The Wasp — 1880 — page 124: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily text with a dictionary-style section titled "WASP'S Improved Webster" defining words with small illustrations. The main editorial content criticizes the Anti-Chinese movement and processions, arguing that such sentiment provides no real solutions to labor problems. The editor suggests workingmen should instead focus on organizing cooperative factories rather than blaming Chinese immigrants. The definitions shown (Freedom, French, Frightful, Frivolity, etc.) appear to be satirical word-plays rather than substantive commentary. The illustrations are small, generic engravings accompanying these definitions. The page's core message targets the hypocrisy and ineffectiveness of Anti-Chinese rhetoric as political distraction from genuine economic reform.