Judge — April 27, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Infringement of this cooyright will be promptiy jorousiy prosecute. otherwise return of the Latter when founs unavailable cannot be guarantees. ly on each and every sevaraic sketch. The accompanying toke or Inciosure of stamos to the full amount of postage 1s also required, to MW SUDGE cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be wader obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. THE BATTLE OF THE JIM-JAMS. THE GREAT and notable battle of the jim-jams is on, and is likely to continue until the successor to President Roosevelt is chosen, and per- haps longer. A jim-jam is a state of the imagination born of hysteri bred in suspicion, fear and unrest. If all jim-jams were of the same breed it might be well; but they are not. Hence, the jim-jam war. On the one side a considerable number of the people of this land of the free and home of the brave have made up their minds that corporations must and shall obey the law. They have even gone further and decided that the prosper- ity of corporations shall not be out of all proportion to the prosperity of the rest of the population. This would appear to be a reasonable deduction from the lesson of our progress hitherto, and from the very spirit of our institutions. But whether reasonable or not, the corporations straightway begin to ‘see things,” and one of the warring tribes of jim-jams is born forthwith. The most notable jim-jam of this tribe is the panic prophecy. The Hon, Jim-jam Hill sees the tide of prosperity ebbing. Brother Belmont thinks an upset is due and desirable. Brother Shaw has said all along that the times are too good, and a lot of other jim-jam notions arise to nag and pester us. In the jim-jam philosophy, somebody must be blamed for things which have not yet happened. That’s the beauty of a jim-jammer. He considers that he has a right to call down the fire of heaven upon people for bringing to pass that which has not yet occurred. So we are told thata great assault on property is plan- ned, that the result will be a pre cipitation of disaster,and straight way President Roosevelt and a considerable body of enthusiastic followers are blamed for these awful things due but not yet ar- rived. So runs one side of the jim-jam contest. How natural and entirely human that a con- trary breed of jim-jams should also arise!’ We have been con- fronted with the spectacle of a treasonable senate, graft-con- trolled legislatures, and an elec- torate utterly depraved. Five million-dollar conspiracies grow to fifty-million-dollar cabals, and the opposing jim-jammers dan- gle these octopusized bugaboos so adroitly before the people that even our President is alarmed and rushes into the jim-jam war. Thus are the jim-jam forces ar- rayed against each other. On the one side hysterical attempts are made to convince the people that the patriotic efforts of good men will bring the country to ruin, while on the other side a lot of good people are firm in the belief that the few score masters of great fortunes are darkly plot- ting against the peace and safety of the commonwealth. war, and jim-jam logic rules the da It’s a jim-jam 'HE causes of divorce are all the while multiplying. Here is a woman who liked her bedspreads pink, while her spouse liked bedspreads blue. The divorce-court alone could rectify their troubles. Another wo- man, we read, has gone home to mother because her husband called her “a homely p DON'T LET HIM SCARE YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. T MAY soon become an axiom that as peace-conferences grow more fre- quent battle-ships grow bigger and costlier. . vee Y THE time we have finished our protectorate in Cuba, we may begin to hear that * where the American flag goes it stays.”” E new date for the completion of the Panama Canal is January, 1915. Later dates can be arranged from time to time. HE scholarly New York Evening Post is still inspecting the portrait of the imperial Caesar Tiberius in the hope of placing this man Roosevelt. WE NOTE with pleasure that every time Mr. Taft goes down to Cuba and sits on the case there a notable quiet ensues for some time after. HAT a slap in the face of American pride to be told by John Bull that the eloquence developed in our most distinguished murder trial was mere “* flapdoodle ”?! I" "S good to see one of the presidential boomists going in for the simple life for the summer. Brother Fairbanks has retired to his farm, where he will drink buttermilk and rest. Me®: BRYAN appears to be still strong in the conviction that the Democracy has a radical and a conservative wing. From the incessant flutter, we had sup- posed that the Democracy was all wings. .. THE best explanation so far of the wickedness of New York is that put forth by the Charles- ton News and Courier, New York has to be bad, it says, so that the rest of the country can have an interesting place to make trips to. R. W. T. STEAD’S propo- sition to establish a pil- grimage of peace ought to go well here. It looks like a nice, leisurely junket around the world, which would appeal to anybody who has ever served in congress. E RATHER like the idea of Mr. Bernard Shaw that if anybody is to go pilgrimaging for peace, ‘a handful of merely local peo- ple, kings, czars, kaisers, and the like, whose time is of no value at all,” are the people for the job. HE Rev. Charles Aked appears to entertain an opinion of the American people which had considerable vogue among our friends, the Spaniards, in 188, Nevertheless, if the Rev. Aked feels called to convert a dollar chasing democracy he does well to pitch right in. comicbooks.com