Judge, 1899-09-16 · page 3 of 16
Judge — September 16, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two cartoons mocking immigrant and working-class life in early 20th-century America. **"Riotous Foreign Competition"** (top) depicts an immigrant family's chaotic kitchen, satirizing foreign workers as incompetent and uncouth compared to native-born Americans. The caricatures employ ethnic stereotypes common to the era's nativist sentiment. **"Heard Down the Dumb-Waiter Shaft"** and **"Cuba Must Wait"** (bottom) feature dialogue mocking Irish and other immigrant servants and laborers. The cartoons perpetuate stereotypes about immigrant speech patterns, cleanliness, and intelligence while expressing anxiety about foreign competition for American jobs and markets. These pieces reflect Judge magazine's consistent editorial stance against immigration and labor organizing—positioning immigrants as threats to American prosperity and social order during a period of intense xenophobia and labor unrest.
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= RUINOUS FOREIGN COMPET you was satisfied with bread, I think he was a foreign: * Dat's jest it, ma’am; dem unskilled foreign loafers is ruinin’ everything, De way dey're cuttin’ grub is sumthin’ fierce.” HEARD DOWN THE DUMB-WAITER SHAFT. ssGURE, Mrs, Clancey, and is it yerself that'll be throwin’ yer ashes — childer wanten boots to our feet. TIL have y separation, 1 will "— on my Jimmie, If I weren't a leddy I" "See here, Ray Guggenheimer, let me catch you talking to my felly “ Mamie—Mamie—you Ma-a-mie, will you come in out of there—talk- again, and as sure as I'm a lady I'll break your face. You're ing to that Grogan girl as is no better than she should be. If I catch you “ Please, popper, the installment man has been here three times "— there again 11" — “Yes, sir; “Well, Mrs. my poor lamb died this morn- ing. The last of themall. And as the spirit Nut- tered out of her she lifted her lit- tle arms and tried to put them round my neck, and—and " —— Obenheimer, as I was a-tellin’ yer, that woman on the top floor walked into the store and moved about the coun- ters and present- ly the detective lady came up as polite as you “ Mrs, Stra- please and said, han, when 1 * Kindly step in- j ¥ asked yer to take to the office,'and 3 ‘ a sup of the rye they foun : rs I didn't mean “Oh, yes; 1 j that ye should dessay every- drink the whole thing that hap- bottle. Drink pens in this : ; fair, whatever ye house my boys 6. : E c does, and—ye'll do it "— P Be) es i 2 never "—— “ And what ly, yer needn't if 1 was under turn up yer nose da j the weather a and keep yer } 3 my little, yer dirty head in the sky, ‘ : ae , ijit. It’s worse even if yer oe ‘ than drinking a brother is a cop dhrop of the on the foorce. . i ; aise 3 wathur ye'd be How about that hay) oe doin’. If ye'd time his captain mend them big caught him"—— holes in yer ‘us- mUuakgas BLEEKER (0f Bosten)—"* So you think Renee ae te ing Cuba?” bond s eobines ales youtbene EEKER (0 So you think the time is not yet ripe for annexing Cu A Miss Laxernont (of Chicago) —"* Certainly not! It ain't near enough the Chicago city limits to get it in yet instead of with me andthe awhile ; or, to put it straight, the Chicago city limits ain't near enough to Cuba yet.” saqut surrH, Mary Kel- comicbooks.com