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# Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis The main cartoon depicts two men in what appears to be a barroom or business setting, with the caption "CONTRACT RATES" and dialogue: "How much for a hair-cut and shave?" "Fifty cents an hour." This is a joke about pricing by the hour rather than by the job. The humor relies on the absurdity of charging for personal services on an hourly basis—suggesting either that the barber is unusually slow or deliberately inefficient to maximize payment. The cartoon satirizes emerging labor practices and pricing models of the era, likely mocking concerns about unions or workers organizing to charge hourly rates rather than accepting flat fees for completed work. The surrounding text column discusses labor organization and working-class issues, reinforcing this theme.
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CAPITAL is only the savings-bank of labor. eee VERMONT AND MAINE—* Was that thunder?” eee GHE LIKEWISE went in that way for Governor Cleaves. THE GREATEST tariff benefit—The end of the talk about it. eee PUBLIC OPINION —That Mr. Cleve- land has lost his centreboard. eee THOMAS B. REED is nearer the white- house than ever he was before. HE CAUCUSES held by Corbett and Jackson remind one of a senatorial debate. DEMOCRACY is simply the policy to nourish foreign instead of American industries. cee CHAIRMAN WILSON has gone abroad to get the thanks of his for- eign constituents, ere EBS'S LABOR ORGANIZATION is a proposal to take the ballot in one hand and dygamite in the other. eee THE CHINESE are greatly assisting the Japanese by cutting off the heads of such of their soldiers as fail to lick them. Bart WE JUDGE from Mr. Pullman's evidence that the strikers were roll- ing in clover and couldn't tell it from Russian thistle. eee [8 PORTUGAL a married woman cannot write for publication without her husband's. consent; therefore there are no Sarah Grands in Por- tugal, : cee WHEN SENATORS are elected directly by the people it will follow that the president will go to Washington by the same short and direct route. eee ss THE TRUSTS must go,” says the New York Press, ‘That order, thou sluggard, should have gone out before the passage of the Gorman tariff bill. SIXTY-SIX W LAWYERS were given sheepskins in this city the other day. Gentlemen may cry “Peace, peace!" but there is never going to be anything of that kind. N ONE DAY Senator Jones of Nevada became known to an astonished world as a populist and Senator Stewart of Nevada as a co-respondent. This is the rapidest fall ever known to the woolly west. CONTRACT RATES. Soctat. SAuNDERS—'* How much fer a hair-cut and shave?” Fifty cents an hour.” A POPULAR SPORT. [8 GEORGIA black men are shot if they try to emigrate. In Tennessee they are killed if they remain at home. There is only the old safety for the negro. He must “cut for de woods.” It is a popular idea in the south that, guilty or innocent, he has no right to life, liberty, or the pur- suit of happiness, THE.POPE’S REMEDY. ‘THE POPE. complains of the’ sligbtness of church contributions, It is never wise to’ mix the affairs of church and state; but a bull against the Democratic party, to which most of his holiness’s followers in this country belong, might do great good. There is no prosperity in’ the rule of that organization, and without prosperity Peter gets few pence. A DREADFUL FRANKNESS. [A EADY advertises in an Australia paper that unless her husband comes home and supports her she will marry another man at the expiration of three months. There is a directness here that is brutal. The aggrieved women who go to the Dakotas for relief are far more gifted in the diplo- macy of the law; though, to be sure, they usually have the same purpose in view, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. GEORGE GOULD deserved all the victory he didn’t get, and that is a large compliment for him, If he had captured the shortage he would have been loaded down with it, it was so immense. But he can use his ample fund to better advantage next time. It can’t buy the req- uisite wind and water, but it can secure good seamanship, fair ingenuity, good car- penters, and capable management. The lack of these was his undoing, THE VARIOUS COXEYS. ¢*GCATTER “is a fine word as applied to congress and the Coxeys, and it never loses in beauty and appropriate- ness. Let it be applied before every con- templated gathering and every moment during the gathering, and sung as a dox- ology directly after the dispersing of the assemblage, and this will be a happier and a better world. We have too many official and other Coxeys, and this country is governed too infernally much. LOW STAGE AND HIGH STAGE. ‘THE THREE ACTORS who make the most money are Sullivan, Corbett and Brodie. But this is not necessarily a re- flection on the stage. They have their admirers, as better actors have theirs; and the latter wouldn’t swap places with the three if they could thereby make their money and their kind of fame. There are cheap lawyers and physicians, as there are good professional men who come high; and all have a right to the money they honestly make. CHURCH AND POLITICS. A CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN insists that Catholics shall not act with either of the two great parties unless one or both of them pronounce openly against the American protective association. Doubtless both par- ties are opposed to that organization; but it is not always wise to say all that one thinks, or to give large importance to comparatively small issues. Then again, this is a contemplated union of church and state quite as bad as that which has been attempted by the new know-nothing organization ; and still again, the organization will die faster the more it is let alone. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? MISFORTUNES of the year lead unavoidably to a belief in Totten. ‘The people have had a Cleveland and a-congress on their hands. There has been no business. There have been innumerable strikes, and thousands of those who wanted work at any price couldn't get it. The drought was long and the heat insufferable. The woods have burned out thousands of lives, and the southwest has witnessed vast and destructive floods. The wonder is, not that we have not had signals from Mars, but that we have not joined particles with all the rest of the universe in chaos and everlasting smash. Come hither, Totty! If we have spoken lightly of thee, forgive us. Thou art a cheerful prophet, for there are worse things than the judgment after’ all, comicbooks.com