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8. I looked up the original. Louis Dalrymple drew it in 1905, the same year he died from general paralysis of the insane

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:43 PM

Jan 5

which you get from late stage syphilis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_paresis_of_the_insane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dalrymple

There's a particularly racist pro-US (and British) imperialist cartoon at his Wikipedia page above, about "Uncle Sam" "civilising" Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, with extra racist digs at Black, Native American and Chinese people