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# Judge Magazine Political Satire Analysis The main cartoon depicts "THE BICYCLE ERA" — a line of bicycles with riders, satirizing the late 19th-century bicycle craze. The accompanying text criticizes this fad as frivolous distraction. The page contains multiple political editorials mocking Democratic and Populist leaders. "THE POPOCRATS" ridicules Ignatius Donnelly and populists for considering fusion with the Democratic Party. "ORGANIZED CAPITAL" warns against trusts. Other sections target General Gomez (unclear which historical figure), critique Democratic incompetence, and mock reformers like General Wheeler. The overall tone is conservative, attacking populism, trust-busting concerns, and Democratic leadership as ineffectual. References suggest this is from the 1890s political era, though specific dates aren't provided in the text.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. waned 5 One copy, one year. of $2 num One copy, six months, oF 26 nui ‘One copy. for thirteen weeks EG SCRIPTIC Countries in the posta w 's building, Chancery lane, VA's mews exchange, Maina, 7 ia de Opera, Corner Fitth Aveaue and Sixteenth Street, New York. EW-Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly im the world. $97 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copyright 19 both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and ously prosecuted, SURE that as Hamlet Sara Bernhardt lacks poise—avoir- Ceci RHODES is a statesman, and therefore there is going to be real war be- tween England [~ ORGANIZED CAPITAL. . EXCESSIVE OPPOSITION to trusts would bar out the department stores; and how long might it be before the opposition’ wauld go down to any partnership of two men? It is difficult in these cases to know where to draw the line. ‘ BEWARE! GENERAL GOMEZ is probably right in his remark that the three million dollars partially intrusted to his care has been a curse to him. Excessive amounts are a curse to anybody. Look at Andrew Carnegie and shun such responsibility as you would an adder. THE NEW ANNEX. HE PINGREE PARTY is made up in about equal parts of silver men and prohibitionists: It is also Bryanistic and populistic, and wears whiskers like embalmed beef. It is the purpose of Mr. Pingree to be at the tail of the Bryan ticket, provided he cannot surreptitiously kill Mr. Bryan off. TOO FEW OF HIM. GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS says the Democratic leaders of this state are stupid, and the Trans- heart much more they will have to capture an organ of that kind in order to keep up the ag- THE PLOT against Al ger having fail- ed, there is noth- ing: for the con- spirators to do but to pitch into the president's family. rary [SIT NoT TYRANNY to oblige the Cubans to take three million dollars when they look upon the money with unutterable scorn? A COLLEGE PROFESSOR says positively that the Maine was blown up by Cubans, Now if there 1s promise of still another investigation” let us forget the Maine as rapidly as possible. THE BICYCLE ERA. OLD Jor (the hotel hall-boy)— [F WE WERE in Germany we should say that the kdiser’s play was the finest ever written. It is better to be generous aff critigism’than to go to jail; and who wants to wet the hopes of an ambitious yaung man? E HOPE, along with the peaceonterence, that’the:gun-tlaker who pays the largest -incomé-tax ini Europe may presently be imguced to lay up his treasure ia heaven, where neither math nor ruist:can. Krupp. * + NOW THAT Collis P. Huntington and Rebecea Hagding Davis. unite in the proposition that the common people must not be educated, wi suppose there will presently be a syndicate to buy up all the colleges“ind ” common schools. = : Peat, THERE ARE THINGS that women’ can’t do successfully. ‘Thus a -" woman in Towanda“forged a cheque and. wben.the discovery was. made killed herself. Any man in her condition would have gone to Can- ada and been happy. Times hab suttinly changed. members de time whain on'y boots an’ shoes wuz left outside ob de doors fo' me toe clean ; but, Lawd lub yer! eberyt'ing nowadays is bicycles and the prob- lem is, not how to keep them in, but how to get them out. We have long thought that this gentleman ought to live in New York as well as Massa- chusetts, Why can't he pass a resolution to make himself a pair of twins? GNATIUS DONNELLY and a convention of populists have decided to keep in the middle of the road and refuse vith the Democracy. Mr. Bryan will regret this; but egitimate Democracy would rejoice at it if there were any Democrats of that kind and they had heart enough left to be capable of any joy whatever. TROUBLE AT THE LAST DAY.- HE DAY OF JUDGMENT is appealed to by the mug- wumps to visit punishment upon this government for its action in the Philippines.» Times will be pretty bard for us at the period mentioned. We haven't yet suffered for whipping the British a hundred years ago: and then there's that dread- ful war in Mexico to be atoned for. WELCOME TO PEFFER. EFFER has returned to the Republican fold, but he hasn't sheared his whiskers yet. As we thought of remarking some time ago, Peffer is as honest as the day is long in Alaska, and is altogether a thinking man, Sometimes he thinks too effusively. and stops thinking at the dangerous point; but there are so many men who do not think half enough I re- THE OLD FEELING. (GENERAL WHEELER says that in laying down their arms the con- federates gave up not an iota of the belief in the truth and justice of thelr cause. On the other hand, at a meeting of ‘ex-confederates the gen- eral was snubbed because, it is said, he’recently fought in the United States atmy. These things: are<not pleasant. The south is loyal, but _ émetional ; call & great deal.too much time js necessary to all “great changes ins; =” NOT ‘SO. os WV AtdorE ASTOR: has lived in the atmosphere. of money fo long ts that’, Ne imaginés‘everybody on ordinary ground has conceived a dislike for him, especially Americans. It is not so. If he were a little more human and a little less exclusive he would find that the average man _nat- malicious or envious, but a good fellow anda jost.one.;* Andi after | all, there have not been mearier things said of him'in the newspapers than’ > + chave' been ‘said of every conspicuous person. comicbooks.com