Life — October 5, 1916 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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os Ng a re NS Y LICIES FY, AS AOR “YOU HAVEN'T ANY NOTES, CHARLIF * “it's ALL THE SAME TO HER.” of the great, all-nation, frontier State of New York. Pioneers may very properly represent this state in the Senate, and no better pioneers come here—not from Dublin, not from Odessa, nor Jerusalem, nor Naples, nor Arkansas, nor Pittsburgh—than from Boston. Mr. Choate, whom we so much delight to honor and who so bountifully repays all attentions, con- ferred himself upon us out of Salem in Massachusetts, and Mr. Evarts was born in Boston, but who have been more valid New Yorkers than Mr. Evarts and Mr. Choate! The glory of New York must be that it attracts the ablest men in the courtry, and sometimes grows out of its own soil sons sturdy enough to rise, as Tilden, Root and Roosevelt did, in the most competitive environ- ment on this continent. So if Mr. Me- Comks can get more votes than Mr. Calder we shall not repine at sending a southerner to the Senate. Mr. Mc- Combs is an able man and a real poli- 577 tician. The reason why the southern- ers are governing the country, so much to the disgust of Mr. Lodge and other patriots, is that money making hasn't been so attractive and engrossing an occupation in the South in the fast forty years as in the North and West, and politics has continued to engage the faculties of able southerners, while the drift of most of the able northern- ers has been to business. So the southern political ascendency has been legitimate enough, and will continue to be while it lasts. @ TH street-car strike in this region ha- not been successful. Surface cars are running ag: t this writing, in numbers almost sufficient for the transportation of citizens whose atti- tude of mind perm’ , them to ride in them. They are boycotted, we believe, by union labor, which is a-great boon to patrons of these over-loaded vehi- cles. One sees many loads of workers proceeding up and down the avenues on motor vehicles in the rush hours, and it is possible that this grateful means of relief to transportation may survive the car cris We are still threatened with a gen- eral strike of Federated workers, which will doubtless be awkward if it comes, but not much breath is being held in expectation of it. Strikes and the fear of them are growing stale as a sensation, and it is probably true, as we lear, that the mass of union work- 1 en is reluctant to start a serious fight on a philosophical grievance. The world’s other troubles go on very actively, indeed. The man who thought the first five years of the war in Europe would be the worst gets nowadays a good deal of support for I's opinion. More cautious prognosti- cators look for the end in a year or a yea. and a half. The American mind for another month will he engaged at home. After that Europe will doubt- less become the leading topic again here, and new movements may start to induce peace. comicbooks.com