Puck — May 28, 1879 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Logic of the Uneducated" This cartoon depicts a dialogue between what appears to be a working-class man and an educated figure, likely illustrating class differences in reasoning. The uneducated man makes illogical statements ("If you only don't say ge-whooping; aber slooping!"), while his interlocutor responds with patient correction. The satire targets both working-class immigrants (suggested by the broken English dialect) and, ironically, the educated classes who condescend to them. The cartoon mocks the premise that education automatically confers logical thinking, while suggesting that common folk operate from fundamentally different—though not necessarily inferior—reasoning frameworks. This reflects Gilded Age anxieties about immigration, labor, and social hierarchy that Puck frequently satirized.