Judge — June 29, 1907 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Nevertheless, pocketoc- years urged as the chief objection to trousers. The pocket was re- Y has its dangers, and measuring success with dollars is one of them. garded as a sartorial blemish, and it is stated that the Yankee was the first of the human species to welcome unreservedly both trousers and pockets. WOMAN has just died who was born in Wall Street. Some people For good or ill, the pocket arrived, and now dominates modern civilization. think nothing human was ever born in Wall Street. Pocketfulness has become the strident note of patriotic elo- PROHIBITION Kansas quence. We learn that the christened her battle-ship fiscal year just past has been with lemonade, forgetting the the most prosperous of our baleful significance of the history. We have imported fruit from whence the ade more gold and silver and ex- was obtained, ported more than in any for- ce mer year. Commercetells the THE man mentioned as the same story of unprecedented new Japanese ambassa- increase. The American peo- dor is said to be a great talker ple take immense pride, and and writer. Beats all how for the most part justly, in Washington is setting the the annual tale of swelling pace for the nations. There’s material resources. Looking Mr. Bryce, too. over the baccalaureate outgiv- ings of the recent commencement season, we are HOW little we hear of that renowned statesman, the Hon, Charles A. Murphy, in these piping struck with the singleness of aim displayed in them all, Success, meaning in the last analysis the abil- i i ity to keep the pocket distended, is the objective of times'of peace? most of the valedictory counsel. We have lately read that Miss Helen Gould has requests for cash, and things calling for the expenditure of cash, which, if granted, would total $2,000,000 a week. Up out of the clamorous mass each day come appeals for pianos, bridal clothes, sewing-machines, house-fur- nishings, and funds for the establishment of every conceivable enterprise, from peanut-stands to uni- versities, and philanthropic colonies requiring mil- lions, The experience of Miss Gould is interesting mainly because it is the duplicate of the experience of every possessor of wealth. It would seem as if the population were composed of two classes—the people with bulging pockets and the people with out stretched palms. All this means the reign of the pocket. We speak of democracy, aristocracy, plu- tocracy. There is but one ocracy, and that is pock- etocracy. The coin motif is everywhere present in the reform chorus. First, there is the full pocket against the empty palm, or vice versa. Some are for a rather violent depletion of the full pocket. Others would go about the business tactfully, ten- tatively, timorously, but they would have the full pocket disgorge just the same. Those who regard solely the empty palm constitute the other hemi- sphere of reform endeavor. They are the dreamers, / « the builders of Utopias. But wherever the reform 4 falls in the general classification, the aim of all is practically either to deplete the full pocket or fill up the empty palm. To say that our national spirit, our pride and our constant endeavor, as well as our aspirations for better things, admit of this character ization is not to say that pocketocracy is all wrong. There is sound wisdom in the maxim that it is bet- ter to pay your own way in the world than to let somebody else pay it. We American people are chas- ing the dollar because we want to live, and we love MR. CROKER says he’s coming over to vote for Bryan, Strange that Croker keeps on threat- ening this country. EVERY time it’s announced that the way is clear for a recount of that New York mayoralty vote, the recount appears to grow more distant and un- reachable. ASTOR AKED, late of London, has been D.D.'d by Brown University. A certain university in Chicago will probably be next to offer honors to the new-comer. S THERE any special significance in the eleventh- hour insistence of those Pittsburgers that the pic- ture, “‘ The Bath,”’ must not leave the city of cinders and smoke? BECAUSE Professor D. L. Carroll, superintend- ent of the Britow (lowa) public schools had the courage to spank a dozen girls, his salary has been raised. School superintendents please take notice. eee SINCE the diet experts have all had their say,now comes forward one Brown, who declares he has been made well and happy by eating anything he wants and as much as he wants at any time he likes. R. WILEY’S famous Poison Squad has been disbanded after nine months of heroic subsist- ence on foods as we find them. It has been a glori- ‘ous combat, and every stomach in the country should rejoice. comicbooks.com