Judge — March 27, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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uae. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. OMITRD STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE ‘One copy, one year. or 2 numbers - $5.0 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.56 ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks == 1.25 Inclading the Cunistmas junc FORRIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS To alt foreien countries in the postal union, $0.00 THe JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JuncE BUILDING), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. y ©27-Circulation larger than any ether cartoon weekly im the world. 8 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy- eogut in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. A CONGRESS of the fathers is an urgent necessity. QUE WAR-SHIPS were doubtless constructed in view of the period of arbitration. SENATOR MORGAN kept right on with his mouth-organ during the congressional interlude. LENT BEGAN on the third day of March, and the very next day Grover Cleveland retired to private life. THE ENEMIES of Mr. Cleveland will be delighted with the information that the ex-president is going to write a book. oe Conc RESSMAN SULZER must be closely watched. If he isn’t he will break away, go to Cuba, and whip the Spaniards himself. . WE FEEL convinced that the alleged attempt to assassin- ate Liliuokalani originated with the literary bureau of General Weyler. T MUST be borne in mind that every office-seeker thinks the office is seeking him, and that it is a duty which he cannot shirk to as- sist it in the discovery. Bask OFFICERS who default are that sensitive when they are caught that they usually kill themselves, generally by drowning. Perhaps they think their self-slaugh- ter will bring the money back, but it never does. o~ ss—"' Oi say, Casey; w working on)—"" Oi wud.” . Bekase Oi hov none. OTHING TOO GOOD can be said of Mark Twain and his business and other honesty; and we may therefore rejoice at the gratuitous advertising which the statement as to his alleged penniless condition has brought about. ad ‘THE WOMEN of Burmah do the proposing, and have the privilege of divorce by merely asking for it, Let Robert Ingersoll go to Burmah and see the number of weeping, suffering, ruined men there, and he may reform a number of his proposed reforms. THE STATESMANSHIP of the world, in its desire for arbitration, warmly indorses the peace societies. The indorsement used to be attended with a derisive laugh, but that has subdued itself to the propor- tions of a sweet smile. And that is progress. WE MUST commend the gentle curiosity which led a mob in Brooks- ville, Kentucky, to break down the fence around the local jail in order to see a man hanged, because if it had been ferocious it would have had to have a special lynching in order to gratify it. THE POWERS took no action in behalf of the Christians in Armenia; but when Christians revolt against Turks they are shocked half to death, This century cannot end too soon. The last quarter of it has witnessed injustice and bloodshed beyond those of the barbaric ages; and the outlook at this time promises nothing better. THE WILL FOR THE DEED. (after waiting a moment)—* Thin phwy don't yez?” CITIZENSHIP. HOW A MAN acquired citizenship under this government is not the question, If he is a citizen he has the right of protection, whether he is in Cuba or some other part of the world. Half the glory of England springs from its willingness to protect its citizens abroad, whatever the cost or the sacrifice. That is to a large extent what citizenship is for. LABOR THROWN AWAY. M&s- GAILLARD of Brooklyn has invented a method of illuminating the numbers and the outside key-holes of houses, She goes too far. Doesn't she know that houses are numbered with the express purpose of hiding information from the passer-by? And did she ever find a street- lamp that had the name of a street on it? Let her illuminate the key-holes and let it go at that. THE PROPER CAPER. ROBABLY if a poor laborer were to ask ‘admission to the museum of art in this town without any clothes on, and should be refused, the newspapers of the “struggling masses” would denounce the refusal as an aristocratic attack on the rights of labor. Now there is such a thing as propriety, and it is an insult to labor to assume that it doesn’t know enough to respect it. HIGH-PRICE LITERATURE. SUED FOR LIBEL by a local clergyman, the Rochester Union put detectives on the gentleman's track and found him to be a very bad man. Robert Bonner gave Mr. Longfellow a dollar a line for “The Hanging of the Crane.” The article exposing the clergyman was prob- ably worth to the Union thirty thousand dollars, the amount of the claim for damages in the libel suit, IS JUSTICE STONE BLIND? THE ATTENTION of the rest of the world is called to the astounding fact that policemen in plain dress in this town are encour- aged to flirt with young girls as a means to convict the girls of flirta- tion and send them to the peniten- tiary. It is as if these guardians of the law were to do burglary by way of a trap for burglars; not to men- tion the power for evil that is thus placed in very unclean hands, PREACHERS WHO SEEK NOTORIETY. A CLERGYMAN of Hamilton, Canada, proposes religious services in a theatre, during which smoking will be permitted. Another clergyman recently danced to show how ridiculous dancing was; and still another killed a couple of cats by putting nicotine on their tongues, for the benefit of his congregation, and to show the evil effects of tobacco. The sensational pulpit goes too far. Will it finally give itself up to vaudeville? sud yez give me a chaw av terbaccy ?” Oi wud if Oi hod.” PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT. It IS VERY GOOD EVIDENCE that the people rule when the king of Greece is threatened with the loss of his throne if he fails to fight for Crete; when the Salisbury ministry is in danger from its action against the Greeks; and when the government of Italy is threatened by the out- raged masses because of the sound whipping of its army in Abyssinia. But if the people should rule without a formal government, Christians and Turks, Irishmen and Englishmen, etc., wouldn't they fight till all of them were annibilated ? THE RIGHT OF CARICATURE. ME: ELLSWORTH of the senate of this state, who proposes to pro- hibit cartoons, doubtless thinks he can thereby stop a great wrong. Now the wrong is purely imaginary. The man conspicuous enough to be cartooned is precisely the man who enjoys that kind of compliment. He gives hard raps and expects them in return A thin-skinned, sensitive being is not the kind of person to reach the distinction necessary to cari- cature, And if the senator wishes to protect public men from criticism in pictures, why does he not try to prevent criticism in type? He belongs to Niagara, Let him go further west and grow up with the populists. comicbooks.com