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

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The contents of FUDGE are protected by conyright in both the United States ani Great Britain. infringement of this copwight will be promotty and digoroasiy prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS mast inciose a stamped and self-addressed entvelope Txth all manascrots, otherwise retarn of the Latter cohen found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and ail contribations sent to the Art Devartment shoald have the sender's fall name and address written plainly on each and every separate shetch. The accompanying Joke oF descriptive letterpress should in dvery instance be written aten its indtoidaal picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. insure safe and prompt return of material not acceotes.. MW JUDGE cannot be found at any newsstand. of stamps to the fell amount of rostage 1s also reauired, to the publishers will be wader obligations If that tact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. UNCLE JOE. MARVELOUS MAN, Cannon. One of our biggest guns. Did we say ‘one of the biggest? Certainly there has been no one like him in all the annals of the land. No one knows how old he is. White-haired men recall that sixty years ago he looked just as young as he does now. For Congressional Record purposes, 1836, or some such date, has been mentioned as his birthyear, and the statement has been allowed to crystallize into a tradition. Yet oldest inhabitants recall that their grandfathers told them that their grandfathers had voted for Uncle Joe for Congress. Where was he born? Nobody knows. Seventy years ago or more he appeared some- where in North Carolina, Danville, Illinois, claims to be his home, where he dwells after the manner of other mor- tals; for it was ever his humor to as- sume to a certain extent the ways and customs of the time. Yet who knows what affairs of state may have taken form and found direction in his brain during earlier centuries, when royal toga or symbolistic garment draped his form? Even as the Wandering Jew gained greater perspective as century succeeded century, finding himself at last wholly undisturbed by the petty annoyances of human life, looking on panics, changes of administration, wars, pestilences as mere ripples on the sea of humanity, seeing beneath them the steady rise and fall of the fundamental tide, so Uncle Joe stands like a gray and genial rock, sun-warmed and storm-swept, watching with a quiet smile the perturbations of this genera- tion, “They are but mortal,’ says Uncle Joe. ‘This little problem or that seems very big to them, measured by their little foot-rules; but I size it up with a yard-stick of experience that they wot not of. In other words, I stand pat.”” Constitutions may ham- per the President, more or less; czars suffer restraint through fear of sudden death. None of these things troubles Uncle Joe. The House Rules are his only boundary of conduct, and they are his to interpret. So, though little mem- bers howl and gnash their teeth, and though foolhardy ones may for a time kick against the pricks, yet, when Christmas time comes, with one accord they unite to present him with the symbol of power—he, the undying, the omniscient, the omnipotent. there others? Not for a minute! | A SCIENTIFIC SUGGESTION, SEISMOGRAPHS jn various parts of the work! have been recording slight quakings and tremors of the earth’s surface. The scientists who guard those instruments should compare the time of these phenomena with the dates of Secretary’s Taft’s various landings. eee TEM—Benevolent funds have been hardest hit by the financial strin- gency. If you have felt the hard times, all the more reason for re- membering the claims of charity. ! So is am exciting Are Christmas is comi A year of brilliant poi “HE HEARS THOSE ANGEL VOICES CALLING, UN-CLE JOE.” ARE WE A FREE PEOPLE? NEW YORK CITY is facing the problem of a ‘closed’? Sunday. Su- preme Court Justice O'Gorman declared a week or so ago that the theatres and places of public amusement must be closed on that day. This presents a pretty problem when viewed from without the circle of greatest turmoil. There is something to be said on both sides of this Sun- day question. JUDGE believes in a day of rest. It is not merely a reli- gious question. How such an institution can best be established and pro- tected, resulting in the greatest good to the greatest number, is an unsolved problem now, and probably will be so long as we live together in communi- ties. We are free individuals only in so far as we avoid treading on one another’s toes. . Various of our com- monwealths have passed prohibitory laws by substantial majorities, curtail- ing the freedom of thousands of tem- perate citizens. Yet the majority in those states believed such laws to be for the best, and the majority rules. In New York.City, for a time at least, Sunday concerts will be prohibited, while the law against the open saloon is only partially enforced. Certain church dignitaries have protested that the closed door to the Sunday concert will force the saloon side-door wider open. Others who protest claim that a day of rest is no less aday of rest for the opportunity of being amused or of hear- ing good music. Supporters of the ‘Sunday laws, even while admitting the truth of the latter argument, protest that if the institution of the Sabbath is to be undermined inch by inch it will eventually altogether collapse. This is a free country, but free to the majority, not to the individual. JUDGE predicts that a broader construction of the Sun- day Laws will eventually prevail in New York City, though it will be sorry to see a total destruction of that time- honored American institution—a day in the week when everyone shall have full opportunity to rest. eee TO W. J. B. TIS not an “issue” that you need— Tariff, or trusts, or dollar— But just some cheap device to make Men vote the way they holler! MERRY CHRISTMAS! J¥oGE has already, in an elaborate Christmas number, wished you all the happiness possible at this glad season. But it does no harm to repeat the wish. It does us good to wish it, and we hope that it does you good to hear it. The little amenities of life are very important, after all. Too often do folk forget the little courtesies, the simple expressions of friendliness. If Christmas serves to remind us of them, it is a pity there are not 366 Christmases in a year. cee TEM—Don’t give someone a present this year only because he or she gave you something last year. Give only such gifts as you enjoy giv- ing, and to those who will, you think, enjoy receiving. residential campaign. A subscription to JuvcR—jovial old JuDGE—would make a splendid present, ‘al cartoons—a year of keen, clean humor, with something every tocek for the children, bless'em! comicbooks.com