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New-York tribune., 1900-09-19

vantage to few small storekeepers Is more
than compensated for by the employment or
thousands IN the transaction of q much larger
business than all the small stores put together
ever had. The individual shoemaker has like
wise suffered eclipse. but more men earn a
livelihood at making shoes, and more people
have good shoes and at lower prices, than at
any time before the great factories grew up.
Mr.. Ogden points out that the real issue is:
Does the department store increase the con-
sumption of merchandise? II yes. then the fact
is that It merely changes the form of the en-
ployment with the added benefit of an Increase
that gives work to more persons. And II is an
undoubted fact that the modern retail methods
largely increase the consumption of merchan-
disc. Some careful study has convinced the
writer that in certain large stores that increase
is 80 per cent; or, to state Ii differently, that
by their methods these stores definitely create
one-third OF the business they transact: ana
what is true in these cases is certainly true In
many others.
He shows also that not per cent of the
small storekeepers of the old time were sue
cessful. and argues that the great retail store
gives them a better chance than their own
business ventures ever did. Those who have
the talent to be successful will succeed now, or
If they go into the department store are bound
to reach high positions in it. while the others
are better off on salaries Then, also, the de-
partment store makes place for hosts of new
workers. Mr.. Ogden calculates that under old
conditions fourteen hundred persons were re-
quired to distribute S10.OOO,0OO worth of goods.
AS the modern store creates One-third of its
business by it's methods, the transactions In
that same field would now amount to S15,-
100000, and to do that amount Of business in
department store requires forty-two hundred
people by actual count. That looks like benefit
rather than curse.
Mr.. Ogden gives details which we have not
space to quote OF the benefits to consumers
corresponding to the benefit Of mercantile work
ers The rule of old time retailing 80 per
cent profit Concentrated buying and sys-
tematic handling have reduced that margin
tremendously and the consumer gets cheaper
goods. The conclusion of his argument is that
the department store is defensible on moral
and economic grounds because: First, it Gre
"ates largely increased employment. Second,
at improves the condition OF employees mental
ely, physically and financially. Third. it adds
"tO the sum of human happiness by increaS-
"ing the power OF money to supply the com
forts of life. Fourth. its general influence
upon the community is In harmony with hon
~esty and sound public education
The adjustment Of workmen to new machin-
cry of any business to new conditions always
means loss to some, and it should be the care
OF those directing great commercial forces TO
manage them so to make the adjustment as
easy as possible. But how pitifu and disgust
ing 1t is TO see politicians in recklessness and
ignorance trying to make capital out Of such
situation.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
Nrtp91ark Onilp Gribn,te
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Germany has sent a note to the
Powers announcing that an indispensable pre-
nminary to peace negotiations with China will
be the giving up of all the guilty leaders for
punishment; Lord Salisbury has informed Ii
Hung Chang that Emperor Kwang Su must
be returned TO Peking as preliminary TO peace
negotiations. and that the Allies will punish
those responsible for outrages If they have 10
pursue them all over China; Count Won Walder-
see reached Hong-Kong. - Fighting is re-
ported al KOomatipoort the railway at the
border Of the TransvaaI and Portuguese terri
tory; five hundred Boer refugees, some OF them
wounded have arrived az Lourenco Marques;
General French captured fifty more locomotives
pn the railway line 10 Barberton. - Late ad-
vices show seventeen more vessels wrecked on
the Newfoundland coast and thirteen lives lost;
hope for the safety of other vessels, with crews
Of twenty-five in all, is about abandoned. -
The Netherlands States General were reopened
by Queen Wilhelmina who referred in the
Speech from the Throne to the work Of the
Peace Conference. - In two engagements in
the desert Of Sahara the French sustained
serious loss at the hands of Berber tribesmen
DOAfESTIC.-No material change occurred in
the strike situation in the hard coal region Of
Pennsylvania; Father Philips will make a re-
neWed effort for arbitration by comforting with
spoke TO an enthusiastic audience at Butte Mont.
- Senator Hanna spoke TO business men in
Chicago, taking Bryan's letter Of acceptance as
the batteships kearsarge and Alabama took
place at Portsmouth. - Mr.. Bryan continued
his stumpng tour in Kansas and Missouri
speaking in Kansas City at night The
situation in Galveston continued to improve
CITY-StOcks were dull and firm. - The
Stock Exchange finn Of Hatch & Foote made
an assignment, and the failure was attributed by
Mr.. Hatch 10 speculations by his partner, who
is dangerously i'll AT Oceanic, N J. Re
tail coal dealers announced an advance in the
price Of coal Of % cents a ton owing to the
miners strike. - The departure Of the trans
port Mcpherson. which IS loading supplies for
Galveston, was delayed. - It was announced
that the Swedish Government would place q
Joan Of e2.000,000 here, - Fast time was
made in the automobile races at the opening
DAY Of the Tri-State Fair at Guttenburg -
Harbor policemen and detectives of the Iehigh
Valley Railroad Company had a lively fight
with river pirates. - A conference of West
ern railroad men held in the Equitable
Building. - Mrs. Alicia Y. La Bau, Commo-
dore Nanderbilt's daughter, was sued in "a pat
ent case. FL The tugboat American, when
helping the steamship Minnehaha to dock cap
sized and sank off the Debrosses-st. pier; two
men were drowned. - Winners az Graves
end: Klondyke. Silverdale, Cambrian, Ashes,
Belle Of Troy, Nabocklosh
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: Cool
and fair. Temperature yesterday: Highest IS
degrees; lowest. "a average, 6t%. Humidity s
3 m, e6; p III. 4S
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19

| tendency at every turn to inject into his argu-
| ment appeals to ignorance passion and class
feeling. His threadbare figure of cruclfylng
| mankind a cross Of gold turns up IN dlner-
ent forms. He cannot argue that an income
! tax is proper and equitable method or raising
/ revenue without avaing himself OF the dema-
gogic trick of assuming that by it alone in the
| hour of danger can the Government draft the
| pocketbook as well as the person, and then in
duging in this cheap pandering to class jeal-
ousies: UNLESS money is more precious than
blood we cannot afford TO give greater pro-
"tection TO the incomes Of the rich than to the
'lives of the poor" He deals with the trust
question In the same glib and specious fashion.
The problem of concentration Of industrial en-
terprises under modern conditions is an intricate
one but he gives 1t no consideration worthy
of the name He is ready to cure the un-
doubted evils OF trusts with ready made nos
trums applied at random as any quack at q
county fair is to treat all diseases on sight.
The fact that he may do infinite harm by reck-
lessness and plunge the country into panic and
stop great industries does not trouble him in
the least If he can get fees for his prescriptions
from the empty headed in the shape of votes.
When he comes to talk of his paramount
issue he avoids carefully the most important
constitutional question raised in his platform,
and likewise the most important question every
where asked concerning his future policy: Will
he at once bring the troops home from Manila
and leave Aguinaldo to impose his rule on
friend and foe among the natives? He does
not answer. How he will give the Filipinos
stable government of their own he will not tell.
What right he has, while proclaiming that we
have no business in the Philippines at all, to
plan for protectorate over them he does not
say. He merely argues that we can maintain
a protectorate without difficulty or expense, and
distorts the Monroe Doctrine by assuming that
1t means protectorate over the American re-
publics, whereas suggestion is more resented
by these republics than that. For our own
safety we have declared that European nations
must not annex territory here. but we have
never exercised the least oversight Of our neigh
bors. The establishment of q stable govern
ment. with a guarantee to protect 1t, is some
thing entirely different The constitutional
question avoided by Mr.. Bryan is his party's
principle that the Constitution extends to Porto
Rico, and, of course. therefore to the Philip
pines. Yet he urges that the Philippines be
treated as a foreign land. He must himself see
his inconsistency, for it has frequently been
commented upon but he has no time to reconcile
his miscellaneous collection Of grievances and
nostrums His purpose is merely to catch votes,
and no trick of argument is too specious for
his use.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
MR. BRYANg LETTER.

If there are any gold Democrats who are
under the impression that the free silver doc
tT1ne is merely a reminiscence kept In the Kan
sas City platform for consistency and campaign
purposes, and is not menace to the prosneritv
OF the country, they should find enlightenment
IN Mr.. Bryan's letter accepting one of his
nominations for the Presidency. He is still
determined 10 bring about the unlimited coinage
OF silver at the ratio Of 16 to l. and he evil
oenty hopes and not without reason. that if
elected enough State Legislatures will be carried
by his party TO enable him TO put his polfcv
into operation. His purpose, and the energy
with which he would use the great power of
the Executive office TO accomplish It. is unmis
takably revealed in mis- declaration: .Ybe4ber
THE Senate, now hostile to bimetallism. can be
changed during this campaign or the campaign
'of 1902 can only be determined after the votes
ARE counted, but neither the present nor the
future political complexion Of Congress has
prevented or should prevent an announcement
"of the party's position upon this subject in
"unequivocal terms"
His arguments in behalf of free silver are of
the usual deceptive kind. He pretends to thinl,
that international bimetallism Under which
silver would have a standing in the commerce
Of the world, is the same as free coinage under
which the United States would he coining
dollars which its citizens would have 70
take at twice the value they would pass for
In any other country. He pretends also TO see
IN the limited coinage under existing law bv
the Republicans Of the silver in the Treasury
q confession Of the soundness Of the 16 "a
principle Yet ne knows that the present silver
dollars limited in number and kept by ex
change on par with gold, are merely token
money. and their issue no more comedies that
an unlimited quantity OF f12h grain silver
pieces would be honest dollars than that onv
piece of paper the size and quality OF dollar
bill would be an honest dollar If the law al
lowed anybody TO take reams of It to the Gov
ernment printing press and get IT back with the
dollar stamp Mr. Bryan might as well argue
that the Republicans concede demand for IN
limited coinage on a bronze standard because
they issue cent pieces which are intrinsjcaIIv
worth about an eighth Of cent
On other topics Mr. Bryan shows himself as
usual the politician intent on making nonts
with adroit eyasiOns and catch phrases Moth
ing else so clearly reveals the intellectual fibre
and dangerous character of the man as This
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
THE CRoKER-sTANCHFIELD ISSUE

Mr.. John B. Stanchfleld has taken a hint from
his master, Richard Croker, and started his
campaign for Governor with an attack on the
department store. He dare not discuss free
silver, he himself is record as supporting
President Mckinley's policy in the Philippines
the trust question is n delicate one among peo-
pie who have not forgotten Tammany dealings
In ice. and the poor candidate has not much else
to talk about. OF course he cannot If elected
Governor, abolish the department store neither
could Mr.. Bryan as President. But he and Mr.
Croker evidently think there is prejudice
against these great commercial houses and
the accepted Bryanite method of making votes
IS TO appeal to every prejudice and Join In
every popular denunciation regardless of its
relation to the question at issue in the election.
though the department store question has alb
solutely nothing to do with politics. since Mr.
Croker and his candidate have raised It II is
pertinent to ask them to discuss the subject
fairly and meet fact with fact instead of IN
dulging in mere cheap abuse Of the institution.
Mr.. Stanchfeld represents the department store
as creature of the trust AS n matter of fact
1t is the outgrowth of the old general country
store, has been developed in France and even
in England, as well as in this country and owes
nothing TO legislation or politicians In recent
number of THE Saturday Evening Post" Of
Philadelphia, Mr. Robert c. Ogden of this city.
discussed the alleged evils of department stores
and gave, as If in anticipation, effective an
swers to Mr.. Stanchfield's assumptions Mr.
Ogden is a philanthropist, n student of indus
trial problems and n merchant who carries his
conscience into his business His conclusions
based on facts, exhibit Mr. Croker's candidate
as wofully ignorant or wilfully deceiving. and
lay him under obligation to defend his position
with something more than rantlng appeals TO
prejudice, or else retire the department store
along with his other unavoidable issues
Mr. Ogden meets the criticism that the de-
partment store destroys the small store with
the frank admission that 1t does to n certain
extent but not nearly as much ms is supposed
The small store fiourshes in New-York CITY.
and in Philadelphia the number of storekeep
ing licenses has more than doubled in thirty
years, in spite of the tendency to concentration.
This tendency Is common to all business and
whatever the prejudice against 1t, is inevitable
under modern conditions of trade. The disad-
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
PRESIDENT on WAY TO CAPITAL
TO ATTEND TO OFFICIAL BUsINEss-GREET-
INGs OF PENNSYLVANIA LEAGUE


INGs OF PENNSYLVANIA LEAGUE.
Canton Ohio Sept. 1S-Presdent Mckinley
started for Washington at % p. m, by way Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Secretary Cortelyou
accompanied him. Matters connected with the
Chinese situation call the President to the capi-
tai at this time, but it is said there is nothing
of great moment in that situation TO demand
attention-merely an accumulation Of routine
matters which can be better disposed of there
than here The President felt unusually well
when he left this city. The rest and quiet on
Saturday and Sunday, when he showed signs OF
fatigue had a most beneficial effect.
The Pennsylvania State League of Repub-
Iican Clubs telegraphed greetings TO the Presi-
dent, which WE'RE acknowledged by telegraph
The messages follow:
Philadelphia September II
The Hon. William Mckinley. President OF the
United States. Canton, Ohio.
The Pennsylvania State League or Kepu6lcan
Clubs in session. while indorsng you for President.
takes occasion also to congratulate you upon your
promotion this day thirty-eight years ago from
commssary sergeant TO leutenanL az ne 65IIe oI
Antetam. ]. HAMPTON MOORE
President State League of Pennsylvania
Canton, Ohio September Is
J. Hampton Moore, President State League OF Re-
publican Clubs. Philadelphia.
Replying to your very kind message IN oehaIf or
Clubs please assure the members OF the league of
nv appreca ton OF their greetings and congratula-
tionS their political service contribute 10 the
strengthening of right principles OF Government
for the welfare of their State and the Nation;
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19

for the "antiimperinllsts," no! They are simply
a transcript of the Bill of Rights contained In
the Constitution of the United States. The
President proposes that in the eye of the law
and of its administrators the life and liberty
and property of n Filipino shall be as certainly
respected as the life. liberty and property of
citizen of the United States Such Is the
tyranny" he imposes upon the countrymen of
Aguinaldo-the personal liberty and rights of
American citizens. Such is the hideous "im-
perlalism" he is striving to establish-the prin-
cples of the Constitution OF the United States of
America. OF a truth, If another paraphrase be
permissible. it may well be said, if that be i'm
perialism, make the most of IL!
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
amnsemeufs.

aSADEs6Y OF MUsIC-2s:l5-The Rebel.
AMERICAN THEATRE-2S:I5-Three Musketecrs.
BROADWAY THEA ATRE-2-s-Ben-Hu
CIRCLE MUSIC HAIIS-Vaudeville
CRITERION THEATRE-S:l5-The Pride Of Jennico
DALY's THEATRE-s-The Rose Of Persia
EDEN MuSEE-The World Wax
EMPIRE THEATRES .20-Richerd Carrel.
GARRICK THEATRE-2-S:l5-Ail on Account OF Eliza
GARDEN T5EATRE-7:45-Hamlet.
GRAND OPERA HOESE-2--Why Smith Left Home.
EAMMERSTEIN'S vICTORIA-S 3o-In Central Park.
HERALD SQUARE THEA sATRE-2-S:IS-Arizona
KEITH S-Continuous Performance.
KEiCKERBOCKER THEATRE-s:15-The Monks OF
Malabar
ROSTER & BIAI:s-2-s-vaudeviile
IYCEUM TIEATRE-S:50-A Royal Family.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRES: :2o-The Husbands Of
Leontine. preceded by ID Little Christina
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s-A Colonial Girl.
NEW-YORK TEEATRE-s-Cherry Blossom Grove.
PASToRS-DRy Night.
wAILACK's THBATRB-2:i5-s:l5-Princ Otto.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
THE GREELEY MOVEMENT N 1s7s.
a CANDID SOUTHERN STATEMENT ApoUr IT

a CANDID SOUTHERN STATEMENT ARoUT IT
From The Macon (Ga) News.
general Thomas l. ROSser. OF Virginia. saws the
for Greeley in IS7Sbecs,s tS SS reason % ne V ~
North was not for Greeley
Why was the South TOR CSreeley@ Because he Vas
man or vast influence in the North ana took the
south that civic government should prevail and
tne southern people should be allowed 20 govern
gress He declared the war was fought for the
preservation OF the Union. that slavery had been
quickly as possible he opposed the reconstruction
measures he opposed an measures FOR deSradins
was was & band OF liberal Republicans led ey Greeley
ana ana Cari Sc5urz who held out the hand OF friend
Lincoln was for immediate reStOra ton He td
the very men who passed the ordinance u seees-
nit the boIdeSt secsssiSnists 10 TestorstiSn. and
trust the government OF the Southern states n
their hands Greeley held 10 Lincoln's views. an
was so Hrgent on that line that the oppressed
such an ardent abolitionist
Bnt the war party OF the North were & fo.
destruction. and the reconstruction laws were d.
Republican party came south after the war ard
~ il'1eu me hegroes INTO party unto ta.S S.
serves ana punt up a negro party-that 10 was 20
policy of the Government 10 place the states ~
S0hIISI @ OF negroes and carpetoaggers pr9iefT- i
ny Inlutafy. Thus the South was looted and pun
dered and robbed. and the negroes taken out troI.
the very people among WSom they - were ' 10 i've,
tuu the war party has never ceased yet -
night ON us. The South suffers to-day because 'oSS
war party" had its reconstruction instead Q.
Greeleys restoration. The farmer feels it when ~
wife and daughters feel it In the uncertain tass
h hbnas awaits Them Greeley said; slavery was osl-
i, opue "' -TTSSh'enuon That gone. cement tnssss tns
pies, The war party pursued the opP'S
The whole South was held up as an object Of as
trust aud diSOyalty. The war party laugheOsi =
SSo SSSre S,a STeeley's humanity. and ridieulsa -
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
JOHN SHERMAN REMOVES TO WASHINGTON

Mansfield, Ohio, Sept. Is (speciaD-This city can
no longer claim John Sherman as resident. Last
evening Mr. Sherman accompanied by his daugh-
ter Mrs. J. I. McCallum, her two children, and
DR.. w. E. Loughridge. started from here for
Washington. not to return. EX-Secretary Sher-
man Is In feeble health The splendid Sherman
property IN Park-ave. West, Is to be divided into
lots and sold. The old Sherman home will also
pass into the hands of strangers. Mansfield was
long the home of the venerable statesman, who.
a law student. entered on his political career in
this city. There a movement on foot 10 give
Mr.. Sherman a farewell reception, but it was
abandoned account OF his feeble condition
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
SOCIETY ON THE MOVE.

Society is still on the move. and It will be
week or more before It is settled. With the excep-
tion of Lenox there is no place which just al pres
ent may be said 10 be in the enjoyment OF
season" The travellers who have been abroad al
summer are coming home IN large numbers Be
sides those who have been named already in the
cable dispatches. Sunday the Oceanic will bring
Mrs. Gouverneur Kortright. Mrs. Letter, Miss Daisy
Ter is among the passengers booked for LiVerP9oiI;
He Is making his annual pilgrimage abroad, wnch
before
The Bar Harbor season has ended. Mrs. Aiexan-
der Van Nest gave very delightful dance at the
Kebo Valley Club. and this entertainment consti-
tuted the finale It is reported, however that Miss
be married at Bar Harbor on October l. The we'd
ding will not be a very large affair
The wedding of Miss Mary Newbold Edgar. the
daughter of the late William Edgar. and the Rev.
Neptune B w. Gallwey took place yesterday at All
Saints Chapel In Newport 1t was a very small
affair only relatives and intimate friends being
present The Rev. Mr.. Gallwey is'connected with
Grace Chapel in East Fourteenth-st in this city.
Miss Edgars mother was Miss Rhinelander. Last
given away by her brother. Herman l. Edgar.
while the ushers were Frederick w. Rhinelander,
f. G. Huntington, Alexander NJ. Hadden ana the
Rev. Mr.. Baulteil
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Albert Stevens are in town for
few days. They will open their house Roslyn
within the next fortnight.
Mrs. Cleveland, the wife of the ex-Presidsnt has
been among the ST. Regis campers for several
days. She is the guest of a New-Jersey friend,
Mrs. Dixon but, with nearly everybody else in
the Adirondacks, the cold weather promises to
turn her face southwark soon.
Miss Daisy Post is paying a short visit to Mrs
Elbridge T. Gerry and the Misses Gerry at their
place the Delaware. Miss Post will return 70
Newport the arrival Of her aunt, Mrs Frederick
W. Vanderbilt. from Europe.
Almeric H Paget is in town for a short visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney have gone 10
October Mountain, Lenox. for the autumn.
Mr. and Mrs Chester Griswold were IN town yes
terday. They have returned from abroad and
have been paying visit to Colonel lie Grand B.
Cannon. at Burlington
4he only affair Of consequence at Newport is the
tennis mixed double tournament, organized by
Colonel John Jacob Astor, for which he has given
several handsome cups.
Lenox is all excitement the coming Horse
Show which will be held on Friday at the farm OF
William D. Sloane It will be the closing incident
Of the season there which has naturally been very
short. OF course, LenOX IS now IN all its beauty
and the cottagers have no idea of leaving II until
November.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19

The DAILY and SUNDAY TRIBUNE, BY mail,
$l.oO a month, except TO a city or foreign
address.
ReaderS are fnTited TO complain to this
ONCE, # they cannot find TRIBUNEs at a
tlsIcs stand. The Presidential campaign
has caused an increase in sales.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
TO REBUILD COLLEGE AT H4RpOOr

Boston. Sept. lS.-The Board OF Trustees In Ros
ton OF Euphrates College. at Harpoot Eastern
Turkey. has received dispatch from President
g. FRANK Gates that permission TO reconstruct the
buildings destroyed by the Turks IN the autumn of
lS95 has just been given by the local eovernroep,
Lhs college schools IN all their departments in
Cuulng the primary, have enrolled this wear mora
than eleven hundred pupils. Nearly one bi,pJrsS
OF these are in the college department proper