Life, 1907-11-28 · page 7 of 20
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**Top Cartoon: "Beaten at His Own Game"** This satirizes a business executive (likely a Du Pont Powder Company manager) who claimed the October 30 Wall Street explosion damaged the financial world. The cartoon shows him literally beaten down by newspapers with headlines like "COOK BURNED THE STAKE" and "ANOTHER TURKISH ATROCITY IMMINENT." The joke: he complains about dynamite disrupting markets, but competing newspapers generate worse headlines through sensationalism. He's "beaten at his own game"—experiencing the chaos he causes in business. **Bottom: "Diary of a Five-Dollar Gold Piece"** A personified gold coin narrates traveling through banks, trust companies, and financial institutions before ending up in a working person's hands, then being exchanged away. The satirical point critiques wealth circulation and the coin's brief respite from the financial establishment. **Small cartoon**: A domestic joke about Thanksgiving dinner.
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Beaten at His Own Game T WAS in the paper on October 30 that work had been stopped on the Du Pont Powder Company’s dynamite mill at Tacoma, Wash., and that the manager said it was because the financial world had been so much shaken by disturbances. Well, well; no need of any more dynamite for a while after the Wall Street explosion! When did a competing con- cem get a handsomer tribute than that from a rival! A THANKSGIVING CRIME-WAVE Diary of a Five-Dollar Gold Piece HERE Iam in the savings bank again. My! How that common workman hated to part with me. But, of course, I’ve been placed to his credit on the books. Wonder how long I will be here. Off again! I only stayed in that bank for a couple of days. They exchanged me, with a lot of others, for some secu- rities—mere pieces of paper. Hello! Wall Street! Well, well. I was afraid I might never sce this place. And just think of it. I am really representing a bond issue! And—sh!—a mighty small part of it, too. About one tenth’s me, and the rest’s water. Washington! I never expected to see this place again. Think of where I’ve been, In banks and trust companies, at directors’ meetings, where I’ve heard some queer things, I can just tell you! And now— By Jove! I’m on the ocean. They've been calling for me in England. I won- der what the Bank of England vaults are like. Bet they’re hot and stuffy. England for me! It’s so quiet and rest- ful and respectable here. I’m really lead- ing an honest life for the first time since I left America. Wonder how long it will keep up. What's that sound? It’s all over! Here I am back again on my native soil. helped save my country by arriving on the spot in the nick of time. Asif I hadn’t been present at too many deals not to know better than that. Saved my coun- try! Ha! What they really mean is that I’ve saved the gamblers! They tell me I’ve “NOW, WILLIE, WHAT DO WE ALWAYS DO ON THANKSGIVING ?”” “SEND FOR THE DOCTOR." comicbooks.com