The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1912, Page 4

ESTA Main 94) THE SEATTL PTWhat Candidate? What Party? In a public hearing in New York, August Belmont frankly ed that he had bought a street railway franchise for 72,000 and then sold it to the subway company for $1,500,000, difference between the two sums being the profit, or com- mission, of August Belmont & Co., bankers. Belmont said he regarded the transaction as perfectly , because the subway company had to have the franchise | Question in order to build its line, and he was entitled to Mand all he considered it to be worth, on that basis, ~The public, Belmont admitted, had not known of this huge “€ommission collected by him for his services in the transaction which’ sum was, of course, subsequently squeezed out of the “public by the subway company. “The public,” declared Belmont, in his testimony, “were in it. They had nothing to do with it.” *Nothing to do with it”—but every tired shop girl, every -paid clerk who gives his nickel for a ride in the crowded, subway, gives part of that nickel to aid in paying August nont’s $1,228,000 commission on the purchase and sale of hise that the subway company needed. What political party, and what candidate, will demand the ment of laws that will punish this sort of robbery of the by the Morgan-Belmont-Ryan gang of privileged “finan- That party, and that candidate, are sorely needed in of- and in power, _ Henri Bernstein, one of whose plays was hissed and hooted R of one of the great Parisan theatres, is now the idol of the on the great boulevards. i ~ Doubtless recollecting that he has written thirteen plays} » and for stage trickery that some of them displayed, even in a poor En; translation, you are certain that Bernstein has at- h wonderful drama in which modern French life is mor- analyzed and revealed. The great triumph of the playwright does not consist in plays, in his dramatic talent, but in pants. hed all records. He has 147 pairs of trousers-—count ‘em, Varicties—al! colors, all shapes, all designs—and a valet What is mere literature compared with such a sartorial ph? Which have been produced, the marvelous sense for the theatre tained esent altitude of popularity in the Paris cafes by sen rong, all wrong! Every dandy in Paris is mad with envy, for Henri has does nothing else but look after them tein’s Pants hy ' ANYHOW, it is not unconstitutional to get drunk. CLEVER Eastern writers are certainly ‘d Cocktail” as if they liked it. TACOMA editor observes that he would as soon have a ktail named after him as a foul smelling cigar. going to that RE EIVERS and attorneys in the bankrupt Western Hl concern drew down $40,000, while part of the legitimate or claims went unpaid. GIFFORD PINCHOT declares he’s under-assessed in f ton and adds $600 to his taxes. How many million- ‘property owners does this action remind you of? SOUNDS like a bargain counter sale: Ledgers just found in give outlay of Columbus, for entire expenses of trip he discovered us, that is, America, as only 36,000 or $7,200. A SON of the late President Benjamin Harrison is in Se- t, enjoying the Potlatch with brother Elks. It's fine to be ous man’s son in some ways, but those sons say its ty hard to get up any reputation for themselves. IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL ‘The Star: 1 was much in- ed in the article by Joe Smith Star of ith inst. I had to see a response by others. to say that his views in the coincide with those of at one voter. It seems to me there is no occasion for any le shows; the issues in this cam- are too important—the most it since 1860. With Wilson md Taft in the field the lines are rly drawn as pointed out in The 3113 King St. LITICAL GOSSIP FROM THE APITAL BY GILSON GARDNER BY GILSON GARDNER (Washington Correspondent of The Star.) WASHINGTON, July 13,—-Following the action of the house in the bald case, it is now regarded as quite probable that similar action be taken in the case of Judge Cornelius H. Hanford of Seattle. Subcommittee of the house judiciary committee is now in the West testimony. Reports which have reached congress indicate that testimony in the Hanford case is more convincing and at the same more shoeking even that that in the case of Judge Archbald. There is another reason, however, why congress is moving #0 easi- and rapidly for the impeachment of these judges. The tmpeachment as a remedy for judicial evils is itself om trial. Last fall Prest- Taft stated in a public speech that he was opposed to the recall judges for the reason that there exists a good and adequate remedy The nomination of Wilson elim!- nated all necessity for a third party. Taft's administration has been a repetition of the administra tion of Buchanan. Wilson stands practically where Lincoln stood in 1860. 1 voted for Lincoln then, and have voted for every republican candidate for president since; but in this coming election, if I live to cast my ballot, shall vote for Wil son, for the same reason that I voted for Lincoln in 1960. LEVI WRIGHT, corruption or misfeasance in office in the impeachment process, | who believe in the recall of judges were prompt in their answer the impeachment remedy had in the past been invoked in vain, Of the half-dozen times during the last hundred years when it has been in- , it has succeeded in only two cases, In other words, only two have been removed out of all the thousands of judges sitting and actions have been called in question in other ways. When the Archbald case arose, those who demanded this judge's Smpeachment found, to their great surprise, that President Taft was red to give them cordial support. He instructed Attorney General ersham to use the department of justice in gathering testimony, word was passed along the line that administration members of ‘ess should do all possible to forward the impeachment proceedings. majority of the judiciary committee was democratic, but it is doubt- whether the action against Archbald could have been carried tn the had it not been for the combination between th administration republicans. This resulted in pract It is this condition which makes {t probable ¢ will follow the same lines. To what extent the same influences will prevail in the senate re to be seen. the democratic members of that body, Judge ven @ short trial and a quick conviction, and Hanford will go the same It is confidently expeeted by the administration's friends that two es will then afford a telling argument during the presiden ia wainst the cardinal principle of progressiviam—the recall ‘ igen, at the Hanford The Privilege of Age The Old 'Un—Yessir, when I was a boy, I caught many a fine mess If President Taft's sitpporters in the senate combine | Archbald will be | MODERN METHODS, SMART BOY THAT. Professor—If you were called to) attend a business man suffering from @ nervous breakdown, what would be your first step toward making a diagnosis of his case? Student—I'd look him up in Brad- street's, “"R RIERY SITUATION e S! Whitaker-—Joe Whacker's boy ie sure a studious chap. Toby Hines—Yas, sir, he can memortze a mail order catalogue ta one alght. A QUIK LUNCH, ooe— “Made you" eat your words, did her “L refuse to resign under fire.” “You, and there was no Fletcher. “Then you'll get fired without re-jism about it; he made me eat them signing.” tright off.” FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS, “T can't keep visitors from coming up,” said the office boy dejectedly to the editor, “When I say you're out they don't believe me, They say that they must see you.” “Well,” said the editor, “just tell them that's what they all say, 1 don't care if you ‘cheek’ them, but I muat have quietness.” ‘That afternoon a lady called at the offfee. She wanted to see the editor, and the boy assured her that it was impossible. “But I must see him!" she protested. “I'm his wife,” “That's what they all say,” replied the boy, And now a new boy is wanted there. LET’S HAVE IT. An early campaign orator was addressing a small crowd over on the South Side the other evening. “This high cost of livitg is a serious question,” he bawled. Nobody disputed that. “It's a great question,” yoctferated the orator, “a very serious ques tion, Indeed.” “We koow it's @ question,” yelled a man at this point. “Whaf's the answer?"—Pittsburg Post. IT DEPENDS. “tow long has your husband's sult for damages been going on?” “Lat me seo, I think it te eleven years.” “Kleven years! Does it take that long to get a lawsuit settled?” “Yea, when you can find a lawyer who is willing to fight om for what he can get out of it at the end.”—Chicago Record-Herald, THE DRINKER’S ATTITUDE. Mra. Nettle Kibby, the brillant conductor of the Sons of Temperance, said in an Independence Day address some years ago in Worcester a of moderate drinking: moderate drinker’s attitude seems to me most foolish and iMogical. Doesn't the moderate drinker say Just this: “'As long as I find I can stop, I won't stop; but as soon as I find I can’t stop, I willl’ "--Minneapolls Journal, HUBBY WINS BOTH WAYS Doctor—Mrs, Kaagg, your husband needs six months’ rest. Half of it he must spend in Europe. Mra. Knagg—Ohb, splendid! 1 shall be delighted to go there. Doctor—That's what I've planned. You can go for three months after he returns. That will give bim « full six months’ rest.—Boston Transcript. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE 'S THAT FIFTY POUNDS iy IN TRAINING. Paul Rainey, while showing privately in New York the wonderful $s matograph pictures of his American lion hunts, told an amusing ion story “A man,” he said, “sat before his tent, when a magnificent Hon stif- fened for the spring, leaped, and—missed the man, miased him by Jump- ing three feet too high. It then slunk back into the forest, looking thoroughly ashamed. oft in this here pond. yi Young ‘Un—Yessir, an’ when I get old, I'll say I did, too, | “The next day the man came unexpectedly on the lon by a stream, It had up-ended a log of wood, and was practicing low jumps,"—Columbas Dispatch, Seeeeteeeeee RELIEVING HIS EMBARRASS- MENT, “Do you boll your water before drinking?” “Well” “Pardon mo, | mean would you bot it if you drank itt” “What ts the ‘white man's burden, } “Alimony, my ehitd." “Pass key 17 at th’ Geeleysport House has quite a history. it’s traveled all over th’ United States, an’ jest now they’er waitin’ fer it ter be sent back from Winnepeg. In th’ meantime guests assigned ter that room have ter use th’ tran- som.” ’ Popularity. One_of the first things & man who intends to be popular must learn ts to play to the gallery. Chicago Record-Herald. Reasonably Sure. “Are you in favor of government ership?” ‘Moat emphatically yes.” "Very wi T guess you're not concealing any bonds that you ought to be paying taxes on. I'm the assessor.”"——Chicago Record Herald. The Plant in His Garden. “Ie that plant I see In your gar- den a perennial or an annual?” “Neither. Is « fatlure,”"— Answers, London. TOeTTTCCTerT re. +f) * * *& Getting E Little Mary's fi had deo * nied her a pleasure which she © had confidently expected to ® enjoy. That night when she * said her prayers at her * mother’s knee, she goncluded & with this petition: * “And, God, please don't give ®& my papa any more children. & He don't know how to treat ® those he's got now.”-~Harper’s * Magazine. * * * RARER EKER In Dreams. "I know Charley enjoyed being a delegate at the convention,” said young Mrs. Torkins. “How?” “I heard him talking In his sleep and some of the language he used was exactly the same as that which he employs at a baseball game,”— Washington Evening Star, Cut 'Em Small. “Shall we give samples of cloth to women who are thinking of ordering bathing costumes?" “I guess so, but cut ‘em small, We don’t want ‘em to use the sam- ples to make the suit,"—New Or leans Picayune, Sure to Lo “Pa, what is a betting on Taft.”—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Why Samson “‘And when Delilah cut Samson's make you feel ‘woman cuts your hair."—~Harper’s Magazine. SAY, HOW’S HASN’T A FUNNY-BONE IN HER ANATOMY! Madame Gertha Kalish, emotional actress, who is at the Orpheum in Light From St. Agnes,” is abso- lutely and positively without @ funny bone, She takes her-lif very being se Almoat a pained look crept into mo Kalish'’s face when she) ‘ked to tell some of her lighter expertences of the stage. “There are no light incidents, positively none,” she sald, “It is) work and hard work always, but) the reward fa there If the people appreciate the effort and are better for it and love me for it.” Then, with ju race of @ pretty accent of her native tong ing in ocoasionally, Madan told of her rise from a poor Polish Jewish peasant to one of the bright eat emotional stars of the American stage. 1 was born for the theatre,” she said, “When a mere child in Lem- bers, Poland, I started to sing and act. I was an opera winger at first and appeared at the Bukarest theatre in Dom Blanche, the Gypsy Baron and Carmen. After I was married | came to this country with my parents and husband, 19 years ago, We lived In the Ghetio in New York and I took up drama. 1 was stfi unable to speak English and during the years | appeared at the Yiddish theatre there I picked up but a few words. And then one day my husband came and said That George Fawcett bad noticed my eee TaeSeriadfeDoy SHSSHSH SSH SSHHOSHOHOOOHR OOH HOO OD idea, but Mr t had me say [a number of English words, told me 11 could soon talk the tongue, gave | me # part and told to prepare for a week's - nent three weeks hence. “1 prepared, but no one will ever know the work | went through. My dated from that engage it was extended over s and ‘then managers flocked about me and, under the ment of Jacob Adier, | ap- At first the Yid- into my speech, but | was gratified to see t public soon failed to not the work of the p: itweif. that day to this | have wor! engag |studied hard to get the la | / | a) RTHA KALISH, work and wanted me to appear in an Eighth avenue theatre in an English drama. We laughed at the === ¢ IT AIN’T NO USE BETTIN ON THE OTHER * ° POSH HH HS SOOOOOE BY THE JUNIOR OFFICE BOY B. ¥., Jooly, 18.—theres just as many hicks to the squair foot in hew york as there is in chillycothe, | ohio } and a wise guy can put the! cleaner on the new york hicks a biame site easier than on the) chillycothe hicks, because the) ew york hicks dont know they are hicks, in chillycothe a feller i» all the time looking for somebody to slip) sumthing over on him, but in new) york they think It cant be did « boobs that hangs out fn @ bighball foundry up on/ 42nd street found out different the, uther day 4 or & of the regler gang wan) setting around shekin dice and kiddin the bartender when a guy! tm that Jokes like a trav-| elin corn dockter, with a bill bryan} het and a long black coat and hair) hangin down on his coller drink for the crowd, with evryboddy,| ® fancy line of! bout being bandy man| mind reader it a theayter why, he sos, after he gets them for the big) do touts that) befoar, gentle Hear One fellow er taxes.” Another fe FELLER’S GAIM, SAYS JOHNY jof harts, the stranger not touchin o } OOOCSTOHHCOH OO OOO to draw « card from a deck, and/ call bim up on the telefone, he could tell you what is the card 4w, slip that to sweeney, ses one of the gong, nix on the dock cook stuff, old pal | all rite? ses the guy, fle just bet you from 20 to 60 dollers the pro-| fexser can do it, and ive got the} money in my clothes | well, the crowd they cant see no/ easier way to pick up 60 than that, and they dig up the dough and} cover the feller's bet now git your own cards, he ses, and sumboddy draw one #o they got a deck from the bar- keep, and a feller drawed the jack | the cards now, ses the misterious gink, if any one of youse will jdst call u perfesser brown, at harlem 1366, and ask what card has been drawed, he will tell you , then he lites a segar and tipps back in his chare and winks at the barkeeper, who is holdin the stakes | well, these ducks they dont) hardly know whether they are coming or going. they dont see how it can be pulled off, but yet they dont just like the way that feller! oe back and hands them the happy ce so the bartender goes to the fone, and he calls up the number, and he aske for perfesser brown, and be age perfectly, anywhere from 12 to 16 hours a day have | worked at it, and 1 really enjoy it if the resulte please the people. You cannot pay me a higher compliment than to say that you understand perfectly what | say on the stage. “I consider my greatest success from an artistic standpoint, Monnm vanna by Maeterlinck, but er in which I got a distinet the public was Marta in the ‘Kreutzer So: 4 “I am appearing in vaudevill not for the money, as many sup pose,” said Madame Kalish, “but for the reason that I can reach far more people with my message from the stage in this way, and I con- sider it both a duty and a pleasure to give up my summers to that work. If I have the art, as so many of the good people say I have, l owe it to them to let them enjoy. the benefit of it.” Bertha Kalish {s her maiden name. Her busband’s name is Leo pold Spachner and he conducts @ Yiddish theatre on the Bowery ia New York. They have one daugh- ter. AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Thurlow Bergen Players in “The Virginian.” Metropolitan — Wolgast - Rivers fight pictures Coliseum—Athletic smoker for soldiers 4 sailors. Seattie—Dark. Orpheum— Vaudeville. Em —V pictures. Clemmer—Photoplays and vauw ‘Photoplays and vau- ses, perfesser, tell us wot card did the feller draw just now the jack of harts, my friend, comes the answer the barkeep hands the 100 buck to the perfesser's pal, who ses goodby, glad i met you, and beats it how do you think they done it gee, its simple as anything, yet it mite take you quite a spell to dope it out, blame if i beleave f could, if sumboddy hadent of told me the perfesser always has the same telefone number, but a dif ferent name for evry card in the deck if the feller had of drawed the 2 of spades, he would have been told to ask for perfesser murphy, and all lke that 4 and yet { supose there will always be ginks that will bet on the uther — feller's game jobny bout ned to Jim? Jim stampeded the convention. “We got up and said: llow got up and said: higher wages.” Then Jim got up and they wanted to elect him President. What did Jim say? Jim said:— “We want CLIMAX "The Grand old Chew” want low- “We want