Life, 1902-04-03 · page 9 of 20
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# Political Cartoon Analysis: "Life" Magazine, Page 287 **Top Cartoon:** A man (likely a politician or businessman) stands waist-deep in water beside the U.S. Capitol, surrounded by dead pigs labeled with trusts: "Great Trust," "Steel Trust," "Standard Trust," etc. The caption asks: "Isn't it just possible that I'm overdoing this business?" This satirizes concerns that large monopolistic trusts are "dead weight" on the economy, and suggests whoever is "doing business" with them may be complicit in their harmful practices. **Bottom Section:** The article discusses Dr. Conan Doyle's defense of England's conduct in the Boer War, along with a separate cartoon mocking complaints about tariff reform. The overall page critiques both imperial wars and corporate monopolies as serious threats to national integrity.
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“IsN'D IT JUST POSSIBLE THAT I'M OVERDOINO THIS BUSINESS? * Dr. Conan Doyle's Apology for England. “‘W SENEVER anything in the nature of tariff reform was proposed in Congress, the Trusts shuddered. ARGELY at his «* What do these rude men know of a Mother's Duties?" own expense and _ protested they. in a pamphlet of one hundred and fifty-six good-sized pages, Dr. Conan Doyle seeks to prove that in the war with the Boers Eng- j land ‘hath her cause just.’’ The book is av elaborate setting forth of details calculated to muddy the water so that the reader cannot see the real facts which underlie the Boers’ courageous and patriotic resist- ance to British oppression. Dr. Doylegives figures and alleged facts generously, but gives no real justifica- tion for England’s invasion of the Transvaal and her policy of exterminating the men, women and children of an entire nation, And the very fact that he has to make tho apology is testimony to Englmd's shame. It will take a good many Doyles and a good many pamphlets to convince the world that England is engaged in anything but a war for loot. pe petra erat parece — Cried “Heavens, my voice is a goner!” ' : But. a» Cat in _the wings PEOPLE in glass houses should “go'way back Cried “1 know how she'sings,” and sit down.” And finished the solo with’ honor. comicbooks.com