Judge — July 6, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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CONTRIBUTORS mast inciose a stamped and self-addressed enveicp* with all manascriots, otherwise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and ail contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address “written plainly on each and every searate sketch. The accompanying joke o descriptive letter-oress should in every instance be written uton tts indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate sito of paper. inclosure of stamps 10 the full amount of postage 1s also reauired, to insure safe and prompt return of matertal not accented. 1 SUDGE cansot be found st any eews-stand, the publishers will be ender obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. our country because we catch up with the dollar rather oftener and live rather better than any other people in the world. Nevertheless, pocketoc- racy has its dangers, and measuring success with dollars is one of them. ON PATRIOTISM, PROSPERITY AND POCKETOCRACY. E LEARN from the London Chronicle that the pocket was for many years urged as the chief objection to trousers. The pocket was re- 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. Pocketfulness has become the strident note of patriotic elo- quence. We learn that the fiscal year just past has been the most prosperous of our history. We have imported more gold and silver and ex- ported more than in any for mer year, Commerce tells the same story of unprecedented increase. The American peo- ple take immense pride, and for the most part justly, in the annual tale of swelling material resources. Looking over the baccalaureate outgiv- ings of the recent commencement season, we are struck with the singleness of aim displayed in them all. Success, meaning in the last analysis the abil- ity to keep the pocket distended, is the objective of 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 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 pocketocraty 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 think nothing human was ever born in Wall Street. PROHIBITION Kansas christened her battle-ship with lemonade, forgetting the baleful significance of the fruit from whence the ade was obtained. eee THE man mentioned as the new Japanese ambassa- dor is said to be a great talker and writer. Beats all how Washington is setting the pace for the nations. There’s Mr. Bryce, too. How little we hear of that renowned statesman, the Hon. Charles A. Murphy, in these piping times of peace! te R. 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. eee PASTOR 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. ie Is THFRE any special significance in the eleventh- hou x:s‘stence of those Pittsburgers that the pic- ture,“ T. Bath,” must not leave the city of cinders and smoke? acs ECAUSE Professor D. L. Carroll, superintend- ent of the Britow (Iowa) public schools had the courage to spank a dozen girls, his salary has been raised. School superintendents please take notice. 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. eee 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