The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-17
Caricature to the Front.

One of the best of recent cartoons
was printed in Wednesdays Chicago
Times Herald. 1t represents cloaked
skeleton labeled 1.-The Sultan" standing
on a strip of ground dotted with hu-
man skulls, waving back white
rObed angel of Charity" Almost as
good an idea was embodied in the same
enterprising journals cartoon the day
previous. In that picture. John Bull
sits immersed in the perusal of papers
bearing on Transvaal, Ashantee and
Venezuela, while in a row TO his front
and rear sit Emperor William, Presi-
dent Faure of France, Uncle Sam whit
Ting a stick called the Monroe doctrine
and the czar of Russia choking with
laughter-all with their backs turned
to u window through which the Sultan
is seen beating u helpless woman named
Armenia. Each of these gentlemen
has, in his pre-occupation, permitted
a paper labeled The Armenian Ques-
ton" to fall under his feet.
The aptness of these two conceptions
of the caricaturist does not need dia-
gram to bring it home to the most un-
reflective reader. Both pictures convey
to the mind at glance meaning
which. If properly expressed in words
would require columns of type. Apart
from their intrinsic strength and clev-
erness, they serve to Indicate one of the
comparatively new but most forcible
re-inforcements of modern journalism
reinforcement well described by Jo-
seph Medill the other day when, in ac-
cepting the presidency of the Chicago
Press club he said:
The press presents to all the people the
immense variety of actions and phases
OF human conduct which make up our
daily lives. embracing every event and the
doings and saying, grave and gay, of the
earth. including political, scientific, relig
ious, benevolent. malevolent, progressive
and retrogressive actions OF mankind
After the bright intellects of the profess
sion have spread these things out in the
same profession. the cunning artist, who
sketches and satirizes and pictures and
writes object lessons and intensifies
thought. Sometimes | take up a paper
and. seeing picture or cartoon, or
something of that kind, l am instantly
aware that 1t illustrates whole volume
is one of the great adiuncts of journalism
adding to its vigor and power and value
to society.
Let us hope that the keen lash of the
caricaturist will goad the Christian ma
tions to the performance of a duty
which more dignified methods of ex-
hortation appear as yet to have failed
sufficiently to emphasize.
One paper announces upon unuues.
tionable authority" that Grover Cleve-
land will positively not be a candidate
for renomination; and another. on the
same day, assures its readers from
trustworthy information. that he WILL
Those to whom the question is of any
special interest can pay their pennies
and take their, choice.
Events are demonstrating that the
Republican leaders in Washington
made the mistake of their lives when.
without a trustworthy majority to back
them up, they consented to organize
the senate. The act has brought the
party as yet nothing but confusion.
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In these days when national delega tes
in this state are being instructed for
Reed. Mckinley and Quay, it seems tn
be forgotten, does it not, that Pennsyl-
vania has candidate in the person of
Daniel II. Hastings?
Whatever else may be true of him
IL Is only fair to President Kruger to
state that he was not born in Mauch
Chunk.
IL looks now as If the correspondence
OF the German emperor needed a first
class managing editor.