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The Truth at Work.
Driv? by th? Democratic revolt
m Cm ?* tl ' Wilson haVI at last
which ho thinks?
should le pul upon th?' diplomacy through
which lie ami Mr. Lansing have been Mek
arith (.ormany.
N'atii' ?'?I at the waivers of right
which the ' in Congres?? arc will
?Hg to in order to avoid friction.
that ho will not be ?
pen abandonment of honor1
ami self-respect. Hi? does not ?rant the
ght only by
limitation.
{ that lie is not for peace,
based on honor, the President
bluntly dispels the illusion under which
?? Democrs.freos l?a\c
macy. They have
believed ths ey aimed ai preserving
. even if it were necessary now and
?hen to a?; ght discount on honor.
?They havi looi no opportunity to say that
whatever i the P dent's policy had
accomplish it has at least kept
!he country at peace. Those who criticised
the Admit istration's <i.| lomacy were loud?
ly accused of seeking to plunge the nation
v _ur. The tortoousnoss of th ? negotia
with Germany; their failure to make
pood the warning of the " ?unta
uai :?? 10, 1911
: correspondence in them
- all the.?e were
; reted by the Dem?crata in Congress
..linces of the Administration's will?
?ngne. without haggling
over the price.
The Democratic party in the House, if
ras i', sympathy with
Mr. Bryan when 1.? advanced the idea that'
tin !? : ?ble trouble with
?ver violations of the r_
warfare at sea if only Americai citizens
were forbidden to travel on belligerent
merchant ships or on ships carrying muni
h ?'ted Mi. Bryan's assurance
. re agreed as to
ity of maintaining peace, differ
methods. Therefore it ha?
? 1 with growing irritation in the last
few days what it. ? an inclina?
tion ?m the l'i' part to allow the
?..m of maintaining pear.' to be com
pHcatod by embarrassing considerations of
neutral right and national honor.
Tho explosion of Tuesday and Wednes?
day lasl was l?"Uii?l t?i come, because the
I romoi I ngn n ?scoi-ceived the
policy which the President was following.
It was not a peace-at-any-price policy,
as Mr. Bryan would have stuck to.
I.? form and phrase it was aggTOSaive and
combativo, although in spirit it was thor
v pacifie. When th pinch came, how
ever, the Presid? uta inwilling t.. repu?
di?te phia-cs which I ' of the Democrats
it t onirress wer?' entirely frilling to sacri
ficc in order to avoid further friction.
The Democratic party in Washington
y the fiction that the
masterly diplomacy i f the Administration
bad kepi ? of war and could
be dep? ? ?? d p the country out
of war ?i .tier what might
bappi M v Senator
The
Democrat . House are in?
P ? ident fxr telling the
country the ti il npelling them to
hyphenati ? . ?
openly a< \mon
,iin i nt.Test. Mr. Wll
, ite m that base
I -'tigress
'
???I by their own
? yield
what "tin ' ? ?. _.-:,! with?
out conceding her own impotencj ?
nation and making a virtual surrender of
her independe! I -, among the na
of the world."
I here is much b wholeaomc
truth in Mr. Wilson's letter to Senator
Tl ere ii also some truth that cuts
the other way In Sonatoi Stone's lettor
to the Pr?sident. If the Democratic party
.; w
policy, the fault is not all ? ??
Mr. ' ? ? ha! Heir."
that the Pn
i- getting up s
German) mere!) in ordei to promote his
militai y propare In? - legi lai
? '; .dminis?
tiat?- : ded In ? ' ire to
the exigen? w* of doi In for?
mula? : policy. They ai
longer constrained by loyalty frotn
plaining that In the present stage of the
controversy with (iormany th?' l'i.
.?till pu I paper
"diplomat ess of his
preps | ogramme before ei ery
other ? I
Mr. StOI ?? .< ?.ark
able circular Issued by Secretar) l_ai
t<i the AIIkJ powers In which this intima
lion of ?a dungi o? ji-lici' on our govern*J
ment?a par? toward armo?! merchantmen
44 ;is gil en :
"I should odd thai my government la
impressed srith the roMonableneaa of the
argument that ;? merchant veooel ca?
ai namenl of any sort, In fievi ?<f the cher
liter of tho submarine warfare and the
defensive areakneea of (indereeaa craft,
should be hold t<? be en auxiliary cruioer
and bo treated by ;i neutral m ereil as by
n belligerent government! end il seriously
considering instructing its officials accord?
ingly."
This statement has never boon publicly
withdrawn. Democratic Crongressmen ?re
therefore unable to ses how lite surrender
of American rights which it suggests dif?
fers ni heinottsness from the surrender in?
\<>!voii in the passage of a resolution for?
bidding Americans to travel Ml armed bel?
ligerenl merchantmen. The state Depart?
ment is manifestly not without blame for
the misconceptions of national honor ami
duty which are so prevalent to-day in
Democratic rank? at the Capitol. Mr, Wil
aon is indubitably right now. But Mr.
I ..?using was not right s couple of week
a .to.
It is well for both sides in tho present
party war that the truth should have free
course. The work it is doit:?? wiil dissipate
much fal-e pretence nnd may holp to
create eventually in quarters where it is
most reeded a higher sense of national
honor and patriotic duty.
Women, Uplift and the Weed.
Not since that eminent Puritan "Little
Tim" Sullivan passed to hie reward Ini?
tiiere hier, an authoritative voice raised in
this town against smoking by women.
"Little Tim," if our memory ?a not at
fault, introduced into the Board of Alder?
men an ordinance forbidding smoking on
the part of women in any public restau?
rants or places of entertainment, though
what became of this futile protest against
the resistless tide Of emancipatory prog
ress, whether it failed of passage or waa
o? d forgotten, we can't recall. In
any case, though seriously debated only B
few short years ago. it sounds, in the light
ol present practice and tolerance, like one
of the blue laws of Connecticut. A pull'
divides thai day of ani'ir-i.f prejudice and
this.
The new Women's City Club, on the
eighteenth floor of the Vanderbilt Hotel.
?S n produit of the times, and no more
emphatically than in it- rules regarding
smoking. To-day its members may smoke
in every room in the club, though Misa
Morjorie Driscoll, the manager, it sei
|y considering setting apart one room at
a non-smoking room, a pronounced con?
The ladies meet ther? to discusa
prison reform, pure milk, better schools,
clean Streets?all in a haze of incense from
the fragrant weed. How "Little Tim"
would have bucked such an institution of
uplift as a sir k of female depravity, an
example in debauchery to the youth of
tho dtyl Yet to-day no pious son. of the
Wigwam appears eager to assail the.-o re?
formers for th'Mr odor of cigarette smoke.
And as for the rest of us, we ere half
inclined to believe that the measures for?
mulated by this public spirited organiza?
tion will be a 1 the better for their coti
eeption between puffs. .Smoking induces
r contemplation, discourages gossip,
calms the emotions. In brief, it turn
talkers into li-toilers. In a women's club
could one a.sk more of any 'agency?
Again Seeking Blood-Money.?
Defeated last year In their endeavor to
legalize a twe've-hour day and seven days
of work a week for women and children,
the upstate (anners have renewed their
campaign. They do not have to go to the
Legislature this year. The State ?indus?
trial Commission, three of whose members
have been charged with neglect of duty
resulting in the horrible Williamsburg Are,
;Can grant the petition of the cannera by
adopting special exemptions. And, un?
fortunately, there appeal? to be .une dis
position to do it.
Lawyers for the canners argue that the
present laws are unenforceable. The peo?
ple in the localities want to work extra
hours, they assert; and it is practically
impossible to find a jury to convict a
canner of violations of the labor law.
Strange to say, Messrs. Lynch and
Mitchell, both labor union men, seem to
agree with them to the extent of conceding
nenforceable laws are useless,
If that is to be the Stand Of the Indus?
trial COmmioflkm the whole fabric of the
labor laws might as well be throtfn into
the dust-heap. If they are going to admit
that because certain grasping canner?-.
loeeking to coin the sweat and blood ?."'
women atol minor employes into profits,
deliberately break the laws those laws
.-h- uld be repealed, they are officials false
to their ?trust and recreant to all humani?
tarian tenets.
The fact that criminals exist is no argu?
ment against maintenance of the laws
which they break. In the present in truce
th" situation is easily understood. Th*?
canners are the big men in their vicinity.
All the farmers round about want to sell
produce to them and are under their con?
trol to that extent. What seems to be the
interest of the canner becomes the farmer:?'
As Erymen, obviously they will
:?i are. reluctant to return a verdict
-t their friend?- an.', partners, the
canners. Under the circumstances it is
for some Unscrupulous canners to
brink the laws. They tind no difficulty in
forcing women and minors to work i
hours, for if one will not that individual
the job an?! another is hire?! who will.
Under such competition systematic law?
breaking is established.
This condition is far from general. 1 OW?
OM-r. according to a report matte by ! .,'?? ,??
Commissioner Lynch in 1914, after s? eral
months' experience with the law. ];
clnred then that "the fact that SO many
canners conducted their business without
? on i'? law" argued for the merit
'.'' that statute. Ho added: "Following,
therefore, this principle thai it i? the
lard of the law-abiding rather than
the law-evading employer which should
i? maintained, it is recommended that the
prisent law should not be changed."
There is no more reason whj the law
ahould be changed or evaded now than
when those WOlda were written. l! Would
be a burning sliame on the ?-t?te am1 the
officials who permitted it, if tin? crooked
canners wers upheld in their coures ol ex?
pl< ?ting women and children by any
changes made to legali/.o their practice ?
After Nicaragua, Hayti.
The ratification ef the Nicaraguan
treaty logically commits the Senate to e
ratification of the tnaty with Hayti. The
United states purchased s ?anal right of
way ecroea Nicaragua and three naval
bases, one on the Pacific ri'le and two In
the Caribbean Sea, in order t.? make se?
curer its posses-ion and USO of the l'anama
Canal. The treaty establishing a partial!
protectorate over Hayti has the -ame ob?
ject Its ratification bj the Senate (Hayti
baa already ratified It) would prevent the
acquisition of coaling station and othei
harbor privileges in Hayti by corporations
acting as secret BgcntS for Kuropean gov?
ernment ?
We agree to restore order in the Black
Republic, to see that its debts are liqui?
dated and its credil ii reestablished,while
the Haytians agree to safeguard our in
?, n i n far B military and political con?
trol In the Caribbean is concerned. Hayti
has been the chief danger spot (of An? 11
can policy in the Antilles. We havi
ceeded in eliminating the Dominican Re?
public OS a reckless borrower and cac?
le.-- debtor, allowing dangerous foreign
claims to pile up erith do intention or
means of meeting them. 1 ? 111 Ha\ii bas
(.??en a worse financier even than the
Dominican Republic, and her greater com?
mere- and better and more numerous har?
bors have made her a more tempting prey
to the designs of creditors planning t?i
exact not only cadi but semi-political con
in settlement.
In going into Hayti we act a- a police?
man as a beiievolcnt guardian of our
weaker neighbor-. W di charge a duty
to s i harassed and plundered nation. We
engage ourselves to give the Haytians s
fresh chance to live and to work In se?
curity and to enjoy the proopefity which
must come to them if they take the trou?
ble to deserve it. We freed Cuba from the
incubus of Spanish misgovernment. We
are volunteering to free the Haytians from
their own mi-government. There ?I an
element of altruism in this enterprise
which would commend it t.? American feel
ing even if we were t<? gel no practical
advantage oui of our protector)
Buc there is a still larger element ? I
intorcsl and self-protection in our under?
taking. By ratifying the treaty the Sen
ate will therefore not only be extending
a helping hand to a small American na?
tion, debt-ridden, discouraged end harried
by revolution. H will also be strengthen?
ing the position of the United States in a
region in which we must assume a larger,
measure of political control in order to
maintain the Monroe Doctrine and to reap
the full benefits, commercial and military.
of the great work for civilization which
we have just completed el Pans
With Jess Willard absent, tho West miv
lock mine kindly on pn |
What will Bryan ?1" with thai IroB
when he rc'
it became in reality the Boapway for a
Fewer Railroad Accidents.
? /1 ? /.-. i
Fewer pal ' -i
railroads in \'.'\o than in any year sines
' - -
mm! the i ??il ma i - fifths
of their p ?
The liumli'i of employes killed in 1915 wai
than any other y.-.ir lines 1--"?.
*" he. e i" ? - ? :ir.?-r in its
day. And there were then only hali m many
employes bi there arc now.
In the number injure?! wa have ju-t haE
the best year foi passenfers tinea I9M, and
for employea since 1911, retorna which score
?not quite so much advance as in the list ol
Oaths, hut still a material improvems
By comparison with 1914, the \.-;.r Jusi
closeil marked, . -,, "The Railway
Agi Gaxette," "the l Improvei
lafet] B? operation ever recorded in a sin?
gle year." A- ..?-, .?.,?
annual bulletin of the Intel raeree
Commi
"Tram accident-," in d from
"ere??,n?; accident.?" in v. V ,.,!.,,. ?|
usually half to blame reveal a lar^e im?
proTcmi nt In 1910 ti i
the
mbei -,!>-?
849, 626 and im.
What ore tl ol this rery gratifying
progn n ! Steel ..- block
? ?'. 'iir elect! ..?" the pni nmatic
brake and tl
The Washington Arch.
Gateway of splendor! To the name of him
Wh? built the legend of our liberty
We linger silent in the shadows dim
To greet again the legend of the free.
Winter's white chain ha, fallen from tin?
ea rt h,
Sunshine droop, ?-weet against the listen?
h g sky,
Viet? ri?-.? glorious again have birth
Wrapped in the cloud mist where the
colors fly,
Hark to the armie- marching through the
years?
Th? drums, tie bugle call, the .?.word, the
eld,
The rs - and the rii
cheers?
Hh breve wl on the battle?
field.
Our dead call to us from that garden
grave,
Salute the flag! Above the granite arch
Waken once more?oh, children of the
brave!
Look up! Beyond the gateway |
The glor) of the Springtime sky is red.
Voi ? ell! Again be fowl
Sons of our fathen -by the blood they
shed '
Mardi on Mardi on! for (iod and
Liberty!
KAIL MAS 1 hi;
LA FOLLETTES FOLLY
A Seaman's Estimate of the Pro
visions of the Seaman's Act.
To th? Editor of The Trihoao.
Bin Von will perhaps pardos a ?T|,,n w^?
ooi Borvod before aad#ohaft the mast for ?
tow rea_arks eeaeernlng thai atamtaa
ealled ths ?.'aniRir- .:. l ? ssors nttlng titls
won I?! lie "An bcI to M rangle American rom
Bsores " Devised by a Califoraia labor ??.'<>-*?
?or nn.l thai Bslsfll s.'iinior fross Wloeeosln,
I.ic of tho worst places <>f legtelatien
f. reed iipoi Ihn country by the ?HM
theorl ti who eompeoe th?' ssajority sf ths
? Coogrs
?. ?i4.il || of the 5p.ii.inn'- r.t provides
thai OS VCSeel <?f 100 ton?? or over shall Hear
from any port in the Halted State? inilc?
she has on hoard n ? row 71 per cent of whOSJ
arc able to understand the order* of th?
officei . forty per seal ef the lech crew
mu ? be certified nhli? 8000100. To obtoil
? u. h b eortiflcate ? ssan mast have im?' three
...,? ' experience end have passed s pi i ?
examination ss te eyesight sad lito?
duty M a ?ailor. In practice this miner?, t he
a amber of eligible? .?o much that s itrike for
.luv eaaee weald tie op every port
? ? United state .
A COptOlS "f an Ameii.'.-r told mr
of nn i Rperienee he had n win?
,-ni r?.?.I one of these certificates, rhe mas
was s landlubber ? didn't kn<>?? aay thing about
a ship; bad never been to lea, When qui
tioned as to hii possession of sn A. B. eertifl
este, he said he bought H on South Street foi
| dollar of a -i.ilor who I aid bs COttld
easily secare another.
Another section provides that when an
American re lei touches ?? p"rt each sailor <?n
hoard shall r.-ei?..- from the BSSStCI CO ,l?'
miiii.l one half lin? va." I 'I"" him. The?
.01 tiie master the del gbtful '
rorl | ihip with a drunken ? >
On peg? '?! <>f the Is ?
boal Inspect Ian I ? r ? ? i" mad?
that v? ? ' ' 100 feet aad '? have
twelve cork rings, ?is of which ?hall be
ind one <?n each tide pro?. Ided with
lifeline of nol I m fifteen fathon
,i \. -. ? orh Harboi
. ? of three m< n Is i s
earry I same life svlag equip
m. i,' ;? ..n .-. ' sn
An.! thl not I ' reign V? ?el ran
under the Amei lean Hag ? ithoul
tion for two pmcnl
will pa- mil 1er.
In e t any won
del ti
ever) foreign eon ' ' '
Brool > ? "? 191*8.
A Paper Army or a Real Army?"
tor . .' 1 be Ti ^ur.o.
Sir; i wish thai your admirable r;
tl c at,..-. . ' tO-daj could
be eop d I ,,; "?' the latnd,
and thai ever? eiti i n nt ? '? d In prepared
. ould call it to the of hi ?
? ;, .- prei ??re of
lequii ' ?"
!? i now " dear that all other plai
i .,?,.-1- milil a plan have been done to
the Hoe ' hope a ith
rest in the I
e told thai
regular arm;, i ? ivlng
careful
??our mil opinion
i best qualified to Judge," ss :?? ?
well .?ay, "require a permanent first Une force
under arm- of 250,000."
Hut "these best qualified to judfrr" ?re
, ' ;..- |.. i the Boa . now ?
Thin body of three hundred end odd ?roll
?_ end ordinarily Intelligent laymen
r t u nais charged with th? ?? whet
nt m expert qui these
uni. a- igaorai I ol the militar, ..it
? ,
up tl' an.l death
; sgainst the vi<
ti nt ex.
Qualified experta ha? that a
fedei r -
era Held force for sdi nee either
and s half hours' drill a week In sn
armory <>r by Peder?] pay, or by anything
d th?'
bI government can separately or to*
?
v
ing upon its vice of regular army en
I to the number advocated by the more
n the
Inclined I
I H .RLES ROB
? "i k, Pi o. 23, :
Mr. Read Testified.
I o the Editor of The Tribu? i-.
Sir: In en editorial appearing in this
morning's paper
"Mr. Read, fortunately, !.. alive, and from
' r"i Mr. Shent . ren of him
...1 provida entert test imony."
The above creates an impression that Mr.
Head baa not testified, end I a-k pern
.r attention to the fact that he
? ' ? : B] . legtslativs
'? ' -~" i?'1 mb? i .".?, 1915, i i|uote
.? .
"i know, Mr. Read, of an.
m. nt I?? ng mad? i ?. hi , oi. In
? -.t b fund had i.e.m raised by rol
?tribut ?? purpo i of pro?
moting
d '? A .'-'?. -ir.
'.'? I - i hear I laaedf A
'.' I -:.' r in or out of the hoard- ?\ Mo
?.! ? ~- ' "'
ippose at the
time the m p. ? on -,.,. .j,,.
euch fund bad be? - : and exp
cthl^i?i^VN? "
? the auapicion <? . tha,
. ' ' : s thin? lik,
A. I don i
i P. SHONT8, I
-oik, Peb. 21, 1916,
Filipino Heterogeneity.
lo the Editor ef The Tribune.
Bin Boppeee Miantonomoh, who was *
- shrewd aid Narragaasett, I
| lor the independence of the An,encan Indians
"' ' Pit* or Hurk" h?d been token with the
rated!
?
??
differ 1 at
ill the Fili
? '? Haras
ade a
trolling th? " | there
' ' ?mblance to the
people
???hat they v. anted an i . ?Jggjj
? ? hole' RICHARD WEU ING.
New York, Feb. 19, 1910,
Germany's Submarines.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Hecause submarine fn..?ir? are capa
ble, ? ordiaary cruis,-u _,-. no?, of ?
rater at ?Hi" th.? Genoons claim
can sel :.?e the Lai ? ef naval
warfare r? ?atinjr to search and M|
piled to ordinary crui?er??, BI I that I BV are
justified in .settinn; up a BOW code m.irk.-d
by rothless outrage. VERO LIMOND.
:?cw York. Feb. M_ U?1C.
BANKRUPT?
EXPLOSIONS FROM A NEUTRAL
Uncle Sam Holds the Whip Hand, Yet He Allows Himself To Be Bullied
by Both .Sides, While the God of Luck Alone Keeps I lim Out
of War?Little Choice in Belligerents.
To the Editor of tha Tribune.
: l have an i?lea that 1 am ?mating n
time -n writing to you, for our great ffjnei
can "free press" rarely publishes anythii
?rltk which it disoajroao. Ooe must hunt v
a Republican paper fui- b Republican letter,
D moeratic paper f.?r ? Democratic ietter, t
Anglomaaiac paper for British propagan?
and another hyphenated ergon for Germs
... When s fi How
\ rii an, and a n< utral ? ?
.c'n ihow . the i rovei biol dova wil
I batte reed pleaa for "Britiah i
"German Kultur" until l hoi
? I at the eonelo ion that the Engiii
writers who are raving should or on soloi
from tha Ka-. ? r and the G< rmon prol
should be pensioned by the Britiah. Bvei
time I h? ar Brii pro-Genooi
;,n.| the rot from the Fatherland always maki
?m- pro-Ally Bui I read all.
The great Tribune, who t motto is "truth
hj phenal i ding to th.- prevailin
? ? ?
'
ordered to do 10 by the Briti
lunably, Mia? il will nol !>?? "Arm"
:n leeking war with Germany. I bate Gei
. t.,.. for i'? "Kultur," iti egotiam an
?human idi ill o ?eel anical "f? tTi
..'' Hut I know, as 'I | know
that Germany has never g?'t a
? presa or from the politic
- entry,
1 am plain American, with a family tha
1 .. ? fought m every war m this countr;
since 1769. I hove em ! my country an
(ii.l my little bit in the Jungiea of the Philip
leu. - and "n tha walls <.f Peking I am will
in?? to go oui a- ment ?m th
tirine; line to uphold I tmerteai
? iron
?.!" her territory or "i
. frank!;,. I am I
hood and ...
? ? and a sub
fort to uriri
a weak. Administration to ar ui
Germany.
lb.- latest proposal for tie I'mc-l
States t.. t.-;.r up her treaty of It
inj ami hi "?! ? . ? i- tha Appam to th?
Yet how ti ?? people '?' 'no will con
pan .- .. ed when Germany disro
1838 -.4ith Belgium!
me ob Germaay's part
??> invade '?' fter aaking pern
to march troops aero ? her territory ami
being refused. Mut th..? Allie?* did the boom
WVOd herself fcv
Bitting to the invasion instead "t
g f"r her neutrality, aa brave Belgium
did. 'lb'' British warships were clear?-! for
a?-tion against (.reece ..'.-1 everything ?!???
aroa m reodioeaa to Belgiumixs her when
irrendered her honor to the a
The aolj areefl lin.-ce and
-.* poor Belgium was fooled
bark of '!.?? big Bril ifa bull. i!.
? i" right over t.? devour I
ind if the 1
him awhile Th.? Belgians did, but ti.
I
c the sao i
1er part .
in..- than Albert and
I ?
?binary
? tratadle en thi
gland shoul I i - taugl ? I money
huy her he is anwill
? for.
l?reat trouble is that the most injured
Franc?-, Belgium, Bertie and
Poland, are the most innocent. They have
the Bafferen from the rivalry and
( n Britiah novation aad
.:. militarism, between imperial Brit*
Bad imperial (?erman BOCiel
? America hoi had the chance
B ha? the whu
or. both tha bulldog and tha doch
The old bulldog la toothleae ?without
America, and without her the dachshui ?
hardly rat. I;.stead of ftarufin," before th.?*
i world a? a x>ov*erful neutral, SOBBSBOBding
-, v aetica has become a laughing
,, both ?id Bcause of her willing
to h? bullied by British or German.
ti luck has kept her OUt of
the ?rar not Wilson's weakness. Wilson
would go '.? ?/or fu-morrow if some Btroag
man told him to "change hi^ mind" and
guaranti re-election.
The whole situation i? disgusting to the
ige American, who can look at it from
? - im instead of poll
When the British cniiscate our cotton
and destroy our moll ws could sa> : "Look
. ?, . .!,.; n, itop that or ??? ? e i'.l coi I
mmunition." But wi ere afra'.I. We
ire afraid of losing b few filthy dollars,
afinid John might not l.ke our "firmness"
.' I ?' i? 'he munition makers might get
| ? ' red.
When the (Irru?an-? ra,so the ?iickenr? from
:i aid otherwise we could SOyi "Look
ilaus, no more of that, or we will
. r great liners in our
non-combatant who loues
his lif" Unjustly through roar submarines."
er. W i moot beg permis
linaria! Britannie majesty
even to . milk to (?cmi?n bablee; we
? on Urea "eceidents," so thai
ihseat at the next
on!
omedy to the average Amer
ican, who !? ree t this le a nation and
r a colony of the Kaiser's nor an
l\
JAMES EMER80N, JP?.
New York, Feb. _1, 1910.
'Water Wagon Week."
'lo the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sir: In "Flans for Water Wagon Week"
iy: "That something short of total ab
lafe for very many is manifest
? unprejudiced observer."
Hit can you pick out in advance of
trial of the effect of booze on any given
; of r.H'n ??hicli ones belong in your
'".' After the trial has proved (as ls
' ? any unprejuiliced ob
? i ver" i that very many of those who
? they ?rere in the immune class were
not immune, what thon is to be done?
figure of speech to say that
every human lii-ing who hits the booze
trail m approaching an indefinite and
I invisible line which, once pass??d, h by
many impossible of i .'crossing? ?A here
that lit:. Il - i i|-:.-s?;on for each one. Some
reach it, and consequently th ink it
then find to their dismay
.?v I BVS unknowingly crossed it and
have left behind either the ability or desire.
or l.oth, to retrae 'h. ?...- What about
I it their fault? Should they have
k'uwn they coul.l not turn back? Yes, but
bow wen they to know if they follow the
counsel fairly implied in your editorial?
If you came back with the usual "They
could cr.nt if they wanted to" argument, what
hall the "wry many" who, not
having in any other phase of life weak wills,
I do not retrace their steps to respectability,
.ven when every conceivable reason fordoing
? lent to them as to you or BBS I
If a fairly intelligent man fails to do what
ble motive of self-interest urges j
him t?? do, how shall we account for BO
? ? BOI BOB? Not, surely, by!
limply calling him fi'ible-min.led, when his
? ??. of mentality are overage ei
N there any other conclusion
-n't quit b?'cause he can't?
A man many years ago asked, "Am I my
brother's keeper?" and much of the world
-, wered, "Theoretically, yes." Hut
theoretically or practicaliv, i_ it not true
H H. H.
Brooklyn, Feb. _0, 1910.
A Correction.
To the K'litor of The Tribune.
Will you correct a new? item from
Montclair in to-day's paper'.' Your cor
? made John R, Howard and my
iy that Henry Ward Heecher and
Brooke did not believe or preach the
"?toctrine of incarnation." If he had ?aid the
ne ot reincarnation" he would have
?corr?ctly stated the matter in dispute.
? HENRY KIM. HANNAH,
i Montclair, N'. J., r'eb. 111. 1016.
I NEW INSPECTION METHODS
The Fire Commissioner Explains
Proposed Improve .rents Bill.
I To th? Ed '
log no de ?
i a summary instead of 1 I foBBae*
fore you, your editorial
'"Better Building I
I written under the I
! r.cw building loepeet
1 the new Boar.!
?shall issue build Bg < its i fore?
?of inspectors ead
i tencients BIS to Bit ' ? *>vn
orders. While It
I superintendents .
! be BMBahen of the I i ?? m?"
! Appeals, the] - p n ??
I mok-ng bal I e?l
, not sit or I .
A- to thl i
that body as pro?
not to be an odfl
?only a standard ma
tOVieW, and .-.
i tai i a force of loSJ. ?ay ar?
gon, in add? on te
'rules and r?gulai
from orders of thi r *"'?
building superinti ndenl ? --' P01"
?ible - ' ' :'-r:n ?'
binding an?l pen.1
The two prim ?
maintained ?or :
houses, will be ? ' ?f*"
Intendenta, which n ' ,! Mn'
'.-?truction work wl SBd bVbBB
of the Fir.- De| BBBjeBt
all buildings, ?M =*f ? ?J
they are pro? ? '.< d with I I "v*'
fire extinguishing a; "r E*
protection as - Isbef la*,?"
building code and the rules and regulatioti
at the Board of Tk*
Tire Deportmeol -'-? tT~
ders for the eerrei tlOB B? ' " '.
?stir.?,; baildiOga, and ?B additioo will ?
ure exercise similar I ~ lOtssaaa
factory buildings.
In a word, | ? a : tes tha S'-**?*
Labor Department from the enforcement or
Are prt-'vention and - 'u m
factories in tha I * ltnJ j""*
tors that power. ?*? '"*
perviaion of acta f ',a "
ing super.nt?
thi enforcoBsont of I re ? : 0XT
in existing factor - -. ' ' p,*[
merit. When thl '1 "
order for a.? alt wr* E.'i*
other building a cop;
sent to th- build : g BU| er
I borough 44 he?., the
?the tuildiog Bap? rlnti ' l gf
work ia done in ac * ' '
thlfl arrangement II
ition is to be mode te ?1jrp0''
of both deporta ????J
;unaer the new ploB .<
lof the building sapor ' M '"' ?V
in its structural feotu ' ^
iating laws and it n ?,.
The bill seeks to ?- f *'p, .,
ment and Boilding BureOB
to specific r?.|u n ??*> ol
and standards, thus S - ^'"EE
of different SBd vpiying n I ?"?'"" 7 #f
mad- of building SWI
Standards and Appeoli '*;.,
the legal mechanism
of order? will 1. ?Er.
eral administration of
monlaed. The b II, '"'J^,
fee,, is a long, r.p ?; . .
conuitions. KUDi
New fork, ! ? ? _
Our Temperance Department.
To the EditSV of The Tribune.
Hri The notice in te-doy'l Tr.Hun- J
queer antics of Health ? "
?on in getting ?pi? , J,
campaign B| *^.tf.
have either a crank i ._i
User at the head
It is not part of t' ' ?
business, of Health ?
t?. oxploit bis pera
fashion. Tha eitiai ,.
'should mart a c.ti s
loff.cial from his
who object to fuch an Bpliitei w-rt^jC..
KSJSJ York, Feb. to, 131?