Judge, 1903-09-12 · page 2 of 16
Judge — September 12, 1903 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **political commentary and satire rather than narrative comics**. The left column features short, biting observations about American politics and society: - Mockery of Democrats burying "the hatchet" (making peace) - Criticism of Cleveland as average and uninspiring - Jokes about Democratic backsliding and accident insurance company risks - Commentary on a "superstition" regarding Penman Hill The right column offers lengthier satirical essays on financial topics and Democratic political failures. The bottom illustration shows a **rural scene with a horse-drawn cart**, captioned "How It Happened"—a brief joke about marriage and infidelity. Overall, this is **editorial satire targeting Democratic politics and American social foibles**, typical of Judge's Republican-leaning satirical approach. The specific political references (likely 1880s-era) are unclear without additional historical context.
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Western Apve ‘One copy, one year, .— ss —— SELL. Ar rue Panxer BUILpixc, Fourr AVENUE axD UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN AD ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks PUBLISHED WEEKLY INMTEENTH STREET, New You. wrisinc Ornice—$28 ructte Building, Chicago, Il, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: VANCE, or s2 numbers including the Cuntstuas Juoce FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreiga countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. Evnorean satss-acewrs—International News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, F.C, Londen ; Brentane!s, Avenue de" Opera, Paris: Saarback's News Exchange, Mains, Germany. The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright wll be promptly and Dizorousty prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS mast inclose a stamped and self-addressed envelope wth all manascripts, DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The otheftoise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. Jobe or accompanying letter-press should tn every instance be waritien upon tts indtoldaal picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inctosure of stamps to the full amount of postage 1s also required, descriptive tasare safe and prompt retam of matertal not accepted. HEN the Democrats bury the hatchet it usually means war to the knife. CLEVELAND is to the average intelligent Demo- crat what a hot watermelon is to.a man with a raging fever. ‘THE LONG-HEADED bacteriologist who knows his business to the ground is the man who executes the loud laugh over spilled milk. ‘THE ACCIDENT-INSURANCE company will prove that it more than knows its business if it will but keep the football risk out of its policies. CANARY that can sing and will not sing is a well- spring of pleasure. | 4 Ah ‘THERE IS a lively and tempestuous superstition in the ranks of the Democracy that cunning old D. Peanut Hill is a hollow mockery in the concrete. THE CHIEF TROUBLE with the bright lexicon of youth seems to lie in the perennial fact that the ‘‘c’’ division consists almost entirely in “can'ts.”” IOW A. P. GORMAN'S silence, be it said, Makes it apparent to the level head He's playing off politically dead. eee ASARULE, magazine poets are, without reference to the length of their ringlets, made, not born. Judging by many of the specimens of these sweet singers, so called, magazine poetry is not so much a divine gift as it is an incurable disease. HOW IT “Where did ye git WHEN UNCLE SAM, so to speak, blew Cuba off to her freedom—the freedom for which she had prayed and struggled alone and in vain for ages—he little dreamed that she would be ungrateful and indifferent and take the large gilt-edged blessing as a matter of course. When Uncle Sam looks upon the slate and observes the figures which represent the amount of his financial burden incident to his friendly assistance of one in dire distress and need he must realize, and to the fullest, that the way of the good Samaritan, like that of the transgressor, is not one of roses. With his war-debt on the one hand and the loss of Cuba’s trade upon the other, Uncle Sam is not likely to starve for want of the food of reflection—the provender that is never predigested, and yet never requires the aid of any kind of tablet to cause it to digest and to assimilate with the mercerized fish-ball of commerce. ‘THAT THERE IS always room at the top is especially true as regards the top that means financial victory. And yet, when the climber has reached the-summit he has passed through such an ordeal of bumps and kicks, and has been landed upon his skull into so many pitfalls, that he is usually a mental wreck, and is not so happy as is the man who, at the bottom, is about to start on the same tempestuous climb. As there are many short cuts to success, it seems not a little singular that the top of victory should not be reached in a few minutes on an elevator, and not after years of hard uphill work on foot. The plunge downward from the top is much swifter than is the upward journey, and it is in one long, con- tinuous, straight-away fall that is anything but similar to the many abrupt headers of the ascent, which is sore beset with stumbling-blocks. There is nothing in particular to be gained by pointing out to ambitious people the error of their way. They wi'’ probably go right ahead, as they are now going and have been going from time immemorial, and never realize that in time the successes and the failures will be on common terms of financial and horizontal equality, while the hyacinthine zephyr plays aolian melo- dies among the bobbing daisies which they will hold up with their festive wish-bones. eee ote ZZ 4, 3 HAPPENED. th’ black eye, Moike?"” Ctancr—“ Why, Tim Dolan ‘s just back from his honeymoon—an’ ‘twas me advised Tim t’ git married." comicbooks.com