Life, 1905-08-31 · page 3 of 24
Life — August 31, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon ("No Admittance"):** Two well-dressed men attempt to enter a thicket labeled "Private Grounds," but are blocked. This appears to satirize efforts to access exclusive spaces or privileges being denied to outsiders—likely referencing corporate monopolies or closed political circles of the era. **"Merger" Section:** References General Leonard Wood's potential administration, suggesting he could help Jupiter with thunderbolts or Minerva with wisdom—mocking the idea that military leaders possess special governing abilities. **"Our Grand Central Depew":** Critiques a public figure (likely Chauncey Depew, a railroad executive/politician) through satirical verse about corporate excess and empty political rhetoric. **"Christianity and Power":** Argues Christian nations' dominance depends on actual moral practice, not merely religious identity.
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rk Merger. potheosis of General d Wood would not only please the Admini tion and vindicate the re- public against the charge of ingratitude. It would be again for Olympus, as well. A com- bination deity to take over the func- s of Mars and 4Esculapius would be distinct in the line of retrench- ment and reform, and if the business of two gods did not fill allthe General's time, he could help Jupiter with his thunderbolts, or Minerva with her sums, ra- NO ADMITTANCE, Our Grand Central Depew. ‘OW have our mighty fallen! What can be The matter when our modern Champion Of Politics and After-Dinner-Fun Drops from a bough of his old Chestnut Tree, Whence, for long years, industriously he Has tossed us many times a wormy one— Proverb and Poem, Platitudeard Pun,— Saying at Seventy, No more for me!” Jester and Senator, in either rile Always “Our Chauncey of the Silver ‘ongue"; Director, too, of —Heaven bless your soul! — Of Countless Corporations, old and young 5 To think that he should slip into the hole Whercof he once was happy as the bung ! 245 Christianity and Power. “Christian nations dominate the wo ol mts S it a forest of steeples pointing to heaven that makes nations Chris tian, or is it rather the pt ing unto others as they by, not to speak of t ing the other chee! If Chri their Chi he the ¢| ctice of do- would be done practice of turn- an nations were to take tia ity seriously, what would on their dominance? And would the title of small heathen na- tions to their real estate be more or less valid? comicbooks.com