Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial’s Post-Election 1912
Finally, finally, we’ve reached the Closing Out, of the Closing Out, of the 1912 Election! (It’s only taken me, like, a hundred years.) As a reprinter of the prior months’ editorial cartoons, Cartoons Magazine‘s November Election follow-up, naturally appeared in its December (mostly) & January (some) issues. In this post, the page is from the [...]
Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Welcome back again to another round of nostalgia for those Good Ol’ Days of one century ago, which we all so fondly remember from our youth (if you’re Methuselah, with selective amnesia). Courtesy of the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. And what would be the paradise of the Good Ol’ Days, without a snake [...]
Register to Vote in 1912!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Depending upon your state, you may still be able to Register to Vote, and make a difference in the Election of the Century, one century ago! From the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Cartoons by Lee Stanley, William Charles Morris, Charles Lewis Bartholomew (“Bart”), Tige Reynolds, and others. Click on the above & below [...]
Nothing Changes About Congress: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
From the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we see that a century has made little difference in the workings of Congress. In 1912, the Republican Party split in two at the Presidential level, with supporters of Taft remaining with the G.O.P., and the insurgents in league with T.R., forming the new Progressive Party. Herbert [...]
Bryan vs. the Democratic Machine: 1912 Democratic National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
< In 1912, the Democratic nomination was up for grabs going into the Convention, and Wall Street moneyed interests made a play at aligning with the Party Bosses in general — and the corrupt Tammany Hall in particular — at getting in their man (Champ Clark). They’d already succeeded in having their puppet — Taft [...]
New Fangled Speed Machines: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 14 + September thru November 1912
Today’s posting is New Fangled Speed Machines, starting with the motorcycle daredevil above, in “One of Them”, by Ole May. Below, by John T. McCutcheon and others, aviation was frequently targeted along with the other new means of travel (automobiles, motorcycles) as vehicles of death. Both the above and below cartoons are extracted from the [...]
Summer Heat: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 13 + October 1912
From the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, proof that 100 years ago, it got warm in the Summer! Take that, believers in Global Warming! (P.S. — no need to compare the temperatures involved — these cartoons are “fact” enough! It got hot back then, okay? What do NASA and climate scientists know about planet-wide [...]
NYPD Becker Scandal, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 10 + September 1912 thru January 1913
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons by Charles Bowers and others — concerning corruption in the New York City Police Department in general, inspired by the case of police officer/criminal/convicted murderer Charles Becker (click on his name, to read about his case). Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
