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# Political Satire from Life Magazine, Page 547 This page contains WWI-era political cartoons mocking various figures' positions on the war effort. The top row shows four caricatured men holding signs with contradictory statements ("I will get out," "will continue," "fair to the democrats"), satirizing politicians' inconsistent or evasive war rhetoric. The lower section, titled "Took Him Literally," features a dialogue between "Cholly Chumpleigh" and "Miss Coldeal" about a clergyman "tying a true-lover's knot," playing on double meanings of religious and romantic language. The bottom cartoons appear to show figures with signs about stopping and "making a fool of myself," likely mocking pacifists or war opponents. The satire targets political hypocrisy and unclear communication regarding American involvement in World War I.
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sand miles from his base. But he took sev- eral years to plan and execute Itt Our yellow Journals would have hounded him to death or resignation in three mouths with the cry of “Onto Khartum!” But, like Dewey, the Sirdar knows when to cut the wires, and how to keep the correspondents fifty miles in the rear—and, as Mr. Steevens remarks, any correspondent who should have slapped the Sirdar’s face would have been shot dead on the spot. Great ts Kitchener | “ Steadfast, cold and inflexible—the man who bas cut out his human heart, and made himself a machine to retake Kbartum,”” And what ts It all worth! Mr, Stevens sums {t up tersely: “The vindication of our own honor and the vindication of our right to go on making Egypt a country fit to live tn. "8 gain ts her existence to-day, The world’s gain ts the downfall of the worst tyranny in the world.’ Those are very good phnises, and sound well along with “ glory” and “destiny.” But he adds, with cynical frankness : wretched, dry Sudan! unt up all the gains you will, yet what a hideous trony tt remains, this fight of half a generation for such an emptiness.”* GEXERAL WHEELER'S volume on “The Santiago Campaign (Lam- son, Wolffe & Co.) 1s principally « valu- able compllation and arrangement of omictal letters and reports. His per: sonal comments on the phases of the campaign, which connect these reports, are shrewd, generous and kindly—tn- deed, they protably err on that side. His never falling optimism was one of the most {aspiring things in the campaign. The only spark of indignation shown 1 the book 1s General Wheeler's resent- ment of Shatter's telegraphing that peneral Wheeler 1s feeble, bat remains with his command.” He admits that he had an attack of fever (but so did all his stall), and he adds:**1 was not off duty for a sin- gle moment during the campaign; and I do not think my sickness materially Impalred my use- fulness.” We know it did not, General, and here ts wish- ing there were a hundred thousand Ike you for the new army t Droch. Good at a Splice. «¢(-AN you tie a true-lover’s knot, my dear?” inquired Fred. “No,” replied Jessie, hiding her blushes with her fan; ‘ butour new clergyman can do it very nicely.” Pt ase FAIR To THE DEtiocRATS Took Him Literally. HOLLY CHUMPLEIGH: I'm not a man with one idea. Miss Cotpgat: No? Why don’t you try to get one? IFE is able to present to its readers +a plece of exclusive and absolutely reliable news. Secretary Alger’s resig- nation has not been accepted. comicbooks.com