Judge — January 6, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains several brief political commentaries typical of Judge's format. The main cartoon titled "A Golf-Stick" depicts a woman requesting a golf stick from a man at what appears to be a saloon, with the joke playing on double meanings about obtaining liquor cheaply. The text items mock various targets: Bryan's political platform (called doomed to defeat), a Chicago woman's association claiming daily sin in colleges, Bishop Doane's preference for private over public weddings, and an anti-saloon league spreading through states. The final section "An Unavoidable Necessity" argues that politics is inherent to commerce and citizenship—a man cannot avoid politics without destroying the republic itself. The satire reflects turn-of-century American debates about temperance, women's morality, and political engagement.