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Revolt I'm Oklahoma.

Recently The Sun directed attention
to an effort made by the commercial
clubs of Oklahoma to destroy the belief
among investors that the new State in
tends to pursue wild eyed policy in re-
lation to capital. The members of the
commercial organizations were unkind
enough to express disrespect for the poll
ticians and sensational newspapers that
have given reputation to the State that
they assert it does not deserve.
Now the commercial clubs are urging
Governor HASKELL to veto an antitrust
bill that is in his hands. As the text of
the measure has not been sent East the
merits Of its provisions are an unknown
quantity here, Yet it must be a good
bill, for is it not antitrust? That magic
combination of letters in the title of any
enactment establishes high desirability.
No clause reposing beneath the all EN-
bracing sanctity Of that label can be
other than beneficent.
Perhaps the complaining Oklahomans
are tired Of too much virtue. Perhaps
they are emissaries of the thrice accursed
rich. Or it may be-though it seems
incredible-that they are merely sane
Americans, tired out by the humbug and
foolishness of the dishonest campaign
aganst'business.
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A Real Issue at Chicago.

From the Nep York Commercial
IL will not, because II cannot, be denied tina {
the names Of the eighteen Republican lawyers,
business men. former Cabinet officers, ex-
Judges. public educators and so forth attached
to the memorial requesting the Republican
national convention to declare in its platform
sauarely and unequivocally against any
infrin cement on the constitutional preroga-
tives of the courts lend to that instrument
dignity, an Importance and a weight that
must compel at least It's deliberate and
thoughtful consideration by the committee
on resolutions. II not it's instant adoption
for It is unthinkable that any delegate to this
con vention or any OF the aspirants to its nomi-
nation honors can seriously project the slight
eat objection to the declaration either on
ethical or logical or political grounds or from
the point Of view OF party expediency. The
memorial is model Of conciseness and force
of sta atement.
II only It were possible and in order for
the New York State delegation OF seventy
two members-an absolutely uninstrlcted
hand free, foot free delegation-to take this
instrument along to Chicago and present IL
to the convention as an expression OF popu-
lar Republican opinion In New York. what
a prestige II would give the State in the
national gathering and how certain In ad-
vance would be the unanimous adoption Of
the plank both by the platform committee
and the convention ITSELF As IT is, this dele
CATION will move forward to the national
convention bearing what Is almost every
where conceded to be q forlorn hope Pres-
Dental boom that of Charles Evans
Hughes, Governor with not few OF it's
members declining TO share In the burden,
30 that New York State will be handicapped
In the gathering from the very outset by
The embarrassment always. attaching 70 .
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METEOR CRATER.
To Whom tho Credit Of Explaining ne
Natural Wonder BELONGS.

TO THE EDITOR OF The SuN-Sir:, There
seems to be growing impression that tho
United States Government (throueh. DR..
MerrilD is conducting the explorations at
Meteor Crater and is entitled to the credit Of
the wonderful discovery which Mr.. B. C..
Tighman OF Philadelphia and I were privi-
Legged TO make several years ago. We were
the first to explain to the scientific world
State GeologicaI Survey having previously
considered that it was due to a steam eI-
pl9son.
have been produced by geological agencies.
impact OF great meteor. In our papers
published over two years ago we carefully
Sciences of Philadelphia. December, 1905
lissued March, 1900. and the previous brief
announcement by Its president. DR.. Dixon.
Incidentally / may add that the United
States Government does not own the land
covered by the crater having some time
previously issued patent for the same to
US and our associates; also that, neither the
the scientific world could not have been abso-
lutely assured of the corrsStness Of the con-
In correction OF a statement made by THB
sun OF May 20 let me say that we have never
sold pound OF meteorio specimens since We
came into hs Of the property ThsIe
mems from here on loan at the United States
National Museum at Washington. These are
OF unusual scientifc interest. We propose
leaving one-half of them permanently with
DANIEL MoREAu BARRrNoER.
SUNSHINE STATION, Ariz.. June T.
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interests Of Georgia? Even II he has,
We regret to say, "a splendid home at
Marietta which used to belong to other
statesmen, he redeems his unfortunate
birth to the purple and plutocracy by his
deep devotion to practical farming and
his deep ploughing. 1t is his pride and
boast to have raised sixty seven bushels
OF corn and seventy of oats to the acre
on his farm in Cherokee county.
There ia nothing Of the sport, the
society leader or the bravado"-what-
ever that may be-"about Little JOE
writes Mr.. JOHN CoRRIGAN, Jr., in his
Personal History" of this worthy His
voice is deficient in resonance, but he is
one of the most accomplished of letter
writer's. Moreover, he is an author Of
credit and renown
In 1898 Mr.. BROWN wrote and published a his.
tory of the Atlanta campaign which was paid the
remarkable tribute of being praised by both Gen.
eral JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON sud General w. T. SHRR-
MAN as being accurate and impartial history OF
that event. On learning that the author had re-
ceved letters both sides OF this nerce struggle
commencing the accuracy of the account. General
MARCUS ]. WRIGHT stated he had never before
heard Of such thing In the history OF war. Mr..
BROWN also wrote a historical romance OF the
mountains campaign called Kenesaw's Bonn.
bardment.'
In his leisure hours for the past several years
MI BROWN has been working on historical
nance of America. This was his greatest source
OF diversion In his hours of relaxation and freedom
from routine business cares. The volume
called As,yanax and was Issued last year"
The title of this romance shows Mr..
BROWNS classical taste. His literary
pursuits were brought up against him in
the campaign as evidence of his want Of
acquaintance with business and his un-
fitness for public Office. Fortunately
Georgia is fond of literature, and for it
she forgave Mr.. BRowN's want of oratory.
1t will be seen that Little JOE, if not
sport and "bravado," is Il good deal of
an "all round man"
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Not a PrOpheCy.

He nterfered with the course Of JUS
tice as well as with the course of trade,
and set up his own crude notions of
equity against the law az expounded by
the unanimous voice of the gravest Mag
istrates. 1t never occurred to him that
men whose lives were passed in adjudi-
eating on questions of civil right were
more likely to form correct opinions than
a prince whose attention was divided
among thousand objects and who had
never read a law book through. The re-
sistance opposed to him by the tribunals
infamed him to fury. He reviled his
Chancellor He kicked the shins of his
Judges. He did not, it is true, intend to
act unjustly. He firmly believed that he
was doing right and defending the cause
Of the poor against the wealthy. Yet
this well meant meddling probably did
far more harm than all the explosions of
his, evil passions during the whole Of
his long reign. We could make shift,
indeed, to live under a debauchee or a
tyrant, but to be ruled by busybody
is more than human nature can bear
No, strange as it may seem, this is not
a prophecy. 1t is merely an extract from
MACAULAY's essay on FREDERICK the
Great, written long years ago. Queer,
isn't il ,
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THE DISTURBING ELEMENT IN
CENTRAL AMERICA.

WASHINGTON. June GA year ago Presi-
don't Zelaya OF Nicaragua was regarded
and reported as the particularly disturbing
element in the affairs OF Central America
1t Ia to Mr.. Zelaya's credit that he has since
retired from that unenviable position, and
1t 10 not to the credit Of President Cabrera
Of Guatemala that he has taken the place
vacated by MIR. Zelaya.
Salvador is having a little domestic
trouble, but it has not yet assumed and
perhaps will not assume alarming pro-
portions General Alfaro. an experienced
revolutionist, has no doubt that he would
make better President OF Salvador than
Figueroa. the present incumbent. and will
not stick at revolution to support his opinion
IL he can secure a sufficient following.
There is no reason for belief that Saliva
dorean affairs would be materially bene-
flied by such an experience or by change
Of administration effected by revolt. Costa
Rica. Nicaragua and Honduras display no
signs OF disorder. Guatemala is just now
the Central American storm centre, and in
that country the political clouds are dark
and threatening.
A considerable part Of the news about
Guatemala, and even much that comes
directly from Guatemala. must be dis
counted. The stories told by Cabrera 8
friends are perhaps no more accurate than
are the tales told by his enemies. The
latter tell Of his fierce brutality, Of hum
dreds Of summary executions for political
offences. OF property seized and OF the
imprisonment of both men and women.
They tell of both voluntary and enforced
exile for hundreds. including many fami-
lies of social prominence. The friends of
Mr.. Cabrera enter denial Of these state
ments or urge justification for the acts.
The fact seems to be that Cabrera, who for
u number of years conducted a very credita-
BILE government, has lost control Of himself
and Of the situation. Opposition appears
to have excited him to q course which by
it's severity has extended and strengthened
the antagonism.
1t Is evident that Mr.. Cabrera has disre-
garded the article in the Guatemalan Con-
stitution which declares that 'the judicial
power is vested in the Judges and tribunals
OF the republic, to whom the right belongs
exclusively of applying the laws in all cases.
civil and criminal" and has essayed govern
ment by Presidential decree. Every sum-
mary execution, every man exiled, every
seizure Of property as punishment for
actual or suspected political offences has
made for him new enemies TO be shot or
exiled or deprived Of property.
A statesman with wisdom far beyond that
displayed by Mr.. Cabrera might devise a
plan for the retrieval of disordered for
tunes. AS the Guatemala matter stands
it is difficult to see anything except con-
tinual trouble until the close OF Cabrera's
administration, in 1911, unless it might
be his assassination or his overthrow by
revolution.
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Not Entirely "Superfiuous. :

In the enlightened view of the editor
Of the Evening Mail and likewise in
the deliberate opinion of the editor of
the undertaking of DR.. BUTLER, Mr..
CHoATE and their Republican associate
mernorialists is as admirable in the
academic sense as it is Unnecessary as a
practical measure. Superfuous and
therefore dangerous, says the eminent
Rooseveltian of the Mail. 1t is like the
gliding of gold, says the equally eminent
Rooseveltian Of the Globe; why not go
further and ask the convention to COM
mend the Ten Commandments
With spontaneity of effort that does
much credit to his newspaper training,
Q third Rooseveltian editor, Mr. JOHN
EDWARD BRUCE of the Yonkers STANDARD,
furnishes in the nick of time complete
answer to the doubtsof his distinguished
colleagues Of the Mail and the Globe.
We commend to those journals the candid
utterances of their confrere of Yonkers
upon the subject of the superhuousness
not of the Butler Choate resolution, but
of the Supreme Court itself In his
eloquent way the Yonkers gentleman
illustrates the disesteem into which
our judicial establishment has fallen in
Administration circles. On the author
ity of that celebrated philosopher DR..
HARVEY JOHNSON, Mr. BRUCE denounces
the judiciary as a nuisance and obstacle
to reform, a positive source of weakness
in the nations government. In the
matter Of accomplishing reforms he finds
that the overestimated occupants of the
exalted bench stand sometimes in the
way Of the desires of "the whole people"
Shall nine men, asks MIR. BRUCE, turn
down the will OF eighty millions of
reformey, perceives the absurdity and
Inconvenience Of the system.
How much more respectable intel
lectually is the outspoken treatment of
the delicate subject by the colored gen.
tiemsn who presides over the destinies of
the Standard of Yonkers than are the
attempts of the Globe and Evening Mail to
represent the resolution as supereroga-
tory andto exhibit it's promoters as we'll
meaning but foolish alarmists How much
more representative and authoritative,
we may add, is his position.
X Mr.. BRUCE, we belisve-in no matter
now humble a capacity-is actually
member of the Federal Government under
the Roosevelt Administration.
We are not informed that either the
editor of the Globe or the editor of the
Evening Mdil has yet attained to that
honor as the reward of political zeal.
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Is Germany Poor or Rich Country? I?

we'll known English writer, Mr.. j.
ELLIS BARKER, author of Modern Ger
many" has lately published some statis-
tics showing that Germany is growing
richer and Great Britain poorer with
every decade, and that already the former
can meet better than can the latter most
Of the tests Of national wealth. Mr..
BARKER's data and deductions are cor
roborated by the latest election mani
festo Of the German Social Democratic
party and by Mr.. RICHARD CALwER, the
leading German Socialist statistician,
who are not likely to exaggerate German
prosperity under the existing political
and industrial regime.
1t is undoubtedly true that country's
principal wealth lies in the peoples pro-
ductive power. Now Germany has e3,-
900, 600 inhabitants against Great Brit
aims 100000 inhabitants. That is to
say, in man power Germany is about
so per cent. stronger than Great Britain.
Not only, moreover, has the former ooun-
try so per cent more workers than the
latter, but her workers are more fully
employed. While, according to the most
Trustworthy statistics and estimates 5
per cent. of Britain's skilled workers
and from to 10 per cent Of her un-
skilled workers-about 100000 in all
are permanently out Of work, unemploy-
ment is practically unknown in the Ger
man Empire. The reports Of British
consuls in German ports show that while
Great Britain suffers permanently from
a scarcity of work, Germany suffers no
less continuously from scarcity of W ork-
ers. Then, again, while Britain's popu-
lation increases by only some 300, 900 a
year-an increment which is declining
that Of Germany grows by more than
9OO, 1000. Yet notwithstanding the rela-
lively slow natural increase OF Britain's
population, between two and three hun
dred thousand Britons annually emigrate
in search Of work, while emigration from
Germany falls considerably short Of
tho immigration into that country. For
every German emigrant to million in
habitants there are eleven British emil
grants.
Another fact brought out by Mr.. BAR
KzR 10 that since 1879 wages In Germany
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the announcement of the Republican can
didate for Vice President. If it be DoLLI-
YER. DoLIIvER it will be; and IL he should
be elected CuMMINs might get into the
Senate after all and Republican wounds in
Iowa he healed. Would DoLLIvER be re-
garded on his merits as a very fit person 10
be President Of the United States? Well,
DoLL1vER is good natured. good looking in
a rural way, and full of voice. Since Mr.
ROOSEVELT accepted with great reluctance
the job Of Vice-President. he ought to
understand that it is first class job for u
first class man
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The Encoura cement OF y Bad Ex-
ample.


ample.
The spectacle OF our voluble friend
Colonel HENRY WATTERsoN seated con-
spicuously in the Bryan band wagon and
proclaiming the issue to be "the case of
the people against predatory wealth"
will hearten those Democrats who are
working against odds to save the party
from the fatuity Of nominating Mr.. BRYAN
for President third time. They have
only to quote the Colonel against himself
to draw encouragement and satisfaction
from his boisterous detection.
Four years ago-to be exact, in Febru-
ary, 19O4-the Colonel's friends urged
him to make fight against the Bryan
Hearst combination in Kentucky and
procure his own election as delegate TO
the national convention at ST. Louis, but
the Blue Grass State was almost in the
grasp of the fond allies. who are strang-
ers now, and the Colonels heart failed
BRYAN dominant in the convention and
becoming once more the candidate of a
oowed and despairing party. Throwing
up the sponge without even entering the
ring, the Colonel uttered wall of
dependency:
II we are to lose another Presidential election
through the agency OF Mr. BhrAS. let MIR. BRIAN
and his friends carry the whole responsibility. In
q word. II the Democratic party has not within
itself saving grace TO save itself. no individual or
newspaper EFFORT Will suace to save It."
In regarding Mr.. BRYAN as a sure loser,
if nominated, Colonel WATTERsON was
quite consistent. Doubtless he believes
in the guarded recesses of his inner con-
scioulsaess, whatever he says for publi-
cation, that Mr.. BRYAN will be defeated
again if named at Denver In 1895 the
Wattersonian heart was stout and un-
dismayed. Who can forget certain
telegram from Geneva in September:
Another ticket our only hope. No compromise
with dshonor Stand nrm."
And after the rout and ruin OF the
party he loves, to which he contributed
man fashion from a sense Of duty, Mr..
WArrERsoN exclaimed:
"I hadn't a fear that BRYAN would be elected.
MS eleCtOn WOulu nave meant reNOlUtlOn, ana l
felt sure that the American people would follow no
man such a question"
The question was technically the free
coinage Of silver, bat 1t was contained
in the issue (see Mr.. BRYAN's speeches in
that campaign Of "the people against
predatory wealth" Same issue, same
candidate again, according to Colonel
WArTERsoN. But the Democrats who
do not want ito lose another election
through the agency of Mr.. BRYAN have
not thrown up the sponge and they do
not acknowledge heart failure. Read
ing Colonel WATTERsoN s desertion in the
light of previous fulminations against
the choice Of WILLIAM j. BRYAN as a
candidate and the Colonel's triumphant
Il told you so, they will be more deter
mined than ever to continue the contest
and carry it indomitably to the floor of
the convention.
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4 Rainbow In the SkN.

Governor GLENN of North Carolina is
one of the most optimistic, unsuspicious
and complacent gentlemen in the entire
South. He is fat, placid, roseate. He
likes things as they are and can see no
flaws in them. He approves OF North
Cardinals anti-corporation movement,
his whole soul goes out to BRYAN and
ROOSEVELT. He doesn't know which of
these two statesmen he admires most
unless it be ROOSEVELT. He would like
to see both of them President, and would
feel quite. safe in the hands of either.
When he talks of BRYAN he breaks out
all over in q sort of goosefesh of enthu-
siasm. BRYAN is the one perfect Demo-
crat; none other need apply for nomina-
ton. When he visits Washington and
calls at the White House he emerges
beaming, wreathed in smiles, full OF
novel, fervor.
He is large about the head, smooth
shaven, an image of contentment.
Clouds to him are gossamer. With a
tornado heading straight for him, and
farm houses, assorted citizens and fur
niture and live stock darkening the air,
he would stop to pass the time of day
with neighbor and ask all sorts of
questions about his family. Recent por-
tents in Georgia and Alabama have
passed him by. He hasn't the faintest
idea that anything is changed and that
those two roaring blatherslzites HoKE
G.sY al d
spicuously repudiated by the same men
who year or so ago made up an ardent
following He hasn't heard, or doesn't
understand, that Arkansas has unloaded
JEFF DAVIS; and the bleeding form of
BLANCHARD lying in plain view outside
the Louisiana breastworks makes about
the same impression on his haloyon mind
that 1t would upon a sedate and we'll
conducted Cheshire cheese OF the dis
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have virtually doubled and are now
higher on an average than are wages in
Great Britain. In the last named country
! skilled workers now earn about IS shil-
lings, or less than sS. So, a week, while the
unskilled workers earn only from eleven
to twenty shillings (s2.75 to S3.75), from
which amount 10 per cent. must be de-
Quoted for unemployment. According to
MIR. RICHARD CALwER the average yearly
earnings Of workingmen In the German
Empire have risen between 1895 and 1908
by SO per cent. It is true that during
the same period prices have increased
by 25 per cent, but the workingmen are
from 12 to IS per cent. better OIL than
they were twelve years ago.
1t is plain enough that 3,OO0, 900 fully
employed Germans must produce more
than 100000 partially employed
Englishmen, especially as the former are
better organized than the latter and en-
ploy the most scientific processes and the
most perfect machinery. Unquestion-
ably two British industries, cotton manu-
facture and shipbuilding, are much
larger than the corresponding German
ones, but in other industries Germany
has attained far greater predominance.
For example, her chemical and electrical
industries are the foremost in the world,
and in the production Of steel she has
signally outstripped Great Britain. In
1880 she produced e24,OOO tons of steel
against Britain's production Of 1,342 600
tons; in 1906 Germany. could point to
ll,135 900 tons of steel against Britains
8,482 600 tons. Astonishing is the in
crease Of horsepower represented by
industrial steam engines in Prussia within
about quarter Of century; in 1870,
the total horsepower OF such engines
was 9S4 ,0O0 whereas in 1907 it was 8,043,-
58I Even during the seven years
between 1900 and 1907 German industrial
horsepower increased by 50 per cent.
Another test Of national wealth is the
amount Of money that a given country
is able to etpend. Now Germany has
spent about $25O, 900 900 ON colonies which
up to this time have proved almost
worthless; she has spent or is spending
a similar amount on the redistribution Of
land in her Polish speaking provinces
she is spending more than $3.50 900, 900
on canals, 500 900 900 yearly on her feet,
and $l75, 600 900 per annum on workmen's
insurance. Even Germany's foreign in
vestments seem to be tending rapidly to
vie with those of Great Britain. Ten
years ago she derived $500, 600 600 a year
from that source alone. 1t is true that
money is dear in Germany, but this is
because the quickly expanding indus
tries absorb most of the available funds.
Germans are able to make per cent. by
investing their cash in the national in
dustres.
We venture to say that these statistics
are likely TO surprise many English
speaking persons on both sides of the
Atlantic.
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THE THREAT THAT WINS.

From The Sun Of March II. 1908.
If they will not take Taft they will have
to take Me" is the reported and generally
accepted form Of the awful utimatum.
Ii the current political drama were not
tragic in the widespread ruin which has
attended it's progress so far it would be
comedy without an equal in the history of
the world
u When. outside of opera bouhTe, did Ruler
ever threaten his people with prolonga-
ton Of his own rule unless they would
rneskly allow him to dictate the selection
Of his successor