place." The satire targets **land fraud schemes** common in the Gilded Age, where con artists sold swampy, unusable, or underwater property to gullible investors by misrepresenting its value and location. The implication that the land is underwater (visible "when the tide goes out") exposes the scam: the lots are essentially worthless, yet the smooth-talking swindler markets them as desirable real estate.
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W. J. Ancett. Brxnnaro Gittan. 1. M. Guncory, £dite TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $3.00 ‘One copy, six months, or a6 numbers - 2.9 One copy, for 13 weeks = = as Inclading the Cwristwas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— Teall for. tign countries in the postal wn THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JupGE BuiLpinc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street, New York. ONE GOOD TERM DESERVES ANOTHER. (27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—All the pictures in the Juoce are copyrighted, and must not be reproduced without the permission of the proprietors. Infringement upon this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. Me: COLUMBUS never voted a split ticket. cee THE OLD GUARD never surrenders—it just dies.—D. B. Hill. PECK'S FIGURES resemble our country’s papa—they cannot tell a lie. THE MOST RECENT Democratic platform— No Peckian domina- tion.” HE MOST popular song in Wash- ington recently—"G. A. R., boom- de-ay.” HAVE NOTHING to do with the Democratic platform. It has germs—it has not been boiled. eee MB: HOWELLS apparently looked upon the editorship of the Cos- mopolitan as a theory and not a con- dition, eee HERE ARE MEN in Tammany hall who are so tired they want to hire a few British blondes to do their kicking. MUGWUMPS may not be called raw recruits, Mr. Hill. They are int they are cooked to death, THOSE OUT-OF-TOWN LOTS. STRANGER — ‘I bought two lots out here in Boomtown-by-the-sea. ably cooked—one may even say They are on the corner of Twelfth avenue and One hundred and twenty- first street. Can you tell me where they are?” Restpent—" Can 1? Why, I was elected mayor last week; but create spectacle, develop memory, and in November will be far too late for the far-reaching avarice of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, HIS LAST AND LONGEST. ‘THAT MR. CLEVELAND js a man of courage is shown by his letter of acceptance. ‘There was fear on the part of his opponents that he would withdraw, but he advances to his ruin as did the Hon. Mr. Sullivan in the twenty-first round. It is true that he says nothing in his letter which he has not said a hundred times before, but his emphasis is good enough to bring pardon for his iteration. We shall part with Mr. Cleve- land in November with real regret. He is no small man, and the hole in the ground he at present occupies will come suddenly and be capacious. THE VETERANS. 'HE GATHERING of the veterans at Washington recently was not intended as a Harrison demonstration, but it had to whistle that way. It could not be avoided. Harrison was a soldier and Cleveland wasn't. Reid was a war correspondent and Stevenson gave aid and comfort to the rebellion. Cleveland's pension vetoes have united the veterans against him, and, as General Sickles says, very few of them will vote for him. We state the facts. They are very significant. The flag of the union was the Republican flag throughout the war. It was for protection then and it is for protection now. PECK’'S SWEET TRUTH. ELLERY ANDERSON appears to think it the first duty of an office- holder to lie for his party, or, if not that, to hold his too active jaw. Now we do think it suspicious that Peck should have disclosed his facts in the time and manner selected for that great act; and yet is it not possible to accredit him with a love of the truth, a patriotism beyond office-holding, or a stupidity from a partisan point of view that is lofty and solid enough to be classic and beau- tiful? We prefer to look upon Peck as an innocent patriot who is not to be bought with British or any other gold; but, apart from that, his truth is a picture of silver in a surround- ing of gold. THE FATHER OF HIS —— = CONTINENT. WE CELEBRATE COLUMBUS. New York leads the general exhibition, and shows Chicago how to eee you want to come around when the tide goes out to sce the beauties of give voice; color and music to grat- THE WOMAN in haste has been Place.” - known to forget the most impor- ; tant of the packages, the one containing the baby. Do not overlook the tariff. R, COCKRAN isa fine orator, but he will never equal the address ia Chicago which he is now laboring to show was merely a flaming rag of flimsy falsehood. soe H#ts CONFESSION that he is still a Democrat may be frank and manly, but really nobody has suspected him of psalms, prayer, or the slightest change of heart. THERE WERE several mugwumps in the crew of Commodore Co- lumbus, and they had to be put in irons to prevent mutiny. But for that the discovery might never have been made. WRITER objects to the habit that many women have of putting change in the mouth, He obviously doesn’t think they mean to swallow it—their facilities for utterance are too copious. R. GODKIN endangers the harmony by demanding the removal of Health-officer Jenkins. Good gracious! does he think he and the cholera are of more importance than the Democratic ticket? THE RESULT BEFORE THE BATTLE. [7 18 WELL for the Democracy to carry their states before election. Thus the Cleveland Plain Dealer has already corraled Wisconsin, lowa and Illinois for G. C. and Nevada, Colorado and Kansas for Weaver and Field, while I. P, Gray says as to Indiana that he has ‘opes. Never put off till to-morrow what should be captured to-day; and election-day itude. Whatever Columbus might have been as to his general charac- ter—pirate, brute, gold-hunter, what-not—he cafried the standard of morality and he found a new world. Great men are less perfect, judged by catechism, than small ones; and if we remember their small vices to forget their great deeds there shall be no heroes. To this man we owe all we are. But for hiri we should probably not have been. He filled a void. He bridged a chasm. He was a long-felt want, He has had many funerals and he deserves more. Ta-ra-ra! Let the bands play and the orators proceed. HARMONY. AT THE RECENT ratification meeting Warner Miller wore a smile like the aurora-borealis, our Chauncey laughed like the half-moon whose horn you can hang your hat on, and Thomas C, Platt blazed and coruscated like the gallant Mars in his late visit to the gentle moon. There were also’ rainbows all around the political horizon, and afar off some little stars put on great shines and sang a song for Benny Harrison. OUR RECENT PERIL. HEN MR. GODKIN reached this country he found everything going wrong. There was cholera and no good health-officer.. Mr. Cleveland hadn't caught a fish and was in bad spirits. The Wor/d and the Sum were misbehaving, the crops were maturing with alarming slow- ness, the garbage wasn’t half taken care of, the cook had a new sweetheart and the potatoes were only half baked, the dog in the back yard barked incessantly, and the milk was two-thirds water of the kind that hasn’t had a boil. “Well, I'll be blanked!” said Mr. Godkin with great vehemer ze. “That's always the way. I can't leave five minutes without danger to the country and the government. What ‘ll they do when I die?” comicbooks.com