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Progress in Peru.

We are indebted to the Peruvian Con-
sul-General for volume which presents
an elaborate review of Peru in 1906. It's
author Ia ALEXANDRA GARLAND, a gen.
tleman of recognized standing as his
torian and geographer In brief pref
ace Senior GARLAND states that his work
has been done by order of President
PARDO, ~in order that those desirous of
being acquainted with the Peru of to-
day, and who wish to glance at the Peru
Of tomorrow, may find in the informa-
ton submitted the necessary data for a
due appreciation Of its progress during
the last ten years
Nearly one-half OF this volume Of 800
pages is devoted to a review Of the his
tory OF the country, a description of its
territory, and a statement of its political
organization. About twenty pages are
given to a description Of Lima and it's
environs, and the remainder of the work
is devoted to a review of economic con-
ditions. The book contains maps and
an abundance of excellent photographs.
From the occupation Of Cuzco by Pr
cuch0 In 1924 the history Of Peru is a
record OF Spanish greed and misrule.
The years which followed that memora-
BILE battle brought little Improvement
They were a time Of domestic discOrd
and strife with neighbors The reform
OF the Law Of Constitution in 1890, under
President CASTILLO, marks the first
really notable advance toward better
conditions, although there has been an
abundance OF trouble since that time.
Another notable advance was made in
1895, when PIERoLA succeeded CACRREs
RoMANA built on the foundations laid by
PIERoLA. CANDAMo followed ROMANO,
and PARDO, the present incumbent, sue
ceeded CANDAMo. During the terms Of
these four Presidents Peru has taken
a new place among the nations of the
world, politically and economically. OF
this period Senior GARLAND says:
the last ten years Of Psru's history. which can
IN ali fairness be quallhed a. psriOd OF order and
honest. intelligent administration. have yielded
besides the economic blessings others OF q mora
character, viz, the extinction OF the spirit Of 70
bellion 20 which Peru for so many years past hsi
owed her great misfortunes, the restoration Of III,
lustre Of the career Of arms. the disappearance o.
the destructive action Of military ehlsf'alnshps
she InouIcaton OF respect for law and confidence
IN national Institutions and. best Of all. the deeT
roofing among the people of love Of peace anC
labor"
OF the immensity Of Peru's natura
resources there can be no question. Hel
mineral wealth is unlimited and it's ex'
traction in greater quantity depends only
on capital, labor supply and transpOrta.
ton facilities. It is estimated that moi
far from SIS, ,Oo0, 900 Of American capita
Is already invested in Peru, most Of it in
mining enterprises. The Cerro de Pascc
Mining CompaMy went there for silver
and stayed N get copper. It promises
The sun., 1908-01-06

A sausage composed In part OF cereal and
water has been thrown out OF court by
Judge West at Lansing, Mich. who says
with an air Of finality:
with the general public Of this generation
largely reared on farms and In SmAn villages and
remembering the homemade sausage, there 10 no
Tho common definition is that it In composed OF
chopped meat. seasoned. and the definition must
prevail a. against a manufacturers process OF
adding cereals and water
Judge WEST decides that the cereal is
an adulterant. WEBsTER thus defines the
verb adulterate: ITO corrupt, debase, or
make impure by an admixture OF a foreign
or a baser substance" Futile it is for a
sausage maker to contend that the intro
duction Of a cereal does not debase chopped
and properly seasoned meat pressed into
what WEBSTER calls "a cylindrical case or
skin, usually made OF the prepared intes-
tine of some animal On the subject Of
sausage the common people are naturally
tender, although not agreed always as to
the particular meat that should form the
sausage. They will consume breakfast
cereals that are mere chaiY, provided IL il
well advertised and put up In packages
containing coupons that may be converted
into parlor furniture and bric-A-brac, but
they draw the line at tampering with sau-
sage meat. Judge WEST has endeared
himself to thousands Of Americans by vim
dicating the sentiment OF a whole meat
sausage. and it would not be surprising il
he were mentioned for the Presidency.
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Twsnty-a ave Years OF Prohibition.

from He HdsHihgtOn P0st
ia OArrollton, Carroll county. Ga. prohibition
has been q success for more than a quarter Of q
century" said l.. @. Vaudeville OF that place.
1T was In 1874 think. that local option was nrst
lnAugurAted ln Carroton and since that time there
was only one short period when liquor was allowed
20 be sold legally. That was several years ago
when the county passed . law permitting 10 20 be
sold by tho gallon. It soon became apparent 10
the people, however, that even this slight conces-
sion working badly. for intoxicAtlOn increased
almost At once. and otter eight mOnths trial the
county was glad 70 return 70 lhe old system OF
total prohibition. had been Mayor for several
years Just previous 70 the passage of the gallon
law. and lt was apparent 10 me that prohibition
was the only way 20 reduce drunkenness and law
lesaness 70 the mlnimum. We have found by long
experience that the sale sOf liquor works great
Injury 70 our business lntaegtA.-
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Looklnr Ont for Hi, KInrolE.
rror ne washInator nstala.

when was Governor Of Tennessee" said SenA-
tor Bob Taylor OF Tennessee. Il received q letter
from an inmate OF the state penltentlary OF Missouri
My dear cousin Il ran. 'it aint nttin fer one NV
yore klnfolks 10 be In the PEN an wisht you'd
git me out ef you kin II was signed Bob Taylor.
which looked as n the writer ought 10 be mighty
close kin.
--I sent it 70 the Governor OF Missouri with the
following Endorsement: I wish, II you can conscien-
tiously do so that you would turn this fellow loose
and n ever any OF your relatives get In the Ten
nessee penitentlAry I'll return the favor
II heard later" concluded the Senator. that Bot
had gained his freedom, but whether through my
efforts have never learned. And he hasn't thanked
me
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A Yale wOrshlpper Of MOloch.

Mr.. WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, por-
fessor Of political and social science in
Yale College, is a bunker. His notorious
and laborious collection OF information,
his habits Of careful intellectual diges-
ton, his long, serious and steady alb
sorption in the study Of political economy,
banking and finance, have disqualified
him from membership in the intuitive
and youthful school Of philosophy which
now occupies the dais Of the nation.
Not even the monumental pomp Of
Professor SUMMERS age-he Is more
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than eo-can win forgiveness for brutal
reaOtiOnary lese majesty like this:
"TAs Hastsrs Of industry arr shS Clsss On whom
Ne must an ROY for Shs nanAgvm0nt snd conduct
70 uuoceas of ne enterprises SA which Ne depend
for OomfOrt ana for ths sduOassOa Of our children.
but Asy are presented 20 % GLASS Of Svildoers
VINO possess ma Eical and unHmlSsd powers Of fsvil'
Parents and guardians OF undergradu-
ates at New Haven are invited TO ponder
and 20 shudder at this regrettable Ian
guage. Is malefaction to be applauded
with impunity in our cOlleges7 Must our
children be passed through the FIRE.
sacrificed to Professor SUMMERS friend
MoIOCHP
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The Hon. BATE HOUSE, JOHN. the states
man-bard Of the First Ward Of Chicago,
has brought out his annual poem early in
the season. From the first stanza judge
ALL
Atune,
That two loving hearts across the lake ala 80.
said the youth unto the maid; Stick 20 me; don't
bo afraid,
And married wo viii be At old st. Joe
This 10 Indiana domestic. 1t has little
OF the true Johnian favor and FIRE. Mr..
JOHN should hire new sub-poet.
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From ne Columbia Statesmen.
Uncle Allen got two more ribs broken last week
IN an accident with his horse. That makes twelve
bs nc has had broken. besides several other bones
In various ways. He stopped q bullet once. was
crushed in a threshing machine log rolled on him
and broke some bones, runaway teams have frAc-
tured Others but each time he got on his feet
and 10 stll very much alive, although he ls nOSs IN
hls seventy third year.
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The Price Of the .HOr,s Fair"

To THs EDITOR or TEE suN-!Sir: The private
catalogue used by Mr.. Kirby AZ tho time OF the A.
T. Stewart sale. the record kept by the bOokkeepcr
at the sale and the report published In THE sun
Of March 90 lSS- all agreo IN stating that tho pdcs
paid by MT. Vanderbilt for the Horse Fair" was
$4,000.
with the preponderance OF evidence In m favor
I shInls may fully claim being hight ln my state
ment OF price. JOHN ORroIKs.
Nav YoaE January a.
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Ahaat Names.

To rHH EDITOR o. The SUN--sE: A practice
which seems to be growing In America is this: to
tack on q high sounding GppellAtlOn 70 plain or
homeiy name. as, for Instance. Winthrop Jiggs or
GrosyeaOr Shocks. OF course the parents are
usually 70 blame. but not always. However. tho
practice ls one. think. which should call for the
Intervention Of Congress. as tending 70 make the
limited States ridiculous. Really ws should be
made 70 have some regard for the character of this
country as . republic. Nom On 0UMRRR.
NAV YONG JnnuArVA
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Those Of you who may never have an oppor.
tunlty 20 hear q real live President OF the United
states eau at least say now that you heard one
speak who on two different occasions cherished
President and he feels the disease coming on again.
-Remarks attributed 10 Mr.. BRYAN al NdeOgdOehss,
Ter.
Mr.. BRYAN admits. although he can't
overcome. his delusions and disease. How
would il do for the Democratic party to try
a healthy and normal candidate without
delIsions?
The sun., 1908-01-06

FfoW NJ FNNNdeEpNId Het0Tn.
John N. Wolf. who began teaching In the public
schools OF Adams and York counties at the age OF
IS and ls now Is. has been absent from school on
account Of sickness but four and half days In his
service OF sKty years. He says that besides teach
Ing nfiy-siI common school terms he has taught
twenty seven local normal school terms OF twelve
weeks each. making In all elghty-three terms. He
Also claims that he has during his school work pre-
pared more young ladies and young men for teach
than any man In southern Pennsylyanla.
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n our Friends VAO TSVOr WS nun manuscripts for
OuDltonOn sOtSh b haVS rsJSasd Grtess returned hsv
mSstn ~ SGSss ssnd stamps rOy aAat pUrposs.
The sun., 1908-01-06

Paris once. "a Rue Louis lie Grand. The daily and
DundAy editions are sale At KOsdus II. near the
Grand Hotel: Kiosaue IT, Boulevard des capucines,
csrner Place do Topers. and KiOsque 10. Boulevard
ass Itafisns. corner Rue Louis lie Grand.
The sun., 1908-01-06

Published by the sun Printing and Publishing
Association at 40 Nassau street. In the Borough of
Manhattan. New York. President and Treasurer
Of the Association, william N. Laian. 40 Nassau
street; Secretary of the Association. Franklin
bartlett. Nassau street
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An Unpoetic Soul.

Knlcker-Dont you admire New York's sky line
BOckeT-No. it looks IKE q Wall Street stock
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and private, may be summed up in
single sentence:
Il dare to do all that may become
man; Who dares do more is none"
The call of the people is for Will
liam Howard Taft. They know him.
He is one Of them. There is need this
year of leader of practical exper-
fence in public affairs whose principles
and policies are not subject to change
over night, and whose record in high
Office is sufficient guaranty for ais
future performance. Mr.. Taft fulfills
that requirement in every detail. His
plished results for the public welfare.
No act or utterance Of his requires
apology or explanation. He is neith-
er dodger nor a trimmer. He has
encountered many difficulties and mas
tered them all. His cheeriness, broad
humanity, integrity and devotion to the
principles which have made the Re-
public great and powerful distinguish
him as an ideal of American citizen
ship.
In the great political campaign upon
which the country is about to enter no.
body will have the slightest excuse for
misunderstanding the attitude or
the purpose of William Howard Taft
The record of the Republican nominee
is an open book in which there is
neither evasion nor contradiction. He
stands by the party platform and by
the history of the party's achievements.
The Republican party presents him to
the people as i statesman and patriot
worthy to rank in succession with the
great leaders of American progress
whose names, from Lincoln and Grant
to Mckinley and Roosevelt, are unsep-
arably associated with the noblest tri-
umphS of the Republic.
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BRYAN TRUE TO SILVER IDOL
Belief In His Panacea Will Remain
mistaken.
Declaration of Faith Made to Cover
the Past, the Present and the
Future.

1t would be extremely unkind to
say that Mr.. Bryan is tickle in his
political belief. His best friends
would be the last to make such an
assertion, for they realize thoroughly
that their leader, when he has once
implanted a conviction firmly in his
mind, clings to it like grim death.
This is especially true of Mr..
Bryan's attitude on the silver ques-
ton through which he first rose to
prominence. He has very little to say
about that question at present, but
that he is absolutely certain that
1t is a subject of the greatest i'm
portance and that his own particular
financial panacea is the only safe
guide for the United States may be
plainly seen from the following ex-
tracts from his collected wisdom:
In an address at the Jefferson Club
banquet at Lincoln, Neb., December
26, 1900, Mr.. Bryan said:
THE principles for which we con-
tended in the last campaign still live,
and we who believe in them must
continue to fight for them. An cleo
ton does not change principles it
only determines what principles shall
for the time being be applied
In the North American Review, in
the same month, Mr.. Bryan recorded
this declaration of faith:
ITO consider this election as de-
cisiye of the money question would
be as absurd as to have regarded the
election of 1896 as decisive of the
tariff question. 1t would be more
reasonable to regard the late election
as conclusive upon the question of
Imperialism or upon the trust ques-
ton, both of which were discussed
more by our people than the money
question.
"The increased production of gold
has lessened the strain upon gold,
and had to some extent brought the
relief which Democrats proposed to
bring in larger measure by the re-
stOration of silver; but there is no
assurances whatever that the gold
supply, even with the new discoveries,
will be sufficient to maintain the level
Of prices. Favorable conditions have
given us an abnormal share of the
worlds supply of gold, but the
scarcity of the yellow metal abroad
is already leading to the export of
gold, while the increase in the issue
of banknOtes is evidence that we are
still short Of money here. The Re-
publicans defend the gold standard
not by logic, but by giving it credit
for better times When prosperity
fails, the gold standard will lose it's
charm"
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PERFORMANCE VS.. PROMISE.
Response of Republicans to Peoples
Wishes Contrasted with Demo-
cratic Proposals.
(From Gov. Hughes Youngstown

(From Gov Hughes Youngstown
Speech.)
'When we consider the inevitable
conflict Of many opinions and the i'm
portance of the questions involved the
record of progressive legislation is ex-
traordinary. The creation of the bu-
reau Of corporations, the railroad rate
bill. tie employers liability bill and
the laws passed for the better protec-
ton oil labor constitute a record of
legislation which no just critic can af-
ford to minimize, and which attests in
a marked manner the response of the
Republican party under its forceful
leadership to the demands of the people.
eff all that Mr.. Bryan has favored
during the last twelve years had been
enacted into law we should have been
overwhelmed with disaster, and would
regard it as our chief business in the
future to find a way of escape from
the meshes of ill considered legislation
in which we would have been entangled.
1t is fortunate for him as well as for
us that he was defeated, and whatever
may be his present political potential
ity may be ascribed to the fact that
hitherto he has not been permitted to
carry out his program. No doubt much
remains to be accomplished in the way
of necessary reform, but the record
already made by the Republican party
is noteworthy one, and we must make
further advances with care and needed
reflection. Our progress will be in
trusted to safe hands, and we shall be
fortunate in having sailing master
who knows his chart and who will take
quite as much account of reefs and
shoals as of the speed Of the vessel.
We have got our direction, we have
a most precious cargo, and we must
have a safe and experienced pilot"
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A Man Who Has Done Things.

Responding to the call of the ma
ton for a man equal to the emergen-
cies confronting the Republic, the
people themselves have found him and
presented him to the electorate.
Naturally, the people sought among
themselves for one truly representa-
tive to the highest ideals of American
citizenship. Their misunderstanding
and correct valuation of men led them
to the individual who more thoroughly
than any other fulfilled their require
ments-and that was William Howard
Taft
William Howard Taft, Of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, probably is the way ne
would designate himself. That desig-
nation, however, is grossly inadequate.
For while Mr.. Taft is an American Of
Americans, he is also citizen of the
world who, as invited guest, counselor
and adviser of foreign governments,
has eXerted an influence for peace and
international good will unsurpassed by
that of any other American statesman,
living or dead.
The dignity Of private citizenship,
which he enjoys to-day, is in perfect
accord with his temperament and in
clination. There never has been, nor
will there ever be, anything in official
honor sufficiently alluring to draw Mr..
Taft away from his lifelong identity
with the plain people.
AS boy in Cincinnati he was ready
to give and take In all the stirring
controversies, mental and physical,
which give effect to the law Of the
survival Of the fittest. AS a student
at Yale he displayed all the qualities
Of wholesome young manhood which
have made that university famous, and
the endearing traits of his character
were honored at the reunion Of his
class during the recent summer by a
celebration more delightful to him, per-
haps, than any other demonstration Of
public favor possibly could be.
In the frank, fearless, boyhood and
college life of William Howard Taft
there was the promise of an ear
nest, generous, upright manhood.
That promise has been completely and
splendidly fulfilled. The serious af-
fairs Of life appealed irresistibly to the
young collegian after his graduation,
and at the early age Of twenty-four he
appeared as Assistant Solicitor in his
home country.
Mr.. Taft's professional Advancement
from the position of Superior Court
Judge and Solicitor General to a seat
on the bench of the United States Dis
trict Court was due solely to a frank
recognition of his proved integrity, his
diligence and impartiality in the adj
ministration of justice and his loyalty
to the loftiest standards Of judicial
conduct. 1t is said of him by one who,
as lawyer, knew him well: "He was
the gentlest, fairest and most upright
of all judges before whom 1 have prac-
ticed. He was as incapable of doing an
unkind or an unjust thing as snow is
Of turning into soot."
1t is, however, in his career since his
| voluntary = though reluctant = retire
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
Minor Mention.

"What is Mr.. Bryan's real para
mount issue? asks a reader. Don't
know. Have not heard from Mr.. Bryan
for several hours.-Omaha Bee.
Democrats who had been thinking
rather well of Senator Foraker will
have to revise their opinions-Sioux
City Journal.
Mr.. Taft may not do as much talk
ing as Mr.. Bryan during the present
campaign, but this will not prevent him
from saying quite as much.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
After all, this issue will suffice. Taft
or Bryan? The country does not want
Mr.. Bryan at the White House. 1t
will now discover no new reason for
intrusting him with the great respon-
sibilities of the Presidency.-Bosto
Herald.
The bank guarantee most of us want
is that our checkbook stubs will tally
with the banks figuring of the balance
New York Mail.
Real tariff reformers seem unani-
mously agreed in their refusal to take
Mr.. Bryan as tariff reformer.-New
York Tribune.
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ment from the bench that we shall find
the most remarkable evOlutions in Mr..
Taft's development as an American
statesman.
The country had gone through an I'M
sought war, the successful outcome OF
which imposed new and enormous re-
sponsibilities upon the National Gov
eminent, and placed the United States
in the attitude of first class power,
obliged to face the peris of permanent
contact with Old World nationalities.
MOmentOus problems arose-partly ra-
cial, partly religious, partly constitu-
tiOnal-all complex and urgent. They
required an immediate revision and en-
largement of American foreign policy.
They required also the services of a
new school of American statesmen and
diplomats, who should be constructive,
self-reliant and capable of dealing with
grave conditions in manner creditable
to the National honor and just to in
ternational interests.
Among the patriotic, broad-minded
statesmen whom this changed condition
Of international affairs called into the
service of the United States none has
eXerted so wide or SO wholesome an in
fluence as William Howard Taft.
Porto Rico and the Philippines had be-
come American territory, requiring
American treatment Cuba, an indie
pendent nation by the grace of the
United States, had become an object
at Washington, and has been ever since
The Republic Of Panama came into ex-
istence, bringing with it the terrific
rial understanding essential to the con-
structiOn of the isthmian canal, but
with it also came enlarged possibili-
ties of discord in Central America
against which the United States is Of
it's own volition the guarantor.
That these vexatious problems have
all thus far advanced toward an hon
orable solution is due more to William
Howard Taft than to any other indi-
vidual. He has been the builder and
exemplar of the new American policy.
He has given to the inhabitants of our
insular possessions convincing assur-
ance of the integrity of American pur-
pose. To the Philippines, to Hawaii,
to Porto Rico and to Panama he has
gone as messenger of American good
will and fair play-and in all those
territories he is gratefully recognized
as their friend and protector. In him
they have an advocate of the forces
and methods that make for peace, pro-
gress and brotherhood under Ameri-
can sovereignty.
Mr.. Taft is a many-sided man. He
works hard and plays hard. He radi-
ates geniality and sunshine. AS a
Judge he was both just and gentle.
AS Governor of the Philippines his
courtesy. tact, sympathy and forbear-
ance gave to the people of t1e Orient
an exalted ideal of American dignity
and American manhood. As Secretary
of War he elevated the standards of
the military service and gave increased
security to the National defenses.
He combines the executive faculty
with the judicial in the highest de
gree, and his rule Of life. both public
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Three Great New World Deeds.

From the Republican National Plat
form-The American Government, in
Republican hands, has freed Cuba,
given peace and protection to Porto
Rico and the Philippines under our
flag, and begun the construction of the
Panama Canal.