Life, 1906-03-22 · page 15 of 20
Life — March 22, 1906 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **reader letters to the editor**, with one accompanying cartoon. The main cartoon depicts a figure (appearing to be a rat or similar creature) being chased from a doorway by an angry resident, captioned "BEGONE, YOU LITTLE RAT—I NEVER KNEW YOU." The image illustrates a common domestic scene of pest removal, likely accompanying one of the letters about animal-related issues. The letters themselves address **Life magazine's editorial stance on animal welfare and missionaries in China**. One correspondent praises Life's advocacy for animal protection and humane treatment. Another criticizes Life's mild treatment of missionaries in China, sarcastically praising the magazine's "generous attitude towards the massacre of men, women and children by Chinese mobs" while questioning why similar protective standards don't apply to human victims. A third letter humorously claims Life is among the only American papers willing to publish unpopular truths. The page demonstrates Life's role as a **forum for public debate** on social and ethical issues of the era.
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T° THE EDITOR OF LIFE: I cannot refrain from expressing my ap- preciation of the many articles you have published in sympathy with and in defense of our animal friends and our beautiful birds, and I trust the delinquent o of New be brought to a keen sense of their Outside of the humane journals your paper has done more to further the cause of protection to animals than any I know of. I have used your articles and cartoons with good results in my work in the rural districts, for the protection from cruelt} dumb animals, I can assure you Lire farm life a touch that is most ace cers of the Hum York wi duty, Yours very truly, Lily Job Vice-President Rochester Humane Society. Rica. N.Y ) THE EDITOR OF LIFE. Duax Sex Asan old subscriber, me to express t you allow every faireminded st feel in the article ** Light in Asi mber for March ast? You interest ark that most of the demoralized men look- aly for their own material advantages. This is altogether too mild and too considerate a 11/ missionaries are 5 Their 1 Know personally two young x to start the only medical school in a Chinese province of people. asa wife and child) a missionaries in China are gout uttera fers, salaries prove American doctors wh million twent Their combined salaries tone egate the vast sum of $2,100! esides this, who c gnorant pat hospitals and dispensaries of ary charlatans? And you have for- There are in China “self- ng as teachers, Can you not find term h to brand these “ mischief-making missionaries? (Please notice the alliteration. ) We are over-refined, and it is therefore a pleasure to contemplate your high-minded and generous attitude towards the massacre of men, women and children by Chinese mobs. To quote your own phra however, that fortunes are wrung from so-called “ free ese missio gotten the w seeking purses ar severe en American women ac doctors it does se ent of these invaders is almost certainly bratal, but mission- to hints.” It is said that ican legislators, trust magnates the Chinese treat a necessity. It atics are impervio there are Am: city officials who are Why not extend our ow law to cover such cases? npervious to hints. ndid system of lynch Yours for fair play, New Havin, Conn, 1 Layman. RE you not the only paper in the United States that dares say what it thinks? Newtox, Pa Old Subscriber, —Lire, No. 1218, page TAP yt Pon “ BEGONE, YOU LITTLE RATT NEVER KNEW YOU.” I believe 1 can offer an acceptable amendment There is one other. irgonaut. I have read both papers from their volume one, number one, and feel that there is more truth in me than exists in any other man who has not done the sam Yours, while Lire lasts, WB, Price It is the San Francisco EAR LIFE He may live without friends, He may live without wife; Rut civilized man Cannot live without Lire. Verily! Chastain Haynes, comicbooks.com