Judge, 1902-09-27 · page 16 of 16
Judge — September 27, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This 1902 satirical page mocks the economic anxieties of working-class Americans during a period of prosperity. **Top cartoon:** A family chorus warns "Don't!" as children play dangerously with toys and explosives, satirizing parental concern amid industrial-age hazards. **Bottom cartoon:** A "vegetable horse" (likely representing a working-class person or laborer) complains about exhaustion from successful harvests requiring constant work, while a coal-hauling donkey boasts about profiting during good times—but worries the resolution of the ongoing coal strike will ruin his business. The satire criticizes working people's contradictory position: prosperity creates grueling labor, yet workers fear losing income when strikes end or conditions normalize. The cartoon mocks both the horse's complaint and the donkey's precarious fortune, suggesting workers benefit from instability and labor disputes rather than sustainable prosperity. It reflects anxieties about the 1902 coal strike and broader tensions between labor and capital.
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x Bait WE CHORUS OF FAMILY—" DON'T!" COPYMONT 1902 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ‘Sachettd Woheina tha & Pig Co New York “IT'S AN ILL WIND.” ETC. 2 ‘Tue vecetaste Horse—‘‘! tell you I'm having a hard time of it. There's nothing to do but work. The crops have been such a success that | have to best waror-loads of stuff all day. There's nothing bet rivers, of money and oceans of prosperity floating around. But these good times are just a-breaking my backs foe fab "Qh, 1 don't know. I have nothing to do but eat cats all day, and I'm a regular Plerpont Morgan. My business is hauling coal, and V' be all ght if they don't settle the coal strike. comicbooks.com