Life — November 25, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. LIV, NOVEMBER 25,199 No. 1415 lished by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY FA. Merennnt, Pree a West Thie AMILLER, See’y and Treat rst Street, New York, W E have a great deal to be thankful for this hanksgiving. Mr. Taft has © got home from REALS his grand tour undiminished and unimpaired, and the Exceutive Offices have been reopened for busi- ness Mr. Roosevelt has not as yet been mpled by an ele- 1 Cape buffalo nor eaten by a lion, t phant, tossed by bitten by any very bad fly, He remains an active factor in prospective history, and sleuths are out to catch the scamps who sent out false reports about him. Business is humming. All the idle t stood around in yards and on switches for nearly two after 1907 are now proceeding on their roll- ers, carrying all manner of products now and then, cars th years and getting smashed uj as is the habit Tammany was waterlooed in the re- cent election to the encouragement of all the rest of the country Peary's capture of the North Pole has been indorsed by the geographical authorities, so we can keep the Pole in our national museum, no matter wl the findings eventually are anent Dr. Cook The New in New Y! Theatre has beer rk and a gallus new opera house in Boston. These are both con- siderable mercies, especially the latter one, from which much benefit is looked for in distracting fragments of the Boston mind from the concerns of the pure intellect and bestowing them on raiment and personal embellishment Aeroplanes have made great prog- ress this year. We are thankful for that chiefly because they bring new opened IEEE: * strains of vivacity into life and give new wings to the imagination. LIS ET us be thankful that dissatisfac- tion with the Payne tariff law continues to be so hearty and wide spread and that the President's recent effort to excuse it was so coldly re- ceived. In all his travels he made no second effort of that sort. We should be duly grateful for every sign that government and taxation by the Fa- vored Interests for the ¢ fit of their own pockets is n evitable collapse. A process is the onslau clusive bene- ing in- t of the same tof our neigh- upon the disfigured Whatever the motive of this belated sortie, in so far as it illus- trates the intimate ion of the Republican party with plunderers of the people and exhibits the me which inordinate heaped together, it helps the reaction toward virtue aad the simple life and encourages in politics the effort to build up a decent opposition party With that thought in mind Iet us be thankful that’ Mr. spared to us another year, and is in good health and promises to continte to be the most serious obstacle between the Democratic party and public con- An old obstacle that is under- stood is better than a new bor the Sun Sugar Trust conne ns by riches have been Bryan has been idence one whose difficulties have not yet been measured. It is only by overcoming obstacles that a political party comes, or ought to come, to power, and until the Demo- cratic party it ought, of course, to go on all fours and eat thistles. can overcome Mr. Bryan ot ‘OR our part we have a mind, too, to be thankful that Collier's Weekly given space to young Mr. vis to tell all he knows about the stalking of the Alaska coal lands by various persons said to represent the Guggenheims, and about the supposed hospitality of Secretary Ballinger to the intentions of these predacious folk. Whatever are the rights or wrongs of that matter, it is useful to make and keep up a considerable noise about it and to keep as many searchlights on lands (and the water too) as can be made convenient the co: sites. The Guggenheims are people, no doubt, who live to do good, but things have been added to them (as will happen, the Bible says, to the very best people) until they cannot but have picked up the habit of acquisition. that habit is fixed on a family it does not do to leave things around loose that the family appre Once tes and is used to The good Guggenheims being smelters, anything that the bowels of earth produce comes handy to ther And if collect. and especially real, good coal the Guggenheims do not for that Alaska coal there are scores of other collectors who do, and happen yearn as the coal is partly ours, and ve valuable, we are grateful to Mr. Glavis Very for sitting on the beds and yelling, and grateful to Collier's for giving him place ef good acoustic yell in, Whether he true, the noise is useful to prot from yperties yells false or et tha coal victims of the acquisition habit, and, of course, it can't hurt Sec- retary Ballinger, for Mr. Taft says he is above suspicion. HERE, are many are thankful for—that so many lik other things we ly boys and youths got thre ball season alive without injury to the precions rules that govern that sport; that Mr. Kennedy left behind him so much money for such a respectable line of good works; that Mr, Aldrich gone to the people to learn what sort of a monetary system they prefer and whether they can stand a bank of is- sue; that the Culebra cut is half dug that fire and brimstone have not descended yet on Philadelphia and scorched it for its rotten government And—oh! the Christian Science schism! Let us be thankful about that, too, that the infallibility of Mother Eddy prom- ises to be sustained in all the war of has antagonistic magnetisms and the wrack of trustees, What is the matter with those people? How long will it take them to get their belfries clear of bats? comicbooks.com