Life — November 13, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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SUB-TREASURY Le JEMORGAN 8 CO. MONEY LENT \ X Vee weg NAS 5; Send for Morgan! HEN the cash box echoes a hollow naught, And gold, the precious, cannot be bought : When statesmen quaver and Wall Street quakes, And Uncle Sam in his old boots shakes— Send for Morgan! When money is plenty, indeed, to spare And seeking an outlet anywhere : + When combines, mergers and trusts are rife For the touch that shall bring them into life— Send for Morgan! When alien ships, for the sake of gain, Are ploughing their course o'er the raging main At our expense, and a master’s hand Is needed to bring them safe to land— Send for Morgan! When the red torch glows, and in grim despair The nation’s rulers are pawing air, With voters silently melting away, Or, in other words, when there’s h—I to pay— Send for Morgan! Tom Masson. Nahum's Vision of the Streets of New York. pas chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightnings.— (Nahum ii, 4.) [T 18 SUICIDE WRONG!" SHOUTED THE PREE-THINKINO CRANK. “ BECAUSE IT INTERFERES WITH DIGESTION, RESPIRATION AND OTHER LNPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF THE BODY," ANSWERED THE HEALTH CRANK. Lessons in Politics. “ THE Army, my son, is a necessity. It is impossible to conduct a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, without plenty of soldiers.’’ ‘* Was this the idea of the forefathers?” “The forefathers were confined by a narrow horizon. In their day Ohio was a wilderness, and world-politics had not been invented.” ‘ But the eternal verities, father?’ “ Are subject to revision, by their friends. Moreover, they apply differently to different exigencies. As to our military policy, the eternal verity of the matter is that the business of the Army is to extend the blessings of liberty. Until lately it was the opinion of right-thinking men that a few distant peoples were about the only ones to whom the blessings of liberty need be extended. But within the last few months it has transpired that when an American citi- zen with a family finds his wages fallen below one hundred and fifty dollars a year, he lapses into such a frame of mind as that the blessings of liberty have to be extended to him, also, now and then. Of course we cannot maintain our unexampled prosperity with everybody insisting on participating in it. No, my son, the Army is indispensa- ble.” N ODD: Has your baby been vaccinated yet? Topp: Oh, yes, a year ago. Why, he has almost recovered. comicbooks.com