Judge — May 9, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Brunswick Building, 225 Fitth Ave. New York. ~ JOHN A, SLEICHER, President. ance by Cable Address, “ Judgark.'* Tel. 6632 Madison Sy::are. FLW. Scuwender, Secreary, Arthur Terry, Treasurer, 1130-7 Marguetie Vnildis y WEEKLY AT cuNTH A COPY. draft on New Vork, or by express of postal Vor’ Oey. od so cents a year Pusorean sa ‘pa EC. London; Brentano's, Avenne de UOpera, Par: 3 The contents of FUDGE are orotected by coovright in both the Unites States and Great Britain. CONTHIBUTORS mast inciose « stamped and self-adSressed envelope with all manuscripts, otherivise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guarantees. tt JUDGE cannot be fouad at any eewe-stand, the podilabers will be wader obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. OUR NEW COMPETITOR. URING the discuss tion bill in the covering automobiles and cows as a part of f battleships caused It was a chanc chamber whi * horse-mari were heavily exercised, and ev hange rung on this ancient material for jokes. not been in the habit of turning to the rt for exchange matter, but he ular equipment great exeiteme of that more sombre y could not dog-wateh- Congrensi must now be added to the list of hi ickers, and you won't hear any complaints from son-mac ntering may fight a parcels Jeral telegraph; but as rival contempora- ons may protest against py goods mpetition; express compan companies may object to a F rnment chooses to into general e post; private for us, if tI ing a funny paper, we shall rit all in the crush them by our superior merit, We make only or is this: If the competition pushes us too hard, Jupe outbid the ent for the services of Senators Bacon, 1 kins, Warre and others, n use them he promise that, unless matters are carried too far, we shall do nothing which might cripple the government. work, and . but we A SUGGESTION TO CARICATURISTS. HE Hon, Pai McCarren, who is just now a martyr in the ages of the public, thus gaining more sympathy from well-behaved citizens than he otherwise might secure, recently urged that cartoonists devote more attention to the interiors of the subjects of their art. ery one knows,"’ said Pat, “* what the outside of a public man looks like; but why not use some sort of X-ray and picture that will really have some forbid! Jupcr: is trying to be as funny as he can with the material that the present-day political market supplies. In exploiting the weaknesses of our statesmen we go by guesswork very largely. Accurate inside information is very far from what we want. There would be nothing funny about the horrible truth.‘ Long Pat" is still “Long Pat" to us, and his picture is funny to look at, It might bring tears to the eyes of the public if we pictured his insides. eta nsational interest?’ Heaven in. PEMeg NOt ve Rentep 4 ve JOHNSON oF MINN ‘8 day I RY generation since Dio there lization has be of ci going immediately to the dogs, according to many soothsayers, Usually it has been the stage; and to-day, particularly, there are groups who aver that the slapstick is the our highest histrionic achievement. taneously with such a statement come such plays as ‘The Servant in the House," The Music Master," or even“ The Witching Hour,’’ play- ing to crowded hou that the stage is as much as it ever was a medium for the pression of one phase of pure artistic genius, or 4 pulpit for the propounding of doctrine to the people. More than ever, it re: the ma The drama is not going to the dogs, but © n some pha expression of Yet simul- 8, to pre the dogs are going to the drama, TRUST-BUSTING A SHAM! JUDGE EXPOSES THE INSINCERITY OF THE WHOLE BUSINESS. T REMAINS of this trust-busting business. curities merger? For Votes! th pursuing, the Tob: for Jupcr to expose the whole sham and hollown Why did Teddy tackle the North- Why is co Trust? Simply to get voTE: 4, big and litt ling ** Down with monopoly nd simple. How do we know this? We know it herlock Holmes, and we found a clew that hi sof the few other independent editors of the any such). And this all-important clew isthe Why has there been no cooked-up public II-powerful see combination? ion is a shifting publi ern $ sioner I bert Knox $ escaped the vigil country (if there rise in the price of prunes. outery against this act of some Simply because the boarding-hou moving from district to district, and the great proportion of it r What do the politicians care for the to thousands, yet the polit ugh i ° popul tains no vote, ‘Though they be the very staff of | laughs a harsh and grating. cruel lips, What care we nd hisses between cui vrs have no votes, Let them This clarion ¢ man, who wi suffer and die trem- Is of hosts of gr ful clerks and- maiden and reduced gentlewomen. the what all, the only sensible BRYAN is fighting wy power? is, aft way. himself asm; so leaving for is fast annexing. to oboles as he can get, an the enemy, EVICTED! comicbooks.com