Life, 1899-10-05 · page 13 of 20
Life — October 5, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page combines theatrical satire with political commentary. The top illustrations show actors Tony Pastor and De Wolf Hopper in costume roles, likely referencing contemporary stage productions. The main political content appears in "Now and Then," which contrasts President McKinley's 1890 congressional statement opposing tyranny and supporting government by "consent of the governed" with his 1899 position suppressing the Philippine-American Insurrection. The satire suggests McKinley abandoned his stated principles when facing colonial resistance—a critique of American imperialism. The three short humorous pieces below ("A Lunkhead," "An Inference") are light filler jokes unrelated to politics: one about a man refusing to kill a mosquito because it's his "flesh and blood," another about persistent rural courtship, and a third about Chicago's size. The page primarily mocks McKinley's apparent hypocrisy on democratic governance versus imperial expansion.
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Tony Pastor as AS PROMID Now and Then. HERE will be no pause until the Insurrection 1s suppressed and American authority acknowledged and established. +. . the apeedy suppression of the rebellion, the estaljixhment of peace and tranquililty, and a government “under the undisputed xoverelgnty of the United Stat resident McKinley tn 1899. ‘Ths government of the people must be by the people, and not by a few of the people; it must rest upon the free consent of the gov- erned, and all of the governed. Power, it must be remembered, which is secured by oppression, or usurpation or by any form of Injustice, is soon dethroned. We have no right in law or morals to usurp that whith Titanta,” Queen of the Fuirtes. belongs to’ another, whether it {s property or power.— Congressman McKinley in 1590. “¢TZILL that mosquito, why don’t “T would, you know, but I hate to lay violent bands on my own flesh and blood.” A Lunkhead. “ ID you ever have that ‘ere tired feelin’ that we read so much about in the newspaper?" asked Jabez Greenhaw, a village swaio, after he had sqnanched the chair-seat into an oyster- shell shape by thrce hours’ solid sitting. 273 De Wolf Hopper as“ Cluderrtta.” NT ACTORS SEEM TO BE INSPIRED BY SARA'S RXAMPLE, LIFE VENTURES A PEW PREDICTIONS. “Yes.” snapped Miss Duisy Flitters, meaningly. ‘I have got it now!” “Ye have?” returned the stayer, sym: pathetically, ‘* Ye ought to take Poot’s Peculiar Panacea, They say it's mighty good medicine.” And then he remained another hour, trying to argue her into it. An Inference. “y ELL, sir, it is almost impossible to realize what a large place Chicago really is.” “T guess you don’t know many Chi- cago people.”