Arena magazine - Volume 35 (1906) (14577933419)

Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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Photo, by MacDonAld. New York. J. CAMPBELL CORY The Arena Digitized by Google J. Campbell Cory : Cartoonist. 40
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Cory, in New York World. QUEER FI8H I HAVE KNOWN.-BOCKEFELLIUM JOHNDECU88UM OCTOPUS. shores no less than the Americans turnto the cartoon; and if it be somethingstriking, it is carefully studied until itsmeaning is comprehended even by theslow-thinking artisan whose early oppor-tunities for education have been meager.To the more intelligent the cartoon, if itbe the work of a bright and strong mind,means much, for here in a few strokes ofthe pen a whole situation is summed upand presented. Sometimes it is the un-masking of a colossal wrong or a glaringand infamous scandal, such as the recentrevelations of insurance corruption on the part of the great New York compan-ies. Sometimes a man who is the master-representative of some evil aspect ortendency of life is presented in a drawingso typical that ever after the evil geniuswho is responsible for so much misery isassociated in the public mind with hiswrong-doing, much as in olden timescriminals who were branded ever borethe sign of thei