Life — September 15, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“LPP E* The Great Pickled Pepper Movement (By special cable to Live) TER PIPER picked a pickled peppers. The above message, exactly as it is given, and exclusively reported to Lire by its Berlin correspondent, created no less than a sensation yesterday. Lire’s correspondent called upon Senator Aldrich in his Rhode Island home, and showed him the dispatch. He krew very angry. “T refuse to talk about it,” he mut- tered. “You business to. in- ‘tude upon my privacy, anyw “Do you deny that it is tru “I neither deny nor affirm it, I re- fuse to talk.” “Tt is a matter of common Senator, that your son has long been in terested in the pickled pepper industry Isn't it true at the present moment th: you have a private carload of pickled peppers now on its way here?" “Go away! I shall never speak to you again or have anything to do with peck of have no gossip, y special arrangement with the Out- look, we are privileged to give, in part, Mr. Roosevelt's editorial utterance on the subject, as follows: “I do not hesitate to affirm that the Peter Piper incident is of vital interest “1. REFUSE TO TALK" to the American people. 1 have never ht to deny the value of the sport of picking peppers. Piper. however, is a liar when he he picked ap I am the only one who has.done this. I did it when I was in Harvard, and I did it when I was in the White stand I took on this question that we are now where we are. I shall do it again, but not within three months. I believe in picking pickled peppers, but only when ¢ picked in the right way. If they to grow indefinitely they pickled Peter House. It was owing to the were allowe “OUR NATIVE INTEGRITY "* would become in time an incalculable menace to our Christian ideals; I would not pick them all the time. I would do so only when I felt like it. I hope this will end the matter.” The editors of the Century, when shown the dispatch, grew very grave. “In its present form we could not they declared in chorus. “We do not approve of so much alliteration. It is not in conformity with the high literary standard of this magazine. But it can doubtless be re-written in this office, and made more intelligible and agreeable to our readers by a careful and painstaking revision. Please call again in two or three years and we will discuss the matter at length.” Mr. James J. Hill was hopeful “At bottom,” he said, “the American use it,’” people are all right, and while I look for a slump in prices, I have every reason to believe that our native integrity will carry us through this crisis. There can be no doubt, however, that the cause of the trouble is due to the disrespect shown 10 some of our most prominent railroads. Until it is understood that our ultimate prosperity is bound up with theirs there ca Peter Piper knows this as well as I de An eminent American philosopher and psychologist, when scen, said “ And so Peter Piper has at last picked his peck of pickled peppers. Ah, well! It was to be expected. Personally, I have long since discarded the categori- cal imperative. Pragmatism, in its larger and wider aspects, will undoubt- edly be adopted in time by the whole people. In the meantime, this effort of Peter Piper's marks a distinct ad over all forms of a@ priori thou Peter Piper is a monist there can be no doubt; otherwise he would have picked two pecks instead of one. So far as its transcendental aspects are concerned, I prefer to be silent, leaving that phase of the question to posterity. For the pres- ent I shall merely state that it was an efferent act and should be judged as such."” President Taft was seen on the links. He smiled, as usual, but when he had re- read the dispatch he frowned slightly. “It is hard to be misunderstood in this s'" he said, “and, of course, it is all due to the press, who have persistently Every one ought to be no real relief. misrepresented me. comicbooks.com