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New-York tribune., 1907-01-03

nominated, self-perpetuating council of ten or
a dozen persons can control party's nominal
ing machinery in every civil division Of the
state, that party ceases to represent any re-
sponsibe opinion and becomes the plaything
Of the individual who finances It.
The move for party reorganization and pop
ular control within the Independence League is,
therefore, an evidence Of Intelligent discon-
tent"-a state of mind which Mr.. HearstS ad-
mlrers have credited him with fomenting on
large scale and with notable results. 1t is not
yet clear whether the Independence League has
come to stay will have as leeting an exist
ence as had the League for Municipal Owner
ship. 1t is now entitled to a column on the Off
cial ballot, and, though no proper record of its
vote in 1906 was kept in many counties, it is
clear that its strength greatly exceeded that of
all the other minor parties combined. If it is to
be reckoned with as a factor in politics here
after it should in the public interest be re0rgan
lied on legitimate lines, with a governing body
chosen by and responsible to the voters who
compose 1T. Why not have. an Independence
League in which independence is something
more than a mere catchword and ''glittering
generality?
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
ECONONY IN BIC WARSHLPS-

In a paper prepared for the United States
Naval Institute, Lieutenant Commander Sims
has presented the merits of the big battleShip
in what will be TO many persons a new light.
That officer is inspector of target practice for the
United States navy. and hence is well qualified
to speak such subject but no technical
knowledge is needed TO understand his reasoning,
Commander Sims accepts as automatic the
principle that the main battery Of IL ship which
is intended for heavy fighting should consist eX-
clusively of guns adapted 10 long range work.
He then argues that given amount Of service
can be secured more cheaply with fleet com
posed of DreaduOughts than with one made up
of vessels like the Maine and Missouri. which
have mixed batteries. The Drcaduought can
eight 12-inch guns for broadsde fire while
the Missouri can bring to bear only half as
many. Ten DreadnoughtS, which Commander
Sims believes could be built for SlO0O00OO0,
would consequently be n match for twenty Mis-
souris, the cost of which he estimates at between
$120,CD0,OO0 and Sl3O,OOOOOO. Ship for ship.
fewer men to handle the guns and fewer officers
are needed on Il Dreadnought than on Mis-
souri, or a Louisiana. Moreover, the smaller the
number of vessels in fleet the smaller the
requisite expenditure for repairs. Not only
would>the first cost of ten ships of the Dread
nought type be lower than that of twenty like
the Missouri, but the annual charge for their
maintenance NOulu he less. commander SIMS
puts the saving at S1OOO0OOO Il year If both
efficiency and economy can be promoted by the
same means. the question is settled.
Though Commander Sims seems to be i'm Synl-
pathy with the proposition TO build battlesliip
displacing twenty thousand tons it is not clear
that he would not be reconced TO anything
smaller. The essential requirement of the next
ships constructed for this country is gun power
and 1t can be met in more than one way There
has already been a remarkable demonstration of
the possibility of equalling the broadside fire
of the DreadnOught with a lighter vessel The
Dreadnought carries ten 12-inch guns only eight
of which can be used for broadside The Mich
igan and the South Carolina. now under con-
struction, are to carry only eight guns, but all
of them can be trained on either side. The dis
placement of those vessels will be the same as
that of the Louisiana-sixteen thousand TONS
and they will undoubtedly cost less than tie
Dreadnought. Unless some objection to imitat-
ing the Michigan which has not yet been pub
licly advanced should be offered, therefore fol-
lowing the precedent thus established might be
considered preferable to authorizing something
bigger than the Dreadnought'
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03

Cameron. Miss Root, Miss Cameron, Miss May
Miss Wallace. Miss Warder. Miss Hartman Miss
Mathilde Townsend: Mr.. Kroupcnsky, OF the Rus
sian Embassy; Mr. Lindsay. es the British En-
bassy; Count Lynar. OF the German Embassy;
Woodbury. Blair. Representative Butler Ames. Mr.
Radowitz, OF the German Embassy; yiscount de
ChamSrun, OF the French Embassy: Count Louis
Szechenyi. of the Austrian Embassy: Colonel Bid
die. Captain Bently Mott and Jerome Bonaparte
Chairman Shonts Of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission and Mrs. Shonts entertained a company OF
young people at dinner tonight their guests be-
ing Miss Switzerland. Miss Olga Conversa. Mis-.
Ridgely. Miss Enrol c. Brown, Miss Eva McAdoo
of New York; Miss lie Breton. Miss Benhan Miss
Marguerite Shonts. Miss Theodore shonts Arnold
shenkln. the American Consul to Panama. Mr.
Siebert, Mr. Owen, Beale Boomer Franklin FIIis
Lieutenant Muslin. Mr.. Howard. Chichester Kerr
Ensign lie Breton and Mr.. Mayer. OF PbIlads,,bIs
General and Mrs. Sanger and Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Barker were also dinner hosts Tonight
Mrs Marshall Field Is the guest OF Mr.. ror
Slater and is being much entertained.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
THE KEATs-SHELLEY MEMORIAL.
Further Efforts To Be Made in London
for the Benefit Of the Fund.

cable dispatch from Rome printed IN Tbs
Tribune last Monday announced that the commit
tee having the matter in charge had Just COM
pleted the purchase of the house in the Piazza al
Spagna, which is henCeforth TO he preserved rs =
memorial 10 Keats ana Shelley. It was noted then
however, that while the purchase price had been
subscribed. there stiu remained q mortgage OF
&eco. which the Keats-Shelley Association OF
course. desires to raise with the least possible de-
lay Much has already been done IN America IN
support of this enterprise. and more will presently
be accomplished Meanwhile IL is interesting tC
learn that stl further efforts in the interests or
the scheme are to be made in England. The PROS
pectus has just been received this city Of an e
niolt9n and concert which wiz be held In London
70 dSI IuS cement OF the memorial the afternoon
iiIe Ddhe ana Duchess OF Sutherland. Stafford
House, one OF the most imposing mansions in tle
English metropolis. will be thrown Open for t.e
occasion
The exhibition will consist of relics OF the two
poets, lent oy the Earl Of Crewe. Sir Chr Dixie.
Slr John Shelley. Mr. Buxton F0yIaau others.
Tne programme OF the concert will Ea = . m as
SheIIey; MI n Nalthew VIII conduct mis- setting
OF the ode to the Nightingale for barvtOue Oh rus
and orchestra, and Mr.. CNTil Scott viii present his
Setting OF La Belle Dame sans NIe~ci There
VII! he other COMPOSITIONS. il the rendering o.
which number Of well known musicians Will give
their services The AFFAIR has the support o. The
Princess Louise. the Italian and American Am
others.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. JANUARY 8 1907.

the centre Of the cotton crop was in Western
Mississippi, while now 1t is probably west Of
the Mississippi River. Texas raised third Of
last years crop. The making of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory into a state has been, says
"The Globe-Democrat," a great advertisement
for the whole empire of the Southwest
The Canadian Northwest is also entitled to
its boast. There are fuel famine and rail-
road congestion there, as there are south Of the
border The railroad building has not caught
up with the growing population. A correspond
ent of THE Toronto Globe writes:
The plain truth is that the expansion Of the
West has proceeded on a scale more huge than
even the most advanced optimist had expected,
and all arrangements have fallen short of the
there has been increase of 80 per cent, the
fifty thousand head of last year having been in
creased this year TO ninety thousand. The
growth of population has meant an enormous
increase in traffic in supplies and in the han
ding Of settlers effects. Considerably over
one hundred thousand people have come into
the province during the year from other lands,
and in addition many have moved from the
older sections of Manitoba to the still cheaper
land in the Western provinces.
Cities and towns have sprung up rapidly
and grown 50 fast that those having popula-
ton of more than one thousand each had a total
population in 1901 of SO, ,710 and they have now
cultural products is sending people in hundreds
of thousands to the fertile and only partly de-
velOped regions of the continent.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau-l


Washington. Jan. 2.-Speaker Cannon ana Heprs-
sentative Nicholas Longworth had long con'er-
ence with the President to-day. Nothing but per-
sonal stories and "reminiscences" exclaimed the
Speaker, after the talk; 1--WE just swapped side
bets on stories and talked"
Other callers :t the White House were Secrs-
tarfes Root, Taft and Hitchcock; Attorney General
Bonaparte Senators Fulton Depew and Piles; Rep
resentatives Gaines Brooks and Miller and Arnold
Shanklin, United States Consul General at Panama
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will give To-
morrow the annual reception 10 the Diplomatic
Corps the first of the formal card functions OF the
winter
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., the eldest son OF the
President and Mrs Roosevelt left Washington this
afternoon for Boston, after spending the holidays
at the White House. Kermit Roosevelt the second
son, left here at midnight tonight for Groton.
where he is student Each took with him the
party of friends who for the New Years
reception yesterday. Miss Landon. of New York,
who has spent the Christmas holidays with Miss
Ethel Roosevelt at the White House, returned to
her home this morning
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
Anousen1ents.

AcADEMY OF MUsTC-s-The Girl Of the Golden West.
Al.fAMIsFsA-2-S-Vau
aSroh-s:50-The Daughters Of Men.
,bEsd.As9O 9O-olb-The Rose O Rancho.
BIJOU-S:l5-The Dofbl@ Ptse
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Partisan Model
CASINO-2-S-The Bves Moon
COLONIAL
SIlIEIfloN-S:l5-rfgs Little Cherub
DaLf S-s:l5-Ihe Belle Of Mayfair -,
.EDEN NUSEE-The World IN Wax
4f-MPlRC-S-Peter pan
'SAt1lttN-S:i5-Tne Student King.
SAhttlCk-S:3G- n
51<ae n t-II-:2 IS 30-The Chorus Lady.
II1<a-saif@ffSI Ms NICTORIA-S: S:15-NaCdevle
l11t11t11J 80 <AfsES:i5-The Road Yesterday
1ol1fAoN NS-2-S-Neptune's Daughter ana Fioree
IAIpS0N-t: t:15-The Hypocrtes
1tfhAlNNJ , j1-ACE-S 20-Wie Man Fess5lt
H1A2,iSShE RBOCRER-S .15-The Red Mil
,I11lst5E5cfI -s:l5-The Girl Every thing.
3-2->sySJ @1NSJ ~ SQUARE-S:l5-Matda
= = ~ ~ -2:l5-s:l5Tfe Lion the Mouse
9asi [SON eQUAIRE-S:I5-The Three o
MA j2lSON SQUARE GARDEN-9 a. m. to 1880 D. m.-
-. Poultry Show
"a a ESTIc-2-S:I5 :I5-Brown Of Harvard.
= @ENHATTAN-s:15-Les Mfserables.
-kf5ADtlSSOEiN HALI--3-Piano Recital
EEM AAlSTERDk Ms: :15-Brewster's Millions.
EEM YORK -s:l5-D0ckstader's Mnstrels
PRINCESS -S:2J-The Great Divide
I SANO9-2:lb-S:l5-The Man Of the Hour.
81. NICHOLAS RINK-Ice skating.
Al1lsACfk' 'S--Sf15-The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer.
MEbEIS S-s-Dream City and The Magic Knight.
WEST END-S-Nellie. the Beautiful Cloak Model
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST

The Southwest vies with the Canadian North
west as region Of development. A quarter Of
the railroad trackage laid in the entire country
last year was laid in the Southwest Texas led
with 101 miles of new track, nearly an eighth
of the total for the country, and Texas now
leads all the states in the country in railway
mileage, Illinois having been the leading state
up to 1905. In Louisiana 391 miles were laid in
1906 The other Southwestern states and terri
tories made great gains. immigration thither is
extensive. B. +. Yoakum of the Rock Island
Railway, says that ten thousand immigrants to
the Southwest pass through st. Louis weekly
and other thousands enter by the way of Kan
sas City, Memphis and New Orleans He pre-
diets that the census of 1910 will show a
growth In ten years of 80 per cent in the rural
population OF Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas, and 100 per cent in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. These desirable immigrants
Americans, tillers of the soil from the older
states of the East and the Middle West, includ-
ing some even from the Northwest, who prefer
the attractions of the South to those across the
border in Canada. "Tbe st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat' calls attention to the fact that in 1900
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03

have witnessed a conflagration comparable with
that from which Baltimore suffered three years
ago.
The imposslbility of getting water from GER
tain mains on the upper West Side is not new
development. It is an old, old story The trou-
BILE has been attributed-no doubt correctly-to
the smallness of the pipes, some of which have
been in use for at least twenty years They might
have met all the demands likely to be made on
them when first laid but to-day they represent
as primitive a state of civilization as does the
old hand brake fire engine.
It is a noteworthy circumstance that the pres
ent Water Commissioner, Mr. O'Brien, was for
several years at the head of the Fire Depart
ment If he kept his eyes open previous to
his recent transfer to a new post he must have
become we'll acquainted with the existence OF
the evil He is now where he can do something
TO remedy il.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
NOBEL MEDAL RECEIVED.
President VIII Retain It-Pnze
Money Has Not Yet ArriUed.
LFrom The Tribune Bureau. ]

Washington, Jan. 2.-The President received
to-day the Nobel prize medal recently conferred
on him by the Norwegian Storthing. 1t was
transmitted by American Minister Peirce at
Christiania- With the medal is q diploma set
ting forth the award. inclosed IN q silk COW
cred box. The prize money. which is something
over $4,000. has not yet arrived
The prize medal is appropriately figured and
lettered and contains about $3.50 worth OF gold
on side is a raised face OF Herr Nobel. the
founder OF the prize. and the other repre-
sentation OF two men fighting and third inter
vening as peaCemaker. Around the outer edge
OF this side the words. PRO Pace ct Frater-
nitate Gentium"
The medal and diploma will be retained by the
President, while the prize itself Will be placed as
a nucleus for fund to promote peace between
capital and labor
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
UNJU STiFIASLE.
tor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l should like 20 see an expression Of opir:17
In your columns in regard - the paper read last
week by a member of the American Association
for the Advancement Of Science before its psyche
logical section. In II the speaker described IN
experiment upon rat 70 show his belief in It's
possessing sixth sense that OF direction. He al
lows the rat to become familiar with rather i~
tricate way, OF escape from box wherein he has
/: confined After making sure that IL can easily
lind its way to liberty. ne removes its eyes. its
gans of smell, freezes its feet thar sense OF
touch can come 70 its aid and finally covers its
head with collodion- The animal. in spite of all.
follows the windings of the path it has learned
and gains its liberty.
Perhaps mere layman cannot judge with fair
ness of the merits of ViViSecton, where those who
practise il rendering distinct aid in the pro-
longing of human life or reducing human suffering.
But can experiments which have higher aim
than those described above be termed anything but
the exercise of most wanJOn cruety2 III. L. l.
New York Jan. l, 1901
1.-THE practice of vivisection by competent and
conscientious persons with the object in view
which correspondent indicates is useful and
justiiabe. The experiment. which the foregoing
letter refers presumably caused suffering out or
all proportion to any pOssble advantage to be de-
rived from II and deserves to be condemned.-Ed-l
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.l


Washington jan Miss Boardman entertained
a dinner party of twenty tonight In honor OF the
Ambassador to Great Britain and Mrs Whltelaw
Reid. Following the dinner small reception.
Tomorrow Ambassador and Mrs. Reid will be
guests at breakfast with Senator and Mrs Elkins
Senator and Mrs. Lodge gave luncheon to-day
in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Attorney General and Mrs. Bona parte and Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Cowles were also guests
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend had guests at dinner
tonight Mrs. John r. Carter and Miss Carter wife
and daughter of the First Secretary of the Ameri-
can Embassy in London. who are staying for a
few days with Mrs. Don Cameron in this city. Mrs
Townsend's other guests the Minister from
the Netherlands and Mime. Van Swnderen Rep
resentative and Mrs. Longworth. Mr. and Mrs
Charles b. Alexander. of New York: Mr. and Mrs
Ward Thoron Mrs. George Cabot Lodge. Mrs. Don
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
THE CABINET.
fFron The Tribune Bureau. I

tFrom The Tribune Rureau.l
Washington. Jan. Mrs. Root opened the house
of the Secretary of State this afternoon for her first
official reception of the season. She was uuas-
sisted.
Secretary and Mrs Taft gave a dinner tonight
entertaining the Austrian Ambas sador, Senator
Kean, Miss Kean, Mr. and Mrs. William COrcoran
Eustis, Mr.. and Mrs. Reyburn, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Laushlin of Pitts5urg; Miss
Heron of Cincinnati; Mrs Archibald Murray, of
New York; Mrs. Nicholas Fish. Miss Patten, Cap
tain Mccoy, Senator Warren and Mr.. Burton This
afternoon Mrs. Taft observed her first Wednesday
"at home" of the season.
Mrs Metcalf, wife of the Secretary of the Navy
was at home to official society this afternoon AS
ssting her were Mrs. Barker, wife Of Rear Ad-
miral Barker, and Mrs. Switzerland
Attorney General and Mrs. Bonaparte have as
house guests Mrs. Mnton Warren and Miss War
rem. of Boston, who will remain here for a week
President and Mrs Roosevelt will be the guests of
Attorney General and Mrs. Bonaparte at dinner
January 2.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
NEW CONSPIRACY UNEARTHED.

And now renort has il that the navy is 10
have a laureate. Thus progressive adlish
istration has exposed itself once more 10 the
fierce attacks of conservative critics VINO WISH
TO confine poetry and fun to private Ire II
is easy however TO see III thlS innovation lhc
opening wedge of n secret but long plahueu
policy of imperialistic concentration of power
in the hands of the federal government-eaSy,
at least. if YOU merely insist on seeing it. Pre-
Sumably the ulteror purpose of our machlnat
ing President Is to form link of personal
sentiment between himself and every govern
ment empoye. The naval laureate has doupt-
less been instructed to sing the strenuous IRE
in every known metre, leaving all inferenceS
to the highly trained imaginatiOns of the men
in the forecastle. Ever and anon when lnu-
tiny threatens or weather is brewing, the Iau-
reate will wax complimentary and prove III
hexareter the undyng glory that his listen
ers are earning by hOlystoningN the deck by
thus acting as local spokesman for the admin
istration the official versifier will manage to
train his cohorts to stand pat even on
swaying. slippery deck.
As soon as this experiment proves success
full the baleful system will be subtly extended.
The army will be the next victim; ungratetul
Filipinos will be hyImotized ny AmeNcanlZed
versions Of "Mandalay" and Danny Deeyer,
and the rebellious Californians cowcd into sub
mission Civil disorders once alayed by Lau-
reate No . the bonds will tighten. The De
partment of the Interior will be pOetized Lau-
reate No. writing sonnetS on The Inner
Life and always being present and responsive
when the spirits move-tO and from the bonded
warehouses. The Agricultural Department will
then fall an easy victim; Laureate No. 4 will
win the farmer votes for the designing Execu-
tive by writing sonnc:s on Mature" and re-
quirng that these be affixed 10 every package
Of free seeds. every bottle of patent medicine
anl every box of breakfaSt food. according TO
the provisions of a revised Pure Food law.
The Treasury Department will he forced to
issue advertising limericks on the diverse of
All coins and grecnbacks-but let us draw the
veil II would he ptiful, indeed. to see on
the back of gold piece, Gold moves in n
mysterious way. it's wonders 10 perform" 1t
would make us painfully conscious OF unpaid
bills
Tragcally enough The public will not take
this danger seriously until II is too late to
reform The masses will see in this latest de
parture only a political scheme for forcing
reformed spelling upon the people through the
medium OF official poetry. So we must sim
ply await the catastrophe of empire with the
calmness of men who know the track of the
coming storm, but know not how 10 shun it.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
rgDEPENDEYCE-WITH A STRING TO IT.,

"when is On Independence League not an
Independence Lacquer" was one of the popular
conundrums of the Hughes-H Hearst canvass.
The answer was easy; for when the bylaws
of the new party Of protest and emancipation
were studied it was found to be framed on
the abhorrent and despotic model of the trusts
which IT was Justify promising to put out Of
business. Shouting "Sic Semper tyranniS r' the
Independence League was really engaged in
laying the foundations Of as odious q system
Of tyranny as has ever been practised in Amer
tcan politics. Through the device OF incorpora-
tton, for which it professed virtuous Ioathing,
the league was made a political autocracy ten
times more self-centred and absolute than Tam
many Hall. Its executive committee was in
vested with all initiative and all power, and
an organization which pretended to war on
bossism was converted into the plant instru-
ment Of one mans WILL The courts them
selves, when appealed to. upheld the validity
Of this remarkable "blind poor' in politics.
In the heat and stress OF the campaign the
dictatorship thus set up was only feebly chal-
lenged- The leaguers held together out of
much the same motives that prompted the sign
ers OF the Declaration, who, as Franklin said,
knew that If they did not hang together they
would hang separately. But now that the few
spoils of the campaign have been .parceIled out
the unrecognfzed shareholders In the Hearst
Ihmsen trust are beginning to ask why they
should be excluded forever from representa-.
ton around its council board. They want
to see the anti-Inonopoly theory practised as
Wen as preached and the Hearst. Ihmsen hold
ing corporation dissolved on the ground that If
Is monopohsuc and In restraint Of the Ameri-
can voters time honored rights and privileges.
In democracy political organizations should
be democratic, not autocratic; they should re-
hect the wishes and purposes of the rank and
nie OF their membership. Even in Tammanv
Han power rests ultimately with the voters.
Tor Ia each Assembly district the leader must
submit his record and title each year TO the
scrutiny Of the faithful. Sometimes the ver-
dicts at the primaries are set aside by tbe
hierarchy above, but the theory of party gov
eminent is at least ostensibIy democratic. The
theory OF Incorporation. on the other hand de-
fes all our accepted ideas and makes mock
cry of popular rule. When a central. self
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
INADEQUATE WATERMAINS.

The condition of things revealed by the fire in
63d street on Wednesday morning was more than
unfortunate It was disgrace TO the largest
city Of the western world. Owing to lack Of
water, an outbreak which might otherwise have
been suppressed with little effort and after only
q trifing amount of damage had been inflicted
attained alarming proportions. The loss of
property was twentyfold greater than it ought
to have been, and hundreds Of lives-ihcluding
those Of the firemen, than whom no braver men
exist-were needlessly imperllled. But for
the cooperation of a fireboat on the Hudson and
the absence Of high wind. New York might