Current History in Caricature. 



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Courtesy uf iV-iffio/j i Miitiuzinc \ 



The Mangling of the Middle Class. 



The middle class is being crushed out of existence between the 



wealthy and the working classes. The really rich man does 



nf^it f»'cl 'lirect taxation, and the workman does not pay it. 



■$■ rlTia AUSTRALIA |.|y% 



'!"■ -fV-ini^^ INVITES YCV • r^'- -'^ 



.L.'-.RC POP, Ai,' 



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Siiii(/«y Pol*. I iJohaniKiliun: 



The Kivalf, Australia v. South Africa. 



Dreary Pick : " Yus, a.'; you s'y, guvnor, thing's mayn't bo 

 any too bright with mc, Imt strike mo pink if 111 ever hadver- 

 tisv '-! call • It regular huopc-rfushoiial." 



( Sir Tifo. Kcid, Australian High Comminiiionpr, is advertising 

 Atistralia lar^joly in London, and encouraging immigration, 

 Sir Richard Solomon, the S. African Commissioner, contenting 

 himnelf with playing a more or less ornamental part.] 



Daily HcraUl.X ILondon. 



The Father of the Insurance Act: "Yes, my dear 

 Sazonoff, the enslavement of a people need seldom be the 

 bloody and unpopular business you make it. With a little 

 tact such things can always be converted into quite humani- 

 tarian triumphs ! " 



[The Liberal Press seizes the occasion of M. Sazonoff s visit 

 to comment on the repugnance to the Liberal conscience of 

 Russia's method. The Labour paper, The i aily Herald, 

 has secured a cartoonist whose work is most commendable, 

 and we have pleasure in reproducing two of his cartoons here.] 



Diiih- lltraUl] ILondon. 



(" The attitude of certain Labour MemberB (owords the 



Labour r«nk and file hn« undergone n mnrkrd chnnde 



since a grateful Liberal (lovcrnmcnt clivutcd thtm lo 



the afllucnce of S400 per annum.") 



Miss Liheral Party : " That rough person seems to think 

 ho knows you." 



Labour Statesman: "Oh, no doubt, m'lady. Before one 

 was a member of the governing classes one could know all 

 sorts of queer people, but now, as you know, m'lady, one bo^ 

 to be careful." 



