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This page contains political and social commentary from the Gilded Age era. The top cartoon "Had Heard About It" references Wall Street financial scandals, with Uncle Abner discussing a "stone wall" metaphor about financial collapse in New York. The "Populist" definition satirizes the Populist political movement, characterizing its supporters as wanting to seize property by force rather than negotiate peacefully. This reflects elite anxieties about agrarian and labor movements challenging wealthy interests. Other cartoons mock prizefighting professionals (Sullivan-Corbett reference), banking corruption, and political leadership failures. The "Reform the Roads" section critiques infrastructure while praising bicycles as agents of modernization. The satire targets: populist politics, financial fraud, prize-fighting corruption, and poor governance—reflecting Judge's conservative, pro-establishment perspective during America's tumultuous 1890s.
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Wa » Ne HAD HEARD ABOUT 1T. UNcLE ABNer—''I wish, Maria, when you git down to New York you'd see how that stone wall down in Wall street is made.” Maria—"* Land sakes, Abner! how do you know there's a stone wall there ?” UNcLE ABNER —"' Waal, son John said he ran up ag'inst it the other day.” A POPULIST is a man who believes that everything he wants belongs to him, and if he can’t get it peacefully he is being robbed and must take it by main force. Pahine Rumor says that Carl Schurz is one of the most persistent of the bexgars by whom Mr. Cleveland is beset.— Buffato Commerciat. [EEE US BE just. There are ~ other mugwumps who are quite as persistent as he. eee NATIONAL PRIDE, Mr. Corbett says, is the only thing that could induce him to whip Charles Mitchell. Mr. Corbett’s nation may be Ireland ‘or America, though we suppose AMEAVY-SET MAN, one is the same as the other. vee ‘A FORGER has joined the Sullivan-Corbett professionals on the stage, [T 1S MEET that Tammany should have the right of the line in the and a bank-burglar will shortly follow him, Soon the famous rat- inaugural procession, It had the wrong of the politics in the late catchers and scavengers will have their day. election, and it’s a poor rule that doesn’t work both ways. FOOT-BALL TERM—"' FOUL TACKLE.” a LEADER OF LEADERS. MB: BLAINE was greater than the presi- dency. Had he been a smaller man he might have had that honor. Losing it, the place lost more than he; and his death could not be more lamented if he had had it more than the conventional two terms. His was the grandest figure of his country in his time, and the malicious judgment that put a check on his ambition is cheap and mean as one recalls it in the solemn majesty that surrounds. his grave. REFORM THE ROADS. THE COUNTRY ROAD must be made better; and happily the old-fashioned farmer, who wouldn't spend five cents to make five dollars further on, is passing away. ‘There are farmers to-day who have some re- spect for the comfort and pleasure of their wives, and eke for their own; and a market an hour's distance instead of five hours off has come to be a consummation to be soon consummated. The bicycle is a great reformer. It will accomplish in improved es Ore ORs roads more than the years of thought and ee) : i talk in behalf of that reform of Governor the presen of MOM OR TCR pipe war bebe te Seymour and Governor Hill. comicbooks.com