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Show 2 ;lState Senator "Grady of Xew Totk"is 1 to Intro-' ; Iduce'ai antiartoon bill at the next session of the , 2 General Assembly, of the Empire State. It will die the death it deserves!. If is a blow at a fretf press. . Z IlTie jjress is one of the safegnards of the country Z nnd itilibpcties will not be 'curtailed t r? Thtfe are newspapers thaK abuse the cartoon, I but they aigiotnilfess in number. Since kth !l v nssasdiUoCprMcKtoleytajd the death of Hanna there hai been. a; strong sentiment against the .bit ler personal cartoon tbat even the worst offenders', the Hearst papers, 'have been -'bound ta? respect. DavMPoiirthe-marj whose caricatures were savage W i-r:- fi- i f 5'. .-; :is' -.i:tl".,- , " attacks.' has retired to obscurity and the efforts of OpperBo Is 'undoubtedly thejeading cartoonist Df the Nation, are directed principally against, the ' trust HV is doing' exeeJlent work and it will have -Trj!. aft, vfciae effect. ,Jt brings home'greafTf nths.to Ihe peoplei but it lies under, no suspicloo of encour-agmg encour-agmg anarchy. -. ; . 4 . ? The cartoon has beeA a powerful factor, in the I political history of the United States. The;work 'of Nat' wis strong ..enough to influence PrideBtiaV electionh and the cartoons in the comic weeklies in :! Ihe. Blaine campaign did much to defeat.the man , from TXa ihe. Nowadays the powerful cartoons are those in the daily newspapers. The influence of the 1 tomic weeklies has dwindled practically to nothing. The cartoons of the newspapers have no terrors f for.the honest men in politics. They arejfeared by the ones who would be'weH satis'fied -were the prea . suppressed entirelT. If cartoons become toa violent ! the papers printing hent. will quicklylfarn that j I tbeirroursais nQtteinglapproyed byHhy 'Z circulation will drop so rapidly as to leave no room r ' ----- - - . , .; for doubt, . ,t There is no eed for an anti-cartoon law in any ttate. The majority of newspaperowners are h)n-rst h)n-rst and'hbnorableWn whorhive no desire to' do I Aiarm to their , country. K.Thpse- newspapers Abatoire , controlled ? by ' unscrupulous men' have managers with biisiriestf isagacttyenongh they I ': Lave made a mtetake and there need.be no fear that the mistake will be repeated. |