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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13

there is little doubt but that it is. they
concede to Garrick a place in his art
the very highest.
But not all the wits of the town were
with Garrick. 1t was said that Garrick
was jealous of his younger rival, and
so much so that there was more than
cleverness in the following epigram.
got off with purpose to wound him;
there was real point and sting in it:
Critics. attend. and judge the rival
Lears,
Whilst each commands applause and
each your tears.
Then own the truth-well he performs his
Who touches. even Garrick. to the
heart"
Subsequent to Garrick's day king
Lear for many years does not seem to
have met with great success Once Tin
1881 the tragic muse" Mrs Siddons.
chose the play for her benefit night and
played Cordelia. whilst her brother.
John Kemble, renowned for his power
in the curse part" played the king.
But Mrs. Siddons did not much affect
the play, nor indeed has any other
great actress, although critics uniyer-
sally agree in estimating Cordelia as
one of the very noblest of all the
Shakespearean heroines. But the part
is too slight. too merely sketch, to be
attractive to actresses who have repu-
tations TO make, or. indeed. to sustain.
The first great Lear. in the true
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13
TARIFF AND TiNPLATE.

Some time ago The Herald called at
tention to the extortions of the tin
plate trust and gave the figures show
ing how the price had been increased
since the formation of the trust
The Herald suggested that the only
tariff made monopoly was to remove
the protection from tin plate.
This suggestion made the local Re-
publican organ furious. 1t fairly raved
and howled at the very thought of a
tariff reduction on tin plate and de-
nounced as liars, slaves, copperheads
and traitors any body who proposed
any interference whatever with the tin
plate trust.
1t is gratifying to note. however, that
the Tribune has lucid intervals when
it quits blackguarding long enough to
admit that The Herald is right.
Our morning contemporary gave ut
terance to the following editorial con-
fession yesterday:
Extortions of the tin-plate trust in
dealing with American consumers are
having the effect of reviving the tin
from Swansea during August were
16. 1926 tons, against il ,1S3 tons in Au-
gust. 1898, and part of that came to the
United States. The first duty of con-
gress upon its meeting should be TO
strike the tariff from tin-plate
The way to cure disease is to strike
at the cause
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13
WLift Your Skirt. Please

She had noticed that men would stare
at her. 1t wasn't exactly her fault; beau
ty in a woman could hardly be called a
fault. but the open admiration OF men
annoyed her. just a bit. records the KAN
sas City Star. The strong wind had blown
on her cheeks the hue of the red rose
that is full blown and men looked after
her with OBTAINING expression tnat
seemed TO say: Hi. there. miss, you
have dropped flower" OF course she
hadn't. but it seemed so natural to think
she had
One man-anCf he was every inch man
and a good many inches, too-actualiy
turned and followed her. There was no
doubt that he was following her. She
loosened the grip on the trailing n- ski Skirt
There was That Man just behind her
She turned to go into shop on Petticoat
lane when the man actually accosted her
II beg your pardon madam, but would
tIe?,
Heavens, the man must be crazy, She
turned to him and looking over, under
around and through him. but not at him,
said Sir
BEG your pardon but would you mind
lifting your skirt just little. the fact
Officer, this man is annoying me.
said the young woman, turning 10 the
big policeman.
chap to be a speakin' to women you don
know said the officer. :.
shes got my hat and is carrying II
What gasped the young woman;
your hat, officer, this man is simply
crazy" - ..rhe
wind blew my hat off and into your trail
ing skirt. Now. if you'll please raise your
She did and out rolled the hat, but what
was the use of explanations? This eX-
plains. however, why our young women
in Kansas City wear snort ShlrtS.
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ANOTHER WAR IN SIGHT.

The New York Herald says that the
Republican party is straining at a
gnat to oppose Mr.. Roberts while swal-
lowing a camel in the shape of the
2aja Mura-'
Certain administration apologists
have stated that Mr.. Mckinley viii al
low the treaty to stand until after our
authority is established in the Philip
pines: but the insuiar commissioners in
recent interviews have said that the in
stitutions OF slavery and polygamy
cannot be abolished in the Philippines
without a long and bloody war. by the
side of which our affair with the Tagals
will be insignificant.
The New York Herald remarks that
''if General Otis is to be left in supreme
command, however, several generations
of harem keepers may draw that sala-
~ which the president has agreed to
pay the chiefs and sultans for their ac-
acknowledgement of our national sover-
eignty''
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perialism as well as it does TO the New
York paper mentioned: LAS for the
outcry about reasonable agitators it
will be well to remember that every
step mankind has made in the direc-
ton of truth, enlightenment and prog
ress is to be credited to agitators. The
prophets of old were agitators; Christ
was one; every pioneer of liberty and
civilization was an agitator. Without
agitators. the world would still be
plunged in darkness and we but little
better than the aboriginal savage. Agi-
tation differentiates the true from the
false prophet. If we are laundering in
the Orient, agitation will reveal our
error. If We he right, agitation will
justify us. No righteous cause has, ever
been hindered by agitation. Every
wickedness and tyranny and vice has
trembled and fallen before it. Such
newspapers as the New York Sun will
frighten no brave man by their tinsel
thunders and their cheap appeals. They
can disgust the American people. how
ever. and weaken their own position by
such methods. and, indeed. that is what
they are doing at this moment"
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Colonel Atkinson's Wit.
Detroit Tribune.)


One of the judges of the Wayne county
court tells of an incident in the bar prac-
tfce of the late Colonel John Atkinson
that illustrates his quickness to hurl a
Parthian shaft and the biting sarcasm of
his ironv.
He was opposed in the case on trial by
all the power and resources of James II
Pound, and they were fighting like giants
for every point of advantage. Pound had
won majority of the jousts, the colonel
was nettled and was lying low for a
chance to deliver swinging blow.
1T came" says the judge. when de-
cided point against Pound. ii had been
fiercely argued by both attorneys and in
deciding it as / did / stated my reasons at
length. giving authorities. L saw Pound
shake his head at one of my conclusions
his lips moved, and l supposed he had
made some Comment. so when | concluded
my decision l asked:
What did you say, Mr.. Pound?"
.Quick as shot and in his most cutting
tones of intense sarcasm, the colonel re-
piled:
Mr.. Pound did not speak, your honor.
He merely shook his head. There is moth
ing in it
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ITS EXPLANATION.

Our Hannaized contemporary made
an explanation of it's ecclesiastical po-
sition yesterday which is quite as clear
as the reasons it assigned some time
ago for abandoning the silver cause. 1t
said:
The Herald affects to see no differ
ence between an officer in the Mormon
church advising neighbor a neigh
Dor. and the same man going to the
same neighbor and saying, 1T is the
will of the Lord that you do so and
so.''
That recalls the argument of an east
ern paper in favor of retaining the
Philippines. I'VE made no conquest of
the Philippines" it said, I'VE just took
them; there is difference between
land grabbing and grabbing land" The
Tribune sees a difference between &C.
clesiastical interference and the use Of
church influence. For here is it's posi-
ton so stated in an editorial of Dec.
9, 1896:
dent George Q. Cannon or any other
authority pleases to go TO the people or
TO members of the legislature. or TO send
Bishop Hiram B. Clawson TO speak for
them. and to say: IF 1 were you /
wouldn't vote for John Jones because
he has antagoniZed the church." that
would be their right.
In other words, the Storm Starter
holds that they may properly appeal to
voters in the name of the church, but
not in the name of the Lord.
II would have been nearer the truth
TO have admitted that when the appeal
was made in behalf of the Republican
ticket it was all right but otherwise all
wrong.
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SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
His Last and Best Friend.
youths Companion.O

t1outu t-onp1DlOu-l
Perhaps the first person TO believe in
the genius OF Robert Louis Stevenson was
his mother She was devotedIy attached
to him throughout his life. and realized
his value to the world long before the
world gave him a. hearing. 1t was her
lot to live to mourn his death. but she
PATTY of two nations.
Some time after his death a great me-
mortal meeting was held in Edinburgh.
For his mother. says the author OF 'Stev-
ensons Edinburgh Days. 1t was gala
day, She started for Music haIl not too
early. feeling sure of seat with a re-
served ticket in her hand. She had de-
ciined to sit on the platform and pre-
ferred TO be II simple unit in the audience.
The crowd was beyond expectations.
Mrs Stevenson arrived to find every pas
sage blocked and a surging mass at the
main entrance clamoring for admittance.
She feared that she, with them. would
be turned away: but as forlorn hope
she appealed 10 policeman
It's nae use. it's flu" he said. reserve
seats were ta'en an hour ago by folks
that had nae tickets. and they would IA
gang out.
reused out of her usual calm. I've n
right to get in am Robert Louis Stew
enson's mother
AYE. you've the best right" the po-
Max way. there. She maun get in.
She's Roabere Louis mither."
People who had thought themselves
packed too tightly to move, somehow
packed closer and let Mrs. Stevenson
squeeze past.
Breathless, hustled. and for once with
her mantle and bonnet little awry.
much against her will the crowd pushed
her TO the platform. There she FASTENED
to take u back seat. and few minutes
later she heard the orator of the day,
Lord Rosebery. say with an emphasis
which the audience understood well, mis-
mother is here"
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lmperialists. or rather those advo-
Gates of forcible expansion who are not
acquainted with history. are fond of
comparing the annexation of Texas
with the proposed subjugation of the
Philippines. 1t would be hard TO find a
greater contrast. The people of Texas
sought annexation. There was no OBJ
lection raised. The Jurisdiction of the
Stars and Stripes was extended to the
coast with the consent OF the governed.
On the contrary, the Tagals never have
acknowledged the sovereignty of this
government, because they disputed
SPANS right to sell them. And this
prompts the rather pertinent inquiry,
which has never yet been answered.:
How can the Tagals be classed as reb-
els against this government when they
are neither citizens nor subjects?
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DANGERS OF MILlTARISM.

The worst feature of imperialism is
not expansion, even by conquest, ex-
cept SO far as forcible expansion re-
quires this republic TO enter upon a
career of garrison rule.
Militarisn, the curse of France, the
burden of Europe. the bane of all re-
publican governments, is an indispensi-
BILE part of an imperialistic policy. 1t
has been the happiness of the Amer
lean people that they have hitherto
resOlutely resisted the military spirit
and refused to permit the maintenance
of anything more than a skeleton army
in times of peace.
They have escaped, until imperialism
began TO take root, the scandals of
army politics, military intrigue and the
bartering of mems lives for influence
and power. They have eluded the DOM
nance of the man on horseback by re-
fusing to furnish him a mount. Mill
tarism stands for brute force, whether
it be found in a free republic or an ar
bitrary despotism. 1t is the enemy of
liberty and a menace to free govern
r,,ent.
1t has driven thousands of Germans
from their native land. 1t has impoy-
erished and oppressed millions of Rus
SLAMS. 1t has brought France to the
verge of. disaster and forced her people
into a fight for the maintenance of
their free institutions, threatened as
they are by the army they support to
defend them. A great standing army
is instinctively hostile to liberty. jeaI-
Gus of the civil power. antagonistic to
everything that tends TO restrain brute
force or to curb the arbitrary will of
commanders.
Militarism in France has resorted to
forgery, perjury and the prostitution of
the courts of justice themselves in bat
ting for military supremacy This is
natural. Alexander Hamilton pointed
out the dangers of militarism and CO.
lonia1 experiments. Nor has there been
in the history of this republic anything
TO justify an attempt to change the or
der under which the nation has grown
so rapidly for century and SO great.
In every time of need the people have
brought to bear quite all of military
force that has been needed for the de-
Tense of the republic. 1t is upon the
citizen soldiery we have always de-
pended. 1t is upon the citizen soldiery
we may always depend. But yolun-
teers cannot be used for garrison pur-
poses. Distant colonies which have to
be ruled in this way with an iron hand
and. a constant military menace can
only be held under policy of militar- |
ism.
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Shakespearean conception of the char
| acter, was Edmund Kean. Kean'S first
, appearance in the part was in Drury
Lane in 1920. But although by general
| consent Kean is ranked the greatest
! impersonator of Shakespearean charac-
| ter the world has known, still his Lear
was not in all its parts a complete sue
cess. Indeed Hazlitt, who was an in
tense admirer of Kean. thought that in
some respects it was inferior to Kem-
bles.
We said that the first great Lear, in
the true Shakespearean conception of
the part. was Edmund Kean: but even
Kean did not introduce into his YER
sion of the play Shakespeare's Fool.
This was done by Macready. Jan. %.
1888. Macready thus has the honor of
having been the one who first present.
ed to the world the play of King Lear
as Shakespeare wrote it. But even
Macready was very nervous about the
matter. On Jan. he wrote: My opin-
ion of the introduction of the Fool is
that, like many such terrible contrasts
in poetry and painting, in acting rep
reSentation ii will fail of effect 1t will
either weary or distract the spectator"
Next day he wrote that he had mem
toned his apprehension to some friends
Il described" he says. the sort of
fragile, hectic. beautiful-faced boy that
he should be, and stated my belief that
it never could be acted. BARLEY "a
friend observed that a woman should
play it. l caught at the idea and in
stantly exclaimed. Miss Horton is the
very person. / was delighted at the
thought" And the part of Lear's Fool,
since Macready's time. has been almost
always played by a woman.
MacreadyS Lear was one of his great
est parts. But like most actors who
have tried the part, he was not equally
good at all points of it. He especially
excelled in lines calling for tenderness.
pathos and the expression of yearning
and sympathy. The storm and stress
of Lear's moments of passion were
scarcely his And yet Bulwer Lytton,
who was no mean judge, spoke of the
Titanic grandeur of Macready's Lear.
King Lear" held conspicuous place
in those great Shakespearean revivals
that in the middle of the century
Charles Kean made at the Princess
and Samuel Phelps made at Sadler's
Wells. These great actors played the
part of Lear themselves. but. like their
predecessor Macready. they were each
greater in the milder and more pathet-
ic aspects of Lear's highly composite
character than in the larger and more
powerfully impressive aspects of it.
In America the two great Lears have
been Edwin Forrest and Edwin Booth
Lear was -one of Forests greatest
parts. But Forrest had played too
much and too long in the way of
tickling the ears of the groundlings''
ever to become a perfect Lear. He
lacked the stateliness, the grandeur
the dignified venerableness of him who
was every inch a king" And yet Lear
was a part in which Forrest constantly
kept overcoming the rough and OBJ
trusive individuality OF his youth, and
in which. therefore. he constantly grew
meliower and nobler and greater
Booths Lear, though. a noble one. was.
of course. outshone by his Riehelieu
and his Hamlet.
Note,-The study of king Lear will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-13
Mr.. Allen On Himself.
saturday Evening Post


For a third time, Mr.. Allen has an
nounced himself as n candidate for
United States senator from Mississippi.
The situation brings to mind a story
told many years ago by the Mississippian
in the cloakroom of the house When
first nominated for congress he took the
stump and thoroughly canvassed the
district. After making a speech in a
town in Itawamba county. an old eolored
woman approached him and said:
"Kiyi, Massa John. don't yo' know
me?''
The Mississippian sazed at her intently
as if trying TO bring her TO mind.
Don't yo' know your old nanny
she asked in trembling accents
1t was then he recognized the old nurse
who had looked after him when a child.
He greeted her with effusive warmth.
The old nurses eyes were wet with tears.
Deer. Massa John. said she. 1T do
desc pore ole eyes o. mine good TO see yo'
ag in You're so much like your fadder,
always holding some great. high. mighty
government position or other. Deed,
Massa John: Use powerful glad to see yo'
deed l is
why. what government position do L
hold that my father held, nanny Al
len asked.
'Candidate-same as your pore ole fad
-candidate-candidate, was the re-
ply
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Joey Had a Little Dog.
youths CompanionD


The teacher of a district school in Maine
tells a story that reminds me of Mary
and her little lamb, only 1t is of Joe and
his little dog.
Joe was boy about years old. and
was devoted to q small, lank puppy. Out
of school hours boy and dog were in
separable. and Joe apparently could not
reconcile himself to the necessity of Ieav-
ing the dog at home. For several morn
ings the teacher allowed the puppy to re-
main at Joe's feet under the desk.
Then there came a day when the small
dog could not be kept quiet. but frlsked
about to the delight of the school and
the dismay of the teacher.
Joe she said firmly. you must take
that dog OUT
Joe looked at her mournfully but picked
up the pup. and with his head against his
cheek started for the door. The bows
feelings were evidently hurt but he said
nothing until he reached the door: then.
giving his teacher a reproachful look
with a plying glance toward his dog he
said slowly. And he's named for you.'
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". KING LEAR.
The Play as an Acting Drama.

The poet Shelley said of King Lear
that it was the most perfect specimen
of the dramatic art existing in the
world" Another critic has said of it
that IL is the greatest single achieve
ment in Poetry OF the Teutcnic or north
ern genius"
Though the full measure OF these es-
Inmates the critical world may not
wholly consent to, yet the world comes
very near TO conserving to them. king
Lear is universally admitted to be one
of the very finest productions of dra-
matte art and dramatic poetry the
world has known.
And yet, great as King Lear" is as
play and as a dramatic poem. its
greatness is not altogether realiZable to
the. ordinary reader.
The ordinary reader has rarely the
imagination necessary properly to con-
eeive the greatness Of the characterize
lions of the play or the insight neces-