Judge — June 29, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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The accompanying joke oF descriotrve leller-oress should in dbery instance be written upon it3 individual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paner. Inciosure of stamos to the full amount of postage (s also required, 10 insure safe and promot return of matertal not accented. 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligations If that tact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. ‘THE GREEN-BUG PLAGUE AND RUBBERNECK IRREVERENCE. ENTION is made in the newspapers of the invasion of the financial districts of many cities by a host of green bugs. Concurrently it is complained that rubberneck irreverence is a new menace to the republic. The green-bug plague is so far not understood, but the etiology of the lat- ter affliction is tolerably clear. Where the green bugs invade the precincts of the predacious classes the atmosphere turns a sickly greenish-white, the temperature rises, language grows panicky, railroad rulers reel, and fitful lightnings flash in the frowning faces of for- tune’s favorites. Where the well-known auto-vehicle,with seats in tiers, rolls its huge bulk along the avenues and alleys of the cities, while the humorist with the megaphone gibes at wealth’s proud front, jests at the Flatiron building and Cleopatra’s needle, and flings his flippant. banalities broadcast, there follows the frivolous attitude of mind which is described as rubberneck irreverence, It is said that this rubber- neck flippancy has reached such dimensions in Washington that the capi- tol, the White House, the President himself, are more often made the sub- ject of smiles than of tears. We have no desire to enlarge upon the gravity of the twin evils of green bugs and rubberneck irreverence. We merely direct attention to their increasing prevalence. Some of our leading men seem to be doubly smitten. There is Mr. Bryan, for instance. On the one side he is letting fly green bugs in financial districts, and on the other side, while himself a notably grave man, he is injecting new elements of flippancy into our politics every day. Mr. Bryan has toured the country so long in the “The Democratic donkey is getting fractious, Mr. Bryan.” slaught of the rubbernecks. Meanwhile prosperity abides, the people ap- pear to be reasonably contented and happy, yellow journalism goes on its way rejoicing, and muck-rakers live on the fat of the land. Ain't these the beatin’est times? THE oyster, rules Attorney-general Jackson, is a wild animal. Mr. Jack- son will be a nature-faker yet if he doesn’t look out. WHEN it comes to vetoes, Governor Hughes can do the trick with a suavity and completeness that leaves nothing more to be said. AYBE the nature-fakers will tell us now why the Democratic donkey is not as astute and farseeing these daysas the situation demands. Says Ex-boss Croker, 3 “* My only desire is to end my days in these glorious surroundings.” What a happyfying effect a Derby victory has! ND now the tendency of judges of all courts to don gowns is attacked as a “childish thirst for tinsel and a worship of royalty.”” SINCE New York’s first lawyer never had a case until a second lawyer moved in, it is tolerably plain what we ought to do to the lawyers. s° MR. ROOSEVELT carries a gun, and we note that Brother Bryan pays taxes on five firearms. Thus do role of a candidate, megaphone in hand, that the presidential seat must have lost much of its statesmanlike dignity in his eyes, just as the rubberneck guides cease to be reverent toward in- stitutions which they are called upon to describe every two hours during the day. Here is the Hon. James J. Hill growing peevish about the newspapers, and saying that the fool editors are to blame for all the rumpus that has been kicked up in the country over rebates, railroad regulation, and the like. Look at our rotund secretary of war. Mr. Taft is beginning to use language that is even more wordful than was Mr. Cleveland’s at its best. Mr. Taft thinks our prosperity may not last, and yet he doesn’t know for sure. Then look at odr war with Japan. We all know that there isn’t going to be a war, and yet we hear it so positively cried up that we are afraid there may be. And there is the President. He speaks, and the green bugs swarm wherever there’s a dollar to the good. He speaks again, and revered laws, constitutions and predatory practices, supported by hon- orable precedent, totter before the on- seriously in Japan than here. the Tokyo Puck. ‘The San Francisco trouble ts not, apparently, taken any more Uncle Sam's reception of General Kuroki at Jamestown, as pictured by the Japanese comic paper, the dangerous classes increase. NEW YORKERS wear a look of worry, says a competent observer from Florida. Since he had just made acall upon Mayor McClellan, it may be accase of mistaking a part for the whole. WHEN the President suggests that that inheritance tax be ‘‘ carried to its logical conclusion in a maximum rate of nearly one hundred per cent.,”” no wonder the trillionaires begin to sit up and take notice. AMBASSADOR BRYCE, in effect, tells us Americans to keep a stiff upper lip and hope for the best. Mr. Bryce’s consolatory addresses are giv- ing a new spiritual significance to the ambassadorial office. eee ECAUSE he liked to see the en- gines ‘ a-steamin’ down the road,” a little ten-year-old boy set fire to a New York house. Some bigger people nowadays try to set fire to things for the fun of drawing a crowd. comicbooks.com