Life, 1908-06-25 · page 6 of 21
Life — June 25, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The page contains two distinct pieces: **"A Soldier's Message"** is a letter from a soldier in the Philippines (dated April 27, 1908) expressing contentment with life there, mentioning children and farm life. **"The Temporizing Hog"** is a fable/cartoon about a shrewd hog who manipulates other animals by holding their communal food trough "in trust," claiming God authorized this arrangement. When the hungry animals grow restless, the hog talks them into submission through smooth rhetoric about his "responsibility." The satire critiques monopolistic control of resources and manipulation through false authority—the hog represents a wealthy monopolist using paternalistic language to justify exploitative control while animals (the working class) go hungry. The accompanying illustration shows the hog addressing the other animals.
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Our Fresh Air Fund EVIOUSLY ac Anonymous contribu- knowledged...-. $2,390.11 | _ tion. HDS... s.00 | T. Sharp. Ruseil, MD. soo | pane Ee James L. Thomson H.W. Be... Herbert ©. Pell S..O. Seymour. y Mildred and Lydia PA. Pincofls : F. A. Morrow. Frederick A. Snow. sn His Namen Loe oris Haslett and Pauline T CED. Pauline Turner. Ce! rel Southampton Harry B. Dawes... : R. M. Gallaway Schallinge S john Alsop King K. Pittman. In memory of ‘Na: cB... thaniel Witherell’”. 888888888 88 1 Holder 888888888888 8888 888 8888s Jim Dawes. g % s Acknowledged with Thanks E case bathing suits, from the Y. W. C. A., of Vassar College. Sauce, the Beech-Nut Packing Company, 1 gross Sanitol Tpoth Powder, Herman C, G. Luyties 00 pieces Colfan's Tafly-Tolu Gum and 200 Chuloo Caps, the calgan Gum Company r barrel Gold Medal Flour, the Washburn-Crosby Compiny. A Soldier's Message From One of the Life's Farm Boys Who Are Now Serving in the Philippines. REND MRS. MOHR I write you these fuw lines to kt you know that Tam having a good time over hear in these Islands but I wish I was back in Branch- ville on Lifes Farm but I hope I will go there some day and drink some of the nice milk we did have and go out with the Children and pick apples = my but I wish I was back Mrs. Mohr I wrote to Harold and did not get no ansore welll I gess he is married now and to Bizy to write well I wish him luck and God Bless him he was my Pal, thats just like the song ain't it Mrs, Mobr the Chikiren is having a good time on the farm now my but how I wish I was there now whot a fine time I wough have well Mrs. Mohr I will have to Shortin this letter and dont forget and give my love to Mr. Mohr and Harold so good by and write soon. Yours Truly Manila, P. 1., April 27, 1008. JIM The Temporizing Hog NCE there was a shrewd Hog who succeeded in getting all four feet into the trough, much to the annoyance of the balance of the herd, who were thereby unable to get anything to eat. After submitting to this treatment for a while, they held a meeting and appointed a commit- tee to wait upon the monopolist and remonstrate with him. He listened politely to the complaints of the committee and, when they had finished, con- fided to them the fact that God, in His infinite wisdom, had intrusted the trough to him to do with it as he pleased. Inasmuch as the herd possessed no positive evidence to con- trovert this claim, they accepted it as logic and for a while were submissive. At length, however, growing more hungry, they sent another committee to wait upon him, This time he was just as polite as before. He talked to them in a fatherly way, saying that he realized his responsibility, that he was holding the trough in trust for them and, if they did not disturb him, things were sure to come out all right. This held them for a little while longer, but while things AT LUFE’S FARM READING LETTERS FROM HOME DON’T BE AFRAID, THESE ARE NOT FOREIGN WATERS