Life — November 25, 1915 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THAT CHOCOLATE CAKE OSWALD WAS TAKING TO THE SURPRISE PARTY Monopolies There are also all sorts of more moderate proposals MONOPOLY is that hole in the commercial world into which the hero of finance crawls, pulling the hole in after him. One of our pressing problems, according to the politi- cians, is what to do with the hole. The Socialists insist that the hole is a good thing, and that all of us ought to crawl into it and be heroes along with its occupants. These occupants, on the other hand, declare that for the Socialists and the rest of us to undertake to do such a thing would be equivalent to confiscating the hole, and that, therefore, it would be an assault on vested rights. Then we have the Single-Taxers, who are opposed to the hole absolutely. They think the heroes should be pulled out of the hole and the hole filled up. with regard to the hole. Several attorneys-general have divided such holes up into a number of smaller holes, but so tenderly that the heroic occupants have not been dis- commoded. They met the new situation by merely issuing stock in the smaller holes to themselves, and went on reaping the dividends just the same, thus deriving incomes as large as they had through tenure of the larger hole. The Bull-Moosers want a commission of experts to regulate the hole, with the idea of getting exact justice for the heroes inside and the consumers outside. The courts have been appealed to. They have held that the occupation of such a hole is perfectly legal and con- stitutional, provided the heroes pull it in only a reasonable distance after them. comicbooks.com