Life, 1908-09-10 · page 5 of 22
Life — September 10, 1908 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three satirical pieces critiquing American social and political issues: **"Sump'n or Other"** (left cartoon): Mocks a pompous celebrity or politician who claims credit for inventions or achievements while being "farthest north in his mind"—suggesting he's either delusional or intellectually challenged. **"Different"** (right cartoon): Appears to satirize theatrical or entertainment circles, with a woman remarking that performers seem different offstage than onstage. **Text sections** address: children's labor in industry (praising their usefulness), racial politics in elections (critiquing how both parties use race strategically), and class disparities in education and opportunity. The overall theme suggests systemic hypocrisies affecting vulnerable populations—hence "all in the same boat."
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SUMP’N OR OTHER Here's the celebrity—what ha: Tt must b Well, he eit Or he’s be oysterless stew, DIFFERENT. Mme, Shubrich's very fine In Niebelur But when see farthest north, in his mi You think, * For Goi Children MONG all the staples our country pro duces, nothing is useful than They not our experts inexhay tible mine of material to expound the ories with, but they furnish the motive power for some of our principal tories, and the present low price of coal is due to their efforts. Tous we see that Providence always provides us with the more children. only provide educational with an wherewithal to live within our means. Children are cultivated in every state in the union. Up to the age of seven or eight, they are scarcely any use at all, except to talk about, but after that they can begin to earn good money. They are also useful in other ways. A young girl of ten or twelve, who is too delicate 10 work, may often make herself handy by rushing the growler and wait- ing on a drunken father. Some time when a young boy and girl are run over by a trolley or auto, they may get enough in damages to keep the wolf from the door, It is a great blessing that children are cultivated in greater numbers by the poor than by the rich dustries are kept supplied with plenty of hands to do the work. The Race Problem N the race for office, the race problem has an unfortun ing the race course and contributing to the already onerous burdens of the po- lite politician. If a man's democracy happens to begin with a bi to him to find a way of disfranchisin the negro in the South without let the Northern negro find it out, for in the North the negro is quite a few po: litical pumpkins. If a man’s republican- ism happens to begin with a capital R, it is up to him to give a satisfactory reason to the negro of the North why the Republican National Administration Thus our principal in- fe way of obstruct- D, it is up un Ring, does not use the army and other neces- sary instruments to enforce the fifteenth Democratic South. uestion of taking amendment in the In the on away his case it is vote without’ making hir ry, and in the other case it is a ques- tion of keeping his vote without giving him power. It is a nice game. For fuller part ars, see Ben nan, Booker W velt and the Lincoln-Douglas Det Ellis O. Jones. Not Too Well Born “TS he well born?” “Oh, yes: fairly so!" “What is ‘fairly well born?’ "* “Very well born folks commonly come of families that have been prosperous that they have got lazy an! Fairly well born folks ec families tha shington, Teddy Re so long run out ne of zan still do something.” “| jow fast is your steam yacht?" bout a case of champagne an hour.’" comicbooks.com