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New-York tribune., 1908-08-20

admirable They ere most creditabe and COM
mendable in naval officer Of high rank ana
long and intelligent observation. And, most I'M
portant of all, they are In complete accord Win
the sober common sense and the Informed Juds-
ment of the American people. This nation
knows that there Is no cause whatever Tor war
between it and Japan, and that neither OF the
two is so foolish or so wicked as to so 10 war
or TO provoke war without the most urgent ana
irresistible cause. 1t has regarded with not
over-patient tolerance and with much reproDa-
ton and contempt the efforts which have been
made to stir up strife and the proposals Tor
grotesquely impossible intrigues and ALI
ances'' These things, whether inspired py
malice or arising from sheer shallowness, may
as Admiral Evans says, do some harm. Ihelr
real character Is not understood as well ABROAD
as at home. and some persons somewhere in the
world may take them seriously, to the discredit
of this countrys reputation. But we should De
greatly surprised If all such tomtom beat1hg
proved sufficient to cause much as ripple on
the surface of good relations between the Two
countries which it is intended to embroil we
were glad to accept the remarks OF Admiral
Yamamoto some time ago, as the voice OF
Japan We are quite confident that the words
Of Admiral Evans which we have reported are
the voice Of the United States. And the TWO
voices are in exact accord.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
an 4DHIRAL-s ST4TEsHANsHTP.

Paul Jones's strong and profound sense of
the political and military weight Of command
on the sea and his elevated conception OF the
character and department of those through
vhom that command is attained and maintained
are well reflected in the remarks which Rear
Admiral Evans made to correspondent Of The
Tribune on the occasion of the commemoration
of his retirement from the active list of the
navy His expressions concerning the quality
of our navy, the reason for lis superiority in
gunnery 10 a navy which. man for man, he con-
sders 10 be as good as cur own, and the i'm
perative need of maintaining a navy strong
enough TO be a guarantee of national security
and therefore. the best pledge of peace, were
what were to be expected from officer of his
professional experience and judgment But his
further observations On international relation
ships and the present prospects Of peace or war
were marked also with q spirit Cf high and pa
triotic craftsmanship which it is reassuring to
perceive in that department of the public ser
vice which, next 10 diplomacy itself, has most
to do with our dealings with other lands.
Referring with sailorlike bluffness to the talk
about war with Japan, Of which there has been
so much in the last fow years, he described IL
rs absurd "The people of Japan" he said,
have too much common serse TO go to war
with US and we have too much fOrbearance to
force them into a fight. Despite what some
'-iurid newspapers say, and despite the harm
they do. there wont be any war between Japan
and ourselves" Nor did there seem TO him TO
be any provocation TO war in Japans atti-
tude or in the situation in China Japan's atti-
fude toward China was ne said. greatly mis-
understood-we might perhaps amend his words
by substituting msrepresented-in this country,
for she was not trying 10 colonize that empire,
but merely TO secure a hand in directing her
policies-to which Japan is surely as much en-
titled any nation in the world. The only
Legitimate interest of America in China. in his
opinion was TO maintain the "open door" 10
which we may add, Japan is fully pledged and
which Japan has done as much 10 maintain as
any other nation in The world.
These views of Admiral Evans are thoroughly
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
"TBE WORLD" AND MR.. BRYAN.

Stripped of its false and mischief breeding al
liances and longer attempting 10 reCohcne
Democracy with semi-Socialiszn, or with pa
ternalistic Populsm. or with any other form OIL Oh
crazy radicalism, the Democratic party appears
to have recovered to conslderaple deeree iIoil ~
its long infatuation and to be once more III d
position to render efficient service TO the Re-
public Without scanning IT too closely Tor I'M
perfections we believe that it deserves encour-
agement and is entitled to Democratic sympathy
and support.-The New York World
The party is stripped of fits alliances through
no merit of Mr.. Bryan. who did all he could
TO persuade Watson and Hearst TO give him
their support. The party is more paternallsuc
and more committed to Capitalization than ever
before The government guarantee OF bank
deposits is a new and vicious piece of paternal-
ism which Mr.. Bryan has made one OF the chleI
PARTY doctrines for this campaign. The fed
eraI licensing of all trusts controlling more
than % per cent of the plant and output in
given industry is the vastest project OF CEN
tralization which any party has ever Endorsed
IT vouId utterly change the conditions under
which large amount of the business of the
country is done and. involving as it does, ac-
cordinp TO the Democratic platform, the main
tenapce of uniform prices throughout the
country it would be a step toward the gov
ernment regulation of the prices OF the chleI
commodities That would be carrying pater-
nslsm semi-socialism, Capitalization and crazy
radicalism to the extreme, yet it is the way
the Democratic party is surely headed Ihe
Democratic platform proposal to give the
Interstate Commerce Commission authority to
initiate changes in railroad rates is an utterly
superfuous step toward further Capitalization
The declaration against injunctions In labor
disputes is crazy radicalism. 1t springs from
sympathy with the socialistic idea of giving the
laboring classes additional opportunities FOR
the successful carrying on of the class war
1t is needful only to compare this platform
with the platforms Of the Democratic party
before the domination of Mr.. Bryan TO see how
far 1t has got away from its ancient faith, and
with the Populist platforms of that period to
see where the Democracy of to-day received
most of its inspiration.
It will doubtless surprise MIR. Bryan hlmself
TO learn from The World that he is making
a fight against Rooseveltism. There has been
no evidence hitherto that he knew it, and 1t
is safe to say that he will take some pains TO
conceal this momentous fact from the voters
of the Middle West the battle-ground Of the
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
PLACE FOR PoMPEIAN FREsCos.
One-Story Building Addition to Metropol,
itan Museum of Art.

A design for one-story building. opening from
the central Fifth avenue section Of the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art, approved at a meeting
the Municipal Art Commission yesterday, Robert
W. de Forest presiding
This building is intended to house the Pompeiian
frescos of the Boscoreale room. under conditions
approximating nearly possible those under
which the room originally existed. The structure
will be built In the court between the central
Fifth avenue wing and the library wing
The commission accepted from Caroline E. Law
renee IngersoIl a portrait Of her grandfather
Josiah Ingersoll. a Revolutionary commander and
a master warden the port of New York The
work Is by an unknown artist
Designs were approved for an elementary school
building with auditorium extension at Porter ave
nue. Ingraham street and Harrison Place. Brook
Iyn at cost of 100000 for bridge connecting the
third and fourth stories OF the Wanamaker and
Stewart buildings: for bronze tablet. presented
by the National Society OF the United States
Daughters of 1872 State Of New York. TO be placed
on the AQUARIUM Building: for an engine house In
White Plains road. The Bronx. to cost $4,000, and
another in Hancock Place. Manhattan. to cost
$4,000
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
"THE NEW ROOSEVELT"

4,uor, tho American Magazine for September.
didn't get to dsG9ssiop 6 OF fs fbe prst 9me
in my experience Of meet meeting He elm Said several
Roosevelt he 1m seeme1 fSfough heG now Ive done
WORK." His chief idea seemed to be that ne ne
wanted % 70 get awaV SO that when the new admin
istration comes in my opinion VII & not aonIe m Will
saw saw that I am interfering where | have have mo no
right nterfeTe Silence IF Is refgsp 5S fa
thing I do is to go entireiy ytIiSp aTJS here
and that is what am nG g0ngG to sr do to do 9 10 4e
II naat Vac Grants adventure He had had enough OF
public affairs he wanted to be a9ne and If qGle ET
many If he could do it to man. but he could
not think of attempting the ceremonies F nG, 1hat
attracted him most in Europe was the invita- a.
ons Of the King Of la b af6 Them ne He said he
would like to see how they did It in the OLD
not do this without attracting too much atten
ton He had conGlTded t6 m bad reav oS Wanted
TO do. and to hunt big game He would @ sail as as
after ba Mrcf E s1ez
italian East Africa Here he, would take the
eni,r9Sd end of # wit no the wilderness His son Kermit
will go with him and as tn ss no no 9as
looking forward to the recreation of the voy-
a6st age aaa contry i1 beyond italy he said will
to f5 and o0k aya TGF Ksam %
book Of poetry and III a have % my hunting books.
We WIN have sen great him tlmn n NOR. human mood
nor have ever been more impressed with h,,I, his
bieness and breadth. Once when he said We'll,
I'm through" 1 suggested that the people might
not he through with him. that four years hence
they might be clamoring for him more insist
entity than they to-day. =
No" ne said. with curious fnality. a sort
- sadness a note which | never before heard
him strike revolutions don't go backward New
Issues are coming up. 1 see them People are
going TO discuss economic questions more and
questions and ! not deeply interested in
them: my problems are moral problems and my
teaching has been plain morality.
He is certainly very extraordinary character
-about the greatest OF time. He has the
curious flashes OF genius; in which he sees him
self truly-more truly than any else does.
And I believe more than before that he
put aside a third term nomination, which he
could have had at the turn of his hand. from
the highest conception OF his moral obligations.
/ know from my talk with him last winter. that
he was tempted almost to the point of Welding.
that the pressure had been tremendous (far more
than any ordinary could have resisted) but
that he has asked himself simply. What is
right in this matter?"-and the thing he thought
right he has done
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
INLERED MNOCENCE!

Young man was released from the New Jer
sey state prison the other day under circum-
stances which have attracted much public at
tention He was formerly a preacher. He used
the privileges and influence of his calling in
debauchng one of the young women OF his
church. with whom he finally absconded, aban-
doning the wife and children whom he had bru-
tallv i'll treated He was caught, tried and sent
to prison. as was right and just, and he was
iustly compelled TO serve out his full term in
spite of his whining pleas fof pardon. At
the end of his term. instead Of seeking to begin
a new life apart from the public gaze, he seemed
TO court further notOrfety with various sensa-
tional utterances.
He makes it known that he considers himself
to have been very badly treated in that he was
not pardOned and restored to citizenship. In
fact he expresses the opinion that he is the
greatest martyr on record in the history or
mankind "You cannot imagine" he says,
what it is to suffer the agonies that have for
the last three years and half. Yet, In the
true spirit of injured innocence, he imparts to
the world the touching information that he Is
willing to forgive eyerybody-the government
for not pardoning him, the court for condemn
ing him; even, we suppose, his wife Tor having
been his wife. Truly, ii is an edifying specta-
Gle which should overwhelm wicked world
with penitence and remorse for having so III
used this exemplary youth
Yet such is the incorrigible perversity of the
unregenerate human heart that we fear there
are those who will say that whatever he has
suffered in these three and a half years he
ought TO have suffered. They will think that
others have suffered, too, perhaps almost as
much as lis sensitive soul-the wife and chill
dren whom he abused and deserted, for exam
ple and the girl whom he vlctimized. They
will think that these are entitled to pretty
nearly as much sympathy he, and that the
church and the community eau very well afford
| to get along without his further minisrations
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph 70 The Tribunal

TBy Telegraph 70 Tribunal
Newport Aug 19-It was anothsr big tay
at the Newport Casino to-day. the second eay
OF the national lawn tennis tournament equaltnr
almost IN briIlfance the gathering OF the frst
There were several luncheon parties after sns
tennis matches while later IN the afternoon NJ
and Mrs Henry s. Redmond entertained nunhss
Of friends at a luncheon at the Clambaks Club
This evening there were five dinner parties. ous
was given By Mrs Craig Biddle, while the otss-
bostesses were Mrs. Elisha Dyer. Mrs Charles ?
Hoffman, Mrs Robert Goelet and Mrs. Philip
Lydig Mrs William Grosvenor gave her usal
wednesday afternoon reception
The annual meeting OF the Newport Reainz
Room was held yesterday morning. but there "a,
no change IN the officers OF the club.
William A Iarned the tennis champion. Is Il,
guest Of Mr. and Mrs. George s Scott
Mrs. Ella Borland. Of New York. Is visiting N,
David King at King Cole
Registered at the Casino to-day were John
Darragh Thomas Crane. r L Bacon. William A
Iarned. Seth B. French. ID. Seymour Blair. Ms
Ella Boriand, Alexander Brown and r Dey.nth-
worth.
Colonel and Mrs. Delaney Kane returned to-
day from Saratoga and Colonel C. l. 2. Robin
son has returned from New York
General Horace Porter. who is at present at Bar
Harbor Is to return 70 Newport On August Is 70
be the guest OF DR.. and Mrs Henry Barton Jacobs
Mfr. and Mrs. Henry A c. Taylor and Mr. and
Mrs Herman Leroy Emmett returned to-day ron
Bar Harbor on the steam yacht Wanderer
The Misses Emma and Ida Thursby, Of Ne.
York. who have been the guests Of Mrs Hs1ry ".
Bookstaver have ended their Newport VISIT Ed
have gone 10 Bar HarbOr.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
In THE BERKsHIREs-

L1enox. Aug 19.-Miss Adele Kneeland gave , =.
IN her floral garden to-day for party from :.
Girls Friendly School. in Canaan. Conn. Tnev ~.
heard OF the beauty OF the garden and asked -.
mission to see II.
Senator W. Murray Crane Is entertaining IN IA,
ton Acting Governor Eben s. Draper and HERBS,
Parker, OF Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Farrell OF Ansonia b,-
arrived at Hotel AspinwaH. President F. n Eos-.
son Of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. with NJ,
Emerson and Miss Emerson. Of Wilmington. " G
have also arrived there
LGiss Anna 3. Shaw entertained at a dinner ..
night, followed by bridge whist. at the Hon.
stead, for Miss A. r Williams. Of Har-sors
Among the players were Mrs Charles Ass,
Bristed Mrs. John a. Hadden. Miss Helen Par,.
Miss Amy Farnunn. Miss Isabel Shotter and NJ,
Heloise Meyer.
Mr. and Mrs Irvine Keyser, Miss Beverley jan.
and Henry NJ. Cuttings. OF Baltimore. arrived -
night to visit Miss Anna T. Wright.
Edward R. Wharton returned to-day IN,
Canada. where he has been for the salmon rsh.ux
Mr. and Mrs. ]. Apgar Smith. OF Charleston. G.
have arrived.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
ARTISTS TO HONOR JOHN LA FARCE.

The National Arts Club, of which Spencer Trask
is president. will give dinner early in September
in honor OF John La Fargo. TO which all the well
known artists in the United States will be invited.
Alexander r. McFim. chairman of the enter
tainment committee OF the club. said yesterday
that leading artists OF the country wished TO pay
tribute to Mr.. La Fargo as the dean OF the pro
fession and the greatest coIorist in the world
II is expected that addresses will be made by
Frederic Crowninsheld. president of the Fine
Arts Federation: Frederick Dielnan. president OF
the National Academy of Design; Sir Caspar Pur-
don Clarke. director OF the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art. and Edwin Howiand Blashhed.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.

Breton Woods N H, Aug. 1s.-Mrs. Joseph
Stickney is expected TO arrive about September L
to spend the remainder Of the season at Breton
Woods Accompanying her as her guest viii be
Mrs Pierre LorilIard Ronalds. Of London
Several smart dinners were given tonight,
among the hosts being r. B. Worral, Of New
York; L. A Hamilton of New York, and w w
Gurley, Of Chicago
Congressman Butler Ames of Lowell. Mass, has
Joined Mr. and Mrs. H. NJ. F1agler at the Mount
Washington Hotel
Francis E. Dodge of East Thirty-seventh street
New York has joined friends here for short visit
Dr. Samuel II. Austen, Of Philadelphia was
host at dinner last evening in honor OF the
Misses Weaver daughters OF ex-Mayor Weaver, OF
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20

which it was desirable to attain couio Dc
reached quickly. The emergency rendering an
abrupt rise desirable might not occur ire
ouentIy, but when 1t did it would doubtless be
pressing That an airship like Count Zeppelin
would prove superior TO one like La Patrle at
such times is not incredible.
Something should be gained too, by placing
the screw propellers almost exactly on line
passing horizontally through the centre or
dirigible balloon instead of below the line.
The former arrangement, possible only with
rigid frame, insures less wasteful applcation
of the power of the engines than the latter
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
Aboxf People and SOcfdf lTacfderfs

Philadelphia, who are guests at the AUSTEN :.
tage. Prominent among the guests were ths ~
4 o. Es-
York
Mrs. George D Otis. OF New York IS the -.
Of Mr. and Mrs. Charles l. Raymond at Ths r..
galow.
Martin j. Keogh jr.. OF Yonkers. has arr,v.s !.
the Keogh cottage. and John II. Correil OF "
York, is occupying a cottage
Miss Nina Rhoades Is entertaining Miss NJ a..
ford, Of New York
Mrs Arthur RyIe OF East 5Sth street. New v,-.
entertained party Of twenty-four friend, !.
bridge followed by a tea. yesterday.
Mrs Joseph Hoyt. OF East Sixty-eighth s,-,..
New York, entertained at bridge last evening =.
room was decorated with American Beauty ro,,
and eight tables were filed.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
FOR PTRE WATER.

The encouraging announcement is made that
the State Board of Health Of New Jersey has
requested the Attorney General to begin legal
action against two municipalities for polutinS
adjacent waters with their sewage. Such u
srit is so unusual even for the much needed
redemption and protection of potable Inland
streams that it would in any case be worthy OF
sympathetic attention. But 1t IS especially
nots BILE for the fact that the waters now con-
cerned are salt tidal estuaries on the coast.
Hitherto it has been generally assumed that all
such waters were outside of the law and might
he used bv ANYBODY for any purpose, and that,
ANYWAY because of their saltnesS and the ebD
and flow of the tides, the pouring OF contaml-
mating matter into them could do no harm. 10
these comfortable theories the proposed action
will give a rude shock.
That the action should be successful is, how
ever scarcely to be denied 1t is highly proba-
BILE that it will be successful, and that the
municipalities in question will be prevented
from further pollution of the waters, If, indeed
they are not punished for the pollution of which
they have already been guilty. The contamlna-
ton of tidal bay or estuary may not be quite
as serious an offence as the similar deflement
of q fresh water stream which may be used for
drinking Yet when such tidal waters are used
for bathing. boating and fishing, and for the
taking of shellflsn and crustaceans, the offence
is positive and serious menace TO health and
life as we'll as an impairment Of comfort and
violation of decency.
The progress and outcome of these suits will
be watched with interest, partly because of
what is involved in the specific cases locally,
and partly because of the wide reaching i'm
portance of the precedents which may thus be
: established. If Atlantic Highlands and Sea-
bright can be restrained from polluting the
waters of the Shrewsbury River and Pleasure
Bay with their sewage, or can be punished for
doing so. it is not easy to see why Newark,
Elizab beth and other communities may not be
similarly dealt with for pollutfng the Kills and
New York Bay. And if legal precedent In
one state should have force in another, New
York City might find itself confronted with a
condition in which the easygoing theories of
the past would afford small comfort.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
MR.. DEMING TO EXHIBIT ABROAD.
First Zone Man Exhibition in Europe of
American Art.

A noteworthy step by American artist will be
the shipment London this week Of score OF
paintings and half dozen bronzes for exhibition
dian and animal sculptor and painter whose studio
is in Macdougal Alley.
It is said that this will be the first 'one man
exhibition Europe of American art treating only
American subjects. Mr. Deming's paintings on
Indian subiects-the domestic and the war life Of
The Indian and his mythology There are also sew
eraI studies Of the Oldtime Indian for friezes The
bronzes depict American wild animals
AS the German Emperor has recently shown
much interest in American art, the pictures and
bronzes will be exhibited In Berlin and later in
Paris.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-20
OUR FLEET IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

OUR FLEET IN THE COHHON w HAhi H.
The Journey of our fleet across the Pacinc
might have been considered to have ended with
its arrival at Auckland. Certainly 1t mas now
ended, after the additional run of 1.2o4 miles
across Tasman Sea to sydney 1t has now
reached the Australian continent, which bounds
the Pacific at the southwest and hencefortn
IFS course will lie among the Australian and
Asian coast waters until 1t passes through the
Straits into the Indian Ocean. At Sydney 1t
is not remote from our anHpOdes. in iat-
tude at the south which corresponds with that
of Wilmington, n. c.. at the north. and OF
course 1t finds itself there in the late winter
or early spring, while we at home are IN tne
waning summer.
1.-THE Great South Land" which the fleet now
visits is In some respects the most interesting
of all the great British colonies, at any rate 10
Americans The political organization OF the
Commonwealth is avowedly modelled after
that of the United States and resembles 1t FAR
more nearly than it does those of the two
dominions of Canada and New zealand. In
deed. Australia is at this moment passing
through a serious struggle over the same ques
ton of state rights national sovereignty
which long vexed and which is not yet
wholly disposed of here. Some Of the Social
industrial and other questions which have Deen
conspicuous in America have also been prom
inent in Australia, and the manner III WHICH
they have been dealt with there has been an
interesting object lesson to America and TO the
world.
The city of Sydney is the state capital OF
New South Wales, which is the most populous
of the members of the Commonwealth. IL
stands on the shore of Port Jackson, which Is
confidently described-by others than Austria
lians-as the finest harbor In the world, ana
which indisputably ranks among the three OF
four finest The city covers dozen square
miles, without counting extensive suburbs, ana
has a population Of about six hundred thou-
sand. In parks parkways, monuments anu
public and private buildings of imposing char
acter it is exceptionally rich Once the resort
of conyicts-New South Wales was penai
colony down to 1S40-and notorious the world
over as the home of Sydney ducks, 1t has
splendidly outlived its involuntary shame ana
stands unchallenged among the great capitals
of the world For obvious reasons, the Amer
lean feet is peculiarly welcome there, and we
may expect It's reception and entertainment to
be as cordial and splendid as it will have on
all it's globe circling voyage