Life, 1903-10-01 · page 15 of 36
Life — October 1, 1903 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine (1905) contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: **"Wedded"** (top): A sentimental poem celebrating autumn romance, appearing straightforward with no obvious satire. **"A Survival"** (left column): Sharp political satire mocking Western imperial expansion. It satirizes how Christian nations justify colonizing "small nations" by invoking the "Right of International Eminent Domain"—essentially claiming divine right to seize foreign lands and resources. The phrase "the earth, and the fullness thereof, is the Lord's peoples'" mockingly inverts Scripture to justify imperialism and exploitation, despite sending missionaries to these same regions. **"Scripture"** and **"Dashaway"** (right columns): Two brief satirical pieces. "Scripture" mocks Biblical scholars who conveniently find no scriptural objection to trusts and monopolies while opposing labor strikes—selective religious interpretation serving the wealthy. "Dashaway" jokes about a man's insincere romantic declarations. The page's primary satirical target is hypocrisy: Western powers using Christianity to justify colonialism, and the wealthy manipulating religion to protect their financial interests while opposing workers' rights.
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Coperigst, 1905, by Lye PubitaMny Co. UTUMN, and the tale is told That has gladdened ages: We have found our leaf of gold In the sbining pages Whereon Time has deftly set All the secrets tender Spoken since when first we met, Down to love's surrender. WEDDED Autumn! How the seasons fly! Do you still remember How you came tc me as my Rosebud in December? Princess Rose, you were that night: Thus it was I named you When, a vision of delight, In my heart love claimed you. Autumn,—twilight of the year! Winter, soon returning, Shall bebold us still, my dear, With the love-torch burning :— Smiling princess, bappy prince, And young Cupid, clever ;— Life? I know what life Is, since You are mine forever! Feliz Carmen. A Survival. GUCH is the perversity of haman ‘nature that small nations there are who decline to be involved in diffi- culties with great Christian powers, no matter how many missionaries are sent among them. But it is not in the purpose of the fit to give over surviving, let the obstacles be whatsoever. Thus the Right of International Eminent Domain comes into being, and the earth, and the fullness there- of, is the Lord's peoples’. Scripture. R. D. B. HILL'S discovery that there is no justification in Scriptare for trusts will, of course, give our moneyed men panse. Mr. Hill is, perhaps, the foremost Biblical scholar in American politics to-day. It is impossible to esteem lightly whatsoever he may say de fide et moribus, As for our civilization, it will re- cover. For while it has rested quite funda- mentally upon the belief that nothing is unscriptural except strikes and walking delegates, it will, neverthe- less, accommodate itself to the nar- rower basis indicated by authoritative interpretation of Revelation. ASHAWAY: A few short hours. ago I was sitting with a girl, tell- ing her she was the only one in all the world I ever loved, and so forth, and so forth. And she believed you, didn’t she? “How conld sh believed it myself.”” help it?) Why, I comicbooks.com