Life, 1910-06-23 · page 37 of 40
Life — June 23, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes commercial advertisements with political commentary typical of Life's satirical format. The main editorial content, titled "Who Pays?", critiques both Socialism and capitalism's war profiteering by quoting Charles Edward Russell's socialist tract *Why I Am a Socialist*. The piece argues that capitalists manufacture patriotic fervor and foreign threats (German Emperor, Russian Czar, Japan) to justify military spending that working-class soldiers must ultimately finance and die for. Russell's point: wars benefit only capitalists, while workers pay in blood and taxes regardless of which nation's "army of workingmen" they comprise. The surrounding ads—motor apparel, fasteners, tooth powder, talcum—are generic commercial fare. The editorial takes an anti-capitalist, pro-working-class position characteristic of Life's muckraking era, directly attacking how wealthy industrialists like Rockefeller and Ryan manipulate workers into supporting their financial interests through nationalism.
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Booklet illustrating and giving prices of other articles sent on request. EUGENE H. FERREE, 68 Market St., Lockport, N.Y. ETRE Who Pays ? It seems unfortunate that a Social- ist, in addition to being a contemptible mischief maker, should, of necessity, be insane. According to our Wall Street friends a man who labors for the benefit of his fellow creatures in- stead of for dividends is a pretty low- down thing. If there is any doubt on this subject ask Mr. John D. Rocke feller or Mr. Thomas Fortune Ryan what they think of Socialists, Apropos of which, Mr. Charles Ed- ward Russell, in his recent book, Why I Ama Socialist, says of War: In order to prevent workingmen from perceiving the huge folly of this arrange- ment, it is customary to arouse periodical spasms of patriotic fervor, to picture the German Emperor as about to descend upon England, or the Czar about to cap- ture India, of Japan about to hurl her hosts against the United States. The outcome of each of these i increased expenditure for armament and battleships, which the workingmen must pay. And’ all the time the fact is per- Mixed with water Calox forms pero: hydrogen, the only known substance that will whiten the teeth without injury. Dentists advise its use. Physicians prescribe it. All Druggists, 25 cents. Sample and Booklet free on request, McKESSON & ROBBINS : NEW YORK fectly. apparent to any observer that the German Emperor will not descend and except with German work- ‘and the Czar will not capture thout Russian workingmen, and the only hosts that Japan can hurl against the United States are composed of Japa- nese workingmen. And if any of these improbable events should happen, the in- vading armies of workingmen would be met by other armies of workingmen, the blood that would drench the earth would be the blood of workingmen, the widows and orphans that would be ‘made would be chiefly the widows and orphans of workingmen, the limbs that would be am- putated in the field hospitals would be chiefly the limbs of workingmen. So that unless the workingmen can be de- ceived and inflamed against one another. unless they can be made in some way to think that they have some interest in these international brawls, there will be no war, But as a matter of fact, the workingmen cannot have the slightest in terest or concern in such conflicts, th never gain aught from them except h ier burdens and a more wretched condi tion; in no conceivable respect is the war ‘any concern of theirs, but only the concern of the capitalists, as it was in South Africa, and as it is or yesterday it was in Morocco. These things are always done with and at the expense of workingmen. The capitalists that make the wars never 1165 Res pect the dealer who offers CIGARETS He's looking at your side of the smoking proposition. 15 cents and a quarter At cigar stores, hotels, cafes, and on the best dining cars, Mail address—95 Milk Street, Boston, Mass, take part in them, and never pay for them ; the working ¢lasses that are fooled into going forth to shoot at one another are also fooled into paying all the bills of the shooting. Some day, it is to be supposed, the workingmen will weary of being fooled and being shot at. Then they will put an end to these pleasant games. The way that they will end is by ending the system of which the games are an integral and inseparable part Also in Peace, we might add, the capitalist fights with all the power that is in him against an income tax. 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