Life — March 4, 1909 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Lire would be glad to print in full the opinions of this interesting correspondent, but unfortu nately she prefers to preserve her anonymity, and while occasionally anonymous letters from correspondents have appeared in these columns, this is am instance where anonymity robs the criticism of its force and value as a criticism. All About the Uplift To tur Epttor or Lire: While the country is congratulating itself upon the great moral uplift that has recently taken Place, it may be well for us to indulge in a little n to discover just how much we in- dividually have participated in the uplift. We fear that some persons will be forced to con- fess that their moral apparatus is in about the same state of rustiness as it was before the gen- ring took place. It is a melancholy re- upon the perversity of human nature that the cliorts of our reformers, preachers, investi- gators, muckrakers, demagogues, and W. C. T. Us have not sufficed to eradicate our evil ten- © we confess our own callowness, we east console ourselves with the thought ¢ given our hearty support to the ift of our neighbors. We have loudly the eloquence of our declaimers evil. We have given political prefer- the reformer and we have generously rewarded the muckraker for his revelations of iniquity. What is still better, by cultivating an attitude of suspicion toward men and things in general, by magnifying every rumor ot scandal, and by loudly condemning evil wherever it could be found, we hope we have contributed in some measure toward the great moral uplift. And we intend to persist in the good work unless by some miracle we should happen to gain entrance to the sacred precincts of plutocracy. In which case we should probably relax our vigilance and our altruism would take the usual form of en- dowments for various purposes. 1. T. Keatine. 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