Life, 1889-06-20 · page 11 of 18
Life — June 20, 1889 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page contains three separate editorial commentaries with illustrations. The top section discusses three contemporary issues: an Herald editor planning an African expedition (requiring sacrifice), Europe shipping convicts to America while America ships millionaires back (a trade imbalance joke), and a contrast between the Westinghouse Electric Company's efforts to save murderer Kemmler from execution versus the Edison Company's inaction regarding poor people—satirizing corporate priorities and the death penalty debate. The large engraving below, captioned "The Casting Overboard of Jonah," depicts a biblical scene used as historical satirical commentary. The two small sketches above show musical performers with German captions, likely commenting on contemporary entertainment or cultural figures, though the specific references are unclear without additional context.
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+ [ETIRsE; + NJ] EW YORK newspaper men are lost in admiration of 4 the enterprise of the editor of the Herad/d?, who has evidently taken the first steps looking to the dispatch of an exploring expedition into Africa. The first requisite in such cases is that some one should be lost. So where is \\\ Bennett? \ HILE Europe is industriously engaged in shipping her paupers and convicts to the United States, the United St just as busy shipping her millionaires and their families to Europe. It doesn’t take a political econo- mist to determine in whose favor is the balance of trade. HO will say now that corporations have no souls? The philanthropic efforts of the Westinghouse Elec- @! tric Company to save Murderer Kemmler from being shocked to death with a current generated by a Westinghouse dynamo. is touching in the extreme. How noble in comparison with the inaction of the Edison Company which sits idly by and “Gott im MimMeL! Dor “No WONDER, AIN'T UTI" contributes not one cent toward the saving of poor Kemmler. VAS GURIOUS MUSIC!” S ve CHIP, FROM OUR COLLECTION OF OLD PRINTS. THE CASTING OVERHOARD OF JONAH, _comicbooks.com