Intermountain Catholic | 1901-10-19 | Page 1 | Good Cartoons and Vicious Ones

Good Cartoons and Vicious Ones. (Philadelphia Press.) There is a place for the cartoon in the public prints. There is a humor and a wit that by the grace of good nature can accomplish much in the depiction de-piction through caricature of the foibles foi-bles and follies of those in public life. A good cause, as was true in the mem-ora.ble mem-ora.ble case of Nast vs. Tweed, is never better served than by the pointed cartoon car-toon that preaches a eermon or. conveys con-veys a public lesson in a few strokes of the pencil. But there is a poinl beyond which the honorable, self-respecting cartoonist cannot, will not go, and this point is the deliberate daily presentation of men in public life a? the vilest of the vile, through a delib "orate falsification of their known private pri-vate character and public acts, in a way that sets them out as low, degraded de-graded and without character or conscience. con-science. .