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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
THE RIGHT TO PURE AIR.

Brief SPACE is given In the daily news
to mention of a decision of the Court
of Anpeals which establishes a prin-
ciple of much public Importance ana
which marks a gratifying advance In
the enforcement OF what we may re-
gard as the natural rights of the people
against infringement through individuai
selfishness or carelessness. The decision
was given in Rochester case, IN which
2 manufacturing concern had been flned
for nolluting the air with smut smoke
The concern denied the right of the
mupicinal government To enact an or
dinance imposing such penalty Inc
Court of Appeals upheld that right ana
the judgment was affirmed
It is thus judicially determined that
municipality has the right and power.
without special charter provisions, 70
make reasonable regulations for pro-
tecting the air from pollution. That
decision will be generally approved anu
will. we doubt not. be widely accepted
as a precedent But men now living
can remember a time when II Woaiu
have been regarded as absurd or IN
sane, and when any RESTRICTION upon
mourning smoke into the air or sewage
info the water would have been greeted
with derision. The notion in those DAYS
was partly that the air and water were
too enormously vast in extent and guam
titv to be susceptible of serious CON
tamination. and partly that they were
so entirely free to all men for their use
that any restriction upon the use OF
them would be intolerable tyranny.
The wiser and more equitable principle
now prevails that air and water are 20
much the common property of all that
no individual has a right for his own
selfish purposes TO impair their value 20
his fellows. 4 man can use the water
of the stream which borders his place.
but he cannot render it unfit for the
use of his neighbor. A man can use me
air for his own purposes. but he can
not so use or misuse it as TO make 1t
unfit for his neighbor's use. The prln-
cinle is reasonable and equitable, ana
it may be hoped that it will generally
prevail. for the abatement of nuisances
affecting all three elements of land
water and air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
THE PLATFORM.

The direct nominations plank in the
Republican platform occasioned the
greatest debate i'm the convention, and
it will be the principal subject of dis
cusSion throughout the campaign. 1t
reads as follows:
To Governor Hughes is due the credit
of arousing the interest Of the people and
convincing them Of the need Of directly
electing their party officers and directly
nominating their party candidates. We
promise legislation which will enact
these principles into law.
The plank is brief and the language
is general. But il is 10 he observed that
al any rate IL goes much further than a
specific pledge to enact the Cobb bill
would have gone. 1t recognizes the fact
that Governor Hughes has aroused pub
lie interest in the necessity of directly
eiecting party officers and directly NOM
mating party candidates-nOt some party
officers. but all party officers, and not
some party candidates. but all party can
didates-and il pledges the party to enact
this programme into law. The platform
does not promise direct primaries for the
selection Of candidates for the Senate
and Assembly. for Congress and for
minor political offices. thus following the
terms of the Cobb bill. hut direct pri-
maries for the selection Of party candi-
dates in general We think that the
declaration on this subject will satisfy
the most earnest advocates of direct pri-
maries. Certainly il went so far in the
support Of Governor Hughes as 10 en-
counter the most strenuous objection Of
those who defeated direct primary Iegls-
lation last winter
For the rest. the platform is enthusi-
astic in its references to President Taft.
No Chief Executive has ever been more
cordially and unreservedly Endorsed.
The accomplishments Of his administra-
tion are praised in detail and the plat
form says of him:
Each succeeding month since his in
a7,guration has confirmed the nation in
lis high estimate of his greatness Of
character. intellectual ability, sturdy
common sense. extraordinary patience
and perseverance. broad and statesman
like comprehension of public questions
and unfaltering and answering adher-
ence 10 duty.
The excellence of Governor hughes 5
administration and the Soundness of his
leadership are recognized with equal
fulness and cordially The party is
pledged 10 continue the relentless war
fare upon graft which il has begun and
10 carry out thoroughly the house clean
ing il has undertaken. Progressive leg
islation for the Improvement of the con
ditions of labor. and in particular the
employers liability law Of last winter,
is commended. The party is pledged to
policies further1ng the interests of agri-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

New York waiter has bought 100000
worth of government bonds. Not all the
money in New York is spent on the show
girls--Schenectady Union.
New York has discovered aphanizonenon
in the city water pipes and is scared. Why
docs aphanizomenon injure the skim
Cleveland Leader.
Maybe the autumnal equinox was DELAYED
because 1t di1n't dare to encounter the hob
bic skirt off Cape Flatiron, New York
Philadelphia Telegraph.
New York settlement worker urges that
woodsheds he established on public play
grounds for the encoura cement of the boys.
But was II not something else than encour-
agement that the old-fashioned boy used to
receive In the old-fashioned woodshed p
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Judge Gaynor not only thinks that there
some wicked people in New York but
regrets that there enough to figure
prominently in newspaper subscription lists
Washington Star.
EVIL resorts have been operated openly
and common decency defed i'm the streets
where the white lights burn. Gambling Is
said TO be fourishing on every hand I'm
spite of certain spectacular raids upon
these palaces of vice. II is time that Goth
am arose in revolt against the shameful
State.-kennebeC journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
TURKEY AND GREECE.

One of the most unfortunate features
of the present pickering and threatened
war between Turkey and Greece is the
fact that these conditions occur at a
time when both nations are apparently
earnestly striving to establish great
constitutional reforms Turkey has re-
Gently freed herself from the absolutism
and barharic tyranny and corruption Of
the regime which brought the once
mighty empire of Gilman and Amurath
TO the wretched estate of the Sick Man
of Europe and she has now in hand the
working ont of thousand details of
reform and progress. Greece has been
passing through "A desperate constltu-
tiOnal crisis. and is even now engaged
i'm q work of governmental TeorganiZa-
ton which it is hoped may be etticaciOus
for the prevention of further troubles.
In these efforts both countries deserve
and largely command the sympathy and
good wishes of the world.
1t is obvious. however. that a war be-
tween them would unfavorably affect
these beneficent processes. 1t would al
most certainly interrupt and delay them.
if il did not undo and defeat them. For
that reason. as well as for the general
reason of disapproval IF war, it is much
desired that the crisis may pass with
ont an actual conflict, and ii is credible
that the great governments Of Western
Europe are eXerting a more or less di-
rect influence to prevent such a cataS-
tronhe. There is Il sincere desire TO
see the experiment Of cOnstitutiOnalism
I'm Turkey succeed and to see the Greek
government placed upon more secure
foundation We can scarcely believe
that any power or league of powers in
Europe would. for the sake of selfish
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. foment or even view
with passive satisfaction a war between
the two nations. which, however speedily
II ended in defeat for the weaker of
the two and however strictly it was con
fined. would almost certainly mean
turning back of the wheels of progress.
That is why there is so much delay
over the new Turkish loan. There seems
10 be radical difference of opinion as
10 whether II could he secured in Ber
lin. There is no doubt that France and
England are determined that il shal Il
not be secured there if they can help
IT. but that il shall be got from one Of
them-proba from France-On terms
which will not only assure its security,
but also will strengthen the guarantees
Of peace. There are doubtless some
weightv and exceedingly difficult prob
lens at issue between the two nations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
POWER OF THE STATE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Constitution of the Unlleo
States to be of any value. must be held III
violate or it will become irrelevant. con-
stitutionalism is an intangible quantity. yet
the fundamental cornerstone of our repre-
sentative government.
Prefix or addenda cannot strengthen ana
if applied may not weaken nationalism or
constitutionalisrn, but wedgelike may not be
as harmless as appears Old morality "a
survival of the fittesD and old constitu-
tionalism stand forth as types of ancient
and modern virtue and highest citizenship.
Would they wax stronger If branded
new?
Countless forms Of graft and evil are only
local Issues and each state has inherent
power to curb its own. II is seemingly easier
to corrupt one national control (Which Is
not superhuman) than forty-odd different
states militant! States like people, which
depend on the parent protection and have
nothing to do grow lazy and indifferent
This nation at this juncture has monu-
mental tasks assigned It undone. GO TO
the busy man. 70 get things accomplished
may apply in this case also. but this busy
national government Is not "a cUre-all.'
LINCOLN c. CUMMINGS.
Boston Sent e. 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
PEOPLE and Social lncsde'7fS

Mr. and Mrs. Richard c. Dixsy. has re-
turned TO Boston
w Harold Brown. who has been In Lenox
for several weeks. returned 20 New YORK
to-day
Mrs. william A. VI. Burden has gone to
Troy by automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred c. Harrison AMI AL
fred g. Harrison. jr., arrived tonight at
the Curtis Hotel
Mr. and Mrs Newboid Morris entertained
at dinner at BroOkhUrst tonight
Mrs. J. 3. Warner has leased the an
Deusen villa in Stockbridse for the tail
season 49,.
There was a meeting Of the Enaedl
BeagIes at the New Richmond run TINS ar
ternoon. Riding with Miss Edith BIO. tn9
master OF the hounds. were chester IT,
void Burden. Miss HelOise Meyer ana -
Melton. The kill was in PittsAeld
DIR. Herbert Newhall. Miss Ruth NeWnan'
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Fairchild. James -
campbell and Mrs VI Campbell arrived at
the Curtis Hotel tonight
George Westinghouse left to-day fer Pitts
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Middleton and ". ..
Middleton have arrived at Lenox.
Mrs. George H Morgan has gone 70 Ne"
York 20 attend the funeral OF orotner'
Frank Learned. who died recently IN swift
zerland.
Baroness HenzelmiiI1er Won Hsngervar'
wife Of the Austro- Hungarian Ambassador
has been IN since last Saturday at the
Bourne villa. which they have taken TOT
october. She Is said to be suffering 1IoIn
a nervous trouble.
Mrs. Robert HinckIey and Miss t7laoss
HfnckIev have gone to New York IheF
will return 10 the Curtis Hotel the latter
part OF the week
2 HOLSTER Simmons. who has been ~
the Curtis Hotel for the last seVersl
months. has gone 70 New York
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Williams am
the Misses Williams notored to the Berh-
shire County Fair to-day ,.-.
Miss Kate Norwood was hostess at wniss
ar the Curtis Hotel tonight
The Right Rev. Charles H Brent, Of Ma
Mia. will preach in Trinity Church next
Sunday.
Mrs. Edward J. Berwind. who has been AZ
the Hotel AspinwaH. started to-day Tor
Newport
Mr.. and Mrs C. 3. Alexander and Miss
Harriet Alexander have returned TO Ne"
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francesca Garcia. who haFs
been spending the summer at the Hotel
AsnfnwaII have returned to New YORK
Mr. and Mrs c. P. Dixon. the Misse5
Dixon and Mr. and Mrs. Lorillard Spencer
~ Of New York: Mr.. and Mrs c ID.
paige and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nicholson
~ BOSTON. are at The Maplewood IN PITTS
field.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
PAYING FOR PEACE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: see that James Mcknight, of New
Brunswick. n. J., has protested against the
governments excessive liberality TO the
Civil War veterans in the matter of pensions.
but has Mr.. Mcknight stopped to consider
that there may be elements in the country 5
relations to the worn remnants of that
army which he has failed to grasp?
The majority of able-bOdied men and
boys of that time. through pure patriotism,
consented to constitute themselves targets
for the bullets of their opponents, who were
good rifiemen and shot to kill
They did this to protect in peace the very
home that Mr.. Nj Knight now enjoys in
New Brunswick. that he might be secure
from the strife and the terrors of war.
Those other heroes who never returned,
whose widows are among the ones he criti-
cises, never could be compensated for the
part they took in that awful strife. Our
government is willing 10 do full justice TO
all brave defenders, their widows and or
phans ONE OF THEM.
Jersey City, Sept. 81 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

INV Telegraph 20 The Tribune
Nevport. Sept. 2S-Reginald 6 Wander
hill. has so far recovered from his attack or
tvpboid fever that he will be able TO sit up
tomorrow.
Mrs. Henry ". Bookstaver. who has been
visiting in New York. has returned 10 ner
Middletown villa.
T suffern Taller Miss Helen Dorothsa
Kane and Lewis Cass Ledyard nave re-
turned from New York
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph r. Dilworth closed
their house to-day and left for Hot Springs,
Va.
Nathaniel Thayer will be moved 10 his
winter home in Boston within a week If his
condition continues to improve.
The Earl Of ROcksavage, who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard NJ Thomas.
has left for Europe. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
will close their Newport season on Octo-
Der 10
Mrs. Joseph H. willard has gone 70
Washington with her daughter for visit
Mrs. Henry Symes I4ehr was a dinner en-
tertainer at her summer home this evening
Mr.. and Mrs z. L. Ludlow will close their
season October 10. They will so to Orange,
\. J.. for a short stay before opening their
New York home
Mr.. and Mrs. Craig Biddle closed their
cottage to-day and left Tor New 1orh ana
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul a Andrews will leaVs
on Friday for LenOX-
Henry r. SedSwtck has gone 70 Ne"
York
Mrs Thomas Hitchcock will not close neg
cottage here until November l.
Mrs William 3. Leeds is expected IN
short time to inspect Rough Point. her
NaUnort home. which has been undergoing
an extensive overhauling-
Mrs. John r DrexeI is entertaining her
mother. Mrs William TrOth, of Philadel-
phia.
E. P. Pearson registered at the Casino
to-day
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence ". Dolan have
gone to Hot Springs. Va
Mr. and Mrs. William 3. Bristov VIII
close their season here on Friday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
Il nnsenBeRts.


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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29

may understand Mr. Barnes as little
now as they did when they mistakenly
interpreted his warnings that the direct
urinary would smash republican insu-
tutions. But few people can keep clear
Of mental confusions." IL is not Mr.
HARNESS. fault If others are less capable
of pure reason than he is. He made a
noble effort to c,IaSe confusion" out of
the Saratoga convention hall and made
the issue between the supporters and the
onporents of direct nominations clearer
than the most optimistic ever hoped u
could be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
IN TENNESSEE.

The fight for the restora ton of respect
ahIa Government in Tennessee will I'M
doubtedIy be aided by the newspaper
consolidation just effected in NashVliIe.
The Nashville American thlck-anu-
thin supporter of Governor Patterson
and the Patterson machine. has been ao-
scl-bed by THE Nashville TennesSeean,
the anti-machine newspaper edited 10y
ex-senator Carmack up to the time Oh
his death at the hands of the Coopers'
The Governors close friends and pollu-
cal Iieutenants. The Patterson regime IS
thus left without a defender in Middle
Tennessee. and it has few defenders III
the press elsewhere. The TenneSSeean
will continue to work for the election OF
Captain Hooper. the Republican and In
deDendent nominee for Governor, be
cause il sees in a complete change OF
administration the only hope of driving
Patterson out Of power.
The Governor has withdrawn as
candidate. but he will undoubtedly
dominate the second Democratic con-
vention which is soon to meet to name
his successor on the state ticket. He will
try TO conceal his activities, but the new
nominee will represent him and the
Dolicies for which he stands, including
the repeal of the present fair election
law and the present anti-liquOr laws and
the continuation of the gerrymander by
which representation in Congress is in
cquitabIy distributed among the three
divisions of the state The contest in
Tennessee this year is exciting attention
over all the country because it. repre-
SCENTS the effort of n Southern cOmmu-
nity to subordinate considerations of mar
row partisanship TO the genera good and
to punish q party machine which has
been guilty of gross misgovernment. If
Tennessee succeeds. other Southern
states in which the continued dominance
OF a single party has led to the misuse
Of power may he encouraged to break
the shackleS and to think and act more
independently in local politics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
TREATMENT OF BODILY ILLS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I wish to say through your excel
lent newspaper that there are too many
people nowadays who believe that all drugs
and stimulants should be easily obtainable
without physicians prescription at every
corner drug shop. Now, this assumption is
most lamentable and too often dangerous,
for all human beings are even chemically
different. and consequently require, during
their periods of illness and weakness, drugs,
stimulants and treatments differing ac-
cordingly. Therefore, all persons should be
guided when necessary by the prescriptions
from the family physician
JOHN p. DAVIS.
Newark n J., Sept. q, 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
OSCAR S. sTRAUS IN LONDON
Ambassador Says Cholera Caused
Abandonment of Russian Visit.

London. Sept. 2s-Oscar s. Straus. the
American Ambassador to Turkey. has ar
rived here on his way to the United states
on leave of absence. He denies that any
restrictions were placed on his proposed
visit to Russia, which was abandoned, he
says. solely because of the cholera epldemic
in that country.
Mr. Straus said to-day that the negotia-
tions Of the Ottoman American Develop
ment Company of New York for a rail
way concession in Asia Minor were advanc-
ing. and that the concession, which had
already been signed by the Turkish Min
lister of Public Works. would probably be
confirmed at the next session Of Parlia-
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
CLARIFIED.

In his convention speech yesterday at
tacking the principle of direct nomina-
mons Mr. William Barnes. jr.. made an
admission as clarifying as II was mo-
mentous He said that the direct NOM
instion method was not one-haif as i'm
'.portant as the confusion Of mind which
advocates it The substitution Of the
direct for the indirect procedure. the Al
lany leader argued. would practically
make no difference" and he added:
1t is not important from that point of
view II IS only important s 10 whether
you viii permit your minds TO he de-
ceiVed by = wrong argument and not
stand fast in your OWN belief
Mr. Barnes has not been suspected Of
metaphysical tendencies. Most people
have thought that be was combating di-
rect nominations because in his opinion.
they would put an end to the rule with
IN the party Of the middlemen who live
10y manipulating nominations and traf-
hcbing ia legislation. According TO his
way Of putting ii. they would destroy
representative government In his
yoluminous pre-convention bulletins and
editorial ulterances he had given the
public the impression that he opposed
the direct method because he feared its
practical effects.
As IL NOW turns ont. thai impression
Was wholly unfounded. Mr. Barnes has
u" concern whatsoever about the prac-
teal effects Of the change from one svs-
lem 10 the other He is annoyed only
because an entirely harmless subsiitu-
non has been advocated by persons
whose mental processes were confused"
so confused. in fact. that they got
the idea that he. Barnes opposed the
Hughes programme per So. instead If
opposing IL only because ia WAS pushed
Dy persons who couldn't think straight
OF course, those defective intelligences
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
IN THE SERkSHIRES.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune

I,enox, Sept. 2S.-Mr. and Mrs Robert
Winsor. of Boston, will arrive tomorrow
at the Hotel Aspinwall.
Mrs Harold Herric!1. Miss Herrick, Mr.
and Mrs Robert d. Carter, J. II. Bowers.
Mrs. John Lasker. Mrs. a. E. Anderson.
Miss Eleanor Van Deusen. of New York;
David d. PersaIl, Mrs. Mary Packer Cum
mings. Mrs. J.. r. Bemis, of Philadelphia
and George T Putnam and Miss Putnam
of Boston. are among recent arrivals at the
Hotel Aspnwall.
William Endicott, jr.. and Frank T. Pea
bodv. of Boston, arrived here to-day.
The Misses Lillian and Charlotte Cram
closed their cottage to-day and have gone
to New York.
Mrs. John l.. Gardner, who has been with
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WOULD STEM IMMIGRATION TIDE.

TIC the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your many correspondents who ad-
vocate an absolute cessation of immigra-
ton to the United States for the next ten
years at least are on the right track
More power to their advocate. But there
are other steps which should be taken. and
Immediately, to protect our government and
institutions from the horde of aliens that
through our too great kindness. have de-
seconded upon us like the Vandals of an
Gent times.
Every candidate for nominee for Con-
gresham from now until and including 1912
should be sounded on this most important
question. and none should receive nomina-
ton on either Republican or Democratic
ticket unless pledged 10 do all in his power
to secure such legislation as will effectuauy
stem this overwhelming tide of immigra-
ton. 4 DESCENDANT OF 1856
New York, Sept. "a. 1910.