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Agitators began to denounce the Mikado's Government for not being "firm" enough in its dealings with the United States. Count Okuma, formerly Prime Minister and now leader of the Progressive, or Opposition, Party, as well as founder and head of the Waseda University, urged that Japan should demand a public apology from the Mayor of San Francisco, as well as assurances of treatment for Japanese similar to that given to AngloSaxons. Seven fire-eating university professors demanded a "more stalwart foreign 'policy" all along the line, and the remarkable assertion was published that if the demands proposed by Count Okuma were not acceded to 'demonstrative measures" would be taken-details not specified. A deputation from the Progressive Party called upon Foreign Minister Hayashi on June 5 to ask for an explanation of the Government's "apparent inaction" and urge the necessity of "peremptorily dealing with the question now," so that frequent repetitions of the acts complained of might not endanger the friendly relations of Japan and America. One paper informed its confiding public that the Japanese outrages in San Francisco (smashing the windows of a restaurant and bath house, with no casualties) were than the murder of a missionary in China, which resulted in the occupation of Kiau-Chau." In spite of the efforts of these mischief-makers the Japanese Government has continued to maintain an attitude of proper restraint, but the Tokyo press is working itself up into a state of indignation that makes it very hard for statesmen to keep their balance. worse HE nation's mightiest trust-buster, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, has found out at last how it feels to be a hunted octopus. 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SHAROOD 354 Broadway St. Paul Minnesota RESIDENT BAER of the Reading and President McCrea of the Penn So. Mr. Baer made the first tests. The Pennsylvania Legislature had passed a law limiting passenger rates to two cents a mile. Such laws have been passed in some fourteen States. They have been criticized by conservative citizens on the ground that conditions in different parts of the country are so various that what would be a high rate in one State might be unreasonably low in another. In general terms the idea has been that roads serving densely settled regions full of business activity could afford to carry passengers cheaper than those traversing thinly populated districts. From this point of view there is no State in the Union in which two-cent fares would be more likely to be profitable than in Pennsylvania. Outside of the respective metropolitan districts that State has more people in a smaller area than New York. If a two-cent-fare law would not work there it would not work anywhere. But the railroads refused to submit to the statute. They took it into the courts, and meanwhile they decided to take revenge for their annoyance on the unfortunates who had made their homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia and had to go into town every day to work. The Reading announced a wholesale increase in commutation rates, which were already extortionate. The increases amounted in general to forty per cent, and in some cases went as high as sixty-five. It was cautiously ex-. plained that this was not a matter of revenge, but of meeting increased expenses. But Mr. Baer's commuting peasantry rose in instant revolt. They flooded him with letters; they sent delegations to remonstrate with him; they pilloried him in the press, and they engineered a boycott against his road. In ten days he surrendered. A new rate schedule was issued, giving up most of the advanced ground, although it was still not satisfactory to the Reading's patrons, who demanded an actual reduction. Undeterred by Mr. Baer's experience, the Pennsylvania issued a defiance to the public the very day after his surrender. It withdrew from sale all commutation and other reduced rate tickets running beyond September 30, the date set for the Two-Cent Fare law to go into effect, on the openly avowed ground that if it failed to have the law declared unconstitutional before that time it would make the commuters pay for it. It even intimated that it might charge them the full legal rate of two cents a mile, which of course would mean absolute ruin to thousands of working people who have settled in the suburbs on the faith of railroad pledges of cheap transportation and are paying for homes on the instalment plan. By the first of October President McCrea of the Pennsylvania hopes to have some light upon the causes of the curious and hitherto inexplicable popular feeling against ་ 1 I Some results of a recent invitation to our readers for a frank expression of their views concerning the fiction published in COLLIER'S N the issue of February 23 we invited our readers to write us concerning the fiction of COLLIER'S, and incidentally we offered the nominal sum of $25 for the best letter written on the subject. We have received a great many contributions, and we are happy in our belief that most of them were inspired by a perfectly sincere desire to assist us in giving our readers the kind of fiction they want rather than by any sordid greed of prize money. No one contributor told us all we wanted to know, but from the many we have done our best to select the one letter which we considered the best all-around effort, and we take pleasure in publishing it conspicuously herewith. From a somewhat carefully compiled statement, we should say that sixty per cent of our correspondents heartily approved of our stories. Thirty per cent discriminated carefully between what they considered the good and the bad, dividing the sheep and the goats in about two equal flocks. Five per cent but seldom found a story suited to their likes, and the remaining five per cent regarded our fiction as perfectly hopeless and hardly worth the time and paper it took to waste their wrath on us. Almost without exception, it was the latter class which was most enthusiastic about our editorials and special articles, and urged us to get out the paper anyhow. For these kind words we thank them, and for their vituperations concerning our fiction we are not ungrateful. This from Brighton, Colorado: "Once in a while a good story appears, but it doesn't generally end to suit me, for it lacks a finish of some kind. For instance, one story left the couple out at sea in a boat, and we would have liked them to gone home and seen their home life before they fell in [the sea]. Another lady correspondent says: "I'm tired of looking through the advertising pages for what happened and finding that it had been crowded out." Hereafter we shall try to see to it that the stories reach a logical conclusion and the dénouement is not "crowded out." In a general way our mental condition, after a careful perusal of these many letters, is something akin to that of a jury which has been listening to the evidence of alienists or handwriting experts, supplied and paid for by both the prosecution and defense. From our very first letter of the morning mail we read, for example, that COLLIER'S publishes all the best fiction of the day. "It is a pleasure," adds our correspondent, "to know that there is one periodical that we can read to our young daughters without having to look ahead to see if it is a proper story." The glow of pleasure, however, with which this warms us is somewhat chilled by the next letter from "A Father," who says that he would as soon read a COLLIER'S story aloud as he would throw a bomb into the very centre of the home circle. Our correspondents have not only criticized the stories in a general way, but in many cases have given the titles of the stories in which they found virtue and others wherein they could see only faults. And it is fair to say that we do not believe a single story published during the last two years has not found stanch champions and equally violent enemies. But the proportion of friends and enemies has not, fortunately, been found to be equal, and from this we hope to find a certain guidance for our fiction of the future. PRIZE LETTER "EDITOR COLLIER'S-We are three at our house. We call ourselves the Higher Critic, the Self-Made Man, and the Average Reader. We are much addicted to reading and discussing stories; and now and then we find one we all like. Since the beginning of the first prize contest, we have found one in COLLIER'S. It was called The Telegram.' "I admit we are a somewhat exacting audience, but I think we are also a rather comprehensively representative one. We have found a few other stories, from time to time, which one or the other of us has liked; but we could not agree. We have our prepossessions. The Higher Critic insists upon an esoteric something, which she fancies she can detect, and which she calls 'literary quality,' or 'good workmanship.' The Average Reader insists upon the cheerful and wholesome, and has an antipathy to anything gruesome, or morbid, or even tragic, which is as energetic and instinctive as a cat's aversion to wetting her feet. (Her deplorable inconsistency in liking 'The Telegram' seems merely the one proverbial exception.) The Self-Made Man is more tolerant. He does not make up his mind every morning, as if it were a bed. He frequently leaves it open to air. "We began with 'Fagan.' The Higher Critic said that it was a good story, but not a remarkable story. The Self-Made Man was respectful, but not enthusiastic; while the Average Reader never got beyond the fact that it was concerned with the psychology of a person with whom the President could not have dined with impunity, as far as our votes are concerned. The heroine of 'Many Waters' was sophisticated enough, in all conscience; yet, collectively, we entertained for her but a temperate regard. The Self-Made Man and the Higher Critic agreed that, if 'In the Promised Land' had stopped a column or two sooner it would have been almost a great story; it was human, dramatic, sincere-and the action was set in a visible world, not in a vacuum. The Average Reader firmly refused to read it, because it was about Mormons. The Higher Critic liked 'The Sick-A-Bed Lady' she said that it was delicious, fresh, and delicate. But the Self-Made Man (who liked it too) convinced her that there was in it a hint of the morbid, the decadent. The Average Reader, interested at first, unexpectedly dismissed it with a hostile sniff. We were all surprised when 'A Tempered Wind' came out; we 'didn't see what there was in' its mild, pleasant, conventional pathos and rather conscious execution to capture that ever-imminent thousand dollars. And we didn't like 'At Ephesus' much better; as a theme-instructor of the Higher Critic's used to say, we considered it 'adequate, but not distinguished.' As for the ordinary run, the 'great unprized,' we are no more enthusiastic. The Average Reader liked 'Wellington's Girl'; but the Higher Critic pronounced it a piece. of blatant inanity. The Self-Made Man grins yet at a reference to 'The Moon, the Maid, and the Winged Shoes'; but the Average Reader considered it broad to the verge of coarseness. 'The Durn Fool' came nearer getting a unanimous vote than any other except 'The Telegram.' As for 'An Explanation by the Editor,' we agreed that we couldn't judge it, because we had been told too much about it beforehand. We knew what was going to happen. The Average Reader, however, was sure it wouldn't have appealed to her, anyway. "In the midst of all this difference of opinion, there is one point on which we are agreed: there is no typical 'COLLIER'S Story.' For a long time we believed that there must be; and we entered into the pursuit of it with a good deal of zest. After two or three years of study and discussion, we are sure that we know an 'Atlantic' story when we see (or write) it; and we are almost as sure of a 'Century' story, a 'McClure' story, an 'Everybody's' or a 'Smart Set' story. We even think we would know a Munsey's' or a 'Pearson's' story if, in an unguarded moment, we should read or perpetrate one. We have scaled the heights and sounded the depths. And we were pathetically sure that, with our combined What was the keynoteacumen, we could learn to recognize a COLLIER's story the similarity under the stimulating dissimilarities? Was it the literary quality? the Higher Critic hopefully inquired, gratefully remembering 'The Sick-A-Bed Lady' and 'A Village Child. The Self-Made Man pointed by way of refutation to 'Wellington's Girl' and various tales of Alaska, Cuba, and Panama. His theory was that the standard was a purely commercial one; that the successful stories were selected from all sorts and kinds, with an eye single to the main chance, namely, the average reader. But the Average Reader indignantly reminded us that she was the most uniformly dissatisfied of all. And when we came to think of it, she really was. 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