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New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
MISTAKEN STRIKE TACTICS.

We called attention yesterday TO the haphaz-
ard methods by which the telegraphers strike
was precipftated. What the real trouble was
nobody seemed to know. for the grievances for
INFLATED after the strike had begun were plainly
afterthought and had never been submitted 10
the companies for deliberate consideration. Inc
captfousness OF the strikers attitude IS star
tlingly illustrated in their treatment OF Inc
Associated Press Most of the employees Of that
news gathering association have certainly
worked for it long enough TO understand its
husiness status They may be presumed to
have known that it is partnership for the COL
lection and Transmission Of news, which is sup
norted by pro rata assessments on the news
papers enjoying its service. 1t is not an enter
prise conducted for profit, it pays no dividends
and has no surplus, and its officers can exercise
only limited authority in its financial man
agement. Yet, ignoring its exceptional charac-
fer as a mutual association, the striking en-
ploves served an ultimatum on the general man.
ager Mr. Melville E Stone, which required MIN
to make an immediate decision on proposition
whose acceptance would have caused an in
creased expenditure annually of at least
100000.
Mr. Stone in his reply to the working force
explained that he had no power to grant an In
crease in wages and would be compelled to con-
suit the directors of The Associated Press, VINO
at this time Of the year are widely scattered
and hard to reach on a moments notice. YET
without waiting even twenty-fOur hours TO give
him chance TO confer with the directing BODY
the operators left their keys and did what they
could to cripple the associations news service.
II is hard to comment with moderation on so
arbitrary and Irrational a performance. Inc
striking operators have taken step which VIII
cause great inconvenience and loss to the gen
eral public Hundreds of thousands Of people
who are in no way responsible for the alleged
mistreatment Of the operating force must sur
fer from the interruption Of telegraph COM
munications. Yet how can they be expected to
suffer with patience when they see those COM
munications cut IN q spirit Of bravado and IN
reason?
1t must be admitted either that the Asso-
ciated Press operators have shown an astonish-
ing and unpardonable ignorance Of the organ
ization Of that body and Of the natural limits
Of the general managers powers or that, with
full knowledge Of the situation. they have delib-
erately planned 30 force an issue without giving
the slightest chance for elaboration. discussion
or arbitration In either case they have exhib-
tied q total lack of the sense Of responsibility
and the further lack Of intelligent leadership.
To succeed, strikes must have an obvious and
intellfgIble motive and must appeal to the pub
lies sense Of justice. But the striking tele-
graph operators seem TO have acted without
either forethought or any pretence Of considera-
ton for the rights Of others. It is their own
fault II they have thereby deprived themselves
at the outset of the necessary support OF
friendly public sentiment
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14

luctance on the part of France or any power
TO enter upon such an undertaking. 1ne pdci-
Acknowledgements synonyme for conquest-oT
Morocco would be no easy task 1t would re-
quire the activities of a large army, proDaDIy
as many as one hundred thousand men, anu
in that almost inconceivably rugged and road
less country operations would be extremely
tedious and difficult and losses would be heavy
But that might be small part Of the matter
The probability is that a jehad would be
preached-a holy war of Islam against the
infidel. IF so, Algeria, Tunis and even Tripot
would probably be involved, and Egypt itself
might be restless. The task Of subdulng Mo-
rocco and at the same time Of restraining or
repressing general insurrecdoD IN Algeria ana
Tunis would be something from (which France
might well shrink and which the rest OF the
world would regret to see her compelled TO
undertake. Yet every shot that is nred at
Casablanca or Mazagan brings such con-
tingency perceptibly nearer. Whatever hap
pens, we shall expect the French TO give
good account of themselves. Already at Casa
blanca they have acted with approved courage
and steadiness, and they will doubtless do the
same wherever they go and whatever may be
the scope of their operations. No man who
has intelligently read history ever doubts the
valor and endurance Of French soldiers Nor
is there any occasion for apprehension concern
ing the conduct of the French government in
directing their operations Its conduct has
thus far been marked with a fine conservatism
and restraint, yet with the full courage OF re
sponsibilty, and so it doubtless will be TO the
end. Even Frances great imperial neighbor
and onetime antagonist, who is sometimes sus-
picious Of French motives and inclined to be
critical is now constrained to give to French
policy in Morocco confident approval. 1t is
gratifying that this should be the case; for
it may be that complications and labors are
near at hand in which France will need the
sympathetic moral support of all Christendom
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14

federal courts would have been exhausted to
protect them They waived their rights, how
ever on grounds of expediency and Joined with
the states in question in arranging an amicable
compromise.
1t is absurd to say that developments in North
Carolina and Alabama have in any way
abridged the authority or jurisdiction OF the
federal courts. They can do again what they
did at the request Of the plaintiffs in the rate
Injunction cases, and they stand ready to do
it on proper application. Judge Lacombe In this
state took action in the gas rate case exactly
similar to that taken in North Carolina. ana
his Injunction is still in full force and erect
The administration does not control the policy
of the courts But when appealed to it assists
in executing their writs. There was no such
appeal made in North Carolina or Alabama
any more than there was here in New York
The Supreme Court will eventually decide just
what clash. if any, between federal rights and
state rights was involved in the gas and rail-
road rate cases
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
TOO coon TO BE TRUEf

Persons searching for fine examples of unself-
ishness must have paused with a gasp OF de-
light over the report from Jersey City annOunc-
ing that, for the sake Of the public health the
striking street sweepers and teamsters OF the
Street Cleaning Department have returned 10
work under the old unsatisfactory conditions.
Having quit only last Monday because the de-
partment would not pay them $13 80 week in
stead Of 25 cents an hour, the workingmen nave
surely not returned thus promptly to work Tor
lack of funds. It is natural therefore, to credit
their broad minded declaration that the good
health Of Jersey City is more important than
their own slight financial betterment. 1t is al
Turing TO believe that these obscure men have
such wide views of their duties as citizens
1t is intimated, alas, that this wonderful
thoughtfulness Is somehow connected with the
fact that after the strikers had deserted their
brooms and shovels, some OF them discovered
that the question of increasing their pay would
have to be referred TO the Finance Board, and
that this meant unavoidable delay. But even
If this painful suspicion should be confirmed
sundry compliments may still be paid the sweep
ers For one thing, they have the wisdom TO
make the best OF bad case, and that Is more
than can be said Of some other strikers
Wouldn't it be delightful. though, TO learn pos
itively that the reported reason for ending the
strike was the real one? That would inspire
hope that better educated persons might some
day develop the same civic sense.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
FRANCE IN MOROCCO.

NJ Pichon repeats in the most emphatic man
ner the assurance that France has no thought
Of The conquest and annexation Of Morocco, or
even of an expedition TO Fee or any other In
land point His words are doubtless entirely
sincere and true and are to be valued as an
authoritative record Of intention. At the same
time, in their bearing upon future operations
they may prove to be far from conclusive
Necessity, not intention. rules. When a sur
geon makes an incision in the abdominal cavity
of a patient he has to do not necessarily what
be meant TO do or what he expected to do, but
what the revealed and perhaps entirely un-
foreseen conditions compel him to do. In that
particular, as well as In others, close analogy
may appear between the surgeon and the invad
ing army
There is. as we have hitherto indicated,
strong reason for desiring the establishment Of
complete control over Morocco by power which
will enforce order In that wretched land There
Is at the same time ground for the utmost re-
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Tho eight OF eeveral large cats rolling around on
The sidewalk in ecstasy of joy at Slxth aVehue
and 26th street the other night drew d crowd IN d
few, minutes When there must have been more 'al'
five hundred persons trying to catch look at the
cats a quiet looking old man who had been stand
,co, ,,nobserved in a nearby doorway stepped out
carving a bag, and, facing the crowd began
Ladies' and gentlemen, / have hero Tor sale a
whole bag of catnip and for 10 cents Will sell you
enough to make your cat happy for life. You see
how these cats enjoy il. Well, yours will do the
game These cats dent belong to me. but smelt the
catnip and are having the timo OF their hVes. dou
will have hurry. as In fifteen minutes moro L
will have all the cats in the neighborhood around
here" In a few minutes he had sold his entire
stock and hurried out of the crowd and disap-
peared.
Biggs-Bifk.ns is a man who is never at a loss
Diges-No. but he chooses so many words that
are only printed in dashes.-Chicago News.
The following amusing birth notice appeared In a
recent issue of the "Dresdner Anzeiger': ITO our
seven hearty boys there came to-day, in Gods
early morning not the wished for little daughter.
but in compensation a pair OF me boys. we
Judge by this elementary event that thess strenu-
ous times demand more men than blossoms of the
gentler SEX and console ourselves with thoughts
of our Fatherland TO which we call;
.rIurrabl hurrah! Now there are nine.
Firm stand and true the watch on tho RhineI
ITO all dear friends and acquaintances and to
whom else the joyous tidings may be OF interest
we give this notice-the last of its kind--Eduard
Rost and wife"
Rill-I see that there are 527 distinct muscles
In the human body of which eighty three are in
the head and face.
bathing suit it is believed that he uses all of EN-.
-Yonkers Statesman.
A German engineer named Heinicke has Invent
ed a system of wireless teegraphy for short dis
tance service which can be transported from point
TO point with remarkable ease and rapidty II is
expected that the system will come into general
use in connection with military reconnoitrng oper-
ations naval landing parties and other similar
purposes The transmitting and receiving appara-
tus are both fitted in one small case, with
weight of approximately forty pounds which can
thus be carried a mans back The. weight OF
the pole the wires and other accessories is ap
proximatey hundred pounds. SO that an entire
station weighs approximately 140 pounds. sta
tion can be moved from place to place by three
men, and five able to erect 1t ready for
use IN eight minutes. The cost OF station is
ST. 500 and the range of communication about
twenty-five miles.
Tess-Nr Wise is agnostic, isn't her
Jess-Tne ideal What made you think thatr
Tess-Miss Passay told he didn't believe the
Bible.
Jess-Oh she means their family Bible In which
the record of her birth IL entered He noticed that
she had bean tampering with tho dats.-Phi.adsl-
phia Press.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
PRESIDENT AND FEDERAL COURIS.
Correspondent Wants to Know Why He Did
Not Furnish Means to Enforce DEGREES.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial OF yesterday concerning
the legal asuects OF the Southern Railway troubles
Won sov that the railroad representatives chose not
% avail themselves OF the United States courts
hut YOU carefully avoid reference TO the fact that
these courts were ignored by the state authorities
~ North Carolina and Alabama, and being with
oft tho means Of enforcing their DEGREES, owing
10 the deliberate inacton Of President Roosevelt
the railroad had TO submit 10 the big stick
welded bv state officials in imitation OF their
prototype. the parent big stick" at Washington
II President Roosevelt really and honestly means.
os he professes that he wants law obeyed. why
did he not furnish the federal courts Of North
Carolina and Alabama with the means TO enforce
their DEGREES TO the end that the Southern Railway
managers could operate their road and be pro-
taoted from fnterferenca? The federal courts laid
down the law Why did he not enforce II?
Brooklyn, Aug. T. 1897. G. w.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14

NV TelegTaph TO The IriDu1e-l
Newport. r. l. Aug. 13.-To-day was the most
quiet day that the summer colonists have spent IN
Newport this season. there being practically
entertaining and little else going on socially
The beginning of the wOman's tennis tournament
at the Newport Casino helped TO enliven the mOrn-
ing while this afternoon there was another large
gathering at the Newport Golf Club. although there
was no special contest A practice game Of polo at
the Westchester Club grounds also furnished some
amusement for the polo enthusiasts Of the cottage
colony in the afternoon
Registered at the Casino to-day were Franklin
A. Plumner Ralph ". Thomas and Mrs Robert
R. Livingston.
Franklin A Plumrner is the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elisha Dyer wayside- their summer home
Miss Vera Gilbert and Mrs. J. Low Hartman
gave dinners this evening for the younger set.
Mrs. George c. Wales and Mrs John NJ. Hawley.
of New York. the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs James
Crtswold wentz-
Several social affairs have been announced for
Wednesday and Thursday evenings Tomorrow
evening, besides the other entertainments already
announced. Mrs. Ogden Mills will entertain az din
uer and Mrs James Griswold Wentz VIII entertain
with luncheon in the afternoon Mrs George
Peabody WetmOre and Mrs. James 3. Haggin VIII
both have dinners Thursday night
Palrnistry is getting to be a fad among the New
port cottagers, and at entertainments and other
social affairs of late there has frequently been
paIrnist present to entertain the guests
Clarence W. Dolan has offered prizes for the golf
match to be played at the Newport Golf Club to-
morrow afternoon
Play was begun to-day in the second wornen's
bandican doubles tennis tournament OF the season
:. Tho Naunort Casino. The first round resulted
q Mics Anna Sands and Mrs LOrillard Spencer.
II winning from Miss Gwendolyn Whipple AMI
Miss Katherine Weaver. Miss Nora Iseiin and Mrs
arthur s. Burden beat Misses Irene and Mildred
sherman. Mrs. Howard Gushing and Miss Maud
Jyetnore beat Mrs E s Reynal and Miss Freda
paine Miss Jeanne WalIach and Miss Edna Barger
ast Miss Beatrice Mills and Mrs. Nathalie schencE
Collins
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
THE GULF STREAMS INFLUENCE

In the latest issue of ''The United States
Weather Review the suggestion that the I'M
usually cold spring this year might have been
caused by q shifting Of the position OF the Gulf
Stream received consideration, but was pro-
nOunced fallacious. The absurdity of the be-
lief is easily shown Temperatures over the
land. meteoroIogsts hold, are affected by ad-
iacent bodies Of water through the agency
of the winds In summer, when the sea Is
cooler than the continent, there is a gentle in
flow of air from the former the latter
much OF the time. This movement, while it
increases the h=snidity, tempers the heat in the
seaboard states. In winter the situation IS
reversed The prevailing winds then are or
shore. The weather over the sea might ut that
season be affected-and it is-by the temper
ature of the land, but land temperatures could
not we'll be modified by the sea. 1t follows that
anv diversion Of the Gulf Stream, IL it really
occurred at all, could not in the winter or even
in the spring make itself felt inland
For prolonged departures from normal CON
ditions, no matter in what direction or ut what
time Of year, the government experts fail Dack
on the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tho earths aerial envelope is kept In constant
turmoil bv solar heat like the water in n boil
ing not At least three kinds of interchange are
going on most of the time. Some air rises ana
IL must be replaced from higher level There
is a movement from land TO sea, or from sea to
land as has just been mentioned. Finally, there
is an exchange between the tropics and the
poles The currents thus set up interfere with
each other and in turn undergo detection from
the rotation Of the earth and also from, irres-
ularities in the surface of the globe So ex-
tremely complicated is the result of these forces
acting at once on one Of the most elastic fluids
known to man that the exact repetition of one
DAVIS or one seasons programme by that of the
next is held to be impossible. There will In a
century be 4 manifest disposition to stick pretty
closely to an established average but mean
while there will be all sorts of variations from
the mean Some are slight and some are con-
snicuous, and all are in a very broad sense local
Yet whatever their character they are asso-
ciated with an undue prevalence OF winds from
warm or a cold, wet or dry quarter.
This explanation is not, perhaps, quite SO
readily grasped as the notion that some time
bonored institution like the Gulf Stream ac-
counts for all observed eccentricities. Neverthe-
less, it has the sanction of the highest author
tiles in such matters. and the majority of peo-
ple prefer the truth 10 a fantastic theory.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14

police and, indeed to hold the mutlhous ponce
themselves in restraint. The present dlsoruerS
eliminating in loss of life are presumably que
to the original industrial strikers but tneIe
can be no doubt that the disloyal attltuue oi
the constabulary did much TO 1nhame lhe SIT
lation and to encourage the strikers u aus u
violence.
It NAV be conceded that the ponce hau Soihe
grievances Their requests for increase OF
nov. for q more generous pension system ana
FOR nernoission To meet and draft an ADDRESS
to the INSPECTOR general are very generally re-
oarded as having some basis in reason anu JUS
flee. Had they urged those requests III proper
manner and at fitting time 1t seems pIoo-
able that they would have been granted. ou1
II was a Inonstrous thing to wait unti tiell
loval services were most urgently needed anu
then TO organize d widespread mutlny. iI was
comparable with an armys mutlhylhS III 'n0
nresence of the enemy. Whlle, thefeioAe' InO
is ,,rattv general agreement that the men
a.;ay-onces are legitimate and that they ought to
have the increased pay and pensions WHICH
+Ta, ask there is almost equally general agree
mont that the time and manner OF their max
inc the demands were scandalously i'll CHOSEN
Indeed we may say they were mallclouSly Sc
Iacted on an adaptation of the prlnclple IhaC
"England's emergency is lrelands opportunity
We have not heard, indeed, that any approval
of or sympathy with the course of the mutlnous
nolice has been manifested by anybody except
tba extreme Nationalists and adherents OF the
Sim Fein.
One of the gravest features of the case from
the national point of view, is that for the nrst
time suspicion has been cast upon the loyalty
of +he RoyaI Irish Constabulary. All througn
the years of storm and stress III Ire!ano liia' ~
body of men has been the mainstay or the gov
ernment. and it's retention under the dlrecuoil
of the Crown has been regarded as essential
Of course the present mutiny is by no means
general It involves only small fracuon VI
fhe whole force. But it sets an omhous eA
arnnIa. which may be followed to disastrous
extent. and it must be a matter of much regret
70 +he authorities at Dublin Castle that they
loft in existence any plausible preteXt ror IL
bv neclecting to abate the grievances OF the
men as soon as they were brought TO their at
+ention. 1t is possible that some dlsloyai Spirits
vrouId IN any event have attempted mutiny.
Rr,t their success would have been dimnished
and their standing before the public still more
indefensible than at present had all reasohaOie
ground for their discomfort been removed
New-York tribune., 1907-08-14
MORE HAPPY CHILDREN.
-Four Parties Sent to Country bg
Tribune Fresh Dir Fund.

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund sent four parties Of
children to the country yesterday Early In the
morning twenty-eight little ones mostly girls. fled
into the West 42d street ferry station and took the
boat for Weehawkex, where they boarded the train
for Franklin y. " where the Rev W l. Hughes
has been arousing interest in the work
The Rev D. ". Bigelow, OF Utica, continues ths
good work that town. and has done SO vel thac
he was able TO take his third party yesterday, num-
bering forty, and making altogether more than Two
hundred children that have gone to Utica this year
party OF ten went to the Tribune Fresh Air
Home at ShOkan, where only girls between the
ages OF twelve and sixteen years are entertained
In the afternoon crowd OF children left over the
Chambers street ferry for 9Iddletown, N Y, where
the churches Of 8fiddletown and Goshen support a
home. This is the fifth party that has been en-
tertained at 8IiddIetown this year This hoIne IS
a little different from some Of the others in that
children who particularly need a longer stay are
kept for more than the ordinary two weeks That
1t is popular place Is shown BY a girl Of six whO
has been there since the first part OF July The
other day she heard two persons talking about
going TO New York. She said:
I'm not going to New York Ike II here. ard
I'm going to stay always
After the conversation the caretake- went %
her and said:
well. Mary. there Is only four weeks more be-
fore you will have TO go home
The child burst into tears.
IT don't want TO go home 20 that old nursery
I want TO stay here
child at a nursery while she is away from home
1t was a pathetic little company that went % the
place yesterday. Two boys were badly crippled
One youngster had 1ust recovered from typhoid
fever. Several were afflicted with anenia as the
result Of lack OF nOurishment. One had spinal
trouble: another showed signs OF St VitUs's dance
and all by their pale little faces. showed the need
Of country air and good food one Et-le girl wa'
had scarcely been away from home before, tooS
the tourney quietly until she reached the endless
tide OF traffic on Broadway. There she looked u2 IN
surprise and said:
"Oh look at the May party"
a party OF twenty-five returned from Middle
town yesterday. The missionary who met them
said that every one OF them looked as though ke
had gained at least fEs pounds One little gil
was asked by the missionary how she enjoyed tA'
visit.
"Oh It was just grand" she replied Y feel tuss
as II I'd been to Heaven
The names OF those who invited ire Franklin
party follow: Mrs. John Bennett. Mrs William
Eaton. Mrs. Van VaIkenberg, Mrs G.. Eaton, MS.
Levi GfIIett. Mrs George Brace g.. Mrs CInoTd
Rider. s1rs. Charles ROveII Mrs. Homer Stoddard.
Mrs Emerson Smith. Mrs James Hodges, MIS-.
Hobart Bedrich and Mrs Bert Finch