Judge, 1893-08-26 · page 2 of 16
Judge — August 26, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts two figures: a man in striped pants (appearing to be a wealthy businessman or politician) looking anxiously at a bathtub, while another figure holds his hand reassuringly. The caption reads: "DIVES—'What yer want ter do wid it?' / FOGERTY—'I vos promised mine wife to led her seem me take a bath in der subs.'" This is satirical commentary on financial panic and banking anxiety. The "plunge" likely references stock market crashes or financial speculation of the era. The Jewish-dialect humor (typical of Judge's era) associates the immigrant working class with financial desperation, contrasting sharply with the wealthy figure's nervous hesitation to risk money. The bathtub metaphor represents taking financial risks—going "under" economically.
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TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CAKADA, IN ADVANCE One copy, one year, or s2 numbers ‘One copy, six months, or 26 number One copy. for 13 weeks = Including the Cuxistaas Juoce. IPTIONS—To all for- the postal uni TH JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Juvce BUILDING) Cor. Fifth Ave, and 16th Street. New York. (9-1 guarantee advertivers a larger circulation than any other Americ cal paper published 3 The van is for sale at Brentano's, 17 Avenue de lOpera, Paris, Co., 25 Newcastle street, Strans mm, England; at Saarbach aa y listh, Geneva, Stitsertand. satire. mith, Ainsiee &* jews Exchange, {27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Junce are protected by copy- right in bott the United States and Great Britain, Tafriagement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted, ZARS that it is the appraiser's office that takes the Bunn, me the presidency of these states.— Il T APE G'VE ME LIBERTY o DB. Hill. Wiiom TE convention. SOME MEN who contemplate the English commons are tak- ing boxing GODS would destroy they bring together in a bimetallic ERE. Excep- tionally healthy scason. But beware cf the grip of the cable car. [N POKER the hand you hold is of no consequence. You want to know how to play your counte- nance, A.W: THURMAN is a chip off * the old Roman—so very far off that he ought to belong to some other family. TOTAL DISABILITY—The ef- fort of Hoke Smi.h to fix the ions awards so that they will and fair. JOE CHAMBERLAIN, in the w of the Rochester Union, isa inne ard. Ob, dear, no! He isn't thin-skinned. eee S¢TEACH THE INDIAN how to milk,” says Hoke Sm'th. First get your cow; though perhaps the Indian understands that part of the reformation. Diver. in der surfs. THOSE PERSONS who look for wickedness in the midway plaisance are usually so disappointed that, as in the case of Henry Watterson, it makes them ill. . [PON * silver, and proposes a readjustment after the manner of the Bacon- Shakespeare business. LY is convinced that the value put: upon gold belongs to EAVEN AND PORK are not closely connected, ‘but there must have been some celestial authority in the ruin of the several firms that got up the late Chicago hog corner. THE DOCTORS said the black man who tried to recover {com the first shock at Auburn prison was unconscious and didn’t suffer.“ He's dead,” said Paddy of an apparent corpse, and just then the corpse moved. “He's dead,” said Paddy, “but he isn’t sinsible of it.” THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY. DECLARATION by authority that the McKinley law would not be repealed or changed would settle the business disturbances of PREPARING FOR THE PLUNGE. EcketstEiN—" Vot you sharge me fer dot suid fer helluf an hour?” * What yer wan’ ter do wid it?” **T vos bromised mine vife to led her seen me daig a bath this country in twenty-four hours. Is not that so? Does anybody doubt it? REVIVAL OF BARBARISM. [7 1S NOT ENOUGH to hang a negro without a trial, down south. He must be “shot full of holes” and then burned; and there are few days of late that have not seen one such victim. Think of that, good optimist, when you reach your daily conclusion that the world is getting better. Is it not a startling fact? THE AWFUL LAW. T TOOK GREAT LABOR and a like amount of pain to get the world’s fair open on Sunday, and then the courts fined the directors because they closed it just once on that day. After that we should think the Sunday-closers would jump right out of their skins—if they might open them for that purpose on some immaterial week-day. OUR DAVID'S SHREWDNESS. ENATOR HILL in an agricultural address strikes out for personal lib- erty, and scores the cranks who call themselves prohibitionists. There is a wide field for discussion here, and in attacking the cranks the senator shows an ardent desire for popularity. ‘There isn't a party man or a tem- perance man or a business man of ordinary sense who isn’t indignant at their plan, their audacity, their ignorance and their self-righteous impu- dence. A COWARDLY BRUTE. 5 ENGLAND has taken care of herself in the settlement of the Siam business; but her ac- quiescence in the published terms of the settlement, whatever private understanding may exist, looks like the cowardice of strength in. the face of intolerable outrage and in- justice. And now let us hope that France, having boxed the ears of the lion, will go right to work to twist that animal's tail. There ought to be more than cheap rob- bery in this chapter of history. MONEY AND HUMAN NATURE, THOSE PERSONS who deposit in savings banks are anxious proportionately with the amounts deposited. That is to say, if they have much at stake they are not alarmed, and if less they are slightly disturbed, and if next to nothing they have hysterics. There is an old story of a man who heard, in a time of panic, that another bank had failed. “I ran all the way how and arrived there breathless,” said, “and 'I found 1 had no me in that bank nor in any other, I tell you; I felt better.” NO PICTURES? HETHER PICTURES are proper in daily newspapers depends somewhat on the question whether they are good pictures. High art is not expected, but good art is, Propriety, accuracy, and judgment as to selection of topics for illustration are indispensable. Frequently a good picture gives at a glance more than can be told in type in three times the space it occupies. To say flatly that pictures should or should not be given is as unsatisfactory as to question the propriety of type on white paper. OUR ANGEL MURDERERS. HERE MUST be no capital punishment at all, Probably the killing of murderers by electricity is the very ecstasy of humanity in justic yet here are a dozen newspapers crying out against it because of a partial failure in the completeness of its management. At times, in the older method of hanging, the rope breaks, and that is dreadful too, Other methods of execution have their weaknesses. The design appears to be to kill the man who ought to be killed so tenderly that he won't be in- 1d that would be well if it were possible. But we can get pretty Let us kill the murderer with kindness. Let us give him bou- quets and good living and tears and a monument when the dear fellow shall have died comicbooks.com