Life, 1913-05-22 · page 11 of 48
Life — May 22, 1913 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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The main illustration depicts "The First Day Ashore After a Rough Sea Voyage"—showing a sailor emerging from a ship into an urban street scene. This is a visual gag about disorientation: the exaggerated perspective and tilting buildings suggest the sailor's equilibrium is still disrupted by seasickness, making solid ground appear as unstable as the ocean. The accompanying text discusses political reform movements, mentioning President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt, and debates over tariff legislation and anti-trust laws. The article criticizes politicians constrained by limited thinking, advocating for broader-minded reformers who can cultivate new ideas. A secondary item praises Alfred Russell Wallace's new book criticizing the existing social system as "rotten from top to bottom."
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THE FIRST DAY ASHORE meet that test are liable to wither on the parent stem. When the most vigorous and able of the mail order periodicals have killed off ll their struggling rivals and got the whole of that field to themselves, the situation may im- prove, and possibly there may develop new vehicles of thought that will be able to cultivate relations of profitable intimacy with a limited number of readers who think thoughts, and who like personality and brains and knowl- edge and thought in what they read, and who prefer magazines that are not AFTER A ROUGH SEA VOY! constrained by the conditions of their existence to reject everything that has not been cut down and fitted to a re- stricted experience of life and a limited understanding. 'HE cause of the New Freedom proceeds comfortably, The House has passed the new tariff bill, 281 to 139, but the Senate is still between the 1019 bill and the goal-posts, and may be stubborn. yan is engaged in the pacification of the world, and he and President Wilson are both de- sirous to begin by pacifying California Governor Sulzer, still aspiring to be counted the forward-lookers, has called a1. extra session of the N York Legislature to pass a real direct primary bill in support of which he has called upon all the reformers of all partics—Colonel Roosevelt and the Bull Moose organization, Mr. Wm. J Conners of Buffalo, Mr. Hearst of New York and scores of others to come to his assistance. It seems that Mr. Roosevelt has agreed to help him, nd there promises to be a short, lively campaign to unite the whole sentiment of the State against the power of Tam many in the Legislature. Mr. Roose- velt’s participation in this effort de- by a Democratic Governor is very interesting. Heaven knows whether direct primaries will do us good, but Colonel Roosevelt has faith in them, and it is very suitable that he should put his weight behind any likely movement that promises to bring them. among vised e GOOD many people are holding their political breaths until they see how the mind of President Wilson works on the rider to the “Sundry Civil” bill which stipulates, in effect, that a certain $300,000 sp ‘ally ap- propriated for the enforcement of anti- trust laws, shall not be used to prose- cute organizations of farmers or trade unions. If Mr. Wilson signs the bill with that proviso his explanation of his signature will receive very careful Pt T! New Freedom has an enthus- jastic recruit in the venerable Alfred Russel Wallace, who declares in a new book that the present social system is rotten from top to bottom, and has got to be made over. Anybody can tell him that that is what is now proceeding, especially in his native land. comicbooks.com