Life — November 10, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“ While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XLIV, NOV. 10, 1904, No, 1150, 17 West Trety-Finst Street, New York. $5.00 a year in ad Published every Thurs i & a countries in the Postal vance. Postage LO ay te Hack numbern after three mont=a {rou nt publication, 9 erate No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in LAFR. are copyrighted, and ave not to be reproduced, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- seribers of any change 0/ address. HEY tell us that when death comes in the course of nature to us hu- A.» mans, it rarely finds us unduly terrified, or reluct- ant to go. If nothing else avails to ease us off, the pains and long ness of a last illness sure to do it. We get tired out: the pains of hell cease to appall us, if they ever did, and even if our imaginations have grown too dull to weari- are picture the joys of heaven, we are glad at last to go and be at peace. A Presidential campaign is like a last illness in its power to make the patient welcome his release. About the this number of Lire is on the news-stands, somebody will be elected President. We hope it won't be Tom Watson, because he is not ripe yet; but we don’t greatly care who else it is, so long as it is somebody. We are not scared, no matter what the issue is If Parker’s the man, Here’s to Parker! He has made a good fight under diffi- cult conditions. We are not afraid he won't be a creditable President if the people have beckoned to him to take the job. If Roosevelt is the man— and we should hate to bet that he isn’t—Bully for Roosevelt! He is a practised and knows the We don't propose to lose a f sleep beforehand over the pos- time statesman, business. wink sibilities of his administration. So long tL ITF ES as there is not a disputed election—and there is not the slightest prospect of that—let us join with thankful hearts in acknowledging the mercy of a con- cluded campaign, and face with forti- tude whatever future waits. HE last fortnight of the camp: after Judge Parker began to talk, was pretty scrappy. It was difficult for the Judge to say anything definite on any vital subject without making all the Republicans mad and half the Democrats. As the Judge warmed up in the game of give and take, he quoted figures and countenanced statements and suggestions which drew the fire of all the Republican big guns. His fig- ures were disputable, but they were good enough to earn the compliment of being twisted and misstated by the leading Republican orators. The twist- ing and misstating was ably done. The Republican talkers outclassed most of their opponents. We had Mr. Tait painting rose-colored pictures of the *tranquil prosperity of the Philip- pines, and drawing on Governor Wright by ¢able for corroboration. We had Mr. Hay averring that we had no more than held our apron for Panama, and that it had dropped in without ever an American official hand being raised to shake the tree. We had a chorus of outraged innocents denying everything Judge Parker said, and when Cleve- land and Olney raised their voices for the Democracy, William Hearst bawled from all his throats to have them: re- moved from the platform. Possibly Judge Parker would have got as many votes if he hadn't talked, but it was worth something to him to get out onto the firing line and get some honorable With Hay and Root and Taft and Knox and Moody in front, and Tom Watson on the flank, and Hearst behind plugging at Cleveland and Ol- ney, it was a fairly hot line. We are thankful President Roosevelt was not on it. sears. UT we are getting back into the campaign, which is not seemly. Let us face the other way, brethren, and press on now under the leader the voters have chosen for us. There will be no more speeches to read, no more figures to foot up, no more possi- bilities to weigh or decisions to make. We shall have more leisure now to im- prove our minds on other subjects than politics. At the same time, we have had avery valuable season of instruction, and have a more definite notion of how we want our country governed, and what changes or amendments of public pol- icy we wish to promote or oppose. A Presidential campaign is a vast labor, but the country could not spare it, and to our minds it comes none too often under our present system. If the peo- ple are to be self-governing, they must be thoroughly stirred up and instructed at intervals not too far apart upon the problems of government. That is the great work that is done when we elect a President. Whom we elect is ordi- narily not so vital a matter as that seventy millions of people should be constrained to take notice of what is being done in their name. Wat owtanghanodnrityrceany Orr new Subway is lovely. It has been tried, and it works, Our folks are riding in it by the million up and down Manhattan Island,with safety, celerity and comfort. It is like moving into a bigger flat. There is more room in the cars of the surface roads, and more room in the elevated trains, and room in the Subway itself. Life i better worth living, and will certainly be more protracted, on this island be- cause of the Subway. But what are those pictures that stand against the Subway station walls? Advertisements in those stations? Are those pretty walls really to be disfigured? Apparently they are, and it is a scandal that it should be so. nice comicbooks.com