Judge — June 22, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and alt contributions sent to the Art Department shoald have the sender's fall name and address Written plainly on each and every separate sheich. The accompanying joke or descrivtive letter-press should in every instance be written apon its indtidual picture, and NOT upon a sevarate siio of paver. Inciosure of stamos 10 the full amount of postage (3 also required, 10 tasure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. ON MONEY-GRUBBING AS THE TRADE OF AMERICANS. THE TOTAL EFFECT of the recent muck-raking furore has been to legitimatize into accepted belief what was before mere unquiet suspicion that money madness has corrupted and demoralized the American people. The rich man was due for a roast, and the roast has arrived. As a result, plutocratic defilement has come to be listed as one of our chronic and pos- sibly incurable ailments. The possession of money is regarded as prima- facie evidence of moral taint; and because rich Americans are tainted it is now declared that all Americans are tainted. Certain British papers, for instance, are saying that the view of the American people long entertained abroad has been established by proof supplied by our own courts and state and federal administrations. In short, they say the American now stands forth a proven money-grubber. Americans hitherto have not been seri- ously troubled by this foreign opinion, but now the contempt is coming to be shared by a very considerable minority of our own population. To ques- tion this judgment is to be branded as an apologist, if not an accomplice, of the guilty plutocrat. So far as the extremely rich are concerned, they may be left to take care of themselves; but when it comes to fixing an ungra- cious character upon the whole American people, the commonest among us ought to sit up and take notice. It was stated a while ago that the appeal for funds for the purchase of the Keats-Shelley house on the Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, had met with the following response: From England, the native country of both poets, and the sharer of their renown, $1,638; from America, $17,000, Kentucky alone contributing almost as much as the entire British empire. We have lately seen a statement that the American peeple gave more to Marti- nique than did France, to which Martinique belongs; that they gave more to St. Vincent than did Great Brit- ain, to which St. Vincent be- longs; and that they send more money to relieve famine sufferers in India than do the English, to whom India be- longs. Japan is seeking a trivial sum in damages from San Francisco for the wreck- ing of a Japanese restaurant, and yet the Americans have been among the largest con- tributors for the relief of fam- ine in Japan. There is no country where the gold of money-grubbing Americans does not flow in perpetual streams of aid and betterment. In spite of the resentment justly felt toward certain cor- poration extravagances and greedinesses, our press, plat- form and our pulpit are prob- 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any eewe-stand, the publishers will be under obligations If that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. 'HE two-cent-fare law doesn’t seem to be working as fair as the fare- fixers thought it would. Sa HE Japs are calling our President a samurai. That's the way. Every- body claims a good thing. JNDIANA turning to Hughes, says a headline. Thus begins the great turning movement of 1908. ss ‘OR a man who has got through running for the Presidency, Brother Randolph Hearst runs like a man who doesn’t just know what he’s running for. tae AND now it’s Edward Bok, LL.D. The New York World suggests that it means Learned, Ladylike and Decorous. Whatever it means, we know it’s deserved. eee S THE first under-river tunnel approaches completion, New York pro- ceeds to the appointment of a commission of investigation. Thus does one industry lead to another. . THESE are evil times, and no mistake. Here are 200,000 New England cotton-mill operatives getting a ten-per-cent. increase in wages, the highest ever paid in the in- dustry. . SIGNED presidential photo- graphs in exchange for glasses of buttermilk are growing quite numerous up and down the country. This ought to put new life in the buttermilk industry. HE demand of the Amal- gamated Society of House- wives for an eight-hour day will undoubtedly make trou- ble. We don’t- quite see where strike-breakers are to be got for this fight. WHAT pleasant reminis- cences are turning up nowadays! Here is New York gloating over a time when there was but one law- yer in the city, and he was totally without practice until ably doing untold injury by falling in with this slurring foreign. opinion of us. The worst that can be said of American men and women is that they are per- haps too industrious, too absorbed in the drama of business, too fearful, it may be, of the spectre of want. But that they are mere sordid money- grubbers, either in business or politics, is about the most untruthful thing that can be said of them. NOW comes a janitor combine to give fresh impetus to New York's fail- ing strenuosity. Uncte Sam— Hey, there, painter! ain't you overdoing that picture a little?” another lawyer moved in, OW perverse is man! Just when we thought everybody was clamor- ing for the preservation of our timber-lands, here comes a society de- claring that overforestation is one of the evils of the time to be put down. BANK utters a warning note of inflation. Says there are about $600,- 000,000 too much scattered around the country. If the banks really feel that way about it, we know a place where this $600,000,000 could be assembled and the darger to the country totally obviated. comicbooks.com