Life — September 14, 1905 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“ While there ts Lite there's Hope. VOL. XLVI. SEPT. 14, 1903. No, 1194. Ai West Trixry-First Staeer, N w Yorn, O the virtues of the Mikadoand the ener- gies of the Rough Rider between them brought peace. No wonder. The combination was invincible. Lire likes the peace very much: all tne better that it w such a horrible surprise and ¢ to the Russian war party. To achieved it was a triumph of good men. That M. Witte didnot contribute very much to it was proba- bly not his fault. He wanted peace en and would, presumably, have been glad to yield more than he did her than miss it, but he had h di by them to the letter, What at first ers and stood sight impressed observers as the great magnanimity in foregoing an indemn promptly ¢ well. The Japanese asked for what they wanted, and took what they could get. of the Japanese statesmen y was very ttified to be sagacity as t was certain when they gave in, that they could not get any more without fighting longer for it, and they might have fought on at great cost and done no better, The chances were that it would have cost them much more to collect their indemnity than it was worth, So they chose peace without it. Wise Japs! If there is a lesson writ large in history, it is that to go on thrashing beaten Russians does not pay. Wonderful Japs! First in war, first in peace, they seem bent on beating the record for all around behavior. The understand it, that € truth is, so far as w if there is a country on the earth wh the gentleman's standard rules in high concerns, that country is Japan, ‘They fight like gentlemen, they win like gen- tlemen, they make peace like gentle- men, They love art, beauty and poetry. They are marvelously kind to their children, and their children are -LIFE- marvelously polite. They are wonders. But of course there are flies in the Japanese ointment, and one large fly is this; that because common money- making is apt to be at best rather an ungenerous business, it has been held for ages in such disrepute in Japan that most of its operations have fallen to the m agement of the least honorable and least respected part of the popu- lation. Consequently the reputation of Japanese traders and business men is low. How is it to be about that? Japan as a nation needs to make money. Can- not the insuperable virtues of the Mikado be extended even to trade and traders, and to the € , crable but indis- pensable industry of acquiring dross ? A to our President, whose cooper- ative energies are justly credited with winning a great peace against big odds, enormous is the acclaim of which he is the modest but doubtless delight- ed object. It rained hands across the sea to him for two whole days. All the kings, despots and rulers of the wired earth have been shaking with him by cable and saying that he was the Only One. We hear heis a sure winner of the Nobel prize, and holders of Russian bonds are ing gold medals for himin France. English Edward, German William, Muscovite Nicholas and Virtuous Mike, the Pope, Senator Beveridge and a thousand other kings, emperors and gentlemen of the first distinction have compli- mented him with acknowledgments and congratulations, It is grand. Surely we never before have had one like him. We understand now why he won't run for President again. He means to get a job as Universal Referee. We hope he may. We have no detractive sug- gestion to offer, but feel ourselves disposed to put a brass band on a ferry- boat, and go down to Oyster Bay and play ‘‘A Hot Time” under the media- torial window. nds NINUALae Deedee cid [ is a pleasure to applaud the energy of Secretary Cortelyou in driving swindlers out of business by depriving them of the use of the mails. The boundless capacity of Americans for being gulled by advertisers who prom- ise them money, or the cure of their diseases, imaginary or real, or some other unearned or impossible advantage or emolument, argues for a modest estimate of the power of our public school education to endow the foolish with sense, So large a percentage of our population is ready to respond with money to preposterous invitation that they ny where in print, that any swindler who can buy space in see the newspapers can levy continuous tribute on an army of dupes that is constantly recruited, provided only that the United States Post Office will become the partner of his wiles, Until lately the branch of the Post Office De- partment which investigated swindling concerns has included dishonest officials who took bribes from advertising ras- cals and protected them in their iniqui- ties. Since the recent Post Office investi- gations these matters have been put on a better footing, and wenotice with sat- isfaction that the use of the mails has lately been denied to some concerns who have fattened for years past on the gul- libility of the credulous. A concern in Rochester, with branches under various in New York, which has recently been brought down by a fraud order, has done for eight or nine years so large a business that its purchases of stamps materially affected the salary of the Rochester Postmaster. Its business was estimated to be worth $100,000 a year, It is an excellent use of Gov- ernment authority to detach these para- sites from their victims, though the victims are so incurably stupid that choking off one rascal doubtless leaves them open to the attentions of another, One thing government is for is to protect the weak, and another is to keep fools from being too systematic- ally plundered. BISHOP backed the Subway Dive And opened it with psalms Teetotaldom cried, *S He can’t survive his qualms,” kes alive But Time a wonder brought to light That showed the rogues they lied. The Rishop rallied from the blight ; The Dive it was that died. comicbooks.com