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The Washington times., 1908-12-09

It is reasonably practicable 10 make II
navigable, Is a matter which, under the
permanent policy Of the Government
lies beyond the domain OF individual en-
terprlse and within the field where the
Goyernment is supreme"
CaTnegie's Remarks.
Mr.. Carnegie began by saying that
he realized that he addressed the con
tinent Of North Anne .ice when he spoke
10 the delegates 10 the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress- He declared at
the outset that he was in favor of
waterway improvements. and that il it
could not be realized under the Con
stitution. he would be in favor OF
changing the Constitution He also
took occasion to say that the delegates
should not be sectional IN their views,
but that they should cooperate TO
form a policy, and not a party.
4 heartily Endorse the stand taken by
Vice President Fairbanks he said. "in
favor Of issuing bonds Tor the purpose
OF improving the rivers and harbors Of
the country. The Improvement OF the
waterways VIII give back to US ten
fold the expenditure.
Mr. Carnegie then paid a tribute to
the method OF financing the building Of
the Panama Canal. declaring that the
PROJECT mas been an enormous success
de asserted that he would personally
urge the Improvement OF the inland
waterways Of the country by empi Dying
similar financial methods
Concluding. Mr.. Carnegie said that he
Eas proud 70 associate his name with
the work being done by the National
Rivers and HarbOrs Congress and that
he believed centuries 10 come would e21-
tol the success Of the undertaking.
The Washington times., 1908-12-09
GAME POSTPONED.

The game scheduled in the Military
League for tonight between the Marines
and Corcorans has been postponed until
next week.
The Marine team has not as vet re-
ceived uniforms. and viii not be able
TO aDnear until rhpn-
The Washington times., 1908-12-09
PROHIBITION PERIL

Georgia Druggist CgloomiIy)-I know
what the next move Of the prohibition
lists --ill be.
Assisrant-Nhat's that2
Georgia Druggist-Why. they'll sOOII
begin 20 agltate for a law 10 make Us
remove, On Sundays. the partition th2-C
separates the shop proper from the pre-
sCriptiOn department.
The Washington times., 1908-12-09

Padded Leather Books-L Lucfle......
Imitation of Christ Hiav- ataa.
RepresentatiVe Men------L a ! ] a
ROOkh- h-..-.-- = nnysOn's Poems.
Able Constantin- Love Poems
Vicar OF Wakefield 1900 Gran
ford In MemOriaTn ...--Idylls OF the
King. Little AIinister.--- Il
Snow Bound. Choice hA(
for II
The Washington times., 1908-12-09
READY FOR IT.

President OF Health Food Company
notice some talk OF the false teeth max
ers going on strike. We'd better be
prepared for such an event.
Superintendent (smilingly)-We'il man
ufacture a few tons of ''Pre-masticated
Wheat Cakes or something Ike that
The Washington times., 1908-12-09
SOC to $40 for So to $50 Pieces

Everything here for m' and cher" The best bargains
the most expenSve-thnk of only $50 for $50 bag filled
toilet articles king queen might envy Never many
geSionS for preSenS-al Of leather.
The Washington times., 1908-12-09
CONTINUES DEATH PENALTY

PARIS, Dec S.-The chamber OF depu-
ties today, BY a vote Of $50 to 2of, de-
eided in favor Of continuing the death
penalty in Franco
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
NTs4NGE NEWS From THE WESy.

t.rr nrichlsor The Press las been making
suTne extraordinary discoveries recently in the
f,rrG iucogAjfG Of Western politics. 1t un-
eartted three weeks ago the remarkable fact
that of the 5.n14 delegates to the Missouri Re
publican convention 6I2 federal office
holders. This disclosure WAS indeed extraor-
linsl-y. since no political convention in any
state in the Union had ever before seen so
vast All army Of federal officials carried on its
membership roll and since the viGilanf repre-
seatatives Of the IT. Louis newspapers detailed
5o report the proceedings of the Missouri con-
vention failed utterly 70 noie so curious and
record breaking phenomenon in American
politics There more than three hundred
thousand Republicans ia Missouri. The Repub-
lican electoral ticket in 1860 received 314092
votes and she Republican electoral ticket in
1874 received 321 .4i9 woes. Yet. according 10
The piessS'' information and logic. The wishes
and purposes II the party in Missouri were de
te-ilinei lv a. handful & federal ofiiceholders.
p1-en granting JiIaI the fais1afian army visual
.zea in our ueighbof's ST Louis dispatches was
not = yagary of -he ima gination but demon
Strable fact.
-Tii.. Press has DOW discovered that the
Republican, party ia Iowa, well as i'll Mis-
sour Is NOT a responsible. self-e0verning or
sanitation. There we're 1.1So delegates in the
Iowa Stale Convention held on Wednesday at
i)as Moines. and itS action. far nstruc-
lions 10 the delpgares-at-large TO the Repub-
iican National Convention were concerned. was
ae unanimous as was the sction OF the recent
convention in Missouri. Our contemporary does
npr say that two-thirds Of the Iowa delegates
wee also federal ofiicehoiders. YET il main
ta,ps tbst the federal officeholders WHO were
f,rescnt fno figures given) actually controlled
Tie situation and compelled the great majority
Of the delegates TO do something quite opposed
10 their own wishes and the wishes OF Iowa :
Republican voters The 1'resss explanation
of ihis paradox is highly ingenious. IL says
1iia; the Allison faction and the Cumnlne fac
lion were lighting desperately for control. the
followers of Governor cumIDins being anxious
10 ,ieet hin 10 tie United States Senate to re-
place Mr. Allison. Each faction feared tbat IT
would lose if il announced preference for the
Presidential nomination not identical with the
preference announced hy the other faction.
Therefore each declared n preference for Sec
retary Taft, though The Press says that
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
EUROPEAN HILfTARISU.

Rroucilaun based his lack of fear of mltarisln
upon the fact that the schoomaster Is abroad,
and he doubtless was discreet in SO doing -N
least he WAS logical and had the courage not
only of his convictions but also of the worlds
;,rofassions Moreover. his optimistic forecast
has been pretty we'll yindicated by the prog
resS of subsequent events. far as England is
concerned for the growth of mitarism in
that kingdom has since his day been infnites-
imal In fact in land forces there has been
q decrease rather than q growth, while to-day
AN education bill easily outranks an army blll
in Parliamentary and popular esteem With
other European lands, however. the case Is
different.
At the beginning OF the nineteenth century,
a good many years before ErouShan uttered
his famous speech, the total British army num-
bered only 24o.015 men. and no other European
mower had more than 450.ooo. Since that time
con sderaD Dle native Ieyies have been raised in
India and other parts of the British Empire.
But the actual British army. at home and in
India and the colonies, aggregates only 21o.9'io
men That is TO say. 4 hundred years ago
British soldiers numbered one in every sixty
six of the population. while now they number
one i'm every 1GS SO that there has really been
an enormous decline in miltarism. If
reckon all the militia, yeomanry, volunteers and
what not and all the colonial and Indian forces
CT all KINDS. we ger III e1tFehe hGSrtsdte OF
n little less than a million-to be precise, 99a.-
421-a small force for an empire which com
prises 4l00A1oon. or much more than one
fifth Of the population Of the globe.
Less favorable from BrOughan's point of
view is the condition of the other great Euro
pean powers Thus, Austria hungary has
active army of 4G9G3S which has grown i'll
twenty-tiv years from PSI SIC. while her total
forces have in the same time increased from
S15.iG9 10 .,.:alt3.G3S. And the Dual Realm is
by no means the greatest of the military
powers The French army with the colors has
not increased so rapidly. though il is larger,
ha wing risen from .i09.9S3 in 1850 10 6I1,5Sl
now: but the growth of the military reserves
has been great. so that the grand total has
risen from I,J70,s36 TO 353o365 Russia, on
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
4 P4TROLHiN'S WORK.

Never has the decentralization of the New
York City Police Department been more NlVldlE
displayed than in the recent employment OF
private detectives by Commissioner Bingham.
The police having been either unable or un-
willing TO check the 'h0ld-ups" and bUrglaries
the upper West Side. General Bingham has
been forced 10 retain the services of slcuths
who being in the work for business. mean
businesst. Where is the flaw in the Police
Department which makes il possible for the
weekly average of reported robbereS alone TO
approach the five hundred mark: Is the or
ganizatien faulty: Is discipline lax: Are
there too few patrolmen? Is the detective bu-
reau incompetent: Or are the whole rank and
file under the thumb of yeggmen and their
political pals: The Commissioner. while rec
ogniZiDg other weaknesses. lays great stress
upon the insufficient number Of patrolmen- lie
says his force should be Immediately increased
by a thousand or more Voters and taxpaE-
ers. however. should defer judgment until they
have considered few figures.
Dealing in round numbers, may note that
there are nearly 300 patr0lmen in Manhat-
tan and The Bronx, Of whom about LOCO are on
day duty and 1000 on night duty. In this
number more than 1000 special patromen are
not included: on the other hand. several hun
dred of The total 5000 men are detailed for
court clerical. sanitary and other work. The
two bOTOughS contain $4,000 acres. ana when
the areas under the Park Department and the
vacant lots have been deducted there is cOnSid-
erabIy less than 10000 acres to be protected.
There is one patrolman for every thirty acres
by day. then. and one for every fifteen by
night. OF course. the average patrol areas IN
Manhattan are smaller than these, while those
in The Bronx are larger. An acre being n plot
about 210 feet square, a Manhattan patr"lman
on day duty is expected TO protect an area
averaging less than 1850 feet hy 1.050 feet in
size. while his nocturnal successor SUpervtSeS
lin thCoryl i mOrSei of land not larger than
I.O.U feet by $50 feet. Taking into conSidera-
ton the thousands of special patrolmen, prl-
vate night watchmen, night jantors and night
hall men whose mere presence, awake or
asleep. greatly smpfcS the work OF the regu-
lar police. must we not be mildly surprised at
the night patrOmans inability TO cover such a
small beat effectively: In Pittsburg a police
lieutenant has just testified on the witness
stand that certain of his SupcriorS have been
ordering patrOmen to let the 'veggS' alone.
The figures We have just given make it look as
though somebody with the requisite courage
might utter similar testimony about the New
York situation.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
ytRDP AND THE la ".
scandal.

The failure of the Washington conferences
ove,. the antitrust law to reach an agreement
WAS tvDical Of the attitude of organized ianor
and was TO be expected. Mr.. Seth Low. OF the
Civic Federation. is reported TO he "discoura eed
thoupb he might we'll have felt all along that
he was attempting the impossible. MT trnifl-
rers would he content with nothing but an
amendment 10 the law excepting labor from its
onerstions and leaving il free 10 use the boycott
AS ii pieased. and. of course. President I.oose-
welt would not listen to such Il proposition
Nr Ciompers's organization wants special
privileges under the law which no other cor
I,oration Or body of men would ENJOY. IL 'te-
mands that the operations of all other comblha-
tions In restraint of trade be prohibited, but not
the operations of the LABOR combination IN re-
straipt of trade 1t would be satisfied with moth
ing less than that the unions should enjoy the
right to methods to driVe men out OF blsl-
ness which are expressly forbidden TO capital
istic combinations. 1t insists that actions Which
are declared by the law 10 be abhorrent Whel
performed by trading corporations. and Whlch
ara ,hhorrent TO the minds of all fairminded
men by whomsOeyer performed should he per
mitted by the law when done by union labor.
The position is monstrously unfair
There is no point on which the public mind 'S
more surely made up than it is upon the iniGuity
of the boycott. 1t is not to be thought OF that
the state should stand idly by and permit any
body of employees to ruin an employers business
by threats and intimidation because OF some
quarrel between them and their employer OF De
cause of the employers refusal 10 listen to their
dictation. Organized society exists to prevent
lust such methods as b0ycotting unlonlSts ana
unscrupuouS captalisic combinations use 10
/ DESTROY their enemies their competitors
Every manufacturer trader has right to sell
! his wares on their merits and not have them
driven from the markets by intimidation ana
threats. The governments duty IS TO Keep tnls
right unimpaired. and any special license TO MI.
Cou1ners's combination TO do what other com
hinations are prohibited from doing would vio-
late the national sense Of equal justice TO All
men and all classes. The boycott. moreover. IS
not essential 10 the success OF labor : cause
( I-nionism would gain respect from the puOlic by
the abandonment of all questionable methods
A friendly public opinion would be worth more
,o il than any method could be that offended
and aliepated the public. The boycott has no
more place in modern society than the practice
OF private vengeance to which it is own Kin
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
THE FTbyNS aCT DECISION.

Mondays Supreme Court decision disposes OF
what seemed TO be the most promising me OF
attack upon the Ekins anti-rebate law. 1he
Burlington Railroad Company made contract
with the packers TO ship oIeo oil at - cents a
hundred pounds. It was public rate nled WIN
the Interstate Commerce Commission SupSe-
ouently the public rate was changed to 80 cents
a hundred pounds. but the railroad continued TO
carry out its contract with the packers The
contract was perfectly legal at the time it was
made and il was contended that the law could
not make it illegal The argument was not the
broad one urged against the Elklns law. that
it violates the Constitution in denying the Tree
dom of shippers and railroads TO make Such co"'
tracts as they please. but much stronger one
namely. that the law cannot interfere WIN ie-ai
contracts already in existence Inc court mas
held that the freedom Of contract cahlIot oe
pleaded to justify determinations brought ao'u'
by the subsequent changing of rates
If the court had decided that such dlScrlmiha-
lion az was practised in this Burlington case
was permissible under the principle OF due 1ree
dom nf contract the practical effect would nave
been TO make the whole Elkins act useless ahu
ineffective. All that a railroad company Wouiu
have TO do in order to discriminate III laNoi %
any shpper would be 10 publish a certain fa'e
agreeable to him, make a contract Win nun
under it for a term of years and then raise 'he
rate TO his competitors Such an evasion Oh 'he
Inv is impossible under this decision of the
court:
The Elkns act proceeded upon broad lines.
and MAS evidently intended to effectuate the
p,1rDose of Congress to require that all shippers
should be treated alike and that the oniy ratS
charged 10 any shipper for the same service
under the same conditions should be the one
established published and posted as required py
law. 1t is not SO much The particular form ny
which the motive for which this purpose was
accomplished. but the intention was to prohlple
any and all means that might be reSorted 10 20
obtain or receive concessions and rebates from
the fixed rates duly posted and published.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20

neither faction is really for Taft and that tne
Iowa voters are also not for him.
This explanation substitutes magic for matne-
natics Ii adds three ZerOs and obtains a
number equal TO Iowa's representation in me
Republican National Convention. III nelther
the Allison nor the Cummins element Is Tor
Taft-and these two elements include the great
ma iority of the three hundred thousand Ike
publican voters in Iowa-then Taft has no pop
uar strength whatever in the state. But IL Il
candidate has popular strength i'll state
and is besides. not acceptable to either OF the
contending factions. what benefit can either
expect from espousing his candidacy WI!
should not one faction seize on more popular
man and his greater popularity as club
to beat down tine other faction: POLITICIANS are
practical and keeniy awake TO their own III
terests. They prefer TO tie. if possible. TO can
ddates with local popular sentiment behihu
them. The idea that the Iowa Republicans
could be driven to act against their Will by a
little coterie of federal officeholders is gro
tesoue There is no state in the tnon III
which the Republican party is freer from such
domination than il is in Iowa or in which the
Republican voters have more decidedly the
habit of acting on their own Judgment and ex-
eclltins their own purposes.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
IN WASHINGTON ScIETY.

from The Tribune BureaDl
Washington. March Ex-senator and Mrs Stepheh
b Elkins had as their guest of honor at dinner TO-
night the Duke of the Abruzz and invited TO meet
him were number of the younger friends of Miss
Elkins
Senator and Mrs Chauncey NJ pepew had 10
dine with them tonight Senator Perkins Miss FER
kins Senator and Mrs. Clay. Senator and MIS-
Rurnham Senator and Mrs. Ankeny. Senator ana
Mrs Burkett Senator ana Mrs. William Alden
Smith Senator and Mrs. Paynter. Representative
and Mrs Payne. Representative Glett Represent
atiye D. s Alexander. the Secretary OF the senate
and Mrs Bennett. Miss Harlan. Miss Foraker.
Miss Sheriff.. Miss Squire and Charles Pauding, OF
New York.
Miss Violet Langflam has returned 70 Washing-
ton from visit of several weeks to her relatives
in Louisville, and will remain as the guest OF ner
hrother-iu-Iaw and sister. the German Ambassador
and Baroness Won StefnbuTg. for the entire spring
All details for the wedding of Miss Helen Ffoulke.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Charles NJ Ffoulke- and
Manuel Havenith Belgian Minister to Persia are
complete, and the wedding party will include Miss
Louise Foraker bridesmaid. Baron Moncheur,
Belgian Minister best for Mr. Havenith.
and as ushers Cha rles NJ. Ffoulke- jr-, Frederic
secretary of the Belgian Legation Mrs William
ReIden Noble gave a dinner tonight in compliment
to Miss Ffoulke and Mr.. Havenith. inviting num-
her of the younger members OF society meet
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
THE NEWS THIS HORNFNG.

-oNGRESS.-SeHate; Mr.. La Toilette contn-
ued his speech the causes of the recent panic:
- House: The pension appropriation olii
passed and resolution asking me freSi
dent To state the authority by which ne gov
srned the Panama Canal Zone was adopted
FoREIGN.-The leader of the Group 9f
Toll in the second Douna slain 10! aSsas-
sins in Ekaterinoslav. Russia. - The BANK
If England reduced its rate of discount 10 per
cent- = Dispatches from Moscow tod OF In IN
serious illness OF Count Leo Toistoy. -- 1 ne
Earl OF Dudley appointed Governor Genera
IF Australia - Scores Were injured in sut-
frage riots in Berlin == 1t was reported h
Ror7e that Miss katherine Ellins would be Of
fcialIv declared q member OF the royal family
alpon her marriage TO the Duke OF the Abruzzt
- NJ Tardieu. in the Paris Temps, quoted
President Roosevelt at great length =- There
was an uproar in the ReichstaS. caused pE INC
CentTist leader
poNESTIC.-I.abor leaders presented their
demands to Vice President Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon. who assured them thal an
employers liability law will be passed at the
present session of Congress. == The physl-
rian attending Governor Guild Of Massachusetts
reported that his patient was better ana that
There was hope Of his recovery - / ne A Ap.
peIlate Division Sd Department, handed down
= decision at Albany sharply crltlciShs as
against public policy the appointment o. al
raches OF the Attorney General ; once DIS re-
,.eivers or counsel TO receivers of corporations
Amendments to the Public service law
introduced at Albany by senator rage
and Assernblyman Wainwright =- II was
announced at Albany that the state had Iur
chased Mount Marcy. the highest mountain
,.sthir7 lis hor5ers -- W. ]. Bryan celebrated
his forty-eighfh birthday in Chicago delivering
a speech on Why Democracy before a mass
meeting in the 9TH Regiment aTnlory- =-
Senator RojeS Penrose was reported dangerously
Ill in Philadelphia. = Great damage was
caused by foods in the Pittsburg district pul
concern was relieved by statement OF the
Weather Bureau that the crest would not be SO
high had been expected
CTTT-StCcls were irregular == The Re
publican County Committee passed resolutions
: skiing for The reinstatement of innocent negro
troops dismissed br the President --- AT
iorrev General Jackson was busy issuing
sIe,lialS TO the many charges preferred against
him. The assets and books Of the Oriental
Rank were transferred by the receivers 10 the
STATE Panling Department --- toGilsel Tor
The Guaranty Trust Company argued that it
Was the duty Of New York City railway re-
,-civcrs 10 surrender any improbable leases.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fail. Tho temperature yesterday: Highest, 4S
fl~-rccs. lowest 81.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20
1 DESERTED RERT n +.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme court
Third Department administered this well de-
served rebuke to Attorney General Jackson yes
terday for the appointment of one OF his depu-
ties as counsel To the receivers of the Brooklyn
Bank:
The great office of the Attorney General should
not be subject to the criticism that it IS 1nfu-
enced by sinister unworthy consideration
The mere possibility that the duties and respon-
sibilities Of the office may be sacrificed con
ploylnent by receiver of counsel intimately con-
nected with that office. We think such an EN-
ployment is clearly inconsistent with the reia :
tions which the law creates between the Attoi-
ney Generals office and insolvent corporations
Besides the deputy in this case MI jackson
also named another deputy rs Il receiver OF the
Hamilton Bank and his private secretary as
the receiver of the Mechanics and TRADERS
Bank Ii is by these actions. the tendency OF
which to discredit his office the court points
ont. that Mr. Jackson has laid the office OF Al
torney General under such general suspicion
of having been Influenced by sinister and IN
worthy motives that the grand jury IS eA-
smining into some of its dealings and that Ihe
legislature c0ntempates an investigator o.
its operatioDs in general. Not in many years
has the conduct of a high state officer invited
th, attention of d grand jury. II is "a grave
scandal
New-York tribune., 1908-03-20

class is to be found for which the superhuous
equipment can be reserved? Brahmanism Justl-
fes the indefinite multiplication OF passenger
cars hotels. shoe stores, candy shops. saloons.
theatres and other establishments turn'sniig
things liked by all the castles in common. some
economists of the old school pronounce u cFihi-
inal waste to create several sets of institutions
where so far as the mere volume of business Is
concerned one set could easily handle all 'he
trade But the narrOwness of this view Is ap
parent TO every Oklahoman Seen from ioitier
point of view the extravaganza is Warranted oy
the outward signs of prosperity when II pro
duces by the reputation for originality which
the state earns through it, by the cear-cut ah-
swer if gives to the puzzle question. "ha' 10
= Democrat?" and. last but not least tne oeep
inward satisfaction yielded by the caste system
amended to it. No sordid worry over dollars anu
cents will deter Oklahomans from carrying OUT
their Rrahmanistic scheme to the Orlentai i'init
and providing a complete set of sidewalks. ROAD
ways street lamps. newspapers. etc. lor the
blacks. another for prohbtionists. anofher ior
the Rryau caste and on, until some more HI
teresting game comes into vogue