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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon, captioned "A Metropolitan Necessity, Obnoxious in Podunk," depicts urban chaos—appears to show street fighting or disorder with multiple figures in violent confrontation. The satirical point seems to be that practices tolerated or necessary in cities (represented by "Metropolitan") are viewed as shocking or inappropriate in rural areas ("Podunk"—period slang for small towns). The page's editorial content addresses various political topics including voting rights, judicial independence, and American foreign policy regarding China and Korea. There's particular emphasis on election integrity and warnings against voter manipulation. The overall tone suggests this is political satire aimed at urban-rural cultural divides and governmental accountability issues of the era, likely early 1900s.

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W. J. Ament 1. M. Geecon PUBLISHED ONCE A WERK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNTTRD STATES AND CANADA IM ADVANCE Ope copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy, for thirteen weeks =) = 1.25 including the Cnmistmas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal umion, $0.00 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (jupce BuILDING), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. EW We enar cal paper publi The Jooos, Juvcn’s Linrary and Juoce’s Quanrenty are all for sale at Brentane's, Avenue def Upera, Pa th, Ainsise & Co.,25 Newcastle itrect, Strand, Londen? rhe Jaternational News Co., Breams Building. Chancery Lane, E. bach's News Exchange, M. 18, Leipsic, Germany. and Cable addren— tee advertiters a larger cirenlai th ny other American satire “, London ;" at Saar- Germany: The International News Co Stephanstrasee ind by Ch. E. Alioth, Geneva, Switserland. Juvcuarx. €7 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Jupcs are protected by copy. right in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. [7s A SHORT TIME between vacations.—G. C. T°? MR. BAYARD—Go to Sackville-West and make up with the country, T MAY be true that Campos is non compos. He has no moral right to be anything else. eee SOME FINE BURGLARIES have been accomplished re- cently, and the French have taken Madagascar. E BEG to remind M. H. de Young, who has bought a Napoleon throne, that he hasn't been elected to it. ECENTLY another lunatic tried to get into the white-house. Make no mistake. This is no shot at Adlai Stevenson. oe G00G 0018 M — Organizing against bad government in order to sell out to it at the first favorable opportuni FOR A WOMAN who believes assassination is a virtue Louise Michel has lived a good many years too much and too long. ay yer awake, now,” THE SULTAN will do his murdering less openly than formerly, but he will do as much of it as he finds safe to the continuance of his gov- ernment, [F UNCLE SAM needs a new pair of glasses to recognize the Cuban belligerents, let us assure him that the people will gladly pay the nec- essary expense. cae THE QUESTION, "Which sex seeks the other most?” is agitating an evening paper. It is puzzling; but, speaking for one, we haven't the slightest doubt of it. ENGLAND probably wants to unite the powers of Europe against the Monroe doctrine. So much the more the necessity for taking that Bull promptly by the horns. TWO COLUMNS and two pictures in a leading daily describe, not a battle with a loss of fifty thousand lives, but the arrest and discharge of the duke of Marlborough. THE LITTLE MATTER of good judgment will keep most women from wearing bloomers. What is principle in comparison with the misery of “looking like a fright"? << e & SULPHUR MINES prolific enough ,to supply the world have been found in Louisiana, Possibly, after all, the Democratic party won't have to go out of this country when it dies. A METROPOLITAN NECESSITY, OBNOXIOUS IN AIMLESS ANDY (crossly}—"* Stop nailin’ me in de ribs wid dat hoof. ain't sound ersleep on Battery park, workin’ de * foot fake" ter make a cop t'ink THE IMPERILED MAN. A MAN in Brooklyn left his wife because she insisted on smoking cigar- ettes. The habits of the new woman are so bad that there must be reform or complete depravity. Presently we shall see bands of young men going about with the old declaration in their severest song, “The lips that touch tobacco Shall never touch mine.” THE RIGHTS OF JUDGES. WARNER MILLER would stand ‘ry a principle if thereby he ruined a dozen principles twice as good, That is the effect of seeing only one thing at a time, and Mr. Miller's eyes have always been very close together. Laws, to be just, must be flexible. The intelligence of law- dispensers is entitled to as much respect as that of law-makers, Iron- clad rule is the rule of tyrants and doesn’t belong here. DON’T! UST A WORD. If this reaches your eye before election don’t vote to resurrect Tammany hall. Put your trust in Gabriel, and he'll do it soon enough. Leave the meanest business of this campaign in this state to time, the trumpet, and the judgment. Prefer a little brief tyranny of the law to the revival of the old filth, robbery and corruption. This is the voice of patriotism and common sense, and you know it. . GUILT ON DEMAND THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES find small difficulty in satisfying the demand of Engiand for retribution for the killing of missionaries. If there are not enough guilty per- sons the necessary guilt is produc- ed by torture. The tortured per- son confesses, guilty or innocent, and off goes his head. It is neces- sary that the dead missionaries be avenged, but what horrible barba- rism it is! There ought to be some better way. THAT MISERABLE RED TAPE. REGISTERING and voting had better be simplified. It is real- ly not a crime to be a voter, and the voter need not be put through a course of questions as if he were before the warden of a state-prison and about to be put in stripes. The registry boards and the inspectors of elections ought not to be expect- ed to make fools or tyrants of them- selves, and timid citizens don’t want to be frightened to death a couple of times a year. Ver NEW WARS TO CLOSE UP OLD ONES. ‘THE COREANS suffered from the fight between China and Japan. Now they are the victims of the victors and of riots between all man- ner of murderous adventurers, and their queen is dead at the hands of assassins. Presently their country will be the central point of a fight between the Japanese and the Russians, and possibly of some of the other powers. There are but two ways out of their misery. They must die or run away. LITERARY UNHAPPINESS. MADAME GRAND, John Strange Winter, Mrs. Chanler, and Mrs. Burnett are recent examples of the ineligibility of literary women to the happiness of married life. Add to them the scores‘of leading women on the stage and the platform who have separated from their husbani some of them from two or three husbands—and we are forcibly reminded that no woman with pronounced intellect can serve two masters unless she can get far more money than any master can afford to pay. A WRONG CONCLUSION. I've always thought it a pity that the material of which men’s hearts are made couldn't, fed for manufacturing purposes. Think of its value for hinges ot for the toes of little boys" boots or the heels of their stockings.”” O WRITES Kate Douglas Wiggin. She is a practical woman, and evidently means to look on the bright side of things. It is not often that men’s hearts are praised that way. When she adds, however, that no woman ever wounded a man’s heart so that another woman couldn't cure it, she praises her own sex too much. Women are not mechanics, and patching up such tough material is clearly not in their line. comicbooks.com