Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 37, 18 December 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIV3I AXD SUX TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18,

CRIMES COMMITTED IN NAME OF THE LAW

Innocent Men Suffer, as Illustrated in "Philip Steele." American Political Life Pictured in "His Rise to Power."

Police, and In arctic snows and baking I

heat has marvelous adventures.

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Its a wild life they lead, these i in8 and its attendant crimes, "because

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE

A constant Btream of novels issues from the publishers' presses. Some good, many mediocre, less few indifferent, others bad. The majority of them are well written. For a surprisingly large number of people nowadays write well technically well. But very few with pens dipped in the fire and gall of genius. There are three classes of novels attempted by many American writers. MoBtly with suc:e8B so far as interest is concerned. One the detective story, the other of adventure, the third the story of American politicB. "HIb Rise to Power" by Henry Russell Miller, (the Bobbs-Merrill Company) author of "The Man Higher Up." is one of the latter. The scenario, the mise en scene, the caste of the novel is very much that of Its sort the small town with its court-house square, "big" house in which generally lives the hero, or heroine In this case the hero the local "bOBseB," the magnate engaged in questionable speculation, the senator controlling business and politics, the young man with ideals and ambitions gradually succumbing to the rules of the game, the daughter of the magnate, always a glorious creature with hair running to red-gold, who returns to her native habitat spoiled for its provincialisms but not cosmopolitan enough for other triumphs, the gentle cynic, the Bhrewd spinster, In this instance, the maiden aunt, the love affair between the glorious creature and the ambitious young man with ideals, and the village characters who help to swell the chorus. "New Chelsea," the scene of the action of "Mb Rise to Power." might be Winchester, or Rushvllle, or Gallipolis, or, perhaps, some town farther east, but wherever its location, it is typically American. "John Dunmeade," Us hero, is a purely American type. With an attractive personality, best blood of the section In his veins, a college education, mentality above the average, courageous, honest, Idealistic, he Is elected district attorney despite the enmity of the county machine controlled by the Senator, who an old friend of the family, and, admiring Dunmeade'B embryonic qualities as a "useful" politician, had been turned down by the young district attorney, when he had made the latter the offer of the office on certain conditions. The fact that Dunmeade was elected on his own "reform" platform and on his own personal campaigning initiative gives him confidence in the practicability of his political philosophy and determines the Senator to either attach him to his entourage or kill him politically. The story tells the title of these two but the supreme interest lies in the limning of the figure of the Senator a masterpiece In ia way, and in his final placing of the hero in the Governor's -halr of their state "his rise to power." It Is In the expression of the political philosophy of Senator Murehell, however. In which the chiefest Interest of the book consists and its demonstration in giving the hero an opportunity to exploit his theories theories trimmed, cut, pulled, to fit Into the frame of his office. In .reply to Dunmeade'B statement

that the Senator's "organization" must be "smashed, because it exists to de

prive the people of the right of self

government." the Senator says: "The people won't want to govern themselves. They can't. Popular government is a farce, a dream of the mlllenlum, an Ideal, Impracticable. The men that founded this nation didn't want, didn't prepare for popular government. "I'm what you call a boss. Sentimentalists gag at the name rather than the fact. But the boss la a logical evolution. He Is the fly-wheel that gives stability of government and makes possible industrial development." Referring to the turning down, of the young district attorney when he

ran for re-election, the gentle cynic

says "Do you suppose there's an intelligent man in the state who doesn't know that you have as much brains

and capacity for government and far j more character than Murehell or any . of his tribe? Yet they turn you down j

for them. Why? Because they represent the people. You don't. Ninety-

nine out of a ".undred men, all over j the nation, have a pretty clear notion j of what's going on in politics and gov-1 ernment, and they have a rudimentary social instinct that tells them it is wrong. Sometimes that incipient :

sense gets them interested in a reform but the interest lasts only for about one campaign. Just as you have found it. We don't really care. We don't want things changed. Because politics as it is, exactly represents the national and personal ideals of the people. The trouble is we are living in a social state when we can't think, much less feel, socially." "Play the game as you find it, make yourself a despot. And when you have your power use it to win compromises from the other strong ones, and to give the people just as much as they are able to use and enjoy. Among a selfish people only a supreme, practical egoist can lead. Selfishness is the only thing they understand, therefore it is the only thing they will follow." The book is one, which, while it will soon be forgotten, will be pulled off the dusty shelf a hundred or more years hence and reprinted as an accurate picture of the life of its day.

(By James Oliver Curwood. BobbsMerrill Co.) Many strange things happen to "Philip Steele" a son of a Chicago millionaire, who has an inherited hankering for the open and who, pulling away from clubs, fascinating girls with red-gold hair (red-gold hair is popular with the novelists this season) and who use hyacinth perfume, Joins the Royal Northwest Mounted

northwestern mounted police And their endurance is amazing. They sleep anywhere in the snow, and sometimes girls with red-gold hair peep nonchalantly into their tents when they are fast asleep. And the damage

is done forever. j For ever after that Philip is haunted i by visions of red-gold hair, long silken j eye-lashes, rose-leaf complexion and a ickle heart. ! i There is without doubt a lure in the ; vastnesses round Winnipeg, but one might, imagine something more com-1 fortable than falling in a lake when ' its sixty below zero and having one's j

clothes cut off. If, later, they are hung up to dry before a fire made by a bandit murderer whom you have been

chasing, and then put on again and I the wonder remains how you could get i them on after they had been cut off you why its all in the story. j There are other excitements, includ- ! ing being kidnapped, strapped in a cof-! fin punctured with breathing-holes, ' rapid transit to remote spots where J the coffin is set on end and you are a 1 witness to horrid perfidy, the tearing j open of letters and the dropping out of 1 bunches of dead violets tied with a j single red-gold hair, the sending of i

skulls of recently murdered men to married women who must be warned against handsome villians running amuck in the offing, the finding of your sweetheart in the middle of a prairie whence she has escaped as one dead from a horrible wreck, the shooting up of train robbers and the un

dying love of men for beautiful women. Supposing, later, it is found that the woman to . whom the skull was sent

wasn't married at all and that it was i a cruel mistake what of that? Didn't! that pave the way for a lurid union ! with the hero? The truth is "Philip Steele" is a rat- j tling good story despite its luridities, I absurdities and drooling sentiment. And that is the main thing. Tf the story j holds your attention to the end, its j raison d' etre has been attained. 1 The most interesting thing in the ' tale, however, is the man hunt in ! which Philip Steele and a certain out-; law are the caste. The out law was the j son of a man who had been hanged for j a crime of which he was innocent and ) which his seven sons sought to avenge. ;

of a crime committed bv the law itself

Five men hung, one a suicide, three in prison and one in an insane asylum because of a blunder of the law. " "The king can do no wrong," replied the narrator with gentle irony, "and neither can law. The law may break up homes, ruin states, set itself a Nemesis on innocent men's heels but it can do no wrong. It is the Juggernaut before which all must bow our heads, and when by chance it makes a mistake it is still law, and unassailable. It. is the greatest weapon of the clever and the rich, so it bears a moral. Be clever, or be rich."

CALENDAR OFSPORTS

Monday. Wrestling match between Fred Beall and Karla. at Wausau. Wis. Abe Attell vs. One Round" Hogan. 10 rounds, at New Yory City. Battling Nelson vs. Willie Howard, 10 rounds, at Brooklyn. Carl Norris vs. Al Williams. 12 rounds, at Cleveland, O. Jack Redmond vs. Joe Mandot, 10 rounds, at Memphis. Tuesday. Tony Ross vs. Jack (Twin) Sullivan, 12 rounds, at Cleveland. Packey McFarland vs. Young Hickey

10 rounds, at New York City. Wednesday.

Leach Cross vs. "Knockout" Brown i 10 rounds, at New York City, j Thursday. ! Annual chess tournament of Cotum- ; bia. Harvard, Yale and Princeton opens in New York, j Basketball contest between Princeton and Cornell, at Ithaca. N. Y.

Willie Lewis vs. HUlard Lanj. 20 rounds, at Toronto. Jack Dillon vs. Howard Morrow, 10 rounds, at New York City. Billy Clinton vs. "Kid" Scales. 11 rounds, at I-awrence, Mass.

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