Life, 1913-06-05 · page 43 of 52
Life — June 5, 1913 — page 43: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political cartooning. The left side contains ads for Wilson's venetian blinds, Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company (river cruises), and various quotes about British parliamentary hedging and human nature. The main content is a **Kodak Vest Pocket camera advertisement** — a new portable camera small enough for a vest pocket or handbag, priced at $6.00. Below is an editorial titled "Our Reprehensible Government" criticizing U.S. government intervention against Dr. Friedmann's serum (a tuberculosis treatment). The writer sarcastically argues the government wrongly attacked a medical product that generated free newspaper advertising worth half a million dollars, and sarcastically asks whether the government will now regulate all "spurious panaceas." **The satire**: The piece mocks what it sees as hypocritical government overreach—condemning authorities for damaging legitimate business through "malice prepense" while protecting industrial profits over public health scrutiny.
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ca Ss we ewe eee ewes eeeeeen= \\ ery arte, pene J cceatry Seumeny RICHELIEU & ONTARIO NAVIGATION CO. Wilson’s Outside Venetians, For Windot es Yet still people in this country do not like to be committed to distinct premises. They like a Chancellor of the Exchequer to say: “It has during very many years been maintained by the honorable mem- ber for Montrose that two and two make four, and I am free to say, that I think there is a great deal to be said in favor of that opinion; but, without com- mitting her Majesty’s Government to that proposition as an abstract sentiment, I will go so far as to assume thet two and two are not sufficient to make five, which, with the permission of the House, will be a sufficient basis for all the opcrations which I propose to enter upon during the present year."”—Walter Bagehot, in “ Lit- erary Studies.” Longmans, Green & Co. “Tt is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles—the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.” —Pope. SHOOTING THE RAPIOS med Saguenay River meee River, LS. “HOTEL. TADOUSAC” Tadneac, P. a Hay Fever and Malaria tage for Mlinstvated guide to B. Passer. Trafic Mgr. DeptX, Montreal.Cen, Vest Pocket Literally small enough to go into the vest pocket (or a lady’s handbag)—big enough to bring home all outdoors—a miniature in size, but lacking nothing of Kodak efficiency or simplicity. Has Kodak Ball Bearing shutter with iris diaphragm stops, menis- cus achromatic lens, Autotime scale and brilliant reversible finder. Loads in daylight with Kodak film cartridges for eight exposures. A fixed focus makes it always ready for quick work. Lustrous black metal finish. Pictures, 154 x 2% inches. Price, $6,020 Catalogue at your dealers, or on request. Free. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rocuester, N. Y., The Kodak City. Our Reprehensible Government T scems a great pity just as Dr. Friedmann had his serum perfected and, so far as I we can learn, a syndicate formed to exploit it, that the United States Government should have stepped in and declared against it The amount of advertising which the good doctor got in the papers could not have been bought at the regular rates for less than half a million. How, then, can our gov- ernment justify itself? It has apparently deliberately sought to damage a serum industry with malice prepense, aforethought and by design If our government is going to adopt this radical course and call attention to all the spurious panaceas on the market, where is it all to end? Is not our industrial system in danger? comicbooks.com