The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-15

.sr-,,e Dollar or the MANI" is the title
- Homer Davenport's latest volume of
cartoons. published by Small, Maynard
G. Co. 1t is a mastery pictorial ar
raiqnment Of the money interests that
ore overpowering the country and to
the cause of the workingmen, the publ
caticn must be as an oasis to the desert
wanderer.
The cartoons are nearly ali of recent
Issue. and, as the title implies, deal
largely with the trusts and their rep
resentatives- The gigantic figure which
Davenport uses to typify the trusts ap-
Daars frequently. This figure, original
with Davenport, is the most striking
feature of his recent cartoons, and is
the nearest approach to the popular
idea of the trusts which has yet ap-
peared.
1t is the coarse, brutal slave driver,
soulless and dominating, with :. mind
for nothing but the requirement of
wealth, regardless Of the means USED.
WI 4 the tremendous body, clumsy but
powerful, the small head set on a thick
coarse neck, short, kinky hair running
10 nOint between the eyebrows, the
face depicting cruelty and cunning. the
crafty eyes leerinG out from under
low, brutal brow, the cartOonist has
made a powerful and impressive COM
bination which is destined to cut a
prominent part in the political future
of the man of duty and destiny"
Davenport, in his book. shows us
this creature IN various stages: first az
the friend OF Hanna and Mckinley,
laughing and testing over the troubles
OF 'uIain people; as the OppreSsOr of
The. poor. squeezing the ultimate penny
from the poor widows mite: as the
Nemesis of the commercial traveller,
with his heel on the neck of the man
IN, VIII tic To
give the giant his power.
Some idea of the character of the
man who has made Hanna squirm may
be cleaned from the dedication OF his
volume: This book is dedicated 20 my
hoy Homer Clyde Davenport, il the
hope that if he ever becomes a legis-
Iator he viii bear in mind the interests
of the plain people" This thought is
ever urpermOst in the CartOOniSt'S
mind. II is his continual Inspiration;
and in all his cartoons one thing that
is apparent is the interest of the peo-
The money trust. the ice trust, the
flour and sugar trusts, and lately the
coal trust in Pennsylvania have all felt
the force of DavenDOrt'S pencil. He
spares none. Irrespective of party, the
wrongdoers are hayed numerically and
effectively.
Davenport's personality is as inter-
esting as the story of his success. He
was born about thirty-three years ago
on a farm in Oregon. and is distinctive
Is western product, having received
his first newspaper experience in Cali
fornia and Oregon. HA had a speak
ing acquaintance with all the domestic
animals and fowls on the farm almost
before + could talk, and the walls of
his fathers barns were covered with
HOmer's weird conceptions He was
always drawing, and his faVOrite sub
jacts were his animal friends. His
father also came in for his share. AS
'Davvy" grew older his father took a
little more interest in his gifted sons
'hankeTing for pictures, although he
insisted that Homer should acquire an
academic education and not waste his
time fOOling with pictures Homer s
ideas ran in a different channel, how
ever. and. while he attended school,
he had numerous arguments with his
teacher as to the prOpriety of carica-
turing that pedagogue and his fellow
scholars while he should have been
studying his lessons.
After one of these disputes Homer
decided that he did not like school, any
way; so one day, during a visit of the
school trustees. the strained relations
snapped. The following story is told
as to DavenpOTt's manner of leaving
school: The teacher, wishing to 'show
off, his pupils, called Homer to the
front. Homer, can you tell us when
the new day begins2" he asked. We'll,
answered the boy, unable to decide
whether or not he was being ''jOllied.
amy darn fool would know that it be