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The Man with the Torch.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: The
man with the TORCH" who casts a baleful
shadow, leading to an abyss Of destruction,
is the l~eader-one might almost say the
creator-of the proletariat which Macaulay
Any years ago predicted would destroy this
republic. That we are saved for the time
being il to the credit OF no party virtue. Il
is the people OF intelligence. OF conscience
and patriotism who have come TO the rescue
under that Providence that comes to the aid.
in such a crisis. with leaders Ike Theodore
Roosevelt and Charles f. Hughes.
The newspapers Of New York have done
splendid work in this campaign, They have
not only had TO contend against a host OF
ignorant and preiudiced voters. but against a
cunning and INSCRIPTIONS demaGogue, who.
with limitless wrath, has, with a system OF
vicious and vensl newspapers. spent years in
organizing a party OF discomfort and hatred:
he has bought the ability and experience Of
men whose principles are for sale. and who
are willing. for personal hire. to further his
unhallowed ambition. The threat IL that
this system is to be continued indefinitely.
Is there no way to stem the influence OF this
past master in blackguArdismP
NEW YORK. November 7. A DEMOCRAT.
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Hunting Foreign Trade.

II may be assumed that there are those
who read the commercial reports of our
Ministers and Consuls, and the reports
of our special trade agents, with a view
TO profting by the information thus sup
piled. Our Consuls report from all the
corners of the earth, and our special
agents set forth deliberately the trade
conditions Of the countries to which they
are assigned. These reports are often
interesting and sometimes valuable, but
their circulation is somewhat limited.
and no widespread enthusiasm is excited
by their contents.
Our foreign sales, although large in
their total and steadily increasing, are
effected chiefly by a comparatively small
number Of business houses. Our agri-
cultural products, which constituted
56.43 per cent. Of our export sales during
the last fiscal year, may be said to sell
themselves. In an important degree,
even u exports of manufactured arti-
cles may be regarded as the result of a
demand for them, rather than the result
Of an energetic effort to find an outlet for
them. Exceptions TO this appear in tho
trade of such concerns as the Standard
Oil Company, whose exports last year
amounted to approximately 500, 900 900,
and a few others whose individual ac-
counts are comparatively small. al
though the aggregate business of such
houses is considerable. The United
States Steel Corporation is now paying
direct attention to the cultivation Of the
foreign market and is finding an ever
increasing outlet for its products.
With few exceptions those who make
a business Of seeking foreign trade find
il well worth their while. They dis
cover that foreign markets have their
own rules and customs, and that success
depends upon q careful observance of
the established regulations. They find
that sales depend upon a full attention
to the requirements Of their various
customers. Observance of these mat
ters enabled US 20 sell more boots and
shoes last year in the West Indies alone
than We sold in the entire foreign market
in 1893 or during. any year prior TO that.
II u cotton manufacturers would fol-
low this example we should probably very
soon find a foreign market for at least
500, 900 900 worth Of cotton goods a year
instead Of the present $40. 900, 900 worth.
Special Agent PEPPER reports from
Egypt that we get less than 2L9 per cent.
of that country sos 900, 900 imports. He
accounts for our failure TO obtain a
larger share OF that business by quoting
local merchants. who say that tho
manufacturers OF the United States Offer
no encouragement for the ntroduc-
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Battle Bob.

The Hon. ROBERT MARION LA FoL-
LETTE is as urbane as ever He refers
to his colleague, the Hon. JOHN Corr
SPooNER, as zone Of the forty thieves
OF the Senate. MI. LA TOILETTE ia even
more independent and suffused with
his own style Of reform than ever. In
his last speeches in the Wisconsin cam
paign he forgot Mr.. ROOSEVELT. He
forgot the Republican ticket, but not the
Republican party. That, he is sure, is
controlled absolutely by the trusts.
And the only original antitrust Cohen
is not Mr.. ROOSEVELT, not Mr.. BRYAN.
not even Mr.. HEARST. Il is the Hon.
ROBERT MARION LA TOILETTE; and he
needs al antitrust party Of his w in
his business.
It seems to be the Wise nsin belief
that he expects to be the Presidential
candidate of such a party in 1908; and
the wicked assert, enormously no doubt,
that he has found a multimillionaire
angel" to help the good work along.
Rich in the peoples love and his own
faith in himself, Mr.. LA TOILETTE needs
no aid from the Money Power. No other
man can bang the railroads 80 vocifer-
ously OF weep 20 ~copiously over watered
stock. Mr.. LA TOILETTE is entitled to a
party of his own. Like some other con-
~snicuous statesmen he is neither Repub-
lican nor Democrat, He is antitrust,
anti-oorporation to the limit, and il there
are n votes in @curbing" or suppress
ing" or smashing, /" he thinks that he is
the boy who ought to get them.
The gallery of anti-trusters is crowded;
but Battle Bob with his pompadour is
one of the liveliest figures in il.
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Good American Business.

Callfornla's oil production. though It leads all
the oil productions Of the United States. Is over
sold for this year by 100000 barrels. In the
past eight months the demand for California oil
has increased nearly 20 per cent.
In the past twelve months the circulation OF gold
coin has increased by s31 300 900. and Of gold cert
ncates by $50 .e0O. 900: silver dollars show a gain of
81, coo. 900. silver certificates one of q. 800 900, and
subsidiary silver one OF $40, o 1000. United States
notes out gained %. 500 900. and national bank notes
SOS .oO0. 900. The years total circulation increase
was sls7. 200 900. and the total reached ~ 81 l83. 964.
Though In the year our population increased by
100000. reaching s~S.0l4.OOO. the per capita circu-
la;Ion IL SS3.0s. an Increase In the year OF sl.6e.
Beans. beans. nothing but beans in some OF the
counties OF Callfornia-crops In some counties this
year OF 600 600 to 100 900 sacks, selling for 81 cents
a pound. and yielding a good profit; the biggest
bean crop In CALIFORNIA; history. Beet sugar
factories in the State also have been more pros
porous this year than ever before.
immigration in the SIX months ended September
30 was So. $50. From Russia alone 1877 .240 came in
the s1 months. Russia's drain u our gain.
Los Angeles, with Its constant issuance OF build
ing permits OF from 81. 5000 10 81 $50. 900 In value
each month, and Its bank clearings Of ISL o 1000 q
month, increasing from &.O0O,0OO 70 SiO.O00.O00 =
month over 1905. and sl0.O 900 70 81 100000 a
month over 1904, is typical Of the prosperity and
activity now manifest IN our Far West.
Postal receipts Of Los Angeles for the twelve
months ended with September 20, 1905. were SSH,
sf2, a gain OF si9S. 0zs over the twelve months ended
September 90. 1905.
The Increase OF sos, 100000 In the manufacturing
capital of the State OF New York In only nve years
with wage eaIners S6.osO an increase Of Is per
cent, and yearly wages gaining 27.5 per cent. Is
the very best kind OF American business.
Then the New York Stock Exchange with 81
OO2. ess. 900 OF capital registered IN Its listed and
unlsted departments. besides 8.0Ss. OOO. 900 rail-
road securities. in all 70 .sse ess!Oo0.
Pig iron production has Increased 20 per cent. In
si1 years. reaching this year almost 4Oo.O GOO. 900 tons.
worth $500 900. 600: crops this year are worth o. ,O0o.-
Ooo. 900. an increase In SIX years of rs per cent.
In gold and national bank currency VIC are s2iA,I
900 900 richer than we were q year ago, waTrantlng
a loan exhaustion OF $500, 600, 600.
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MOONSHINE BY WHOLESALE.
Largest Illicit still Ever Captured IN
Central Georgia.

Macon correspondence Atlanta Consultation.
The discovery OF an eight hundred gallon
mOonshine still in the woods eight miles
east of Eatonton last Monday has led to a
most complete rounding up in the vicinity.
VigRl and Deputy Marshal Dave Riley have
since the still was located managed to capt uro
six men, all Of whom have been connected
with this single case. Arthur Clements,
the only white man connected with the
charge that has faced the authorities mp to
the present, csme to Macon to get five negroes
released and was himself held.
Clements is a prominent farmer. The still
was said TO have been found upon his place.
The negroes were all farmers on Clements's
place. The alleged chief operator. q white
man known in the community as Wild Bill.
has not been captured.
The officers found the still down on the
border Of a big creek. and as soon as they
made a survey Of the plant IL vas pronounced
the largest ever operated within the central
portion Of the state. An upright steam boiler
was used in the distilling outfit. and large
quantities OF beer and meal were destroyed
when the officers used their axes IN demolish-
ing the plant. when the discovery was made
by the officers the community was very much
surprised at the extensive operations. Large
quantities Of meal we're shown 70 have been
u ht to the spot from E~atouton.
The amount captured by the officers re-
vealed that an immense busines was carried
on, and the officers themselves were slow to
believe their own eyes when they walked into
the nlaco-
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Joint Statehood Smashed.

Returns from Arizona indicate that
not more than fifteen per cent. of the
voters supported the plan for the union
of that Territory with New Mexico.
Considering that Mr.. ROOSEVELT had
been led by advisers ignorant OF reckless
Of public opinion in Arizona to favor
this unnatural union, that his name was
freely used by the Federal oficeholders
in the Territory, and that powerful infu-
ences in Congress and elsewhere were
interested, the amount Of joint Statehood
sentiment disclosed is pitiful enough.
The facts must have been known in
Washington. Een Senator BEvERrDGE,
80 persistent in eluding them during
his singular pilgrimage to the Territory,
must have grasped them.
But let bygones be bygones. If Mr..
CANNON and the other jointists have
saved their face" may they be happy
in that salvation Arizona has saved
her identity. her autonomy and her fu-
ture. A combination unjust to Arizona
for many reasons has been avoided.
A State made Of the two Territories
would have contained from the first the
germs of i'll feeling, of opposing self
interests, Of race hatred and of sectional
divisions and hostilities. Henceforth
Arizona will be free to grow and prosper
in her individual way and according to
the genius Of her people. al intelligent
and patriotic as can be found anywhere
in the United States, and with the strong
est hope and pride in Arizona.
Both the Republicans and the Demo-
Gratis of Arizona have worked heartily,
and We might almost say unanimously,
against joint Statehood. The result Of
the work done by their spokesman at
Washington and at home is praise and
satisfaction enough for them. They will
90. forget in their victory the friends
who have helped them; and among many
Of these perhaps Senator FORAKER has
been not the least determined and
effective.
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Som. sociological Questions.

To TIE EDITOR OF n UN-Str Out Of tho
7s2 polling places In the thirty four Assembly dis
tricts Of the borough OF Manhattan. I discover
that Isl are. or were on election day. in barber
shops, which number Is e4 greater than the next
highest number of any other location selected. or
the cigar stores. OF which there were but eighty
three. Why are barber shops such favorites1
Next after the cigar stores come tailor shops.
and there were seventy Of them where the voters
could tell what they thought OF their respective
candidates and OF the other fellows. Then came
the undertskers. Thirty two Of them extended
their Hospitality TO the city and opened up their
cheerful resorts 10 voters. Mr.. Hearst voted In
an undertaSers shop. We can understand why
there should have been one such polling place.
but why the other thirty one
Clothing and crockery, groceries. furniture,
billiards. candy. shoes, stationary and a lot mOrs
Industries were represented In tho locations. but
only one millinery shop got . chance. This must
he considered a direct slap on the wrist u the ladies'
and calls for reform. There are about $50 millinery
shops In town. and they ought 10 he represented.
Only one out Of $50. while the BARRIERS have PAT out
OF about tO. N there Justice IN that X.
NEW YORK, November 4.
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Lost Republican Prestige.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: -FOUR
article Of July ID. 1908. craving permission
10 present your humble services to the Repub-
lioan powers that were, caused me no little
concern, especially in view Of your some
what bitter though positive prophecy that
the next Governor OF the State OF New York
would be a Democrat.
Having for a long time been swayed by
your opinions. j was almost resigned to such
a fate. and this resignation was encouraged
by the genuine enthusiasm displayed for the
renegade Hearst at all of his subsequent
meetings in this city. I do not. OF course.
believe that your threat resulted in the cleo
ton OF Hughes. nor do / believe that the
campaign which you conducted alone ex-
planned that situation. ] rather believe that
the bitter knife thrusts OF THE Sun against
potential influences in tho party. and espe-
cially your editorial in to-day's paper. have
more to do with the loss OF confidence in the
Republican cause than the strengthened
or ganizatlon of the opposition.
There are two ways to reform q big po-
litioal party, one from the outside and the
other from within. You have chosen the
method OF washing dirty linen in public, IN
a manner by yourself condemned on many
occasions.
do not care whether you pay any atten-
ton to this letter or not, but l want you to
know that I represent six people whose opin-
ion, like my own. IL that The SUN Is losing
the confidence Of its own people by resorting
to such peculiarly drastic political moves.
ARTHUR CRUoBR.
New YORK, November 7.
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CHECKS FOR PAPERTNG OFFICE.
More Than 5000 Used-Uniform In Color
and Design.

S
NO, sir: I'm no tile worker; you'd better
send up to one OF the mosaic shops"
That's what q ~paperhanger said to q mem
Der of the StOller Commission Company about
three years ago when the firm made known
its purpose to paper the walls Of its Offices
with cancelled checks. The checks were tina
accumulation Of several years. The idea Of
using them for wall paper In fanciful designs
was a within hat became a determination
later On.
The third p~aperhanger that answered the
call agreed to do the work. And he did il
artistically. The checks we're alkof one form
and were put on the walls in panels with gilt
moulding around the edges. There isno check
on the walls that represents less than 81 ,O0o.
One is made cut for $4,000. The total amount
OF money represented in one room il more
than $500 600. In another room that wa-
decorated in this way is a small panel OF
about forty checks that represent a quarter
OF a million dollars.
The checks are so much alike and ara
matched so evenly upon the walls that the
extraordinary design is not noticed upon first
papered with ordinary wallpaper Of an obloug
pattern. On every check appears the sigma
ture OF Frank p. Stoller. one of the firm. Il
never thought, " he said. of how much money
| had signed ava until | had the walls
papered with these checks. Some of these
checks tell stories. Here's one that waS
given TO Kirk Armour for the last bunch ot
cattle that he produced on his farm a. Waldo,
Mo. and this one for sI2. 900 was drawn to
pay for the first shipload OF cattle that Va
shipped 10 Cuba after the war"
More than 1900 checks were used in paper
ing one Of the rooms.
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The Educational Journey to Panama.

A correspondent asks us in good faith
whether the departure of President
ROOSEVELT from United States territory
and his temporary detachment from
administrative affairs at Washington,
except through the p~recarious medium
Of wireless telegraphy, do not constitute
his removal" from the Office, in the
Constitutional sense of the word.
The removal OF the President is one
Of the four contingencies specified by the
Constitution as requiring that the Office
shall devolve upon the Vice-President.
The other three are the Presidents
death, his resignation. and his inability
to discharge the powers and duties of the
said office.
We are decidedly of the opinion that
the removal contemplated by the Con-
stitution is the actual election of the
President from office a the consequence
OF impeachment proceedings, and not
merely his physical renewal from the
seat of Government, or even from the
country. The only theory under which
the present situation could be supposed
TO require Vice-President FAIRBANKS to
act as President is that Mr.. ROOSEVELT,
during his journey to the Isthmus and
back, is actually unable to discharge the
powers and duties of the Presidential
Office. If that were so, Mr.. FAIRBANKS
could constitutionally act as President
until Mr.. RoosEvELT's return. But it
is not so. 1t has been explained with
sufficient clearness that naught but Mr..
RoosEvELr's conception of the duties of
his Office induces him to break the ira
ditions and continuous Executive prac-
tice Of morethan a century. He goes to
Panama to discharge the duties Of his
Office, as he understands them.
That he continues during his absence
not only to discharge the duties of the
Office, as he understands them, but also
TO exercise the powers of the same Office
is apparent from the circumstance that he
proceeds on his journey of Executive self
education in transformations command Of
a battleship and two cruisers.
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He ID Not q Retiring Character.

To THE EDITOR oF THE SUN-Sir: II
william Randolph Hearst is the unselfsh
friend OF the people and the vindicator and
exponent of their rights that he claims to
be. why doesn't he retire from politics. per-
sonally, and let some man take his place
who can command the confidence of the
general publicG He has proved his unpopu-
larity by the vote cast for him as compared
with others on his tickets. and now Is the
time for him to show that he is sincere by
giving over the leadership TO a man Of the
right sort. VIII he do il? Is Hearst for
Hearst. first, last and all the time. or is he
not? DEMOCRAT.
NEW YORK, November 8.
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Several Of the Presidents closest advisers are Of
the opinion that the result In New York docs not
necessa rly mean that raJicslism Will pc eliminated
from the politics OF the country In TWO years more
Washington drspd,eh 10 TnE EvENINo SUN.
The view here attributed 20 several OF
the Presidents closest advisers IL sound
and philosophical. The Presidents closest
advisers might even have extended the two
years limit. Radicalism will not be elimi-
mated from the politics Of the country in
three years more. or in thirteen years. or
In twenty-three years, OF in my number Of
years, 30 long a. there are enterpr ising
politicians who find It profitable to be radi-
cal or to seem 30.
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TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND
Has ssme Comforts. and Thcn There's tho
Display or LnEgase sn the Hanson.

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Has ssmo Comforts. and Ihen There's tho
Display of Lugsase on the Hanson.
To TIRE EDrroR' OF THE suS-Sir: I have
read with interest Mr.. Z. r. Young's letter
In TEE Sun OF November 0 criticisIng Mr..
Charles Bstteii Loomis's remarks about rail-
way travel In this country and IN England.
The prospect of being forced to ride 100
miles with a -garlicky Italian" In q -stufy
English compartment car. larg 30 enough to
hold but eight people" ID indeed terrifying to
any one Of delicate sensibilities. but 10 will
not bear analysis. If Mr.. Young has trav-
eled in EnElapd during the last ten years he
surely must be aware hat for journeys Of a
hundred miles corridor trains are used almost
invariably by the principal lines. and that
consequently IL Ii 40 easy to change ones
seat az In our own democratic coaches. Then.
too. Mr.. Young evidently forgets that italian
laborers. "sarlioky- or otherwise. are rarely
met in the British isles.
But 1t 10 upon esthetio grounds that I VEN
ture, In all humility. to ousstiea the Justice
OF Mr.. Young's views. It is true. as he points
out. that the traveller leaving Now York may
send his trunk by an expressman. and then
take q trolley car to the Grand Central station.
or walk. But what an Insignificant and morti-
flying start for an important journeyi What
In tho good Of going away II nobody else Is
aware Of the fact? Herein lies the immense
superiority OF the English system.
For less than the New York expressman's
charge for carrying a trunk. the Londoner.
ensconced In the cushions Of a swift hansom,
may drive in triumph to the station. enjoy
ing to the full the ~envious klsnces OF mere
pedestrians. being pleasantly conscious that
the trunk or kit bag on the cab roof proolaims
to all the fact hat he is about 20 travel.
Contrast this luxurious. soul satisfying
method Of beginning q journey with the one
which your correspondent 30 earnestly cham
pions: hanging on to a strap In the Fourth
avenue tunnel HAROLD EYRE.
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To rHE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: ! an
the Oneida County Democrat" whose COM
munication (relative to the humble Of anti
Hearst men who would spare neither time
nor money to be home to vote this time) you
printed last week. Reaching the city this
morning. h I said then seems to have
proved true. except I should now say the
upstate voters. faced By the possibility OF
having the State Government machinery
turned over to the paid employees Of the
Star Company. put the Greater New York
majority In a basket and oused that basket
The fact that Hearst ran so far behind his
ticket is not a matter OF chance. Along with
others l personally know. 1 voted the Demo-
cratic ticket with the exception of Hearst and
one other. with the idea Of lowering his pres
tige ~ In that conspicuous way. Evidently
thousands did exactly the same. and the end
~justiies the means. Probably no other fact
has surprised Mr.. Hearst more than this,
and II he il wise he should not need another
hint-of the solar plexus variety.
ROBERT BRUCE.
CLINTON. Oneida County, November Z.