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Governor Guilds Commission.

Governor CURTIS GUILD, Jr., of Massa-
chusetts has just been letting of an
other set piece of statistics. While ex-
hibiting at Lowell. a city which had
fewer inhabitants in 1905 than in 1900,
the intrepid young leader dauntlessly
proclaimed that the old Commonwealth
is no decadent State" And he pro-
ceeded To review ~platoons of census fig
ures to support his proposition. 1T
cannot" he declared, in honesty be
denied that manufacturing in Massa-
chusetts is not only prosperous but in
finitely more prosperous than in the
immediate past"
The occasion for this much protesting
was the recent appointment by his Ex-
cellency Of a special commission on COM
merce and industry. Some observant
citizens had noticed what they thought
was a sag in rate OF growth. Population
from 1900 to 1905 had increased only 7.o2
per cent, the slowest since 1920; and
while there were 1000 fewer cotton goods
operatives than Ave years before, manu.
featuring industry as a whole had gained
IA per cent. in number employed, as
against IS per cent. for the whole coun-
try. These citizens pointed out that
the new mills in distant parts Of the land
had caught the Bay State amidships,
and she was aleak; nothing dangerous
if attended to, but likely il neglected to
mean a hurry call for the pumps. SO
they suggested that a commission, then
under advisement, on metropolitan im-
provements, including docks and trans
portation facilities, should hunt first
causes OF distress.
Upon Governor GUILD a mere hint acts
like an alternating current upon an in
Simultaneous transformer. Out flashed
a wireless message to the General Court
asking authority u appoint a separate
| commission on m and industry.
Now, the Governor is nsver utterly bliss
ful except when he is rolling out from his
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The Simplest Way to Smash the
wicked.

In an address to the Virginia lawyers
at jamestown last week Mr.. JOHN II.
Dos PAssos of this town had the neon
scionable stolidity to say regarding the
formation Of avs for the curbing OF
corporations:
I'VE must distinguish between individuals and
. system. II n bakers dozen OF men In this coun.
try have %unholily. or Illegally. by combination or
otherwise. extorted from the people vast sums of
money. that fact furnishes no reason why our law
makers. State or Federal, should create legal earth
quskes to blow up the whole commercial interests
of the country. Let us rather punish the few male
factors and permit our great system of business and
finance TO remain undisturbed."
Mr.. Dos PAssos is a contemporary Of
UsERTEsEN III. There have been great
changes in the fundamentals Of civic
science and the first principles of pc
nology since he thumbed his primer in
the school of Jurisprudence.
A law so framed as to have terrors for
the wicked only? That method of legis-
iation is archaic. Does not Mr.. Dos
PAssos know that the modern wrinkle
is TO make your law sufficiently terrible
to carry CONSERVATION TO the good and
the bad alike and to entrust the neces-
sary limitation Of its energies TO the dis
eliminating intelligence of some execu-
tive officer Of high moral purpose?
Further along in an address admirable
in every respect save its primitive con-
ception of the functions Of modern law
Mr.. Dos PAssos asked:
what would be said OF a plan. or political policy,
10 legislate against real estate: Yet It would be
less rulnous than one lndisenmInstely directed
against corporations"
The idea here suggested may be well
coined more heartily than Mr.. Dos PAssos
supposes. Much good might be said in
certain quarters of a plan, or political
policy, to legislate against real estate in
such a as to bring the occupants
of real estate easily and directly under
regulation regarding all things, so that
an executive authority competent to dis
tinguish the good from the bad might
applaud and encourage the former and
pursue the latter relentlessly.
Indeed, is Mr.. JOHN r. Dos PAssos
quite sure that in the general reversal of
the antique principles to which his mind
has been accustomed the day may not
come for the enactment Of a law making
it q criminal offence for any man to live;
il being understood, Of course, that there
shall be enforcement only in the ease Of
those who in the honest opinion of a
trusted Executive really deserve to be
pursued and prosecuted?
That would render the elimination OF
the wicked a matter OF beautiful sim
plcity and celebrity!
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: The
good citizen 10 he who puts the law above his
natural ~inclininss. He may wish many
things, but his respect for the law keeps him
in constant warfare with the huge army Of
the worlds desires"
This respect for law when analysed NAV
be found to grow out Of various motives, a.
q love Of order, fear OF suffering injustice,
good manners. which are said to be the Japa-
ness motive; but whatever the motive. the
most essential attitude Of good people toward
the Law is q respect for 1t.
Whatever mitigstes or tends to mitigate
respect for the law In pernioious. He who
pursues q course which by example lessons
such respect 10 willingly or unwittinsly doing
evil. When the most exalted person In a
nation. in matters Of public interest which
attract the gaze Of the world. shows q willing
ness to disregard the fundamental law be-
cause It stands in the way Of his wishes the
fact cannot but be far reaching In its conse-
qusnoes.'
The responsibility for relaxing TO any con-
siderable extent the bonds Of law and en-
couraging men regsrdlessly to go straight
to what they want is AZ this con-
Juncture, especially when lswbreaking Is
said to be beyond ordinary police control,
IL 10 important that exalted persons In high
offcial positions do not appear willing to
accomplish sven their darling wishes. no
matter how benevolent, by disregardins or
straining the aw. D..
READING. Pa, August 7.
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Oxygen's Gift.

OF the 100000 F~ederally appropriated
TO put the Statue of Liberty in order, an
item Of $500 10 specifically allotted for
a new bronze dress on the ground that
the old one has become green and
worn"
We scarcely know where to file an APP
peal against such an act, one which Goths
and vandals would not commit. The
Municipal Art Commissioners have no
jurisdiction, for the statue is Federal, and
even they were powerless TO stay the
decortication of the City Hall a few sum-
mers ago.. Yet there should be some one
In Federal authority who a be induced
to spare this green cloak of patina.
But II the patina mus go, why not
be really thrifty, neat and practical, and
nickel plato the statue?
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100 per cent. military chest that grand
old word Commonwealth" and feeling
profoundly grateful that II In a trisylla-
BILE. What use Ia a mere State? Wor-
cester IL tho heart Of the Common
wealth" That railroads must not grow
is the policy of the Commonwealth
In his first inaugural address the Cover
nor, before juggling figures prepared
by the lamented PIDGIN, raptly ex-
claimed that the census Of 1905 for the
Commonwealth told "A wonderful story"l
Hence the idea that while 1t was we'll
enough to recognize that something
allied Massachusetts, by calling In special
lists TO find out what, IL would be TO eat
your cake and have it too If you courage
ously denied that there was anything
the matter at all or any need OF any COM
mission. The minds eye sees him push
the button which summons the chief OF
the statistics bureau; not the unhappy
PIDGIN, deposed and at present loading
himself with Aaron Burr novels to dis
charge at a helpless public, but GErTEMY,
the Governors former secretary, whom
his Excellency has put where he will do
the most good. CHARLES F." says the
member OF leaks that are not both
PIDGIN and ErrBMY are named CHARLES
F.; , the Commonwealth has a distaste
for sudden changes). CHARLES F., dig
me out figures showing it isn't true that
there is any need Of this commission
which I have demanded. | don't care
what years you compare; anything so L
can brag about the wonderful prosperity
Of the old Commonwealth
CHARLES +. remembered that 1895
was in the middle OF a slump-the dark
hour before the industrial dawn. Ten
years ending 1896! Could anything sub
sequent beat that for lossesg Then
from the depth Of the panic to 1905, the
richest year in the richest period the
country or the world ever saw; what a
decade to compare with it! The day
for the Lowell GRAFTON arrives. The
Governor contrasts the slump decade
with the boom time, b%enignantly omits
any comparisons with other States, tells
the diminished Lowellites- that the old
Commonwealth is no decadent State, &"
and winds up with the inspiring and con-
vincing promise that the findings of his
commission on commerce and industry
will be ~uncompromising reflection Of
truth
But since when did Jack the Giant
Killer stop Il reflect? II the commits
sioners correctly understand their COM
mission they will their con-
clusions first and fit the statistics 10 them
afterward.
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Miss Liberty Almost Twenty-one.

Miss Liberty Of Bedlow's Island will be
twenty-one on October %. Her charms
were unveiled in the mellow October of
lss6--to be strictly truthful, it rained
a steady drizzle when President CLEvE-
LAND, the Count DE LEssEPs, NJ. BAR
THoLDI, the sculptor, and other notables
Joined in the dedication.
II was a great day for New York, for
the United States, for the world; but most
of us have forgotten all about it. Only
when a bill comes in for the Goddess
millinery or to make a better setting
for her statuesque beauty and improve
her surroundings are We reminded of
what an important female she was on
October 20, 1885, and how we tingled
with patriotism and shouted ourselves
hoarse in her honor. The town was
covered with bunting, and Old Glory was
Haunted from peak and fiagpole; there
was a great parade of the military and
volunteer firemen; the quality and the
magnates and dignitaries "rowded a
reviewing stand at the Wor,h Monu-
ment; there were impressive naval
msnuuvres for that day; all New York
was on the streets, and in the evening
the sky was filed with fireworks. II
seems only yesterday that debonair old
Count DE LEssEPs, voicing the amity
of two great nations, threw in a word for
his pet project;
" Soon. gentlemss. We will and ourselves reunited
-
well until Ne meet =, Panama, where the thirty.
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Negro Pays Taxes In Advance.

FROM INA MempHS NCDs -SctmHar.
Among the patriotic citizens who have been COM
ing forward with payment Of taxes In advance the
one who 30 far has attracted the most attention
has been John Brown, who was a free Niger"
back In the days OF early Memphis. and was living
In his own home on fernando. now South Third.
street IN 1914. when James X. Polk was elected
President.
John Brown Is nearly o. years OF age. but IL stu
as spry as many a score or more OF years younger.
He was owned by a man by the same name and In
lsIi had earned enough money working at odd
Jobs not only 10 purchase his freedom but 10 buy
a little home on fernando street.
John continued to work nj his trade as a barber.
taking pleasure In the thought that Andrew Jack
son was often shaved by him, AS well a. tho nrst
John Overton. with other notable men down 10 the
present MAY or OF Memphis over whose faces the
old negro welded a razor when the Chief Executive
came 10 Memphis TO practise law.
John now lives In his own home In Chelsea. but
has accumulated enough 10 keep from work. He
came forward Wednesday with his advance taxes
and proudly came up 10 the once Of Mayor Malone
10 show hin a receipt for si5.15,
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What the Hague Conference viii
Not DO.

IL Is already evident that the second
peace conference will do next to nothing
for the furtherance of peace and but
little more for the mitigation Of the hor-
rors of war. According to a telegram
from The Hague the proceedings OF COM
mittees on August 7 were for the most
part abortive, and OF the several pro-
posals made only one has a chance of
adoption.
II early became evident that an attempt
TO limit military and naval ornaments
would be fruitless, and recognizing the
fact the British delegates, who were
expected 10 take a leading part in
the effort 10 that end, have announced
that their motion on the subject will be
academic and ~perfunctory, expressing
simply a pious hope or counsel OF per-
fe,tion. OF the two other endeavors in
the same direction one is now admitted
10 br futile, namely, the reform advo-
"ltNd by NJ GaoArE, whereby a new
and permanent court OF arbitration,
more impressive than the present tri-
bInal, would be established and in
vested with the function of reviewing on
appear all judgments rendered by COM
missions of inquiry and special boards
of arbltrators, The p%retexts for war
NAV, however, be diminished through
ths ultimate adoption. perhaps with
some modification. Of General PORTER's
motion prohibiting the Use of force for the
collection of t0ntrlctual debts.
When IL was perceived that the second
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with Process or Law.

To IBE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: Some
Of your correspondents offered a few sugges-
tions in to-dsy's paper for disposing OF the
Standard Oils $50, 900. 900 fine. but their pro-
posals do not reach the root OF the trust
evil"
Why not begin the great work Of buying
up our railroads and putting them ell under
Government control?
The total valuation OF railroad property in
the United States Is but si6. zoo. 900 900.
Five hundred such fines as Judge Landis
imposed would settle this tiresoms contro-
versy for ever and aye.
The idea Is simplicity itself, and as all the
railroads and trusts are most culpable crea-
lures il would be easy to overcome the time
worn constitutional objection Of taking prop
erty without due process Of law.
PETER DENNIS QUIcH.
New YORK, August Z.
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COLLEGE SOCIAL LIFE.
The club and Fraternity Contrasted a.
Influences fer Good.

bItIoN1hCUS VV@Ss
To THE EpIToR OF TIE sUE-SI: / have
read with much interest the article In The
Sun on club life at Princeton. and the later
one on fraternity life at Williams.
About q dozen years ago the ground COW
cred by these articles was goAe over In the
pages Of The bachelor Of Arts Magazine in
two papers entitled respectively Instead OF
Fraternities at Princeton" and Instead Of
Clubs ct a New England College" As | hap
pened to know what college the author OF
the last named paper had In mind 1 have
always sympathized with his point Of view,
and as the years have passed and both clubs
and fraternities have had q fair trial. 1 still
think he had the best OF tho argument.
Having lived for some time 10 q college
town, where the conditions as regards ira
ternities are much as they are described by
your Williams correspondent, | can heartily
indorse what he says OF the influence Of these
student organizations. and perhaps can add
a word more.
While the club as exempliied in its best
form at Princeton exists for social ends
chiefly. the fraternity, as u has come under
my observation, exists in It's best form for
much more than this. Its aims, besides being
social. are literary, moral and even spiritual;
It's influence Is renectsd IN ne ives OF ms
through them upon the college as a whole;
It's home in the academic precincts Ia q Mecca
for its members throughout the generations,
and old and young dock joyfully to its yearly
festivals.
Mind You, this is fraternity life at its best:
but there are fraternities to-day fashioned
after this model: fraternities whose chapters
did honor to Princeton before the days OF the
edict OF Punishment. and the sons OF whose
members have returned in due course 10 the
alma mater OF their fathers,
IL would seem as II the authorities at Prince
ton had been nghting all these years agalns.
a tendency which. like hope, springs eternal"
In the breast OF the American Undergraduate;
that tendency 70 pick out friends and stick
TO them which has found it's best expression
in the American college fraternity At its best.
suppose these same authorities should sug-
gest the afiliation of the eating clubs with
certain approved fraternities, and the clubs
acted upon the suggestion, would not such .
step work In the end for the best interests OF
the noble old New Jersey institution?
WLLIAMsrowN. Mass, August ). A, r.
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THE SIM FEN POLICY.
It's Cardinal Principle . Refusal to Recok-
nlxe the English Parliament.

u,x. ,h. English p.r,,.u,ept
"~0 v"
To THE EDITOR or The SuN-Sir: The
interesting series of letters from Ireland seems
- nav. ,sLsn turn Tor the vor.. in TIVE S,-w
70 ~,
OF august - fresu"aoiy the same GORE
extent to which the country has fiopped to
the sinn Fsin aide aimee the reiection N the
n,s~sm Ian e.n ~. ~ 49,. go ~ ~; e
IDENTIFY he consulted for his material but one
man, Denis Johnston Of the United Irish
i@seue'
NOW. the United lrlsh league Is nothing
II not glib in its citation OF figures, while no
~ith. more sanctimonious sadnsss than n
~ 10 ~.nun. ~, 49,.
displays 10 ismehvnE shaa ,here sn0aia De a
split IN the Nationslst ranks -FOUR corre-
spondsnt says
Mr. Johnston began BY lAmenting that the Sim
Fein party and the National Council had come into
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eight stars Of North America viii rome 10 aoat ~
the side Of the banners Of the independent Staees
Of south Amsrtea. and will form In the New World
for the good of humanity the peaceful and fruitful
alliance Of tho Anglo Saxon and tho Franco
Latin races"
Things have happened since then.
DE LEssEPs sleeps with his fathers;
there are forty-iye stars In the flag; the
canal is not dug, but when finished II IL
not the banner OF France that will wave
over H.; on one of the Latin races we
have made war and her ensign has been
withdrawn from this hemisphere. All
Of which is cited TO show that Miss
Liberty's twenty-ons years have been
e~ventful. She has seen many changes,
especially in her own appearance, " she
have any vanity. Let us admit It, we
blase New Workers have ceased to take
much notice Of her, and have ever struck
her from our visiting list. She thrills the
foreign born as they come up the bay,
and our country cousins 60 out to the
island and climb up into her ample
bosom with shouts OF glee, but we city
folk no more tread the soil Of Bedlow's
Island and leave our cards with Miss
Liberty than we ride in Sightseeing
automobiles. Partly it may be because
we think she ia not high art, but more,
perhaps, because we are superior per-
ons
IL is about time we were nicer to Miss
Liberty, especially Al she will o o come
Of age She is a most expensive girl.
Her cos was 1000, 900 francs before she
came to us; then We raised $500, 900 to
build a pedestal for her: to put electricity
In her torch, so that she might enlighten
the world and beckon to the pilots coming
up the harbor, Congress made an ap-
preparation Of 9 $1,000; there have been
other charges, and now the Government
is going to embellish the pedestal steps,
renovate her exterior and her interior
and run an elevator into her uplifted
right arm.
Let us vow as a people to be kinder
TO her. With a little attention and a
little more company Miss Liberty would
wear a smile instead of a ~forbidding
frown. She is not az bad looking as
the high browed artists make her out.
Almost twenty-one, and We in New York
ought to take more notice of her.
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No true friend OF the initiative and refer
endum will consent that those heavenly
twins. through their abandonment by the
Greatest Conservative Force, shall be
brought to an ignoble unparamountcy.
Their best use Is at hand. The leader will
not peer through those magic prisms. He
is peerless. Very well. then any Democrat
with initiative in his soul can peer for him.
Let RICHARD OLNEY. or FINoEY CoNNERs.
or HOIST himself. or BATHHoUsE JOHN, or
HoKK SMITH. or POKE Po0Os. or any ma
tional Democrat OF that stamp start an
endless chain. The letter should state,
with whatever restraint the author can
command, what is his real opinion of MIR.
BRYAN's candidacy. This simple confession
Of faith should be sent to four other Demo-
Gratis. with the request that after making
four copies and despatching them to still
other four Democrats. zach mail the orig
inal received by him to WILLIAM j. BRYAN.
Lincoln, Neb.
All il requires is initiative. h refer
endum will take care OF itself.
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Be kind enough 10 advise the well meaning but
overpartlal friends who are mentioning my name
in connection with the Governorshlp that do not
wish TO be Governor. and no circumstances which
could arise would make possible my acceptance OF
a nomination. even u II came In the form OF a sight
drsft.-Ths Hon. =. d. CoBURN, Secretary OF the
Kansas state Board Of Agriculture.
Let him who will make the laws of the
country as long as CoBURN can sing the
song OF the farm.
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Orpheas II Politics.

To TIVE EDITOR OF rHk UN-sy Is Il fair for
the Tall Glass carefully set away on the shelf to
draw any comparison between Patty Darling, our
village nre horse. and Big Bill the Roundsman,
The one deprived him OF some glory the other \.
apt to deprive him Of considerable more.
Boston, August 7. @. NobLK.
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I'm going to keep my face toward the east.
-UncIs jog CANNON
A part Of Coney Island has been burned,
but enough scenic railways. merry-go-
rounds and loops and chutes remain to pro-
vide a good time for Uncle JOE.
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The empty seat makes tears TO iow
At sorrow 8 cost.
II mean TO subway management
A nickel lost.
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The IntsrestInx Ous.tInn.

Knicker- Think the President will be out Of a lob
at the end OF his term
Booker - Don't know. but ! imagine the ma jori,y
OF his counA., men viii be.
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" our Trends uho favor US nth manuscripts for
publication vish 10 bare rejected articles returned hey
must m al cases send acmpS for mat purpose.
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In Fashion.

Benevolent strsnger--whst are you going 10 be
when you grow up
Johnny-Inyesugated. I s'pose.
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To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: &c. ID. L."
by no means overststes the case when he ssys
that unless scorchinR il stopped at once a
movement already on foot will reach alarming
proportions to prevent automobiles from
using highways at all in New Jersey. | also
have been invited to Join a society with ex-
tensive ramifications throughout the State
TO elect anti-autoists to the Legislature and
to the Governors chair.
Automobiles are not very much beloved by
the railroad powers OF. the states. They
ence OF railroads could be safely put down
as anti-sutomobile, IL will be well for vie-
what they are bringing about II they persist
in making the roads unsafe and uncomfort-
able for regular trafic.
A LOVER or SANE SPEEDING.
AsBuRY PARK. n. j., August 2.
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Paris once. - Rue Louis ls Grand. The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale a. Kiosque -. near the
Grand Hotel: Kiosque II, Boulevard des Capucines.
corner Place de ropers. and kiosqus 10. Boulevard
des Italieps. corner Rue Louis lie Grand.
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SubsorIptIons by Mail Postpaid.

Published Nv the Sun Printing and Publishing
Association a. iTO Nassau street. In the Borough Of
Manhattan. New York. President and Treasurer
Of the Association. william NJ. Lsnan. 10 Nassau
street. Secretary Of the Association. Franklin
Bartlett. 5 Nassau street.