Judge — November 15, 1902 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a political cartoon criticizing conditions under the most recent Democratic administration. The image depicts a graveyard scene with tombstones labeled "Coxey's Army," "No Work," and other hardship references, with impoverished workers and families gathered below. The caption sarcastically quotes a workingman asking to return to "the good old times" of the previous Democratic era. The satire attacks the opposing party (likely Republicans in power at the time of publication) by ironically suggesting the prior Democratic administration was worse—implying widespread unemployment, homelessness, and economic suffering. "Coxey's Army" references the 1894 march of unemployed workers, a symbol of economic crisis. The cartoon's point: voting Democratic again would mean returning to those desperate conditions, not improvement.