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a profitable basis, and it was well I'M
derStOd both in Cuba and the United
States that such action would be TAX
en- President Roosevelt in his mes
sage had recommended such "substan-
tial tariff reductions" as were neces-
sary to insure industrial prosperity.
Then arose a cloud in the sky. We
had begun in several states to pro-
duce sugar from beets, and for many
years we had been producing in one
or two states sugar from cane. All
at once, and without reason, the cry
was raised that any reduction of the
duty on sugar coming from Cuba would
injure, strike down, and destroy the
beet and cane sugar industry of the
United States. Members and Senators
from states in which these industries
were established became first timid.
then needlessly frightened, lest their
assent to legislation favoring recipro-
cal trade relations with Cuba would
lose them their seats. Most Of these
senators and representatives were Re-
publicans. They were few in number
compared to the whole body of Re-
publicans, but they were numerous
enough, by joining with the Democrats
who were ready for any action which
should divide Republican forces, to pre-
vent wise and necessary legislation:
and so the contest began.
AS time went on facts were ignored.
fears were magnified, prejudice invok-
ed, until reason and cool judgment
seemed to have entirely departed. Two
assertions, neither of which could be-
sustained by proof formed the con-
trolling basis Of action by the few Re-
publicans who have been spoken of.
First, the assertion that, to reduce the
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voice so cracked that you expect to
see both the singer and the voice drop
into bits, she gushes and wishes she
had the gift, while you thank a mer-
ciful providence that she hasn't. If
any one recites, no matter how inter
esting the entertainer or her theme,
the gushee gushes, and wishes she had
the talent. No matter what may be
your qualifications, If she can find
something to exploit and make it seem
that she is the only one who knows
you and is retailing a bit Of news, she
is dee Lighted" and her friend is so
"dee-lightful," until you feel half
ashamed of being outside of the COM
monplace average.
There are women who are conspicu-
GUS by reason of talent, personality or
social environment, but such women
are generally level-headed and don't
want to run around tagged, 81 am So
and-So," and while all talent appre-
ciates success and kindly considera-
ton, yet the woman of mark prefers to
be received courteously for her own
personal self, rather than for the sake
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as might be dictated by the opposition
for party advantage without reference
to the interests Of Cuba or ourselves.
The president, in special message.
endavored to call back the attention
OF the congress to the real issue, but
without effect, and so congress ad-
journed with nothing done. N
Meantime, Notwithstanding the asa
sertions of the beet-sugar representa-
tiyes that Cuba was in no need, thera1
is serious financial depression there's
How acute it will become, time only
can demonstrate. But, worse than f.
nancial depression or distress, there
has grown up in the minds of the peo-
pie of Cuba feeling that the United
States has deliberately determined not
to keep faith with them. Economic
dis turbance in q country just starting
on the experiment of self government,
with little experience in that line, is
bad enough; but a settled belief on
the part of its people that nation up
on which they have placed their reli-
ance has tricked them, is more sadly
to be deplored. The people of Cuba
will scarcely understand that the few
representatives who have been able
temporarily to thwart the will of the
people of the United States, do not
represent its real sentiment The re-
spect of Cuba can only be regained
when the people of the United States
shall have once more passed upon this
question, and demonstrated that our
real purpose is thwarted only for the
time being, and that our plain duty
is yet to be thoroughly and generously
performed.
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By kate Jhyson Mari.

gushee wants to kiss you at the rail-
road train at the risk of missing your
train or breaking your neck. She
wants to kiss you on the street car
when the conductor is mad enough to
say bad words while yelling himself
hoarse IAN out" She wants to kiss
you when she meets you in a shop and
you are in a. dead heat hurry.
In fact, normal woman, as a rule
hate to kiss another woman. I know
that do! Cbeg pardon), and yet they
must submit to the inf1iction or seem
frightfully rude and say something
that would wound.
An attractive, well-bred woman often
finds herself most unpleasantly hedged
about by these gushing freaks, and
often, undoubtedly, it is almost kindly
meant in every sense of the word. 1t
is the outgrowth of overdone good in
tentions, or an overwhelming pride
that such woman takes in being able
to introduce another who happens to
be her pet admiration, or who by some
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Of any glory that might attach to her
name, and there is nothing more ag-
gravating or more embarrassing to a
refined woman of mark than to find
herself spotted and designated with a
lot of frills when she wishes to be re-
ceived only as guest should be.
OF course there are many women who
like this display and are hattered by
1T, who would enjoy hearing their
names shouted through a megaphone
with a brass band attachment when
ever and wherever they appear, but
such women are rarely gifted with the
worth of individuality that shrinks
from such things.
If woman cannot bring with her in
her own personality the grace of man
ner and bearing that stamps her as be-
ing above mediocrity then all the trum-
petings of friends with the gush of
habit will not accomplish it, and will
only lead to embarrassment, which
puts woman at her worst rather than
her best.
Greatness is disappointing, as ev-
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By Julia Marlowe.

the writer's are ambitious to delineate
characters which, because they have
something to do with the unfolding of
dramatic situation, are bound to be
either interesting or graceful or COM
pick, in word, are bound to possess
some intellectual or artistic flavor, or
they would not have been introduced
into the drama.
Comparatively few beginners have
the slightest acquaintance with such
guide posts in the history of the stage
as the development of the drama by
the Greeks, the Roman method of
handling tragic and comic scenes, the
return to classic standards by Racine
and Corneille, the influence of Moliere
on the stage Of his own time and of
today, the artistic formulate of Goethe
and Schiller, the rise and the decline
of the classic style in England, the
new school of serious drama which at
tempts to set forth some Of the prob
lens which are shaking and vexing-to
use Henry Arthur Jones' phrase-the
minds of men today, the lives of Gar
rick, Rachel, Ristori and Booth.
have mentioned only few -of the es-
sential themes concerning which the
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prove that the rewards of work on the
stage are really extraordinary when
the work is dignified by ability, orig
inality and conscientiousness: Some
times these rewards are given to play
ers who do not possess much ability or
conscientioug2ess, but you will find
that perhaps they do possess, in a large
measure, the saving grace of original
ity-and that is a quality for which
the stage pays and pays well.
The stage would hold more for the
American girl if more American girls
who aspire to its rewards would come
to it better equipped mentally. Edu-
cation is the crying need Of the theat-
rically ambitious. A young woman
wrote me recently saying that some
four years ago her efforts in an anna
teur presentation of "As You Like TT
by seminary had won her the COM
mendation of an American manager,
who thereupon offered her position in
his stock company. With good sense
far beyond her years she declined on
the plea that she was sure the COM
pletion of her collegiate course would
better equip her for serious work on
the stage when once She did enter upon
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eryone knows, and when we hear so
much Of certain people and of those
whose names are familiar to us we Of
ten experience decided shock when
meeting them.
The woman who figures in the pub
lie eye knows this and rather avoids
meeting strangers who will be on the
qui vive to see what she looks like and
who will note every detail Of dress or
popularity Of manner. To such a
woman the gushing creature is posi-
tive nightmare and often with her
amiable, well intentioned praise and
lavish compliments is a source of en-
barrassment that is absolutely pain
full.
Then the other gushee-who rushes
up to you on the street and kisses you.
That kind of woman puts me in a
panic! / want to call out the fire de-
partment, or the police department, or
vigilance committee or any old thing
to protect me. You can't knock a wo-
man down for kissing you, yet homicide
in such cases should be legalized. The
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sincere beginner should possess, ready
and sympathetic information, yet you
would be appalled, to know how very
few of them possess any knowledge at
all on these subjects. The actress
should be a constant reader. 1t is al
most as necessary to her in her calling
as it is to the writer in his.
Even the beginner should have some
thing to express. She should also be
able to express something approaching
the truth. The opinion of some that it
is only necessary to look WE'LL and that
this is half the battle, is fundamentally
erroneous, and far from the mark ex-
coping possibly when one is consider
ing these questions from the CONNER
cfal point of view, a point of view
which wish to eliminate entirely from
the present consideration of the SUBJ
ject. That point of view has no
serious connection with the question
of art, and she who does not approach
the drama seriously as an art, cannot
be considered a candidate for the title
successful in the higher sense of the
term.
The women of the period of 1860 and
the decade following, to which belongs
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that career.
But such a letter as hers is the very
rare exception. So many of the anna
tours who write to me about their de-
sire to go on the stage have much to
say concerning their souls and certain
tempermental qualifications which
they think warrant them in becoming
players. All this is interesting, but
strikes me as not being to the point.
I almost never had one to write to me
to say that he or she was taking les
sons in fencing, voice training, or Eng
liSh literature as a preparation to
stage career. All that seems to be
deemed of small account, and yet some
excellence in fencing, voice training,
and English literature should be the
very first steps in any preparation for
the stage. 1t makes no difference if
these lessons be learned in dramatic
school, in the ranks of a minor COM
pany, or in a barn.
Some of the letters I receive are not
even neatly written, much less in good
taste, or with grammatical propriety
A considerable proportion of them do
not betray any acquaintance with the
amenities of correspondence, and yet
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the honor Of having inaugurated the
custom of entrusting feminine roles to
women, were really no less than mar
tyrs to public intolerance and in the
annals of no other life activity will you
find more touching instances Of the alb y
solute devotion to art for arts sake
than in the chronicles Of woman's work
on the stage. In the light of what
the pioneer women of the stage did
and in the light of chat they suffered, Z
their descendants Of today cannot with
justice to the great names Of the past,
take the drama other than seriously
and reverently. Regarding it thus
they will bring to it the best there is in
them, and by so doing they will re-
ceive only the rewards of the stage.
They will pay none of the old-time
penalties, for the stage today is bet
ter and cleaner institution than ever it
was before. 1t has never been other
wise than good and clean to women
who deserved it from that attitude, and
to every aspirant it holds just what
she makes up her mind it shall hold.
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portunity to probe for it's cause in the
facts open to the public regarding the
amount Of stock upon which dividends
must be based, the salaries, and the
operating expenses of the corporation
in question.
An important feature is the prac-
teal certainty that a restraining in
fuence of this character would tend
to deter more orr less unscrupulous
persons from foisting upon the public
industrial and commercial investments
of unsound character. And again, it
would tend to remove the incentive
to abnormally increase the price to the
consumer in order that dividends may
be declared upon a. capitalization
greatly in excess of the actual amount
of the capital invested. The contem-
plated enforcement of a policy of pub
licity with reference to all corporations
engaged in interstate commerce has
at least the merit that it cannot be
construed as a. radical step, and in
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attractiveness and very little self-re
spect There is, perhaps, no other
walk in life where lack of ability is so
tolerably rewarded, but the rewards,
such as they are, are soon likely to lose
their SAVIOR for even the most thought
less and feather Drained.
To a different type of aspirant the
stage is a sterner mistress during the
preliminary years of novitiate and
training, but when it does finally con-
fer upon the serious ones it's finer and
more dignified rewards, it confers them
with a generous hand. I know many
a highly educated and carefully trained
writer, whose earnings, either in fame
or money, are not to be compared with
those of some merely competent lead
ing man or woman in a standard or
ganization. And, going higher up,
have been assured by publishers that
the profits Of highly successful
star" so-called, will sometimes exceed
in a single season the amounts which
some novelist or historian of sound
reputation can accumulate in a whole
life time of laborious writing. This,
perhaps, may not be as it should be.
but the fact that it is SO only goes to
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By Charles 6. sciHlefeid
Representative On Congress From the ~sc0nd District Of Maine.

continue to manifest a willingness to
encourage the organization of corpor-
ations of almost any character and
with scarcely any limitation upon their
powers so long as the state is enriched
by the money paid for the privilege.
Comparatively limited as the jurisdic-
ton of the national government might
appear in the case, 1 cannot say that
I am at this time in favor of a consti-
tutional amendment broadening the
power Of congress in this respect. I
would first exhaust our constitutional
power under the interstate commerce
clause. Hundreds of attempts have
been made to amend the constitution
of the United States and in only fifteen
cases has success crowned the effort,
so that it will readily be seen that the
chance of securing remedial action in
this direction is comparatively slight;
whereas, even with a promise of the
certainty of the passage of such an
amendment, the lapse Of time neces-
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attribute of talent or social standing
is above or beyond the ordinary.
A woman of generous impulses both
of word or deed, will always speak
well of another, no matter how black
the record may be against her, she.
can always find something kind to say
in her defense; but this species of
kindness is very different from the ex-J
travagant gush that comes as a cold
shower when the subject herself is
present and among strangers. There
is nothing more embarrassing to q
sensible woman than to be forced to-
listen to rhapsodies centralized on her.,
self.
The gushing woman thinks she IS.
being awfully sweet, as no doubt She
means to be, but we all know that
there is nothing more nauseating than
an overdose Of sweets, and when these
are accentuated by this horror breed
ing gush, it is enough to make real
lady" want to say some real naughty
bad words. Z
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The l)oman lOho Gushes

always on tap and no matter what
happens its:
Charmed, am sure"
Perfectly charming"
Charmed to meet you."
'How charming you look!" and lot
more that just makes you tired.
If she goes to an entertainment and
meets you, she rushes up and greets
you so effusively that it is wholly en-
barrassing, and the guests are all thor
oughly convinced that you dote on one
another. She clings to you in a man
ner that would make the old Ivy and
oak story sue for a divorce, and de-
prives you of the pleasure of meeting
others whom you have been dying to
see for months.
She is an unqualified bore, and when
she starts to elaborate you by telling
who you are, and what you are, and
where you came from, and all that you
ever did do, or did not do, or ought to
have done, it makes sensible woman
feel like rushing off to the foolish
house.
If one sings at an entertainment in
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j4oN to Regulate the Trusts

not only commendable and useful
when controlled by correct principles,
but indispensable to the management
of great business enterprises, incident
to our phenomenal commercial and
industrial development. One of it's
purposes is to protect a considerable
portion of the public who are in danger
of suffering far greater loss than are
the consuming classes, to whom the
formation of trust may perhaps mean
a slight increase in the cost of living.
The class referred to is the extensive
one comprised of small investors, Of
which a considerable portion are wo-
men or residents Of more or less isolat-
ed localities, who are, perhaps, some
what handicapped in the matter of ac-
curing full knowledge regarding the
exact character of the giant corpora
ton whose stock is offered for sale in
the open market, and yet are led to
invest by reason Of the business repu-
tation of the men who are at the head
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my opinion this is important, since
it is essential that the national gov
eminent, in whatever direction it may
seek to deal with the subject Of capt.
talistic combinations, shall proceed with
conservatism. Any drastic measure
would be very likely to upset condi-
lions in the business world and in all
probability, therefore, would do more
harm than good.
It must also be remembered, more
over, by persons who have under con-
sideration the attitude of the national
legislature in this matter that con-
gress has jurisdiction over corpora
lions only when they enter the field of
transportation to the extent of partici-
pating in interstate commerce. The
national law making body can scarce
ly be expected to correct all the evils
involved in the operation of corpora
tons If it has not the cooperation of
the governments of the various states,
and certainly not if some of the states
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of the institutions, or by reason Of the
stories of fabulous profits which have
been circulated with reference to ope-
rations in the field in which the pub
lie is given an opportunity to invest.
With compulsory publicity turning a
search-light on the antecedents and to
a certain extent upon the operations
of one of these powerful corporations
the ordinary citizen will at least have
an opportunity to exercise his judg-
ment untrammeled. In short, each
citizen will have the same opportunity
to pass upon the standing of a cor
poration that he now enjoys in the
case Of a national bank. IT, on the
other hand, there are indications of
excessive capitalization, the prospec-
tive investor is apprised of it in adj
vance; whereas, it, having invested
his money in corporation, a stock
holder is at a loss to understand an
absence of dividends or other disap-
pointing circumstances, he has an OPP
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HERE are three policies, any
of which may be pursued
by the United States. First,
we may treat Cuba with in
difference and neglect; Sec
ond as a commercial rival to be feared
and curbed; third, with a friendly con-
sideration which shall insure her pros
perity, stability and gratitude. Until
congress met in December last, the
people of the United States entertain
ed no doubt as to which of the three
policies should be pursued. We were
in honor bound not to neglect Cuba.
We had never thought of her as a
commercial rival to be feared, but
rather as a constituent part of our
commercial system. Every obligation
of duty and of self-intereSt demanded
our friendly consideration. 1t may
well be doubted whether 1 per cent of
our people, before the assembling of
the last congress, would have tolerated
the idea that Cuba should be treated
in any other way than as a neighbor
and a close friend. And yet there de-
veloped during the winter and early
summer a sentiment, founded on mis-
apprehension and prejudice, which
was strong enough to defeat for the
time being any remedial or beneficent
legislation in her behalf. During all
the period of our military occupation,
leading up to Cuban independence, it
was understood that the economic re-
lations between Cuba and the United
States were as important as their po-
litical relations. When the United
States required Of Cuba that her con-
stitution should contain guarantees
which should forever place her in a
position of Intimate relation to US, 1T
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estant percentage, while the number
of Hebrew families with no children
at all is but about one-half the Prot
estant percentage. South of Four
teenth street and east Of Broadway,
In the borough of Manhattan, where
the foreign born people are most num-
erous, there live 538,494 persons. That
is to say that 1874 per cent Of the pop
ulation of the borough live in less than
10 per cent of its area. In this region
is the Eighth Assembly district, whose
ninety eight acres have an average of
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sary before it would come into operas
ton would constitute a serious draw
back. 1t will be remembered that the
minority easily succeeded in defeating
a very conservative amendment on
this same line during the last congress.
I doubt if there is in labor circles
any deep seated opposition to combi-
nations of capital. The sentiment of
the private citizen on the subject will
be determined by the effect upon his
pocket book. If the trusts" are able
to supply the necessities of life at q
lower cost than it has heretofore been
possible to procure them, they will
go far toward disarming opposition; IN
but if, on the other hand, they, by
sitting competition and over-capitaliz-
alton, impose grievous and unjustifi-
able burdens upon the consumer, Wigs
orous agitation for legislation on the1
subject may be expected as naturaIi
sequence.
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735 persons to the acre. In the Dor
ough of the Bronx the average is but
III, and in the boroughs of Queens
and Richmond but 1.8 to the acre.
There are more persons of foreign
birth in New York than in Chicago,
st. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston
combined. Manhattan has not one
assembly district--even on the upper
West side-where the number of for
eign-born residents is below 25 per
cent. There are only three other cities
Of more than $4,000 inhabitants in the