Life — September 30, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“LURE: Our National Hold-Up OW that the tariff lions are tolerably sure of their przy, and the Christian consumer is being stripped and bound for the arena, our minds turn meditatively to the fate of our fellow creatures who are returning to laden with new clothes and picture postal cards. quality of mercy shown them on the docks strained to nothingness, or does it drop like gentle dew upon their anxious hearts? The average American citi- zen dislikes being treated as a felon, and years of experience fail to reconcile him to this salutary humiliation. Some dim notion about being held in- nocent until he is proven guilty haunts his mind, and he resents the attitude of the Custom House which holds him guilty until he is proven innocent, and then dismisses him with contumely. It is hard to come into dock with all the pleasurable anticipa tions of an old-time stage-coach passenger entering an outlaw-haunted wood; it is harder still to pl: the dual part of robbed and robber, to be “ held up at the pistol point, and at the same time accused of breaking one’s country’s laws. If the Government of the United States persists in this petty persecution, this absurd travesty of justice, it should at least go about the business decently. It should provide clean quarters for the ac cused and imprisoned travelers, permit them (through bars) to sce their waiting friends, and expedite the searching of luggage, so that weary men and women will not be detained for hours upon the their native shores Is the ON THE ICE CREAM “pO YOU SEE ANY AMERICAN FLAG Fly on the ice-cream: No; THERE NO EXPLORER MERE IT CAN'T BE REAL. home. But, looked at dispassionately, the whole pertormance is a stupid farce, dis- crediting the mighty nation wh annually to play it. stoops Agnes Repplier. Comparative Values KING Dr. Cook's veracity at Com- nander Peary’s still it well mander valuation, compares very with Co Peary’s manners. UP THERE? MAS BEEN docks. Inspectors should not be encour- aged to sweeten their labors by derang. Our Fresh Air Fund ing and soiling the delicate garments ; they handle. This has always bee Previously acknowledge $6,397.88 of the ameliorations of the official lot— ia & Scere Foes $.00 which is a weary one—and, at the same Junee ich time, it is supposed to persuade the dis- ” their clothes one “WHY ARE CHILDREN $0 MUCH WORSE usep To BE?"* IT TO IMPROVED IDEAS IN : franchised se THAN THEY “ATTRIBUTE BuiLo “ow so? SHINGLES ARE SCARCE, AND YOU CA‘ SPANK A BOY WITH A TIN ROOF,’? New York School Children OME people secm to have become un- uly excited over the fact that from sixty to one hundred thousand children of school age cannot be accommodated in the schools of New York Why should we worry matter of the education of these few chil- dren, when not only they, but many thou- sands more in New York and elsewhere are neither well fed, warmly clad, whole- environed? over the mere somely housed nor decently It is straining at Furthermore, children do not need education to tend machines in the factories or pick coal in the mines, Let us be calm. There are no rich children among this lot gnats, Ellis O. Jones. PEACE OR WAR? comicbooks.com