Life — December 11, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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GUE ACCOMPANIED HIM ON THE PLANO. Criteria. [Dota people thinking ill of Bishop Potter, who lately went out from New York in a private car to lecture to them, because he spoke only thirty-five minutes and then said no more than almost any ordinary celebrity traveling in a day coach might say in ten minutes, brings it very forcibly home to us that the farther West we go the coarser and more materialistic are the criteria of public opinion, Is there any other celebrity, regardless of his manner of travel, who is able to take up more than ten minutes in saying what the Bishop easily consumes thirty-five min- utes in saying? That, we may imagine, is the form which the critical question would have assumed in the minds of a more cul- tured community. A Letter. EAR LIFE: In your current tssue you expreased some anxiety over the ultimate fate of the non-union miners who have remained ot work in the anthracite coal flelds during the recent strike. If you really desire to know what the fate of these men will be, I think you can ascer- tain clearly by referring to the history of the fate of all of those unorgan- tzed mine owners who have in days gone by sought to ‘oppose themselves to the wishes and purposes of the cor- porations which some years ago obtained absolute control of the coal flelds, both as to mining and transportation of the coal, The fate of these * non-union” mine owners will be the fate of the non-union miners tn question, andif the unions: ‘ do not go any farther outside of the law than did the coal barons in working out their purpose of securing contro! of the production and transporta- tion of anthracite coal, then will be recorded an instance of great modera- tion in ® body of men who belong to the so-called “lower orders."* Tere was scarcely a law, State or national, governing mining and transportation that was not evaded, violated and tgnored. by the corpora- tions that are now represented by Messrs. Baer, Truesdale, et al., daring their stroggle against the “non-union” mine owners. And these, for- sooth, are the same men who have much to say about the illegality of the mine workers’ organization and the illegal acts of its members! Sincerely yours, EJ, MeVann. Stovx Crry, lowa, November 17, 1902. THE form of the present-day woman consists of a great deal of fiction, founded on some fact. No Comparison. First BOY: My mamma belongs to one of the first families. Seconp Boy: Pooh! that’s nothing. Mine belongs to rhe Eagle; conrounn re! Twese Arnsutrs ARE OETTINO To BE A one of the last families. RROULAR NUISANCE. comicbooks.com