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I 10 GOODWIN'S VBBKL.Y.
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H I Ogden, Utali, May 23, 1902.
H Once upon a Lime there lived a man
H I whose only, claim to the consideration of
H : future generations is that he said some-
H f thing. lie said "the American people like
H '-! to be humbugged," and he lived to prove it
H f with his circus.. His name was Barnum.
H I Since his day his epigrammatic classic has
H , been tried on the dog by every sort of fakir
H and bunco-steerer that the county could pro-
D duce. Every state, every county, every city,
H" has its Barnum. The particular fakir who
: thrives here is a splendid type of political
H j I bunco-steerer. He has made a life-long
H V study of Barnum. His name is Glasmann.
H i
H ;i Unless an old dog has new tricks he
H' ceases to be an interesting cur. Unless a
H ji fakir can keep the public mind attentive
to a constantly changing programme there
HI" is danger of the fakir becoming a chestnut.
Hi Wherefore I say that fakir Bill has
H i earned a place on the right hand of Barnum.
U lias he not played the people of Ogden for
H ji a lot of suckers and the editors down the
H fif State for a bunch of monkeys in his alleged
Hf retirement from the Standard? How the
Hi: fakir-editor-manager winked the other eye
HI.;; as he read, and republished, the "farewell
H. notices" from country contemporaries in
Hi'' which the fakir was held up as a model of
HI . honesty and integrity! But the fake pro
Hi L ceed.
H 'j
H i Bill said a California Bank had his
H ,, Standard stock in soak and they refused to
H M release the paper to him so he had to re-
H S" tire. It was a pathetic story raw in spots
Hi but the people like to be humbugged and
H i Bill knows what the people like. Of course
H y the Standard did not change its policy it
H ' still exhaled the Bill odor when comes the
announcement, through the Standard, that
IBill had obtained his own consent to a
morning paper with the Associated Press
franchise, and lo! the fakir-editor-Mayor is
about to blossom (stinkweed) in the field of
journalism. Herein is the fake; and, if the
people propose to continue nursing a hum
bug, the fake will prosper.
H ; i There is about as much danger of BUI
HI starling a morning paper in opposition to
H 1 1 the Standar "i as there is that the hair of an
H J I honest man will j?row in the palm of his
H'J fi hand. The whole thing is a big bluff only
H I I the people of Ogden will not wake up till
H I Bill gets away with it. It is well known
Hjl ! that the Standard has to send its morals to
HI B the laundry occasionally in order, to appear
H'fl decent while paying expenses and if two
H tt papers are to manage it they will have to
H H do with the candidates as the old darkey did
HI wittl n's fam0lls raDbit trap "catch 'em
HJ comin' catch 'em goin.'" Between the
Hl Standard and the Sun, the poor candidates
Hit can take their choice of a hold up in the
1 evening or a roast in the morning.
Bm If Bill publishes another paper that
B means an evening and morning edition from
IHt the same stalT and off the same plant His
purpose is first a piece of money. He
probably figures on selling out one paper
to eilher ihe Kearns-Smoot syndicale or the
Democrats. So he is taking time by the
forelock to be in the field when the time is
ripe to humbug the people comes round, ne
may have anothr purpose in view. If so his
object is to undermine the prestige and
business of the Standard so that the stock
holders will be brought face to face with a
paper that is losing money the result is
supposed to be that the buncoed stockhold
ers will say$ "nere Bill, take the stock
you are the only man who can make the
paper pay we won't stand for any assess
ments. By these means it is not improbable
that even a fakir would justify his grand
stand bluff and the people would acclaim
him from the house tops. Verily, he is the
greatest since Barnum.
The Standard in an editorial (mailed
from New York) on Wednesday gave Bill
and his proposed paper another column ad.
The pity of it all is that there are 1 hose who
really believe that Bill is not the, present
manager of the Standard. That belief will
be perpetuated for the reason that when on
expose is made the fakir-editor-Mayor will
immediately kick up a big dust in some
other quarter and the dear public will
again do the everlasting humbug act. And
don't fear about Bill's resources. He will
keep the people staring into the grand
stand even if he has to dress Fred Chambers
up in cap and bells and placard his expres
sive back with the inscription "Manager of
the Ogden Standard."
i
The really pathetic feature of it all is
that Fred stands for it,
M M.
To Councilman Hendershot: Permit
me to say that the people look 'to you for ,
putting Lester park into a seasonable and
attractive condition. I won't say anything
more about it now, but Flavins look after
that park.
If I do not say anything about the
Smoot candidacy for the Senate, it is be
cause there is nothing to say till next week.
Reed will have to explain why his announce
ment was followed by a May frost. It is be
Meved here that when Kearns said he took
no stock in Smoot's declaration it was only
one of his Irish bulls.
A Startling Production.
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struggle she turns from the old ways and
devotes herself to the service of the one who
thus regenerates her. She turns also from
the one who saved her from the mob and
therein lies a dramatic story of passion. It
is all very human. It is scarcely different
in its vital elements from "A Modern Mag
dalen" in which Miss Amelia Bingham is
now appearing, and I think there will be
just a little thrill over the man Christ, when
he is shown as one upon whom a woman's
spiritual love is bestowed.
Judas Iscariot appears as the deliverer
of Mary and afterwards in very human
guise as one who hates "the Master" who
deprived hiin of the love of a woman. Judas
is drawn in broad lines that pay no heed to
the Biblical tradition of a bribe with thirty
pieces of silver. He is a Hebrew patriot,
one who is fired with the traditions of his
race, who believes in the ancient prophecies
of the coming of a Messiah to make the
Israelites supreme throughout the earth,
and who longs to give his life to the cause.
He is not a man of peace and humility. His
ambition is not for an Israelite kingdom in
which long suffering and love for enemies
shall be ruling characteristics. His dream
is of a martial Israel which shall inarch
over its enemies and grind them as they
have ground his people.
This proud man has been drawn to the
standard of "the Master" in the belief that
in time this visitor is to throw off his cloak
of humility, overthrow the Romans and lead
Israel to battle. He fumes under the re- I
straints put upon him and finally turns in
bitterness against the one to whom he had
given allegiance. His anger finds vent when
this "Master" takes from him the woman
whose love he craves and he turns and de
nounces the Christ as a false prophet and
helps to feed the malignity of the crowd.
It is all very daring thus to build a
drama about the life of Christ, 'it is in con
sonance, however, with the march of the
liberal theologians. One by one they are
tearing up the traditions that have been the
bulwark of the Christian church. They
have been making plainly human all the
persons whom we had invested with spiritu
al natures so potent that they were awful to
contemplate. To present Christ as one who
might be the object of a very human jeal
ousy, will certainly be a stride past their
furthest advances, but it will be no more
than mathematical progression applied to
their own ideas.
In "The Eternal City" the Pope will be
presented in fashion that will cause discus
sion. A Pope with a son, even though that
son were born before he entered the priest
hood, is a conception worthy of Mr. Hall
Caine's daring. Just before his novel was
published Mr. Caine said to a friend, "My
book will be out soon. I am going to Nor
way for a few months. You know there are
no newspapers there." He knew he was
bound to provoke a lot of criticism and
Liebler & Co., his managers, and Miss Allen
are fully aware of the chances of adverse
judgment in their stage venture. The
strongest scenes of the book will be in the
play and in one of them the Pope will be
the dominant figure. Liebler & Co., depend
upon the great heart interest and the digni
ty of the character to mak it acceptable to
Catholics.
If nothing else should develope during
the next theatrical season, and there is
small chance of anything startling, these
two plays will make history on the Ameri
can stage. Their success will be bound, to
- have a marked effect upon the relations of
the drama to matters of religion.