Judge, 1900-07-07 · page 2 of 16
Judge — July 7, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This appears to be a political attack on Democratic leadership regarding Kansas City and Democratic Party corruption. The editorial section contains critiques of Democratic figures (references to "Robert Bonner," the Mayor of New York, and "van Wyck") accused of financial mismanagement and robbing poor citizens. The visual humor centers on a four-panel comic strip showing a fireworks store owner's predicament. Notices state the store must close before July 4th. The owner tries unsuccessfully to unload inventory, attempting to convince a customer (a dog) to buy firecrackers. The final panel depicts an explosion—"the stock was closed out"—making a pun on business failure and literal destruction of remaining merchandise. The satire critiques Democratic incompetence through both political editorial and sight-gag humor.
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Side PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING. Terms to Subscribers. OMITED STATES AND CAMADA IH ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or $2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six sponths, or so numbers ~ "xo One copy, for thirteen weeks = = 1.35 Including the Cunistaas Juoo1 FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. Eonoraay sasnsactwrs— International arws company, Bream's building, Chancery lant, E. Cu London: Brentane's, avenue del Optra, Paris: Saarbach's mews exchaw, os CORNER FIFTH AVENUB AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. (27 Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly In the world. (27~ NOTICE TO PUBLISH both the United States and Great Bi vigorously prosecuted. ‘he contents of Juocs are protected phe i Infringement of tle copyright wl be promptly and HE WEATHER will hardly be warm enough this year to melt the frost that surrounds the leading Democrats of this town, N VIEW OF BOBS and his glory they think in England that young men may be best fitted for counsel but old men are best adapted to war. eee PARKAURSS having said that public confidence in Tam- many hall had been destroyed, will he now give us his opinion on the question whether two and two are four? Doctor HILLIS says the bride is only an incident of the wedding of to-day—the main thing is the dress. Pos- 4, sibly there is a man around sontewhere, but he hasn't discov- MNO ered him. WALDORF ASTOR gives fifty thousand dollars to an English hos- pital because his son has just come to be of age. It is young Mr. Astor's ambition to become an English soldier and marry into royal blood. He is in some haste about the latter, but he thinks the soldiering can wait for some period when there doesn’t happen to be a disagreeable war. NOTICE Wy THIS STOCK OF FIREWORKS! U7] Is TOBE CLOSED OUT RE REGARDLESS OF COST, BEFORE THE 4™“OF JULY, TO CLOSE BUSINESS. NOTICE THIS STOCKOF FIREWORKS IsTO BE CLOSED OUT REGARDLESS OFCOST. BEFORE THE 4""OF JULY, TO CLOSE BUSINESS. » 8. “Bow! wow! wow! wow!” THE CAUSE OF IT. PERHAPS, after all, the letting of the convention hall at Kansas city to the Democratic party had nothing’ to do with the destruction of that edifice, Perhaps a live coal blew into it from a conflagration in Oxford, Nebraska, some six months ago. DEFENDER OF THE POOR. YOUNG MR. HEARST does a.good many things in behalf of sensa- ~* tion. His war against the ice combination is genuine generosity, and its motive is no detriment to it. That young man is great in business and sensation, but he incidentally carries a heart that is worthy of the utmost encouragement, LEGAL IDIOCY. N INVESTIGATION in regard to the will of Robert Bonner shows that the old publisher's mind was sound when the will was made. The fact ought to have been so overwhelmingly established -by his adver- tising record and his subsequent career that the investigation should have been voted an insult to common sense. FROM BAD TO WORSE. BETWEEN THE BOXERS and the foreign troops on hand the Chi- nese government must presently be ground to pieces, and the only important question will be as to what to do with the fragments. There have been many Chinese political murders and there will be nore; and the more the destruction the better for the country if anything can be counted for'a country in which everything is irredeemably bad. The oldest civilization has long been the worst, with the exception of the sultan’s; and if it might be wiped out in behalf of chaos or anything else that consu mation ought to be achieved without delay. ‘ DEMOCRATIC ROBBERS. THE MAYOR of New York loaded himself with ice-stock calculated to bring sickness and suffering to every poor man in this town. A more heartless robbery of honest citizens was never attempted by any monopoly ever condemned by any Democratic resolution. We should like to see Robert van Wyck run for the chief office of greater New York again. Would the poor voters cast their ballots for him? And will they praise his brother Augustus, also a holder of ice-stock, who represents them at Kansas city? The company of robbers who control these stocks—or did before the law got hold of them—is largely a Democratic institution. What does the impoverished Democrat think of his best friends? TO NIGE 2, **Say, Mickey, dat’s de fireworks-store’s dog. Wot yer say if we tie de shootin’-crackers on his tail?” Mickey—" Dat's a red-hot idea.” ; \~B |. Then the stock was closed out. CLOSED OUT. comicbooks.com