Life — November 10, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“BLESSED BE THE Squaring the Circle PON my course thro’ life I've found, I've seen it everywhere: Tho’ money makes the world go round, It doesn’t make it square. About Mr. Morgan R. MORGAN'S obituary, now running in McClure’s, is a fine story. All the professing obituarians tremble at the thought of doing Mr. Morgan, he is such a very large subject, and susceptible of so many kinds of treatment. It is a good thing to have him done this way, by a magazine as a serial, while he is still with us and can live it down. He has al- ready lived down pretty much everything else. Mr. Morgan is one of the two most interesting men in the country. The other is Mr. Roosevelt. They are in strong contrast. They are both thinkers, Mr. Roosevelt thinks like a spring freshet covering a large area with considerable turbu- lence. The landscape is apt to resume its former aspects after his thought has passed over it. Mr. Morgan’s thought is less torrential but more penetrating, and more permanent in its results, Mr. Roosevelt takes quantities of physical exercise, Mr. Morgan takes none. Mental exercise keeps him in con- dition. Mr. Roosevelt's great stunt is to hit the line hard Mr. Morgan's specialty is to gather up the pieces, Both of these eminent men, having done a great many things, have doubtless done a number of thing® that they ought not to have done. One thing of this nature that Mr. Roosevelt did was to shake his fist at Mr. Morgan at a Gridiron dinner in Wash- ington. In that instance he hit the line in the wrong place It was unnecessary. They say it did not please Mr. Morgan, and it did not profit anyone. The late Senator Dolliver, that very valuable man, is quoted as saying, “I don’t think there ever was a higher type of merchant than Henry H. Rogers.’’ It is as sure that there will be people—thoughtful people, too—who will say the like of that about Mr. Morgan. It will be disputed, partly because when he does a great thing he ustally exacts a great price. But, after all, that is part of the banking busi ness. It isn’t a game unless there are stakes and somebody ins them as taxes TIE THAT BINDS "* Christian Endeavorers and Election Betting T was in the papers that General Secretary William Shaw, of the Society of Christian Endeavor, was stirring up the police in Boston against brokers who were placing election bets for clients. Does it properly come within the scope of Christian en- deavor to come between election bettors and their bets? Brother Shaw is the same officer who was lately so active in preventing the exhibition of the prize-fight pictures. Is he not a little disposed to strain at gnats? Does he remember that there has never been worse discredit brought on the Christian religion than by men who have used, or sought to use, the law and its apparatus to constrain their fellows to behave in accordance with their conception of the Galilee standard? The big Protestant organizations of the Christian Endeavor sort tend overmuch to Puritanism. They seem in danger of forgetting religion in their zeal for prevention, which is an enormous mistake. Voluntary righteousness has will behind it and goes ahead, but compulsory rightcousness avails little and the necessary minimum of it is enough. Gentlemen, leave compulsory rightcousness to the police! FRATRICIDE. comicbooks.com