Puck to Nemesis: These proud edifices have helped to rear that one! Your task is not yet completed

J. Keppler's full-page Puck cartoon stages a moral indictment across a recognizable New York streetscape. A towering allegorical Nemesis—crowned, robed, sword in hand—looms over a small, impish Puck figure who gestures toward the New York Herald building. On the right, a Herald advertising column lists medical notices and 'Personals,' the classified categories Puck targets. A crumpled newspaper lies at Puck's feet. The caption accuses the Herald and the Staatszeitung of profiting from advertisements placed by abortionists (the oblique reference to 'Madame Restell' and 'female doctors') and by salacious personal notices. The cartoon argues that respectable-looking commercial architecture launders moral corruption—that newspaper revenue from such ads makes editors complicit. Nemesis is summoned to finish the job the courts have not. The caricature of Puck himself reflects the era's stock Irish-immigrant grotesque, a self-aware irony given the magazine's own immigrant German founders.