Life — September 21, 1899 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“ While there is Life there's Hopi VOL. XXXIV, SEPTEMBER 21, 1800, 19 West Tunery-Finst Sr., New YORK. $500 a year tn ad~ puntries tn the P.atal Panton. $1044 year extra, Single curreot copies. locents. ‘Rack numbers, after three months from Gato of publication: Scents No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed encelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without speciat arrangement with the publishers, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- scribers Sony y change of address. Indianapolis despatch says that Senator Bever- idge has returned from a six months’ visit to the Philippines and other far castern localities, “ thoroughly imbued with the idea that only American rule in the islands can save the natives from themselves.” In view of this opinion it is a comfort to recall that we have got a good many of them perma- nently saved already, and that the good work is going on. Why we should exert ourselves quite so strenuously tosave the Filipinos from themselves is a little ob- scure. When Weyler haa saved one or two hundred thousand Cuvan reconcen- trados from themselves, we thought so poorly of his scheme of salvation that we went in and bundled him and bis successors out of the island, Condi- tions in Luzon are apparently different. Wherein the difference lies is not quite so clear to ail of usas we would like to have it, and for that reason we should welcome the announcement that, when Congress meets, Senator Beveridge is going to make a speech in the Senate and explain all about it. We shall be glad to hear from him, As long as we are going to save the Filipinos from themselves, we are auxious to be con- vinced that it is the right thing to do. If we can get them saved in time to save ourselves from Bryanism, so much the better. About a year ago, before our efforts to LIPE save the Filipinos had become so earnest, a gentleman who bad lived many years in the islands said, in talking about the Filipinos, that as servants and laborers the Malays worked for Spaniards, Mesti- zs and other Malays ; that the Spaniards used them best and their fellows of their own blood worst, but that they liked their own kind best and preferred Malay masters, This makes it seem doubtful whether the Malays will ever prove as grateful to us as they should be for saving them from themselves, but of course that does not excuse us from doing our full duty by them, and putting in our best licks to save them. VERYBODY knows that so far our control of Porto Rico has been disastrous to the interests of the islaod. We are not to blame for the burricane which drowned thousands of people there and destroyed a vast deal of property, but we are to blame for killing Porto Rican trade. As it stands now, the islanders have lost their old privilege of taking their produce into Spain duty free. They have lost that market, and ours is closed to them by our duties on sugar and tobacco, and whatever else they tuise. Consequently their produce is piling up on their hands and their busi- ness is dead. Nothing can be done for them until Congress meets, but no busi- ness that will come before Congress is more urgent than theirs. HESE are very brisk days in Ken- tucky, where a statesman named Goebel is running for Governor on the Democratic ticket against all comers. Thereare very grave objections to Goebel, and they seem to be well-founded. His opponents aver that he got his nomioa- tion by rascality and unfair means, aod that he is a murderer and an all-around bad man besides. In so far as killing a man constitutes murder in Kentucky, Goebel certainly achieved it some years since, but such an experience does not seem to disqualify a man for political preferment in the city of New York, and probably in itself it would not weigh very heavily against bim in Kentucky. There are, however, so many other sound objections to Goebel, that his defeat seems something tbat all good men should hope for. There has already been a hot fight against him, with a profuse use of deadly epithets, for a month, and unless he with- draws it will go on for six weeks longer. Colonel Bryan bas been chartered to stump tbe State for him, and, altogetber, sport is uncommon good in Kentucky this fall, and bullet-proof waistcoats are already in demand among the prudent. # a SPE aleerepences of purpose between Oom Paul Kruger and the Hon, Joseph Chamberlain continue to attract the attention of Christendom and pro- mote uneasiness in its mind. Accord- ing to Live’s understanding of the basis of dispute, Mr. Chamberlain insists that Oom Paul shall have his bair cut, put a flower in his buttonhole, and behave as Mr. Chamberlain might behave if he were Oom Paul, while Mr. Kruger in- sists that his standards of behavior are good enough for him, and that no orchid-hunting Englishman sball teach him manners. At thisdistance from the scene of dispute it is difficult to forecast the issue of it, but if Mr. Chamberlain's barber once gets his hands into Mr. Kruger’s hair there will be much less of it left than if Mr. Kruger would consent to have his own barber trim it. A warin the Transvaal would mean something very like civil war throughout South Africa, The Dutch and English are mixed up through all that country, and if they come to blows there will be tragical results. How does our friend Governor Roosevelt feel about this South African tangle? Is there enough of his some- what vaunted Dutch blood left in him to make him sympathize with a Dutchman who stands between @ Briton and a bill of pay-dirt? —>>s! (Z—- ak a HE most enduring monument to the late Judge Hilton which remains in New York is the hotel which Mr. Stew- art built for working girls. It is built of fairly durable materials, and as long as it stands Mr. Stewart's executor will be remembered. comicbooks.com |