Life, 1915-05-20 · page 14 of 44
Life — May 20, 1915 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical cartoons commenting on early 20th-century social issues: **"A Sure Thing"** (left): Shows a man consulting a doctor about vaccination. The dialogue references James A. Loyster's book on vaccination cases. The satire criticizes anti-vaccination skepticism, suggesting vaccination is foolproof protection against disease—a serious public health debate of that era. **"Benevolent Suffragette"** (right): Depicts a woman suffragist promising to kiss every man who votes for her. This mocks women's suffrage activism, suggesting female voters would use improper methods to gain political power—a common anti-suffrage argument from the early 1900s. Both cartoons use humor to satirize contemporary reform movements.
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898 The Passing of Magnates HERE is an optimistic thought in the fact that we do not hear of magnates so much as formerly. The idea conveyed by the word magnate is one of size only— in this case, financial size. It has nothing to do with quality, but only with quantity. This was sufficient for us a few years back. If a man were a magnate, if he possessed the requisite financial bigness, nothing else mat- tered. If he had money, his virtues could be assumed. Or he didn’t need virtues. Or if he should take a sudden notion to affect virtues, that was his business. He was quite able to go into the market, get whatever virtues he needed and pay the highest prices for them. We seem to be getting more finicky, Mere bigness is no longer acceptable without a detailed statement. We want to know something of its derivation and its aim. Hence, a man who has nothing to recommend him nowadays except the fact that he is a magnate is more apt to shun the spotlight than seck it. BE OW 4. A Sure Thing AMES A. LOYSTER, of Cazenovia, N. Y., has gathered into a book a large number of cases, with descriptions, of children and adults who died as a result of vaccination. The book is for free distribution and is dedicated to the Shinly: Hotboy: TILL 1T DOES I FIND WHISKEY DOESN'T AGREE WITH ME DON'T LET THAT WORRY YOU. KEEP ON “LEE * The Optimist: tHere! 1 KNEW I'D MAKE IT co! memory of his son, Lewis Freeborn Loyster, “who died September 21, 1914, as a sequence of vaccination”. The doctors should give this book a wide circulation as proof of how effectually vaccination prevents smallpox. What better preventive could we ask than a thing like vaccination, which kills its patient of tetanus, or something else, and lays him away where neither smallpox nor any other disease can ever reach him again? Benevolent Suffragette: 1's GOING TO KISS EVERY MAN THAT VOTES FOR ME Ccomicbooks.com