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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
At NEWPORT
tBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune.

fBy Telegraph 20 The Tribune
Newport, Sept. 2S-Many cottagers gath
cred az the home OF Miss Martha A. Cod
man, on Bellevue avenue, this afternoon
for O musical by Nine. Kitty Berger.
Miss Goldman, who broke her right fore
arm on Friday, is unable 10 receive. Tbs
musical was under the patronage OF Mrs
French F.. Chadwick, Mrs John r.
Drexel, Mrs Hugh d. Auchincioss, Mrs.
Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs William Gro,-
venor, Mrs. John J. Mason, Mrs. Frank
W. Andrews, Mrs. Edwin D. Morgan, Mrs,
Henry Lawrence. Mrs. James z. Ker-
nochan, Mrs. Burke-Roche, Mrs. James
J. Brown and Miss Rosa A. Grosvenor
Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt had chill.
dren's party at Sandy Point Farm this
afternoon in honor of her daughter. Miss
Kathleen Vanderbilt. Mr.. Vanderbilt has
returned from New York.
Miss Rosa A. Grosyenor will gave
dance at the home Of her mother late IN
October.
The members Of the Clambake Club had
their last regular club bake this after
noon.
Ex-Commodore Arthur Curtiss James
ana T., Hayward Ferry nave ItluIi4tH
from New York Oh the Aloha Elisha
Dyer and J. F. A. Clark also are back
from New York.
Mr. and Mrs K. T. Wilson. Nr. and
Mrs. j. Norman de X. WhitehOuse and
Mr.. Won Bulow. of the German Embassy,
left here for Lenox by motor to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter s Andrews, who
have returned from Sunapee Lake. are
the guests Of Mrs Frank w. Andrews
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley Davis are closing
their season the MIDDLE OF October.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cameron McR.
Wlnslow have returned from Port Wash
ingtOn.
Mrs. Joseph Hartman, who has been
confined 20 her home Tor few days as a
result OF a fall, was able 10 b. out to-day.
Registered at the Casino to-day were
W. V. Combs and A. A. Merrick, u, ;. ~,
aud Butler Ames. OF Washington, guest
of ". X. Brlce.
Alfred Chaplin. ir., Of Providence spent
the weekend with Mr.. ana Mrs. Il, Law
ings,on Beeckman, who entertained with
a dinner tonight.
Mrs. Julian McCarty Little gave cSEd
party at her home this afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
SOUTH VICTIM OF FREE TRADE
Correspondent Sees Cause for Ter
rihle Suffering During War.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: II II Is proper. I would suggest 20
those Democrats and free traders who
have devised q chamber of horrors 20
show the awful condition OF the country
under the protective policy that they
make an exhibit Of the conditi Of the
Southern people during tho war and AZ
It's close. That will exhibit the true con
dition Of the free trade policy advocated
By John 9. Calhoun. Jefferson Davis and
their confederates who projected the
Southern Confederacy.
The condition OF the Southern people
during the war was described by A. G.
Gordon in an article In the September
number OF The Century Magazine" in
1855, entitled Hard Times Of the Con-
sederacy." He states therein that many
people who had lived In affiuence were
reduced TO extreme poverty, ard nil were
deprived OF the ordinary comforts Of lfe.
Mr.. Gordon attributes their sufferlngs to
the blockade OF their ports
The change In The Southern states since
the war clearly demonstrates that the
blockade was not the main source OF their
sufferings for under nsty years Of the
protective policy those Same states that
composed the Confederacy have so de-
yeloped their resources that II q Chinese
wall was constructed around them and
the ports effectually blo-kaded they would
DE Independent Of the world for those
comforts Of which they were deprived
during the war.
Iva Of ttNa. Of ~ toll UF,.
was the fact that while those able South
ern statesmen prepared and carried into
effect the right Of the state % secede,
they az the same time adopted q system
OF political economy that took from their
states their money TO pay for what they
used and permitted their great resources
to lie undeveloped
How different would have been the con.
dlton OF the Southern people II they had
adopted the policy OF Henry Clay, A
Southerner. who advocated the policy OF
prote ction. instead OF Senator Calhoun.
who championed the cause Of free trade!
No history has ever been or Gun DC
written that Will fully describe the dep
rivaton OF the Southern people during
those horrible four years OF war; and why
they should suffer when they had oil the
resources 10 make them comfortable can
only be attributed to the political economy
which they adopted.
think II would not be hard 20 sus-
tain the proposition that II the policy OF
protection had been adopted by the
Southern people at the time Il was 40
ably advocated by Henry Clay, there
would have been no Civil War. for the
South would not have had most OF IT'S
wealth invested In slaves and would have
adopted labor which would produce great
er results than slavery. which was capt.
tai owning labor, OSCAR JEPFERY.
Washington, j.. Sept q. 1872.
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JAMAICA, OLD AND NEW.

There IS another considerable fiuttcr-
ing in the Jamaican dovecOtes over the
suggestion Of annexation to the United
States. II has arisen over the with
drawal of Great Britain from the Brls-
sells sugar convention and the conse
Quent uncertainty Of the future OF
trade which provides 10 per cent or
the exports Of the island. 1t Is feared
that there will be n resumption Of the
European export bounty system. which
would initiate seriously against ia
maica and make her practically DEEPEN
dent upon Canada and the United
States for her market The Canadian
market is, Of course, limited. and there
seems to be feeling that access to
that Of the United States can be as
sured only through annexation. The
result Is that there is expressed an
0nneXaionist sentiment TO an extent
and with an openness never before
known.
Years ago this sentiment was con-
fined TO few Of the white inhabitants,
who were regarded as eccentric, dis
gruntled or even dlslOyal. Now il Is
openly expressed by many OF them,
without reproach. Perhaps more nota-
bic still, il has become for the first
time widespread among the negroes,
largely as result, we may assume, or
their employment az laborers on the
Panama Canal. Their former aversion
TO this country because OF the political
and social discrimination which Is
practised against their brethren In
dispelled by their experience Of pecu-
mary and even social conditions at
Panama far preferable to any they
have ever known In Jamaica, and also
by the observation of many OF them,
reported back to them all, OF the still
more fortunate condition Of. negroes
in New York.
Various means for counteracting the
annexation movement are suggested.
"The Cleaner" the foremost newspa-
per Of the Island, advocates the nego-
tiation Of "a farreaching reciprocity
treaty with the United States think
ing that this would assure prosperity
sufficient to make Jamaica cOntented.
Sir Alexander Swettcnham, who will
be remembered ne hitherto not always
ELUSIVE in his affection for this country
or implicit In his confidence in ifs de-
signs, on the contrary urges the political
connection Of Jamaica with Canada.
perhaps to the extent Of full annexation,
as the only sure way Of saving the isl
and from being swallowed by Uncle
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IF 1T GOES TO CONGRESS.
A subscriber in Virginia has sent us
the following letter:

A subscriber in Virginia has sent us
the following letter:
Since have been a regular sub
scriber 10 the daily and Sunday Trlb-
une for perhaps more than twelve
years | do not feel that | am imposing
when / ask you to kindly answer this
question: In event that neither Taft
Wilson nor the "Mooser" gets suffi-
cient portion of the electoral vote, how
is II settled? II has been discussed
pro and con, and I ask for a full eX-
PLANTATION. II you have ever published
one, failed to take notice.
The information asked, though it has
been given before, may be Of Interest
10 other readers who are still in doubt.
If no candidate for President receives
a ma Jority OF the electoral vote the duty
of choosing q President deyolyes upon
Ihe House of Representatives. The
Constitution says that a choice must
lie made Immediately" after the fail
ure to elect is made apparent by the
canvassing Of the electoral vote at the
Joint session of the two houses Of Con-
greSs. which is held Oh the second
Wednesday in February. The House
must choose among the three candi-
dates highest on the list Of those voted
for for President. Each state delega-
ton has one vote, and the votes of q
majority Of the states are required to
elect. In the present House of Repre-
sentatives, which will be sitting next
February, forty-eight states will he
represented. Twenty-Five delegations
have a Republican majority and TWEEN
ty-twO have a Democratic majority.
-Four delegations are evenly divided
between Democrats and Republicans.
If the election is thrown into the
Horse there will probably be dead
lock.
In case no President is chosen before
March 4, 1913. and Vice President is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
PERILS OF FLIGHT.

The numerous aviation tragedies Of
the last few weeks in the military SER
vice have moved the British govern
ment to order the abandonment Of
m0nOplanes and the use of nothing but
biplanes In further experiments and
practice. In this official judgment may
be sound. Many authorities Oh avia-
ton consider the biplane much more
stable and trustworthy than the mono
plane, and we hope that opinion will
be vindicated by marked reduction
in the number Of serious accidents.
[. But the incident and the circumstances
which have led 10 it afford an unmis-
taxable reminder Of the perils OF aerial
navigation in even the most favorable
conditions, and yesterdays fatal acci-
dent 10 Lieutenant Rockwell and his
companion at Washington emphasizes
that lesson.
In two recent accidents in the British
army. In each Of which two lives were
lost, the cause Of the trouble Is un-
disc0yerable. The weather and all the
conditions Of air were favorable. The
machines were Of the most approved
type and construction. The men were
expert and judicious. The flights were
pruGently conducted In each case the
machine. after a successful flight, be-
gan to descend, and then, when about
four hundred feet from the ground,
suddenly crumpled and fell.
The fact. too often nOuted by en-
thusiastic aeronautS. is that fight Is
essentially and irreme1iably dangerous
I'm its very nature. Those who have
talked about It's being made as safe as
travel on land or sea have spoken with
out wisdom or discretion. A vehicle on
land has Il stable and secure roadbed
ard can come to grief only through
careiessness or some fault Of It's own.
The natural conditions Of travel are
les safe on wafer than on land. Int
even there the vessel is self-buoyant
and seldom comes to grief except
through some structural defect or in
Jury or through mismanagemtnt. But
the airship Involves the problem OF
floating vessel in nm unstable medium
immeasuratly lighter than itself. It Is
SUI iect to all the risks and dangers Of
the land or water vehicle, and TO others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

chosen. the latter will be sworn IN US
Vice President and Immediately there
after become President The Senate
elects the Vice President In case tle
electors do not, choosing between the
highest two candidates on the list OF
those voted for by the electors Tor
Vice President. In order to be sue
cessful candidate must receive the
votes of q majority Of the whole num-
Der Of Senators, or forty-nine votes
Since there is no certain majority III
the Senate representing any party, II
would be imprudent to predict WHAT
would happen there. and there ml1h'
he no election prior to March H. l9lo'
in which case the Secretary OF STATE
In the existing Cabinet would have 10
act as President from March until a
new President or Vice-PreSident couiu
be chosen at an election ordered by
Congress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

Of its own far more grave. 1t may be
destroyed, not merely by its own imper.
fectiOns or by the mismanagement OF
the aviator, but also by meteorological
conditions over which neither the avi.
ator nor any one else can have any
control.
That fact will not deter men from
continuing experiments aid practice
in flight. and should not. 50 long as
such work is promising of profit 10
mankind. But it should suggest tie
need Of the utmost circurnspecuon ana
prudence in the pursuit. and the GRIM
inal folly Of doing stunts" in midair
Just for the sake of attracting crowds
and gaining applause or pecuniary re-
ward through exhibitions of reckless
ness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
A FUTILE ATTEMPT
Roosevelt Cannot Disrupt His Former
Party, Correspondent Says.
the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: After reading In The Tribune's
Sunday Magazine the article of the Re-
publican National Committee PROFOUND
ing the question, What does change
mean for you? one can answer that
these who desire the stability and per-
petuity OF the government, the mainten-
ance OF the Constitution, the prosperity
Of the country as II exists to-day. de-
sire no change. All good citizens VIII
admit after calm reflection that President
Taft has wisely, safely and intelligentiy
administered the government during his
term Of Office He has acted In accord
ance with his best Judgment, without fear
or favor. He has doubtless made a few
mistakes (as who would not have done
In his position), but they sink into insig-
nificance when we consider his many sue
cesses.
On the other hand. what have We to
look forward TO II the sO-called Progress
sive party should succeed? The country
more than probably would be In an un-
eral upheayal would eLsue and another
fUlRnt tOllOW, as IN
Ia these troublous political times we
require President cool, calm and collect
el and OF equable temperament. Colonel
Roosevelt, we know, IL Incorporate In
language, impusve and given 10 violent
abuse OF oppo nents, which might be par
doned in an ordinary stump speaker, but.
lacking in dignity. Is not becoming a can
"A 40 70 for IpraaIdovt acpiring
the Office that he once said II would be q
calamity to accept We can agree With
him: IL would, indeed be a calamity. H.s
ambition TO obtain power again has
caused him TO perform feats his former
friends could not adjudge him guilty OF.
Mr.. Taft has proved to be most ex-
ceient President. More wholesome laws
have been placed on the statute books
during his administration than In any pre-
ceding one He has been so clear In MS
great Office that all parties can but com
mend him. Il IS an established precedent
that q good President should have
second term. Is one of the wisest. most
reliable and Intelligent Presidents the
country ever had to be excepted from
that precedent? Keep him at the helm
where h1 has guided the ship OF state 40
safely and sanely and with wisdom and
economy and with that feeling for
humanity that invites admiration.
The party that has saved and preserved
the country and has conferred so many
lasting benefits upon II is not TO be rent
asunder by tho dlctum ot one man, even
,hnuuh "a no Tbondora RQOSeyett With
many loyal Republicans with whom
have communicated, never felt more
proud Of my party than do to-day.
ANTHONY ALLAIRE.
New York, Sept. Il, 1912
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Sam. His view is that the United STATES
would grant commercial advantages 10
the island only for the purpose OF gain
ing political ascendance. ana lie "arns
the Jamaicans that reciprocity would
he the first fatal step toward ahheAa-
ton.
In this Sir Alexander Is, OF course
mistaken. Ii may be proDieula'i'
whether il would be TO the adVan'ase
Of the United States 10 grant recip'oo
ity TO .Jamhica. in view OF the extent
10 which we now produce In our own
domain the sugar and fruits WHICH
are her chief offerings. But IL II qu''c
certain that this country mas olteh
established relations of coinmercia'
reciprocity without Il thought or poilti-
cal ends. Beyond question the NJ
States is not and never can We 'n''..
ferent to the destiny Of Jamaica par',
" because Of the Inherent value anu
ottractiteness OF the lovely isiand anu
partly because Of It's geographicai poSi
ton with relation to our own siio, .
and nossessions. But our ihsui"'
neighbors and all who are interested ia
them may be assured that TINS coun n,
trv Is not responsible for the presen.
annexation talk and has no iue" "
engaging in any such propaganda. ~
is ouite content to let Jamaica rein"'"
as IL IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT.

American journalism now and then
suffers reproach az the hands or pens
Of Europeans for its somewhat uncOn-
ventional vlgor of expression. Dickens,
it will be remembered, portrayed Mr..
Jefferson Brick and his colleagues and
esteemed contemporaries as indulglng
in speech which had not that repOse
(which marks the caste Of We're de
We're" and other even more serious
critics since have condemned us for
the same fault. On the well accepted
principle that he who seeks equity
should do equity We might suppose our
critics TO be themselves free from the
practices which they condemn. But II
appears that they are not. but that. on
the contrary. the staid and punctilious
journals Of the Old World are able TO
give even the yellowest Of their Amer
lean contemporaries points in ferOcious
slangwhanging
Here, for example. is not mere
daily newspaper, but a stately and dig
nified monthly publication, The Ma
tiOnal Review" In q single number
Of IT we find II referring 10 the Cahi-
net as mis- maiesty's demagogues"
who have sold themselves at G1O,0O
a head" The Prime Minister is a
"despicable trimmer who "by use and
wont enjoys eating dirt with the rest
of his colleagues" The Secretary for
War has been indulglng IN "tOmfOol-
cry and intriguing" and his "grotcsque
mission to Berlin" was "a CHASTITY
''fiasco that made things worse than
before" The First Lord of the Ad-
miralty is IA self-advertising rhetori-
cian," "a treacherOuS windbag,' and
also a terrified windbag," who pub
fishes columns Of turgid twaddle" and
divides his time between emitting hot
air and teaching his grandmother to
suck eggs" And the recent number
from which these sample citations are
made is perhaps rather less vehement
of speech than the average.
We are comforted with the conclu.
sion. therefore that our own some
times free-spokcn press is by NO means
the only or even the worst sinner in
the world. II Is now nearly hundred
years since "The Quarterly Review"
In, II we remember Alright. the same
volume which killed John Keats
described THE Scotsman" Of Edln-
burgh. as a paper (which, from its In
''veterate Scowl, appears TO issue from
the Cave Of Trophonius." and which
"doles out, from week 10 week. the
"scum and feculence Of the worst
"Jacobinical Journals. In tone OF
dull. unvarying malignity, at once
wearisome and disgusting; and spoke
Of William Goblet as occasionally con
irving "to diversity the savage grOwi
"of the tiger with the mop and NOW
"of the ape" Apparently the legacy Of
those days Is still the portion of at
least some Of our esteemed contem-
poraries beyond the sea; TO an extent
which should give our occasional slips
into OvervigOrous speech exemption
from their too great CONSCIOUSNESS.
We really do not think that American
writers have ever surpassed The
Quarterly Review" Of 1918 or are like:
~ to surpass THE National Review"
Of 1910
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IN THE BERKSHlRGS.
IBv Telesraph % The Tribune. J


Lenox. Sept. 2S.--Mlss NJ. CNilise Alex
andre gave dinner tonight al spring
Lawn for her guests, Miss Lisa suydam
and Miss Katherine Stewart OF Ne"
York. and later went with her guests TO
| the ball given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry h.
/ pease.
| Mr.. and Mrs Charles II. McWilliams
and their family. Mr.. and Mrs. FredeflcS
/ Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Bryant MISC
! Pauline Hermance, Mrs. James F. Bailey
) and Miss j. A. Hatch, OF New York, are
at Heaton Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs o. y. Judson and j. Camp
bell Harris. who have been at the Maple
| wood. IN Pittsfield, have gone 10 Phila-
| delphia.
Mrs. Fred Prentiss and Miss F. Carlotts
-. Prentlss, OF New York, are at the Maple
, wood
Miss Adah E. Marks and Miss Margaret
G. Marks, OF New York. are visiting MIS-
! Richard Watson Glider at Four Brooks
Farm, In birmingham.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry ogden Bates Jf''
who have been at their country place IN
( Dalton. have gone TO Morristowu. n. J,
Mr.. and Mrs. Graud Foster have issued
cards for dinner on Monday evening az
, Bellefontaine.
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Coutts, who
have been at the Hotel Aspinwali, have
returned 10 New York.
Mrs. George f. Turnure and Miss Mary
NJ Turnure did not sail for Europe. as
they expected. this week. because OF Miss
Turnures Illness They expect to- 80
abroad later In the autumn.
Miss Romola Dahlgren. OF Newport, Is
visiting friends In Lenox.
". Roscoe Bonsal has Joined Mrs. Bon
sal at the Kinncutt villa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos de Heredis will 81
to New York on Monday, closing Wheat
leigh for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Morris are enter
tanning Mr.. and Mrs Gordon Bell Arthur
Kingsland and Mr.. Woolsey. OF New YORK
at Brookhurst Mrs. Morris gave lunch
con for her guests this afternoon.
Thomas Cadwalader. OF Fort Washing
ton. Penn. Is visiting DR.. William Biddis
at Breezy Corners.
Mr.. and Mrs. De Witt clinton FAILS
Alfred Curtis and ]. De witt are guests
or Mr. and Mrs William p. o. Field "
Highlawn House.
Dinner parties were given tonight o'
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. 0. Field, MI
and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock. Mr.. an"
Mrs G!raud Foster and Mrs. oscar
Iasig
Mr.. and Mrs. Ramsey Hoguet and MIS-
Mary McCreery are az the McCreery coz
tage. in Stockbridge. Mrs John A. NC
Creery returned to New York. after
season in Stockbridge. to-day.
Joseph b. Sheffield and Alfred b
Meacham, OF New York, are guests W
Mr. and Mrs. Henry II. Pease.
Warren T.. Dennis arrived Tonight ~
the Curtis Hotel Joining his family.
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SIR GEORGE REID CLUB GUEST

The City Club viii have ms its guests
OF honor tomorrow evening Sir George
Houston Reid, Lady Reid. j. Joyce Prod.
erick, acting British Consul General. and
Captain T. L. NJ. Bunbury. s'r Geor e.
who has been successfully Prime Mini,.
ter and Colonial Treasurer OF New South
Wales. Prime Minister OF Australia ard
High Commissioner for Australia TO Grea,
Britain. will address the club on "Mu-
nicipal Government in Australia" The
lecture will begin at 9 o'cl,ck
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culosis rate OF perfect men far below that
Of the imperfect Is too horrible to tolerate
a minute longer-our actIaries to the
contrary Notwithstanding"
Why did you strike the deceased on
the head with an oar after he had rocked
the boat and fallen out?"
Because he knew how to swim. -
Houston Post
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MORE YALE scHolARsu,ps

New Haven. sert &.--An extension q,
the free un'ergraduats schoI rain n, n
mt Yale University ioos definite form %
day in the selection Of eleven graduate.
OF Connecticut high schools TO- aamls.
sion to the freshman class. Seven conn.
ties and four cities additionally are 70 !.
resented. Each scholarship cover, al, Az.
penses of a years tuition.