New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-05-05

States paper money IS forbidden to cir
culate two years after the passage Of the
act, and a new description of the United
States notes, bearing a promise to re.
ceive instead of a promise to pay, and
not interchangeable into any other kind
of money, shall be issued. The free
coinage IF silver is provided for, but as
the silver can be turned into certificates,
it seems scarcely necessary. Surely the
per cent. money is good enough for
anything and anybody, and especially
after the debts of the United States have
been paid in new style money.
The author or authors of the plan es-
innate that it will raise a revenue Of
$500, 100000 year, but this is only an
unimportant detail. The reasons that
will recommend the program to all CO.
lossal thinkers, from Ocala to Medicine
Lodge. ARE that it will s'overthrow the
money power and the trusts. The
money power and the trusts have hither
to been regarded as pretty tough Gus
toners, but along comes this bill and
proposes to lay them low incidentally
and without half trying. The inventor
or inventors of it say that it ''wlll be OPP
posed by Shylock and his slaves" Pre-
sumably, therefore, Shylock and his
slaves do not want to borrow money at
3 PERCENT. Persons who are not Shy
locks and slaves may prefer to have in
terest abolished altogether. But we have
no intention of making even single un-
favorable criticism of plan so remark
able. II it is carried out, everybody
ought to be rich in certificates. The on
ly possible trouble would be that some
citizen would be too lazy to borrow. Such
is the effect of pampering on weak ma
lures.
In a recent address on the relations of
genius and art, Joseph jefferson, the
great actor, said: Gas applied to
acting, genius may dye the colors of the
rainbow, but art fixes the colors so they
will set fast. It enables the actor to re-
produce, night after night, the same
character. He must act on each occa-
sion as if he had never taken the part
before. Now, genius produces; it is art
that reproduces. Tie famous actor, Will
liam McCready, once complained to Mrs.
Warner, with whom he was playing,
Has that leading speech of mine become
an old story to the audience? They no
longer applaud meg No. said Mrs.
Warner, it is because it is an old story
to you.' The actor must school himself
to repeat his words,hi character, as if he
for the first time had undertaken them.
He mu It listen to another's speech and
answer as if he had never heard it before.
I was asked the other day if did not
think starring was the most pernicious
system ever foisted on the public. There
was time when + did. 1 do not now. 1
admit it has its disadvantages, but it
was instituted 200 years ago by one Will
liam Shakespeare. To each of his plays
there was one central light, one grand
character. Shylock, in the Merchant
of Venice or Falstaff in Henry w.
How about Romeo and Juliet?' l was
asked. 1t is a double star with but
single ray. All the plays of Shakespeare
concern themselves with the exempliti-
cation of some human passion. In. Ro-
meo it IS the passion of love, and, of
course, the author could not represent it
with one."
DR.. Crane of Chicago hits the 1ail on
the head in the following:
The germ Of political debauchment is
the spells idea. When man secures an
| Office, and has the notion that its advan-
tages and emoluments belong to him by
victor's rights, it does not take very
strong temptation to induce him to use
public funds for his own private gain, or
to throw public contracts to persons
who will indirectly reward him, or in
any other of thousand ways to use the
leverage of.his Office to benefit himself.
What is he there for? Is it not to get all
he can out of it? Is he not entitled to all
the plumber he can take, without getting
into trouble, to repay himself for his
party work? All this reasoning flows
naturally from the spoils system. The
thought of a man doing service for the
people from an exalted and distinguished
motive is received with contemptuous