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Judge — March 24, 1894 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon titled "Working for His Dinner" depicts a tramp attempting to enter a wealthy household through a fence gate while a woman sits nearby. This illustrates the turn-of-the-century American social issue of homelessness and class disparity. The tramp represents the poor seeking work or charity; the woman's indifference suggests the wealthy's detachment from poverty. The surrounding text items are brief satirical commentary on contemporary figures and events: references to politicians like Gladstone, the Czar, and McKinley; social commentary on Irish immigrants; and critiques of women's suffrage activism. The tone is characteristic of Judge's conservative editorial stance, mixing gentle mockery with social criticism of current affairs and public figures.
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THE TWO GRACES of Kansas are Mary Ellen and Lewellen. THE CZAR has to go through life without the slightest in- surance on it, “NEW YORK is avery consid: erable state outside of the United States supreme court. GOP HELP IRELAND: Mr. Gladstone is young enough to take care of himsélé i, a must not be confounded i ! with the potato partially of that name. MCKINLEY is so strong a man that he can even stand the sympathy and support of Foraker. F DAN SICKLES had lost his other leg he would be the greatest of all growlers and draw five salaries for it, WORKING FOR HIS DINNER. Lazy SIMPSON (as @ brother tramp heaves in sight)— ever I doa disgraceful. thing somebody comes along an’ ketches me at it. MACKAY been over there fir hadn't minutes before beginning plans for a new theatre and several new plays. SOME DAY Victoria Woodhull will drop out of the newspapers, and then if she can’t die a natural death she will shoot herself with a club. [ HOPE Mr. Giadstone is not so blind that he can’t keep an eye out for the main Chaunce.—C. M. Depew. eee THE TORY that the first William bought the head of the first. Napo- leon lacks nothing but truth to bring about another Franco-German. S ANDY JOHNSON who said he was not trying to shoot dead ducks, and it is not known that Grover Cleveland has brought down any live ones. ele Your UNCLE HEWITT can’t talk without saying something. Ben Butler used to have as many ideas, but he lacked the dyspepsia nec- essary to make them. bite. ATE FIELD says it has come to be fashionable to sniff at Charles Dickens. There was once a man who sniffed at the universe, but he died before he had made a better one. HAIL! THE GLORY OF EASTER ought to hide all poverty and humiliation. No misfortune or suffering is beyond its beneficence. Flower and bud and viné and grass proclaim its presence, antl with it comes a song of new birth and better life. Blessings on it; and may there not be a bad egg. an old bonnet or a poor poem in all this world, OUT OF THEIR MINDS. SSUMING THAT WIMAN is guilty, how much he has lost to win so little! As a mere matter of honest value his good name was worth millions more than all the money he might dishonestly win; and it is a safe conclusion that he, and all men who sacrifice their self-respect as he did his, have lost not only their honor but their common sense. TROUBLE. HARD TIMES in Hong-Kong too. You can't buy a sixtee foundling girl there for less than a hundred dollars, and a mi says with poignant regret that that's more than poor people can afford. What, however, is the misery of those poor people in comparison with that of our poor people, who can't buy or hire a girl of any age with love or money? OUT FOR LIFE MB: SHEEHAN says he shall retire to private life, We have sus- pected this; and it is a consummation, indeed, in which his friends will assist quite as ardently as his opponents. They can’t afford to be dragged down by him, and there is-nothing they could not better get along without than his polit- ical company. « The man is not without ability, but the time has come when the people insist on honesty as well as capacity. And it is thought that Governor Flower thinks so too. PRIDE. OF KANSAS. MBS: LEASE has great vital- ity-and unlimited tongue. She can talk on anything at- any time, and. she talks interestingly whether she.is familiar with her subject or not. She has Irish blood in her, and is as ready to fight as to.eat. She believes in herself, and in all impossible politics, and her reception in the east has been gratifying enough to insure her reputation as a person of importance as well as a curiosity.. We don't know anything about Mr. Lease, but he must be more ‘than an ordi- nary man to have got possession of so extraordinary a personage. het's jest my luck! When- THE MELANCHOLY GRAND. SARAn GRAND finds it impossible, after profound thought, to have respect for the men of this period. She says they are without chiv- alry, truth or affection, and that they have only three jokes—the one on the mother-in-law, another on somebody drunk, and the other “an edify- ing deception successfully practiced by an unfaithful husband or wife.” This woman is bright and at times entertaining, but she was born at the wrong time. _ Her unhappiness is inborn and will last as long as she lives. One wonders that she should persist in her complaint of things which obviously can't be helped, but she does get such a deal of satisfaction out of it that it is not in one’s heart to deny her the privilege. WOMEN WHO ARE GREAT. RECENT MEETINGS of woman-suffragists in Washington-and New York made Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony conspicuous again, and it is not too much to say that they grace every assemblage in which they appear. The JUDGE looks back thirty years and finds that in that time women have been given the right to earn an honest living. ‘This means the right of self-protection, and in consequence a great lessening of the volume of evil. There are few business establishments which are not more or less managed by women, and that fact is a great victory for jus- tice regardless of the question of the ballot. All honor to the Stantons and Anthonys and their amazing patience and persistence, comicbooks.com