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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
The Chief Offender.

There would be no limit to the tyranny
if the people did no protect them
selves.
This condition has demanded the or
ganization of Citizens Associations in
the cities and villages, massing the
power of the people for self-protection,
and the plan works.
There are now nearly 500 local ass'ns
affiliated and working with the Natl
Citizens Industrial Assn.
1t has only lately occurred to the
people that when any labor union trust
calls a strike, ties up an industry, pickets,
boycotts and interferes in various ways
with the affairs of citizens, they come
under the Natl laws governing trusts
which prohibit acts in restraint of trade,
1t is the right and duty Of every en-
ployer to demand Cd the ProseSuting or
Dlstrlct Atty that he proceed against
the members OF the Iabor trust when
ever they break the law by he illegal
nets of boycott, picketing or any sort
of interference with business and com
merce. We are all free American born
with the right to work when and where
we please, TO employ or not employ
whom we please and to conduct our
affairs without interference by any inn
pudent member of any trust on the face
of the earth and the man who will not
resent such interference and attempted
tyranny is q coward and a traitor TO his
fellow man.
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The American Federation of Labor is
numerically the largest trust in existence.
The labor union trust and every capital
trust was organized to gather extra gain
or money from the common people.
1t makes no gain for the beef trust if
one member charges another member
an extra price.
1t makes no gain for the labor union
trust il a brioklayer member gains IN
extra price for working for a member
of the carpenters union. All that is
but swapping nickels."
The feed to fatten the trust must
come IRON the common people who are
not members, and who therefore cannot
be counted in on the division of the
spoils.
1t is plainly the common people who
must be legally and genteely held up"
and made to contribute funds to fatten
the trust members. The common man
who buys a pair Of shoes or suit of clothes
must pay something exirato cover what
aver the labor trust has been able to
boost the price of labor above the
natural price governed by supply and
demand. So the man who buys beef
must pay the extra price forced by the
beef trust. Therefore it seems plain
that all trusts, both of capital and labor,
are contrary to the interests of the COM
mon people and are oppressors just in
proportion as they have the power to
force money from, and %tyrannous con-
ditions upon the people.
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Let the members OF the labor trust be
brought to the bar of judgment when
ever they break the law "in the restraint
of trade or become violent lawbreakers
in other ways.
The laws are for the protection of the
common people, and it must be made
very unsafe for any labor union trust
member or any other trust member to
break them.
II you are oppressed and tyrannized
over. COMPEL Die public officers TO do
theIr duty.
Let this country be conducted in the
interest Of the common man and not
solely for any combination, either Of
capital or labor
The Square Deal Magazine publishes
facts abOu. the labor trust in an educa-
tional campaign to place these facts be-
fore the people clearly, stripped Of sem
timent and fancy. 1t is or sale at W
stands at lOc or sent Il year for S1.O0,
II is b%oycottCd by some newsdealeTs
with. labor union ~proclivities.
II the ~newsdealer SAYS he don't sell it,
suppose you transfer your trade 10 an
other who believes in supplying papers
and magazines that people call flor with
out regard to the dictates of any labor
union trust.
Natl CitVens Industrial Assn,
st. James Building, New York
C. W. Posi-, President.
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~The1trical manage rs are no more selfish
than any other Glass OF msn. The law
OF sslf-pressrv alton il observed by them
as it is by Others. Generally speaking
it il the record Of the playwrig bit that counts;
they really bet on the jockeys.
This statement seems to. exclude tho
novice, but 1t does not, for there surely
il some inherent quality in a good play
which will eventually force its produc-
ton. | don't believe that there are thou
sands Of them that have not been produced.
/ don't believe there are hundreds or even
tens. The mere fact that n play falls in
one place means nothing. Secret services
failed in Philadelphia and Shenandoah
in Boston.
Il am going to forestall your question
about the great American novel and the
great American play. neither Of which will
be produced 40 long a. the present condi-
ions of transition exist. When society
is CONCEALED into certain fixed states and
fights its battles from that standpoint they
may appear, but not now
The great plays and the great books
will be written when the leisure class is
a certain unit; when our plutocracy forms
an aristocracy, as it surely will. There Will
always be a submerged tenth, there Will
always be the laboring masses.
The man who is representative of our
commercial classes is neither a thinking
nor an unthinking man. He is essentially
the man of action. and acts from impulse.
He obeys an i%nCuitive power, he doesn't stop
to reason and come to logical deductions;
he has no time. Socialism means to him
anarchy, which it is not, and he does not
want it.
There are two classes who do. thetlinker5,
students, writer's and the u%nthinking masses
who want anything that will change their
lot; but these two classes have nothing
TO say about it. 1t is the commercial man
who decides, and he it is who in time will
form the leisure class,
81 am wondering if George Bernard Saaw
is AZ ardent a socialist now that his royalties
are rolling in?'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
Charles Klein Sketches the PIay>Of the Day
The Author Of "Ths Lion and the MouasN and '"ThOM 6Sit Master"
Discusses the Reason of the SueceSs Of Some
Dramas and the FaHure Of Others

'Ibsen," says Mr.. Klein; "owes his SUCCESS
to the fact that every temperament spells
out it's own meaning. No two persons
90 away from a play by the Norwegian
dramatist with the same Interpretation,
and therein lies charm, mystery and allure
ment.
"To disdain the obvious is to flatter the
reader. Probably Ibsen never dreamed
a millionth part of the meanings attributed
to him, but what he did intend was to en-
body the complexities Of existence instead
Of it's Banalities.
There are people who complain that
modern mechanics destroy the illusions
OF the stage. Instead they add to 1t, for
they too are more mental, moro spiritual
now than ever before. They are mysteri-
GUS adjuncts, used wisely and thoughtfully
by the playwright, who IL no longer ham
pered by their limitations.
Sometime we shall reach a point where
the public will write Its W fourth act
and will no longer be content to have the
curtain rung down on a happily arranged
finale. The problem will be left where 1t
Ia left In life, unsolved, and each must
find his own Interpretation. We are not
far from that time, now.
In The Duel which you know repre-
sents the conflict for the possession of the
woman by two forces, the soul represented
by the priest and the world by the material
list, l went home writing my own fourth
act, and it centred about a divorce, for to
my thinking those two temperaments
could not harmonic. Yet some one else
says that the man was only material In his
methods Of winning the ~woman-that he
was at heart an idealist. So there you are
with your diverse definitions.
at is an age of specialists In playwriting
az in everything else. Maeterlfnck, for
example, is a symbolist and 30 has limited
his audience accordingly, although there
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ternal aide. The Music Master appeals to
the public's sympathies, and the public
love to weep. The more callous a man or
woman is, the more they enjoy the purifca-
ton of such an experience; il Ia that class
who are in the majority and who need
that sort Of play, People who are more
sympathetic do not require 10 much the
illusion OF imagination. and they have, be-
sides, other outlets for this quality.
There is no one who applauds the hero
on the stage so much az the coward IN the
audiences. In proportion as you lack a
quality do you admire its representation
in another. Sometimes you overestlmate
its value.
"The historic play has the value OF dis
tancs. the further away the better, Tor
thsrs is no de struction involved. Bring
an vent too close and it becomes photo
9raphic. 1t seens to Offend ART to photo
graph.
sOnce | wrote a play with Harrison Grey
FiIke. called 'Ths District Attorney. Local
~politic,, while they did not form the cruz
of the thing, were involved TO a deg rec
For seme unknown reason Mr., Palmer,
who had accepted it, held it up for two
vears. Meantime the Lexow Committee
o,me into being and it almost killed the
play. for we we're accused of trying to
dramatize the evening papers"
why do manag ers hold up a play for
two years, and why, il they think a play
is good enough to pay for in order to keep
it from their rivals, do they not think it
good enough to producer"
Mr.. Klein repeats the question and Iooks
surprised. Then he explains it.
al believe there comes a time in every
theatrical manag er's life when he dis
trusts his own judg ment. He has had a
few successes and he believes only the
plays along those ines are sure invest
ments. Finally one fails, and another
embo dying all the ideas he has believed
synonymous with failure succeeds. Then
he steps cautiously. 1t is a serious
thing to etand sponsor for a theatrical
failure.
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acters he must act consistently with his
own role. Your audience must not be left
in doubt for a second. 1t must not ask
what does he mean?
1.-The secret of George AIDES success Is
undoubtedly his power Of Characterization
Then, there Is con densation Of thought.
Thoughts are real things, lmost tangible
at present Wherever you go you cannot
escape their influence, If you sit In a stree
car you are hypnotized by them. In your
family circle, In your club, you absorb them
unconsciously as you do the air you breathe,
which Is no more real or vital.
You have to drive this army out when
you sit down to work, this mob that fights
for admission to your stronghold; for In
no other profession Is 1t 30 absolutely
necessary al in this.
And acre arises another complex condi-
ton, for the very thoughts which you have
taken from others without knowing it,
that you are fighting to keep out, are the
embodied ideas Of your play,
9TH most original writer is only the
pioneer Of expression. He simply voices
what is in the world about him. No matter
how unusual this expression may be, people
are not surprised they have felt its influence
before. They have been subjected as you
have been to its subtle power.
in The Lion and the Mouse the secret
Of its success lies in the fact that it repre-
sents the condition OF the times, the COM
mercial instinct fighting the spiritual ma
ture. In his elemental state man is always
fighting himself, his lower side in revolt,
his higher in continual warfare. 1t is sim
Div the underlying truth Of humanity
brought up to date.
"All drama is conflict People love that
more than anything else. A prinefight
will draw when a play will not. Just now
it ia interesting to watch man adjust him
self to ever changing conditions; in them
are material for many dramas.
Il consider The Lion and the Mouse
a greater. play on this account than The
Music Master which is more indebted to
Mr.. Warfeld's wonderful acting and ex-
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are many who think him the greatest living
dramatist.
"My own choice is Pinero, who is master
of Characterization, dialogue, construc-
ton and plot. Where others are content
To concentrate in one direction he has
taken all for his possession. Who has a
greater knowledge Of the complexities of
modern life than he? l do not know any
one.
"Take The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.'
That will be alive when all the modern
plays are dead. 1t goes right TO the heart
of things. 1t will be the Camille of the
next century. And what construction!
What does it stand for fundamentally?
1t stands for the inevitable tragedy OF
vice. Is that not great enough for the
basic idea?
1T is true that the criticism is made that
if Mrs. Tdnquerdy had not confessed at the
psychologist moment, if she had been clever
enough and reticent enough; if she had
allowed events to shape themselves with
out her hysterical Interference, there would
have been no tragedy. All that was needed
was self-control, but tn at was the one
quality she could not display, for she did
not have it, and therein lies the unerring
touch of the scalpel.
"Alienists. nerve specialists will tell you
that a woman of hat type, a woman the
outcome of modern conditions, has lost
her power of volition and she could no more
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Having as a background some wall
paper of the exact shade OF his aura Mr..
Charles Klein, the playwright talked OF
many things, OF ships and shoes q sealing
wax, of oabbages and kings.
II All these words are symbolic; they stand
for three and four syllabled ones. MIR.
Klein's vocabulary is full Of such words as
naterialism, metaphysical, egos and the
~ipiritual afilatus," No sooner are the
interrupters OF his busy career seated
than they are whisked of into the realm
OF the subliminal. According to him every
thing in the world, except perhaps box
Office receipts; is at present undergoing
q great spiritual evolution.
Considering the fact that he is secretary
Of the American Dramatists' Association,
and has indubitable statistics at his dis
posaI, his words on the subject Of plays
arc Of importance. The statistics show
that there are 30 700, 900 people in the
United States and only eighty dramatlsts
represented on the stage; out OF these
eighty only forty are well known; out OF the
forty twenty-five are making money! and
out Of the twenty-five only ten are reaping
fortunes. When the author Of 'The Lion
and the Mouse" and "The Music Master
speaks on this subject it Is we'll for the
rs, 1000, 900 who are merely writing plays
TO sit back and listen hard.
To begin in the middle Of the Interview
which Is just as good a place as any other,
Mr. Klein refers to the suppression of the old
time aside and the absence Of the confdante.
In place Of these we have a word uttered
with certain infection, a suggestion whose
inference Is Immediately grasped by an
audience. The greatest Of the modern
idramatists realize this growth Of the audi
fencs IN mental quickness and appeal to the
n1nntal and spiritual qualities Of their hear
3azs, thayt 90 longer insult their 1ntelli,
sGtncAs .
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
TRAINERS OF THE TURF
ROWE, ROGERS AND JOYNER AT
ETHE HEAD OF THE PROFESSION.
This Trio Usually Handle the Biggest Stake
winners From Year TO Hear-An
Abundance OF skilled Expert 10 Pre-
e mare the Thor ughbr eds This Season.

Nearly every trainer of note in America
will operate on the Jockey Club tracks this
year. The trouble among the Western turf
governors will send many expert handlers
of race horses East, but they will find it a
sdiHicult matter to eclipse the veterans
who have had charge of the leading stables
here for years. Probably the three best
trainers in this country to-day are James
Rowe, John W. Rogers and A. j. Joyner.
1t would be hard TO say which is the master,
as all of them have achieved remarkable
results.
Rowe has charge of James R. Keene's
great stable, which includes the famous
Sysonby. Last year was the most sue
cessful in point of stake winnings that Rowe
ever experienced, but the bulk Of the money
was earned by the champion Melton colt.
Rowe has spent the greater part of his
life on the turf. He was a Jockey in his
boybood days and once handled the red
flag as starter, but as a trainer he won
NIL of his present fame. To him Mr.. Keene
practically leaves the management of the
famous stable. Rowe is permitted to use
his own Judgment as to stake engagements
and overnight events and can do as he
pleases as TO assistants and riders. He
is popular with all horscmen, but at the
game tine he knows how to keep stable
secrets and in many Instance he has sur
prised even his closest friends by putting,
over successful long shots.
tN Rogers, sometimes referred to as the
skiing of Trainers, has made a wonderful
record with the Whitney stable. Year after
year he has turned out q combination that
has been at the top of the heap in earnings,
or very near it. He has trained some Of the
greatest horses on the turf, including win
ners of nearly all the big handicaps and
two-year-old stakes. Rogers is a close
observer of everything that pertains to the
turf. He is exacting with his jockeys and
on several occasions he has clashed with
noted riders because they did not follow
his instructions to the letter. He brooks
no interference from anybody and a year
ego, il is said, he WIS on the point of re-
R signing his position because he could not
have bis own way. Rogers is quiet, modest
and retiring, but he rules his stable with a
rod Of iron and)has the respect of all who
come in contact with him.
Joyner turned out more actual winners
hst season than any other trainer. and for
this reason many persons believe he is
leader. He il a veteran, too, in the ~strictest
sanse of the word, and one Of he best posted
borsemen in the world, He can 60 back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22
REsT FIRsT nAsEMAN.

The question of the best first base
man that ever played was brought up
at one of the many flaming bees" dur
ing the recent American league meet
ing. The opinion was pretty nearly
unanimous that Charles Coniskey was
the greatest ever. He it was who first
combined the duties of the first sacker
and right fielder Commy played a
deeper field than any man who went
before him, and no more recent player
has exceeded him in this respect. He
was death on Texas 1eaguers to right
field and covered a world of ground
around his territory.
"Of modern first basement said one
of the magnates, Il think Harry Davis
of the Athletics IS as fast and heady 4
man as can be pointed out. Never shall
I forget the play I saw him make in a
game with Detroit last season, when
he stole second twice and first base
once.
Never before heard of a man steal
ing first baseg Wen. he did it, ard Il
won the game. The score was q. tie
in the ninth inning. when Hartsel came
to bat. with one out. and drew a base
on balls. The next man was the second
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22

Julie Bonbon" at the Lew Fields
thea-er brings Clara Lipman before the
prDnc as a playwright. She has writ
ten a splendid character role for her
husband, Louis Mann, which combined
with her own diverting personality and
methods, gives the play an opportunity
to win success.
The construction could be improved
on. There IS not always shown strict
regard for the finer points of the drama
builders art. Better stage management
would probably remedy the defects. for
Miss Lipman in many respects has
shown unexpected merit as play
wright For instance, in an otherwise
good scene in a Hungarian restaurant
in New York too much noise and con-
fusion obtain at intervals, and the
climaxes of two of the four acts are, in
a measure. robbed of the effect which
the we'll developed situations suggest.
Less precipitancy of action at the close
of the first and second acts would be
an Improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22

country. Yost started Garrels in the
very first game of the season and kept
him at it until he developed into the
biggest surprise on the Michigan squad
in the Thanksgiving day game.
There is a strong competition for places
on Michigan's gymnasium team for the
four vacant places In the preiimi-
naries the following were left in the
finals. to take place in February
Horizontal Barr H. Atkinson, ".
c. Bulmer and B. A. Baker.
Parallel Bars.-R. H. Atkinson. w. g
Cochrane and ,. A Baker
Side Horse&W. F. Haas, ". c. &C.
mandt and r. II. Atkinson.
Bulmer, Haas and Gemandt are
freshmen.
Michigan will suffer severe loss in
Carrie" CarrOthers, the star right
fielder of the baseball team He has
decided to leave college.
The lads father has engaged in the
oil business in Indian Territory, and
Carrothers win go there to enter the
same field. This viii make the posi-
lions as center, short and right field
surely open to lively competition.
Michigan will not enter any basket
bali team in the Conference league.
There are 1900 men using the gyuna-
SUM regularly, and there is no space in
which to afford practice Michigan
sports seem destined to be limited to
football, baseball and track.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22

Schuyler Van Brunt, the mother, tries
to break off the attachment of her son.
jules broken English is most cap
tivating, ana it is no wonder that Van
Brunt finds his love growing more ar
dent each day. But he has a hard
struggle to consider jules father as a
future member of his family. He visits
the Van Brunt home and, after drink
ing all the wine he can hold fills a
flask of his own, pockets a half box of
cigars conveniently near and confscates
an imported fan. Later he endesvors,
for money to have Julie form an al
lance with a wealthy old bachelor,
Julie, in digust, orders her father to
leave her, but he makes a successful
appeal to remain, saying:
You remember one day fore we Ief
Paris. We walk down street, an you
cry all time for dolly. You cry hard.
1 had only one centine in my pocket,
only one centime in the whole world,
but I spend it to buy you a dolly. an
all time I want a drink so bad
The conclusion Of this speech of the
old topper brings forth a merry laugh
from the audience.
OF course in the end young Van
Brunt and Julie surmount all obstruc-
tions and marry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22
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MICHIGAN ATHLETICS.

It is likely that Norerosss LOngman
and Tom Hammond of the University
Of Michigan. who have played their last
college football, will receive good offers
for coaching for next season. Yosts
proteges have been successful, and
there is a demand for Michigan's style
of play. It is said that Notre Dame is
considering a selection between Nor
cross of Michigan, Catlin of Chicago
and Vanderboom of Wisconsin.
Longman has a good offer to coach in
football and track, while an all around
man like Tom Hammond viii not have
to worry but that offers will come to
him if he wishes to coach.
A report from Columbus states that
Willie Heston and Babe" Carter are
applicants for the position of coach for
Ohio State next fall, as Coach Sweet
land has resigned. Carter denies his
part of it.
1t is not likely that Heston will con-
tinue at Drake next year, as it is a
well known fact that everything has
not been harmonious in Des Moines
since Monilaw was deposed as coach
and Heston put in his place, while
Monilaw was retained as manager.
A new record has just been brought
out for Johnny Garrels, NGichigan's
great all around athlete. During the
football season he played in every game
from start to finish, and not u seconds
time had to be taken out for any in
jury to him.
any member of the big teams in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22

he was an actor" Is there a double
meaning in this remark?
Jeff viii probably play Hamlet
soon to outdo Corbett. Abe Atten says
clever pugilists are artists, so a shift
TO another form of art should not prove
difficult for Jeff. All the champion
would have to do would be to substi-
tute boxing gloves or brass knuckles
for the Hamletian sword and continue
the killing bee.
Cans't imagine Jeffries saying:
TO swat or not to swat.
That is the question.
Whether It's better but to lead him on
And punch his plexus in the eighteenth
round
Or bust his glimmers in the eighth or
ninth
Before the gong doth sound.
Tom Sharkey's ghost, pray. speak to me
And tell me what shouldst be