Life — March 9, 1905 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“While there ts Life there’ VOL. XLV. MARCTI 9 17 West Trrety-Fixst Street, New York Published every Tharatay. $0) a year in ad vance. Postage to fore tries in the Post l Union, $1.04. re Single current copk 10 ‘after three months tro date of pub contributi accompanied by envelope. The illustrations in Lave. are copyrighted. and ave not to be reproduced, Prompt notification should be sertbers of any change of address Ss° ny of are work just n will be stamped returned wntes and addressed ent by sub- now to of our friends into that it makes ex- istence tend to be sorrow- ful and ma jail iow sas, Texas, and oth ricultura States h been beguil- ing the com- pulsory lei- sure of the frozen-up season by harrying the dear old Standard Oil C Chi- cago the Federal Government's Com- Deportment called for a Grand Jury to indict J Ogden Armour and all the the Beef Trust, and here in New York the directorate of the great Equitable iin mittee on Business has chiefs of Society has strayed so far from the Fifth Ave rian Church, w it started, ¢t © Presbyte- nce the bonds of brotherhood have been tions and re- rgotten, and ne conte criminations of the directors have dis- Lp ebody said last week that it was getting dis- reputable to be rich, We don’t thin it has come to that yet. Solvency has turbed the civilized world, been fashionable too long for its v« to be readily upset. But if it would only become disreputable to become disreputably rich, that would be great gain, and any sign of its coming cught to be welcomed. -LIFE- The great defect in the development of money: making processes during the last six years been the disposition to consider that nothing that was profit- Our venerable and conservative neighbor, the Sw, wound able was wrong. up a delicious editorial about two weeks ago with these remarks The danger to the body politic, the danger of a highly centralized, bureau- cratic gove in this country, does not lie in the direction of the individual proclivities of the Chief Magistrate or in the debility and perversity of the Con- uress, but in the growing recklessness nd dishonesty of the management of our great corporations. ‘This it is which is sapping the foundations of the social structure and which threatens the stability of the very Government itsel Behold Saul also among the prophets ! When the foremost critic of the trust- t tion of events to the use of language as direct as that, it means a good deal. Really our rich friends who are so ur- gent in their efforts to get richer must take their eye off the end fora spell, ters is constrained by the accumula- and let it dwell critically on the m “ANS, We do not want them to go to jail. It d hurt business, and business ans meat and drink to all of us poor. We want them to reform, and stop hog- ging, culti nd » to respect the laws, de ent moderation—say fiftee . for their mon nd quit puttin: n all the doors of Opportunity as will open only to their pr such locks ate keys. OUR years more of President Roose- velt! He has been gloriously inaugurated, and has come through the process in ood order. It seemed to Lire a year ago that he was a much more suitable Presidential for the Democratic party than any Democrat who was reasonably eligible, ed him, and circumstances constrained him to , the Demo- crats, relieved of the need of decry- candidate br the Republicans nomi run forthem. Now, howev ing him, are rapidly lining up among his backers. Mr. Bryan has endorsed his disposition and many of his policies. Democratic votes in the House passed the Naval Appropriation bill, so dear to his pacificatory heart, which even in its diminished form could not have been His efforts to stop the rebate imposition and e: impartial from the find hearty support among Demoe: passed without them. railroads ats, and so will the tariff revision which he service has recommended, if it actually comes before Congress, His announcement that he will not try to be his cessor made it easier for wn suc men of all parties to support him in policies which and sier for him to pursue poli- they individually also: pprove makes it cies which he individually approves, no. matter how many Republicans are op- posed. President Roosevelt’s second term—he calls it so—seems likely to wit- ness more self-examination by voters ansious to learn where they belong, and more shifting of voters from one side to the other, than any Presidential ter long day. And how he will come out—with the Republican party behind him, or the Democra or both, or neither » for many ic, is an interesting subject for conjecture. [° is odd with how much resignation the good people of this wide world take the recent expediting of the Grand Duke Sergius out of life. Did ever a victim of assassination pass with less mong the distant lookers-on ? tion is a horrible political concern Assassi expedient, and to see it used—other means failing—with results that are apparently useful, is demoralizing to the whole civilized world. It is very harmful to us to look on at such doings and not be able to disapprove them If this country found it a reason for interfering in Cuba that the condition of that island bred and the E more heartily: us yellow fever, pean neighbors of Russia have certainly as fair an excuse for putting her to r in the fact that her present condition the microbe of ation and sends it abroad. It is mighty bad for the rest of the world to have that country in so diseased a state that breeds assassit bombs seem reasonable implements of medication, comicbooks.com