Judge — February 20, 1904 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and all contributions sent fo the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or descriptive letter-press should in every instance be written apon its individual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inclosure of stamps to the full amount of postage (s also required, (0 insare safe and promct return of material not accepted. [TIS NOW beginning to took as if Mr. Bryan is a howling epidemic unto himself. eee M® HILL’S love of and for the Democratic nomination may be truth- fully said to be anything but platonic. F ONLY for the novelty of a change, we would like to hear a little less about the nobility of labor and a little more anent the nobility of capital. 3 Se MANY a commercial genius fondly fancies, in the wild delirium of a gilt- edged illusion, that he has rung the magic bell of success when he has only caused a tintinnabulation of the cash-register. oeee ‘THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY seems'to be having a pretty lively time of it, for, look at it as we may, it sometimes strikes us that she is but an ornamental figurehead with nothing that even vaguely savors of freedom behind her. In her continuous battle to exiSt against the combined efforts of the thugs and grafters that would dethrone and immolate her, she shows a tenacity of purpose that is truly as heroic as it is beautiful. She clings to the cross of civilization in a manner that should glad the hearts of her followers, be they numbered by the thousands or by the mere handfuls. Her efforts so to cling and hold fast upon the cross which.is her anchor of anchors must also cause consternation and dismay to thwart the efforts of her traducers and would-be destroyers. These loud-mouthed, trumpet- throated myrmidons may be classed under the general name of buncocrats. It isa name, that fits them like the proverbial paper on the wall; and it may be said also that, while they are rioters and anarchists and get-rich-, quick schemers of get-rich-quick schemes, they are still buncocrats who love buncocracy with all their so-called hearts and souls. These social and political firebrands have a large contract on their hands when they attempt to raze liberty, for after a while the old American spirit that makes things hum when the proper time arrives will waken and prove most conclusively that it is a living reality, and not a mere tradition and bit of historic orna- ment, by the lively manner in which it will scatter and disperse these hosts of anarchy and graft, to the end that liberty shall go on doing business at the old stand and in the old-fashioned way that has ever been a source of patriotic pride to all genuine Americans. THE SHERMAN anti-trust law is made of the right kind of stuff—the stuff that defies alike the teeth of time and the beak of the casual wood- pecker, that fancies he can perforate it until it hi ordinary cribbage-board. Mr. Foraker, euphemistically known as the anti- trust amendment-bill woodpecker, has been playing a most lively tattoo on the armor-plated Sherman law, which is warranted not to rust or crum- ble; and even his stoutest and most enthusiastic adherents are forced to admit that it begins to look as if it will bear no stronger a resemblance to accribbage-board than it does at present, at the time when the woodpecker shall have worn his beak back to his optics. This empty woodpecker has played nocturnes and rhapsodies and fantasies and what not without end, and without let or hinderance, on the solid surface of the Sheri law, and while the rhythm may have pleased the Foraker contingent, it was not such as to fill them with that rare joy which causes the possessor to uncon- sciously execute a frisky saraband. The Sherman anti-trust law cannot, like the average law, be broken. It is solid and will stand and stay, de- spite all the anti-trust-amendment billingsgate that can or may be hurled ruthlessly at and against it. It is cast in bronze, so far as the bombard- ing power of the woodpecker is concerned. The Foraker and all other political woodpeckers should know, if they are ordinarily fortified and equipped with that sterling quality known as gumption, that they cannot find many grubs of comfort in so hard and solid a body as that of the Sher- man anti-trust law, and that to attempt to do so is only a wild waste of time and energy which might be applied to a better purpose. To borrow a threadbare slang phrase in vogue a number of years ago, we may remark that, even as there are no grubs in the Sherman anti-trust law, so are there no flies on it. It is hard and clean and enduring; and it is als anti- woodpecker proposition in that it is woodpecker proof, and therefore un- worthy of the serious attention of Mr. Roosevelt. the appearance of an A REAL SMART LITTLE GIRL. Mistress—“'I hope you are not thinking of getting married, Bridget?” Coor—"* Oh, 10, indade, mum! Oj prefer to shtay roight here an’ hov a home ay me own.” comicbooks.com