Life, 1910-06-02 · page 20 of 56
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This 1908 *Life* page contains political satire about President William Howard Taft. The main article criticizes Taft's frequent travel on Pullman railroad cars, suggesting Congress should instead fund Washington attractions—a baseball stadium, a winning team, and golf links—to keep him in the capital where he belongs. The satire implies Taft is an absentee president who neglects his duties. The "News About Oughts" section praises Theodore Roosevelt's European speeches and contrasts them with Woodrow Wilson's domestic speaking tour, presenting Wilson as a energetic voice on democracy and duty—likely positioning him as a future presidential alternative. The cartoons illustrate domestic mishaps: a steward losing a collar button and a "Kind Lady" with "Mike the Midget," a reference to midget performers popular in vaudeville entertainment of that era.
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1008 you to decide whether they can charge for it an extra sum. he evidence docs not tend to show that the cost of te graphing was of any particular financial consequence to the in, the defendant was forcibly taken from the car and removed corporally to another place, in spite of the fact that he tendered his ticket and the regular Pullman rate between the two points. It is for you to say whether this constituted a forcible act, payable in suitable damages. You may now retire.”” What was the conclusion of this remarkable case? At the last writing the jury was still out. In the mean- time, can any of our readers say what verdict the jury should bring in? Make Washington More Attractive HE request, a fortnight since, that Congress should make the President's next year's allowance of travel money available at once, instead of on July first, was interpreted to mean that this year’s allowance was used up. The request was discussed with some ardor. There is a feeling in Congress, and more or less elsewhere in the coun- try, that it might be better for Mr. Taft to live more in the White House and less on Pullman cars. He is a large man and the constant shaking of railroad trains must be tiresome to him. And there is his job! There are those who think it would prosper better if he stood over it more. On the contrary, the opinion is offered that the President gives less s. ction in Washington than anywhere else, and ‘ARD, WOULD YOU MIND HELPING ME TO CATCH M4Y ‘LIFE THE WEIGHT OF THE BAGGAGE SMASHER’S AMBITION gets more jarred in the White House than he docs on the trains, So long as the matter is so much in dispute it would be better perhaps for Congress to express itself indircetly by ap- propriations to (a) strengthen the grand stand at the National Base Ball Park, (b) engage some first-class talent for the Washington nine and (c) improve and embellish the Chevy Chase golf links. It is more graceful and usually more ef- fective to do all one can to make home happy than to refuse a restless man a latchke News About Oughts E things that the Colonel has been saying in his ad- esses in Europe are good things to have said, but the speaker that seems to be spreading the nets about what we ought to be and what will happen to us if we ar’n’t, and what sort of a world we shall find ourselves living in before we know it, is Woodrow Wilson, What new reservoir of encrgy Dr. Wilson has tapped we know not, but he seems to be loaded with a message, and goes up and down the land speaking it, oftenest to Princeton graduates, and writes it down between time and puts it into print. It is the liveliest and most inspir- ing message of democracy and duty that comes to notice Kind Lady: wox't you sit ox MY Lap, LITTLE nov? Mike the Midget: sw-w-w-1! Not so Loup! My wire HEAR You. comicbooks.com