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VOL. xl May tOut19ia se NGO 
DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVE 
PRINCIPLES 
Although the Progressive party lost 
in New York last November, the mem- 
bers of that constituency are enjoying 
the experience of seeing the New 
York Democratic Legislature carry in- 
to effect many of the measures along 
the lines of “social and industrial jus- 
tice,” which they made capital of in 
their pre-election speeches. The rec- 
ord which is being made by the New 
York Legislature is quite enviable and 
is to be commended; it is doubly in- 
teresting in the fact that it will pro- 
bably have a decided effect upon the 
Progressive party in that State. Per- 
haps the chief reason for the Demo- 
crats playing sponsers for the pet 
measures of the Progressives is that 
the latter party’s alarming strength at 
the last state election probably showed 
the Democrats that they would not be 
making any mistake in carrying out 
some of the progressive policies in 
their own administration. 
This does not mean that the Repub- 
licans are not strong in New York 
state. Last November Mr. Taft pulled 
more votes there than did Mr. Roose- 
velt, and that party need fear but lit- 
tle on the apparent alliance between 
the Democrats and Progressives on 
some matters of purely local interest. 
The alliance of the last-named parties 
with Goy. Sulzer in his campaign for 
a state-wide direct nominations law 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
need not be a sign of any such alliance 
nationally. This will be realized all 
the more when it is seen that the Pro- 
gressives will of necessity play sec- 
end fiddle to Gov. Sulzer. 
If the two parties unite in any cam- 
paign Sulzer and the Democrats will 
get the credit for any success achieved. 
THE OPERATIC TURMOIL 
After all has practically been said 
and done in the Chicago opera contro- 
versy it would appear that the un- 
timely retirement of Andreas Dippel 
from the company indicates that he 
has been bought out. With Mr. Dip- 
pel’s retirement from the active man- 
agement of the opera in the Windy 
City we have two great managers quite 
effectually silenced, for Oscar Ham- 
merstein is in comparatively the same 
situation as Mr. Dippel. 
The rupture in Chicago which re- 
sulted in the retirement of Mr. Dippel 
seemed to develop out of breaking the 
ties with New York. As is quite well 
known, the Chicago opera was estab- 
lished largely because of Mr. Hammer- 
stein’s suppression in Manhattan, thus 
giving the competing house plenty of 
available singers and other material. 
But Chicago has been made subsidiary 
to Gotham, with the result that Chica- 
go rebelled. Mr. Dippel’s mysterious re- 
tirement followed, and the policy in 
the middle western city was also re- 
pudiated. Meanwhile under Cam- 
pinini the next Chicago season ought 
to be a brilliant one, despite the fact 
that the company has lost a good man- 
ager. 
THe AMERICAN VOICE 
“Correctness of speech is not very 
difficult to learn or to teach to anyone 
who will take moderate pains. It is 
different with those elusive qualities 
which go to make speech a fine art, the 
inflection of the voice and all these 
delicate modulations which ally speech 
to music.” Springfield Republican. 
In the quick spasmodic rapid-fire 
pace with which the American is us- 
ually identified in his business and so- 
cial activities, it is not surprising that 
critics claim that the American voice 
is of a shrill rasping quality. If this 
charge be true then there are many 
reasons to which it may be ascribed. 
Mrs. Edith Wynne Matthison, ‘the 
noted English actress, is not a very 
severe. critic when she says that al- 
though she finds a shrillness in the 
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average American voice, she has also 
heard many “beautiful well-modulated 
voices.” She is indeed generous when 
she asserts that the noise of the aver- 
age American city is the cause of any 
such rasping voice quality. 
Whatever foreigners may think of 
the American voice it is indeed prefer- 
able to the cockney dialect of London. 
The sonorous and superfluous man- 
nerisms of the Londoners’ voice do not 
seem as euphonious as the straight- 
forward English spoken by the Ameri- 
can. 
Much of the English language as 
used by Americans has developed in- 
to a means of verbal communication 
that might be termed “slanguage.”’ 
Slang in its various phases, from the 
Bowery “goil” to the “orripa” of the 
Americanized Italian, is abusing the 
voice setting a too rapid and unfair 
pace on the vocal chords and gener- 
ally raising havoc with the American 
reputation of being good singers and 
conversationalists. For there are many 
good American singers and this indic- 
ates that the American voice must be 
of first rate quality, after all. 
It is a good move to keep the Bos- 
ton Athenaeum down-town and_ to 
provide it with a suitably’ enlarged 
structure made fireproof to guard its 
treasures. This is a valuable library 
to have in the down-town district of 
the Hub and by keeping it there, ser- 
vice and sentimentality are both pro- 
perly noted. Everyone is proud of 
the Fenway and its beautiful buildings 
and surroundings but it would not 
have been a serviceable location for 
the Atheneaum. . 
Although woman suffrage lost a- 
gain in the British Parliament Tues- 
day it seems as if every ounce of the 
personal effort of Premier Asquith 
was necessary to defeat the measure. 
The vote, 266 to 219, shows that there 
is a genuine sentiment favoring suf- 
frage in England and in spite of the 
inilitants’ outrages, came within a hair 
breadth of winning—in another test 
it may reach its goal. 
When two of their brother officers 
were assassinated the entire police 
force of New York went on a still hunt 
for the murderer. If such vigilance 
were shown in all cases the wave of 
crime which seems ever prevalent in 
New Yok would be lessened most 
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