Life, 1904-01-14 · page 6 of 20
Life — January 14, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("And the Cat Came Back"):** This depicts a large tiger being dragged by what appears to be a small figure labeled "FOOD RIOTS" and "UNREST." The satire suggests that despite efforts to suppress civil unrest and food riots, these problems persistently return—like the folk song "The Cat Came Back." The tiger represents either a nation or existing social problems that cannot be permanently eliminated. **"Race" Section:** The text discusses children's education and school systems during a period when "postgraduate work" and "Three R's" education were debated. The accompanying cartoon shows a woman appealing to a governor about a street conductor, emphasizing class and labor issues of the era. The page overall critiques social instability and educational inequality through satirical commentary typical of early 20th-century American journalism.
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FROM A NOVEL “An WAS TALL AND Dank, witit THE CARRIAGE OF A GENTLEMAN.” AND THE CAT CAME BACK. to give you any more advice, because just at present all the advice I have on hand I am bestowing on Mark Hanna, Mr. Platt and the W. C. T. U. But you can all come upand shake hands with me, only, I hope, if there are any little colored children, they will come first. And some day when you come again I will show you the elephant. Only please don’t wait too long, If you do, there may be some one else in my plac Tom Masson, Race. (QHILDREN having gone quite out of ~ vogue, what was to become of the public school system, the corner-stone of our liberties? The suggestion that everybody go back and take postgraduate work in the Three R's was not seriously considered ; all could see that mere palliatives were vain. There being nothing for the schoolma’ams to do, their salaries were naturally stopped, Blacnases and soon they were rendered desperate by the lack of food and stylish clothes. “Let us,”’ they cried, looking the situa- tion squarely in the face, ‘‘ draw cuts to see who of us get married and replenish tho earth."" Thus it transpired that race suicide could not possibly proceed to the point of race SAID TUF HUSBAND; “INSTRUCT HER THAT IT'S UABIT—I KEEP RIGHT ON Lov.” comicbooks.com