Life — September 21, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. LVIIL, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911 No. 1868 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY JA Mivomett, Prete A MILLE! 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York. RITING from England to the Montreal Star to warn Canada See’y and Treas, procity, Mr. Rudyard Kip- ling says: : soul that Canada risks to- Jay, ‘Once that soul is pawned for any con- deration Canada must inevitably confi » the commercial, legal, financial, i I standards which will be imposed upon by the sheer admitted weight of the tes. She might, for example, be compelled later on to admit reciprocity in the murder rate of the United States, which at present T believe is something over 150 num, Reciprocity offers Canada freer trade associations with the country to whose ports cight miles of delayed steamships were lately waiting at Liverpool to sail. If the touch of the United States is contaminating, Rud- yard, there is something for you to do at home. That Mr. Kipling would like to build a wall around the whole British Empire and cultivate a British civili- ion is comprehensible, but that is a dream that shows no sign of coming true. The empire is too big to be fenced in, and exclusiveness is not a remedy that has much vogue, or is working many cures, in these days. Our standards, “commercial, legal, financial, social and ethical” are im- They im- perfect enough, Heaven knows. ie unsettled, groping towards provement and stumbling considefably But what of England’s Are they so firm, on the way. standards? so per- fect, so secure, so,exempt from efforts to better them? Are her problems less difficult than ours, her workmen less restless, her suffragettes less mutinous, her constitution less criticised, her Jaws less tinkered? If there is danger and degradation for Canada in freer trade relations with the United States, (LTP Es where shall she find a market and trade associates that are safe? The countries, Brother Rudyard, that are trying nowadays to work out the prob- lems of liberty and order are all in much the same box, and the best chance for cach of them lies in exci sion of jealousy and large-minded ef- fort for a common salvation. SENator BAILEY says he will not stand for re-election to the Senate but will return to private life. It is a pity that he should find that res- olution necessary, but doubtless it is wise for the time being. We believe he has a sufficient fortune to make him master of his own time after leaving the Senate, and we hope he will so use his leisure as to make him more useful in years to come than he has been of late. First of all, Mr. Bailey needs some- thing to cheer him up, and though for- cign travel is a remedy that seems to us to be in these times considerably overdone, it seems for Mr. Bailey's case a remedy that might be worth a trial. We wish he would go over to see Mr. Kipling. To be sure Mr. Kip- ling has no notable weakness for Americans and might not care to meet Mr. Bailey. But if he did, and if Mr. Bailey is not one of those eloquent persons who want to do all the talk- ing, we helieve that he and Mr. Kip- ling would cheer one another up a good deal and do one another good. Sympathy is very cheering and we be- lieve that Mr, Kipling and Mr. Bailey would find one another highly sympa- thetic in their views of the general outlook. They both seem to feel that the Bow-wows stands waiting dead ahead of civilization with its mouth wide open, as, like enough, it does, and they seem not to see any effective ob- stacles to our being all gulped down. And when Mr. Bailey and Mr. Kipling have sufficiently cheered one another by exchange of forebodings and Mr. Bailey has duly disclosed to Mr. Kipling that the reciprocity treaty is all right, we wish Mr. Bailey would come home and take the lecture plat- form and go around after Mr. Bryan and try to clean up his mental delin- quencies on all points in which he may be wrong. He does not need to go forth as the representative of any party, but merely as Mr. Bailey of Texas, an able man and highly compe- tent speaker, who has things to say that it is important that the American people shall hear. Re DMs —— HE map of the routes of the line of steamers that is being organ- ized to ply through the Panama Canal hetween ports of the cast and west coasts of this country looks very at- tractive. It has always seemed likely that Americans would travel more at home and not so much in Europe, if they could start off in st When the canal opens, that will be possible. mers, To be sure it is possible now, but not as it will be then, when persons need- ing rest and improving society will be able to go aboard a great ship in York and have sea air and appropriate meals all the way to Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle, with very inter- esting sights midway. If you are tired, as a great many people are when they start on vaca- tions, there is great charm in a big. clean steamer, and there is much more charm prospectively in one that goes the whole distance than in a broken journey with a mid-distance shift of everything, including stewards. Really, our part of the growing more interesting, and people who have time to play are going to travel about in it a great deal more in the next generation than they ever have as yet. The thing best worth see- ing of all sights at this moment is the great work at Panama before the wa- ter is let into it. South America is coming more into fashion; San Francisco is going to be more Parisian. The West Indies are more in our life to-day than they have been since the Revolution. A great deal of a jolt came to these parts in the form of the Spanish war. It was like the pushing of a button that con- nects with machinery, and the Panama cut, and these new steamer routes on the map, and all these prospective new intimacies are results of it. world is comicbooks.com