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“HQile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIIL MAY 10, 1894. 28 West TwWenty-THirp STREE No. 593. New York. Published every Thursday. $3.00a year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed untess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. \ ITHIN the past fortnight there have been more American gen- erals in the tield in command of armies than at any time since the civil war. Not much has been known of all these generals except that they have been more or less in command of men, Not a great deal has been known of the men except that they were marching on Washington. Newspaper reports have differed about them. Some journals have said that those they had seen were very largely professional tramps ; others that they were men out of work. Men and generals between them have made up * Coxey’s army,” and a very misty, queer, mixed-up lot they certainly are. Perhaps by the time these observations reach the reader, they will have starved cut and dispersed, but meanwhile they are vividly to the fore. OXEY'’S army wants Congress to do something for them. We are all with them there. We all want Congress to do something for us, and if Coxey’s army can induce Congress to do it we will all be very much the - ha sdebtors. Coxey's folks say they 2 2)" 7“ want employment. They want the X¥4 ‘+1 government to build roads and do various arm things to furnish work to all comers, and to issue unlimited rag money to pay them with. We do not insist upon those particulars. All we want is simply for Congress to come to a vote on the tariff bill, and either pass it or agree to let it alone. If Congress will do that we will build our own roads and make our own money, and hunt up jobs for ourselves without further legislative assistance. If General Coxey succeeds in impressing upon Congress that the coun- try is tired waiting, he will have done much, and LiFe will be in favor of granting him a pension. . . . R. EDISON is credited with the opinion that two hours sleep is enough for human beings, and that it is mere force of habit that compels us to take more. If that is true, it makes one think better of man as a creature capable of improvising so admirable a habit as sleep. Sleep *LIFE: costs nothing (except time, of which there is plenty), and has no bad effects. If man invented it, it is the very best thing man has done. If Mr. Edison thinks he can devise anything better, here’s a hoping that he may succeed. * * * TH discouraging report that a Jacksonville judge has tuled that Rubens’ “ Judgment of Paris” is obscene, is partly offset by the rumor that a World’s Fair meda! by St. Gaudens has been accepted. Art is pretty long, but the world keeps turning. HE women who do net want women to vote do not argue about it as freely as the women who do, They are wise in that, for in so far as LIFE has been able to observe, the women who do want to vote have about four-fifths of the good arguments on their side. But arguments are only argu- , and are of no value except in so far as they convince. The argu- ments of the suffragists, strong and superior as they are, do not al convince, and it by no means follows that the suffragists are going to win or that they ought to win, merely because they seem to have the best of the discus- sion, The antis in New York and Brooklyn who have at last been stirred to action, are simply getting women’s signa- tures to their remonstrance, That is all that is necessary. Names carry far more weight than the arguments. What the public wants to know and what the Constitutional Conven- tion will want to know is what sort of women and how many want to vote, and what sort don’t. The leading names on the antis list in New York are very good names, and carry as much weight as any equal number of names the suffra- gists can show. What they represent to LiFe’s mind, is the feminine instinct, as opposed to argument. If enough influ- ential women can be got to record themselves as instinctively opposed to woman-suffrage, their simple declaration will offset a heap of talk. Women have not taught men all these years to respect the feminine instinct for nothing. ment . . . HAT was the matter with Mr. Platt that the renomi- nation of his friend, Mr. Croker’s friend Dr. Jenkins was rejected by the State Senate! Is not a Health Officer that is good enough for Governor Flower and Mr. Croker good enough for Mr. Platt? It can be put stronger still. Is not a Health Officer who is displeasing to Mr. Godkin good enough for Mr. Platt? . . * NOTHER little fortune left to Radcliffe College! Good! Give Radcliffe dowry enough and she will be able to take Harvard on her own terms. comicbooks.com Gan Ona ~~