Life, 1913-10-16 · page 9 of 44
Life — October 16, 1913 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The page features two distinct pieces: **Susan B. Anthony section** (top): A sketch and biographical text about Anthony's 1872 illegal voting attempt in Rochester, New York. She was arrested, tried, and fined $100. The text celebrates her as a pioneer for women's political expression, noting that her action inspired ongoing efforts to secure voting rights for women. Arthur Young's accompanying commentary emphasizes that a "new generation of women" continues this fight for constitutional equality. **Lawyers and Laymen** (bottom): A satirical piece featuring a Canadian lawyer named Greenshields complaining he's "simply paralyzed" by legal prohibitions and writs. The humor mocks lawyers' tendency to blame legal technicalities for inaction, suggesting they lack understanding of practical matters that laypeople grasp intuitively. The cartoon's horned devil figure underscores the satirical tone regarding legal obstructionism.
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Susan B. Anthony NE election day forty years ago, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling-booth in Rochester, New York, and put a vote ia a Uallot-box. She did it to test the Constitution of the United States, which defines citizenship as “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdic- tion thereof ”. She was tried for illegal voting and fined one hundred dollars and costs of trial. Thus began one of the first conspicuous efforts to gain political expression for woman, a movement that has gained followers every year, while calumny and ridicule have but increased its zeal, and it will continue militant and courageous till:this Constitution which can be interpreted to suit any whim of authority shall have an amendment that. will: declare women to be “ persons” with a right to vote. The spirit of revolt as shown in the action of'this splendid! woman is abroad in the land. A new generation of women is imbued with Susan’ B. Anthony’s purpose to vote for the right as they see it, and help make the laws that rule the lives of their children. Arthur Young. Lawyers and Laymen “IT AM -simply paralyzed,” emphatically de- clared a Canadian lawyer named Green- shields, upon a recent occasion. “I can not understand it. With a writ of prohibition and habeas corpus out, it seems to me utterly impossible to believe.” His confusion is due of course solely to the fact that he is a lawyer. He knew ex- actly what had happened, but he could not understand it, simply because it was not down anywhere in a book that the same thing had ever happened before in the same way. The rest of us, on the contrary, al- though we do not know exactly what hap- pened, understand it with no difficulty what- soever. That's because we haven't spent much time and much money securing a diploma which per- mits us to live, move and have. our being in a particular artificial atmosphere, an atmosphere surcharged with the bluff that judges and other high officials are not-humanly motivated. . To a lawyer it is writs of prohibition, habeas corpuses and the like that make the world go ‘round or occasion- ally, if necessary, keep it from going ‘round, while laymen have no difficulty in finding thousands of more real and more convincing pegs upon which to hang credit slips, Mr. Greenshields or anyone clse could be pardoned in not understanding an unprecedented variation in the ris- ing of the sun, but no man of wisdom and self-posses- sion should be paralyzed at anything that trappens to, of, by or for writs of prohibition and habeas corpuses. £0.43. comicbooks.com