The Wasp — 1893 — page 358: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes **President Harrison of the Olympic Club** (a San Francisco athletic organization) over controversy regarding Jewish exclusion from the club's Circus Maximus event. The cartoons depict: 1. **"Round About"** - A figure examining the club's policies, suggesting circularity or evasion 2. **"No Hebrews need apply"** - A wheel mechanism, likely representing the club's bureaucratic exclusion of Jewish members 3. **"Outside the Coliseum offer a Roman holiday"** - Romans and gladiators, referencing the historical persecution paralleling current discrimination The text argues that excluding Hebrew people contradicts Christian principles and intellectual progress. The author suggests this prejudice is hypocritical—that modern Americans claiming civilization shouldn't maintain "inherited and acquired prejudices" from centuries past. The satire criticizes the Olympic Club's discriminatory practices as outdated and morally indefensible.