The Wasp — 1889 — page 397: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **text editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The masthead identifies it as Volume XXII, Whole Number 672, a San Francisco satirical weekly. The editorials discuss: 1. **Golden Gate Park usage** — debating whether mass meetings should be permitted there 2. **The Salvation Army** — defending their right to conduct public exercises despite opposition 3. **Eight-Hour League** — supporting labor reform while opposing mass meetings as improper use of public space 4. **Pennsylvania flood relief** — praising charitable response to disasters 5. **Walt Whitman's poetry** — mocking his "barbaric yawp" and literary pretensions The magazine takes generally progressive stances (supporting labor, charity, religious freedom) while maintaining conservative editorial standards about public decorum and appropriate civic space usage.