The Wasp — 1892 — page 530: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a text-heavy editorial page rather than a cartoon page. The masthead shows *The Wasp* logo with what appears to be a caricatured figure. The editorial discusses several political topics: a debate about divorce eligibility for journalists, criticism of Editor Moran's "abnormal capital expansion," and commentary on Democratic politics and machine politics corrupting American governance. A notable section addresses the Seventh Street postoffice site controversy in San Francisco, where real estate speculators had blocked the project, later reversed. The page also comments on marriage and mortality statistics. The tone is satirical and critical of political corruption, machine politics, and what the editor views as undemocratic practices in American civic life circa 1892.