Wichita eagle., 1888-01-13
GEORGE. THE FREE TRADER.

A farmer living in Park township,
Sedgwick county. who is something of a
caricaturist as well as agriculturist,
drafted with pencil dual cartoon, one
portion impersonating President Cleve-
land, the free trade champion, and the
other Farmer Doolittle, a repentant con
vert to that theory. The first represents
Cleveland holding in his arms huge
bag labeled ''coin surplus, and just IN
front of him piles of ''currency-treasury
notes, gold and silver''-with the inscrip.
ton too much money" Above him ap.
pears a number of outstretched hands
holding placards with such superscrlp,
lions as s.Take in your bonds. Fix UP
your navy" 1--WE will take some in pen
sions," 1--WE will take some here-detl-
cheney bill i, 656, 252, 'arebel soldier hold
ing a banner on which are the words IF
that bag is bursting you can give us gray
coats some of dat stuff: then just behind
the champion barrel labeled ''Sl0O.00O
set aside for 1SSS-DemOcratic campaign
fund.- with another hand holding out
the motto ..Yes, and got busted Jim
(Blaine). Then appears this soliloquy
Il wish congress would take this load
off of my hands: there never has
been president in the history of this
government that lostssas much sleep as |
have on account of too much money.
Just beneath this is representated the
third plank in the Democratic platform
i'm 1898, branded free trade, and ap-
III ~ L..
George Litzenberg: You see, George,
this plank is warped and crooked as the
ID. and it has great, ugly knot hole
in it: You see it won't hold sand,
George, let alone Democratic free
whisky.
The second part of the cartoon repre-
sents our mutual friend George standing
before the United States treasury which
is empty; behind him number of hands
holding placards like this: H. B. 14o-
An act to repienish the treasury. Put
up the tax on whisky and tobacco.
Then this soliloquy from George: burn
me if l don't have to give it up-put Old
JIM on the ticket for me in So.
Just below this cartoon is the follow
ing explanatory note:
George L., after looking into the
empty treasury vaults and seeing one
old ten-dolIar bill and three coppers, says
to himself: s.Well, Ill be burned if
thought free trade would cut such a
figure as this Then there's them fellows
over in Ohio gone to the ID IN
the wool business. Old England seems
to be supplying everything. We are
busted. boys: we are busted. | am be.
ginning to think free trade is a night
mare: and / have had it pretty bad.
Bows. trot out your old protective nag;
he's the safest boss of the two"
The draft as a whole shows that the
craftsman not only possesses genius in
that line. but that he keeps posted upon
the current political issues of the times
and that he has pretty clear conception
of cause and effect as applied to politics
and the different party theories. The
effort is a bit of pleasantry-a prac-
teal ioke-at the expense of the EAGLE S
good friend, but we know that he will
appreciate it. coming as it does from a
brother farmer. as much as any one.
Farmer Doolittle is very clever with the
pencil, himself: if not at cartooning. at
least at word painting, and if he should
undertake to reply in kind we have no
doubt he would draw an interesting pic
ture. however much at variance with
Republican orthodoxy.