Life — June 8, 1911 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Unsolicited EAD, read, read, From never decreasing piles, Bushels of epithets, tons of plots, Manuscripts reckoned in carload lots And columns that stretch for miles. Oh, pity the magazine staf! The reader whose tircless feet Must trample cach day over acres of chaff For one little grain of wheat. Read, read, read, Oh, the editor knows the cost! And read, read, read, Till the meaning of words is lost! Essays, poems and tales, Articles, story and theme, Till the eyesight flags and the paper sags And life's but an ink-smudged dream, Think of our daily food, Ostriches scarce fare worse; Comedy, sad as a half-cooked cake, Tragedy, red as a raw beefsteak, Gurgling, buttermilk verse ; Spelling to twist the cye, Grammar to wrench the heart, Winged inspirations that fail to fly, Plots that refuse to start. Sketches we long to use, Though horribly out of date; Christmas stories, hard to refuse, That always are mailed too late. Soul throbs, we can’t construc; Themes with no vital grip— Oh, come! this won't do; we must favor it too With a printed rejection slip. Harry F, Bowling. Kidnapping In the class war between capital aud labor the kidnapping of labor lesders by ate detectives, in conrivarce with pub- so-called, has become the settled practice in the United States. his practice has the sanction of the high- est court in the lard. Having been duly legalized by the Su- preme Court, it is of course perfectly 1 ful and workingmen have no right to pro- test against it, Kidnapping, however, is a crime if the victim, of intended victim, is a capitalist, or capitalist politician, retainer, or, other mercenary, and the kidnappers, or interd- ing kidnappers, are workingmen, or the representatives of workingmen. "Then it becomes _a grave offense against the dignity of the State ard an atrocious assault upon the palladium of our liberties. Tut the kidnapping of workingmen by capitalists, labor leaders by —cornoration magnates, is not only perfectly lawful, but absolutely essentis! to. the preservation. of out capitalist civilizstion.—Appeal to Rea- son, HEN one thinks the matter over carefully and dispassionately, this sounds very much like the truth. We have known the time when capitalists could not be reached even by process servers, Ever since the arrest of th labor leaders we ve been wondering what our more respectable papers would have said if some villainous trust mag- nate had been whisked across the coun- try in the same fashion, nee!” A Diplomat ae! ITY do you take the landlady out to dinner so often?” ask: man with the h boarder. “It’s the only meal without hi the explanation. HE capaci and the ab it are seldom person, the hungry eyes of the star way I can get a square urting her feelings,” is y for getting into trouble bility for getting out of combined in the same