Life — June 29, 1899 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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The Calf (to tte). { WISH THAT FOO-HORN WOULD STOP BLOWING; I ALWAYS CONFUSE IT WITH MOTHER'S Vor UESTIONS OF THE HOUR HEN Tammany Hall annexes tho Lakes of Killarney, new stanz will have to be added to tho famous song to commomorato Tammany’s genorosity. In that evont the Poots’ Union will havo to decido whether “Tammany” bo allowed to rhyme with ASithetarier wwe are and have been. tt is the consumer, (.¢., the great mass of the people, ‘who has terribly suifered, to the great advantage of the few of the business community.—Tratl- mony of Henry 0. Havemeyer before the Indus- trial Commission, This {s substantial evidenco. A million- aire presumably knows what ho {s talking about when ho gots forth the reasons for the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, . . ERE aro a few more remarks which, coming from the same authority, should be balm indeed to the supporters of our unjust protective taxation. ‘The true “communism of pelf Is the Customs, ‘Tariff MMi, It says to the people: * Here ts the e enacted for your robbery. Do not complain of If, but do your utmost to attack and injure the machinery engaged in extracting from ‘ou what we legislate shall be taken from you. ep up the clatter while the voters on the Tariff bill take advantage of the notse to enact lawa that cause your Impovertshment and thus contribute to the greed and avarice of the few. It ts the government, through Ite tartf laws, which plunders the people. and the trusts, et are merely the machinery for doing It. ‘The expense of the government mu provided for, Beyond that the for giving to one indus! a hundred per ceut, ax against anoth the per cent. for result ts that the government fleeces ‘ommunity at large in the interest of some favored Industry. In fact, the Tariff bill clutches the people by the throat, ‘The mother of all trnsts 1s the Castoms Tarif? Dill. ‘The existing bill aud the preceding one have been the occasion of the formation of all the large trusts, with very few exceptions, Inas- much as they provide for ai inordinate protection, so 8 HAT’S to bocomo ot Shakespeare it wo permit such as- saults on bim as Miss Adams's un- and Madamo Bern- hardt’s very up-to-date Hamlet? Wo haven't heard thut the divine Sarah smokes a cigarette through the “To be or not to be” speech, but it would not be surprising in a country where “Hail, Macbeth!” is translated “ Ah, Monsieur Macbeth! Com- ‘ment vous portez vous?" . . . ROUND has been broken for the great Pan-American Buffalo Fair of 1901, The Fair managers have incredible sums of money at their disposition, and Buffalo is reported tobe just asenthusi- ustic about the Fair as ever, Brazil has appropriated six hundred thousand dollars for an exhibit, Think of that! Thero will be great sights at that Fair, but the most interesting sight of all will be Buffalo with the Fair on {ts hands, No one who knows Buffalo will fail to seo that. * * . ‘THE New York Herald says the canned-beet issue is dead. Thisisa slight inaccuracy. It is the Ameri- can soldiers who ate the beet who are dead, . . . HAT: fine old divided ruin, the Democratic party, is advertising for a platform, What it needs more is a candidate whom people needn't be ashamed to voto for. o 8 @ UR English cousins havo @ way of doing somo things better than wedo. It was recently discovered that Sir Thomas Lipton'’s tea company was selling packages of that com- modity and including the wrapping in tho weight, That theso formed a considerablo portion of the whole is shown by the state- ment made at the trial, that the company’s profit from this source alone was elghty- five thousand dollars a year. A criminal action has just been brought against tho company, resulting ina conviction, and tho imposition of a fine of ten pounds. It would bo interesting to know how much twino, paper and pasteboard is annually sold in the United States at the market rate for tea, coffeo, sugar and candy. . . uncil Committee on Highways gave a HE hearing yesterday on President Guggen- hetmer's proposed ordinance to keep trucks off Fifth Avenue curing certain hours, John W. Ball of 245 Fifth Avenue presented a petition, signed by residents of all parts of the city, pro- testing against any restriction of trafic on the avenue.—Daily Newspaper, An excellent illustration of civic pride and patriotism as it exists among Now York's so-called “better element.” Mr. Ball and his truckmen friends “of all parts of the city” wore duly represented, . 2 6 HE high-school colleges are busy at their annual task of indiscriminately scattering honorary degrees, We observe with much interest that Denison (0.) Unt- vorsity bas just conferred the M. A.diploma on @ young woman school-teacher in Brooklyn. May she wear the distinguished honor with becoming modesty. comicbooks.com