Cartoons by Bradley/Cartoons

by Luther Daniels Bradley

CARTOONS

 

 

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With the exception of the Australian Cartoons, all those in this collection were
published in The Chicago Daily News. The date of publication is
given in each case below the picture.

TWO AUSTRALIAN CARTOONS

image on left reads:Sir Graham in Harness Again. image on right reads:'Hands Across the Sea"—A Memory of the London Dock Strike

 

image on left reads: Sir Graham in Harness Again

image on right reads: 'Hands Across the Sea"—A Memory of the London Dock Strike

[These cartoons, which appeared in Melbourne Punch about 1889-90, are published here as samples of the work Luther D. Bradley was doing at that period of his career. The subjects treated have, of course, no savour of the present day. "Sir Graham," represented as having broken down on the road, was Sir Graham Berry, agent general in London for the colony of Victoria. He was seemingly no favorite, politically, of Melbourne Punch. The other cartoon refers to the strike of dock laborers in London in 1889. Workingmen of Australia contributed large sums to the cause of the strikers.]

 

 

AND NOW TO PUT AN END TO THE WAR

[Mr. Bradley's First Cartoon In The Chicago Daily News]

Let Us Merely Leave Our Surplus Celebrating Material Where the Contumacious Savages Can Capture It

(July 5, 1899)

 

 

BANE AND ANTIDOTE

Pass a Law Requiring Publishers of Poison Literature to
Attach a Back-action Corrective Appliance to Each Volume

(Sept. 7, 1899)

 

 

A CHRISTMAS ANTHEM

[At this time the siege of Ladysmith, during the Boer war, was in progress.]

(Dec. 23, 1899)

 

 

A HOT SUMMER AHEAD FOR THE
WORLD—IN THAT RIG

(Feb. 25, 1904)

IF HE IS A WISE LAMB

He Will Come As Above

(March 1, 1904)

 

 

CHEEK

Soft Coal: "Shake, neighbor, I'm one of you!"

Hard Coal: "Ah, there, Morgan! Take this rude fellah out and throw him back into the $4 class, where he belongs!"

(Oct. 10, 1902)

 

 

JUST WHERE THE PAPER TORE

(Dec. 14, 1903)

 

 

HE YIELDS HIS SUPREMACY

[Inspired by the disaster to the steamer Gen. Slocum, June 15, 1904, when 958 persons were killed]

(June 17, 1904)

 

 

ISN'T IT TIME SHE HAD A NEW DRESS?

["Miss Chicago" in the patchwork of a dress she had outgrown was the Bradley way of expressing the need of a new charter for Chicago. This cartoon was reproduced widely and used as campaign material by the charter amendment advocates in 1904. It brought home with force the antiquated system of government the city was forced to "wear."]

(Aug. 17, 1904)

 

 

SHE'LL HAVE HER EYE ON YOU

Chicago (When the Time Comes): "Do I Get That New
Dress or Don't I?

[Note.—She got it; that is, the amendment was carried. The later developments are fresh in the minds of most readers]

(Nov. 4, 1904)

GOOD BUSINESS

Three Wars and a Presidential Campaign Brought
Prosperity to the Campaign Liar

(July 12, 1900)

 

 

REVISED TO DATE

(Sept. 3, 1904)

THE HEATHEN HEAR THE CHRISTMAS CHIMES

(Dec. 24, 1904)

 

 

Could Not the Humane Instinct That Has Saved the Birds Save the Human Beings?

(Sept. 6, 1904)

 

 

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF—ONCE MORE
ACROSS THE DELAWARE

Strange That After So Many Years the Public Enemy Still Finds a Lurking Place in New Jersey

(Feb. 22, 1905)

THE ADVANCE (?) OF CIVILIZED WARFARE

(Sept. 26, 1916)

 

 

THE SPIRIT OF '76 DOWN TO DATE

With Apologies to the Creator of a Famous Painting

(July 3, 1905)

 

 

LOST OPPORTUNITIES OF HISTORY

Chorus of Early Americans: "Don't Take Him Abroad and Hang Him! Think What a Beautiful United States Senator He Would Make!"

(July 13, 1905)

 

 

THE LESSON

[Inspired by the death of Marshall Field]

(Jan. 19, 1906)

 

 

NOW TO TEST THE SAFETY RAZOR

World: "I Haven't Much Faith in These New-Fangled Fixings, but Anything to Keep Down the War Crop"

(June 17, 1907)

HISTORICAL SURE THINGS

(Jan. 3, 1917)

 

 

AS THE WOMAN SUFFRAGIST SEE'S IT

Voice at Door: "May I Help"?
The Overlord: "Avaunt! Man Alone Has the Capacity for These Great Affairs!"

(Feb. 18, 1907)

CONGENIAL SPIRITS

"The Mean Men Held a 'Smoker' the Other Night at Which the New Member
Read a Seasonable Paper. Great Enthusiasm Prevailed."—Club Note.

(Nov. 29, 1907)

 

 

A DISTURBING POSSIBILITY

Stork: "Well, if folks prefer Teddy Bears I s'pose I'll have to meet the demand"

(July 9, 1907)

 

 

THE DIRECT ROUTE

Showing how People are "Railroaded" to the Penitentiary

(Jan. 29, 1908)

 

 

FOUR LITTLE CANDIDATES HAVING LOTS OF FUN

ALONG CAME A CYCLONE AND THEN THERE WAS ONE

[Just before the Republican National Convention]

(May 16, 1908)

 

 

THE MAGIC RIVER

[Inspired by the death of Mark Twain]

(April 22. 1910)

 

 

ROMANCE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRECKED

What if Romeo's Rival had Possessed a Motor Car

(Feb. 1, 1911)

 

 

THE SEASON OF INCONSISTENCY

Morning ⁠ Afternoon

(Oct. 4, 1909)

 

 

THE SEASON OF INCONSISTENCY

At Home ⁠ Elsewhere

(Jan. 3, 1910)

KINDRED SPIRITS

The Voyagers of the Unknown
(July 13, 1910)

 

 

IF YOU DREAD THE COMING STRAW HAT ORDEAL

Just Think what Poor King George has to go Through

[Occasion: Coronation of George V of England]

(May 22, 1911)

THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION

(March 6, 1914)

 

 

UNSINKABLE

[Inspired by the Sinking of the Steamer Titanic]

(April 17, 1912)

 

 

HATCHED

[Nomination of Colonel Roosevelt on the Progressive ticket]

(Aug. 6, 1912)

THAT PROUD MOMENT

(June 7, 1913)

 

 

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT—SHEDDING THE ULSTER

(March 21, 1914)

THE EXPANSION OF CIVILIZATION

(Feb. 24, 1915)

 

 

WHO'S THE HAPPIER?

(July 9, 1914)

AS SUMMER APPROACHES WOULD YOU LIKE
TO CHANGE PLACES WITH A BABY?

(May 20, 1914)

 

 

IF IT COULD ONLY BE LEFT TO THEM

(July 28, 1914)

GOOD NEWS FOR HIM

(July 29, 1914)

 

 

OUT

(July 30, 1914)

 

 

THE HARVEST MOON

(Aug. 31, 1914)

 

 

WON'T THEY BE EDIFIED!

(Aug. 4, 1914)

TOTAL ECLIPSE?

(Aug. 27, 1914)

 

 

THE SELF STARTER WORKED ALL RIGHT

(Sept. 15, 1914)

MUST PEACE WAIT FOR THIS?

(Sept. 21, 1914)

 

 

THE TURKISH BATH

(Nov. 6, 1914)

ONE OF THE WAR'S LITTLE ECONOMIES

(Sept. 30, 1914)

 

 

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THAT
WOULD BRING ABOUT PEACE

(Nov. 16, 1914)

 

 

CHRISTMAS CAROLS—PERHAPS THE MONARCHS
WILL OBLIGE

(Dec. 24, 1914)

 

 

"EFFICIENCY"

(Jan. 12, 1915)

VACATION DAYS

(July 15, 1915)

 

 

THE SEASON OF INCONSISTENCY

(Dec. 30, 1914)

THE VAGARIES OF SCIENCE

(May 12, 1915)

 

 

DANGER! SHE MUST BE SAFEGUARDED

[Inspired by the disaster to the Steamer Eastland in the Chicago river

(July 27, 1915)

 

 

THE FIGHTERS HAVEN'T ALL THE COURAGE

[Inspired by the President's note following the sinking of the Lusitania, citing, "rules of fairness, reason, justice and humanity]

(May 13, 1915)

 

 

AWKWARD—IN CASE OF A HURRY CALL

(Sept. 14, 1915)

 

 

EVEN THERE—PROBABLY

(Sept. 20, 1915)

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE

(Oct. 4 1915)

 

 

ANOTHER VICTIM OF UNPREPAREDNESS

(Oct. 8, 1915)

HISTORICAL SURE THINGS

(Oct. 22, 1915)

 

 

THERE ARE OTHERS

(Nov. 3, 1915)

JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE

(Sept. 28, 1915)

 

 

THE RIVAL ATTRACTIONS MIGHT CHANGE
PLACES OCCASIONALLY

(Nov. 20, 1915)

WHAT WOULD THEY DO ABROAD?

(Oct. 25, 1915)

 

 

HISTORICAL SURE THINGS

(Nov. 29, 1915)

HER IDEAL AMERICAN CITIZEN

(Jan. 15, 1916)

 

 

THE ADVANCE (?) OF CIVILIZATION

(Sept. 23, 1916)

 

 

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

(Dec. 13, 1915)

A SOLILOQUY IN LINCOLN PARK

(Feb. 18, 1914)

 

 

THE OLD STONECUTTER

(May 8, 1916)

A MOMENTARY INTERRUPTION

(May 12, 1916)

 

 

A DISCOVERY—STARTING IT IS EASIER
THAN STOPPING IT

(May 16, 1916)

 

 

IT WILL STOP ALL RIGHT—WHEN IT REACHES
THE BOTTOM

(May 23, 1916)

 

 

THE SEAT OF TROUBLE

(May 29, 1916)

SOME DAY—PERHAPS

(July 14, 1916)

 

 

DISCRIMINATION

(Aug. 19, 1916)

WHERE THE NEED OF COAST DEFENSES
IS IMPERATIVE

(Feb. 25, 1916)

 

 

A "CLOSE UP" FOR UNCLE SAM

(Oct. 10, 1916)

HIS ROOTERS

(Oct. 23, 1910)

 

 

SAFE—FOR HALLOWEEN, ANYHOW

(Oct. 31, 1916)

HISTORICAL SURE THINGS

(Jan. 24, 1916)

 

 

NOWADAYS HE SEEMS TO LOOM LARGER
THAN EVER

(Feb. 12, 1916)

THE CRADLE SONG

(Feb. 4, 1916)

 

 

NOW IF VILLA WERE NOT SO UNCIVILIZED

(April 12, 1916)

TIRED OF HIS PERCH

(March 10, 1916)

 

 

NOT ALL THE "TANKS" ARE IN EUROPE

(Oct. 18, 1916)

 

 

ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE

(Oct. 20, 1916)

 

 

THE SILENT VOTE

(Nov. 4, 1916)

 

 

JUST ANOTHER LITTLE FELLOW

(Nov. 28, 1916)

 

 

JUST ONE MORE

(Nov. 23, 1916)

THE WAITS

(Nov. 29, 1916)

 

 

A VOICE FOR HUMANITY

(Dec. 14, 1916)

WON'T THEY FEEL FOOLISH?

(Dec. 19, 1916)

 

 

EASTER LILLIES

(April 22, 1916)

 

 

SHE MUST WAIT FOR HELP

(Dec. 20, 1916)

 

 

MINES THAT MENACE

(August 29, 1914)

SHUT OFF THE PHONOGRAPH A FEW MINUTES

And Give the Little Fellow a Chance

(Dec. 24, 1906)

 

CLAIMANTS FOR THE THRONE

(Nov. 27, 1916)

WHAT CAN HE DO BUT TAKE IT IN?

(Aug. 18, 1915)

 

 

AS TO THE CUSTODY OF THE WAIF

(Dec. 30, 1916)

SPRING IN EUROPE—THE FLAT HUNTER

(March 23, 1915)

 

 

LOOKING FOR A RESTING PLACE

(August 19, 1914)

 

 

CONSIDERATION FOR A SMALL NATION

(October 13, 1916)

 

 

THE CHIMES

(August 13, 1914)

 

 

PERHAPS THEY WOULD LIKE IT FOR A FIGUREHEAD?

(April 10, 1916)

 

 

THE STAR IN THE EAST

(Dec. 17, 1914)

 

 

The FINAL ANSWER

[Luther D. Bradley’s Last Cartoon]

(Jan. 4, 1917)