Life, 1906-02-08 · page 9 of 24
Life — February 8, 1906 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early 20th-century American politics and social issues through brief quips and illustrations. The main cartoon, titled "On the Market: Preferred and Common Stock," depicts a portly capitalist figure in top hat negotiating with a smaller figure, likely representing ordinary workers or the public—a commentary on economic inequality and power imbalance. The text snippets mock various targets: monopolies ("they're even monopolising the privilege of making us tired"), politicians (references to Roosevelt and the Monroe Doctrine), and government inefficiency (the Senate's inability to address problems). The "bubble world" title suggests these are inflated, fragile issues—economic bubbles, political posturing, or social absurdities about to burst. The overall tone is cynical about American capitalism and governance.
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THIS BUBBLE WORLD R' SSIA is at peace with everybody.—Beston Reacon. About as peaceful as a gentleman who has an inju- dicious mixture of lobster, watermelon and ice cream in his midst. “ Big men’? must be saved, as party expediency, the leaders declare, de- New York Times, Interesting to all the ‘little men” now in jail. manding quietus on investigations, When a man goes on the witness stand he swears to tell the th, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, It is his duty to swer every question truthfully. Joke D. Rockefeller, Ira, to his Bible class H. H. Rogers wasn’t in Sunday School that d William Waldorf Astor has bought another Enquirer. Coincidentally the price of soup at the Waldorf-Astoria goes up ten cents a portion. Cincinnati wc A Rubber Trust has been organized in New Jersey.— Chicago News Its summer headquarters will be on the Jersey bathing beaches wa Mexico is sick of her experiment in St owned and operated railroads. She wants to sell out in has! NV * If we tried the experiment we'd never want to sell out so long as there was a political hanger-on out of a job. ADWALKER: ers ON THE MARKET. PREFERRED AND COMMON STOCK. 183 Great Britain now conducts an inspection of all emigrants, and bars pauper aliens.—Chicago N We'll get ‘em. fire Trust is among the latest.—Aockester Democrat. They're even monopolizing the rivilege of making us tired. The chorus girls have formed a ut troit Journal. To keep down the price of broiled lobster ? Having mixed in the Morocco business it is no wonder that we should be expected to dabble in the affairs of Turkey, —/%ttsburgh Post. ‘That's President Roosevelt's conception of main- taining the Monroe Doctrine. ) A Kansas temperance orator asserts that one jug of w can chase half a dozen men into the penitentiary.—HHouston / Let's start a jug after some of our life insurance robbers. y ? Mrs. Chadwick has been set to working buttonholes in shirts at the Ohio penitentiary. Rather different from working credulous bankers, It is explained that Chauncey Depew is suffering from aphasia.—Chicago Journal. Astrange affliction, in which a man who should say ‘I resign," says ‘I hang on.” ) New Jersey is to spend $350,000 Rochester P Does this mean that the summer-boarder is to be paid in stead of fighting without pay g her mosquitoes next summer. — Senator Daniel called yesterday for an inventor able to devise a plan to protect the Senate from II that would be needed wo ican sense of humor. — York But the American sense of humor is so much more reli- able than the U. S. Senate. oF Klaw and Erlanger say that their great mission is to amuse the public.—/ouston Post, At five per cent. of the gross for booking, fifty per cent. of the attraction’s profits, and rake-off on tickets sold at more than box-office prices. Surely a 2% “great mission.”” Senator Depew has once more emerged from his cyclone cellar and re- turned to Washington.—Beston Transcript. Calling to mind that classic utterance of his former em- ployer, the late William H. Vanderbilt, ‘The public be d—d. comicbooks.com