Judge — January 26, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Ove copy, oneyear.orsznambers= = ttt O00 Ove copy, for thirteen wevks RIPTIONS—To alli fores PUBLISHED WEEKLY Jord Building, Chicago, le TERMS TO SUPSCRIRERS ere wD i eS 435 lading the Curisraas Jupce. n countries in the postal union, $5.50. year. saréach's News Exchange, Mainz, Germany 2, Atenne del" Opera, Paris: eed. The accompanying joke or ler when founs unavailable cannot be gu descrinteve letter-press siould in dberg instance be written acon Its individual picture, and NOT upon a separate sito of pacer. inciosure of stamos to the full amount of postage 1s also required, 40 insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. FRONT-DOOR GOVERNMENT AN AWFUL MENACE, THE ARRIVAL of Governor Hughes and front-door government at Al- bany has brought fresh dismay to politicians. An ancient Democrat voices the general alarm in the columns of our neighbor, ie Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He finds that such new-fangled things as civil service and direct accountability to the peo- ple have so circumscribed the tropical zone of pap and spoils that the new secretary of state, for instance, has at his disposal only seven jobs, At this rate, he says, the time is near when there will no longer be any reason for party loyalty. For why. should any man be loyal to his party when his party, if successful at the polls, is ut- terly empty-handed of jobs, places, sine- cures, honors, and rewards? In the old days the man who voted the ticket and got the most of his fellows to vote the ticket was thereby proven most clearly to be competent, and to be in line for the jobs with the fattest salaries. What is to hap- pen if that idea is to give place to the absurd notion that only men fit for the jobs are to be chosen? And here is Governor Hughes abolishing the time-honored back stairs of politics and moving out into the open, where the public shall be a party to every official conversation. Truly, if such tactics are to prevail, the fine old trade of politics is near the exits. F MURPHY did steal the election from Williehearst, and is now ready to testify in proceedings to seat him, it would look like a cinch for Hearst; but the mind involuntarily inquires, “‘ Where does that leave Murphy?” tae THOSE Cuban soldiers who stood ready to back the latest revolution, it is said, will be ready to settle with the new government for a little matter of $57,000,000. Revolution is getting to be one of the best-paying industries, é iw GOTHAM AS A QUIET HEALTH-RESORT. WE ARE GLAD to know that the Rev. Charles Aked, who is quitting the British Isles to take a New York pastorate, finds it in his heart to say that among the inducements which bring him here is the high char- acter of New York City as a health-resort and the quietness of this burg as compared with his native Liverpool. Dr. Aked does not say this in so many words, but, from some very flattering remarks about the city, he leaves it to be inferred. This alone would scarcely excite our astonishment. But when he says that he is fleeing to New York to escape the noise of Liverpool we confess to some amazement. As a lover of noise and an eager seeker for the noisi- est places on earth, we are surprised that we never heard that Liverpool was so sat- isfactory in this respect. We have tried to imagine just how noisy Liverpool is and to calculate what the Rev. Aked’s notion of silence may be. It is just possible that this stranger has discovered possibilities in our New York life that are hid from us who dwell here. For instance, he may have discovered that the quietness he seeks is to be found on the top of our tallest sky- scrapers, and at the same time these alti- tudinous locations may mean health to him, since it is well known that he is one of the most ardent knights of the alpenstock, and spends a part of each year in the Alps. 1 JUDGE cannot be found at aay news-stand, the publishers will be ueder obligations if that fact be promptly reported om postal-card or by letter. WHEN it comes to making a mayor of Mr. Hearst, Brother Jackson is on the job. BEGINS to look as if the greatest obstacle to the completion of the Pan- ama Canal is going to be soft mud. FOR a man bent on winning out,as Mr. Harriman is, we tremble to think what will happen when he becomes his own competitor. ND here are people getting excited and enthusiastic over Esperanto. It’s almost as funny and as useless as the simplified-spelling craze. JUDGE offers a straight tip, to wit: If the police would quit fooling with Emma Goldman and anarchists of her class, these agitators would drop out of sight. That kind lives on a little persecution. JERSEY JUSTICES BOOM WEDLOCK, RIVALRY among the marrying justices of Jersey City and Hoboken has led to some novelties which will add greatly to the attractiveness of age ceremony. First, one of the justices offered trading-stamps. s bid for business promptly met by another justice, who made a of kissing the bride. Then an- other justice bethought him of a novel wrinkle of another sort. He had the con- stitution ‘of the United States printed on large sheets of paper, and every couple coming before him was allowed to stand upon one of these sheets during the cere- mony. He made the bride feel that she was planted firmly upon the constitution and therefore safeguarded in some mystical way in her matrimonial venture. The bridegroom at the same time was permitted to feel that the sacred rights of masculinity and conjugal overlordship had an addition- al guarantee. Perhaps the parsons will take a suggestion from the Jersey justices and contrive similar expedients for novelizing the marriage ceremony. How would it do to have the bride and groom each stand on one foot to show the mutual dependence of the connubial state? Perhaps mere novelty is all that is needed to counteract the influences that are opposing the institution of marriage. THE yellow streak is universal, it appears. Paris has decided that Napo- leon III.’s mustache was yellow. HAT old joker, the anti-cartoon bill, always shows up at Albany when politics begins to look like business. eee FOR a man whose business it is to clarify things, it is a mystery how Dr. Osler succeeds so often in being misunderstood. IF THE plan to tax all incomes of $500 and over goes into effect, here’s our bet that it will be found that nobody is getting that much. cost Herkimer County $17,000 to convict Gillette. That will be a mere cipher to the sum it will cost to divide a jury on Thaw. 'HE new word has come to stay. And there is nothing clipt about it. It is * interstatecommercecommissionitis,” and Mr. Harriman and some others are down with it bad. comicbooks.com