Life — October 10, 1895 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: WHITELAW REID, APFEARED IN 1870, WHEN HF BECAME REGAN TO PUT ON STYLE. THE SAME OLD CHOICE. OW, thanks be praised, at last we know Where both the parties stand, As with their ballots forth they go ‘Vo save their native land. AS ME AMBITIOUS AND -” For morals one goes forth to slay And eke for labor too, To make a Yankee Sabbath day Where all the laws are blue. For labor now the others go, And eke for morals’ sake, To let the liquor freely flow And lawless laws to make. The same old grind comes round again ; The same old parties come ; The same old choice fur honest men ‘Twixt tweedledee and dum, We J. RK. - as the reader can foretell with unerring cert 231 THE GROWTH OF GREATNESS. WHITELAW REID. THs successful citizen first saw the light in Ohio on October 1837. The occurrence of the two sevens was indicative of good luck, and good luck has been in hot pursuit of him ever since. It finally overtook him in 1872, when he became editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune. This journal under his guidance has become the hottest and most violently partisan sheet in the United States, and that is saying much For those who have read the political columns of one issue of the Tribune no following numbers are necessary. It is heroically consistent. People who wish to economize their eyesight and read as little as possible should subscribe to this journal, XVI. y its political sentiments under all conditions. And this has been achieved by Mr. Whitelaw Reid ! Mr. Reid has the reputation of being a very shrewd person, and there is no record up to date of his heart running away with his head Heis also one of the few men who are not only born great and achieve greatness, but also have greatness thrust upon them by an appreciative political party. THE Hon, WHITELAW REID. EX-MINISTER TO FRANCE, IN HIS NEW DRESSING GO