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New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
THE HISTORIC IMAGINATION.

The historic imagination is often useful part
Of the equipment Of an orator a statesman.
But It is unfortunate when this soaring faculty
begins 20 overshadow and blur the everyday
Judgment. The Hon. Joseph W. Bailey has a
fervid political imagination. In the course Of
his canvass last winter for reelection TO the
limited States Senate and for vindication by
Hhe Texas Legislature he conceived the notion
that those Of his constituents who could not
harmonic his many versions Of his politico-
legal relations with the Waters Pierce Oil Com
.pany were really socialists and anarchists in
disguise. stabbing, through him, at the vitals Of
organized society and its ideals of law and Or
Ger. He visualized his enemies as traitors to
Texas whose refusal 10 acknowledge merit and
accept the word of statesman at its face value
was calculated 10 disturb public confidence set
back the hands Of progress and blast the hopes
and prospects of the Texas Five Million Club.
Mr.. Bailey has, apparently, other hallucina-
tions In a recent issue of 1.-THE Houston POST
he was reported as assuring an audience at
Paris. Tex that the South seeded in 1861
chiefly because it's leaders foresaw the immi-
rens-e of Negro enfranchisement and the perils
80 Southern society OF the equality of the black
and white races before the law. This state
ment, If authentic. represents a fine fight of the
historic imagination. The leaders of the seces-
sion movement in the South were not much
worried about the possible elevation or 1he
negro 10 citizenship and political rights. The
most of them never dreamed that emancipation,
much less enfranchisenent. would come in their
time IN the time of their immediate descend
ants They knew well enough that If the South
would be content TO stand on the defensive and
accept limitation of slavery TO the then exist
ing slave states there could be no Immediate
pressure from the North for abolition en-
franchlsemeni. Slavery would probably have
fallen of its weight, for il was slowly but
eurel- bankrupting the South-a fact strikingly
emphasized by olInsfed i'm his investigation just
before the war Of the decay of agricultural
prosperity in the older seaboard states.
Secession precipitated chiefly because the
Southern leaders declined the defensive and as
snIsed the aggressive. and, instead of waiting for
nature 10 take its and blot out slavery as
sE economical folly. struggled To extend the
operations Of the peculiar institution i'm order
10 strengthen thereby their hold the federal
government. They risked war when they found
the North finally uniting TO hedge slavery In,
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
THE LUSTT4NTA-HOW AND WHY.

Amid the expressions of admiration for the
Lusitania and the feelings akin 10 envy which
she must provoke i'll the minds of other mari
time nations it will be well 10 have some
thought of the origin OF the great ship, Of the
conditions of her creation and maintenance. OF
the how and why Of her appearance upon the
seas. There is, suppose, no maritime ma
ton in the world which would not like to have
her and others like her. We have ourselves ex-
pressed a wish that the United States might
have a squadron Of her peers There are even
those who rail against and sneer at this coun-
trv because it is not building such ships and
was not the first builder of them, instead OF
leaving that distinction to Great Britain
II must be borne in mind that the Lusitania
and her sister ship, the Mauretanla, have not
been built as other ships, as simple business In
vestments. They specifically and directly
the fruit of a union between the Cunard COM
pany ana the Admiralty department OF the
British government They were built at the
suggestion of the Admiralty, according TO plans
and specifications prepared, or, at least, revised
and approved by il, and with a fund of S13,-
100000 appropriated for the purpose out Of the
British eIchequer in the form of a nominal
loan at 23I per cent interest TO be repaid in
twenty yearly portions and secured by Il mort
gage on the entire Cunard fleet The loan is,
however. practically a gift, for the ships
will more than cover the payments on the loan
and will, in addition, go far toward paying
the interest on it at the outset when it is
largest Thus while the yearly instalment on
the loan will be S630.000, the two ships are to
have a yearly subsidy of s750,000. In add-
tjon they are to receive from the government
the lump sum of S34OO00 for carrying the mails.
This is n much larger sum than they would
get under the old system of payment, according
TO weight but the government thinks it is
worth much mora 10 have the mails carried so
much more swiftly. and also that the bulk and
weight of the mails 10 be carried will so in
crease that soon this sum viii be no more than
would be paid under the old system.
The compact between the company and the
government further gives the government the
option of hiring or purchasing at any time any
or all the vessels of the Cunard fleet For the
fast vessels. such as not only tue Lusitania
and the Mauretania but also the Iucania and the
Campania, il is TO pay a hire of from % to 30
! shillings a gross ton month, which would
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
ITALIAN ANTI-CLERICALISM.

The active and somewhat bitter antfClerica-
ism which we noted some time ago as haVlnS
been manifested with much success III ule
municipal elections in Rome shows no sign OF
abatement. On the contrary. it appears to be
growing in extent and in intensity, until some
thing like crisis is threatened. n snort tllhe
ago a prominent cardinal was openly lhsulteu
and menaced with violence in the streets or the
Eternal City. Since then other eminent eccle-
siastics have been in conference with the secu-
lar authorities over the situation. and at the
present time every cardinal, wherever he may
60 about the city. is accompanied by guard
of two mounted policemen Even with lneSe
precautions much anxiety and fear prevail anu
the approach of September 20 the anniversary
of the Italian occupation of Rome, is regarded
with much apprehension as the possible occa-
sion of widespread ant-clerical demonstrations.
Much uncertainty. or, at least, difference OF
opinion, exists concerning the cause of this de-
velopment of passion. The explanations which
We're offered at the time OF the elections scarcely
seem TO be sufficient for all that has occurred
since There are those. even within the College
of Cardinals who insist that the movement
is not SO much anti-clercal as nti-Papal. that
it is Il protest against what they term the too
autocratic and reactionary policy OF the Pope
In support Of this theory they point to the cir
cumstances that the agitation is directed not
against the priesthood generally. but against
only those cardinals and others who are most
closely associated with the Pope and with his
policy and that Il Is most yehementy for
warrltd by the relatives and friends OF many
of the priests Papal despotism over the priests
has they say. provoked this campaign of re-
sentiment which the dsaffected priests do not
discourage. even though they DO not promote IT,
This theory does not, however, universally
prevail. On the contrary, there are those who
vigorously maintain precisely opposite view
All that is certain is that the movement. what
ever its cause, has attained great proportions
is steadily increasing. and threatens perma
nently and radically 10 affect the relations be
tween the Qurinal and the Vatican. The mutual
attitude of State and Church must be very
different in the presence of such popular pas
sions fAm what il during the years OF com
parative indifference and quiet Moreover, with
the Vatican depending so largely upon the civil
power for protection. and with the princes Of
the Church cooperating with the secular police
a marked step is inevitably taken toward cleri
cal recognition of the civil authority. These
things may not bring perceptibly lead tow
ard final settlement OF the controversy he
tween King and Pope but they form factor
in the complex problem which is by no means
negligible and which may prove TO be of COM
manding potency.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
BETTER THAN LEGISLATION.

Should the Court OF Appeals sustain the de-
cision just handed down by the Appellate Dl-
vision Of the Supreme Court relative 10 irau'i
cases in insurance n safeguard hardly inferior
10 anv supplied nv the most drastic Legislation
will have been thrown about every policyholder
in the country. And it will have been secured
not by the efforts of amateur legislators, nut II!
the quiet course of justice. The decision III
question does not dispense with insurance legls-
lation and investigating committees TO be sure
but it does accomplish, without the dangers IN
CURED in public anti-corporaton campaigns
much for which insurance reformers have wear
lily and often vainIy striven. Above all else 1t
should make misleading reports and deceltlui
agents too Improbable TO be tolerated
The decision. as it now stands, is reported TO
prescribe that. If an insurance company II
guilty of fraud against polcyholdef aC iiie
inception of the contract, the pocyholder can
rescind the contract and recover all premiums
paid. with interest: the defraudng company
furthermore. must assume all losses entalleu o!
its wrong,ioing In the case 10 which TINS de-
cision applied the plaintiff proved that fhe ON
GERS of the defendant company had shown hin
a false statement of the company's hnancial
standing and that he had taken out n pollcy OH
the strength of the apparently favorable SNOW
Ing of that statement. Although the conpdh9
had carried the plaintiffs life insurance four
teen years the court ruled that proof or 1raud
nuIifed the contract Gb inffiO, and hence neces-
STATED the refund. with interest, of all pre-
miums- In theory the loss to the company of the
cost of carrying the plaintiffs insurance is not a
fine for fraud. but it practically amounts 10 one
and hence must prove p mighty inducement Tor
righteousness. If an insurance company knows
that the publication of single misleading state
ment or the suppression of single important
,infavorable fact about its business may entail
the loss of both policyhoders, their paid-in pre-
miums and the earnings of the latter. neither
officers nor agents viii to indulge in decep-
tor The Indirect benefits Of honest publicity,
TO companies and policyhOlders alike. are too
numerous and obvious TO he mentioned.
But after ALL the new decision is interesting
not as a legal novelty. but as another striking
demonstration that courts have it in their
power through the normal operation of doing
Justice according TO well-estabished canons. to
bring about long sought reforms more efficiently
than clamorOus. excited. prejudiced lawmakers
Can Without noise and personal feeling with
out the use of n single principle new 10 Anglo
American law. the judges have done more for
insurance reform than hundred mass meetings
and n thousand verbose and vapid demagogues
could dc.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
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rBy Telegraph . The Tribslne-l
Newport, r. /. Sept. 14-FclloHIuC his usual
custom of giving annual luncheon fOv the men,
hers of the C1ambake Club. Center Hitchcock had
a majority OF the members OF the club his
guests at a luncheon to-day at the clubhouse. On
Easton's Point.
COnsuelo, Duchess OF Manchester. who IS ths
guest of Mr.. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt spent
this morning driving about Newport with Mrs
Vanderbilt. She taken TO Commodore Van
derbilts flagship. the North Star. for luncneon az
noon. and tonight she was the guest of honor at
a large dinner party given by Mrs Vanderbilt az
BeauIeu. her summer home
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert GcsIet arrived IN Newport
to-day. and are the guests ot Mrs ogden Goeist
az Ochre Court
Mr. and Mrs Torrey. parents OF Mrs Edward T.
Berwind. who have been the guests OF Mr. and
Mrs Berwind at The EIms. ended their Newport
visit Friday and went 10 Boston. whence they
sailed to-day for Europe.
Mrs. William II. Sands. Mrs. William T. Bun
Mrs John r SoIey and Mrs. Edward J. Be-vind
entertained with dinner parties this evening. hiis
luncheon given to-day by Mrs. Thomas
Hitchcock.
Alexander Keogh. Of New York. Is the guest fo-
a few days Of Augustus J. Jay F. Y l. HoPpln.
OF New York is also guest in the cottage colony
the week end
Mrs katherine Harris OF New York arrived IN
Newport to-day TO be the guest % her sister. Mrs.
Mae Brady Hall
Edward :. Berwfnd returned TO Newport from
New York 10 spend the week end with Mrs Ber-
wind.
Charles P. II. Gilbert Of New York has again
leased the MorreI cottage at Ochre Point FOR next
season.
Henry F Eldridge left here for New York today
for a few days business visit
T. Surfern Taller was the only one 70 register ~
the Casino tC-day.
Mrs William GrosvenOr ard her daughters. who
have been absent from this resort this summer.
have returned to spend the autumn months az
their Newport cottage
Mrs William B Parsons is the guest ot her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ciews. at the Rocks
The reports that have been current about New
port for the last few DAYS that Miss Edith Colfo-d
who suffered a nervous breakdown early IN No
summer. had become insane were denied to-day by
Mrs Mccarthy Little. aunt Of Miss COltord ms
latter is at present at Cromwell Hail. N Con-
nscticut. taking the rest and had 50 far I'M
proved in health that she expected TO return 20
Newport within a week ten days
J. A Iawlins. OF New York. is the guest OF VIZ
and Mrs J. VI. Clarke at Gray Craig
Mir and Mrs William Payne Thompson arrives
in Newport this evening
CvrfI Hatch returned from New YORK TINS EVEN
ing as did J. J. CoOgan and his son. Jay Coosan IL
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
safer and cheaper method of testing the system
could he found?
MARRIAGE A Ia MODE.

The minister, the bride and bridegroom and
their attendants shall all put OH waterproof
bathing suits and enter diving bell or similar
device on the stage of Il place of popular
amusement. after the exact fashion of the mum
mers who there nightly disport themselves for
the delectation of the-public And when they
are all thus arrayed and assembled then shall
the minister say:
Dearly beloved, We are gathered together here
in the sight of God to join together this man and
this woman in holy matrmony, which is an hon
orable estate. instituted of God, and is to be
tered into reverenty, soberly anu in the fear of
God.
Then shall the press agent get busy, while
the stage hands get the tank ready for the next
performance.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
"ETDNAPPED."
could dc

~ day or two ago, in the suburbs Of Pitts
burg. the mother of maiden Of four sat her
down on the front porch with instructions to
remain there and watch the pretty smoke drift
ing across the horizon while she, the mother,
did little sweeping, busting and ironing. and
nerformed few other duties which the rank
and file of Pittsburg mothers find necessary.
An hour later, when she came back to the porch,
the child was missing. and upon making inquiry
she was cheerfuIly advised by a couple of vera
cious youths that they had seen two men drag
ginr the child up the hill back Of the town.
Doubtless they were so accustomed TO seeing
Iow-browed men kidnapping little girls that it
Inquiry was made.
Having read the dispatches from New York,
II did not take long TO organize several posses
of determined men to search for the villains. Bus
mess was suspended and few good men from
the Pittsburg Police Department were secured
TO assist in the search. Just when the chase
began to grow interesting, two strangers with
out passports were rounded up and hastily
locked in the town jail, the Interesting feature
of the arrest being that these men were neither
kicked. cuffed, pounded nor threatened with
Ivncllihc before any one had an opportunity to
investigate and find out whether or not they
were guilty Evidently the people OF the town
had not learned that in case of suspected kid
napping o. assault the approved method Of pro-
cedure is 10 beat the man up and investigate
afterward.
The child. after an absence of two hours. was
found picking flowers back of the house
wherein the affair closely resembled many Of
the kidnapping cases in New York.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15

moan nearly s250OO0 Il wear for the LuSitanla'
The company cannot charter its ships TO others
without the governments permission. nor raise
freight rates unduIy All directors and impor-
tant officers of the company must be Briush
Subjects and all shares of the company sloch
must he held and controlled by British sub
iects Moreover. three -fouTths Of the crews on
all Ca1nar.l steamers must be British subjects
and on the four big ships all the officers ana a.
least half the men must be members OF lhe
Naval Reserve, under penalty Of $50 head lor
the deficiency.
1t is easy TO imagine what sensation Would
he created by the announcement that such IL
compact had been made between the tnited
States and an American steamship company
and what would he the tone of comment upon
II from some who are wanting TO know
why we do not build a lot OF Lustanias ana
MauretaniaS right away. There Is, we believe
time honGred rule that like causes produce
Ike effects. We are not saying that this conn-
try should do precisely as Great Britain Is dolnG
in the matter of subsidiZing ships and forming
= working union between the navy and the mer-
camille marine But if those great ships were
made possible in England only through such
government aid. it would be interesting to have
those who are saying that ought to do as
we'll as England explain what principle they
expect Americans to build such ships without
such aid Their logic seems to run after this
fashion: Since such ships We're built in Eng
land with government aid, and since We ought
to he able to do anything that England can do,
therefore we ought to build such ships without
any government aid, QHod erdt dcmonsfrdn-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
INTERNATIONAL MONEY!

Will travellers some day be able to pass from
one country to another without suffering the
delay annoyance and expense OF exchanging
the money of the country left for the money OF
the country entered: The answer 10 this ques-
ton may depend to slight extent upon the
success awaiting the new response coupons
which will be Oh sale ali over the world after
the first of next month. These coupons are not
international money in the strict sense OF the
word. but they are much like it. They are
really informal money orders payable In postage
stamps Mt any postoffice within the Inter
national Postal Union. The last International
Postal Congress decided to call them into exist
ence in order to facilitate Enclosures of return
postage and. incidentally, to relieve the foreign
money order departments of the postoffices or
the proftless transmission of petty sums. II
the coupons serve these purposes as satisfac-
torily as they expected to they can hardly
fail TO resurrect and invigorate the old demand
for international money. And it Is easy to be-
Ifeve that a thorough demonstration OF the pop
ularity and economy of response coupons would
win over TO the cause of international money
good many persons heretofore hostile.
The present discount response coupons is
too high to permit their serving as money, save
in rare and petty cases. Costing six cents in
the United States. they will he redeemable
abroad in stamps worth five cents. This 1635
per cent discount goes TO defray the relatively
heavy cost Of maintaining the international ac-
counting office and clearing house, where
celed coupons will be turned in against the
counts of the issuing countries. Advocates OF
international money will doubtless be quick to
urge that, relatively TO the total amount of
universal currency in circulation, the boolkeep-
ing expenses of an international mint would be
Infiniteslmai In comparison with the cost of
.ceari the response coupons. And doubt
less thousands of tourists will add that they
would rather pay slightly high fiat exchange
rate In the Indirect form of international money
than TO take chances with INSCRIPTIONS money
changers and the vaclations of the money
market.
1t is safe to prophesy, however that inter
national money will not be coined until the
International Postal Union has accomplished
three things-namely. proved the usefulness of
response coupons. reduced the cost of the inter
national clearing house to Il minimum after
some experience and finally issued higher de-
nominations of response coupons at the lowest
possible figure. Should it prove practicable TO
issue even one-doar international postage
stamps at price approximating the quotations
of foreign exchange such stamps would Writ
ually be world money. When consider the
effect which Il successful trial of such stamps
would have upon the fortunes Of the money
changers, there is small risk in predicting that
the Postal Union will not he allowed to make
the experiment without great opposition. And
yet, if there is any reasonabieness in the argi-
lnents for International money, what simpler,
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
About People and Social Incidents.

Delafeld. Mrs. Robert Lenox BeIknsp. Mrs Pres
cott Hall Butler. Cornelius Du Bois wasstar In.
Misses Hewitt. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Wagstan jr
Mrs. j. TodhEnter Thompson. Mrs. Buchanan Win
throp. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Remsen Mrs Henri
Langdon Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HANDY. Nj
and Mrs. HOvland PelI Mr. and Mrs. CharIe. ID
Ieverich, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McKim. Frederfcx
Lc Roy, Buell. HoI1isteT. Phcenix Ingraham. =
Townsend Irwin. Shipley Jones. Craig Colt Mr.
and Mrs. Albert DeIafeId. Mrs Johnston de Pew
ster. MIR. and Mrs. Howard H. Henry Mr. ara
Mrs Charles II. Henderson. Mr.. and Mrs. William,
Manice. Dr. and Mrs Je Roy SatterIee Mrs J.
Maunsell ScheffeIin. Mr.. and Mrs George P
Scheffelin. Mr. and Mrs Giraud Foster and Mr.
and Mrs. LoriIIard Spencer.
Miss Katherine Howard I4apsIey daughter q,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Iapsley. vas married 10
Aibert Stlckney' 5r-. yesterday in Grace Church
chantry The ceremony was performed at noon bv
the Rev Mr.. Bailey. and followed b1 a small
reception in the IapsIey house No y West q-,.
street Mr' stickneys niece. Miss Elizabeth Kan
DALI was the brides only attendant. v-iri,r,
Stickney was the best man and the ushers were
Martin Malcolm. Julian Palmer Welsh C. T. Iaps
ley and the Mess-s- Fenno and lIcHurusv Of T,os
ton.
Mrs John Patterson Duncan has announced tb.
engagement Of her daughter Miss Jeanie b Dun
can to ottoman H. Van Nortlen son Of Wsr1sr NJ
Van N'rden. Miss Duncan is a sister Of sruar+
Duncan, who married Miss Jernain Stoddard ard
also OF Miss Susan s Duncan and Miss Amy L.
Duncan.
"hLlam n Chase, who spent most Of the SUM-
irer In Italy, has returned to this country ana
opened his cottage In the ShinnecocIl Hills vbers
he will spend the autumn
Mr. and Mrs B. Aymar Sands have tsst +b.,-
cottage on Long Island and gone to the Whit.
Mountains for few weeks
A musical Is to be given on Wednesday AZ III.
Rockaway Hunt Club at Cedarhurst Long Island
II will be Of a series of similar affairs under
the patronage OF Mrs. John z. COwdin J. Frederick
Harper and Others.
Mr.. and Mrs. NarceIlus Hartley Dodge who have
been in Europe for a few weeks. have returned to
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown Potter have closed
their villa at Newport for the and stay
ing at the St. Regis
Sir Vincent CaiIlard FOR many years president
Of the International Commission Cf the Ottoman
Debt at ConstantlnOple has arrived IN town from
England and is staying ar the WaIdorf-Astoria.
Robert VI. Thompson Garrison gave his bachelor
dinner last evening at DeImOnicos. He is 10 he
married on Saturday to Miss Mary r. Rodgers,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs John Kearney Rodgers "a.
at Newburg y. 7