Life — August 17, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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While there's Life there’s Hope.” VOL, XXH. AUGUST 17, 1893. No. 555. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $s.coa year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, to cents. Rezected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope, RESIDENTIAL campaigns are costly enterprises, but the huge expenditure of {| time and talk and money which they ''s involve is often justified on the ground \ of their immense usefulness in the political education of the es of the people. are mas: Just now the mas: getting an education in finance, and if the value of it bears any reasonable ns that relation to its cost, it is one of the most precious less has ever been brought home to their attention. If in any part of the United States there is anyone left who cannot talk glibly about clearing house certificates, the Sherman act, bank circulation secured by bonds, the importation of gold, the proper amount of silver to put in a dollar, and the use by savings banks of the privilege of requiring notice, such a person must live in some wild, unpenetrated by the daily Papers, or must be habitually stupefied by drink, A little learning in finance, as in other branches of knowledge, is no doubt a dangerous thing, but for voters who choose Con- gressmen who legislate on fiscal matters, even a lite financial learning must be less dangerous than wholesale ignorance. Experience is a dear school, but it often happens that voters will learn in no other, Lire will be surprised and di pointed if the action of the Congress now in session does not demonstrate that the American voter knows his mind about and that his views are such as it will require no more immediate experience to correct. Ap= silver at leas * M ANWHILE we are Mi uncommonly short of GH change. It is asserted that there is money enough in the country to give us all twenty- five dollars apiece. But any one who tries to assemble all of his. twenty-five dollars together in one heap will be apt to conclude that four-fifths of his neighbors have made the same - LIFE: attempt, and have succeeded, and are carrying around their share of the national currency in their stockings or their trowsers pockets. If gentlemen and ladies who have got their money out to spend will please spend it and if others who have no immediate purpose of spending theirs will please put it back into the bank, the situation will get easier, and we will all be much obliged. Any one who doubts the stability of the banks is cordially invited to pay his surplus in Life's Fresh Air Fund, where care will be taken to get it immediately into circulation. * * * TOCKS and banks and closing factories and the silver question have so monopolized the attention of the daily press that no one has had time as yet to get up a cholera- scare. We congratulate our friends at Chicago that it should be so, and yet in the same breath we have to condole with them over the tendency of the remedy to be so nearly as bad as the disease. Chicago is in hard luck in having so great a Fair in such a poverty-stricken season, She must console herself, if it shall finally turn out that she is in need of con- solation, by remembering that the inconvenience of paying for the great show will be met and vanquished in the course of a year or two, while she can talk about its unapproachable glories for decades and generations to come. Chicago likes totalk: Wealldo. It is worth a good deal to have a dur- able topic that will fairly fill the mouth when one’s grand- children are the listeners. Chicago will have such a topi and she should count it in among her a: Moreover, it is a sort of wealth that is practically illimitable and which she will gladly share with the multitude which we trust will go to her during the next ten weeks. Be of that crowd, reader, if you can. Even when money is scarce a life-long topic of conversation is not a thing to be lightly missed. * * * OT the least interesting of contemporary ecclesiastical altercations is that quiet but far-reaching and important | = one, the outcome of which is to determine the policy and methods a of the Roman Catholic Church in y America. The problem immedi- ately at issue is whether Dr. > Satolli or Dr. Corrigan is to be the Pope's vice-regent in this country. D> The elaborate politeness and wg —mutual deference with which the Roman Catholic doctors disagree, affords an edifying lesson in ecclesiastical diplomacy to their Protestant brethren. In. view of the intensity of the differences which are known to exist between the highest > dignitaries of the Pope's church in this coun- try, the yea, yea and nay, nay of their published communi- cations is highly admirable. <a) comicbooks.com