Life — November 24, 1892 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE.- “While there’s Life there's Hope.” VOL. XX NOVEMBER 24, 1892. 28 West Twenty No. 517. HRD Street, New York. Published every Thursday. §s.co.a year in advance. countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, to cents. Hack numbers can be had by applying at this office, le copies of Vols, 1. and IL. out of print. Vol. ‘bound, $30.00; Vol. ind, $15.00. Hack numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. Vols. III. to XVi., inclu- sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume, Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed untess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Postage to foreign “THANKSGIVING comes along after election just as regularly as though no- bedy had been beaten or had any less cause than usual to consume turkeys or witness football game: Even Mr. McKinley him- self will pull himself out from under the ruins of his now notorious bill, and sit at the head of his table oblivious for the moment to politics, and blandly attentive to * such considerations as whether it shall be dark meat or white Itis true, as Governor Flower has pointed out, that we have abundant reason to be thankful. The cholera did not hurt us as a people except in our feelings, and most of the damage of that sort that we incurred we suffered vicariously in the person of Mr. Godkin. We got through some pretty serious strikes without much bloodshed ; the crops have been good, and there is enough food and clothing to go around, though the distribution of the supply may not be ideally ple. Even the defeated party in politics may find cause for thankfulness if it looks hard for it. The Democrats having made a clean sweep and got things all their own way will have to do something now, and the esteemed Republicans will all be privileged to sit on the fence and point out wherein everything that is done is wrong, and demonstrate how the poor old country is going to the bow-wows in consequence. That is an exhilarating prospect, and the Republicans ought to enjoy it, particularly the Republican editors, every man of whom can afford to get up an hour later in the morning for the next four years, because finding fault is a good deal easier than governing, and it doesn’t call for as many hours to a day's work, And if the Democrats are able to demonstrate that they can really run the country better than the Repub- licans, the Republicans, being in a position to see the whole of the game, will be able to gather valuable points, which they may put to profitable use at some indefinitely distant time when they have another chance. And, indeed, there are times when it behooves both of the old parties to gather points from one another, or anywhere they can, for if they fail in any conspicuous measure in pro- viding good government and promoting the prosperity of the people, Brother Bel!amy’s folks are all ready to step in and take the job off both their hands. A party that starts off with more than a score of electoral votes isn’t a party to be sneezed at, and even if it fails during the next decade in pro- viding every voter with a house and lot and regular meals and a bicycle, it may at least avail to keep the old-fashioned parties on their good behavior. * * MERICAN women have done a good deal at one time or another for British no- bility, but we recall no one who . has more copiously fulfilled the demands of an exalted altruism than the widow of the late Duke of Marl- borough. To have put Blenheim in thorough re- y’ pair for the benefit of an entire stranger is a kind- ness which, apparently, - will have to be its own reward. It was rather a pathetic use of American money, but after all the dowager Duchess is a Duchess still, and still has an income. « * * F Mr. Theodore Child is really dead, as at this writing seems to be the case, the English-speaking world has suffered a con- siderable bereavement. Mr. Child did not actually make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, but he was valuable in an analogous way. He had a very excellent faculty of seeing things, and what he saw he was able to bring within the ken of a good ' many thousand readers. In that way, without absolutely increasing the number of things worth seeing, he did greatly augment their usefulness to contem- porary man. People who can do that are scarce, and Mr. Child's generation has abundant reason to deplore his un- timely taking off. . . . PETITION has been started in Ohio asking Congress to give us cleaner paper money. Its purpose is worthy and it deserves universal support. There is no good reason why American money should be so nasty. comicbooks.com