Life, 1910-11-17 · page 17 of 44
Life — November 17, 1910 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**"Politics and the Tariff"** (main essay with illustrations): This piece satirizes the U.S. tariff system by exposing its hypocrisy. The argument claims tariffs should be removed from politics and handled by "businessmen"—but then reveals the actual goal: to impose high duties on goods sold to ordinary people while exempting items needed by manufacturers and importers themselves. The satire is that this supposedly "efficient" system would simply legalize corruption and unequal treatment. The accompanying cartoons mock the tariff's complexity and unfairness. **"Saving a Suffragette"** (bottom right): A woman suffragette appears to be rescued or restrained by men. The dialogue ("By the way, are you engaged?") suggests the cartoon jokes about male rescuers immediately assuming women need marriage as their salvation—mocking both the condescension toward suffragettes and the era's assumptions about women's roles. **Other brief gags** comment on tailors and home renovation with typical period humor.
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“wow! THIS MUST BE THE DEVIL OF THE Brrps."* Politics and the Tariff UCH of the annoyance to travelers returning from abroad, caused by our tariff regulations, could be obviated if the tariff were taken entirely out of politics, As Mr. James J. Hill has so aptly said: “The national machine is too big and too distant, slow, cumbrous and costly.’ The tariff, therefore, should be put into the hands of business men, quick, efficient and discriminating. It would then be an easy matter to ar- range schedules and regulations so that commodities which are sold to the peop would carry the highest possible dutic while those things which the manufac- turers and importers and jobbers needed for themselves and their families could be put on the list of exemptions. In other words, one of the chief difficulties with the tariff is that the government, having decided that the tariff was cor- rect in principle, has been trying to treat all alike. To make such an effort was of course absurd, if for no other reason than that those who are not accustomed to being treated alike absolutely refuse to submit to such justice. Ellis O. Jones. T’S a poor scale that doesn’t work both weighs. LOOKING OVER SOME “BACK NUMBERS oF LIFE SAVING A SUFFRAGETTE She: ny tie way, ane you rxcacen? PABKE: Fiddleback tells me he has had the painters and decorators in his house for the past week. Lave: Fixing up his wife? Dawes: You have splendid- looking clothes, old man. Who is your tailor? Curverton: He's the first man you See as you go out comicbooks.com