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The main cartoon depicts a shelter or crude structure housing multiple figures, illustrating the article "Coming Events." The accompanying text discusses poverty and homelessness ("Jimmie—'Close it on my mother! We are keepin' him in hidin' for fear he gets wet'"). The page contains several brief satirical commentary sections on contemporary issues: women's rights ("Women Fade Early"), labor disputes (McKinley tariff reference), a Chicago exhibition, religious violence in Bombay, and critiques of government inefficiency regarding workers' welfare. The satire reflects Progressive Era concerns about industrialization, labor conditions, and social inequality. Without clearer identification of specific figures or dated references in the visible text, precise attribution of individual caricatures remains uncertain, though the overall tone critiques both government inaction and social hypocrisy.
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W. J. Ameatt. Bei 1. M, Geacory, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. ONITRD STATES AND CANADA, IM ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months. or 26 numbers - 3.30 One copy. for 13 weeks = Tneluding the Crmstwas Jupce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— Teall for. ign countries im the postal union, Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street, New York. 9 We guarantee advertivers a larger circulati cal paper publishes The Jovan és for sale at Brentane't, 17 Avenue de COpera, Par Ce, 25 Newcastle street, Strand, London, England: at Saarba Maine, Germany, and 7 Ch. neva, Switserland. Cable addresi—" JunGRar than apy other American sai News Exchance. $27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy- right in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. WOMEN FADE EARLY. Men are never old till they are dead. eae [ABR STILL cries out for a change. back to the McKinley tariff. eee What it wants now is to get WHEN MR. CLEVELAND holds his own why that's the very difficulty. HE WORLD could get along thout silver, but an effort to make it do so would make the very children cry for it. TATE not of producing w taking reasonably good care of it after it is produced. DB: MCGLYNN is so impressed with his own majesty that he searches the heavens whenever he wants to find himself. SUNDAY PAPER says, “We cover the earth.” Not quite, we think; but the addition of a couple of pages will do it. BROTHER INGALLS isin such despair that he wants to bet the judgment will come three weeks in advance of the time set by Broth- er Totten. de nex’ big event.” MAN in Battle Creek thirty-two years ago had both eye-balls removed, and now a new pair of eyes is growing from his optic nerves. We account for this on the theory that it is not so. eee A KNOWLEDGE of chemistry enables Thomas Edison to make rubies and emeralds. Presently he will make diamonds, and then he will be a first-rate populistic secretary of the treasury. DELEGATE to the Chicago silver convention was what did you accomplish?” “ Much,” he said promptly, It was a very lively convention, but we saved the hall.” eee THE RELIGIOUS CRANKS of Bombay are more just and less hurtful than those of China, They kill each other, while the Chinese are not satisfied unless they can kill a few American missionaries. ked, “Well, ery much, HE WOMAN QUESTION is settled, according to the Boston Herald. Now.” says that paper, “let somebody start a man question.” Very well. What has become of the long-lost amiability of Theodore Thomas? AN IMPUDENT CRITIC, $4] DO LIKE a woman,” says a Philadelphia bachelor, “who is not a mere fashion-plate and who sticks to one or two becoming dresses.” ind at the same time this man would apparently COMING EVENTS. Patsy—' What yer got de plug shet up fer, Jimmie?" Jutig—"' Cheese it'an’ say nothin’ ! never marry if he could find a woman who went so far in her simplicity as to wear no dress whatever. BY THAT SIGN EVERYBODY CONQUERS. +6 HO GETS the best of the Bebring-sea trial?” inquires a corre- spondent. We are sure the gentleman intends no trivial question as to the triumph or defeat of Great Britain or the United States. It is the seals that get the best of the trial, and that is a triumph for humanity, for commerce, and incidentally for the two great nations which are chiefly involved. Nobody wants to scream, but everybody is serenely satisfied. WHY WOMEN WIN. HREE GIRLS of Wellesley college have achieved fame by walking coolly out of a blazing summer hotel at night, completely attired and carrying everything belonging to them, to the last hair-pin and a bag of peanuts. But let us go slow. The mind of a girl rarely estimates cor- rectly. In this case the girls under-estimated the danger; whereas if they had encountered a mouse just previous to the exit they would have over- estimated it and burned to death, THE FAIR NEXT SUMMER. THE EXHIBITION at Chicago is a great show, but it hasn’t had one. ‘The Chicagoans have been handicapped from the beginning with fire and flood and financial disaster, but they have given by far the finest fair the world ever saw. And the show should be continued next summer. It is absurd to have all that expense and hard work for a one-summer exhibition, Its attractions are not as yet half understood. It should go over to next summer, and pos- sibly to the summer after that. KILLING FOR GLORY. HOW 1S IT that the cruclest wars are religious wars, that their results convince and conciliate no- body, and that heaven permits them to go on century after century, vouchsafing no information as to which fighter was right and which wrong? The fighting in India makes very suggestive reading. One would think that even fanat- icism would tire of fighting and suffering for a something which has not given it an iota of protec- tion, an ounce of prosperity, or a grain of independence. And what a curious paradise that must be which is to be won in that way. WHY KILL THE INNO- CENT? NEGRO UPRISING is fre- quently feared in the south as a natural resuit of the frequent lynchings, occasionally of innocent black men. Sometimes black men have been lynched by their own kind, there being no doubt of the guilt of the accused ; but it is annoying to the decent blacks that any one of them is liable to death at the stake if he happens to be the most convenient negro at hand after an outrage has been com- mitted. The white men make the laws. Can't they make them strony enough? Can't they enforce them? Some recent crimes in the south deserve any kind of horrible punishment; but is it any less murder and outrage to hang or burn an innocent man? We are keepin’ him in hidin’ fer THE ANARCHISTIC INFANT. N PROPOSING that the national government make appropriations for the workingmen thrown out of employment the Herald is sweet and kind, but it does not go half far enough. What we need is true paternal- ism—six or seven governmental parents for every voter as nearly as that condition may be reached. Let the railroads be managed by the govern- ment, as well as the post-offices. Let Uncle Sam set himself up as @ monopolist in liquor-selling, as docs Uncle Tillman in South Carolina. Let us have no work and no enterprise which is not managed by and does not enure to the glory of the government. ‘Then the worker will be the infant in arms that the Herald apparently thinks he is, and whenever his pap is lost or removed he will how! for it until he frightens Uncle Sam into giving it back to him. There is not much independence in that, but it looks like an easy way to get a living. comicbooks.com