Life — August 14, 1902 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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134 -LIFE: To the Heiress. King Edward 1s lying, perbaps, at the point of death, but your atroctous cartoon on the cover 1s * es not thy beauty makes me even more offensive and mortifying to me as an sue; American, I never did just care The United States Army ts too glorious to be For eyes ‘tween shades of green and blue, And Turner-sunset hair. And yet my passion is sincere, My love is ever bold, And to the test it rings as clear As newly-minted gold. But hadst thou not the Midas-touch, The thing would be a bore,— I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not millions more. Frank Roe Batchelder, Concession. OME will argue that the revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith should be made specifically retro- active. Revision (such is likely to be their contention) is all very nice for babies who are yet to die, but how about babies who have died during the two hundred and fifty years since the original confession was framed ? These persons do not rightly estimate the practical difficulties, Something had to be conceded to the conservative sentiment. Kickers’ and Anti- Kickers’ Column. EAR LIFE : Your brilliant paper bas done such excellent work against our criminal tovasion of the Philippine Republic, that 1 cannot understand its editorial commendation of Roosevelt, Root and Taft. If this war is @ national crime, these are the foremost criminal If the siaughter of Filipino patriots ts murder, Theodore Roosevelt 1s the most responsible of the murderers, How can tbese men be “ good,"’ in the words of your editortal of yesterday, while they will- ingly carry out a policy too bad for proper naming? Yours wonderingly, PRANK STEPHENS, Paitapetrnta, Jaly 9, 1902, It gives us pleasure to yield to the wishes of the writer of the following. One courtesy deserves another : ‘Tar Eprror oF Lire. Sir : AS you seem disposed to publish letters from admiring readers, perhaps you may find space for this one. The n- decent caricature on page 445 1s partica- larly apt and Live-like at this time when harmed by all the sneaks and mud-sling- era from Maine to San Francisco, and the men who have fought and died to make {tso will be honored and loved by the nation long after you and your wretched paper have ceased to be re membered, even in the contempt and disgastwith which you are regarded by every right-minded American. For very many years Lire was never missing from my drawiag-room tabie, bat slace It joled the ranks of the gat- ter press by its outrageous abuse of the Government and the army and tts shame- ful cartcature of those so universally re spected as the late Queen Victoria and President McKinley, 1 would no more admit it to my bouse than I would the New York Journal. It 1s pity that any misguided mau should bring it over bere. even to wrap up bis boots to. it, ©. Scott. Winperaere, Jane 30, 1902, To Tae Eptror oF Lirg, Dear Set; Your publication has taken {ts place as the leading reform paper of the day; exceptionally efficacious for good in that it {s not avowedly for that hackneyed thing, Reform, and that Its constituency 1s not of the class that ts prone to follow the leaderabip of profes- sional reformers. You bave a distinct advantage over the fellows whose hear- ers are limited to those who already think jas they themselves do, and who scold Ike the schoolmaster did bts few Paplis, because there were not more of them, One, high Io authority, ts reported to have said that no one ever took Mark Twain seriously. He tndeed must be ® person sitting in darkness who really be- Meves that Lire ts not taken seriously. The communications which you pabitsh prove conclusively that what you say 1s taken very seriously. Bat tn the far-reaching tnfuence which your editortals and caricatures have ex. erted against imperialism you have not honored—on the contrary you have sought to dishonor—bim who most strongly has combated the evil spirit of imperialism in the United States. The world 1s coming to realize, as Goldwin Smith shows plainly in his “Common- wealth or Empire,” that the tasne in our last Presidential campaign was Com: monwealth versus Empire; yet you, logically on Mr. Bryan's side, were against him, and now speak, Inferen tally, of antlAmperiaiism as “one of the delasions which he fastened upon the Democratic party.” You have won de- served admiration for the stand which you, in spite of environment and consttt- uency. have taken against impertalism, Now be consistent, be fair to Mr, Bryan ! Very truly yours, Henry Ware Alten. EL Paso, Texas, July 19, 1902. OUEST AT A DINNER PARTY.—— comicbooks.com