Judge — December 2, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRA'VINGS and ail contributions sent to the Art Devartment shoatd have the sender’s full name and address written plainly on each and every senarate sketch. The accompanying Jobe or descriptive letter-press should in every instance be writien apon its indroidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paver. Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage 1s also reauired. 10 tnsare safe and promot retarn of material not accented. THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. [7 WOULD be a pity if, while the press and the people are pluming themselves on the knockout blow they dealt the Boss in the recent elec- tions, they should lose sight of the real lesson of that memorable campaign. That lesson, in its most obvious aspects, is that the people can rule if they want to, But since the Boss can be un- loaded so easily, why has his ruthless rule gone on so long? If the people can put the Boss out, why did they let him in? If his throne is a mere cob-house, that can be top- pled over with the first breath of honest public indignation, why has the day of wrath been so long delayed? The truth is, the Boss is the creature of negligence on the part of the best elements of the electorate. He organizes a loyal following out of the politically submerged tenth, and takes to the road only so long as the decent nine-tenths of the citizenship are off guard or asleep. The louder the outcry against Boss rule the more shameful the confession of duty shirked and the highest obligations of citizenship spurned. Better than the knork- out of bossism was the indication that the people are waking up and show- ing an unwonted eagerness for the business of government. The next most important lesson of the campaign is that we must have true leaders in the place of the Bosses. The present awakening is itself the first fruits of a leadership that has been stirring up the public conscience for several years. President Roosevelt has inaugurated this new political evangelism. It should be an inspiration to true Republicanism to note that the line of moral cleavage in the present contest is everywhere leaving a valiant host of Republicans on the safe side. The most notable clean-ups have been conducted by Republicans, and the most notorious Republican bosses have been driven from power with Republican scourges. If the Republican party is level to the need of the hour it will welcome this new call to leadership in the interest of good government. A party that came to power as the champion of the equal rights of all the people, the party of emancipation and progress, now faces another epoch-making opportunity. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS STRIKE A WINNING GAIT, JUDGE commends to the American woman suffragists the example of the British sisterhood in the same great cause. It seems that within a few years the British women have discovered the vital connection between good looks and success in their propaganda for equal rights. According to a writer in the London Express, the recent boom in the cause dates from that discovery and the instant acquiescence in all that it involves. To begin with, the platform personnel of the suffrage debate was quietly revolution- ized. Young women, fair to look upon, whose words dropped from ruby lips like nectar, were quietly enlisted in the fight, and to-day an army of girls in their early twenties are arguing their rights with com- pelling charm all up and down John Bull’s island. JUDGE would be the last to inti- mate that the American campaign is being conducted on less effective lines, so far as the personal charm of the suffrage speaker ship is concerned. What we mean to advise is that-the work be pushed more enthusias- tically along the same lines from now on. Let ten thousand beautiful young Gibson girls, for instance, go forth with the proc- lamation of women’s rights. Fill the land with the rapture of this young person's presence. Let all the winds breathe the attar of her loveliness and frou-frou with the silken rustle of her gar- ments, and we venture to say the suffrage cause will go forward by leaps and bounds. We have no doubt that in earlier days the cause was handi- capped by the tendency of the suffragist to wear trousers, short hair, and a man’s hat. When men saw this class of suppliant for more rights they inevitably decided, in brutal, man-logic fashion, that she ought to be de- prived of what rights she had. But now the movement is on right lines, and we look for its speedy success everywhere. ‘Good looks and equal rights” is a winning slogan. ND ALL it cost Mr. Ivins was $10,578. What a lot of fun a man can get out of a little money nowaday: GROVER CLEVELAND has been duck-hunting down in ole Virginny. Seems like the good old days were with us again. ND it’s the same Thomas C. Platt who, a scarce six months ago, on his birthday, was talking real sad, like a man who was all in. How we do change from grave to gay! A BRIGHT LIGHT SHINES FROM OMAHA, NEBRASKA. How TO LIVE on what you've got and lay something by for a rainy day is, after all, the main question. Wherever we look this question turns up. Mr. Edward Bok has addressed himself to the problem in the pages of his Home Journal, and Mr. Bok thinks he is an expert on everything he undertakes. Every paper in the country has devoted acres of space to the same absorbing topic. ‘How to live well on $75,000 a year” and “How to be happy and save money on a dollar a week" are the two extremes of the problem. The literature on this engrossing subject is am- ple, and the reader has only to pick out the pli where he belongs and proceed till the pace gets too rapid for his pocket-booh. A fresh page has been torn from the book of actual experience and added to this literature of ** How we did it.” A. J. Seaman of Omaha, a man worth $50,000, has studied the expense-account until he has mastered it. A false report has stung Mr. Sea- man to utterance, and he tells the world the secret of getting ahead of the game. “ People have been lying about me!’’ he exclaims. “ They say I don’t spend but seven cents a day on bread and meat and coffee and tea. It’s a lie. I spend fifteen cents every day, and I have not tasted coffee nor tea for nearly thirty years. I don’t mind people telling the truth about me, but I don’t want no lies." Mr. Seaman lives on twenty-two cents a day. When he wants clothes he visits the second-hand shops and has no difficulty in finding a vest for ten cents and a coat for twenty. He picks up a straw hat in the fall for two cents and lays it away till the next summer. He makes the Y. M. C. A. reception-room his headquarters during business hours and so saves rent. Some days he overeats at breakfast and spends eight cents, but by pinching dinner a little he keeps the day’s average down to fifteen. Mr. Seaman is doing exactly what some economic wiseacres advise as the sole remedy for poverty. They fail to see that, if every body followed this Omaha example, twenty-two cents a day would shorily be- come the highest average income of most everybody. SECRETARY TAFT is said to be pleased at the general trend of affairs these days; and when you get Secretary Taft pleased you’ve got quite a big slice of this old world pleased. : eee MUST BE mighty cheering to have something that will bring in $20,000,000 or so of dividends at this season of the year, with all the Eh, J. D.? au =~ Christmas things to buy and the rent going on just the same. eee 'ASHINGTON NOTE.—Uncle Joe Cannon was shaking hands with old friends round town to-day. Uncle Joe is a hustler, all right, and was looking as healthy asa yearling. He says he expects to do business at the same old stand. comicbooks.com