Fifty Great Cartoons

Chapter 21: THE PARTY COLLAR.

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A sequence of fifty cartoons paired with short essays and captions that employ satirical illustration and religious imagery to address moral, ecclesiastical, and civic concerns. The pieces criticize church complacency, commercialized worship, temperance issues, hypocrisy, and political corruption while urging spiritual renewal and practical reform. Many images juxtapose individual conscience and public life, dramatizing dilemmas such as poverty, immigration, and personal faith. The collection blends visual wit with didactic commentary to prompt reflection on virtue, duty, and the social role of religion.

THE PARTY COLLAR.

The influence of the saloon in politics is not entirely due to the political boss who makes the gin-mill his headquarters. He would be powerless for harm were it not for the infinite multitude of so-called respectable voters who degrade their intelligence and dignity by working and voting shoulder to shoulder with social outlaws. Under a false notion of fealty these men subject their neck to the party collar and go to the polls yoked with ignorance and crime, and at the heels of some low-browed political dictator they sacrifice their country’s weal on the altar of partisan allegiance.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Isaiah 9:16.

WHY OUR CITIES ARE BADLY GOVERNED.