Life, 1910-02-24 · page 15 of 36
Life — February 24, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon "The New Thought"**: Depicts a drunken man defending his inebriation by invoking "New Thought" philosophy—claiming his "astral self" is merely enjoying a "mental joy-ride" while his physical body drinks. This satirizes the trendy New Thought movement (early 1900s spiritual philosophy) as an excuse for bad behavior. **"The Prodigious Infant"**: Criticizes the Steel Trust for allegedly funding English Conservative politicians to protect the House of Lords while already profiting excessively from American tariff protections. The satire mocks this as greed taken too far—even corrupt American politicians find it outrageous. **"Handy Men"**: References politicians Uncle Joe Cannon and Nelson Aldrich, suggesting they've become liabilities to their own Republican side despite their power. **"Autos"**: Brief commentary on automobile pollution in New York City—a modern nuisance requiring Board of Health intervention. The page reflects Progressive-era concerns: corporate monopolies, political corruption, New Age fads, and urban pollution.
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THE NEW THOUGHT “youn! YOU BEEN DRINKING AGAIN? “CERTAINLY NoT (1IIC), ASTRAL SELF IS MERELY MENTAL (111C) Joy-RIDE.”” The Prodigious Infant HE Steel Trust has been charged with contributing to the English campaign fund of the Conservatives, who are very much interested in protecting the House of Lords+ It is earnestly to be hoped that the charge is false. That would be going a bit too far. It is all right to pay poli- ticians over here to pass a‘tariff which will enable the trust to sell steel to protected Americans at fifty per cent. more than to free trade Englishmen, but, to take the profits from this transaction and spend them on English politicians, is altogether out of the question. There are still too many indigent politicians in this country. Handy Men R. CANNON can still shoot. But contemporary judgment reckons him to be more dangerous now to the side he is on than to the group opposed to him. He and Mr. Aldrich have come to be a great political convenience. HAVE M’DEAR, MY ENJOYING A You see what they are after; do a simple problem in subtraction and there you are. The remainder is what you want. Autos H’*s an automobile the right to make a bad smell in the streets of New York? Yes, in moderation; but only in strictly moderate moderation. The clouds of smelly smoke that badly mani- cured automobiles throw out are un- necessary, offensive and harmful to. the public health in such a city as New York and should not be tolerated. We are in sympathy with the current petition to the Board of Health to do something about wanton autos that smoke to excess. They are very im- proper and should be dealt with reason- ably, firmly, effectively. ww RA A THING of duty is a bore forever. straws (?) sHow wich WIND BLOWS WAY THE comicbooks.com