Life — September 12, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“Mile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XIV. SEPTEMBER 12, 1889. 28 West Twenty-THIRD STREET, New York. No. 350. Published ew "1, Thursday, $5.00 a year in advance, post free. Single gories, wo cents. Hack numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. I1., bound, $10.00; Vols. te Wa ¥en Via Y: VAIL, 1X... Xd. and X11, bound, of in flat numbers, at rex ; Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelo) ; . Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. OU remember the story of the little boy whose mother told him not to open his mouth at dinner except to put something in it, for she feared that if he spoke his intel- lectual defects would be apparent. Nevertheless he was not even able to hold his tongue discreetly, but was found out in spite of everything. During the closing days of August, James Tanner spoke at Chautauqua and Milwaukee, and Elliot Shepard at Detroit. They both made powerful speeches, for their tongues are mighty weapons and they seem, as was natural, to have suffered more or less acutely from the recoil. Two Texas editors who heard Col. Shepard are reported to have been vociferously in favor of having him examined as to his sanity, while Corporal Tanner left hearers all along the line of his route to Milwaukee who yearn zealously for his official scalp. Silence, which has always been at a premium, advanced several points after these two gentlemen had been heard from, It was decidedly bullish over the report that Gen. Sherman had been put out of a G. A, R. railway car, and he might be expected to say something, not that the General is a Col. Shepard or a Corp. Tanner, but merely that he is emphatic when heated. He said nothing, however, and the gentlemen whose own the car was, have had a chance to do the talking. HERE is one interesting element that is lacking from the Hamilton scandal. No deserted wife and family figures in it so far as heard from, That is one reason why there is sympathy for Hamilton, The chief victim of his infatuation is himself, though of course those that are nearest to him are more or less involved in his smash, It is believed that when a man is out and out a bad lot, it does not happen that way. He often gets hurt, but it is in the haste of his effort to get away, not from struggling to save the women in the case. Hamilton, so far as human insight reaches, seems to have blighted his life for the sake of an absolutely worth- less woman, who got an unaccountable control of him. That is curious and it is miscellancously discreditable to him, and yet there is a great deal of pity in the world for men who ruin themselves for women. “Capacity for a great unreasonable affection " has often been esteemed an interest- ing characteristic in a man both before and since the rumor of it drew Warrington’s attention to Pendennis. . . . Do men put new bags around old chestnuts ?— Eugene Field, HEY do Colonel, constantly. Whoever finds a new listener for an old story is guilty. The greatest sinner of us all in this respect is Chauncey Depew, who spends several weeks every year putting American chestnuts into fresh English bags. . . . F there were such things as ability, integrity and energy in the New York District Attorney's office, it could just now render the American people an immense service by securing the speedy conviction of that infernal rascal, Henry S. Ives. But the voters of New York saw fit to elect an incompetent to the important office of District Attorney, and Ives stands a fair chance of escaping punishment. The crime with which he stands charged, and his other crimes with which he is not charged before the courts, are the ones to which a certain class of Americans are very prone, and which are committed against a class of people especially incapable of defending themselves. If Ives had snatched a widow's pocketbook on the street, or robbed a child's savings-bank, he would have been sent to prison in short order. He and his kind, who destroy the value of investment securities, do worse than this. They not only rob the poor and defenseless, but they destroy public faith and lower the standard of commercial integrity. They are public enemies because they put an obstacle in the way of commercial progress. ‘7 HEN they are successful they are more dangerous than when they fail, because they give renewed life to that dangerous proverb “nothing succeeds like success.” The existence of Jay Gould has been a curse to this country not only in the misery he has procured for other people and in the damage he has done to American financial interests, but also in that his success (if it be success) has furnished an example for the Henry Ives of to-day and for other Goulds and Iveses of the future. We cannot too soon put the brake of punishment on this tendency, and in the case of Ives it is to be hoped it will be put on very hard indeed. comicbooks.com