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Another Candidate on the Road.

The Hon. CHARLES WARREN FAIR
BANKS will make a speech in Sacramento
September 2, and may be induced to
delight other listening thousands on the
way. Is it the Taft progress that has
stirred him up again? Only last March
the laurels Of Mr.. TAFT rustled so loudly
that Mr.. FAIRBANKS rushed to Chicago
and made four speeches and an address
in one day and night. He was in Cali
fornia in February. Last fall he had
good houses on the Western circuit, and
he has been in free circulation much Of
this year.
Presumably Mr.. FAIRBANKS will not
make political speeches. He will confine
himself to the brilliant and imprisoned
originalities with which he has witched so
many audiences. Caste is un-American.
knowledge is power. A safe candidate
cannot be too safe; and, thrown like
thunderbolts from those awful heights,
these treasures Of the copybook are truly
impressive.
Should Mr.. FAIRBANKS venture into
the unstable world Of politics he would
have to be an absolute and convinced
Theodorist, we suppose. Nonconformity
is not permitted. Yet surely he differs
with the leading zoologist on the subject
OF woody horses.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
BLUNDEKBUSs AND RANrER.
a sporting AnecdOte for the Bencnt or Inc
Acknowledgement.


TO JHE EDITOR or TuH SuN-Sty. M
Bonsparte 10 something Of a sportsman and no
illustrates his position In these words:
There IN a big convey OF game and n would he .
very poor marksman indeed who could not lana
enough 10 make q nnc mess. In other words. there
are enough men ~ the head Of big CORPORATIONS
which the department can deal Win Ia II. pSoss
cutions.
This reminds me NJ a sporting incident that
occurred a good many years ago In MIR. Bona
parties own state. Duck shooting AT Jamaica
Point was fine, and Colonel W. X. Hughlett the
master OF Jamaica Point. was an accomplished
host. The shooting, the entertainment and the
company we're always OF the hest. One DeceIn-
Der morning Alexander Robinson. Tom Wills.
John Baggs, the Hughlett boys and myself
made up n hunting party. Among tho guns
was a blundcrbuss unusually large. In the
boathouse was q punt remarkably small. Just
big enough to carry one man and a gun II tho
man was careful.
On this cold Monday morning while the rect
OF the Nimrods were still in bed Alexander
Robinson bcstirred himself for game. We'll
stocked with ammunition. he put the blunder-
buss In the punt and padded noiselesslv
toward the blind. Soon he was in the midst
Of q flock OF ducks covering acres and acres.
As Mr.. Bonsparte says: There was such a
covey Of game that IL would be a poor marks
man who could not land enough to make a
fine mess Alexander Robinson was not a
poor marksman. but a couple OF hours after
his departure he returned. wet and cold. with.
out having fred a shot. Here In his story
as told ut the breakfast table over broiled
partridge and duck. hot coffee and Maryland
biscuit:
never saw such q flock OF ducks. and the girls
had walked down TO the point to see the slaughter.
I lay In the punt and let her drift. Colonel Hughiett
had told us not TO shoot the blunderbuss except
,---.A-s.- sa. -.,.s k-oauas shA ElrE nf .k~ -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

any pilotage whatever from the estab-
lished regulations, has done a sum in the
bookkeeping Of water works, pointing
out that a loan not to exceed SIS 900 in
stead Of $780, 900 would meet require
ments this year, and perhaps hereafter
no loans will be needed.
After rolling the citrus morsel for n
moment thoughtfully on his sleepless
tongue, the young Magistrate broke out
in the appended joyful i~ridescences;
feel that In advocating q loan Of s75.o 900 the
commission has indicated my course in recon-
mendlnG any loan at all for water mains"
Afine line Of pipes. The Finance Com
mission will mex request indefinite post
ponement OF a few selected issues OF
bonds authorized in the general loan bill
Of 1907, including the enlargement OF
cemeteries by purchase of adjoining land
now prophetically held. The Mayor,
skilfully ~concealing any deglutitious
agony, will gloat over his "vindication"
as to the loans that are left. "The
Finance Commission, he can boast, has
not advised me to upset loans author
lied Tor current expenses. Therefore IL
indorses my twin policies Of borrow az
you go and extinguish the debt by in
creasing it,"
What il the commission, which had
not yet been appointed when the 1907
budget OF appropriations was made up,
shall suggest next year in its modest way
that some regular annual charges be
transferred from the loan bill to the tax
levy? The Mayor has but to paraphrase
the philosophical remarks Of the preacher
astronomer Of Syracuse: @You cannot
defeat " Unitarians in argument. IL
you show us where We are wrong, who
so glad as we?" The Lord Mayor created
the commission. It's very rebukes are
his highest vindication. The more un-
expected they are the better he In pleased.
You can see it in his face, IL you don't
look too quickly.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
Anarchy Enthr0ncd

To THE Enron or TIM SuN-,Sir: A
sood MANY newsnapers headed their re-
mort of tho provipcetown specch with the
canton Roosevelt Bids Defiance to Wall
s~treet." This was n plaring understate-
ment Of President Rooseyelt's courage.
He attacked something vastly more for
midab,e than Wall Street. He babe def
ance not TO a law or some laws, hut to the
Law. He laid his axe at the root Of civil
ized society as if il. were of no more inn
por1ance than the accepted system Of spell
inp. In unmistakabIe language our Chief
Magistrate preacbed anarchy,
There IS unfortunately q certain number Of our
willow citizens who seem TO accept the view that
unless a man can be proved guilty Of some par
SECULAR cr'm' nc snail he accounted a good ehiEen.
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Afraid of being misunderstood, Presi-
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nal proceeding against some rich trust mssns,e.
many OF whose actions are severely to be con
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
LOUD FERRYBOAT WRESTLING.
Suggestions for Abating what Has Become
q Nuisance 60 west ssreee Omces.

To THE EDIroR OF TEE SuN-Sir: Re-
Gently the West Street Building was ready for
~cupan and was soon filed 10 the roof
with earnest business people. . large part Of
whose time IL taken up with stenogrsphic
dictation. In this as well a. In other adjoin-
ing buildings on West street al dictation. and
even ordinary conversation. has simply got
to cease the moment one OF the neighhJring
~ferryboats leaves her alp, hec departure be-
ing In every Instance a~nnouncet by the ususl
ear piercing whistle.
OF course II goes without saying that pro-
vision must be made for the fern boats lssN-
ing their slips with due warning 90 peshne
craft, but why should the Warmly b.. ~
abominsbly loud as to suggest the signal
ling OF steamers coming up hi Narrows.
Of the pier to do the whistle blowing or other
tend the pilot houses high enough for the
piers; fre% yhich vantage he could control
But better than all other plans, and in con
junction with the foregoing, Why not have
two whistles, q large and q sma1f The writer
suggested this q number OF years ago when
designing locomotives In the West. and now
comes the Erie and does this very thing on
it's Greenwood Lake branch. and with so much
success that the large whistles are not used
once in 800 times OF whistllng.
70 correct this abuse the writer has tried
Washington and Whitehall street with no
more result than IL he had written TO the man
In the moon. j. A. caldwell.
NEW YORK. August ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

In refusing to submit to further inter-
views Mr.. JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER abandons
a design. made In a moment Of weakness.
to prove hat he was a common mortal with
wants and feelings like the rest Of us. In
reading reports OF what he intended to say
for publication he may have had some
p~rovocation for withdrawing his q from
public curiosity. but the Humorists Asso-
citation. which persuaded him to be human
for q season, did not labor with him in vain:
there vas humor and grim pathos in the
spectacle OF Mr.. RocgEFELLER trying to
live down prejudice and convince people
that he was their benefactor and griev-
ously misunderstood. Moreover. he would
not have been photographed so promisou-
ously. or been known for a keen golfer, il
he had remained in his prison shell.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
The Ferment Spreading In Morocco.

The Ferment Spreading I'm Morocco.
The evidence accumulates that half
way measures will not suffice to suppress
the outburst Of fanstical fury in Mo-
rocco, and that nothing short of the cap
ture and temporary occupation OF Fee,
II not also Of the southern capital, wherein
MULAI HAFIG, a brother Of ABDUL AZIz,
has been proclaimed SultanA will now
restore a semblance Of order.
The present rulers refusal TO comply
with the demand that he proclaim a
jehad or holy wal has cost him the
allegiance Of most of the fierce and big
oted tribesmen of the interior, and il is
probable that they will rally to the sup
port Of his rival, who is pursuing an
opposite course MULAI HAFIG has de-
nounced his brother az a traitor to Islam
and is said to have mustered in the south
a formidable army, with which he is ad-
vancing to cooperate with the tribesmen
Of the northern coast. who practically
hold besieged the small French force
under General DRUDE at Casablanca.
The French commander, who has less
than 5000 soldiers at his disposal, has
called earnestly for requirements, but
M yet only 900 men are on their way to
join him. The moral effect Of his patent
inability to advance after a repulse Of
his assailants may prove disastrous. for il
naturally encourages fresh attacks upon
'arger scale.
,therto the ~Clemencesu Government
seemed inclined TO underrate the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
The Mayor OF Boston.

Boston's necromantic Lord Mayor does
deity the trick Of biting into a lomon
and smiling with the palatal ecstasy Of
one who eats a peach. The sickness Of
the face deceives the eye.
II is one Of MIR. FTTZ0ERAED's policies
to lombard committees Of the Legisla-
ture with arguments, the City Council
with parks of statistics, and sodalities,
literary and social bodies with senti-
mental appeals to reduce the city debt.
He lies awake nights thinking about it.
Whether at Old Orchard, at Palm Beach,
at Hot Springs or at the Chicago Audi
torium, two or three on a hotel piazza
ara assembly enough for him to ha-
rangue on the thought that in the midst
Of life we are in debt. Why do ironic
journals in describing a recent indispo-
sition OF the Mayor envelop the word
"e~rysipelas" in quotation marks? From
what do they suspect that DIR. KRANY
really saved his Honor's face? From
the effects, TO be sure, OF an impact; of
a rush OF economy to the head.
But it was political economy. The
policy has a corollary, completing it and
rounding it out. Il will resort, he might
expound, TO any measure for debt re-
duction a " M / will never consent
to cut down the annual loans
In accordance with this clear pro-
nouncement the Lord Mayor lately sent
to the City Council, Tor its assent, an
order authorizing $780, 900 worth Of
bonds for construction of water mains.
His Finance Commission, a craft which
insists upon houndering about under
patchwork rules Of its own and without
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

DIR. ScHARYF Of Dublin is in Boston tell
ing the Bostonians that their town will
ultimately sink into the sea-" OF course
it will 60 as it came:
The sacred goldfish sinks Into the sea"
The deluge will not come soon enough to
interfere with MORAN or LAWSON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
Some IaooaEraxtal Remarks.

What about the tarid," o b hell. notbin,
Ioing. that's all" what about Taft's chances,"
I don't know q Tanned thing about t.--From
N tnaervssu etas Uncle joe cannos.
Say. Uncle Joe,
What makes you swear sot
Did you ever load hay
with ouss wordsf
Did you sver catch birds
BY putting profanity on their ta,isr
or drive nails
with language moro forciols than polite,
You know II aint right.
Not by q darncd sight.
Did you learn
To do that turn
In a Quaker meeting house.
Nixcummerausi
No. stree,
Thou" and thee"
We're what they taught you there,
And now you swear
To beat-weil.
We won't tell,
But you do. Just the same,
And RS q dodgssted shame.
o. about Tan;
couldn' you have laughed
And said you knew
Somebody else who
Was Just a. good: ,
And not have cussed
As though Bill had mussed
Up somebody's chance OF getting thcrer,
And why need you swear
About the tar
INF Nothing doing" 10 what
You want. 10 IL not,
so why call on hell
When the tarin 10 doing 90 well
As could be expected and will he
Until the G.. o. p.
Gets into shape
For another escape,
Ifyou must swear
z WhU mAa RAC ~ lAAz
And cuss yourself cieant
Whatf You don't mean
Anything by M
Then Why try n
On the publicr
Get q mule. Uncle Joe:
Get q mule:
rhen when you swear
Hen pull you out OF there.
That's 20.
Uncie Joe:
You know
Auissi W.. LANsros.
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Hartford exalts her horn because of a
Hartfordian seven days old who has notable
gifts. being the seventh son of a seventh
son and born enshrouded in a caul." What
will this genius choose TO be? A future
Grim Jiggs. q sociologist. or a member Of
some tennis cabinet yet TO bet
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
Regulating History.

From te Nsw BEDFORD Mercury.
The Provincetown monument 10 reared 10 com
nemofate the landing OF the Pilgrims. The shs'
is designated the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Mon1'
mont. Yet throughout his address the Presider'
persisted In regarding Il 90 q monument TO Pun
tans and never once used the word Pilgrim. The"
10 q distinction which those who designed the occa
sion most likely noticed. for while there were pun
tsns among the Pilgrims. but a handful Of me
Puritans were Maynower Pilgrims. The nam
Puritan was an epithet applied 20 English Non
conformists q hundred years before the MayfoWer
Get sau. but the Pngrims whom Provinoeto"n or
signed 70 honor yesterday were a distinct group
the pioneers OF the mighty host that followed.
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varying southern Views Of Taftism.
From the Atidnta Constitution.

FT0W WS AtdHtd COmBtIuu0H.
The policies which President Roosevelt has
shaped and which he appears to be earnestly
DESTROYS OF seeing carried forward. even II
il shall require him to designate his own
successor. II it is in his power 60 do 40. seem
to be approved and Endorsed by the genial
and capable Secretary OF War. With the
Presidents active assistance. II seems assured
that he will win the nomination. II We are
to have a Republican. Taft would suit the
South better h n any ~other-after Roosevelt.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Nobody can get around the fact that loyalty
and unquestioning obedience are virtues
which should be sedulously cultivated among
the young intrusted to our care, but who
wants to see Mr.. Roosevelt's heavy limbed
Megaphone occupying the chair OF Chief
Magistrate? II would be less scandalous TO
have even a third term OF Mr.. Roosevelt
himself.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

Beholding the drought and the price OF
vegetables the universal regulator will
make no mistake IL he makes more thar a
little rain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

Paris or1ce. 2: Rue Louis 10 Grand, The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale At kiosuue u. near the
Grand Hotel; Kiosque II. boulevard des Cspucines.
corner Place de Opera. and Mosque ~. Boulevard
des ltaliens. corner Rue Louis le Grand.
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subscription. by Mail. Postpaid.

Published by the sun Printing and Publishing
Association a. ITO Nassau street. In the Borough Of
Manhattan. New York. President and Treasurer
NJ the Association. william NJ. Laran. 40 Nassau
s'reet, Secretary Of the Association. Franklin
Bartlett. . Nassau street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

The Indispepss hle Ose.
The Man without q Country
Is b ut . sorry plan.
But pity worse the Country
SThat only has one NAn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

To The Editor OF The SuN-Sir. Mr.
Roosevelt has been compared to about every
great historical character except William the
Silent. He most closely resembles samson.
the Roosevelt OF his time. who. equally blind.
also pulled down the whole structure.
LESLIE CHAsE.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., August q.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

Knicker-Bryan complains tina, Rooseye'i '""
hia clothes while he was In swimming. .,
Bocker-Yss. but the wonder Is thai they "
TAN. va.
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HH1oHD2HS - NB~"5E -.
Priscilla had just asked John Alden why nc
didnt speak for himself.
Ask Taft" he replied.
Ihus we zee nov history repeats Itseli.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23

To n EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: After
listening to Roosevelt I would advise men to
20 out these lovely August evenings and
listen to the song Of the snowy tree cricket.
II Is the most sweetly soothing nfiuenoe-the
most perfect antidote to a turbulent or semi
distracted mind In nature.
BROOKLYN, August 81. PROSPECT PARK.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-23
rHE FOREMOST QUESTION.
what VIII the Next Eighteen Months Brtng
NJ the P~rOvlneetOwn Threat Hollis?

NJ the Pr0vtnectOwn Threat 1tolds2
To THE EpIroR or THE suN-Sir: In the
opinion Of the writer President Roosevelt has
done more to injure the business interests OF
this country than any man who ever lived.
In the name Of reform he is deforming things,
Tie seemingly has convinced a vaet number
OF unsuccessful persons hat their want Of
business acumen and good luck car be made
M TO them through legislation and by parad-
ing before their eyes the square deal" What
an amazing contrast between the conserva-
tive. cautious Mckinley and the extreme.
radical Roosevelt WILLIAM GLARS.
NEWPORT. August ~.
And After the Eighteen Months Are Over?
TO THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Str. II occurs
to ms that the Grafton Of The Exalted PGr-
sonsge yesterday was chiefly distinguish I'd
by the Importance that he vouchsafed 10 what
was In no wise connected with his theme.
He gave forth many words concerning the
Rock and it's discoveries. but those words
were evidently the scenario Of the real
drama.
The real drama was an exposition Of MY
Policies" and 1t 10 highly significant. His
Exsitedness announced that for eighteen
months those policies will be paramount,
He sbstained from any reference to the
after time.
What does that abstention indicste'
NEW YORK. August n. W. r. O.
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wants . Business Man for President.

To THE EpIToR or The SUN-Sir. am
another who wishes for a business man for
President. Let us have done with lavyara
and adventurers, Start the cry.
NEW YORK. August 22. CLERx
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-07-01

with the promise that she should go
in to see her papa at the earliest
possible moment. At last she was per-
mitted brief interview. She stood
perfectly still gazing at her father
with loving eyes, but when the nurse
came to take her away she held back
a moment
Haven't l been very quiet, Papa?"
YES" whispered the fond parent
And. haven't l been very good?"
Her father admitted it.
Then won't you do me a favor.
Papa?"
Certainly. What is it, my child?"
Let me see the baby"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-07-01
A Reasonable Inference.

A little girls papa had been very
i'll with appendicitis and had lain for
many days in the darkened room after
the doctor had come and removed his
appendix. The little girl had been
told to he very quiet and very good,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-07-01
A Fellow Feeling.

A party of Scotsmen in Springfield
had been celebrating a Burns anniver-
sary, and unsteady were the steps
homegoing in the morning. One fell
by the wayside and called for help
from another wayfarer. The would
be good Samaritan tried to steady
himself as he looked upon the fallen
one, and then settled matters by say
ing: GA Gamma help you, but A will
lie down aside you
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-07-01
THE HOME
The ProdigaIs.

They wander through the world afar,
Meath many an alien sky,
Where unaccustomed pleasures are,
Or fancied fortunes lie;
But still they seek the friendly fires
That star Bohemia's dome,
And dearer than the worlds desires
They find the welcome home.
1t matters not what music weaves
It's spell in foreign air;
The voice that sings through redwood
leaves
Will haunt them everywhere;
Whatever joy may sparkle up
Through stranger wassail-foam,
The love-light in Bohemia's cup
At length must guide them home
Then here's to every man away,
Who sails on other seas;
Good fortune speed the shining day
He finds the homeward breeze.
If glad or sad the heart he brings,
If rich or poor he come,
The Owl will spread his big brown
wings
And give him welcome home
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-07-01
The Sky Road.

Some time since lover of children
told touching story of meeting three
little urchins in a city suburb who,
ragged, hatless, and shoeless, but quite
unconscious of any deficiencies. were
bubbling over the bits of knowledge
picked up at the public schools, from
which fragmentary lore their busy
brains had wrought quaint deductions.
They had been hearing scraps of
Grecian mythology and were full of
the wonderful story Of Pegasus, the
winged horse who, as the legend runs,
first touched earth on the Acropolis
in Corinth, and finally flew back to
heaven. The smallest of the trio ex-
planned that Pegasus couldn't travel
on the dirt road because he was made
for the sky road. Looking up at the
lady, he said with wise little nod:
I'VE are made for the sky road" Dear
little ragged fellow! One can not help
wondering if he realized the marvel
GUS, far-reaching truth of his own
words. Children are sometimes wiser
than they know.
The sky road Another little one
caught glimpse of the beautiful, up
per realm of living where child souls.
in their sweet innocence, ought to be
especially at home. A group were
happily playing on the broad door
stone, under the protecting shade of
wide-spreading trees.
''Tm the mother" cried the largest
little girl There always has to be
mother, and I'm it."
Black-eyed Ned sat next. I'm the
father" he asserted, sturdily Nellie
and Rob can be the children, but I'll
be the father, and of course I'll see
to things"
A little blue-eyed tot of a girl saw
a very good chance of being left out
in this pretty family game.
What am II" she asked, a little
pitifully. rs there anything left for
me to be?"
There has to be servants" said the
self-elected father and mother That's
all that's left that we can see."
Well" said the wee grille, very
sweetly, "I'll be a real nice one then.
Somebody has to do things for the
rest, and it's just as good as anything
if you do it nice"