Rpfirii of Reviews, SOiSjOiJ. 



Current History in Caricature. 



" O wad some power the giftie gie us, 

 To see ourselves as ithers see us." — BURNS. 



A General Eletlion is a great opportunity for the 

 caricaturist. In this respect, as in others, the Liberal 

 Party had the Unionists at a great disadvantage. Mr. 

 Gould, of the Wcstniinsier Gazette, is so very much 

 cleverer than any of his brother caricaturists that the 

 party counting him as one of its most valuable 

 assets is much better qualified than its antagonists 

 for the battle of the hoardings. The cartoon which 

 made the greatest sensation during the Election did 

 iKjt come from Mr. Gould s i>encil. Judging from 

 the correspondence which has been raging in the 

 newspapers, it would seem that the Unionists attri- 

 bute their defeat more to the Liberal cartoons than 

 to any other electioneering missile, and the cartoons 

 relating to Chinese labour are specially singled out 

 as having the most deadly effect upon the rank and 

 file- of the- Unionist electors. These "pictured lies," 

 ;ts they are described by irate Unionists, who attri- 

 bute to them the loss of place and power, set forth 



in an exaggerated pictorial fonn the featurt-s of 

 Chinese labour which are most objected to bv the 

 Liberals. Two cartoons, neither of which 1 have 

 been able to secure for repro<luction, are particularly 

 objected to. They were issued by some enterpris- 

 ing persons connected with the -New Reform Club, 

 and the official Liberal Publication Department has 

 solenmly repudiated all responsibility for their pub- 

 lication and circulation. One represents a Chinaman 

 exulting in the prospect of being able to come to Eng- 

 land, where he would have a great deal of work for 

 very little pay, to the detriment of the British work- 

 ing man. The other represents the Chinese as going 

 to work in manacles. Their authors would probably 

 justify these cartoons on the same principle on which 

 divines have justified millions of materialistic pictures 

 of the torture suffered by the damned, on the gmund 

 that it was necessary before the eyes of unrepentant 

 sinners. How manv votes have been influenced by 



GUILTY! 



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