Judge — September 15, 1894 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "The Same Old Crow" - Judge Magazine, September 15, 1894 This political cartoon uses the fable of "The Crow in Fine Feathers" as satire. A crow dressed in borrowed peacock feathers represents a political figure—likely someone in the Cleveland administration, given the reference to "Grover Cleveland's Letter" (August 1894). The accompanying quotations criticize treason and political deception. The fable's moral—that stripped of borrowed plumage, the crow remains unchanged—suggests the cartoon attacks a politician as fundamentally dishonest or unchanged despite outward pretenses of reform or respectability. The "deadly blight of treason" reference indicates serious political scandal, though the specific figure and incident require additional historical context beyond what the image alone conveys.