Life, 1914-10-22 · page 19 of 44
Life — October 22, 1914 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon ("The Chance of a Lifetime"):** A man named Jinks has caught burglars in his home. Rather than releasing them, he attempts to hold them captive to lecture them about women's suffrage—a topical political issue of the era. The satire mocks men (like Jinks) who oppose voting rights for women by suggesting they're so obsessed with the suffrage question that they'd use any captive audience to preach against it. The caption's dark humor implies he sees the burglary as an opportunity, not a crisis. **Lower Section ("Our Obligations"):** An editorial attack on railroad companies requesting government financial support. The author (E.O.J.) sarcastically criticizes U.S. railroads for demanding money ostensibly to meet foreign obligations while those nations wage war—suggesting railroads will simply use funds for weapons abroad rather than domestic needs. The piece condemns corporate profiteering during wartime. **Bottom Cartoon:** A brief nature-themed joke about mistaking something for a butterfly's nest; unrelated to political content.
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THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Jinks (on returning late and finding that burgiars have been at work): NOW, MY DEAR, BEFORE 1 RELEASE YOU, PERHAPS YGU AND YOUR MOTIER WON'T MIND LISTENING TO MY VIEWS ON TILE SUFFRAGE QUESTION Our Obligations N the recent manifesto of the railroad presidents, ask- ing, as usual, for more, appears the following: Securitics of United States railroads held abroad are computed at from three to five billion dollars. It is a certainty that bond and note obligations of the railroads maturing before the end of next year aggre gate over $20,000,000, In the highest public interest it is imperative that these obligations be met. Yes, yes. While these foreign countries are quarrelling and giving excellent reproductions of earlier barbaric cen- turies, it is our holy duty to work and save and scrape and stint ourselves and, using the well-known railroad watered-stock company as a medium of transmission, send y vast sums over for them to spend on guns and ammuni Galak. tion and other instruments of death and destruction. How a could our duty be clearer? “ you J SAID THAT WAS A BUTTERFLY'S, E. 0. J. NEST, YOU NATURE-FAKIR!” comicbooks.com