Life, 1914-06-04 · page 22 of 52
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**Top Cartoon ("As the Antis See It"):** Two politicians discuss vote-buying costs, with one boasting about cheaper votes at "Jonnymaker's." This mocks anti-suffrage arguments by depicting male politicians as already corrupt vote-purchasers—suggesting women voters couldn't be worse. The "Antis" are opponents of women's suffrage. **Bottom Cartoon ("Tables Turned"):** A woman reads a newspaper while dismissing her husband's request for news as "just politics"—previously women's typical role. Now she's the one uninterested in politics, reversing traditional gender dynamics. **Editorial Parodies:** The "What Our Contemporaries Are Saying" section satirizes hypocritical newspaper editorials through fake newspaper personas: praising Rockefeller despite labor unrest (Colorado), claiming intellectual superiority, advocating maximum war effort while claiming to oppose war, and favoring railroad interests over public welfare. **Context:** Published during WWI and the suffrage debate, Life ridicules both political corruption and editorial double-speak.
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ag i! 2) AS THE ANTIS SEE IT Female Politician: THEM VOTES 1 GOT YESTERDAY COST ME TWO DOLLARS API Second Politicia Too BAD! 1 GOT SOME LOVELY ONES AT JONNYMAKER'S FOR ONE-NINETY-EIGHT TABLES TURNED “ ANY NEWS THIS MORNING, JANE?” “NOTHING OF INTEREST TO YOU, JUST POLITICS.” What Our Contemporaries Are Saying VENING BLATANT—There has been enough shilly- shallying. A law should be passed at once prohibiting all further unrest and dissatisfaction. This law should state so clearly that even the Supreme Court could under- stand it, that this is a great nation and will not brook even the slightest decrease in that greatness. We have mentioned this matter several times, and unless it is attended to we shall have to mention it again. Morning Weeper—It deeply grieves us to observe the unfairness with which certain careless critics are treating young Mr. Rockefeller on account of the situation in Colorado. We here in New York, of course, do not need to be told of his splendid work in building up Sunday- school classes. Such a man could be capable only of the highest thoughts. When he says that he and his father are willing to lose all their money in order that American workingmen may have the kind of jobs they want, if they can get them, it is no less idealistic than his statement of a few years ago, that the whole garden of roses should be sacrificed if necessary to produce one perfect Amer- ican beauty. Evening Whine—As we view the concatenation of events which have been eventuating with more than average fre- quency of late, we are constrained to admit that the chief weakness of the masses lies in their failure to read, ponder and analyze the scholarly editorials which this paper publishes from day to day. We would not go so far as to say that we always utter the ultimate word on each subject, but it is usually the penultimate, or, at the very outside, the antepenultimate word. Weekly Hypocrite—No one detests war more than we do, and no one will go to longer lengths to avoid it, but now that we are in it, the honor and dignity of our beloved nation demands that we should make a thorough job of it. Having once begun to meddle and destroy and kill, we can not turn back, and, therefore, the only honorable course is to meddle and destroy and kill to the highest possible degree. Morning Chadband—We trust the Interstate Commerce Commission will no longer delay giving the railroads any- thing they want. The stockholders and the bondholders of the railroads are the backbone of the nation, and, unless the rest of us stockholders and bondholders and non-stockholders and non-bondholders rally to the support of this backbone, the nation cannot long survive. Nothing could be clearer than that. Then why the delay? It ought to be apparent to all that the railroads would not ask for anything they didn’t want. IRST M. D.: Greatman has appendicitis. Secoxp M. D.: Any complications? First M. D.: Yes, one member of the family is a Christian Scientist. comichooks.qom