Life — May 3, 1906 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“LET ME HAVE MEN ABOUT we THAT ARE PAT Cann.: These constituents Tn South Carolina This shirt (a Christmas present) shoes, the gift of my pinch across the instep. jocsn't wash So very well. “Tis shrunk around the armholes. THe. look a gift-shirt in the mouth. CA Now to our plot, which is politically hou shouldst not To stab Imperial Seizer in the neck. Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. Thatea messy job him looking Quite neat and statesmanlike, and not as if Let's leave He'd just been chewed by Colorado wildcats. Baty.: Aha, say I! let’s gag His Royal Teds E’en as we gagged his San Domingo treaty’ “WOULD PRESENT THE CHINTSE: LAUNDRY BILL.” .: Even as the Senate strangles any law aved for by the Trusts. Jigger! here comes acop! (They disperse.) ACT II (Executive offices, White House. Enter Setzer, followed by Baty cus, ALpRica, CHatncry Derewcus, CANNON, TILLMANIUS Wattersontus, Hearstus, Brvanitis, etc.) Seizer: Now to our muttons The Beef Trust. Bat..: Me to present this bill—a bill to regulate The sale of gooseberries in Madagascar. (Enter REPORTER.) Where is my boss, great Hearstus? Here Lam. papers quick, ‘or, to be exact, O, Imperial Teds, permit Rep.: Hearsr.: Please send the news to all m And say that Seizer has been (almost) killed. ReEv.: But Seizer hath not yet been st) killed. Hearst.: You inexperienced cub! say, don’t you know ‘That Hearstus’ papers always get the news Four hours before it happens? (Exit REPORTER.) SEWER: Ah, dee-lighted! (Enter Tart, disguised as Chinese laundryman.) Tart: Founder of six republics, hail, all hail! comicbooks.com