McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Arizona Daily Citizen
Source type: newspaper
Document type: editorial
Document title: none
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Tucson, Arizona Territory
Date of publication: 28 September 1901
Volume number: 36
Issue number: 135
Pagination: 2

Citation

[untitled]. Arizona Daily Citizen 28 Sept. 1901 v36n135: p. 2.

Transcription

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Keywords

McKinley assassination (public response: criticism); cartoons.

Named persons

none.

Document

[untitled]

THE agitation against cartoons and cartoonists is as senseless as the reaction against the freedom of discussion. The effect of cartoons upon the late tragedy has been ridiculously exaggerated. Of course cartoons can pass the limit of propriety as well as can free speech, but these are exceptional cases which can be prevented. The cartoon is in a sense a public educator, and has come to stay.

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