Judge, 1901-06-01 · page 8 of 16
Judge — June 1, 1901 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**"Way Down in Florida"** satirizes the 1901 Buffalo Exposition (Pan-American Exposition), which displayed human beings in "ethnographic" exhibits. The cartoon depicts a mother alligator warning her children to flee from exposition organizers who would capture them for display—a darkly ironic commentary on how the Buffalo Exposition treated Indigenous peoples and other non-white groups as exotic specimens to be caged and exhibited. **"Nothing Doing"** mocks a parson (minister) complaining to a deacon that he's wasted thirty cents looking for sinful behavior to denounce from the pulpit. The satire targets preachers who exaggerate or manufacture moral outrages to maintain relevance and justify their positions. Both cartoons employ Judge magazine's characteristic social criticism through caricature and dark humor.
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WAY DOWN IN FLORIDA. Ma ALLIGATOR—“ Hurry, children, or the Buffalo Exposition people ‘ will catch you if you don’t watch out !’ ’” COPYMONT 1901 8Y JUDGE COMPANY OF WLW YORK ; : NOTHING DOING. Parson Wratis—“' Ah, deacon, the impositions of sinful men! I've expended thirty cents seeking subjects for pulpit * denunciations,” all NOTES ON THE PAS comicbooks.com