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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple brief political commentary pieces typical of Judge's satirical format. The main cartoon depicts a figure hanging from a gallows, illustrating the piece "How It Felt" about someone facing execution. The text sections mock various political and social targets: a temperance petition ("A Six-Mile Protest"), Republican party weakness, a woman activist in Kansas, Francis M. Scott's political ambitions, and Hawaiian governance practices (specifically torture methods). One piece criticizes congressional weakness regarding mining interests in the West. Another satirizes civil-service reform as mere theater—appointees are shuffled around without meaningful change. The overall tone is cynical about American politics and governance, suggesting incompetence and hypocrisy across multiple institutions. Without knowing the specific date, precise contemporary references remain unclear, though Hawaiian statehood politics and Gilded Age political corruption appear central concerns.
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uae. W. J. Awwens. Baexnaeo Giiras, 1M G wncons, Editor. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNFFRD STATES AND CANADA IM ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers + 2.50 ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks = 135 Inclading the Crmistatas Jence, FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreizn countries in the postal union, $0.00.4 year, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Juncr BuiLpiNc), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. ROO THE PUBLISHERS of the New Vork weekly JUD the use of JUDGE notify the public that i local advertising schemes by printing and inserting advertising pages between its leaves it a direct violation of the publishers’ rights under the copy right law, and all copies of JUDGE are sold upon the express condition that they will not be wsed for such purposes, No one is authorized by the publishers to use JUDGE in this manner.and they will take prompt measures to stop anybody from 50 using their piper. Notice is hereby given that the United States circuit court has recently granted am in function restraining the use of JUDGE in that way. JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 110 Fifth avenue, Ne York. §@ NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Jupcn are protected by copy- eight in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. Y A WALKING DELEGATE—Who would be free himself must blow the strike. = FEEL authorized to say that Robert Pattison will not run for president in 1896. HE HARMONY that prevails in the Republican party of this city and state is too infernally noisy. NATIONAL FINANCE—The art of retiring your own wealth in order to pay usury on that of the foreign banker. RS. STRYKER is now the leading woman agitator of Kansas, and her husband is thought to be out on his name. RANCIS M. SCOTT is thought at times to mistake himself for the great Scott frequently used as an ex- clamation of surprise. DEATH Has Bi KIND to Isaac P. Gray. Had he lived he might not have escaped the peril of the Democratic nomination for president next time. ESTERN PAPERS say the great February storm was a whoozee. If we had known that every blessed one of us would “have frozen to death. THE GOLDEN RULE would be the proper basis of settlement between employers and workers, but unhappily it died quite a cent- ury ago. Mow IT until he feli — 6*AND WHO ARE You?" asked the shade of D. B. Hill of that of Mr. Pattison. “1 do not know," replied the shade of Mr. Pattison, “1 only died last night.” cee A TRILBY COLONY jin the far seas is proposed by the Rochester Union for the people who get up Trilby shows and talk Trilby talk. Is there an island in the far seas big enough to accommodate sixty million people? THE REVEREND ANNA SHAW says the best way to address an audience is to talk as if you were scolding your husband. The idea is, we suppose, that the poor, miserable audience mustn't be allowed to get in a word edgewise, ENGLAND is debarred the privilege of joining in the Napoleonic and Washingtonian fads; but she might do something in behalf of Well- ington and Burgoyne. It is true that the latter was whipped mazing victory of the former covers a multitude of historica trophes, but the Killehan was doing nicely —and this is what he thought had happened. A SIX-MILE PROTEST. HE TEMPERANCE PETITION six miles in length that is to be carried sisten ‘ound the world is evidence of remarkable work and per- Its moral’ effect will doubtless be good and will gratify the curious; but practically it will be as void of results, except as to sound, as a bass-drum. THE WILY DAVID. THE GENEROSITY of Mr. Hill in defending the president is surpris- ing; but the latter had better put up a petition, without much delay, to be saved from his friend. Some time hence it will transpire that the glory apparently manufactured for Mr. Cleveland was intended solely for home consumption. THE ANGELS. HIS IS A GREAT TIME for Francis M. Scott and other mug- wumps, and it pains us to find that they are as fond of official hon- ors as anybody else. To be strictly consistent they should refuse such wretched things; but they can at least establish their honesty by firmly refusing the salaries attached to them. JUSTICE FOR THE BALD. THE LADIES of Otsego, Michigan, who gave an exhibition in tights, in behalf of charity, ought not to complain of the leading citizens who sat at the front in “bald-headed wigs.”” That was a wholly legitimate completion of the poetic situation, and the gentlemen ought to be thanked for it. They had as much right to shed their hair as the ladies had to shed their clothes. NOBILITY WORSHIPS DEMOCRACY. THE WASHINGTONIAN REVIVAL in Paris, St. Petersburg, and other foreign capitals is largely led by the nobility of France, It is curious to reflect that, while these nobles cling to the old divisions of society, their greatest enthusiasm just now is given to the chief founder and for years the head of a republic: be sure, our George had ver dress, society and displ THE RULE OF BARBARIANS. [TIS HARD to believe the stories of torture told of the new government of Hawaii. Hanging men by the thumbs and immersing them for long periods in ice water, to make them confess to things which the govern- ment suspects, are a very fair revival of the thumb. screw and rack. If that is the kind of government they have in Hawaii it is too soon to talk of annexation, annihilation would be so much better, OUR MISREPRESENTATIVE GOVERN- MENT. A CORRESPONDENT of the Evening Post bewails the weakness of property interests in congress. He speaks sorrowfully of the rule in the senate of “the igno- rant or unprincipled servants of western mining-camps and ranches" * We had clung to the last vestige of hope consistent with living in a tepublic,” he adds, “and tried to believe the house did represent; but yesterday's experience dispelled the last illusion.” “The poor social waifs voted,” ete., etc. These are the utterances of one in despair. The only hope is a change in the system of government. Can he get it here, or must he give us up as lost and go back to his beloved Europe? hough, to ristocratic notions as to AVARICE OF THE NEW MUGWUMP. T TAKES a mugwump mayor to show up the humbug of what is called civil-service reform. He flips men out of office with hysterical haste, regardless of their records and the keen winds and frosts of an exceptionally inclement season. He appoints to their places only his mug- wump friends and his personal favorites, and submits to the dictation of a mugwump boss with obsequious alacrity. No doubt William R. Grace would have run for mayor on any kind of ticket that might have accepted him, if he might have been elected; but he couldn't have been elected i spector of a town pump, It seems odd that this man, with nobody and nothing at his back, should boss the man who was elected, and it is an affront to the people, who supposed they had won a victory not merely for mugwumps but for themselves. After all, how much better are Boss Grace and Deputy-boss Strong than is Boss P something more than a corpora tt, who certainly represents 's guard of conceited and howling kickers? comicbooks.com