Judge — February 14, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**"A Poor Compliment"** depicts an Irish immigrant father (Mr. Hogan) praising his son for fighting, calling him "a chip av the ould block" (a chip off the old block). The mother responds sarcastically that yes, the boy is just like his father—always fighting and always losing. The joke mocks Irish-American working-class masculinity and violence, playing on ethnic stereotypes common to the era. **"What He Came For"** shows a Western saloon scene. A "gospel sharp" (evangelist/preacher) is ejected from a bar in Frozen Dog. When a tenderfoot (inexperienced Easterner) asks what the preacher said upon being told to leave, "Bronco Bill" replies he said "that was what he came in here for"—meaning the preacher actually *wanted* to be thrown out, perhaps to claim martyrdom or justify his mission. The cartoon satirizes both frontier roughness and religious hypocrisy.