Judge, 1908-02-08 · page 2 of 16
Judge — February 8, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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**Upper Section - "Waves":** This editorial cartoon critiques populist political movements sweeping through American states. It warns that waves of "prohibition sentiment" and similar crusades are reaching New York, suggesting such movements lack staying power and are merely temporary phenomena driven by emotional appeal rather than practical governance. **Lower Section - "More Work by the Black Hand":** This cartoon satirizes labor unrest and strikes. The figure labeled "Anarchy" lurks menacingly while workers labeled "Taft" engage in conflict. The "Black Hand" reference likely alludes to violent labor activism or anarchist associations. The cartoon suggests sinister forces manipulate worker movements, presenting labor organizing as dangerous rather than legitimate economic action—a common anti-labor stance in early 1900s satire.
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Mrunswick Building, 225 Fifth Aves New York. Cable Address, “Judgark.” Tel. 6632 Madison Square. JOHN A, SLEICHER, President. Shine Arthur Terry, Treasurer, ¢. Onicage, Ut Burges Johnson, Managing Editor. Grant Hamilton, Art Editor. vu $3.00 90 5 . The contents of JUDGE are protected by covyraht in both the United States and Great “ Botan. CONTHIBUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and sell addressed entvelope with all manuscripts, whit News hachange 2, otherwise return of the Latter wnen found unavailable cannot be yuaranteeds that fact be promptly reported om postal-card or by letter. 1 JUDGP cannot be foasd at any ows be publishers will be wader ebigat WAVES. A NEW WAY TO PAY OUR CONGRESSMEN. other day in the House of Representatives that States $150 a minute. Mr, Kuster- thi n up at that particulir time, $4,500 of the that, if ountry att VEN the most reluctant intellect will audit that a wave of prohibition Congre sentiment iss ates. mann, of W What its power may be isa matter Wesley Gaines wa stimate, reckoned that Je epingover t of conjecture, but there are many people's mon ives rise in our minds toa propos ald meet with unanimous approval in the will reach New — practicable, sh whe believe that it Vork before its foree is spent. What linge. Most of atatives who make speeches lasting for repre se they have something Iking merely by causes sucha wave? [eis not due an hour or more are not whe undertaken — to say, but te produce an effcet in their home districts, Frequently nd forget all about it, leaving it ts of their bra ho result. other matters. “Phe underlying cause of thi the air the home district, No one eh Hh com. fount of eloquence himself, who must experience phy sone to any prope bythe WoC CT. U sand kindred organs they turn-on a stream of eloquen ve | sare busied over while the const izations. ‘They have dene concerted swe have sud, a work before, with ne nefits except the No, it is “something i desire to impre al relief when iss at how that the the same something. wh he has rid his s a speech. Let us und leads even the most pr m of st ate with country at kirge shall foot the ly up to thirty mindtes; that for every minute thereafter the 1 upon his panies and revivals, Jills for all eloquence lowing uninter- ts nowadays to believe that mind can through mediums that mitte mind, independent of the reasoning pov al in equal shares upon the speaker its that there is truth at the bottom — cast nsof home districts or, in other words, upon the barre we wot net of. Everyone f the Ch truth ae the spigot, ian Science well; perhaps there may be som fy Inisiness of the table ray spiritualistie If necessary at meter should be attached to habitual offenders jerlyings the crowd, JenGr is net yet converted to mind-reading and spiritu te alism, but he is not bigoted his mind is open, And he is fre UDGE'S first limerick contest, calling for reasons for the election quently amazed: by the phenomena of several different contrib of Governor Hughes to the leney, has resulted ina ble tom: cht he de It has been imy matter which on niry at on from different: parts of the + tters sene wl the sin catch case mar same time the Since it ispof course, ont of the question that these contributors there were wv souree, there only remains Jepcr has had, therefor “Lit from a eon could have ys date of receipt of the answer as well as the sense and the workmanship. oy 1S MOKE WORK BY ‘THE BLACK HAND. comicbooks.com