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The sun., 1903-06-20
Exporter and Striker.

In THE SUN of June la correspondent
comment on the small percentage of
American exports in their relation 10 the
total of our manufactured products
The special interest Of the reply lies in
it's evidence that some, at least. Of our
merchants are properly alive to the i'm
portance. OF this matter. Admitting the
accuracy of our correspondent infor-
nation, we are still unable to see that it
materially affects the original PROPOSE
tion. Let it he assumed that even one
third of our total export of manufact-
ured articles s not officially reported,
although this is quite improbable. Our
exports would then show as 4 per cent. .,
inetead d Of 3 per cent. Of the total This
difference is insignificant in its relation
TO the total volImc Of production.
Nor can we quite accept the hypothe-
sis Of individual secrecy regarding OK
ports and a general inaccuracy Of the
official statistics. 1t is quite probable
that the official figures are not exact to Il
dollar, or perhaps to a million or two OF
dollars. Large as such figures may be
in themselves. they arc almost trifles in
comparison with the hugeness of the
total amounts. Moreover, the Govern.
men1's sources Of information are not
limited to individual statements in the
Offices uf exporters. Ships manifests
underwriters and declarations ct ports
of entry are equally held as channels
of Official information. This issue We
do not regard as of grave importance ir
the general consideration.
The prints which we intended to EN-.
rhasize are simply that the United States
not outstanding the gratifying total Of
its export trade, does not in reality secure
more thhh small percentage Of the pos
sible trade of the world and that Il finds
Il foreign market for only meagre frac.
tion ofdts:ewr.increasing manufactured
products.
We can we'll believe that every possible
Use, lesitlpate and otherwise, is made
abroad: Of our. domestic conditions to in
fuenqe:tle market, and that widespread
reports OF strikas and lock-outs are {
serious injury to our exporters in market.
where promptness and absolute certainty
Of delivery are as important factors il
placing orders as are low prices and suit
able goods. Upon that point, our CORE
spondent's argument is worthy of wild,
consideration.
The sun., 1903-06-20
We Prefer to Believe in Roosevelt.

Tho most confident and circumstantal
statements alleging the Presidents in
tenton TO mitigate his activity in certain
dhections in the matter OF punshlng
rd bcality in the Post Office Department
IN such be proven fail to shake to the
q Rent Of the thousandth part of a hair
bteadth Of vibration our belief that he
VII let no guilty man escape.
yThis belief is positive. 1t is grounded
i, tho principle of noblesse ob'ioe. 1t has
been strengthened by Mr.. RoosEvELT's
own frequent and eloquent references to
the rigid requirements which Duty i'm
poses upon Character in post OF re-
eponslbiHtS. 1t ia not THEODORE RoosE-
WELT who will give up the hunt because
the trail shows big game behind the
boscage.
Don't draw unless you mean to
shoot. il the middling good proverb
which Expresses his congenital and
characteristic philosophy Of action. He
has drawn. and therefore it may be as
sumed that he means to shoot
Accordingly, it makes no difference
how specific are tho acclImulating reports
that represent the President as hesitating
TO prosecute where prosecution might
result in political Inconvenience to him
self as n candidate. They will meet with
no credcnce in this quarter until they are
legiby attested by Mr.. RoosEyElTs s
sign manual.
Just as lttic do we believe that the
President is directly or remotel Y respon-
sibe for the PRONUNCIATION of the theory
that tho name OF his dead and honored
predecessor now constitutes n bar 10
prosecution-in effect, a statute OF limita-
tions-in the case Of proved offences com
mitted by subordinates when MCKINLEY
was alive.
The sun., 1903-06-20
CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS.
Robert Woods Bliss OF New York to BE
Consul At Venice.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. June 1s-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following Consular
officers: John G. Foster OF Vermont, Con-
sui General at Ottawa Robert Woods
Bliss OF New York. Consul At Venice; James
Werner Long of Pennsylvania, Consul at
Patras, Greece, and Edward Higgins OF
Massachusetts,, Consul at Berne.
Mr.. Foster has been Consul-General at
Halifax ak years. II WAS said at the State
Department that "this promotion is made
by the President wholly on account Of the
admirab BILE record which Mr.. Foster has to
his credit" He is considered one of the
most efficient men In the service. Mr..
Higgins, who is a Methodist clergyman.
passed an exoellent examination. Mr..
Rliss ia secretary to the Governor of Porto
Rico. Mr.. Long was formerly Consul at
Florence and has had valuable experience
ahroad
The sun., 1903-06-20

under the influences OF our public schools
and our American environment generally
is almost radically different from the old.
Strict orthodox Jews-and those OF the
race now coming to us are almost ex-
clusively Of that character-often ma ~
hard, even impossible to keep their sons
faithful to the customs and usages ana
traditions so dear to themselves The
newer generation, we are told, is likely
to fall into religious Indifference, il not
positive infidelity. At any rate, 1t ls
pretty sure to grow apart from the older
generation in sympathy, to greater or
less degree yet that consequence does not
deter the parents from consuming desire
to Americanize their children, to the
extent, at least, of getting for them the
profit of a distinctively American educa-
ton. They want them to speak the Eng
lish language.
Other races in this country OF an alien
speech are caused n certain pang by the
Transformation effected in their children
by the training of the public schools.
The youngster bred there to English
speech may lose something OF the tone
and bearing of filial reverence his parent
expects and would require, because OF
the child's sense of superiority over a
parent who cannot speak English at all
or, at best. only brokenly.
As an illustration, it is related OF an
East Side Jew Of comparatively recent
| it,,v,, hnf hoV
the world he bought a house and
to ornament its parlor bought vase,
which he proudly put in certain position
on the mantelpiece But when his Amer
icanized daughter, a young woman,
came into the room she forthwith and
contemptuously put it elsewhere, in spite
Of the paternal protest. What do you
know about taste. you old sheeny!' was
her response to his expostulation. No
wonder he groaned and tore his hair at
such an exhibition Of filial impiety in a
daughter of his race and cursed the
American influences which had made it
possible. 1t was an Odious assertion OF
Young America, and parents of other
races have been outraged by such
exhibitions in a less degree, perhaps.
For example, we have received letters
from young Americanized Germans
bitterly complaining OF the old-fogylsm
of their foreign-born parents.
The process by which the children of
foreigners of an alien speech are being
assimlated has these painful features,
but it must go on, and no intelligent
parents, desirous Of the welfare Of their
offspring in the new country of their
home, seek to retard it. Very many,
nay the great mass Of Germans,
give up reading German-printed papers
published here go soon as they can
read English sufficiently and take Eng
lish papers: and quite universally their
American-born and educated children
turn away from an American paper in
the German language. lest they might
seem to be foreigners when actually they
arc fully and passionntely American in
sentiment and aspiration.
These considerations have bearing
on the present discussion of the teaching
of German in the elementary public
schools which We do not need to point
out.
The sun., 1903-06-20

eight-hour day As the work OF emanci-
patton goes on, the husband will become
the man f-all-work, the general house,
worker, the useful man. parlorman,
cham herman, cook, bottlewasher, second
man, househusband. For the present,
he is to have one night out Probably
he will abuse the privilege and 1t will be
taken from him.
Mrs. BOOKER has sound views on clubs,
mems clubs:
we must keep our husbands away from these
places. What do they do there: Nothing but smoke.
drink play cards. and talk. DO they improSe the'r
minds as we do at our meetings. Why. venture
to say they never discuss any OF their household
duties. don't want 10 be hard on them. for I'm
liberal woman. but say. make It rule that hus-
bands shall 90 to the club only one night week"
The women have their own clubs. The
place for men is at home. They can
gossip with one another at the area door.
They can play Old Maid and other soft
games on the kitchen table IL they have
any leisure. Had they used their idle
hours at the club in discussing the prob
lens of domestic science, they might be
a little prepared for the duties which
await them. We hear the tnkling OF
the South Chicago harmonums and
sweet voices singing:
20. the fat club chairs are empty,
The high balls caught no more;
Mr.. CAupLR has ceased to dawdle.
Hes scrubblne the pantry floor"
We sincerely hope that the South
Chicago unionized housewives will zee
the advisability Of forbidding even that
one night at the club. The bachelors
would fill the housemen with all sorts
of nonsense and instigations to rebellion.
II your husband is good let him go,
under the chaperonage of messenger
boy, to an improving lecture, demon
stration in the cooking school: even, in
cases Of exceptional good behavior. to a
reading at the Women's Hall Caine and
Dante Club. 1t is all very we'll to be
kind to him, but be judiciously kind,
And now behold the dethroned King
and Boss as CINDEREL
Husbands shall take full charge OF the hres.
building all Of them. emptyinG the ashes and keep
ing the hearth clean. besides kctp ping the scuttes
nlled with coal"
Thus do the women walk out Of
the kitchen and thus are the men forced
to walk in and straight. The Devolu-
tion of Man is rolling rapidly.
The sun., 1903-06-20
CRUISE TO THE AZORES.
Battleship Squadron to Sail From This
Port on June ~.

WASHINGTON, June l9.-It was announced
by the naval Bureau OF Navigation to-day
that the North Atlantic battleship squadron.
consisting of the battleships Illinois (Aag-
ship, Alabama and Massachusetts, the
armored cruiser Brooklyn and the cruiser
yacht Mayhower. would sail from New York
on June 2s for the practice cruise to the
Azores and return to this country. prob
ably of the coast Of Maine, about July 20.
After coaling, the squadron. in con-
junction with other vessels, wi take part
In a search problem, week being devoted
to this purpose. The problem WILL be sim
liar to that demonst rated of the Massachu-
sett coast last summer. when supposedly
harbor without being discovered by the
superior force Of coast guard ships.
On Aug. % the joint army and navy war
games will be begun, with Portland. Me-;
as the objective Of the feet, which will
represent the naval force Of hostile nation.
The war games will last about one week.
The sun., 1903-06-20
state Bouuty Not Charity.

To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun Sir II was with q
angry mpatiencc that read Mr.. Walkers letter In
this mornings SuS. he Is still possessed OF tha
old faliacy that he Is OF the select body who
oil our taxes, when. a. matter Of fact. cvcry sin
gle solitary member OF the community. none e1
Ccptod, Is . taxpayer.
Now a. 70 those in the almshouse $50 called. &c
they arc no; the recipients OF charity. They are
getting that 70 which they have perfect hight
And u positively infamo9s 70 pu, stigms upon
II y what they have sbundantly. paid for, and Ia
whioh teey aie absolutely entttied; Tas Ees1aon
sasms. But ths Ssak in.Mturon. belong = a1 d:
HeoPls 80 ny a9s !ussnSa ~ sASS ~ esu'
The sun., 1903-06-20
The NalkOut Of the wives.

Did YOU ever see goose waddle into a
barn? Then you remember the dipping
of that sublime anserine head. afraid that
il will hit the roof or the stars; and then
YOU have seen a mirror OF the struttlng
dignity of Man, Petty Man. How often
we have warned the critter of the plot
against him: told him Of the Chicago
housewives that Use him as an unpaid
menial and make him fetch and carry
dishes and rinse the spoons; sounded in
his dull ears that savage battle cry Of
q Kansas reformer: Man must be abol-
ished :" We have petitioned. We have
demonstrated, we have supplioated. He
will not hear. He goes about, trying to
play golf, picking losers at the races.
making speeches and trouble, superior,
wise, self-conscious, Goose in Boots.
And every day another section of his
feathers is jerked out. Every day his
calamity cometh nearer.
Tuesday night sixty South Chicago
wives organized the Housewives and
Housekeepers Union. For the informa-
ton of historians Of the Subsection OF
Man, the seeming accident which started
this mighty movement must be recorded
in full. Mrs CARRIE HoYT, an officer of
Lady Garfield Chapter, No. 81, Of the
Order of the Eastern Star, got to the
meeting late, and the chairwoman re-
preached her. Then. in burst of just
emotion, Mrs. HoYT proclaimed the
dreary truth:
Well. l don't care. Here I've been shaving all day
and had dinner ready and then FRED never got home
until pretty near o'clock. I'm sick and dl,gusted
to think that man run around all day and lei
his wife work herself to death and then for him to
come home any time he wants to and expect TO nnd
| a boiling no, dinner the table ana US women
looking happy no matter where We might be ex
pec,ing to go. and II you ask him where he's been
! YOU get no satisfaction and"
Kindling with generous sympathy, a
| reporter of the Inter Ocean lets us see
Mrs. HoYT, overcome with her emo
tions dropping into chair, sobbing
while great confusion reigned in the hall. "
Soon that confusion yielded to stern
and rock-bound resolve Mrs. A. B..
BOOKER, name to be written in llum-
mated letters on the roll Of the Conquer
ors of Man, took the floor and moved that
we meet later in Beck's Hall with all
our friends and organize to protect the
housewife. Carried unanimously. In
exactly 29l. minutes a Housewives Con-
vention was in session. The admirable
Mrs. BOOKER was the mistress spirit in
preparing the new declaration of inde-
pendence. II we may say 80 without
taking the bull by the horns, she began
1 with fine series Of ultimatums. First.
a time schedule. No housewife should
or shall work more than twelve hours a
day. But ! can't get half through my
work in twelve hours" cried Mrs. HoL-
COMB, who must be living in twenty
/ eight-hour day. Then hire girl and
make your husband pay her. WAS Mrs
BooKER's severe reply: and il he won't
do that, make him wipe the dishes three
times week. 1t will do him good" Yes,
but will it do the dishes goodI No matter.
Keep the mems noses down to the grind
stone. Tho twelve-hour day 10 only q
prete1t. It will be succeeded BY the
The sun., 1903-06-20
Cannon Not Candidate for vice.President

WARRINGTON. June les--Repreeentative
Cannon, the choice OF the Republican ma
jority for Speaker OF the next House. called
on the President to-day. Mr.: Cannon said
ne was not thinking much about politics
these days, but he wished to dispose Of one
hot weather story. That story was that he
was candidate for the vice presidential
nomination
Nothing in it," said Mr.. Cannon. "No.
I'm not worrying about the appointment
Of Ho,ise. committees, l don't know Who
will be the head OF the new Post Office
Committee"
The sun., 1903-06-20
In the Year 1000.

Ne cohcourse stood upon ye shore
And looked sthwart ye sea.
And for the coming Of some craft
They waited patiently:
A. last across - bounding mAa
There osms Uhs cup 70 hft)
GT Tommy LIP. bent. ssed aad ssFs,
With Shamrock Afty .Aft'.
The sun., 1903-06-20
CelOMbus's Qlsst.

Columbus wAs pleading for funds.
"A short passage 10 the Indies would Be . rreat
thing mused Ferdinand.
IL isn't tAat.- returned the navigator. but n
don't discovsr II, how viii thsrs ever be aay Anss-
ics'S Cupt-
cesvseed Of the nsesss,sy. they forthwith rsissd
Q ~ bse n ption.
The sun., 1903-06-20
BishOp Of Louisville stops Dancing.

Fronl Kf Chicago infer Ocean.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, June i5.--Rishop McClos
key Of the diocese OF Louisville has issued an
order against dancing and the use OF intoxi-
cants at picnics.
The letter refers to the ."shockinsly indc-
cent form OF the modern dance" and COM
mands observance OF the instructions Of the
Third Plenary Council Of Baltimore.
A q result of the ruling. the picnic of the
Catholic Knights Of America, set for June 60
has been called on
The instructions OF the Third Plenary Council
of Baltimore referred TO arc: Item. As regards
fairs We decree that they shall not be held on Sun
ds:s nor without the Bishops permission. nor With
the use OF Intoxicating liquor wine or beer. We
order also that the priests shall see 10 doing away
entirely with that abuse, by which bsnquets With
balls are arranged for the furthersnce OF p,ous
works
The sun., 1903-06-20
The worlds Old Sweetheart stiii.
From ths Albania Constr ufien.

From The Albania Constr uiien.
care no, how she trlheS
With sudden storm and chill.
Sh~'a June the pocA sing sbout-
The worlds old sweetheart STU
Old Chaucer, read her titles clear.
And Shakespeare, young -clste
Has in her dreamy starlight kissed
HIS sweetheart ~ the gate.
And s,crn old Milton turned aside
From Latin lectures long.
And 10, cd Ia sec the sunlight kiss
der ros, lrs TO song.
And Keats has known her primrose path
And felt her power supreme
As with her love mad nightlngalts
He drea med his deathleas dream,
Rare lovers OF the ancient world.
lu rosy realms Of bhss,
Have swept her moon loved naAdolihs-
For just . roee TO kiss!
80 Il e. e.. e5 z. ss Sss: ::s:1y yS ;SIe'.'
% rs. s ~shd |. "a "~.sssss.s sSs r ~. sSS
The sun., 1903-06-20

We heartily congratulate the Hon. SETH
Low on his final adoption of the anti-hum-
bug policy on excise strenuously advocated
by THE SUN from the beginning Of his
administration Commissioner GRRENEs
speech before the Acorns on Thursday night
is formal announcement of such course.
and we believe that it is supported by the
The sun., 1903-06-20
The New York FOrests.

There is urgent need for competent
foreeters in the public service and in
private employ, and because Of this de-
mand the suspension OF the Cornell Col
lege of Forestry seems at first glance to
be misfortune. The facts in the case,
however, are such rs to make it appear
on closer study that the suspension for
a year Of this branch Of the Ithaca insti-
tuition may not be an unmixed evil.
Expert foresters have declared that
its methods were unscientific and waste
full of the States property, while failing
to give the proper instruction to the col
lege students. To prosecute its work.
the college contracted with private
corporation for the denudation Of the
thirty thousand acres OF forest lands
granted by the State. which were to be
rcplanted afterward in soft woods. The
Cornell authorities declare that none Of
the money received on this contract in
ured TO the benefit of the university. and
the main complaint against its system
is that it is unscientiflc, proving nothing
except that trees may be cultivated like
other vegetables, Forestry should con-
Germ itself AZ much with the preservation
of trees as with their propagation.
So strong have tho protests against
the institutions methods become that
Governor ODELL felt justified in vetoing
it's $4,000 appropriation this year; had
the university been able to make out a
strong case in its own behalf, he would
not have dared to-
The State needs a good school Of for
estry but it cannot afford to support a
bad one, and the merits of the Cornell
system should be clearly determined
before it is permitted again to be put in
operation.
The sun., 1903-06-20
To Christie.

TO TRI EDITOR or THE SuS-.Str' Would you
kindly publish this In the paper:
DGAR CHRISTIE: II seems too bad that all this
has ever happened and " things would have been
explained more fully know thai you wouldn't have
gonc away and that you wouldn't have sizht ed
me. so now Christie. 70 prevent further publicity
you Will write or come home al once. Your wife.
CARRIE.
The sun., 1903-06-20

BY an interesting coincidence. the two
great four-year- Hermis and McChes-
ney, concerning whose respective abilities
the East and the West are at odds,
raced on Thursday last under practically
the same weight and in fields of exactly the
same size. Each horse met fourteen COM
pctitors. Hcrlnis ran in the Suburban
Handicap, at Sheepehead Bay. where he
carried 1928 pounds and finished twelfth.
MoChesney ran in the Austin Stakes, at the
Harlem track. in Chicago, under l27 pounds
and won handily in the fast time OF i+5 2-5
for the mile and one-sixteenth-within two
fifths of a second OF the track record.
Herrnis who met perhaps the pick OF the
Eastern thoroughbreds, was OF we'll but
was prominent for only ak furlongs; where
as McChesney, also in excellent company,
came from away back in the field and over
hauled all his rivals.
But inasmuch as the Harlem track was
fast and the sheepehead Bay track very
muddy, and MoChesney was we'll forward In
his preparation while Hermis was back
ward, the question between the two horses
must still be considered open.
The sun., 1903-06-20
A PLAsTERER on THE BUILDERS
Remarks on tho Present Situation. With
Look Back on tho Fast.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Builder"
whose communication in to-day's SrN and
your reply l am after reading, ought to re-
member there is but one way to do thing
right and this the building employers over
look In arbitrarily trying to force the accep-
tance OF an arbitration scheme on those who
had no share in it's formulation. 1t is need
less to 60 into detail OF the absurdity OF 1t.
1t Ia self evident. If the unions whom 1t con-
cerns don't reject It they don't deserve to
exist.
II the employers want an acceptable and
probably workable scheme of arbitration.
let them suspend their lookout. tear up the
present plan. then send out invitations to the
several employers unions and the several
workmen's unions 10 appoint one or two dele
gates. respectively. to meet In joint commit
tee to devise plan OF arbitration. They will
then. l feel sure. succeed In their Sellmeaning
design, There should be no hatr-sDlittIng
regarding the personality OF the representa-
uves. whether they are walking delegates or
other officers.
1t is 4 contradiction In terms for the employ E.
ers to say they ARE not inimlcal to organized
labor. aud don't want 10 run its business, and
In the same breath declare certain OF Its mem
bers ineligible to its court Of arbitration. :"
The essence Of antaSonism TO society on the
should pause and look their blunder In the
pSr. Ss sd sy AZ S.Ss tassy g.
gogue Is a. much In evidence among, them as a;
he ever was among workinsmen, they WI
EsSe pts Wo
Of their own doors as well a. to the doors OF
roPa Or Sas e (. may ss tfs 5. r:s. s s
10 last century. i is well known among
M Rs trade hofd ia. every Gypb p@ember should him.
delegate TO a. and I in doing this hi ~ ms Az
% poSer. y TRoid me member OF union should not
wG1k With IN sor 1de1 h
bis head to drive him from the job or compel
HIN to join the union.
out his contracts with non union men alone.
he will very soon give them polite hint 10
aS snd . Sonra ON e.. sooSs S
4 man may connect himself with military.
NE ss' oT he o S sSer
AZ he has the right to connect himself with II
without a by.your- leave TO either OF those
in ns,oH. nH no. Unions m in ne federnon Unions
knights OF Labor or In State or civic boards
Of arbitration. for they cost the several unions
ore or ever viii benefit them In the COS OF the
past century the plnsterers Of Brooklyn and
New York Without slch costly institutioans. ,tsn r.
fnand for their labor warranted and after a
three-year agitation Of the eieht-hour sys,
day. What was possible for labor unions to
do then is possible TO-DAY. Old fogy as now
am. l don't object II the labor union children
the price, and therefore have the right TO
enjoy them. But this Is q little beside the ar
bitration question. which. as already stated,
troversy joining In ts formulation. A new
plan will be none the less adequate to the end
desired by both having hand in hammerina
1t ont r. p. MCDERMoTT.
Isl EAST TI5RrlETH STREET. June is.
This old plasterer seems to Ms to live more
In the past than in the present, but all that we