Life, 1903-06-11 · page 7 of 20
Life — June 11, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon ("Too Much Ballast"):** A large stork carries multiple human figures in a bundle beneath its wings. The stork appears to be straining under the weight. This illustrates the "Immigration" article below it, which criticizes European immigrants entering America. The cartoon suggests immigrants are excessive "ballast" (dead weight) burdening the nation. **Secondary Cartoon ("A Commiserator"):** A figure with a wrapped head (appearing ill or injured) sits hunched, illustrating America's social problems. **Text Topics:** - "Pie and Puritanism" critiques New England food traditions and religious hypocrisy - "Immigration" argues that poor European immigrants lack the "saving grace of poverty" and drain resources The page reflects early 20th-century anti-immigration sentiment, sarcastically dismissing European newcomers as burdensome.
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545 Pie and Puritanism. [HE decadence of Puritanism is chiefly due to various prepa- rations of sawdust being eaten for breakfast throughout New England, instead of the cold pie which was formerly the pitce de résistance of the matutinal meal thers Cold pie eaten at breakfast gets in its work while yet the nervous force, recruited by sleep, is largely unspent. ‘The result is the fierce, aggressive hatefulness that is the very life of Puritanism, But cold pie for lunch or dinner merely brings on a gloomy and profitiess apathy. It might as well never be eaten, from the religious point of view. It is worth any man’s while to eat cold pie for breakfast a time or two, if only in order to appreciate the fine irony of Baxter's Saints’ Rest Immigration. [HE dregs of Enrope come to “us. But our smart set go abroad to live. It's a swap. And dregs made dregs by ex- terior pressure are better than dregs made dregs by interior degeneracy. A land flowing with milk and honey needs an occasional inun- dation of people having the saving grace of poverty. Wasrio Hugaiws 1902 TOO MUCH BALLAST. A COMMENTATOR. comicbooks.com