The Wasp — 1892 — page 242: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

The main illustration shows a disheveled military or official figure labeled "THE LOCAL ROUNDER," depicted as a caricature with exaggerated features and worn clothing. The accompanying text discusses postal workers and their ambitions, referencing a man from St. Joseph, Missouri who arrived with "littered, greasy suspenders" and postage stamps. The piece satirizes railroad postal clerks and their aspirations to escape monotonous work. The cartoon appears to mock incompetent or disreputable local officials or postal workers through visual exaggeration and physical degradation of their appearance. Without clearer context identifying the specific individual caricatured, the exact political target remains unclear, though the satire targets bureaucratic inefficiency and questionable character among public servants.