Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-21

ne. I,own to Their Children
er,,, d Neao York Letter.
N.oRE. July 16.-The caricaturists
- responsible for endowing the peou-
az ~. II public men with immortality
L' 's politicians might make iools
DIV ...,,. Ives one day and their folly DE
d - ..oc ne next. Their potent pencils
"'S -ha wicked tremble and the foolish
H'@e s. Ntckasmes, peculiarities, manner
WV '. mistakes and idiocies are embalmed
I'H..' az, nj caricature in manner that
s4, ,bliyion and makes the subjects
VI .,summat waketul o nights
M ~, cartoonist seems TO have been
TOD for the purpose of administering
-loroof 10 public offenders in way they
,'.iso and remember. seating edi-
lvsp'I9u have no terrors for political sim
0lla" they well know that the public
I'm forget them in week If, Indeed, they
~ oad M all. But when master OF the
.anrn lmpales d man be lmpresseS MS
P.bajIowei inspiration on the general
mind loreyer. When genius and ridlcule
mime to make man uncomfortable
@ absurd the man gets the worst of it.
..nlAl
..,s nj bur!esque, by which the comic
ss,sts make their victims known to The
a,bIir- have been so long in use they can
ioorealy bee traced TO their inventors.
Eor instance, there is the familiar and
,,traor,iuiary figure of our hOnOred Uncle
Som Every American acknowledges
yinsl1u with him, but few know how he
sra into existence. Even some of the
srt5sts Who have depicted him year after
s.er in his different moods and attitudes,
inow nothing Of his origin. After making
many llsrfoEatories in regard to him and
1,rsideralle research into his genealOgy
learned that an English caTicaturist
a,a,tpd him in derisiOn long ago. The in
,pnt was To embOdy all the ignorance,
oeotism. cludeuess, pretensiOn and asser-
dyepess of the saucy young country in
he nlant figure of the old Yankee. But
f1qre was "a dignity in the tall, angular.
sLgusfed old man which his creators
.opitbpr1neant nor saw. The people of the
new country saw it, however, and took
him 10 their hearts. They adopted the
idea of the bonefcent uncle, and put it
intosong and story. Then they accepted
him as be was pOrtrayed-thin and elon-
gated. l0ng-hsred, hatchet-faced, and
Nearing raiment the like Of which never
Of an economical cut, q sWallOW-tailed
ont OF most antiquated design, "A high hat
tbat il a challenge to all modern head
wear. and a vest gaudier than a tropical
Mrd This became the familiar figure
which ia comic art represented our be-
loved country. The idea took definite
form: it became fixed in our fancy; 10 was
creation destined 10 live and to grow.
Uncle Sam became a fact, a reality, q part
yourselves and Of history.
dr. Was 6rstAnade familiar to his people
~ laptec N0j0BS, "A comic paper that
faarished more than quarter of cen
tury ago. but has long since climbed the
golden stair. Mast was the first artist
to lin 0Hr reverend uncle out OF ridIcule
and contempt. endow him with proper
dignity and make him distinctive and
hOnoFei character, though he claims no
crditl9r TO-. He says he remembers HIM
as far back as he Can remember anything
in the way Of pictures. The other artists
assert that Mast has made him what he
ls--a KIND, Wise, courageous, quick witted,
sumysurted, dignitied, lOVable old man,
EeenIy alive to everything affecting the
interests Of his peOple-ln short, gentle
man.
Hisinterestlng to see how the charac-
character Of his people. One realizes this
T comparing some of the old portraits of
lim with some Of the more modern. In
Nasts allegOrical sketches we have seen
ul ID allthe phases of his strong, spirited
ana noble character. He has wept with
.oiumoia over the bier Of heroes; he has
ltN last 10 the old flag when it was rid
aed Wild shot and shell; he has turned
us gray mead aside in humiliation when
zoe public trusts were betrayed and
l9aoIs abused; he has mOurned over his
sam sons as they lay in the valleys, on
me hllls and by the rivers of the South.
MS Keen wit has mercilessly puuctured
snauS and his big heart OveTflOwed with
sympathy when the children of his adOp-
T Tol suffered Dear, quaint, grand old
nee sam, may his kind and rugged face
M NJ Dean upon us in love and good will.
nlep Ne smiles his people rejoice; when
AZ eaeps OF fr0wns they are sOrrOwful or
dlsooedeUt.
une Of the whims of caricature is TO
a saAe Uncle sam fat and Jolly when
snines are good" and thin and sad when
maSl anguish. keppler, Of Puck, first
made him fat in the prosoerous davs nj
~ One Of Nast's hits was giving him a
swollen silver leg and one good s0ud sill
w. lss curing The monetary conference in
Wv5SnCs and the mining excitement in the
$50, 49, H& Years ago. The silver leg was
& 49, anu could only be moved by means
c5.isl ~ ana pulleys. 1t tied him to the
=. CO., anu made an invalid OF him, of
mona' mediately following the re-
slarHI ahoh ot silver Mast invented the
s nm. ooliar, which he still uses Occa-
. sIsa. y pot approving of the return To
49,. III was Mast who represented
ms sam as IN eagle.
Ne' "t, m st made widow of Rem Ruf-
gor,, turing one OF the many runs that
Nay'iIah made for the governorship of
4 hass5t. "uS''lts ne made "A speech, in which
wido,1u am not a coy maiden: am a
n IA w. "|hiatlng tina: he was willing To
f IN ,,, poilueally. Mast dressed him
4 him i,o ,elNlhlhe toggery and projected
widow 'ne world as captivating
8 has ra,, any widow, in earicature, he
f wlIpg a." ilu nom that day 10 this-still
Ties On dr, ne "ooed. Quite often be car
8 Il a''Iul baby is also Nnst,s hnndiworr
81 an iesehls greenback currency ms we
,omee w. ana every Greenbacker who
q oort up prominence appears in car
E nnyar lu the baby in his arms. IT, mas
bud wo5,,I",H an inch since IL was born.
n child soon become an enormous
should o s,aht' perhaps If Greenbackers
clown u,al 'Ne lhto power. Butler as a
Wa ae Nasts invention.
ha. ~ ~ 'he ol thc caricaturiu0 frotarrtty
other. ao such undivine inspiration ia
teoop,as' guoe adopt IL. BY that means n
augbt y "eH'hless, and the publio are
g1aalW recognize certain cbaran,ors ne
he ieeS everybody understands tnat
down t snC old man, with one eyelid drawn
oyersbo.s. snuinlgg along in heavy arctic