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New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
REFORMS IN NEW JERSEY.

The report of the Hahn investigating COM
mittee in New Jersey is out at last That COM
mittee it will be remembered, was appointed
Inv the late Democratic House of Assembly 10
investigate the doings Of the Republican adj
ministration 1t was probably intended and
was certainly expected to make revelations of
abuses and corruption which would provide
effective partisan ammunition for use in last
years campaign, and there were those who ap
pretended as a result thereof something like
civic earthquake. But such expectations
were disappointed. What was probably the
worst scandal uneafthed by the investigators
the unsantary condition of the State Asylum
for the Insane at Trenton-refected discredit
upon Democrats as well as Republicans. and in
consequence little was heard of the work of
the committee during the campaign. The re-
port now presented to the Legislature is far
less sensational than it expected to be. In
fact, it is not sensational at ali. But in spite
of, or perhaps because of, that fact 1t is valu-
able and should prove profitable.
The two specific cases which occupy most
attention are those Of the asylum already men
toned and the Railway Reformatory. and the
report deals with them substantially as has
been forecast in our columns The investiga-
tors do not feel competent to declare positively
what was the origin of the epidemic of typhoid
in the former institution but they do unhesi-
tatingly and unequiyocally declare that care
lessness, sovenliness filth and gross disregard
of elementary principles OF sanitation were d-
rectly responsible for its disgracefu and dis
astrouk spread, and for those conditions they
properly hold the officials then in charge
morally responsible That is a judgment with
which Intelligent men must agree. The cruel
and immoral conditions which made the name
of the Railway 'reformatory" bitterly ronical
msnomer are also exposed and tttingIy CON
demned. 1t should be added i'll justice 70 the
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

they take more Of our merchandise In return.
We have so far checked trade with the Phil
ippines by imposing Philippine products %
per cent of the duties in the Dingley tariff.
This is an unfair discrimination against the
Filipinos and one which greatly hampers trade
with the Philippine archipelago. That trade
could easily be tripled in few years If the
present practically prohibitory sugar and to-
bacco duties should be reduced Logic and
good faith call for their reduction, and within
the next four years we shall probably see the
present unnecessary barriers to commerce with
the Philippines lowered swept away. The
islands will then take their place with HAWAII
and Porto Rico in our economic system and the
three will offer an ever broadening field for
the purchase of non-competng products and
the sale of our own surplus manufactures.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
TRADE WITH THE DEPENDENCIES

Inc growth Of American trade with Hawaii.
Porto Rico and the Philippines. commonly clas-
sified as insular possessions or non-contieuous
territories, is strikingly illustrated in A bulletin
recently issued by the bureau of statistics of
the Department of Commerce and Labor. The
increase has been steady and has brought bene-
fits equally distributed between our own nro-
ducers and the producers of the outlying isl
ands From the economic point Of view these
benefits fully justify the extension of Amer
lean sovereignty. for they presage exchanges
In greater volume Of articles which the United
states lacks for articles which the outlying
possessions lack and which they can obtain
on better terms from US than from foreign
countries.
In 1897. the year before The annexation or
Hawaii and the occupation of Porto Rico and
the Philippines. the exports from the United
States 10 Hawaii were valued at S541S 900 10
Porto Rico at S2o230po and to the PHILIPPINES
st s62.459. The total was S7,571.c00. The i'm
ports from those islands were somewhat
lsreer-from Hawaii. Sl5,311.o0o: from Porto
Rico, s1.943.Gsl. and from the Philippines. 81
$4,000: altogether S21 ,tje7 OO0 Closer reia-
lions with the United States have greatly
stimulated commerce and more nearly equal
ized the value of excia nges. In 1907 our ex-
ports 10 Hawa had risen in value to SIC
srtost. TO Porto Rico TO So. Do 600 and 10
Inc Phililplnes 10 S1o.12b.pp, a gain of S44.-
100000. Imports from the dependencies had
thus increased in value: From Hawaii TO s32-
aI7 600. from Porto Rico 10 SD sO6 600 and
from the Philippines 10 s12.264 900, a gain OF
s46.eoo.ooo. Imports had increased more than
go per cent and exports more than 700 per
cent.
The explanation Of this remarkable growth
in trade is simple. These dependencies produce
articles like sugar, tobacco. tropical fruits and
hemp which we cannot grow in the United
States in sufficient quantities TO supply the
domestic market. They ready TO take in
exchange our breadstuffs and manufactured
commodities. Commerce is therefore mutually
profitable and can be readily extended. We lay
no taxes on the sugar and tobacco Of Hawaii
nd Porto Rico. and thus give them an advan-
face in our market over taxed sugars and to
bacco from the Philippines, from Cuba and
from other cane and beet sugar producing
countries AS Hawaii and Porto Rico develop
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

state that the report finds much to commend
in the conduct and condition OF other Important
institutions so that 1t contains no less or praise
than Of blame.
But what is most important IS the recon-
mendation Of general changes in the system OF
the states administration Of public health, char-
tiles and corrections. 1t is recognized, as many
thoughtful observers have heretofore percelVeu'
that the unpaid State Board of Health is an
obsolete and inefficient organization, ana that
the divided control which prevails In various
institutions is directly conducive to mlschlei.
The committee therefore recommends the SUD
stitution of an adequately paid Health Depart
ment. with extended and increased powers anu
the creation of q central board which shall nave
supreme control of all eleemosynary and penai
institutions These recommendations are eVi-
dently calculated to improve the adinihisua-
ton of the departments affected. and 1t IS 10 De
hoped that they will receive careful attention
and form the basis of profitable action lt niust
be obvious moreover, that an 1ntegral anu
Fundamentally essential part or any SUCH
scheme of reform is the enactment OF an eHec-
tive Civil Service law, like that prepared ny
Senator Alderman and now before the Legisla-
t,re. If there is anything made clear by the
Hahn report it is that faults In admlhlstra-
tion largely arise from the prevailing systems
NJ apnointment and tenure, and that these
would be corrected and prevented in great
measure bv the establishment of the merit
-ycton
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
THE SOCIALIST NENACE.

Thoughtful observers will not be inclined to
denunciation Of the "actiye menace of social
ISM" the triumph Of which, he believes, would
mean the end of the empire, OF religious faith
of property and of freedom. It will be easy
as easy as it will be unjust and untrue for
Fabian and other socialist orators 10 invegh
against Lord Rosebery on enemy of the com
mon people and Il tyne of the evils against
which their reforms directed. But those
who remember that statesmans work for the
public in the London County Council and else
where and who familiar with his political
and economic philosophy will esteem his utter
ances as not the voice of an aristocratic caste
but rather OF singulary broad minded man of
catholic sympathies with all classes and condi-
tions of men,
Time was, and not many years ago. when
il was regarded q truism that socialism
could never make any headway In Eng
land" The individualistic genius of the people
was against il. The democratic liberality of
the government against it. The trade
unions and friendly societies were unaiterably
against il. And SO on Yet to-day there are
few countries il. the world in which socialism in
its most obnoxious forms Is strongly settled
and influential In public affairs il is in
England. The trade unions, instead of being Il
bulwark against il. have opened their doors 10
il and baye become its recruiting camp and cit
ible and liberal, has yielded TO its influences to
q degree which even in Mr.. Gladstones later
days would have seemed impossible. Last week,
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
THE NEWS THIS NORNTNG-

rORETGN-Japan's finances are causing Sc
riuus concern TO the government AT 1oNio ana
a plan is under consideration by whlch a fui9 n;I
pean syndicate may assume contiol OF 'he @ IdiI :.
roads which now owned by the government
and furnish funds for the peaceful deVeIopmen'
of the country. The news that the Arnerl-
can battIeship feet would visit Australia was
received with rejoicing at Sydney and Mel
1o4,-ne where great welcomes are promised.
- : troop Of Mexican cavalry has been sent
10 oust squatteTs on land recently bought IN
chihuahua by an American syndicate headed
hy James r keeue and w r Hearst --
The Russian Minister of Justice has asked the
Douna to vote s1.e0e.o00 to enlarge the over
crowded prisons = bomb wa. exploded
in tie central market place at Barcelona, Sc
verelY iniuring woman. another bomb was
found near by The Chilian section Of the
transandine tunnel the africa & La Paz
Rodger. Governor OF the Gold Coast. reached
England on his return from America and highly
praised the system Of work on the Panama
Canal
DoNESTIC-A letter TO the Senate and A.
senbly Committees on Internal Affairs from
State Engineer Skene, in which he protests
against highway bill was made public at Al
ROYAL 7 Frank. L. =. A. tretired). was an
Moods Hole Mass. that there was little hope
Of saving the steamer Sylvia, which went
aground Sow and Pigs lodges at the en-
trance of Vineyard Sound = II said at
Albany that Governor Hughes would night for
the adoption of a system of direct primary nom
fna1ions and the amendment of the Public Ser
telegraph companies. == Harry Orchard will
be sentenced at Boise City. Idaho. Wednes-
day for the murder OF former Governor SIeu-
nenberg Of Idaho; il is said that he is deter
mined TO die and would refuse immunity a
communication OF the death sentence if sucn
were offered him. @- Ii reported in
Cleveland that in view of prospective light
business in the carrying trades. an effort
viii be made TO retard the opening Of naViga-
tiOD the Great Lakes until the latter part of
June -= Abraham Rosenthal, charged with
the murder Of his brother-in-law at Reading,
Penn, on February J., was arrested in Guthrie.
Okla.
CITF--A thousand Sicilians protested furi-
ously against the conviction of NaSi the former
minister. by the Italian Senate. - c. W.
Morse issued statement telling how he intend
ed TO rehahilitate his financial affairs \
special watchman living in Long Islanc City
SAID he expected to come into the title OF baron
and fortune, left him by his mother in Sax
ony. - The Bureau of Municipal Research
gave out a report on an Investigation Of the
department OF Finance, which contained vari-
Gus recommendations made to the 'Controller.
THE WEATHER-Indicatio tions for to-day:
fair and cooler The temperature yesterday
Highest IS degrees; lowest as.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
1muScmentS.


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ASToR-S.ae-Paid Full
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Observation-Disclosures Hook OF HohaEo
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1rasPIpF-s Father and the BOYS
q a -TodGies-
q; ..sA-flo-efte and Patapon
Il <rI~T-S:I5-The Witchns Hour
T1aNsSFrSTrINS-o al o-S.I5-NaUoevflle
HERALD pTARE-S:l5Tbe Girl Behno eT ~. -
ETppoDRONE-e Of Port Arthur baiiet ANU
Circus
,yI-IeSoN-s: Honor Of the Family
= RfsoCKr-R-S:Is-The Talk Of New YORK
S:eQ-Polly OF the CIRCUS
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f.TRff--S-Lord Dundrear3-
Banianna Land
NaNrATTaN OPERA HOrSE-s-CaTnae .
NT-TROPGJTTAN OPERA HOUSE, S-LannhdeHse''
NEW AwSTE-RD AN-S:i5-The Merry Nioo"-
NEW :l5-IsCnesoTne Town
YORE-S.2p-The Soul kiss
8 Music Master
WaII.aCE S-S:2o-A knight for 2 DAY -~ ,,,,
WFyRFR MUSIC Embellishments OF ihe Naei''
Widow
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

II ;s true moved nv Lord Rosebery's impressive
arnngs, Parliament did reject notorious So
cialist measure which badly proposed to enact
that the government should provide work for
every man or else support him without WORK.
But it was not without ominous slgnihcance
that such bill got before Parliament at III,
and that. while it was rejected, 1t was supported
by a considerable number of members
There will doubtless be some hot denlals OF
Lord Rosebery's forecast of what the triumph
of socialism would mean Those socialists who
are of clean and decoroas life, ana or course
there are many of them, VIII resent the lmpu-
tation that it would mean a relaNins oi uo
mestic and social morals, while those WHO can
themselves Christian socialists will deny that
it would mean the abolition of reilglous lalth.
Yet it is indsputable that some OF the most au-
thoritative and most influential leaders or sociai-
ism openIy proclaim its hostility to marriage and
family ties and 10 all religion and all notions ol
God. And the exasperating and ominous feat
ure of the case Is that these ab0minable prlnci-
pIes are involuntariy supported and prompted
nv those who really detest them, through
their identification with the vague ge!lerallty
of socialism Never since Pierre LerouA III
vented the word-if he was the originator oi 1t
has there been any general agreement as 10
it's meaning any generally accepted oenhi-
ton of it. and not many of the tentative oenhl-
tiOnS have been better or less lauity th"n ''
of Proue1hon. who said that socialism was every
aspiration toward the amelioration Of society
The salient fact is that amid the heterosene-
ous hodge-podge Of discordant elements when
compose socialism as whole there are some
of the most perncious type and 1t Is these
which are most active. most aggressive ana III
some respects most influential That is the con-
siderafion which should give pause to those VINO
because of some phlanthropic impulse associ-
ate themselves with the socialist name. Ii So
cialism meant all around what it means 10 thelh
there would be little objection to 1t. But 1t
means 10 others something very different anu
those other meanings get the support OF every
name which is enrolled under the general mead
ing With the socialism which truly asplfes
toward the ameoration of society LORD Rose
berry sincerely sympathizes, no doubt. But thete
is another and more militant socialism when
aims at the subverson not only of the empire
but also of the family and the altar ana II Is
we'll that his clear, sane voice sounds against
it a warning note.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

The eIopinC Hampstead pastor who has just
amended his philosophy Of life must tinker at IL
further before it will do service. He is reported
to have said: Lately have begun TO reahze
that no man, however strong he may be or now
lever great may be his incentive. can buck the
"world 1t is older than us and stronger THIS
is not the exact truth: he should have SAID thac
nobody can buck the world by trying TO make
it put up with thoroughly bad morals or 10
champion an evil cause. The futillty OF such
'bucking" is due, not to the worlds superior age
and strength, as the unhappy sinner fancies' out
to its superior wisdom.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

Practical difficulties never feaze the Iruly
academic mind. Witness the advice Of learned
nrofessor on Morningside Heights:
The greatest vice Of the American educational
system is that while have Intelligence enough
TO add new things We do not have tne % cCurase - ~
out the old In this time OF 1Saag % abnmt
Tigath PiIeser and Frederick Barbarossa, OF "horl
the youths will hear after passing 1ro ~ or q
classrooms contributing TO the trlt!nph oI .t e
yellow newspaper. Were We 1ntellSentIy IiileIeSe
ing them In persons and questions OF "hlcI
dav bears record there would be an ever
r1Ihlic to which the high grade newspaper couid
appeal and which II would respond
It has not occurred to the speaker that writer's
of Textbooks might find current history trouoe-
some topic. Suppose our own board OF N r-ou.a
ton were to invite MI Maxwell to write "A HIS
tory of New York City from the Day Wheh
Croker Started for Ireland to the Crematlon oI
Rourke Cochran: In Words Of One Syllable ana
Several IrupIications" Could the versatile text
hook manufacturer do it and hold his job? The
great advantage of Tiglath Pileser is that the
old gentleman has no friends on the school
hoard AS the latter body. here and IN other
cities sometimes has members who raise a
howl against textbooks that tell the plain truth
about the American Revolution and Thomas
Jeffersons Jeffersonian simplicity, the most III
renious manipulation of monosyllables would
certainly lose either his mind or his life II ne
tried to explain to the sons and daughters OF
everybody's constituents just how 1t happens
that Nr Ahearn and some rotten fire hose still
Iinger under municipal roofs.
Making faces at Wall Street seems to be
noruIar diversion among the politicians.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

more than six cents a bushel there was moderate
recovery. Argentina again made a. new hish rec
ord of weekly exports. but there is good Ior-
eign demand here also. and Minneapolis fniiis
are consuming material more freely thah ~
any time since October. Corn did not sym
pathize with the weakness of the leading cereal.
but rose to the best price of the season.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

Persons interested I'm modern French art VIII
n,ease turn to the back numbers of the Paris
newspapers and peruse. in the light of current
events the realistic word-pictures in which the
American navy is shown to be a barely hoatihs
heap of scrap iron. headed for Yokohama out
destined never to reach the Strait of Magellan
The quarrel over the relative merits OF ronanti-
cism and classic realism may now break out
3freSh.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
A.rw7)prs Daily Iribn,,e
MONDAY. MARCH is, 1908.

This newspaper is otcned dnd puthShed os
The Tribune association, Ae1c 1oT" co'Poio u
.ion Office and principal place OF business, ifto-
unc Building, 20. I5I Nassau street. Nefo i"@'
Ogden Mills president; Nathaniel Tattte, sec
-e,a-y spd treasurer The address of the Off
Gers is the offce of This newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

If the Independence party nomlnaleS MI
Hsgen of Massachusetts, for President MS
nomination will be sort of coming out party
Nobodv outside OF Massachusetts ever heard of
him.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-16

Making faces at Wall Street seems to be
popular diversion among the politicians.
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Ready for Business.

Before you engage a painter or
paper hanger to do your work, let me
talk with you and see if cannot save
you money. l do house painting
paper hanging and whitening, and
carry full line of wall papers, room
mouldings, plate rails, chair rails etc,
sleigh and carriage painting a special
ity. Drop me postal and | will call
JOHN MCPHERSON,
Shop over Fairbrother's Livery
stable. tf13
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Holman DAVIS new book, King
Spruce, is on sale at Bucknam's.
Palmer g. Company have some
good trades in second hand farm
gears Of various sizes.
Chas. F. Ward Co. are selling four
pairs of MEMS stockings that are
guaranteed to wear three months
without darning, for S1.00.
1t is well to remember that Derby
Mixed Paints are guaranteed in every
way, shape and form. For sale by
the Blunt Hardware Co.
Those Somerset filing cases for pre-
serving letters, bills, receipts and
other valuable papers in alphabetical
order, will save many times their
cost. Buchanan, the druggist, sells
them for 25c.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Notice-Selectmen.
Notice-Tom White.
1nits-Ira A. Norton.
NotIce-Daniel Lewis.
Petltion-J. 4. Hewey.
plants-G. A. Huckins.
For SALEM. st. Ledger.
t;lasses-J. r. Philbrick.
Fig Bars-Geo. simpson.
For Sale-Geo. Friedrich.
For Sale-O. A. Bowman.
serge Suits--C. r. Ward Co.
gonesty-J. A Aorrissette.
Hotice-E. Augusta Stewart.
Fresh Supplies-A. r. Jewett.
fali and Settfe-Dow & Carter.
For Sale-Joseph Whlttemore.
kew Rain Coats--W. =. Ordway.
For Sale%SomeTset Traction Co.
Foreclosure--E. augusta Steward.
roncert-Bethany Ba ptist Church.
Republican Caucus--Town Committee.
New York Concert Co.-Bethany Church.
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Worsted Cravenette Rain Coats III Oxford
Gray and Tans at 500, 500, 1000 and 80 each.
New Tan Khaki Cravenette Rain and Auto
Coats $3.50
New Navy and Tan Mercerized Cravenette
Rain Coats $3.50 each
New Navy and Tan Rubberzed Saline Rain
Coats 81 so and 1000 each
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Notice to Owners and
Users of Motor
Vehicles.

The law limits the speed Of all motor
vehicles, within the closely built up portion
of any city or town, to eight miles per hour
1t becomes the duty of the police officers of
Skowhegan to enforce this statute for the
safety Of all who have occasion to use the
streets of this town. We wish, therefore, to
give due notice that this law will be strictly
enforced.
Skowhegan, Maine. May Il, 1908.
FRED c. DUNLAP,
Chief Of Police
The limits within which motor vehicles
may not be run at a greater speed than eight
miles per hour, are hereby defined as follows
Madison avenue to Jewett street.
Jewett street.
Prospect street.
Dyer street.
Water street to top of Eddy Hill
The North and South Channel bridges and
all highways on the Island.
Main street to Bloomfield street
East Front street to Poplar street
Mcclellan street
West Front street to Mcclellan slteet.
Bloomfield street.
Hathaway street to Poplar street
Mount Pleasant avenue to Factory street.
Elm street and Norridgewock avenue to
residence of Herbert Wentworth
North avenue to entrance - Catholic
Cemetery.
Coburn Park
And all portions Of the streets and ways
connected with the above named ttorofares
which located within one halt mile Of
the Skowhegan postofice.
K. +. PARKER,
A. II. WYMAN,
G. WALLAlE NASH,
5w2o Selectmen Of SIX, vinegar, Me.
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Celery and Iron Tonic will make
you feel like new; at .Bucknam's, 75c.
AS in previous years, L. w. Chase
& Co. offer for sale full line of the
most up to date carriages and har-
nesses.
The Savings department of the Sec
ond National Bank pays interest at
the rate of per cent; interest COM
mences the first of each month on de-
posits made on or before the 10th.