Life — November 7, 1901 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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While there ia Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXXVIL NOV. 7, 1901. No. 992. 19 West Tuirty-Finst St., New Yor. Published every ‘Thursday. $5.00 a year in ad- vance. Vostage to foreign countries in the Postal SLO4 a year extra. Single current copies, Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, % cents, No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in Lire are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- soribers of any change of address, O far as money goes, the Buffalo Fair has not paid. Its stock- holders, it seems, have lost all they put in, which was two millions anda half; the contract- ors who put the buildings up still lack a million dol- lars of their dues, and the bondholders about half a million. Of course this is amuch greater loss than was expected, and will grieve the spiritsof many sympathizing citizens who admired and took pleasure inthe Pan-American. We are all sorry that a show that was so successful artistically and cost so much pains and thought and efforts should show so serious a deficit. Itisa pretty big bill for any town topay. Still Buffalo can pay it, and doubtless will stand its loss without distress. One's sympathies are most enlisted for the contractors. The stockholders have paid their money. knowing that their investment was extra-hazardous, and they have a large and glorious experience to set off against their loss. All summer long Buffalo has been the central point of the country. It has seen, and been seen by, a vast number of edifying people. For one season it has been a metropolis, and what it thought and said and did and looked like has been of importance toall Americans. It has been lifted out of the rut of every-day matters, and its thoughts have been turned for six months ranning to con- siderations of beauty, enjoyment and hospitality. It can hardly be again the ETE. city that it has been. It can hardly fail to bea broader and more interesting town, poorer perhaps for a time, but wiser for all time. It has had a great deal for its money : new ideas, new stand- ards of comparison, new distinctions. Those gains will stay by it. It has had an enormous advertisement, too, and the effects of that will last. And so, altogether, its gains will be permanent, while the effects of its !osses will, for the most part, be transitory. What some of us outsiders will hope for with most concern is that the people, men and women, who made the Pan-Ameri- can, may not suffer in health from the strain of their effort. On some good people the strain was very heavy, especially when to all else was added the calamity that cost us the life of a President. But it was a burden finely carried. At whatever loss of ease, or sleep, or money, our Buffalo friends put their big undertaking through to the admiration of all observers, it is a pleasure to offer them the congratula- tions due to their excellent capacity, their devotion and their grit. As for those contractors, perhaps it may be possible, presently, to help them out. & weg Oe ee Tek. [HEREis no basis for the apprehen- sion that seems to be felt in some quarters that Fiske Warren, of Boston, intends to raise the standard of revolt in the Philippines. He doesn’t. In the first place, it isn’t necessary, for the standard of revolt is raised daily in the Philippines as it is, and is now particu- larly conspicuous in Samar, In the next place, Mr. Warren’s concern is still much more for the Americans and the honor of his own country, than for the Filipinos. He does not mean mis- chief. He is only anxious to do what he can to mend __ situation that he be- lieves to need attention. He is a gen- erous-spirited man, and honorable and unselfish as well as loyal in his aspira- tions. It didn’t hurt him to take the oath of allegiance, but he is not really a suspicious or dangerous character. He is a good man, though somewhat out of the common order in his feelings and convictions. Officers of the army who have come back from the Philippines have been known to speak disparagingly of the general run of Americans, not in gov- ernment employ, who have found their way to Manila and beyond. Asa rule they seem to be a pretty bad lot, and not adapted to do the islands or their population any good, or to reflect credit on the American name. If there were no worse Americans than Mr, Warren in the Philippines, our task there would be easier than it is and our prospects considerably brighter. S THE misery our British brethren have brought down on themselves by undertaking to subdue the Boers continues to pass all expectation. In South Africa the war is growing savage and dreadfal beyond all modern prec- edent. In England it threatens to pull down the government that brought it on. There is no sign of the end in sight, and there is a certainty that un- Jess an end comes soon, something very heavy will drop in England. English government has been a government of the upper classes, for the benefit of all classes, but by no means forgetting themselves. The straits the present government isin excite speculation on the possibility of the advancement of new men of a new sort to the control of affairs. The trouble is to find the new men. The worst of England's pickle is the dearth of alternatives. Itis terrible to hold on, but may be worse to let go. ENATOR TILLMAN, of South Carolina, has been quoted as saying, apropos of Booker Washington's din- ner with the President: “The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will neces- sitate our killing a thonsand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again.” Tillman is a brute, and what he says ought not to be of much importance, except as it illustrates himself and his qualifications to be a Senator of the United States. But if he spoke the words attributed to him he onght to be in jail, where he would make a suit- able companion for Emma Goldman, who ought to be there also, and for the same offense—inciting murder, K comicbooks.com