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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A protest against the award of the Nobal
peace prize 10 Colonel Roosevelt has been
published and widely circulated by DIR.
Eduard LoewenthaI. of Berlin IN which he
bestows the title Protector of the War
Policy" on the ex-President Mr. Roose-
Welt" he says. who. II will be remembered.
spoke IN favor of war eight DAYS before
he received the Nobel prize, does not after
returning from his rhinoceros hunt, con-
ceai his predisposition to militarism" The
writer doubts Mr.. Roosevelts sense of
righteousness, his speech at the Sorbonne
TO the contrary notwithstanding, for if
that were fully developed he would have
declined to accept the peace prize, but
would have allowed the consideration of
some men who have made themselves more
worthy of the honor. but whose claims the
COMMITTEES has never recognized"
splendid future?"
Because she has promised 10 marry
Nina guess. Houston Post.
That Arbor Day came on Friday. the
lSth' had no terrars for tree planters. young
or old. and the day~was observed TO a
greater extent than ever before.
I'VE don't use wine as a beverage. vou
Know know Mrs. Mrs NcGarvey." said Mrs. Lap
+, but IT'S good 10 have a little OF
u In the house for medicinal purposes You
Know how grateful 1 am for the bottle you
sent over the other day. TO thank YOU
IN words would be merely a work OF super
irrigation Chicago Tribune.
man who sometimes acts as interpreter
IN public Office was relating some of his
strange experiences In the performance OF
his duty as translator THE mixture of
nad English he said. with the language
winch the person is supposed to speak
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
LAP4y AND cOBDENIsM.

The dovecotes of Cobdenism are greatly
fluttered by the prospect of Japan's new
tariff. That measure. which is now
being perfected by the parliament at
Toxic. is distinctly protective in charac-
ter and is undisguisedly intended TO en-
courage and promote the domestic in
dustrieS of Japan and 10 enable japan
csc manufacturers to produce proftably
great volume of goods which are now
imported from abroad. AS textile fab
RIGS are among the goods upon which
the duties will be most increased, and
as Japan's imports of them come chiefly
from the United Kingdom, the menace
of loss to British trade is serious.
In 1903 Japanese imports from the
United Kingdom amounted to So, S75,
600, of which nearly s17.50000O was
in textiles. On practically all these
goods it is now purposed to increase
the duties several fold Thus the duty
on army cloths is to be increased from
T-16d. 10 from 13a4d. TO 19d.; on com
mon gray shirtings, from Sd. 10 from
201ad. TO 21&4d.; on pure shirtings,
from S3-16d. 10 from Sud to 33d.: on
IN WINS. frcm 2jsd. to from 45sd TO 6Jsd.,
and so on through the whole list The
average increase of duties on textiles
is between $50 and 200 per cent. 1t is,
of course, not supposable that the Jap
anese purpose themselves to pay these
extra duties as a tax without any COM
pensating advantages. They expect to
develop home industries and manufact-
ure the goods themselves, as they are
already beginning To do
Now, the prospect 0f such loss oil
trade. or such impairment of its profits
is decidedly, disquieting TO Manchester
and Bradford. and questions have been
asked in the British Parliament about
It. The only answer Cobdenism is able
to give is. of course, that it can.do moth.
ing either 10 prevent or to secure com.
pensation for such taxation of British
trade b. Great Britains own ally. Cob
denism abhors reciprocity and affords
no tariffs which can be used as a basis
CT commercial treaties. II leaves its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
NOT Just TO CONGRESS-.

The New York Evening Post, The
Brooklyn Eagle" and The Boston Tran
script have been publishing Washing
ton dispatches intended 10 prove that
instead Of cutting down national ex-
penditures Congress is actually increas-
ing them. These dispatches deal with
the appropriation bills which have passed
both houses. been acted on in one branch
or been reported from the Appropria-
tons Committee Of the House Of Repre-
sentativeg. They pretend 10 show shat
the decreases in appropriations amount
10 SIC. 193. 1S5. while the increases
amount 10 $3.50. $50. The net increase
over last years total is therefore put
al s.. G09.S02.
These figures do an injustice 10 Con-
gress which. although possibly not Suf-
ficienfly alive 10 the necessity of reduc-
ing federal expenditures all along the
line. has NJ least made creditabIe eff
fort 80 CT down expenses in certain di-
reciions. The fluctuations sent out from
Washington disclose many positive de
creases. whereas The increases which off
set them a-e largely conieciural. For
instance in the field of military ex-
penditure Congress has cffected a de-
clded retrenciHnent. The army appro-
friati0n bill has beer cut $5.1-lJ. 600 be-
low last .ear's total. For Notifications s.,
100000 less has been appropriated. There
has been i saving on the pension bin
of S-i.9US0@, on the naval bill of So
10000 ard on the Military Academy
bill Of 500 eco The total reduction on
the military account has been about S2l..
100000. Furthermore. ON the Indian bin
100000 has been saved. and on the
sundry civil appropriation bill. as re
ported by the House committee, a little
over S6.Oo0.oo0.
Now. what increases have been made:
In the agricultural appropriation bill
there is az increase Of s432 9e9: in the
diplomatic and consular blu one Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-The steamer Krooniand
r,roaxe a shaft and passed Dover signaling
uncomfortable il is believed she VIII
mt in at Southampton. ~ 1heoooIe
Roosevelt left Berlin for London: many
AMERICANS cheered the ex-President as
The train started: he started from r luSh-
ing for England soon after mlanlghI
A scout ship fired on the steamer
Venus as she was entering Gre! loN u
Hsrhor; three armed vessels have IeIN
Bluefelds for the former port, VIC
hundred Jewish families out OF eleven
hundred and fifty cases ~ probably be
allowed TO remain in hteI - Ioh-
7rander Peary iectured at Rome, aho
Was congratulated by King Victor En-
manuel and the Duke of the Abruzzl
Advices from Cuba. say that the
governments failure tc make gooG us
charges against the negro party mas
alienated many voters from the Liberals
OMESTIC.-President Taft in let
Ter 70 senator Nelson at Washington as
surned fun responsibility Tor the letter
prepared by Assistant Attorney Geherai
LAWYER generating Secretary Ballnger.
- It was said at Washington thar
trade with the Philippines had greatly
increa SEQ under the new tariff
The Republican County Committee OF
Otsego County Endorsed Senator Harvey
d Human Of Binghamton, for Governor
A
keeDins A. vow made sixteen years ago,
wben his vessel was saved in storm,
gave two thousand loaVes of bread TO the
poor. - The canals OF New York state
were formally opened, == James w
Van Cleave, eX-president OF the NaUonal
Association OF Manufacturers, dled from
heart disease in St Louis -= InTee
men were killed as the result Of the eX-
plosion of five boilers at coke plant at
ChewtOwn, Penn
CITY=The entire Annapolis class OF
1908 failed in the post graduate eXainl-
nations for promotion to the rank Of en-
sign. 80 The Mayor praised the Jew
as A good citizen in his address opening
q national convention Of the Independent
Order Birth Abraham. - Judge Eos
Ter and District Attorney whitman, writ
ing to Controller Prendergast, defended
the use Of city paid telephones in their
homes 4 series of delays. due TO
accidents to trains. caused great con-
fusion IN the subway at the period when
traffic was heaviest - Mr. Flower, Of
Boston. arrived in town with a new or
ganization and a canned interview in
which ne said he was after the doctors
trust - - The Actors Fund Fair closes
tonight with Virginia reel by al the
PLAYERS in town in costume and auctions
by prominent actors. - -Four persons
were burned to death in a Williamsburg
house while The police and f1remen were
assured By excited tenants that all per-
sons had been accounted for. -= The
Calvary Baptist Church began the cele-
bratien IN honor Of the fortieth anniver-
sarY Of the pastorate Of the Rev. DIR.
Macarthur. =- Professor Lowell. the
Harvard astronomer. entertained his fell
low travellers on the American liner New
York with talks I'm midocean on the
comet. A resident of Washington
brought her sick dog from Europe that
her husband might see it before ii died
THE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
day: Cloudy. The temperature yester-
day: Highest. SO degrees; lowest A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
THE NATION HONOR AT STAKE
How DR.. Sprague Feels About the
Officers Retirement Bill.

To the Editor of TIE Tribune
Sir: Major Brock, i'm this mornings IT'D
une. gives good and sufficient reasons WY
the surviving ex-officers of the Volumes
Union army should be placed on retireo
list with partial pay But there is an ado'-
tienaI consideration which should De de-
cfsive. The nations honor is at stake
At the outset of the Civil War, and re-
rsaatedIv thereafter, as an inducement 10
volunteers. thew were promised that for
their service in that struggle they should
be rewarded equally with members OF
the regular army For instance. on July 70
1861. the next day after the disastrous bat
tie of 1.-The first Bull Rum" when Volun-
teers were imperatively needed to rescue
the innperiIed nation. Congress voted ana
Lincoln approved an act of which the 5tn
section contained the following pledge:
.Tbe officers, non-commissioned officers
and privates, organized as above set forth'
shall. i'm all respects, be placed on the
footing, as to pay and allowances, or SIM
liar corps of the regular army
II those words mean anything, they imply
that for Civil War service the volunteers
shall be placed on an equality with the
regulars for similar service.
Now the regulars, in express recognition
of their service during the Civil war ana
for no other reason. have been raised IN
rank one degree. and then retired on three
fourths pay during life.
But the volunteers, though they served as
efficiently as the regulars and were equally
exposed to dangers and hardships, have re-
ceived no recognition OF that service otner
than the so-caIled ''old age pension, the
maximum of which is only so month.
What becomes of the nations phghted
faith? Can it any longer, without dishonor,
fail TO fulfil its deliberate promise?
Should il not be Immediately regarded in
the Senate and House as a question OF the
highest privilege, requiring action, and ac-
ton now. before any more Of those sur
vivors have gone. neglected and poverty
stricken, to their graves?
HOMER B SPRAGUE,
Brevet Colonel, 18th Connecticut Regi-
ment.
New York. May II, 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
HIGHWAY BEAUTY CULTURE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An interesting fete champetre took
place about Washington last Saturday-the
planting of wild flower seeds along the
highways AS one report puts It, high So
ciety went out and got down on its knees
to do ii.
There is statute in this state requiring
the removal of all brush and noxious weeds
along the roadways twice a year. In the
more rural and hilly sections. with which
am more familiar than with others, and
which to my mind are TIE most attractive
to the wayfarer, IT is now customary, as
the readiest and cheapest means to comply.
to burn over the strips on either side.
Effort should be made to line the high
ways with suitable trees. properly placed,
and while removing brush and noxious
weeds to promote the growth of the wild
flowers that do no injury and add to the
Identification Of the way.
JOHN A. C. WRIGHT.
Rochester, May T. 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
THE nENAcE ~ THE EAST:

There is, or at any rate there neeu
be. no mystery or wonder over the as
Segment of Lord Kitchener TO the COM
mand of the British forces in the Med-
iterranean. with headquarters at Malta.
The avenger of Gordon is the greatest
soldier now in the active service OF
King George. and the military need ana
menace of the British Empire are at
the present moment greatest in or
Ybout the eastern Mediterranean.
The danger spot is Egypt. Long
brewing seditiOn threatens open revolt
DisloyaIty and Indictment TO crime be-
came so rampant in the press as TO
require repression with strong hahd'
but repression is not eXtlrpauon. III
il an open secret that responsible ana
thoughtful men are apprehensive OF an
uprising in Egypt even more serious
than that of Arab Pacha. There mas
been certain disaffected faction ever
since the British occupation. At hrst
it was encouraged by certain French
influences. not, of course, countenanced
by the French government. More late
X it has drawn some inspiration from
the Young Turk movement IN the VI
tcman Empire, and vainly but mis-
chievously aspires to get rid OF BRUSH
centrol as the Turks got rid OF ABDUL
Hamid's despotism. Such efforts can
rot succeed, but they may be sufficient
IL strong to require the return OF
Kitchener of Khartoum to the scene or
his former and greatest services.
The unhappy feature of this Egyp-
tan movement, like that in India, with
which it is probably closely connected.
il that it is criminal in methods and
reactionary in aims. There would be
a possibility of sympathy even with
movement to cast off British rule, IL Ill
were q liberal movement, intended to
effect reforms and to enlarge human
liberties and to elevate the standard of
government But precisely the oppo-
site is the case. Egyptians and Ind
ians are dissatisfied with British rule
because of its enlightenment and prog
ress. They want-those Of them VINO
are disaffected-to throw the country
back into the old ways of savagery and
superstition Many in India would like
TO restore suffice and in Egypt slavery.
The freedom, the popular education, the
equal Justice for all the public works
and general improvements which are
characteristic of British administration
are hateful TO these patriots They
seek to bring back the old order. also,
by the most abhorrent means, includ-
Ing arson and assassination. directed
against women and children as well as
against responsible officers of state.
With such movement it is impossi-
BILE to sympathize. any more than with
q demand for freedom to resume tribal
wars among our aborigines or to re
store cannibaIism in Hawaii Human
ity and civilization forbid it. In send
ing Lord Kitchener to the eastern Med
iterranean. therefore. Great Britain is
preparing to fight, if necessary, the bat
tie of civilization over again. as truly
as when the same great soldier was
sent to organize victory in the River
War and to clear cut the earthly hell
which Mahdism had created at the
forks of the Nile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16

$4,000. and in the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial bill one of 81 100000
IA total of S2.6s4.o00. To secure the
total increase alleged Of S31, $4,000 the
river and harbor appropriations bill is
charged with sn advance of $22.SJ9tN1o
and the oostoffice bin with an advance
of S6.307 eco. Now. it is well known that
the postofiice appropriations are paid out
of postal receipts, and only the dencits
occurring on the years operations are
charged to the Treasury. The sum al
lowed to the postoffice increases each
year. but that does not mean that so
much more money has 70 be raised by
general taxation The deficit in the
postal service is now rapidly decreasing.
II will be much less this year than it
was last year. and there may he no def
icit at all I'm 1a1Ir12 IT is entirely IL
legitimate 10 count the increase in the
postofiice appropriation as an additional
charge on the Tressury's revenues
Similarly the increase of 2s09. 900
in the river and harbor bill is more or
less constructive and unsubstantiaL
The Senate added S10.oo0.ooo to this
! bill. II is now in conference. the House
opposing that excessive increase The
administration is eXerting all its infiu-
enee 70 keep down the total of the river
and harbor appropriation, and there is
little likelihood that the present bill.
when signed. will carry the s52.0eo.N00
| in appropriations and authorizations
which 1t now carries Chairman Taw-
ney of the House Appropriations Com
mittee expects to save S5.00o,o00 on the
general deficiency bill. 1t is apparent,
| therefore. that there has been so far an
appreciate reduction in the supply bills
/ for 1q11-'12. When completed the bills
will probably show n curtailment OF
from Sa0.000.oe0 TO S25.000.0o0. Such
reduction. though not sensational. will
be welcomed because it marks a check
on the steady expansion of appropria-
tions In progress for the last two dec
AIDES and points the way to further
rational retrenchment in future Con-
crosses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16

the ultimate harvest, but replantins' oi
course, involves additional expense, anu
should be borne in mind as an influence
that may induce the farmer TO ask fiio'o
for his product An impressive feature
of the textile markets is found III tiie
confidence expressed by local interests
and by buyers from all parts OF INC
country I'm the future of the trade. Anu
to a large extent the same thing may DC
said of sentiment in all lines of bust
ness. Speculation in cotton futures 10
moderately active and prices are hlsher'
chiefly on a demand from the shorts on
near month options. Wheat also Is
higher in the face of improved condi-
tons in the wheat growing states
Although the mills of the United
States Steel Corporation and of the IN
dependent concerns are not WORKING at
full capacity. new business so far re-
PORTED in the current month has been IN
excess of that in the same time In April
It's believed that the curtailment In the
production of pig iron now under way
will wipe out surplus stocks in the
tUuiSc vi tht iicAl wv 'tAcNNN@-~'
cially If present indications of improv-
ing demand for steel are borne out by
actual Developments and in connection
with this outlook it is encouraging to
learn that the railroads show DISPOSE
ton to place larger orders for rails,
structural materials and rolling stock.
Recent sales of bonds by the Transports
ton companies should be reflected in
greater activity in the market for
finished steel products. while 1t is prob
able that the Improvement in the fnan-
cial markets will be followed by gen.
orally better inquiry from the steel con-
Stunning trade. Copper conditions are
stronger and higher prices appear 10 be
foreshadowed by the course of the mar
ket in recent days. in spite of the heavy
increase in the production of the metal
as shown by the report Of the Copper
Producers association for April. Con-
sumption at home and abroad has in
creased materially in the last week, an
indication of the Improvement in Ell
rope being presented in heavier export
inquiry from actual consumers. Copper
is going into consumption rather than
into the hands Of spectators.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
EEPRESS cHARGEs

The most impressive argument with
which the Manufacturers Association
supports its request that the Interstate
Commerce Commission inquire into ex-
press charges is the statistical table il
presents Of the share of those charges
that goes to the express companies and
the share that goes 10 the railroads.
OF the charge in any case the railroads
receive little less and the express
companies little more than half. In
the case Of shipments for short dis
lance. that works out reasonably
enough. The rate for one hundred
pounds from this city 10 Yonkers is 80
cenis, of which the railroads receive a
little less than n cents and the ex-
press companies IA little more than 90
cents. That division seems fair. The
railroad carries the package a short
distance and the express company col
lecfs it at one end and delivers il at the
other. But as the distance carried in
creases the railroads services increase.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-16
DRAINAGE AND STREAM PoLAo'
TTON


recent. decision of the supreme
Court of Judicature of Great Britain %
tabIished an interesting principle CON
corning the drainage OF muhleipaii',D
and its relation TO the POLLUTION VI
org The case was that of the bil
mineham District Drainage boaru.
which many years ago was 5accuseu %
polluting the River Tame by pouiine
crude sewage into it. There seems "
be no doubt that at first the river was
mucb polluted and there was grouhu
for the injunction when Wae
sought. But before the inJunctioii ii"o
been enforced disposal works were Is
tablished of such effectiveness that tne
sewage was made quite inoHenslfe
The question then arose, ana 'his II
was which was finally passed upoh'
whether the Injunction against pouring
sewage into the stream should still De
made effective since the sewage hao
been. rendered innocuous. Inc 1acts III
the case were carefully ascertalneo py
sending an eminent expert, Sir VIII
lam Ramsay. to investigate and report
upon the condition of the river anu tue
effect of the inflow of sewage. Sir
William reported that the purlncatlon
works were so effective that the Watery
residue which was poured into the fl'eI
was actually purer than the water Oh
the river itself. so that the stream was
purer after receiving the influx OF sew
age than before
The judgment of the court was then
given to the effect that it was perfectly
legitimate 10 pour sewage into the
stream so long as it did not poliute IL
The test of the propriety of such dls-
charge was to be made by comparing
the water of the stream above the In
flow with that below it, If there was
TO increase in pollution, the influx OF
sewage was permissible. And so the
purified sewage of Birmingham may
continue to flow into the Tame.
The decision is of twOfold interest
III the first place. it establishes a ra-
tional principle which might well gov
ern all such cases 1t would be hard
ship TO say that city should not send
into a river it's natural surface drain
age, or indeed any drainage which did
not impair the value and use of the
stream. All that can properly be re-
quired is that it shall not make the
stream unfit for the use of the riparian
prcprietors below. In the second place,
it gives official recognition to the fact
that it is quite possible to purify the
sewage Of a great city so that it will
not DoIlute the water of a stream. We
have hitherto called attention to the
fact that the sewage disposal works
OF Paris pour into the Seine watery
residue which is much purer than the
water of the stream. and indeed is al
most as pure as the drinking water
used by that city. 1t is now estab-
lished that the same thing is done at
Birmingham. Certainly it seems not
unreasonable to argue that if those two
great cities can do it any city can do
it. Moreover, if on grounds of profit
and loss it is practicable for them to
do it, it is also practicable for other
cities to do it, and if it is proper to re-
quire them by law to do it, it would be
proper to exercise the same legal com
puision upon all other cities which wish
to pour their sewage into streams.