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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 |
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[untitled]. Arizona Daily Citizen 28 Sept. 1901 v36n135: p. 2. |
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McKinley assassination (public response: criticism); cartoons. |
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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.