Life — November 5, 1903 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Yo contribution will be returned unless tamped and addressed The illustrations in Live ave copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced, Prompt notifi n should be sent by sub- scribers of an change of address press prospects are excel- lent for the reelection of Mayor Lowin New York. There has been plenty of work to do in the cam- paign, and it has been done, but it has seemed as if hardly so much was necessary to be said as was said two years ago, for the reason that the facts were known and ac- cepted as they have never been before in a mayoralty election in New York. Two years ago Tammany was tried and convicted at the publ. body learned then, and still remembers its crimes. No successful pretense of reformation has been devised since then, Nobody the slightest ide that Tammany has reformed, or in- tends to reform, The Tammany can- didate was a far weaker man this y! than when Mr. Shepard ran. No voter could have believed that Colonel McClellan would stem the tide of corruption that was behind him, whereas there were voters, last time, who thought that Mr. Shepard was clever enough to do something even with Tammany, Two years of Dr. *LIPE: Low's administration had given a fair example of what good government was like, The issue was perfectly clear. After some tribulation the Fusion forces put forward a ticket that repre- sented them and no one else, and the voter was invited to express his senti- ments. How the voter expressed himself the reader now knows. If the voter has felt and voted as he should have done, and as, at this writing, we believe he will, there is good basis for the hope that good government in New York has been permanently es tablished. Tammany drubbed often enough will disintegrate, and on its ruins may pos: y rise a decent organi- zation to dispute with another decent organization the control of the town. "PHA a commission made up solely of British subjects and American citizens has been able to settle so im- portant an international controve: as that anent the Alaska boundary is something over which all good people in both countries have reason to re- joice. It was a case in which there conld be no decision unless some American commissioner favored the Canadian claim, or a British commis- sioner sided with the Americans. The latter happened. The Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Alverstone, convinced that in most important particulars the American claims were well founded, and the award accord- i was decidedly favorable to our side, When we bought Alaska the country sn’t worth much, and it did not greatly matter where the line ran which divided our land from the British possessions, but since gold has been discovered in the Klondike, it has mattered. The decision gives us a coast that has become valuable Canada, sad to say, is excess' gruntled because we ha feel merely that we got justice, but that we got it in England from a British Judge is appreciated with a warmth that encourages the hope that we may see a tribunal permanently established for the settlement by Brit- ish and American jurists of all disputes susceptible of arbitration to which the United States and Great Britain are the parties. I OWTE has amused and entertained New York, but the prospect is that he will go home convinced that our town is wholly unregenerate. New York has been heartily interested in him, has observed him and commented on him and read about him daily by the column in the newspapers, but not for a minute has it been able to take him seriou It has not even accepted him as a preacher of religion, but simply a remarkable freak who was worth watching fora time, if one had an hour to spare. The general verdict is that the little man really believes in himself and his mission, is persuaded that he is Elijah the Third, and was sincere in his expectation to stampede the citizens of this urgent metropolis. There much that was remarkable about his visitation, His host was a host of decent, well-behaved people, and he ruled it marvellously, His power over his followers impressed us, and being somewhat sordid people we have been interested in him as a millionaire promoter, who is said to have got together properties worth a y large sum of real money. He seems more honest than some of the promoters who have taken some of us in, and many of us have small reason to scoff at the credulity of his ii vestors, Truly, mankind is a strange species of creature and incorrigibly apt at being fooled. But noone seems to fool other folks quite so successfully as the man who first fools himself. Faith can move mountains, but the sad part of it is that it can shake down a good many rocks, even when it is faith in what isn't 50. AOREE FES EET es “ONGRESS has been called to a: ~ semble on November 9 and do ju tice toCuba. Heaven send that it may have the grace to do its duty and save our national good name by giving Cuba the trade privileges that are her due. comicbooks.com