Life — February 14, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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126 -LIFE- A Letter. . 'O THE EDITOR OP LIF! That is a damnable, ri} e delesiable pleture you pubilah In the current LiVE, AD) the Old-t entitled The Commerctal Period." The atrocity 1s / le ime the picture more than in the scene {t portrays, Why e you should continue to dele your pages with auch wilfally malevotent and abominable ites tsa puzzle to the public, who want to like your paper tf you will let them, No doubt you have to pander to some Vile tastes in your effort tu secure success In this “commerctal period,” and, perhaps, you have to stoop pretty low to — gain the spolls that belong to the victor, but I venture EF ERE'S to the tranquil yesterday to say that the small cluss who will pay ten cents to ~ When folk had time to dream and woo, see the Hton's tall twisted tn this way are rapidly reach- And men found leisure, so they say, ing the vanlshing point, and that for every one you ‘To turn a mot and tie a queue. watisty by such grotesque inventions there are hundreds who turn away with disgust and disinay, If there was one thing more than another that Live in bygone days , : . could pride ttself upon it was Its sturdy Independence, Ab then was heard with much ado Its absolute freedom from the narrow prejudices which The postman’s knock a-down the Row n hamper and curtail the fair expression of That brought to Peg and Pris and Prue in print, But latterly you seem to have fallen worst Ways of the “reptile press’? In ibs most rampant form, Have you already desigus on the Presidentia: chatr? And why do you adopt such “ primary methods of getting there? Does the end Justify the means? Yours truly, Hauirax, N.S, Jan, 1991 J. BOK The Valentine of long ago. Our correspondent is at fault in several par- ticu Phe picture he complains of had to do with the Transvaal . i believes that that war was a brutal outrage, and wishes. to express that idea in a picture, the picture cannot be made agrecable to persons who think the British course justifiable. ‘There is very little tail-twisting in the Pro-Boer demonstrations in this country, and none at all in those in Lire. The Pro-Doer feeling does not spring from dislike to England, but in most cases exists in spite of Pro-British leanings. sort of hatred is behind it except hatred of injustice and despotism. As for Live's for pendence and freedom from prejudice, jd it be a sure sign of inde sided with the British? Our correspondent is probably right in thinking that that, or silence, would be the more profitable and politic course. Lire thinks little, if any, better of the war in the Philippines than it does of the war in the Transvaal. It has not disguised its feelings about either. Then in the good old-fashioned way Did love-lorn lad coy rhyme pursue, LAR LOOKED AROUND WITH PRIDE, That he his passion might convey AND SILENTLY ADMIRED In “Lines” to Sylvia or Sue. ‘W18 LATEST Jo) NE MAD IN TRUTH . LEFT NAVOUT TO BE DESIRED. A CLEAN SWEEP. comicbooks.com