Life — July 24, 1913 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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PUTTING NEW SPEED INTO AN OLD HUSBAND “DON'T LET THEM PASS, HENRY” at which the Balkan peoples excel, and it is natural that having exhausted the abilities of the Turks to play it, they should play together. Perhaps that is all for the best, but it seems a pity. The news about their proceedings is meagre, and probably a good deal of it is untrue, but the gist of it is that Servia wants a port, and that Greece also wants more than Bul- garia will concede, and that Greece and Servia are agreed that Bulgaria is an end-seat hog, and are doing their ut- most to make her move up. So there is enormous fighting again, and very untrustworthy news of it; and the Powers, which doubtless prefer that the Balkans should clean themselves up, are keeping hands off. One could wish Mr. Bryan was there with a flask of grape-juice and a plan for arbitration, for certainly these peo- ple have been killed a plenty lately, and ought now to come to a division and settlement, or better still to a confed- eracy that would include them all. But division and settlement and agreement of any sort seem to call for a higher degree of self-restraint than they have yet attained, whereas to fight is the im- memorial habit of all of them, and their natural method of settlement. It will be a long time yet, apparently, be- fore it will be possible to hold a Gettys- burg reunion in the Balkans, and yet now, with the Turk disposed of, if these territorial matters could be fairly settled, the Balkan peoples might al- most, it would seem, proceed on their way to civilization. OSSSGSSSEsy OME of the papers have printed a story that Ambassador Page's sal- ary of $35,000 a year for editing the 155 World’s Work is continued to him dur- ing his connection with the Court of St. James. It is estimated by these simple-minded journals that this thirty- five thousand, and Uncle Sam's $17,500 is enough to save the Ambassador from serious fiscal inconvenience during his continuance in office. A naughty story, with a basis of fact very likely, but obviously untrue, be- cause nobody gets $35,000 for editing any magazine now published in New York. Tales like this raise the stand- ard of expectation on Brother Page, which is unkind. He ought to demand an investigation and examination in supplementary proceedings that would give him a chance to show down. OLONEL ROOSEVELT has gone off out West for rest and recrea- tion and to be quit of politics, and pres- ently he is going to the Argentine to make some addresses. At Newport at the Progressive clam- bake the other day, he disclosed quite frankly his opinion that Mr. Wilson's New Freedom was a fake. It seems much too soon for anyone to reach that conclusion, and so, we guess, most of the Progressives think. The “new freedom” implies some sort of existing slavery, But the tariff has had its share in creating the industrial condition that has gradually grown up since the Civil War, and which its critics denounced as industrial slavery. The tariff stimu- lated immigration by a demand for cheap labor, checked the increase of the native population and filled towns like Lawrence with imported workers, used to a low standard of living. It is these imported cheap workers whose condition is the chief object of the con- cern of Col. Roosevelt and his Pro- gressive friends, The first item on the programme of the New Freedom is tariff reform. That is a logical first step to social government. But it is a step Mr. Roosevelt never cared to take, and can see no good in now that President Wilson is tak- ing it. comicbooks.com