The red beast weeps

This cartoon criticizes Communist expressions of grief made at the 1927 execution of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. A weeping ape wearing a blood-stained commissar's uniform reads a newspaper headline: "Two radical murderers executed in Massachusetts. Riots." He holds a saber dripping in blood. Behind him is a cemetery labeled "Victims of Russian Reds." Tombstones read: "Murdered Christians," "Red Slaughter," "Innocent Victims Brutally Murdered," "Royalists Murdered," "Russian Royal Family Murdered," and "Wholesale Slaughter." On the ground are newspapers proclaiming "Red Riots in France, Germany, Russia."

Publication date: 1927-08-25

Copyright date: 1927

Size: 18.4 x 15.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: black and white

Language:

• English

Genre(s):

• Cartoons
• Political cartoons

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Daily Tribune (August 25, 1927), n.p.

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Orr, 1890-1967