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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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en 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 their infamy. Sometimesthe indifferent and slothful public thatidly permits itself to be victimized by thebold, gunning and daring criminals inbroadcloth who pose as the pillars of Digitized by Google 50 J. Campbell Cory : Cartoonist.
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Corjr, in New York World. FEEDING THE YELLOW DOG. society, is pictured as the pitiful incom-petent that it has actually demonstrateditself to be. But it matters not whatimportant lesson is emphasized by thetalented cartoonist; he im-presses the important truthon the mind with great dis-tinctness, and in an age whenmen do not read slowly andcarefully and in a land wherethere is all the time a vastinflux of persons who canunderstand pictures betterthan they can comprehendlabored arguments, the car-toonist becomes a powerfulaid to the editor as an opinion-forming influence and an im-portant factor in the further-ance of moral integrity in bus-iness and political life, as wellas a true educator of thepeople on questions that areof vital moment to them. One of these popular ed-ucators whose work is appeal-ing to hundreds of thousandsof our people is J. Campbell Cory of the New York World. ii. Mr. Corys success affordsanother illustration of whatpluck and perseverance canachieve in this lan

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