Judge — November 10, 1894 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon depicts a bearded man in formal dress wielding a telescope or spyglass while kneeling or crouching. The title references abolishing an "iniquitous" (wicked/unjust) tax. A barrel labeled "ROME" sits nearby, suggesting this concerns Roman Catholic Church taxation or financial practices. The figure appears to be a political or religious authority examining or surveying something, possibly critiquing how tax policy was being implemented or enforced. Without the magazine's date visible, the specific tax cannot be confirmed, but Judge magazine frequently satirized both governmental and ecclesiastical financial policies in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. The cartoon likely mocks either a tax's abolition as insufficient reform or its implementation as hypocritical.