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“ While there is Life there's Hope.” VoL, XiU SEPT. 10, 1903. No. 1089. 19 West Taner. Piast St.. New YORE. every Taursday Wl be returned untess stamped and addressed tion accompanied by The illustrations in Lire. are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. Prompt notification should be sent by sub- seribers of any change of address R. M s He has been working for us as Secretary of War for over four years, and we are sorry to have him leave. Dur- ing the term of his con- nection with us he has shown diligence and ability, has got to bis desk early and left it late, and has never asked for an increase of pay. To oblige us he yed on after we lost our late fore- man, and has worked harmoniously with his successor. We say frankly that he has been worth to us more than our circumstances have allowed us to pay him, Any one who gets him will get a good man, for he is a worker and very handy. In a dispute he sides heartily with his employer, except sometimes when the dispute is be- tween his real employer and his im- mediate boss, when he is liable, out of mere joyalty, to stand in with his boss. Men under him who obey his orde will find him observant and apprecia- tive, and a little blind on the off side when necessary, Good-by, Eliba! We hate to part with you, We would feel worse about it than we do if your place in the Cabinet was to be filled by a less sound and substantial patriot than Judge Taft. ROOT ped. has re- all the opponents of the renomi- nation of President Roosevelt our neighbor, The Suu, is the liveliest and the most ingenious, Morning and evening, week-days and Sundays, it searches for joints in the strenuous one’s armor, and jabs at them whether found or not. It brought to public notice the record of Bellairs, the friend of Wood, the President's Achates ; it industriously wrought out the tale of Littauer and the glove contracts ; it throws fits in large type because the Sylph navigates in and out of Oyster Bay; in long leaded editorials it im- putes the slump in stocks to the Pre dent's maleticent interferences with prosperity. In other leaded editorials it makes other dark insinuations, and in generals and particulars it shows itself one of the most industrious pi pers published. It is all magnificent, but it is war. Who is The Sun now- adays? Who does it stand for? What aro its politics, if any, and who is back of them? Mr, Laffan? Yes. But who else? Mr. Morgan? We think It does not seem likely that Mr. Morgan is in the newspaper business. Because he came some years ago to be a creditor, and later an owner of bonds, of the Harper Company, he is credited with being the controlling spirit in Iarper’s Weekly, just as he is credited with being the real owner of The Gammon! It is true, no doubt, that Mr. Morgan and other Wall Street leaders were sincere ecandalized by Mr. Roosevelt's inter- position in the coal strike, and would prefer some man for President whom they considered ‘safer, but our notion is that Mr. Morgan minds his job much too closely to do editing, and that he neither owns stock in The Sun, nor concerns himself with Jfarper's Weekly. Oe 2s | ‘HE charges against Congressman Li er, that, being a Congress- man, he was unlawfully interested in Government glove contracts, have not not. Sun. been cleared up yet, and it is not quite certain how he is coming out. If he has broken the law, the worst he is really guilty of seems to be careless- A Congressman who has incor- porated his business may sell to the Government with impunity, — Lit- tauer's business was not incorporated, but apparently he complied with the law by selling his gloves, not to the Government, but to a contractor who sold them to the Government. But in one case there was a hitch. The con- tractor bid too low, asked a reduction in the price of the gloves, and, ap- parently, got a concession from the manufacturer, by the terms of which the manufacturer (Littauer) agreed to share profits with the contractor, if there were any. But the profits he agreed to share were the profits of his own sale to the contractor, and not those of the contractor's sale to the Government. So far as yet appears, he has not violated the statute. The motive of the exposure in which he figures is nothing else than political malice. ness, Owekeepthe Cup! That at this writing is a foregone conclusion. It has been nobly battled for this time, and nobly defended. We offer our respectful compliments to the defenders. Their work has been mag- nificent; its outcome is glorious. As for Sir Thomas, we would offer him our sympathy if he scemed to need it. But he has had three good runs for his money, and there are many considera- tions which help to mitigate his disap- pointment, There was a man—it is an old and familiar story—who drove his hogs forty miles to find a better market, found the price had dropped and drove them home. He had not made money, he said, but he had had the company of the hogs. Sir Thomas has not hfted the Cup, but at least he has hid the company of the Americans, and there is every sign that he has found it to his taste. They have certainly approved of him. A great many sound patriots have wanted to see him win at least one race, and if he had managed to attain the unattainable mug, we would have borne it cheerfully. comicbooks.com