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THE WASHINGTON'TIMES, SATUEDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 19X1.
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tion, shows the net dally average for Aug
ust to have been 48.527.
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N. Y. wreck extras printed on August 2S.
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Total for month 195,574
Sunday average for month 48,894
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Tlmea (Sunday) during the month of August
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1911.
A few more reverberations are
scheduled before Glen Echo can set
tle down.
Monday w-jh i,e moving day for per
sonal tar delinquents. Collector Rogers'
patience la exhausted.
Dr. Wiley's harvest home festival
down on his Virginia farm will be 8
joyous event this year.
A good time to break up the tipping
trust here in Washington Is before
It becomes established. The high cost
of living needs no new stimulus.
Preparations for celebrating Dis
cover' Day, on October 12, are going
forward on a scale which will at least
leave no doubt that wo have been
discovered.
The fleet of aeroplanes at College
Park Is growing. If it were only pos
sible to work them in relays. It would
soon be possible to make a flight across
the Atlantic.
It Is good news that comes from Clara
Barton, founder of the American Red
Cross, saying that her condition Is
greatly improved. Her speedy and en
tire recovery Is earnestly hoped for.
It Is not surprising that the Capital
Traction Company "denies the Juris
diction." There isn't a public utility In
Washington which is enthusiastically In
favor of recognizing any Jurisdiction ex
cept its own.
The street cars have resinned their
winter schedules, the chrysanthemums
are beginning to lift their feathery
heads, the straw lid nestles In the dust
bin, and but few of the blgns of sum
mer now remain.
It Is good news that the National
Museum Is to be opened on Sunday,
when Its treasures may be Inspected
by all those who may be so Inclined.
It will prove a great convenience to
the public.
If the wharf Improvement recom
mended by Daniel E. Garges, T. C. J.
Bailey and Russell Dean, the District
Wharf Committee, Is carried out, a
long step forward will have been taken
for commercial Washington.
"Nigh beer' has at last reached the
distinction of coming before the War
Department, which must decide as to
the sale of it to the Indians. In some
of It, at least, there Is enough fight to
give the War Department qu'te a tussle.
"Rain, rain, go away." Little Johnny
wants to Join the several hundreds of
other little boys from eight playgrounds
who are to hold a Joint fete at the
Roscdale playgrounds tills afternoon. It
promises to be one of the most delight
ful occasions of the year.
Bralnerd II. Warner has Just returned
from Blnghamton, N. Y.. where he
made an address on behalf of Wash
ington at a banquet tendered the Vice
President by the Blnghamton Chamber
of Commerce. A better representative
of Washington could not have been se
lected than Mr. Warner.
Why not take that Government mov
ing picture machine being used to pho
tograph road building near Bradley
Lane and catch some lews of how a
Washington contractor can erect a sky
scraper in such a short time? Such
pictures ought to be interesting to those
cities that' think Washington is slow.
EH Trumbower would probably like to
know under what section of the laws ha
was grilled and carried to the station
. house, simply because he hid his grips
tn the dark until he could go to a drug
store and have a prescription filled. The
Washington Hawkshaw has methods of
Us own.
Architect George Oakley Totten, Jr.,
Is the sert of a press agent the "more
residents" committee of the Chamber
of Commerce should have. He has
ten pages of pictures of Washington
houses which he designed, the Hen
derson embassy structures. In the
current Issue of a leading architec
tural magazine.
Scientific and literary circles are de
lighted to welcome home Mr. William
K. Carr, after an absence of several
months. The inner circle of his friends
who are permitted to enjoy the results
of his ripe scholarship and research
extend him a cordial greeting. As an
earnest seeker after truth through ail Its
winding, with a mental equipment rare
ly equaled, lie la one of the citizens of
whom. Washington may well be proud, t
THE GOVERNORS AND THE
FEDERAL COURTS. -
Tho little dogs of toryism, vain of
their brass collars and proud of their
job of yelping at the heels of all
progress, were played a scurvy trick by
the governors' conference at Spring
Lake.
In naming a committee of three gov
ernors to appear before tho Federal
Supreme Court, the conference acted
with substantial unanimity. Only one
governor voted against the proposal,
and he was a Democrat. A Democrat
was made chairman of the committee,
but two Republicans were placed in its
membership.
This committee's participation in a
completely new procedure before tho
Supremo Court will be revolutionary.
The Supreme Court will receive tho
committee, and listen to it respectfully.
Tho fact that Republicans and Demo
crats, North and South, East and West,
united in enthusiastic initiation of this
effort to save the sovereignty of tho
States from complete submergence be
fore the tido of judicial usurpation
makes it the more difficult to bark
effectively or convincingly.
Let us see what the particular issue
is that caused the governors to send
a committee to present tho case of the
sovereign States before the Supreme
Court. Minnesota passed a maximum
rate law, dealing, of course, solely with
intrastate traffic. Getting at length
to the court of Mr. Justice Walter II.
Sanborn of the Eighth circuit, that law
was held null and void. Why?
Because, said Mr. Justice Sanborn,
the State might conceivably reduce tho
railroads' revenues so much on intra
state traffic that the roads would be
compelled to increase their rates on
interstate traffic in order to earn a
living. It was not alleged that such a
tiling had in fact been done in this
case, but there was the possibility of
it. That would be an interference by
the State with interstate commerce,
which is solely the concern of Con
gress. So, to make perfectly sure
that there shall be no such interference,
to avoid the possible danger of such
a thing, itls best not to let the State
interfere with intrastate rates!
Congress, of course, cannot interfere
with intrastate rates; Mr. Justice San
born holds that the States shall not be
permitted to interfere with them. If
that doctrine should be sustained by
the Supreme Court, it would wipe? out
the last shred of State authority over
the whole set of great commercial and
industrial problems. It would not sub
stitute a Federal authority. It would
simply leave the States shorn of all
authority. Intrastate commerce would
be exempted from all regulatory au
thority, of whatever kind.
That is what Mr. Justice Sanlwrn
proposes to do to our sovereign States.
Is it wonder that, near a year ago,
when this decision was handed down,
The Times declared that it was the
most daneerous usurpation of authority
that any Federal court had vet at?
tempted! Is it wonder that the gov
ernors without party or sectional di
vision agreed to make a striking, start
ling innovation in all judicial procedure,
in order to emphasize their protest
against such a reactionary doctrine be
coming established?
Mr. Justice Sanborn, Mr. Justice
Archbold, of New York, and Mr. Jus
tice Groscup, of Chicago, typefy the
character of. Federal judge that has
brought reproach upon the Federal
bench. Theodore Roosevelt did not
hesitate to air bis disaffection with the
toryism of too many- Federal judges.
Now we find a convention of all the
governors unanimously taking a posi
tion in support of State rights as
against Federal courts.
The effort to suppress criticism of
the Federal courts will not get far
when the conference of governors takes
such a step as this. The uplifted finger
of warning, tho horrified "Sh-h-h-h"
of admonition, the frightened mien
suggestive of fear that some judge may
order the whole country sent to jail
for contempt all these are no longer
to suppress frank criticisms of courts,
no matter of what rank.
When Roosevelt and Bryan and tho
governors are all agreed in speaking
out their criticism, the rest of U3 need
not fear being ostracized if wo ven
ture occasional misgivings.
Even the Supreme Bench is not
unanimous in the view that it is be
yond possibility of error or liability
to criticism. Vide the peppery observa
tions of Mr. Justice Harlan, anent the
Standard Oil decision.
The governors have done something
that completely justifies the organiza
tion and maintenance of their conven
tion. They are big enough and ex
perienced enough men not to be wor
ried by the snarling of the jackals of
privilege. They will not fear such mis
representation as that which accuses
them of trying to make their associa
tion "bigger than the Supreme Court."
What the governors have decided to
do is no invasion of the realm of the
judiciary. It is an eminently proper
thing that the State executives should
ask to be heard in their official rela
tions, at a time when the very existence
of the States, as sovereign entities, is
menaced. If the States have not
enough self-respect to enter protest
against being calmly effaced, why
should any court, have any more respect
for them? There has been too much
of this business of waiting .for the
court to determino political and eco
nomic questions for us. The courts
have no -business with these. They
should be determined by legislature,
representing tho people, and' deter
mined as the people want them deter
mined. Two or three years ago an eminent
publicist created a hullaballoo by de
clarinir that tho country needed ac
curatcTy to understand "the economic
mind" of the Supremo Court. It was
widely retorted that tho Supreme Court
had no business with an economic
mind; it ought to have a legal one.t
But, in truth, the courts are not al
together to blame for usurping the de
termination of economic and political
politics. When Congress so palpably
dodges its responsibilities as it did in
writing the vague and unguarded
clauses of the Sherman act, somebody
must do the rest; tho courts have al
ways been willing to do it.
An era of intelligent, sincere, and
reasonable criticism of the relation the
courts have come to sustain to
our governmental mechanism would
produce vast berteflts to this country.
First of all, people must understand
that it is neither treason, atheism, nor
insanity to have an opinion about the
courts, or about their decisions; it is
not contempt of court or criminal reck
lessness to express that opinion.
There is widespread feeling that our
Federal courts havo become more domi
nating and engrossing than they should
be. The difficulty Beems to be insti
tutional. We will not locate it and
find the remedy till wo havo discussed
the problem, frankly and freely. The
governors' conference has opened tho
discussion in a way that assures it will
not be suppressed until some improve
ments aro secured.
MESSENGER BOYS IN POCKET
LESS UNIFORMS.
Stammering "Billy" Travcrs once
waggishly called attention to the novel
sight of Jay Gould "with his hands in
his own pockets." He left the impres
sion that the great financier would
have been much happier with his hands
in the pockets of borne one else.
However this may be in the trans
cendental circles of high finance, it is
far from true in the unspoiled princi
pality of boyhood. Painters and sculp
tors have never yet devised a more per
fect pose of mingled independence and
supreme content than is represented
by a boy with his hands in his pockets.
The multiplicity of those receptacles
for agates, sling-shots, jews'-harps,
twine strings, etc., is the measure by
which he judges the excellence of every
new suit of clothes, but the supreme
requirement i3 a place to put his hands.
On the face of things, it seems rather
cruel, therefore, that one of our leading
telegraph companies out in Chicago
which employes a largo number of
messenger boys should have devised a
uniform in which there are no pockets
to speak of. True, there is one measly
little pocket in front for the carrying
of small change, and a hip pocket,
which is something of a concession to
budding manhood, but in the trousers
there are no pockets at all, so, like a
bashful lover, the small boy is con
fronted with the vital problem as to
what he is to do with his hand3.
The new uniform has brought forth
indignant protests. If the messengers
have not gone on a strike it is simply
because they are not strong enough,
and not because they do not feel
deeply enough on the subject. The
company's tailor doubtless thought he.
could dazzle them by the amount of
gilt braid and brass buttons which
the new regulations call for. These
were estimated at their true value.
They first evoked somo exclamations
of delight, couched in the vernacular
of the street. But as soon as the ex
amination extended to the pockets the
countenances of the boys immediately
fell.
In the absence of any satisfactory
explanation, it is supposed that the
theory was that the boys would attend
more strictly to business if they were
unable to put their hands in their
pockets. As well assumo that a plan
tation darky would do better work if
he were not allowed to sing. The
pockets of marsupials ore not more
distinctly a part of tho animal than are
those of the small boy, and tho cor
poration, which novcr had a boyhood,
may as well learn it first as last. It
is hoped in the interest of good service
that the fall uniforms to be provided
for the boys in this part of the coun
try will be designed by a 'tailor who
knows eomothing more of boy life. The
efficiency of the service absolutely de
pends upon the pockets In which the
messenger has an inalienable right to
put his hands.
Automobile Advance Has
Aided Country Realty
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Real estate men are a unit in de
claring the development of the auto
.mobile has given to suburban and
country land values a bigger boost
than any element that heretofore has
been regarded as a factor in real es
tate operation. One ride ' into the
suburbs is enough to convince any
observer that the motor car Is a ve
hicle of utility In civic and rural bet
terment as well as In transportation
of persons and merchandise.
Many country places were making
their owners land poor until the au
tomobile appeared and brought them
nearer to the city, and many brokers
thank the automobile for, largo com
missions earned solely because they
found the motor car an effective ve
hicle of transportation.
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TIMELY LETTERS, TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG '
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Readers of The Times are Invited to use thlB dpartlient as their o
objectionable in language win De denied, publication. Letters must not,
side of the paper. Letters must bear the names and add -esses of tho w
without the consent of the contributors. Address MAIL BAG EDITOR 0
AIMS SARCASM '
AT CORRESPONDENTS
To the Editor of .THE TUtES:
I noticed in Wednesday's Times that
our friend Mr. Ferguson has come to
life again. Now, with our friend Mr.
Ferguson on the Job to down Socialism,
and that taxpayer in Alexandria, Va.,
to do away with convicts, we should all
be on easy street.
What would wo do If they should lay
off? FATHER GRUMP.
CORRECTS QUOTATION
OF .CONTRIBUTOR
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Will you allow mo to correct a quota
tion given in Washington Times,
Wednesday, 13th. The writer says, "A
looker-on In Venice," which is not
correct. Tho correct quotation Is this,
"My business in this state made mo a
looker-on here In Vienna." You will
And this In "Measure for Measure,"
Shakespeare.
A READER OF TIMES.
DEPLORES IGNORANCE
CONCERNING SOUTH
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
It wps with a mixture of amusement
and contempt that I read the letters
of Mr. Mangan and Miss Cora Eliza
beth Spencer, but such feelings were
immediately followed by tho most pro
found pity and amazement to think
that there should exist In Washington,
a city of exceptional educational ad
vantages, any one possessed of such
gross Ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
May I suggest from the best motives,
that both read up on the South and
the Southern people, and converse and
associate with intelligent, cultured and
well-read men of both South and
North? I am sure thereafter they will
see the folly of their letters, and will
become of the opinion that no portion
of the country is more patriotic or loyal
than the dear Southland, and no por
tion has given better citizens to the
nation.
A DAUGHTER OF THE UNITED
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFED
ERACY. THINKS PATRIOTISM
IS OVERDONE
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Having noted an article by Charles
II. Flynn, and also one by Mr. Man
gan, In the Monday afternoon edition
of The Times, I would like to suggest
that, while so-called "patriotism" to
"our glorious country" ib considered
a very spendld trait. It Is most un
doubtedly overdone. Personally, I
think It Is a relict of the Dy-gonc days
of barbarism. Quelling It, and also
our "National Honor," would, with a
little ufe of common sense and a heart
uplifted to God, prevent war and there
by give the world everlasting peace
and righteous civilization. Be patriotic
to God. In other words, ally your
selves to Him and pray to Him, and
He will look out for you end your
homes. Drop this "patriotism" gag
and reach forth your hand to your
fellowman and use your united efforts
to gain world peace and tile everlast
ing life. E. A. ROMAN.
TIME TO ABOLISH
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Seeing In your issue of September 12
an article entitled, VTlme to Abolish
Capital Punishment." II am Impelled to
say that I fully agree with the writer
thereof, and will, in as few words aa
possible, gle an additional reason
which to me seems patent, and which,
from my standpoint should offer n very
strong argument in favor of abolishing
capital pumsiimenu
The advocates of capital punishment
advocate It on the ground First, as a
retribution for the aet committed; sec
ond. It Is an example and a deterrent
to others; third. It rids the earth of
those who are always ready to Drey
upon humanity, and hence it reduces
the tendency in mat uirecuon. nut.
how few are those who take tho view
that capital punishment only destroys
ine pnvsirai me; mm u iievei-enuins
life follows physical death: that the
spiritual life, as so often demonstrated
bv clairvoyant sight ano: tne inter
course which tho, psychic has undoubt
edly had with the spirit world, shows
that the life entered upon when mor
tality ends is identical with the lire
lived here on earth, and that evil, as
well as gdod, spirits, under certain con
ditions. hae power to mnuence mor
tals. Hence, thev can and do obsess
them, uring their Influence to lead those
over whom they can exert their influ
ence to become criminals nice tnem
selves. This ha"s been so fully demon
strated bv exhaustive Investigation of
psychic Influences that the abovo propo
sition seems to have peen iuuy proven.
Then, if this is true, it seems jogicai
to conclude that capital punishment.
Instead of reducing crime, tends to In
crease It. W. H. RHOMMER.
SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES
IN PARTY PLATFORM
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
"H. S. I" claims that Socialism de
stroys marriage. To prove that So
cialists do not believe In marriage he
cites an instance of two of them marry
ing. More than that? they did so by
mutual consent. It was our belief that
all proper marriages were entered into
In that way.
Speaking seriously, however, the mat
rimonial practices of Individuals have
nothing to do with the political beliefs'
of a party. If the marriage of two
Socialists without due process of law
proves that Socialism destroys mar
riage, then, by the J same course of
reasoning, if Beattle - Is a Republican
and guilty as found, it proves that Rej
publicans believe in making away with
What's on the Ptogrtm in
Washington Today
Meeting of Canton Washington, No. 1,
I. O. O. F.. tonight
Amusements.
Btlaseo Al H. Wilson. In "A German
prfnee " 2:15 and S:15 n. m.
Columbia Closed for the week.
Chase's Mclntyre. and Heath and other
polite vaudeville, 2:15 and 8:13 p. n:.
Academy "Another Man's Wife," 2:15
and S'lS p. m.
Casino Vaudeville, afternoon and even-J
lng.
Cosmos Continuous vaudeville.
Lyceum Merry -Jurlesquers, 2:15 and
8.1& p. m,
Gayety Sam Howe's Show, 2US and
8-15 n. m.
Majestic "Monte' Cristo."
Chevy Chatp Lake-Danclhg and music
by section of Marine Band, evenlna.
Great. .FallsBand ,concert .and othor1
attraction.
their wives and are a menace to society.
One way be a Socialist a Methodist,
and a Monogamist all at tho same time.
Whether or not he is a Socialist Is de
termined solely by his opinions on po
litical subjects.
A concrete expression of the political
opinions of Socialists Is contained In ttie
platform adopted by them at their last
national convention. In an attack on
Socialism, therefore, the basis of that
attack should be found In the political
principles set forth In the party plat
form. To attack one for any' opinion
other than those expressed In that plat
form is to attack merely the. private
opinion which he may entertain as, an
Individual. Take the platform and
Jump onto that.
We have not the heart to disagree
with "H. S. L." when he says he Is not
thoroughly familiar with the subject
G. M.
HAS EMMNER HAD
CHANGE OF HEART?
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I read with interest and also with a
slight degree of amazement J. Emm
ners article in Tha Times of September
7, in which he gets after our hero com
rade. Brother Dalzell, and incidentally
refers to hlmcelf as a champion of
Dixie. Can this J. Emmner be the same
win. caused such a great political stir
here years ago, when he was president
of the Jefferson Democratic Asro-ila-tlon?
If so. I am surprised .U the as
sertion that ho stands for everything in
Dixie, for when I met him at the Cin
cinnati convention thirty years ago he
was leading the chorus in the singing
of tho "National Anthem."
J. ROGINSKI.
BLAMES MINISTER
FOR CENSURING GIRL
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Being a busy mother I find but little
time for reading, but with a few min
utes to spare I was reading the letters
of "Humanity" and "B. T.," and I was
glad. Indeed, to note that I do not stand
alone In extending sympathy to that un
fortunate girl, Beulah BInford. We know
she has sinned, but who more so than
the mother that bore her? Her first
downward step was taken at tho tender
age of twelve, when but a mere child.
She Is still only a child In years, but
a matured woman In experience. What
are the many noble institutions for. only
for such girls, and had that mother
done her duty to her child when she
found the dowiward course she was
pursuing she would have placed her In
one of them where she would have been
kept out of harm's way, and today she
may havo been a good Christian girl In
stead of being mixed up in one of the
most horrible tragedies that has ever
been forced upon us. What is she to
day? A poor downtrodden outcast that
the Fo-cnlled Christian people of the
United States condemn. Where Is the
Christianity? Even the ministers in the
pulpit censure her the very ones that
should try to save her soul. Doesn't
the Bible tell us to go out In the high
ways and byways and gather them in?
Is that the way to do It?
A MOTHER.
"BEAN-EATING YANKEE"
. RESPECTS TH SOUTH
To ye Editor of JHE TIMES:
The generous Mall Bag of The Times
Is the medium through which many air
their grievances and enlighten us with
many strange and astonishing doctrines.
If It were not for this column our read
ers would miss many a masterplece(?),
so keep the Mall Bag going. For the
past few weeks our flag, the national
anthem, and the civil war have come
In for their share, and It has all served
to give various embryo editors a
chance to wield their masterful pens.
The editor of The Times has graciously
published these letters, but I wonder
what he thinks of some of them? I do
not know whether, he is "for" tho
North or the South, but probably, llko
the rest -of us, he has "friends In both
places." The writer has been waiting
for some good old-time "traitor-rebel"
to show his colors in answer to the
astounding statements made in the let
ter which appeared in the Mall Bag,of
September 8, signed by "(Miss) Cora
Elizabeth Spencer." The argument pre
sented was an unpardonable breach of
the peace, written along the principles
of the anarchist. "Miss" Spencer starts
out by saying: "I am ill In bed," and
this partly accounts for the absurd
statements she makes. We do not
know Sister Spencer except as the au
thor of tills famous epistle, hut we sin
cerely hope her doctor will prescribe
something for her grouch. How can it
be, at the moment when our own Pres
ident Is striving for the peace and uni
ty of the nations, when our preachers
and clergy are "preaching the gospel
of peace," that an Amerlcan(?) woman
can come out boldly and wish to fight
the clyll war over again and make such
a statement as this: "To hold up South
ern rebels as heroes or heroines fs an
Insult to our flag!"
There Is not a man of the North to
day who does not admire an old "reb"
for standing by his colors. His uniform
of gray is Just as dear to him as our
blue of the North. Rarely, indeed, do
J we hear a loyal citizen of America say:
,-uui iiuK ia mi iiiBuii. iu us, ana your
reunions are acts of treason and should
he suppressed by law." .
We expect the old fellows who have
fought for the side which they thought
was right to stand their ground like
soldiers, and to even cling to .the belief
that theirs was the Just cause.
Long ago the clouds of battle cleared
away and It seems most unfortunate at
this late day an old sore should be
ARMY.
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN E. BAX
TER, deputy quartermaster gen
eral, upon arrival at San Francis
co, Cal., to Omaha, Neb., relieving-
Captain FRANK C. BOLLE.
quartermaster, who will report to
the depot quartermaster at Omaha
for duty .as his assistant
First Lieutenant STEPHEN O.
FUQUA. Twenty-third, Infantry
from Sacramento, Cal., to San
Francisco, Cal., In connection with
his duties as inspector-instructor
of the Organized Militia of Cali
fornia, First Lieutenant BATES TUCKER,
retired, upon his own application
Is detailed as professor of military
science and tactics at the Univer
sity of Porto Rico.
Captain JAMES S. YOUNG. JR quar
termaster, will proceed to Font
McPherson, Ga. t,
WAVY.
Rear Admiral G. B HARBER, placed
upon the retired list of officers from
September 24.
Lieutenant G. P. BROWN, to assistant
irspectsr of ordnance and engineer
ing mnterlal for the Brooklyn dls-
trlct, Brooklyn. N. Y.
Lieutenant U-&ior grade) ,J, T. C.
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
wn to write freely and frankly with
LoireTer, exceed 200 words ib IeagtB,
riters, as evidence of good -faith, but
THE TIMES-
opened by a woman claiming to be an
American, with the weuare ana inier
,ests of growing children at heart
1 This man signing himself "Mangan
should also come In for strong condem
nation from every true, patriotic citi
zen; his very utterances prove that he
is no euunnfn nf triio American soldier.
It may appear from the foregoing that
mu writer is a ouuiuciu f,cw; -
flying the Confederate "rag" fore and
aft but such is not the case. He Is a
full-fledeed Yankeethe bean-eating
kind; his father was a first lieutenant
in the Twelfth Rhode Island volunteers
and for many years commander of tho
G. A. R. post In our home town, himself
and his brothers are, members of the
Sons of Veterans camp. But I am hap
py to say that my good father raised
us up to manhood Instilling Into our
hearts that this Is a free country, that
we should respect the rights and privi
leges of others, as we would have them
respect ours.
ERNEST T. WINCHESTER.
CHARGE OF TREASON
VIGOROUSLY RESENTED
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I havo read the letters published in
The Times regarding loyalty to the
United States flag, and the contemp
tible criticism of the Confederate flag
and Confederate reunions. Until to
day I 'had thought It best to treat the
letters with the contempt their writers
so well deserve, but the letter which
calls our reunions treason and wants
to make it a penal offense for any one
to exhibit the Confederate flag shows
such extreme narrow-mindedness and
vast Igorance of the South and South
ern people that I cannot refrain from
wording my opinion.
I can't understand why their extreme
loyalty doesn't howl when a British
ship enters American waters sailing a
British flag, for I think it was once
pulled down from American soil and
the foremost men in lowering that flag
were the ancestors of the men they now
accuse of treason. I never heard a word
of protest ncalnst an Englishman, living
In till- grand old United States, exhib
iting the crown on his gatepost or the
(ramping, roaring) lion of Great Britain
on his lawn.
I think those writers forget that the
Southern bovs reporded Just an prompt
ly lr. defense of Old Glorv In the Span-;h-American
war us did the boys of
the North.
We don't ask. nor want you to fly our
flag, but In this free country we want
the rlsht ti honor the flag under which
our Southern men fought and died. We
do not ask tou to oar reunions and In
deed should you atend. with your views,
your presence would only be tolerated
through the hospitable chivalry of the
South.
If It were not for lowering myself I
would sov I would like- to meet the
writers of aforementioned letters, as I am
sure In a verbal argument I could hold
mv own against such weak forces, but
I think to reach that level would be
too great a condescension for a South
erner and A VIRGINIAN.
GOD HAS NO PART
IN THE LEX TALIONIS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I have lately read in this department
of your truly valuable paper something
about "an intelligent Jury of God-fearing
American farmers" kneeling down
and asking the'r Creator to guide them
la the matter cf avenging the death of
an Innocent person.
One of two things is evident: Either
God failed to hear their petition or else
He has changed His law since He gave
us our great book of Instructions and
an example which was to be for all
time. These "God-fearing" Judges and
Juries must have forgotten that they
who run may read. "Vengeance Is mlrie.
I will repay, salth the Lord." D'd
Jesus Christ's friends and the good
people of His time rush around and de
mand that His murderers bo swiftly
condemned and that their lives be sac
rificed on the altar of vengeance? If
they did their desires were not accom
plished. How can one life pay for another,
no matter what the circumstances?
What excuse will these "God-fearing"
men give to the Supreme Judge when
they stand before Him and are required
to answer as to why they took ven
geance Into their own hands, contrary
to His sublime decree, and said that
the life of the guilty (In their opinion)
should be taken to well, for what"
Surely their excuse will not be that it
was necessary to keep evil from over
enmlne all the good in the world!
Either leave God's name out altogether
or else obey His laws, wny try to
bolster up" our frail Judgment or to
l-nri n measure of dimity and Justice
to our poor human decrees by tack-v
lng God's name at tne top or tne
page and then proceed to act directly
contrary to ins uwi
H. J.
QUOTING KARL MARX
BEGS THE QUESTION
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
There was a very excitable, eccentric
old gentleman once who had a very
painful Interview with some. windmills.
He thought they were giants who were
working the world some great wrong,
and he launched his horse and his lance
and himself at them with great enthu
siasm, for he waa a well-meaning
knight, and burned to save the world
from Its enemies. There was a great
to-do for a moment "The Knight of
tho Sorrowful Figure", saw constella
tions of which astronomers knew
naught, but the windmills went on
STAPLER, detached Castine; to
command Bonlta '
Ensign H. W. EOYNTON. detached
command Stringham; to duty un
der Instruction Marine Engineering
School, Annapolis, Md.
Passed Assistant Surgeon W. D.
OWENS, detached naval hospital,
Newport R, I.; tb naval training
station, Newport R. I.
Boatswain G. CULLEN, detached naval
station, Guantanamo, Cuba; to
Paducah.'
Chief Gunner J. HILL, detached Mis
souri; to Maine. ,
Gunner G. SHERER,- detached Maine;
to Missouri.
Gunner J. A. MARTIN, detached Navy
Yard, Washington, D. C: to DIxio.
Chief Machinist F. J. McALLISTER.
detached naw yard. New York, N.
Y.; to West Virginia.
MOVEMENTS OP VESSELS.
Arrived Michigan at Boston, Accomai
at Key Vest Nanshan at Shanghai,
North Dakota at Norfolk, and Cas
tine at- -Newport
Sailed Sterling from Key West for New
Orleans, Montgomery from Philadel
phia for Hampt-m Roads. Minnesota
from Southern Drill "Grounds for
Philadelphia, and Whipple, Hopkins.
Hull. Truxtoh. Paul Jones. Preble.
and Stewart from San Francisco for'
San Diego. i
tie surance that no letter not
and must be written only on ona
the Dames will not be made publlo
about their business, for there wa a
lively breeze at the time.
I am sure if there had been trumpeui
near when Mr. Ferguson dashed gal
lantly Into the Inky fray that seems to
be waging on socialism, they would
have sounded, but while he, "with
President Taft." believes that "It Is
the great question of the day," it seems
that like Don Quixote, he is a little
at sea as to the points at Issue. It
may be his playfulness, but he refers to
Karl Marx as" "the pope" of the move
ment Now that Is very unkind. Tho
Pope may feel flattered, but 1 am sure
Karl Marx has turned in his grave. ,
But, Joking aside, is is possible for the.
gentleman to grasp the fact that so
cialism Is not the product of any par
ticular mind or minds? To the thou
sands, to the hundreds of thousands,
who believe In it today, it Is simply
"the way out" from the position into
which they have been forced and
which they are finding Intolerable- Re
lieve the pressure, as. all calm thought
ful men are demanding it should be
relieved, and the growth of socialism
will cease from that hour. What is the
use of producing something that Mr.
Ferguson assures us that Mr. Marx sani
in 1S? It la pitiable and. if he be
serious, is begging the question
JOHN H. JOHNSON.
MONROE DOCTRINE
IS IN DISFAVOR
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Everett Spring's recent editorial on
the "Monroe Doctrine" Is not In ac
cordance with modern opinion. Captain
Mahan. the expert on naval topics,
once said. "We must abandon the
principle so far as it applies to tha
region south of the Caribbean. A well
known American editor tells his coun
trymen that the sole purpose of the doc
trine Is the protection of a lot of
"mongrels" and lngrates, of a low order
of civilization, who use the principle
to swindle Europeans, and who care
nothing for the United States except
as they can use It for a barrier to save
them from the consequences of their
own dishonesty. A Western congress
man declared a short time ago that the
principle means that "we must either
fight the battles of every little yellow
"jrged republic In South America or
pay its- debts. According to him the
doctrine is a piece of bluff, anyhow,
that the United States would never
attempt to enforce It against any strong
combination of European nations, and
that it ought to be given up and let the
Central and South American countries
fight their own battles.
What has Everett Spring to say about
this? GORDON BECKER.
LET THE VAGRANTS
WORK ON THE ROADS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The hoboes of the country recently
held their convention In tills city. It IS
said, with several hundred of them In
attendance. They were advocating free
transportation by the National and
State governments for the unemployed
hoboes or tramps to any part of tho
X'nlted States, where they may be, able
to get employment In the argument
for free transportation, the question of
cnod rnnds la involved, and as the ho
boes or tramps, as you nay please to
rail them ue the roads very exten
sively, they should be made to work on
these roads and contribute somethlmr
toward building good highways. They
argue that it Is employment they want.
but that is not tne trutn. wnai me
really want Is a hand-out and a tree
ride over the country. The authorities
of each State in the Union can solvo
the question of employment lor the un
employed hoboes or tramps of the coun
try with but little effort on their pan.
If the Legislature of each State will
pass an act making vagrancy, hoboing,
and tramping within the borders of tha
State a violation of the law punishable
by a fine of $M0 for every such offense,
or by making It punishable at hard
labor on the public roads of the Stato
for one year. Every 8tate In the Union
needs good roads, and it can have them
by appropriating a small sum of, mony
each year for the purchase of rock
crushers and explosives with which to
utilize the n-tural resources of the
State, the rock cliffs, now lying tn waste
and of no apparent use. If each State
will pass such legislation and give the
State authorities the money and power
to act, three' months after it passes,
there will not be an unemployed hobo,
tramp, or vagrant in the United States.
This would also stimulate the whole
country by the ln.-reased demand for
rock crushers, explosives, and other
machinery for building roads as well,
and hoboing and vagrancy would cease
to exist A. L. CLEMENTS.
VIEWS ON SOCIALISM
' AND THE MINISTRY
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
It Is very pleasing to see "A ZIonlstle
Voice" coincide with my views in regard
to socialism and the ministry. I wish
to call attention to last Sunday's ser
mons which spread the "bad side'' of
the Astor wedding affair, and had very
little to trace Into other superior texts;
the opinion-grinding over the Beattle
case may be also used as a sample of
the work going on. Your files of the
last few weeks will prove my assertion
thoroughly. One little point I ish to
bring at home to the ministry, and thai
is if they took socialism and matrimony
as their subjects for educating the mul
titudes they will be well paid for
splritually. Let me Illustrate:
A very respectable married; lady ac
quaintance of mine was In tears last
night when the letter of "A Mere Man"
about free burlesque was read. There
Is the whole root of matrimonial trou
bles, which mostly begin from the man s
side. Why should a man have reason
to use his eyes the windows of the
soul for gratifying the lust of he flesh
which harbors evil and eventually over
comes spirit creates suspicion, disre
gard, and In cases where "love is
based on material comforts such as the
two hats. etc. referred to oy ' A Me-e
Man." it results Into runaway pr divorce
trouble. A HUMBLE VOICE.
Concert Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at the
White House, at 4:30 p. m.
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN,
Leader.
PROGRAM.
March, "Treu zu Kaiser und
Belch" Warnken
0c:tufe, "Marltana" .Wallace
Caprice. "Eglantine" Van Loock
Two movements from symphony
"New World" ....Dvorak
(a 1 Largo.
(b) Scherzo. ,
Waltz, "The Beautiful Blue Dan- ,
ube," ...; Stiauos
Idyll. "Spring Jubilee In, Ihe Alps,"
Gungl
Slavonic Dance. No, 1..., Dvorak
"The Star-Spansld Banner."
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