Judge, 1909-10-30 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 30, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes American taxation around 1910. The central poem "YE PLAINT OF YE TAXPAYER" complains about various taxes—on eggs, tea, collars, cuffs, and numerous chemical compounds—expressing the taxpayer's frustration with endless levies. The cartoons mock the tax burden's absurdity: the top-left shows someone struggling under bureaucratic paperwork; "From the Stage" depicts characters debating tax policy; "Old Home Weak" illustrates a house collapsing under weight (likely symbolizing financial strain). The bottom section presents humorous takes on marriage ties, suggesting matrimony is financially burdensome—a tie that brings "no happiness" but rather financial worry. Overall, the page ridicules government taxation as excessive, confusing, and economically destructive to ordinary citizens and households.
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FOR 1910, * Shall we sign him?” * Sure! he ‘Il make a dandy batter.” YE PLAINT OF YE TAXPAYER. (After reating the Payne Tariff Bill.) DO NOT mind the tax on h On gloves and silken socks. The tariff is all right on cats ‘And bantam fighting cocks, I do not mind the tax on hay Or green pine parlor doors, But if y FROM ‘THE STAGE. First minstrel—" Mistah Brown 2" Second minstrel— First minstre Second minstre Yessah, Mistah Jones. “y chase a sicle would yo" call dat a bicycle” ab de answer ob dat querry. to edgment, Mistah Jones. dat it am de property ob a belle But, gee! ‘it makes me writhe to pay On tungsten - bearing ores! ‘The tax on eggs is very fai I wise the tax on tea, The tariff put on auburn hair Hath bothered me. are words I should not say ‘That surging outward come, When Lam told that | must pay On ferrovandium! The apple tax is not so bad; ‘And as for elephants, To pay on them I'm alwa: To give home folks a chance. But, when it comes to customs day, It hurts me in my soul To fork out money for to pay On binitrobenzol! I smile at taxes on my pipe— I know they'll end in smoke. I think the duty high on tripe Is quite the proper poke. I'm glad they tax the caraway, The tax on nux is right, But | will never, never pay One cent on apatite! Place duties high on collars, cuffs, On grindstones, nuts, and skates ‘Tax brictles erude and powder puff: Gi nt and children’s sla But, oh, ye fates, we humbly pray, As you your taxes loose, Put all you wish on common clay, But spare our * benzol, toluol, naphthalin, xylol, phenol, eresol, toluidine, xylidin, cumidin, binitrotoluol, bini- trobenzol, benzidin, tolidin, naphtol, naphtylamin, diphenylamin, benzaldehyde, benzyl chloride, rein, nitro-benzol and nitro-toluol, naphtyl-aminsulfoacids and their sodium or potassium salts, naphtol- sulfoacids and their sodium or potassium salts, amidona-phtolsulfo- MARRIAGE His honeymoon tie, and A money tie, but he's happy no happiness Since this tie lost its ness he doesn’t like it. “OLD HOME WEAK." acids and their sodium or potassium salts, amidos trochlorbenzol, diamidostilbendisulfoacid, metanilic. acid, parani- tranilin, dimethylanilin, dianisidin; all the foregoing not medicinal and colors or dyes, for literary use!” JOMN KENDRICK. HANGS QUITTING TIME. N IRISHMAN was hoisting another workman to the top of a new building by means of a bucket, and had succeeded in raising him half way when the quitting whistle blew. “Oi'll lave ye there,” shouted the Celt, fastening the rope, “but Oi'll continue th’ job whin Oi come back in th’ mornin’ !"* NOT AS PER CONTRACT. 661Y/OU WERE requested to put our advertinement next to pure reading matter.’? “Well, wi Not al are you kicking about? Didn't we?” It was placed next toa Newport divorce seandal."” TIES, ich- A washable tie that never wears My tie of fifty out and “ets me the money.”” : years ago.”