Life, 1909-02-25 · page 7 of 28
Life — February 25, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This satirical cartoon depicts the chaos of a presidential transition on Inauguration Day (March 4th was traditionally when new presidents took office). The enormous, overflowing cart represents the outgoing administration's departure from the White House, heaped with miscellaneous objects symbolizing government baggage, policies, and scandals being removed. The accompanying article criticizes several figures including Mr. Collier, Mr. Duffy, and Mr. Perkins regarding disputes over government property, whiskey, and Christian doctrine. The text suggests controversies about what departing officials could claim and disputes over inherited items and ideological positions. The cartoon satirizes the messiness and contentious nature of transferring power between administrations.
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Lest We Forget IVES of Brakemen oft remind us We may “ fall off" any time, And, departing, leave behind us Wives and bairns without a dime. Mr. Collier, Mr. Duffy and Mr. Perkins COLMER'S WEEKLY adds the pic- ture of James Breck Perkins, Member of Congress from Rochester, to its gallery of “ Proper Objects of Self-Im- provement,’' because he is counsel for the Hon, Walter Duffy's much advertised brand of medicinal whiskey, Government ex perts have analyzed the whiskey, and say, we under stand, that there is alcohol other bad ingredients in it, and that cannot do the miracles of healing med for it om the cover MOVING DAY, MARCH 4th We guess it can't. We guess it is just a common patent drink, the chief merit of it being that being largely alco- hol it has the candor to call itself whiskey, instead of masquerading under some title more ingratiating to self-de- ceivers. That it calls itself whiskey when it isn't whiskey is nothing, for nobody seems to know what whiskey is. But is the Hon. Mr. Perkins a repro- bate person for being counsel for a— shall we say “rot-gut ’—patent stimu- lant? That is a hard question. Must the counsel know and consider what goes into the beverages his client vends, and whether the claims that are made for them on the cover are well founded? Young Mr. much pr Collier discoursed with de the other day on the upright and useful means his father had used to make a fortun We have heard that Peter Fenelon Collier laid the t his fe in making and selling books of devotion of the Cathotie Chureh Was the doctrine in those boo! Roman sound, Mr. Robert? Was tt true Christian doc- trine? Will it do what is claimed for it? If not, the books were mischievous, weren't they? Who shall say sound? No one! And that is where Mr. Peter Collier has the better of Mr, Walter Duffy. Mr. Peter and Mr. Robert can take Mr. Duffy's “whiskey ’’ to Dr. Wiley, and ask him what's in it, and he will tell them, and his report will be accepted by the government, no matter how venient to Mr. Duffy. But Mr take Mr. works to anybody and have the out of the mails as bad doctrine Ro t their face value. if the doctrine was incon- Dutly cannot Collier's devotional » thrown They It Seems to us that Mr titled, as Mr. Duffy's Duffy's “ whiskey" at rally, of cour Perkins is en ther just for Mr. Robert Cot Hier to put him in his Re Gallery Whiskey and ¢ seure things mighty ob comicbooks.com