Judge, 1894-03-10 · page 2 of 16
Judge — March 10, 1894 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This cartoon satirizes political corruption and bribery during the Gilded Age. The central image depicts well-dressed men dining together—a scene titled "A Very Light Lunch"—with the joke playing on exchange dialogue: "Second Cannibal: 'Why, you just had your lunch?' / First Cannibal: 'Yes, but all I had was one black.'" The "cannibal" reference is a period-appropriate (though offensive) metaphor for corrupt politicians metaphorically "devouring" citizens through graft and fraud. The cartoon mocks how politicians and businessmen constantly seek bribes and kickbacks, treating public resources as their meal. The broader page discusses political reform, election integrity, and Republican malfeasance, suggesting this appeared during a heated electoral period addressing government corruption.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
sudge. W. J. Ament. Brrvwano Gian, T 3 EB |. Geecor iter. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $3.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers One copy, for 13 weeks + Including the Cwrrstuas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— cin countries im the pottal wnier ‘@ year. THe JuDor PUBLISHING COMPANY (JuDGE BurLDING) Cor, Fifth Ave, and 16th Street, New York. CW We guarantee advertivers a larger circulation than any other American satirt- cal paper published. ‘Soitas Amsler Gents Newtautle streets Stand, Londo ud cy Ch. B. Alioth, Geneva, Switzerland. 48, Leipsic, Get bie nddress— $27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy- right in both the United Ssates and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. THE DUTCH took Holland and the Platts Milholland. GUM-CHEWING was invented for women who have nobody to talk to, RINCESS COLONNA retains her title and drops the incumbrance which made it valueless. EVERY TOWN in this state that has voted this spring has put a flea in the ear of the Democratic party. SAGE has laid up some of his treasure in the Brooklyn tabernacle, which is troubled with moths. THE THOMAS CAT sent Mayor Gilroy from Ire- land is not as valuable as the Thomas acquired by your uncle Croker. LATT FEELS HURT because Parkhurst calls him a boss. Perhaps he wants to be known as com- mander-in-chief. T IS POSSIBLE that our Thomas, who believes in home rule, thinks Tioga county is to be a part of the greater New York. T! First CANNIBAL—' SECOND CANNIBAL Fixst CANNIBAL— STORY that Sam Jones has converted John J. Ingalls is iridescent idi When Mr. Ingalls wants to be converted he'll do it himself. CORBETT was handsomely treated by the students of Harvard; so u fter all, there is something of an educational nature besides foot-ball. HE WOODS of Ohio are full of Republican organizations, and every one of them is hard at work throwing up its hat and nominating William McKinley for president. AST DAY having been abolished by the Massachusetts legislature, there are persons who are looking forward to Totten’s early judg- ment with considerable confidence. owe T IS PATHETIC to contemplate the stealing of William Sheehan's good name by the newspaper correspondents whom William mentions as “these creatures.” The shameful things ! “THE LAST BOMB-THROWER of Paris found it necessary to the advancement of his great principle to kill several strangers, the « inal impelling motive being revenge for his discharge from a café. A small idea in a small head is a very dangerous thing. A VERY LIGHT LUNCH ty eye! but Tam hungry.” “Why, you just had your lunch !" Yes; but all [ had was one dude.” THE CLOTH IN DANGER. A CLERGYMAN who went to the last French ball says that what this country wants is old men’s Christian associations. We don’t know whether he judges from what he saw or what he'experienced, but it begins to look as if the most crying need of all was an association for the refor- mation of clergymen, HER COWARDICE, LADY tells in the Troy Press how shocked she was to see a well- dressed man smoke a brier-wood pipe in a public street. Obviously it was her duty to snatch the murderous thing from his lips and give him a meerschaum, but she ran shrieking away and left him to his fate. That is the kind of a moral reformer she is. HOPE FOR THE BALLOT-BOX. W'TH McKANE and other thieves of the ballot-box in the peniten- tiary there is a fair assurance of honest elections; but it is gross injustice that the prince of this kind of villainy, the ex-honorable Mr. May- nard, should escape the law. However, the people have attended to his case, and there is no escape from the punishment of their verdict. RICHARD'S SATIRISTS. R. CROKER doesn’t claim much as a student of political economy, but he knows enough to condemn the Wilson bill as a menace to general prosperity and a tremendous danger to the Democratic party. Some of the critics of Mr. Croker have yet to acquire that information, and yet they please themselves with the assumption that they know it all. OH, NO. THE EDITOR of the Elmira Advertiser really believes that Senator Hill will run for governor this fall, with the purpose of be- ing the presidential candidate in 1896. There is nothing that the little man is afraid of; but we cannot believe that he will adopt this ex- tremely rapid method of re- tiring to private life. Besides, if he is that crazy, Mr. Flower would not swap for the sen- atorship, because that prize will assuredly be in the hands of a Republican legislature. KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD. THE EXPERIMENT of road-building by the con- victs of Dannemora has been very successful. Let us hope that it will be tried elsewhere. Good roads mean wealth as well as comfort and conven- ience, and road-building comes in competition with no general industry. There is no reasonable argument against it. It has been urged that exposure to passers-by is unnecessary disgrace to convicts; but the dis- covery of their criminality is more shameful than the spectacle of their doing penance for it THE MARTYRED SHEARMAN. HE MANUFACTURING TOWN that mobbed Brother Shearman for talking free trade was guilty of bad manners; but when men who have been prosperous are forced to idleness and starvation they find it hard to treat tenderly the principle that has wrought that great misfortune. Within a circuit of ten miles, with Gloversville and Johnstown as the cen- tre, thirty thousand people were prosperous and happy under the benefi- cence of protection, and they have been out of work a good many months. Brother Shearman would be as wise if he tried to peddle silks and dia- monds in an almshouse. WHITELAW. THE JUDGE would be glad to see Whitelaw Reid governor of this state, He is able and honest, though at times indiscreet, and he has done much for his party. But the JUDGE does not believe, as it is said Mr. Reid does, that it was Harrison's unpopularity that defeated the last national ticket. It has a suspicion that Mr. Reid is not as popular with the public as Harrison was and is; and it can easily see, in view of the Republican situation in New York just now, how Mr. Reid as a state can- didate would be wrétchedly handicapped. Some day, perhaps; but not now, Whitelaw—not now. comicbooks.com