Life — January 31, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- 93 | ROOMS BY THE ||[pavee warn A HEAVY SLEEPER Mr. Bear: NOW, BEAR IN MIND TO CALL ME EARLY NEXT sPmixo. A Coming Microbe. T seems as if it would be easy to com- pute how long it will take Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Jim Hill, Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Vanderbilt to get all the money in the country. Money is apparently going their way with skips and jumps, and the more that tumbles in on them the easier it seems to be to add to it. Not to believe they are Sy Boing to get it all isa \\Sw\ simple exercise of faith AN \! which facts and compnta- tions do not avail to aid. They won't get it all. We know they won't, but we can't see what’s to hinder. If they did get it all, we should have to take it away from them and have a new deal, but we don’t expect things to come to that. We expect all these gentlemen and their descend- ants to be solvent for a good while to come, but we believe there is going to be some money left out of their strong boxes, and each of us hopes to get his share of it. Moreover, we think this result is going to be reached, not by violence or material changes in the laws, but by the operation of natural forces, The ingenious Mr. Wells, who wrote about the War of the Worlds, told how creatures came from Mars in machines, and killed off most of the English and left the British Isles a blackened ruin. Humans could not stand up to them. What happened? While there were still a few folks left in caves waiting to be killed, the Martian creatures de- veloped an insignificant parasite, which killed everyone of them promptly dead. That was smart in Mr. Wells. Napoleon, after being vastly useful, was getting too big for Earth, and couldn't be quiet. And then what? Lord Rosebery says in effect that he went mad. A maggot in the brain undid him. He whom no one elso could conquer used himself up, and his effects were distributed more or less accord- ing to law. So wo may be sure it will be if the very rich get materially too much. Excess—of power, money, opportunity—will inevitably disagree with them, and affairs will right themselves. Meanwhile, the reorganization of things in which they are a factor is mighty useful to civilization. They are able men. Working, in a way, for them- selves, they work actually for all of us, and though our share of the profits may be slow in coming to hand, it is bound tocome, Alexander, Cwsar, Napoleon advanced civilization. So do Morgan, Rockefeller, Hill and all their species. The goblins will get ’em if they don’t watch ont, but the goblins will be of their own raising. Meanwhile, they are doing good. CONTRARIWISE. THE BRIDE WAS LED TO THE ALTAR 18 A TRITE AND ABSURD REMARK. AS A MATTER OP PACT IT ISN'T ConnectT— SUE COULD FIND HER WAY IN THE DARK. comicbooks.com