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FRIDAY. JUNE 24. 1910.
• This newspaper is oicned and pub
lished by The Tribune Association, a
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.
CONGRESS. Senate: The day was
devoted principally to action on confer
ence reports, with a view to adjournment
Saturday; Senator Burton led a filibuster
against the Appalachian forest reserve
bill. House: The Hughes amend
ment to the sundry civil bill, exempting
labor unions from prosecution under the
anti-trust law, was stricken out, at the
insistence of President Taft.
FOREIGN. — Seven new peers, includ
ing Sir Walter Foster, Sir Weetman
Dickinson Pearson and Sir Christopher
I'urness, were created in honor of King
George's birthday. = Captain F. S.
Cody, the American aviator employed by
the " British War Department, fell one
hundred feet from an aeroplane at Alder
*hot, England, and was gravely in
jured. ■-— Three American battleships,
with five hundred midshipmen from An
liapolis, arrived at Plymouth. England,
on their summer practice cruise. -. .
The International Congress of Chambers
of Commerce, sitting: in London, shelved
until the next meeting the proposal of
.Mr. Knox. the Secretary of State, for a
Court of Arbitral Justice, == The Em
peror of Germany arrived at Kiel for the
r<gatta- ===== King Ferdinand and Queen
Eleanore of Bulgaria arrived in Paris.
2==. The World's Missionary Confer
ence in Edinburgh continues to be well'
attended. ■ - Non-combatants in
Ai'»yafa. Nicaragua, were notified to
leave before a bombardment is begun
by Estrada troops, == Colonel Jose R.
Piz&rro was appointed Minister of War
of Peru, succeeding General P. E. Muniz,
who resigned because of ill health.
DOMESTIC. — In a signed statement
in "The Cincinnati Times-Star." Presi
dent Tafi expressed himself as elated at
the legislation enacted by this term of
Congress. == The majority of the Sen
ate. Committee on Cost of Living report
. d that the tariff • was not responsible
for high pric*, and gave various causes
lor advances. . . . ■ ■■ - The Interstate Com
merce Commission requested New Jersey
rs ilros is which have given notice of in
creases in commutation rates to post
j cne the advances until August 1- =
it was said at Albany that no date had
been «ft for the visit of Governor Hughes
to ex-President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
===== Judge Landis. at" Chicago, dis
missed as faulty the indictment against
tho so-called Beef Trust, but ordered the
tailing of a special grand jury to find a
valid indictment- i in a speech at
St. Paul W. C. Brown, president of the
New York Central lines, pointed out the
p<-ril existent in the failure of food pro-
Auction to keep pace with the increasing
demand. ===== Frederick Kohler, Cleve
land's "Golden Rule" police chief, was
acquitted of charges of drunkenness and
Immorality. =^— Martin J. Walsh and
four others were indicted at Boston for
offences alleged to have been committed
In 'connection with the wrecking of the
National 'City Bank of Cambridge, Masis.
— Stocks were dull and weak.
— —- Porter Charlton landed at Hoboken,
ivas promptly arested and confessed that
hr had killed his wife. Mary Scott Castle
Char^tcn, whose body was found in a
trunk in Lake Corao, Italy, on June 10.
===== Judge O'Suliivan refused to make
public for the time being a presentment
Bled by the Rockefeller grand jury. ■'
A national council of aero clubs, with
<>; . <lelegate from each state, will have
entire charge of national and interna
tional meets after this. year. ===== Mr.
Roosevelt said that Governor Hughes
had not yet fixed the date for his visit
to Sagamore Hill and told of other visit
ors he expected. = Two Philadelphia
women who failed to declare jewelry had
the option given them of paying the
penalties or being prosecuted. . ■
Mayor Gaynor delivered the address to
the graduating class of . the ' College of
the City of New York. ====== The City
Record Commission filed an appendix to
Mb report exemplifying the charges of
waste in city printing and advertising.
THE WEATHER. — for to
•lav: Generally fair. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 91 degrees; low
est. 72. "
W HERE'S THAT LEADERSHIP?
. When is the public going to be per
mitted to see some of the enlightened
leadership of the new Democratic state
chairman, the Hon. John A. Dix? Al
though be has been in office, for a fort
night, characterized by unusual political
activity and ferment, nothing has been
heard of Mr. Dix. He would ,seem to
be shaping his policy aiong the lines of
masterly inactivity laid out by the Sara
toga League. The Democrats in Albany
are behaving exactly as they used. to do
before the party under Mr. Dix began
to .'follow the light- Bipartisanship
nourishes at the special session under
the di>=i»ensaTi<»u of Dix just as it flour
ished at the regular session under the
Qi.--[.- -:, nation of Conners. The Demo
cratic Senators and Assemblymen are
co-operating with discredited' Republi
cans just a* if the party had not re
cently acquired a line nose for a moral
issue. When is Mr. i->ix going to bring
bis enlightened. leadership out and put
it through its paces before the public?
"Where does Mr. Dix stand upon, the
question of direct primaries? We ob
eerve that. the Grady-Frisble direct pri
mary bill/ the neglected offspring of the
Saratoga League, has been introduced at
the present special^ session. Mr. Dix
•m .-«- not .•! little ' to the Saratoga
League's sensitiveness regarding gram
mar. Ought he not therefore, merely out
of gratitude, to raj at least i word for
that friendless bill? :-.V ,i*v ;
But a Ham statesman with an in
flexible . conscience, confronted by the
necessity of- making a choice between
gratitude and a moral issue, would not
feel bound by the claims of the former,
and so Mr., Dix, if he is going to give
an example of Li- enlightened leader
ship, might ignore the little bill-drawn
by reformers who would not harm a
hair, of Mr. Mnrgiyfti bead And declare
himself in favor of real direct primaries.
Here is the largest political question
before the state to-day. Has Mr. Dix
nothing to say about it? Is he going to
take pllp ll more part in the discussion of
it than the timorous .Saratoga League
has taken? Where is Mr. Dixs leader
ship leading the party? How shall the
DOMIC kuow that at last the party bag
a live man at its head Avith a mind and
a conscience of his own if he dodgißß the
big questions < P f public morals? Even
•Fingey" Conners perceived the neces
sity of coming out* in favor of direct
primaries. Is tbe new chairman going
tc stand pat on his jjramnjar?
THE FRUITS OF THE SESSION.
Two things stand out in the record of
the session of Congress now drawing to
■ close. One is the President's remarka
ble success in promoting the passage of
measures to which he considered the
Republican majority in the legislative
department pledged by the declarations
of thp Republican national platform. The
other is the restoration of the prestige
of tbe House of Representatives as a
factor in legislation. The two results
were not merely coincidental. They had
a common cause. It had been made evi
dent by the occurrences of the extra ses
sion of 1909 that the President's leader
ship of the party could not become really
effective until a larger measure of self
2overninent was restored in the House of
Representatives. Like the President, the
members of that branch of Congress are
supposed to represent the people rather
than the states, and it is natural to count
upon them to support a President en
deavoring to earn- out national policies
which may happen to clash with nar
rower interests. The House is ttie natural
ally of the Executive in breaking down
the particularism of the Senate. But the
House had unfortunately tied itself in
the bonds of a code of rules which by
making the Speaker an autocrat reduced
to the vanishing point its own responsi
bility and freedom of action.
Last winter's successful revolt against
the code restored to the House its lost
initiative and self-confidence. It began
to take legislation seriously and to pass
bills which represented the views of a
majority, determined l^y debate and a
rollcall, not the opinions and orders of a
little coterie of leaders. What it did soon
carried added weight. For twenty years
the House had played a minor part in the
preparation of important measures. The
McKinley tariff act. the anti-trust act,
the silver purchase act of 1890. the Wil
son tariff act, the Dingley tariff act, the
Hepburn railroad rate act and the Payne
tariff act had all been jammed through
under rules restricting discussion and
amendment, and had gone to the Senate
representing in a crude and defective
way the opinions and wishes of the ma
jority in the House. The Senate was ex- i
pected to repair all mistakes and to re-|
shape the rough drafts which the House
had taken on faith from the leaders. The
consequence was that the Senate ceased
to think of a House bill a# embodying
any ideas for which that body was pre
pared to make a stand, and many Repre
sentatives were put to the humiliation of
going bat in hand to the Senate to ask
that body to undo what had been done
in the House with their own approval.
So little stress did the House lay on its
own legislative responsibility that it al
lowed the Rcles Committee to put
through a rule fet March, 1909, allowing
votes on only a few scattering items in
the Payne tariff bCD and denying the
House the privilege of voting on so im
portant a provision for raising new
revenue as that reimposing a federal in
heritance tax.
Now times have changed. It seems amaz
ing to read in Washington dispatches
that the Senate has accepted without
question the postal savings bank bill
of the House, after having passed earner
in the session a very different postal sav
ings measure of its own. Similarly, it is
trufcr reported that in the recent confer
ence on the interstate commerce bill the
House won on all essential points. Such
announcements reverse history, for pre
viously it was always the House which
yielded on important particulars because
it had given its case away in advance. •
Action in the House which means
something and for which that body 13
willing to accept full political responsi
bility is a hew development at the capi
tal. It -will work for better legislation
because it will tend to curb the present
excessive influence of the Senate. A self
governing House, acting in harmony
with a progressive President like Mr.
Taft, will be able to give freer effect to
the popular will on issues on which the
Senate, representing the narrower inter
ests of the states, is incMned to be indif
ferent or obstructive.
THE CONFERENCE AT * WEST-,
MINSTER.
Some doubt has "been expressed con
cern in? the practical efficacy of the con
ferences at Westminster between the
Government and Opposition leaders- for
a compromise or a modus i-ircndi on the
subject of the House of Lords. It is
argued that any agreement which Mr.
Apquitii and Mr. Balfour may make will
be chiefly personal and will not be the
binding act of plenipotentiaries. It will
have to be submitted to the Cabinet on
the one side and to Parliament on both
sides, especially to the three or four
factions or sections which now form the
coalition supporting the government All
that is in a sense true ; yet we cannot
accept the conclusion ■which is drawn
therefrom by Mr. T. P. O'Connor when
he says that the terms of the agreement
•are not likely to be carried unless they
'are such *as will commend themselves
"equally to all the present supporters of
"the ministry."
• If "Tay Pay's" forecast were correct
there would be no hope of compromise
or agreement, for it is simply out of 'the
question . that 'anything much short of
the simplest moral axiom would prove
equally acceptable to all the government
frictions— to Mr. Haldane and to Mr.
Redmond, to Sir Edward Grey and to
Mr. Keir Hardie. Probably Mr. O'Connor
had chiefly in mind the supposed impos-.
Bibllity of the Government's passing any
measure which the Irish members did
not approve. Of course there would be
such an Impossibility in case of a purely
government measure of a contentious
tore which the Unionists would oppose.
But the whole essence of the present or
rather the prospective situation is that
the measure 'upon which the conference
will decide will not be contentious in the
ordinary party sense of the word and
will not be opposed by the Unionists, but
will be supported by ; , temporary coali
tion of the majority of both the leading
parties. . h%?£ '•'.*),
It remains to be seen whether Mr.
Asquith and Mr. BalfouT'will come to
an agreement.. It is to be expected that
they will, ! and it may 'confidently be
taken for granted that if they do their
agreement will be accepted and enacted
t>7. garllam«mj ' (There .will tag some di*
NEW-YORK DAILY .TRIBUNE, FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1910,
senters. no doubt. I'robnbly Mr. Red
mond's faction of the Irish party »ill
dissent; it almost certainly will if it
holds true to its ante-eiection declara
tions. ,The Laborites, too, are likely to
disapprove any terms which would be
acceptable to Mr. Balfour. Rut the great
masses o£ the two great parties are suf
ficiently rational and conciliatory to real
ize that a momentous constitutional
question is not to be dealt with in a can
tankerous spirit. It Is not to be sup
posed that either party would yield on
a question Involving patriotic integrity
or moral principle, Neither party would
ask the other to do so. Rut it will doubt
less be found on "getting together" that
no such matters are after all at stake.
There are somo points of disagreement,
l>ut there are also points of agreement,
and when the chief attention is given to
these lntter they will be found to be
paramount and should prevail.
CALL OFF THE PARADE.
S<* far as it is possible to judge fairly
from general Indications the members of
the national guard are almost unani
mously averse to parafling on July 4 as
a part of the "sane celebration" which
so many citizens desire and which the
Mayor i 3 earnestly promoting. Nor can
it be denied that the' reasons given for
this opposition have much force.
The national guard's duties under the
present system of discipline are by no
means trivial. On the contrary, they
are somewhat exacting and burdensome.
We believe that the members are al
ways ready to perform military service
promptly and cheerfully, but they evi
dently feel that the business of parading
for the diversion of the public or the
exhibition of patriotism can be overdone.
They discharged that function only a
few weeks ago, on Memorial Day.
As it happens this year, July 4 falling
on Monday, there will be two full holi
days in succession for the general pub
lic, and for many persons — members of
exchanges and their employes, for ex
ample — two and a half and three days.
Such a period of relaxation is welcome
and useful. It would be especially so
to members of those military organiza
tions which will have to take a tour of
duty a little later, and thereby sacrifice
one-half or more of a short two weeks'
vacation. But if the guardsmen are re
quired to parade on July 4 they will lose
a large part of the pleasure and advan
tage to which the rest of the commu
nity is looking forward.
There is also a good deal to be said
against the proposed parade from the
other point of view — that of the public.
The weather is pretty sure to be hot on
July 4, and it may be stifling, as it has
been the last three or four days. How
many citizens are really going to like
standing and having their little children
stand for hour 3 on a crowded and siz
zling sidewalk in order to see the show?
And how much sickness and how many
deaths would probably result?
As for the older children, to ■whom a
military spectacle is perhaps more at
tractive than it is^to any other part of
the community, we understand that they
will be attending exercises in the public
schools at the hour of the parade.
On the whole, we are strongly inclined
t? believe that the order for a parade
of the national guard on July 4 was a
mistake and that it ought to be re
scinded.
THE COST OF LIVING REPORT.
The most striking thing in the report
on causes of the high cost of living Just
made by the committee of which Senator
Lodge is chairman, if that report is
fairly summarized in the newspaper re
ports, is the relatively unimportant role
assigned m it to the influence of the in
creased production of gold. That factor,
which economists have somewhat gener
ally been disposed to regard as the pre
dominating one in the problem, is treated
as of minor consideration. But fche re
port of the committee will not for this
reason lack the respect of practical men.
The theory that the supply of gold is
•chiefly responsible for the rise in prices
is open to a good many practical objec
tions, doubts and questions. The varia
tions in advances of price exhibited by
different commodities show that various
causes are in operation, some of them
plainly more powerful in their influence
upon single groups of commodities than
is any general cause, for the latter would
tend to produce uniformity in advances.
The committee is therefore probably
sound in suggesting a variety of causes
as having more practical importance
than any general cause. The most potent
factor, in the committee's opinion, lies in
agricultural conditions In this country.
The prices that have risen most are the
Hfices of farm products, and their rise
is the result of a variety of causes. The
era of cheap farm products has passed
away with the gradual settling of the
country. The demand for farm products
has increased. The country has a larger
non-agricultural population. The cost of
agricultural production has advanced.
With regard to the influence of the
tariff, the committee reports that it has
not been a material factor in causing the
rise in prices for the last decade. Cer
tainly the tariff has not been a factor in
causing the advance in the cost of farm
products, which has been the most strik
ing feature of the rise in the cost of liv
ing. Moreover, while prices have been
advancing tariff rates have been station
ary, or, in the last year, have been slight
ly reduced. Where they were reduced
the commission finds that prices never
theless advanced. i
The report will be generally accepted
as sensible in its conclusions. Its scien
tific value and interest are lessened be
cause of the unwillingness of Congress to
vote funds for an extended study of the
problem.
CHRISTIAN UNION AT EDINBURGH.
Much was expected of the World Mis
sionary Conference at Edinburgh and
much is being realized. 'The specific pur
poses for which the gathering was called
are unquestionably being advanced. As
a result of the conference there will be
not only an. increase of missionary zeal
and energy, but also a more Judicious
and Bystematic operation of forces, and
we are not awe that th© latter will not
be the more profitable achievement of
the two. The annals of talaslonary work
are replete with records of heroism, but
they are also in places marked by lack
of economy and of discretion and by
waste of energy In the duplication of ef
forts or in rivalry where \ there should
have been co-operatiou.
In another respect, perhaps unexpected
to most of its members, the conference
has already resulted in one benefit of
great importance — the extraor
dinary utterance iv favor of Christian
union which was made a few days ago,
extraordinary alike in character and in
source. It was a notable thing .for a
"great prelate of the Roman Catholic
communion to write such a letter, or
indeed &n% letter* to «ucb §, fatkerlnjy
for while he urged strongly the union of
all .Christians iv a single faith and a
single church, he frunkly recognized the
fact that "there are at present various
Christian denominations which are enti
tled to be called churches, apart from
the Church of Rome, and which, are in
vested with ecclesiastical validity and
authority. That recognition, in view of
the attitude held by many Roman prel
ates toward non-Roman churches, or of
the conception of their attitude which is
widely cherished, is singularly significant
and encouraging.
Of much laterest and value also was
tbe same prelate's argument in the same '
letter that the best way of achieving a j
union of Christians is by their dwelling
ou points of agreement rather than on
points of difference among them. No ad
vice couid l>e more sane and practical
than that. It is too true that in the past
religious propagandists have been in
clined toward controversy and have;
dwelt upon the differences and contrasts •
between their respective churches and i
others. Differences do of course exist,
but so do agreements, and the latter are j
probably the more numerous and the ■
more Important. The hopeful thing, as!
Monsignor Bonomelli wrote, is for men j
of varying faiths to get together for tfefl |
pursuit of that religious truth which is j
common to them all. In promoting such
concord and co-operation this conference
will serve a practical and profitable end.
and one of the best contributions will |
have come from this prelate who was not
a member of the conference.
Now that President Taft has got all
his bills through Congress, the next
thing that will help the Republican
party to face the coming campaign will
be a similar success for Governor
Hughes in the New York Legislature.
Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri made
this cryptic remark the other evening in
Atlanta to the Young- Men's Democratic
League: "Democracy is growing every
"where; whether the Democratic party
"grows with it depends upon whether
"the party really Is democratic." All
democrats, however, are not Democrats,
any more than all prohibitionists are
Prohibitionists.
Of the work of Congress at this ses
sion "The New Picayune" says
In first page blackface heads: "Pledges
Redeemed; Record Is Unusual." When
Democratic newspapers are ready to
give such testimony, what are the poor
Democratic spellbinders to do?
King George has acted according to
custom and expectation in making his
eldest son Prince of Wales, though he
was under no constitutional or legal
compulsion so to do. , The eldest son of
the sovereign has, since the time of the
Black Prince, in 1337, by inheritance,
possessed the title of Duke of Cornwall,
and since the time of Edward 111 that
of Earl of Chester, but the title of Prince
of Wales has been individually bestowed
in each case at the discretion of the
sovereign, and not every heir apparent
has borne it. It was first bestowed upon
the second son of Edward I, In an in
formal way, but was not formally and
officially given to him until seventeen
years after he had become heir appar
ent through the death of his elder
brother. There have been six Princes of
Wales who did not become king, namely,
Edward, the Black Print e; Ldward of
Westminster, the son of Henry VI; Ed
ward, the son of Richard III; Arthur
Tudor, the son of Henry VII; Henry Stu
art, the son of James I, and Frederick
Lewis, the son of George 11. There
have, of course, been many kings who
were not previously Princes of Wales,
namely, Edward 111, IV and VI, Henry
IV, VI and VII, Richard 111, James I
and 11, William 111 and IV and George
I. If the present Prince of Wales comes
to the throne, for the first time In his
tory three successive Princes of Wales
in three successive generations will have
become Kings of England.
Many citizens will fail to understand
why there should have been any pro
tracted deadlock in Congress over the
question of exempting labor unions from
processes of law to which all other cor
porations are subject. The "square
deal" principle certainly seems to pre
scribe equal and equal penal
ties for all.
At the beginning of Its career Cornell
University was greatly enriched by the
scholarship of Goldwin Smith. Now it
is enriched in another way by the be
quest of his material wealth. It is not
often that an institution receives such
dual benefits from one man.
It is most gratifying, considering the
weather, to learn that Greece and Ru
mania have composed their differences.
A war between them, with no way of
their getting at each other save across
Turkish territory or through Turkish
waters, would have been, too much for
the comfort of our risibles in the dog
days.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Weather threatening; crowd scurrying;
congestion of humans in Broadway, near
Fulton street; hour, 12:30 p. m. "What is
it?" inquired excitedly a big blond man in
a shaggy alpine. "Any one hurt?" "Naw,"
responded a seedy Individual, "a guy's lost*
Bumpin' trou' a subway gratln', an' he's
flshln" fer It." A passerby fought his way
through a struggling mass of men Vnd"
women and foupd the "guy" leaning- over
a subway grating industriously fishing with
a long pole (on the end of which was pre
sumably some sticky suustance) for a
bright and scintillating object. "What did
he lose? " he asked. "A diamond ring, 1
guess," answered one in an awed whisper.
"Ah. he's got it! No; it's slipped off!
He's got it again! Steady, now, and you'll
fetch It. Good! He's got It! Let's see It!"
The last request was shouted by a man
near the outer ed;je jf the mob. "Aw, you
mugs make me sick," remarked the fisher
man. "Can't a guy pick up a cent he's
dropped widout a crowd collectln"."" And,
amid derisive cries of "Cheap ekate!" he
held up a bright Lincoln penny. That's
how little it takes to collect a crowd in
buiy New York.
-Tea, Xnlum get up a summer novel that
tmmedWtely became a best aeller."
♦ •That eof BometUn« new In the plot?"
"No. But when It came to the page
where he described the looks of the heroine
he had his publisher Insert a mirror."—
Life. " •;■;:<;- ty >"_*f '■- ■
Tho Now York correspondent of the "Ber
liner Ta^eblatt,* commenting upon. the ac
tion taken by Mayor Gay nor in refusing
to Issue licenses to theatres where objec
tionable performances had been produced
and on the resolution of the Poster Print
ers' Association 'to print no more posters
of the kind to* which objection had' been
raised,, "Every few years the people
of the United States suffer ifith-an attack
of moral colic. The malady can hardly be'
called by any other name, and it receives
the stamp of burlesque from the fact that
things happen in thl» much lauded land of
liberty "which one would not expect In
police ridden cities of Europe." The letter
TimAhUtthiMt * IBPiTtrV'ffP H |nt ©X
the : German clubs In the residence district
and one of the younger members said:
"The ': sarcastic correspondent should not
be bjamed He, was once in the theatrical
business, and his fight for his colleagues
of former days only proves again that one*
wedded to the sawdust or footlights there
can be no divorce." V ..-<•■
Book> (from whom old gent has Just re
ceived fivo sovereigns at 4 to 1)— Now. then,
Santa Clans, what are you biting em for?
Do you th'nk I'd give you wrong 'uns?
Old Cent —Nor, larldy. It's no that; I m
Just making sure that I hav'na got that
one back which I pased off on thee!— Punch.
Referring to the memorial which was re
cently erected at Zepelin. "Die Woche"
says: "The home of the Zeppelin family Is
In South Germany, as everybody knows,
but the little Mecklenburger town Zepelin.
near B'tltzow, prides itself on having be«n
the cradle of the Illustrious family, and fur
nished the name the great explorer of
the air made famous. A massive bowlder,
resting on one of still greater size, forma
the- memorial which was unveiled in the
presence of Count Zeppelin. Into the broad
side of the ragged rock a bronze tablet has
been sunk recounting Counf Zeppelins
achievements and the pride which the little
town feelß in calling him its son.
"I see the drug store id advertising bar
gains in patent medicines to-day.'
"Is that so? Well, that's too aggravat
ing! There isn't anything the matter with
any of us." — Lippincott's.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
PLEA FOR DIRECT PRIMARIES.
To the Editor of The Tribune. '
Sir: If this Legislature refuses, as it
now intends, to pass the Cobb direct pri
mary bill, it should be incumbent on our
rulers to furnish the lamb for the burnt
offering in November. Let them choose be
ftween Woodruff, Barnes. Wadsworth and
Merritt. '
They must not try to run a man like
Judge Folger, as they did In 1882, but
they should come out in the open. In that
way they will ascertain the Republican
sentiment in the state.
The rank and file of the Republican party
are to-day disgusted with the bipartisan
anti-Hughes majority In the Assembly and
Senate, and with the idea of Republicans
being led to their own destruction by Sen
ator Grady and leaders like Wadsworth,
Merritt, Woodruff and Barnes, holding the
Tammanyites* clothes while they are ston
ing Hughes, as they think, to death..
They should remember the fate of Joseph
when sold into Egypt; later when they
laid up their Governor Roosevelt by nom
inating him tor Vice-president and thereby
shelving him, we know the result, in both
cases.
It Is an old saying and a true one that
"history repeats itself."
The plain people of the State of New-
York are bound to have direct primaries.
Whoever stands in the way will be ground
to powder.
AN ORGANIZATION REPUBLICAN.
Sleepy Hollow, N. V., June 22, 1910.
BRITON THANKS MR. ROOSEVELT.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Wojuld you permit a loyal British
subject visiting America to express through
your influential journal appreciation of the
opportune and public spirited advice which
Colonel Roosevelt gave in Egypt and be
fore the Guildhall, in London, in regard
to the. present policy of Great Britain in
the government of native races in Africa?
The writer has been civilly connected with
colonial administrations for many years,
and knows from experience that the treat
ing of primitive peoples with the senti
mental leniency advocated by those who
have never seen an uncivilized race only
leads to harsher measures having to be re
sorted to in the end, as they will now un
doubtedly have to be.
Officials having had education, training
and experience in native customs and tra
ditions, appointed to administer Justice to,
the natives according to their own lights
(seeing wfth their eyes, as it were), who
would Interfere as little as possible with
their habits, are now often prevented do-
Ing what the natives themselves advocate —
namely, governing them with a firm but
Just hand— by Influence brought to bear
by little Knglanders like Bernard Shaw,
W. S. Stead and Kelr Hardie. We consider
the last named greatly to blame for the
unsettled state In India, and that the con
tented and happy condition of the Basutos
is partly due to the fact that we physically
prevented Keir Hardie from preaching se
dition In South Africa, after he had writ
ten a letter suggesting that the blacks
should rise and overpower the whites.
The Statesman's Year Book, etc., shows
that the Basutos (the most warlike native
race in South Africa), who are ruled by a
wnlte autocrat after their own heart, axe the
least taxed and least criminal of any race.
And it Is such critics as those mentioned
who were heard loudest in condemnation
of your worthy ex-President. But the
writer and every other loyal British colo
nial will feel grateful to a candid friend
who has been and seen conditions as they
exist and haa the courage to voice his
honest opinion In support of law and jus
tice.
Mr. Roosevelt has a higher conception
of the word "freedom" than is implied by
the giving ot unbridled liberty to savages to
fight among themselves and with peaceful
civilized nations. His idea is freedom for
the world at large under one peace tri
bunal, and, thank God, he has the ability,
the courage and the influence to help it
alon &- H. T. HARRISON.
New York, June 22, 1910.
PASSAGE OF THE SAVANNAH.
To the Editor of The- Tribune.
Sir: in answer to the recent question.
"Which Is Right?" in The Tribune concern-
Ing an item about the disarmament of
Senators at Washington over the first
steamship to cross the Atlantic, it may
be said that the statistics show this ves
sel to have been the Savannah, built to
New York City and sailing thence for Sa
vannah. Ga., April 10, 1819. She reached
Savannah April 17, left that port May 24,
arrived at Liverpool June 20 and sailed for
St. Petersburg July 23. She used her
paddles for several days of the crossing.
She returned to Savannah In December.
The Great Western, built at Bristol,
sailed thence for New York April 8, 1537,
and reached her port on the 23d of that
month.
The Slrius, built at London, reached New
York under steam a few hours before the
Great Western, after the somewhat longer
passage of eighteen and one-half day*
M. C. L.
Plalnfleld. N. J., June 2». 1910.
NATIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We should have a national musical
instrument. The violin is too difficult, the
piano is too expensive, brass and .tube ln-
Btruments are not suitable for home use.
We- should choose the xlther, which can
be played by anybody la any apartment,
tenement house, cottage, camp or dugout.
The. «ith*r can be national . " T. C. I*.
New York, Jane 22. ma ' t \>
CRUEL PUNISHMENT.
From The St. Paul Dispatch. }■%'s'■
An official dentist- has been appointed
Tor the Mlssinirl penitentiary. Apparently
the old forms of torture for convicts are
considered inadequate
. . MAYBE THAT'S IT.
From .The Omaha World- Herald. '.
'It Is barely possible t!,. i ;n\-<>rnor Gil
lett Is trying -to win' the Nobel peace prise
fur 1910.. j '■.= .'
,_>- HIGHER EDUCATION.
From The Louisville courier Journal.
It Is rumored that Yale may drop 'Greek
us an entrance requirement, but whether
It -will oubatltute tennis,- golf, pugilism or
polo vaulting 1* not *arMh*<l»we4 tar to*
rumor**, " d^
People and Social Incident^
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[F-rorn.The Tribune Bureau.]"-
Washington,.: June 23.— The President
spent almost the entire day and evening
conferring with Senate and House leaders.
Mr. Taft approved twelve Senate and
eight House bills to-day, chief among them
being an act providing that entrymen for
homesteads with Reclamation projects may
assign their entries on satisfactory proof
of 'residence. Improvement and cultivation
for five years, as they would be entitled to
do had they made entry under the original
homestead act; an act authorizing and
directing the E>epartment of State to ascer
tain find report to Congress damages and
losses sustained by certain citizens of the
United States on account of the naval op
erations in and about the town of Apia In
the Samoan Islands by the United States
and Great Britain. In March. April and
May, 1899; an act to regulate the construc
tion of dams across navigable streams; the.
fortifications bill, and the act permitting
Justice, Moody to retire. V*- r*it *
Naval Officer Kracke, of New York, and
Representative Cocks Introduced Richard
Parr, who discovered the Sugur frauds and
■will receive $100,000 from the Government
for his services. Mr. Parr told the Presi- |
dent he was unaware of the existence of a \
law which would reward him for exposing:
the frauds, but nevertheless would gladly
accept it, as his work had left him in a
nervous condition.
Representative Gardner, of New Jersey,
introduced W. B. Bell, General J. C. Black
and Major John R. King, past commanders
of the Grand Army "of the Republic, who
asked the President to attend the forty
lourth annual encampment of the order at
Atlantic City September 19 to 24. Mr. Ta^t
will attend If he can arrange It.
Senators Galllnger and Burnham Invited
rresldent Taft to the annual gathering
of the 16th Regiment, New Hampshire Vol
unteer Association, at The Weirs, N. H.,
In Augrußt. It is possible that the President
tv-111 accept the Invitation and go by "motor
from Beverly to The "Weirs.
The President declined the invitation of
Representative Stevens to the annual
meeting of the League of American Muni
cipalities at St. Paul In August.
Representative Langley asked the Presi
dent to appoint professor Albert S. White,
of Lexington, and Dr. E. E. Underwood,
of F%ankfort, both negroes, to the Govern
ment service.
Representative Tawney was a breakfast
guest of the President-
Representative Murdock introduced Miss
Ida Tarbell. \
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Old St. Mark's Church in the Bouwerl©
was the scene late yesterday afternoon of
the * wedding of Miss Elizabeth Wintfcrop
Stevens, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ledyard Stevens, to John de Koven Bowen,
spn of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen,
lof Chicago. The church was decorated,
| with flowers and paims, and there were
j many relatives and friends of the bride
j and brldegToom at the ceremony, which was
followed by a reception at Delmonico's. The
bride, who was given away by her father,
was attired In white satin, trimmed wltn
CarrickmacrOdS lace which her mother
j took three years to make, and her tulle veil
was bordered with the same lace, and this
was draped In coronet fashion around a
wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a
j bouquet of lllles-of-the-valley and gardenias.
Her cousin, Mrs. Glllat G. Schroder, was
! her matron of honor and Miss Alexandra. H.
) Stevens, another cousin, was the maid of
i honor. The bridesmaids Included Miss Su
j san Fish Dresser, Miss Hilda Hlsa, Ml»
! Margaret Taylor, Miss Gladys MumfeTd.
! Miss Helen Bowen, Mlsa Dorothy Sanbora
; Wilde, Miss Louise Bowen and MLss Bu
• genie Phil bin. The matron of honor and
i maid of honor were dressed alike In pink
; Batln, trimmed with pale blue velvet and
I gold embroidery, with which they wore hats
!of pink satin trimmed with Valenciennes
lace, black vel\-et bows and pink roses.
Their flowers consisted of variegated sweet
peas. The bridesmaids wore gowns of pals
blue satin, trimmed with plr.k velvet an 3
embroidered In various shades of silver.
Tiielr hats were of blue satin trimmed with
| lace, black velvet and roses, and they car
| ried bouquets of pink sweetpeas tied with
pink ribbons. The bride's small cousin, G.
G. Schroder, acted as page and carried a
silver bound prayer book from which the
rector, the Rev. Dr. Loring TV. Batten, read
the marriage eervlce. Joseph Tilton Bowen,
Jr.. was his brother's best man, and the
ushers were Herbert Baker, George Mat
thews, George -Blefstein, Jr.. Morton Tread
way. John En-en, Richard Mabbatt, Chaun
cey Blair, Oscar Stevens, Thompson Dean i
and Frank Coppock.
Mr. Bowen and his bride, who is a
granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Oc
tavlus White, will sail for Europe on
Wednesday to remain abroad until Easter, j
and on their return to this country will '
make their home in Chicago. Mr. and Mr*
Ledyard Stevens will sail on Tuesday, and
their son-in-law and daughter will Join them •
on the other side. Mr. and Mrs Stevens
also will live in Chicago on the completion '
of their European trip.
Among the presents received by the bride
were two chairs from her mother which be
ionged to Peter Stuyvesant. while her father
KAISER ARRIVES AT KIEL
Ambassador Hill Will Also Witness the
International Regatta.
KieU June 23.— Emperor William arrived
here to-day from Altona on board the im
perial yacht Hohenzollem, to witness the
annual yachting regatta-
Mr. Hill, the American Ambassador to
Germany. i|rs. Hill and Miss Hill are ex
pected to-morrow. The ambassador has
engaged a launch from which the family
ani a few friends will see the races
WILL OF THOMAS HITCHCOCK.
The will of Thomas Hitchcock, an author,
who died on June 20, was filed in the Sur
rogates' office yesterday. Mr Hitchcock
leaves to his wife. Mrs. Maria Center Hitch
cock, his box. No. 33, in the Metropolitan
Opera House and 300 shares of stock in the
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Com
t- a <s£\ The * eStator also leaves to his wife
Jo.ooo In cash and his silverware and furni
ture. The hOUSQ goes to hl3 two sons
Thomas Hitchcock. jr.. and Francis R
Hitchcock, who are named as executors.
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS
gliiiiil
msmsm
nmsmM
tUfer C ester Unlon and Adver-
S h :, '° toatrod,! »ii. horse across the
cltaeaT * rivers, up mountain de
wi,TKi er , l ," nn n M ' lnh&ttWl l 9l *» J ll
obV.rved" "X *?e? c C ? IS 01 ? 1 PNlowDhar. who
1 grave her a silver teapot which 0:Te L
John Nelson Lloyd _ and Is nearlj "*"' ">
dred years old. Mr. anrf Mrs. Qj^J Ssi
her a silver tankard which IN i : -, 7^ °*»
and a string of matched pearls,',^-* 1
bridegroom gave her a pearl ana d!^^
pendant » "" >1 "
Among those who arrived frsjn p. ""*'<
yesterday en boar*d the Adriatic 'WeV?*
crt W. Goelet and Mr. and II- -.-. ' "*
Ellsworth. } "?? £.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hutton Lacdo- ' -
their daughters are at Oyster Bay &-"*
summer. ' ;"*
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moor* V-. v
been at the St. Regis for a few d*-*^
town yesterday for Pride's Crossing/-. ??
Miss Maria de Barrtl 1-aves tow'
Newport on July 5 to spend the'fei^-
Mr. and Mrs. Wmtbrop ■Ratherfjr*'
receiving congratulations on the Mrth *
son at the house of Mrs. Rutberft»i't *
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leri p. Morton,*^
avenue. ' *"*•»
Mr. and Mrs. Courtlaadt Dtxoa Bca»
have gone to their country place at X?
basset. Long: Island, for the • .-me- -
Mrs. H. Falrfleld Osborn his rst;-^
her country place at Garrlscn-ca-the-ajj
son.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Street, W « IO
rived from Europe yesterday, wT.I gp^j ?
summer at Seabright, X. J. . . :
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT
[By Telegraph, to Tk& Trtbnaa]
Newport. June Early July ant**,
here promise to be numerous. j(r. aad *»
H. O. Havemeyer. Mr- and Mrs. Pa7n<»
ney and Mrs. H. McK. Twombly an •-'
pected the first week, and Mr. «£ Jjs
Cass Ledyard will arrive on July is. i
.Livingston Kean, who has been t&h~
Mrs. Sidney "Webster, has returned to Jt~
Jersey. 'V
Miss Fish, who has been the yaeet of ]£•
Hamilton Fish Webster, ha» r«*a~ed »
New York. ;r
. Mrs. Joseph Harrlman and Mrs. T!tas
briskie, who are 111 at their sumnMrfcsj
are reported as being: Improved,
The Rev. Dr. George C H>ughta^ a£a
a short visit, has returned tq Xe^vYcri. .
Mrs. Paul A. Andrews and Mrs. Jo^
Drexel were dinner entertainers this «
lngr. • .•'
! Commodore and Mrs. Arthur CM
James and Mr. and Mrs. P-cbroJte 3m
are expected back from Sew, York t*-m
row. • ; \
Dudley Morgan has returned f»n» a»
yard, and Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock laiact
from Bosron.
Mrs. George L. Rives, Mrs. WHflaa
Sherman and Miss Irene and.iHss JCLtaj
Sherman registered at the Golf Cah n.
cently. -VT ';"-_
Dr. and Mrs. D. G. Dick?- of ser TkX
and Charles S. Sperry, Jr.. of "Rashisstcj,
registered at the Casino to-day. - ;i
■ Ex-Commodore and Mrs. Corce:: Vn
derbllt and R. T. Wilson arrived this tfi»
noon from New York. ,
Mrs. Charles McLane, of New Tori, a
the guest of her daughter. Mr*. Jcaeph Ear
riman.' Lawrence L. Gillette is vislth^
Mr. and Mrs. "W. TV. Shermaa, ¥
Miss Geor^iana G. King baa jane to Ne»
York, and Dr. Roderick Terry ha» retur»i
from New Haven.
Arrivals from New York this awgnta»tp.
eluded Mrs. G. M. Hutton, Harold Ptttdast
Mrs. Edward Potter/ Mrs. Reginald C Va:
derbilt, Mrs. "Whitney Warren and Lls?2
ard Stewart.
Mr. and Mrs.- August Betaent arrived b>
day at the Muenchlnger Kln« cottas«. Txt
are to arrange for Improvements to be Bait
to By-the-Sea.
IN THE BERKSHiRES. <
[By T«lßsrasa '•> T» Trftaa*.]
Lenox. June- 23 —John E. Parsocs Is r»
paring to open St. Helen's Homo. in Tsx
laken. where several hundred freih air I
children annually enjoy an outing. I
•Mr. and Mrs. F. B. 3chermerhom. via I
have been at the Hotel AsplawaO on 4* I
wedding trip, started to-day for Maac*- I
ter. Vt.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Loosals. Mr. ci l
Mrs. James K. Huntlngton. of Kir» To* I
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Pratt, of Ur- 1
mont,'and Mrs. Richard K. 9aimd« i I
Southampton, Long Island, are at £• H>
tel Aspinwall. '"'•>' l I
Miss Fanny Johnson has arrived a: "' I
| Curtis Hotel. ' I
Mrs. R. Byram and the Misses 3-r- I
, and Mrs. A. Merrltt, of New TcrS. tat
! Greenock Inn, at Lee. I
Mrs. Ambrose C. Klr.Tsland has dscEa.
i not to open her country place,. **—
| the Misses Kinssland. will sail far E^
I scon. I
j Cteorge "Wlnthrop Folsom .has'F^f 1 l
[ town. '.'.■•; I
Miss Kate Cary is in Washington. I
Joseph H. Choate came up to Stoc&KiJ
to-day from New York. I
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peters haw iT"- I
at their country place in Great BarrinT'- I
Mrs, "William H. Draper and the Jt- s ** ■
Draper have arrived at their cotas» i I
Stockhrldge. I
I Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Walbridg*.' <**•
'York, have opened their saxnner >•• ■
FRIARS HONOR THEIR A3BC?
"Marse Henri" and Others Sin* Bo*
sey's — Walker Gets Wtfi
There was a large attendant! * -*\
: Jubilee dinner given by the rri * : *Jrf
i the Hotel Astor last evening. Ti9 fc r '^j
;of honor was John W. Ruinsey, - ti *^J
cently re-elected abbot. Edward &X* 1
Pidgeon. dean of the club, presided
Mr. Rumsey was Introduced by JC^
Wolf, who acted as "agent"* • '" '•** f?\j
Henry Watterson said fee was 1^
; a Friar, and paid a tribute to Atbet-^
sev for his success in brtasiss -, t^ a i
through a period of stress and •*2L
i upon a firm financial foundation. A3 ff #
i Thomas reviewed what th« clv& •■p^
pecially its abbot, had accomptt*" ,**.
ing the last year. "?Yfi*
> The other speakers were Qaz**.-^
man. J. M. Fitzgerald. De V*~J?~
\ and Willard P. Coxey. A. I* J^T sG»
j sented a silver loving cup ta -«■* •
s#y on behalf of the members. _^,
In responding Abbot Rum*** . * .^
a gold watch and seal to Ry3s * m
| the cartoonist, ad an express- «*»
! club's gratitude to the artist Mr
I for the organization.
KING FERDINAND IN PA *' S J
Paris. June 23.-King *>*!*»& ■*-■
garia and Queen Eleancre arm*? -^
day and were received witH ™» ..
honors. The programme *;r; r
day visit Is filled with cficia- ■"" , ■ ■
\ fetaa.
m — -^^~ m
I MRS. TAFT WITH-HER.CH^I
Xew Haver, Jtoe 21 "" „„ V^a? 1
Taft passed through t>Js city ", y f*W
way to the Taft steamer no °* * „, «■
' Mass. She vas jo!saJ hrre . %\f-. "'■
sons and daushter-K^rt *^.vm
was graduated from Yale }«*■ ± <*m
ter Charles Taft and MU* f^ff^l
who came to New Haven for t^ ■
■MM J^^___— — - ■ I
PERU'S NEW WINISTER )
Lima. Peru. June
Pliarro was to-day apr °i jttf*3|
War. succeedlnsr General *; : Qofl t*2J
cwln? to ill health, resign** .^ »<^|:
probable that the boundar y J-^ o*m
1 Peru and Ecuador wwii* De»— ■