Life, 1909-06-03 · page 46 of 56
Life — June 3, 1909 — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and financial listings**, not political cartoons. The dominant content includes: 1. **Astor Trust Company advertisement** — a major New York bank listing its directors and officers, representing the era's financial establishment. 2. **"The Barnum of Journalism" article** — a critical piece about **William Randolph Hearst**, attacking his political opportunism. The text accuses Hearst of promoting public ownership of utilities not from principle but from calculated populism. It compares his tactics to P.T. Barnum's showmanship, suggesting Hearst manufactures "issues" to attract public attention, then abandons them when they lose appeal—like his Independence League political party. 3. **Commercial advertisements** — including Old Hampshire Bond paper and Redmond & Co. letters of credit. The satire targets Hearst's perceived cynicism: his radical-sounding causes are presented as mere marketing strategies designed to manipulate working-class voters rather than genuine reform efforts.
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EARPE Asfor Crust Companys FIFTH AVE. & 36™ST., NEW YORK CAPITAL & SURPL Interest Paid on Us " $1,400,000 Daily Balances DIRECTORS N ALTMAN, Itman & Co, JACOB ASTOR, Vices GEO. F. BAK Chatrman ROBERT WALTO THOMAS W. LAMONT, "t First N Blalr & Co., Bank GATES W. McGA Pres't Mechante: CHARLES A, PI B, CASE, White & Case, Attorneys, THOMAS COCHRAN, Jr., Vice-President, E, C. CONVERSE, G President. H. P, DAVISON, J.P. Morgan & Co., Bankers JOHN L. DOWNE Building Construction. WILI ‘AM H. PO! SEWARD PROSS! EABODY, Pres't Mutual Life Ins. Co. . W. PERKINS, J.P. Morgan & Co., ‘Chemical Nat'l Bank, ‘ GOELET, DANIEL G, REID, Rock Istand System. DOUGLAS ROBINSON, Real Estate. ‘ational Bank. EDGAR L. MARSTON, era. ARCHIBALD D, RUSSELL, ALEXANDER H, STEVENS, Vice-President. JOHN F, THOMPSON, Vice-Pres't Bankers’ Trust Co. CHARLES L, TIFFANY, Vice-Pres't Tiffany & Co. ALBERT H. WIGGIN, Vice-Pres't Chaso Nat'l Bank. RRAH, Nat'l Bank. ‘Bankers, RTER, Vice-Pres't, OFFICERS E, C. CONVE Vice Pres. SEWARD PRO: *, Cashler, The Barnum of Jouraalines (Continued from page 793) policy proceed upon consideration of broad prin- ciples and of fixed conviction; it has no back- ground and no look-ahead; always it is based 1, President. . VicePres. THOMAS COCHRAN, Jr., Vice-Pres, HOWARD BOOCOCK, Ass't Sec. JAS. R. TROWBRIDGE, Trust OMcer, upon a hurried and commonly an astute estimate of the state of the public mind. Mr. Hearst's latest scheme of policy has just been unfolded and it is nothing more or less than a radical and emphatic development of a “cause” which he has more or less cultivated in a tentative and threatening way for several ycary past. He is for public ownership of public utilities, He will have those who have naught take upon themselves through political manipu lation the ownership of public utilities with th administration. He flings all ideas of conserva. tism to the winds: he goes the wholt hog with. out limit. He sounds the battle ery; he lets loose the dogs of aggressive warfare against private property in public utilities; he secks with resounding phrases to enlist the attention and the interest of all that part of the country can be attracted by glittering talk spice the hope of acquiring through political devices the property which others have toiled and moiled . Hearst's private political party, the so- called Independence League, will now address itself to the work of spreading the gospel of pub- lic ownership. Backed by the Hearst papers, sus- tained by the Hearst largess, inspired by the Hearst leadership, it will go on its way as long as the “issue” has the vitality to attract public attention. When the iron grows cold, whea there shall no longer be any “go” in this par- ticular subject, then Mr. Hearst will be ready with something else. Even already no doubt be holds carefully in cold-storage, ready for use whenever it may be required, some other “ issue” shrewdly calculated to attract popular notice and (Continued on page 795) THE STANDARD PAPER FOR BU: LOOK FOR THE WATER-MARK” Just: as every. ‘intellectual man_ appreciates” ‘intel- ligence, every man that. uses fine business ‘paper < OLD) every other man’ S use RO it. is a sort oS passpor =a circles. . stantial and. th ‘Tt proclaims. the : mong the best business’ osnp of aS sub- That it pays always to.use OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND for “commercial stationery is the testimon: “men, y of prudent business _ Prove ‘this for yourself-—let_us give you the OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND Book of Specimens. festive specimens of letterheads and other bi printed, lithographed and engraved on the white a teen.colors of OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND. 2 Ie contains sug- iness:forms, four- 0) ’ Aa bing ‘Hampshire Paper. Company: The only paper makers in the world making bond paper.exclusively South Hadley Falls, M assachusetts” MADE “A LITTLE BETTER THAN SEEMS NECESSARY" —LOOK FOR THE WATER-MARK” ™ LettersofCredit The most direct and simple form for travelers to provide themselves with funds while traveling either in this coun- try or abroad is through the use of our Letters of Credit. They are current in all parts of the world, and in addition furnish means for the prompt forwarding of mail, luggage and cables. Full particulars upon application. Redmond ac 507 Chestnut St., Philadelphi: 33 Pine Street, New York Cables Mimosa,” New York THE LOVER'S LAUGH has th enougl be has somet! He hz having all if time, be sel cireus ideas | plicati precise sawdu: cess. thing | man 0 ciples, straigh The A A Tt w room away distrac Upper “The searce! approa comicbooks.com