King James I ruled England when Jamestown and Plymouth were settled.
The man in the cartoon is looking at what seems to be a news report about the drought in Ethiopia. The man is sitting down to watch the television. The man doesn’t care for the news report as can be seen by his reaction “just another darn repeat”. I believe the cartoonist thinks that the people in the west don’t care about what’s going on in Ethiopia.
They were formed to resist new British taxes
