Life — September 7, 1905 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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ets Life there's Hope.” SEPT. 7, 103. No. 1193, tery-Finst Street, New Yori. Lire goes to press the plenipotent at Portsmouth are. still avoring to M. Roose- agre terms of peace are still unable to agree. ‘The hitch is over the island of Saghalien and the stion of an indemnity, Japan having got possession of the greater part of Saghalien is strongly disposed to keep it. Russia having no convenient of paying an indemnity artily indisposed to pay one. that not} thrashed to the indemnity point, and it y be that she question wh Fs, too, she is and it is a r will be Japan has not got her hands on any- ng of Russia’s that will yield much y. When Germany took an in- ity from France she had p of Paris, and indeed of all F France paid her to let go. has nothing that Rus: pects to ain possession of, unless it is Sagha- She is not a yet Japan will attack her home ports in the Baltic, or capture St. Petersburg. Japan is unlucky in having brought low an adversary who is not commer- cially good. Russia is willing, appar- ently, to stop where she is and go home. Japan is not content with tha wants pay for all her trouble. It is probable that Japan can go on defeat- ing Russian generals and killing Rus- in soldiers for some time longer. No doubt she can capture Vladivostock, and perbaps she can drive the Russians out of tern A: altogether and back to Lake Bai But will it pay her? Is it good business to sandbag a man, even a very bigman, whose pock- ets are empty? Japan is poor, and is understood to be pretty hard up. Russia is poor, but the Russian Church is rich, and may be compelled to turn over her she ¢ nee. But Japan e r she -LIFE- its treasures to the war fund. We tremble to think what bargains may be offered to Mr. Morgan and our other collectors if the Portsmouth conference fails! T looks to us as though Japan had taken out of Russia's hide very arly as much as she can afford to take, and that if Russia absolutely refuses to pay Japan to stop fighting, n will have great difficulty in com- Japan has earned a good purse, besides the renown and all the other advantages the war has brought r, but how she is go’ the purse is not readily app: pelling her to doso, mistake she made was in not nging what the stake should be before the fight began and having it put into strong hands for safe-keeping. If M. Roosevelt only held the stake it would be a vast help to him in his exer- tions as peacemaker. An) Portsmouth conferees succeed or not, M. Roosevelt is somew! ahead as the result of the proceedings. As between him and the conferees, it was a case of heads, I win; He deserves, and will receive, credit for bis efforts, whether they succeed at this time or fail. And even if the efforts of the conferees do not succeed at this time, it must not be considered that their labors are wholly fruitless. They have thrashed out the whole subject. Peace must come pretty soon, and whenever it does come, the protracted haggling at Portsmouth will make the final terms very much easier to reach. ALAS BAIL HE estate of the late Colonel Jacob ene, of Hartford, for nearly thirty years the president of the Con- necticut M al Life Insurance Com- pany, has been appraised, and valued at about $55,000. This moderation in the volume of his accumulations has caused Colonel Greene to be held up by many newspapers as an example of what a president of an insurance com- pany ought tobe. They say, Here was whether the how, ils, you lose. an honest man. His company was one of the best of the smaller ones, He must have had good opportunities to make money, yet, apparently, all he had to show for twenty-seven years of important service was his living and this small estate, We don't know any of the details of Colonel Greene’ nor what his salary was, nor whether he had a family, nor whether he was a sav- ing man. But it is a mistake to brag about the smallness of his estate. If he was underpaid for his work, that is no credit to anybody, and no encouragement to officers of insurance companies to be faithful in their labors and moderate in their demands. All that any wise person asks of officers of insurance com- panies is to be content with salar gen proportioned to their re: sponsibilities and the value of their work, and to ch salaries by working for their policy-holders. In the case of the Equitable, the salaries. ually came to be too big, but the more serious ground of complaint was. that some of the men who received them worked first for themselves, next for their relatives and friends, and earn HAT amusing creature, John Alex- nder Dowie, given notice to his disciples that those of them whoare thinking of getting married must get his consent before they do so. From those who are already married, Dowie says one new baby will be expected every year. Dowie’s success a crat of the Dowicites may be explained on the theory that it tak j lead jackasses. Dowie viously enough, but he i petent one, with a lively surpassing aute y com- imagination, assurance and shrewdn It must be that he makes. life interesting for the Dowieites, ‘There are plenty of people who prefer to be bossed, provided it is done in an entertaining fashion, and who are glad to be saved the trouble of deciding anything for themselves. some comicbooks.com