Life, 1907-12-26 · page 7 of 21
Life — December 26, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **Top image ("Knowledge Is Power"):** A drawing depicting a small child confronting what appears to be larger figures in darkness. The image won the Liss contest prize and illustrates the quoted phrase about knowledge as power. **"Shots from Socialism":** An editorial section attacking Socialist political ideology. It critiques Socialist arguments about capitalism, claiming Socialists wrongly blame the economic system for social problems like poverty and railway accidents. The piece dismisses Socialist rhetoric as misleading. **"An Extreme Case":** A legal dialogue featuring a judge questioning someone's background, contrasting wealthy upbringing ("the Adirondacks") with being "brought down"—illustrating class-based legal or social disparities. The cartoon at bottom right shows a figure with scattered possessions, captioned "Always my luck—not a single worm in it," appearing to mock misfortune or poverty through dark humor.
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2002, by Lave Penurerve Courant (This picture, drawn by J. R. Shafer, Shots from Socialism HE Appeal to Reason is a So- cialist paper. It has 301,063 subscribers. We give a few extracts therefrom merely as edu- cational morsels for our Wall Street friends. There is no harm in know- ing what the wicked enemy is doing: “The nation is wasteful of the gifts of nature,” says the President. He is right. Wastefulness belongs with the system which he upholds oe ‘The more the necessaries of life are raised in price, the harder it is on the people, and the more dissatis- faction there is. Everything works for Socialism. oe 8 Henry Clews's market letter says: "Confidence is shocked, but who is to blame?” Well, we doa’t know, Henry, unless it is the crowd you train with, most ‘of whom are within a stone's throw of your office. We are quite sure it is not the wurking class, All the shocking they do is the corn crop, and they only get enough out of that to keep them in a shock- z condition, ‘The number of divorces is increasing in direct New York, was awarded a prize of $250 in Li “KNOWLEDGE IS POWER” ratio with the increased price of living, and that is caused by the profit system. Socialists charge capitalism with threatening the people with a panic for the purpose of frightening them to be silent under the open robbery the system isinflicting upon them. Socialists charge capitalists with importing forcizn labor to lower the wages of the workers who have made their wealth. Socialists charge that cap lists could prevent more than half the many deaths from railroad accidents if they did not value profits above human life Of course there is no truth in any of these mischievous utterances. The only proper thing for us to do is to denounce in dignified language whatever tends to create “class feeling.” UDGE: Where were you born and brought up? “In the Adirondacks, your Honor. And I wasn't brought up—I was brought down.” contest Jor the best illustration of the quotation.) An Extreme Case | THE matter of that property settle ment, Mrs. Jones treated you mean- ly, didn’t she?” “T should say so! Why, she couldn’t have treated me any worse if she had been a member of my own family.” “ALWAYS MY LUCK. NOT A SINGLE Wort IN 1t”