Life — July 15, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: “QWhile there is Life there's Hope.” x. JULY 1 19 West Titrty-First 1897. No. 760, REET, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Tostage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1 o4 a year extra, copies, 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. R. W. J. BRYAN still man- ages to keep the silver ball rolling throughout the West, and is declaring, with undiminished energy, that nothing but Free Silver will set things right. He declares that star- vation is getting more common and universal with us every day, and says the high tariff policy of the present Administration ~together with the do-nothing financial action of President McKinley, are only paving the way to the advent of the Free Silver candidate at the next election. There is no doubt that much ‘unrest is discoverable hereabouts without the aid of a microscope, and that Messrs. McKinley, Hanna, Dingley ef a@/ have not yet put their fingers on the touch-button which shall open the way to quick relief. But on the other hand, many able and intelligent observers say that matters are on the mend, and by certain straws which are floating around at present they declare that the wind is veering gradually in the right direction, Lirr thinks, after the Tariff bill has once passed and we are under high protection again, that our young Free Silver friend may even then have more cause to howl about the insufficiency of present remedies for growing ills than he finds at present. . . . I" happens only occasionally, when there comes to the front a murder mystery like that of the Nack-Guldensuppe-Thorn affair, that the full depth of idiocy as practiced by the World and Journal is revealed to the outside observer, When an ordinary human being who has hitherto been thought sane begins to indulge in sensational antics and develop traits of degeneracy, those who observe him are at first filled with disgust and a sense of abhorrence. When it becomes plainly evident, however, that paresis has set in, the subject becomes a case to be studied with some degree of interest in the aid of science. Both*the World and Journal having arrived at this stage, may be regarded only with the curiosity which naturally follows an abnormal exhibition of acute mania. . * . PAX - VOBISCUM - 5 T seems a pity that Theodore Roose- velt should have been taken away from New York at a time when ° 2 his peculiar qualities might have done the people a service in helping to repress the vainglorious Cap- tain Chapman in his highfalutin career, It is evident that megacephalmania has set in very strongly with the Captain, and it is also very evident that something should be done to suppress him from making false arrests and breaking into respectable households in such a high-handed way. If “Teddy” were here he might do some very necessary pugilistic work, but at present, in the case of the respectable element of the City of New York vs. Captain Chapman, it seems likely that the Captain will be able to more than hold his own, S) . THE appointment of Mr. 4l John Russell Young to be Librarian of Congress is criticised in some quarters because Mr, Young is not professional li- brarian, and has had no previous experience in the manage- ment of a great collec- tionof books. It is well known, however, that there are several pretty distinct jobs that are included in the librarian’s duties. The understanding seems to be that Mr. Spoftford, the late librarian, who continues as assist- ant librarian, shall be for the present the bookman of the library, and that Mr. Young shall be the executive officer. LiFe is disposed to hope for the best from this arrangement. Mr. Young is a man of experience in public affairs, and can read and write. No one who has read what he has written for the newspapers within the last year can doubt that he has read Carlyle’s ‘‘ History of the French Revolution,” at least, so that there is no reason to doubt that he knows a book when he sees it.