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“« While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXXVI. OCT. 18, 1900, No. £26. 19 West Tuixty-Finst St., New Yor. aq rublished every ‘Thursday. $5000 year in ad- ‘oatage to foreign cuuntries in the Petal Year extra. Single current co} bree months tee, rom, No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without spectal arrangement with the publishers, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- soribers of any change of address, [7 is ren York careers on his pro- 7 tracted rampage in the : West, there issome disposition at home to dock his pay on the ground that he has been neglecting his job. It is‘asserted that he has only been in Albany four times since last May, and that the few visits which he has made have been very brief. Just now there isa good deal of concern about some business that is to be done with Mayor Van Wyck of New York, and anxiety is felt lest an opportunity of disciplining our Mayor, because of his connection with the Ice Trust, should be lost because our Governor can't find time to embrace it. We can’t help it if it is lost. It is well enough for ordinary folks to be off with the old love before they are on with the new, but men of destiny can’t be held down to rales of thatsort. Within the memory of infants who have not yet shed their first teeth, our Governor has been a civil service commissioner, a police commissioner, a naval secretary, a lieutenant-colonel, a colonel, und a Governor of New York. He is a progressive man, and when a likely new job offers, chain cables could not hold him to an old one in which his usefulness seemed to have waned, Things are going well in Albany. Thero isa little momentary confasion about the charges against Mayor Van Wyck, is regretfully ob- served that, while a a but Amos Knapp of Oyster Bay, the Governor's hired man, holds down the chair of State, and various of the Governor's secretaries turn up from time to time and spell him at his labors. Before th lines have begun to sway public opinion, the Governor himself will doubtless have spent another half-day in Albany and set all the wheels spinning. Dock his pay? No! No! Think what an advertise ment he has given us! Think of his reception at Kansas City, the like of which Missouri never saw What New York State has suffered from for months past has been not lack of government, but Jack of rain, If the Colonel can shake up a succession of brisk showers for us, all will be forgiven. o$ SGyS Go 4 oes truth is that at this writing there is more anxiety about the lack of rain than there is about the election, and more concern about coal than about China. Whichever way the election goes there will be unusual compensations for many of the de- feated. A great many voters who don’t choose to take the chances of a Bryan experiment, are still unconvinced that it would be so very calamitous, and feel that even if it did cost some folks some money it might be worth the expense, Of course Wall Street shudders at the thought, but Wall Street has had a pretty good innings, and folks who are not loaded up with its wares feel that the bottom might not drop out of everything even if Wall Street did shake a bit. Real estate in cities all over the country is stagnant, and the chief reason given for its sluggishness is that persons who have money to invest would rather put it into stocks than be bothered with lands or houses. Bryan's election is not prescribed by the faculty as a cure for the stagnation of real proper- ty, for panics in the past have not done land values much good, but at least it may be said that if the remedy was ad- ministered, even those who did not like it would be interested to watch its effects. The men whose exasperation at Bryan's election, if it happened, would be most entitled to respect, would be the old-line Democrats, who would feel that it put off indefinitely the reorganization of their party. ie A§ for China, the Bryanites cannot make much capital out of pro- Als there. So far as the country knows, or can find out, its interests there are in good hands and have been handled with discretion. The impres- sion is widely diffused that the present Administration has learned to know when it has had enough of the fruits of victory and is not at all disposed to incur new indigestions in the Orient. Secretary Hay and Secretary Root re- tired successively to their beds in the country after wrestling with the Chi- nese question, but they seem to have spent themselves to good purpose, for the rest of us have been able to sit up and take our nourishment without much worry. How the Chinese com- plications will work out is still un- certain, but the Major and his advisers seem to have the under hold on Destiny, and a strong and definite intention not to be thrown down again. [= the coal strike goes on long enough it will make real trouble. So far as the public can judge the strikers have had very favorable terms offered them including a ten per cent. adyance in wages, and all that now delays settlement is either the reasonable dif- ficulty of adjusting the terms of agreement, or else a rule or ruin senti- ment among the strike leaders. If unions and union bosses have things all their own way, the result will bo apt to be a tyranny over miners and operators alike which will soon become intolerable. If the strike is kept up because the great majority of the miners are afraid to accept the terms offered, because an organized minority forbids them to, that will mean terror- ism for a while and eventual defeat for the miners, ' Happily, the outlook encourages the hope for a better result. comicbooks.com