Judge — September 21, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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The accompanying joke descriptive letter-oress should in every instance be written upon tts indroidaal picture, and NOT upon a separate slio of paper. inclosure of stamps to the fall amount of postage (s also reauired, insure safe and orompt return of material not accented. 1 SUDGE cannot be found at any sews-stend, the pobilabers will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported om postal-card or by letter. THE RESTRAINING. POWER \ F A GREAT PURPOSE. PURPOSE is power, and power is never perceived except by impact with something opposed to it. Restraint is a note of power, and con- trol the very condition of real force. For every centrifugal there is a co- ordinate centripetal. Swift waters are noisy, but not omnipotent. The waters that run deep are still. We are led to these weighty reflections by the recent outgivings of Mr. William Randolph Hearst, whose purpose, we understand, is to enter the Presidential race for straight, place and show— the latter especially. Hitherto this redoubtable champion of the people has been a centrifugal force of mighty tangential possibilities, Early dubbed the Stormy Petrel of the coming social revolution, his outpourings were a besom of wrath against the powers that prey. His wealth enabled him to organize a word-factory never surpassed in history. With branch works in all the principal cities, his daily output of fierce phrases was immeasur- able, grand, awe-inspiring. Then he was all unrestrained impulse—the passionate pleader for the poor and smiter of the rich, the pledged chief of the masses and constant foe of the classes. To-day how changed! The raucous voice has been tuned, the billingsgate abolished, and calm dignity sits where once a fury reigned. Behold the great conservative! Polished platitude now, then terrific arraignment of the plunderbund, Now a rich man is a very decent sort of fellow; then he was a ravaging plague. Then it was the mass against the classes; now there are no classes, but rich and poor are one society and ought to love each other. Thus does a great pur- pose soften, moderate, restrain a radicalism that had become fairly noto- rious. THE BIG FINE, OLD LAWS, AND NEW POWERS. THE BIGGEST FINE ever assessed (but not yet collected) grew out of an action brought under a law that is now nearly five years old; and in these times a law that has stayed on the statute-books five years is almost archaic. The multitudinous efforts of a frenzied prosecution to pul- verize the Standard Oil Company are based upon a law that is now in its eighteenth year. A law eighteen years old is undeniably ancient. The principal legislative battle-piece of the federal war on wicked trusts was devised something over twenty years ago. Laws that survive twenty years in this fluid age are positively antediluvian. The ordinary man is apt to believe the recent prosecuting furore is due to some new, drastic legislation put on the statute-books by President Roosevelt; but the Sher- man anti-trust act and the Interstate Commerce act antedate the Roosevelt + commandments, which are quite ancient and rather pointed. crusade by many years. Just why these laws have developed such terri fying potency in their dotage we do not know, but the newly-discovered efficiency of old enactments suggests the reflection that perhaps older en- actments still are charged with reformatory powers hitherto unsuspected. Some statesman, no doubt, will arise shortly and surprise the world by drawing on these old reserves of legislative wisdom and power. A tolerably ancient enactment is entitled the Constitution of the United States of America, and the preamble thereto, which supplies the spirit in which that instrument was conceived, is known as the Declaration of Independence. These mildewed documents, studied in the light of a new age with its new problems, might be found to be charged with a radicalism equal to the most drastic demands of justice and at the same time full of a sanity and con- servatism that would alarm no honest man. And then there are the ten Maybe we do not need so many new laws as some suppose. SOME RAUCOUS REMARKS ON THE SPIKE-TOE SHOE. FASHION’S EDICT calls for the return of the spike-toed shoe, which illustrates anew the folly and ficklenesg of fashion. For women the spike-toe has perennial charm. This is no more to be explained than lovely woman herself. But why any man who has once known the foot-comfort of a sensible shoe should submit to the torture of the spike-toe is one of those man-ways one feels like arguing against with the simple logic of a baseball bat or a crowbar. Fashion’s ukase plays about the female form as the spot-light chases the leading lady. One moment it shines about her head, the next it’s dimpling and glowing at her feet, and anon it but- terflies here, there, and everywhere in gay abandon and utter unreasonable- ness. In one season her hat and her hair absorb the ingenuity of the fashion experts. Another year her gown, and yet another the fluffy things that go by a French name get all their attention. And regularly the season comes round when her shoes come to the front. This is the season, and the spike-toe is to be the shoe-feature. Man borrows his fads from the fair sex. When her shoes bourgeon into new shapes his follow suit. But what is fashionable, unreasonable and endurable in woman in man becomes plain, every-day foolish nonsense and absurdity. With this understand: ing, if men folks want to kick their comfortable old-style shoes out an’ resume the toothpick monstrosity they know just what’s coming t: them. And if women by their initiative lead the way back to an out-of date and hurtful form of shoe—-well, there is nothing to be said, since th women, the Lord bless ’em, wouldn’t be happy anyway unless they wer mostly miserable. gore R. PARKER, of Esopus, thinks he’s had enough of standard-bearing. Takes little to satisfy some people. eee QUR CONGRATULATIONS to Mety Tiger, the new Creek India chief. He ought to be a terror to evil-doers. COSTS PHILADELPHIA ‘phone company $10,000 a year to says “ What number, please?” So no more “please,” says the company. Thus do the amenities vanish. comicbooks.com