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TRIBUNE gaaraataca t? pay >our money bark
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make good proinptl> if the ad4 ert iser doea not.
Repairing an Ancient Blunder.
Tha purehase of the Danish Weai
Indies* has lonp been one of the aims ol a
sound Ameriean foreipn policy. Twiee
the effort to acquire these islands has
failcd?once throuph an ur.fortunate ex?
hibition of parochialism io the L'nited
States Senate and 0000 through an
eleventh hour fit of hesitation in one of
the hooaefl of the Danish l'arlianient.
Pres-dent WilMM has now renewed the
attempt to come to an apreement arith
Denir.ark. by whieh thc position of the
l'nited States in the West Indies will be
materially strengther.ed and one more
..bstaele in the way of the workinp out
of the Monroe Doctrine will he per
? :tly removed. We conpratulato the
Adminiatrstion ob its aueeaaw in rcvivinp
the purehase project at a time when th
eountry is more than ever alive to the
UBlBawilj of extendinp Ameriean control
la the Carmbcan and of protecting the
approaches from the Atlantic to the
I'ar.ama Canal. We are conndent that
ihe treaty just signed will he ratith
it should be-without deiay or partisan
triction.
The l'nited States has l>een very slow
in shakinp itself free from the prejudices
of insulanty?very backward and unim
apinative in visualizinp its future in the
frribheao baein. Moal of our publie men
have talked about .Monroeism without
fully realizinp what it meant?what obli
patior..- it BBUSt inevitably impose on thia
country as a puardian of tho Latin
Amerkan powera in their relations with
the OBtiona of Kurope.
If we are to maintain the principle of
America foi Americans, it should bc our
uim to otiliaa every possible opportunity
|o ri'.iu,.' the tenritorial holdings of Euro
pean BBtiona OB the Ameriean continent.
|f w- intend tO limit the power of Euro
pean natinns to intervene in Latin-Ameri
ean o.ur.tnes foi the purpose of collect
mp clairns and enforeing, finaneial oblipa
we mu.-t put ourselvt-s more and
more into B position to assist the back
WBl*d Latin-American republics in main*
i.-r, disrharpmp 'heir jual
and pfOtecting the livcs and |
European DBtionall within their juris
diction.
The second of these natural aims of
Ameriean fOTBaffl policy has heen recop
nized recer.tlv l.y 1're- idont WllsOB in hia
forcible interventi.n in Hnyti. He laaded
Ameriean marin.'s m Hayti, took i
BfOB of the Haytian povernment BOd rjom
pelled that povernment to assent to a
treaty ?? .-tabhshinp an Ameriean protec
torate, re.-emblinp in some ways our pro
tectorate over Cuba. He has admitted it
to be the duty of the United States to
restore civil and linaneial order in Hayti
and in tho Dominicaa RepahUe, in our
own i well as in the interest of
the people of thoso countries. ln so do
inp he haa BZBCtlj reversed his Mexiean
policy, aince h? has freqncntly and
heau-dly denied that it is our duty to re
. ivil and linaneial order in Mexieo
for the purpo " of proU .-rican
lives Bttd i ' pert* and discharpinp our
Ohligationa under the Monme DoetritM to
Eurojiean nationals dnmieiled tl
ConM>ter,-y in joditics is Mr. Wilson's
last thoupht. He seldom knowa exaetly
where his poHeiafl are earryinp him. \ >''.
in Hayti, f -n-ettitur all abuut hia Mexiean
profe did tlie ripht thinp. He
ha9 dor:r- the lighl thinp apain in seek
inp to poreBBM tho I';w,i.-h Weet Indies,
thouph auch BB nrquisition <'f foreipr.
territ'iy nece aarily acandaliuea "The
Evenii.p Poat*1 and Othen who took niu.'h
too BOraOUalj the Tresidenl's Mobile
speech and other i-imilar promulpations
in the aalad days of iiis Admimstration.
ln off4-rmic to huy land held on this con?
tinent hy a EtaTopaflaB jv.wer Mr. V\ .
is only puttir.p into practice the tirst an i
I oua corollary of the M.eiroe
Hootrine.
When Secretary S< waid ?
our tirst treaty of purcha-e with I'en
mark, in 1887, the United Sl
eould rmt yo.- this. lVnmaik was willing
to aall lu-r West Indian i-.laii.l-. "fVl
wtre i ind to prateat ia ease ahe
|0 sell them to any Kuropean power. **Cl
the Banata refuai I . st. Th.mia
St. John for $7,6<.i", Btubboraly de
clininp to pa-s al all OB the barpain, a!
though tho titne within whieh the Bale
was to be elosed was twiee exti-nded.
Thus t*M Beaiata, tiirouph personal an 1
partisan jiettin---, threw gravfl auapici
on the ameerity nnd good faith with
whieh the Unitod Statea lnten.U^i to apply
the Monroe Doctrine. Dfaaaaarh oould
hipieally h.ave held I I uAvoi fr.,n>
any ohligation m>t to diapoae of tha
lalaUad I er bidder ewen i Et
jiean bid h-r 80 fkMlg a~ wo }1;.,j turned
down her very Rl ' PB t
Our error :n policy was ie.:tilied la partj
ln 1902. under the Rooscvelt Administra
tion. when n treaty of purchase. includ
inp all three islands, was ratif'icd hy the
United States Senate. bttt failed Riibse
quently in the upper branch of the l'an
ih Parliament OH I tie vote.
Wl COtlld have pottcn the three island-;
02 for 16,000,000. Now we must pay
|25,OOO,OO0 n price nuieh beyond tho
commenval value of these possessions,
which have booonae m irksome burden
(.nancnally tO Penmark. but not too high.
porhaps, in vion of the hcreased limtigk
and pclitical importance they have ac
quired from our point (rf view- since the
I'ompU'tion of the Banama Canal.
Iti 1898 we cxtinpuished BjrSial'a title
as an Ar.vrican land owner. We have ?
chance now to extmpuish Denmark's, ex
eept M to t.reenland, if Greenland mav
, bo eounted i's nnythinp like reai land
; boldinf. Kventually. perhaps, we may
i bay the Frer.ch and Dutch West India
ialanda, leavinp us, except for Treneh
Cuiana, with only one Kuropean proprie
tor in our hemisphcre?that proprietor,
Gre?< Hritain, too iirmly lodpcd, perhaps.
OTOT to be boupht out or otherwisc dis
For the present, however, our policy
il dear. We need the Da.ish islands.
Their people would beneflt economically
from a transfer to our sovcreipnty. Den
murk world beneflt fmancially by the sale.
It is a tramaction throuph which all
parties will reap an advantape, Best of
all. if the new treaty poes through we
ihall repair happily. and without undue
penalty, tlie eprt*pious diplomatic blunder
made by our obtuse and faction-ridden
SenatO almost half a century apo.
City Planning at L.aat.
IC is welcome r.ews that the city zone
' plan has passed the Board of Kstimate and
is now iti force. Coiisiderinp tho acopo of
the measure and the countb-ss interest
affectc.l, Opponenta were amazinply few in
numbera end faulta relatively unimportant.
The issue reflects hiph credit on ;??
perts of tho districtinp commission who
labored toward the formulation of the
plan.
Perhapa the most eneoaraging point is
the open-minded fashion in which the re
form has been received by all concerned,
reai estate men. builders, bankers and the
publie. Aniericana have been eredited with
ring a wilfnl individualism that op
poacd any community aetion. however
needful, which curbed a man's freedom to
do as he liked with his own. Go-as-you
please has been the only watchword. Now
that a wiser mind has prevailcd in the im?
portant metter of city planninp to the
evemtual oxtinpuishment of hodpe-podpe
building, we may hope for further prog
ress. Bill-boards on scenes of natural
beauty mipht well be the next item on the
list. The new spirit is admirable and
should flourish.
A British Domestic Crisis.
In attempting to fix the rearpotiaibility
for the latest crisis in British politics it
Bema to be assumed by many critics here
abouts that one or another of Mr. Red
mond's political opponents must neces
aarily be at the bottotn of the mischief and
that all would be well but for the bigotryl
and BCheming of this Unionist or that. "A
to the world as well as to their own
country are the Tory statesmen of Eng?
land," say.s one censor, with preat bitter
ness; another, as bitterly and almost as
vapuely, rails at Carson and "the Enplish
Icomplement of Carsonism"; a third com
plaina more definitely of Lord Lans
downe'a "recent ill-considered speech" as
, an apparently deliberate attempt "to com
plicate the delicate situation."
Such eoinnrents as these are al! hesido
the mark. Lord Lansdowne may have let!
the cat out of the hap, but nothinp that j
he said in the House of Lords can pos
aibly have caused the deadlock in the Irish
negotiationa. He mipht justly be blamed
if what he had said was based on a misun
derstanding of the situation in the Cabinet.
But nnfortunately there was no misunder
atanding. Moreover lie apoke after con
sultation, not with those Tory statesmen
who are a pest to the world, but with the'
Prime llinieter hiraeelf, and the Prirae
BfiniatCT has been constrained to back up|
what he said. Hence, if his speech wa .
M Mr. Redmond complains, "a pross insult
to Ireland," the Cabinet as a whole is re
Bponaible, nnd not Lord Lansdowne par
tictilarly.
It is rather fortunate if anything in
thia miaerable effair can be called fortu
nate that Lord LanadOWne made it known
that the attempt at conciliation had in
affed proved otterly abortive. Of course
Mr. Redmond'a position is intolerable, but
sooner or later the truth was bound to
it, end ea ei no time waa there any
proapect of egreement in the afiniatry, ii
araa |M?rhaps as well that fruttleaa tinkcr
rith the bill should bp stopped at
even by the irreguler eeddent of a
speech in the Houee of Lorda,
How the Coalition can weather this lat?
est dilTiculty it is Inipoeaible to see. Mr.
Aequith, penerally BO apt at pettinp OUi
of difncult eornera, has made but ? week
ot to account for the vacillatinp pol?
icy of the poveinmer.t. It is true that
when hc apeaka of the undeairability of
coercing the Unioniati ol Ulatei '?
all intenta and purpoaea quoting Mr.
Radmond'a own words. lt is true thei
be haa declared hia willingneea t<> lay
the whole metter before the votera, But
in the meantime no progreee whatever has
been ma.ie with the much advertiaed aet
tlement, and there is no dear way of
patching up the differenceo that exiat v
appeal to the country at this time would
be regerded by ell partiea as a moel deav
perate if not diaaavtroua euterpriae, and!
il | doubtftti whether Mr. Kcdmond him
self would welcome it.
Mr. A st j ii i t h is ondoubtedly justitied
In refuaing to introduce a meaeuro that
Lm ?ubetantially ecceptable by
all parties. The proposed mea>ure anal
ed 1 my party, but tn iti oripinul
rough form it was aprecd to by Mr. BooVl
mond and Sir Edward Carson ns at. Im
perial necessity, and the concessions on
both sides were mado on that understand
inp only. But it is obvious that Mr. lb-d
niond never undcrstood that the interim
pov.-rnment of Ireland was virtually to
take the forn <>f niartial law, with an
Irish minister supportcd by "a ca|>able mil?
itary ofticvr, with a sumYictit force to
'maintain unqucstionable order." It is ob?
vious. too, that he never expected tbe per
Imanent axcloaioa of six northern eoantJeo
or a reduct.ioti of the n-presentation of
, Ireland in the Impenal I'arliatnent.
If, therefore, the members of the Cabinet
Iwere debatinp tbe details of this scheme it
is well that their deliberations were cut
short at this stape, for it is inconceivable
I that the Irish Nationalists could by any
'means have been persuadi'd to accept a
measure so utterly unlike anythinp they
were led to expect. The only hopo lies In
the reopeninp of nepotiations, but that
Ipoeeibility o>penda on the will of Mr. Red
mond. His patience is nearly exhausted.
'and his influcnee in Ireland has sufTered
so serious a decline that it may be doajbtod
whether, even with his hejp, the present
government can be saved.
Truce in the Cloak Strike.
The settlement of the cloakmakers*
strike is welcome for the relief it brinps
to starvinp families. It cannot be viewed
as offering any preat hope of lastinp apree
rnent an>l it is dietinctly a atep backward
from the protocol status which existed
before the lockout. It ofTers n eompromise,
a truce, the product of cxhaustion on both
sides, rather than any sound and perma
nent peace.
The manufacturers have won their
effort to eliminate arbifration from their
industries. They have failed on every
tother point in dispute and in addition
must foot a finaneial loss estimated at
15,000,000. The workera retain the pref
erential union shop which. the protocol
granted them and which the manufact?
urers sotipht to end; they pain a |1 to
$1.60 increase in weekly wape. a 4('-hour
week inateed of B0 hours and a standard
scale of pay for piecework. They pain
also of necessity tbe righ! to strike when
and as often as they p'.ease. The sum
total is a rabetantieJ impiwaement in
the workers' condition. The pain is the
price which the manufacturers are pay
ing for the elimination of nrbitrat.ion
from the future Of the industry.
This truce may laat a fair lenpth of
time or it may end to-morrow. IVaec
in such an industry is a very untteble
quantity when no standinp means for
the impartial nrbitration of disputes is
set. up. That is the leeaon which the
manufacturers. with their Bl.1 a*
conciliatori end protocola end aociel
uplifters, have yet to learn.
In one of their statcments to the publie j
these employers complained <>f the social
istic philoeophy held by their employes,!
who looked to the domination and control
of the shops in which they WOfted As
a prim humor of the fight these same crrr
ployers, by defeating the principle of arbi
tration and enforcinp a return to open
strupple and strikes, have all nncon
sciously i>laycd direciiy into the hands of
the extremfarta, the ayndicaliata, who, far
from being aetiafied with domineting en
induatry, demand its out-an-out owner
ship by lebor. These men deprceato
peace and urpe constant labor strife as
the means to their end. The aettlemenl
must, therefore, be regerded as eeeen
tially a vietory for the extremists of both
labor and capital. It is a distinct defeai
tdr the voice of moderation which puts
faith in a middle ground of better feel
inp an<i higher Jnetice,
The bright spot.-* ir. the strupp-lo have
been the itanch union of the strikcrs in
the face of privation and the vigor ar.d
intellipir.ee with which the people of Xew
York have comprehended the issue at
stake and rendercd aid and moral sup
port to the just cause of the workers.
If some clarifieation of labor'i demanda
end a new sympathy for its poorer mem?
bers fiphtinp an unequal battle come to
us from the strupple, it has not been
weged in vain.
The Hurricane Season.
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With ona Weat Ind lv re
iiti tha I.'- lii Laaa nnd Alal
thia month, another '.:'
;.. i.'liv.fr its Btreogth in tha vieinity of
Churlrr-'orr, end a third .-i^-lr.ed far off at
? rruiy he snid that the hurri
:>f 1911 has been ushered in under more
thnn ordinarily favorablc au' pices from a
hnnricaaa Btaadpolat,
These tropical storsm, which sometimes
work preat devaatatioii to i]..- diatricta
lliar in their natart, di'Trr
ing from all otheri that ara experienced in
ihis country. The months of their gi
ney aro July, Aaejaat aad Septeraber,
although they a' ' ''?>' exper
oolh earlier and latar.
All have their oriirin la tha tl
surroundinp tho Weat Indiea, from whieh
thr;. darhra their namee. Their onward naove
ment varios from a few Blilea a day to ai
much fjreater rate of advance, but they
Bometimea ahow Beareely any prop-re?? for
days at a time, and occasionally seem to
retreat. Tha Hae 'rf movement forms n
charaeteristrc enrve, cu<tomarily a little
north or west, until thr point further*
la rearh. I. when 8 curve to the north or
i.ist saddaal - I Thus the daag
? .tion 0VI r the land Hrea of tho I ? tl I
Statea la d i" ndeat upon the point at which
thia is delayed until
the Atlantic coast la reached, or the Gulf |
of Mi aiCO well penetrated, damage is bound
tO ensue.
Al the hoicht of these storms the wind
often reaches and occasionally BXeeeda a
velocity of 100 Blilea an hour. Durintr the
iir--. burrieaaa af the present month a ariad
? y ..f I'M Bsil ia an Iiour araa tog I
rt*. Ifebile, und slrnilar velc
Gahraatai araa arrecked la 1900, al
thauajh tha iasmaase laaa af a ex
' :oduccd by t'r;
i . " drivea in by the aiada. The
that 1 '??'?. raparatlvoly
ithi i aaere hiatad
<? af tl... little town of Indlaaola,
aiped froa tha mup
1> Weat lndi-i. hurricunea.
PROGRESSIVES SHOULD SIT TIGHT
Aad Perhapi the Bull Mooae Will Swallow
the Elephaot After All.
|To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: The great mass of Progresaives have
M int.-iition of returning to the Krpublie-m
j party. even though supporting Hughes. They
do not believe that thc Kepublican party ran
he depended upon to establ.sh and maintain
political nnd social justice. even though M
f?r thr moment by n Hughes and supporte.l
l.y a Koosevrlt. Thry do not b.-lievr thnt the
rrent Progressive movement is to cease Juat as
our work ll fnirly begun. Thev believe thnt
this wonderful and rfoctivo reform move?
ment is greater than nny leader or any num?
ber of leaders. They believe that thr large
body of f.uthful men who have constituted
the national Progressive party have accom?
plished in four short years more than has
, ver been accomplished by a like movement
in a similar time in all history. They be
lieve thal th*f* bl Btttl a vast nmount of work
tO be done. either by themselves or by others
followiaa in their footstcps, in firmly estab
Hlhing and maintaining the principlei for
whieh we have been fighting and whieh *'
ara dotaraaiaod shnll BiwvalL
Why, th.-n, I rsk you, should we yield to
political opportunism to the rxtcnt of nhan
doning our orgnnization. ns it is heralded
thnt we arr ab*at to do, even if we ure dr
?erted bv some of our lenders, or if we de
cide that thr exigrncirs of the time demand
thnt we ?abardlaatfl our pr*graaua* tanapo*
r.-r.lv to the great Issue of Americanism.
under stress nnd shadoxv of the present eriss
;n the world'*. history* Was there ever
j.-reatrr need of firm nnd farseeing pa?riot
ism? Of militant nnd unfailing determinn
tioal Of col-hendrd but unflinchlng asser
tion of devotion to our princlples? Of intel
ligent nnd stubborn opposition to the power*
of privilege* Of unbrnding and uneompro
mising mihrrence to the ideal* of moral, so?
cial nnd political reform whieh brought us to
rer!,.r aad have guided our coune aince the
lnst aatioaal al*cti*a1
I'ndoiibt.-dly many of ui will vote for
BJaghea; flthera for Wilson; ?ome for the
-- Beasoa, and still .,ti,.-rs for the
nominee of the grawiBg body of men ani
aroraen wh* nr.' rkUraiiaad that nati.mal pr**
? on of the lioio.r traflfl shall be accom
pliahed bv political aetleB. Hut wberever w*
aal .mr ballots Individoally thli [all ??"
each aad all af us remaia Bnrt of all Proa-re*
,?h ? big I', iwady t* b?1 t*g*th*r
Bgmin when eoaditiom fa*ei aad th< BBper*
. ihall have paaaed.
While luperBcial thtakera nre heraldiag
the abaorptloB of rhe Pi-ogri -,4,- party hy
rhe Repnblieaaa, mary ahrawd Bb*?r*eri bi*
growiag more nnd Bierc eoB?d*Bl thal tim
?, thal thi greal Ball Meea* hea la
fict iwallowed the Etephaat without thc lal
ter knowini it, and b* it may pn.ve. This ia
the time for all Progrcssivcs to flit tight aad
V.een Ifl the flfliddlfl of the r.ui.1.
GEORGE s. BOBBIE, K. D.,
Chalrmaa Nlagara Coaaty Progr***!** C*a
mitt. e.
Baffala, N. Y? July 20, ltl?.
The Case for Hughei.
Ti thc EdltOI flf The Tribune.
P.r: Thfl Pr**ld*Btlal eampaign flf .???,
falliBg during rhe great Kuroi.can cnnflict and
at fl time when mighty political and economK
? 1 ;,,? inpcadlag, la one of raprerafl im
I orUl ''?'. but it possesscs an importance aflidfl
from the obvious pBBfl*. because for the first
titac in years the voter will have nn oppor
taaity to eaat hia ballat tn n eaadldat* wbaflfl
nonination is not da? to heroiea, the grae* of
I Wi.rwick or to tbe BCC?l*ratiOfl *f nn BB*
Even the ubinuitiu.s elalBaBBt to thfl
yi,-.:- of original diseovwry >J BBBBOWB BBd
kRhor>or*d m the blagraphy of Charlea K
Hughes. n man of humble origia, raf* nttain
... ? ,,!,. , 1 r, ri*nee and unsellish devotion
to pablie lervic*. His character 1- hii apen
ser; his r.-rord v.-as his n..minit.,r.
Oppoaed ?<> him is Woodrov WllsOB, in tbe
creation ef who.-e tirst candidacy George Har
vey wrecked n perfecfly good weekly news?
paper to make nn inditTcrcnt President of a
-ucccssful adaeator. Wilson adh*r*ata clnim
that bfl should be eOBtlBBCd in BBaC* because
hii Administration has broaght prospenty.
To appreciate the nl.surdity of this r.-ason
1 ;.-.?- only to hnrk back tfl thfl lafll injs
of Julv, U'14. BlBCfl then, free from thfl bar
l|?ni of wnr, we havr been nble to giv* 0B1
eaorglflfl ta inpplyiag the enonaoai mflr
ehardiaa daBiaad af the b ?? ?lth
tha r.-sult that an unprece.bnted but arti
(??in; prosperlty has ariaca. By virtue of not
being involved in the struggle Wfl nre thr'
b?a*fieiaii*fl of a situation of whieh the cm
t.ndlng nations nre the victims. Another
claim made ln fuvor of Wil**B and a much
overworked one ls that "we must take olT
our hats to him for kreping us out of WBT.
Hnl Wllaoa been of the sturdy Clevolan'i
typa, what ehance would thrrr have b**B 1""
wnr? Had hr |*id what he meunt BBd BB*BBt
what he said nienacmg situation* WOOld not,
rrown .mr "f a too rofined use nr' BOrdfl
Pinally, in the words of Carapaign Maaagvr
Vnnce McConaiek, . "n behalf of thfl
Democratic eaadidat*, "We hav,' a record flf
legialative achieretaaat." Hut he does not
si-em tl '' thfl illfTer.M-.- b*tf -en leg
ialative enactra*at and achievement. It will
?ne to tell whether Democratic enact
meatl are an ?
Thal there raest be a necsfliea af our rec?
ord breaking volume of trade is certain, but
-.,-, raai il ??? al th? eritical tim* can
foaadation f..r ? fa-- grt itei rolume
than wa kava b*< ) aeeaataaifld ta
aad avaii ai '.???? ?a th< diflcalti 1 af whieh
the business \\,,r'.-i .- apprehensiv* when thfl
: nn nr aad lagaclty in
? ef Kxecutive are now B**d*d as mv.
I .reful scrutiny of Huirhrs's career leaves
thfl conviction that his ten* will not bfl
with his ear to th.- groaad >,r with hii 1
focaaaad *b IfStO. N<e*aaary action willi
give way to pri.le of words or renson t-i li\.s
teria. He is not ? contradictton, ten
?il!y. In his dealing
??,., aad aatioaa th*y will r*i , ??
. tlcfl from a broad, comprcl.
administration. Under him ? f/ill be
- ? erviee. Nn
,,f his arill wuien party rifts. nor will
te Ol ''??'? ,-r ' iu C4iii
:' the eampaign or mriut-nce
' a. It will r-.ever b. | .
him tl.at he \4 a p**C*fol wh*B bfl should
ind l.elligerent when hc
should have been peaceful.
AI.HKRT J. ADAMS.
New York, July 19. ltia.
Seod the Money.
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
S.r: I note in the letters of correspondents
, B. Whitman contemplates a trip
bord*T la the it;ter.-4t <.f our so'.itier.'
As a previous trip af his cost aboal
?. I suggest that he uould be doing a
:.ir th.ng by atayiag at
aending on th?> rai 1
e their (iovernor, but they
f*od more. If I had to ,|o without
one myself, |'d do without the G*T*m*T
CorLwall, N. V, Juiy U, 1916.
WELCOME!
WHY NOT SV/AP HORSES?
A Balky One Should Be Abandoned Even
in Midstream.
To the Editor of The Tribane,
Sir: I hava never aeen ahundant wisdom in
the propo-Mtion that we should not BWap
horses in thi- midat of a streum. It all de
peada upon thr ciroumstnners.
if a barae haif.s, it la the part of ariad iaa to
"hrinjr in another horse," evrn thoutrh it be
in midstream. With a balky horse everything
is in jropardy; for if a horse once balks he
will do it again, and ia rarely if ever any
good thereafter. And midstream :.? no plaee
to try to breah hiaa, especially if it ahoold he
a swollen and ri -:ntr -tream, whrn the rocks
nnd Bhoala arr not visible and the ford eaa
not aaaily hr traeed 1J reaaon of the abnor
mal eonditiona.
Cnder such circumstaiu-rs there Ia no wis?
dom in arasting time with an nnfaithfal 1 araa,
ll,. ahoold he discarded inatanter, before the
already awollen atream risc-- higher, :;
become^ greater and it is too late to ehange
horses, and all ia lost by rcaaoa of the failore
prornptly to brinp in another horse that is
fiiithful and true.
Whrn a younsr man I was fond of good
horses. Mv father had a fine pair. One day
he nn 1 a hrother of mine nnd I had drtvefl
them Boate Afteen milea to a dooblc
buggy, arlth a valoable dt>g followin.: i
AU had othly till tre eame to ford a
river arhieh was some three hundred yarda
wide. with a rouirh and rocky hottom ar.d a
--.'. ifl current.
In the Blldat of the river or:.> of the horses,
much to our surprise and bewilderment, sud
denly stopped, ar.d we spent a half-hour try
ing to make him vr<>, but failed. Finally we
nahitehed and turned looae -if nroii
beaat, and the other faithfol aBlaaal nlone
pnlli ?! ?':'? vehiele through the itrong
rurrmt of ?}:.? tn.- led 01
in aafi
Maanwbile, however, the faithfol do^ had
upon a
"watch ng and arail i ? ia d ng the
ir thal nt ia a futile i
to make the balky horse pull.
It was a cold day, and tha poor dog, beinjr:
a ee d roth waiting for us.
had gol .-o cold and atiH that wheri I;,
to follow us further hr was unaMc to swim
Irowaed before reaehing the
and befoie '.-..? had tima to help him out.
Tl.e faithleaa b< i himself, but the
faithfal dog was lo-- [f -a,. had iramed
ed ? ith tlf balky hor-.-, inatc i
eonsumiag tima in a fraitleaa eadeavar to
atake him pull. thi
? alue WOUl .
heen loet, I I
la not worth
llorali Get rid quiekly of your balky I
New York, Julj 26, 1016. J. !.. J.
"Not Conctrned."
To the E litoi o
Sir: In I. ? laCagfl
Enforea Peae
"With
its can
rha ot. atai from a i
'l rth we are
a intei
I
horror !<y n a, who ho. .
humanit
ploring the eeaaoction - ?. and
their eaaaaa. ladigaaat letters to the .
? d in eaeatleaa papai ,. that
horror. Yet if for a ?< .. treh for
and explore" the "obscure fountairis from
which the stupendous flood" of the I
dent's talk - bursts forth all be
comes clear. There la no call for ho:
indigaatioa.
Waahington in his Parewell ad ir.-s. had
wid: "Earopa hai a ->" ..r" pr.rr...iy later
tatl whieh to us huve none or a very remote
relatioa. !!? angai I ia fre-j
luent eontrovara -h ar*> I
laaeatially foreign to our coneerns." And
i p-esident Moni lanual measaga '.f.
rr 7,1124; ->.??. .? .. ? ... trom
.-^uropa by the great AtlaBtie Ocean, we can
have no concern in tho wai* of the Eai
govi rnmentfl nor in the causes whieh pro
dncfl ri
Mr. Wilaoa, having caught up tl
"?/.ar," "canse ." "eoBeerna," repeata his
Polly-w il ' by rote, ;
? whether P ' ? '
indifferent i? the huge change in condition
ind 1824. Hencfl wa ihouid aot
but i id him; for
not* h,.w h" improvei the arigiaaL Waabiag
ton was, of cour.se, thfl Father of H.s Cour'
?ry, and eould fl* rd, but
what can a loldier do with ? p*B. Witaea*
that BBapcaded "aon*" in thc ieat*Be? ?
No, it remained far Mr. Wilson to lift the
poor, iprawliag Ihonght-grub aad giv* it
poetic wrtagi aboal foaataiBfl und atupendoua
Booda. He has hii iwward, fur the rabble
ment cry oat: "Great li id. r, hall!" and oaly
h.-re aad th irmurs: "Pretty Polly."
I. L FOBMAN.
New Vork, July -2-2. 1916.
Militia Officers for Miiitiamen.
To the Edil rribaai
Sir: Now that the fltatBfl of Colon.-'.
ley and Phelan, late of the Bfth Regiment,
N. (',. N. Y, ii fiaally aettled and that one
of the officers Ifl enjoying the COmfortl ??'
j home and the other officer soon will be, I
l-ope, why not do justice to the officers who
till ia servico with the regiment? Why
should not they receive the promotion they
are Juatly cntitled to? Why place anofl"
? rank, or even of equal rank, in com
raaad of aa orgaaisatloB he knows ni
about?
The enliated men of thfl BBth Regiment will
do their duty now, as they alv BJ
no mattcr who their officers may be, but pre
f,T to serve und.-r officeri they know and
learaed froia loag exparieae* ta le*fl BBd r*?
ipcet Such. eonditioni tend ro mak*
?i of men who are naturally good;
loldier*. Major Miehacl Lyach has ^\\in thc
? ara af his manhood in the ser\ '
tlonal Guard of tb* State of x- ?
H.s pri thc lecoad time he has
to th* rl ig. Wiiy deprivc
? ? . ? tioa i
l Why.
Senator O'Gorman aad ath*r gcatlemen
ruihed to rhe aid
lan. Why do th*y i i m ia the
? ! Why?
I have had more than twenty -fi-..
nel ii.
the Na- nal Go d, both in the armory und
in ri'.- ? . . n-v oplaioa f*a offlcan ,!>?
to the Na?
tional Guard wer* a ?
Givfl the ofllc*l 1 of 1 Th, y
wiil provu their Atneai for any ,: .'??
CHARLES HKAI.V.
aaat Colonel tfth Infantry, N. t.;. X. Y.
R*lired ut mj owa r*q**at.j
New York. July '22, 1
Dread of Germ Carriers.
? Thfl Tribui
Sir: Two ind,.! icatlfltfl havi
ed m 'i . Ri, ord" I
nltfl ,?;' ?? ai
a ??
Our Departi ealtl ?wi
i .
?
?
. ?
ment a itioi tl
eaaecr, ?;.
port tl
?
pr*caatloi . ?
An.i t paralyaii
. - I to any one in the dep ir
that an iaap*ci*r who leavei a eaaa of such1,
aad eomcfl ,-ir,> ? nome to axamiai i I
not oaly to
this ehild, but to the community1
l'p to a short tnr.e ago a policetnin was!
even carried on each ambul*BC*; hia haa**
woollen garmaatfl were perfect g*rm earricr*.
\ot until thfl di.seas,. had been in pi
some week- wafl bll plflCfl taki-n by ? nurse
Aad I doabt Btroagly wh*th*r 'he dod ?
terilia* their eoatamea b*twe<
< .-? - *' thej rj , not they also are me:
nmuaity.
Th* . . th*a* ti
laeiafl bo doubt ia as with eaac*r: the
? is not ur.derstood, th*r*foi*fl Bfl pr*.
eautioaa are B*c**sary. What is not onder
itood bcan watel ? K.
New YurK, July -.,, VJM.
THE MILLS OF GOD
With .Some Frank Words Upon the Kaiier
and the Hyphen.
?
In an n?? i ' ? ?'" aTaya
publiahed
Ka.ser
? \ .i aaa of
Well, a hal
In the 111 Bfl reai Am'-rican takei
any interest in whether ti
or i "?; in I ' h tho Ger
j man-.V thi BT8 W -pen
?
b have a d rtaaeej
therefore we don't r-p.-ak ot
>r I'rencii-Amei icaii.s or Kr._- -'".-Amer
aa*
who have conspir.'d, fomei
wn up ahi|
Staae.
Like all I
?
? i oa
ni'hts and '? '; tbaf
? judg
ment The jutlga ? be?a
? elmed by l f te '?-.?
'
were the ? '-'? B"t 8
' wou'.d
:?' >'our
?ora?
idea of the r. lial . af i
tonic bl
!? as my p.nple are not
doomed to
"They are
in tha
are. tn
;n tha
trenches." No doabt the : ? thil
very fine, nnd it n
The Pr*. ach, tha
h and the : t tha.
' rt their hoi
? I
rth of
France an the <
rVe don't know vi
whieh ia aot t<> be wonden
hava
never ...
but what af :?' aya
...
KuItU ''1 in Heltfium and 1'r-ance?
?oring
of nui
not be m> ?
?,monf
? ;. I ?'
r ? ?
r-oet*.
ted 1
? ?
i ? ..? -.- aaitaafj
?:r.
l ?!?;.
Politics and the Border.
I
? - "f whica
our bo . Bj
caM
rt I 'n**^
In the raeen i .oxiliai * *'*
giviag aul | ?*b ca??,
I te f*
f.r help, much le taafet.
r needy faaailii - i . ?? .? n'%
who tl ! '^"
i ?'?? r*"
turn ol -n ?'
other m> n vhoae a*otl I raiaa tl>*ir
t'..> te ba a soiiiu-r."
i ORNELIUS LAISbbVi
Brooklyn, July 22, l.'lo.