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New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
WOULD BREAK UP THE MAINE.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: For many years we have heard
proposed the raising Of the Maine. Re
spect for the dead and the solution Of the
question whether an internal or an exter-
nal explosion caused the destruction of the
ship were involved in the matter.
Surely, as an obstruction in the harbor
of Havana the wreck should be removed.
How shall the work be done? 1t does seem
the wisest Judgment that 1t be done IN the
easiest and most economical manner. The
Tribune Of to-day states that the Maine
lies embedded in twenty-seven feet OF
slime and ooze; that a cofferdam Of mann
moth proportions, as long as a city block
and as high as a five or six story building,
must be built that in itself would cost
mors than the 100000 appropriated by
Congress for the work.
Does 1t not strike one as the sensible
way to break up the ship under water and
remove the parts piecemeal from the bot
tom of the harbor? The vessel. If raised,
would be worthless and the question as 10
the cause of the disaster, so long unsolVeo
positively, can drop out of thought. on
the principle Let bygones be bygones
AS regards the victims of the explosion.
all that is left Is a mass of unrecognlzabie
bones. and if duty and sentiment with
reference to the dead can endure the long
delay in giving interment to the mortal
remains. they can endure also the break
ing I'D of the ship. 1t seems better to
our humane feelings to use money for the
CRYING needs of the living in various
channels rather than to expend 100000
or more on mere sentiment.
JOHN S. ROGERS
I11n
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
DIRECT PRIMARY IN ONONDAGA

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS a resident of Syracuse and as
one who has observed the powerful move
with some amusement the assertion of one
who would like to have us believe that
direct primaries are dead in Onondaga
County"
1t is not very long ago that an organi-
zation Republican candidate for Mayor OF
tage-running in a Republican stronghold,
backed by a very large campaign fund
with adept and experienced workers with
all the city employees to support him along
with all their friends. with Democratic
rival whose utterances were most foolish
II he desired independent support-this
organization Republican with all these ad-
vantages was barely elected. And why?
Simply because he opposed the direct pri-
mary.
L am not politician, but 1 have many
friends among the citizens of Syracuse,
particularly among those engaged In edu-
cational work i have found every man
of them a believer in direct primaries
And they are not men who easily surren-
der conviction. l am fully convinced.
therefore, that the majority of the
thoughtful men. the men of sterling worth,
in Onondaga County favored the direct
primary last fall and favor 1t now.
ONONDAGA.
Rocky Hill, Conn. June 30. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30

100000. and the appropriations for 19lO-
III are SI7.OO0.000 below the figures for
the second session of the Goth Congress
end S2SoO00o0 below the figures for the
Two sessions. President Taft's pledges
of economy have consequently produced
some fruit.
The Treasury is not facing a deficit of
about S45. 100000 for the twelve months
ending today The difference between
its ordinary receipts and ordinary dis
bursements was on Monday only Sc. 994,-
oo0. The outlay of the year for Panama
Canal construction has been about S34,
100000, but, as has been explained,
bonds have already been authorized to
be sold in order to reimburse the general
fund Of the Treasury for that expendi-
ture. OF the corporation tax, which is
expected TO bring in from S20,000.Oo0 to
S25.0o0o0o, only S4.519.000 had been
paid UP TO last Monday The remainder
is due today, and it is evident that
even though part of it does not reach
the Treasury until early in July enough
viii be forthcoming to convert the pres
cnt apparent deficit into a surplus. On
any fair system Of bookkeeping the year
just ending will not show an excess Of
current expenditures over current re-
ceipts. The outlook for a surplus next
favorable 80 a fulfilment of the admin
istration's pledges of retrenchment i'll
the federal budget.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

Compared with New England's Sixteen.
New York's Four Hundred look dtsrepu-
tably common.-Boston Globe
New York's readiness TO hold a worlds
fair in 1913 indicates faith In the develop
ment OF the airship 50 that IL can help In
handling the crowds. Star
WHY does New York want All exposition?
Hearst Is there now, IS he not?-Charleston
News and Courier.
New York has an unadvertiSed social
class into which the blatant, brainless New
port vulgarians have not the slightest
chance to enter, just as in Washington
there are modest but charming circles TO
which neither political place nor Brad
street rating provides an entrec-Phtladel-
phia North American
Two more New York officials have re-
tired under fire. Their departments had
been investigated by orders from the May
or. A CRATER must feel very uneasy these
days no matter where he Is located.-Roch-
ester Union and Advertiser
The trial OF Chief Croker, in New
a distance His methods are being investi-
gated by three subordinates. two, OF whom
will directly profit by his removal II
looks like a political 'frame-up." TO use
the professional phrase. CONNER
cial.
The report OF the Rockefeller grand jury.
which has been making sweeping inquiry
Tork, states that no evidence OF the exist
ence or organized traffic in women for I'M
moral purposes has been found. This Is
gratifying. although IL Is embarrassing 10
the muckrakers who have been paid space
rates for the voluminous exploitation of
the assumption that many white slave
organizations operate In the metropolis
Hartford Times.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
FAITH AND BELIEFS.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the baccalaureate delivered at
Yale by President Hadley he said: Thank
God, gentlemen, that you are born into an
age of faith. and into land OF faltn
Many good people will tell you that this Is
an age when faith has decayed
This is wrong view.
1--WE have lost faith in some things, but
we have gained faith in others; and the
faiths that we have gained are greater VI
number and Importance and inspiration
than the faiths we have lost. We nave
lost faith in signs and portents and super
natural manifestations of power. In certain
dogmas and formulas once supposed 10 DC
essential to salvation. We have gained IN
their place faith in man, faith In law. Ialti
in the truths of nature and faith IN the
God of justice"
This word faith here clearly refers 10 the
great and all embracing faith that men
have in an existent Supreme Being ana tne
immortality of mans soul. This being the
case. 1t is a Misrepresentation when IL is
said that many people will tell you that
this is an age when faith has decayeo.
Faith has not decayed; beliefs have IL Is
undoubtedly Just this that was meant.
That we as a people, lose faith IN some
things Is unquestionably true If the 1aith
meant is that properly called belief. Be
liefs were doubtless more generally evinced
by religious observances in times past than
thew now are: but such beliefs comprehend
only creeds and other dogmas which are
forms Of literalness whereby religions De-
come practically operative through beins
fixed in certain forms of particular consld-
Grafton.
Uutaught aborigines of the earth live in
faith and die In faith; pagans, de1sts, even
polvtheists and unnumbered and unnoteo
dissenting believers who turned tnelr
backs or ritualistic doctrines with wnlch
their conscience fails to agree. all these
had faith that decayed not even though
their beliefs were sometimes wholly changed
or indeed utterly lost or forgotten
AS to lost beliefs and the former vide
spread reliance on these, Mr.. Hadley says: :
1--WE have gained In their place faith m
man, faith in law, faith in the truths o.
nature and faith in the God of justice.
There never was and there never coulo
be any other kind of spiritual faith tnan
faith In the God of justice. All else Is no
more nor less than credulity exercising IT.
self upon and in relation to forms and fixed
obseryances without which religious dogma
cannot sustain its creeds and operate them
effectively.
ALFRED LAURENS BRENNAN.
New York, June 81, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
NOT TO BE COMFORTABLY FOR
GOTTEN

Before the white slave" grand jury
passes out of mind it is perhaps appro-
pirate to hope that the public and public
officials will not relapse into their old
attitude as to the white slave" QueS-
ton. That will be the tendency, because
Of the way in which the public was
aroused and because Of the unSenSa-
tional result Of the grand jury's inquiry.
Indignation was awakened by the story
that the traffic in women was syndicated
and on an interna tional basis. The
grand jury finds there is no evidence
that the traffic is any different from
what it was all along supposed to be
before the sensational charges were
made. The result IS that the grand
jury's report will be accepted as reas-
surfing. 1t will tend to leave an impress
sion on the public mind that conditions
are no worse than is inevitable in a
great city, and that impression paralyzes
any effort for betterment
But even if vice is not organized the
grand jury found conditions that should
not be tolerated by any Self-respecting
community with any sense of response
bility for its own condition and for the
consequences of its own acts Accept
ing the comforting doctrine that vice is
inevitable. 1t is not possible for the pub
lie to feel anything but burning shame
and Indignation at that development of
it in New York which has made vicious
women almost universally the prey of
hideous male parasites who enjoy ali the
hideous earnings, who live upon what
is brought in by their retinue of slaves
and who recruit the ShOrt-lived class
which supports them. This is a totally
artificial situation as it has developed in
the responsibility for its existence
through any consola tory assurance that
may be derived from Leckys History
of European Morals" or DE Origine.' u
or any other study of the subject.
Society, by its repressive legislation,
las made itself responsible for the man
who preys upon vicious women. but who
is their protection from the law, who
acts as lighthouse" to warn them
when in danger of arrest, regulates their
relations TO the police. obtains bail when
necessary and suppl4es the political in
fiuence that is often useful Since So
ciety has created the field for this
shameful creature by its imperfectly Ell.
forced repressive laws the obligation
rests heavily upon it not to be content
TO say that evidence against cadets and
protectors" of bad women is difficult tc
obtain. An unremitting effort should be
made to reach and punish these beasts
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
JOHN ". DANIEL,

The eminent Tirginian who died YES
terday at his home in Lynchburg was
the sole survivor in the Senate of a
group of Democratic leaders of exceD-
tlonal capacity who sat in that body
during President Cleveland's first term.
They represented, so far as the South
was concerned. chiefly the class which
had distinguished itself in the service
Of the Confederacy. They belonged to
the older school Of Democracy taught by
Breckinridge and repudiated by Doug
las, few notifications being made to
meet the unavoidable consequences of
the war Among them were Vance and
Ransom, Of North Carolina Hampton
and Butler. of South Carolina Gordon
and Cclquitt, Of Georgia: Pugh and
Morgan, of 1labama Walthall and
George. Of Mississippi; Gibson and Eus-
It's, Of Louisiana; Bate and Harris, of
Tennessee; Reagan, of Texas, and Ber-
~, or Arkansas. Closely allied with
these men in association and sentiment
were the following border state Demo
Gratis: Vest and Cockrell, of Missouri
DNNh eAA~ D4oNhDtL II. vi Ihe4lIuckS, anu
kenna and Faulkner, of West Virginia.
l.. was formidable array Of men and
talent and capacity for. leadership.
Some were orators Of high rank; all
understood the arts of political incite-
ment and persuasion.
1t is q striking evidence of the trans
formation which the Democratic party
OF the SOS has undergone that Mr.
Daniel, the last survivor Of that brilliant
group, leaves no successors in the Senate
minority TO whom its traditions can be
intrusted. Although the senior Democrat
in the upper house (his service OF TWEEN
fy-three years on March 4 last exceeding
by eight years that of the next ranking
minority member, Mr.. Bacon, of Geor-
gia), he exercised no rights Of priority
and avoided rather than sought the hon.
ors of party leadership. By age, distinc-
ton and capacity he WIS entitled to be
the head of the party in the Senate.
But possibly a rea liZation of his detach-
megt from many OF the ideas which the
Democratic party has been pursuing in
the last two decades led him TO prefer to
pass along to others the unwelcome duty
Of guiding Il Senate minority uncertain
OF itself and torn by insubordination
and factionalism.
MI Daniel could recall the days when
the Democratic party was self-consoli-
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
PEOPLE and Social Incfdenf

+, Miss Clara I. Crane has issued card
for luncheon on Friday in honor of y
eightieth birthday Of her mother. M
zenas MARSHA all Crane. mother Of senatj
w. Murray Crane and Zenas crane. 4
Dalton: Mrs. George T. Plunkett' OF Hisl
dale. and Mrs. H. o. Bates. oe MoTristox1
y. J..
Livingston T.. Short. Of New York. Is
guest Of Mr. and Mrs. NJ. X. Martinez
the Maplewood, In Pittsheld-
David T. Dana was a guest OK the Lend
High School alumni association to-nigi
and accepted gifts 20 the school as ner
Der OF the school committee
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin weston gave
dance to-nieht at Westonhoinae con2l
nentary 70 Hiss Theodore L. Porneroy ar
Phillip Weston. who are to be married
ST Stephens Church tomorrow Mr.. ar
Mrs. Darwin Hudson. OF Astoria, Lon
Island: Mrs. Charles n. Wilson, Miss J.,
ME Mitchell, of Mount Vernon; Mr.. an
Mrs. Henry Strout, Of New York: vi
Carmen NJ. Martinez, Of New York; vi
Eleanor McCarter, of Newark: Miss Harr.
Mcclure. Of Indianapolis: Miss Jessfca |
Bishop, Of Chicago; III. Kennard VASES
Of Indianapolis; Charles D. Rafferty,.
Pittsburg: Harold Vedder, Of New Yo-
we're present. The dance was preceded
dinners given by Mr.. and Mrs Henry Y
Bishop and Mrs. William II. Hall
Arthur G. Sedgwfck has gone TO A,l
land. Mass, TO visit Miss Theodora sed;
wick
Richard r. Bowker has gone TO N-
York
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
ROOSEVELT FOR THE COBB Bill

ROOSEVELT FOR THE COBB BILL.
Ex-President Roosevelts telegram to
Mr.. Griscom, president of the Repub,
lic8n County Committee. declaring in
favor of the Cobb direct primary bill is
likely 10 prove the most potent factor
in determining the fate of that measure
at the present special session of the
Legislature. The friends of the bill have
hoped that Mr.. Roosevelt would be i'm
PEELED to come out in support Of it, and
its opponents have feared nothing more
than that he would. The opponents OF
the Governor made an attempt to use
his silence by spreading reports that
he was quietly against direct pri-
maries. Yesterdays telegram from Cam
bridge, following the conference there
with Governor Hughes, disposed finally
of the claims of Messrs. Barnes, Wads-
worth and their associates that their at
titude was countenanceu by the ex-
President.
Mr.. Roosevelt's disclosure Of his
opinion that the Cobb bill should be
passed will provoke loud protest from
Mr.. Barnes and his allies, who will de
nounce it as an improper attempt to in
f1uence the Legislature. But Mr.. Roose-
Welt. as New York's most Distinguished
Republican and most eminent citi-
zen, has the same right that any
other citizen or any other New York
Republican has to hold and to express
opinions upon public or party questions.
Il Mr.. Roosevelt's opinion carries more
weight than any other that could be
expressed, that, in this instance. will be
to the advantage of both the public and
the party. The Legislature will do well
to heed Mr.. Roosevelt's advice. No one
can judge public sentiment better than
he or form it faster.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30

dating. when ideas he'd 1t together and
leadership in the Senate was only nom
inal, since ali party forces were work
ing In harmony After the disastrous ex-
plosion In 1894 of the anti-protection is
sue which had kept the Northern and
Southern wings of the party together,
the Virgfnian threw himself with zeal
into the movement to unite the South
and the Far West OH the free silver
coinage issue. He was one Of the orig
inators of the coalition which aimed at
nominating Mr.. Teller at Chicago in
1896, but had to take Mr.. Bryan as a
substitute. When free coinage also
proved ineffective as a basis Of party
victory the Virginia Senator lost interest
in it and earnestly worked at the st.
Louis convention in 1904 to eliminate 1t
as Democratic doctrine. But conditions
iii Democratic politics in the last eight
wears have not been such as TO encour-
age attempts at leadership on the part Of
Democratic Senators. The policies Of the
party have been framed elsewhere with
out much concern for the approval or
cooperation of the Democratic leaders
in Washington.
Mr. Daniel will be remembered chiefly
as an orator. He had stood alone in the
Senate in recent years as a representa-
tive Of the classical school of oratory.
But he had the discretion to moderate
the formality of that school. oppressive
to modern ears, and TO appeal with more
dfrectness to the altered tastes Of the
present day. He may have lacked the
fire and imagination of George G. Vest
and the occasional wonderful felicity
oe John T. Morgan; but his speeches
were always balanced in form, vital in
matter and welded together with exqui-
site art. He was an orator, if not Of the
first rank. yet of high rank, and as such
in these days it will be difficult for
either Virginia or the nation to replace
him.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
IN THE BERKSHIRES.
rRvT.,.eranh 10 The Tribune

tBy Telegraph TO Ine IrioCne-I
Lenox June 29.-Mrs. John A Hadden,
jr, inaugurated the season Of bridge parties
at the Curtis Hotel this afternoon. by en-
tertaining in honor of her sister, Mrs.
Meredith Rowland, Of Paris. who arrived
this week to spend several weeks with her
mother, Mrs. Daniel S. Terrence. The
decoration. of the cardr~om were spikes of
larkspur and peonies. The prize winners
were Mrs William Pollock, Mrs. Franklin
Osgood, Mrs George Winthrop Folsom and
Miss Helen Lee, daughter of Mrs c. c.
Lee, of Washington. Others who played
were Mrs. John S. Barnes, Mrs NJ Dwight
Collier, Mrs. s. Parkman Shaw, Mrs.
Daniel S. Terrence, Mrs. H. Livingston
Lee, Mrs. Richard C. Dixey. Mrs. James B.
Ludlow Miss Rosaie Goodman, Miss Helen
Parish and Miss Edith Bangs.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Elkins, of Elkins,
". Va; Mr and Mrs. Frank Pearson, Of
Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. w. n. 8. Brown,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Howard Wright, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elias Pomvert, Mr.. and Mrs. Antoine
Pomvert. Mrs. /. E. Corlies and Mrs. Will
lam P. Pomeroy, of New York, are at the
Hotel Aspnwall.
Mrs Thomas Denny, Miss Adeline Denny,
]. S. Kelsey, Miss Rosa Kelsey and Muir
ray Nelson, jr.. of New York, are at the
Maplewood, in Pfttsheld.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. ir., Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, Mrs. W. Bourke Cochran and
Miss Cornelia Bryce are shortly to make
a balloon flight from the Aero Park, N
Pittsfield. in Clifford B. Harrnon's balloon,
with Mr.. Harmon as pilot. They will ar
rive at the Hotel Aspinwan by the night
| train from New York and make the ascent
before daylight the next morning TO wit
ness a sunrise from a balloon.
The Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes arrived
to-day at the Stokes farm. on Lake
Mahkeenac.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
mo JUGGLING NECESSARY.

Our neiehbor The New York World"
does an obvious injustice when it says
that the efforts Of Repl blican leaders IN
Congress Ito jugSle the figures Of the
appropriation bills show how worried
they are over their party's extravaganza
during the session just closed The
World criticises Chairman TaWney OF
the House Committee on Appropriations
for excluding from the appropriations
actually made as a charge on next years
revenues such items as the S3S.oe0,ooo
for public buildings, which Congress
merely promised to construct at some
future time. providing no cash for pres
ent use and the S37, 7,S50,000 approprl-
ated for Panama Canal construction 1t
SAYS that Mr.. Tawney proposes 10 de-
duct money TO be spent on the isthmlan
waterway because some day bonds may
.,e issued 10 pay ii" A. matter OF
fact. bonds have already been authorized
10 meet this charge. and the Treasury
merely advances the amount aTpropri-
ated. to Oe repaid when the bonds are
sold. Appropriations Of that sort are
merely nominal, because they do not
constitute an obligation 10 be met di-
rectIy or Immediately from the proceeds
of taxation
Our neighbor mixes facts and mis-
taken differences when II says:
The truth of the matter is. there has
been another billion dollar session Of
Congress- s1.027. 100000 session Of
Congress, as Representative Livingston
proves-ano this in the face OF Mr..
Taft's pledges of economy and another
annual deficit Of about S45.o0o,eG0 Tor
the twelve months ending June 80. For
three successive years now the Roose-
vel. and Taft administrations have ia
cured immense deficits. aSgrega ting
.Is5 0fT1. 600, and rctrenchment IS still
an untuiflled pledge
Admitting that Congress IT the last
session appropriated 1,027 100000 there
has still been IN appreciabie retrench-
rnept. ST The last session Of the l'recel-
ing. Congress the appropriations made
for the year 1S09'l0 aggregated Sl.oif'-
100000 At the extra session Of the 6lst
Congress. from March TO August, 1868.
sll.Oo9000 was appropriated in addition
for use In 1909-10. Tire total apprcpria-
tons for 1903-'1o were, therefore S1,o55.-
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
THE LATEST AERIAL WRECK.


In a comment Oh the beginning of
aerial transportation in Germany The
Tribune recently suggested what would
happen if the dirigible balloon engaged
in that service should be overtaken by
summer storm such as had visited New
York City the week before. Confirma
ton has been furnished sooner than
might then have been expected. That
the new Zeppelin airship would be help
less IL Il gale, endangering the lives OF
those whom it carried and itself be-
coming a virtual wreck, could have been
foreseen with ease. Previous accidents
of the same kind in Germany, TO say
nothing of other countries, left no doubt
that additional mishaps would occur
sooner or later. The only uncertainty
related to mere details. 1t may be af-
firmed with equal confidence that if the
reconstructed Deutschland ever resumes
business other Interruptions will follow,
with a strong probability that at least
one Of them will be accompanied by a
formidable loss of life.
In spite Of the optimistic avowal Of
Manager Colesmann to the contrary, it IS
impossible to believe that Tuesdays
alarming incident does not betray a fault
in the Zeppelin system. The ruined air-
ship was $50 feet long. How can Sc
curity in high wind be assured with
out engines vastly more powerful than
those of the Deutschland? Perhaps to
give heart TO those who have shown
faith in him in the past by lending pc
cuniary help to his projects, the dis
tinguished Wurtemberger who designed
the Deutschland now announces that he
will yet visit Vienna in one of his fabri-
cations