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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The central cartoon depicts a figure labeled "Tax Payer" being literally crushed under the weight of various financial burdens—representing different government expenses or debts. The accompanying text sections critique contemporary issues: Moody's prayer for rain at Fort Worth; concerns about foreign wars draining resources; and satirical commentary on Cleveland and Democratic politics. The cartoon's message is straightforward: ordinary taxpayers bear an unsustainable burden from government spending and debt. The imagery—a hunched figure struggling under a physical load—was a common Judge visual metaphor for fiscal burden during this era (appears to be late 19th century based on style and references). The surrounding editorial commentary uses sharp wit to mock politicians and policies affecting ordinary citizens' wallets.

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Baxnuaen Giitan, as, Editor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 2 numbers - 2.50 One copy: for thirteen ery Including the C FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To alt foreign countries in the postal union, $0.00 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BuILpINc), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. (R-THE PUBLISHERS of the New York weekly JUD the use of JUDGE im local advertising schemes by print. .d inserting advertising pages between its leaves is 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 used for such purposes. No one is authorized by the publishers to use JUDGE it manner, and they will take prompt measures to stop anybody from so using their paper. stice is hereby given that the United Stater circuit court has recently granted an junction restraining the use of JUDGE in that way. JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 110 Fifth avenue, New York. (27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Joc right in both the United States and Great Britain. promptly and vigorously prosecuted. WILLIAM R. GRACE is the man with a past. E notify the public that re protected by copy- Infringement of this copyright will be HERE IS but one cure for the man who begins to steal, and it comes just before his funeral. OLONEL WARING says his lips are sealed. When the horse is gone lock the stable-door. HE SULLIVANS and the Corbetts cannot elevate the stage, and neither can the stage elevate them. THE MONROE DOCTRINE, accord- ing to Senator Hill, is all right as long as it is not put into execution. AN AMERICAN SUCCESS on the English turf reminds us that heaven helps those who have helped themselves. eee WE BELIEVE Cleveland could get a fourth nomination, but he knows when the country and he have mutually had enough, HE SURPRISE attending the discov- ery of counterfeiting in the Black- well’s-island prison was, like the money, quite unutterable. cee THE DEATH of James W. Scott is the more unfortunate because it makes necessary the birth of a Democratic paper in Chicago. [TWAS THOUGHT that this administration would put its foot down in bebalf of Nicaragua; but it has succeeded in merely jabbing that member into the Monroe doctrine. HE AUTHOR of the Joan” of Harper's Magazine bas thrust a hand out of his disguise to readjust his false fac on his wrist that used to be worn by Mark Tw: eee EX-GOVERNOR CAMPBELL of Ohio drank a glass of water into which a servant had accidentally dropped ammonia. “Good gra- cious, man!" exclaimed the governor, choking and coughing, “I'm not Democratic enough for that kind of inspiration.” eee and thus disclosed a scar in. HE NEW WOMAN will keep on with her meanness until she gets to be as bad as the old man, Here we have two girls on trial charged with murdering their relatives to get insurance money. HE STATEMENT that the prince of Wales prefers American women is followed by a rumor that he will visit us in the fall. Now we have no doubt that the American woman will run right away, especially if ‘is royal ‘ighness happens to be going in the same direction. UNSEASONABLE. Weary Ike—"' Jes’ my luck—freeze all winter an’ then fin’ er warm overcoat when it's gittin’ too warm ter wear even er shirt.” THE BAPTISTIC SUPPLICATION. R. MOODY'S PRAYER for rain at Fort Worth, Texas, brought such copious torrents that the roof of his tabernacle fell in and several persons were badly hurt. The question is, therefore, not whether there is efficacy in prayer, but whether there is too much efficacy; and until it is settled Mr. Moody had better leave off his radicalism and be cautious and conservative. . ONE AND INSEPARABLE, [7 1S NOT impossible that several foreign powers would like a war to test the strength of the Monroe doctrine, and they might act together in provoking one. That would create an embarrassing situation, but there would be no South American power that wouldn't fight with the United States for its own independence as if every blessed southern republic had been annexed to us, A FAMILY MAN, UT FOR HIS MARRYING his first wife within a year after the death of his second, whom he had poisoned, Dr. Buchanan would have had no trouble. His haste created suspicion and that was followed by investigation. He was a very domestic man; but we are obliged to recall the old injunction against marrying in haste with the almost inevitable necessity of repenting with more or less leisure. WAR- DEBTS. FRANCE PAID her war-debt to Germany with marvelous rapidity. The debt of China to Japan is almost in- calculable; but it will have one good effect —it will oblige the debt-payers to adopt modern methods of work and government and will so be a benefit to the commerce of the world outside. Perhaps if we owed our government debt to some power that had whipped us we should get along bet- ter. We are too generous to ourselves. A STRAW. THE REVEREND W. N. CLEVE- LAND, the president's brother, had a dispute with a portion of his flock and was invited to vacate his pulpit; but he has fought the matter to a finish and has won the fight. The Albany Argus ine quires with great glee, “Who says De- mocracy isn’t looking up?" To be sure. Itis the first Democratic victory in a long time, and one may almost allude to it as the opening gun of the campaign of ‘nine- ty-six. THE NEW AND STARTLING WOMAN. A WOMAN of this town, successfully officiated for several years as the wife of two men, neither of whom knew of the existence of the other. She alternated be- tween two households, and when absent from either said by way of explanation that she had to attend lodge- meetings. Thus the new woman adapts herself to manly habits in an entirely new way, and we may look ahead to the time when she will regu- larly play poker for money and the inevitable stimulants. THE BACHELOR. . seTHE OLD BACT OR,” says the Galveston News, “is merely a cheap remnant.” He is not a remnant. He was never associated with anything which gives him a right to call himself by that respectable word, He has not been torn off or torn from, but stands alone, a dwarfed and insufficient embodiment of selfishness and isolation “whom nobody owns.” Call a widower a remnant, even a grass-widower, if you choose, for either of them is a better man; but not so the individual who lives for himself alone. THE NEW SECESSION. A DULUTH SENATOR in the Minnesota legislature threatens that the northern half of his state will presently secede from the southern half of it. The world has had great expectations regarding Duluth since Proctor Knott called it the zenith city of the unsalted seas; but this ex- travagant littleness of secession is as absurd as the original divorce busi- ness in ‘sixty-one was aflictive and terrible. Fancy the Minnesota gov- ernment fighting to keep the state inviolate or remarking to it, after the manner of Horace Greeley, “ Erring fraction of a sister, depart in peace,” comicbooks.com