Judge, 1900-09-22 · page 10 of 16
Judge — September 22, 1900 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* (August 27, 1900) presents satirical commentary on American politics and contemporary issues through two main pieces: **"Hiram Pennick" (top):** A fictional letter from a rural Indiana populist describing his campaign activities. Written in exaggerated dialect, it mocks both Populist Party activism and the era's traveling patent-medicine salesmen. The county fair scene shows Pennick distributing Populist campaign literature, satirizing grassroots political organizing. The humor targets rural political enthusiasm and the desperation of minor parties. **"A Woman's View of the Chinese Question" (bottom):** Written during the Boxer Rebellion period (1900), this satirizes both anti-Chinese sentiment and American military intervention in China ("our gallant army"). The female narrator complains about her Chinese servants' incompetence while supporting imperial aggression, embodying the hypocrisy *Judge* attributed to American expansionists. The piece mocks both xenophobia and imperialist adventures. Both pieces employ stereotyped dialect and exaggeration—common *Judge* techniques for ridicule.
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;EEPRAM PENNICK7 hits letter Cornersville, Ind. Aug. 27, 1900, Deer Jub — Wellsir, you cum purty darn neer not gettin eny letter frum me this week. * i hain’t ben well sence leevin Sicamore. Sicamore is mostly Republikan. When i got to thet town, sum Ieedin citzens there who sed theys Populists got to actin up like heethins an tuk me off the horse an carried me ayellin fer Populism an down with Mark Hanner an Mon- arky Govment. eas They had a molasses barl in frunt of a gro- Angosta cry with flags on it fer to mak it fancy an putt "YY p: M\ tee a me on ashoutin speech. Minit i got both feet on y the barl the top busted in. Wellsir, i haint felt so mad sence the time thet book agint swindeld me out of $15 to putt my photograft in a U. S. histry. (es) \\\ i haint got over it yit. Some onem sed it fur Mw YQ, 88 accident an sum lookd like it wus put-up fun, Mi VAN, Kin eny of yur reeders tell me suthin bowt bows wink Te ocrirusr ! Blews Redy Releef fer skyatiky? i haint got over a tuch of skyatiky i had TATE there in 92 the time Miles Hankins had his barn raisin. sleepin out nights an fallin in spiled sorgum GY ey, Mt WW gSec.,, haint helpin it. Blew is a leedin docter from Chicago, mebby youv heerd of him, travels in a fancy Mn WWMM YS waggin with 4 horses sellin medicin, i seen him there at Huntsville Fryday, he says he s loads of it to yur city an showd me a printed paper thet has names of them rich N. Y. peeple thets usin it an like it best “Two az) = > 5 oy —— = —- : foe gener AAAS 2 - Datreit j eH spn Sead TUE COUNTY FAIR AT CORNERSVILLE—HIRAM PENNICK DISTRIBUTING HIS CAMPAIGN LITERATU The county fair here at Cornersville is goin on this week. Taxin rich incums. im stoppin here at the Eldorado hous restin up a spell They putt up a good fair here take it in stock spechully chickens. on account of lame back an horse havin heevs frum dusty roads. baloon an wimmins jellys are A one. Speek to a big Populist mass meetin at Oneco next Tuesday on the i went out yesterday to the fair grounds peddlin the speech i writ on hissin snaik of Impeerilizm. Yurs truly HIRAM PENNICK. (To be continued.) A WOMAN'S VIEW OF THE CHINESE QUESTION. | WRITE not upon statistics of Chinese characteristics — Again I ventured one day—let"me see, it was last Monday — . ‘That's really too prosaic to be interesting, I fear: To beg my blest celestial to broil the evening steak. Sohn My subject, more appalling than those matters so enthralling, “No; me fly him,” said he, grinning in his childlike way, so winning. ath Is what we women from our Chinese servants have to beat. And he" flied him,” while I'm wondering still what action I will take. Pray give your kind attention to the subject that I mention, * Fat-On-Lung,” who has the laundry, has put me in a quandary Concerning such as ** Fat-On-Lung,"* who keeps the laun-de-rie, ‘As to how he makes his bills out :' when my last small washing came who drives the wagon (both are subjects of the dragon), And I told him that his charge was unreasonably large ‘And especially a personage who signs himself “Ah Li.” He answered, ** Washee big or small, I chlargee allee same.” Now “*Ah Li,” who does my cooking, one morning caught me looking Wipe out China? If my fiat were supreme ‘twould be to try it ; ‘Thro’ the doorway of his kitchen, where I dare not step a toe ‘And when our gallant army in the Orient makes its way ** Li, we'll have some fish for dit But the miserable sinner To the tottering gates of Peking, and finds what it is seeking, Howled, ** Me lun you out !" It did not take me very long to go. May they leave us neither ** Li nor * Lung” to hold domestic sway. MARGANET GRANT. comicbooks.com |