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This page from Life presents a series of witty, contradictory quote pairings that mock contemporary public figures and social attitudes. The format juxtaposes earnest statements from politicians, businessmen, and reformers with sharp rejoinders that expose hypocrisy or absurdity. The cartoon depicts an elderly "German" immigrant (labeled on his jacket) being chased by or reacting to a wild boar, with the caption "STOP HIM!" This likely satirizes anti-German sentiment or hysteria, possibly related to World War I tensions. The textual satire targets: business tycoons' exhaustion (attributed to exploitation), the wealthy's supposed legal impartiality (contradicted by the notorious Thaw case involving a wealthy defendant), politicians' compromised integrity due to financial need, women's suffrage arguments, and business leaders' declining lifespans (presented as welcome news for business rivals). The overall tone is skeptical of authority figures making self-serving or hypocritical pronouncements.

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LaFeE “ They HOSE who think they have found religion have really lost their mental balance.—Rev. William A. Wasson. All except the theologians, who think they have found their mental balance, and have really lost their religion. eee Business needs a rest—James J. Hill. Anybody who has been held up and robbed and sand- bagged and left for dead by plutocratic gunmen for several generations would need a rest. sees T have been scoused of saying hard things against Amer- ica. Perhaps I have been guilty of this, but it is because I love the country too well—/sadora Duncan. There is not one taw for the rich and another for the poor. With us a rich man has less chance before a jury than a poor man. Assistant District-Attorney « For instance, the Thaw case. Arthur C. Train. American business men are the peers of any in the world.—IWilliam Sproul, President of the Pacific System of the Southern Pacific Railway. The tired business man has at last come to his own. sdehets The man who makes politics a profession and has a wife and children dependent upon him is sooner or later going to be forced into the position where, for the sake of his wife and children, he will have the choice of doing what is not quite right and staying in office, or doing that which is right and getting out of office and permitting his wife and children to starve, and a man cannot see his wife and children starve. No man under present conditions in the ited States has a right to go into politics unless he is of independent means.—President Hadley of Yale. The same thing is true of other professions—the Church, medicine, literature and the university. seer The most sacred and potential spot on earth 1s the fire- side shrine—Congressman Webb, of North Carolina. Don't you mean radiator? oe ee Tei is only the workers who attain wealth. Miss Anne Morgan. Mother Jones, what do you say to this? ee ee Therefore, Iet_ us begin the golf season of 1915 with a firm determination to play the game right. —" Chick” Evans. Why limit this to a season? That's what every man says in his heart every time he starts out to play. eeee The girl who has had her breakfast served to her every day, who has been helped to dress, who has been sheltered from all domestic duties, is not fit for a_ wife and mother. —Professor Charles Zeublin, Say It has peeved me that anti-suffragists do nothing but appeal to the great, soft heart of man. —Henry Wise Miller. Don’t worry, brother. There are still quite a number of them, from Eve dowsy\ who appeal successfully to his stomach. eeee In the last decade there has been more abuse, more slander, more personal attack and more demagogy, a consequence, more_injury to the general public, than ever before—Judge Gary. But, then, there are more of us. ee ee Statistics prove that the length of the business man’s life is not so long as it was twenty years ago. —Dr. Louis fond Weemiller, That will be good news for many business men nowa days. ee ee .. There is a growing fecling that the business of the State is not carried on as effectively and economically as it might be, and that too many officers are elected. —George W. Wickersham. We thought that feeling was pretty well grown up by this time. “stop Him!