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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

ance in 1892 I'VE wage no war
against any American interests'-thu
repudiatlng the declaration OF the Dem
ocratic National Convention. which
meant to wage war against every pro-
tected interest-ColOnel Watters0n as
serted that the cause OF tariff reform
had been stabbed in the back. He has
never wearied Of denouncing Mr..
Clevelands faithless leadership. Yet
now when Governor Wilson says al
most exactly what Mr. Cleveland said
in 1892 the editor of The Courier
Journal" makes no protest. He merely
shrugs his shoulders and says that
times have changed.
At Buffalo on Labor Day Governor
Wilson tried 10 make wOrkmen in pro-
tected industries believe that the Dem
ocratic party's promises Of tariff revi-
sion are only for campaign purposes,
asserting that Democrats are not 60
ing to destroy themselves econom-
'ically.' Language Of that sort from
theoretical free trader would have
made Wells, Hurd, Morrison, Mills and
the WattersOn of thirty years age
stare and gasp. II the last named does
not stare and gasp now he needs treat
ment He and Governor Wilson are
apparently both rapidly qualifying for
the soul-saving attentions of the Re-
form Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

year was thus 1929, against an aver
age of 4,012 n year for the last ten
years. The number Of tetanus cases,
by far the worst of all, was only
seven. against 80 cases three years
ago.
These figures must demonstrate to
every intelligence how greatly worth
while the campaign for safe and
sane Fourth Of July has been. 1t means
the saving Of hundreds Of lives each
year. and the saving of thousands OF
persons from more or less serious in
jury The gain to the country in eco
nornic value is very large. The gain
for humanity is Unreasonable. The
celebration of the Fourth of July will
because Of this achievement hereafter
assume a new aspect, far more enjoy
able and more creditable to the ma
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
FAR INLAND SHIP CANALS.

Coincidently with our own Inland
Waterways Congress come some strik-
ing accounts Of the progress Of Ger
many's system Of such routes Of trade
and travel TO which attention has
often been called by The Tribune. The
development Of the system IS being
pushed with the same decision method
persistence and expedition which marx
that country's growth in industry, com
merce and naval power. II is true that
The empire is gridironed with some 3d.
900 miles Of railroads, OF which more
than nine-tenths are the property Of
the government. Yet that same govern
ment IS constructing these waterways,
every one Of which practically parallels
and completes with one Of its own rail
roads. The explanation is given that
with all the industrial efficiency OF the
empire it is impossible to build and
equip railroads enough to meet the de-
mand for transportation. Besides, 1t
is realized that Il large part Of the
traffic can be carried on water more
adyantageously than on land.
One Of the latest undertakings is the
deepening Of the Rhine and some Of its
tributaries as far up as Cologne, so az
to give access TO those ports for larger
steamships than those which now fire.
quent them. Although Cologne is as
far from the sea as Albany, it Is an
important seaport, its waterfront be.
ing thronged not merely with barges
and river steamboats, but with ocean
going steamships, bound 10 and from
foreign ports. The present purpose Is
to make Cologne accessible to all but
the very largest ships, and TO make the
entire river clear to the Swiss frontier
navigable by oceangoing steamers. The
rivers Lain. Ruhr, Saar and Moselle
are also to be deepened so as 10 per-
NIT navigation by the same vessels.
Thus Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg and
other far inland countries will be en-
dowed with seaports and practical
frontage on the German Ocean An
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
THAT SCOTCH PARTY.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Mrs. Borden Hartman Is GER
tainly entitled TO credit for putting some
gayety into the campaign That Scotch
party in honor OF Governor Wilson's
mother was about the funniest thing this
season. According 10 Bayard Hale. Mr..
Wilson's biographer, Mr. Wilson's mother
came from Carlisle, England. Any one
who has read British history knows that
Carlisle is far from being Scotch. Dur
ing the border fighting, which was rarely
interrupted. Carlisle was English head
quarters. and the anlmosity Of the citi-
zens toward the Scotch was. not without
reason. very strong. So ignorant were
the Carlisle people regarding the more
northern Scotch. the Highlanders twho.
of course. rarely came near the border
that when Prince Charlie invaded Eng
land with his Highland army the Carlisle
citizens thought the Highanders were
cannlbals and one woman fell on her
knees before Highlander and begged him
not 10 eat her children. Some years after
Prince Charles III fated expedition an
old Scotchwoman named Jeanle Gordon,
fiHlbis 'hii'if1 'nPb'iA'N " w ~ ~
known that she was loyal 10 the exled
prince A Carlisle mob seized the old
woman and drowned her. With her last
gasp she exclaimed Charlie yet Charlie
yet "' | hope Wilson had no ancestors in
that mob. HENRY MANN,
Whose great-grandfather fought for
Prince Charlie
New York, Sept. s, 1912.
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PANAMA CANAL TOLLS
They Do Not Discriminate Between
Ships of Foreign Nations.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Great Britain claims that the pas
sage OF American vessels through the
American Zone Canal without paying tolls
is violation OF tha Hay-Pauncefote
treaty. When this treaty was signed
Panama was part OF the Republic OF CO.
lombia. A few years later she became
the Republic OF Panama, and we bought
the American zone from the Panama Re-
public and are spending s+o0 100000 for
purchase. digging and TO fortfy the Amer
lean Zone Canal Some years ago we
bought Alaska from Russia, but no for
eign country disputes our right to controi
our own territory there. Under our treaty
with Great Britain we agreed that there
should be no observation-disclosures all ma
lions would be treated alike. Germany
will not be charged a lower rate or toll
than Great Britain. neither will France
nav a higher rate than Great Britain II
the owners OF the American Zone Canal
want TO collect toll or allow their own
vessels TO go through free that Is up to
them, as they have the habit Of free tolIs
on all American canals for vessels OF
their own country. The claim Is made
that II American vessels do not pay tolls
Il will make the rate higher for the for
eign vessels that do pay, as the operating
expenses Of the canal will have to be met
by tolls. Great Britain pays 100000 In
subsidies each year TO encourage her mer-
chant marine. Congress will not grant
subsidies to encourage the American
merchant marine, so our vessels cannot
compete in the foreign carrying trade.
Great Britains subsidies are her own inter-
nal affair. Americas regulation Of Amer
lean canal tolls IS her own internal affair.
II Is best for both countries TO mind their
own business. JOHN +. PLADWELL.
New York Sept 8, 1912.
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A RECORD FOURTH"

While the recurring anniversaries Of
the Fourth Of July, 1916, will continue
to be celebrated, It IS an open ques-
ton If Il would not be worth while 10
add thereto some little special cele-
brations Of the anniversaries OF the
Fourth Of July, 1919, as one of the
most notable since the original indie
pendence Day. Certainly this latter
date IS worthy Of grateful remem-
brance in token Of the nations large
emancipation from the despotism OF
mayhem and manslaughter. Promptly
after Its occurrence we recorded the
greatly decreased figures of the killed
and wounded, with, however, q reali-
zati0n that they We're not complete,
since some time must elapse before the
results Of all cases Of injury could he
known. But now the statistics, after
the lapse Of two months, are substan-
italy complete.
According to "The Journal OF the
American Medical Association" which
for years has made a speciality of Sc
curing and publishing the fullest pos
sible reports Of Fourth OF July casual
ties, only forty-one deaths are this year
attributable TO Fourth Of July "fest!vi-
ties including only seven from teta-
nus; and only 9sS persons were injured
sufficiently to be reported for medical
care. Ten years ago the number of
deaths was 466, and Of injuries, 5,623.
The total Of killed and injured this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
A VERMONT OPTiMIST.
Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Being Nermonter / read with in
terest your editorial on the Vermont cleo
ton in your issue OF September 4. II. as
YOU say, the Progressive party of this
state has succeeded in throwing tho cleo
ton of a Governor into the Legislature,
where undoubtedly they will elect the Re-
publican candidate. I think that the Pro-
gressive party In this state need not be
ashamed of It's achievement, inasmuch as
the Republican party in Vermont, prior
to the 1892 campaign, which was a cam
paign merely OF state issues, elected its
Governors by a majority OF around 10000
Official returns to date give Fletcher, the
Republican candidate for Governor. In
round numbers, 1900 votes; H. b. Howe.
Democratic candidate, 1900, and Frazer
Metzger. the Progressive candidate, 1900
The Progressive party in this state has
sprung into power, newborn, and in the
face OF the opposition OF the old Repubn-
can party machine, has polled nearly, IL
not quite, 1900 votes-nearly three-fourths
as many as the Republicans polled-and
reduced the Republican majority OF for
mer years from around 5000 to no ma
iority at all What new party could do
more?
/ have every reason TO believe that the
Progressive party vote in Vermont will
be more than doubled at the November
election. The fact that the Progressive
party did draw many votes from the Re-
publican ranks at the state election indl-
Gates clearly, as far as the Progressive
party is concerned. that It will not be "a
waste OF votes"
VERMONT PROGRESSIVE.
Brandon, VT, Sept. 8, 1912
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Commenting on the proposal TO provide
Silence carriages on the French state
railways. the writer OF the Notes So
ciales' In the Paris "Gaulois" says: THE
right 70 speak TO me when | am in rail-
way carriage is. In France. among the
rights Of man. and every one makes use
OF Il with an annoying persistence and
want OF tact What IL peculiar IS that
the same itching to talk TO some one who
Is saying nothing TO you does not exist
on tramcars or omnibuses or the under
ground railway. That IL because every
one knows he will soon be at his destina-
ton. But with a journey Of five on six
hours in prospect there is not n single
middle class Frenchman who. In the ter
ror OF remaining three hundred minutes
without speaking. does not hasten to be
the first TO ente. into conversation"
Look here" said the thirsty man, the
ice In this lemonade is melted"
"Nessuh," replied the Ganymede OF the
rural cafe. DE Sheriff Of dishere county
don't low US to serve muffin only sof'
drinks. "-Washington Star.
The Australian Natives Association is
making plans for a hygiene exposition.
to take place at Melbourne next year,
fashioned after the one which took place
at Dresden. Among the subjects to which
special attention is to be given are Ven
tilation, the fiy as a carrier of disease,
the mosquito plague. and diseases OF the
tropics. in the department OF clothing.
space will be given to exhibits showing
the harmful effects OF corsets and the
evolution Of clothing, one Of the largest
departments will contain models OF scien-
tifically constructed homes.
Young Bachelor-I often wonder If I'm
making enough money TO get married on.
Old Benedick-Well, ! don't know how
much you're making, but you arent!-
London opinion.
A French Sherlock Holmes has been
discovered, according to the Paris Re
vuc." in the person of DR.. Melville. who
contends In letter TO that paper that
physician who has also made criminology
a study Is the best fitted for detective
work. Among the cases which he inyes-
tigated successfully the doctor tells OF
the murder al Havre. In 1909. Of woman
who kept boarding house. II made
microscopic examination at the scene of
tho murder" he says, land then asked
the name OF the ship which was the last
TO arrive at the port and learned that
II was the Donna Maria, from a Sicilian
port. Then said, without hesitation. the
woman was slain by a left-haEded man.
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AT EXPORT.
rRy Telegraph 70 The Tribun.

BY Telegraph 20 me Tribune.
Newport, Sept Mrs F. Lathrop
Ames, Egerton L. Winthrop and Mira
Royal Phelps Carroll had dinner parties
at their summer homes this evening.
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown entertained
at dinner in honor of her sister, Mrs
George w. Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Z. Maitland Armstrong had q
noon.
II. Casimir De Rham, Robert sedgwtck
and Colonel william Jay OF the Outer
Fountain Fishing Club. returned to-day
from a two days fishing trip off Block
Island.
Mrs. Luther Kountze. who broke her
hip recently, was reported as being com.
Portable to-day.
William Z. Carter is expected from
Dark Harbor next week. joining Mrs
Carter and family, who are at the
Muenchinger King cottage.
Registered at the Casino to-day we're
Charles II. Duell, jr., Of New York, a
guest az the Muenchinger King cottage.
Mrs. John L. Hubbard, Of Cambridge
Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Potter, Of New York.
visiting Mrs. Edward Potter, and Ernest
B. Pascal, Of New York, visiting II.
Sterner
Mrs. French Vanderbilt and her mother.
Mrs. F. o. French, have returned from a
short visit at their estate at Chester.
y. II.
John Thompson Spencer, Miss Charlotte
Pel and Miss Martha a. Goldman will
entertain at luncheon on Tuesday
Closing her Newport season Mrs
Nathaniel Thayer returned TO Boston to-
day.
william T. Bull. jr.. was a visitor here
from Cambridge to-day.
James v Parker has set November -
as the date for closing his season this
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sanford are leaving
Monday for New Amsterdam, their win
ter home.
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

II must be admitted that Colonel
Henry WattersOn has fairly just
grievance against the very, very young
person connected with the Reform Club
of this city who recently wrote TO the
.ex-friend and agent OF the Star-eyed
Goddess asking him If he could be in
,duced ito take an interest in tariff re-
form and would send along the names
of other Kentuckians willing TO benefit
from the clubs educational literature.
,"Such is fame" exclaims the colonel.
Fame is indeed feeting, and If Frank
iHurd, David A. Wells, Roger Q. Mills
and William II. Morrison were alive
to-day they, too, would doubtless be
complimented, as Colonel WattersOn
has been. with the flattering suggestion
that their names had been put on the
Reform Clubs list Of persons likely to
respond to an invitation to enlist in an
agitation for downward tariff revision.
In order to rebuke the fiippancy and
ignorance Of youth Colonel WattersOn
modestly relates this anecdote:
At the top floor of one OF the great
downtown buildings in New York Mr.
Joseph Jefferson, the celebrated come
dian stepped into the elevator, TO be
cordially greeted by modest, unim-
posing gentleman, who had entered
at the same time. Excuse me- said
jefferson; II remember your face, but
I cannot recall your name" and the
stranger said quietly. General
Grant" Jefferson got off at the next
floor. Being prodded by friend why
he did so, the witty actor replied,
II was afraid that before we reached
the bottom / might ask him whether
''he had been in the war"
The colonel has been ''in the war"
for forty years and for most Of that
time leader in it. Yet he admits that
he has changed his mode OF warfare,
and perhaps that change has had some
thing to do with putting him on the
Reform Clubs list Of persons needing
missionary attention. He Is supporting
Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency
and condoning in the latter an attitude
of compromise toward tariff reform
which he used TO denOunce in Presi-
dent Cleveland as perver5ity and some
thing near TO treachery. When Mr..
Cleveland said In his letter Of accept
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
A QUESTION OF MORALS.

According to dispatches from Los
Angeles. the California PrOgressi'eS,
who have just had their misapproprla-
ton of the Republican party's machn-
cry approved in state primary are be
ginning to yield a little TO the pressure
of moral sentiment. They know that
they are receivers of stolen property
and they are beginning 10 hesitate
about making a defiant and brazen use
Of It. The Oregon Progressive state
Committee recently resolved unani-
mously that a position such as mas
been hitherto assumed by the Califor-
MIA Progressives cannot be justified TO
men with brains and honor The Call
fornia followers Of Governor Johnson
have not shown themselves very thin
skinned. Yet they are beginning TO
vince under the nearly unanimous
judgment of the country-voters or
their own faith inCluded-that putting
Roosevelt and Johnson electors in the
Republican column Of an official bal
lot is nothing but political larceny.
The chairman Of the so-called Re
publican State Committee in California
has announced that the Roosevelt
johnson majority in the body which is
TO name Republican electors viii not
complete the robbery which the RoOse-
velt-JohnSon managers have been plan
ming. They will stop little short OF
the final act OF burglary and will
merely refuse 10 allow any candidates
Tor elector TO go on the regular Re
publican" ticket forcing both Taft
candidates and Roosevelt candidates
10 run under independent designa-
tons. That decision. though still depriv-
ing the Republican Presidential and
Vice Presidential nominees OF their
rights. j. at least a partial concession
90 decencv and good faith. 1t admits
The moral ohliQuity Of enjoying stolen
goods. although it does not yet go so
far as TO recognize the obligation to
restore the stolen goods to their own
cr But California is making progress.
n has repudiated the Kansas idea and
may rise I'm time TO the level OF honor
able dealing reached by the Progress
siveS i'm Oregon.
The experience Of California and
Oregon shows that the best weapon
with which to fight the misappropria-
ton Of the Republican party's emblem
and goodwill is a direct appeal TO pub
lie opinion. Moral compulsion is
stronger than legal compulsion. To en-
gage in the technicalities Of a lawsuit
Is TO obscure to some extent the basis
If complaint. The third party's at
tempt to defraud the Republican voter
has failed most conspicuously In the
states in which the theft has been
least INSTRUCTED by the technicalities
If the law. II will fail everywhere if
The question is kept one strictly Of
morals. The Roosevelt marauders may
not be afraid 10 answer 10 the law.
But they do not care TO face an I'M
confused appeal TO the public con-
science.
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other work is the Rhine-Herne Canal,
connecting the river with the BORT
mund- Emden Canal and traversing the
Westphalian coal fields and the most
important Industrial regions OF Ger
many. not with a shallow ditch for
barges but with a waterway for ocean
steamers drawing eighteen feet OF
water.
While other nations, even our own,
are observing solicitously Germany's
gigantic strides ip naval expansion and
are gauging their own pace by hers
and the supposed necessity OF keeping
ND with her, it may be worth while to
observe also what she is doing in the
development Of peaceful inland com
merce and to consider whether 1t is not
equally desirable to keep pace with Der
who may question the economic Wis
dom OF her course it may be noted, as
sample result, that the DOrtmund-
Emden Canal. which was opened ten
years ago through Hanover and West
phalia. Is increasing its traffic at the
rate of more than 20 per cent year.
while the railroads which 1t parallels
have not lost, but have also increased
their traffic A few years more Will
see ocean steamers passing freely
through the heart Of the continent,
from the Baltic to the Black Sea and
from each of those waters to the Ger
man Ocean. while dozens Of cities hun
dreds of miles from tidewater will be
great shipping ports. 1t would be
strange If 50 practical a country as
Germany should establish such a sys-
TEN only to find that it was an un-
profitable failure II would be stranger
still if Germany were the only country
in the world in which such a. system
could be made profitable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

a Sicilian. who wore small mustache.
He entered the place by force. Wnen
YOU find him on board the Donna Maria
he will probably still have In his pocket
a piece of the candle with which he light
ed his way" In explanation he said tine
drop OF blood on the door jamb shows that
in breaking 1t open the man injured him.
self, the finger print indicates that no was
left handed, the drop Of wax on the hoor
shows that he carried a candle and the
nature Of the little hair found shows
that il is from the upper lip" The police
arrested a Sicilian sailor, brought him
before the doctor. who handed him a
scrap OF paper, which he took with ms
left hand. A candle end was found In his
pocket, and, confronted with the evi-
dence, he confessed.
Perkins believes nearly everything he
hears
But he's stone deaf"
Precisely. Detroit Free Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
PRESIDENTS GRAVE UNKEMPT
Minister Urges Removal OF Genera
w. H. Harrison's Body.

Toledo, Sept. THE grave OF Wiins"
Henry Harrison, at North Bend nea,
Cincinnati, is badly neglected. accordins
to statement to-day by the Rev. Geors'
Lowry, of Maumee, who gives this a.
reason for the removal Of the body OF tn'
warrior President to Fort Meigs' 'n'
scene Of his memorable contest with Gen
eral Proctor and Tecumseh. j,
Mr.. Lowry recently visited the grave =.
Harrison. and to-day he told the mems en'
OF tho Maumee Valley Pioneer Assoclauo"
In annual reunion at Fort Meiss that tn'
condition of tho resting place OF ps
savior of the Northwest territory is sus"
az to demand action by the patriotic "
ciety. .-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
TAFT INTERPRETS RULES
He Decides Postal Clerk May Be
Moderator of Town Meeting.

Boston. Sept. IA special ruling by
President Taft received here will allow
John d. Coughlan, Boston postofflce
employee, to act as moderator of Revere
town meetings, and at the same time not
be guilty of ''pernicious political activity"
The President finds that the civil SER
vice rules need not be interpreted to mean
that persons in the federal employ are
prohibited from taking part In ordinary
municipal affairs to the extent of holding
temporary offices, where such service Is
not compensated by any salary or other
employment, and where the attention re-
quired by such service does not interfere
with the regular and efficient discharge
Of the duties OF tho federal office held"
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IN THE sERkSHIRES.

By Telegraph 20 The Tribune.
LenoXS Sept. 7.-Mr. and Mrs. Newo1ld
Morris gave a dim sr and dance az
Brookhurst tonight The dinner guests
were mostly the friends Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morris, who are in LenoN Tor the race
meeting. There We're about one hundred
who were invited to the dance.
Mrs. A Scott Cameron entertained AZ
dinner at the Curtis Hotel tonight for
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Stevens Sand
Large dinners We're given tonight by
Mr.. and Mrs. William ID. Sloane az Elm
Court. by Mr.. and Mrs. William Il. o.
Field at Highlawn House, and By Mr..
and Mrs. Robert ". Paterson at Beaupre.
MIR. and Mrs. Daniel Chester French
and Miss Margaret French have returned
10 ChesterwOod.
Mrs. Morris X. Jesup, who has been Al
Bar Harbor Tor July and August re-
turned to-day 10 Belvoir Terrace.