Life — November 5, 1903 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Somebody’s Words. AS it St. Paul or U.S. Steel who said to the Ephe- sians : “Shall those ws continue which put the liveli- hood of eighty millions of people in the power of the few, which enable the same hands that control the railroads to control the mines, that control the banks to control the Treasury, that own the people's necessities to own the people's government? The trusts—monopo- lies made by law, entrenched behind a prohibitive tariff, buttressed by subsidies and special rates—plunder our people with the one hand, while with the other they reach for conquest and sell their product cheap abroad that they may sell it dear at home’? And was it St. Mark (Hanna) or Epaminondas who exclaimed : «I despise that hypocrisy which outdoes populism in placing the Treasury money at the service of favored banks and breaks laws to favor Wall Street speculators " Perhaps, after all, it was those Massachusetts Democrats, the other day. People are so careless nowadays in what they say ! Evidence. ‘PHE JUDGE: You say your wife hit you over the head with a plate? Rast Yes, sah. “But your head doesn’t show it.”” “But you done oughter see dat plate.” LEVERTON : For a man who has been in love with ten girls / in three weeks you look pretty well. Dasuaway: Yes, I’ve been getting regular and systematic exercise, “1 MAVE BEEN ASKED TO THE FIREMEN" MASKED BALL, AND f DON'T KNOW WHAT TO IMPERSONATE.” “WHY NOT GO AS AN OLD FLAME?” LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. She; 1sx't 17 TIME POR Us TO SAY GOOD NIGHT? He: 1 COULD TELL YOU BETTER, DEAREST, IF 1 KNEW WHETUER THAT MOON WAS COMING UP OR GOING DowN. comicbooks.com