Review of reviews and world's work . is very satisfactory, and it is all the more sobecause there seemed at one time a disposition on thepart of President Harrison to—well, to behave to usas offensively as we behaved to the Americans in thecase of Mason and Slidell and the Trent. We repro-duce on the following page a cartoon which resemblesonly too closely some of the many cartoons by which intimes past Punch and its rivals have done their bestor worst to set nations by the ears. The office of thecomic journalist is often one of the wickedest under-taken by mortal men. It is, no doubt, easier
Review of reviews and world's work . is very satisfactory, and it is all the more sobecause there seemed at one time a disposition on thepart of President Harrison to—well, to behave to usas offensively as we behaved to the Americans in thecase of Mason and Slidell and the Trent. We repro-duce on the following page a cartoon which resemblesonly too closely some of the many cartoons by which intimes past Punch and its rivals have done their bestor worst to set nations by the ears. The office of thecomic journalist is often one of the wickedest under-taken by mortal men. It is, no doubt, easier to makean effective cartoon by pandering to national vanity,or ministering to savage animosity, but where is themoral sense, nay, where is the good taste of such vul-garities as this ? We make no complaint of the artistof Judge. We see in him only the reflection of ourown vice. As the old cock crows the young oneleams. But as we hear the discordant voice of theyoung cockerel it may well give us pause. 396 THE REf/IElV OF A STRAIGHT TIP TO JOHN BULL. Uncle Sam: Its time for you to hack down, as usual, Johnny. From Judge. March 19, 1G93. THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 397 The En lish ^^^ remarkable trend toward socialism Trend toward in England which the Progressive vic- Sociahsm. ^^^^ ^^ ^.j^^ London municipal election, under the lead of socialists like Sidney Webb andJohn Burns, so strikingly proves and illustrates,has been in recent weeks powerfully acceleratedin two other and totall} different ways and direc-tions by two anti-socialist Conservative statesmen,one dead and the other in the House of first has helped socialism by what he omittedto do, and the second by what he has tried to do asa safeguard against socialism. The first is the lateMr. W. H. Smith, whose will, as probated not longago, showed him possessed of a personalty of £1,764, -000. What was the value of his landed propertynobody knows, but rumor estimates it at least asmuch again. That is
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