Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Cartooning the President. [ARTICLE]

Cartooning the President.

In one of the small towns near Toledo, is a young man, a mere boy, a clerk in a village store. He is a good boy, a favorite wuh ah who know him, and so trustworthy that as a business man of the place remarked, “I would willingly entrust that boy with SIO,OOO and know my money would b perfectly safe.” Last Friday afternoon another boy living in the village went to the store, and, of course, the first remark was about the shooting of the president. “Well, he ought to be shot,” said the young clerk. “What do you mean ?” asked the other hoy in amazment. “I say he ought to be shot,” reiterated the clerk. “McKinley is nothing but Mark Hanna’s dog and l can prove it,” and down he went under the counter and brought one of HeUrst’s newspapers in which the president was i aricatured as an insignificant being attached to Mark Hanna by means of a chain. That good boy was falsely educated through the medium of villainous cartoons. This is merely one instance. That there is a multitude of similar cases all over the country there is little doubt. There is something abhorrent in holding up to ridicule the chief man of the greatest country on earth. It is a great wrong, not far removed from treason, to so cheapen the highest position in the world. Pictures are an educator, but that education may be for the evil as well ns for good. The artist’s pencil can better be employed than in reviling the man chosen by the people for chief magistrate ofthe republic. Let the Davenports and Lhe Oppers turn their talents in a more patriotic direction and let the Hears is and the McLeans call a halt on their work of vlUification and abuse.—Toledo Blade.