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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains multiple editorial commentaries rather than a single cartoon. The central illustration depicts "A Masterly Retreat"—showing military figures in what appears to be a disorderly withdrawal, likely satirizing a recent military or political setback. The text sections address various social issues: government overspending ("The Wealth of a Pauper"), clerical hypocrisy ("Enticing Persons"), and moral failings among the wealthy. One piece criticizes a woman who killed her starving infant rather than seek help, questioning society's values. The overall tone reflects Judge's characteristic blend of political criticism and social commentary, targeting government inefficiency, religious corruption, and class inequality. Without specific dates or clearer context in the visible text, the exact historical events referenced remain somewhat unclear, though the satire clearly targets institutional failures and human cruelty.
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W. J. Arwen Beaxnaen Giitan, 1. M. Geecon: Editor. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATRS AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or $2 numbers = $500 One copy ‘One copy, for t Incliding, FOREIGN SUPSCKIPTIONS—To all forcion countries in the postal union, $0.00 a year, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupcr Buipixc), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. REO THE PUBLISHERS of the Nevo Vork weekly JUDGE notify the public that the use of JUDGE in local advertising schemes by printing and inserting advertising pages between ite leaves is a direct violation of the publishers’ rights under the copy right law, and all copies of JUDGE are told upon the express condition that they will not be nied Jor such purposes. ome is authorized by the publishers to use JUDGE in this manner, and they will take prompt measures to stop anybody from s0 using their paper. Notice is hereby given that the United States circuit court has recently granted an in- junction restraining the use of JUDGE in that way. JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPAN "110 Fifth avenue, New Vork. FF NOTICE TO PURLISHERS.-The contents of Junce are protected by copy- right in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. G ML HE PURPO:! was apparently to assist the Japa- nese in getting a few more victorie: F THE BRITISH should fight to get our gold they'd get whipped— there's consolation in that reflection. HE KAIS canal, unts-to build a ship- Why. Waste money. that way? Why not spend it on the army? ISS ANTHONY says she has not home in four years, The mission of this lady seems to’be to make home unhapp HE AFFECTION of the count of Castellane for a young lady of this city is so pronounced that he thinks all that glitters is Anna Gould. HERE 1S TALK by the Press of that city of a greater Troy. From a political point of view it would seem better to have it greatly ensmalled. eee T 1S UNFAIR in the Buffalo 2r- press to cry out against cold street cars when it knows that the janitors of those vehicles have frozen to death, $s KISS means death,” says the poet of the Atlanta Constitution, Very well. popular, step Miss Jac ON (in Mr. Jon Jackson; below mah dignity. Here is a method of suicide that is going to be extremely THE LADY of Newark, New Jersey, who gets ten thousand dollars of a trolley company for injury to her thumb may.almost be:said to have the company under the afilicted member. THERE IS A BILL before this legislature prohibiting.all sparring ex hi ons, with or without gloves. Presently we shall’ have a bill obliging the girls of Vassar to stop sliding down the bannisters. Has it ever occurred to these little legislative tyrants that in some respects the people of this state are capable of attending to their own business? THOSE PEOPLE in son, lawaii_ are talking too much of hanging for trea First the queen did it, and now the new government is at it. ‘The difference between political success and treason is so slight nowadays that that kind of talk is foolishness and barbarism, and only a nation small enough to put in your hat wonld be silly and bombastic enough to be guilty of it, A MASTERLY RETREAT, brack trash fo’ when he downright insult yo" by callin’ yo" niggah *Hecause runnin’ am below mah dignit COMPLIMENTARY. MUST at least thank the last session of the fifty-third congress for enacting nothing and for making some effort to repeal the damage it effected during its original wind and words. say that it is far prettier as a corpse than it ever wa and unpleasant living body. THE WEALTH OF A PAUPER. THE SPECTACLE of this government going around like a tramp try- 1g to borrow a quarter of a dollar is in remarkable contrast with the billions owned by individuals and the further billions under the govern- ment’s direct and unquestionable control, A billionaire government has no right to beg like a pauper for the means to keep itself alive. ENTICING PERSONS. A CLERGYMAN says that mashers are contemptible persons and even God doesn’t want them. His knowledge as to the wants of the Al- mighty may be orthodox, but he should be more particular in his specifi- cations, Does he mean the female as well as the male masher? There are as many of the one kind as of the other, and on the whole the woman is the more dangerous. THE RULE OF THE CRANKS. HE FACT that one wants something is a sufficient reason, according to the various reformers, why he shouldn't have it, Would he like billiards on Sunday, or a glass of beer? During Lent especially he must refrain from such indulgences. When he desires exercise he must lie abed, and if he relishes idleness he must go out and work himself to death. Perhaps, to be truly good, one had better sav wood or die. And we must as a demnition moist MR, -SALA’S JUDGMENT. SORGE AUGUSTUS SALA places Swinburne first as a poet, Edwin Arnold next, Alfred Austin next, Lewis Mortis next, and William Mori next. This is fairly just; yet compari« sons are usually odions for the reason that each man is better in.son not the greatest judge in these prem- ises for the reason that his’poetic vision doesn’t go beyond the borders of his too favorite England. UNCLE SAM’S PURSE. WE SUPPOSE. this government ought to give half a million dol- lars for acable to Hawaiieventually to amount to.ten times that = because such a cable wouldn't pay. SThe gov- ernment is.a generous animal whose main purpose it is to give milk to per- sons who can’t buy any. But a cable would be a help to the scheme of an- nexation? Well, why not set up a tele- phone connection with the moon, which would be of more use to us than all of the Sandwich islands ? *Whad vo! walk away frum dat A MERCIFUL CRIME. A WOMAN in this town strangled her sixsmonths-old babe to death rather than have it starve. Doubtless she was insane, but surely she kaved. the child suffering and disgrace. ‘The law says that if she is sane she must be killed. Little she cares for that, but is hers the sole respon- sibility? ‘The inhumanity of those who must have known her might miti- gate her wick say nothing of the responsibility of a local govern- ment a part of whose duty it is to make starvation impossible, WEALTH IS. NOT CRIME. OCIETY is undergoing a cowhiding by numerous editors over the cold shoulders of Ward MéAllister. At first. glance this appears to be a result of envy, and possibly malice; but we are sure no editor would take the money necessary to a position in the higher society that he condemns. Not he! and at the same time there are, proportionately, as good and as generous men and women inside of that society as there are out of it One may go further and urge a little fair play for the possessors of wealth, whose human nature is, after all, about the same as that of the other two- thirds of this too critical world. comicbooks.com