The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
A 6ood Word for a Clean Play. The
Presidents Salary, No Tariff
LEGISLATION this Session.
Roosevelt Weakens the Monroe Doctrine.
Statehood Bills viii Not Pass.

Not long ago Mrs. John A. Logan,
writing in the New York American.
said that there was nota decent playo IN
the American stage to-day. While II
is true that the greatm majority OF plays
on the stage in this country are
of the risQue, rotton, ribald sort that
appeal to The very worst clements in
mans nature, and are a sad common
tary on the morals of our people, yet
there arc some clean plays on the
stage and Mrs. Logan ought to go and
see at least one of them. That play
is york State Folks that has just
run a successful season in this city at
the Lafayette Theatre ard is man.
aged by the veteran manager for all
of the lamented Charlie Hoyt's plays,
Mr.. Fred e. Wright. All of Charlie
Hoy5's plays wereclean. Their humor
was clean and never was suggestive
or vulgar and Fred Wright will not
manage a show that is not clean. He
now has the best and the cleanest
show on the American stage, and
though he is s.bucking'' the theatre
trust that controls all the best play
houses in the country. he is making a
success such as is deserved by such a
show. and it is a good sign of the
times and augurs well for the people
and indicates a renaissance Of good,
old time morality before the country
became corrupted by the age of com
mercialism that has seemed to sap all
the generous impulses from u ma
lures. "York State Folks" is a sim
pie, plain, honest story told by simple,
plain and honest folk. The every day
life of the kind of people we see in our
own homes, who move and have their
beings with us and are part of our
daily existence. The kind of people
who are honest because they don't
know how to be anything else. A
story of love and duty and suffering
and forbearance and of astony-hearted
father whose heart finally was melted
by paternal affection. A story en-
acted almost every day in coun Jry
villages by men and women who make
up the best of the population of our
country, because they are Injured to
the rougher side of life, because they
have gone barefoot over plowed fields
and have absorbed the electricity from
mother earth that has broadened their
natures and filled them with a love
for humanity. A stony that reveals
to US the kind of people from whom
spring the ablest men and the best
women in all the land and who will
yet a V u blessed country from
mortal injury at the hands of cormor-
ants who woula. barter it's birthright
for Doodle. If the opportunity ever
presents itself. go and see this show,
this sermon from the stage, this
clean-hearted, refreshing play. You
will be a better husband, father,
brother, lover; a better wife, mother,
sister, sweetheart, and you will leave
the play with a. song in your heart
that will be to you forever and for
benediction.
~
Speaking of commercialism run riot, !
there is now a movement on foot in
the national capital to increase the
OF the President of the United
from $4,000 to 800, 900 a year,
and the argument made by the adyo-
Gates of this movement is that all the|
potentates OF. the old countries receive
much larger salaries and that thel
presidents Of railroads and Of COM
mercial concerns get more money for
their work than does the President of
the United States. If this thing ever
starts, where will it stop? Every
nan in the employ of the government
will want his stipendiary emoluments
increased from President down to
'pittoon cleaner and the tax payers OF
The country will be swamped with
lebt. This is essentially arepublican
dea, That party has ever been the
)arty of commercialism and material
and never a party with an ideal.
t believes the man who runs for the
Presidency of this nation does so forl
he salary rather than for the honor
the position. Thank the Lord for
he cowardice Of the average politic-
an, this movement will get no fur
her than the stage of incipiency and
me peculiarly republican idea will
AVE died a bornin'.
The representatives Of all the for
ign nations in the national capital
Ire hugging themselves and each
other over the Venezuelan situation. (,
President Roosevelt is the first Presi-
lent of the Union who ever had the
'emerity to attempt to define the |,
Monroe Doctrine, and his definition
hereof suits the purposes of the for