Life, 1902-04-24 · page 6 of 22
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# Political Cartoon Analysis: "Congress is in Session" The main cartoon depicts a massive money bag labeled with a dollar sign, positioned above the U.S. Capitol building like a dome. Fat, rotund figures representing congressmen surround the structure. The caption "CONGRESS IS IN SESSION" suggests satirical criticism of legislators' perceived obsession with money and financial interests rather than governance. The silhouette panels below reference Scottish Highland history—likely commentary on political upheaval or conflict. The page also advertises "The Conqueror," a biography of Alexander Hamilton, and "One World at a Time," a book of sermons. The overall message: Congress is controlled by financial interests, depicted through exaggerated body imagery symbolizing greed and corruption.
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CONGRESS 18 IN SESSION. The Conqueror, Gertrude Atherton's r0- mantic biography of Alexander Ham- ilton, is a composite work in which the romantic portions far excel the biographical in merit. The mingling of the two motifs is a difficult undertaking, and while Mrs. Atherton’s abilities and her enthusiastic admiration for her hero have given her a large measure of success, we hope the ex- ample will not be followed. (The Macmillan Company. $1.50.) The man whose business it is to talk is rarely a satisfactory man to read. One World at a Time, by Thomas R. Slicer, suggests the stenographic report of an ex- temporaneous sermon—the kind of which 1 I. one says, ‘We had a fine sermon to-day.” THE ROERS REPULSED Tite MIOMLANDERS es Kine Gi wie NEE REANES, “Yes? What about?” “Oh—I don't stavonter: or watEn. Putnam's Sons.) comicbooks.com