Judge — October 23, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy, for thirteen weeks ~~ Including the Cuxistwas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt igm countries im the postal union, $0.00 THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Ju BuILpins), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteeath Street, New York. (Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly in the world. 7" NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of JuocE are protected by copy- fight in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. PARTISANSHIP is organization, Non-partisanship is as silly as would be a non-fighting army. WE DO NOT want Hawaii; but of course if Japan wants her that is a kind of impertinence which must be sternly rebuked. eee HEN A CHURCH-FAIR offers the champion pugilist as an attrac- tion the world, the flesh and the devil are making progress. eee THE LESS a man knows of important things the more he is apt to be successful in the contemptible puzzles of a civil-service examination. LET US REFLECT that if the lynching habit comes too far north we can- not blame it to the influence of the ruffian of the southern border. THE KISSING of the em- perors has been numer- ous if not furious, and little Wilhelmina is looking ahead to her coronation with intense interest. IRBY of South Caro- lina may be right in call- ing Ben. Tillman a rattle snake; Thousands of per- sons think they have heard him rattle. eee NOTHER PROOF of genuine prosperity is the fact that ex-Governor Flower has given Cornell five thou- sand dollars’ with which to buy a library. RS, SEVERANCE of California claims to have organized the first woman's club; yet we do assure her that if she comes east she will not be mobbed. E HEAR of a place out west which is so slow and lazy that not a citizen of it has made the greatest discovery of gold ever known within its limits, HE CHIEF EXECUTIONERS of Germany recently got together and celebrated themselves; but not a soul of them could show a testi- monial from a customer in behalf of the skill and effectiveness of their peculiar work. [T HAS suddenly occurred to somebody that du Maurier’s last story is immoral because of the kind of life its hero led before he was mar- ried and which is confessed with surprising frankness; but we guess if Trilby can be accepted by a discriminating public Barty can get through by a tight squeeze. ‘THE DECISION by the health-board of this town that the three-cent whisky sold on the Bowery is harmless will inevitably bring loss to the dealers in that locality, What their customers want is the most de- y structive of all the liquids, and it must begin to affect them some little time before they swallow it. THE SCALP-HUNTERS. Harry (a runaway from home)—"* W-w-why ded.don’t yer g-g-git yer g-g-gun an’ s-s-shoot him?* Tommy (Harry's chum)—"'C-c cause I c-c-come here ter k-k-kill Injuns an’ not bufferloes, I s-s-say, Harry ; I-I-let’s go home agin an’ take our I-l-lickin’s I-I-like men,” NOT AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY. OME WOMEN in the south are calling for a general adoption of the lynching business, for certain kinds of crime, and branding as cow- ards those white men who believe in respecting the law. The question involved has two sides to it, of course; but this fact is significant—the more the lynchings the more the outrages. THINK THEY HAVE A NEW IDEA. HE TWENTY-FIVE Boston men and women who have organized a society to abolish marriage ought to join the shakers of Niskayuna; though perhaps they propose to go to the other extreme by living miscel- laneously after the manner of the late Oneida community. On the whole, however, they will do better if they dig twenty-five graves, crawl into them, and cover themselves with the earth to which they more naturally belong. THE SADNESS OF SUCCESS. ANNIE BESANT discovers that the women of this country are too restless, and that it is a natural result of their growing superiority to the American man. Apparently restlessness, in her view, is an affliction; but the cure of it, through some process looking to inferiority, is not to be thought of for a moment. The man must do his share. He must make it the chief object of his life to grow up to her superiority, and it is melancholy to reflect that on the whole he can’t do it. TAXATION AND BLOODSHED. A BACHELOR, writing to the Minneapolis Times, gets very angry over the proposition to tax unmarried men. He says there would be more marriage but for our “damnable rotten society,” as to which he presents no method of reform; that the taxation proposed would lead to bloodshed, and that many bachelors would end their lives in almshouses rather than pay it. It is not well to get excited; but on the other hand let us steer clear of the danger of a greater than any previous civil war. THE MEANNESS OF MISINFORMATION. FRENCH JOURNAL says that our navy is composed of a few modern ships which cannot put to sea; that our army is made up principally of generals and otherwise of a few negro and Indian troops; that either Japan or-Spain could easily whip us; “that the Americans are but half civilized, and that only a small proportion of them know how to read or write. Thus we learn what a dangerous thing a little knowledge is; and the reader is undoubtedly so indignant that he feels almost persuaded to be a jingo. THE NON-PRODUCTIVE GAMBLER. JUDGE FOSTER of Kansas thinks there is something wrong in the gambling that enables a man to make several million dollars a day through an advance in the price of wheat, especially as the man does not raise, import, export, or so much as see the grain that brings him that great fortune, They will never cease to have queer ideas in Kansas; and at the same time this millionaire, living by his wits, is totally non-produc- tive, and when he drops out of life the world has lost not a dollar of any kind of value, HM! THE QUESTION, “ Where does the Democracy stand on the money issue?” is “a fair question, and entitled to an honest answer,” says the Rochester Herald, which worked for Bryan in ‘ninety-six. Then says the Herald, “We conceive that the Democratic party of the state of New York has earned, by the right of a battle well fought and a defeat con- ceded, a position where a positive enunciation of its views on that particu- lar question is not necessary at this time”; and again, “The occasion is especially appropriate for the exercise of patience, while time works on a great economic problem and affords the most satisfactory of all proofs of the adequacy or fallacy of this or that device.” We never did read any- thing more frank, funny and satisfactory. comicbooks.com