Life — September 12, 1912 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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for Our Limited Space. With Us Dear Lire: In your issue of the 23d inst., Mr. A. A. Penn rallies you upon your lack of humor, an injustice of which the writer, too, was at one time guilty. Let him try a diet of your humorous (?) con- temporaries, as I did, and he, too, will return to you with a fresher palate and a keener appreciation of the better things in Lire. Yours to a cinder, Daniet J. Saute. Lovisvinte, Ky., July 23, 1912. Yea, Verily! Eprror oF Lire: Sik: In a recent issue you have an article entitled “ Who Killed G. O. P.?” Those men and combinations who are brought to trial for the rdly deed ¢ five in number. Or, rather, you sug- gest five who might have done it. I say that it matters not who killed G. O. P. Rejoice ye that it is dead. By the size of its tombstone (Taft) shall ye know it hereafter. ‘Tis thus with all rotten eggs; with age do they finally burst and are exceedingly obnoxious. It is also to be observed that they go off with much noise, it being thusly with the G. O. P. I repeat that the means of delivery mat- ter not; rejoice that he, she or it is dead. Yet its offspring may prosper when that it shall be brought about that its name is changed from the “ Roosevelt National Progressive Party” to the “National Progressive Party,” which same will come probably not sooner than does appear another tombstone in the political graveyard, same being the retired prefix of aforementioned en- lightened party. Observe ye hereafter if it is not even thus. Fresh seeds from over-ripe pumpkins are produced. Re- joice ye likewise for this. In the meanwhile observe ye the burial procession of G. O. P., which shall find its culmination in the month of Novem- ber. Lay the sod lightly, Woodrow ; have no fear of a resurrection. Respectfully yours, W. Gorvon Pincree. Mancuester, N. H., August 5, 1912. se We Are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication Recalling Old Friends Bressep Lire: While there are so many good fotks, in their own way, ranting about the re- ligious beliefs of our aspirants to politi- cal office, why is it that all seem to like to take a peck at the Roman Catholic? It's funny. It’s to laugh. Especially when the most bitter declare they're the only ones who are saving the country. ¢ not the Puritans, the Quakers, the nots and other creeds forced to come to the lands of the Indian for re- ligious freedom? So why should one sect be entitled to more than the other? We hear a lot about how Roman Catholics are driving the country to the dogs. But who made these United States possible? Wasn't it Catholic France, when the men of 1776 were down and out, that sent her war vessels, her sol- diers, her generals and money to us and saved us, while Lutheran Germany's Hes- sian troops and England's were trying to crush us under foot? My ancestors have been on these shores since the day they arrived with William Penn, and they fought and bled to make these United States, but they did no more, and to-day are doing no more, to make the cagle scream than are our Roman Catholic citizens. J. P. Lucas. New York, August 8, 1912. Who Are the Stultifiers ? Epitor or Lire: Dear Six: The editor of the Medical Review of Reviews writes to Lire some “encouraging words” (to quote your heading to Dr. Wile’s letter). But the good doctor suggests that before Lire takes up its propaganda to have a re- porter present at all hospital surgical operations, it should “assimilate the truths regarding vaccination, experi- mental medicine, serum treatment, and similar facts, so that the columns of Lire will cease to delude and stultify its read- ers.” The truth of it is, the mind of the editor of Lire has been “deluded and stultified ” by the writings of such men as the late Herbert Spencer, the present Alfred Russell Wallace, “the dean of English scientists,” who are in accord with all other scientific statisticians in this country and Europe who have ex- amined the facts and figures relating to smallpox and vaccination. Dr. Wile is doubtless an honest and conscientious man. If he be that, really, and will make a scientific study of this question—well, he will directly lose his job on the Review, for no man who knows and secks to promulgate the truth about vac- cination, “ antitoxin,” and the serums in gencral, would be tolerated as editor of any medical journal for a single month. Cutartes E. Pace, M.D. Bostox, August 14, 1912. comicbookee