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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
KEEP COOL AND KILL RATS.

Nun '|OtJ nv ~ MN IVA
The appearance Of the bubonlc plague
in Cuba is lamentable incident, but Il
Is not sufficient TO cause anything re
sembling panic or even great anxiety
The deadlineSs of the disease is not TO
be ignored, even in the face of the most
advanced and efficient modern thera.
peutiCs. But neither is the possibility
OF controlling IL TO be overlooked. Again
and again In the last score Of years
people have predicted that It would
ravage Europe and America after the
fashion Of the Black Death of the Mid
die Ages, identifying It, perhaps cor
rectly, with that pestilence and assum-
ing that its virulence was as great now
as 1t was then. That assumption may
be correct but it is q great error to
leave out Of the account the tremendous
progress which the world has made in
sanitation and therapeutics since Pas
teur and Lister and their colleagues
began their work. India, China, Man
churia and some parts Of South Amer
lea have suffered severely from the
plague, and cases have occurred in Eng
land and in the United States, even In
New York, but there has been no such
thing as an uncomfortable epidemic,
and, we believe, no serious danger of
one.
What is needed is an unrelentlng cam
paign Of destruction against the car
riers Of the pest, letting no rat escape.
For the rat is TO be bracketed with the
mosquito and the fly as one Of the three
most mischievous and deadly creatures
in the world. II Is true that some other
animals have been known to convey the
plague through their insect parasites,
notably the marmot. The rabbit, the
vole and some other burrowing Great
ures have also come under suspicion.
But their agency has been merely incl
dental AID sporadic. The real enemy is
the rat, on which flourish the plague.
bearing fieas which, in turn, when the
rat is dead, desert It's carcass and bear
the infection to men. AS rats are the
only animals which infest ships, it IS
obvious that they are the medium
through which the plague is invariably
carried overseas.
How thoroughly the work OF e1termi-
mating rats may be done is indicated
by the records of achievement in Den
mark, in Rio de Janeiro, In San Fran
cisco and elsewhere. Prolific as the
creature is and tenacious of life, its size
and its habits make 1t an easy victim
of properly conducted and persistent
campaign. It ought to be possible to
make sure that not living rat is left
on any vessel entering this port, at any
rate from regions infected with the
plague. And If the campaign shall ex.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
TIE nsrOLEN DoOPPLATE."

Colonel Roosevelt's metaphor about
the stolen doorplate affords no justifica-
ton for what his followers intend to do
in certain Western states, apparently
with his entire approval. If, as he says.
Messrs. Barnes, Penrose and Guggen-
helm have stolen the doorplate with the
name Of the Republican party that is no
reason why Messrs. White, Stubbs, John
soE and the Roosevelt followers In South
Dakota and elsewhere should steal the
partys house and furniture.
1t will take more than metaphor to
give an honorable appearance to the
scheme Of these Westerners to keep con-
troll of the Republican organization in
their states and put up as Republican
electors men'who do not intend TO vote
for the Republican national candidates,
but for the candidates Of another party.
If 1t were honorable, the men who
have a hand In 1t would not hesitate to
do it openly and above board Yet al
most without exception they are careful
to keep the appearance Of loyalty to the
Republican party. They refrain from
signing the third party's call. They will
not be delegates to its convention. They
do nothing to impair their nominal Re-
publicanism. The South Dakota Repub-
lican Convention, which chose electors
who are expected to vote for the colonel
if successful at the polls, RETAINED from
instructing them to do So The under
standing with them is secret. No such
secrecy would be necessary or natural
if the plan were morally defensible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09

city is fairly accurate as an estimate Oh
the LEGISLATURE as a whole. 1t Is clear
that the public used its votes on leglsia-
tors to punish the political parties IN
turn. It is also clear that the political
parties have not yet extracted from that
fact the lesson that the next point OF at
tack will be the personnel Of the Legs
lature-that the public will insist on
having men Of character and ability ana
will divide on that line rather than as TO
partisan politics. The public is not hun
cry for direct legislation in any of its
forms. It does want efficiency and hon
esty in its lawmakers. ANY political
system which produces Legislature
three-quarters bad or indifferent is
not speaking very loud In its own be-
half when It IS on trial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
INDIFFERENT" LEGISLATORS.

Not a few legislators and practical
politicians" sneer at the annual reports
Of the Citizens Union on the merits of
the services of Senators and Assembly
men from this city as a classification OF
the sheep" and the goats" In so do
ing they make ready appeal to that
human element which resents anybody's
sitting aloft and labelling ten Senators
bad" and five Senators good" and six
teen Assemblymen indifferent this
legislator "a rubber stamp for the ma
chine" and that one as having made
a thoroughly bad record" 1t is easy
enough to acquire certain amount OF
surface sympathy because Of the tag
which some critic has tied on. That
does not affect the merit of the criti-
cism. and, however the subjects may
squirm, the fact remains that in this
years reports the legislative committee
of the Citizens Union has done some pre-
else and accurate labelling.
Five of the twenty-five Senator's from
this city and sixteen of the slxtytwo
Assemblymen are labelled good an
estimate based on their position on i'm
portant legislation of the session. The
others are classed as bad" or "indif-
ferent.' That is, approximately only %
per cent of the city's representatives IN
each branch of the Legislature made
such a record as to commend them to a
non-partlsan group of individuals con-
scientiously endeavoring to determine
the worth Of each legislator to his com
munity. The rest of the delegation, OF
both parties, were bad" or 'indiffer'
ent." They voted-when they were re
corded-viciously or Ncarelessly or ac
cording to the crack Of the party whip
Yet this came after Republican Legis-
lature had been CLEANED out" by pub
lie tired Of Republicanism there, and
after a Democratic Legislature had
made such record that the public, dis
gusted, returned a Republican Assembly.
The estimate Of the members from this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
MANY ENROLL IN COLUMBIA
Registration for Summer Session
Nav Beat Record.

The summer session OF Columbia Uni
versity opened yesterday with great gusto
For the last week trains from north, west
and south have been rushing students 10
the six weeks course OF study offered by
Columbia, and even from other lands have
come many representatives
The registration lists this year have out
stripped by far all former ones. On July
and s alone 1882 were registered, yesterday
OPP were added TO the list and IL IS reeE-
oned that 500 late ones will arrive TO-DAY!
making e total of four thousand summer
session students. Last year las were regis
tered in the first three days
In the new School OF Household Arts
there are TO be offered many courses
heretofore untried attempt Another ne"
course is in field agriculture, consisting o.
observation and practice work and extend
ing over two weeks from August y 70
September L. spent mainly ct the COLUMBIA
Farm, Fishkill, n. 7.
The colleges of law, medicine and religion
are all offering new courses for the oeneht
OF the summer session students, and the
graduate work has also been anplihed TINS
year,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
THE ARRAIGNMENT OF A JUDGE

The language used by the House Com
mittee on the judiciary In recommend
ing the impeachment of Judge Arch
bald. Of the Commerce Court, IS exceed
ingly sharp. The accused is scathingly
arraigned by the unanimous vote of
those who held the hearings on the
charges against him. Proof of the vi
tally Of impeachment proceedings does
not consist, however, in arraignments,
but in the prompt trial and just deter
mination Of charges.
1t Is to be hoped in this case that
the hearings will be prompt and thor
ough. The situation is complicated by
the desire Of the majority in both
houses Of Congress TO abolish the Com
merce Court. If It should be abolished
the impeachment proceedings would
naturally end. IF Congress persists in
its determination to do away with the
court 1t is to be hoped that It will first
give the accused judge a trial. 1t Is
not fair to him that he should go out
Of Office under the terrible arraignment
which the House committee has framed
in recommending his impeachment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
WHICH WILSON,

Our former neighbor, 1.-THE New YORK
Times" seems TO cherish the belief that
the Baltimore convention nominated for
President "a cultured scholar, an emil
"nent educator, writer of international
"repute and a lifelong student or the
history and theory Of government" 1T
thinks that the Democratic party put at
the head of its national ticket Or.
Woodrow Wilson, the historian and uni
versity president But 1t is very doubt
ful If the Democratic convention had
such q person in mind when 1t picked
the Presidential nominee. It supposed
it was selecting Governor woodrow VIII
sor of New Jersey, who after less than
a years experience in active politics re-
undated the views on the history and
theory of government which he had
taught to the students under his charge
and cut loose entirely from his post as
an educator and author.
I'm one Of the Harvey letters MI VIII
son said that his mind ran on single
track. The track which 1t has been
running on since January, 1911, has been
that of political ambition, and that fact
was emphasized by the abrupt sacrifice
Of Colonel Harvey's friendship to the
exicpncies Of the Wilson candidacy. The
Democratic convention may have been
deceived, but II felt that It had every
reason TO believe that the candidate II
chose was Governor Wilson, coursing
along the single track Of Organism, not
DR.. Wilson. headed backward along the
conservative single track. The Wilson
nominated at Baltimore was supposed TO
be the person who said that Mr.. Bryan
had been "the one fixed point In the
Democracy" not the person who piously
hoped that Mr.. Bryan might be
knocked into a cooked hat" The Dem
ocratic convention under Mr.. Bryan's
leadership must apparently have thought
that It was choosing the politician who
had described as rubbish" the views on
the initiative. referendum and recall
which he had taught in his capacity as
professor and theorist to Princetons I'M
suspecting youth.
OF course, Lobody can be entirely GER
tain that Mr.. Wilson the nominee IS ex-
actly the same person as Mr. Wilson the
candidate He may have switched since
the nomination to some other track.
Yet it is not likely that he is going to
lay much stress in this campaign on his
as yet unreversed scholastic opinion that
the free entry of Chinese cheap labor
would be a boon to this country, or on
that other now partly reversed opinion
that the Chinaman is more desirable
immigrant than the average unlikely
fellow from Poland Hungary or Italy.
Is DR.. Wilson's hat still in the arena as
we'll as Governor Wilson'S? THE Times
will do a public service If 1t can show
positively which Wilson Is really with
us this week-tbe one who said in his
history that the Poles, Hungarians and
Italians were inferior to Cinnamon or
the one who subsequently wrote to vari-
Gus Italian. Polish and Hungarian news
papers explaining that these historical
judgments were meant TO be taken in a
Pickwickian sense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
GOVERNOR oseoRN's FIGHT.
.itor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Maybe a voice from the far-off will
derness can explain to some degree the re-
ception with which Governor Chase 8. Os-
born's statement, repudiating the attempt
by strong-lunged Roosevelt supporters to
revive the sentiment for the colonel by or
ganizing a third party has been received
by the voters at large In the Wolverine
State.
He accepted his reverse manfully. but only
the personal rebuff not the struggle he
is waglng for the Progressive principles
To him Roosevelt was means, not an end
So that II was perfectly natural after the
Taft victory to seek q new champion. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS

New York is booming itself as suiilhe'
sort and here and there, We understand Pe'P''
ara falling for it.-Detroit Free Press
There are nearly twelve thousand lawyers
active practice in New York City: NO "on'.'
some NJ the people there prefer TO settle the'
d,snut.s on the streets with revolvers.--C's's-
land Leader.
There we're so few shooting ARRAYS and acc,
dents IN New York on the safe and sane fouru
that they are seriously considering eftendins ~'
innovation to the rest Of the 1854 DAYS, Wash
ington Post. -. "a.
Provincial persons may sneer, but Ire ~ w
York has its diversions. The shearing OF sH''v
IN central Park was one OF the things that prov
This Another was the lat horne" given 'V
magistrate accused OF undue lenisncy TO 'fetS'n'
convicted of crime, who invited in aooh a nun
drss members OF the underworld Tor the ~
snec,ion OF his critics and TO prove thst n'
o,su.ncv had cot been abused. Rochester De'"'
crat and Chronicle
New York's aldermen have under corslee1 s''1'
proposed new building code. u woaio So"
tina, IN the framing OF such code so srea'
citv as New York would provide for the sac
Guarding Of health as we'll as for safety D.
IN. criticisms Of the code BY the eommi'tss
,ph.reulosis OF the Charity organiritiw et S.
yort show many defects in Il from .. hs4''-
point OF visw.-chicage Reeord-Hetad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
THE TALK or THE DAY.

When a horse falls I'm New York street
a crowd Immediately gathers. and nifty
seven varieties OF advice are given to the
driver by people who know nothing what
ever OF the condition OF things. This ad
vice is often OF a humorous nature. as hap.
pened 10 be tho case the other day, when
a. horse attached to an ice wagon fell In
the middle Of the road. One man stepped
forward Know that story about the man
who was going to build a horseY' he asked
the driver well, you have the frame
work Now. that horse is weak: all he
needs is something 10 eat. Then he'll get
up all right" This man waited for no
argument, but went to stable and got
some oats which he fed to the animal as
II lay in the road. the horse eating them
with relish Then four men got together,
helped the les wagon steed. and the happy
animal was soon on it's way again.
Blobhs-We are a nation OF runts Pre-
historic man was much larger than we are.
Slobbs-Well, for my part / would much
Philadelphia Record.
THE STATESMAN WHO STANDS BY
THE LAW.
! am for Taft-blg, on-the-squars Taft!
Believer In doctrines OF oldI
You may say he is slow, but this much 1
know
None safer tho Big Chair will hold.
/ am for Taft, the American Taft
The statesman who stands by the law;
The man who is set dead against the re
call,
And knows how 10 night men who graft.
I'm an American born in the land
Made free by the patriots bloodi
And with Taft by tho old Constitution I'll
stand.
As n real American should!
I'm one of a patriot band of old
That gave us our liberty,
And opposed to new doctrines getting
hold
In this Land of the Brave and the Free.
I'm an Irish-American born on the soil
Where American martyrs shed blood,
And my foretather died on Vinegar Hill
In the way that an Irishman should.
I'm an Irish American. pleased with the
way
The Man In the Chair does his duty to-day:
And 1 am for Taft. the American Taft,
The statesman who stands by the law!
JOHN MAURICE SULLIVAN.
Wigg-She's the sort of girl who posi-
lively refuses TO stay single.
Wagg-Thats the sort that also positive
~ refuses to stay neutrality-suspicious.
Record.
In an article on THE American Theatre"
In the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse" Profess
sor Hugo Mtnsterberg, Of Harvard, says
that In order to maintain an opera house
in good style anywhere In the world the
management must receive liberal help. 1T
matters not whether II comes from princes.
government or municipalities. There has
been no lack OF effort on the part OF Amer
leans for several decades to have a good
opera, but all plans to secure the necessary
subvention were wrecked: had to be
wrecked on the cliffs OF Puritanism which
saw IN the theatre and even In the opera
only frivolous play. Carnegie may give up
his fortune for Libraries and peace founda-
tons. but he knows that he would lose his
foothold IL he squandered only portion OF
II on the theatre" Professor Munster
berg speaks OF John D. Rockefeller as never
having done anything for the theatre or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
JNDICTING 4 NATION.

: In his speech on the Lorimer case Sen
lator Porter ]. McCumber, Of North Da-
Ikota. tried to do what Burke said he
knew not how to do-that is, to bring an
Indictment against whole people. Mt
iMcCumber voted year ago to sustain
mfr Lorimer's title. He has now dis
covered that his judgment is at odds
with that Of the great mass of the peo-
pie Of the United States. He frankly
admits chat the great mass Of the peo-
,sple Of the country believe Mr.. Lorimer
sis guilty Of procuring his election as
senator by the use Of money In bribing
'the members Of the Legislature" He
cited various instances in which popular
opinion had condemned Senators for vot-
ing TO keep LOrimer in his seat. Yet so
unwilling IS he to admit that the vast
majority can be right and he can be
wrong that he arrogates 10 himself ex-
traordinary moral herOlsm in persisting
an his own opinion and condemns every
Senator who differs with him as "a
moral and political coward"
Mr.. McCumber worked himself into a
high frenzy of self-approval when he
said: "This prosecution has been con-
"tinued with spirit Of malice un-
"ecualled in American Journalism, and
"the eliminating act of this tragedy will,
Sin my Judgment. be the most tyrannical
"that was ever inspired by self-aggran-
"dizement or induced by political fear"
MT what warrant exists for the North
Dakota Senator's assuming that the OPP
ponents of Lorimer are all conspiraton
or poltroons? Why shouldn't the COM
mon sense Of the American people be al
lowed to have some play? 1t was the
opinion Of President Taft after reading
the testimony In the first inquiry that
Lorimer's election was involved in a
mass and mess Of corruption, and n
atmilar conclusion has been reached by
the great majority Of those who have
made q fair and painstaking investiga-
Hon of the circumstances surrounding
the election. That nearly every news
paper in the country. Republican, Demo
cratic or Independent, has held that
Lorimer's title Is tainted I'm no way helps
MI. McCumber to prove his extravagant
statement that the unseating of the ILL
nois Senator would be political MUIR
der"
II the North Dakota apologist cannot
bring himself TO coDcede the possibility
of any flaw in Lorimer's title he ought
to maintain bis conviction modestly and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
FAVOR BIGGER ARMY AND NAVY
State Spanish War Veterans Offer Ser
vices to u. S. as Reserve Corps.

Binghamton, N. Y. July s.-Sixteen
hundred delegates from all parts of New
York gathered in the state armory here
to-day at the opening session of the New
York State convention of Spanish War
Veterans The veterans were welcomed by
Mayor Irving and addressed by the ma
tional commander, Maurice Simmons.
Resolutions were adopted extending the
support Of the Spanish War Veterans to
the Boy Scout movement, recommending
an increase in the army and navy, offer
ing to the United States government. the
services of the Spanish War Veterans as
a reserve corps In time OF war, and recon-
mending military instruction as part Of
the curriculum OF the public schools.
A big military ball this evening was the
feature of to-days entertainment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09

tend further. to the determination Oh
rats generally throughout the city ana
country. mankind will be so hlucn 'ne
gamer. Apart from their deadly luic'
tons as purveyors of disease. the dam
age which rats do in the United States
yearly, in the consumption and destruc-
ton Of grain. fruit and poultry, amounts
to scores and probably to hundreds Oh
millions OF dollars. The annual loss
from that source in England has been
officially estimated at $2o0OOo'ooo.
Plague or no plague, It would be well
worth while to destroy the rats, ana
the Indictment to that achievement Is
greatly increased when the vermin
threaten us with one Of the most ap-
palling Of pestilences.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09

opera, but adds that his daughter had come
to the aid of the people of Chicago with an
opera fund. The professor thinks, how
ever, that the time will come when the
theatre and the opera will receive at the
hands of municipal governments in this
country as liberal support as is now freely
given for parks and Fairgrounds.
why do you spend so much care on the
crease of your pants, hey?'
1T Is important, dad not TO wear bagsy
trousers"
important, is it, Why, you young CUB,
look here Did Won ever see a statue to a
man who didn't wear bagsy pants T'-Louis-
vile Courier-Jcurnal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
WILL JOIN THE PRoeREsslvEs.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | find no room TO question the pro-
priety OF @ Roosevelt Progressive party
any moro than my father, with his seven
sons. did in leaving the old, worn-oit Wing
party for the Republican party when first
organized.
| do not wish to move out OF this state,
and, therefore, rather than work any longer
in party dominated by men like Barnes l
will Join the new Progressive party. Your
reader Of sixty years and over.
". NJ. NJ
Ausable Chasul. n. Y, July 5, 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
TWO WAYS TO SEND MAIL
Postofice Bill Would Give Publishers
Ontion of Using Fast Freight.

Washington. July s.-Publishers will have
an option between sending second class
mail matter through the regular mail at
two cents pound or by fast freight at one
cent II provision incorporated In a ton
tative draft OF the postoffice appropriation
bill now before the Senate Postoffice Com
mittee is adopted.
The bill probably >vill provide for an
elght-ho day for postal employees, with a
possible extension to ten, but not to four
teen. hours.