Life, 1904-06-09 · page 6 of 20
Life — June 9, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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The page contains a photograph labeled "One of the Recruiting Grounds for Life's Farm" showing a busy urban street scene, likely depicting a location where Life magazine recruited contributors or found story material. The main cartoon at bottom, captioned "If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride," depicts figures on horseback in exaggerated motion—a visual pun on the proverb. The silhouetted style was typical of early 20th-century satirical illustration. The accompanying text discusses charitable giving and financial inequality in 1923, contrasting wealthy Americans donating "seventy million dollars in charity" while "rich Englishmen were paying two hundred and fifty million dollars by way of inheritance and income taxes." The satire critiques disparities in wealth taxation and charitable obligations between nations.
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ONE OF It's one of the few churches and I be- lieve in watered stock, when th possible. where the stock is watered, e is oil enough te make a light shine on the waters. ot be d Above all things, de xd. Tt was only a few our. r ears ago that Twas u struggling bookke land, and now I own the e you have to do is to haveasublime con- fidence in yourself, save your money, and be kind-hearted to the widows and ans and get them all to sell out to you. Only the other day I sat up for hours with sick friend, whose mother’s business I had absorbed, because I felt that, if it continued usefulness of the Standard Oil Compa it be He needed my sympathy, ve it to him freely. Thus you children, the value of leading a good life. And, dear little ones, remember this Money is something that, when people impaired. and Is see, m leave this world, they cannot take with them What I have earnestly striven for is to prevent them from doing this. And while you cannot hope to succeed as well as I have done, you can try, re- membering always that it takes two to make a bargain—the one who makes it and the one who gets left. Tom Masson. Prices. six million dollars in charity, Englishmen were paying two hundred y million dollars by way of in- heritance and income ta: Thus our rich men get ten times the glory at less than one-third the cost. Because we go in for protection, it follow that we believe in high prices for everything indiscrimi- does not nately. THE RECRUITING GROUNDS FOR LIFE’S FARM Our Fresh-Air Fund. Balance on hand 1903.-+ t close of season of C.F, McCandless The proceeds of a Dexter, Ju nd on a legacy left to the Fresh- Air Fund by Julia H, Williams Thomas Seid : Froceeds of a fair held by some boys ao ca by Priscilla d Grovene Is at Gardner, Mass... $00 ‘The 1902 Sewing Club of ‘i 2.00 Odd and Ead Shop, Farmin, 184.09 From *V. 300.00 From a canc - 4-90 From ses of schoolboys 1.08 From A Friend,” H.S.. 100.00 12.90 Cash 100.00 IRST MOSQUITO: What! you trying a black baby? Secoxp Mosquito: — Yes, mourning Are I'm in ‘CIP WISHES WERE HORSES BEGGARS WOULD RIDF.”