Pacific Scandal Cartoons
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| Will He Get Through? | In stands
Someone says what’s the Hoss worth Clown standing on a bucket Clown holding a paper disk saying October 23, small hoop Man on the horse is standing on the horse ready to jump through the hoop On the right a man is holding a larger hoop, says august 13 prorogation |
The first hoop represents the day that MacDonald prorogued government
Macdonald is on top the horse and the horse is the scandal and money The clown is Mackenzie and the hoop representing MacDonald reopening government
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| Ms Canada’s School | There is a lady teacher with a student at the front of the class and them are students lined up in front of her
Some students are holding out notebooks that say facts One student is wearing a dunce hat The chalk boards at the back have sayings about honesty Their is a map on the back with Seth Huntington’s name on it. It is a map of the cpr and at the end it says ruin
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the teacher is miss Canada, as Canada I think she represents the people and Britain maybe the queen
Macdonald is wearing a dunce cap that says bad boy, On the teacher’s desk there are papers that say scandal and resignation Mackenzie holds a book that says facts like facts about MacDonald’s scandal |
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| The Irrepressible Showman | There is a man standing in front of a crowd line with a woman
There are many people in the line The heading reads Barnum wants to buy the pacific scandal There are circus tents in the back |
Macdonald s at the front of the line up to go to barnuses circus
Barnus is a circus master and wats to buy MacDonald act or scandal to display as a circus act meaning that MacDonald is a joke Everybody in the line is a politician |
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| The Beauties of a Royal Commission | There are three men in a court one as judge one as witness and one as the defendants lawyer | Each man is MacDonald so I think this comic is how MacDonald sent an investigation of his own wrong doing and opening his case because if he is the one investigating himself he is of course going to make sure that every person in court is on his side | |
| We in Canada Seem to Have Lost all Idea of Justice, Honor and Integrity | There are two men standing in front of what looks to be the entrance of a fort
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Mackenzie is looking up at MacDonald and MacDonald is saying that he admits he stole the money but that he sees nothing wrong with that so obviously Canada has lost idea because the head of Canada MacDonald has lost his mind |
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