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The sun., 1908-07-21
Tho Age Of tho sentimentaIist.

Americans have been fed 30 long on
sentimental and spectacular political talk
and policies that perhaps their interest
In what used to be thought practical
political questions has been abated II
not atrophied. Take the tariff. After
all the prelusive mutter and humble
from Massachusetts, and the Northwest
there Is no appearance Of any general
concern about tariff revision. The gen.
tlemen who profit by the tariff, the
Robber Barons, don't seem to be losing
any sleep. The victims remain passive.
Once the tariff was the SUM Of all villain
les. Now the trust or big corporation has
the Job. Neither Democratic nor Republic
can promise OF revision cuts any ice, II We
may use a phrase that suggests a trust.
How pale and faint seem tho old adjec-
tives and objurgations Of the days when
Mr.. VEST was declaring war Of exter-
mination against protected industries and
before the Star Eyed Goddess had been
lugged to the junk room. MoRRIapH and
MILLS are still with US, but where IL the
old ardor and fanatioism7 Reduction
horizontal, perpendicular or sporadic
heats nobody. Even the standpatters
patter and stand mechanically; they have
not the fervent religious proteotionism
Of Pig Iron KELLEY and RoswBLL G.
HoRR.
The tariff. as We understand It. Ia the
chief source Of bliss or bane to these
United States. It fattens or it robs the
farmer and the wage Garner. And yet
almost everybody seems as languid
about it as II 1t were a call to subscribe
to a campaign fund.
Then there is the cost Of living. Every
body, and more especially his wife, knows
that this has gone up by intolerable per-
cottages In the last ten or fifteen years.
Here is something that speaks to tho
business and bosom. Does 1t or will 1t
make any figure In politios3 Not that
we can discover. What are the baby's
shoes or chuck steak to immortal minds
stepped in the vitriol Of ROOSEVELT and
BRYANT Perhaps words and even things
have lost their meaning. The eyes Of
the public are hazy and distorted. The
long crapule is not over. The surfeit Of
superlatives and hyperbolas lasts. Sober
thought. sober politics, care for the
main chance may be reviving. They
will find a more cynical and disillusioned
people than they left.
Most Of which is mighty lucky for the
Republicans, who usually have most Of
the luck. Besides, the lean times are
fatter than was feared, though perhaps
q people 90 long given up to rhetoric and
hero worship can be restored to hard
sense only by hard times.
The sun., 1908-07-21
Steam Shovelman Taft.

So Mr.. TAFT has become member of
the International Association Of Steam
Shovellers! Well, it is only step from
the steam roller to the steam shovel, and
we suppose it is becoming that we con-
gratulate both the union and it's new
beneficiary. All the same We wish that
Mr.. TAFT had not taken this step. He
can have had no motive in doing 80 but
to get votes and we think he would have
got more votes had he declined the honor
we mean more union votes. We think
that sensible and self-respeoting wage
earners all over this country are impa-
tient with being coddled and wheedled by
politicians who want their suffrage.
The sun., 1908-07-21
Champlain and the Founding of
Quebec.

The celebration that will more than
fill this week at Quebec commentaries
the founder of nation and the work he
began, which transformed Canada from
a mere hunting and trapping field into
the home Of men and women of the white
race. few weeks ago in the Sorbonne
at Paris MARCEL DUBOIS spoke of SAM
UEL CHAMPLAIN as the greatest genius
in oolonizing effort that France has pro-
duced. Distinguished French explorers
had seen Canada before his time only to
spread the view that the country was not
fit to become the home Of Frenchmen
In the opinion of an eminent statesman
the large acreage Of snow in Canada was
not worth quarrelling over with foreign
nations. All explorers from CARTIER to
the humblest adventurer declared that
the best way to utilize Canada was TO
pay it flying visits for furs and skins and
then get back to- France, where white
men could live. CARTIER said that
scurvy there would kill all the whites,
and that the long cold winters were in
sufferable.
Still, France yearned for colonies in
the new world. Sbs envied Spain her
fortunate occupation of the warmer and
apparently richer regions of southern
North America. She sought eagerly for
practicable fields to occupy. Nine years
before CHAMPIhIN saw Canada France
planted colony in the delta of the
Amazon, and four years before CHAM
PLAIN founded Quebec France Equa-
toriale" was established in what is now
French Guiana.
The man who saw what Canada really
was and what it oouldpeoome had many
The sun., 1908-07-21
Advertising a Religion.

On the editorial page Of the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle we find the following state
ment:
The American Unitarian Association has placed
advertising contracts with thirty two daily papers
and twenty -one weeklies and will pay for the pub.
ncstlon Of pertinent paragraphs making clear the
Unitarian view. This Is practical missionary
work"
No doubt this method Of advancing
the cause Of Unitarianism is practical
enough, but is it commendable and
worthy Is there not something about
it that savors too much Of business?
To men and women Of sensibility and
refinement may it not prove repellent
rather than attractive?
We confess that we do not like the
idea of thus advertising the tenets Of a
religious denomination.
Unitarianism once meant chiefly a
denial Of the doctrine of the Trinity.
The Unitarians in this country in DR..
CHANNING's day mostly believed that
CHRIST, although not the equal Of COP,
was divine in a special and peculiar
pSiiDo, PoooOooiilB dtIliuuOSo VI q
nature such as belonged to no other
created being. The radical Unitarians
Of later day. perhaps best represented
by the late JOHN w. CHADWICK, deemed
CHRIST divine in no other sense than that
in which any great leader Of thought
may be called divine; as, for example,
ST. PAUL or ABRAHAM LINCOLN. They
asserted that the difference was only
difference in degree. Nowadays we
hear but little dogmatic or doctrinal
teaching from the Unitarian puplit.
The fatherhood of GOD and the brother
hood of Man is the motto OF the leaders
Of Unitarianism at this time. Precisely
what it means may be little difficult to
explain; but at all events it makes for
righteousness and affords the widest
possible scope for religious teaching and
exhortation.
To teach and preach the fatherhood
of GoD and the brotherhood Of Man is
one thing; to advertise it in the secular
press is another. We feel quite confident
that this advertising scheme would have
been shocking to DR.. CLAIMING; we
cannot believe that 1t has the sanction
Of that Nestor of Unitarianism, EDWARD
EVERETT HALE, now chaplain of the Sem
ate at Washington. There never was
more practical man in the ministry than
is DR.. HALE, yet we fancy he will find
this missionary work OF the American
Unitarian Association too intensely prac-
tical to command his approval.
When man takes up his morning
newspaper at the breakfast table he does
not want TO read How to be good Uni
tartan" any more than How to be good
or How to be a good
Roman Catholic He wants TO read the
news Of the day with suitable and sensi-
BILE comments thereon.
Many years age there was roadside
The sun., 1908-07-21

The Boston Herald quotes an address
delivered by Er. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
In 1900:
Speaking of Mr.. BRYAN purely from the his
torfoai standpoint serously doubt whether In all
human experience any man ever before gave utter
anoo 70 an equal number of words In the same
spaoe Of time"
Mr.. ADAMs's doubt was merely polite
he knew then and he knows about eight
times as well now that Mr.. BRYAN holds
the record Afew weeks ago 1t was Is. .Ooo,-
900 words. It will be &c. .oOo. 900 by August 1.
In few years 1t will be matter Of SEX
allions. Of duodeoillions. Of vigintillions, II
nothing happens to the inexhaustible well
Of words.
The sun., 1908-07-21
The Campaign Fund and tho Writ of
Injunction.

There is laughable suspicion among
the piazza politicians at Hot Springs that
when the Denver convention emitted its
platform and the Taft treasurer, Mr..
SHELDON, made his declaration In regard
to campaign gifts, neither knew OF the
Federal law of a year ago last January:
That It shall be unlawful for any national bank
or any corporation organized by authority OF any
law OF Congress 10 make q money contribution In
connection with any election to any political once.
II shall also be unlawful for any corporation what
ever to make q money contribution In connection
with any election at which Presidential and Vice
Presidential electors a Representative in Con-
Eress to be voted for any election by any State
Legislature OF q United States Senator Every
corporation which shall make any contribution in
violation OF the foregoing provisions shall be sub
ject to finc not exceeding 5000 and every ofioer
or director of any corporation who shall consent
20 any contribution by the corporation in violation
OF the foregoing provisions shall upon conviction
be punished by . fine Of not exceeding 1900 and
not less than $3.50. or by Imprisonment for a term
Of not more than one year. or both such flne and
Imprisonment in the discretion of the court
The premise Of the Denver declara-
tion on campaign gifts from corpora
tions is that the Republican leaders had
assigned, transferred and conveyed to
corporations the legislative powers OF
Congress and the President in consider
alton Of money paid and to be paid by
corporations in order to corrupt voters.
A Republican Congress in 1907, mindful
Of what ROOSEVELT did with HARTMAN
in 1904, had, however, put an end to SINH
lar doings this year.
Mr.. KERN has been reported as saying
that he and BRYAN would not accept
campaign gifts from corporations be-
cause none of their charters permitted
such gifts. The inference is that both
of the Denver candidates were ignorant
of the law of 1907.
Now, what would the Bryan denounoers
of injunctions say and do II on suit and
petition and on satisfactory aff1davits
that corporation had voted and was
about to pay a large sum into the Taft
campaign chest a Federal Judge (having
been asked by Taft share owner for
preliminary Injunction and order Of
notice on the corporation to appear and
show cause) should refuse a restraining
order till the case could be heard? If
the restraining order were not quickly
made the money would 60 into the Taft
chest and an injury would be inflicted
beyond subsequent remedy.
That would be amusing.
The sun., 1908-07-21
Giordano Bruno,

FToM Hs Sacred Hsdn RselsU
In . recent letter from Rome TO THl SuN william
Dean Howclls speaks Of the statue now standing
tn that city to the memory Of 0iordano Bruno
who was burned at the stake In 1000 and says that
Bruno was thus executed for defending tho Copper.
nican system Of astronomy. The dean Of Ameri.
can letters errs gravely here. Bruno was not con-
demned for this nor for his doctrine Of the plurality
OF inhabited worlds but for his theological errors
among which were the following That Chrtss
was not God. but an unusually skilful magician:
that the Holy Ghost Ia the soul Of the world that
the devil win be saved. &c. The third volume Of
the Catholic Encyclopaedia has an informative
article on Bruno. whom the Free Thinkers Of Italy
look upon 40 martyr. Good Protestsnts know.
Ing nttle about Bruno and what he stood for. Join
the Free Thinkers In spplAuding his memory.
But ss the Catholic Enoyoiopedia points out n
was not Roman Inquisitor. but q Protestans
divine who said Of him that he was man Of great
capacity with INFINITE knowledge, but not trsos
of relIaton-
The sun., 1908-07-21
A Church Journal on the Nude,


We have no patience with the disagreesble mix-
ture Of Phnhttnism, Hypocrisy and misplaced
prudery which produced q protest against the
statues on the British Medical Associations new
building In the Strand. The statues are % high
up on the facade Of the building that even had they
been aA that they were said 70 be. they oouid not
have been reasonably Judged without the use of
an opera glass. Our own objection 70 them In 60
far a. We are able 70 SEQ them, 10 that they are
rather ugly and uncouth. II the British public
would be good enough 70 transfer its moral In
dignaton from works Of art which on end only that
prudery which 10 % unpleasant . feature In the
national character 70 directions In which Il Ia sadly
needed, the interests Of morality might be con-
sderaby helped. The removal OF naked but un-
Objectionable statues -skied- a to be invts,bie
unless they are looked for is not exactly the most
urgent Of the stsps necdfui for the publication Of
the Strand.
The sun., 1908-07-21
The Peudaism Of roosevelt and Bryan.


To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sfr: Are
there two codes OF morals In this blessed land
OF oursi Is there one code for the citizen
in private life and another for the man IN
public life? For instance. oan q man In pri-
vate life accept $4,000 from another and
then proceed to ruin him? I am speaking
now of the Roosevelt-Harriman affair Or
can another citizen accept substantial con-
tributions 10 campaign funds and then at
tempt to destroy him7 I am speaking now
Of the Bryan-Gufey affair. It 10 wen known,
and James X. MCGUIRE OF Syracuse and Nor
man Z. Mack Of Buffalo have 30 declared
that Colonel Jamss NJ. Guffey was liberal
man from Q youth has been Identified with
corporations. Colonel Guffsy likewise.
Roosevelt. in other words. took HArriman's
corporation money and then turned his
batteries upon Hartman. Bryan In his
treatment Of Guffey followed In Roosevelt's
footsteps.
Would such conduct be tolerated In private
lifef Is President or o vould-be President
above the moral code which all private citi-
Gems high and humble. must obey II they are
TO be looked upon as honorable and high bred
citizens Of thts repubicf
In feudal times It was the proper thing for
the strong to grab from the weak and thump
'em besides. but those days have long since
passed away. The general understanding for
several hundred years has been that there
was but one set OF morals for rulers and
vould-be rulers and citizens alike. Roosevelt
and Bryan evidently believe otherwise. and 10
my mind they have set q DANA sins example
TO our youths and others. SIT.
ALBANY, July TO-
The sun., 1908-07-21

What fate makes q prisefghter aotive
or retired 90 easily vanquIshed by lesser
manf We remember when the god Of Bos-
ton was hammered grievously with beer
glass BY Q hop O. my thumb tailor Of Eliot
street. At Spokane Saturday the Cornish
giant FITzsrNAoNs. Old Frrz. as TRNNYsoN
called him. was inoised vioiously by q
wretchsd infants nursing bottle In the
hands Of o theatre manager, A black jack.
an axe. an anvil-these were fitting weapons
for . hero's fall. But o nursing bottlel
Fate is always bilious and often bitter.
The sun., 1908-07-21
CO7TON THREAD COMBINE.
a Trust IN Q Free Trade Country. Accords
ing TO standpatter.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir. In TIM
6UN of July Is x" reduces the important oue..
hons now before the public to two: Federal
control Of railways and the protective tariT
and states that everybody but President
Roosevelt recognizes the protective tariff Az
the baais Of our business combinations known
a. trusts." His evidence consists In the fact
that trusts were formed after the Dngley
tariff went into effect. therefore they were
the result Of that act. This is fine iustra.
ton OF the ancient fallaoy, Post hoe, eroo,
propter hoe, and it 10 q sample OF the kind
Of stun that will be dealt out to the Amerscan
people during the next four months to make
them dissatisfied with tariff that maintains
the standard Of living In this country above
that Of the rest Of the world. The sams
twisted process Of reasoning would make the
Dingley act responsible for everything thai
occurred after It became law.
Instead OF indulsins In such sophistry
it would be Interesting to have x. recon.
ollie his theories and sweeping statements
with the facts In regard TO business com.
bine that illustrates the highest development
Of the trust idea I refer to the cotton sewing
thread combine. with headquarters at Paisley.
SOotland. Here are the fa1ts,
l. The cotton sewing thread trade not only Of
the United States and the United Kingdom bus
Of the rest OF the world is practically controlled
BY one corporation. J. q p. Coats. Ltd. Paisley,
Scotland.
g. This corporation originated and has been
developed to It's present state under what Is known
a. British free trade.
American market from its British mills until ,anf
grotsotiSn forced 1t in the Tos to build mills a,
Z. Prices for cotton sewing thread In ali eoun.
tries are 6xed az Psisisy. Scotland. " q" '0N''
.. Cotton. the raw material Of the thread. costs
practically the same In all countries, as trade in i
8; me pinsisy duty on 300 yard spool Of thread
sss Ssissa gss.s. .s.n i SsiH%.r
eS un sss aSo e. xi pss n 81 h'
spool Of thread vas three oents in England and
g: duty q spool Of that isd d'" wa: ons ahs
10 Wages in American thread mills are two to
three tine me- e y hish a & " Brtish mis duty eau
sa' osr ass ss Il: =
sonsns sss p ps,S SoSe p % dvd%d. ss 's''ss %
The ehsifmsn Of the company stated in i.sS tsss
ofsss q ss' eoSnss. sss elssHs esss st;
Undoubtedly such. reasoning as that by
Snd lead q the thst =:
the thread combine that was born In Scot.
Of one cent q spool 10 responsible for an In
grease OF three cents In the price per spool
Such absurdities can be rejeoted. because they
are self-evident
isubmit the facts for consideration Of tariff
gnashers. Of whom e is Q type, II they
az nss thsr S snsSSs With the isGs
that Il is because they cannot; that their
theories are Q tragedy as defined by Huxley,
beautiful Hypothesis slain by an Ugly fact.
boston. July 10. SAMUEL s. DALE.
The sun., 1908-07-21

Five Georgia reformers caught gambling In room
supplied with drnks--Aaansd dsspateh.
It appears that they were playing poker.
q game Of skill. II there was any drink 1t
vasin the bathroom, q Legislative dispensary
which Mr.. WINSTON CHURCHILL has made
famous. These Georgians are being sac
rihoed to literature.
The sun., 1908-07-21

Ihls ls q royal contribution to the
worlds wealth, but IL it had not come
the world would have logged on with
out 1t probably with no realization OF
any hardship as result of its absence.
This could hardly be said Of California e
prunes and raisins, Of her millions of
pounds Of fruits, fresh, dried and canned.
For every dollars worth Of gold that
California has produced during the last
twenty years she has produced five
pounds Of raisins and five and half
pounds of prunes for the good OF a
prune and raisin loving world. Cali
fornia's prunes are eaten by many
whose pockets have no acquaintance
with California's gold. Discovered in
mince pies, the raisins OF California bring
joy unspeakable to the hearts of thou
sands of children and a modest delight
to the palates Of adults. For general
circulation prunes and raisins outclass
the yellow metal and the ~yellowback'
which represents it.
These are perhaps the greatest Of the
products of that great Pacific State, but
they represent only fraction Of Cali
fornia's industrial activities. During 1907
she produced 24,sOO carloads of oranges,
4,200 carloads Of lemons, 183, ,8OO, 900
pounds Of beet sugar, 14,oOO, 900 pounds
Of walnuts, 100000 pounds Of figs.
$3.50 900 cases Of canned fruits, and
254, ,375, 900 pounds Of dried fruits, to say
nothing Of wheat and barley, of butter
and cheese, Of hops and wool, of oil and
asphalt and copper.
Great is California and greatly to be
praised San Francisco has produced
its RUEF and its ScHAnTz, but the State
produced 100000 pounds Of prunes in
1905 and l4o,Ooo,OOo pounds OF raisins
in 1907.
The sun., 1908-07-21
TAe Progress Of woman s.nras..

TO TEE Enron o. TEE SuH--slr. Mrs Carrie
Chapman catt In her address at the recent Inter.
national Woman Suffrage convention In Austcr-
dam pointed out that the States ana countries
where woman suffrage prevails cover q hrset
territory than Great britain. France, Italy, Spain
Portugal, Holland, Belgium. the Austrian Empire.
the German Empire and European Russia ali pvt
together. And the ent 10 stlll spreadipf.
ALICE STONE BLAcEwrLL
roHcHrsrBA I'ass. July ie
The sun., 1908-07-21
Dragon Fly Omen.

From ne Pau Nuu 0dssts
since Saturday prodgious quantities. Of dragon
dies have trsversed the Inland Of Aldemey and the
adjacent mainland Of France. A. certain moments
they formed dense clouds flying low or rising above
the trees. while all proceeded In the samc direction
from southwest TO northeast. The occurrence has
created quite sensation. and IL 10 looked upon By
the Inhabitants a. an omen Of gress drought
The sun., 1908-07-21
THE SUN. TUESDAY, JULY Fl. 1908.

rabbits, oapering. innumerable. shameless.
possess not only Pratt but many another
prairie Of the Sunhower State. Here In q
chance 10 save the crops, to do good and to
win glory. Why linger at Oyster Bay when
the prairies Of western Kansas CRY TO be
dragged for jaokrabbits and these ter
rors OF tho fruit trees oan be shot by the
wagonload9 Enlist the Tennis Cabinet.
Let the plague be wiped out Of Kansas.
The sun., 1908-07-21
Salt River.


1t Is o wondrous haunted stream
With Ehostly stories nne:
Its countless tales would put 10 blush
Tho legendary Rhine.
The Paiisaded Hudson boasts
No scenery so fair.
For IL 10 lined on either bank
With castles In the air.
The moon has little influence
To draw It's depths aside:
The stars Of destiny have made
Quadrennial It's tide.
For inest sport there 10 no stream
That 10 It's counterpart.
For ali the hsh that cot away
Within iss waters dart,
NoLAapyuaoH wuAo
The sun., 1908-07-21
A Socialists Name.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Str: Allow me TO
call your attention TO your error In spelling the
name Of Thomas Krkup. the Socialist In my
recent letter to THE SUN on socialism spelled the
name correctly. but for some reason you changed
II TO "Klroup.' the incorrect way that Mrs. Stokes
spelled II In her letter to The Sun. F.T.w.
BROOKLYN, July c0
The sun., 1908-07-21

With no wish to deprive him OF Africa or
Africa OF him, we may be permitted to tell
the Wild Huntsman that Pratt county,
Kansas. is still overrun with taokrabbits,
although at least 100 900 have been laid low
for the bounty. The bounty has been with
drawn 10 an intolerabls expense. The jack.
The sun., 1908-07-21
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Gard Of Thanks From . Resu scstatsd Indi.
vfdual.

From ns Sumner County Neps 0duaftn, Tsnn.
DnAn FkIEspG ! take this method Of thanking
you one and all for the kindness and sympathy
shown 70 my parents and relatives during my
supposed death In ths waters Of brakes Greek
From the bottom Of my heart thank you
Jnss QoosTnRA
The sun., 1908-07-21

10 TEH EprToR or Tn SuH--sfr: This 10 the
way 70 put n 70 the doubtful: Don't vote for
Bryan this time; vote for Taft. You can vote for
Bryan any time p. 9. vANpAoRIYr.
TorHKA. Kan, July ie