The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16
P%0LTfICAL T

Some irreverent a%nti-sufiraeIst has sent
broadcast through the State. and especially
Into su~fYrasette ranks. the following:
God made the world and rested.
He made man q rested.
Then-0od made womaI-
Since then neither God nor ma q has rested
The late Mira Augusta Evans Wilson.
author Of st. Elmo" and many other novels
famous years ago. made this charscteris-
tic declaration 4 short time before her
death:
Il believe that the the day which endows
women with the elective franchise will
DO one Oh the blacklist In The annals Of this
country and will ring the death knell OF
modern civ utilization. national prosperity.
social morality and domestic happiness,
Every exciting political election will then
witness the revolving deeds perpetrated
by the furies who assisted In the stormlnR
Of the Tuileries. and q repetition or the
scenes enacted during the reign OF the Paris
Commune will mournfully attest how ter
ribIe is the female nature when perverted :
"The Citizens Union, which cut q notable
figure In the Strong and Low campaigns
for Mayor. Is practically disintesrRted."
said an old time member Of the Citizens
Union who Il at present a prominent mem-
Der OF the City Club and wby?" He an
swered his own question by saying:
"The Citizens Union went to pieces be-
cause the people OF the city were ~disRusted.
after the Strong and low campaigns. over
the insatiate demands OF its members for
oh1ce. There was nothing like 1t In the
history Of q political organization. Many
Of our best citizens were impressed by the
spectacle.
THE usefulness OF the Union was de-
stroyed by the insistence OF its member
to hold ONCE. People who had supported
the Union began to believe that 1t was
nothing but an office seeking organization.
The best prophecy that | have at the mo-
ment ia that the City Club will 20 the same
way. The Citizens Union was the neatest
exemplincation that ] ever heard OF OF
Marcy's famous remark. To the Victors
belong the spoils.'
And yet the Union had Impressed some
Of our best people with the idea that II was
disinterested and only sought the city's
best welfare. The City Club is engaged in
the same business
A glance at the membership book Of the
City Club, in the Judgment Of those familiar
with the situation, would seem TO contro-
vert to some extent the remarks Of the
speaker In the foregoing paragraph. Many
Of the best citizens OF New York belong
to the club and they are far removed from
the necessity for ONCE seeking. The state
ment, though, 10 frequently heard by mem
bers Of the club that there is a clique In It
who run II for their Owl political advance
ment and that the disinterested members
are looked upon as so much ballast.
Those who frequently become agitated
over n possible war bel ween Tho United
states and Japan are asked by an expert
TO take a glance at the difference between
the national debts OF the two countries.
II Ii as follows:
Japan's interest bearing lei In 1873 was
SIS, Ooo, 900. In 1909 1t Is In round figures
o.. 40, 600, 600. The interest bearing debt
Of the United States was 81 800 .0o0. 900 In
1873. IL Is S9i3 900, 900 to-day. While our
debt is only about half as great as 1t was
thirty -one years ago Japan's 10 ~thirfy-four
times as large az it was at that time; and
while We were reducing our indebtedness
our population was growing rapidly.
The an nual interest charge on our debt
amounted to q for each woman and
child in the country in 1873. II is % cents
In 1909. In the thirty-one years In which
our debt was cut in g our aggregate
wealth was tripled. increasing from $40. oOo.-
900, 900 In 1873 to $500, 900. 900, 900 In 1909.
There has been discussion for the last
two or three days in New York city over
Norman T.. Mack's national monthly DEM
cratic magazine. The Democrats were
chiefly interested in the talk. 1t was the
general opinion that Mr.. Mack. Mr.. Bryan
and scores OF other Democrats may print
all sorts OF periodicals and magazines to
their hearts content and possibly prort,
but the Democrats as a national party
are doomed to defeat until they can impress
The business inter ests Of the country with
confidence in the Democratic national
party. No party, 1t Ia asserted. ever vol
the Presidency when the business interests
OF the country lacked confidence In the
stability Of its financial and commercial
policies,
Gen. James s. Clarkson. Surveyor OF the
Port of New York. believes that eventually
An automatic system Of weighing all i'm
ported merchandise calling for the use OF
Gales will be adopted by the Treasury De-
partment at Washington. The Depart
mept, Gen. Clarkson adds. has now under
Investigation an automatic scale whoso
operations cannot be even seer oy the
United States weishere.
From time immemorial there have been
Custom House scandals In New York city
over the weighing Of the sugar importstions.
The Collectors and the Surveyors and tho
United States Appraisers, Gen. Garksou
believes, have been almost poweriess 10
prevent these scandals. and the General be-
iieyes that IL an aut scale Is adopted
the customs service will hear no more Of
the sugar scandals.
Tho Republicans OF the old Twenty
q ysnth district Of New York city like to
tell of the lays when George W, Wickershsm
Attorney-General In President Tsfts Cabi-
net .~dId bis work In the distr riot with prac-
ticalness and energy.
Mr.. Wickersham. said one OF these
Twenty se venth district Republicans the
other night. worked at the primaries
and was at the polls on election day just
like the humblest member OF the organ
zation, this too when he had become q
very wealthy lawyer and his time was inn
mensely valuable.
For that matter. II may be added by
those familiar with the facts. no President
of the United States within the memory
of the present generation OF voters has
been anything but p practical member OF
his party. Hayes In Ohio as Governor
was one Of the most practical politicians
In the distribution OF patronage that the
Buckeye State had known, Garfield knew
the ropes thoroughly. SO did Arthur.
Gle yeland Harrison. Mckinley and Roose-
welt, and President Tsft was familiar with
the practical workings OF organization
~polItics q year after he left college.
All of these men have known what IL was