Judge — August 13, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THB JUDGE BUILDING. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CAMADA 1M ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year, or 52 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks - = - 1.25 Including the Cunistmas Juocs. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sorcign countries in the postal wi ‘a yea alt 6. International news company, Dream's 7, Chancery, te is; Saarbach's ex¢ pachange, Mainz, London : Brentane's, avenue de C Opera, Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. [B-Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly in the world. {27- NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Junce are both the United States and Great Brita vigorously prosecuted. jected by copyright in Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and AMONG OTHER VICTORIES let us not overlook the surrender of the Sagasta cabinet. A SPANISH SHOT is of the kind that goes around the world; anyhow it never hits anything. AS ADMIRAL DEWEY might remark, the Monroe doctrine must not get in the line of our fire. ]N HIS THREAT to fire upon a flag of truce we hope that Blanco proposed merely a Blanco cartridge. ‘THE GERMANS at Manila apparently had the impression that the existing disturbance was a free fight. They know better now. THE SPANISH IDEA of peace is the surrender of our flag and profuse apol- ogies for the crime of whipping the Span- ish-army and navy. IN CONSIDERING terms of peace the Spaniards by claiming recognition of the alleged fact that they have whipped the United States. six MONTHS after the judgment the people of the Ladrones will awaken and inquire anxiously with regard to the completion of the creation. THERE IS NOT an admiral or a com- modore among the newspaper corre- ” spondents, and yet we have won some pretty good naval victories. Captain Tor! CoLonet. Ami [7 WAS real good in the Spaniards at Santiago to surrender; but let us hope that gratitude won't lead us to give them a paid-up insurance- policy apiece. HE KANSAS POPULIST who killed a girl because she wouldn't go to singing-school with him couldn't have treated her worse if she had been the United States government its very self. $+ A CONVENTION which was said to be controlled by Quay,” says ~* the Rochester Democrat, speaking of the Pennsylvania convention which nominated Stone. H’m! We had suspected that. CERVERA and his men were given new clothes and {ull stomachs, and speak effusively of their friends the enemy. It is curious to reflect that there was very little of that courtesy during our civil war. NEWS to be valuable, according to the ideas of certain newspaper pub- lishers, must report in detail something which has not happened, but which will happen if something else doesn't happen to prevent. THOSE OPPONENTS of territorial expansion who ery out against the bad policy of keeping the countries and things we win must not be too severe on us. Really, we must not return any territory or guns until we have got possession of them. ANOTHER SPANISH VICTORY. ‘2D0—"* Colonel, how about our skirmishers?" SC. *All’s well, excellenza, Every man of them is * holding his ground.’ : _ JUSTICE. POSSIBLY the Brooklyn woman who killed her step-daughter will be saved from the electric chair; but it is an atrocious fact that her vic- tim is just as dead as if she had been killed by a man. As there is no sex in crime, ought there to be a recognition of sex in the punishment of it? SOME DEMOCRATIC IDOLS. THE STATE CONVENTION of the Democrats of Illinois applauded a speech by John P. Altgeld and passed resolutions indorsing the Chicago platform and praising W.J./Bryan as its peerless leader. If there are any gold Democrats in this country hadn't they better get up and say something? PRECEDENT. AINT PAUL laid down some laws against women which were well enough in his day; but should the church of his day rule the church of this period? Let us think a little in behalf of ourselves with regard to church, war, politics and international complications. Noah built his ark against precedent and popular judgment, and if he hadn't marked out that course for himself he would have joined the wisdom at the bottom of the flood. PHANTOM FLEETS. It IS WELL to have a navy; but of what use is a navy if its officers and men do not know how to handle it? There was a Spanish fleet at Manila and it went to the bottom without inflicting-the slightest injury on its enemy. The fleet at Santiago killed one of our men and then blew si itself up; and the fleet of Camara is the lapghing-stock of the world. The Span- iard ashore is a very good fighter, but if, he wants to get into the swim of war he mustn't go near the water. CAMARA'S FLEET. T COST CAMARA two hundred and sixty thousand dollars to enter the Suez canal, and the entrance was purely a bluff. Nobody ever supposed the fleet would make its way to Manila or into any kind of danger. And if Spain can afford such extravagant foolishness she ought to be able to raise a good deal of money by way of indemnification for our losses dur- ing this war. However, the fleet is of some value. She ought to save it, We may need it some day. IMMUNITY FROM INFOR- MATION. MBs: MADGE KENDAL says she loathes newspapers; never has one in her house, and has forbidden the read- ing of them by her husband and servants. Furthermore, she has never shaken hands with any one connected with the press, and she is not going to imperil her hopes of future salvation by doing so now. A violent prejudice like that is not evidence of any kind of wisdom. We should sus- pect Mrs, Kendal of immunity from newspapers if she hadn’t confessed the humiliating fact. SPAIN AND JAMES MONROE. OLDWIN SMITH must not mourn over the vanishment of the Mon- * roe doctrine. It is not dead, but merely sleepeth, owing to emer- gencies temporarily beyond our control. Its author would not have been strenuous for its entire preservatioh over the fact that half a million men, women and children were starved to death by a foreign foe in Cuba; and if a rectification to some extent of that misfortune makes it necessary to go abroad, that is a necessity which the Monroe doctrine demands for its own protection. Still, the sleep may be a long one—we must admit that. THE CONVICT AS A SUBSTITUTE. THE DOCTRINE of Charles Eliot Norton that we should hire our fighting done for us has found lodgment in the gentle breast of a la who writes to the New York Sun, “Why not open the penitentiaries she says. “Why not enlist the convicts and send them to Cuba to bear the brunt of Spain’s smokeless ammunition? Why should the best blood of America be shed,” etc. The law would forbid this kind of substitute out of fair play to the convict. But, if it might work, why not oblige con- victs to do all manner of things that the lazy and unambitious man would fain shirk, including our suffering and dying, our supplication and our praise? comicbooks.com