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The sun., 1909-11-27
Parkhurst and LObbs.

We have a sufficient sense Of self
preservation TO hide our opinion Of
woman suffrage, but we cannot hide our
joy at the appearance of our benign and
gracious friend the Rev. DIR. CHARLES
HENRY PARKHURsT dropping pearls -
diamonds from his lips like a Fairy
Princess Of the days before sin and
suffrHgettes bothered the world. The
grace and charm Of his style, his free
dom from personalities and asperities,
his large, unfailing charity, his temper
and his tongue of honey, all the gifts
which have so endeared him to his Eel
low citizens, stick, out of his Thanksgiv-
ing allocution like quilts from the fretful
porpentine And that English OF his,
so strange, so luminous, so lovely:
The framework Of sociological principle and
historic trend"
Standing within this framework of
.tfend the Angelic Doctor of Manhattan
sends the women about their business
and proclaims proudly his status:
4 nave belonged to the male sex for more than
bsif century. .r-
SO may he continue to the endl The
band of "Amazons" twitters and shrieks
and skedaddles. Every man worthy of
the name feels he is worthier OF it, feels
his chest bulge out. PARKHURsT is with
him. PARKHURsT knows mans rights.
and knowing dares maintain. PARK
HURST regards with sad indignation
any female who will consent to stand
before crowd of womanly women and
SOW in their honest and eager hearts the
seeds of sex antagonism.
At last Kansas is answered and Mere
Man is safe. IL was the Maid OF Kaw.
DrADAMy X. LoBBs. who some twenty
years ago put the trumpet to her mouth
and blew that fell tune: Man must be
abolished. Man shall not be abolished.
He shall not even be changed, amended
and improved. For PARKHURsT is
man, and PARKHURsT stands pat.
The sun., 1909-11-27

destroy their preference for Spanish
wines, olive oil, sundry provisions,
millinery and dress goods; nor is II
possible TO force a radical change in
tastes and habits by insistence on a
tariff preference on American products.
An unwarranted interference with GUS
toms that are social rather than purely
economic will do US no good and will
work injury to the Cubans.
As, far as Cuba's trade with Spain
is .conooyncd there is another side to
the matter, Cuba buys from Spain
about so.OcO,OOO or $4,000, 600 worth OF
merchandise annually, little of which
would be bought in the American
market in the natural course Of trade.
Cuba's sales to Spain average probably
not more than 10 per cent. of its pur-
chases from Spain By the proposed
convention a much larger trade oppor-
tunity in the Spanish market is offered to
Cuba. Unless it can be clearly shown
that the proposed convention will be
an unreasonable injury to the really
feeble efforts made by American traders
to market their wares in Cuba, the United
States should place no barriers in the
way Of an increase in Cuban exports. II
is quite enough that the provisional
Government should have plunged the
Cubans into a deep financial hole. Much
care should be exercised in any scheme
that would tend TO restrict the COM
merce of the people.
The sun., 1909-11-27

vania and the Banht in Hungary and Bu-
kovina in Austria are between three and
four millions of Rumanians. The ter
ritory they inhabit joins the Rumanian
frontier along its whole northern ex-
tent, and the frontier is a frontier
founded upon political rather than
racial or national reasons. Any dis
integration Of Austria might naturally
be expected to result in the gain for
Rumania of the Rumanians now out
side the kingdom. In q word, there
is here an irredentism quite as real
for more extension in the territory
and population affected as that which
exists on the Adriatic.
Nor does the case quite end with a
mention of the racial situation. Not
only are nearly three millions of Ru-
manians subjected to Hungarian rule,
but this domination is harsh and un-
pleasant yoke. The same spirit which
prompts the Pr7lssians to attempt to
make Prussians of the Poles and Ger
mans of the French inhabitants Of Metz
and the French speaking district of
Lorraine drives the Hungarians to at
tempt to make Magyars of the RIlman-
ians of Transylvania. Here, as else
where, this effort to denationalize a
race has failed, but not before it has
reused the resentment Of Rumanians
on both sides Of the Transylvanian Alps.
The recent rumors of Balkan alliance
may be baseless or accurate no infor-
nation Of them is possible, nor is there
any present probability that any Balkan
alliance win be publicly proclaimed. or
themselves, however, the rtlmors have
certain significance. They seem to point
toward a change in Balkan groupings
and in Rumanian policy which is founded
upon grounds that are easy to perceive
and not hard TO accept. The Rumanian
attitude toward Austria Hungary is
little different from that OF Italy. and
Transylvania and Bukovina are quite
as obvious causes for Rumanian hos
tility as the Trentipo and Trieste are
sources Of irredentism Evidently the
full count Of the consequences of the
Austrian aggression in Bosnia and
Herzegovina has not yet been taken.
The sun., 1909-11-27
Furtiye Justice.

1t would be unreasonable and lacking
in gratitude to criticise the Indiana
Sheriff who in order to prevent the
lynching Of a prisoner by mob ar
ranged for session of court AT o'clock
in the morning and carried the accused
man TO court in secret. The Sheriff
knew the temper of the community and
took his measures accordingly. He
prevented his fellow citizens from muir
dering the man entrusted to his care
and saved flis county from an exhibit
ton of .harbarity. Yet the incident is
not of kind 10 elate those who are fond
of Boosting Of their country as -law
abiding"
In few years comparatively lynch
law has become. from a creature of the
dark served hy masked and disguised
men, an institation of broad daylight
boasted and advertised by its agents
The night riders are known, the Cairo
lynchers did not hide their identity. and
If this Indiana Sheriff has set right
measure on the temper Of his public il il
plain that justice has been forced into
the position of doing its work by stealth
and seeking the cover of midnight for
it's protectpn-
Long ago the always silly plea that
lynching was for only one crime ceased
TO be heard The mob spares no man
regardless Of his offence. Its swift
justice" frequently indefensible in fact
as always in morals, is applied indis-
criminattly for alleged misdeeds OF
every degree 'of seriousness. The In
diana man saved by the Sheriff's STRAIT
egy is accused Of murder. For all the
mob cared he might have been chicken
thief.
The real meaning OF the incident is
that the law must go about its busi-
ness by circuitous paths, constantly in
fear of the public from which it and it's
servants derive. Is that not a shame.
full confession for any civilized COM
munity to make?
The sun., 1909-11-27
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The sun., 1909-11-27
sorrows Of a sensitive Ear

Far down the yelowng avenue
The sun shone yellower than the trees
And summer. flying southwark. blew
backward kiss upon the breeze.
So down the sunshlnes NOTED stream
drifted. musng, far away:
voice broke quavenng through my dream.
on, alnt II elegant today"
heard a piping. sweet and clear.
Come stealing up the nelds OF time.
And goat foot Pan. another year,
Was piping in another cline.
! followed, followed where he led
Through daisied ield and tempted wood,
Until another follower said.
HIS lips are puckercd petty good"
A roaring tide OF Life rolled by.
throbbing murmur rose and fell.
There was no more a you or
Than single wAve beats in a shell.
noated, part'of that strange sea.
ENultant in Its swsying rush,
Until dwindled into me
AZ Mercy! What an awful crushl'
And so IL goes: I've never sought
To soar above this present sphere
But thas a larring note has brought
Me plunglng back TO now and here.
l have no hope: for when I die
And near the blessed promised land.
know some other soul will Sigh
Them harps Is simply something grand-
coxroN CAxsurn.
The sun., 1909-11-27
The Last Gasp for Notoriety.

Only few days more OF the limelight
remain for BIRD S. CoLER, and he yearns
to crowd them with notoriety. On
January his period will have ended
and the glad round Of publicity will be
over. For twelve years he has known
his highest joy, seeing his name in
print.
II mattered little to him how he got
into the talk of the day. With credit
with discredit, as serious person. as a
cheap poser; all was one to him. Lately
he has enjoyed the attention of the
Commissioners of Accounts, with re-
suits accurately anticipated by all who
know him. Their left handed ministra-
tions to vanity have ceased with an ex-
posure that would satisfy most men but
Ia not enough for CoLER.
He wants a trial. He longs to be
removed from office. He is eager for
more Of that kind of advertising which
most men would avoid. Ii is improb-
able that he will be gratified. His little
eccentricities are too many and too in
volved for human agency to tackle. He
will be forced to retire to private life
with a record no more fragrant than the
one he has already achieved.
The sun., 1909-11-27
The spanish Cuban Commercial
Treaty,

The Cuban Government has given
to the State Department in Washington
an official assurance that the treaties
being negotiated with Spain, Venezuela
and Uruguay will in no way injure the
trade rights enjoyed by the United
States under the existing reciprocity
treaty. The Department Is alert, ,rcom-
mendably or otherwise, to prevent any
diminution in American sales of mer-
chandise in lines in which our Cuban
market is and for various reasons
must be inconsideTable. Ii is well to
protect American trade interests in
the island by all reasonable methods,
but IL is not well to assume a dog in the
maRger attitude that will be prejudicial
10 our neighbor's interests.
Cuba's imports from Uruguay con-
sist mainly of "tasajo," a very inferior
meat product which the American
market does not supply and probably
would not supply under any conditions.
The Cuban purveyors OF meat are them
selves fighting the sale of the material
with considerable vigor, and il is doubt
full if the consent of the Cuban Senate
can be secured for any treaty propos-
ing a cheaper rate Of duty on tasajo.
The principal import from Venezuela
has been live cattle. This business
is declining through the restocking OF
Cuban ranches, and Cuban cattle raisers
may be counted on for stubborn Op-
position to any increased competition
with their industry, Sales of American
cattle in the Cuban market show a value
OF 1is "a for 1908, and would be little
OF -.5v at all affected even by an increase
In imports from Venezuela.
Cuban imports from Spain form a
special institution with special reasons
for its existence. In their total they
average in value about one-fifth Of the
imports from the United States. They
represent a special and natural develop
..sent in taste and custom in various
matters of food, dress and ornament.
The Cubans are a Spanish PEOPLE, some
Spanish born and many of Spanish
; descent. 1t is not, to be expected that
ssfew years Of life under the admin
htTation OF Wood or a Magoon would
The sun., 1909-11-27
IF WOMEN COULD VOTE.
what the Enect Would He Upon . society
Now False and snObbish.

To THE EDIToR ,oF The SuN--Siy: AN
Admirer OF Women" who opposes woman
suffrage in a letter to THR SCN of Novem-
ber rs. is a good example OF what Horace
meant when he coined the phrase mil
admirari" The danger OF admiring the
fair sex too much is that we will not allow
our definition Of admiration TO include
traits OF character as constantly as IL con-
notes skin deep sort OF beauty. Your
correspondent says:
II man Ia q thief or a Har. he may deny Il,
but he knows II Is so. lie knows 1t. and you can
that he knows II. A woman. on the other
hand. may be q thief a liar. and she does not
know 1t, and power on earth make her
know IL or see Il.
wild liberty says Emerson in his es-
say on politics, develops iron conscience
Want OF liberty by Strengthening law and
decorum stupehes conscience" l think
your correspondent. despite his nifty years
of experience" will find that the words Of
Emerson are a good Interpretation OF that
experience. Few people realize that the
Interpretation OF experience correctly is
quite as important as experience. An Ad-
mlrer OF Women" acknowledges his igno-
rance OF this salient fact when he says: Il
do not say how or why women ever fell
into this inferior intellectual position. ]
sim ply say they are there now. He mis-
Of the Chinese woman's foot. so, !" says Mrs,
j, II. Douglas of New Orleans, sin all cases
OF restrictions put upon woman; they do
not come from God, but from man, begin
ming at birth" What have not we men
to answer for" SAYS Mr.. Barrie, who talk
of love TO "a woman when her noblest
thoughts. her aspirations. are for kissing to
sleep her very soul. q plaything."
IL is not the equal suffrage men and women
who uphold british and snobbish system
of society and government, but those who
oppose applying American principles TO
women SO besotted by European and feudal
customs that they are as proud of their
political disabilities the Chinese -aristo-
cratic" woman used to be OF her cramped
feet. That custom Is beginning to be nn-
fashionable in China. and happily the GUS
tom OF cramping women's brains is rapidly
dying OUT In America also. Women are not
Inherently incompetent to shape human
life on the earth. as their "Admirer~ saws
in effect. but only politically so because
they have no voting rights and legislative
responsibilities. Moreover. their detects are
directly due to just such an attitude as his
own, which Is and has always been shared by
the average man.
Lucretia Mott. at the very first woman's
rights convention assembled in this country
a good many years ago. told her hearers
that they were launching a cause which
would find in the besotted opposition OF Its
own victims its deadliest foe. That has
not ceased to be true to-day.
NEwBuRoH. November 2S.
The sun., 1909-11-27
TEE NICARAGUA now. .
Cold Rsnectisus On ''Oufrases'' Against
Americans.

To rHx EnrroR OF TEE suN-Sir: In
the Gulf ports. especially here In Mobile.
where communication with Central Amer
lea 10 constant through the medium OF the
fruit steamers. there is q disposition to
hasten slowly In regard to the loud alarums
which for several days past have hlled WASH
ingtQn with the hubbub OF warlike prepara-
tion. All sorts Of rumors prevail OF course.
and you must appraise your rumor In the
Hight OF knowledge as to it's source and the
sympathies and aspirations under which II
was habched.' One paper says:
There Is enough bad feeling In Nicaragua
against Americans 20 make Us suspect that the
main offence was that Groce and Cannon were
Americsns.
Why are Americans so unpopular In
Nicaragua? There may be food for thought
in that.
When Mr.. Hay was Secretary OF State
he once wrote to q newspaper man" OF
his acquaintance apropos OF threatened
stormburst In one Of those superhe&ted
These so-calicd citizens OF ours TO down into
tho isthmus without second shirt 20 their backs
and failing 20 collect 50 per cent on their invest
mcnts hurry home TO the United States. making
speeches from tho rear platform of the train all
tho way from New Orleans TO Washington and
90 creating q buckrsm grievance In idle and empty
minds.
Mr.. Cleveland once issued q sort of proc
lamation about the swarm of adventurers
and usurers who were then afiiicting Hawaii.
He served fair notice that alleged Amer
ican citizens who invaded the Sandwich
group with their various schemes and catch
penny bonanzas. operating under the local
Government and deriving their title to
existence from the local laws. need expect
no support from Washingto In case their
amiable conspiracies. went awry. He did
not propose to assemble fleets and armies
to carry out sordid bargains.
The country has heard OF these bleeding
Americans In Central America. In Vene-
zuela, In Chile and elsewhere. Great ex-
ploits OF diplomacy have been achieved in
their behalf. ProdigiOus threats have been
contrived at Washington to cover their
usurious contracts and stun their wallets.
The question is whether we are on the eve
OF repeating these frowsy triumphs in Mic
aragua. The United States does not like
Zelaya. The reason is evident enough
After all. however, Nicaragua belongs to
the Nicaraguans. and how do we know that
Estrada and his revoluttonists will be any
more to our fancy? Are there no "Ameri-
can citizens" living and prospering under
Telayas rule men who are contented and
who do not vociferateI / venture to say
there are some. perhaps as many as there
are on the other side. the diff erence being
that one kind bellows at the slightest prick
and the other kind not until il is hurt. Who
knows? Under ordinary circumstances who
need care? ALABAMA.
MOBILE November "a
The sun., 1909-11-27
A New Balkan Alliance.

Among the interesting prophecies
based upon the result Of the recent visit
Of FERDINAND Of Bulgaria to Belgrade
none is more suggestive than that which
forecasts a new il minor triple alli-
anoe, an agreement between Bulgaria
Servia and Montenegro. An alliance OF
this sort, however, is too naturally a
consequence Of Austrian action in Bosnia
and Herzegovina to arouse much CON-
ment. There is nevertheless occasion
for at least passing notice in the recent
rumor that this new grouping may be
extended to include Rumania and thus
assume the character of movement for
general Balkan solidarity.
For Rumania of course such an alli-
ance with southern Slavs as is now sug-
gested mears a radical change of posi-
ton. For ever since Rumanian aid to
Russia in the Plevna campaign was
paid for by Russia in the seizure OF
Rumanian territory in Bessarabia, Ru-
mania has been reckoned a stanch and
steadfast minor ally of the greater
triplice. As such, moteOver. she has
been rega rded by Austria and Germany
as interposing a strong buffer State be-
tween Russia and the southern Slavs.
The Rumanian army has been gener-
ally considered as fully capable of pro-
tecting the integrity Of the kingdom in
a general European confagration when
the main Russian forces would be occu-
pied on the Polish frontier.
If the well established policy of Ru-
mania has at last undergone radical
change, the reason is less hard to find
than might be expected. The Ruman-
ian alliance, implied il not actually
formulated with Austria, rested rather
upon temporary sense of injury than
permanent advantage. Precisely as
French occupation four times drove
Italy in the first transport OF wrath into
the Triple Alliance, the Russian action
in Bessarabia turned Rumania in a
similar direction. But the analogy con-
tinues good; Rumania, like Italy, with
the passing of years has seen her own
best interests lie in the other direction.
Friendship for Russia she may never
feel, bmt in the downfall of the Austrian
Empire lies the realization of the ,Ru-
manian national and racial aspiration.
Rumania Of the present day repre-
sents a fragment of the greater Rumania
which is the dream OF all its inhabitants.
This greater Rumana represents the
larger share Of the ancient Roman
province of Dacia. From the Roman
soldiers and colonists of this province.
moreover, the Rumanians claim descent
with insistence which has provoked
ridicule from rival races However
just or unjust the claim, the Rumanian
regards himself as a Latin and the
purest Roman of modern Europe.
Within the present kingdom of Ru-
mania, made up Of the provinces of
Moldavia and Wallachia there are ap-
proximately six millions Of Rumanians.
But across the boundaries of Austria
Hungary III the provinces Of Transyi-
The sun., 1909-11-27
The MIXED situation .

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: In
reply to your question Did Taft Fail In
virginia." ] will ask you. 81 Did Mann win
in Virginiap" The old line Democrats voted
for Kent. The churches supported Mann.
eliminating politics.
We are up sssins; the real thing In Roam
Oke. Our daily papers publish nothing
unless It is on their side OF the fence We
had local option election on October 30,
and the vets won by sc In a total OF
5000 votes. Hagerstown and Washington
county voted on the same issue with a ma
jority OF over ZOO for the vets
Why will our papers not publish the facts2
J.F. PETERs
ROANOKE. Va, November rs
The sun., 1909-11-27
Example and Precept.

We are not tired of approving the
Hon. ELIHU RooT's opposition to the
expansion of Federal power and his
defence of State rights. His sentiments
are sound. We hope that his votes in
the Senate vllSupport them.
Where is the concordance OF the Mr..
RooT who was the dry nurse of the
corporation tax with the Mr.. RooT who
speaks SO feelingly of the overworked
Federal Government?
Snt let bygones be bygones. 1t is
needless to chide Mr.. Roof as an un-
gracious pastor until he shows next
winter what he thinks Of Mr.. TAFT's
plans to give the Federal Government
more overwork.. ,..
The sun., 1909-11-27
An Ayevai by One or Them.

To THE EDITOR OF the sUN-Sir: The
letter on woman suffrage In TIE SUN of
Nov vember rs, written by a bud. flower and
fruit OF the human race and signed An
Admirer of Women" compels me in graft
tude to reply-in gratitude 10 one man who
at last understands woman as she really is,
Don't tell me that IL is a case Of concealed
suffragette and twentieth century shortest
way with dissenters. ! insist, like the
fox again, in taking -Admirer" seriously
and in telling him something else known
hitherto only to women. 1t is true that
women-"brutes. liars, snobs" as they are
but there is a reason. We have to fool the
buds. the flowers and the fruits. Else
how could We get them to do what we want
them to do, what they should do. and what
in the end they always doY
Give us the vote and we shall no longer
need to employ our classic weapon, iu-
direction. Give us the vote and we will
proclaim from the honsetops the deep
damnation Of our natures and walk through
life arm and arm with man, openly. avOw-
edly, unshamedly. brutes. liars, snobs.
NEW YORK. November 20. FOUND OUT.