The PRYOR cartoon as shown by John Menadue's Pearls and irritations reminded me of the cartoon above (The Bulletin, Hop, 1900)....

Edmund Barton getting pissed (nothing new), the Churches bitterly competing for federation prayers, poets and musicians making a racket, while the Aboriginal people are ... nowhere to be seen...

Livingston York Yourtee (Hop) Hopkins (1846-1927), cartoonist best known as 'HOP', was born on 7 July 1846 at Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States of America, son of Daniel Hopkins (1800-1849), surveyor, and his wife Sarah, née Carter. He attended school in Bellefontaine, where he caricatured the teacher, and in Kalida and Toledo, Ohio. At 17 he left a clerkship to join the 130th Ohio Volunteer Regiment, which was reviewed in Washington by President Lincoln before it saw service near Petersburg, Virginia, in the summer of 1864. Hopkins, however, spent most of his time picketing the lines and relieving his boredom by drawing. Mustered out in September 1864, he took a job as a railroad messenger, worked on newspapers in Ohio and Illinois and in 1870 moved to New York. By then a freelance 'Designer on Wood', he contributed to newspapers and comic magazines, and illustrated books. In 1880 A Comic History of the United States, which he wrote and copiously illustrated, was published but a patriotic reading public was not amused. On 9 June 1875 at Toledo he had married Harriet Augusta Commager.

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