Life — July 26, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: While there is Life the VOL, XXIV. JULY 26, 1894. No. 604. 1g West THirty-First STREET, NEW York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless acconipanied by a stamped and directed envelope. So e all HAVE. absolute confidence,” ¥. wrote Debs, “that we will win ¢ this battle, win it without violence and in spite of the obvious connivance of ~ the United States authorities and ¥ courts.” Debs knows better now, but the bill for instructing him seems out of proportion to the importance of the Experience is far too If the individual taught. dear a school for men like him. cost of instruction fell on the pupils it might be endured; but it doesn’t. It falls on the public. There ought to be a prompter and cheaper way of teaching such persons what sort of enterprises the United States authorities and courts are likely to con- nive against, so that they might learn to avoid such enter- prises, and so that other persons might be wary of embarking in such undertakings under their leadership. It is perfectly understood that if a man robs or murders, the courts and authorities will connive against him, but to stir up sedition and deprive property owners of the usufruct of their belong- ings seems not generally enough understood to be illega That Debs will know better another time is of small conse- quence since his power for mischief is doubtless over. Whether the workingmen whom he misled will know better another time is a far more important question. If they and their fellows get new ideas about the ability and disposi- tion of the authorities and the courts to connive against in- surrection, the lesson just con- cluded may be worth its cost. * * “ HE man that has come best out of the strike is Mr. Cleveland. It is con- ceded on all hands that he did the right thing in the right way at the right time, and there are good grounds for the opinion, very pressed, that his action broke up the strike. generally ex- The support that he received was creditable to the country. Newspapers backed him warmly without regard to politics, and that unfortunate body, the United States Senate, so long, so much and so deservedly derided, actually won for itself the hearty praises of its proprietors for the timely ardor of its endorsement of the administration. Of course the President did no more than his duty, but he did that unmistakably and with admirable judgment, his action looming up the larger for being in contrast with the pusillanimous con- duct of Altgeld, and the clamors of the whole drove of Populist governors, A man ought always to do his duty, but it is especially profitable for him to do it when other men are neglecting theirs, and everyone is looking. Duty done at such times is remembered. PSS EES, others, and it must be confessed that so far she has not been able to keep her best leg sufficiently forward. Britannia rules the wave up to date, and Vigilant’s affectionate admirers at home begin to wonder whether Wales's boat is really faster than ours, or whether ours is still a little out of tune and handicapped besides by the disadvantages of unfamiliar waters, However the contests may result, the interest in them is thoroughly sportsmanlike. If Britannia is the better boat, we want to know it, and then to know why. Vigilant is our chosen representative. We have nothing better, and if she is outsailed, we are beaten for the present, and will have the fun of trying again. Meanwhile, we are learning what perhaps has not been sufficiently appreciated in the races for the America’s cup, that a yacht at home has decided advantages over a yacht that crosses the seas and sails in strange waters. * * HE yacht Vigilant seems not to be equally sound on all her legs. Some are speedier than NLY tariff experts know very much in these days about the tariff bill, At last accounts it was oscillating between the House and the Senate, and perspiring statesmen were doing their warmest to make it come right. Perhaps when business comes to life again in the fall it will be a pleasant / surprise to the resuscitated intel- i. ligence of the country to find that y the tariff bill has unostentatiously become a law. If on investiga- tion it should appear that the income-tax had been lost out in transit between the wings of the Capitol the surprise would be far pleasanter than is hoped for now. comicbooks.com