Life, 1909-10-21 · page 8 of 32
Life — October 21, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines a dramatic illustration titled "Welcome Home" with accompanying poetry and commentary. The main image depicts a chaotic scene with figures and what appears to be customs or dock activity, suggesting a returning traveler's experience. The accompanying articles include a poem addressed "To Mary Baker Eddy" (founder of Christian Science) praising her spiritual teachings, and a piece titled "More Protection" discussing banking regulation and postal savings banks. The cartoon labeled "The Adder's Sting" (bottom right) appears to be a satirical drawing of a thin figure, likely critiquing some social or political target, though the specific reference is unclear without additional context. The overall page mixes spiritual commentary with economic/regulatory criticism typical of early 1900s satirical journalism.
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WELCOME HOME THIS PICTURE PITS THE CASE TO-DAY EVEN BETTER THAN WHENIT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN LIFE OF MAY 16, 1901 To Mary Baker Eddy More Protection FHA, That inefiabe, purest serenity! HE Thou the essential and basic sublime! In whom stupendous forensic infinity Svblimates vastness and concentrates time American Bankers’ Association, in pa- triotic convention assembled, “condemn in unqualified terms the proposition for the establish ment of postal savings banks or any other system by which government enters directly into banking From the resultant translucent perceptives YZ relations with the people."” Widely divergent conceptions were framed, Mh Of course. It would be fatal for the Govern- Seemingly present with evident entity, 4 ment to get too near the people. Some stron) By unenlightened erroneously named /; | and, if possible, respectable, influence should in y4 tervene for that protection, one from the other, Shrouded in mystical vague corporeity, , which both need. ach the effulgence of essence divine, That's why, also, there is ne opposition Truly coterminous, psychic, portentous, among the bankers to a “strong central bank.” Salient;: creatives protective; benign. That is to say, all money, both public and privat should first be turned over to the bankers. Wha they are then able to make out of it, either by Feel Thy omnipotence serving our wills, investing in stocks or by lending it back to the Work iS cemeve wreniall halldctuniions: . Government or to the people, is none of our anish the preachers, physicians and pills 4 \ business, To try to find out would be unwar- ranted paternalism and an interference with in vidual liberty. To stop it would be confi tion. Ellis O. Jones. T is necessary to tell a woman only the unim- portant things. She will find out the rest for Mac Kimm. “rite aovee’s stixc” herself. We—the Enlightened—proclaim Thy proclivity, Gratitude, honor, affection and glory Ascribe Mrs. Eddy all ye who have brains, Whose saponaceous circumlocution Impregnable still Christian Science maintains comicbooks.com