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New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
EELLpLNO ALLEGLANCE.

Some highly interesting suggestions concern
inc the loyalty of the Flllpinos TO the American
government were made at the Lake Mohonk
conference on Thursday by Mr.. Vincente Albert
a native Of the Philippines and presumably a
representative Of intelligent popular sentiment In
those islands Referring To the preence which is
made bv some persons that Filipino acceptance
of office under the American administration does
not necessarily imply an end of disloyalty and op-
position 10 that administration, he very directly
opposed that view. The Radicals" he said,
have become the conservative and faithful sup
"porters of the American government when TAX
ling Office Hereunder, as in the case Of provn-
"cial governors adding the pregnant reminder
that before assuming office the delegate must
take an oath of loyalty to the established gov
''ernment''-to wit. of course, the American gov
ernment. The inevitable conclusion IS, there
fore, that Filiplnos who have accepted Office
under the existing government, whether as pro-
vincial governors, as delegates to the Assembly
or in any other capacity, have solemnly sworn
allegiance TO that government and cannot with
out forswearng themselves be dsloyal to it,
We assume, as Mr. Albert does that they are
sincere in so doing. If they are, they will re-
main loyal to America and, far as future
changes in nsular affairs are concerned, be- as
Mr. Albert pithily says, evOlutiOniSts rather
than reyolutiOnists. If they should not do so,
If after accepting American rule and swearing
allegiance thereto they should enter into dis
loyal plottings. their duplicity and treason would
brand them more strongly than almost anything
else could do as unfit for the high responsibilities
Of sovereignty. That any considerable number
Of them will thus condemn themselves we do
not believe On the contrary, we confidently
accept the estimate and forecast of their spoles-
man whom we have already quoted, that they
have signifed their willingness to cooperate
with the American authorities in the islands for
the promotion Of the islands welfare, that the
great majority OF the Filipino Radicals who
dominate the Assembly are sane and intelligent
in their radcalism, and that they have now as
sumed the attitude which almost Unfailingly is
taken by an opposition in any country upon COM
ing into power and being confronted with grave
national problems and responsibilities.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
THE RFCOTERT.

The banking troubles which have disturbed
credit in this city have had the good effect OF
demonstrating that our local banking lnsulu-
tOns as a whole are solvent and are managed
with due conservatism. There had been some
speculative exploitation of banking funds ana
some OyereXtensiOn of lOaning power on the
part of mushroom institutions But the knife
applied in time to this malignant growth
and though the first shock was violent the after
effects are already beginning TO he recognized
as purifying and wholesome. Abuses have been
exposed and are in process of being remedied,
and confidence will soon be firmer than ever
because the solidity of the banking fabric mas
been so thoroughly tested.
The Tribune maintained from the beginning
that there was never any cause for real panic
We said that the disturbance was purely local
in character and must therefore he temporary.
Our prediction has been strklngly verified by
the general tranquility observable in business
and banking circles outside this city. The rest
of the country was not greatly disturbed, be-
cause everywhere there is abOunding prosperity
and no conditions exist which can compel "a
serious movement toward liquidation.
In 1893 there was an even more violent str1n-
gency in New York, but that stTingency eX-
tended also throughout the length and breadth
of the country 1t was due II contraction in
business, depression in agriculture, an accu-
mutation of debts by the farmers and other
producers and the unsettled condition of our
national finances. The Treasury was buying
deDreciating silver and issuing certificates
against il and had no adequate stock of gold
10 insure parity between the various forms or
federal currency. Confidence was Overstraned
and iouidation was dire and unavoidable
necessity.
Contrast that situation with the situation OF
last week, Since 1893 the United States has
enjoyed a period of prosperity prolonged De-
vond precedent Hundreds of millions OF
wealth have been created. The farmers have
lifted their mortgages and hundreds Of new
slb-cpntres of capital have been developed
The Middle West and the Far West have III
q measure cut loose from dependency on the
East and Western money now comes East III
liberal quantities for investment The West
using its own. not borrowed, capital. has
largely eSchewed wildcat finance and its credit
is not 70 he shaken by the discovery that some
New Workers have taken up discarded West
ern fashions in promoting and stock kiting. II
is \ curious reversal Of roles when the rest
Of the country has to regard New York as the
botbed of dangerous financial schemes and the
weakest spot in the nations system of eX-
change and credit. We are sure that the mis-
takes made here can be rectfed and will be
rectiied In spite of questionable practices on
the part Of certain reckless and unruStWorthy
operators, the banking institutions IN thls cry
are still eminently sound and entitled To con-
fdence. They are all the more sound because
the country at large IS relatively unburdened
by debt. productivity active, contented, con-
fident and exceptionally prosperous.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
About People and SOcfoI lncfdents
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rF-,n The Try,,u,e Rureau. 7

IF-on Tribune Bureau.1
Washington. Oct. 26.-The President to-day issued
his annual Thanksgiving proclamation declaring
Thursday, November 2S. a national holiday
Much OF the Presidents time was taken up oS
delegations and individuals from Oklahoma VINO
came TO approve or protest against the new consul
tuition TO push candidates for the federal judge
ships in the new state. Among the protestants was
a large delegation of negroes. headed by w. l.
Vernon Register OF the Treasury. who OBJECT 10
the instrument on the ground that 1t disfrancnises
negroes.
Secretary Metcalf OF the Navy Department ana
Admirals Evans and Brownson had a conference
with President regarding the trip OF the oattie
ship fleet to the Pacific.
President Roosevelt will be forty-nine years OLD
Tomorrow and nearly all his callers to-day con-
graduated him on his splendid health on the eve
of his annual milestone. He received large NUM-
Der of Fluctuations from absent friends and ad-
mrers who communicated with him by letter.
telegraph telephone
Callers at the White House to-day included Sec
retaries Straus and Garfield, Assistant Secretary
Bacon Senators Flint. Long. Warner. Dixon and
Curtis, Representatives Dalzell and Kennedy, Del
egate Andrews, Newell Saunders. Republican state
Committeeman for Tennessee. and the members
of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons.
who are finishing their annual session in WASH
ington.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt is suffering from a slight
throat trouble and has been every day to the
Episcopal Eye Ear and Throat Hospital for treat
Inent. Mrs. Roosevelt is greatly interested in this
institution. Miss Roosevelt is not inconvenienced
any great extent by the trouble. and is able TO
attend TO her studies.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
WATERWAY UTILIZATION.

PreparatiOnsNfo for various waterway improve
ment conferences in the immediate future indi-
cate that the movement for the greater utillza-
tiOn of inland waterways which has long been
commended and urged in these columns is now
making progress at a steadily increasing rate Of
speed. The President has recently spoken on
the subject with characteristic energy, and some
of the foremost railroad managers in the coun-
try have agreeaby reversed their traditional
policy by declaring strongly In favor of river
and canal transportation The National Rivers
and HarborS Congress- always active in the mat
ter, will hold convention mt Washington early
In December. largely TO urge the yearly making
of regular and ample appropriations by the fed
eral government for systematic waterway i'm
prOvement Also representatives of the Atlantic
Coast states will meet at Philadelphia next
month TO promote the plan of an inland coast
waterway from Boston to Beaufort, plan
which has hitherto been explained and advO-
Gated by The Tribune
Another significant and promising development
toward the same general end is reported from
Cincinnati, where river steamboat men are form
ing national organization, which is to meet at
Washington early in December, the chief object
being TO have river and canal navigation legally
differentiated from coast, lake and Gulf naviga-
tion. and 10 have II placed under the super
vision and control Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. This latter proposition, whether it
be approved or not, is obviously worthy of seri-
Gus consideration. The bulk of river commerce
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

is interstate in its scope and is quite different IN
its conditions and requirements from that In the
Great Lakes and the Gulf. 1t is, of course, even
now of sufficient magnitude to deserve separate
consideration on its own merits, and If 1t were
demonstrated that its interests would be ad-
vanced thereby, the proposed change in fts status
would be strongly commended TO practical men
There is probably no other country in the
world so we'll provided by nature with navigable
waters as this, or with waters easily susceptible
of being made navigabe, and also with facilities
for the construction of artificial waterways of
great utility. The part which navigation OF the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers played in our early
history, both in political and territorial expan-
sion and in social, industrial and commercial
growth and that which the Hudson River and
the Erie and other canals have played in making
New York the unapprOachablA metropolis of the
Western Hemisphere, should be convincing re-
minders Of the desirability of maintaining and
enlarging upon those systems which have hith-
erto been so benefcent, which the example OF
other lands proves 10 be as useful and as prof
liable now as they ever were, and of which the
urgent need is keenly felt at the present time
throughout our entire land
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy telegraph 70 The Tribune

IBy Telegraph 20 The Tribunal
Newport. r. l., Oct. 26.-Miss Gladys Vandsrbfs
and Count Szechenyt have been so popular IN New
port since they arrived more than q month ago.
that their absence now for couple OF days IS
greatly felt by the other summer residents. Their
absence from Newport tonight robbed the late
season of a possible large social entertainment
This is the first Saturday night that has gone by
without sort OF social activity since the sss-
son opened
Miss Annie Leary. who has been arranging FOR
extensive improvements TO be made TO Park Gate.
her villa. before the beginning OF another season.
has returned to New York
Colonel c. 1. F. Robinson returned from New
York to-day.
Eserton l. Winthrop closed his season yesterday
and went 10 New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Wilson ended their season to-
day and also returned 10 New York II was neces-
sary for Mrs. Wilson. who IS an invalid. TO hsvs
private car.
Miss Blanche OeIrichs. who had been the guest -
her sister. Mrs Peter D. Martin. has returned "a
New York.
Miss Alice Grosvenor has gone 20 New YORK. 70
attend wedding ceremony.
Miss Pauline French has returned from Tuxedo
and is again with her mother. Mrs. Amos Tuck
French.
Mrs. Eugene Schiefelin closed her cottage to-day
and returned 20 New York for the winter.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.


Washington. Oct. 26-Sehor Don Epifanio Por-
tela, Minister from the Argentine Republic to this
country and Mexico, has returned 10 Washington
from the latter country. where he went official
business n few weeks ago. Sonora POrtelo
awaited her husband at the legation. having re-
turned here from n summer resort just before the
minister's departure for Mexico.
Lady Isabella Howard wife OF the counsellor OF
the British Embassy. will join her husband here
on Monday for the winter season. Mr. Howard
to Washington to-day. The second secre-
tary and Mrs. Young will also be in Washington
on Monday.
at tho Austro-Hungarian Embassy here the latter
having been promoted 10 post at the embassy IN
Constantnople. He will leave Washington the last
OF November The time OF the arrival OF Baron
Hye is not known.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
"AMERICAN SUNDAYS" ABROAD.

New Jersey Democrats who are denouncng
Republicans because they are Americans and
are clamorinS for the abolition of the "Amer-
lean Sunday and for the opening of liquor
saloons that day after the "liberal foreign
fashion would do well to acquaint themselves
with what is going abroad in those lands
whose customs they profess to prefer so greatly
to those of America
1t was only a few months ago that the
French Republic adopted and enforced what
and is practically a strict Sunday law,
compelling cessation of work and closing Of
places of business on that day. Now Spain
is following the example in noteworthy man.
ner, by ordering that all wine shops and other
drinking places shall be closed on Sunday.
Manifestations of n disposition to do likewise
are apparent in other European countries.
With the liberal" foreign countries adopting
the American Sunday" it would seem TO be
somewhat inoppOrtune for a political party in
an American state to make campaign for
wide open" Sunday, or even for the 'sde
door" Sunday. which that partys candidate for
Governor is reasonably assumed TO favor.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
PRAISE FOR THE UTILITIES BOARDS

William E. Curtis. in Chicago Record Herald
/ have talked with several railroad managers and
other officials here concerning the operations of the
new public service law of the State of New York
and they all to he satisfied with the personnel
of the two commissions Qor greater New York and
for the rest of the state), and hopeful practical
and satisfactory results from it's application. The
law has been in effect only a few months-since
July land there have been tests of it's pro-
visions. The commission for greater New York
has been engaged almost entirely in investiga-
tion of the affairs of the street railway lines and
the commission for the rest of the state has been
quietly at work securing information which will
guide 1t in the performance of it's duties. The per-
sOnnel of the upstate commission is entirely salts
factory to everybody concerned.
w. c. Brown. senior vice-president OF the New
York Central Railroad. who is Iowa man and
was educated the Burlington road. commends
the commission individually and collectively and
saws that its members have taken hold OF their
work in a manner that indicates knowledge. in
telligence and disposition TO be impartial and
lust to oil concerned.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
ACADEMIC HOME RULE.

There seems to be on foot among college facul-
ties Il conspiracy to strip undergraduate life of
all its ornaments and distinguishing pleasures.
Football is being suppressed, casSwork stiff
ened entrance examinations made so difficult
that successful students have to spend their
whole freshman year recovering from the shock,
hazing discredited and other prosaic indignlties
inflicted in such a matter of fact way that the
luckIess student knows only by contemplating
his sweater and his books that he is not out In
the hard and cruel world Of business and con-
ventonallty AS If all these were not enough 10
make him wonder whether college is worth
while, the University Of Michigan faculty ap-
pears with an innovation threatening 10 take
the zest out Of that dearest Of all traditional
pleasures, the Town and Gown war. The Ger
man system of a student council is 10 be adopted
at Ann Arbor, we hear. Students who cut ca
pers TO the offence OF their neighbors Will no
longer be bundled into loathsome dungeon In
the town lookup and hailed next morning before
the magistrate, but conducted by the chief OF
police to a room on the quiet campus, where sum
dry solemn professors sit in Judgment. Instead
of a long and sleepless night made hideous 10y
the songs and jests OF fellow sinners in nearby
cells there Will be few brief minutes Of calm
cross examination at the hands OF a most unex-
citing professor IN Greek And the oldtme
fine with freedom will be succeeded by inexpen-
sive but most inglorous suspension or expulsion
from college.
Such is the Home Rule Of Dsorderles about
to be forced upon young gentlemen who have
always been perfectly content 10 be arrested,
jailed and tried by rank outsiders. Under the
mask Of justice and autonomy the student coun-
ell most henousy stiles the deepest motives
that drive young gentlemen Of high breeding to
steal signs, unhinge window shutters, ovcrturn
hOrsecars, build bOnfires on some villagers front
steps and pour strange melodies into the I'M
willing ear OF Night. What pleasure will re-
main IN these misdeeds after their natural con
sequences have been prevented? Why riot when
no jail door yawns? Why plunder Phillstines
when only pedagogues will punish? If other
institutions follow the example of the Unlyer-
sity of Michigan American college life will lose
its last trace Of vivid local color" and take on
the pallid hue Of the molycoddle.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

While the financial crisis OF last week has neces-
snrily led 20 the modification of the plans OF many
of the fashionable set. owing 10 the impossibiity
| of the mems leaving town, II cannot be said to
| have seriously affected the normal course OF New
| York society. True, the long distance drive Of
the New York Coaching Club. scheduled for yester-
day was abandoned Mt the last moment. and the
| arrangements which C. Ledyard Blair had made
for the hospitable entertainment of his fellow men,
bers of the club to-day at Blairsden his country
place Peapack N. J., have been cancelled. But
Tuxedo IS gay. Every vacant room at the club has
been taken for the week end. while all villas
and cottages are the OF merry house parties
which. beginning on last Friday. In good time for
the Halloween ball at the club on that evening will
last over until tomorrow. At Belmont Park yes
terday there was comparatively small but fash
fonabe gathering to witness the seeplechase meet
ing organized by the United Hunts Racing Associa-
tion and IL characterized by a more than or
dinary lvelness and cheerness on the part OF those
present. due possibly TO a reaction from the tense
anxiety of the last week.
Tfas Is the last week OF the coaching sAsso, q,
so far Alfred @. Vanderblts enterprise In con-
nection with the daily of his coach Venture be-
tween the Holland House and the Ardsley Casino Is
concerned. On Saturday the final trip will be uade
and the coach will go out OF commission while a
week later the fifty sixty horses purchased in
August by Alfred Vanderbilt for the season and
which have been furnishing the various RELAYS on
the road between here and Ardsley. will be sold at
auction.
Then. tomorrow week the opera season will
open. at the Manhattan. with la Giaconda" with
Nine Nordica and Nine. GervtIe- Reache In the
cast the latter making her first appearance I'm
America Many well known names figures among
the SUBSCRIBERS TO boxes for the season at the
Manhattan They include those OF Mrs. Clarence
Mackay. Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Mrs William
T. Bull, Mrs Edwin III. Weatherbee f. c. Bourne
Mrs. E. r. Thomas Daniel G. Reid and w n pick
son. The opera, like the theatres. will have the eff
feet OF keeping people in town during the greater
part OF the week. but will not prevent them from
going out TO their country seats and to suburban
resorts. such Tuxedo. Ardsley. Lakewood etc
over Saturday and Sunday.
The country house season is now M ira ba,.h.
hunting is in full swing I'm the Meadow Brook dis
triet. and the well attended while vveelz
END parties are the order of the day Almost every
evening this or that country seat is the scene of
some entertainment. and Friday evening next
Mrs Clarence Mackay gives large dinner for the
duchess OF MARLBOROUGH at Harbor HILL her place
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
ROYAL WOMEN AS NUNS.
From The Dundee Advertiser

From The Dundee Advertiser.
Thirty nuns and large number of scholars, who
have been expelled from France have just arrived
in England and have taken up their abode at Oak
lands, near Chudleigh, in Devon, a small estate
which has been purchased for them. They formed
part of the Sisterhood of Orsolne and were at
tached TO convent at CarhaiX. which sheltered
fifty sisters and four hundred scholars. They wee
driven out at the point OF the bayonet after hav-
ing been treated with great cruelty their furnt-
ture being seized. No doubt they will prosper in
England in the same way that the Benedictina
Ventnor have done They arrived there
from Belgium Just twenty five years ago. and now
have large grounds, their farm and n very fine
chapel Princess Clara of Bavaria has recently
joined these Benedictines. another member of an
old reignng house who the veil in this coun-
try being the widow OF Dom Miguel. at one time
King of Portugal.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

WI ch It desires to conquer and seize-though
we trust it has higher motives and restraints.
It will not have again to 90 TO war 10 rid
itself of menaces and nuisances, for it has now
rid itself of all of them that are ever likely
TO be of Importance. SO, for reasons of sent-
ment or of business for high motives or sordd
ones every nation Of which we have knowledge
desires continuance of peace. Even that fact
may not be an infallib!e guarantee of peace
brt it must make very strongly toward that
end
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.
IRy TeIegraph 10 The Tribune.I

BY Telegraph TO The TrtbUne.l
Tuxedo Park n. V. Oct. 26-Delightful autunrs
weather. combined with a series OF social attrac-
tions. kept nearly all of those who out to
Tuxedo for the ball last night over Sunday. Houss
parties and dinners were everywhere In vogue and
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander save dance at her cot
tage which attended by nearly all OF the cot
tagers and their guests. Previous 10 the dance
Mrs. Alexander gave a dinner at her villa
Mr.. and Mrs t. wyman Porter were host and
hostess to a large party at the club. Covers were
laid for fifty persons.
Mr., and Mrs w s Brown and Mrs Alfred O
Vanderbilt also entertained large parties at ths
clubhouse.
Among those who had house parties during tbs
week end were Mr.. and Mrs. P. Lcrillard Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry S. Redmond. Mr.. and Mrs. N Thayer
Robb. Mrs. Charles Coster. Mr.. and Mrs Arthur p
Lord Mr.. and Mrs. F. A Ingalls, and Mr.. and Mrs
w. M. v. Hoffman.
Miss Frances Dickey is spending the week end
with DIR. and Mrs. George William Douglas at their
villa A dinner given by DIR. and Mrs Doug
las at the club last night.
Miss May Gurnee has arrived from Bar Haroor
and is with Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Gurnee az the Kens
Cottage for the autumn.
MIR. and Mrs. George T. Wilson OF New York.
arrived at the club in their automobile and enter
tained a party at luncheon. Among the guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Vanderhoef. Mr. and Mrs Wilt
lam DemaTest and Mr., and Mrs. w. ]. Underwood
Other automobile parties those OF A T.
Gallatin. Mrs. Herman Kidder. Reginald Lanier and
Orson Mum.
Mrs Newbold Edgar has returned from abroad
and is staying at her villa Other late arrivals to-
day were Mr.. and Mrs. w r. Beltz Mr. and Mrs
w. s. Brown. Miss X Emmett Emmett Harris. y.
H. Alexander. jr. Mrs Henry S. Burnett Edward
Burnett. W. r. Stewart. Mrs. f. Wright Mr. and
Mrs. s s. ossood Peii and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wae
New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

Southern Italy will never be able to avert
the severe earthquakes with which it is visited
every few years. but the consequences might be
rendered less unfortunate syere change made
In the design OF dwelling houses there. In
Japan a type of cottage has been devised which
is elastic enough to withstand shocks that would
ruin masonry. AS yet only limited use has
been made OF It there. but its merits seem to
be sufficient to commend 1t to favor elsewhere.