Judge, 1893-01-28 · page 3 of 16
Judge — January 28, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 57 This page satirizes **President Theodore Roosevelt** (identifiable by the "O'Haram" caricature with characteristic teeth and aggressive posture on the left). The main cartoon mocks Roosevelt's **imperialist foreign policy**, particularly his pursuit of the Panama Canal. The "ONE POOR HEART" poem depicts a woman (likely representing a nation or the American people) emotionally conflicted about Roosevelt's aggressive leadership. The bottom section, titled "A LIVING EXAMPLE OF A LAW IN PHYSICS," shows a figure being stretched on a scale marked "ZERO"—satirizing Roosevelt's economic or political policies causing strain or instability. The repeated phrase about "harmony" references Roosevelt's attempts to appear diplomatic while pursuing expansionist goals, mocking the contradiction between his stated intentions and actual aggressive actions.
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Or RARRAH A slveet zi ONE POOR HEART. MY LADY wears a silken string ; It seems to play no part, Yet from its swinging end, unseen, ‘There dangles one poor heart. She's like a beauteous queen to-night, With face and form divine. She sees me now. She gayly smiles. She knows that heart is mine. HIS TKADE SOOTS HIM, A LADY says she would never for- give a man who bowed to her without lifting his hat. The only exception is a man without arms, and it's mighty good of her to omit him. . THERE WILL probably be an appeal from the decision in the case of Dr. Briggs; wherefore let us pray for another Joshua and send a request to Gabriel to put away his horn. THIS WORLD was to have gone up in the latter part of ‘92. We now make bold to say to Totten, “Oh, Totty, you mean little whelp! Why so much humbug in that diminutive hide ?” eee HE KAISER thinks he ought to be supreme above the people, whereas the . people think they ought to be supreme above the kaiser. Differences like these lead to civil war, and one would think the people had the most guns. HIS HARMONIOUS GRIP. ‘s}[ARMONY!” Mr. Cleveland is reported to have said, speaking of the Dem- ocrats who carried this state for him, his eyes rolling in fine Jacksonian frenzy, “I'll give them harmony! If they drive me too far I'll crush them, as I have others.” One night, when the thermometer was far below zero, an angry man, clad in a single garment, bounced out-of-doors, caught his barking dog by “Goodness, it has warped the throat, and sought to strangle him. The next morning both man and dog my legs !” were found in that position, stone dead. .s “Td better get out and I "This i ing ; ee “s ‘ 2 thes Gonmacte Kee eter on Se ene eee ‘Ab! just a little more and" — * Tye stayed too long ! A LIVING EXAMPLE OF A LAW IN PHYSICS, comicbooks.com