Judge, 1907-08-10 · page 6 of 16
Judge — August 10, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains **scathing social satire** about corruption in early 20th-century America. The top section mocks a fraudulent "correspondence school" teaching graft—satirizing how institutional corruption was so normalized that criminals could openly advertise "training." The list of preferred positions (Railroad President, U.S. Senator, Police Inspector, Patent Medicine Manufacturer) equates respectable professions with criminality, suggesting these industries were widely viewed as corrupt. The accompanying photo labeled "NOT WORTH KNOWING" shows a maid, with text about a man whose "love far outdistanced his income"—mocking fortune-hunting and the mercenary nature of relationships. Below are three brief satirical vignettes about human nature: a baby-hoarding child, a boy-turned-man afraid of girls, and an engagement broken because both parties discovered the other lacked money. **The core message:** Judge is exposing how corruption permeates American institutions and how greed drives human behavior at all social levels.
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DO YOU WANT THAT RAISE? OUR GRAFT CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL WILL GET IT FOR YOU. HE world of graft is always looking for bad men, Are YOU in on it? By studying daytimes YOU can raise your position from that of a porch- climber, or second-story man, or pickpocket, to a high position in society. 7 The swell hotels and penitentiaries are waiting for YOU. We will prove our ability by cheating you. Wecan point to hundreds of cashiers in i) | Canada who tried our methods. One student + XN J \§ - si) climbed from the position of street-car conductor, CR\ in which he knocked down fares, to that of the manager of the worst street-railway system in the ~ country through our aid. ‘ DO IT NOW. @ If you want to rise to a position where you can ve steal a thousand a week, clip off the coupon be- 7 low and send it to us, with your choice marked, This grafter took our We will send you absolutely free full information course, about qualifying for any position. We furnish all: text-books, and cheat our students by the in- stallment plan, or any other they desire. Any honest and industrious thief can become an embezzler with a little study. WHICH DO YOU PREFER: WILL YOU TRY? Railroad President 2 | Insurance Official THE Defaulting Cashier U. S. Senator BUNCOMB SCHOOL : | Police Inspector OF GRAFT. Patent Medicine Manufacturer : Spring Poet pees ; Divorce Lawyer large cies. Timber Lands Thief WAITING FOR MORE. WHEN little Jennie became the proud possessor of a new baby brother she was asked to sell the baby. for being afraid of the dark.” Muricl— And 1 suppose, now that you are grown up, you are until I have got a whole lot of them and then I will give one to you.” —_afraid of the girls.” 7 7 « No,” was the emphatic answer ; ** you can’t have this one. Wait NOT WORTH KNOWING. hear that you received an offer of marriage the other day?" Cicety—' Yes; from a man who wrote that ‘his love far out- distanced his income.’ "* Te “aio—"* How poetic! What was his name?" Cicery—"'| didn't think to look at the signature."" HER SALLY. Carsone—« When I was a small boy I used to laugh at the girls DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE. He—" | suppose, then, we may as well break the engagement and say we have both been disappointed in love ‘Sne—‘' There seems to be no other conclusion. You ought | had money, and I certainly thought you had. comicbooks.com