Life, 1904-06-16 · page 6 of 22
Life — June 16, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**"The Tariff"** (top left): A caricatured Uncle Sam fires coins from a cannon at foreign competitors. The text argues protective tariffs benefit American workers by enriching employers, who then invest in industry and libraries—a Republican defense of tariff policy. The satire mocks this trickle-down logic: tariffs supposedly help "the working man" by putting money in his employer's pocket. **"Dan Cupid, M.D., Heart Specialist"** (bottom left): A heart-shaped vignette shows a woman feeding a man, illustrating romantic devotion. The caption references a dialogue about making love. **"Strange Theories"** (right): An illustration of what appears to be a foreign interior with two figures, accompanying text about foreigners' misconceptions regarding Earth's shape and gravity—likely mocking pseudoscientific or exotic beliefs.
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The Tariff. HE tariff was first in- vented by Rameses Il. as a protection to em- balming industries, and has since been used prin- cipally by the Republican party. The tariff exists for the benefit of the workingman, by put- ting money into the pocket of his em- ployer. If we had no tariff, there would be -gie, no libraries; no libraries, no popu- id ; and no popular trash, no educated working- man ; hence the benefit of the tariff. ‘The tariff takes every infant industry_it can find on the loorstep, feeds it on roast beef, champagne, nectar and am- brosia, gives it a million-dollar establishment to live in, stocks up the coal-bin with diamonds and other useful fuel, and gen By ample revenues for the pension list and the Agricul- tment, our two principal industries are constantly oung lives by their home-b 1 prosperity. chful, lusty tariff standing over us like a guard ible for our necessities, in the calm » benefiting the few men who really de- serve to be very well off. Dastavay: Did you have any trouble making love to Miss F ? Cievertox; None whatever. ne trouble came when I tried to break away. peas CRAY — 992 STRANGE THEORIES Ving: WE YOREIGN DRVILS HAVE A CRAZY 10KA THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND. Dk Pong: 1 COLD FORGIVE THAT, BUT THEY ALSO THINK THEY OWN 17, AND ALLOW US TO LIVE OS THE UNDER SH A Mere Trifle. “TS this the superintendent of the Metropolitan Street Railway? Well, one of your conductors insulted me this morning.”* DAN CUPID, M. D., HEART SPECIALIST, “ My dear sir, don’t mention it.”