Life — October 27, 1910 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Marse Henry Keeps at It OLONEL WATTERSON continues to bang the tocsin from the Courier- Journal tower in Louisville and warn all hearers that Theodore Roosevelt has grown far too powerful and is a menace to our present form of government. Six months ago Marse Henry proclaimed that the Colonel was an astonishing person, a ruler of the tribe of Cxsar and Crom- well, the best dictator we could have if we must have one, but a man who, if we put him back into the White House, would stay there as long as he lived and substitute a benevolent despotism for our present system of government. Marse Henry feels about it now just as he felt six months ago, only more so. It is all going on, he says, just as he ‘LIFE: predicted. He appreciates the Colonel, his powers, his cleverness, his prejudice for righteousness, and all the traits and graces that endear him to the mass of his countrymen. He never abuses and seldom derides him, but he keeps ham- mering away at the proposition that Roosevelt is imminently dangerous to our institutions. Many more people Marse Henry's views on this subject than did six months ago. Some of them may even share his opinion that the anti- Roosevelt papers of New York are not good at their specialty. He says of them: incline toward If they do not cease their personal ridicule and abuse, which does not in, the least hurt the Colonel—any more than it hurt Gaynor in the last Mayoralty election—and accept the gage of battle he has offered, ‘they may as well shut shop and go home. The great anti-Roosevelt argument is that if we don’t hobble him there is danger that he will hobble us. He will never stand still from choice. He can't Either his power and influence will in- crease or they will decrease. Voters in 709 New York who prefer to see them de- crease are invited to vote for Dix. Public Men UBLIC men and public places are analogous in theory. A public place is a place where any one may go without let or hindrance, where one may go without a special invitation and - stay away from without apology. Public men are properly of the same type. It should be permissible, when- ever we meet a public man, to go up to him without introduction or cere- mony, slap him vigorously on the back and call him by his first name, But, in spite of our best efforts to popularize democracy, most of our public men still remain dignified and forbid- ding. Some surround themselves with office boys and secretaries while others go so far as to secure private detectives and military body-guards. It does not follow from this that public men cannot be used, but merely that they cannot be used indiscriminately by the publ LIFES INFALLIBLE FORTUNE TELLER If you were born on October “EB Your future wile will be a Christian Scientist, but you won't find it any cheaper than the old-fashioned doc- tors. 27 “WS Your future wife will be incited by you to join a cook. ing-school. You will be punished all right, 28 “GB Your future wile will be charming and devoted. On that account you won't lie to her any oftener than neces- sary. 29 “WS Your future wile will teach the in- fant-class in a Sun- day-school, and you will be surfeited with “little Johnny” stories. 30 ‘Your future husband #27 will wear congress gaiters and a happy smile He will have been brought up in a boarding - house and will not object to prunes. ‘Your future husband #27 will be a life insur- ance agent, and you will be surprised to notice that your former friendsavold you. ‘Your future husband #27 will leave you a fortune to be for- feited in case you marry again, A cheap monument will mark his rest- ing-place. ‘Your future husband #@~ will fall in love with your favorite dress- maker, This will place you in a serious dilemma. comicbooks.com