Life — January 19, 1905 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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VOL. XLV TAN. 19, No. 1160. 17 West Thiery-Firsr Sener, New Vors. Tuttished every) Thuretay a year in vane. Postage to fore tries In the Te Jo conte Tack’ numbere after three te of pats 4 cents toll be ve stamped and urned unt Vo contribution envelop The illustrations in Lave ould be sent by sub- address. Prompt noltficatio » , Sof any change 0 HE the great war in t chicf interest East concerns, not so much the ability of the Japs to whip the Russians but their power to help forw cause of sian lib- It had long been v derstood tha the fall of rthur was inevita- racy felt. whan he believed himsi wrote to the Czar, warni his advisers, ‘' whose cruel and strenu- y is arresting the nkind.”’ He warned tue Czar that autocracy was an ¢ form of government that would no longer serve for an enlightened people living in touch with enl He entreated him to heed the desires of the Russian people, and espe- Three years to be dying, shim gainst eternal ous activ progress of n tions, cially to free the working people from 1e special laws that deprived them of rights enjoyed by other citizens, and to give them freedom of removal from ce to place, freedom of educ f conscience, and in tenure of land. ion, These reforms are coming, and the Japs are helping vastly to bring them. Some of them havealready been granted by the Czar, and though what the Czar gives he can take back, or the next Czar may take back, the gr like the abolition of serfdom or the reforms, -LIFE- concession of these great rights that Tolstoi spoke for, once they are fully established andenjoyed, arcirr ble. The Japs will bring Russia down to ey hold out long More power to them in that vor: modern times i enough. good cause, It was that thieving gang of palace reactionaries—the sort that spoke of the Russian people as fleas ght they owned the dog—that To and who th war with Japan. requital home to them, their deadly hold on Russia's throat, is one chief thing the Japs are working for, though it is an end with ) little concern, and eh, it may be, they take litle brought on th ave HE que re the fleas and who the dog, is of large political on, who. significance in other places than Rus- We who live in New York are than usually restless just now under some of the provisions for our sia. more government that have been devised by the up-State legislators in Albany. We want especially to get rid of the diabol- aw hotels, invented, to the ical Raines. immense det the morals of , by Senator John Raines of Canandaigua, and stolidly maintained by him and his Republican hayseed nent of our tow brethren in the Legislature, because the n, of which they are an un- art, brings in a revenue of 30,000, half of which goes excise syste necessary fp nearly $t tow: ying the expenses of gov- erning the State. It costs $26,000,000 a year to run the State. The Raines law supplies nine millions now, and does better every year, drawing nearly all its revenue from the citi the State, and the greater part of it from New York. It provides that hotel: may sell drinks on Sunday, and defines a hotel as a building with ten rooms that may be Ict to transient lod Tt definition has filled New York with bogus hotels, which let for the most deleterious purposes the rooms which they are bound to maintain, and for which, being merely saloons, they rds det We yearn ines and his have no legitimate use. very cornestly to have R accomplices deliver us fr: alizing burden of these intole: tels, and fix up their ex: it may effect a due extorti exorbitant cost of immorality. But in the demor- wsot at a less this case we are the dog and Raines and his fellows are the fleas, and fully appreciate the comfert and emol- ument of their position. for blood, and not partic bout di ls. So long as the State gets ney, and the tax rate continues in the rural districts, our r go hang, Wherefore, brethren, when you read of the perils of the law hotels, remember Raines of Canan- daigua and his fellow-tleas. That they should be able to fasten on this town the extraordinary equipment of public nuisances that theirlaw maintain: would be incredible if it were not truce. They are o% ar hte als may 1 Raines- s here < Ye 9; g ‘Casa = CRAY if Mes late William H. Baldwin, 1 the 4 est talent being good of any man of like ability and success that we Ameri much of these many years. not only good, but affirmat: fully ans have seen He was ly, illustriously good, and yet no one lay it up against him. And he was good under difficulties, for he was an exceedingly able and successful man of business, who missed the dis. cipline of failure, succeeding from the first in what he undertook, progressing with extreme rapidity from one impor- tant position of trust and responsibility elp- to a better one, and becoming Pre: dent of the Long Island Railroad at the age of thirty-three. We do not know where to look for a recent car char or that quite matches Mr. Bald- ‘The most unworldly of worldly- wise men, the most unselfish of eff men, win's, ficient he seemed to consider that the most valuable thing in life wasthe oppor- tunity to serve mankind, He is dead at forty-one, a lamentable toss to the country, But what a happy life! To call it successful is almost a disparage- ment. It is a credit to our country and our yeneration that such a man as Baldwin could have won and held the place he did, and could have been so universally | onored and beloved. comicbooks.com