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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-17
Eight Hundred Men Idle.

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. November IL
About 500 men have been rendered idle by
the closing of the steel plant and several
other departments operated by the Phoenix
Iron Company.
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Our Ve-sifying Philosophers.

The output of verse continues, though
the dog days be upon us and the stock
market be demoralized. Those who
may rush to forsake the enchanting study
of sociology for the more ravishing sub
ject of psychology will here find food for
speculation Why do they do it? Why
do people who have not philosophio
minds try to philosophize on life and its
problems? The columns of this paper
devoted to the reviewing of books have
recently contained some instructive quo
tations from the latest books Of verse,
and most Of them have been in the didac-
tic or philosophic vein which is much
more suitable to prose. In truth, most of
these so-called poems are nothing in the
world but prose cut up into measured
lengths
1t is not new kind of poetry, and it is
admirably suited to the mental require
ments of that vast majority of readers
who have not ears for the music of verse
nor imagination for real poetry. The
great modern exponent Of this sort Of
verse died in 1889, and though hardly
any OF the youngsters who are now dis
closing the barrenness Of their souls in
rhyme ever heard Of him, they cannot
escape his influence. MARTIN FARoUHAR
TUPPERs "Proverbial Philosophy" has
stocked the quilts of a Thousand poetas-
tiers. They all follow 80 easily in the
solemn footsteps OF him who wrote:
They be spoutings Of an harvest for eternity
bursting through the filth OF timo:
Green promise OF the golden wheat, that yieldeth
angels food
They be drops of crystal dew. which the wings of
seraphs scatter
When on some brighter Sabbath their plumcs
CULVER most with delight;
Such and so precious the words which the lips
of Wisdom uttor
That is the very summit and sunrise
of the prose school, Think of that
angels food How striking the thought !
How powerfully like the announcements
of the breakfast cereals of to-day! Yet
people adored UPPER in his time
GEORGE SAINTSBURY wrote Of the PRO
verbal Philosophy" that almost from
the first the critics and the wits waged
unceasing warfare against it; but the
public at least for many years, bought
it with avidity, and perhaps read it, 80
that it went through forty editions and ia
said to have brought in 100000. Nor is
It at all certain that any genuine concep-
ton of its pretentious triviality had
much to do with the decay which after
many years, like other human things, it
experienced.
Think of it Forty editions and $780,
900! That reads like the advertisement
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THE PRESIDENT ON LYNCHING
A Correspondent CritfciseS Remarks OF
The Sun ON the subject.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sn: Your
editorial in The Sun Of Aug IL entitled The
President on Lynchir G. seems to the writer
unfair and your ground ill-ohosen.
Mr.. Roosevelts letter. which you criticse.
was not addressed to foreigners, In Russia
or elsewhere nor was 1T of any particular
concern what inference they may draw from
IT, Our concern. az people. Just now Is with
ourselves. The wonder is not 40 much that
Mr. Roosevelt gave a chance for outsiders to
infer that we are in danger Of anarchy as that
The Sun should have failed to remind its
readers that anarchy was exactly what we
did have in the anthra cite regions last year.
and what we had In Il less measure when a man
was taken by force from jail and burned alive
In Wilmington short time ago. Such eX-
hibtions of mob tyrsnny are enough 10 make
even an American citizen infer" that our
country is not wholly free from the danger
of anarchy.
In your closing paragraph you criticse
the recommending OF great expedition IN
citizen knows from statistics that our
criminal class is rapidly increasing. and that
there nre frequent escapes from prison or
other places of confinement, as well as acQuit-
tails on account of teChniCalities after the first
interest in "A case IL over to this law-abiding
citizen, who wants protection for himself
and for his family. II saems that the chance
for the worst kind OF criminals to get through
unsoathed, or largely so. is altogeth her too
military discipline, greater expedition. u
just What We want III the handling OF this
class Of individuals. A. l.. DAVIS.
POMPTON n j. Aug II.
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Tom johnson and the Ohio Demo-
Gratis.

To carry out his programme the Hon
Tom JOHNSON must control four COM
mittees of the Ohio Democratic State
Convention, which meets on Aug. 20.
He must have the Committee on Rules
and Business. Otherwise his plan Of
having the convention name candidate
for United States Senator will not get
before the convention He must have
the State Central Committee, or he loses
his hold on the party machine. He must
have the Committee on Resolutions, or
his collection of crank issues cannot
be unveiled Most and first Of all, he
must have the Committee on Credentials
Otherwise he cannot throw out enough
of the delegations pledged to support
the Hon JOHN L. ZIMMERMAN of SPRING
field, the anti-Johnsonian candidate for
Governor, to control the convention.
Tom looks bland and lubricative, but he
is playing rough game. He is bound to
be a grand central boss He has a finger
in all the Democratic primaries; and it
frequently pulls out contesting delega
tons where it fails to pull out Johnson
delegations.
Tom does not expect to be elected If
he is nominated for Governor. The
election of a Democratic Legislature and
the United States Senatorship are the
Democratic hope and object. But Tom
must beat ZIMMERMAN in the conven-
ton or be forever fallen; and both JOHN
son and ZIMMERMAN have their eyes on
the Democratic National Convention Of
1904 Is Tom to go into that body with
the Ohio Democratic machine behind
him and his collection of crank issues in
front OF him? The conservative Demo-
Gratis will make fight at the convention.
They are weary Of TOMS eccentric poll
oies and methods, sick of him and his
retinue Of clowns and minstrels, cirCuses
aud menageries and Red Devils. II they
cannot beat him in the convention, they
will await with resignation the hour OF
his thorough flattening out at the polls.
He must be well licked if there is to be a
sane Democracy in Ohio next year. Some
of his Democratic opponents hold, per-
haps not unwisely, that the speediest
way TO get rid of him is to give him plenty
Of rope.
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of a contemporaneous novel. But TUP-
PER was not the father OF "pretentious
triviality' in didactic verse. II he had
known how to handle rhythm and
rhyme, there is no doubt that he would
have rivalled his great forerunner,
ALEXANDER Pope:
Heaven forming each on other 10 depend.
A master. or servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call
TIL one man s weakness grows the strength ofall'
That's the way Pope wrote, and he
summed up q mass OF solemn, prosaic
truth even In those few lines. But even
Pope was not the father of that delecta-
BILE school of poetry. The truth ia that
all these modern, prosy philosophers in
verse are faint and weary echoes Of the
real. old, simon-pure poet Of the boule-
wards, QUINTUs HoRATrUs FLAccUs.
Inimitable, he has never been ap-
preached, not even by that most skilful
of approachers. AUSTIN DoBsoN. But
the modern philosophers who versify
ought to remember that HORACE did not
write poetry either to win fame or to
improve the world. He has left his own
statement of motive:
" Bated In spirit. and with pinons clipped.
or all the means my father left me stripped
Want stared me in the face. so then and there
took To scrfbbling verse In sheer despair"
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mon, our correspondent must remember,
in that military judioature which he
commends, nor distinction between law
and fact which a petit jury implies, nor
the nice questions emerging therefrom
which 80 often perplex conscientious
magistrates and delay judgment.
We intended to emphasize criticism Of
the Presidents letter because We de-
plored what no published to a listening
world regarding anarchy and tyranny
in our land as superficial, and what he
wrote regarding judicial velocity as
dangerous. The books tell us that, in
the days of "Old Bailey which was the
seat of the central criminal court OF Lon
don, each criminal trial the punishment
of which was imprisonment or death
occupied on an average but little more
than five minutes. Certainly that swift
ness, emulating Judge Lynch, is not de-
sired in any State of our Union.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-19
The Menace OF Labor UnI0nism.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: l have
studied the union labor question for some
years and have read every union constitution
] could get, numbering probably hundred
In no case have l found any provision for
the resi- gnation from membership on the part
Of u workman. nor have l ever known Of a
resignation being accepted by union il
offered.
Once a union man always a contributor
seems the rule. Some unions allow foremen
to withdraw decently but this practice is
being more and more restricted each year
in the effort to control the business. Some
unions used to have common sense enough
to acknowledge that no foreman, any more
than any other man, could serve two masters
but they are now trying TO get or keep the
foromen in the union,
The Machinists Union is recent example
To show how cOerCive that union is in its
own ranks. Mr.. Mulberry. n vice-president
Of the Grand Lodge, in recent report recon-
msnds that the reinstatement fee be left to
the local lodges because. as he frankly con-
fesses. In a poorly organized locality they
must coax men to reiDstate themselves, but
In strongly organized places large fee for
reinstatemcnt can he forced out of their
pockets"
The coal strike commission said that ANY
organization that depends on coercion for
It's success has no right TO exist" If that
verdict was executed about every union in
the land would be put out of business. Still.
the dear public which always gets the short
end OF unionism. has not yet awakened TO the
fact and. seemingly never will. that tho fun
damental principles OF the Government are in
danger from this source, If negro slavery
was menace, what s llnionsm. and when
shall the unions slaves be freed? J. V.
NEW YORK Aug. II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-19
The Ferry BODtbIaCk NuIsancs

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-sir "Growler. e"
who complains through to days SUN Of the boot
black nuisance the fcTryboas. Is Justified In his
plant. Many time and OF has the ritter suffered
mental anguish through the nSoence OF these I'm
Fortunate solicitors.
This matter was thoroughly thrcshed out and
brought 10 the notice Of the Erie Railroad n long
time since and under the influence Of sundry emo
tonal communications published IN your journal
the railroad company gay" US relief. IN lrOncad
law was formulated, which. by the way, has been
strictly observed. and the text stamped In brass Is
displayed on the cap OF each boy. "Bootblacks
must not solicit shines"
Now, we who commute via the Erie can enter
the cabin embarrassed. seat curse yes and stack
our bundles OF groceries around us. set the steak
on the floor and lean the rake against the window
In tranquility.
"Growler" does right to give uttcrance to his
wrongs through your columns. but TO accomplish
results he should be more explicit rs to the name
OF the ferry where he suffers so that others seeing
his good works may Join In the protest. and the
remedy. so easily applied, will be forthcoming
Speak up TX GROWER,
GLEN RIDGE Avg. II.
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RoOr no SAIL ON CELTIC.
sRngwr's Letter OF Resignation and Reacts
Acceptance or 10 Made Public.

WASHINGTON, Aug ls.-Secretary Root
completed to-day his plans for going
to Europe to attend the conference OF the
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. He will wird
up his affairs at the War Department TO
morrow afternoon and leave Washington
for New York at o'clock and will sail
on the Celtic on Friday for London.
Assistant Secretary OF War Sanger is
expected here tomorrow to take charge OF
the War Department until Sept. 1, when
he will retire and Assistant Secretary Oliver
will take charge. Secretary Root made
public this afternoon Col. Sanger's letter
of resignation and his reply thereto. They
are as follows
WAsHINGToS. ID. c.. March %, 1908;
DEAR Mn. Root: Some time ago 1 spoke
TO you about the necessity OF giving up the
position OF Assistant Secretary OF War for
the reasons referred to below. and as these
reasons have grown stronger. feel now
thut l should ask you to let me 20 as soon
AZ you can arrange to select my successor.
You know OF the serious illness in my family
makes 1t impossible for her to stay here dur
ing the summer, and do not think that she
Is well enough tospend several months with
that under the circumstances the only course
for rue s to ask you to let me turn over the
Office to some one else.
our personal relations. and 1t has given me
the greatest satisfa ction to work with you
while vital and fur-reaching chan Res nave
been made IN the army, It's organization
and instruction. changes which will be or
the greatest benefit to the army and to the
WM. CARY SANGER.
july II. 1909.
MY DEAR Col. SANGER: The President has
shared with me the reluctance which have
felt to have you leave the office OF Assistant
Secretary Of War. but We have been com
Ing are properly controlling and that we
had no right TO insist upon your making
further sacrifice. IL Is gratifying to have
secured a successor who has your warm
accepted. to take effect upon the qualification
Of your successor.
cannot adequately tell you how strong
a support and how great comfort you have
been to me as Assistant Secretary. You have
given to the Department not merely an abb
sOlutely upright and faithful performance Of
the ordinary duties OF an Assistant Secretary.
but your special knowledge of many of the
most important subjects with which We
have had to deal your breadth of view and
your special ability TO stand firmly, by the
rules OF action which you believed to be
right against all corners, without making
any enemies. have been Of great and special
public service.
You will leave behind you in Washington
host Of friends. and none but friends, and
look forward with confidence to the time
when the present cause Of your leaVing Will
have been happily overcome and when our
people at home will be fortunate enough to
get YOU to serve them here again.
| shall always be your debtor. my dear
Colonel, and always your sincere friend,
Faithfully yours,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-19
NATIONAL Guard REENBTRSED
For the Money Spent In the Purchase of
Magazine Rifles.

WAsHINGToN Aug. 1s-The War De-
partment decided to-day to reimburse
the National Guard organizations for the
money expended by them for the purchase
of 3O-calibre magazine rifles prior to the
act Of Congress authorizing the free dis
tribution of these rifles to the militia.
The decision was based on an opinion
received this morning from the Comptroller
OF the Treasury that the militia organiza-
tions were entitled under the law to such
reimbursement.
The militia law passed by the last Congress
provided that the militia should be fur
nished with these new rifles and that the
cost should not be deducted from their
annual allotment. 1t also said that such
organizations as had already received
these rifles and had paid for them out Of
their allotment since Sept l, 1901, should
be reimbursed for their expenditure
Recently the National Guard organiza-
tions of several States, including New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio,
Washington and the District Of Columbia
applied to the War Department to have
their funds credited with the amounts
expended by them for these rifles This
will now be done by the War Department,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-19
The subway question.

To THE EDrron OF TUE SUN-Sr: II is
gratifying to see the entire press Of the city
with but one exception land that easily ao-
counted forl in opposition to the subway loop
through Broadway from Forty-second to
Fourteenth street.
Why waste any more money to parallel the
main line, only few feet distant? II IL con-
siderable sum has been expended to deviate
the line from this natural route in order to
tap railroad station. why not spend another
large sum to tap another railroad station
equally rs important. perhaps more so? Ii
Is surely of much more Importance to the
multitude to reach the Pennsylvania station
than to get to Long Acre Square.
II is very creditable to advocate the Seventh
avenue route But why turn of at Four
teenth street2 Why not continue all the way
to Greenwich avenue and through Eighth
and Ninth streets to Aston place to the main
line? This would be of vast beneft to
great number WEST SIDE
NEW YORK, Aug. II.
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Our Merchant Marine.

ToTHR EDITOR OF The SuN-Sr. The press
OF the entire country IL at present engaged in
discussing the decline OF American shipping
I'm the foreign trade. This decline has been
emphasized in view Of the subsidies of sl3-
600, 900, cash down. and 81, ono. 600 yearly for
twenty years. which the British Government
has just agreed to pay to the British Cunard
Steamship Company. You will be surprised
to know. i believe that II American ships had
carried only the amount OF the increase in the
value Of our foreign commerce in 1908 over
It's value In 1902. in addition to the quantity
carried in 1902. our shipping in the foreign
trade would have had to increase s6'1 per
cent. in tonnage. Put in another way: 1t
would require SO per cent. OF the entire ship
ping under the American flag in the foreign
trade In 1902 TO carry the increase or our Tor
eign commerce in 1903.
The value Of our foreign commerce for the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1908. increased
Sl80 sac 2O3 from 81, 2s5. 040. $40 in 1902 to
value Of 81 445 $3.50, SOP in 1908. If the increase
had been 925. 900, 900 greater In value than 1t
was on the basis Of the tonnage under our flag
engaged in forei gn trade in 1902 1t would
have barely suffiCed to carry the 1903 excess
of our foreign commerce as compared with
1902 In other words, We are approaching
the point where the tonnage under the Amerl-
can flag in our foreign trade Is only equal TO
the yearly increase OF our foreign commerce.
The alien shipping engaged in our foreign
carrying this year would have carried all Of
our foreign commerce last year.
Such facts az these serve TO bring more
wildly to our mind the almost utter efface-
ment OF American shipping from the seas
You may not know that the tonnage under
American registry in 1892 was less by about
100, 900 tons than the tonnage under American
registry in 1910. No wonder the American
people are beginning TO discuss tho subject
with a seriousness commensurate with It's
momentous Importance.
PELHAM, Aug. II. ALEXANDER r. SMITH.
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Another Conre..,on by A Poor speller.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN.Str' In last Ss'ur
days SUN was a letter by "R. s. "" on poor spell
Ing. should very much like TO shake hands win
him and tell him there Others, for am troubled
with tho same complaint, and, think. n'ilo
worse than he Is.
Am 90 years old. and since was 10 have been IN
number of diie rent kinds of business where there
was much writing to do. such as bookkeeping,
answering correspondence. DC. and never could
write n letter, unless II was To some person that
knew did not know any more than do land they
are scarce without referring to the dictionary
q number OF times, and then iivc minutes after u
wished 10 write the same words. would be obliged
to look them all up again.
when IN a hurry and don't have time 80 ansly@e
Webster and don't know what letter TO use. jN''
make q blot no one tell what letter II -
meant for and can guess II out. use STUD pea
and can do the trick all right.
Should have purchased typewrlting maohne
long ago. but would not dare use one, for coul1
not make the thing blot at the proper time ana
place, as I can tho pen. Think the only spcher
that suited me was Josh Billings. he was my br,gh'
and morning star IN spelling Coh&A
DANBUnY Aug. ".
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for such time as the court thinks fit,
while an operator duly registered, IL
convicted, may have his license sus-
pended for period to be determined by
the court. No one under II years OF age
will be permitted to receive license.
Having enacted that Automobiles
will be held strictly accountable at all
times for the management OF their ma
chimes, Parliament has placed the maxi
mum speed at which they may travel at
twenty miles an hour. Local authorities
are empowered to define areas within
which ten miles an hour shall be the
limit, providing signs to this effect are
posted conspicuously along the high
way, warning drivers to slow up. Viola
tions of the law will be punishable by
fine not exceeding 500 for first offence,
and by fine not exceeding $3.50, or by
imprisonment for not more than three
months, for second or subsequent con-
victions.
1t will be seen, therefore, that by this
law the automoblists in Great Britain
and the drivers of all other vehicles have
been placed, to a large extent, on the
same plane. II the former disregard the
ordinary rules of the road defined by
ong-established custom they will be
subject to punishment, the same as the
horsemen, irrespective Of their speed.
In other words, the law aims, to an ex-
tent never before reached, to treat all
drivers alike 50 far as concerns their
responsibility for the security of life and
property. 1t will be interesting to OBJ
serve its effect,
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SOLDIERS COMING HOME.
Mem to he Discharged Hero WHOM Thine
OF Their Enlistment IL Up.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.--Announcemen
was made by the General STAFF OF the armv
this morning OF the reorganization Of the
military forces in the Philippines and of tho
action Of the General STAFF ON the recon-
mendation made recently by Gen. Davis
that there be reduction in the garrison OF
the Philippines Of two regiments Of cavalry
and two OF Infantry, in consequence OF
which the movement Of the Fourteenth
Cavalry was suspended.
The official statement Ia as follows
In view Of the fact that the new regiments.
which were added to the army when the re-.
organization of 1901 took place, will be seri-
ously depleted by the discharge OF large
numbers OF men whose enlistments began
1t has been decided to bring them home and
discharge the men in the United States.
III this course ia not pursued. it will be
necessary to send out several thousand re-
cruits with comparatively little training
and they in turn would come home in the near
future by reason OF the regiments 20 which
they would be assigned completing their tour
In the Philippine Islands
The regiments which are to come home
from the Philippines and the order in which
they viii probably sail are the Fifteenth
Cavalry, the Twenty seventh, Twenty
eighth and Thirtieth Infantry and the
Eleventh Cavalry. The Eleventh Infantry
the Philippines.
The regiments next for duty in the Phil
ippine Islands are the Second Cavalry,
Seventh Eighth. Twenty-second, TWEEN.
tieth and Twelfth Infantry.
The movement to and from the Philip
pines is designed to be accomplished be-
tween Sept and March |.