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New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
WHERE THE FAULT LIES.

1t is now more than forty-three years since
Mr. Tenniel suggested In one of his most power
full and most famous Punch" cartoons that the
safety Of railroad passengers might be secured
by requiring one of the directors of the road 10
ride upon the buffers at the front of the loco
motive-upon the cowcatcher, we would
phrase it here. The suggestion has been re-
peated, with or without credit to its author, and
in innumerable forms. times without number
since it was made. But the most forceful re-
minder of it comes now and then in the tragic
news of some railroad disaster in which bad
Management is writ large.
There are accidents which seem practically
unavoidable. An axle or a wheel will break, or
some detail of the track get out Of order, de
spite all inspections and precautions. But rear
end collisions, such as that at Kensico a few
days back and that at Hatfield, Penn, on Sun
day, are not thus excusable. They are due,
solely and inevitably, to bad management The
fault may lie with some individual employe, or
1t may lie, it more generally does with the
general management Of the road. In every
case 1t is the latter which is first TO be held re-
sponsible. Upon it falls the onus of proving
that 1t had done all in its power for safety. 1t
cannot thus exculpate itself unless it can show
that it had provided the road with the best
modern devices for signalling and otherwise
regulating the running of trains.
Mr.. TennieIs hint was a humorous one in a
humorous publication. But there is dreadful
~ serious side Of the matter which is we'll
worthy of consideration. Engineers may now
and then be reckless and fagmen negligent
though not often. seeing that their own lives
are thus endangered. But upon the higher man
ayers and directors Of the road the first and
gravest responsibility is fixed. And until they
have done all that modern science and skill can
do for safety there is no ground on which they
may make scapegoats of their employees.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
SUCCESS IN RUSLNESS

Richard Croker says that young men to-day
have no chance in business, account of the
trusts and he therefore advises them to spout
for Tammany whether they know how to talk
not. Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt, In "The Com
mercial Advertiser" ventures to call in question
the truth of this statement and the soundness
of the advice which accompanies It, He saws
that large corporations instead of discouraging
young men Of ability and character are actually
looking for them all the time. Speaking for
a company in which he Is interested he adds:
Il need five or six Of them, young men who are
willing to begin at the bottom and work up
There is one inside to keep them back
Industry and commerce are increasing and
new enterprises are being undertaken The
Government statistics of imports and exports
'show this. People are not dying any less to-
"day than they did in the past. Who is going
Ito take their places? 1t is the competent young
men, and there are comparatively few of
them"
Young of ability who are not afraid TO
work hard for success will find no serious OBJ
stacle in their path to-day But If their idea is
to saunter into a business house and graciouslv
accept junior partnership offhand 1t must be
admitted that they will find little to encourage
them. Mr.. Hewitt apparently thinks that the
leader of Tammany had this type of young
ultl III HulHu, lOT ne asks. Wnat did Mr..
Croker want for his sons In the Roebling con-
"~a-u? Did he want them TO begin at the bot
tom Of the firm which the Roeblings had built
"up after forty years of work? Judging from
''the reports of the Mazet hearing, Mr. Croker
wanted them to get in as partners, and was
disappointed because they could not in fifty
minutes get TO the head of a firm which ii
had taken forty years to build up"
| But, however 1t may be in Mr.. Crokers own
family, 1t is fact that many young men to-
! day desire to reach the goal of success at once
and success, as they understand it. means the
acquisition of great wealth That such young
men should rnll at the modern methods of busi-
ness Is entirely natural; for except In rare in
stances great fortunes are made only by ex-
ceptionally able men. who are ready II need he
to work like galley slave twelve or fourteen
hours day for the best part of their lives The
trusts as Mr.. Croker indlscrimlnately calls
all large corporations. looking for such
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
BRYAN ON LABOR DAY.

Mr.. Bryan improved the OCCASION of Labor
Day by making a political stump speech to
miscellaneous crowd in Chicago 1t was largely
devoted to an attack upon the courts and to
vicious endeavor to persuade workingmen that
judges were their enemies and the judicial sys-
TEN generally inimical to the interests of labor.
He also devoted some attention to what he calls
imperialism" which ne declared TO be the su-
preme issue Of this years campaign. OF the
currency question of free coinage of silver at
16 to 1, Of whether as President he would com
pei creditors Of the Government to take silver
in payment Of coin" obligations whether they
wanted it or not-of these things the verbose
and famboyant orator said not a word.
And yet Mr.. Bryan won his prominence and
secured his nomination for the Presidency, and
so got the opportunity of talking in Chicago
yesterday, by dramatically shrieking. you shall
mot press down upon the brow of labor this
Grown of thorns! You shall not cruelty human
city upon a cross Of goldr' What has become
Of that crown and that cross? Does he pro-
pose to let the one be pressed down upon the
brow Of labor in this year 1900 without a word
of the vehement protest which he so profusely
made in 1895? Does he mean now to go by
upon the other side, leaving humanity to be
cruclhed upon that cross Of gold, without strik-
ing blow in it's defence? Four years ago last
month he declared that "wage earners have
''been injured by gold standard. They know
"that while gold standard raises the purchas-
'ing power of a dollar, 1t also makes It more
difficult to obtain possession Of the dollar; they
know that employment is less permanent, loss
''of work more probable and unemployment less
certain" And yet yesterday, before an au-
dience Of workngmen, Mr. Bryan lodged the
! whole subject Of the gold standard as If to let
! that pernicious thing go injuring them with
| out word in their behalf.
! It is curious phenomenon, all the more curl
GUS in view of Mr.. Bryan's own formal and
| positive declaration that until the currency
! question is fully and finally settled the Amer
| 'ican people will not consent to the consider
"ation of any other important question" For
he now persists IN considering other questions,
| which he declares to be Of paramount impor-
| tance. Are we to understand that he does so
| in opposition to the will Of the American peo-
| pie, and conscious that the American people
| will ignore his preachments as empty vapor-
| ing? Or are these other questions which he
wants the American people to consider really
Of no importance? Or, yet again, is the cur
rency question fully and finally settled In a
way that proves Mr. Bryan to have been a false
| prophet and an unsound statesman and dan
| gerous guide? It would be interesting to know.
| But upon these matters there was no informa-
ton in Mr. Bryan's Populist stump speech Of
yesterday at Chicago
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
PERSONAL.

Joaquin Miller the California poet, announced in
recent interview that in the complete edition OF
his works which he is preparing for publication
only after his death his real name. Cincinnatus
Hene Miller will be used.
One OF the grand old men of science Professor
Virchow, celebrated his golden wedding the other
day at Wilhelmsh0he near Cassel at the house OF
his third son. who is director of the Royal Gar
dens. Whether as pathoogist anthropologist or
politician, Professor Virchow has been almost
equally active.
1t has been reported that General Gaselee now
commanding the British troops in China is the
son OF the original of Mr.. Justice Stareleigh in
"Pckwck," but that is His father was
the Rev. John Gaselee, rector of Little Yeldham
Essex. and he entered the army in 1868 as an en-
sign in the 93d Highlanders. Most of his active
service-and he has had plenty OF it-has been in
India, but he served in the Abyssintan war OF
1857 and twice mentioned in dispatches He
is now serving in his eleventh war
Steintz the celebrated chess player says ''Ths
Jewish Chronicle" descended from a rab-
bnical family his grandfather having been a cele-
brated Talmudist. His grandfather's brother
Sholem Steinitz. rabbi of Altoona and MANY
OF his descendants 10 be found to-day scattered
over various parts OF Germany. The name ~
Steintz's uncle, LazarStein, Is to be seen on many
OF the Chumoshim published in Prague where he
the chief official corrector of the Jewish press
Steintz himself originally educated FOR the
rabbinical profession
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

chief ports or China and Japan, would nave
been of inestimable value during the last two
months. 1t would have kept the American e1-
pedition in China and the Government at WASH
ington in close touch.
1t is too late now TO construct such cable
line for use in this campaign. And there may
never again be exactly such need or II as there
has been and is this summer. Or sun more
urgent need Of similar kind may arise next
wear or the next But beyond all such needs
the cable is urgently required for the more
neacerul purposes of diplomacy and OF COM
merce. It will be profitable to construct 1T for
those uses. If for nothing else. The present
emergency should however, be potent influ-
ence toward prompt entry upon the laying OF
the cable-an American cable across the Pacific
Ocean under the American flag.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

their own superiority. Normally, the quesuon
should be pertinent one, TO be answered eni-
phatically in the negative. But In view Oh
these reports of looting and rapine. what pre-
tence of superiority are the Powers 10 make
and TO maintain over China? There was a
hdeous tale. happily false, that foreign men ID
Peking had been driven TO kill their wives ana
children TO save them from Chinese tortures
But now 1t is said that the Chinese in PeKlng
are committing suicide Wholesale to save them
selves from a worse fate at the hands or 1or-
eigners. Hitherto we have protested against
the Chinese appellation of foreign devils
given to all Americans and Europeans. But
what are we to say now when the Chinese sup
port that opprobrious term with the reminder
that the foreigners who came to China 10 re-
press crime, to restore order, and to preserve
property and life inviolate, busied themselves
with indiscriminate theft, rapine, arson and
murder? Are not these latter the work or
devils?
The first duty of the hour in China is to IN
vestigate these charges and to stop the orgy
of outlawry If its prevalence is established.
The question of remaining in or withdrawing
from Picking is an important one, but 1t sinks
into iDsignifcance by the side of this. II the
Powers can do no better in China than to loot
and to ravish and TO murder. they would best
get out in short order, and pray that the world
may some day forget that they ever went In
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

mon and when they find them they take good
care not TO lose them Not long ago the head
of n great business enterprise said: III L could
"ind young man who could take all the care
"of my business off my shoulders | stand ready
"to pay him q salary of 100000 a year Tor
.lfe" But he hasn't found the young man
yet although no phenomenal ability is needed
TO master the details of the business.
In an address entitled Iron and Labor,
which Mr. Hewitt delivered In 1890, he used
these words
1t should be a matter of co1gratulation, there
fore that the formation OF trades unions con-
temporaneously with the rapid growth OF large
corporations whose stock is divided into such
small shares to admit of easy distribution
clears the way for the new era when every IN
teliigent workman will insist upon being an
owner. and every we'll managed corporation VIII
see that its workmen are directly interested in
the results OF the business. To effect this de-
sirable end no compulsory legislation and no
addition to the powers of corporations are
needed The educational influence of the con-
hicts which have occurred has already done
much, and the conferences which frequently take
place as to wages and regulations are doing
more to establish a better understanding. to
create harmonious action and to develop the
idea that business cannot be carried oD unless
both the capital and the labor employed share
directly in the proceeds. The two classes or
ganized. as it were, into armies of observation.
and occasionally they come into conflict, but the
chances of collision becoming daily smaller
and will disappear altogether when their differ
ship through the agency of corporations admit
ting and cultivating the direct participation of
the workmen in the profits
II is, however by means necessary that
all workmen should thus become shareholders.
There will always be considerable element OF
unstable and unintellgent character. whose
participation in the ownership is neither desir-
able nor possible: but think the time is near
when 1t will be dscredltable to a workman not
to be also owner in the establishment in
which he works and that all workmen OF the
better class will have such interest. 1t is
quite conceivable that the workmen may ulti-
mately acquire the preponderating interest. in
which case the best possible solution will have
been reached, in which labor hires capital at the
lowest possible rate and thus becomes the main
factor in the conduct of industry.
The demagogues continually telling the
workingmen that they can rule the country.
They will never do so, however, If they listen
TO the demagogues. But if they follow Mr..
Hewitt's advice they will find themselves more
powerful than any professional politician, and in
a position, at once to disregard his empty threats
and despse his impudent cajoleries
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
INTERRUPTED COMMUNICATIONS.

The recent dearth of news from Peking gave
rise to the suspicion that the Chinese telegraph
operators somewhere on the line were tamper-
ing with messages. 1t was not at all unlikely
The Chinese under Mr.. Sheng were quite capa-
BILE of it, and opportunities of doing so were as
plentiful as blackberres. The result was an
nOying in the extreme. 1t caused much
anxiety. And it is quite conceivable that such
interruption of intercourse might cause serious
trouble There is nothing more essential than
that our commanders at the front should be
in direct and free communication with the
Government at Washington That all their
communications In both directions should pass
through the hands Of and be at the mercy Of
the countrymen and perhaps the partisans OF
those with whom we have just been fighting is
an amazing anomaly
1t is gratifying to learn that steps have been
taken to remedy the trouble, but the great
general lesson Of the whole incident is that there
should be an American cable across the Pacific
Ocean Such a cable, running from San Fran
cisco TO Manila, with branches to some of the
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
FUNERAL oF y 5. W4SHRrRr

Kansas City. Mo Sept S-From MS TIN
u22O o'clock to-day. every locomotive every piece
of machinery and every emPloye on the Memphis
Railway system from Kansas City 70 Birmingham
Ala. were idle. This action was taken as mark
OF respect to the memory Of the ate president Or
the system F. : WaShburn. who died Rys
Beach y. H. last Friday. For the I'VE minutes
specified every train and LOCOMOTIVES was held
at standstill. no matter where they happened ~
be At the end ot the five minutes trafbc was re-
sumed. The funeral services Of Mr. Washhurn
were held to-day II St. Andrews Chapel. Rys
Beach. n Fl. The body was later taken 70 BOs-
ton for burial, In Frost Park Cemetery. where
other members Of the family buried
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
PRESIDENT NOT GOING TO PORTSMOUTH.

Washington, Sept. 3.-Assistant Secretary HACK
EFT of the Navy Department called at the White
House to-day and urged the President 10 accept
the invitation OF Senator Chandler and the citzehs
OF New-Hampshre to attend the presentation OF
bronze tablets to the battleships Kearsarse ana
Alabama. which is to take place on September Is
at Portsmouth. The President expressed MS TO
gret that owing to pressing public business NJ
would not be able 10 attend. ~,
II now seems probable that the President VII VII
not be able to return TO Canton oeIore tns i09'
OF this week the first OF next.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

AS the Czar, beyond saying that he hated all
war, could only recommend to Dr. Leyds that
the Beers, being defeated. should make peace
the hve-ninute interview between them was
hardly worth the trouble taken to bring It
about. The Imperial counsel was judicious and
sound as a Russian ruhle. but 1t is a question
whether the envoy or his people are yet ready
to receive it at Its face value
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
LUTHERAN COLLEGE SEHEcEyTEvvI4L.

Columbus. Ohio. Sept 2-Cspital University tho
institution controlled by the EvanSeHcal Lutheran
Joint Synod OF Ohio and other States. celebrated
It's semi-oentennial anniversary to-day Several
thousand Lutherans gathered at the institution and
carried out an elaborate prOgranrne Excursions
were from Detroit. Pittsburg, DAYTON. san
dusky and other places. Addresses made "a
follows:
Greetings from the Lutheran Seminary. 81. Paul
DIR. II, Erns'; German address, Pastor NJ. c Hecht.
Dayton. Ohio greetings from Teachers seminary
Woodvile. Ohio. DR. Theodore MeeS; English ad-
dress. Professor NJ Loy, Columbus. Ohio.
Tonight the alumni banquet, reunion and rseceD-
ton occurred \ short session % the joint SYNOD
was held this morning when the report Of IN. com
mittee on aosne 1or the AseU O1 Aiics lsny. Penn
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
amusements.

ACADEMY OF MUsTC-s16-The Rebel.
4MEHIcAN-s-The Great Ruby.
BROADWAY THEATRE-s-Ben-Hur.
CASINOS :so-Casino Boy--Beauty Minstrels.
CRITERION THEATRE :15--The Pride of Jennico
EMPIRE THEATRES :2O-Brother Of1cers.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-S-Ihe Parish
Priest
cARRICK THEATRE-s:l6-Au on Account of Eliza
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-S-A Lady OF Quality.
TAMNERSTEINS VICTORIA-S:l5-Roof Garden
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-s15-The Cadet Girl
KEITH S-ContinUous Performance.
EOSTER & BIALfS-S-Vaudevlle
MANHATTAN -3:30-Fancullts 11st regiment
Band-S-Psin'E Great Spectacle and Fireworks
NEW-YORK THEATRE-S-CherTy Blossom Grove,
FASTORS-D and Night
ST. NICHOLAS GARDEyN-Summer Night Concerts
wALI.ACK'S THEATRE-sl5-Prince Otto.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

The DAILY and SUNDAY TRIBUNE. by mail,
$1.00 month, except to a city or foreign
address.
Readers are 1nUited to complain to this
office, If they cannot find TRBUNES at a
nelDs stand. The Presidential campaign
has caused an increase in sales.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
Rivas. of Mexico: j. wheatland Smith, OF venice.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ziegler

Among the passengers sailing to-day on the
steamship Deutschland. OF the Hamburg-AInerl-
Line. for Plymouth. Cherbourg and Hamours'
will be Baron and Baroness Leopoldo Franchetu'
DR. and Mrs b. FRYE G. L. Schurz. II. G. New-
comb, vice-consul for Spain in philadelphia. hlr'
and Mrs. r. Thomas and Mr.. and Mrs. e La fuisO'
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS

The Anchor Line steamship City of Rome. which
reached her pier in this city yesterday from Glas-
gov. brought among her passengers the Rev and
Mrs. G. Braker jr.. Captain Breaks the Right
Rev. j. Fltzmaurice, James Gentleman. the Very
Rev. F. Graham. L. d. Granger. Professor E
Hitchcock Colonel S. w. Jackson, George Guetta
DR. Carl LANCER, the Rev. Benjamin Matrau T n
Reid j. H. Reid. Mr.. A. c. Robertson DR. O. n
Rowe, Professor f. p Thompson and DR. @ v
Twalensburg.
The list OF those who SAN to-day on the North
German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse Cor Cherbourg. Southampton and Bremen
includes Mr. and Mrs. Walter Allen of Cleveland
Ohio Mr.. and Mrs John Adam Eppg. Mrs T. r.
Hostetter Potter Palmer, OF Chicago Mrs Charles
Pratt Miss Helen Il. Pratt Mrs Dolores r. AZ
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado turn over to
McKinley's support large number of men
prominent in various situations who voted for
Bryan four years ago, The list Of these recruits
of men of light and leading all over the coun-
try expands as the days go on, to Bryan a sign
as dread as the shape wan and ominous that
drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

Sweden is the latest foreign country to come
hither seeking loan. and yet II is one Of the
fundamental principles Of Organism that the
gold standard will make and keep us debtor
nation.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

InterTosated by a quidnunc, TaIleyrand re-
piled: Some say that the King of England is
dead and some that he is not, but I believe
neither Of them" Reports about Prince Tuan
are equally contradictory. and perhaps all invite
a similarly ncredulous reception.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

The new State Partnership law, which has Just
gone into effect. compels the registration In the
County Clerks Office OF the real and full names
OF all persons doing business under corporate
titles or old firm names, and will be a much
needed protection to the business community.
Rogues will not find 1t so easy as formerly to
trade on the credit Of old and respected houses
whose names they have by usurpation or other
means teen able to adopt, and If they try 1t are
likely to be fined put in JAIL or made to suffer
both penalties. 1t is useful statute and might
with advantage have been enacted a good while
ago.
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04

The incident Of eight British soldiers captur-
ing twenty eight Beers and soaring two hundred
more into fight through a clever ruse indi-
Gates that "slimness' is by no means confined TO
one side in the war
New-York tribune., 1900-09-04
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN

BRYAN'S 'TNACCURACIES.''-T Demo-Pop
candidate for the Presidency has already becoms
so reckless IN his nisstatements that he promises
to distance the Suffers and Lentzes before ths
end Of the campaign The Boston Advertiser
thus calls attention to one Of Mr.. Bryan's recent
Inaccuracies:
In the Presidential campaign OF 1895 il may Be
membered. W J. Bryans campaign marked
BY some very loose statements financial matters
a good many business men were at times almost
shocked to find Presidential candidate airiy max
Ing assertions In defiance OF the plain business
records OF the country. Possibly the admirers OF
the Nebraska statesman have been hoping that In
the last four years he has had time TO study Up
such matters, but Il must be confessed that there
are no signs Of such Improvement yet In
MS latest acceptance speech he stated that each
the corresponding month OF 1850 and on this basis
ne punt up a dismal structure Of fOreooding. The
leading trade journals IN their business review for
tne hrst half Of the present year stated that hsi
the fewest reported for any similar period for egh
Teen years Mr. Bryan should cultivate accuracy
OF ieave hnancial questions alone
The Advertiser might have added that COM
mereial failures in the United States touched ths
both inclusive and that the threat of a Bryan
triumph In 1s9S increased the number OF such fail
ures to l5Oss compared with 13 3197 IN 1905 which
mad been a bad year In 1893 the total amount -
liabilities involved was S75.1s60s0 and fn 1sss tho
total liabilities amounted S22s COS s2f an ncrea
OF nearly $1,000 oC0. In 1899 the total number %
commercial failures was only 9Es7 ana me total
liabilities amounted 70 only SO s79 so n Nr
Brydn's statement were true ~ would signify sim
caused oy fear that he might win. Happily the
assertion Is not true.