Life, 1910-02-17 · page 13 of 44
Life — February 17, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains two distinct elements: **Top illustration**: A satirical cartoon titled "Recent Discoveries in Alaska: The Guggenheim Range" depicts a large, brutish figure emerging from Alaska's landscape. This appears to reference the Guggenheim mining interests' controversial operations in Alaska, caricaturing them as exploitative and domineering. **Text sections**: Articles discuss Bishop John Heyl Vincent and a "Principle" piece by Secretary Dickinson regarding the War Department stopping the Standard Oil Company from laying supplies—framing this as either principled action against monopolistic trusts or selective enforcement. **Bottom comic**: A small cartoon shows someone asking a woman to wait for "the next car," likely satirizing class attitudes or social pretension. The overall page critiques corporate power and government inconsistency in regulating big business during the Progressive Era.
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JOHN HEYL VINCENT Born February 23, 1832 Bishop Vincent has builded better than he knew. His Chautauqua Circle has been accepted in so many homes and has been provoc: ‘of so much educational good that it is in many y$ a nomument to his creative ability. He has maintained it with- out ostentation and in the face of many diffi- culties. New move- ments have arisen but the Chautauqua has gone on with undi- minished vigor. Many people owe their liberal educations to its beneficent in- fluence We salute you as a good man and a useful citizen, A Precedent T is to be hoped that the arrest in New York of the Duncan child— ¢-Greece-iously garbed, may be a pre- cedent for future activities of the Gerry Society, but with slight modifications. That is to say, if the society will go a step forward from arresting every un- derclothed child to providing it with RECENT DISCOVERIES IN ALASKA THE GUGGENHEIM RANGE proper clothing, possibly so much money would not have to be spent in remov- ing adenoids and disseminating vaccina- tion marks with their attendant poison Of course, we understand that a sensible proceeding would be a: the laws, as laws are principally for the purpose of providing salaries for in digent politicians. A Principle HEN Secretary Dickinson ordered the War Department to stop buy- ing supplies from the Standard Oil Com- pany, on the ground that this trust is a brigand and not deserving the patronage of honest people, he did a unique and valuable thing, because he brought up a principle that may well be considered. Secretary Dickinson, of course, does not expect to be consistent. If he were, and endeavored to carry his principle to its ultimate conclusion, he would be in trouble immediately. He wouldn’t be able to ride on a railroad or a street car —certainly not in New York. He could not patronize the corner grocery store. He could scarcely buy any clothes, He could not well listen to sermon. the average 'OOLS get married and wise men stay married ELEANOR fy dear madam, in order that we may astly claim for this machine the title that appears above the door, I respectfully sug- gest that you wait for the next car.” comicbooks.com