Judge, 1902-11-08 · page 2 of 16
Judge — November 8, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains editorial commentary rather than a political cartoon. The "Judge" masthead and various short satirical observations critique contemporary issues. The topics addressed include: - **Campaign finances**: References to "empty barrels" of money spent on elections - **William Jennings Bryan**: Mentioned as a Populist/Democratic figure whose plurality support is questioned - **Literary ambitions**: Satirizes men attempting to write, hoping their legislative and literary efforts will succeed - **Boston education**: Mocks an educated horse that outperforms actual illiterate candidates - **Democratic Party philosophy**: Criticizes their economic policies and trade positions The bottom illustration labeled "Both Satisfied" shows a Richmond conversation about a son and daughter, appearing to comment on social/class outcomes. The commentary reflects Gilded Age concerns about populism, campaign spending, and educational standards.
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Suage AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 210 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Terms to Subscribers. CANADA WN ADVANCE FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countrics in the postal union, $6.00. year Wesrexn Ornice—$28-829 Marquette Building, Oricago. Evnoreax saues-acexts—/aternational mews company, Bream's building, Chancery lane, E.G Landon Brentana'n, avenue de FOpera, Paris; Saarbach's news eachange, Sains, Germany The contests of JUDGE are protected by copyright ia both the Usited States aad Great Britis. Jatringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. envelope with all manuscripts, otherwise retera of the latter when fotund unavailable cassot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contributions sent fo the Art Department should have the sender’ ‘each and every separate shetch. The accompany’ or descriptive letter ery Instance be written upos its individual pictare, and NOT 008 2 separate slip of paper. Inclosure of stomps to the fall amcaat of postage Is also required. to insure sate and prompt retura of material not accepted. |ALKING about infant industries, where does baby-farming come in? wee IF THE Tammany heeler should its lowest level. athe, water would find HE BEAUTY of the three-hundred-dollar sacque is only seakskin deep. THERE ARE no crumbs of comfort in the average loaf of cooking-school bread. AT PRESENT, umong florists and football enthusiasts, chrysanthemum ’s the word. eee THE RURAL DEALER now dispenses fire-wood that is so green as to be absolutely fire-proof. WE LIVE in so progressive an age that often we fancy that the day may not be very far distant that will see the candidate entering a department-store for the purpose of purchasing votes at a reduced rate on the bargain-counter. 'HE MELLOW, mellifluous smile of Hill seems to constitute the entire daintily-sculptured meringue of the Democratic pie. WHEN the campaign barrels of money are spent the empty barrels are still in evidence as fuel for the bonfire that celebrates the result. I" IS quite likely that Odell’s plurality will be so great as to quite out- number the seas of breakfast cereals that are now attacking the public digestion with more or less succes: AS A DISCIPLE of Cincinnatus, Mr. Bryan seems to have found his ‘true level of usefulness. His departure from politics should therefore be doubly appreciated by his party, even if the microbe of the Horatian sil- verite is more or less fire-proof. . A NUMBER of literary men appear to be writing, or at least attempting to write, their way into the legislature. Having the good of society at heart, let us most fervently trust that the ambitions of these scribes may be attained, as it would be a good thing for the legislature as well as for literature. aw % BOSTON now rejoices in an educated horse that makes the average horse of education look like an illiterate Shetland pony. He does many things that astonish alike tle followers of the Browning and Euripides cults or fads. Among other acts this highly-gifted equine reaches to the bottom of a pailful of water and lifts therefrom a silver dollar without swallowing a drop of the liquid. This is not really so great a trick when it is consid- ered that the average Tammany politician can also lift as small a coin as a nickel from the bottom of a pailful of water with his teeth without swallow- ing adrop. But he would fail utterly and hopelessly on the liquid end of the feat if the said liquid were beer. BY A SKILLFUL shuffling and juggling of such terms as competition, evolution, over-supply, under-supply, monopoly, limitations, com+ modities, and protection, the astute Democratic pen-wielding philosopher makes kaleidoscopic pigeon-wings that he displays in various ways to hoodwink and gold-brick the unwary on the ever-momentous question of the trusts and their relation to the country’s prosperity. When it is con- sidered that all music is builded on eight notes, it will at once be seen by the most near-sighted person that an almost endless series of effects may be produced by the magician who has at his service the aforesaid eight words, of which he can make combinations that are at once bewildering and dazzling. He can speak of the tariff as the mother of trusts, or of the trusts as the father and mother of the tariff. But when his arguments are put through the sieve of common sense they will usually be found to hold water about as long and tenaciously as would a paper bag or a Tammany heeler. BOTH SATISFIED, Ricnuono—" They tell me Newpo} Browxporoucn—" So | underst Ricton>—" Well, they got both."* was hoping for a son, while his wife wanted a daughter.” comicbooks.com