Judge — June 16, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Ar rue Panger Bortpinc. Fourrs Averce: Westen Apvrerisinc ( Ove PUBLISHED WEEKLY NINETEENTH Staxet, New Youn. nce— 1313 Hartford Building, Ohicage, li. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. ,oneyear.orsenumbers- = (One copy, six months, or 26 numbers = ‘One copy, for thirteen wi FOREIC Fuxoraax saues-acewrs—Jnternational News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, E.C, Londen ; Brentana's, Avenue de !* Opera, Paris: ‘ The contents of FUDGE are protected by conyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Tncloding the Cwmistaas Jupce \ SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $5.90 a year. faach's News Exchange, Mains, Germany. Infringement of this conyright will be promptly and rigorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inciose a stamped and self-addressed entvelove with all manascrots, othefwise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWi descriptive letter insure safe ard promot retarn of material not accepted. : 11 JUDGE cancot be found at any vews-stand, the publishers will be uoder obligations If that fact be promptly reported on postal-<ard or by letter. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. LTHOUGH the Republican party is two years past its golden anni- versary, the celebration of that event, which occurs in Philadelphia next week, is most appropriate and timely. The party has lived through fifty of the most efficient years in the annals of human government. It has written some of the proudest chapters of American history. It has contributed the main impulses of that history, supplied its most stirring scenes, won its great vic- tories, inspired its chief representatives, and finally builded their monuments and crowned them with imperishable renown. Hence the party is entitled to take to itself becoming honors as one of the moving forces of civilization and progress. Parti- san devotion can hardly exaggerate the services of the Republican party to this republic, and partisan prejudice will not undertake to assail its historic record. The great names that shed lustre on our coun- try in the middle and later years of the last century were for the most part identified with it. Even if this were not so, such men as Fremont, Lincoln, Sumner, Greeley, Grant, Garfield, and McKinley would give it endless distinction. A political party cannot lay claim to any particular sacredness. It is but the aggregate of very human ingredients. That the Republican party has held together for more than a half-century, that the organizing principle at the beginning was a great zeal for reform, and that in all the years since it has held high and patriotic ideals, stamps it as one of the most effective organizations ever achieved among men. It is inspiring to note that to-day, as at the beginning, it is full of reform vigor and commands the enthusiastic support of the best men in the republic. HAT are we eating when we eat lard? Address all answers to our puzzle editor. JUDGE THE ORIGINATOR OF THE “SQUARE DEAL.” Y THE COURTESY of Mr. J. H. Nettleton of New Milford, Con- necticut, JUDGE is able to recall a bit of forgotten comic drawing which entitles him to the credit of originating the “‘ square deal.” The ac- companying picture was published in JUDGE over seventeen years ago. It will be seen that not only in caption, but in sentiment, motive and intent, it antedates by many years the principle upon which much of the fame of President Roosevelt rests. JUDGE has no disposition at this time to at- tempt to wrest from the Pres- ident his laurels. In the words of a noted admiral, “There is glory enough for all.” A glance at the picture will show in what spirit the original was conceived, and how adequately the whole subject is set forth. Nothing could better show the basic idea of perfect fairness. On the one side is the evident tendency to overreach, and on the other is the quick insist- ence on the square deal. We have no doubf that here was the beginning of the crusade which in these latter days has reached such universal dimensions. We are much obliged. to our Connecticut corre- spondent for putting us on the track of the initial origin of such a benefi- cent movement. imo Om A squane DEAL Republished from Judge of November 30th, 1889. :S and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name ard address Written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or ress should in every instance be written upon its indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of parer. Inclosure of stamps to the full amount of postage (3 also required, to THE Lake Mohonk call for peace is as vigorous and explicit asever. And yet our battle-ships grow bigger. COST Standard Oil six dollars to give away a gallon of oil, and yet some people say Standard Oil is close-fisted. aces T IS REPORTED that Senator Burton of Kansas has “agreed to re- sign.” Some senators will agree to most anything. THE DUMA is doing pretty well. Universal. suffrage without distinc- tion of sex, nationality, or religion sounds queer coming from Russia. WHY NOT end the Panama Canal puzzle by digging Panama off the map and making a bay in its place? This would simplify the prob- lem immensely. NEW YORK’S EMINENCE AS A CRIME-EXPLOITER. NEW YORK’S latest murder-trial is well calculated to support the propo- sition that in the metropolis the prosecution of crime is a sort of annex to yellow journalism. The killing of her uncle and aunt by the Terranova girl,a mere child in years, was sufficient to raise the question of her sanity. The facts were admitted. There was nothing to prove, no labyrinths of criminal malice to ferret out. Neverthe less, this confessed child-murderer was brought before the court and all the en- ginery of the prosecutor’s office was set in motion to convict her. When all the shocking evidence had been made public, the prosecution suddenly changed front and concluded to send the girl before a. commission to inquire into her sanity. Why this was not done until the most for- lorn, wretched and sensational story ever told had been given out to an eager, hun- gry press must remain a mystery to all healthy-minded people. Perhaps some good is accomplished by giving publicity to these chapters of human filth and de- pravity. Certainly the great metropolis has reached a dreary eminence by its prosecutors’ exploitation of the squalid crimes of the ignorant, the vicious and the lowly. IN THESE DAYS of graft and fraud how pleasant is the story that the women in Uncle Sam's service are honest! WHAT with bombs flying merrily athwart the landscape, Russia is hav- ing a sort of continuous Fourth of July. eee I" IS to be hoped congress will pass that bill to make our money clean. From what we hear most of the money nowadays is awfully dirty. cee T IS SUGGESTED that the least anybody ought to spend is $780.00 * per year. Entirely too little. Let’s have a law that everybody must spend at least $10,000 a year or be disgraced. ‘ eee WHen a man at sixty-eight beats the record he made at twenty-five in a walking-match it’s time to ask Dr. Osler to go way back and sit Edward Payson Weston is a public benefactor. . down, R. ROCKEFELLER’S physician, Dr. Hamilton F. Biggar, like his principal, is a great humorist. He went abroad with Mr. Rockefeller, he says, first, because Mr. Rockefeller, being a poor man, needs somebody to pay the expenses, and second, because Mr. Rockefeller needs somebody along whom he can beat at golf. comicbooks.com