Life — January 23, 1919 — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JANUARY 23 ay “Whale there is Life there's Hope’ Published by LIFE Axpgw Minter, President and Treasurer 17 West Thirty-first Street, Rolls House, Breams Bldg English Offices. bad W disease and has all sorts of sequelae doctors say) of a painiul —charac- ter, which it takes a long time to c up. We consider the late war done, R is (as the can though bets, as a rule, have not been paid yet, and the sequelae are running strong and making lots of trouble. Pretty much everything of a particu- larly annoying character that happens just now can be set down as a sequel to the war. Russia and Of course, the chaos in the violent disturbances that we read of in Berlin, are direct consequences of th war. Less immedi- ate are such matters us the strike of the local mariners in New York Harbor, the Hylan-Hearst row and the rapid tran- sit receivership, of which two are trace- able to the derangement of wages and the cost of living due to war conditions, and the other to our valuable city being so upset by the importunities and ani- mosities of war in 1917, that it turned a good mayor out and put in a bad one. Then there is the railroad situation which makes investment experts anx- the delayed tax-bill situation which worries everyone who is subject to apprehensions, the big re-employment problem, and so on and so on. The war got into every situation, and pretty icus, much everything that has survived it can be rated as a sequel of it. We Americans must bear with our sequels the best we can, remembering that of all the war-scarred peoples we are the least damaged, and have the most left and the cheer fulest prospects. All the same, we have present trials Hylan and Hearst are one. People wonder that Hylan should be willing PUBLISHING COMPANY Jars S. Mercatrr New York . London, E. C. to combine himseli with Hearst to be a trial when his facilities are so con- siderable to be one on his own hook. But he is a bigger trial combined with Hearst than he would be alone, and, of cenrse, there are many men who like bigness for its own sake, and are ready to sacrifice quality to get it And along with the v has come Colonel Roosevelt's sudden death, It had Roosevelt sequels that Mr had been of late a useful leader to the Republican party, but, at least, he was a leader, and now thatehe not seemed to us is gone that party has none. Perhaps Judge Hughes is the nearest to it. He is Republican leader ex-officio until a presidential convention nominates a new candidate, but does not amount to actual leadership. And Mr. Root is rather the Republican sage than the leader, and Mr. Taft is rather am earnest worker whenever he can serve the public, than the chieftain of the Republican forces. All these three spected men seem to have attained a position approaching political non-par- tisanship. They all want to serve the country, and none of them objects, if oceasion calls, to working for a Demo- cratic administration. Here's an important job for some- one—to be Republican leader! Will Mr. Lodge undertake it? Hardly. Mr. Lodge, for one thing, is not in the full Aush of youth and strength, and this will be a heavy task. Senator Wadsworth is about the right age, and seems not to be worn out, as so many men are, with the fierce labors of the war, but he is hardly evangelical enough to be a leader in these pious times. And Mr Borah, who is under- stood to have brains, seems to lack any particular mandate to use them in any way that would dle enthusiasm in the people, and Senator Hiram John- son could hardly get the Republican vote in the Eastern states. When there war, the party that has no one else to offer, is apt to turn to a successful general, and, of course, there is General Pershing, who is said to have hereditary Republi- can molecules in his blood, and might look as attractive to Republican poli ticians as Hancock did to Demoer. in 1880. But General Pershing is cer tainly not a Republican leader, and it scems very doubtful whether he will has been a iecl any urgent call to become one The Democrats are now reaping t advantages of office. Their top men in Washington have They have put over an enormous job, made reputatio and it is impossible for even the most enthusiastic detractor to deprive them of all the credit of it. Mr. McAdoo has a great advertisement; Mr. Baker has another, though more disputed The estimate of the general capacity of Democrats, and especially of Demo- crats of Southern derivation, to admin- ister government, has gone up enor- mously in six years And in the same space Republican repu and dwindled They tell us that what won Republican success in the Congressional elections was that wheat farmers only got a doubled price for their crop, whereas cotton farmers got a trebled price That made the wheat farmers mad, and they voted Republican. But since then the war has ended, and the present price of wheat looks bigger than it did, and perhaps the farmers are less sore than they were Jast fall ations have rusted R. McADOO quit his job the other day, announcing that he was tired out and dead broke. Mr. Gregory now follows his example, confessing it is time that he got back to the practice of law and tried to make some money. Is it of any use to say that we do not yet pay cabinet officers living wages, and that if we are going to be so im-