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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
roRBIDDING HOME WORK.

III. as one Of the witnesses before the
factory investigating committee said
Yesterday, home-factory work is an I'M
necessary evil and woman can get
two or three times as much by work
ing in a factory as she can by working
at home, it is difficult to understand
why women do the home work. Some
of the employers testify that they let
out work because the women want 10 do
It at home. Doubtless allowance must
be made for the fact that the home
work In many instances costs the con-
tractor less than factory work. He Is
naturally ready to defend it as favor
to the workers. But discounting such
statements, it must still be true that IL
women go on working at home when
they could make much more at the
same task in factory there is some
adequate cause for the sacrifice which
would not be removed by laws forbid
ding home work. Perhaps the woman
is unable to leave home; she may be
crippled, she may have children who
cannot be neglected. Is she on that
account TO be shut out of work en-
tirely?
OF course, under any theory Of consti-
tutional liberty which has heretofore
been accepted In this country the abso-
lutte prohibition of home work, regard
less OF the sanitary conditions under
which it is done, would be almost un-
thinkable. Imagine the state saying
to woman who is an expert en-
broiderer that she may not contract
with a merchant TO furnish him with
some embroidered linen made at her
own time in her own room, but that II
she wants to earn something with her
needle she must 90 and ply it in a
factory! But in these progressive days
such notions of personal liberty are
proclaimed reactionary. They interfere
with social justice. Lots of women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING.

1t is only necessary to compare the
report of the present Secretary OF the
Treasury with those OF his predeces-
sors in order to perceive the progress
this country has made toward under
standing the currency problem. MI.
MacVeagh is able TO put briefly and
clearly the defects In the banking and
currency systematic scattered re-
serves, the infiexible currency supply,
the localized nature Of banking, the In
dependent Treasury system, withdraw
ing money from use and restoring IL
to use, generally without rhyme or
reason-and to describe them in such
way as TO indicate the remedies
required.
Yet It is necessary to go back only
a few years in order to find one OF
Mr.. MacVeagh's predecessors suggest
ing. as a means Of relief for Ills then
becoming so aggravated that panic
shortly afterward followed, the making
Of the Secretary of the Treasury
sort Of deus ca machine who would
contract and expand the nations
money supply in his good Judgment
as became necessary. The change
from that crudity to Mr.. MacVeaghs
scientific handling Of the same ques-
ton measures a real advance or the
country in understanding.
1t is impossible that some of this
advance in understanding has not been
made in the Democratic party. That
party has committed itself for the
sake of opposition to wrong principles.
Mr.. Bryan's influence is in the way
of intelligent action. But in spite OF
It all sooner or later public opinion
will obtain sensible and constructive
legislation creating financial system
which will spare this country the in
conveniences and occasional dangers
of the present methods, whose faults
have been illustrated again in this
crop moving season,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06

ing the great epidemic Of 1910. Ihat
was grim record. But In the United
States in the same period there were
I 100000 cases of typhoid, or more
than four times as many. The NOR
tality rate of typhoid is lower than that
of cholera, but typhoid is the more eA-
pensiye In its lingering course ana Is
far more serious in its complications
and seouels. Moreover, typhoid Is que
to ignorance. carelessness and nlthy
habits. lust as much as cholera. 1t IL
an appalling fact to consider that tnls
country suffers yearly loss or 16,2oO
lives and SlO0,OOO,OO0 in cash through
the ravages of this plague.
II might be instructive to draw an
other contrast between America ana
Europe. which would show the difer-
ence between the two in the disposal
of sewage, in the protection OF water
supplies from pollution and In dealinS
with the death-carrying house ny. For
II is through the contamination OF
water with sewage and the access OF
flies TO articles Of human food that
typhoid is chiefly propagated. Doubt
less It would be a difficult thing to ex-
terminate flies and to dispose OF all
sewage so as to prevent its getting into
potable water. But the saving In LIE
and treasure which would thus be ef-
fected would more than repay the ef'
fort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06

so quickly and so cheaply. But that
does not necessarily mean that it would
be on the whole the best way.
The chief objection to further
lengthening of the piers is that it would
encroach upon the fairway of the river.
Now. fairway is not a fetch. There
is nothing essentially sacrosanct In a
certain width Of river The simple
question is. What width of river must
be preserved in order to afford a suffi-
GENTLY commodious. secure and con-
venient highway for commerce: "ut
that means not only ocean shipping but
inland commerce as well for the North
River is not merely a coastal harbor, but
also part OF great thoroughfare from
the heart OF the continent TO the sea.
II means. also, not merely present COM
merce. but the largely increased vol
ume which we may expect in the near
future when the completion OF canal
improvements opens the way for far
more numerous fleets of far larger yes
sells from the inland waters. These are
the considerations which Representa-
tives in Congress should carefully
weigh before they finally pass upon
the question OF narrowing the North
River.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau.


Washington, Dec. 5.-The Japanese
Ambassador WAS the guest or honor a.
dinner given tonight by Mr.. ana Mrs
John b. Henderson. The other guests We're
paron Erich Zwiedinek, Austrian charge
d'affaires; Alfred Mitchell Innes, BRITISH
counsellor: Countess de Chambrun, VIE
Of the French military attache; Ooii-
nander Benolse d Azy, French military at
tsche: Mrs. Thomas X. Laughlin, Mrs.
William F. Draper. Mrs Henry +. DimocK'
Mrs Ruckner Wallingford. the Russian
naval attache and Nine. Vassilien' Count
and Countess Seher-Thoss, Coionei ana
Mrs. Robert NJ Thompson, Colonei ana
Mrs. hudson. Mr. and Mrs. George How
ard Miss Draper. Mr. de Sartiges, French
third secretary: Count Claes Bonde.
Sewedlsh secretary, and John b. Hender-
son, il.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry White have issued
cards for a tea on Wednesday afternoon
December II, in compliment to their SON
in-law and daughter, Count and Countess
Seher-Thoss. who are spending the winter
here.
Mr. and Mrs Christian ID. Hemmick
will 60 to Philadelphia to attend the DIM
ner Mr.. and Mrs. Stotesbury will give 90
morrow night. Mrs. Henry c. Coroin.
Mrs. Biddle Porter. Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
Bradley and Mr.. and Mrs. William Corco-
ran Hill are others who will go to Phiia-
delphia for the dinner
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Chatard was hostess at
a large luncheon to-day for young folk
in compliment to her niece, Miss sara
Bell williams. Of Baltimore. Miss Cecilia
May, Miss Margaretta Simons, Miss
Martha Bowers, Miss Rebekah Wilmer and
Miss Gladys Hinckley were among the
guests
Mrs. Barden. wife OF Major William j.
Barden, entertained at tea this after
noon at the Washington Barracks, her
guests being asked to meet Miss Anne
Randolph and Miss Virginia Amber. OF
Baltimore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
HIS TO RESTORE OR WRECK.

"The New York Times" says: "The
disappointment Of Chairman WILCOX
may be said TO be an imperative duty
"of the new Governor" and 1t puts the
reason thus: "The compelling reason
"for the reappointment Of Mr.. WILCOX
as his intimate familiarity with the
great subway problem, which, during
years Of preliminary discussion, he
STUDIED with unremittlng industry
"and with which In all its condluons
mo man is better acquainted"
"The Times" can tell this to the Gov
ernor-elect, using all the emphasis II
does, with good grace. 1t Is sup
porter Of Mr.. Sulzer. 1t plainly mas
his interests at heart. and its advice
is free from the suspicion OF partisan
ship. II the Governor-elect VIII looh
at this problem from any other point
Of view than that of providing SPOTS
for the victors he will look at IL aS
1.-The Times" does.
The two commissions should be kept
out Of politics II regulation IS 10 he
successful in this state. One reason
for the success Of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission, for the confidence
which 1t enjoys, IS its freedom from
politics. Three Of its seven members
are Democrats. one OF them an ap-
pointee OF President Taft. It's chalr-
man is a Democrat. although ne was
chosen by a Republican majority anu
in Republican administration lhat
shows how free from politics the com
mission is. The Public Service Com
missions in this state were equally irec
under Governor Hughes. Mr.. Sulzer
should restore their old character. he
NAV easily wreck his administration II
he sets about filing vacancies WIN
tbe Dix point OF view.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship Is sweet ana srae'o''
thing which so enriches life and IL so
greatly to be priced that angels weep
when it is broken. When a severance
of the close knitted lives OF two great
and good men comes TO p@ss the world
must marvel and lament. SO when MI
Sbeehan bows with stately courtesy 10
Judge Parker OF morning as they
pass on opposite sides Of the street. anu
Judce Parker replies never word
there will be tears that II should be 50.
Il was not so when they worked
side BY side for their mutual friend
Governor Hill. II was not so wheh
Judge Parker. laying aside the judicial
robe. sought to win the highest ONCE
in the land. and Mr.. Sheehan spared
neither himself nor his friends III the
effort to help him. 1t was not so In the
labors Of civil life which ensued for
both when they toiled together in the
interest Of some deserving client. Alas
that it should be so now!
Damon and Pythias, the one pledg-
ing his life for the other, saved their
lives by reason Of the beauty OF their
friendship. The degeneracy of these
modern times For Mr.. Sheehan, bat
Ting for his political life in the Sena-
torial contest two years ago, IN which
some recalcitrant Democrats insisted
on voting for his friend Judge Parker,
hoped to save it and friendship, too
through the judges Intervention In his
behalf But the Intervention came
tardily and In such guise that II 1t
carried any evidence Of real affection
IL carried no new votes. So friend
ships garland began to wither and
friendships ardOr TO cool. And now
when that zone soul in two bodies Is
cleft in twain all the world Is sad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
tFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington, Dec. 5.-The President has
accepted an invitation to attend the thir-
ty-second annual dinner OF the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association OF Bsiti-
more, on January %.
Mrs. Taft went to New York this morn
ing to remain several days.
The report Of the Lincoln Memorial
Commission recommending the adoption
of the Henry Bacon design and the 70
tomac Park site for the 100000 Lincoln
Memorial was sent to Congress to-day.
The Alaskan Railroad Commission, COM
posed of Major j. ]. Morrow, c. NJ. In
rersoll. of New York; Civil Engineer Cox,
u. s. ~, and DR.. Alfred II. Brooks, whicn
has since last August travelled more than
thirteen thousand miles studying the nut
ure railroad needs of Alaska, submitted
it's report to the President to-day
President Taft received the delegates 10
the National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress in the East Room this AFTERNOON
and later made a brief speech 10 tue
members of the Lakes-to-the-Gult Deep
Waterways Commission.
II is understood that the President -
seriously considering the appointment Oh
Colonel Spencer Crosby. his military anu
and Superintendent Of Public Buildings
and Grounds in the District OF COLUMBIA
az the engineer commissioner OF the dis
trict to succeed Colonel Judson' whose
four-year term will expire In FEBRUARY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
RADICAL PIER EXTENSION.

A sudden and radical change In the
waterfront controversy Is effected by
Mr.. Suffers introduction Of the bill
prepared by the Board Of Trade and
Transportation providing for general
relocation of the pier line In the North
River. This measure is intended to go
over the head of the Secretary of War
and to authorize not merely the tenn
pofary extension Of few piers, which
be refused to grant, but much greater
extension all along the waterfront It
would practically dismiss from censid-
Grafton the plan of long piers uptown,
which the Mayor and Commissioner OF
Docks have been preparing and which
Mr.. Tomkins was recently reported as
saving would probably be the solution
of the problem. 1t would greatly in
crease the length of the downtown piers
and encroach by several hundred feet
upon the present fairway Of the river.
Briefly stated. the scheme is TO ex-
tend Pier l, at the Battery, hundred
feet, and the pier at the foot Of West
IA Il l1hC uiotdhNSf anu Nh~A
draw a straight line from the extrem-
ity of one to that of the other, TO be
the limit Of extension Of all the inter
yening piers. That would mean much
more than a hundred feet extension
along most of the waterfront, for the
pier line between those two points Is
now not straight but concave, so that
at Canal street, for example, the new
line would be several hundred feet
further out than the present, and the
piers would be extended that distance.
Just how long the longest Of the new
piers would be is not stated, but it is
to be assumed that they would be long
enough to accommodate the largest
vessels now in use. The plan has, of
course, the great advantages of econ
omy and promptness. 1t will not be
disputed that In no other way could
sroyision for the new big ships be made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
REPUBLICAN REORGANIZATION.

From The Argonaut, San Francisco.
Republican party policy under the new status
OF affairs has yet TO be determined. con-
ference to that end has been arranged for De-
cember H. at New York. and invitations TO II
have been accepted by representative men from
all over the country. In the mean time there
are multiplied evidences Of sustained party
spirit And the common opinion appears to be
that reorganization will be effected upon rela-
lively progressive lines. Speaking for Itself.
THE Argonaut'' believes that the direction and
leadership OF the party will probably be In the
hands OF men who have hitherto been members
OF the progressive faction, but who did not In
the late campaign abandon the party to follow
the Bull Moose Evidences multiply
that great numbers-probably the great major
ity--of those Republicans who voted the Bull
Moose ticket stiil regard themselves as mem
bers OF the Republican party Their number,
We suspect. will ba 90 great that long before
another Presidential year comes around the
Bull Moose schism will be only memory.
This. OF course is mere prophecy but there Ia
behind II 4 species Of logic which has never
failed IN the political history OF the country.
And there 10 behind II, furthermore. that very
potent force. the atmosphere OF universal ex-
pectation. Even tho Bull Moosers-those whose
situation permits them 10 declare themselves
GaRdialx-sxaA0t ".
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06

overwork themselves and their chill
dren at home Therefore let all nome
work be forbidden. Sanitary reguia-
tions are difficult to enforce upon home
workers. They will sew when they
have tuberculosis. Therefore take
short cut and stop the whole business
Some women are so poor that theS
have to work at the bedsides or their
diving children. Therefore forbid them
to get food that way and send them
under penalty Of starvation to d Iac-
tory. so that the children can die alone
Undoubtedly there Is much misery
among home-factory workers. ana It's
amelioration calls for the earnest at
tention OF society. The conditions ue-
scribed before the committee are re-
proach to the community. But. as WIN
so many other proposals by eager re-
formers, the suggested remedy Is mere
" one OF burning down the house 10
roast the pig. 1t might he quickly Ell
fective for the particular purpose i'll the
mind Of the reformer, but the cost 10
society in general would be too great
II would establish a tyranny over IN
diyldual activity, which no Americans
ever vet endured. TO enforce it would
require espionage beside which the eff
fort necessary to enforce sanitation in
home work would be child's play. And
after 1t was enforced there would be
no personal freedom safe from the reg
ulation Of a paternal bureaucracy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06
WOMEN'S PETITIONS FUTILE
Must Have Votes Behind Them To Be
Effective, Says Correspondent.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In an issue OF The Tribune last
week was a communication from the anti
suffrage sentiment. representing the
power OF petition as sufficient without
votes to defend and champion the woman
citizen. The reply from experience is:
Try H."
The treatment petitions receive-that u.s.
those signed by women only-their curt
rejection. or the indifference or rudeness
displayed. have created sufrragists on the
instant. The women discovered that a
petition without votes behind II was
futile. Mrs. Wallace. mother OF General
Lew Wallace. In one instance. Her petit
ton on the womanly subject OF protec-
ton to children was received with con-
tumely It's signatures were compared to
ny specks."
Albany has a monstrous petition with
the same story OF futility and the same
result OF recruiting the suffrage ranks as
the signers realized their helplessness.
Petition with votes has power. Petition
without votes is nothing.
Witness the Mayor OF New York's an
swer TO the women delegates who petit
toned him as their sole dependence:
That's nothing to me-" What was
nothing to him2 The fact that they
were living. or trying 10 live. on IS cents
a day IL they could accomplish one hun
bred yards OF tucking-on less than IS
cents II they could not. They struck and,
being helpless In the body polite, APP
pealed TO the Mayor That answer should
be I'm brazen letters on every suffrage
hall until the time comes when women
can petition as citizens and have a voting
power behind them that legislatures and
mayors fear. JULIA G. s. GRANT.
Tarrytown, n. Y, Dec 8, 1912.
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THE CABINET.
frrnm The Tribune Bureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau.
Washington, Dec 5.-The Attorney Ten
eral and Mrs. Wickersham entertained at
dinner tonight in honor of the french
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand. Thelr
other guests were Justice and Mrs
Lamar. Senator and Mrs. Newlands, SEN
ator and Mrs. Sutherland, Brigadier zen
eral and Mrs. Wotherspoon, Captain ana
Mrs. Gibbons, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jen-
nings. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White, MISS
Lee and Brigadier General Crozier.
The Secretary Of War and Mrs. sumsoh
have issued invitations for dance In
honor of Miss Gamble, the niece OF Mrs'
Stimson. on December 49,
Miss Flora Wilson entertained severai
women at a tea in the New Willard Hotei
this afternoon to meet her guest Mrs
Robert Mansfield The Secretary OF Ag-
riculture and Miss Wilson and their
guests. the Consul General to Switzerland
and Mrs. Mansfield were guests OF LII
and Mrs. Richardson at the Coiufhoia
Theatre tonight.
The Postmaster General Will go 10 fhi-
adelphia to attend the dinner 10 be given
tomorrow night by Mr.. and Mrs. h. l.
Stotesbury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06

We hope the new placard posted in
the Tombs means what 1t says:

We hope the new placard posted IN
the Tombs means what 1t says:
All persons. whether rich or poor.
must receive the same treatment from
the officers and employees Of the de-
partment.
EQUAL rights, equal accommodations,
equal treatment for all-that is what
II imports. That is the best policy.
Special accommodations, cells de lure
with private bath, superior catering.
and a taller who would refer to his most
important prisoners as my friends"
have not possessed the drawing power
that might have been expected. Men
with long purses have generally re-
sisted these attractions Of TomDs Ire
They have preferred to go elsewhere
TO Algeria, Central America or some
other place where their offences were
NOT extraditable. or TO the Court or
Appeals. We can recall only two men
to whom the suite de lure has recently
appealed so strongly that they nave
occupied IT, and one Of them Is Its
present occupant. The result Is not
enough to justify offering special
and exceptional accommodations any
longer
And such a paradox is human nature
that once 1t is established that those
who might be particular about their
cells can get no better treatment In
iail than their fellows more OF them
will be found going there! This ten
dency has already begun to show IT.
self, probably in anticipation OF the
new equal rights rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-06

the nearest available spot, and thirty
"grog" shops soon clustered at Kensing-
ton, lust across the railroad tracks ana
south of Pullman. This place quickly
merited the name Of "Bumtown," when
still clings to It. with the changes III
population and the property sale. whicn
did away with. the early restrictions
writes Graham Romeyn Taylor, in "Ine
Survey" saloons seem strangely SLOW IN
invading the old town. Aside from the
Notel bar. only five saloons have started
up, one Of them in corner Of the mar
ket house. And in the part Of the town
north of the shops but ten have come
in. In fact, few things are more striking
to the observer who watches the swarms
Of men at the main gate during the noon
hour than the absence OF beer cans ana
the prevalence OF milk bottles"
Wigwag-My wife is suffragette She
is going on the lecture platform.
Henpeckke-Huh! Ny wife doesnt neeo
any platform Record