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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
JUSTICE TO THE PRESIDENT.

Not all the critics of President Taft's
policies are disposed To deny him the
benefit of his we'll esta blished reputa-
ton for candor and honesty. ''The Hous-
ton Post" now classes itself with those
Democratic newspapers which, while not
accepting all OF Mr.. Taft's arguments,
give him credit for entire sincerity OF
purpose. II is fair enough to treat him
on the basis of his known record and es-
fablished character. It said the other
day:
His 1.-THE President'sl amiability is
irresistible in securing for him a pleas
ing reception on the part of even those
who are most pronounced in opposition
TO policies for which he stands sponsor,
the sincerity of his zeal in behalf of the
common welfare being above question.
Hence the tactful observation attributed
to him in his address before the New
ark On j Board of Trade on Wednes-
day night, that he was trying MS best
to make good will have a tendency
to soften the attitude of the public
toward him and 10 q measurable extent
cisarm criticism OF his official acts pend
ing further knowledge of the practical
value OF policies supported by his ad-
ministration. Not only do the American
people believe that the freSideiL -
doing his level, best To make good but
we are generous enough To admit that
there are few who are not earnestly de-
sirous that he shall make good.
The President is plainly endearorins
Ia make good He realizes the difficult
ties in his way. and does not exaggerate
what he has accomplished. He is willing
to be measured by the same standards
that he applies TO others The fair
minded opposition newspapers see this,
and their legitimate criticism viii be
heightened III effect by the concession
which they make tu the President s
openness Of character. Mr.. Taft can
never he discredited with the voters by
attempts TO picture him as dealing in
iugglery and impoSture-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

oNGRESS.-Senate: a few bills of
minor Importance were passed. -=
House A bill making members of The
Beef Trust indicted in New Jersey fugi-
tives from justice was introduced
FOREIGN.-The House of Commons
voted authority to the government to
obtain loans to carry on the administra
ton: the ministry Will ask for a gross
increase of SHoWstNAi in the eXpenGi-
lures on the fleet for 1910-1l. = Jose
Domingo Obaldia, President of Panama,
dieCi suddenly AT the capital of the re-
public. Herbert Gladstone has
been made a viscount, and INor Churchill
Guest a baron -- The depoSed Dalai
Lama was greeted by great crowds on
his arrival at Darjeeling; Japan has
made a protest to China against her ac-
ton in Tibet - TWO new aone-act
plays by J. NJ Barrie and George Mere
dith's unfinished THE Sentimentalists,
were presented in London
DOMESTIC Secretary Wilson, testi-
3yine in the BaIlinger-P inchot inyestiea-
lion. contradicted the statement of Gift
5ord Pincifots that the letter to Senator
DoiiiYer. which was the cause of Mr.
pinchot'S dismissal, had the approval IF
iJae SecretarY-- The inquiry into 1he
conduct of Senator Aids while an As
semblyman was halted by Senator Hin
l7an. who asked his colleagues to decide
whether he could be n witness and Judge
81 the trial also. - The Republican
Senators in caucus postponed indefinitely
the selection of a successor to Senator
Aids As president pro tempore of the
Senate - The Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company refused pleas TO arbi
iratc its differences with its striking
employees: q city cavalry displaceS >he
state police ia guarding the city -
In addresses before the Maryland legiS-
lative committee on Constitutional
Amendments, United States Senators
Owen and Chamberlain urged the adop-
ton of the initiative and referendum.
CITY.-Stocks We're strong on light
trading -= John. d. Rockefeller. jr.
resigned from the board Of the United
States Steel Corporation. - The
Third Avenue Railroad Company MAS
sold at auction for S26.e0o.oVO to its
bofadhoIders. Mayor Gaynor
showed leniency TO a patrolmen guilty
OF clubbing but said this should not
serve as a precedent. = Eighteen per-
sons were injured in q rear end collision
at the Odd street terminal Of the Hudson
tunnel. - Plans for more play
grounds OF city children were an
nounced. 60 Ex-Judge Herrick, As
referee. found against the city in the
suit of the New York Central to enjoin
1t from tearing up the tracks on
Eleventh avenue
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-
day: Probably showers The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 80 degrees; lowest,
d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
People and Social Incidents

Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer Stiefel. % New
York Miss Boardrnan. Miss Cameron aad
Henri Martin, Swiss secretary.
Mr. and Mrs Robert B. Roosevelt enter
tanned q party. having young people az
their guests, and afteTward. adopting tbs
latest Lenten fad. took them 20 lie Mid
way" an all around amusement resort.
Senator and Mrs. Crane entcrtaine1
guests at dinner tonight
One OF the most interesting affairs OF IN.
evening was tine dinner I'm honor Of tho
birthday OF John W. Foster. the diplomat
and writer. with Mrs. Foster as hostess
Following an old custom, ex-Justice Brown,
who has the same birthday. celebrated u
with MIR Foster. and was accompanied By
Mrs Brown Mr. Foster and Justice Brown
alternate each year in entertaining each
other. and the Secretary of War and Mira
Dickinson were their guests tonight. a.,
they have been for some years. ast On SIM
liar occasions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
IOENGER ADUIRALS.

President Taft put his finger on a
serious defect III our naval system when
he told Congress the other day that
American naval officers reach too late in
life the grades in which they are called
upon te exercise feet command. Under
cur present methods of promotion few
rear admiraiS are created who stay in
that grade more than year. Retiring at
siXfy-two most OF them become rear adj
mirals at sixty or sixty-one, and prob
ably more than half Of them do not fy
an admirars flag for single cruise. 1t
is evident that such a system of promo
ton defeats its own purposes; for rear
adlnirals should be created 10 exercise
sea command and not merely to enjoy
tbe dignity and perquisites of ti1at grade
on shore for a brief period before re
tirement.
Our practice is different from that Of
most modern nayies. As the figures sub
United by the President show, the aver
age age Of the rear aGmirals in the
navies Of the leading maritime nations
on January /. 1910. was: japanese, 30;
German, 81: English, SO Austrian. 81 !:
1lalld1f, .Bb JeUtil, 81 AlllerlCIn- w..
1t is evident that with the complicated
machinery Of modern naval warfare de-
mands on the skill and endurance of
naval commanders have been greatly in
creased and that officers iDtrusted with
The burdens Of naval command under
present conditions should be in the prime
of their mental and physical powers.
For sea duty an officer. prime comes be
fore sixty.
1t may be argued that there are in
stances in which the most conspicuous
service has been rendered by officers ap-
pnoaching the present retirement limit of
sixty-two years, or already under IFS
ban Admiral Farragut's greatest oppor-
tusfity-the capture Of New Orleans-did
not come to him until lie was more than
sixty -one- He entered Mobile Harbor
when be was above sixty three, md
snany Of his great achievements were
those Of veteran eligible for retire
snent. Yet sn occasional exception only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
THE lNCOMERS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS noted in the press OF February
%, DR.. Steiner, professor OF applied Chris
tianity at Iowa College. told our Young
Mems Christian Association at Columbia
Uni Eersity last week that the nine hun
dred thousand immigrants who cane to our
shores last year served far better purpose
than an equal number of university Sradu-
ates unwilling to begin work at the bottom
OF the ladder"
As one who has studied this question
somewhat and has spoken in public on the
subject, beg 20 dispute this rather radical
statement.
No one is a more reliable authority in
this matter than our present able Commits
sioner of Immigration, and he declares that
lat least two hundred thousand. taI proba
bly, more, aliens came here last year who,
although they may be able to earn a living
yet are not wanted, will be of no Lenefit 10
the country and will, on the contrary, be a
detriment. Their coming has been of bene-
lit only to the exchequer of the transporta-
tion companies which brought them iere."
In December, 1905. President Roosevelt
said: distribution OF these aliens is of
little value unless there is ADEQUATE re-
striction. These immigrants are wheedled
and cajoled, often against their best inter
ests. to come here. and the most serious OBJ
stacle to securing proper regulation of inn
migration comes from the determined op-
position of foreign steamship lines. VINO
have no interest in tho matter save to in
crease returns on their capital"
VIII not this Iowa professor look little
less unkindy on our college graduates and
more enthusiastically toward the protection Of
labor and our wage carners' standard of
living? Was not Congressman Hepburn
right when he said: 'Self-defencc is the first
law OF nature and of nations. Charity be-
gins at home and the United States has no
right to carr It's hospitality one step be-
yond the line when American institutions
and the American rate Of wages are brought
into serious peril?
JOSIAH G. PUMPE,LLY.
New York. Feb. 20. 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
THE BENEFICIARY.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The German manufacturers need
not be afraid of the exhibition Of Ameri-
can machinery in Berlin. If the American
machinery finds favor in Germany it will
only increase the business of the German
manufacturers by giving them jobs max
ing American machinery, because the ma
chinery to fill German orders would not
be built here, but there.
No American manufacturer would con-
sent to pay American wages here, which
average three times much as the Ger
man. and pay the German tariff in addi-
ton to get into the German market. He
would simply farm out his contract for
the building of machinery on his Ameri-
can patterns among German manufacture
ing contractors, and would then himself
pocket the difference between the Ameri-
can payroll Of $4,000 a week, for instance,
and corresponding German payroll of
81, 900 week, and also the difference be-
tween the German import tariff on naclin-
cry and the German tax on internal prod
uCtS.
Let it not he said that the American
machine builder would not do this because
his American labor would be SO much
more intelligent and productive than the
German that he could pay Americans three
times the wages paid to German labor and
the tariff IN the bargain and still make a
bigger profit manufacturing here than
there for it Is one OF the most notorious
of industrial facts that German engineers
and mechanics are among the most tntelli-
gent and productive in the world.
Let the German manufacturers be con-
soled. The American machine exhibit in
Berlin will carry water to their mills. 1t
is a long time since American manufact-
urers began carrying water to foreign
mills in just this way. thousand mill
ions of dollars is low figure for this sort
Of American kindness. LUCIFER.
South Norwalk, Conn, Feb. &c, 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
ANOTHER UODEST PROPOSAL

There has been some disposition in the
South 10 pooh-pooh the hookworm. but
we venture to say that the parasite will
be taken more seriously by SoutnernerS
who read the article in ''PearSon'S Maya
zine" on The Mill Child'S Advantages"
The mill child's chief advantage seems
TO be that he escapes the hookworm.
Running barefoot on his native farm. the
youngster picks up the parasite. Work
ing SiEty-Six hours a week in Il mill-1he
law permits that i'll Alabama but only
sixty hours in South Carolina-he has
ITO leisure 10 make acquaintance with the
pest If he has it when he enters the
cotton mill the hookworm does not seem
10 survive the strain Of long hours and
confinement in a close room whose at
mosphere is full Of lint The child does
and is happy OF it. says the magazine
article writer. which seems 10 make
out bad case for The vitality of the
hookworm. So does the readiness with
which he yields 20 treatment, fifteen
cents worth OF epson salts and thymol
Icing enough to Danish him from the
system.
Rather than teach the poor whites to
use EPSON salts and thymol the writer
prefers the mill treatment for the diS
ease though he admits that Il superficial
view preiudiceS observers against child
labor i'll the mills:
The index finger of more than one
little hand was missing-lost in the ma
chineS-and occasionally Il whole hand
was gone. It seemed frightful To think
that any man or set of men could be so
hcartless as to grow rich by eXacting
such "A toll from fellow beings. Then
the other side of the picture presented
itself to me. and 1 pressed on in search
of bright spots.
He found them in the escape from the
hookworm, and since some Southern
states have always wanted an excuse for
the laxity of their laws for the protec-
ton Of the children from exploitation
the hookworm is likely to gain favor.
The suggestion that children be allowed
to work ten to twelve hours q day in the
mills III order TO escape the hookwOrm
recalls the amiable dean of ST. Patrick
and his Modest Proposal for Preventing
1.-The Children of Poor People in Ireland
"from Being a Burden TO Their Parents
cor Country and for Making Them
Beneficial TO the Public" The deans
modest proposal was that the parents
eat the Children
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
F1LLIERESy.S MEDAL.
General Woodford Presents the
HudsOn-FultOn Gift

Paris. March 1.-General Stewart T..
WoodforI, president of the Hudson Fulton
Celebration Commission, presented to-day
to President Fallieres the commission
gold medal commemorating that event and
an address. The audience was arranged by
the American Ambassador. Robert Bacon.
who accompanied General Woodford TO
the Elysee Palace and introduced him to
the President of the Republic.
The presentation took place in the Sale
des Ambassadors, and General Woodford
took occasion to express the fraternaI sym
pathy of the city and state Of New York
for the suffering ard loss caused to France
by the recent flood, together with congrat-
ulations fer the splendid way in which
France had faced and overcome the disas-
ter
President Fallieres warmly thanked Gen
eral Woodford and said that the medal
and address would be deposited in the Mint
Museum with other souvenirs of the friend
ship uniting the two republics. He also
asked General Woodford 10 convey his
thanks to the Hudson-Fulton Commission
for the splendid reception accorded NJ. Lar
boux, Rear Admiral LIE Pord and the
French warships.
after forInalities We're ended NJ. Faliiares
talked with his visitors for ten minutes,
saying that he was looking forward with
pleasure TO the visit of ex-President Roose-
Welt.
The address which accompanied the medal
contained the following among other ex-
pressions of good will:
In the contemplation not only of the ties
by which destiny has so closely knit our
two peoples together but also of the mar
vellous development of the science of navi-
cation which has brought all nations to-
gether. in more intimate intercourse than
ever before, we cannot fail to be impressed
with the fact that in the universal society
of nations. as in the more restricted So
ciety of Il single nation. no individual lives
unto himself alone. but that. in our modern
civilization, national influences. like per
sonal influences, are reciprocal, and ma
tional responsibilities, like personal respon-
sibilitieS. are mutual.
We venture TO hope that the fraternal
gathering OF the nations at our festival In
commemoration of achievements in naVi-
CATION may symbolic the growing frater-
nifty of all people, and that the bonds OF
friendship which happily subsist be-
tween our two beloved republics may con-
tinue forever unbroken, AN example of the
universal brotherhood OF all nations.
General Woodford will leave here to-mor-
row on trip by automobile through South
ern France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
THAT BERLIN EXPOSITION.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With all due respect to the political
weight of your views expressed about any
living question OF the day. L venture to say
that 1 cannot agree with your hopeful eX-
pectations in regard to the results OF the
planned American exhibition at Berlin
since the German government withdrew
fom it. 1t IS more than enough for the
German people to know that the undertake
ing cannot count OH the indispensable sup
port of the government to let it drop also.
AS to this sudden astonishing rupture of
the most cordial relations existing between
the two countries until now, I could not
withhold suspicion that Americans have in
some way furnished prOvocation for the
otherwise unntellgible attitude of the Ger
man government, and after some research
found out that the American press in
general, and especially two New York
newspapers, In their comments on the pro-
posed government measure for the reform
of tho Prussian Diet have recklessly trans
crossed the limits Of friendly elaboration.
One went so far as to see Kaiser Wilhelm
confronted by a terrible repetition Of the
March revolution Of. 1915: the paper was
even fanatica1 enough to predict for the
great and peace loving German monarch
the fate of Louis WI Charles I of Eng
land, if he did not give TO the Prussians
what they wanted.
What wonder if the Prussan government
was highly displeased by such indirect in
stigation of riot and civil war in Germany?
Are the German statesmen to be censured
if they resort to retaliation of some kind?
I gladly acknowledge that The Tribune
in its comments on the Prussian suffrage
question never lost sight of the fact that
the matter bore no international concern at
ALL and could therefore be discussed every
where without excitement and violent emo
ton. ROBERT THEN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02

German press has not been free, in re-
cent years, from similar attacks upon
other nations. But serious statesmen
do not quarrel nor impair the friendly
relations of states because of the tul-
limitations of historic Buncombe. Or II
the attacks in question had been taken
as seriously as our correspondent I'M
AGNES, we must think that they would
have been made The subject of direct
representations and protest and Wotllh
have been frankly mentioned by Herr
Delbrueck as the cause of the govern
mentS course
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
fr-or Tn. Tribune Bureau.1

a.
Washington. March 1.-Representative
Cola introduced Harlan F. Burkett. OF Find
Law Ohio. who seeks appointment to the
additional tudgeship in the Northern DIS
trict, OF Ohio.
On hearing of the death OF the FORMER
Fanaman Minister to washington, oehoi
Obaldia, President and Mrs Taft tele-
pranbed their svnpathies to Senora Dona
Josefa Jovane de ObaIdia, the widow
Maurice T.. Egan, American Minister TO
Denmark. paid his respects to the Presi-
dent to-day. Mr.. Egan viii sail from Ne"
York for Copenhagen on Thursday
The Presidents callers included Speaker
Cannon, Senators Aidrich. Crane and Gug-
senheinl and Representatives Humphrey
Kahn. Dalzeli, Ellis. Gardner. Burieson and
Barnard.
Captain Butt and General Edwards &C
companied the President on an autonooiie
ride several miles into the country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
NEWPORT SOCIAL NOTES.
IBy telegraph to The Trioune.J

BY Telegraph 70 ne AAANUii--j
Newport March 1.-N1r. and Mrs T. 81
fern Taller, who recently purchased ths
ColIard estate here. hope to take posses
sion of their new home for the season the
latter part of April
Frederick " Davies has returned TO Ne"
York, concluding Il short Newport visit
From what has been heard this week.
Mrs. Richard GambrilI will not make her
usual spring trip 10 Paris this year IN
stead she is to open her season here much
earlier.
Eserton I. Winthrop also expects 70 open
his season this year much earlier than
usual. r..
Report has it that Mr. and Mrs August
Belmont will spend q portion Of the coming
summer here
Mrs. Charles VI. OeIrich5 is here arranE-
ing for the opening of the cottage OF her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Ms
Leonard NJ. Thomas
Harry Oelrichs has returned to Ne"
York.
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LETTERS TO TIE EDITOR
srA1EFLoops AND STATE FOREST

x
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: This mornings Tribune reports
sudden and damaging floods In Herki1nef
County, the southern edge OF the Adlroh-
dacks
How large must 1.-THE handwriting on
the wall" be?
Here is the story in four chapters:
Heavy snowfalls, piled one on another
and held in cold storage till March
II.
A few days Of high temperature and
bright sun.
Quick melting. due to lack Of shade
from the spruce trees which formerly coy
cred the hills.
Result: Floods
The writer has seen snow six feet deep
in Herl<imer- County In the middle OF
March, and in the well forested. well
shaded parts of that county has seen the
remnants of snoworifts in the woods as
late as June 1.
1t is worthy of note that the conifers,
or evergreens. which are the only trees
to give shade in winter and thereby re-
tard the early spring melting. are the
most valuable to the lumberman, and
hence the most heavily drawn upon by
him. T,le larger the acreage OF evergreen
forests in the Adirondacks owned by the
state, the better for every citizen OF the
state-excepting the lumbcrman Of to-day,
but not his descendants.
ERNEST 7. CARTER.
Nav York March 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02

Herman y. Metz. chairman o. the cxsCu-
tive committee of the American eXpCsj-
ton, said yesterday that the COMMITTEES
had decided not 10 co-operate with the Ger
man commission in arranging for a com
mercial exposition To be held in Berlin this
summer Owing To the hostility OF tia
German merchants. the American repre-
sentatives at Berlin of number OF Amer
lean commercial houses had advised
against sending any exhibits abroad this
year, as they believed it would hurt Amer
lean trade in Ger many
The American advisory board. not wish
ing TO ask the Americans TO send exhibits
TO Europe against their interests. decided
that nothing more should be done from this
side of the water. However. the COMMITTEES
plans 10 hold an exposition in Germany ta
1911. at which both American ard German
goods will be exhibited, which will avoid
the difficulty in the present situation. B..