Life — September 22, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE ‘While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XX, SEPTEMBER 22, 1892. No. 508. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. to foreign ro cents Published every Thursday. ayearin advance. Postage countries in the 1 Union, “ote year, extra, Single cop! Back pumbers can be had by by anpis ing at this office, I. and II. out of print.” Vol. T., bound, $0.00; V bound, Rack numbers, one year old, 25 cents per avo II. to XV, sive, bound or in flat numbers, at Siocon pr vou tecribess wishing adaresa changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. ‘Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. TH absorbing topic for a week past has been the cholera and the management f of the New York quarantine. From the standpoint of people ashore the management has been good, since no case of cholera seems to have got into the country. But to the passengers on the detained vessels the manage- ment has appeared exceedingly neglectful. The predicament of these passengers has been distressing, and public sympathy has been violently stirred in their behalf. How far they have been the victims of circumstances, and how far of lack of foresight, or bungling, or incompetence, is a matter fitter for careful investigation than for snap newspaper verdicts. They think they have been abused, and certainly they have had a hard time, but what to do with them was a very complicated problem, and whether Dr. Jenkins was slower in solving it than another man might have been is a matter of opinion. Certainly Gov. Flower did all that a millionaire official could do, and Mr. Pierpont Morgan did all that a millionaire individual could do, and divers doctors, laymen, officials, unofficials and people of moderate means, did everything they could think of to get those passengers ashore. Surely it wouldn't have taken so many willing helpers so long if it had not been an extra difficult job. . opingle copies of Vols $15.00. inclu- . LJ Se OURrEDEY the passengers suffered a great deal, but they had some compen- sations throughout all their anxieties. For those on the Normannia in par- ticular it must have been in a high degree consoling to view the most noted American censor of the apparatus of contempo- rary civilization in the very act of tackling a colossal grievance. Before two such kickers as Larry Godkin and Lottie Collins, despair itself could not have maintained a continuous grip. . . . ‘OR the War Department to decline to lend Sandy Hook for quarantine purposes because it was needed for ordnance practice seemed a little too much as though a ship- captain should refuse to throw life preservers to drowning men, because the law required him to keep a certain number aboard his vessel. It must have cheered even the downcast spirits of the detained passengers to have the assistant- secretary sat upon, and compelled to pull in his fiat and masticate it. NY further con- solation that Mr. John L. Sullivan and his backers re- quire they must seek in the instructive example they afford of the inexpediency of exposing large sums of money to the haz- ards of an uncertain event. The late C. J. Fox was of the opinion that, next to winning, the best thing was to lose, and that either was preferable to having no money up. Gentlemen of his temperament are hardly to be criticized for betting, provided they have the necessary funds, but we are confident that an unusually large proportion of the males of this town will agree with us just now that per- sons who only find pleasure in winning large wagers are to be avoided, particularly when you have to give odds. . : . Between Gail Hamilton and Henry Labouchére, the Queen of England must be more doubtful than ever if life is worth living. It is wonderful that any woman should withstand such appeals as Miss Dodge has made for the release of Mrs. Maybrick, but queens are hedged in with divinities that make them extra tough, and besides, the Queen of England has several remote and inaccessible residences, and doubtless relies on her ability to take to the woods if worse comes to worst. Whether she really has the power to pardon Mrs. Maybrick is a question for lawyers to consider. If she hasn't, Mr. Gladstone has. No American who is conversant with the scope of the abilities and feminine pots of gall that are moving in Mrs. Maypbrick’s favor has any doubt of that luckless woman's eventual release. Pharaoh was reluctant to dismiss the children of Israel, but Aaron's rod was too many for him in the end. If the pen in hands supremely competent isn’t mightier than the rod, contemporary civilization is a failure indeed. comicbooks.com