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pended. There can be but little doubt
that the German sovereign solemnly
warned NICHOLAS II. that not ruble
would be procurable in Paris, London
or New York, or for that matter in Ber-
lin, unless the Cars promise to pay
should be indorsed by at least ostensible
delegates Of the Russian people It re-
mains to be seen. moreover, whether
foreign bankers and tire investors to
whom the latter would have to appeal
would be satisfied with a mere simula-
crum Of parliamentary institutions.
Whatever else the coming year may
hold, it is now certain that a third at
tempt to govern in conjunction with
elected representatives of at least a
fraction Of the Cars subjects will be
made shortly at st. Petersburg. A
speedy dissolution Of the new Duma
would be farcical, and doubtless, there
fore, we may assume that the Car and
Premier SToLYPIN will long hesitate be-
fore taking such a step. As the Con-
stitutional Democrats will shrink from
committing an act of suicide and will
by this time have arrived at the con-
viction that even the smallest install
ment Of popular self-government is
better than none, we shall not be
surprised to see an inclination toward
accommodation and compromise ex-
hibited on both sides. An object OF
vital moment to the Russian COM
munity at large is to keep the third
Duma alive as long as possible so that
the right Of subjects to some share in
legislation may become an established
principle. Something has already been
done TO familisGize the masses Of the
people with thetlea. When it has once
been planted firmly. to uproot it will be
impossible.
We need not take a too pessimistic
view Of Russia's future because in the
arrangement for the choice of a third
Duma a studious effort has been made
TO minimize the value OF the concession.
A beginning has to be made. If only the
Russian people be permitted to speak at
all IL will in the end speak to the point
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Atlanta is rich in salient individualities,
and some OF her Mayors have been OF them.
A couple Of years ago the then spirited and
sportive Mayor OF the Gate City attended
the League OF American Municipalities in
Toledo. According to the resolutions passed
by the Atlanta City Council -the Mayor
on the floor of the convention and during
its deliberations was In a state Of partial
intoxication.' and his condition and con-
duct" the council asserted somewhat sll-
perfuously. were -in nowise typical Of
Atlanta On his part the Mayor confessed
and avoided:
While had some beer In me. I was not drunk
On the boat excursion It was . case Of drink beer
or Jump into the ocean and drink salt water"
At another time the Mayor. too spirited
In Atlanta itself, promised TO resign the
next time he took drink.
Not with his elbow does Cap JoYNRR. the
present burgomaster. take his exercise
He is the most tempestuous OF. FANS
Atlanta has a baseball nine which is having
"a close race for first place" with that OF
Memphis. or course, Atlanta, originally
Atalanta, is q great racing name and town.
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prevent scorching with tho permission
Of the town authorities. Automobiles
are put upon their good behavior by
the appeal to them to help the good
cause. II IL fails, the stern faced select
mel will try extraordinary police meas
ures and bring all their craft to bear
upon the wicked and inoorrigible. Our
borough friends in Jersey and the West
chester and Long Island towns might
obtain better results in the crusade
against scorching II they were to fol-
low the example OF old Middleboro.
Prescription, execution, expulsion and
other arbitrary and relentless methods
Of warfare upon the automobilists could
wait a while.
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ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT.
A Protest Against Police Methods whicn
Disregard the Citizens Rights.

ToTHE EDIroR or THE SUN-Sir: desire
to call your attention to the unwarranted
acts OF police officers in the city OF New York
in arrestine persons accused OF crime absc-
lutely without warrant OF law. While most
of our police officers are conscientious In the
performance Of their duty. some or them are
densely ignorant Of the limitation OF their
authority and they subject innocent citizens
to vile indignlties. The taking OF person
accused by another OF crime to a police sta
tion by a police officer in full uniform. sur
rounded by a large crowd OF jeering specta-
tors. the rough treatment OF the prisoner at
the police station, the searching OF pockets,
the conveyance in a patrol wagon to the
Magistrates court. the detention In the court
pending examination, are TO my mind Q
most serious offence against the very funda-
mentals Of our republican institutions. which
guarantee to the individual true liberty 10 Ito
widest sense.
I am constrained to write this letter be-
cause OF the arrest on Thursday OF last week
Of young man nineteen years OF age. EN-.
ployed as clerk In my law ONCE. on q charge
OF petit larceny preferred against him by
tho keeper OF restaurant. After suffering
tho usual indisnities the young man was
arraiEned before the Msgistrate sitting in
the evidence, honorably discharged him.
The young m:9 In ;n GSersion had entered one
lower Broadway and psrtsksn Of food and
LIQUIDS costing Is cents. He. was accused
Of having taken 20 cents worth OF food and
liquids, and upon his refusal to pay more than
IS cents a police officer was called in from
the street and the young man was arrested,
The law distinctly provides that q police
onicer can arrest person accused OF crine
when a warrant has not been issued. and
where the crime is a misdemeanor under the
law. only when he sees the crime actually
committed. Petit larceny under our statutes
IL q mlsdemeanor, and IL would have been
perfectly lawful for the manager OF the res
tsurant to arrest the Young man, and he
might have called a police oficer to assist
him In making the arrest II the person charged
with the offence made or attempted to make
any resistance. None OF these facts was
present In the case. I submit that there Is Q
vast difference between accompanying Q
citizen in civilians clothes to Q police station
and being taken there by Q policeman In fun
uniform with crowd following.
II the law applying In such cases IL brought
TO the attention Of the public 80. that ne
power OF police officers can be Thoroughly
understood an invaluable service will bs
rendered to many inpocent persons who are
accused 9f crime and subjected to the deep
Police officers. are. the paid servants Of ths
people, and 1t IL Of the very essence Of our
Institutions that they shall be restrained
within the statutory limits Of their authority.
NEW YORK. August p. IRA J. ETTINGEh
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Mr. Taft One or Them Now.

Secretary TAFT in mistaken when he
says, as he did at Columbus on Monday,
that he urged immediate revision of the
tariff in his speech on September S. 1908.
at Bath, where he went to advocate the
reelection of Representative LITTLE
FIELD. What he said at Bath was this:
Speaking my individual opinion. and for no one
else believe that sIuce the passage Of the DInglcy
bill there has been change In the business condi
tions OF the country. making II wise and Just 70
revise the schedules OF the existing tsrin. The
sentiment In favor Of revision Of the tsrf In grow
ing In the Republican party, and In the near future
the members Of the party will doubtless be able to
agree on a reasonable plan"
Mr.. TAFT now thinks that by near
future he meant immediate" when he
spoke at Bath; but if he meant imme-
date then he means it no longer. Near
future now signifies after the next Pres
idential election, provided the people
elect a Republican Congress, for Mr..
TAFT, like Senator LODGE. is emphatically
and nervously opposed to the Democrats
touching the tariff at all.
At Bath Mr.. TAFT thus accounted for
the failure of the Fifty-ninth Congress
to amend the tariff at its long session:
Tho work of the present session. which was
pressing In Its urgency. could never have been ac-
compnshed n there had been introduced into Con-
xress and the councils OF the party the heated dis
cussions certain TO arise over the question Of the
revision Of the tariff"
In his speech at Columbus Mr.. TAFT
told his audience why the tariff could
not be touched at the long session of
the Sixtieth Congress, which meets in
December:
The passage Of bill by the next Congr would
mean the consideration by Congress Of the tarin in
the midst Of Presidential campaign. with all the
opportunities for misrepresentation OF its effect
which its practical operation for year or more
would refute.-
Mr.. TAFT did not explain at Columbus
why nothing was done about the tariff at
the second session OF the Fifty-ninth
Congress, in which the Republican ma
jorities were 1i2 in the House and 20 in
the Senate.
AS Mr.. TAFT pledged himself at Column
bus to carry out ~My Policy"-that is to
say, the policies of President ROOSEVELT
if he should be elected as Mr.. RoosE-
vEDr's successor, what assurance would
the people have, after electing Mr.. TAFT,
that the work Of the first session of
Congress following his inauguration
would not be so pressing in its urgency"
to quote from his speech at Bath, as to
make it incumbent upon Congress, with
his consent and encouragement, to defer
revision Of the tariff to an indefinite time
when the duty could be performed in
spite Of the heated discussions certain
to arise?
In his revised remarks about revision
Secretary TAFT seems to have taken
his stand unblushingly with the stand
patters" and President ROOSEVELT.
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Who Was This =

We are credibly informcl that the
-ubjoined somewhat remarkable ideas on
combinations of capital, on the RESPONSE
folly Of investment, and on the absence
of necessity for any legislative action,
Federal or State, in restraint OF trusts,
formed part Of a certain address deliv-
cred by distinguished American states
man and jursconsult and public officer
at the celebrated national conference on
trusts in Chicago in September Of 1899:
Il regard the tendency Of combination as an
inevitable feature OF modern civilization from which
no free and enlightened country can escape, and
which has force In proportion to each country's
freedom and enlightenment"
Il think the consolidation or combination OF rail
wsy companies into large systems has been shown
ny experience to be desirable.
The productive wealth OF the country consists
Of the material products OF past labor which have
not been consumed but economical. and which
now employed as agencies 20 produce further
wealth. and OF nothing else: the country Is there
fore rendered neither richer nor poorer by the
placing on the market OF large amounts Of sham
capital In such combinations AZ those under con
Sideraton. unless possibly this may to some extent
cause foreign capital TO seek investment here. I
do not feel competent TO say whether II could have
this effect tn an spprecsble extent: n II could. pro
iap,o Il would be- desirsble otherwise I ace nothing
desirable In It. for " simply changes the form Of
ovnership OF the things which alone have real
value"
ON the other hand. I see no peculiar dangers
/, tns In fnA
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suggested TO the Russian composer Rsoikon
a wicked little soherzo for pianoforte.
Klinger's Fleeing Centaur" at The rec.
ent Lenox Library exhibition Is derived
from Boecklin. nevertheless is a spirited
and individual composition. The Bear
and Elf" In a teasing young female, not over
dressed. on the branch OF a tree worrying
a hungry bear below. very striking de-
sign by Kaethe Kollwitz. ia Carmagnole.
discovers to us a talent Of high order. Her
semi-drunhen. infuriAted harpies dancing
about the guillotine to the diabolic ratapian
OF a drum are very effective. Fraulein
Kollwitz has shown rhythmic sense. This is
seen also In her "Uprising Of the Weavers.'
a composition that might serve az q pic
torial frontispiece TO Hauptmann's play OF
the same name. While IL 10 decorative in
an exotic way. the BeethJven head OF Alois
Kolb In rather absurd, or else In bad taste;
all depends on the point OF view. Why that
august brow should have been selected
for such a curious performance as Is set
forth by Herr Kolb we may only wonder
Franz Stucks head OF Beethoven is his
top notch in heroic portraiture. confessedly
modelled after the death mask. Its stern
lineaments and rugged brows are Beet
hovenish as the Beethoven worshipper
would have his idol. The Kolb head. after
all only decorative fantasy. was evidently
inspired by Stuck Oskar Grsfs knight
is picturesquely massed.
These color prints are direct in their
method. skill and simplicity being obeerv-
able In the economy OF tints employed.
Hans Thoma is not a great but poetic
artist. His landscapes are both homely
and tender. He is old fashioned and he is
delicate In sentiment. Cornelia Pacska en-
ploys algraphy-that is. lithography on
aluminum-with excellent effect. Vogeler
belongs to the little Worspeds group out
side OF Bremen. the Barbizon Of Germany,
mon who are naive and simple in their
interpretations OF nature. There 10 much
that is fantastic and much that 10 affected
in this exhibition. but the ensemble is do
liGhtful. Piebschmanhs mezzotints should
be studied. and the colored hthograph 10
hero really proved to be a sound artistic
medium. Among the etchers the skiee,
tumultuous and peaceful. OF G. Overlook
are worthy Of note. And lastly the @Lucifer'
OF Stuck is the dominating impression OF
the exhibition. With all its progress in the
sheer realism and impressionism best ex-
pressed in German now by Count Leopold
Kalckreuth and Max Liebermann-who is
also devoted follower Of Millet and Israels
the Fatherland's art is deep rooted In the
romantic. Our pessimistic cosmopolitan
may sneer at the absence OF meditation, OF
harmonious palette in Germany, but the
earnestness and wholesome sweetness OF its
new" painting are not TO be superciliousiy
set aside. The Lenox Library proves that
statement Naturally the astounding psy-
obolosio portraiture of Franz Won Lenbach
and the touching and powerful religious
pictures of Fritz Won Uhde need not be rig
orously included in the above ascription OF
Romanticism to modern German art.
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A New Election BE gun I'm Russia.

In conformity with the official pro-
gramme announced at the time Of the
dissolution Of the second Duma, the first
step toward the choice Of members OF a
third Duma was taken on August 20.
That is to say, secondary electors were
chosen in the provinces by the qualified
primary voters. The significance Of the
first returns, which record a victory for
the Liberals, is lessened by the fact that
the contest occurred in an electoral dis
trict Of the province of Smolensk, where
the inhabitants are exasperated by the
reduction Of Poland's representatives
from nearly forty to dozen. II is much
too early to expect a decisive answer to
the question whether the plan devised
by Premier SToLYPIN for the purpose
Of assuring a conservative majority in
The next assembly can be carried out
successfully.
The final outcome Of this election will
have an obvious bearing on the struggle
for ascendency at Tsarskoe-Selo, which
for some time has been going on be-
tween the Reactionists, comprising most
conspicuous members Of the bureau
cracy on the one hand, and on the other
Mr.. SToLYPIN, who fairly may be de-
scribed as in principle moderate Liberal
who reluctantly has been compelled to
yield to the pressure of events and
countenance not only the summary dis
missal of the second Duma but also the
autocratic suspension Of reforms prom
ised in the ukase Of October 80, 1905. II,
even under the present extremely re-
stricted suffrage and the complicated
method of election, the Constitutional
Democrats shall succeed again in con-
trolling the popular chamber, the abso-
lutists will insist that cooperation on the
part of the nations chosen spokesmen
with the executive is impracticable and
that the hope Of naturalizing represen-
tative institutions in Russia must be
renounced.
There is reason to believe that the
vacillating Cz . would have acquiesced
in the concur ut for the fact, GER
tined by re .hade on seemingly
good authority, lst in the recent inter-
view at Swinemlnde the German En-.
peror. who knows how to feel the pulse
of Europe, earnestly advised his Roman
or kinsman to persist in upholding at
least the semblance of a parliamentary
regime. Any kind Of Duma, he is
accredited with asserting, would be
better than none in view Of the circum-
stance that Russia's financial troubles
are drawing to head and will render
additional advances from foreign bank
crs indispensable asDsoon "a the remnant
af the loan contracted abroad in the
winter of l905-O8 shall have been ex-
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Hamlet" without the Prince Of
Denmark.

A careful analysis Of the various &C.
static enumerations OF Roosevelt policies
fails to reveal either among the blessings
thus far realized or the benefits still in
contemplation any scheme for the pro-
lection OF the individual in that most
precious Of all privileges, the right to seek
a livelihood through honest toll.
We are promised all sorts Of benefits,
such as the curbing Of trusts and mo-
nopolies, the curtailment Of predatory
power, the extinction OF swollen for
tunes, the discipline OF lawless corpora
tions, even the spectacle OF cataclysm
which will engulf tho whole abominable
machinery Of business and society az it
now exists. Moreover, We have already
had number Of impressive illustrations
OF the efficacy Of the proposed methods
and the sincerity Of their author. He
must be a dull witted yokel who longer
doubts the coming OF the deluge.
But out Of all this multitude Of prophe-
cies, prescriptions and prophylactics we
extract no diagnosis Of the most fruitful
and deep seated sore within the body
polite. still less promise Of its cure
Easy to believe that the citizen suffers
at the hands of ruthless and piratical
corporations easy to understand that
he may be oppressed, outraged. looted,
through the operation Of unbridled arro-
gance and avarice on the part Of COM
binations controlling public utilities or
the sources and the machinery Of indis-
pensable supply. No wonder that such
conditions and possibilities manipulated
by master of the incendiary art should
be swiftly famed into a confiagration.
Holocausts, however, do not dscrimi-
nate; they merely destroy and desolate.
Meantime what do we hear of the dark
est wrong OF sll-the denial Of the indi-
vduals right to sell his skill and labor
where and on what terms he may elect
-Zand where is the impetuous and conse-
Grated champion who wilflead the victim
to freedom and deliverance? An addi-
tional tax on beef, kerosene, travel, what
you will, might be endured pending the
application of lawful remedies provided
the martyrs were enabled to survive the
process Of readjustment. But what is to
become of the unhappy multitudes who
are both willing and anxious to work for
means Of sustenance but are denied the
opportunity by Messrs. GoMPERs, MITCH
ELL Il Co. and their banded braves? One
may without sacrifice of self-respect or
absolute abandonment OF manhood post
pone his resentment of unquestionable
usury to peaceful and orderly arbitra-
ment, but where shall he look for SYM
pathy and comfort-the "scab" who
wants to earn his daily bread and is
beaten, dubbed, brickbatted, stabbed
and mutilated for his pains?
As it seems to us, the programme Of
exaltation issued from Washington and
Oyster Bay is incomplete. That august
advertisement omits the most important
line of all. Well enough to make show
of Furnishing the wicked, but why have
we not Redeemer who will protect tho
poor, the industrious and the unfriended?
Why, indeedl
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GOV. POST As A REFORMER.
His Attempt to Solve y Land Problem IN
Porto Rico Criticised.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: A q
competitor OF President Roosevelt in the do
main of rapid cures for pseudo economic
ills. Governor Post OF Porto Rico threatens
to wrest from the brow Of our Chief Magis-
trate the ever verdant laurels won by him
on the field OF reform. To develop TO hish
pitch the enthusiasm OF the native islanders
for the American flag and win their coopera.
ton in the labors OF the insular Government.
Governor Post has just suggested before n
gathering OF Mayors an original plan. He
would make real landowners. with a clear
and unauestionable title to the private land
on which they are temporarily settled. Of
those Porto Rican peasants who work half
heartedly in the development Of their country.
To carry out his plan Governor Post would
be constrained to trespass on private prop
erty without the consent OF it's owner.
dates back to the colonization by the Spa n
iards. In order to have laborers handy
wsen she cr0ps are 70 be s the plant
iaborers are called errimados. which in the
Sond.ionsy "a S s.tschsd s1R To The Sacends % dar
ing the time OF their labors. Through the
y they get the salary
the land they occupy and cultivate a few
70 bestow upon those peasants a perma-
nent title to property that does not belong
can law and could not be justified by the
most magnanimous purpose. The excite
this break OF her Governor viii react aSSinst
those very same breadwinners who are the
object OF his anxieties. The planters are
turning away at this moment all the orri-
mados In their haciendas and refusing to
consider the offers Of others who are more than
willing to replace those expelled, As con-
the island and rendering more acute an
economic problem that was almost solved.
throne" when Mr.. Beekman Winthrop was
Governor OF Porto Rico, and he Is fond OF
playing the game OF politics. Active to the
point OF recklessness. he will impress the
seal OF his impatioDce upcn ell thcse meas
ures which he thinks might rebound to the
credit Of his Administration. ID. CoLLAzo.
NEW YORK, August 81.
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Etiquette Swatted.

1t is customary, We believe at any rate
IL ought to be, to allow q royal parsonage
to read and revise the speeches to be
made at a festival which he adorns.
Thus nothing dissonant with his feelings
or his prejudices is allowed to be heard.
This courteous habit was forgotten at
the laying Of the cornerstone of the
Pilgrim monument. The orator at the
Masonic exercises permitted himself to
take this Nathan-unto-David tone: =
1T is the penalty OF extreme power that the man
who wields 1t grows unconsciousiy 70 feel himself
superior TO tho laws that govern the less powerful
Even Mr.. HENRY CABOT LODGE talked
Of the -organic law and Of reverence
for law and the Constitution
The Hon. WILLIAM G. LOWERING, Rep
resentative in Congress Of the Four
teenth Massachusetts, district, deliber-
ately broke the harmony OF the good
meeting, as this perfidious apology
shows:
1T is far from my purpose TO sound false on
'dsoordsns mote 10 jar upon the ears of this roody
company
Then in the august ears of the greatest
living orderer Of new laws Mr.. LOWERING
kept sounding this discordant note:
I'VE are forever busy making iawsl
What with Federal and State iegislstion We
have multiplied our laws until no man can count
them.
LAWS, LAwsi Laws, Every way ws turn We
are met by laws