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cloths are red. The hansings are rel.
The guests Of honor seated at tables on
the stage are blood-red. The walters
are rcd with reflected red. The cham
payne looks like Burgundy. The very
water-for there is water in the finger
bowls-is red. The tables are OF redwood.
The salad looks like red cabbage. TIE
fish Is red snapper. The fowl Is red
head duck. The pervading hue the
cream OF mint incarnadines, making the
green one red. This will be the reddest
event with which history ever blushed.
There is but one flaw In this great
picture OF u" The Rout OF Thirst There
should be waiter for each man. And
have the emergency corps and ambu-
lance service been carefully trained?
At $50 A. NJ. Oct. 9, what sounds come
to our ears from that rcd revelry?
London town
Is falling down."
The Honourables drop under the re-
peated and merciless red fire OF the
Ancients,
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Times Change and Standards Differ.

Times Change ana STANDARDS iIiHer.
In not an entirely friendly spirit, the
Cincinnati Enquirer exhibits the refusal
OF DANIEL WEBSTER, sixty years ago, to
lift a finger to obtain the Presidential
nomination his friends desired for
him, as being in marked contrast with
THEODORE RoosEvELTs frank requis-
ton upon the Ohio Republicans, and
the Presidents other manifestations OF
personal eagerness.
WEBSTER was private citizen, and
undoubtedly he wanted to be President.
Yet he met the suggestion that he should
get out and hustle for the nomination-a
suggestion no doubt conveyed in the
elegant paraphrase suited to the taste
of that day-wth this declaration:
II am private citizen. and that condition will
never be changed by any movement or effort made
for that purpose by myself or at my suggestion. In
my opinion. nominations for the high ofaces OF the
country should come. II they come at ALL from the
free and spontaneous exercise Of that respect and
confidence which the people themselves may feel.
All solicitations of such nominations and all con e
wasting for such high trusts. regard as equally In
consistent with personal dignity and deroga,ory to
the character OF the institutions OF the country"
The implied rebuke of Mr.. ROOSEVELT,
as statesman personally less dignifed
than Mr.. WEBSTER and less respectful of
the dignity Of the exalted office he both
holds and wishes to retain, does not seem
to us fair to the President.
There is no absolute fixed standard Of
propriety by which to measure the acts
of Presidential candidate. 1t is a
matter of the genius of the age, Of indi-
vidual temperament, and of individual
conscience. Mr.. ROOSEVELT makes no
concealment of his intention that the
people shall return him by their votes to
the Office he now occupies only because
of a tragic accident. 1t is quite con-
ceivable that to his straightforward
mind, with its fearless modernity Of
method, an attitude copied from Mr..
WEBsTERs would seem like the affecta-
ton of an indifference he does not feel;
in short, like hypocrisy and humbug,
and therefore not to be assumed by him,
Mr.. ROOSEVELT, without a much greater
loss Of real personal dignity than can
result from any amount Of solicitation,
or canvassing, or even peremptory COM
mand, as party leader. Who will blame
the President for preferring to be I'M
conventional rather than hypocritical?
In order to appreciate at it's just value
the sincerity of Mr.. ROOSEVELT in 1908,
it is not necessary to suppose that Mr..
WEBSTER was insincere in lS43.
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The Red Banquet.

Three hundred and sixty-fve times a
year, three hundred and sixty-six times
in leap years, the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company Of Boston celebrates
and banquets, solemnly and jovially.
JUPITER STAToR is the tutelary divinity
of that legion, and all those DICTIONARIES
are stayers.' They love to tarry. As
men of war they are obliged to put the
enemy down. But all banquets past do
stand excused in this with which they
are to welcome or overcome the Hon
durable Artillery Company Of London
next fall Even our demure contem-
porary, the Boston Transcript, swallows
in anticipation and purrs with delight:
In magnincence of conception. In dignity Of
scope and elaborateness in detail II Is not too much
to say that the banquet will eclipse any dinner
ever yet held In Boston. Beautiful In itself. Sym
phony Hall Ia well adapted TO this new use. II 10
planned 10 have colortng and design transform II.
Under the tread there will be carpetng of rich
red while the diners will be seated at sixty -four
round tables each lighted by an Individual electric
light. Eleven people will sit at each table. and q
corps OF $50 walters will serve the vlands. Three
walters will be assigned 10 each round table. and
In addition at appropriate points In the hail there
will be still other walters known as captains
who will form an emergency corps and see to the
general comfort OF ALL"
A rich, deep red, verging almost to
an apoplectic purple. suffuses the whole
splendid scene. The Holsters look posi-
lively pale when they are brought in.
The sixty-four individual red lights that
beam over the sixty-four rounds OF
drinks, wink and blink with friendly red
eyes at the conquerors of drought, the
ruby rainmakers. The chairs, espe-
cially designed for the dinner and fur
nished with racks and padlocks to pre-
vent any falling out, are upholstered in
red. The bill of fare is printed in raised
red letters. The souvenir" plates,
hand-painted red, represent the famous
voyage of the Company through a red
sea in 1896 The souvenir napkins I"
bear an artillery scroll in red" The
china is red Staffordshire. The: spoons
are red gold. The glass is red The
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The Canals Argument

We see no occasion for dwelling at
length on the reasons put forward by the
leading advocates of the new l,OOO-ton
barge canal across the State in their re-
ply, which was published on Wednesday,
to the State Senators who voted against
the proposition. The statement of the
canal advocates is not one that at all
grips public attention or contains any
thing new or valuable upon the subject
with which it deals The gist of the argu-
ment put forward is the same old hack
neyed assertion that the business in
terests of the State have decided that
commercial, MANUFACTURED, industrial and
agricultural supremacy of the State
would be benefited by the so-called
modern edition of the Erie Canal
This assertion is as false as it is familiar.
The business interests of the State have
at no time expressed their minds con-
corning the new barge canal, but have,
on the contrary, or 80 far as we have been
able to discover, regarded the entire
project with lukewarmness. The long
resolutions adopted by various COM
hSISioi uhhhOWh W ldilc lOOi
nobody. The people Of Buffalo want the
new canal, of course. and they want
a 1,OO0-ton barge canal because that will
necessitate transshpment of grain at
Buffalo, and 30, artifcially. make bust
ness in that city. The people of Roches-
ter seem to be unanimously opposed to
the plan, and this sentiment seems like
wise preponderant in Syracuse, Utica
and in all the large towns even along the
line of the Erie Canal itself. In this city,
we do not believe that one business man
in hundred cares a copper whether the
barge canal is built or not.
The canal promoters make a feeble
effort to cloud the impressive exhibit of
the growth and prosperity of the cities
of New York and Buffalo during the time
OF the decadence Of the Erie Canal and
in the period OF tho so-called railway
conspiracy against New York city, made
by Senator RAINEs and his associates in
their recent address to the people They
succeed only in making more emphatic
II anything the abeurdity of the claim that
, the development Of these two cities, al
most the most astounding in the history
OF our country, has been arrested by the
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viii begin and II promises toSbe perhaps
unusually great. I have heard OF the re-
suit Of Presidential election having been
foregone conclusion, but have never known
Of such a certainty during tho excitement OF
a Presidential campaign, yet have voted 81
all the elections since 1850, But why should
I be alarmed over the prospect when my
stock investments are paying me the same
dividends received when their prices In the
market were from 50 to rs points higher
than they are now? lido not see any indica-
tions that they are going 70 pay less. and
fortunately am able to hold on to them,
however the stock market goes. That Is,
the downward movement Is not In intrinsic
values. INVESTOR.
NEW YORK, June II.
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Commencement Times.

These days the Old Grads,
Who once were lads
But now are Dads,
Or ought TO be.
Are hiking back
On the Alma Mater tack
To the ether days
When they thought college ways
Were hard sleddln':
And the Faculty was lob lot
They wanted TO swat
In the neck
Collcc.
lively. and individually:
And Latin was tough,
And Greek was rough,
And Mathematics was rank STUFF
And the whole shooting match was enough
To make student
Drop out any time
And pursue career Of crime.
They used TO feel. Now
The Dads
Would give anything to he lads;
And the Old Grads
Hike back TO the other days
And the college ways;
And they're hlled with praise
OF knowledge
And college.
And they blow hot air
Into the Faculty, for fair:
And the lads
Wonder
What In thunder Ia the matter With their Dads;
And the Old Grads
Smile and sigh and say:
All lads.
Wal. till you are old Grads
And psds.-
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We Need Larger Foreign Markets.

The market value of the manufactured
products of the United States for 1902
was. approximately, SIS, 900, 900 900. This
is the product of more than half a million
establishments, whose sotal capitaliza-
ton exceeds SIC, 900 OOO, 900, and in which
some seven million of our people find en-
ployment This truly enormous bust
ness becomes only the moro imposing
when one realizes how large percentage
OF it is OF recent development. Within
a quarter of century the number Of
our factories has doubled, their capital
ization has quadrupled, the number of
their employees has increased nearly
three times, and the value OF their output
has grown from the S. 500, 00O, 900 Of 1880
to the $4,000, OOO, 900 of 1902.
In connection with such a statement
there arises, naturally, question Of the
disposition Of so enormous quantity OF
merchandise. Where does it go? Who
uses it? 1t is probable that the ofrhand
judgment of many would declare that
much of the increase was due to the in
crease in our export trade. Yet the fact
is that we export only about 3 per cent
of it. OF the American manufactured
wares of 1902, 81 per cent. in value was
consumed in the best market which the
United States has-the domestic. 1t
went to trade with which the American
manufacturer is familiar-to customers
whose wants, habits and tastes he under
stands. 1t vas sold under commercial
laws and financial conditions with which
he is fully acquainted. The American
manufacturer knows his home trade,
knows how to get it, and caters to it. He
studies the requirements of his market,
and that market is at all times quickly
and easily reached. Credit systems,
banking and transportation facilities
make his domestic trade simple proc
ess in comparison with export trade.
For these reasons American energy is
bent toward securing and holding Ameri-
can trade against both domestic and
foreign competition.
But there is another side to this trade
question which is growing beyond gen.
eral realization. Within quarter Of a
SCHVuly viz ouNpo0 va
products has increased 200 per cent
Actual producing capacity has probably
increased much beyond that, inasmuch
as few establishments are run contin-
ually to the full extent of their producing
power. But the number of domestic
consumers has increased only a little
more than so per cent. within the same
period. Two influences appear. One
is that we now manufacture at home
many of those articles which twenty
five years ago we imported. The other
is that the consuming capacity of our
population has increased more rapidly
than has the number of consumers.
Standards Of living are higher and in
dividual requirements are greater than
they were a quarter Of century ago.
Individual wants increase with the ability
Of the individual to crafty them, and
national prosperity has transformed
much that was luxury Of the last gen.
Grafton into an ordinary comfort or
seeming necessity for the present gen.
GRAFTON. Yet, even with these important
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influences, the fact stands that consum-
ing power has not kept pace with tho
vast increase in producing power, and
American manufacturers are coming into
more and more direct conformation with
an ever-increasing surplus Of manufact-
ured wares beyond the requirements OF
the home market
There are two lines Of possible deter
mination OF the question, and only two.
One is limitation of output, the other an
extension Of markets.
We look at our export trade in manu-
featured goods and see it's increase
from OO,OO0,OOO in 1880 to $3.50 ,OOo,O 900
in 1890, and then its tremendous leap
to more than $4oO, 900, 900 in 1902. The
dazzle of these figures blinds us to their
real significance. Diverted by striking
incident, we lose sight of the main issue
That issue does not lie in the mere fact
that there has been a very gratifying
increase. 1t rests in the question OF
the great probability of serious reaction
upon domestic interests if that export
trade be not indefinitely extended within
the near future.
Already careful students of the situa-
ton are asking each other how long we
can continue to absorb at home per-
centage of our products which will avert
glutted markets and deprecated prices.
Let there be assumed continuance OF
our present prosperity, Of big crops and
busy mills and well-paid labor. There
must be an even greater prosperity and
even bigger crops, with profitable mar
ket for them, II the ever-increasing mills
are to find domestic market for their
ever-increasing production. Closely in
terwoven as our industries are, a cessa-
ton of activity in any one OF our lead
ing lines reacts upon other lines. The
cry of overproduction 'or of under
production, call it which you will, is
quickly raised, and commercial unoer-
tainty paves the way to commercial
stagnation. A market clogged with the
products OF our factories compels the
stoppage of production, limits the gen.
eral consuming power, enforces general
economy in the household, and opens
the door to hard times.
It has pleased various writer's and
public officials to regale us with ex-
uberant tales of the American invasion
of this, that and the other market. As
yet our exports of manufactured goods
fill only very small hole in the worlds
markets, and our increased exports are
not due so much to our inroads upon the
trade of our competitors as they are to
our participation in a general increase
of world business. That our export
trade in manufactured goods has grown
is as gratifying as it is undeniable. But
there are these three facts which remain
for the thoughtful consideration OF our
commercial and financial classes:
1. That we now export only 3 per cent.
of the products of our shops, mills and
factories.
2. That we now secure only about 10
per cent. of the worlds import trade in
manufactured goods.
8. That our market ia not keeping pace
with our increasing facilities for pro-
duction.
Stagnation in American factories is
now only less pregnant with menace to
American interests than is failure in our
crops.
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Cleveland or . Southern Democra

From me Macon If'e0fdph.
Roosevelt will be nominated. and he will be
elected " the apostles OF disorder and dsunion In
tho Democratic party arc not relcgated to back
seats and a good strong man nominated to lead
the outs.
There is one man that would stand good chance
TO carry the pivotal States OF the East-and that
nan Is Grover Cleveland He would also carry
the South.
II would be more difncul, to nominate Cleveland
perhaps. than to elect him. II We must 20 down
In defeat then why not go down voting ~ &c Of
our own-a Southern Democrat
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Vicar OF HeXt0n,
NEW YORK. June 10.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir: The In
ference Of Il Can and Will, that bis former
laxity Of morals was due to the influence Of
Ritualism. Is absurd. High" Low" and
morality: and no doctrine or custom. evan
eelical or rituaiistic. that would tend In the
Be Entertained is or tolerated Tor moment bS
R5st 8. Il 70 1T sss r.
dispute; Inv. .. soHASTosi4S.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE suN-Sw: -Aneri-
can Catholic" has not helped his cause By
Episcopel church, possess an "unbrok On
episcopate" and "a valid priesthood; but he
begs the question In assuming the validity
OF the orders OF the Anglican clergy. He says
I'VE are on most friendly terms with the Holy
Eastern Church" Admitted: but does that
In any way touch the question OF orders or
valid priesthood? What difference does II
make to the Roman Church that since Parker
thousands Of An glican clergymen have cele-
brated Mass? Their numbers are not an
element In the discussion whether they are
validity ordained. Let my friend read Pope
Leo's Bull on the Anglican question:
Another Of your correepondents, Mr.. Arne.
%sas the ana item ss eh *. ssvs Hs
the successors Of the Apostle1 Rome says
The ststement that there . not the slisht-
ct eydsnss Of e sDse0Spssey !he Pmfvs
(surely a good authority saysI about here
tIG: Let them give fist Of their Blshops.
drawn down by succession from the. begin
OF the Apostles. or an apostolic man who oon-
tinued always In communion with the Apos-
ties for his ptedecessor..,
bereses sne.ts az The faith scominS dnTn e. r.
us BY succession OF Bishops." = 81. Augustine.
IN his pstlm sssinst the pSnasists' says
Peter, and In that order Of fathers zee which
has succeeded which" Thus much for the
fathers.
II there was in these days no epscopacy.
why need St Paul give directions such Is one
finds in l. Timothy. 8; and In his Ep. Titus
Chap. 4? FRANCIS CLEAR.
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The Anglican Rer olution.

To THE EplroR or TIE svS-sir: i am
reading with much interest the letters you
publish concerning the English Church gong
over to Rome. Now am n Methodist by
birth. a Presbyterian BY education, and an
Episcopalian by marriage. j am. therefore,
much interested in this one-sided controversy
--one-sided l say. for I do not Gee that the
Catholics have anything to say, about II. 1t
which the OF is the star and the fly the prn-
cpal actor. r,.. Len
MipDLETowS, n. Y, June 10.
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ANOTHER AMERICAN IATHOLlC
NEWARK, June 10.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuH--Sir: On arrlv-
ing here. In the course Of my return journey
from Japan, l was much interested to find
discussion on Ritualism still going on In your
columns A. / have done a much as any
man to fight Ritualism in England, should
like to be permitted to say word on the sub
ject In your columns.
/ find a Ritualist In your columns to-day
repudiating the suggestion tn at he 10 an idol
ator But he n. He worships little cake
OF flour and water, whereas the Protestants
worship Almighty God. That 10 Just the dif-
ference between the two creeds. We do not
regard our Ritualistio friends as fellow Chris
tians in any sense. We worship God: they
The absurdity OF the ritualistic theory and
worship 10 easily demonstrated. Last au:
tumn one of my followers In England secured
one Of the ritualistic idols--one OF the cake
gods. / took 1t about with me to exhibit at
public meetings as an object Lesson on the
folly Of dolatry. l used 70 carry this god
theory be true-if the whole Divinity Of
Christ was in the wafer. as they aessTt- where
the heaven Of heavens cannot contain? He
wa wss shut i, in my p0okeseook and to
Why, when you reason It out the doctrine
Of the Real Presence Is too contemptible for
more than idolatrous-tt 10 ridiculous.
Vicar OF Hexton. England.
NEW YORK, juno TO-
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~boom," but safety has come with the fall
The danger was that under the pretext Of
mergers consultations, "reorganiza-
tions." "up-to-date fnancierine," and a
new and modern development OF the old
fashioned laws OF finance brought about by
the captains Of industry the wholesale
manufacture Of stocks and bonds, the aug
mentation of liabilities of enterprises al
ready staggering under too heavy load of
them, would go on enthusiastically until
the greatest panic in the history OF the
world would be precipitated. The DOWN
ward movement. continuous and decided,
but comparatively quiet, has warded of
that terrible danger. Mills for the turning
out of new and newer millions of securities
have been forced to stop running till there is
some indication that those already manu-
featured are going to become salable and 1t
appears that their value as securities for
loans justihee their issue. The stock mar
ket Is simply seeking for intrinsic values,
without regard to nominal capitalization.
1t Ia going back to respect for the old laws
of finance and OF business. The process
is painful for the people who thought the
laws OF industry had been abrogated, but
ii Is healthy
Will stocks go still lower? The only DOS
sible answer sagacity can give is that an
equilibrium between their prices and their
values will be established, and at this time
no artificial influences are strong enough to
Snterfers With that inevitable adjustment
either pull or bear" year from now
the excl cement OF a Presidential election
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-01
New York Markets.

FLOUR-Irregular again and a shade in buyers favor; Minnesota patents, .$4 45 Q4.75; winter straights $3.75@3. 90; winter extras, $2,90Q3.20; winter patents, SAGA. 30.
 WHEAT-Broke a cent under rains in the northwest and liquidat1 ton, but was rallied by strength in corn: July, 84 13-169 852sc.; September, 815s982 1-16e.s r4
 RYE-Steady; state,@- 5S@591ae. 0. Ii. f., New York; No. western, 62c.. f. 0. b., af1oat.
 CORN-Turned very strong in the first hour on fears. of rain and cooler weather in the central belt; July, 581sQ58Ac.; Sep tenber, 57@573sc.
 GATs opeaed rEa eaSX then advaR2sS 4as 491kc.; track, white, state 431a@491ac
 FORK-Easy; mess, A7,50G1S; family. LARD-steady; prime western steam. RUTTER&msteasdGyyI; & sGyI state dairy, 1s7A@2oc.; i; CHEESE-Dull; State, full cream, fam ceX, small, colored, 1o1Ae:; small. white. EGGs-Firm; state and APennsylvania extras, 1812c.; state and Pennsylvania f1rsts, 161a@17c.; western extras. 1811c.
 MOLASSES-Firm; New Orleans. 31Q sUGAR-Raw steady; fair refining, 31sc. centfifugal, s6 test, s-1ee.; refined RICE-steady; domestic, 4A061zc.; Ja- TALLoW-Dull; city, 4M@5c.; country, SHAY-Firm; shipping so@s5c,; good to choice $1 2O61 35