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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXVIII. JULY 9, 1896. No. 706. 19 West THirty-First Street, New York. Publisbed every Thursday. $5.00 « year In advance, Postage to foreien co rotries In the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copter, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanted by @ stamped and directed envelope. i The illustrations in LIFE are copyrighted. and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. 1 ND now for Chicago! This number of Lire finds the Democratic Convention assem- bled and facing its job, while the country regards it with hopes and fears assorted on geographical lines. The Democrats of New York, taking their cue from Mr. Whitney, declared the other day in their State Convention for bi-metallism by international agreement, and will try to persuade their Western and Southern brethren that a free silver coinage plank in the Demo- cratic platform will tend to defeat the very cause it aims to help. Possibly they may succeed, but what is expected of the Democrats at Chicago at this writing is that they will come out for unconditional free silver coinage. If they do, the voters who believe in the gold standard can express their sentiments by voting for the gold plank adopted by Mr. Hanna's convention, and that they undoubtedly will do, whatever their sentiments may be about Major McKinley. > . . . T? is a mistake to suppose that there fy oe is any prejudice against gold dol- What is is dollars; é o o of @ dollars of any sort or sub- lars in the West. > wanted there stance—paper, silver, leath- er, gold—but dollars. We 3 hope to wallop the silver b ‘heresy out of our Western brethren, but their cry for dol- lars is a touch Of nature that marks them unmistakably our kin. We feel for them with a sympathy just as acute as though we believed ia their methods. That is the dif- ference between the row over slavery ‘and the present row over free silver. The North came finally to hate slavery with an angry intolerance. It doesn't hate free silver and doesn’t hate the men who shout for it. It simply disbelieves in its expediency and fights it because it threatens to pile up disaster upon distress. RECENT examina- tion in supplement- ary proceedings in New York brought out the fact that a well-known clubman had been able to owe his bootmaker five thousand dollars. This symptom of the scarcity of ready money in the East is commended to the attention of the Western silverites. Dol- lars are by no means a gold bugs of the metrop- olis, but we of New York, when they fail to come, don't fly off and embrace some outrage- ous fiscal heresy ; we simply reduce our wants as much as is tolerable and for what we must have we owe. Of course there are objections to our system, but, alas! there are objections to everything. In a town where a single citizen can owe a bootmaker five thousand dollars the necessities of life at least must be within the reach of all. * . . ARVARD'S self-respecting determination to worry through the college year just fin- ished without playing any games or rowing any races with Yale seems not to have involved her in any serious embarrassment or deprived her of any experience which she has been used to value. Princeton took care of her in football last fall and in baseball this spring; Cornell has seen to her in a thorough and workmanlike manner both in the Freshman and University boat races, and she closes a season of exceptional activity in her customary state of mind and pocket, and with her usual emotions. She has demonstrated that, Yale or no Yale, there are foe- men worthy of her style and who leave her no occasion to sigh for more exacting competitions. Athletically considered she is a fortunate university. All the other colleges want to play all sorts of games with her and she tries to accommodate them. She gets lots of experience and lots of discipline, both of which her young men need. Every college that can win from her is proud of it, and eager to do it again, She thrives on adversity, does all things pretty well, and grows bigger and stronger every year. Cornell is very good at rowing in American waters. We shall all be interested to learn whether Yale can outdo her record abroad.