Life, 1915-11-18 · page 14 of 52
Life — November 18, 1915 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page contains a political cartoon mocking early 20th-century immigrant voting practices in America, specifically German immigrants ("Der Berliner Kartoffelklasse Verein"). **The cartoon** depicts a voting scenario where a young boy approaches an election table staffed by two men conducting a fraudulent or manipulated vote. The sign references a German organization, suggesting the satire targets German-American voting bloc influence or corruption. **The caption** presents a darkly humorous future scenario where a child asks if he can vote, but is told "you can't vote"—likely because he wasn't born in the country, satirizing restrictive voting rights and nativist concerns about immigrant participation. **Below are two separate columns** on "Nibbling" and "The Vote"—the latter discussing women's suffrage ambivalently, reflecting pre-19th Amendment attitudes toward female voting rights.
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ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF DER BERLINER KARTOFFELLKLASSE VEREIN AT A FUTURE ELECTION “VOS YOU BORN IN DISS COUNTRY?” “ YEssiR.” “VELL, DEN YOU CAN'T VOTE.” Nibbling Te nibble, or not to nibble; that is the question. Whether it is better to eat three square meals a day or to take arms against a score of little nagging appetites, and by yielding, end them—for the time being. To bite, to crunch—aye, there's the question—and by a bite to think we end the heartburn and the thou- sand stomach-aches that nibbling is heir to—there's the rub. Much better were our quietus made with a bare beef- steak, The Vote TH vote is something that some women want because they have not got it, and other women do not want because they are afraid to have some women get it. It is also something that all women do not have because some women do not want it, and something that some women are afraid that they will not get because all women do not want it. Also, some women have it because they were not afraid to want it, and other women were afraid to want it be- cause all women did not want it. comicbooks.com