Life — October 1, 1908 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Copreight 1908 by Lite Pudtihing Compan Publicity of Contributions OW is the time for President Roose- velt to haul out, dust off and re- vise his speech about muckrakers. For a time the literary consumer was of the opinion thet the muckraker had had his day—that he had been duly and substan- tially squelched, But we suddenly awake to find both the Democrats and the Re- publicans calling for publicity of cam- paign subscriptions Mr. Lawson, please take notice, and then have a seat in the extreme rear. Your revelations, would be a perfumed, antiseptic, Sunday-school fairy tale be- side this Pandora’s box with the lid off. In comparison with it, you would’ be a second rate mollycoddle. Although it might be said in your favor that your stuff was at least serious, while this latest proposition is a very poor joke: Just think of publishing all that petty detail! Says Bryan, in five columns of ac- ceptane I am in favor of publicity of campaign contributions,” and that is about the extent of his specific favor- ings. Why doesn’t he go right ahead and publish? There is no time-lock on him. Let's talk about something more important. If he doesn’t do something pretty soon, and stop that wind-jamming, we shall be led to suspect either that he is insincere or that he is not getting any campaign contributions worth speaking of, all of Hearst's reporters to the con- trary, notwithstanding. ‘As if we didn’t already know where SUMMER 1S OVER the contributions are coming from! Where could they come from except from those who have the money? That confines it to a very small number. Be- yond that we do not care whether Carnegie gave 30 cents on condition that Rockefeller raise an equal sum, or whether the Steel Trust got one, two or three battleships for its generous gratuity. As the politicians—oh, well—that is where their livelihood comes from, and it would not be indi- vidualism to meddle with their private That would be paternalis: Ellis O. Jones. The Era of Whiskers HE advent of the Hughes whiskers into national politics has made a new era. As an offset to this the Demo- crats have put up Mr. Kern for Vice- President. We cannot believe, however, that the Kern hirsutes will ever equal the Hughes's. In the first place, the Hughes whiskers got a good start, and, in a Futurity race like this, the ad- vantage of being the first in the field is manifest to all. It is true that the Kern whiskers are kind and sound; but, on the other hand, those of Hughes have a wider scope. Where the favorable influ- ence of hot air counts as much as any- thing else, we believe that they would be more likely to sweep on to victory. We should say that the odds ought to be about 3 to 2 in favor of Hughes getting over the tape. The barber vote will undoubtedly be divided, affairs, The Tariff There is nothing in Mr. Bryan's speech to indicate that he has more than a super: jal knowledge of the tariff question.—N. Y. Evening Post, HO has? And, when discussing the tariff, what is the difference between a superficial and a profound knowledge? Does any one pretend to know anything about the tariff? The only thing we do know about it is that it makes certain people rich—so rich that they can spend all the rest of their lives in seeing to it that the tariff still continves. A chariot race just like this is the thing That is needed to-day, we assert; The family who own the two cars are in bed— The driver's the only one hurt. comicbooks.com