Life — September 24, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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White there ts Life there's Hope.” an SEPT. Ne of publication i be returned unless stamped and addressed No contribution companied by lope. The illustrations in Lite are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. Prompt notification should be sent by sub= bers of any change of address. AFTER all, the President = sent his warships toa fairly good market when he sent them to Beirut. We have been getting news from there in in- creased quantity ever since the ships arrived. It may be that there is not, just at this "-@ time, a Turkish port on the Mediterranean where the presence of two Ameri- can warships in the ‘bor would not be promptly productive of news on shore, but if that is so, it is the Sultan's misfortune and not the fault of the President. The story that it was a chance shot from a passing wedding party that did not hit Consul Magelssen has not been well stuck to, It seems that some one did fire at him. Even so, the Beirut episode is a small matter, except that it is the American point of contact with the highly momentous tarmoil in Southwestern Europe. Things seem to be moving there in earnest. Macedonians are shooting Turks; Bulgarians are egging them on and helping them; Monte- negrins, Rumanians and Servians are Nl getting ready to take a hand; the whole Turkish y seems to be stir- ring, and lookers-on, who are perfect in their geography and claim to be well informed in European politic say that it really means formal war between Bulgaria and Turkey and a general rising of the neighbors against the Sultan and hisrule, And, of course, the Sultan’s massacre-mill is running ‘LIPE* night and day and Sundays, and, of course, too, there will be no true comfort for the Balkans until the Sultan ceases to rule over any Euro- pean provinces. HETHER there will be much comfort even then is not very certain, for the whole of Turkey, and of what was recently Turkey, is peopled with folks who are hostile, one to another, by race, creed and politics, and love mightily to pull hair and cut throats. It is so in Asiatic Turkey as well as in the Balkans. Armenia, where, as will be recalled, there are sometimes bad epidemics of massacre, is in Asia, and Russia is her neighbor, And Beirut is in Asia also! Is anything going to be left to the Sultan? Why should there be? Why should he be a temporal sovereign any more than the Pope? Give him a palace at Constantinople, and let him set up shop as the head of the Ma- hontetan religion ! fos \ ’ E who live in New York have engrossing business nearer We have got to elect a Mayor again. So far as appears at this writ- ing, we shall be invited to choose between Mayor Low and Tammany. It doesn’t greatly matter whom Tam- many putsup. The probability is that it will be McClellan. He is a respect- able man, but less attractive to an independent voter than Mr. Shepard would be. Bat whoever Tammany puts up, even Mr. Shepard himself, must stand for Tammany. Men who want Tammany rule will vote for him, and men who don’t will vote for the other fellow. Mr, Low is not satisfactory to all the anti-Tammany Democrats. Next year is a Presidential year, and it is harder than it was two years ago to keep national politics out of the city elec- tion. Therefore, there has been a strong disposition to put a Democrat home. at the head of the Fusion ticket. As to that, we share Mr. Low's sentiment in being for the man who is most likely to beat Tammany. But. we hope Mr. Low is that man, for the nomination seems sure to go to him, and if it does, weare heartily forhim. His adminis tration has not been perfect, but it has been very good, and under the rule that he stands for, the city is steadily growing in grace and decency. It must not go backwards, The shameful days of Croker and Van Wyck, of police blackmail, of “ graft,’’ despotism and the red-light horrors must not return. And they will return, sure as taxes, un- less Tammany can be beaten, beaten, beaten, until it is clean starved out. J N MeClure’s Magazine for September “there isan instructive article about the New Industrial Conspiracy, mean- ing the coalition of labor bosses and employers of labor for their mutual advantage, and the spoliation of the man who pays. It tells how things are going in Chicago. For example : The coal teamsters have formed so strong a union that nobody can drive acoal wagon in Chicago except them- selves, The coal team owners have formed an Association for their mutual protection, Nobody can own and run acoal wagon in Chicago except them- selves. Now in the fulness of time, the teamsters and the wagon owners, both absolute monopolies, owing their monopoly to force, instead of fighting one another, come to an agreement, by the terms of which wages and hours and methods of work are arranged to suit the teamsters, and the owners charge what price they choose for delivering coal, Each protects the other in his monopoly by the use of whatever weapous are suitable, and there is no appeal from their common decree. They actually forbado the use of ural gas by large concerns in Chicago because it hurt their business and their prohibition had to be obeyed, becanse to disregard it meant to get no coal. So it goes in scores of other cas Ivisa highly edifying development and will repay study. There are storics, not yet in print, of like coalitions in the building industry in New York. comicbooks.com