RAEMAEKERS' CARTOONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 4

RAEMAEKERS' CARTOONS

FAMOUS DRAWINGS TO BE SOLD FOR RED CROSS SOCIETIES. . Mr. Raeroaekers lias givon the artist?' proofs of the historic finst set of liis cartoons to tho I'iiiß Arts Society to sell at five guineas each for tho English and French Red Cross Societies. But it has been decided to offer the complete sot of ono hundred and thirty-nine cartoons to the highest bidder before permitting it to be broken. Each proof will be specially>staniped with the devices of tho Kcd Cross societies. ' Over fifty thousand visitors havo paid admission to tho exhibition of the famous cartoons at tho Fine Art Societv, US Now Bond Street.. All his life the German Emperor had been gasping for tho limelight. At the gravest moment of his game a. quiet neutral suddenly supplied the glare. The potentate had' cast' him-, self for a- grand if sinister part, but the .white light revealed him as colossal in his caddishness. His conception of lighting was "the discharge of a. highly concentrated gas." His was tho regime of this initiation, and of a navy that preferred to attack the "unarmed. A new chapter in history was opened in his reign hythe sinking of a hospital ship, and the /verdict of murder tbo most hideous of all time is returned against him in the ono word "Lusitania." Against this Raemaekors shows him'witli his moustache still standing straight and his pose unmodified. Tie has made history. Everything connected with his name is history now, including these cartoons. It is impossible to forecast a day when they will not be desired, if only that they may bo burned by n purged race anxious to bury the fact that it ever possessed such a ruler, such a prince, and such a party staining the records of humanity in its name.