The Wasp — 1892 — page 490: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a text-based satirical editorial page rather than a cartoon-heavy issue. The masthead illustration shows a caricatured wasp attacking figures, serving as the magazine's logo. The content critiques various San Francisco issues: police brutality during arrests ("emptied his revolver"), exorbitant costs of war-related activities, and local newspapers' sensationalism. There's commentary on political candidates and their lack of substance, and criticism of a visiting Boston delegation's statements about San Francisco's economic policies. The magazine also mocks a supposed "miraculous drug discovery" and discusses California's senatorial election prospects. The tone is sharply satirical throughout, attacking what the editors view as incompetence, corruption, and hypocrisy among city officials and media figures.