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New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

at a. m. each weekday and at a. m.
on Sunday, which is said exactly as in the
Prayer Book. The Offices of morning ano
evening prayer are read as In the Prayer
Book. The midday celebration OF the holy
eucharist on Sunday is intended for wor-
ship only and not for communion. 1t Is one
of the special works of the Catholic party
in the Church to restore the holy eucharist
the mass) TO its proper place as the CEN
trail act of worship. Having, therefore. said
seven masses during the week for COM
munion, and having provided for saying
morning and evening prayer on Sunday, l
maintain that Father Wallis is manifestly
entirely within the law and liberty OF the
Church in celebrating a mass for worship
only for the purpose of educating his peo-
pie TO what he conscientiously believes 10
be the great central act of worship or the
Church OF God.
Certain portions of the liturgy are IN
tended as preparations for those who are
minded to make their communion, and as
no one is expected to. receive except the
priest, Father Wallis says the preparatory
prayers privately, as his own preparation
This is one of the points at issue.
Concerning ritual it should be remem-
bered that the Prayer Book prescribes only
the deyotions to be used and the order In
which they are to be used. The manner
Of rendering the service and the details OF
the ceremonies are left entirely to the
rector. The result has been that certain
usages have grown up in the Church which
differ in different parishes. These usages
are never formally authorized and all such
customs which have come into use in the
Church and have not been prohibited con-
stit,lte the usages Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the United States OF
America. It should be remembered In this
connection that there is no uniform use
which can be appealed to. There Is a
norm a minimum and a maximum; our
law REQUIRES us 10 comply with the mini
mum, and our liberty permits us to use the
maximum; between these two limits we
find the usages of the Church.
Some Of the practices which the COM
plainants contend to be contrary to the
usages Of the Church are the use of lights
and mass yestments, the use OF incense
and the reservation Of the blessed sacra-
ment. Now, 1 hold in my hand record
of 1a parishes of the Protestant Episcopal
Church In the Unlteu otdteS' All VI 'iiSN
use lights and mass vestments. eighty use
incense, 14S reserve the blessed sacrament
and Of this number eighty have perpetuaI
reservation and siXty-eight occasional res
! ervation. The hearing Of confession Is
practised in all of these parishes, and In
lO9 there are regularly appointed hours for
hearing confessions. 1t is manifest that
these things are not contrary to the use OF
the Church. That Father Wallis teaches
the value Of confession and Christians
duty concerning the same is true, but that
he ever attempted 10 make confession COM
pulsory. or taught that 1t was so, is aoso-
lutely untrue.
There are several other minor points, but
think that 1 have clearly set forth the
main features of the controversy.
G.N. WHISTLER, Warden of st. Paurs.
Rosebank, Staten Island. Feb. 20, 1872
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Two men, one a stranger in New York.
stopped Mt an uptown newsstand to buy
papers. The attendant was not in sight
and the New Yorker placing the coppers on
the stand turned to his companion and
said with show Of civic pride: THAT'S s
the way we do here" Just then the news
boy appeared and the New Yorker, prob
ably intent on driving the lesson home.
asked: do you ever lose anything by peo-
pie taking papers?' "Sure / do" was the
prompt reply. But / know the fellers
what forget" well what do you do
about it?" when git chance ask m
to pay" How do you get the CHANGER
well" he said smiling broadly, here's a
tlme-you owe me for two papers; got 'em
last Thursday wen l was holdin down
the stand on the other side" The man re-
membered and paid.
1T does seem hard to understand why
some people marry each dther." remarked
the Socologist.
II suppose It's due TO the fact that misery
loves company suggested the Cynical
Bachelor.-Philadelphia Record
Sunday evening entertainments, dinners.
card parties and dances have on several
occasions been spoken Of and condemned by
a Harlem pastor. some of whose parish
toner's had seen NJ to follow the European
custom. Last week he learned that inyi-
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
SILENT BUT NOT INDIFFERENT.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In one of s. NJ. Crothers pleasant
essays he says, THE hero Of Cervantes had
muddled his wits by the reading or ro-
mances. One may read so many articles
on the rights Of women that he mistakes
hard working American citizen who spends
his summer in a downtown office In order
that his wife and daughter may go to
Europe for that odious monster the
tyrant man"
In many ways these restless times are
confusing. Perhaps no misjudgment Is
more deep seated than that expressed In
letter in to-days Tribune with regard 10
women who are not struggling for, and do
not want, votes. II we are keeping quiet
II ia because 1T IS our nature to-" We are
not Indifferent. or discouraged. or I'm the
minority We think as Horace Greeley
thought and wrote:
I'VE are satisfied that public sentiment
does not demand and would not sustain an
innovation so revolutionary and sweeping
so openly at war with distribution OF
duties and functions between the sexes, as
venerable and pervading as government IT.
self. and involving transformations so radi-
cal in social and domestic life"
THE PATIENCE OF HOPE
New York. Feb. %. 1912
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

Conservative Improvement is reported
in most lines Of industry. Although op-
erations on the basis of forward COM
mitments are light, day-to-day transac-
tions are heavy as natural result of
the demands of our large and growing
population. According to the reports re-
ceived by the commercial agencies, many
visiting buyers are in the local markets,
and as consequence so-called house
buying shows some expansion, especially
in drygoods. in which increased activity
in dealings and firmer price tendencies
are noted. Wall Street spectators are
not inclined to take an optimistic view
of the general situation. but considering
the various prevailing uncertainties and
the fact that Presidential campaign is
under way conditions are far from un-
satisfactory and the outlook is as favor
able as could reasonably be expected.
The distribution Of goods in recent weeks
has been retarded by adverse weather:
owing TO heavy snowstorms in different
parts Of the country the railroads have
been unable to make prompt deliveries
Of freight, and merchants In remote dis
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
ESPERANTO.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Because of the interest and discus
sion aroused by the introduction OF House
Resolution 900 into the United States House
of Representatives by Representative Rich
ard Bartholdt tho Esperanto Association
Of North America is going to distribute
free one million copies of "a Glimpse OF
Esperanto" "a pamphlet outlining the pur-
pose of the international language and
giving.a general synopsis Of the grammar.
This will be sent to any of your readers
sending name, address and stamp to the
Esperanto office. Washington
House Resolution go reads as follows:
Resolved, That the Committee on Educa-
ton he, and the same is. hereby author
ized and directed to cause an Investigation
10 be made by the Committee on Education
or a subcommittee thereof, touching the
practicabilty OF the study OF Esperanto
as an auxiliary language and a means OK
facilitating the social and commercial In
tercourse of the people Of the United States
and those of other countries, the committee
TO submit its report at the second session
of the 62d Congress-
This resolution. passed by the House of
REPRESENTATIVES, Is now before the Com
mittee on Education. EDWIN c. REED.
Washington, Feb. 2i. 1912.
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CANAL, SHIPS AND TOLLS.

Mr.. Lewis Nixon is quite right in re-
peating what has already been said
many times-that the United States
must bestir itself in the building Of ships
and the establishment of lines for the
Panama Canal routes, unless it Is to let
foreign nations reap the chief benefits of
the great work upon which it is expend-
ing some hundreds of millions OF dollars.
The ideal Of "an American canal under
American control" was set years ago by
Grant and Hayes. tits for the present
generation and the present year TO add
to that ideal "for American commerce"
OF course, the canal is also to be for the
commerce Of all the world But Ameri-
can commerce should have the primacy
in volume and in advantages. There is
no immortality in that principle.
A strange contrast was presented the
other night in some remarks of Profes-
sor Shepherd, of Columbia University
which have been echoed elsewhere. He
urged systematic exploitation Of COM
merce with South America, but depre-
Gated governmental aid TO American
shipping in the form OF subsidies, say
ing that if foreign ships could carry our
merchandise more cheaply than domes-
tic ships we should permit them to do
the business. From that there will be
strong dissent, on several grounds. 1t is
possible, no doubt, to develop large
foreign trade without having ships of
our own. But it would be much easier
to do it in our own ships. That is the
testimony and opinion Of the great ma
jority Of expert observers, particularly
in South America. Apart from that, we
ought to have our own ships. lust as we
ought to have our own manufactures,
for the sake Of self-reliance and self
sufficlency. Professor Shepherds theory
is that of the CObdenite, who would say
that If foreign lands could manufacture
goods more cheaply than this we should
let them do it for us, instead of building
up our own INDUSTRIES Why not go fur
ther and say that if foreign lands will
supply us with military and naval SER
vice and with Legislators and Judges
more cheaply than we can do 1t our
selves we should let them do it?
There is similar divergence of opin-
ions over the question of tolls in the
canal, and 1t is intimated that two re-
ports will be made to Congress on the
subject, one favoring free passage Of
American ships and the other uniform
tolls for all. 1t has been argued. with
no little force that the nrovision of tho
-Pauncefote treaty guaranteeing to
the commerce Of all nations terms Of en-
tire equality refers to all nations except
the United States, leaving the latter in
a privileged class as the actual owner of
the canal. and as thus entitled 10 free
use Of 1t; precisely as a guarantee of
equal rights for citizens and subjects of
all nations in this country would not bar
our own citizens from rights and privi-
leges which no alien could enjoy. This
is the extreme view Of that side of the
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
CONGESTION OF POPULATION
Wide Streets in Cities the Natural and
Only Solution, Says Writer.
,ditor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: At the call Of the New York COM
mitteo on congestion OF population the
first national conference on city planning
was held in Washington IN 1909. At the
next meeting, 1910, I'm Rochester. II de-
veioped theDe was no problem OF conges-
ton except in New York and some In
Boston OF the character that required
radical consideration. and such as there
was In these was due TO new immigration
Of those dumped there amid strange con-
ditions. unfamiliar with our customs. and
having no such associations as would pre-
vent unwholesome domestic conditions, and
due more than all else to abnormal saw
ing In as they believed this temporary
sojourn.
| think Professor seligman's sentiment
IN his letter in Tho Tribune OF February
Q on the Sullivan Brooks bill, embodying
one suggestion in relief proposed by that
committee, that taxation has slight rela-
ton to problem OF congestion, and II could
not be appreciably remedied thereby, is
correct.
At that Rochester meeting Lawrence
WELLER. the housing expert. claimed the So
luton for such congested districts, where
these immigrants segregate-some running
l,S00 to an acre. and even for an occupancy
OF 2.5O0-was houses 20 feet wide, facing
each side on streets GO feet wide-so with
out back rooms or areas-would eliminate
all evils. In other words, the solution is
good roads. in an absolute sense, suited to
situation.
So too, as TO the other form of conges-
tlon, transitory crowding, due to over tai
buildings, in too narrow streets and also
chiefly in those two cities from their to-
Biography, insular. peninsular-width OF
streets proportioned TO height OF structures,
or vice versa, in practice.
The Teutonic civilization may be all right
I'm it's place, but such taxation measures
as are now proposed are contrary to every
aspiration with which our forefathers took
possession OF the land and got them chill
dren to wrestle with the wilderness and
subdue 1t. for continuity of holding as
free men, and the majority here. true 10
breed. would rather hold to the Magma
Charta of King John. POLECON.
Butternuts. N. Y, Feb. IL. 1912.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
RITUALISTIC PRACTICE
Father Wallis Within the Usages Of
the Episcopal Church, Says Writer

To the Editor OF Tho Tribune.
| Sir: AS you have given space to several
| articles I'm re the case Of the Rev. Guy
J.. Wallis. OF st. Pauls Church. Staten
Island, will you please publish the follow
ing statement? do not purpose to impugn
the motives OF the complainants. or TO dis
cuss the adylsablity OF ritualistic prac-
tices, but merely TO give the status of the
case and to show that Father Wallis's s
acts arc entirely within the law and liberty
OF the Church.
The deed of gift prescribes 'that the said
premises shall be used solely for public
worship, according to the rites and usages
OF the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America, and for no other
purpose whatever"
One OF the contentious is that 1t was the
intention Of the giver that the usages OF
the church at the time of the gift should
be perpetuated without change. Such con-
tention could not possibly be maintained. as
1t would be against public policy to allow
deed of gift TO stand In the way Of
progress. The deed itself clearly indicates
to the contrary. At the time the property
was given II was the common practice to
use church building for other purposes
than worship and the universal practice TO
use the church for Sunday school and chill
dren's Christmas and Easter services, for
Christmas trees. etc. Reverence for holy
things and holy places was not one Of the
tenets OF the Low Church party. When
Mr.. Ward prohibited In the deed the church
from being used for Sunday school and for
any other purpose whatever, save public
worship, he evidently appreciated the
sanctity of consecrated building This
prohibition was not In accord with the
usages OF the Church at that time.
AS a matter Of fact st. PauPs Church
has always stood for advanced ritual. !
became member OF the parish In 1880. ten
years after the deed of gift, and st. Pauls
was then looked upon as ritualistic
church. The whole question, therefore,
turns upon the point as to whether the
services in st. Paul's Church are in ac-
cordance with the rites OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church and the usages of the
said Church at the present time.
There is daily eucharist for communion
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

New York has banished its horsecars. but still
has an occasional hold-up OF the old stagecoseh
type. Providence Journal
New York seems bent on trying to wrest the
laureIs, for highway robbery and other crimes of
violence away from chicago.-Buffalo News.
New Y6rkers have got so used TO having their
tol.ce commissioners fred as soon as three or
four crimes happen for which the police have no
solution that the way Waldo sticks mus. seem
rather supernatural TO most OF them.-syracuse
Herald.
Mayor Gaynor says Horace Greeley advised
him not TO come 10 New York. What lot OF
trouble Mayor Gaynor would have saved him
self IL he had takens that advice But his
punishment Is severe. They elected him Mayor.
watertown Times.
II New Yorks new primary elections law
holds good the voters Of tho city face the pos
sltiiity Of having to handle ballot forty-nve
feet long An effort Is being made to get a
ruling In court By which the ballot can be
shortened to reasonable length Probably not
one voter in fifty In New York would be able to
manipulate a forty hvo-foot ballot successfully
and ntelligentiy.--sayannah News,
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tations had been issued for leap Seai
valentine entertainment" for the eFeiiiIie
of February 1S-Sunday-and wrote 10 .ho
parents of the woman who was 10 DC 'he
hostess II have not been Invited 10 youi
daughters entertainment, which hear "ih
take place on Sunday evening. possibly pc
cause she knows that 1 will be otherwise
engaged. | will be free, however, a1ter
o'clock, and shall be there with 'a,eh
tine" Many Of the young people VINO hau
arranged to attend the party are sun III
doubt as to why the invitations were re-
called
What's the matter with your wife? Shes
all broken up lately.
"She got terrible jar"
What has happened?' u,o,s
"Why, she was assisting at ruIltla55v ruIllitha55
sale. took off her new hat, and somepouy
sold 1t for 80 cents."-Louisyille courier
Journal.
A VICTIM OF HABIT.
Hold up your hands," the footpad said
In New York to his victim,
And when the man declined, the PAD
Most impolitely kicked him
Hold up your hands," he said; 'be quick
And do as you are told to-"
'T can't" the man replied. unless
I have a strap to hold to-"
w. ]. HAMPTON
Don't you think the government ought
to regulate corporations?
.J don't know" replied Senator Sorghum; !;
"sometimes l think government olnCldi
has enough to DO TO get eiecIeu ssur,,ne ~ any
more responsibility. ty."-Washington Star
The annual report of the German Society
of the city of New York, which has just
been published, contains the announcement
of the election to honorary membership OF
Gustav H. Schwab, who served as presio-
ing officer of the organization thirteen
years. MANY years" says the resolution
Longer than any Of his predecessors. Ihe
list of ex-presidents contains the names Oh
r. W. Won steuben. William Wilmerding'
Jacob LorIllard, Philip Hone, John jacob
Astor and r. A. Witthaus.
Gibbs-One gets no diplomas in the school
of experience. .,a
cate comes pretty near being one.-Boston
Transcript.
People who stood near the entrance W
No. 1l5 Broadway at a little after noon one
day recently and within hearing distance OF
n man with a loud voice and decideoiy
German accent heard some strange Things
about the Equitable Building fire. The
man was showing three women and small
hoy the Wall Street district ut took fire
late one night this winter" he said, and
everything what was in 1t was burnt up
Just as you see. 1t was full of banks ana
the banks was full OF money-it was AWFUL
The guide then gave description OF the
lew building which will be erected on
the site of the ruins and the last heard by
the peopTe-not of his party-was: Now
show you the oil bulding-where Rocke-
fclier made his money"
What arc you smiling about?" asked
Noah.
II was just thinking" replied Japhet,
how lucky IL was we could so ahead ana
build this ark without waiting for an ap-
propriation from Congress. ."-Washington
Star.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
THE pIsEMBooIED CRIMINAL

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning capital punishment one
OF your correspondents struck note too
little accented, so It seems TO me. during the
present discussion: the psychological note
the psychic effect of executions.
More and more as we advance We must
look at matters, especially those which az
feet the community, from this point OF vieW'
It is a tremendous field. Of which we are as
vet only touching the borders. We may
even begin TO consider the possibility Ga
possibility which the late Professor James
and other distinguished researchers have
almost made probability that the disem-
bodied criminal may perchance have a
worse effect on the community than he
could have while imprisoned in his physical
body. This is merely one hypothesis along
with many, none OF which should be disre-
garded while such great number OF un-
explained phenomena confront us.
l.. p. FRIEDLAND.
New York, Feb. %, 1912.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
BLUNDERING AT LAWRENCE.

The authorities at Lawrence, Mass,
are playing into the hands of the social
lists who are directing that strike The
! interference in the natural right or
parents to send their children Temporal
rily away from home, the clubbing and
arrest of parents and their sympathizers,
the arrest as neglected children Of those
who were going for time only to homes
where they would be well fed and
clothed, and the probable distortion Of A
law to Justify these acts is as chuckle-
headed an exhibition Of Incompetence TO
deal with a strike situation as it Is pos
sible to recall.
For the express purpose Of preventing
the exploitation" Of children the Law
renee authorities have themselves ex-
plotted them brutally and stupidity. The
object Of the exploitation of the children
by the labor leaders was to create SYM
pathizers with the strikers and incident
ally socialists. Such official laundering
as this, however, producing the impress
sion inevitably that the police have in
terfered with the rights Of poor parents
in a way that they would not dare to
do in the case of rich parents, will make
a dozen sympathizers with the strikers
and dozen socialists where the plan Of
organized labor had it been left alone
would have made one.
Governor Foss's secretary is quoted
as saying that an inquiry will be made
as to whether the constitutional rights
Of any one have been violated The con-
stitutional rights Of the Lawrence au-
thOrities would not be violated If some
one would inject common sense into their
heads. Governor Foss should undertake
to do that
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
MR.. TAFT AND sELF-GOVERNMBNT.

MR.. TAFT AND SBLF-GOVERNAENT
The charge that President Taft had
denied the fitness of the people of this
country, or some of them, for self-gov'
ernment, which has been industriously
spread of late is supported only by q
misquOtation Of his address to the New
York State Bar Association In that
address the President was not talking
about the capacity Of individuals for
self-gOvernment, but about the capacity
of nations for it, and he declared that
"the question whether a people is fitted
'for popular self-government so as to
"make that government best for that
''peOple is determined by the ability OF
'the majority of that people TO place
.upon itself the restraint by which the
"minority shall receive justice from the
''majority.'
That is sound American doctrine. II
was on that theory that the Constitution
was framed When the success of pop
ular government in this country is tested
ST Is in accordance with that test. We
habitually speak of kpOpular government
as successful wherever the rights of the
minority are respected, wherever insti-
tutions are stable, wherever the pledges
of the majority are kept, wherever jus.
tice is done and property is safe, wher-
ever, in a word, the people exhibit a
capacity for that self-restraint which is
necessary for the maintenance Of law
and order. Such a popular government
does not degenerate into mob rule. be-
cause the people never let their passions
sweep away their regard for their .nsti-
tutiOns. Popular government is fail
ure where constitutions are not worth
the paper they are written on, where
revolutions occur every six months,
where the people exhibit small capacity
for the orderly conduct of their affairs
and so little self-restraint that major
ity considers itself free TO oppress 81
minority.
II there is any one quality in the
history of this republic which we should
all point TO as evidence OF the success OF
popular government here 1t is precisely
the peoples capacity for self-restraint.
its essential moderation, the faithful
ness with which 1t has lived up to the
terms Of its Constitution. the scrupnlous
regard which the majority has shown for
the rights which it guaranteed to the
minority. Precisely this quality, in which
his country has excelIed among the
'alarly governed nations Of the world,
NT Taft chose as the supreme test OF
tie peoples capacity for self-goyernment.
meaning to warn the public against adj
yisers who are impatient with estab-