The Wasp — 1878 — page 249: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains primarily **text articles and advertisements** rather than illustrated cartoons. The main sections include: 1. **"Are Journalists Workingmen?"** - An editorial arguing journalists deserve labor respect equal to blacksmiths and manual workers, defending their professional status. 2. **"A Remedy"** - Proposing Chinese laundries as economic solutions for San Francisco's poor, suggesting this work could benefit the community. 3. **"A Spirited Cartoon"** - A brief notice praising a previous cartoon about California's "boiling" political situation, using labor-related metaphors. The page's satire targets class distinctions, labor politics, and Chinese immigrant economic integration in 1870s San Francisco—core concerns of the era's working-class satirical press.