Judge, 1900-01-13 · page 2 of 16
Judge — January 13, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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The central cartoon titled "A Bank-Director" depicts a portly, intoxicated banker surrounded by bottles and money bags, collapsed or reclining in disarray. This satirizes corruption and financial misconduct among banking officials—likely referencing late 19th or early 20th-century banking scandals. The surrounding editorial columns address contemporary political issues: imperial ambitions in China and Japan, French military preparedness, silver currency debates in American politics, and women's education rights. One piece criticizes "mugwumps" (independent Republicans) opposing party loyalty. The overall tone suggests Judge was attacking both financial corruption and what it viewed as dangerous political independence, while advancing Republican positions on currency and imperialism—typical of the magazine's conservative satirical stance during this era.
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TAYLOR of Kentucky—It seems, after all, that the Goe- beluns can’t get ye. shoe one A. Wit JOHANN cup? MOST kindly come from under the bed long enough to re- ply to Emma Gold- man’s libel that an- archists are cowards? eee CO-ED. UNI- VERSITY out west presents plays with the kissing scenes omitted. Perhaps an improvement would be to omit the plays. ae = ROBERT TABER appar- = ently wanted his wife to be a perpetual Desdemona, that he might have the priv- ilege of frequently choking her to death, cee RS. RUSSELL SAGE Says poor young men “should not allow false pride to prevent their marriage to rich girls.” Now it’s not false pride at all. It's the girls. y, Cc oy / LL THE WOMEN of future ages, according to a scientist, will be bru- nettes. With the abolish- THE QUEEN enjoys caricatures of her statesmen ‘but when the French papers cartooned her majesty that was a very different thing and Joseph Chamberlain had a notion to go to war about it. eee It IS CLAIMED by the Atkinsons that William H. Seward was an anti-expansionist. It was Mr. Seward who engineered the acquisition of Alaska, but we must admit that that expansion occurred without blood- shed. eee Hose of Texas wants the second place on the Democratic national ticket. May we slightly change a remark prevalent during the slav- ery days, to wit, that is to say, that no man can ever reach that position who spells his Hogg with:two g's? 'OLLEGE SPORTS are mentioned as lessons in fair dealing. That is pretty and partially true; but one side or the other always does manage to give its opponents chances for trickery which no self-respecting team can afford to overlook. A BANK-DIRECTOR. ment of the blondes we shall have gone back to the dark ages indeed. ve THE WORK OF AN EMPRESS. ‘SIT NOT strange and humiliating at the end of the century to read that the emperor of China has appealed to the emperor of Japan to save him from-assassins, and to believe there is reason to fear that the story is true? And the real ruler of China is a woman! THE RIGHT TO BE PROUD. SOMEBODY asks if we ought to be angry because women with fine teeth smile frequently, and women with fine hands and feet exhibit them as often as possible. We should say not. It would be false mod- esty to keep them out of sight, and the woman who did it would show that she didn’t deserve to have them. A CALL TO ARMS. HENRY OF ORLEANS is grieved because the French are impassive while Russia, Great Britain and Germany are assisting in a new divi- sion of the world. Perhaps the young man wants to fight. His previous experience in that line was a duel in which he lost a little of his royal blood, and possibly he thinks he needs bleeding again. TWO MEN. T TAKES a brave man to acknowledge him- self mistaken, but a very stupid one to insist that he isn’t when everybody knows he is. Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania, who predicted all man- ner of disaster if the silver idea didn’t pte- vail in the last national election, frankly acknowledges the prevailing prosperity and repudiates the silver idea; but Mr. Bryan sticks to the Chicago platform from top to bottom. CO-EDUCATION. HELEN GLADSTONE, talking for the admission of women to Cambridge degrees, showed that six Cambridge col- leges were founded by women for’ the benefit of men. After that there ought to be no doubt of the right or the propriety of women having the same edu- cational privileges as men; and the reader will doubtless remember similar generosity on the part of women to the colleges of this country—Mrs. Stanford, for instance. FIGHTERS OF THE TENDER HEART. SENATOR MASON'S: RESOLUTION of sym- pathy with the Boers indi- cates a new desire to fight which’ has become habitual with the Masons, the Hoars and the Atkinsons. These men “want to fight public sentiment, Whatever exists or is proposed, they are ag’in it. They are the mugwumps who hate the majority as they hate poison. It would not become this congress to take sides with either the British or the Boers, and for that very reason these men would be glad to do so. DEAD ISSUES. ANTEIMPERIALISM, according to the Democratic national commit- tee, will make the main plank in the next Democratic national plat- form, with free silver in the background and opposition to trusts a promi- nent principle. By the time the national campaign is on probably the Philippines question will have been settled so far as the fighting is con- cerned; and as silver is dead the party ought to declare something regard- ing the slavery question so as to enliven the proceedings. THE FATAL AMBUSH. ‘THE DEFEATS of the British by the Boers are always surprises. No- body ever expected such things. They are ambushed. They sud- denly find themselves surrounded. The mules have run away with the ammunition-wagons. It is always the unexpected that happens, and the expected is itvariably absent. It is the old story of the British fighting our secreted savages with open columns and the band blowing for victory until it is out of breath and scalped. How long can this go on? comicbooks.com