The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . THE LAST PHASE OF THE DREYFUS CASE. Justice takes Dreyfus into her car. From Amste?-dammer. side purported to contrast France before 1789 and France atthe end of the Nineteenth Century. In the first picture we CENTURY IN CARICATURE 35i. f 1 mr TOWARD FREEDOM. Madame la Republique— Welcome, M. Le Cap-itaine. Let me hope that I may soon return you yoursword. , , From Punch (.London) were shown a peasant toiling laboriously along a furrow inthe ground, bearing on his shoulders a beribboned and be-plumed aristocrat of the old regime, whose thig
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . THE LAST PHASE OF THE DREYFUS CASE. Justice takes Dreyfus into her car. From Amste?-dammer. side purported to contrast France before 1789 and France atthe end of the Nineteenth Century. In the first picture we CENTURY IN CARICATURE 35i. f 1 mr TOWARD FREEDOM. Madame la Republique— Welcome, M. Le Cap-itaine. Let me hope that I may soon return you yoursword. , , From Punch (.London) were shown a peasant toiling laboriously along a furrow inthe ground, bearing on his shoulders a beribboned and be-plumed aristocrat of the old regime, whose thighs grip theneck of the man below with the tenacity of the Old Man ofthe Sea. That was France before the Revolution came withits bloody lesson. In the picture showing France at the endof the Nineteenth Century there was the same peasant toilingalong at the bottom, but the burden under which he totteredwas fivefold. Above him was the petty merchant, who inturn carried on his shoulders the lawyer, and so on until rid-ing along, arrogantly and ostentatiously, at the top was thefigure of the foreign-born Jew, secure through the posses-sion of his tainted millions. 352 CENTURY IN CARICATURE The dangerous straits through which the Waldeck-Rous-seau ministry was obliged to pass were hi
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