Life, 1903-09-03 · page 12 of 32
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The main cartoon satirizes wealthy industrialists attending a Bible study. The instructor points to a diagram labeled "The Needle," "The Meat Chopper," and "The Camel"—references to Jesus's teaching that it's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter heaven (Matthew 19:24). The joke: these millionaires are trying to rationalize their wealth through religion, finding loopholes in scripture. The text sections below discuss society gossip, legal matters regarding President Roosevelt's trust-busting efforts, and journalism education. The satire targets the hypocrisy of wealthy Americans claiming Christian virtue while resisting wealth redistribution and labor protections—core Progressive Era criticisms.
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A MODERN MILLIONAIRE BIBLE CLASS. Instructor > NOW We WILL CONCLUDE OUR LESSON POR TODAY BY A GLANCE AT THIS DIAGRAM, WHICH PROVES HOW EASY IT IS FOR A CAMEL TO Pass TUROUOM THE HY OF A NEEDLE. Society. OCIETY must have something to {f talk about. It was whispered os last week that Mrs. Pursey Strutt wore thicker shoes in winter than in summer. But in case it is not true, society will have had its excitement for nothing. Jimmy Overload is disgruntled be- cause his wife keeps baying new jewels, while she hasn't space on her person for the effective display of what she already owns. She was one of the Baltimore Hollowheads, all charming people. It may be remem- bered that her sister, Frissie Hollow- head, ra with two noblemen at the same time. She used to drink rather freely on occasions, but she is still a charming woman. ay The Knightley Gadders are now in London, but will return when they feel like it. There is no truth in the malicious rumor that Trowsers Van Guzzle ever s work. The Van Guzzl nice people and have alw been fashionable. And Trowsers no exception. The tongue of slander is over active. Law. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Governor Durbin are not the men to trifle. If they move, as they inti- mate the purpose of doing, to *‘ free the law from every vestige of technicality and delay,” we may expect important results, That the Stuart kings of England succeeded but indifferently in an at- tempt to free the law from technicality and delay is hardly a precedent in point. The Stuarts were not strenuous io the best sense. Moreover, the people were more touchy in the seventeenth century. Conscience Money. M* JOSEPH PULITZER has just - given $1,500,000to Columbia C lege to establish a school of decent journalism. T was autumn, the autumn after her tenth season. “You are as brown as a berry,”’ said her mirror, but adding, sotto coce : derberry."” Hers was a French mirror, too polite more than to hint at an ungrateful trath. comicbooks.com