Life — May 7, 1903 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE: 413 A Good Cause. U NDER the title of “* An Appeal for Justice and Relief,"’ a peti- tion is now being circulated in New York City, It begins: “In the name of public decency we appeal for prope regula- tion of our street railways, to end the overcrowding which forces our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters into humili- ating and indecent personal contact with others and subjects them to frequent shameful secret insult.” That this petition may have immediate and positive results is the prayer of many thousand citizens of this long-suffering communi! Socialism. A Lh this socialism indicates nothing much, except that dis- content has been getting a new LS, Awhile ago it was free-silverism. Discontent doesn’t stop to ¢: nomic effects; if the thing proy “ems likely to shuffle up the cards and deal new, that is enough, The man who plays and never wins natu- y suspects a cold deck. Cerebral. 2 RIGGS: How did you come out with that Boston girl? Was it an affair of the heart? fair of the mind. Greatness. E are getting to be a great people. Itis estimated that the combined belt-line peoples are never very pussy. But bless- led to them all the time, and in the natural order it pe long until theie per capita waist ment will equal that of our lower ! middle class at least. ch from the earth to the sur Ww ceeds that of any other nation, past or present, being long enough to ne are properly jealous about letting in wrap fourteen or fifteen times around the foreign immigrants, Such foreigners as latter come to our shores are mostly too poor to ipinos are not properiy to be eat for the fun of it, and consequently their abdomens are quite ridiculous ee set ee comicbooks.com