Life, 1906-03-15 · page 21 of 38
Life — March 15, 1906 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine compiles brief satirical observations on contemporary American politics and society, likely from the early 1900s. Key references include: **"The Big Stick"** appears twice, referencing President Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy—the satire mocks America's interventionist approach, noting the Monroe Doctrine has been "clubbed to death." **Political figures mentioned**: William Allen White (Kansas editor) and references to "Except Theodore," suggesting Roosevelt's inconsistency regarding conservative responsibility. **Social commentary** addresses: labor disputes (hotel clerks' unions), wealth inequality (the Indian oil-lease scam), food safety laws, gender relations, and missionary interference in Chinese politics. **The cartoon** at bottom ("Life's Weather Forecast") shows two figures—one wielding a club—depicting America's unpredictable, aggressive foreign policy as "variable winds." The overall tone criticizes American imperialism, corporate exploitation, and social hypocrisy through dry wit and irony typical of *Life*'s editorial approach.
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‘LIFE: SS WORLD ] E, butt in where we have no business to at frequent intervals nowa- We are a days. International law and precedents don’t count. world power.—Boston Herald. And the poor old Monroe Doctrine has been clubbed to death by the Big Stick. noney back.—Chicagu News Chauncey is a stand-patter in more ways than one. qeee 4) e A St. Louis man has thrashed a waiter for sneering at a small tip.— Pittsburgh Gazette. That man would better not come to New York un- less he wants a fight with every meal. ¢ Manufacturers of pure foods cannot possibly have any objection to laws punishing the manufacture of impure foods. Such laws will not touch then —Philadelphia Press, Laws can't touch persons who don’t exist. s passed a law prohibiting the use of firecrackers on the Fourth of July.—Kochester Post. Good for Iowa, Let's make it a United & ‘The position of a world power is beset with vast responsibilities, and these mean also dangers. What care we? Man to wield it? ates law, Orleans Picayune Haven't we got the Big Stick and The Miss Blanche Hates says that Western diction is purer than Eastern.** Rochester Ps How far West? Q The price of diamonds has advanced rapidly in the last few months.—Roches- ter Post, There are rumors that the Hotel Clerks’ Union is about to make a demand for higher salaries, © One Congressman wants a law the bachelors of the country an amount sufficient to support all the spinsters.— Washington Star. A good law, if it also provided that the spinsters should sew on the buttons and darn the socks of the bachelors. Pittsburrrrygh ? LIFE’S WEATHER FORECAST. VARIABLE. WINDS. 337 Eating Limburger cheese, itis said, will prevent smalipox.— American Spectator So will eating strychnine. ? Hevring in mind the well-known fact that responsibility makes men conservative Except Theodore. Indianapolis N d Some things seem created to be wasted.—IWercester ¢ For instance, the right man’s right arm, s Pittsburgh hasa boy who cannot stop runing once he has started.— iustin Statesman. He can be cured. Make him District Messenger of ) A twelve-year-old Indian lad has leased some oil land to the Standard Company for $10,000 in and $100 a week royalty, —/iladelphia Press. Question ; How much did the Indian get the worst of it? The Dowager Queen of Italy is coming to the United States. — Rochester Most, . Unfortunately for some expectations, Margherita is a very sensible woman who doesn’t like snobs. o? William Allen White rebukes Kansas for sen on Transcript. There's nothing the matter with Kansas. want to spoil good material, QS The unconscious humor of Lire delights my soul.—Aostow Transcript, Watch out, Mr. Transcript man, or Lire may come around and spank you on the wrist. } A Chicago school teacher got a judgment of $4,000 against a real estate agent who kissed her. —/ouston Post, Sorry his lot. ¢ cheap men to the Senate, She doesn't =O he time will come when adulterated foods will not be placed upon the Mowston Post. It isn't the market that suffers; it's the abused American stomach. +e It is impossible to deny that the inter- vention of missionaries in Chinese local politics and their protection of native con- verts is one of the chief causes of the anti-foreign attitude of the Chinese off ‘ials.— New York Times, Which means trouble—the real ion of the missionary. market * Princess Alice,” who is nothing more nor less than a plain American girl, outdid any of the efforts of Queen Vic- toria.—Ker. W. B. Leach, Queen Victoria lacked the ad- vertising faculty. comicbooks.com