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What New Voice Il This?

Tho Governors address ut Chautauqua
yesterday was not q political speech.
In conception and purpose it is as remote
from politics, in the ordinary sense Of
that word, as the thoughts and deeds OF
this exceptional public servant have been
at all times since he shouldered his pres
ent job. Yet consider for a moment
these purely ethical, social, moral, non-
political, Unconditional sentiments:
biiity. BY stability rs not meant nzity Of things or
relations. but steadlness. 1t may be steadiness IN
motion. Paradoxlcai as 1t may seem, human So
risty cannot be stable unless It is progressive. That
b because trowth and progress are tho law of our
nature"
sRssson demands tho facts. by the require
ment Of publicity is not meant sensstionalsm or
distorted emphasis
Reason In It's rule OF governmental activities
demands even. Impsrsai and consistent enforcement
Of the law. Stability and confidence can never be
assured save by strength and nrmness."
1T rs an e~greglous blunder to suppose that TO
mako the administration OF aud the
enforcement of law a matter of caprice Involves
danger only as to the subject directly concerned
The evl cannot be 90 connned, but poiscns the
whole governmental system"
What new philosophy is this? What is
this calm voice 10Y heard above the crash
Of values and the cries of apprehension,
proclaiming the doctrine of stability,
reasonableness, consistency, impartial
fty, and the absence of the personal ele-
ment in the enforcement of law? No "a
price, no distorted emphasis, no suprem-
acy of individual judgment, no snappy
Bensationalism, no genius, even!
1t is only fifteen days since the chief
law officer of the Federal Administration,
charged with the duties Of which CHARLES
EVANS HUGHES discovered yesterday his
unimaginative conception, was describ-
ing the functions of his high Office in the
language OF sport.
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Mr.. ROOSEvELT'S RESPONSIBILITY
the Impetus to state Legislation Restrict
Ink the RaIlr oAd Traced 70 Him.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr. In
Secretary Tsfts eulogy Of Mr.. Roosevelt at
Columbus. which may be regarded Is the
opening OF the Secretsry's campaign for his
nomination for President. he makes one most
remark able statement. He says that the
impetus that caused the recent restrictive
legislation against railways In so many States
was not given by Mr.. Roosevelt" II 1t was
not, Mr.. Roosevelt failed completely in his
design. and failure lie scarcely a word which
men have sssoci ated with the Presidents
actions in regard to financial m atters during
the last two years.
Mr.. Roosevelt was not content with the
almost irresistible force OF his own example
In taking the most important branch OF rail-
way business. the fixing OF the prices they
should charge for rendering services to the
public. out of the hands Of experienced man.
ayers and transferring IL to non-expert ap-
pointees of his own. Months ago, through
Secretary Root rs his mouthpiece, he not only
pointed out to the separate States their duty
In the matter but warned them in the most
solemn terms that II they did not restrict
corporations In the way which he desired
the powers OF which they were in possession
would be taken from them. Can the Secre-
tary already have forgotten the consterna-
ton which those threats aroused In the
conservative sections OF the community and
the citation among the radicals7 He has only
to look at the files OF the newspapers pub
lished Immediately after Secretary Roots
speech to see how that threat was interpreted.
He has only to consult the nles Of the same
| papers a few months later to ascertain how
many States had sought 70 save themselves
from the wrath Of the Federal Government
and not give occasion for the enforcement Of
the warning that a way would be found by
constructions Of the Constitution to limit the
powers OF recalcitrant States.
Mr.. Taft has a perfect right to praise Mr..
Roosevelt In whatever terms he chooses to
employ. and TO excoriate all railway man
ayers. officers Of corporations and capitalists.
IL Ia the cheapest and easiest way or gaining
applause at the present day and Of qualifying
for the highest offices In the gift Of the people.
But he has no more right than q capitalist.
or a conservative. or a Mckinley Republican
TO juggle with facts. The fact will always
remain that Mr.. Roosevelt threatened the
States with the direst consequences tconse-
quences which the few old fashioned citizens
who still believe in the Constitution Of the
United States considered that he was estopped
from enforcing by that bulwsrk of our Ifber-
tiesI,. unless they did precisely what one
State after another has hurried to do. II
the President did not give the impetus 10
restrictive legislation IL Is simply because his
warnings failed TO produce their intended
result. JUNIUs.
WASHINGTON. Conn, August %.
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buRl0 cry Of red. the llmpld confidence OF
white. the repeated h~allelujahs OF yellow.
the virginia. glory Of blue. all the qldvering
crucible Of glass was dimmed az Il neareb
this border dyed with rusty red. the tawny
hues Of sauces. the harsh puppies of sand
stone. bottle green. finder brown, futginous
blacks and ashy grays.' Not even Arthur
Rimbaud. In his half TESTING sonnet on the
-vowels." indulged In such daring color
symbolism a. Huyshans. For a specimen
Of his most fuigurating style read his
-Camreu In Red" In a little volume edited
by Mr.. Howelis entitled. -Psetele In Prose
and translated by Stuart Merrill
sTo DO fich, very rich. and found In Paris
In face Of the triumphal ambulsnce. tho
Luxembourg. a public museum OF oon-
temporary painting" he cries In one ofihis
essays. He was tho critic OF "Modsrnltv.s
as Degas h Its painter, Goncourt It's ex-
ponent In fiction. Paul Bourgct It's psy-
biologist. He lasbes himself into a fine
rage over the enormous prices paid some
years ago by New York millionaires for
the work OF such artists as ~BouguercAu.
Dubufe. Gerome. Constant. Rosa o
heur, Knauss. Msissonier-and no wonder'
The Christ before Plate sold Cor oo0. 900
francs. sets him Illuminating against it's
painter. Get indNgent DECOR brosse par le
Bresilien de In piete. par le rastaquouere
dc Ia peinture. par Munkacsy.' To which
sentiment we cheerfully subscribe.
Joris-Kari Huysmans should have been
q painter; his indubitable gift for form
and color were by some trick OF nature
or circumstance t~ransposed 10 literature
So he brought to the criticism Of pictures
an eye abnormal In its keennoss, a to
this was superadded IN abnormal power
OF expression. These qualities win keep
fresh. his books about art and artists when
his novels shall have been stationed perrna-
nently on dusty shslves of the future.
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Library work BY Blind Persons.

To THE EDITOR or TEE SuS-Ssv: An interesting
article appeared In TEE SUN OF August IS about tho
blind librarian at Lynn. Mass. who was spoken Of
as being the only blind person In the world en-
gagged as a librarian. This is not the case. We
need 20 no further than Brooklyn 70 md a young
blind woman serving most ernciently as the libra
rian for the blind at the public library there. Paris
has no less than four blind men doing library WORK.
The success of those without sight doing this work
generally proves the wisdom Of the belief held by
educators snd students of work among the blind,
that the blind IN many capacities are those best
nttod TO serve the blind.
STUDENT OF WORK FOR TIE BLIND.
NEW YORK. August e.
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Al seea by Q Scientist.

To THE EDITOR OF TEE suN-Sir: am
sure your readers will welcome DR.. Goodwin
Smiths attempt to solve the problem OF the
Immortality OF the soul. Although I do not
believe that any ono but q trained scientist
can solve that problem. yet . mind free from
the trammels OF orthodoxy may give us
some interesting IDEAS. The first part Of the
problem is to define SOUL
There In no diniculty in proving scientif-
cslly the Immortality Of the soul II a certain
scientific definition be given to the soul, but
II consciousness be defined to be a part Of the
sodl instead OF a superadded condition then
the problem becomes more complicated and
although not necessarily impossible yet more
diflcult to solve.
There are two distinct souls In the universe.
the natural or physical and the divine or
spiritual soul. The soul Of matter, which is
the physical soul when stripped OF the pei
sonal conditions with which Il Is associated
IN lie physical manifestation. is easily proved
TO be immortal or eternal. which ie the same
thing In this. case; and the spiritual soul
when stripped Of Ito accessories can also be
proved to be eternal In It's essence.
New YORK. August "a. Scientist.
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Tale of Q Policy.

] am a famous Policy,
All people kno me well.
And yet. despite my wisdom great.
My pa | cannot tell.
When hrst I came into the world
I was OF Bryan born.
And everybody froWned ON me
And covered me with scorn.
Then Mr.. Roosevelt kidnapped me
When was bigger crown.
And called me by a different name
And said ! was his own
And now there another change
To MI with CUB my cup,
Judge Tan has Just adopted me
And means TO bring me UP.
McLAHpsupos wuaoN.
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r
I Clergyman Advises Evolutionlsts I
study the Butterfly, Net tho APO.

Sunny the UQttoIuys W. ~n0 AU0s
To 1us EprroR OF TEE suS-Sir: Profess
sor Goodwin Smith In q letter to TEE suN
says -Annihilation In not q cheerful word.
existence which gives an linking OF tmmor-
tally
have on my table an English translatton
Of DR.. Hugo Werneke's famous essay On
Life After Death" The book itself 10 built
on curious theories and gives no -tnklins
of Immortality: but the Illustration OF the
cover doesi It 10 that Of . butterfly. This
whether Buddhist. Hindu or Persian mystic,
10 demonstrate life after lfs.
n evolutionists would only give the sans
attention to the butterfly that they do TO the
aps 70 might eventually reach the truth.
Very little attention IL given 20 the transit
Of the soul Over on the other side or the
street there 10 . peculiar noise. 10 IL . child
S Ss, Z Sss mos! L q Ct I, ,S Ssi. st. SHS,s s:n e. n ss aSiS SiS.
s. Ss'1 aS.o oSS i1' u @sS q i: IDENTITY Z
"iin h ~ 0 isss yi: :tssf q 9 e sssd man. He /,
ipi.nCy: When hs die: WI his soul NE be
unconscious for thrss whole weeks. He. has
a ss:i. 80 f TSss :ss% ss, s:ys Ss. ssS's out ssFs &c.
s:s;s:a i: :I :I;S 8 y y: Is. %.'f s, ! 4 /. X ;.; 4: ss,;
personal Identity @s,nssipsd in tho mys-
liz Sssi' ssd fr ilo% ff fis u u. d g " f Ess S S': .sSd y
the cocoon. the moth and b worm and then
Ds,n.Ps W : get Get some sSs - -sSniiiinF T,S e Inn;
world. OF the great think gag Orient seem
e sbs t fSw az. and the Satt'raB6. 4. p Thi e. Do D. not
BRooKLYN. August n
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The Highest ChurcAmsm ana Inc Freak.

To THE EDITION or THE SuN-sfr; II Is some
what curious that while The Prime Minister OF
England has been under the impression that he
has made q very low ehurchmsn Bishop Of Sodor
and Man he has really nominated the highesi
clergyman In the Church Of England.
Tho Rev. Or. Druy. principal OF Ridley Hal.
Cambridge. Is probably the tallest clergyman who
was ever known. ! do not remember bis exact
height, but In 1877 ] had the honor Of being hts
guest when be was vicar Of a church In Burton on
Trent, and no related this Incident One evening
when he was seated In his study the servant an
Dounccd Q stranger VINO could scarcely get through
the door. The man exclaimed: 1T Is no good.
! must get out Of Burton what Is the natter
asked Mr.. Dury. Il am Engaged as q giant In =
show which has Just come 70 town and thc people
all say that they have q parson who 10 taller tbsS
! am. And I see " isa fact. and 70 the sooner ~
out of the place the better CLARcczA~-
BROOKLYN, August n.
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Fresh RumOrs of Trouble in Central
g. America.

o. <h"CT1Cds
For the sake of all who are in any way
concerned in the affairs of Central America
IL would be well if the uncertainties of
the situation could be ended either by
a decisive wal or by a binding peace.
,She rumor factories which are estab-
lished at various points in this country
and in Mexico obtain a large part of their
raw materials from quite irresponsible
sources. Mexico City is the temporary
or permanent abiding place of a large
number of Central American refugees
and exiles. There are more of them in
New Orleans, and New York always has
it's group. The principal occupation Of
these gentlemen appears to be the manu-
facture and dissemination of alarming
tales of war, revolution and political dis
order in their native lands.
Steamers from Caribbean ports ar
irving at New Orleans and steamers
srriving at San Francisco from Pacific
coast ports seldom fail TO bring a num-
Der Of passengers with startling stories
Of woe and impending wal in Central
America. These stories get altogether
too wide a circulation and far too much
confidence is placed in them. They are
rarely even approximately accurate and
ere usually quite unworthy of any atten-
ton whatever. Their circulation com
plioates a political situation which in
sufficiently confused without them. and
their quotation from American papers by
the Mexican and the Central American
press tends to continue the local irrita-
ton. The officials OF the Central Amer
lean countries and the leaders of revolu-
tons do not take the public into their
confidence, and the officials ever leave
their representatives in Washington a
good deal in the dark. Most of the yarns
end the opinions Of these arriving trav-
ellers from the little republics are en-
tirely irresponsible.
For a nur.lber of weeks il has been
generally believed in Washington that
MIR. ZELAYA had abandoned his ambi-
tious project for unifying the Central
American States. IL is an absolutely
hopeless scheme at the present time.
The latest rumor of another attack on
Salvador does not of necessity indicate a
renewal of his purposes. There are hard
feelings between the people OF those
countries, and it is possible, although not
at all probable, that Mr.. ZELAYA has
decided to try a fall with his neighbor.
Should he make such an attempt there
is no doubt that Guatemala and a part
at least of the Honduras forces would sup
port Salvador. In such a case il is little
loss than 4 certainty that Mr.. ZELAYA
would get "A whipping that would either
rI:in him or do him a world Of good.
As the weeks Oh uncertainty and I'M
sscolc conditions go by, with Interrupt
tivn TO local industry and TO foreign COM
merce, 1t becomes more certain that an
era Of peace can be inaugurated only by
some Joint action in the form Of n treaty,
for the faithful observance OF which AZ
least the moral forc~ Of this country and
Mexico must be- responsible. Arbitra-
tion Of all differences, with the United
States end Mexico rs permanent and
final umpircs, mist be- the basis of such
a treaty The plan has been discussed
for months and il should be brought o
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From the Westminster Gazette.
There are evident advantages In having our
cricket reports written by experts, as ia the custom
nowadays. OF the match between Motifs and Sur
rey one of these gentlemen says: IF Motifs had held
all their catches. and II Surrey had done tho same.
tho totals OF both sides would undoubtedly have
been much smaller" Had this not been pointed
out so clearly the average man would never have
thought Of 20 simple and convincing an explana-
tlon Of the high scoring.
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An Awkward Subject for Mr.. Taft,

Secretary TAFr's programme of IN
definitely deferred tariff revision, until
after the ext Presidential election" has
%janitor Of protection the American Pro-
tective Tariff Lea que. Far from being
conciliated, it posts him in it's organ, the
American Economist, as a Republican who
is weak in the faith and unworthy of
countenance, as follows:
BY his orncial record regarding free trade in the
competing products OF the Philippines and free
trade In Panama Canal materials and supplies, and
by his public utterances at Bath a year ago and at
olumbus four days ago. Mr.. TAFT stands plainly
In view as a Presidential aspirant whom protection
lists cannot consistently support
And yet Mr.. TAFT should have been
forgiven when he said, as he did at Co
lumbus, that the tariff should at least
equal a difference in the cost of produc-
ton in this country and abroad and
proper allowance should be made in this
difference for the reasonable profits to
the American manufacturer" Not even
the American Protective Tariff League
would declare for unreasonable profits.
For his trouble in getting into line
with the standpatters and going as far
in his definition Of protection as a prudent
man should go Mr.. TAFT finds himself
prescribed and branded by the organo OF
protection. At the same time he has
| lost standing with the conservative re-
~visionists by modifying his bold Bath
pronunciamento. In electing as a can-
didate to be an echo of his chief Mr.. TAFT
cannot shout for himself. Tariff revision
is not one Of MY Policies" No one has
heard Mr.. ROOSEVELT say anything about
the inequalities Of the Dingley law for
some time. 1t is a subject that MY
Candidate will have to handle gingerly.
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Nine short stories In Harpers Mon0Nv MaoannS
FOR September, with SIR Gilbert Parker's serial,
should sstlsfy the srsnmer demand for Notion
There arc interesting illustrated articles on the
little Independent commune of Moresnet AMI an
picturesque Saracinesco. DIR. McCook tells about
me way Insects communicate. Mr.. '. 7. Hin dc
scrocs q famous press case, Professor Conkiln
the photography OF the invisible. and the story Ut
Linoosn's last days 10 reto,d. There arc mans
ccsored pictures; those by Miss Z. S. Green ar,
excellept
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To THE EDITOR or THs SUN-Str The wisdom
of a certain oracle says that the elephant Is a more
intelligent animal than the horse. MY ignorance
falls to see u. Can TEE SUN or any Of It's readers
shed any light on this question:
NEW YORK, August "a. FRANK J. MAnrIN.
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He changed his name 20 Joseph white.
hid Mister Akkioioglau.
The Justice said twas surely right,
To save his friends from lockjaw.
Al Y q
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No wonder n ins ship OF state
shat In q tempest toss:
The Captain, cruel mariner.
Has shot the Albatross.
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The Pittsburg Dispatch takes issue with
The Sun rs TO its statement, apropos OF
the Harrisburg capitol scandal, that Gov
ernor STUART was elected on the assur-
ance OF his political hackers that Treasurer
BEBRY's accusation was a wicked CAM
paign invention The Dispatch contends
that Mr.. STUART was elected ION the assur-
ance he now repeats Of vigorous prose-
cution Of every person whom the evidence
may show to be guilty He was elected
because the voters OF Pennsylvania had
faith in that pledge more than in the accu-
sStions OF Treasurer BERRY
That is to beg the question. The Ma
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Grand Hotel; Klosque II, Boulevard des Capucines,
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where Van Dyck did not. He disliked the
"supersensual and sublimated Virgins Of
Cologne, v pronounced all Botticelli's
Virgins rs ~masquerading Venuses. Tho
Van der Weyden triptyoh OF the Nativity
in the old museum. Berlin. filed him with
raptures, pious and esthetic. The stheat-
rical cruciixions, the feshly coarsences
Of Rubens' are naught when compared
to the early Flemings. His pages on Rem
brandt are admirable reading. REM
brandt. who had the soul Of q Judaisinx
Protestant . with his serious but
fervid wit. his genius for concentration
for getting a spot Of the essence Of sunlight
into the heart OF darkness . . has
accomplished great results; and In his
Biblical scenes . has spoken a language
which no one before him had attempted
to lisp As Huysmans loathed the rancid
and voiuptuous sacred" music of 0ounod
and other comic opera writer's OF masses
and hymns In the Church, so he abominated
h modern sacred painters. James Tis-
DOT n MYnkacsy come In for some terrific
critical Negotiations. What could be more
taszling than his Of q certain
stained glass window In his beloved Cathe-
dral mt Chartres:
up there high In air. as they might be
salamanderss human beings. with faces
ablaze and robes OF fire, dwelt in a frms-
ment OF glory; but these conHagratIons
were enclosed and limited by an ino,m-
bustibie frame Of darker glass which set
on the youthful and radiant joy OF the
flames by the contrast Of melancholy, the
suggestion OF the moro serious and aged
aspect presented by gloomy ooloring. The
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all that she touches"
Not only is there an evocation Of material
splendor In the above passages taken from
"A Rebours," but q profound philosophy
and note OF oenobitio contempt for woman's
beauty, which sound throughout the
books Of Huysmans. II may be heard
at its deepest in his study of Felicien Rops,
the Belgian etcher and painter, who in
terpreted Baudelaire's -femmes damnees."
Reps, too, regarded woman In the light
Of a destroyer, a being banned by the early
fathers OF the Church, the matrix Of sin.
Huysmans's incompatible study OF Rops--
whose great powers have never been recog-
nixed becaus OF his erotic and diabolic
subjects-may be found In his "Certains.
Ilssel.
In his description Of the indepen dent
exposition llsS0l to which Degas, Mary
Cassatt and Berthe Morizot, Forain and
others sent ~oanvases. Hiysmans drifts
into literary criticism; he saw a~nalogies
between the paintings Of the ~realists, ini-
pressionists n the modern men OF fiction.
Flaubert. Goncourt. lola; Have not, +"
he asks, tho Goncourts fixed ina style de-
liberate and personal. the most ephemeral
Of sensations. the most ~fugacious OF
nudncesl' 30 have Manet. Monet, Pissaro.
Raffaelli. Nor does he hesitate to make
the ~avowal, still incomprehensible for
those who are deceived by the prodigious
blaring Of critical trumpets. that Baudelairc
Is the true poet OF genius In the nineteenth
century what did Henry james say ID
thisp), dominating by a hundred feet all
the others. Victor Hugo included: and that
the chef Tasrre OF fiction is Flaubert's
"L'Education Sentimcntaie.' Naturally
Edgar Degas 10 the only psychological
interpreter Of latter day life. There u