Judge — June 27, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Westen Apve Burges Johnson, Sobscriptions payable in adv which areata discount tm New Vork Postage free in the United States, its dependencies, and Mexico. To Canadian Provinces 14 so cents 4 y: i toregn countrivs add $1.50 a year Husorean sates-acants—/ntermational News Compa’ EC. London; Brewtana's, Avtune dt U Opera, Germany, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, Miaraach's News Lachange, Mains, anges of address shuuld be invatiably acc All requests to EMBRACING OUR MISFORTUNES. PROPOS of our last week's editorial A in regard to the frequent appearance : of W. J. Bryan's genial countenance upon our cartoon pages, we have had several interesting comments from our readers. In this morning's mail we have received an anonymous com- munication. A reader of Jupce has torn a caricature of Bryan from the front of our periodical and written across it these words: “Vice is a monster of such frightful mien ‘That to be hated is but to be seen; fen, familiar with its face, ndure, then pity, then em: This certainly presents frightful possibilities to our sturdy Republican imagination, and yet we dare take the risk. If t cate and graceful portrayals of the Boy Orator of the Platte, as presented by Messrs. Hamilton, Flohri and Zim, seem to grow more alluring to our readers week by week, then so be it. We are playing no small part in the world if we can thus lessen the unattractiveness of what bids fair to be a permanent American institution, Bryan will undoubtedly still be an unsuccess- ful candidate in 1912 and '16 and '20. Let us embrace him in that capacity if we must. depicted in these page: President of the Un State: GOING BEHIND THE RETURNS. ROHIBITIONISTS P claim that the efforts of the national asso- ciation of brewers to elim- inate low-grade saloons is a policy of forlorn hope— adeath-bed repentance, as it were. And the prohibi- tionists take credit to themselves for forcing this action upon the brewers. Why waste time quibbling over motives and causes? The brewers are proposing a most laudable campaign, aiming toward results de- STUN JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. PUBLIXNED WEEKLY AT 10 CENTS 4 COPY. 1» by draft on New York, or by express or postal orde A bogus old master. P. W. Schneider, Secretary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer. 1130-7 Marguete Building, Chicago Ut Grant Hamilton, Art Editor, dey. peu dhe Contents of FUDGE ave orotected by cooyight in both the Lined States and Great tain. CONTRIBUTORS must inciose 2 stamped and seif-addressed erivelope with all manascrpts, otheriwise return of the Latter when found unavailable Cannot be guaranieed. 4 JUDGE caneot be found ot any ocwe-stand, the publishers will be eader obligations if that Lact be promptly reported oe postal-card or by letter. companied by the old address to sired by all decent citizens, We have no patien; reformer who refuses to put his shoulder to a certain wheel simply because he does not like his fellow-pushers. Take it for granted th the brewers are well-intentioned until their handling of this new movement proves them otherwise. And in the meantime give them y friendly aid and encouragement. with that type of POLITICAL RHYMESTERS. R eight long years the poet clan has sweat and struggled to a man—aye, poets tall or fat or svelt— to dig up rhymes for Roosevelt; it kept the poetry output down, and added thus to Ted's renown. Why, then, were we not warned in time to cho a man who doesn’t rhyme? The witty shaft, the flagon quaffed, the laughter after grafters chaffed; the Bryan raft so far ubuft our hefty presidential craft—Lord knows what all! We'll all go daft while poets have their fling at Taft. WILD? 'N THE Children’s Court in New York City the other day a boy accused of stealing a chicken pleaded that it was « wild animal, in view of the fact that he found it outside of any pri r vation. We cannot but feel that he had a certain amount of right on his side, even though the judge found otherw have known a hen to be wild even within the sacred precincts of a private garden, and, granted its wildness as an individ wild surroundings, we see no ground left for that jude to stand upon. A more delicate problem arises, however, in a case actually | fore a ater We ourselves al and add judge, as to whether an oyster isa wild animal. Granted that any individ- ual oyster represented in court may have resided in the wildest of surround- ings, and admitting that it may have had no refining, or ng — influences whatsoever in its past life or in the life of its parents, yet, in spite of all this, can other than t question is so delicate a one that we should like to present it to our re Let us hear tions of wildnes when may an classed as tame should be glad to discuss nimal your replies. comicbooks.com