Judge, 1910-02-26 · page 14 of 16
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This page from *Judge* magazine combines satirical commentary with period advertising. The main content addresses **women's suffrage** through a letter challenging the editor's anti-feminist stance. The writer uses reductio ad absurdum: if women shouldn't vote until all women desire enfranchisement, shouldn't the same standard apply to immigrant men (Germans, Italians, Irish, French)? The implicit point is that such a standard would disenfranchise most men too—exposing the sexism of applying stricter requirements to women. The page also contains a brief editorial opposing prize-fighting as barbaric and demoralizing. The advertisements (Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey, Cook's Imperial gin, Underberg bitters) reflect early 20th-century marketing, starkly ironic given the later Prohibition era and modern anti-alcohol campaigns. The overall effect typifies *Judge's* role: sophisticated satirical magazine using humor and logic to challenge social injustices, particularly gender inequality.
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JUDGE QE NEETU T TL OC CONC COCCI siteeesnecenetesesoeserents $ LETTERS TO HIS HONOR VOTES FOR WOMEN. DITOR June! pops =o Women are ask- ing for political rep- resentation on equal | WHISKEY MAY COME AND terms with men, and, WHISKEY MAY GO BUT your belief that no woman should be al- lowed to have a voice | in making the laws! by which she is gov- erned until all wom- GOES ON FOREVER—SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST— en become intelligent enough to de- |sire enfranchisement is most unjust, FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS A STANDARD OF unless you require the same conditions EACELLENCE, PURITY AND WHOLESOMENESS of men. Do you believe that every German| Sold at all Aret-class cafes and by jobbers, should be denied the franchise urtil all | WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md “+ o e Ge el is) be ti 1 fBUULUUUUUUUUUUUUUUJUUIUULS UULIUUULS Sireereueane _ the German men wish to become natural Do you believe that every Italian Judge should be denicd the voting privilege in published weekly by the until all Italian men wish to become aires Cue i er voting citizens? ; LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fins Avenue, New York City Do you believe that every English- man, Irishman, or Frenchman should be denied representation in our government itl: Ew all Englishmen, Irishmen, or Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal onder, not by locat | Frenchmen have expressed a desire for checks which are ata discount im New York City. political representation? sae tn the Unite ita derendencies. and Mexico. To Canadian Provinces aid |” If you do not so believe, then you are yn any. Hream’s Iuilding. Chanceru Lane. &.C. London: demanding an altogether different qual- ja Hachanoe, 16 John Street, Adetohi, London: S ifieation for women from whut you re- fications of Lealie-Judge Company will be takea at quire for men. A Jupcr should mete ce eT Hera by copyright i both the tn Justice impartially, even though he Contributors ‘8 stamped does not owe his position to the votes of those who are seeking justice. The qu ications for citizenship hewrcatan, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact te should be intelligence and merit, and cents per copy : 118, 2 cents; 19 " not sex. hen ordering a change of ad leiger number on their wrapper. From two . fore the first. copy WESTERN ADVERTISING Orrick: 119-7 Marquette Building, Chicago, Il. BY WAY OF COMMENT. THERE'S A REASON. THE PRIZE-FIGHT AS intense interest to the ‘‘tremendous Epitor or Jupce—Well, well, dear A DEMORALIZER battle * when Jeffries and Johnson face JUDGE, again, with your keen insight AN incentive to physical vas, | each ot We believe in developing f0F that which is best in wit and humor, incentive to physical prowess, each o € believe in developing ou have hit the nail on the head with there are other and better meanS the physical man, but a prize-fight, your Waste Basket Number. Never in than the prize-fight. A fight to the which calls into the ascendant the most | all my experience (and I've spent a finish is a relic of the barbarous days of brutal and savage instincts in man, human development, and inflames the not, we submit, the ethical road to! thing funny) have I ever struck a more ; ' interesting, original sheet, not except- slumbering savage not alone in the physical prow: As a demoralizing jng Lise, which has tried and tried for a principals, but in the breast of every influence it takes close rank to the bull-. good many years to get something origi- spectator. Many a man who wonld be fights of our sister republic to the south, |nal, but has never yet had a Waste ashamed to be found at the ringside t Number. . is, naverthaless; withthe Keeneat idea of having the authors sign reads, never! ‘A STARTLING: VENTURE cir effusiéns was an excellent one for relish, the accounts of fistic battles and ~ self-protection, because where the joke everything leading up to them, The The February Sth number of Juncr: a “bum’’ one the reader could newspapers accordingly give much space Will be the e Basket Number, a easily place the blame where it be- to the “ plug-uglies” of the prize ring. Somewhat startling venture in the longed, as otherwise an unsigned joke dl is always blamed on the editor. A letter from the Dark Continent to a : 7 | A joke is a good deal like the girl former Rough Rider shows that a cer- Contributors without any interference with the curl in the middle of her for tain mighty hunter looks forward with from the editors. Readers will be head. ‘*When it’s good curious to see it, and they can call for good; but when it’s id.” As for me, give me Jupcr’s Wi Basket Number. ‘There's a reason, Yours truly, J. R. Merray, Sunbury, periodical field. It is to be filled by the Every lover of a goal cocktail should insist that “the hook’? as freely as they please.— Abinstt'e Mitters fe ina! im making its IMAUFER IOUF pp rye Jetting the very best. ‘wwsdealer, and Stationer, A WAR Eprtor oF Jur lose a moment! All is known! The joke-writers all over the country are up in arms! The Waste Basket Number | pro’ that heretofore they have been mistreated. The word has been passed around among the Komic Ku Klux Klan, and already they are gathering in their| secret cave. They are drawing lots and [signing in blood! If you valve your editorial life, flee! Usxknown Frienn. <A a “GOODERHAM IS PRONOUNCED GOODRUM!!_ Ask any Canadian.” WAPeTensew. “A RELIC OF THE BARBAROUS DAYS.” in answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. 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PAPER MADE TO ORDER GET MARRIED Mir icmenis er marvare able people from all sect ‘ALCOHOLISM THE ANTOL TREATMENT for the Liquor Habit, is the most effe has ‘yet ‘been. discovered e reasonable and enient features and The Cost Is A Mere Trifle CUP THIS VUT for futu erence. and drop me a Postal Card NOW, FREE BOOKLET. It will explain toyou the pecu symptoms that accompany Moderate, C: Carousal. Periodic and Chronic Drinking- show you just where you stand. Address JOUN ©. +» 1042 N.J..U.S. A. A Postal will bring it to LAUGH WITH Sis Hopkins == HER OWN BOOK March Number 10c—AT ALL NEWS-STANDS—! comicbooks.com ’ c 2 P t F a g 8 k 8 D If W