Life — November 25, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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ica ee A “While there uo Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXX. NOV. 25, 1897. ag West THIRTY-FiRs No. 779. New York. Published every Thursday $5.00 year in advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1,048 yearextra Single copies, 10 centa. Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- tess accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. MAN may beat his horse in modera- tion,or shoot him, but he may not beat him im- moderately and unreasonably in public, and he may not starve him to death. If he kills him, he must kill him quickly and not by inches. Otherwise the law and the neighbors are warranted in interfering. So with Cuba. She is Spain's col- ony, and Spain has a sort of right to kill her people in war and to punish them, if she can, for rebellion. But if she undertakes to exterminate them by starvation and disease, she need not complain if the neighbors inter- fere. Great progress has been made with- in a year in the United States toward the conviction that it may become Uncle Sam's duty to intervene be- tween Spainand Cuba. Public opin- ion in the matter has moved slowly, but it has moved, and it has had time enough to move a long way. If Congress and the President, acting in agreement, should see fit to interfere on general grounds of humanity and in defense of American interests be- tween Spain and Cuba, they will have a far stronger backing than a mere group of Jingoes. The American conscience begins to be uneasy. The statement that since September 1st 150,000 non-combatants have died in Cuba of hunger and disease seems to have basis enough to entitle it to * LIFE: very serious consideration. Noteven sympathy for Spanish pride can war- rant indifference to such suffering as that. BA is Some persons scem to believe, or to be trying to believe, that Platt was beaten in the late New Yorkelection, That isa curious mis- take. It was the Republican organ- ization that was beaten, not Platt. Platt won, Since his victory he has been in consultation with the Presi- dent, It would be interesting to know what diagram, arguments and figures of speech he used to convince the Major that a sweeping Repub- lican defeat is always a cheap price for Republicans to pay for a Platt victory. It looks to an outsider as if the interests of Platt and those of the Republican party were too obvi- ously distinct to be successfully con- fused much longer. SSEMBLYMAN TRAINOR an- nounces that he will introduce at Albany this winter a bill to divide the State of New York into two States, the new one to be called the State of Manhattan, and to include sixteen counties, stretching from Albany to Montauk Point. It is an interesting scheme, which is broached periodically and comes to nothing. Yet it has advantages to offer to both ends of the State. If it should be adopted, New York city would be able to regulate its own affairs with less help from the country legislators, and would be relieved from contrib- uting funds for the support of schools in the country districts and distrib- uting ashare of its Raines law license fees among its neighbors. It would also have a larger representation in Congress, The western end of the State would profit by being quit of responsibility of any sort on account of New York city. It would have more Senators, and could select for itself a new State capitol, for which Syracuse and Rochester might com- pete. It could sell its share in the capitol at Albany, and would have the fun of building a new State-house elsewhere, Nevertheless, the prospect of divid- ing the Empire State is not good. Sentiment as well as practical con- siderations has weight in such mat- ters, and, though there is enough of New York to make two first-rate States, there is no probability that a dicker could be arranged that would be attractive enough to induce the Legislature to consent to a divorce. Mr. Platt would hardly like it. He lives in Tioga County, and Tioga is not included in the proposed State of Manhattan, and though, living in Ti- oga, he is able now to take an active part in politics in New York, it might complicate the situation for him if his home, and the chief scene of his activities, were in different States, But let Mr, Trainor bring in his bill and say his say about it. If there are considerations on account of which it seems advisable to split New York State in two, it is just as well we should know more about them, 08 Sty 8 So HE Harvard-Yale football game was successful in that it was hard played, and was not followed by inquests or recriminations. No one was seriously hurt, and no bad feel- ing has resulted. It was disappoint- ing because it was a tie, but that can be endured. It is demonstrated sev- eral times a month at this season that if the right men play football in the right spirit it is an excellent game—rough, to be sure, but not brutal. The great difficulty about it is to secure in every player a growth in grace that shall just keep step with his growth in energy. If there isan excess of grace the other side wins, and if there is disproportionate de- velopment of physical force some- one gets hurt. Harvard, in the re- cent game, seemed to be just the least bit too gentle. comicbooks.com