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# "Not So Easy Either" - Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis This page contains two satirical pieces mocking American political and social pretensions. **Top cartoon**: Depicts a social gathering where observers struggle to distinguish between "Smythe, the eminent divine" (minister) and "Wriggler, the great comedian." The joke inverts expectations—the austere-looking man is actually the comedian, while the jolly, fun-loving one is the minister. This satirizes the hypocrisy of religious figures who lack genuine piety, or conversely, mocks society's inability to recognize authentic virtue. **Accompanying text**: Discusses westward expansion and territorial absorption, warning against assimilating populations resistant to American values. It expresses confidence that improved transportation and communication will bind the nation together better than force. **Bottom cartoon ("An Implement of Reconciliation")**: Shows a domestic scene where a woman instructs a servant about serving supper, apparently as a peace-making gesture. "The Big Four" reference appears to concern Indianapolis, though the specific political context remains unclear without additional context. Both pieces reflect late 19th-century anxieties about American unity, social cohesion, and expansion.
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NOT SO EASY EITHER. Those gentlemen directly in front of us are quite distinguished. One is Smythe, the eminent divine ; the other Wriggler, the great comedi: Indeed! It would be no difficult matter to tell which is which, Just see how austere and sober the minister looks. Divinity is written on his just see the fun sparkling in the jolly face ™ Ile" 1 beg your pardon, but the jolly looking one is the divine.” loosely the ties of loyalty that seem sacred in the east. It will be the first, ZLL OF A CHILD that swallowed a fish-hook under by association of interests, common privations, similarity of enterprise and the impression that it was a Christmas present. Perhaps now blood, to draw close to the great republic. The western portion of the child had better swallow a live fish and Have some fun for his Canada is American, and the eastern is still very European, trouble. It is not territorial increase that is so dan- gerous asa population that resists assimilation, History is said to repeat itself, Great empires of old broke to pieces of their own area, History cannot, however, repeat itself unless the con- ditions also be duplicated, Yet the conditions of a thousand years,or five hundred, or even a cen- annot be repeated, Neither Cassars nor Napoleons are possible on this continent. No twenty years’ war will ever again occur on the he broader spread of intelligence, the ess of transit, will link together the states of this republic, if not always with amity, at least with the strongest ties of interest. San Francisco is to-day closer to New York than Boston was to Philadelphia at the beginning of the century. A traveler can girt the world quicl jumbus crossed the Atl It is time, not miles, that measures distance. R: roads make the land more easily navigable than rivers or seas. Let the United States be patient. We do not pine either for the peons of Mexico or the alliance of Quebec. ‘There are domestic problems first to be met, and when we have well and honestly settled the “Af e with us in the south it will be time enough to address our- selves to the absorption and Americanizing of our neighbor of the north ha AN IMPLEMENT OF RECONCILIATION. THE BIG FOUR needn't get excited. The 1 - ingham’s compliments, sir, an’ she wants to know will she serve supper for big one at Indianapolis will settle it just the same if they keep calm, comicbooks.com