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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
WILL EXPRESS RATES CONE DOWN, Too2

N the general scramble by the trusts to escape the popular wrath
II to come we may even expect to see a reduction of rates by the
express companies. The word has gone out that the guardians
in Congress of express company interests cannot now guarantee
that Congress at its next session will not appoint a committee to
investigate the business of the express company trust, while the
Interstate Commerce Commission is likely at any time to take up
the question of the rates charged. Moreover, there is the matter of
a parcels post system to consider, which, if established, will take
from the trust the most profitable part of its business. President
Taft, in his annual message, ignored the parcels post as a question
for Congress to legislate upon, and Congressman John j. Gardner,
of New Jersey, acting for the trust, took care that a parcels post
bill should not be reported by his committee. But changed rules,
stripping Speaker Cannon of his arbitrary power and making the
committees subject to the will of the House and not of the speaker,
will enable the friends of the parcels post system to get a bill before
the House. Fear is bringing down the prices of the necessaries of
life and there is a growing fear in the express trust, which has
Systematically plundered the business community while paying it's
labor the cheapest wage for long hours of work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
Missions and Revival. Needed.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Winter Is the season for revivals In
Protestant churches and missions In
the Roman Catholic churches. Both OF
them benefit not only the men and
women who attend them, but the com-
munity also. From twenty five to for
ty-1ve years ago many reviyals were
held in Protestant churches in New
ark, and I atte~ded them for upward
of forty years, az l did the Roman
Catholic missions.
I knew a good many men who had
been gamblers for years and hard
drinkers who did not go TO church on
Sundays, who went to the opening
services of a revival to please mother,
wife, daughter or sister, became in
terested in the sermons preached by
ministers who knew the world and how
to talk to laymen because Of their long
and varied experiences with men IN
many places, with the result that these
men gave up gambling, and hard
drinkers either became total abstain
ers or moderate drinkers. No doubt
many persons in this city know OF
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
THE INCOMING LEGISLATURE.

TS he Legislature of 1911 will be a great improvement IN its
personnel on the Legislature of 1910, as the voters of the
State intended it 10 be. Some of the worst elements of the
present legislative body will have been eliminated, weak men will
be replaced by mel of more character, and lobbyists will not
be SO much in evidence. The chastsement received by the Senate
majority, which was not far short of loss of power, will not be
without a wholesome effect in legislation. Nor will the Republican
State Committee have further need of establishing headquarters at
Trenton. Good judgment will keep it out of sight during the legs-
lative session. Governor Wilson will sketch out a reform program
for the session and he will have popular sentiment to support
him. The economy that he will urge will not mean the cur
talment of the States necessary activities, but retrenchment
in administration and reforms in the departments, and his
recommendations will not fall on dull ears. Times have changed
since the Legislature of 1910 adjourned.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

the rabbit will be when the charge
reaches said spot. Very simple.
8. II you find 1t absolutely necee-
sary to climb through or over q
fence with gun cooked" endeavor
to resist the temptation Of getting
in front of it.
4. Don't bank too heavily on a
postgraduate correspondence school
course in shot-gunnery. Practise
counts even as much as theory in
this game.
s. Don't be discouraged If you cam
not find the remains" of the rab-
bit you KILLED" beyond the perad-
venture of a doubt. II may be
miles away.
6. Before taking a carcass home
for hassenpfeffer purposes be sure
you killed it. An animal overlooked
from the day before Is next to use7(
less.
Z. There is nothing personal
the gums kicks. Keep your tempe
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
THE DAYS BEST STORY

A n artist as his trunks were being examined N III Cunard pier in New
Il York, talked about John S Sargent
4 \ yes" he said, Sargent is a great painter Rather impressionitic,
rather sketchy, yu know-sHl a great painter for all that"
Here the arhst paused to remove hisl left shoe in order that the customs
on:
But Sargents rough, impressonisuc style often gets him into trouble
among his rich and ariNocratic London patrons. LAST spring, after finishing
three Oh -four new things, he gave a tea at his STUDIO in lite street, and they
say that 1t this tea a duchess. having scanned his chef dtoeuvre a long while
through her gold lorgnon, said to Mr. Sargent in the condemending tone that
duchesses uset toward all who work.
" 4 say. I like his, you know. I should go on with this if I were you" =
Exchange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
THE TROUBLE ON THE RIO 0RANDE.

TN NTIL matters ON the Mexican border quiet down there will
Ill be danger of serious clashes and bloodshed along the border.
Southern Texas is full of hotblooded men, many of them
spelling for a gun fight, while on the Mexican side are many lawIess
characters ready for a fray. There is no place in the United States
where a provocation of any kind is so quickly taken up. The re-
port that a band of 800 armed Mexicans had crossed the Rio Grande
and was marching on Rock Springs to ayenge the lynching of a
Mexican murderer proves unfounded. But it was readily believed in
Texas. 1t aroused all the gun fighters, and the Governor of Texas
gave enough credit to the report to send a body of the State
Rangers to Rock Springs as a precaution against attack. Appre-
hension of invasion by a small force of Mexican resolutes may excite
a smile, but it would not take much to send a flame of war along
the Rio Grande and make the most serious complications for the
two governments.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
EN-. WHAT2

The Aero Club Of Great Britain
wants the Aero Club of America to
hold out on Moisant in the mat
ter of that $4,000 prize for the
Statue OF Liberty flight because
Claude Grahame- White didn't get a
second whack at it.
Our idea of a bum sport is this
same Grahame-W White person.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
PRESUMABLY SUNDAY NIGHT.

Fire of unknown origin, but prod
sumably a spark from the engine
of the Sunday night train last Sun
day night destroyed part OF the
platform Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road station at Island Heights
New Jersey Courier.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR.

IN MOTHER Republican United States senator will involuntarily
IN retire next March. H. is Senator Thomas 81. Carter, of
Montana. The official canvass of the vote in the State shows
a Democratic gain of one Senator and one Assemblyman, making the
Legislature, which has been claimed by the Republicans, Demo.
cratic. The election of q Democrat in Montana will make a differ.
ence of two in the Senate at Washington and to that extent still
further diminish the slender Republican majority in the Senate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
AND SOME OTHERS

In response to a few heartfelt ~
quests inspired by the opening OF
the rabbit seaco we have consent
ed to formulate the following sim
pie but effective rules for amateur
hunters:
/, FIRE when YOU zee the whites
of their tails.
2. Endeavor to get the rnuzsle Of
the gun in line with tho spot where
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
RESTAURANT ADV.
Singing. Also Good Music"
FORGET hi.

Now it is proposed that a COM
mittee of d~isinterested physicians
call upon former Congressman
Joseph c. Sibley and see if he is
really too i'll to have his election
expenses probed.
When you consider that every
thing turned out so satisfactorily
November s, what the. You
know what.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
sEcoND-cLAss CITIES CENSUS GROWTH.

cA RENTON's increase of population by the new census is a frac
ton above 80 per cent, a gain of 23,50S. Between 1900 and
1906 the citys growth was 1875, so that the gain in the
last five years was 1888. For an inland town this rate of increase
is satisfactory. Trenton is still within the limit of 100000, but she
will pass it when another State census comes around, and will then
have the company Of Camden. Hoboken and Elizabeth may have
attained the 100000 figure in 1920.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
AND NEVER WILL.

a man was sent to jail for
eight hours in Reading, Pa
making Bryan speeches. But n
lam Jennings never got anytf
for the same offense.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
THEN IT TUMBLED.

"Ail that goes up must COINS
down"
In this or any other section.
The price of beef defled this law
TIL jolted loose by the election.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

Peace seems to be a temporary con-
dition in the istilnlus republic of Mica
ragua, to be ended at any time at the
drop Of a hat or for other ~inconse-
quential reasons. There must be a
considerable percentage of peace-lovers
among Nicaraguans, ever though they
have been brought up midst wars and
of wars. It was believed that
the success of Estrada had put a period
to the long wrangle which resulted in
the expulsion Of Zelaya and which was
dignifed with the term revolution"
Now, before they have had a chance
to catch their breath and settle down
to the development of the peaceful arts,
the Inhabitants of the unfortunate
countryside are again embroiled. 1t is
about time Uncle Sans policy Of pro-
tecting his little American brothers
from foreign enemies, known as the
Monroe Doctrine, was extended, that he
might protect them against themselves
and their quarrelsome dispositions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
A COMPLICATION OF THE FUTURE.

why won't they admit his will
to probate? He disappeared from
a liner on the high seas, didn't he?"
Eyes, but one Of the ships acre.
planes was missing also" .
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

The STAR extends the privilege
OF these columns to the public
invites signed communications OF
not more than n hundred words
treating OF topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

9NzMl
WhMl
10 YOU KNOW

The hassenpfeffer days hae
The gladdest of the year:
OF what-it-is-it? you eat sol
And wash 1t down with bee
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

Uncle Sam enjoyed the good fortune
which is usual to him when he en-
cages in competition of any kind by
winning the first event in which a
United States army horse vas eve en-
tered at. the Madison Square Garden
horse show. John Harper" Lieutenant
Johnston Seventh Cavalry UP, was
awarded the blue ribbon over the pick
of the officers horses of several nations
in the charger class judged Monday
afternoon. Ascribing the victory to
good fortune is, of course, but a po-
lite way of letting the foreign COMPETE
tor guests down. 1t Is to the same
brand of good fortune that our navy
owes the fact that it possesses the
greatest gunners in the world. Good
humor was restored at the Garden-if,
indeed, it was necessary to restore it,
when English army horses captured the
first, second and third prizes in the
jumping competition.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

It furnishes cause for general felici-
tation that an international marriage
featuring American millions and a
Portuguese title has been nipped in
the bud. Not that, outside OF the i'm
mediate family of the Alabama BRIDE
elect, it was %anyone's business, but
that another chapter to what has
grown to be a book of almost national
disgrace will not be written-it is such
a consideration which justifies the gen.
eral feeling of relief. While no cause
for the breaking of the engagement,
after all preparations for the wedding
had been made, was announced, 1t Is
understood that the count in the case
overplayed his ante-nuptial settlement
demand. His action would seem to be
particularly arrogant and presumptuous
just now when Portuguese titles are lit
tie if anything more than compliment
airy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16

In an effort TO disprove the allega-
tions of relatives of Harry Thaw to
the effect that confinement in the Hos
pital for the Criminal Insane has i'm
paired his health, authorities at Mat
teawan may have gone too far. They
point out that the slayer of Stanford
White has gained forty-two pounds
since he was admitted to the asylum;
that his food is choice and varied; that
he may smoke as many cigars Of his
own selection as he wishes; that out
side Of his duties as custodian Of the
library, which mortgage but two or
three hours daily of his time, he may
receive visitors and attorneys; may
exercise or divert himself in other
ways; that he usually spends his eve
nings playing "500' with three fellow
patient friends; that a personal attend
ant sleeps just outside his private apart
ment. This is indeed Imprisonment do
luxe, and for it many a poor normal
unfortunate with nothing against his
record might be willing to exchange
liberty.
"For the East is East and the West
is West. and never the twain shall
meet" does not voice a doctrine to
which local ~suffragists car subscribe.
A fifth western State-Washington-
has granted the privilege of the ballot
to women. But many years have passed
while even so much has been accom-
plished in that section of our land
which is partial to experiments and
new theories of government. Natural
~ the victory this year in Washington
is regarded as a token or sign of the
times by Eastern suffragists, as wit
ness the mass-meettng to be held here
in celebration Of the victory. Too
much Importance might easily be at"
tached to the State of Washington's
kindness to the votes for women"
propaganda. Other new policies have at
times captured certain sections of the
country only to be isolated there and
finally rejected. In such matters the
extreme West and South might be re-
garded as experimental stations.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-13
WORKERS PAY DOUBLE TRIBUTE

LTHOUGH their fallacious claim has been
n many times exposed the protectiohist news
papers continue to assert that the high
tariff benefits the workingman. The truth Is that
under protection, as it has come to be understood
under the Dingley and Aldrch laws labor is re-
ceiving year by year constantly diminishing pro-
portion of the value of its product.
In his speech in the senate in 1909 Senator
Owen showed from calculations based upon the
special census report, part |, 1905, and the hgures
of the twelfth census, 1900 that labor got larger
share of what it produced in 1890 than it did in
1905
Thus in the textile industries labor received
only 1915 per cent of the product in l9Oo, as COM
pared with POS per cent in 1000 and p per cent in
1890 In the iron and steel industries it received
"a per cent in 18oO PIP per cent in 1900 and p 10
per cent in 1905 In the leather industry labor re
ceived p per cent of the total product i'll l89O lo9
per cent in 1900 and los per cent in 1905. In
paper and printing labor received POS per cent iii
1890 231 per cent in 1000 and 216 per cent 1nl9Oo.
In chemical and allied products labor received 81
per cent in $780, 10 per cent in 100 and per cent
in 1905. In clay, glass and stone products labor
got o3 Per cent in 1890 and 81 per cent in 1905,
In metal and metal products other than iron and
steel labor received 204 per cent i'll 1890 and ~
per cent in 1905 In ship building labor received
367 per cent in 1890 and 35.2 per cent in 1905.
These figures contain the proof that under the
euse of protection the manufacturer (Which IN
most cases has come to mean the trust) is flching
both from the workngman and the consumer, and
as they are for the most part and the same they
are taxed out of both pockets to provide eNorblan
profits for the real and only benehciaries' of the
high tariff.
The trust buys its labor in the cheapest market
and fixes its own price on its commodities. A hs-
cal system that permits this double tax is infamous
and is doomed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-13
KEEPING THE PARK SACRED

THE park commissions attempt to keep un-
married or unrelated people apart in Central
park is highly meritorious venture IN re-
moralizing the universe no doubt, and one can
scarcely DENY that the universe needs some such
regulation 1t is very annoying to some people to
catch fleetng glimpses of young persons engaged
in following the bent of their natures. Flirtatlons
are very reprehensible and the park commission is
quite wise in trying to stop them. But sometimes
the best intentions don't seem to work out very
we'll 1t occurs to one, for instance, that good
way to keep the parl, entirely sacred and respect
able would be to enclose it with hfty-foot spiked
iron fence and put time lock its only gate,
said gate to admit no one but the Janltor and his
moral character should be vouched for by-by-
we'll, say by the park commission.
The objection to that, of course, is that the
park really ought to have some people in it once
in while Just to add to its scenic value. How
would it be, then, for the park commission to issue
cards of admission to only emnently respectable
persons of course? board of police officials and
detectives might be invoked to canvass the homes
of the city and inquire into the moral status of the
families examine the marriage certificates and the
birth records-reay something like that is need
ed in every large city where you apt to meet
all kinds of people if you are not very careful.
Upon the report of this board cards of admission to
enter the park could be issued
Or corps of octogenarians might be employed
to maintain constant espionage upon all who enter
the park. Under this plan the iron fence could be
dispensed with. Persons who enter the park could
be required to fix their thoughts mathematical
or commercial problems, or the presidents mes
sage, say. And an ordinance should be passed at
once prohibiting the birds from mating in the park
Their cooling love songs are very distasteful to
some ears, and no one can defend them on moral
grounds. And the carrying of pollen from one
flower to another should be prohibited by law It
is highly indecate performance, to say the least
And on moonlight nights the park should be COW
cred with canvas to shut out those seductive sill
very rays of the wanton moon.
All this mating is highly wrong you know
This pairing of opposites this seeking of the mega
tive for the positive and the centrifugal for the
Icentrifetal-t's all wrong-and not one of them
with marriage certificate to show. It's all wrong
and it's been wrong for some time-ever since the
first life cell split itself in two which science calls
6ssure. It's high time that something was done
| to stop it, The park commission is on the right
tack.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-13
GIVE THE CHILDREN A CHANCE

THE case of this Cornell university prodigy OF
10 who astonishes the faculty with his pre-
cocity and mathematicians with his fourth d1-
mension problems seems to be causing good deal
of unnecessary uneasiness to many paragraphers.
boy of 10, they declare, should be out on the
athletic field good part Of the time he shouldn't
be allowed to exercise his mentality to such an
extent; he should be made to play more, etc. All
of which advice is entirely gratuitious and worse.
1t is based on the terrible proclivity that most
mora1izers have of trying to pull every boy and
girl through the same knothole. There is too lit
tie elasticity in modern school methods. While
the worlds worthwhile prizes are still awarded
to individuality school boards still cling to the
old idea that boys and girls must all act talk, dress
and think alike. They must all study the same
things and in the same hours and the same way.
Individuality is thus discouraged and mean level
of mediocrity is the product of human education.
Doubtless this Cornell prodigy is following his
natural bent, just as the football hero is following
his. Give them both scope to develop the best
there is in them. Conformity never won prize,
and every boy and girl should be prize winner.
Every boy and girl would be prize winner if the
curriculum were broad enough Some boys like
mathematics; some do not; but every unhamp-
cred boy likes something that is wholesome. Chill
dren have more to teach grownups than grownups
have to teach them. Every human being is nor
mally unique until society has crushed the unique
ness out of him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-13
"PROTECTEDn WORKERS

RI high tariff makes country prosperous, and
especially if it protects workngmen, will its
champions kindly tell us why it is that at
present in free trade England industries of all
kinds are in a highly prosperous condition, while
in protected Germany more than a hundred thou
sand workingmen seeking jobs? The German
labor registers for the quarter ending. June 10,
1910 show that for 175,0O0 positions open there
were 287 900 applicants. In other words there were
three men for every two jobs During the quarter
German workingmen paid S38OOOO III benefits Tor
the unemployed, covering total of l,l3l 900 days
of dleness In addition there were $4,000 days
for which no benefit was paid.
But this is only one side of the picture. The
imperial statistical office at Berlin has recently
given out a set of figures containing suggestive
clue as to the amount of help to the Wage-earner
a protective tariff is. The average income of 852
families in the German capital, containing 1852
persons-who had agreed to keep account of
their expenditures for year-Was $521.72, while
the average annual expenditure was $53170. OF
the average income S42967 or 82.4 per cent, was
from the principal earnings OF the husband, while
81 per cent came from the earnings of the wife,
and Qet anti-child labor reformers notc) IL per
cent was earned by the children.
An average of about $40 a week for the labor
of man, wife and children is certainly not an argu-
ment for any system of taxation under which the
conditions exist And note in connection with this
that the average expenditures were $40 in excess
of the income for the year. This does not mean
improvdence-a family cannot be very improvi-
dent when it figures its small income and outgo so
closely--for the Germans are proverbially thrifty
people 1t means that the German wage is not suf-
hcient for the needs Of the workers. Such con-
dition is not prosperity; it is the reverse.
But 1t is not much different from American
conditions. The Herald has recently shown from
official census statistics that the majority of our
wage-earners receive approximately 5000 week,
and that an investigation among the steel workers
of PittsbuTg (highly protected) showed that the
wage was under $l2 a week. and the living
problem so acute that some families could spend
only an average OF 3 cents a week for recreation.
In the face of these figures what are statistics
OF exports, imports and government revenue worth
TO the wage-earner?