Judge, 1893-01-07 · page 3 of 18
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# Political Satire from Judge Magazine (circa 1880s-1890s) This page contains several satirical items targeting contemporary political figures: **"The Need Supplied"** depicts a doctor (likely representing a political advisor) telling a patient he needs "travel" as medicine—a joke about politicians seeking office sinecures or travel budgets as compensation. **"Regarding Impertinence"** criticizes President Cleveland for claiming military service justifies his authority, satirizing his assertion that a soldier's right to reward equals a politician's. **"Aesthetic"** mocks fashionable affectations, with Miss Wagner and Mr. Cutler's dialogue poking fun at artistic pretension. **"He Borrowed a Fire-Engine Horse for the Parade"** is a humorous anecdote about civic pageantry, where substituting a fire-engine horse creates comic chaos during a public procession. The cartoons employ exaggerated illustrations typical of satirical journalism to critique political vanity and social pretension.
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]F ALL DIFFERENCES were adjusted in a Christian spirit—vide the Shepard-Gray case— this country would be continually involved in civil war. GOVERNOR FLOWER has given Susan B. Anthony an office, and in about five minutes the lady will declare that the right to hold office in- volves the right to vote. ESTHETIC, Miss WAGNER —“‘ Give me a nice big bologna sausage, Mr. Cutlets. Mx. CUrLErs—‘*Shall I send it tome for ue Miss WAGNER—"*Oh, no; I'll just take it along in my music-roll."” HE BORROWED A FIRE-ENGINE HORSE FOR “Ah, this is the prettiest horse in the parade,” THE NEED SUPPLIED. Doctor —"* What you need, my dear boy, is to travel.” Pattent—"' I have neither the money nor the inclination to travel Doctor —"' You say you are employed in a bank?" Patient —"* Yes, sir.” Doctor —"* Well, the only thing you could do would be to steal about ten thousand dollars from the bank ; then you would have money and inclination both.” D®. PARKHURST has not, as alleged, mistaken his vocation. If he were police superintendent he would break his neck over a thousand obstructions without reaching the one that is his principal affiction. MB: INGALLS speaks feelingly of “the period of meditation in which he has been placed by the mistaken judgment of his constituents.” A man of that philosophy is too good a man to devote himself to the raising of potatoes. REGARDING IMPERTINENCE, EVERY UTTERANCE of Mr. Cleveland is a chaste and delicate rebuke of the men who elected him and who, having elected him, naturally want their share of the flags and honors of the victory. We are to suppose, therefore, that in the view of Mr. Cleveland office-seeking is an impertinence, it having escaped his imperial mind that organization is as necessary to civil as military victory, and that the man of the musket has as much the right‘of reward as the man of the decorations. A happy new-year to the president-elect, but if he thinks he is greater than his party that is an impertinence which he will presently lament. THE PARADE. And just then the fire-bells struck. comicbooks.com