Life, 1909-12-09 · page 9 of 32
Life — December 9, 1909 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon, titled "A Few More Applicants for Legal Holidays," satirizes efforts to establish new national holidays. The image shows various figures in period costume (appearing to represent different groups or interests) lined up to petition for recognition—suggesting that if various groups received official holidays, the calendar would become absurdly crowded. The bottom section contains two articles: "Sportive" by Franklin H. Wentworth criticizing *Collier's* and *Saturday's Magazine* for publishing sensationalist hunting stories that glorify killing animals, and "Liberty and Freedom," discussing emancipation and women's rights, contrasting different regional perspectives on freedom. The satire mocks the proliferation of holiday requests while the articles address serious social and editorial concerns of the period.
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Be 2s B Mes ese YY A FEW MORE APPLICANTS FOR LEGAL HOLIDAYS Sportive R. FRANKLIN H. WENTWORTH says in the Coll Agents of Scribner’s Magazine are going about the country soliciting subscriptions, stating that the magazine is paying Mr. Roosevelt one doilar a word for his tales of slaughter. To publish the articles is in itself a disgraceful betrayal of the high responsibility of a magazine read by the you but to solicit the perusal of this corruption because it is ex- travagantly paid for is hopelessly and unspeakably vulgar It is impossible to estimate the harmful effect of these articles in brutalizing and quickening the blood lust of the young Yes, but remember the courage, the splendid heroism. Re- member that our ex-President faces these critters almost single-handed. We say “almost,’’ because he has seldom more than a dozen or two attendants. Moreover, while the mighty hunter himself is unarmed these fierce animals all carry breach-loading rifles. And do not forget there is just as much d an unsuspecting rhinoceros with a long-distan shooting a cow in a pasture. , Liberty and Freedom HE main problem of ethics is to devise a form of liberty which will make a man who is subjected to it feel that he is free. When we consider the colored people of South, for instance, it is clear that they have cither libert without freedom or freedom without liberty not. It is the same with woman's suffrage er in killing on as in both they have The suf might emancipate our women, but it wouldn't give them free dom, It might give them freedom, but it wouldn't give them liberty. On the other hand, it might take away much of their liberty in the process of emancipation, in which event we could not give them back their liberty without hampering them in their freedom. It is a fit case for any duly accredited apostolic successor of the ancient Oracle at Delphi E.0.J. comicbooks.com