,transcriber's ,note   ,this e,book has 
no ,table of ,contents1 but all of the  
cartoons are listed in the ,index at the
 end4     ,illustration3    ,,cartoons  
,,from   8,,puck0    #ahgg-ahic         
,copyright1 #ahic1 by ,,keppler         
,,schwarzmann4     ,illustration        
#cjj ,,copies ,,printed ,,and ,,bound   
,,in ,,this ,,manner1   ,,of ,,which    
,,this ,,is ,,no4 #ib4  ,illustration3  
,j4,k4   #ahic  ,jos4 ,keppler4         
,j4 ,,keppler     ,a ,,selection ,,of   
,,cartoons ,,from ,,puck    ,,by        
,,joseph ,,keppler     ,,with ,,text    
,,and ,,introduction    ,,by    ,h4 ,c4 
,,bunner     ,illustration     ,,keppler
  ,,schwarzmann   ,,new ,,york          
,,mdcccxciii     ,illustration          
,,introduction4   ,so careless has been 
the popular use of the words            
8cartoonist0 and 8caricaturist10 that to
 many minds they no doubt seem          
practically interchangeable4 ,yet1 as a 
matter of fact1 not only do the two     
titles imply two different functions of 

pictorial satiric art1 but1 although    
there is a school of that art for almost
 every one of the great races of        
civilized men1 there is but one school  
that positively demands the union of    
these two factors in the work of its    
pupils4 ,that school is the ,german     
school1 and it is ,mr4 ,joseph ,keppler 
who1 as an ,american cartoonist and     
caricaturist1 has not only imposed its  
canons and traditions upon this country1
 but has1 in so doing1 placed himself at
 its head1 both in this country and in  
,europe1 by virtue of a genius that has 
made him eminent above the generation of
 his masters4  ,the spirit of ,french   
comic art turns distinctly--and         
delightfully--to caricature4 ,the       
,french 8cartoon0--the pictorial        
lampoon1 that is--has but to exhibit in 
an exaggerated form the objectionable   
characteristics of an individual1 to    
serve its purpose and to touch its      
public4 ,it is the revelation of        
character1 of purpose1 of intellectual  

or moral scope which affects1           
apparently1 the ,french mind1 by nature 
rather observant than deductive4 ,the   
,anglo-,saxon spirit1 less quickly      
perceptive1 more deliberately logical1  
asks something beyond this of the man   
who tries to reason with it in a        
picture4 ,it must be approached by means
 of a fable1 a parable1 an allegory1    
something that will stand the test of   
argument and comparison4 ,caricature1 or
 the significant exaggeration of        
physical characteristics1 may or may not
 be an incident to this4  ,few of the   
,english cartoonists1 for instance1 have
 been caricaturists of any account4 ,the
 greatest of them all1 ,john ,tenniel1  
is a cartoonist pure and simple--that   
is1 one who draws allegories or         
parables4 ,in his delightful 8,alice in 
,wonderland0 work1 he shows his power of
 caricature2 but in his cartoons he is  
classically faithful to nature1 save for
 just sufficient accentuation to point  
his satiric intent4 ,and in the ,united 

,states1 up to twenty years ago1 the    
prime idea of the cartoonist was simply 
to express in drawing a figure of       
speech--and the more realistically the  
better4  ,if it seems a remarkable thing
 that the influence of one man should   
avail to change the taste of a nation in
 such a manner1 it must be remembered   
that the breadth and force of the       
,german school which ,mr4 ,keppler      
introduced into this country were       
peculiarly calculated to appeal to a    
receptive people1 delighting in vigorous
 expression4 ,for the ,german school    
carries the art and mystery of          
cartooning far beyond any of its rivals4
 ,the ,german conception of the cartoon 
not only involves a picture parable1 it 
demands that the actors of the fable    
shall be so drawn as to display their   
characters in their lineaments1 and it  
asks1 moreover1 that the allegory shall1
 if possible1 take a distinctive        
dramatic form1 suggestive1 at least1 of 
action1 and not merely of position4  ,it

 was not in the ,american nature to     
refuse to recognize the pregnant        
possibilities of such a school of       
satiric art4 ,nor did ,mr4 ,keppler fail
 to grasp the vast possibilities opened 
to him by the freedom of ,american laws 
and ,american tradition--social and     
political4  ,this collection of ,mr4    
,keppler's cartoons is not by any means 
intended to summarize his work during   
the sixteen years in which he has drawn 
for ,,puck--or it would be treble its   
present size4 ,it simply brings together
 such examples of his work as may now   
with propriety be reprinted4 ,this is no
 slight volume1 yet it contains1        
comparatively1 but a narrow choice of   
the hundreds of cartoons ,mr4 ,keppler  
has drawn for ,,puck4 ,it is surprising 
to consider that this great output is to
 be credited to a man who has only      
attained the fullness of life2 for      
,joseph ,keppler is but fifty-five years
 old4 ,he was born in ,vienna1 ,february
 #ast1 #ahch4 ,his early life was a     

struggle with poverty2 but it was a     
blithesome and cheerful-hearted         
struggle1 almost romantically full of   
incident and adventure4 ,he was with    
equal ease an actor and an artist2 and  
at one time1 with a very natural longing
 for ,italy1 he wandered through ,styria
 and the ,tyrol and1 again1 through     
,hungary1 making vain attempts1 balked  
by constant misfortune1 to enter the    
land of art4 ,in #ahef he settled down  
to serious study at the ,acadmie des    
,beaux ,arts of ,vienna4 ,although his  
capacity as an artist was increasing    
year by year1 he possessed a histrionic 
talent that made it hard for him to give
 up the stage1 and as manager and actor 
he was connected with the theatre even  
for several years after his arrival in  
,america in #ahfh4 ,his first years in  
,america were passed in the ,west2 and  
in ,st4 ,louis he started two humorous  
weeklies1 ,die ,vehme and a too-early   
,,puck4 ,the gods loved both of these   
ventures too well4 ,it was in #ahgg that

 ,mr4 ,keppler1 in association with ,mr4
 ,adolph ,schwarzmann1 first introduced 
to the ,american public the school of   
cartooning which has now become as much 
ours as ,germany's4 ,this was through   
the medium of a ,german edition of      
,,puck4 ,the ,english ,,puck was born on
 ,march #gth1 #ahgg4  ,to his colleague 
of sixteen years' side-by-side working  
time1 it is a great pleasure to claim   
for ,joseph ,keppler the masterhood in  
the brave art whose present form he     
introduced to ,america1 and which he has
 used with enduring courage and growing 
knowledge to more good ends than need   
here be told4  ,march #bjth1 #ahic4     
,h4 ,c4 ,bunner4     ,a ,,little        
,,change2 ,,or1 ,,politics ,,makes      
,,strange ,,bedfellows4  ,,puck1        
,october #dth1 #ahgf4   ,these two      
expressive portraitures of two          
distinguished ,german-,americans1       
,general ,sigel and the ,hon4 ,carl     
,schurz1 appeared in the initial number 
of the ,german ,,puck 7,new ,york7 as   

interesting specimens of ,mr4 ,keppler's
 skill as a caricaturist1 pure and      
simple4 ,they had no timely significance
 in particular4  ,illustration     ,,the
 ,,democ-,,rats ,,caught ,,in ,,the     
,,presidential ,,trap4  ,,puck1         
,february #bhth1 #ahgg4   ,the idea of  
this cartoon is not free from guilty    
obligation to a small pun2 yet it       
depicts the situation of the ,democratic
 ,party in the last months of #ahgf with
 considerable aptitude and force4 ,it   
appeared at the time when the ,democrats
 in ,congress had been hoodwinked into  
accepting the ,electoral ,commission    
scheme1 which deprived ,mr4 ,tilden of  
the ,presidency1 and put ,mr4 ,hayes in 
the chair4 ,under these circumstances1  
it was certainly truthful1 even if it   
was trite1 to say that the              
8,democ-,rats0 were caught in the       
political trap4  ,illustration3         
,,the                     ,,democ-,,rats
                     ,,caught ,,in ,,the
 ,,presidential                         

,trap    ,,zur ,,presidenten-,,frage    
,,wie ,,die ,,demok-,,ratten ,,in       
,,diesem ,,falle ,,in ,,diese ,,falle   
,,geriethen4     ,,consolidated4        
,,puck1 ,january #bfth1 #ahha4   8,the  
telegraph companies have been           
consolidated1 which in simple language  
means that ,mr4 ,jay ,gould controls    
every wire in the ,united ,states over  
which a telegram can be sent10 said     
,,puck of ,january #bfth1 #ahha1 and the
 statement was no exaggeration4  ,the   
editorial went on to express a fear that
 this monopoly of telegraphic facilities
 might be used for stock-jobbing        
purposes1 as it made suppression or     
falsification of price-quotations not   
only possible1 but temptingly easy4     
,this fear was far from groundless at   
the time1 although it has since been    
removed by the enormous growth of the   
business of electrical communication1   
which has now become a machine too huge 
to be readily perverted from its proper 
working by any one man4 ,it is1 however1

 undeniable that the ,western ,union    
wires were misused for parties and      
purposes in the doubtful and troublous  
days immediately succeeding the         
,presidential election of #ahhd4 ,at the
 time when this cartoon was published   
there was a very general feeling that   
the federal government ought to take    
charge of the whole telegraphic system4 
,this feeling1 however1 changed when the
 people realized that a postal telegraph
 scheme would practically involve the   
enrollment of a new army of             
office-holders who would be1 under our  
inadequate and ineffective civil-service
 reform laws1 merely the hirelings and  
henchmen of the party in power4         
,although the phrase 8pernicious        
activity0 had not yet been coined to    
characterize the performances of        
unscrupulous office-holders1 the people 
had seen quite enough of the thing      
itself to want no more of it2 and the   
project of government interference      
became unpopular4 ,at the same time1 it 

can not be said that ,mr4 ,gould1 who   
lived until #ahib1 ever inspired the    
people with confidence or made any      
recognizable attempt to that end4       
,illustration     ,,an ,,attack ,,on    
,,our ,,outer ,,ramparts4  ,,puck1      
,april #bbnd1 #ahhe4   ,the so-called   
8,freedom of ,worship ,bill             
,controversy0 has been carried on so    
many years1 through so many varying     
phases and under such exceptional and   
peculiar conditions1 that it has become 
most difficult of description and       
characterization4 ,its exciting cause is
 a bill introduced into the ,new ,york  
legislature ostensibly in the interests 
of what might be called sectarian fair  
play4 ,on the face of it1 it aims to    
secure to the ,catholic1 confined by    
sickness or for other reasons in a      
public institution1 the right to enjoy  
the ministrations of his religion at the
 hands of a priest of the ,roman        
,church4 ,its opponents have alleged    
that it is calculated to go much farther

 than this in practical effect1 and to  
afford a foothold for the regular and   
official installment of ,roman ,catholic
 ,priests in the public institutions of 
the state4 ,the bill has appeared and   
reappeared for many years4 ,it has      
assumed many forms1 has provoked a vast 
amount of discussion1 and has engaged   
the interest of a very large1 and in    
some respects a very peculiar1          
collection of friends and enemies4 ,its 
good faith has always been questioned1  
and we do not think it is expressing an 
ex parte opinion to say that it has     
always been open to question--in view of
 the breadth and comprehensiveness of   
our ,american common law as applied to  
the civil rights of the citizen and the 
equal status of all religious           
organizations in the commonwealth4 ,at  
the time 7,april #bb1 #ahhe17 when this 
cartoon was printed1 the bill had       
appeared in a form which gave good      
reason for the belief1 in which the     
whole press of ,new ,york shared1 that  

it was a covert attack upon             
non-sectarian institutions4  ,it is to  
be hoped that this cause of so much     
contention will some day be forgotten in
 the natural growth of a spirit of      
religious tolerance4  ,illustration     
,,the ,,political 8,,army ,,of          
,,salvation40  ,,puck1 ,march #cast1    
#ahhj4   ,loyalty and lack of moderation
 were equally marked as characteristic  
of the support which ,mr4 ,roscoe       
,conkling gave to any cause that        
enlisted his sympathies4 ,the hot1      
unreasoning1 fanatical vehemence of the 
attempt which he made in #ahhj to       
dragoon the ,republican party into      
nominating ,general ,grant for a third  
term undoubtedly made the third term    
idea far more unpopular than a more     
judicious advocacy might have made it4  
,mr4 ,conkling treated the question of  
,general ,grant's nomination almost as  
though it were a matter of divine right2
 and although ,mr4 ,conkling himself had
 a right to be considered honest in his 

enthusiasm1 as much could not be said   
for the most of his active assistants in
 the management of the 8,boom0--among   
whom were ,ex-,secretaries ,belknap and 
,robeson1 two officials who had         
reflected anything but credit upon      
,general ,grant's cabinet1 ,boss        
,shepherd1 and other members of the ring
 that had been formed in ,washington    
during the ,ex-,president's second      
administration4 ,the artist has drawn a 
parallel between the methods employed by
 the 8,salvation ,army10 which had      
invaded this country a little while     
before1 and those of the 8halcyon and   
vociferous0 ,mr4 ,conkling--to quote his
 own immortal phrase4  ,illustration    
,,the ,,cinderella ,,of ,,the           
,,republican ,,party ,,and ,,her        
,,haughty ,,sisters4  ,,puck1 ,october  
#acth1 #ahhj4   ,during the             
,presidential campaign of #ahhj1 which  
ended in the election of ,mr4 ,garfield1
 ,mr4 ,r4 ,b4 ,hayes1 then the incumbent
 of the ,presidential chair1 was treated

 with studied neglect and coldness by   
the leaders of his own party4 ,although 
,general ,grant had failed to get the   
nomination at the ,chicago convention1  
in spite of the vigorous efforts of ,mr4
 ,roscoe ,conkling1 the ex-,president   
and his ally were prominent in the      
campaign on their own account4  8,they  
speak at mass-meetings1 they are        
interviewed1 they write letters2 they   
are never out of the public eye10 says  
,,puck of ,october #acth1 #ahhj4 ,mr4   
,hayes1 however1 received no pressing   
invitation from the party managers to   
assist in electing their ,republican    
ticket4 ,undoubtedly this deliberate    
slight was due to the extreme           
sensitiveness felt by all classes of    
,republicans on the question of ,mr4    
,hayes's title to the office which he   
held2 and it was in its inception a     
creditable feeling that prompted the    
desire to keep him in the background4   
,at the same time1 it was a severe1     
almost a cruel retribution to be visited

 upon a man who had tried hard to atone 
for his capture of the ,presidential    
chair by trick and device1 by giving the
 country an uncommonly good1 and1 in    
some respects1 decidedly courageous     
administration4 ,messrs4 ,grant and     
,conkling seemed to be solicitous to    
draw attention to their complete silence
 concerning the outgoing administration1
 and their enthusiasm in ,mr4           
,garfield's behalf4 ,although1 to quote 
again from ,,puck1 8both these talkative
 gentlemen might have found their       
eloquence at a discount if ,mr4 ,hayes  
had not kept up the score of the party  
through the last four years40  8,his    
administration will be held notable1 in 
days to come1 not merely for its        
positive performances1 its vetos of the 
infamous ,silver ,bill and the          
unconstitutional ,chinese ,act2 but for 
its negative excellence4 ,he has done   
his duty as he saw it4 ,if he has made  
himself ridiculous by carrying the      
contemptibly small social practices of a

 little ,ohio town into the wider sphere
 of life to which ,fate has introduced  
him1 it is a pardonable fault4 ,let us  
say for him1 after all1 that1           
considering the wretched way in which he
 got to be ,president1 he has done far  
too well with his chances to be snubbed 
by men in such equivocal positions as   
,messrs4 ,grant and ,conkling40         
,illustration     ,a ,,harmless         
,,explosion4  ,,puck1 ,may #beth1 #ahha4
   ,mr4 ,conkling's resignation to the  
,senate1 in hope of re-election under   
circumstances which would have made such
 a triumph a severe rebuke to ,president
 ,garfield1 proved to be1 as most people
 foresaw1 the end of his political      
career4 ,but1 at the time1 there were   
plenty of people to applaud his act and 
to liken his resignation to a           
8bombshell0 thrown into the ,senate4 ,it
 was a sort of fireworks bombshell that 
destroyed nothing but itself1 but it    
made a great noise for the moment4 ,mr4 
,t4 ,c4 ,platt chose at the same time to

 pop his toy balloon1 and probably      
thought that it made part of the noise4 
,illustration     ,,puck',s ,,political 
,,hunting ,,ground4--,,how ,,he ,,has   
,,made ,,game ,,of ,,the ,,politicians4 
,,puck1 ,january #adth1 #ahhe4   ,the   
first cartoons were doubtless chalked on
 dead walls1 and even when the art      
reached a higher development1 sticking  
to walls remained the cheapest and most 
convenient method of publication4 ,it is
 often a test of a cartoon's worth      
to-day--its suitability as a            
wall-decoration4 ,it is a natural and   
simple impulse that moves us to pin on  
the wall the picture that has pleased   
us4 ,readers of ,,puck who travel much  
in this country can not but notice how  
many people delight in pasting and      
pinning their favorite cartoons to the  
walls of their offices and workshops1   
and even of their dwelling-houses4 ,a   
really popular cartoon is always sure of
 these humble but well-meant honors2    
and1 curiously enough1 experience has   

shown that next to the really telling   
8hit10 a playful1 familiarly puzzling   
trifle like 8,,puck',s ,political       
,hunting-,ground10 if it is conceived   
with some grace and prettiness1 is the  
most certain of this sort of popular    
favor4 ,this particular picture was1 no 
doubt1 made attractive to many by the   
simple puzzle afforded by the faces of  
the animals4 ,as1 however1 the passing  
of time must make some of these faces   
unfamiliar1 it may be well to offer the 
following key--first calling attention  
to the fact that all the personages     
introduced were at the moment1 in one   
way or another1 at odds with            
fortune--except the late ,mr4 ,jay      
,gould1 who is figured as a bird of prey
 7in a general way1 and with no         
over-particular ornithological accuracy7
 comfortably bearing off a lamb4 ,the   
fact that this one figure of success is 
quite unconscious of the attempts of    
,,puck',s water-dog to catch him1 may be
 supposed to show the usual disregard   

that ,wealth entertains for ,wit3  ,the 
fox1 of course1 is the ingenious ,mr4   
,james ,g4 ,blaine4 ,the hyena1         
ex-speaker ,kiefer1 and the next animal 
of doubtful breed 8,star ,route0 or     
8,soap0 ,dorsey4 ,the paw and the head  
seen in the reeds behind the dog belong 
to ,brady4 ,the lineaments of ,ben      
,butler may be discerned in the head of 
the frog1 and the nature of the beast in
 the distention of the belly thereof4   
,at the other end of the cartoon1       
,general ,grant's features1 without     
distortion or caricature1 fit the head  
of the dead lion4 ,next to him 8,secor0 
,robeson lies in the similitude of a    
dead boar1 incapable of mischief for all
 his glaring eye-balls4 ,in the         
foreground1 ,roscoe ,conkling lies a    
dead pouter pigeon4 7,caricaturists     
frequently showed ,mr4 ,conkling as a   
pouter pigeon1 but most of them carried 
the analogy too far and made a frail1   
spindle-shanked thing of him4 ,in this  
picture the thickly feathered legs and  

stout frame of the bird do not bely its 
sturdy original47 ,the owl is the late  
,john ,kelly--and a powerful and        
accurate owl he was1 too1 in his time6  
,the pendent monkey is ,t4 ,c4 ,platt1  
who was at that time suffering from one 
of the temporary eclipses which flecked 
the pathway of the political adventurer 
with appropriate forecasts of oblivion4 
,illustration     ,,the ,,universal     
,,church ,,of ,,the ,,future--,,from    
,,the ,,present ,,religious ,,outlook4  
,,puck1 ,january #ajth1 #ahhc4   ,the   
times change1 and we change with them4  
,when this cartoon was designed1 the    
popular theological fad was the         
harmonization of science and religion1  
and the immediate cause of its          
appearance was some utterance1 now      
forgotten1 but at the time considered   
highly audacious1 of the ,reverend      
,heber ,newton4 ,it was1 we believe1 the
 introduction of the practice of        
8slumming0 which changed the current of 
clerical taste4  ,illustration          

,,positively ,,last ,,awakening ,,of    
,,the ,,democratic ,,rip ,,van ,,winkle4
  ,,puck1 ,october #bgth1 #ahhj4   ,the 
picture of the ,democratic party as ,rip
 ,van ,winkle was suggested by the fact 
that in #ahhj1 when it appeared1 7,oct4 
#bg7 the party had been for just twenty 
years wrapt in the sleep of political   
inactivity4 ,the figure of the old      
sleeper is the one made familiar by ,mr4
 ,jefferson's wonderful interpretation4 
,he starts up from his twenty years'    
slumber to see a spectral host flit by  
him1 as he lies upon the mountain       
crag--,douglas1 ,greeley1 ,mc,clellan1  
,seymour1 ,tilden1 and ,hancock the     
,superb1 leading the doomed line of     
hapless ,presidential candidates4 ,the  
mean realities of life are represented  
by the two fiery-eyed owls in the tree  
at the old man's back--,general ,b4 ,f4 
,butler and ,mr4 ,john ,kelly of        
,tammany ,hall1 who never appeared in   
national politics1 except as secret and 
mischievous birds of prey4  ,down in the

 right-hand lower corner of the picture 
a pocket-flask labelled 8,bourbon0 may  
puzzle the reader who turns this page a 
generation hence4 ,it is a sly reference
 to a jest well known and well          
understood at the time1--it had a much  
earlier origin4 ,the ,democrats were    
called ,bourbons because it was supposed
 that 8they never learned anything and  
never forgot anything40 ,as it happened1
 ,bourbon ,county1 ,kentucky1 had given 
its name to a brand of whiskey at that  
time in great favor4 ,as whiskey was    
,america's democratic drink1 in the     
broader sense of the word1 by a natural 
association of ideas ,bourbon whiskey   
was set down as the drink of the        
,democratic party4 ,it was generally    
known as 8,bourbon0 and pronounced      
8,burbin40  ,illustration     ,,just    
,,the ,,difference4  ,,puck1 ,july      
#bhth1 #ahhj4   ,this cartoon depicts so
 simply and clearly the position of the 
two great parties and their respective  
leaders in the early part of the        

campaign of #ahhj that even at this date
 it hardly calls for any elucidation    
whatever4  ,it may1 however1 be proper  
to note that the placing of ,mr4 ,arthur
 as a burden upon ,mr4 ,garfield's back1
 in the bag labeled 8,credit ,mobilier0 
and 8,de ,golyer ,contract10 is not     
intended to imply that ,mr4 ,arthur     
himself had any connection with these   
scandals4 ,mr4 ,arthur himself          
undoubtedly was regarded as an          
incumbrance to ,mr4 ,garfield's canvass 
because of his very unwise choice of    
associates among the politicians of ,new
 ,york1 and his singular indifference to
 the regard of the people with whom his 
birth and breeding should naturally have
 led him to affiliate4 ,in this it must 
be admitted that ,mr4 ,arthur did       
himself an injustice1 for which1        
however1 he amply atoned when ,mr4      
,garfield's death threw upon him the    
responsibilities of the ,chief          
,executive4  ,illustration3    ,,he     
,,carries ,,the ,,party4      ,,the     

,,party ,,carries ,,him4      ,a ,,merry
 ,,christmas ,,to ,,all6  ,,puck1       
,december #bb;d4 #ahhj4   ,there are few
 more tragic or startling pages in our  
political history than those which      
record ,mr4 ,garfield's brief career as 
the national leader of his party4       
,nominated for ,president in the        
,chicago ,convention of #ahhj1 after the
 collapse of the ,grant ,third-,term    
,movement1 7although it was generally   
supposed that he was too firmly         
committed to the interests of ,senator  
,sherman to enter the lists on his own  
account17 he was elected in ,november1  
after a somewhat heated campaign1 during
 which much publicity was given to his  
unfortunate dealings with the           
,crdit-,mobilier people and other       
objectionable speculators4 ,his opponent
 was ,general ,hancock1 a soldier and a 
gentleman of unblemished reputation4 ,he
 owed his defeat partly to certain      
utterances concerning the tariff        
question which1 though just in          

themselves1 were injudicious in view of 
the popular sentiment of the time2      
partly to the wide-spread distrust of   
the ,democratic party that then         
prevailed1 and partly1 as ,mr4 ,s4 ,w4  
,dorsey1 one of ,mr4 ,garfield's        
campaign-managers1 most gratuitously and
 indecently announced after election1 to
 wholesale bribery in the ,state of     
,indiana4 7,this was the notorious      
8,soap0 ,dorsey1 so called from his     
using 8soap0 as a euphemism for         
bribe-money47  ,by a permissible        
pictorial license1 the artist1 in ,,puck
 of ,december #bbnd1 #ahhj1 represents  
the ,president-,elect as already        
quartered within the ,white ,house1     
distributing the spoils of office as    
presents from a ,christmas tree4 ,around
 him are the leaders of the ,republican 
party3 ,general ,grant1 ,senator ,john  
,sherman1 ,don ,cameron1 ,general       
,logan1 ,vice-,president ,chester ,a4   
,arthur1 and ,carl ,schurz in the       
foreground2 ,james ,g4 ,blaine and      

,marshall ,p4 ,jewell 7the collector of 
the campaign-fund7 in a corner4 ,the    
shadow of ,roscoe ,conkling's head and  
of the ambrosial curl which was supposed
 still to linger on his brow1 is thrown 
upon the side of the window-casing1 but 
from what quarter it is projected is    
difficult to determine4 ,mr4 ,conkling's
 attitude toward the new administration 
was dubious and peculiar4  ,outside1 in 
the cold ,winter night1 are the         
,democrats gazing hungrily into the     
lighted windows4 ,the head of ,mr4 ,w4  
,h4 ,english1 the defeated candidate for
 ,vice-,president1 rises from a barrel1 
supposed to represent the large fortune 
which alone gave him any political      
standing4 ,mr4 ,james ,gordon ,bennett  
appears in the character of a sportsman 
who has brought down a large owl-like   
bird having the features of ,mr4 ,john  
,kelly--the ,new ,york ,herald was      
credited with having obtained the local 
victory over the ,tammany leader4 8,up  
in a tree10 are ,tilden1 ,wade ,hampton1

 ,l4 ,q4 ,c4 ,lamar1 ,chairman ,barnum  
of the ,democratic ,committee1 ,general 
,b4 ,f4 ,butler 7constructively a       
,democrat1 for cartoon purposes71 and   
,thomas ,f4 ,bayard4  8,to the man of   
statelier figure1 who stands outside1   
but not among the shivering crowd of    
malcontents10 ,,puck wished that year a 
,merry ,christmas2 and hoped that there 
would be many ,merry ,christmases for   
him1 if not in the ,white ,house1 at    
least 8in the place where he well served
 the country40 ,the wish was vain3      
,general ,hancock died not long after4  
,illustration     8,a ,,sail6 ,a        
,,sail60  ,,puck1 ,july #bnd1 #ahhd4    
,this simple but effective cartoon      
hardly requires any further elucidation 
than is afforded by the date of its     
publication4 ,it appeared on ,july #bnd1
 #ahhd1 immediately after the nomination
 of ,mr4 ,blaine at the ,republican     
,convention at ,chicago1 and the        
consequent bolt of the ,independent     
,republicans and so-called ,mugwumps4   

,with reference to the appearance in the
 picture of ,mr4 ,john ,kelly in the    
attitude of a hostile savage1 we need   
only say that the readiness of the      
,tammany ,hall of that day to stab the  
,democratic ,party in the back whenever 
it furthered its own ends by so doing   
was something that was more than        
suspected then1 and that was            
conclusively proved in the first        
,cleveland and ,harrison campaign4      
,illustration     ,,samuel ,j4 ,,tilden4
  ,,puck1 ,august #aath1 #ahhf4   8,mr4 
,tilden's death is to be regretted by   
his friends and by his political        
enemies4 ,he was a man of principles and
 ideas4 ,he had ambitions that looked   
higher than to the mere accumulation of 
money or the acquirement of that cheap1 
ephemeral power which flatters some     
small souls4 ,and beside this he had    
courage and independence1 and the       
breeding and education of a gentleman4  
,many were forced1 by conscience and    
conviction1 to oppose his political     

aspirations2 but all found him an       
adversary to be respected1 and a man of 
dignity and power4 ,history must record 
of ,samuel ,j4 ,tilden that he did his  
best to purify a great party fallen into
 a frightful moral decadence in its own 
,capuan stronghold1--must note his      
wonderful work in the cause of civic    
honesty and good government1 and his    
loyalty to his country at a time when   
all his affiliations must have inclined 
him to disloyalty or to an indifferent  
neutrality4 ,and more than this1        
,history must say of him that he        
suffered a cruel wrong with dignified   
fortitude1 and by his wisdom and        
self-restraint relieved his country from
 a well-grounded fear of dangerous civil
 disturbance4 ,remembering this1 it is  
easy for the most partisan spirit to    
forget much else1 and to do honor to the
 dead statesman and patriot40--,,puck1  
,august #aath1 #ahhf4  ,illustration    
,,let ,,us ,,have ,,peace1 ,,now ,a     
,,president',s ,,elected4  ,,puck1      

,november #c;d1 #ahhj4   ,,puck for     
,november #c;d1 #ahhj1 went to press1 of
 course1 too early to receive the news  
of the result of the election4          
,consequently the cartoonist had to     
content himself with constructing this  
curious puzzle picture1 in which may be 
found1 with a little study1 the         
portraits of the ,republican and        
,democratic candidates1 as well as those
 of many other prominent public men1    
including ,mr4 ,roscoe ,conkling1 ,mr4  
,j4 ,g4 ,blaine1 ,mr4 ,carl ,schurz1    
,mr4 ,marshall ,p4 ,jewell1 ,mr4        
,chester ,a4 ,arthur1 ,general ,u4 ,s4  
,grant1 ,mr4 ,r4 ,b4 ,hayes1 ,mr4       
,samuel ,j4 ,tilden1 ,mr4 ,wm4 ,h4      
,english1 ,general ,john ,a4 ,logan1    
,mr4 ,john ,kelly1 7of ,new ,york       
,city17 ,general ,b4 ,f4 ,butler1 ,mr4  
,thos4 ,f4 ,bayard1 and ,mr4 ,abram ,s4 
,hewitt4  8,there is1 moreover10 ,,puck 
goes on to say1 8something more in that 
cartoon4 ,there is a gentle hint of a   
duty that we have forgotten too long1 in

 the excitement of that wild political  
fight--the duty of going back to the    
plain old ideal of friendly federation  
which our forefathers had constantly in 
mind4 ,we do not wish to talk any of the
 cheap cant about clasping hands over   
the bloody chasm4 ,all the hand-shaking 
in the world won't close a crevasse up4 
,but is this nonsense to go on forever8 
,we hope not4 ,the work of the campaign 
is done4 ,a ,president is elected4      
,there will be no need of renewing the  
battle for another four years4 ,let us  
see if we can not use those four years  
in making preparations for a contest on 
a broader basis--on points less mean1   
less cheap and malicious4 ,there is     
time1 in these four years1 for the      
honest men1 ,north and ,south1 to come  
to some understanding with each other2  
to make up their minds as to what are   
dead and what are living issues2 to     
build up a new party1 or two new        
parties1 if need be1 and to make the    
,presidential election of #ahhd a       

respectable contest1 between people who1
 however they may disagree on matters of
 principle or opinion1 have all but one 
end in view--a wise and honest          
government40  ,illustration     ,,on    
,,the ,,road4  ,,conkling4--,want a     
guide1 sir8 ,,garfield4--,no2 thank you6
  ,,puck1 ,february #bnd1 #ahha4   ,this
 cartoon sketches fairly the situation a
 month before ,mr4 ,garfield's          
inauguration in #ahha4 ,mr4 ,conkling   
had shown a certain willingness to lend 
a hand to ,mr4 ,garfield's              
administration1 and ,mr4 ,garfield had  
shown no willingness whatever to accept 
the proffered hand4 ,it was not to be   
expected that ,mr4 ,conkling would prove
 himself an unreservedly loyal and      
disinterested ,secretary of ,state1 and 
there was little room for doubt that the
 desire of ,messrs4 ,don ,cameron and   
,j4 ,a4 ,logan to hold office under the 
,president-,elect was of the most       
strictly selfish sort4         99       
99       99       99       99           

,note4--,as the word 8,mentor10 on the  
flag over the distant dwelling-house    
shown in this cartoon1 might be supposed
 to have some ulterior significance1 it 
may be well to say that it is simply the
 name of ,mr4 ,garfield's home and ,p4  
,o4 address in ,ohio4  ,illustration    
,a ,,humiliating ,,spectacle4  ,,puck1  
,august #cast1 #ahha4   ,the situation1 
which this cartoon1 published in ,,puck 
of ,august #cast1 #ahha1 commemorates   
after a peculiarly forcible fashion1 is 
too unpleasant to invite further comment
 than is absolutely necessary to explain
 it4 ,during the latter part of the     
,summer of #ahha1 while ,president      
,garfield lay dying from an assassin's  
bullet1 certain politicians of a        
peculiarly coarse fibre were unwilling  
to wait for his death to make their     
arrangements for the distribution of the
 spoils of office under his successor4  
,these were not men who were in any way 
concerned in shaping the course of the  
government in matters of statecraft or  

policy2 they were simply out for the    
spoils1 as the phrase goes1 and their   
undisguised eagerness was scandalous    
under the circumstances4  ,,puck said at
 the time1 with more moderation than1   
viewed in the light of subsequent       
events1 the occasion called for3        
8,whether presidents live or die1 the   
game of politics goes on4 ,it is        
humiliating and deplorable1 but it is   
nevertheless true that many professional
 politicians of more or less reputation 
are carefully laying their plans of     
procedure in the event of the decease of
 the dying ,president1 ,we will not     
wrong these gentlemen by saying that    
they desire his death2 but it is        
scarcely decent to raise even a         
discussion on the most trivial matter   
connected with mere machine politics1   
before the vital spark has fled from the
 body of the chief magistrate4 ,although
 his presumptive1 or1 to use a          
monarchical term1 his apparent successor
 has acted throughout in a manly and    

modest way1 there are political friends 
of his whose demeanor has not been      
distinguished by the sympathy and       
consideration that1 at least1 might be  
expected on such an occasion40          
,illustration     ,,uncle ,,sam',s      
,,lodging ,,house4  ,,puck1 ,june #gth1 
#ahhb4   ,in #ahhb 7,june #gth71 when   
8,uncle ,sam's ,lodging ,house0 was     
drawn1 the ,irish 8patriots10 who were  
trying to free their country by         
exploding dynamite in public places1 had
 made this country their base of        
supplies1 and were especially active in 
,new ,york and ,chicago4 ,their         
lawlessness created much excitement1 and
 if it had not been that there was more 
bluster than performance about their    
pernicious liveliness they might have   
involved us in a war with ,great        
,britain1 in which we should certainly  
have lacked the moral support of our own
 conscience4 ,these gentry did not      
relish the stand ,,puck took in the     
matter1 and their threats of reprisal by

 dynamite were frequent4 ,the rate of   
letter postage had some time previously 
been reduced from three to two cents4   
,illustration     ,,opening ,a ,,little 
,,campaign ,,all ,,by ,,himself4        
,,puck1 ,september #fth1 #ahhb4   ,the  
,summer of #ahhb was just changing to   
,fall when ,mr4 ,blaine made a notable  
speech at ,portland1 ,me41 which was    
generally received as an announcement of
 his determination to seek the          
nomination for the ,presidency in #ahhd4
 ,in this speech1 which attracted great 
attention1 he stated with singular      
clearness his position in politics1     
affirming the moral right of the        
,republican ,party to a continuance in  
rule on the strength of its record4     
,this was1 we believe1 the first clear1 
frank and open enunciation of this idea 
in all its naked simplicity4 ,it has    
formed since then the stock in trade of 
many candidates and of countless        
campaign orators1 but the credit of     
putting it fairly and squarely before   

the people belongs to ,mr4 ,blaine1 and 
it should be noted that the time he     
chose to express his views was one in   
which most ,republicans were offering   
apologies or explanations for the past  
and present shortcomings of their party4
 ,mr4 ,blaine reaped no personal benefit
 from the enterprise he displayed in    
taking this bold stand1 but he          
undoubtedly gave his party a lesson in  
audacity by which it profited           
materially4 ,it was what might be called
 a 8bluff10 and it was certainly a big  
and effective bluff4 ,at the time when  
it was made its far-sighted cleverness  
was under-estimated1 and its insincerity
 was so apparent that the reader of that
 day could have had little difficulty in
 seeing why ,,puck suggested to ,mr4    
,blaine to abandon his extreme and      
untenable position1 and to take another1
 which would have been at once more     
credible and more popular4 ,it is       
curious that the idea with which ,mr4   
,blaine inspired his party should have  

been the means of his own undoing1 and1 
in some measure1 of electing ,mr4       
,harrison to the ,presidency over his   
head4  ,illustration     ,,blaine       
,,leaving ,,the ,,capitol4--8,i         
,,go--,,but ,i ,,return60  ,,puck1      
,december #bast1 #ahha4   ,mr4 ,blaine  
was the most highly honored of          
,president ,garfield's cabinet officers4
 ,in the convention that nominated ,mr4 
,garfield he had been1 next to ,general 
,grant1 ,garfield's most dangerous      
rival--or1 perhaps it would be more     
correct to say that he might have been1 
had the time been ripe for him to exert 
his full strength4 ,so1 when ,president 
,garfield died1 and ,mr4 ,arthur1 who   
had been an unpopular candidate for the 
,vice-,presidency1 succeeded to the     
,presidential chair1 two apparent       
probabilities interested the populace4  
,it was assumed1 of course1 that a      
,president must be a candidate for      
re-election and under such circumstances
 it was thought that in all likelihood  

,mr4 ,blaine would be far more powerful 
in the next convention than a ,president
 who owed his elevation to mere         
accident4 ,thus1 when ,mr4 ,blaine made 
his bow and retired from the cabinet    
formed by ,president ,garfield1 his very
 leaving seemed to imply a threat that  
he would return to ,washington only to  
assume a prouder position4  ,,puck of   
,december #bast1 #ahha1 says1 discussing
 the possibility of ,mr4 ,blaine's      
election to the ,presidency3  8,there   
are two or three miracles which we would
 gladly see worked in this country4     
,there is that great miracle which      
always seems near at hand1 yet which    
never seems nearer--the miracle of a    
great popular awakening to a healthy    
political life4444 ,is it not a         
disgrace1 indeed1 that we should talk   
about electing to the highest office in 
the nation a man of whom an honest1     
unprejudiced and unbiased journal has to
 say that although he is clever and     
strong1 he has not an absolutely        

unblemished record86 ,an absolutely     
unblemished record6 ,why1 a statesman's 
record should be as unblemished as a    
woman's should be4 ,and yet it is very  
possible that we shall find the man of  
whom this is said the very best man whom
 it is possible to put at the head of   
our ,government in #ahhd4 ,is it not    
time for a miracle80  ,it was pretty    
nearly time3 the miracle was worked in  
#ahhd4  ,illustration     ,,helping     
,,the ,,rascals ,,in4  ,,puck1 ,october 
#bbnd1 #ahhd4   ,the ,new ,york ,sun's  
8bolt0 of the ,democratic ticket during 
the ,cleveland ,campaign of #ahhd was so
 characteristic1 so extravagant and so  
funny in its fantastic futility1 that it
 can not be forgotten1 even now4 ,this  
cartoon appeared about the time that    
,mr4 ,chas4 ,a4 ,dana was running       
,general ,benj4 ,f4 ,butler as a        
candidate for the ,presidency1 and was  
predicting for that harlequin among     
political adventurers a majority over   
,mr4 ,cleveland in the ,city of ,new    

,york4 ,general ,butler came out of the 
death-struggle with                     
four-thousand-odd-hundred votes1 in all1
 as his share of the suffrages of ,new  
,york's citizens2 and ,mr4 ,dana1 a day 
or two after the election1 blithely     
caroled1 to the somewhat discordant     
accompaniment of his organ3      8,we   
may be happy yet1           ,you bet40  
,illustration     ,,quality ,,counts4   
,,puck1 ,april #aath1 #ahhh4   ,the     
editorial article accompanying this     
picture draws a curious historical      
parallel between the characters of      
,samuel ,pepys and ,grover ,cleveland1  
with a side glance at 8,south ,sea      
,bubble0 ,law and certain moderns who   
resemble him in certain ways4 ,after    
sketching ,pepys's career in the        
,british ,admiralty ,office1 the article
 closes3  8#8,a man of the old way of   
taking pains1' they called him in that  
degenerate day4 ,is not that even now a 
good standard by which to test public   
service8 ,is all greatness to lie in    

bluster1 noise1 braggadocio1 and what we
 are pleased to call #8smartness'8      
,these were the attributes of the men   
who were the official superiors of      
,samuel ,pepys just two centuries ago4  
,the world has forgotten their names4   
,but the old fashion of honest service  
is still honorable4 ,those who have     
borne with us so far in this historical 
recital may forgive us if we suggest a  
modern instance4 ,a few weeks ago1 the  
presiding officer of the ,united ,states
 ,senate told his distinguished audience
 that no man was so mean or so obscure  
that he might not be ,president of the  
,united ,states1 now that ,grover       
,cleveland held that place4 ,mr4 ,grover
 ,cleveland was a lawyer in one of our  
smaller cities4 ,he became1             
successively1 ,sheriff and ,mayor of his
 town1 ,governor of his state1 and      
,president of the ,united ,states4 ,in  
every office he has done his duty #8in  
the old way of taking pains4' ,he has   
had no hand in the corruption of        

political life2 he has never been the   
pensioner of corporate monopolies4 ,as  
,sheriff1 ,mayor1 ,governor and         
,president he has served the people     
honestly and wisely1 #8in the old way of
 taking pains4' ,to our mind this gives 
him a claim to the regard and respect of
 the people that will not easily be     
shaken by the bluster of his enemies4   
,the people will look at the work he has
 done before they decide whether or no  
he is ,president by accident--whether   
the ,time has done everything for him1  
he nothing--but what the little critic  
could have done too40  ,illustration3   
,there was a great stir made among the  
,beasts1   which could boast of the     
largest family4   ,so they came to the  
,lioness4    8,and how many10 said they1
 8do you   have at a birth80    8,,one10
 said she1 grimly2 8but that one   is a 
,lion60    sop's ,fables1 ,,lxviii4     
,,the ,,carol ,,of ,,the 8,,waits40     
,,puck1 ,december #bcrd1 #ahhe4   ,when 
,mr4 ,cleveland first became ,president 

in #ahhe1 he put into practice a much   
broader theory of ,civil ,service       
,reform than certain active politicians 
of his party had any use for4 ,nor did  
he show any great eagerness to shower   
offices and honors upon those members of
 his party who had proved false to him  
in the campaign of the previous year4   
,on ,december #bcrd1 #ahhe1 ,,puck      
pictured these unfortunates as          
,christmas 8,waits10 standing outside   
the ,white ,house in the wintry cold1   
and raising their voices in plaintive   
song3      8,god rest you1 merry        
gentlemen1       ,may nothing you       
dismay2     ,remember us poor spoilsmen 
left       ,this blessed ,christmas     
,day4      8,since ,christmas comes but 
once a year1     ,oh1 let us share your 
,christmas cheer1     ,and chuck one    
little office here       ,on ,christmas 
,day in the ,a4 ,m40  ,illustration     
,,at ,,last6  ,,puck1 ,january #ahth1   
#ahhh4   ,another phase of the tariff   
question is illustrated in this cartoon1

 which was designed to serve as an      
offset to the impudent accusations of   
disloyal desire to serve ,english       
interests so frequently made by high    
protectionists against all those who    
questioned their divine right to profit 
by their ingenious scheme of taxation4  
,adapting ,sydney ,smith's famous       
formula to modern ,american use1 ,,puck 
said on ,january #ahth1 #ahhh3  8,you   
may sit down1 ,o well-protected ,average
 ,citizen6 at your protected table1 in  
your protected arm-chair2 and button    
your protected coat about you1 and dream
 that your protective tariff is a drain 
on the wealth of the ,english4 ,but the 
fact remains that you pay every cent of 
the duties that you impose upon foreign 
goods1 and that nobody is the worse off 
for the increased price1 except         
yourself4 ,the fact remains that you pay
 for goods manufactured in this country 
the same price which you pay for        
foreign-made goods of the same grade2   
that price being greater than the fair  

price by the amount of the duty imposed4
 ,and1 above all1 the disgraceful fact  
remains that all these goods on which   
you pay a tax are brought to this       
country in ,english ships1 sailing under
 the ,english flag1 which take back1 on 
their homeward trip1 your ,american     
money1 ,o ,average ,citizen6 in payment 
of freight imported by you in ,english  
bottoms4 ,and yet1 before we had a      
protective tariff1 we were able to do   
our carrying trade for ourselves40      
,illustration     ,,siegfried1 ,,the    
,,fearless1 ,,in ,,the ,,political      
,,dismal ,,swamp4  ,,puck1 ,december    
#bhth1 #ahhg4   ,when ,mr4 ,cleveland   
began his now historic struggle for     
,tariff ,reform he found that he had to 
encounter more ignorance and apathy     
among the public at large than he had   
reckoned on4 ,in fact1 he began his     
fight in a very mist or fog of popular  
misconception1 and his surroundings in  
these first days were such as naturally 
suggested the grewsome allegory which   

,,puck published on ,december #bhth1    
#ahhg4  ,the animal-portraits in this   
picture are for the most part readily   
recognizable--,j4 ,g4 ,blaine1 ,john    
,sherman1 ,whitelaw ,reid1 ,w4 ,m4      
,evarts1 ,b4 ,f4 ,butler1 ,t4 ,c4       
,platt1 7dead1 but floating17 ,c4 ,a4   
,dana and ,joseph ,pulitzer4 ,the owl in
 the left hand upper corner is          
,secretary ,folger4 ,in the corner below
 him is ,most1 the anarchist4 ,the      
hedge-hog and the wild boar on the      
extreme right are ,jacob ,sharp and ,j4 
,b4 ,foraker4 ,the two tails protruding 
from holes in the ground are reminders  
of the brief period of activity enjoyed 
by ,mr4 ,henry ,george and his clerical 
ally4  ,illustration     ,a ,,midsummer 
,,day',s ,,dream4  ,,puck1 ,august      
#ajth1 #ahha4   ,bright as is the idea  
which inspires this cartoon1 it inspires
 only the interest of reminiscence4     
,,puck',s chief cartoonist figures      
himself as falling asleep upon a hot    
midsummer day1 so soundly that during   

his slumber the subjects of his facile  
pencil invade his studio and use his    
drawing materials to depict themselves  
according to their own conceit4 ,thus   
,roscoe ,conkling1 practically withdrawn
 from active politics1 portrays himself 
as a ,jupiter ,tonans in the prime of   
life1 and ,mr4 ,whitelaw ,reid1 who was 
at the time accused of dallying with    
sthetic dandyism1 appears as a figure   
somewhat like ,mr4 ,gilbert's           
,bunthorne4 ,peter ,cooper appears as a 
young and auburn-whiskered man2 and ,mr4
 ,tilden1 even then in the feebleness of
 old age1 sketches himself as an        
ambitious athlete4 ,mr4 ,james ,gordon  
,bennett sketches himself as the ,apollo
 ,belvidere4 ,a subtle pun is here      
intended4 ,mr4 ,bennett was then        
prominent through his efforts to        
introduce the game of polo into this    
country4 ,the patch on his nose marks   
the wound he is supposed to have        
received in his mysterious encounter    
with ,mr4 ,frederick ,may1 a            

disreputable man-about-town1 with whom  
,mr4 ,bennett was at one time intimate4 
,mr4 ,john ,kelly draws himself as a    
fashion-plate model2 and ,mr4 ,beecher1 
whose lineaments age had made somewhat  
gross1 paints for his picture the       
likeness of the young man whose         
eloquence and originality waked a new   
fire in the religious circles of the    
,west4 ,mr4 ,talmage draws himself as he
 perhaps would have liked to have people
 think he looked4 ,general ,grant       
sketches a mighty emperor who bears his 
features4 ,and that curious political   
tramp1 ,general ,benjamin ,f4 ,butler1  
uses the canvas to straighten out his   
curious1 ugly mug into the likeness of a
 good-looking man4 ,the picture         
curiously suggests what ,general ,butler
 might have been had he been anything   
but the queer and unpleasant thing he   
was4  ,illustration     ,a ,,russian    
,,nocturne4  ,,puck1 ,march #bcrd1      
#ahha4   ,the hideous cruelties         
practised by the government of the ,czar

 of ,russia on all those of his subjects
 who do not worship and adore the       
8,little ,father0 with single-minded    
devotion and reverent awe1 have more    
than once furnished a subject for ,mr4  
,keppler's sympathetic pencil4 ,at the  
time of the appearance of this cartoon1 
in ,march of #ahha1 these brutalities   
had attracted general attention         
throughout the civilized world4 ,perhaps
 they were no worse than they had been  
before2 but there seemed to be reason to
 believe that they were just then of an 
exceptional atrocity1 the recent        
,russo-,turkish war having noticeably   
stimulated the savage element in what   
one of their own artless writers calls  
the 8semi-barbarian race0 of ,russians4 
,illustration     ,,the ,,reign ,,of    
,,peace4--,,the ,,mouse ,,is ,,safe     
,,while ,,the ,,moon ,,shines4  ,,puck1 
,february #aeth1 #ahhh4   ,this cartoon 
bears date of ,february #aeth1 #ahhh1   
but it might have appeared with very    
little variation at any time during the 

last ten or twelve years of ,bismarck's 
premiership4 ,while that great and clear
 light shone in the ,european heavens   
nothing was left wholly to chance in all
 that quarreling1 jealous congeries of  
states4 ,nothing was done--nothing was  
even planned that was not in some       
measure suggested or shaped by that     
giant will and that alert and far-seeing
 intelligence4  ,it is worth while to   
call attention to the logical           
composition of this cartoon4 ,observe   
that it is thought out to the last      
point4 ,the eye takes in at a glance the
 thronging1 hungry beasts of prey1 the  
mighty luminary hanging high in the     
firmament and the poor little ,bulgarian
 rat helpless on his little rock        
amidstream between the frowning cliffs1 
yet safe in that clear radiance so long 
as it deigns to shine upon him4 ,but    
note the settled suggestion of warlike  
possibilities conveyed by the helmet on 
the head of the ,man in the ,moon and   
the curious hints of animal ferocity    

given by the lines under the heavy      
moustache1 the feline cleft in the      
middle1 and the mane-like touches beside
 the cheeks4 ,now1 looking at the       
cat-like beasts of prey1 observe that   
,prussia occupies the point of          
advantage1 and uses it to 8stand off0   
the approach of ,russia1 who crouches on
 a somewhat higher cliff1 rapacious1    
strong1 eager1 yet with wary eyes       
half-turned upon the ever-dreadful      
,prussia4 ,follow that furtive cat-like 
glance a little further and you will see
 that it takes cognizance of the sly    
approach toward the prey which ,austria 
is making under cover of ,germany's     
position4 ,italy and ,france crawl on in
 the background1 paying more attention  
to each other than to their remote      
chances of individual gain4 ,russia and 
,france1 you see1 are on one side of the
 stream2 the ,triple ,alliance of the   
hour on the other4 ,for a touch of      
interesting detail look at the figure of
 ,france with its fine bushy beard1 its 

red liberty cap1 and its very           
conspicuous epaulettes4 ,to one who     
follows the nicety of the artist's      
symbolization1 this indicates that the  
picture was drawn at the time when      
8,boulangism0 was rampant in ,paris4 ,it
 was not the era of ,thiers1 the        
clean-shaven statesman1 or the vieux    
,militaire time of ,mac,mahon1 or the   
time of ,grvy with his little bourgeois 
whiskers4 ,it was a sort of             
bogus-,gambetta revival1 which is aptly 
characterized here in features that     
suggest those of ,president ,carnot1    
without permitting the weak amiability  
of his expression to typify militant    
,france4 ,and--one thing more--note how 
that whole picture1 by means of color1  
composition and perspective1 centres    
itself to your eye in one little figure 
that does not occupy 7by measure7 the   
one two-hundredth part of its space4    
,illustration     ,,in ,,memoriam       
,,emperor ,,william ,i4--,,how ,,he     
,,found ,,germania1 ,,and ,,how ,,he    

,,leaves ,,her4  ,,puck1 ,march #bast1  
#ahhh4   8,there was one ,king in       
,europe two weeks ago1 one ,king worthy 
of the name1 and there is none to-day4  
,and in this fact there is much more    
significance than we of ,america are    
likely to note4 ,to us a ,king is an    
anachronism4 ,his name is something that
 belongs to the time of fable and       
fairy-story4 ,we do not quite realize   
that he exists2 that he is still a      
power4 ,there is an intrinsic           
unreasonableness in the idea of his     
continuance1 out of the world of        
fiction1 that inclines us to disbelieve 
in his very existence4 ,we can hardly   
conceive of him as anything more than a 
puppet--as a mere figure-head for a     
governing ministry4  8,but the late     
,emperor of ,germany was a ,king4 ,he   
was ,king of ,prussia before he was     
,emperor of ,germany2 and as ,king and  
,emperor he set up a standard of conduct
 by which few men would care to govern  
their lives4 ,he tried to be a ,king1   

having a high conception of what a ,king
 should be1 and1 as far as in him lay   
the power1 he was a ,king4 ,at least1 he
 was a mortal who strove hard to be more
 than other mortals1 and who strove from
 a sense of duty4 ,we may--and          
must--hold the effort futile2 yet we may
 respect the spirit that prompted it4   
,we ,americans have no use for ,kings2  
and we have ideas as to popular         
government that ,king ,wilhelm of       
,prussia1 later ,emperor of ,germany1   
would never understand4 ,but let us     
consider that it would be well for us if
 we had a few statesmen1 among those who
 are governing us on speculation1 who   
would look on their responsibilities as 
this dead ,european monarch did on his4 
,he knew that his place was greater than
 he was1 and he tried to make himself   
fit for it4 ,and1 now that he is dead1  
his people mourn a brave man gone2 if   
they are to have ,kings or ,emperors to 
rule them in the future1 they will go   
far before they find a better man of his

 kind40--,,puck1 ,march #bast1 #ahhh4   
,illustration     ,,the ,,european      
,,equilibrist4  ,,puck1 ,march #cjth1   
#ahhg4   8,the anarchists and           
socialists1 and the turbulent and       
vicious among our ,german-,american     
fellow-citizens1 were more or less      
miserable over the celebration of       
,kaiser ,wilhelm's ninetieth birthday1  
last week2 but decent ,americans of     
,german origin or free-born may well    
have taken pleasure in drinking the old 
gentleman's health4 ,no earnest         
republican can unreservedly admire even 
the best of emperors--or1 indeed1 wholly
 understand the imperial idea4 ,but1    
since there are emperors1 it is         
desirable that they should be good of   
their kind2 and there is no kingly ruler
 in the world to-day who is a better    
man1 after his own pattern1 than the    
white-haired old soldier who has just   
ended his ninetieth year4  8,and even   
the ,anarchist who would not drink the  
old ,kaiser's health ought to           

reflect--if an ,anarchist can           
reflect--that he has little right to    
complain of the good old ,kaiser when he
 cries out against the government of    
,germany4 ,wilhelm is ,emperor1 in      
truth2 but in ,germany there is to-day a
 higher than the ,emperor--the          
,emperor's humble servant1 the          
,chancellor of the ,empire1 a stern1    
shrewd1 stubborn1 overbearing1 foxy1    
sinister1 loyal1 fearless old man1 named
 ,bismarck1 who holds the government of 
,germany in the hollow of his hand1 and 
is the one arbiter of peace and war in  
all ,europe4 ,it is this original and   
powerful man who practically stands for 
,germany in her dealings with other     
nations2 and it is he who to-day holds  
the balance of power in ,continental    
,europe4 ,his fame will outlive that of 
the honest old ,emperor4 ,kaiser        
,wilhelm will figure in the school      
text-books with ,henry the ,fourth of   
,france and ,elizabeth of ,england2 but 
,bismarck's name will live forever in   

the literature of politics2 and even in 
fiction as a type more strong1 deep and 
subtle than any in the annals of        
statecraft4 ,we use the name of         
,machiavelli in familiar comparison--but
 whom shall we ever compare with        
,bismarck80--,,puck1 ,march #cjth1      
#ahhg4  ,illustration     ,,frederick   
,,iii4 ,,of ,,germany--,,the ,,end ,,of 
,a ,,brave ,,life4  ,,puck1 ,june #bgth1
 #ahhh4   ,it will be well for ,germany 
if1 in the doubtful years that lie ahead
 of her1 she has not reason to regret   
the loss of the brave and high-minded   
man whose sad reign came to an end two  
weeks ago4 ,frederick the ,third        
inherited his father's strength and his 
lofty sense of duty1 yet his character  
was made at once broader and gentler by 
his better understanding of the spirit  
of his day4 ,he was eminently the man   
for the hour1 and the courage with which
 he enunciated his principles and took  
his stand for tolerance and modern      
ideas1 under circumstances which might  

well have served as an excuse for       
inaction1 showed that he would not have 
been unequal to greater emergencies4    
,had he lived1 he would have made the   
most of peace1 as his father made the   
most of war1 and his talent complemented
 that of ,william1 and was singularly   
fitted to the duties from which he was  
so soon taken4  ,illustration           
8,,shake60  ,,puck1 ,may #dth1 #ahhg4   
8,how often all ,europe goes into what  
we slang-loving ,americans call a       
keniption fit over a political          
#8incident6' ,we don't care to attempt  
an exact definition of the word         
#8keniption2' but we are quite willing  
to explain that an #8incident1' in      
,european politics1 means a small affair
 of great importance4 ,a native peasant 
pokes his umbrella into a foreign       
ambassador's eye--that is an incident4  
,a foreign ambassador pokes his umbrella
 into a native peasant's eye--that also 
is an incident4 ,on such incidents the  
fate of nations hangs4 ,it may be the   

,mortara incident1 or the ,benedetti    
incident1 or1 as it is now1 the         
,schnaebeles or ,schnaebele or          
,schnaebel incident1 7how does he spell 
his gallicised ,german name87 but no    
year can pass without its incident1 over
 which the press must shriek1 and       
diplomats must excite themselves1 and   
quarts of honest ink and ohms of good   
electric force must be wasted4          
99       99       99       99       99  
8,the incident himself--there is        
generally a personality to the          
incident--is1 as a rule1 a most         
unimportant individual4 ,there are      
exceptional cases1 of course4 ,benedetti
 was a man of importance4 ,he had too   
much importance1 mayhap4 ,but he would  
never have written his name in large    
script upon history's page had he not   
been snubbed in a public park4 ,so is it
 with ,schnaebeles4 ,he is world-famous 
to-day1 who will never do anything else 
in his life that will get his name in   
,american or ,english newspapers4 ,he   

has been arrested by ,germany1 he1 a    
,french official1 and he is an incident4
 ,he is an incident who does not amount 
to much1 it seems2 but still he is an   
incident4 ,twenty1 thirty1 forty years  
from now1 a withered1 snuffy1 oddly     
dressed old man will sit1 perchance1 in 
front of some ,paris caf1 sipping his   
eau sucre or his syruped vermouth1 and  
the boulevardier who passes by will say 
to his friend2 #8,that is ,schnaebele4' 
8#8,and who is ,schnaebele8' the friend 
will inquire1 wonderingly4  8#8,why1    
have you forgotten your history8 ,the   
hero of the ,schnaebele incident--in    
#ahhg--or '#gh--which was it8 ,when we  
were so near going to war with          
,germany4'  8#8,ah1 bah6' his friend    
will reply2 #8un marron glac6 ,qu'est-ce
 que tu me donnes6'  8,and that is what 
it is to be an incident40--,,puck1 ,may 
#dth1 #ahhg4  ,illustration     ,,the   
,,situation ,,in ,,germany4  ,,puck1    
,february #bnd1 #ahhg4   ,elsewhere in  
these pages an attempt has been made to 

give some idea of the character and     
significance of 8,german ,michel40 ,this
 cartoon1 which appeared at the time of 
the ,boulangist excitement in ,france1  
shows how ,michel's native shrewdness   
and stolidity rendered him proof against
 the ingenious1 but far from ingenuous1 
attempts of ,prince ,bismarck to make   
capital for the ,war ,department out of 
the disturbances in ,france4 ,the sturdy
 toiler1 overworked and overtaxed       
already1 showed not only a frank        
unwillingness to add to his burdens1 but
 bore himself toward the princes and    
potentates that were set above him with 
a certain self-confident freedom of     
attitude which had not been his wont of 
old time4  ,illustration     ,,good     
,,gracious6  ,,puck1 ,march #aith1      
#ahij4   8#8,german ,michel' is a       
typical figure of which the most        
remarkable characteristic is that it has
 made itself absolutely inappropriate to
 its original purposes4 ,it is a figure 
created by the ,german caricaturists--a 

loutish1 sleepy1 heavy peasant1 gazing  
on the world with dull1 uninterested    
eyes4 ,it stood for the political spirit
 of the ,german people--the spirit that 
existed in the years between '#dh and   
'#gj--the spirit of indifferentism1 of  
hopeless submission to superior power1  
of acceptance of whatever state of      
affairs it might please the rulers of   
the land to establish4 ,it was aptly    
chosen4 ,even the possibilities of brute
 force suggested by the bumpkin's sturdy
 build had a deeply significant         
application4444 ,but #ahgj and the war  
changed the spiritual state of ,germany1
 or rather1 began a process of change of
 which we have not yet seen the end4    
,and now for twenty years the ,german   
government has been educating ,michel1  
and ,michel has been educating himself4 
,while the government has been teaching 
him to read1 and he has been teaching   
himself various things that are useful  
and interesting to any good citizen and 
patriot1 there have been plenty of      

people who have devoted themselves to   
giving him what might be called an      
underground education4 ,recent events in
 ,germany show that this part of        
,michel's education has certainly not   
been neglected--at least1 so far as the 
inculcation of the beauties of socialism
 is concerned4444 ,now it is to this    
,michel1 not to the old ,michel1 to the 
public spirit of ,germany of #ahej or   
#ahfj1 that the young ,emperor ,wilhelm 
is issuing his extraordinary            
#8rescripts1' in which he describes     
himself as the emissary of ,god1 sent to
 take charge of the future of the       
,german nation 7without specifying any  
qualifications for the task with which  
the ,almighty may have been pleased to  
endow him72 announces his intention of  
solving at once the everlasting problem 
of poverty and ignorance1 and offers to 
#8shatter' or #8dash in pieces1' all who
 oppose him in his plans4 ,surely1 this 
young man1 this inexperienced youth1 the
 son of an ,emperor who reigned only on 

his death-bed1 the grandson of an       
,emperor whose best work was done before
 that grandson had got well used to long
 breeches2 this immature martinet2 this 
quaint despot with the narrow forehead  
and the eager1 intolerant face--surely  
he is ill-fitted to meet the subtle1    
secret-minded men1 conscious of their   
growing strength1 who have taken the    
place of the submissive #8,michels' of  
his grandfather's time40--,,puck1 ,march
 #aith1 #ahij4  ,illustration     ,,he  
,,beats ,,barnum4  ,,puck1 ,february    
#aith1 #ahij4   ,this is neither the    
place nor the time to attempt any       
summing up of the character of the ,rev4
 ,dr4 ,talmage1 of ,brooklyn4 ,in       
,,puck',s earlier days the              
eccentricities of this clergyman and his
 peculiar notoriety made him the        
especial butt of the cartoonist2 and    
this latter revival of a familiar figure
 was provoked by some uncommonly        
audacious performance whereby the       
,reverend gentleman startled most people

 and shocked many on his return from a  
,european trip4 ,it is unnecessary to   
recall the details3 the cartoon is      
founded on ,dr4 ,talmage's own          
utterances4  ,let us note here that     
through all this long period of         
fun-making1 ,dr4 ,talmage seems to have 
enjoyed the jokes upon himself even more
 than the general public did1 and ,,puck
 has for many years preserved a formal  
blessing or benediction1 couched in     
terms of cordial regard1 and sent by the
 clergyman in exchange for a small cash 
and a large advertising contribution to 
the re-construction of his tabernacle4  
,illustration     ,,the ,,murderer',s   
,,straight ,,route ,,to                 
,,heaven4--,,bringing ,,religion ,,into 
,,disrepute4  ,,puck1 ,june #bhth1      
#ahhb4   ,many who look at this cartoon 
to-day may well wonder what called it   
forth1 and many others may have to be   
reminded that even so recently as ten   
years ago a morbid sympathy with        
criminals was so common among ,american 

clergymen that it was popularly held a  
reproach to the whole clerical body4 ,it
 was1 however1 little more than a       
passing phase1 a sort of hysterical     
epidemic that prevailed among people    
peculiarly exposed to emotional         
impulses4 ,it seems to have died a      
natural death1 and it has passed away so
 utterly that it is practically         
forgotten to-day4  ,we do not speak1 of 
course1 of the sympathy which every     
minister of ,god should feel for the    
erring and unfortunate1 but of a certain
 maudlin enthusiasm which at one time   
moved many otherwise excellent and      
admirable members of the clerical       
profession1 and brought about some      
startling exhibitions of misplaced      
sentiment4 ,at the period of which we   
speak1 namely3 the decade prior to the  
publication of this cartoon1 it was no  
uncommon thing to read of a clergyman1  
assisted by a band of female devotees1  
invading a prison to spend hours1 day   
after day1 in consoling1 comforting1 and

 generally coddling some red-handed     
murderer in whom they could have had no 
possible interest1 and of whom they     
never would have heard save for the     
notoriety of his trial4 ,clergymen were 
found1 too1 to go on the gallows at the 
last moment1 and publicly to avow their 
belief that the soul of the criminal    
about to die was purged of all earthly  
sin1 and that his repentance with the   
noose around his neck had fully sufficed
 to fit him for heaven4 ,such shows as  
these were common enough and evil enough
 in their influence to justify even     
severer condemnation than that expressed
 in this vigorous cartoon4  ,the mania1 
for such we must call it1 probably had  
its origin in the extravagant and widely
 advertised efforts of the ,rev4 ,dr4   
,tyng1 of ,new ,york1 to save ,foster1  
the 8,carhook ,murderer10 from the      
gallows4 ,foster1 who was partially     
drunk at the time1 wantonly killed an   
inoffensive stranger on the #bfth of    
,april1 #ahga2 and1 after every legal   

resource had been exhausted in his      
behalf1 was hanged ,march #bast1 #ahgc4 
,this cartoon appeared in ,,puck of     
,june #bhth1 #ahhb1 and its immediate   
occasion was the execution of ,charles  
,guiteau for the assassination of       
,president ,garfield1 which created a   
most unwholesome excitement in many     
quarters4  ,illustration                
8,,prohibition ,,is ,,coming60  ,,puck1 
,august #dth1 #ahhf4   8,the ,state of  
,rhode ,island has recently passed--to  
its own great surprise--a #8prohibition 
law4' ,the state did not really want the
 law4 ,it was not passed as a matter of 
principle4 ,the ,republicans voted for  
the law to spite the ,democrats2 the    
,democrats to spite the ,republicans4   
,no one thought that the aggregate of   
votes thus cast would make the legal    
majority4 ,but so it happened4 ,now1 the
 ,state of ,rhode ,island is a small    
community1 and1 like most small         
communities1 it is narrow1 ignorant1    
and1 save in things material1           

unproductive4 ,one of the chief sources 
of revenue upon which it depends is its 
wonderful collection of ,summer         
watering-places1 which bring travel and 
traffic to the state and put many       
thousands of dollars into circulation   
every year4 ,these places are supported 
by a civilized lot of people from the   
great cities--people who are accustomed 
to drinking wine and beer and whatever  
else they fancy2 and1 as a rule1 in     
moderation4 ,if they find that the new  
law interferes with their perfectly     
legitimate customs in this regard1 they 
will leave ,rhode ,island for some more 
liberal and sensible state2 and ,rhode  
,island will be so much the poorer1 and 
so much the wiser4 ,no decent man will  
submit to be put in the category of     
criminals because a few hysterical women
 and unbalanced men think that the use  
of alcohol is as much a crime as its    
abuse40--,,puck1 ,august #dth1 #ahhf4   
,illustration     ,,first ,,annual      
,,picnic ,,of ,,the 8,,knights ,,of     

,,labor0--,,more ,,fun ,,for ,,the      
,,spectators ,,than ,,for ,,the         
,,performers4  ,,puck1 ,june #bast1     
#ahhb4   ,the cartoon suggested by the  
8,first ,annual ,picnic of the ,knights 
of ,labor0 can hardly be said to belong 
to ,,puck',s famous group of labor      
cartoons4 ,its appearance preceded by   
some four years the great discussion of 
the labor question2 and it is           
essentially what is known to artists as 
a 8situation0 picture1 aiming at nothing
 more than the simple presentation of a 
fact4 ,but it is curious to note that it
 was called forth by the futile strikes 
in the iron mill region1 and even at    
that early date the editorial comments  
accompanying the cartoon ascribed the   
anomalous condition of affairs          
principally to the inequalities of      
fortune engendered by the protective    
system4 ,the comments close thus3 8,it  
is not extravagant wages that the       
workman wants1 it is purchasing power   
with the wages he does earn40           

,illustration     ,,arbitration ,,is    
,,the ,,true ,,balance ,,of ,,power4    
,,puck1 ,march #agth1 #ahhf4   ,it      
should be distinctly stated that this   
cartoon is not to be regarded as having 
a general or abstract application4 ,it  
appeared during the first street-railway
 strikes in ,new ,york2 and the lesson  
it tries to teach was addressed         
especially to the corporations which1   
acting as common carriers and holding   
valuable franchises1 were putting the   
public to great loss and inconvenience  
in carrying on a protracted struggle    
with their employees1 wherein there was 
little doubt that right and justice were
 entirely on the workmen's side4        
,however1 this was the beginning of the 
great labor struggle that did so much to
 clear the minds of the people on the   
great question of the inter-relation of 
,capital and ,labor4 ,,puck',s forecast 
was almost prophetic4 ,the editorial1   
which rebukes the greed of the          
corporations1 points out that the       

strikes which they had precipitated     
could only serve to teach the workmen to
 abuse the right to strike2 and goes on 
to say3 8,they are not more wise1 more  
temperate1 more just than their         
employers4 ,the employers1 having power1
 have misused it4 ,they will likewise   
misuse power4 ,what could be expected   
otherwise8 ,where they have the upper   
hand1 they will tyrannize4 ,they will   
strike and paralyze business1 not only  
to enforce just demands1 but to enforce 
unjust demands4 ,their employers will   
use the power of money to retaliate as  
best they may4 ,a war1 a veritable      
,civil ,war is begun1 to which who can  
see the end80  ,illustration     8,,for 
,,whatsoever ,a ,,man ,,soweth1 ,,that  
,,shall ,,he ,,also ,,reap40  ,,puck1   
,june #aeth1 #ahhg4   ,incredible as it 
may seem1 the hare-brained theories of  
,mr4 ,henry ,george as to the           
communistic ownership of land received  
at one time a most unmerited toleration 
from people who would not have been     

suspected of sympathy with such         
vagaries4 ,that he and his partner      
,mc,glynn did not accomplish the        
mischief they set out to do was no fault
 of theirs4 ,when this cartoon was      
drawn1 ,june #aeth1 #ahhg1 they seemed  
to be perilously near to attaining their
 end4 ,the reason that they failed was  
that1 as is usual in this country1      
,horse ,sense ultimately triumphed over 
,hysteria4  ,illustration     ,,the     
,,poverty ,,problem ,,solved4  ,,puck1  
,may #ahth1 #ahhg4   ,mr4 ,henry ,george
 no doubt found his account in catering 
to the unruly and turbulent in #ahhg1   
but it is doubtful if ,father ,mc,glynn1
 the ,roman ,catholic ,priest who got   
such a bad attack of the ,george        
doctrine that he earned for himself     
several years of suspension from his    
priestly functions1 made as much out of 
it as his more astute colleague4 ,but   
between them they made a great deal of  
noise1 and ,,puck did what he could to  
counteract their influence4 ,with this  

cartoon on ,may #ahth1 #ahhg1 appeared  
the following editorial advice to the   
laboring man3  8,don't be a laboring    
man--that is1 labor1 but as an employer 
rather than as an employee4 ,you have   
got to serve your apprenticeship to     
poverty--so has everybody else1 except  
the comparatively few who inherit large 
fortunes4 ,but be diligent in your      
apprenticeship1 and it will be          
mastership in the end4 ,work with this  
one idea in view--that some day you will
 have earned and saved enough to go into
 business for yourself4 ,then you can   
employ some other poor man1 who would   
else go hungry2 and you can treat him   
well and give him a chance to make money
 in his turn4 ,that is the way of the   
world4 ,it is not a bad way1 if you take
 it bravely and cheerfully4 ,if you     
refuse to take it in the right spirit1  
if you sulk and whine and call upon     
labor organizations to protect you1 and 
cry for special legislation to right    
wrongs which you can't even define--why1

 you will find it a pretty hard way4 ,it
 is hard on shirks1 idlers1 skulkers1   
and men who do half-hearted work4 ,but  
it is a way that is as old as the rising
 of the sun2 a way that will be the same
 when the last sun sets on this world1  
and all the ,mc,glynns and ,georges and 
,anti-,poverty ,clubs in creation will  
not change it4 ,it is the good old way  
of duty1 and it existed before ,labor   
,leagues were thought of40              
,illustration     ,,between ,,slavery   
,,and ,,starvation4  ,,puck1 ,october   
#bfth1 #ahhg4   ,to realize the terrible
 truth of this picture1 it is necessary 
to remember that trades-union tyranny   
cuts both ways4 ,at a little earlier    
date ,,puck explained the situation     
thus3  8,we read in the papers that such
 and such a body of working-men has     
struck for higher wages1 by command of  
such and such a union4 ,popular sympathy
 is at once aroused in behalf of the    
underpaid laborer and the benevolent    
union that has taken charge of his      

interests4 ,but the public does not know
 that the union which orders that the   
workman's pay shall be so high also     
orders that it shall be no higher4 ,when
 the union says to the employer3 #8,you 
shall pay this man two dollars a day1'  
it likewise says to the man3 #8,you     
shall not receive more than two dollars 
a day4 ,if you take ten cents more of   
your employer1 every man in the place   
must receive a proportionate increase in
 his wages1 or you must give the ten    
cents back4 ,if you do not obey us1 we  
will fine you4 ,if you will not pay the 
fine1 we will turn you out of the union4
 ,we will not let you work in any office
 where there are union men4 ,if you get 
work in a non-union shop1 we will       
boycott you1 we will boycott your fellow
 working-men1 we will boycott your      
employers1 we will boycott every man who
 sells you food or gives you lodging4'0 
,illustration     ,,the ,,suckers ,,of  
,,the ,,working-,,man',s ,,sustenance4  
,,puck1 ,may #aith1 #ahhf4   ,the labor 

struggle of #ahhf was not far advanced  
before the agency of the professional   
agitator became apparent--to those1 at  
least1 who honestly tried to look below 
the surface of things4 ,that the whole  
fight was got up and kept up by these   
false friends of the laboring man1 and  
that they were the only gainers by the  
disorder of the time is well known now4 
,but it was not so well known then1 and 
when this cartoon was put forth it had  
all the interest that attaches to the   
bold presentation of a truth for which  
the public is not prepared4  8,the      
,suckers of the ,working-man's          
,sustenance0 was published in ,,puck of 
,may #aith1 #ahhf4 ,the three bearded   
men under the table have features which 
more or less suggest those of certain   
professional agitators of the           
hour--,john ,most1 the editor of a dirty
 little paper that preached             
blood-and-thunder anarchy1 and a couple 
of other scamps of the same sort4       
,illustration     ,,the ,,mephistopheles

 ,,of ,,to-,,day--,,honest ,,labor',s   
,,temptation4  ,,puck1 ,october #bjth1  
#ahhf4   ,the part that ,mr4 ,henry     
,george played in the troublous days of 
#ahhf was probably profitable to        
himself1 and to no one else4 ,he started
 in with a reputation of a sincere and  
high-minded philosopher somewhat in     
advance of his time1 but the moment he  
got the ,socialist nomination for ,mayor
 of ,new ,york1 he turned into as frank 
and downright a demagogue as ever tried 
to tempt a mob with promise of the      
pillage of the rich4  8,we are sincerely
 pleased to see that ,mr4 ,henry ,george
 has come out frankly and made his      
canvass on the basis of an out-and-out  
alliance with the ,anarchists4 ,he no   
longer pretends to belong among the     
respectable reformers2 he arrays his    
followers squarely and honestly against 
the law and the established order of    
things4 ,he was a sanguine theorist so  
long as he kept at book-making4 ,now    
that he has taken to talking1 he is a   

thorough-going1 zealous demagogue of the
 old-fashioned sort4 #8,vote for me1' he
 cries to the lawless1 the idle and the 
improvident1 #8and ,i will give you free
 rides and free land2 and the police    
shall be muzzled1 and all laws that you 
do not like shall be repealed4 ,a       
contract shall no longer be sacred1 and 
if any man has wealth1 he shall share it
 with you4 ,the land of the rich shall  
be confiscated1 and you may boycott to  
your hearts' content4' ,it may be       
doubted whether this is the right way to
 win favor with decent citizens2 but it 
is ,mr4 ,george's way of going to work40
  ,illustration     ,,the ,,big         
,,boycott ,,windbag4  ,,puck1 ,april    
#bhth1 #ahhf4   ,the series of cartoons 
on the labor question which ,mr4        
,keppler contributed to ,,puck during   
the years of #ahhf and #ahhg certainly  
attracted more attention1 and probably  
did more to influence public opinion    
than any series of pictures that ever   
appeared in the paper4 ,they were drawn 

at a time of great public excitement1   
when fools1 fanatics and unprincipled   
adventurers were tempting honest        
laboring-men into all manner of         
lawlessness and improper use of physical
 force4 ,the ,american public had for   
the first time been introduced to that  
ugly thing1 the 8,boycott10 and the     
,anarchists were seizing the opportunity
 afforded by the general agitation to   
spread their infernal doctrines among   
the working-men4 ,of course1 under such 
circumstances1 the air was full of the  
hysterical shrieks of the excitable     
people who thought that all law and     
order were to vanish from the face of   
the earth4 ,the value of these clear and
 direct pictorial expositions was great 
indeed1 in that time of trouble1 doubt  
and perplexity4  ,,puck said of         
,trades-,union tyranny on ,april #bhth1 
#ahhf3 8,the boycott business is bad4   
,but it is an extravagant1 monstrous1   
impossible thing1 that the laws of a    
free country must crush out1 sooner or  

later4 ,this other evil flourishes in   
secret and strikes at the laborer's     
self-respect4 ,it is part of such a     
tyranny as no employer or body of       
employers ever dared to dream of        
establishing4 ,every working-man who    
wants to do something1 to be something  
in the world--something better than the 
spy-ridden slave of a secret            
society--should rise up to fight it4    
,there is no need of general            
organization for this purpose4 ,wherever
 one brave man1 or a handful of brave   
men1 stands boldly up and insists on    
every man's natural right to make his   
own price for his labor1 to sell it for 
what he chooses to sell it for1 a blow  
will be struck in the cause of the      
laboring man's independence4 ,and it    
rests with the laboring man to work out 
his own salvation40  ,illustration      
,,in ,,the ,,clutches ,,of ,,the        
,,monster4  ,,puck1 ,may #bhth1 #ahij4  
,of all the disreputable schemes for    
illicit money-making that ever          

flourished in this country1 the         
,louisiana lottery is probably the most 
iniquitous and inexcusable4 ,no agency  
of modern times has done more to send   
boys to the devil1 to tempt unprotected 
women into squandering their            
subsistence1 and to lure decent men from
 their daily duty by the temptation of  
illegitimate gain4 ,at the best1 every  
public lottery is a danger to the       
community2 but of all public lotteries  
of modern times1 the ,louisiana lottery 
is easily the worst and most dangerous4 
,at no time has it enjoyed the          
reputation of being even what is known  
as a square gambling game4 ,an honest   
lottery--that is1 a lottery honestly    
conducted--may be profitable to the     
people who get it up4 ,but the          
,louisiana lottery has never earned the 
name of being honestly conducted in any 
respect4 ,its only claim to             
respectability--and it is the thinnest  
sort of a claim--has lain in its        
employment of two ex-confederate        

officers1 ,general ,jubal ,t4 ,early and
 ,general ,p4 ,g4 ,t4 ,beauregard as the
 overseers of its drawings4 ,the fact   
that they were ex-officers of the       
confederate army alone gave these men a 
right to consideration4 ,personally1    
such adventurers could be bought by the 
pound1 like a side of pork1 for any     
purpose4  ,this cartoon appeared at a   
time when the state of ,louisiana was   
making a vigorous attempt to rid itself 
of this hideous disgrace4 ,the attempt  
was but partially successful4 ,dauphin1 
the original agent of this infamous     
concern1 is dead1 but his successors'   
advertisement is still to be found in   
certain public prints where everybody   
can see it1 except the ,united ,states  
,district ,attorney4  ,illustration     
,,the ,,opening ,,of ,,the              
,,congressional ,,session4  ,,puck1     
,december #gth1 #ahhg4   ,there is a    
marvelous pregnancy of significance in  
this cartoon2 as we can not but see when
 we think that1 at the re-assembling of 

,congress in ,december1 #ahhg1 one of   
the first questions it had to confront  
was the question of the ,surplus4 ,the  
revenues of the government1 especially  
those coming from customs duties1 were  
so vast that an enormous1 useless1      
cumbersome and dangerous surplus was    
steadily piling itself up in the ,united
 ,states ,treasury4 ,it was the         
expectation of the people that ,congress
 would pass laws reducing the customs   
duties4 ,but the only tariff legislation
 made by ,congress between that date and
 the appearance of this book has tended 
to increase rather than to lower these  
duties4 ,and yet1 as these pages go to  
press1 the latest report of the         
,secretary of the ,treasury announces   
that this surplus is so nearly wiped out
 that1 unless the new administration    
takes measures to the contrary1 there   
will be a deficit within a year4 ,this  
is a curious1 definitive accounting of a
 four years' test of a peculiar         
latter-day theory of political economy4 

,it is not wonderful that a practical   
people insisted on the abandonment of   
the experiment4  ,illustration          
,,restless ,,nights4  ,,puck1 ,march    
#afth1 #ahhg4   ,that ,mr4 ,cleveland   
during his first term was the object of 
more newspaper criticism than a         
,president usually receives was due to a
 combination of circumstances4 ,he was  
the first ,democratic ,president elected
 in a quarter of a century2 he was      
elected in part by ,republican or       
,independent votes1 and he had incurred 
the enmity of a faction of his own      
party4 ,nor were his ideas of the duties
 and responsibilities of government     
calculated to please a certain numerous 
and noisy class of ,democratic          
politicians who were 8out for the       
spoils40 ,on ,march #afth1 #ahhg1 ,,puck
 commented thus upon the situation3     
8,it is pretty hard for a practical     
politician and a strict party-man to    
toil away1 day after day1 editing a     
great paper and moulding public opinion 

at two or three cents per daily mould1  
and to see public opinion doing its own 
moulding all the time1 in just the way  
it should not4 ,it is disheartening--it 
is hard on a truly great editor4 ,and   
yet to such misery are some of our most 
prominent moulders subjected4 ,they toil
 unceasingly to show to ,president      
,cleveland the error of his ways--giving
 the public an incidental glimpse--and  
the more they show it to him1 the less  
he sees it--and the less the public sees
 it4 ,he goes on and does his work as he
 promised to do it1 and the public seems
 to be thoroughly well pleased with him4
 ,but it is hard on the moulders40      
,illustration     ,,napoleon',s         
,,retreat4  ,,puck1 ,november #aith1    
#ahij4   ,subsequent events have proved 
that there was no mistake made in       
attributing the ,republican defeat of   
#ahij to the effect of the ,mc,kinley   
,bill4 ,,puck of ,november #aith1 in    
enumerating various possible causes for 
the turn-over1 says to the ,republicans3

 8,do not distress yourselves to decide 
which sort of cake gave you the         
stomach-ache4 ,you have eaten all the   
sorts that there were4 ,any one would   
have been enough40 ,further1 the        
editorial tells the leaders of the      
defeated party that they have passed 8a 
bill1 the like of which could not be    
drawn up elsewhere1 unless it were in   
,bedlam1 than in the ,fifty-first       
,congress4 ,it is called the ,mc,kinley 
,bill2 but it ought to be called #8,a   
,bill to ,raise ,prices and to ,make    
,life ,harder for ,everybody except a   
,few ,prosperous ,manufacturers4' ,so   
mad a production was this bill that it  
actually put a tariff tax on            
tin-plates--something that every man1   
woman and child uses--not because any   
tin-plates are made in this country1 but
 because some day1 some man1 somewhere1 
might wish to think of making them6 ,and
 on top of all that1 to add gratuitous  
insult to wanton injury1 you raise the  
price of tobacco1 so that every man can 

have a daily reminder that you don't    
care how hard you make life for him4 ,do
 you think of anything calculated to    
irritate and enrage the citizen which   
you have forgotten to treat him to8 ,do 
you wonder that you will sit in the next
 ,house with a total representation     
hardly more than half the size of the   
,democrats' clear majority8 ,nobody else
 wonders4 ,if the ,democrats1 after they
 have been long in power1 become half as
 arrogant1 selfish and neglectful of    
duty as you became1 they will be turned 
out of their places1 too1 if the people 
have to fill their seats with ,farmers' 
,alliance candidates40  ,illustration   
,,they ,,hate ,,the ,,light1 ,,but      
,,they ,,can',t ,,escape ,,it4  ,,puck1 
,march #bfth1 #ahij4   ,the ,senate of  
the ,united ,states has been called the 
pleasantest club in the country1 and    
perhaps it is4 ,it is certainly a very  
pleasant club1 and it is not unfair to  
say that very large entrance fees have  
been collected in certain ,state        

legislatures from gentlemen whose wealth
 constituted their only claim to be     
admitted to it4 ,but1 in view of the    
fact that the people of the ,united     
,states pay the members of this         
delightful club reasonably generous     
salaries for belonging to it1 it may be 
questioned whether it does not exceed   
its privileges in keeping up its        
indulgence in what are known as         
8,executive ,sessions40 ,there was a    
time in the dim and distant past when   
,executive ,sessions were rarely secret1
 and had some excuse in reason and      
common-sense4 ,but it is many years now 
since there has been an ,executive      
,session that was not promptly and fully
 reported in every paper that would give
 space to its generally unimportant     
doings4 ,it is1 no doubt1 a pleasant    
thing for a ,senator to have the doors  
of the ,senate-,chamber closed1 and to  
smoke his cigar in lazy comfort while   
the reading clerk monotonously and      
perfunctorily1 but as unobtrusively as  

possible1 drones through the thousand   
and one articles of the treaty to which 
the law-maker is supposed to be giving  
his statesman-like attention in spite of
 the fact that its acceptance or        
rejection has been decided upon in party
 caucus weeks or months before4 ,but the
 people of the ,united ,states pay the  
,senator1 and the people of the ,united 
,states built the gallery in the ,senate
 ,chamber1 and they really have a right 
to sit there at all times during his    
business hours4 ,it is a right that they
 will sooner or later insist upon4 ,we  
do not know1 however1 that there is any 
serious objection to letting the        
,senator smoke while they look at him4  
,illustration     ,,puck',s ,,sample    
,,speakers ,,of ,,the ,,party ,,of      
,,moral ,,ideas4  ,,puck1 ,march #eth1  
#ahij4   ,it is a curious fact1 to which
 ,,puck has called attention more than  
once1 that the important post of        
,speaker of the ,house of               
,representatives has been peculiarly    

unlucky for members of the ,republican  
party4 ,between #ahfc and #ahij1 when   
this cartoon appeared1 four ,republicans
 and three ,democrats had occupied the  
chair4 ,the three ,democrats1 ,michael  
,c4 ,kerr1 ,samuel ,j4 ,randall and     
,john ,g4 ,carlisle1 were all men of    
unblemished reputation1 popular in their
 party and well liked and thoroughly    
respected on the other side of the      
,house4 ,they all performed their duties
 creditably1 and retired with honor4    
,but to the four ,republicans it proved 
to be a position fraught with           
misfortune4 ,the first1 ,schuyler       
,colfax1 was forced into retirement by  
the discovery of his connection with the
 terrible ,crdit ,mobilier iniquity4    
,the second ,republican speaker was ,mr4
 ,blaine1 and it was while he was in the
 chair that he became involved in the   
,little ,rock and ,fort ,smith          
transaction1 which1 more than anything  
else1 caused his defeat for the         
,presidency in #ahhd4 ,the next         

,republican speaker was ,mr4 ,john ,w4  
,keifer--but it is really unfair and    
insulting to the ,republican party to   
call ,keifer a ,republican4 ,of ,keifer 
the best thing that can be said is that 
he was an accident and that he did not  
happen again4 ,the fourth speaker of the
 ,republican party was ,mr4 ,thomas ,b4 
,reed1 a gentleman of fine parts and    
high character1 who was misled by his   
natural strength of will into adopting a
 policy of tyrannical unfairness toward 
his political opponents1 which earned   
for him the nick-name of 8,czar ,reed10 
and probably contributed largely to the 
revulsion of feeling which produced the 
famous 8turn-over0 of ,november1 #ahij4 
,illustration     ,,consistency4        
,,puck1 ,january #bast1 #ahia4   ,the   
talk of the hour often renders editorial
 comment unnecessary at the time a      
cartoon is published1 though its        
republication may make it necessary to  
accompany it with a word or two of      
elucidation4 ,it seems proper to say    

that this picture is not meant for an   
outright arraignment of the ,indian     
policy of our government1 but as a      
reminder that there was no consistency  
in lavishing money and care upon foreign
 objects while far more pressing        
necessities much nearer home fail to    
receive proper attention4 ,there is no  
doubt that for a long time our ,indian  
,agencies have stood in need of a       
thorough overhauling2 and our neglect in
 this matter was emphasized at the time 
of the publication of this cartoon1     
7,january #bast1 #ahia17 by the         
extraordinary activity of the           
philanthropists who sought to express   
their sympathy with famine-stricken     
,russia by making ,uncle ,sam go down   
into his pocket for a relief-fund4      
,illustration     ,,it ,,isn',t ,,the   
,,cowl ,,that ,,makes ,,the ,,monk4     
,,puck1 ,august #bhth1 #ahhi4   ,the    
first attempt of the ,tammany ,hall     
organization to swing into line with the
 national democracy1 and to put         

municipal government in ,new ,york on a 
business-like basis1 was received with a
 general incredulity that was natural   
enough under the circumstances4 ,in a   
sense it was a most unfortunate thing   
that ,tammany's sincerity in the purpose
 of self-improvement was not more       
readily recognized by those whose       
opposition to ,tammany rule was based on
 a broad-minded and reasonable distrust 
of factional control of party power4    
,when ,tammany ,hall began to expel     
objectionable members and to put only   
able and trustworthy men in charge of   
public affairs1 that powerful           
organization removed what had hitherto  
been the chief reproach against it4 ,yet
 the corruption and inefficiency which  
had characterized ,tammany's management 
in the past were but an accident of     
factional rule and not an organic       
element4 ,this most obvious objection to
 the ,tammany organization being        
removed1 the average citizen was quite  
willing to accept the idea of ,tammany  

,hall's supremacy without reflecting at 
all upon the danger of allowing a part  
of a party to substitute its will for   
that of the majority4  ,unhappily--if   
government by faction is a dangerous and
 objectionable scheme1 as ,,puck has    
always contended--the most earnest and  
conspicuous opponents of ,tammany ,hall 
were rather theorists than practical    
folk4 ,they were not in touch with the  
people1 and had little knowledge of     
plain work-a-day life4 ,in the common   
phrase1 they meant well1 but they didn't
 know4 ,in the face of a most striking  
and remarkable advance in efficient and 
economical municipal government they    
continued their fight against ,tammany  
on the same lines upon which they had   
begun it years before1 when the         
organization was undoubtedly open to the
 charge of gross malfeasance in office4 
,this was a mistake1 tactically--that it
 was also a mistake1 practically1 time  
may show4 ,tammany had little difficulty
 in showing that1 whatever she might    

have done in the past1 she had now taken
 to governing ,new ,york uncommonly well
 and uncommonly cheaply4 ,that was      
enough to satisfy the minds of most     
citizens as to the advisability of      
renewing the contract with ,tammany2 and
 in #ahij and in #ahib ,tammany riveted 
her rule upon ,new ,york as tight as a  
collar on a steamboat shaft4 ,no matter 
what that rule may be1 good1 bad or     
indifferent1 it is factional rule1 and  
as such1 to ,,puck',s thinking1         
dangerous and founded on injustice4 ,if 
it ever brings mischief to ,new ,york1  
we must not forget that the             
responsibility lies with the theorists  
who made opposition hopeless by         
persistently conducting it upon         
untenable grounds4  ,illustration       
,,the ,,raven4  ,,puck1 ,august #acth1  
#ahij4   ,president ,garfield had the   
opportunity of choosing for his         
,secretary of ,state the man who1 in the
 national convention1 had worked hard   
and almost successfully to secure the   

nomination of another candidate4 ,but   
,mr4 ,garfield declined ,mr4 ,conkling's
 assistance1 and lived to see his course
 receive the emphatic approval of his   
party4 ,he chose for his 8next friend0  
,mr4 ,james ,g4 ,blaine1 with whom he   
was entirely in accord1 although ,mr4   
,blaine had for many years been a       
candidate for the nomination4 ,four     
years later ,mr4 ,blaine got the        
nomination and was defeated at the      
polls4 ,four years after that1 again    
,mr4 ,blaine yielded the nomination to  
,mr4 ,harrison2 and1 when ,mr4 ,harrison
 was elected1 became ,secretary of      
,state4 ,mr4 ,blaine made no pretence of
 personal regard for ,mr4 ,harrison or  
of devotion to his interests2 in fact1  
during the last two years of ,mr4       
,harrison's term of office the          
probability of ,mr4 ,blaine's opposition
 in the next national convention was a  
constant menace to ,mr4 ,harrison1 who  
earnestly desired a re-nomination4 ,mr4 
,blaine's health1 however1 was far from 

good2 and he delayed putting himself    
forward as a candidate until it was     
entirely too late to obtain the support 
which he might normally have counted    
upon4 ,the cartoon shows ,mr4 ,blaine in
 the gloomy and depressing character of 
,poe's 8,raven10 croaking unfriendly    
discouragement to ,mr4 ,harrison's fond 
dreams of future success4 ,in a rough   
parody of the famous poem1 ,,puck1 on   
,august #acth1 #ahij1 represented       
,president ,harrison as saying of the   
,blaine raven 8perched above his chamber
 door30          8,then this ebony bird 
beguiling       ,my sad fancy into      
smiling1     ,by its manner strange     
suggesting         ,little ,rock and    
,arkansor1       #8,though thy plumes   
are not ,elysian1'       ,said ,i1      
#8tell me with precision1       ,art a  
jimblaine or a vision8         ,art thou
 here for peace or war8     ,tell me1 is
 it peace between us8       ,shall an   
end be made of war8'         ,quoth the 
,raven1 #8,nevermore6'        8,much ,i 

marveled this confounded       ,fowl the
 question thus propounded     ,with     
veracity to answer--         ,which was 
not his wont of yore4       #8,but1' ,i 
thought1 #8he is but thinking       ,of 
his own hopes1 shipwrecked1 sinking1    
,as he sits there1 blankly blinking1    
,dreaming still of '#hd1     ,dreaming  
of his matchless tumble1       ,in the  
year of '#hd--'         ,quoth the      
,raven1 #8,nevermore6'                  
8#8,prophet6' said ,i1 #8thing of evil6 
,prophet1 if you are a deevil--         
,whether ,reed gets left1 or whether    
,poor ,mc,kinley goes ashore--          
,tell me1 am ,i ,fate's selection       
,for a glorious re-election--           
,shall ,i join a freak collection--     
,shall ,i serve my first term o'er--    
,must ,i go to ,injinap'lis8            
,can't ,i tide two termlets o'er8'      
,quoth the ,raven1 #8,nevermore6'0      
,illustration     ,,the ,,war ,,of ,,the
 ,,operas4      ,italian ,opera will    
succeed ,german at the ,metropolitan4   

--,daily ,papers4  ,,puck1 ,february    
#aath1 #ahia4   ,,die                   
,g,,tterd,,mmerung4  ,,tenor4           
,juchheia6 ,hoja6 ,tuba6 ,toobahd6      
,geh' ich4 ,ich gehe4 ,gingend'weise    
geh' ich6     ,italienische             
,nonsensikalische     ,knocken mich aus4
     ,alles is up mit true music4       
,of ,donizetti the day dawns4           
,wagner has waggled his wag4     ,vogner
 has voggled his vog4  ,,chorus4        
,juchheia6 ,hoja6                       
,ahdehr6,a               ,stehdehr6     
,muhvahn6    ,orchestra                 
,embdy-iss-der-,gradle motif4           
,,soprano4      ,but for the baseborn   
barbarians1     ,tinkling triumphantly  
tunes1     ,scornfullest scorn1         
,spurnfullest spurning is ours4         
,orchestra      ,gondempt motif4        
,,contralto4      ,look at the          
long-haired loon6     ,limp is his      
ten-pound libretto6     ,time with his  
foot beats he no longer6     ,howling   
his hisses     ,louder than laughterful 

boxes6     ,homeless is he6 ,hoja6      
,where shall he go8  ,,voice ,,of ,,the 
,,mountain ,,gumboil4    ,what's the    
bacillus on ,bloomingdale8    ,orchestra
      ,daemd-outraitch motif4  ,,basso  
,,profundo4      ,who has a             
,weinhandlung handy8     ,moozeek is    
dead4  ,dead motif4      ,who has a     
,weinhandlung to sell8     ,moozeek is  
dead4  ,deader motif4      ,not too far 
from ,dairt' ,ayvennoo6     ,moozeek is 
dead4  ,slightly-decomposed motif4      
,vogner has voggled his vog4  ,,chorus4 
,vait till the vind of the ,vinter1     
,vistling through ,verdi's viskers1     
,vailfully vails for ,vogner1           
,vailing in vain6  ,,trionfo ,,da       
,,monk'4  ,,chorus4      ,strewing      
flow'rs along the way1     ,strewing    
flow'rs along the way1         ,thus the
 ,duca della ,monka-                    
,tanka-,shina-,fivacenta     ,comes unto
 these halls to-day4  ,,the ,,duke4     
recitativo4      ,from these halls a    
long space of period banished1     ,i   

return like a wanderer1     ,to the     
mansion vacated by the ignoble ,teuton4 
,heavens6 are these the portraits of my 
ancestors8     ,ha6 vengeance ,i swear  
it6     ,on this sword6     ,by the     
waists of the ladies ,i perceive1       
,and ,i observe by the anatomy of the   
gentlemen1     ,the ,teuton has         
desecrated my ancestral domain4         
,,soprano4      44444444444444444       
44444444444444444     44444444444444444 
44444444444444444                       
44444444444444444,oh1 my heart6     ,oh1
 my heart6 ,oh1 my heart1               
,oh-oh-oh-oh6 my heart6 my              
heart1 my hah                           
hah                                 hah 
hah                             hah     
hah                         hah         
hah                     hah             
hah                     hah             
ha-a-a-,,aht666  ,,chorus4      ,let us 
all       ,happy be6     ,here again    
,once more are we6  ,,the ,,public4     
,two front seats for dollars three6     

,,curtain4            ,a ,tutelary      
deities of the ,nibelungen4  --,,puck1  
,february #aath1 #ahia4  ,illustration  
,,with 8,,health ,,and ,,wealth ,,and   
,,luck ,,to ,,all60 ,,puck ,,hails ,,his
 ,,readers ,,great ,,and ,,small4       
,,puck1 ,december #eth1 #ahhh4   ,the   
necessary ingredients of a ,christmas   
punch are typified in this cartoon by   
four female forms4 ,the verses that     
accompanied it in the ,christmas ,,puck 
for #ahhh were as follows3              
8,these forms divine                    
,must in one combine     ,for the ,punch
 that ,,puck is preparing--             
,and the dark-eyed form                 
,is the spirit warm1                    
,with the wild ,bacchante bearing4      
8,the sweet-faced fair                  
,puts the sugar there1     ,like        
,charity bland and placid4              
,and ,satire's the jade                 
,who lends lemon aid                    
,for a dash of the needful acid4        
8,calm ,wisdom1 too1                    

,may water the brew     ,to temper1 not 
quench1 your laughter--                 
,yet water comes best--                 
,with the keenest zest--                
,,puck thinks1 on the morning after40   
,illustration     ,illustration3 ,,index
                                        
,page   ,a ,harmless ,explosion         
#bg   ,a ,humiliating ,spectacle        
#fg   ,a ,little ,change2 or1 ,politics 
,makes ,strange ,bedfellows             
#c   ,a ,merry ,christmas to ,all       
#dg   ,a ,midsummer ,day's ,dream       
#ajc   ,an ,attack on our ,outer        
,ramparts                               
#ae   ,arbitration is the ,true ,balance
 of ,power                              
#aee   ,a ,russian ,nocturne            
#ajg   8,a ,sail6 ,a ,sail60            
#ea   ,at ,last6                        
#ie   ,between ,slavery and ,starvation 
#afg   ,blaine ,leaving the             
,capitol--8,i ,go--,but ,i return0      
#gi   ,consistency                      
#bjg   ,consolidated                    

#aa   ,first ,annual ,picnic of the     
8,knights of ,labor0                    
#aea   8,for ,whatsoever a ,man ,soweth1
 that ,shall ,he also ,reap0            
#aei   ,frederick ,,iii4 of             
,germany--,the ,end of a ,brave ,life   
#abc   ,good ,gracious6                 
#ace   ,he ,beats ,barnum               
#aci   ,helping the ,rascals ,in        
#hc   ,in ,memoriam ,emperor ,william   
,i4                                     
#aae   ,in the ,clutches of the ,monster
                                        
#ahc   ,it isn't the ,cowl that ,makes  
the ,monk                               
#baa   ,just the ,difference            
#dc   ,let us have ,peace1 now a        
,president's ,elected                   
#ei   ,napoleon's ,retreat              
#aie   ,on the ,road                    
#fc   ,opening a ,little ,campaign all  
by ,himself                             
#ge   ,positively ,last ,awakening of   
the ,democratic ,rip ,van ,winkle       
#ci   8,prohibition is ,coming60        

#adg   ,puck's ,political ,hunting      
,ground                                 
#ca   ,puck's ,sample ,speakers of      
,moral ,ideas                           
#bjc   ,quality ,counts                 
#hg   ,restless ,nights                 
#aia   ,samuel ,j4 ,tilden              
#ee   8,shake60                         
#abg   ,siegfried1 ,the ,fearless1 ,in  
the ,political ,dismal ,swamp           
#ii   ,the ,big ,boycott ,wind-bag      
#agi   ,the ,carol of the 8,waits0      
#ia   ,the ,cinderella of the           
,republican ,party and her ,haughty     
,sisters      #bc   ,the ,democ-rats    
,caught in the ,presidential ,trap      
#g   ,the ,european ,equilibrist        
#aai   ,the ,mephistopheles of          
,to-day--,honest ,labor's ,temptation   
#age   ,the ,murderer's ,straight ,route
 to ,heaven                             
#adc   ,the ,opening of the             
,congressional ,session                 
#ahg   ,the ,political 8,army of        
,salvation0                             

#ai   ,the ,poverty ,problem ,solved    
#afc   ,the ,raven                      
#bae   ,the ,reign of ,peace4--,the     
,mouse is ,safe ,while the ,moon ,shines
       #aaa   ,the ,situation in        
,germany                                
#aca   ,the ,suckers of the             
,working-man's ,sustenance              
#aga   ,the ,universal ,church of the   
,future                                 
#ce   ,the ,war of the ,operas          
#bai   ,they hate the ,light1 but ,they 
can't ,escape it                        
#aii   ,uncle ,sam's ,lodging ,house    
#ga   ,with 8,health and ,wealth and    
,luck to ,all60                         
#bbc  ,illustration3 ,finis             
,transcriber's ,notes   ,punctuation1   
hyphenation1 and spelling               
inconsistencies were were not changed by
 ,transcriber4  ,simple typographical   
errors were corrected2 unbalanced       
quotation marks were remedied when the  
change was obvious1 and otherwise left  
unbalanced4  ,on the ,title page1 the   

copy number 8#ib0 was hand-written4     
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