Life — November 22, 1894 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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WOAOKile there is Life there's Hops.” VOL. XXIV. NOVEMBER 22, 1894. No. 621. 1g West Tuirty-First Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00.a year in advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Pcstal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. R. FRANK P. W. BELLEW rendered his signature of “ Chip" miliar to many thousand Ameri MV who will regret with us that the hand that so often moved others to mirth is forever at rest. His keen sense of humor, his endless invention and, above all perhaps, his love and appre ation of animals, have for years given his drawings a character of their own. His death deprives Lire of an active and valued con- tributor. [=a U' is a gay spectacle to see all the different kinds of Democrats put out their tongues at one another and say, “ You did it!” In all the party no George Washington has been found to lift up his little hatchet and proclaim, “It was 1.” The Hill men have no words to express their sentiments toward a President who would not help his party cut its own throat in his own " ee what Cleveland and Clevelandism has done,” they cry. 3 The Anti-Hill men retort that the fer) end of Hillism being inevi ble it “eis as well that its destruction ZL should be emphatic enough to be LY remembered. The wreck of the Democratic vessel being tolerably complete, no considerate person can have the heart to begrudge the late crew any fun that they may contrive to have with the pieces. But while they are ashore and are relieved from the duties of political navigation, it may be as well for them to take some lessons in Prompt Aid for the Injured. A year anda half is too long to spend in devising relief for a rich patient when the case is critical, a T is still possible for the, Democrats to improve their Tariff Bill and abolish their Income It will hardly be pretended any longer that an income tax is popular. IFE congratulates Sen- ator Hill on the great chance for self-refor- mation offered to him by the extermination of most of his evil com- panions in the recent landslide. They are all under the heap, Croker, Gilroy, the Sheehans, all the o Democratic unright- cous of New York State except Murphy, and where Murphy would have been if the voters could have had a chance at him is beyond conjecture. Murphy is left, but that discipline should have any effect on such as he and Gorman is not to be expected. It may be different with Hill.. If he should go about it right he might be useful in the Senate. ‘These many years he has worked hard for Hill and Hill's pals. His labor has brought him a good deal, but not all he hoped for. It would pay him now to experiment a bit with working for the people. It is better worth while in the long run to be a public servant than a boss. Hill has had no experience as a public servant. It is time that he acquired some. The chance that offers now is unusual and there is no New York machine left to hinder him. While his senatorial lamp still holds out to burn, he should scurry around and try to get back somewhere. He has already endeared himself to the New York Sw, but that should not discourage him. Other folks would be glad to think well of him in spite of that if he could only give them reason to believe that he had acquired the ability to dis- tinguish between right and wrong, and the discretion to prefer right. . . . OW much the late cataclysm will help New York asa place of residence remains to be seen. It is one thing to thrash one set of scalawags and quite another to hinder a second set from tumbling into. their places. If Thomas Platt had ngs with his Tammany under the avalanche, the municipal prospects would be \. somewhat brighter, but they are bright as they are, and hopeful people are entitled to take measure of courage. New York will not necessarily be more habitable for being the Greater New York it is booked to become, but even that innovation promises to help it, and an underground railroad, if that should come, may help it still further, New York as she ought to be is pleasant matter for meditation, and since election it scems not so preposterous a subject to think about as it once did. a large comicbooks.com