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Life — April 24, 1913 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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The page contains two distinct editorial cartoons with accompanying commentary on early 20th-century politics. **"A Bull Boy"** (left): Shows a figure standing on a hill beside what appears to be a bull. The text discusses tariff taxes, Congressional matters, and mentions Mr. Bryan and Democratic policy. The cartoon likely satirizes political debate over economic policy, though the specific allegorical meaning of the bull requires more context. **"Mexico"** (right): The lower cartoon depicts a figure in distress beneath a large eagle. This clearly references American intervention in Mexican affairs, satirizing U.S. involvement in Mexico's instability. The text discusses property disputes and suggests the U.S. government may need to intervene diplomatically. Both cartoons reflect turn-of-the-century American political anxieties about trade policy and foreign relations.
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\ DULL BOY Tariff taxes have escaped much of the odium that belonged to them because they have come disguised as tailors’ or grocers’ bills, and people have not recognized them. It is a merit of the income tax that it is nasty and recog- nizable. Perhaps if we hate it enough some of us will subscribe to the Congressional Record and see what our money is spent for, and who gets it, and who votes to spend it. That a vast deal of it is wasted, everybody knows. No new ambassadors have got the black spot since last writing. As we go to press Mr. Page is the only gen- tleman who has undertaken to handle a fifty-thousand dollar duty on a sal- ary of $17,500. In speaking of Mr. Page the other day we alluded to him as an “opulent publisher.” Perhaps we owe it to him to explain that that is a description which should not be taken too literally. He is, we trust, relatively opulent, as publishers go but we would not be understood seri: ously to stigmatize him as anything so repugnant to the present public mood as a rich man. Somebody has introduced a bill into Congress to buy or hire residences for all our diplomatic representatives. Mr. Bryan's backing ought to help such a bill in a Democratic Congress, and Mr. Bryan undoubtedly will help it all he can. It is very good for the Democrats to be in office, and very good, we be- lieve, for the country to have them there. Nobody knows what he can do till he tries, and it is a long time since the Democrats have been tried. The Cabinet seems to be beautifully har- monious, and individually promising It is nearly two months old now and is considerably complimented. The labors of the present government with the Ohio floods were thought to be exceptionally prompt and efficient A PER nine days imprisonment, in which she refused food, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was temporarily released to recover her appetite. She has still two years and 236 days of her sentence to serve. What her temper 823 will be by the time she has served out her sentence is something the unaided imagination cannot conceive. They say she speaks very unkindly to her jailers, which is not good form in a martyr. The: papers have dismal stories of the impairment of Miss Zelie Emer- son, of Michigan, by forcible feeding and other self-invited hardships. They say she broke her nose turning it up at the British government, and has developed appendicitis out of pure spite. The marvel is that our cousins do not send Miss Emerson home to her folks, and put bars up against her return. Mrs. Emmeline is their own trouble which they will have to see through, but why should they bother with Zelie? She is needed, by the way, at home in Michigan, where woman suffrage was defeated in the election on April 7 by majorities very much larger than those of last year. The suffrage movement seems for the moment to be checked. Perhaps its increasing unpopularity in England is reflected in this country Mexico GOOD deal of property of outsid- ers must be impaired in value by recent harrowing proceedings of Bul- gars and Serbs against the Turks, and doubtless the powers which have neglected to intervene will sympathize with the patience of this government with proceedings in Mexico. If the current experiment down there fails, it may happen that the assistance of our government may be invoked by a party in Mexico strong enough to simplify some sort of intervention comicbooks.com