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is satisfactory. Marshall p Wilder and
Bert Coote are the stars OF the bill, and
they gain the position thru meritorious
work, each in a manner peculiarly his
own.
The show opens with clever work by
the Amoros sisters. One is clad in the
bizarre costume OF the sawdust arena,
but shows considerable diversity of tall
ent by song and dance turn and later
doing some wonderful stunts upon the
trapeze. The other girl in the costume
OF maid, does really clever bit of Jug
Cling with droll touch that pleased the
audience nightly
Rice and Cady. low comedians, made a
big hit with their German act, especially
the business, taken bodily from the old
turn of Weber and Fields. Their act made
tremendous stir in the part of the house
| where the large handed guardian Of the
peace announces the rising of the curtain
with the command Of hats off,
William j. Sullivan and Clarice Pas
quelina German for Maggie Cassidy
| have the old act, the same old screechel
which has convulsed audiences from Los
Angeles to Far Rockaway. Sullivan still
sings tear squeezing ballads in the same
pleasant voice, and Clarice has all o.
the old style of the belle Of Cherry street
| The act Is a howl, but it goes, and 1
/ LElS week passes WltIlOul dCClueulp WI
/ go on forever. 1t is not highly finished
but it Is good, healthy change from thu
Italian tenors who have afflicted Or
pheum audiences In days gone by.
i The Colby family gets away with al
of the applause to which it is entitled Il
a musical turn. the children showing I'm
mistakable ability as entertainers.
i, Bert Coote and company present 81
Lamb on Wall Street." a skit peculiarl
adapted to the peculiar abilities of Coote
1t would take too long to tell how goo
he is. Coote must be seen to be appre
ciated. His support Is excellent
Marshall P. Wilder has a line Of ne'
stories and some Of the old ones upo
which his reputation has been buildet
Wilder Is always good for twenty-min
ute pursuit Of the 'sblue devils" and
living up to his reputation.
Tony Wilson and Heloise, "the bound
ing acrobats," do some sensational ira
pese and somersault work In closing tn
. bill. The kinodrome seeing Boston
film is hardly up to the promise of tn
billmaker. j. II. r
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4 9sa -
The only candidate for governor who
has given the people his personal plat
form up to the present is Senator Samuel
Lord of Kasson, who has represented
Dodge county in the upper house Of the
legislature for eight years. Senator Lord
has refused to make a canvass for the
nomination. and is opposed to any pre-
convention fight. He would have all
delegates go to the convention unin-
structed and cut out ''wIrepulling." In
his statement OF views he stands for
tariff. revision, reciprocity, federal regu-
latton Of corporations, federal supervision
of insurance. abolition of passes to public
officials, enforcement of law economy
without parsimony in managing public
institutions, a comprehensive system Of
state drainage. the taxation amendment
to the constitution, a progressive good
roads policy. laws against discrimination
by railroads in furnishing cars to- ship
pers, election of delegates to conventions
by the primary system, and more eff
|fective bank supervision. There is moth
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Are We Ready for War?

Under the title cts the United
States prepared for ware'' Mr. Frede-:
rick Louis "Huidekoper. makes, in the
current North American Review, some
very pungent criticisms of the policy OF
CONGRESS with reference to the army.
Beginning with the revolutionary war,
which. he claims on the authority OF
Washington himself, was unnecessarily
prolonged by the policy Of short enlist
ments, down to the Spanish-Amerlcan
war, he attempts to show that congress
has been actuatsd all along our history
by. false theory. After every war
it has reduced the regular army to a
skeleton so that during every war re-
course has had to be had to large levies
of militia. Militia have been called
out often without provision for arm
ing, equipping or feeding them. This
was the case in the campaign of 1914.
!. In all 235, 900 men were called out, but
such were the faults Of our organiza-
ton that the utmost strength we could
( put forth on the field Of battle was rep.
resented at Lundy's Lane by less than
5000 men, These facts in regard to
!: organization were very nearly duplicated
st the beginning Of the Spanish.Ameri
can war. -.
Mr.. Huidekoper's point is that not
withstanding the fact we have had one
year of war to every four and a halt
years of peace in our history congress:
has always acted as tho peace were oul
inevitable condition and war something
unlikely and remote. Refusing tt
learn from the mistakes Of the past, il
has repeated and aggravated those mis-
takes from time to time. The policy
has been expensive in men and money
In every little war we had had NOR
militia have been called out than. wer,
needed. The expenses Of feeding
transporting and equipping armies hav
been quadrupled and no one has bene
flied but, thieving army contractors
who sold the government embalme,
beef and powderless bullets.
" may be answered that these mis-
takes belong to the past when we wer
not & world power and when scientif
military establishment was not needed
that they will not be repeated in tn
future. But the fact is they are bein
repeated. The army is already dwin
ding. It has fallen 1000 men belo,
the maximum Of $4,000 men and off
GERS. There is general complaint tina
the number Of officers is insufficient
and the secretary Of war is, appealin
to congress to correct the deficienc,
The army is not taken seriously by COZ
gress or by itself, as is evidenced b
the fact that about 40 per cent of off
GERS from tho grade of captain up, al
not with their commands; that the nal
ing Of cavalrymen out Of recruits, col
fessedly slow process, is largely in tt
hands of second Iieutenants; that til
general staff system has not given tt
results expected Of it because it is sti
hampered by the political organizatio
of the war department.
These are facts not Of the past but /,
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It is beginning to dawn on members
of the state central committee that there
is game being played. They were
given to understand some weeks ago
that on account Of the agitation for an
early convention the committee would
be called together by March 1 to talk
the matter over, and decide on a suitable
date. There was a general feeling that
an early convention would result in
the least amount of friction and ante
convention wirepulling, and would also
give plenty Of time for Organization be-
fore the campaign properly begins.
8 For that reason, chiefly, the early date
did not suit some of our leading states
men. They wanted time to fix up deals.
Joel p. iHeatwole, who Is working the
anti-Nelson fight, wanted. a late conven-
ton in order 70 fix things to prevent a
| Nelson Endorsement. He had a reconcilia-
| ton with R. c.. Dunn, who is said to be
"sore'' at Nelson, in spite Of the senator's
hard fight for him. AS result Of that
meeting 1t is now known that Chairman
Hamlin was called of and thgs COMMITTEE
i is not to be assembled for Some weeks
yet. The conventions IL lthiJ plan holds
will not be held before tie middle OF
June. % %s'st"2s" . 3,.%'.
| This program does not suit a gooG
of them are strong Nelson men, and
others who do not care particularly
about the senator think the convention
should be early for reasons of organiza
ton. ~ ...< -
There is talk among members of tn,
committee Of Joining In a request TO
an early meeting, Such a request, l
signed by a half a dozen or more mem
bers, could hardly be ignored. The com
mittee would then have to settle TIL
I proposition. It might not call an earl.
convention, but it would take a vote an,
lshow its hand on the proposition. -,
Frank M. Eddy states the reasons TO
making an early nomination. He say
the state central committee should b
organized this spring, an executive com
ntttee selected and a campaign planne
in advance. A complete poll list of ever
voter Of the state should be made. 4
} full meeting of the state committe
should be held June Is. The speaking
corps should be selected and route
mapped out before speeches begin, an
the candidate for governor should visi
every county in the state to get &C
quainted before the campaign proper he
| gins Mr., Eddy. might have added tina
county committees should be selected a
the time of the county conventions, S
the state committee could get in irnme
date touch with the local workers. I
the present disorganized condition Of tn
party, organization means a great dea
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the present. They may carry the seed
Of calamity of the future. The
United States has not recently had the
humiliation of defeat in open battle in
foreign war, but we are not immune.
The British regular army was beaten
by the Beers and very likely if we had
had Beers to face in Cuba we should
have been beaten at first also.
There is no irreconcilable conflict in
this country between the advocates and
the opponents of standing army.
They are talking only about things
relative. There is a basis upon which
they can meet-that> Of an army not
extravaganza in numbers, but thoroly
equipped for instant service.
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The Death of John A. Mccall.

The death Of John A. Mccall, late
president Of the New York Life Insur-
ance company, is reported as due to en-
largement of the liver. But undoubted-
ly whatever physical complaint carried
off Mr.. Mccall was aggravated by his
mental disturbance over the position
of his affairs. After his expulsion
from the presidency of the company an
investigating committee reported that
either he or Hamilton or both owed the
New York Life large sums in addition
to those. acknowledged by Mccall.
Proceedings to recover these sums
would soon have been taken, and as
Hamilton is safely housed abroad, the
| brunt Of the financial assault would
have fallen on the former president of
the company. 49,. +. . r ~: sS.s ~, :,
! Mr.. MCCALL died protesting he had
wronged no man. Allowing for him
the best Of motives and admitting that
he did not consciously wrong anyone,
it is still evident that the system of
(which hewas part wronged many peo-
pie and wronged them grievously.
mccall was partly an originator of the
system Of Wall street insurance, but
in the end he became its victim. The
system grew too. large for: him. Tho
operations became vaster than anything
he ever contemplated. The Morgans,
Ryans, Perkinses stepped in and took
possession, and Mccall became their
bewildered and frightened messenger.
When the exposure came he was no
longer useful even in that capacity, and
the system sent him as sacrifice to
the Minotaur. s~-z. -. ., 3D.. ~
! The death Of Mccall, the collapse OF
. McCurdy, the flight of Hyde, all pawns
) in the game, do not affect the standing
of the insurance problem. The rea
question is still alive It is how tt
) reach the inner circle and slay the sys
p. tenn Mr.. Lawson believes it is to b.
t done by collecting proxies and taking
: possession of the companies. The legis
! lature believes 1t can be done by pass
: ing laws regulating insurance. Mr.
Cleveland thinks it all depends upol
, him as an umpire. Laws will help
! honest naturalization will help and com
plete publicity with decent inspection
will do most Of all. It must not be for
gotten that the Beers regime in TIN
. New York Life was followed by tn
Mccall regime. If the Mccall regim
:. is not to be followed by somethin!
:. worse the root Of the evil must b
:. sought in the mysterious connectio:
3 between Wall street and the companie
y and that root must be, cut off.
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The Salary Question.

Thomas L. James, who was post
master Of New York and, postmaster
general, in the cabinet of President Gar
field. argues for larger salaries for the
hired men Of Uncle: Sam on the ground
that they are below, in many cases, the
amounts which the same men could
earn in private employment. He cites
the case of a member of the federal
bench, a circuit judge, who resigned q q.
$4,000 salary and made as much in the
following year as the government paid
him during his term Of office.
This was, no doubt, an exceptional
case. The leaders Of the bar are sell
dom picked for judgeships because It IS
known in advance that their services
cannot be had. But competent men are
obtained to whom the salary with the
assurance Of an old-age pension is allur-
ing. An income of $4,000 or $500
wear net is better than the average
earnings Of the class Of lawyers from
whom United States judges are picked.
The retiring pension makes the position
doubly attractive, since it removes all
thought Of anxiety for that period when
the lawyer in private practice begins
to realize that his powers are waning
and his clients disappearing. ri
+ But what may be true Of judgeshlps
and other offices with retirement and
old-age pension attachments is not nee
essarily true Of positions that make no
| provisions for the GRANNY day. " The
government is handicapped all the time
in trying to get competent men to DO
things that require expert knowledge
because private employers outbitd 1t.
/ The present congress has also taken
up the question Of providing embassies
for the United States abroad. This
appears to be justifable and necessary
expenditure Of public money. 1t
serves to advance the United States to
the rank it claims to hold in the com.
mercial world and it relieves the am
bassadors from the obligation OF pay
ING office rent for the government
There is no Justification for compelling
man who accepts an ambassador
ship to pay the expense of the office, ne
more than there would be for asking
the secretary Of state to fit up and pay
rent upon an office in Washington II
which to transact the business Of thu
state department.
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NO SUPERIOR
litor Of Thu journal.

To the Editor of The. Journal.
| have waited some time TO say any
thing about the excellence Of The Sunday
Journal, because have wondered wheth-
,er Its high standard would be kept up
right along, and after several months OF
reading The Sunday journal wish to
say that no. city In the United States
has a superior Sunday paper. 1t some
times seems as II we need two copies
OF 1t In our family. ri. A. HerrIck,
Publisher The Tribune, Pennington, MINI.
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ssDoes this bow know the nature Of

Does this boy know the nature Of an
oath?" asked the Judge. He not only
knows its nature. Z replied the lawyer,
'.but he can give you It's genesis and its
exodus, can divide it into It's component
parts. add IT, subtract it and make II
play a tune. His father is a personal tax
assessor
Let him be sworn" said the judge In
deep, resonant voice
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-19

The democratic candidate for mayor of
Greater Pittsburg claims he is a Roose-
Welt democrat The republican, candi-
date says he Is a Roosevelt republican.
Party lines are purely imaginary anyway.
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Kansas Citys city chemist has had his
pay raised and will secure an assistant
and go to work on the foods offered for
sale in the city. The city council got
tired Of waiting for the United States
senate to act. E
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Lobbyists have been making complaint
of the Ohio legislature. every one of
the members" railroad lobbyist COM
planned, SIS honest. If you were, to give
the poorest one of them 100000. the first
thing he would do would be to expose you
on the floor of the house." A dishonest
legislator is very unpopular just now.
And he knows it.
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The railroads of Ohio threaten to give
the 2-cent law makers 2-cent serv-
lice. There are always ways Of getting
even with the public clalmor. .
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Mr.. Heinze is glad to get that s25,000,-
900 for his mining property. A few mil,
lions always come in handy at the first
of the month when the bills are due
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The senior class in g. Massachusetts
high school voted to forego the usual
class day exercises and a part Of the ex-
penses of graduation and to invest the
money in a visit to the city Of Washing
ton. The argument is that such a, trip
would be more educational than saving
the country by orations. - i :
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It seems that N. Longworth is leading
a double life. He was paired with a
member Of the house before being paired
with member Of the White House.
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Congressman Mann of Chicago Is at
home trying to explain the attempted
mileage grab Of two years ago. 1t is pos
sible Mr.. Mann has no newer offenses
to answer for?
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Hearst talk for governor Is so strong
in New York that many people are be-
ginning to think that possibly the Yellow
Boy may yet be, the Father Of a New
Era Wouldn't that surprise you?
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Someone is annoying Detroit, Mich,
with prophecies Of a million population.
This includes the Bornean villages in
the st. Clair river.
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The vindication of Pat Grove by E
jury is not enough. He should be elected
to the city<council. WY y
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a professor in the east Is giving In
struetion on How to become charming
conversationalist." Money Is about the
easiest talker We know.
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n Chicago people are mildly interested
in food show at the Coliseum, which
shows how they are being drugged and
poisoned. iii
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The ship subsidy bill easily passed the
senate. The idea Of giving something to
big corporations or companies strikes the
senate as decidedly .'the thing
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Perhaps Mr.. Lodge prefers the Esch-
townsend enc =. bill because it was hyphen-
ated; such a reminder of dear old, 1un-
non. .,r;-.e, e.g Is iT% ts
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Attorney General Hadley of Missouri
says he has made out his case against
the Standard Oil company. Maybe this
is why John D. Rockefeller ran away
and hid. &
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The Warsaw Zapadnyzoolos has sus-
pended publication. 1t takes too long for
a zapadnyzoolos to come out. %-1
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Friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ntchcsas
Longworth who, as you may have no
ticed, were married last week, gave them
a 'tshivaree'' at 2 am. We regret to re-
port that Mr.. Letter, who organized it,
was not shot in the leg. film j
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Reform sentiment has taken strong
hold in West Virginia and is threatening
Mr.. Elkins' seat in the senate. A state
with Elkins over it naturally gets UNI
easy
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Minnesota Politics

Members Of State Central Committee
May Ask Chairman to Call Meeting
to Give Chance for Early Convention
caII--RalIroad and Warehouse Com
mission subordInates Discouraged from
Running for Office. ss.,..; ~
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Athens, Ohio. is the town which has
repudiated General Charles Henry Gros-
venor. It was an Athens which re-
1ected Aristides and hernlocked Socrates
Pure, unadulterated virtue has never had
g. chance in Athens. ~. G*37s
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orpheun,-Modern vaudevllle.

Better balance and a wider variety of
entertainment is offered at the Orpheum
this week. There Is nothing highly SEN
sational in any line, but the whole show
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Mr.. Balfour has changed his policy.
He finds that the s"open mind" let in
too much hot air.
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Russia s war cost 1888, 100000 and was
8. rattling good mill while ut lasted.
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In e delirium and That she never really
left New York. This opinion 10 in part
confirmed by her confession regarding
the trees. They are New, York trees
she describes. and it was q New York
court. she broke into on the other shore.
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the charges against the leaders are true,
has mistaken It's proper location. Its
tendencies are all pro- Russian.
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Ex-P President Mccall OF the New York
Life is dead and is probably glad oft.
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