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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19

The Tribune has received from one
OF its readers, Mr.. Francis Barranco,
Of this city, the following letter:
Sir: The Tribune says this morning.
apropos Of Wilson and the tariff: But
'if the protective system is all wrong,
"cramping the country. hampering the
manufacturer and injuring the worker;
IF the structure is rotten and the foun-
"dation insecure, why shouldn't the
whole ediflce be torn down." That Is
TO say, in the present state Of the
Police Department (Which is certainly
"rotten"). why not tear down" the
whole edifice" and, from night to
morning, put the department into the
street?
Certainly The Tribune must realize
that changes In the economic system OF
country have often to be effected
gradually If they are not to cause much
harm. Then why such reasoning" as
that quoted above?
II he thinks the matter over care
fully, our correspondent must sec that
the analogy which he suggests does not
hold good. So far as the police system
is concerned, no one contends that the
maintenance Of police force Is In it.
self undesirable. On the contrary.
there is general agreement that such
a force serves a useful and, In fact, an
indispensable purpose. The trouble
with the system here is that its func-
lions have been misused by corruption
lists who have gotten control of It's
machinery Nobody wants to abolish
the police on the ground that any po-
lice service is menace to the public
welfare. All that is desired Is to re-
form the personnel of the force and
make 1t honest and efficient.
Governor Wilson's Indictment Of the
protective system In his Tariff Cham
Der Of Horrors speech was not that the
customs service was inefficient or cor
rupt. as New York City's police force is,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
GOING BACK TO ROUSSEAU.

Governor Wilson continues to exhibit
20 astonished Western audiences the
eighteenth century simplicity and IN
nocence OF his political ideas. He is a
disciple Of Jean Jacques Rousseau mas
Querading as an up-to-date student OF
political problems. He seems to think
that social and industrial organization
is no more complex now than it was
in the days of Marie Antoinette, and his
chief cure for the economic evils of
which the public complains is Rous-
seau-like return to the simple life.
Beware of governmental machinery"
he says, land especially beware Of ex-
pertsr' Instead Of using the power Of
the nation to combat the evils Of an
individualism aggrandized hundred
fold through the fiction Of corporation
he advises the voters TO abandon that
power and to reduce governmental re-
straint and supervision to the lowest
possible terms.
II is becoming more and more appar-
ent that the Democratic candidate for
President has no conception whatever
of the forces now at work in the body
polite. He jauntily denounces the EN-
ployment Of governmental agencies 10
control the operation of combinations
whose natural tendency is toward the
elimination of competition and the
creation of monopoly. He is opposed 10
- - fnAA tnr
commission or any other regulatiye or
supervisory commission. away with
experts" he cries. II want TO warn the
people of this country TO beware Of
commissions Of experts he said at
sioux City, Iowa. II have lived with
experts all my life" he added, land !
"know that experts don't see anything
except what is under their micro
scopes, under their eye" But II is not
so much the experts Governor Wilson
is after as the agencies on which they
serve. Expert or non-expert, he would
have those commissions abolished and
the old-fashioned chaos of unrestrained
indiyidualism revived.
The Governors state OF mind recalls
some Of the arguments made against
the right Of the federal government to
annul the Northern Securities merger.
The governments dissolution suit was
denounced as an interference with cor
porations chartered by the states and
entitled 10 free action in merging their
interests. Mr. Wilson's recent remark
that "the history of liberty is a history
'of the limitation Of governmental
power" echoes the talk Of the oppo
nents OF dissolution. Carried to its
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pUReING THE COMMITTEE.

The Republican National Ooiliini,'e0
Inns done the sensible and stralghtlor-
ward thing in Kidding itself of those
MANNERS who have declined TO support
the national ticket. 1t Is obvious that Il
msn who openly admits his dlsloya''!
70 the nominees of his party mas ho
proper place on that party's goVernii'S
committee or on its list OF nominees
for elector In any state. Party govern
ment hitherto has rested on the as
sumption that honor and decent!
would compel committeeman OF
candidate for elector to resign his OF
fee as soon as he ceased TO be loyu
party adherent. ,
This wear. however. an eXcepuonai
and highly discreditable situation mas
arisen. Men repudiating the nominees
Of the national convention have as
serted a right to use power bestowed
on them as Republicans to promote the
fortunes Of the Presidential and wee
Presidential candidates Of another
party. They have tried to make an
opposition party the beneficiary OF
stolen goods.
However difficult it has been 10 deal
with recalcitrant nominees for elector,
put in the field by disloyal state or
CARNATIONS, there has fortunately been
no obstacle TO displacing disaffected
national committeeman. The last ma
tiOnal convention specifically author
lied the committee to expel members
of whose unfaithfulness II was con-
WINGED and to fill their places with sue
cessors Of its own choice. Some Roose-
welt supporters have been discreet
enough to resign. but as TO others a
decree, OF expulsion was necessary
That they will resist exclusion IN tho
courts seems improbable, since the au'
thorlty Of the committee to purge itself,
doubtful before this year. has been
established by the specific warrant
granted by the convention Of 1912.
The rights and powers of national
political organizations are still INSULT
GENTLY defined. The party has been a
loose federation made up Of state units
not under firm central control. Whether
the central power can compel the state
organization to recognize the nominees
of national convention is still legally
an open question. The situation which
has arisen this year points to the neces-
sity Of more definite control Of the
state units by the central authority.
TO protect themselves national parties
will have to become more nationalized
in character and provision will have to
be made against the possibility Of the
capture of state organizations by
voters who purpose putting them to
fraudulent and treacherOus use.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
ULSTER.

Ulster. which next week threatens 10
proclaim its Independence OF the rest
Of Ireland, at least in the event Of the
latter's securing independence of Eng
land even to the limited extent pro-
vided in the pending Home Rule bill
boasts OF being the most prosperous
and enlightened province of Ireland.
How far this pretension is justified the
census of last year indicates, at least
In some significant respects.
In the city Of Belfast, which contains
about per cent Of the population of
all Ireland, the growth of population
has been 1852 per cent in ten years.
which is far more than that Of the
island as n whole How this was Sc
cured is shown in the facts that there
were yearly 10 marriages to the thou
sand against only 81 in all Ireland
and 304 births against 23.1. True,
there were more deaths than I'm Ire
land as whole-201 against 11.3-
but the greater surplus Of births more
than cOunterbalanced this. OF course,
too, the death rate is naturally higher
I'm a city than in rural regions. In the
Ulster County Of Antrim the death
rate is lower than In all Ireland, and
the birth rate is higher. In Belfast the
average number Of persons in a family
is 40 and the average number I'm a
house is =; condition Of housing
highly creditabe TO a large industrial
city. Only person In 90 receives re-
lief under the poor law, against about
I in AZ in all Ireland.
Ulster Is still. Of course. overwhelm-
ingly Protestant and non-Irish. Only
about . per cent Of the people can
speak the Irish language. 4 little
more than one-third Of the people Of
Belfast are Presbyterlans and nearly
one-thlrd are Protestant Episcopalans
while less than one-fourth are Roman
Catholics. More than 6 per cent arc
Methodists. In County Antrim more
than 10 per cent are Presbyterlans,
Of per cent are Protestant Episcopa-
lians. and only 2O5 per cent are Ro-
man Catholics. These proportions have
not materially changed from those Of
ten years ago. Such are the people
who purpose. the great majority Of
them. to enter into solemn covenant
to refuse submission TO Dublin par
lament. They are not all Ireland. but
they are large and important part Of
it, and the coercion Of them would
prove tedious and difficult task.
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AT NEWPORT.

10y ltlfktApA " 1Ai' AAAHN''Nfl
Newport, Sept. lS-Miss May Robson
was here Tuesday and to-day, being en-
tertained by Mrs William Rogers Nor
gan. She was a visitor at the Casino
this morning, and remarked while there
that she might present a play at the Ca
sino Theatre next summer
Registered at the Casino to-day were
Mrs. William b. James and Miss Helen
James OF New York, visiting Mrs. Hugh
d. Auchincloss; Miss Katherine 7. An
drews, OF Washington. and Miss Mary
Sheldon. OF Chicago, guests OF Mrs. F..
s. Nash: Francis Roche. who has just
returned from abroad and has Joined his
mother al Elm Court. and Nine. Vassilief,
OF the Russian Embassy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Craig Biddle, Of Philadel-
phia, will visit Hot Springs after closing
their season here.
Miss Zabriskie is the guest OF friends
here. having returned from abroad.
Mrs. Stlson Hutchins and her brother,
Robert L. Keeling, are closing their sea-
son early next month, when they go TO
New York for visit before returning TO
Washington.
Colonel and Mrs William Jay and Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin d. Morgan have closed
their summer homes.
Mrs. r. l.. Robinson has returned to
New York after a visit with Mrs. J. r.
Busk
Mrs. George B. de Forest and Mrs. Her
mann Oelrichs have returned from New
York.
Mr. and Mrs. r. Livingston Beeckman
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logical conclusion that theory would re-

logical conclusion that theory would re-
quire the abolition Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the restora-
tion Of the status prevailing up to the
period of the Civil War, when railroads
were left entirely TO the jurisdiction or
the several states.
Doing away with the Interstate Com
merce Commission ought to be the next
step In the Wilson programme. Then
the state railroad commissions would
have TO go and all the fruits Of the regu-
lative policy would have to be sacri-
feed to the enlargement Of liberty by
the limitation of governmental power
The West wants to see governmental
power extended, not restricted. 1t VIII
have some difficulty in adjusting itselt
to the weak-government sentimental
ism of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
school.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
SUIT LASTS SO YEARS
Parties All Dead Except Edison
in Gould Action.

Washington, Sept. lS.-After taking
thirty-six years to pass through the lower
courts to the Supreme Court Of the United
States. the suit of George Harrington, OF
the District of Columbia, and Thomas a.
Edison, OF New Jersey, against the At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
and Jay Gould, of New York, over tele-
graph patents. may be dismissed without
a hearing. Attorneys for the corporation
and the Goulds filed a request to-day that
the case be dismissed because OF lack Oh
Jurisdiction"
All the individual parties to the SUIT
have been dead twenty years, except Mr..
Edison. Testimony has been taken IN
Europe and America. One OF the judges
early In the case, Judge Blatchtord'
rounded out his life by service on the
bench of the Supreme Court since he hrst
passed on It. At one time damages
were awarded to Harrington and Edison
but the latest Judgment was that inc
action should have been dismissed at us
beginning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
MINOAN RELICS FOUND
Important Discoveries by
American Expedition in Crete.

Philadelphia, Sept. ls.-Interesting his
torical discoveries We're the result Of an
expedition TO Crete under the direction OF
the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
according TO Dr. Edith III. Hall, Of Con-
necticut, assistant curator In the Medi-
terranean section of the museum, who has
just returned TO this country.
The expedition found the means for fix
ing a date Of the declining years OF the
great Minoan kingdom that fiourshed
two millenniums b. c., according to Miss
Hall. She told Of the finding Of the ruins
of an ancient Minoan town on the eastern
side Of Crete and said:
I'VE found bronze tripods, swords and
ornaments, and, OF special interest,
number OF Egyptian scaubs, which fur
nished the means OF fixing the date Of
this ancient town. for the scarabs are
dated $50 TO $50 b. c."
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NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Miss Natalie Duncan, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. w. Butler Duncan. has chosen
the attendants for her wedding to Louis
w. Noel, son OF Augustine Noel, OF this
city. on September Is, in the Church OF
st. Peter Of Alcantara. Port Washington,
Long Island They are Miss Leta Pcll
Wright, Miss Edith Mortimer, Miss Eliza
beth Love Goodwin, Miss Celestine Hitch
cock, Miss Noel Johnston, Miss Frances
Goodwin, Miss Ellen Augur, of Chicago
and Miss Louise Robinson, Of Providence.
Auguste L. Noel will act as his brothers
best man, and the ushers will be w. Fell
loves Morgan, jr., Reginald B. Rives,
David Duncan, Joseph Grinnell Willis,
Frederick Marquand Goodwin Thomas A.
Emmett Harris, Marshall Russell, and
Gardner Cassatt, Of Philadelphia.
The ceremony will be performed at 1870
o'clock, and will be followed by a we'd
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan, at Port Wash
ington.
Ambassador and Mrs. Whiteaw Reid
are booked 10 sail for New York on Sep
TENDER %. Their little grandson, who
spent August with them at Harrowgate
during the Hon. John Wards fishing ex-
petition with the Duke OF Roxburghe In
Norway and Mrs John Wards visit to
the Adirondacks at her fathers camp,
has now rejoned his parents at Chiffon
Lodge, their place I'm Berkshire, where
they are entertaining a succession of
house parties for the shooting season.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish have
gone to Hot Springs, Va. to remain until
early next month On their return they
will take possession Of their country
place at Garrison. n. Y.
Mrs Ralph n. Ellis has arrived in town
from her country place at Jericho, Long
Island, and is at the Plaza for few
days
Mr. and Mrs. bingham Lawrence have
arrived in the city and are at the Ritz
Carlton for a short stay.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Algernon Boyesen, of Westbury, Long
Island, on Sunday, at Chantilly, France.
Mrs. Boyesen was Miss Adelaide NJ. Bar
clay.
Mr. and Mrs. John r. Drexel will sail
for Europe on November l.
Miss Flournoy Hopkins, daughter by
former marriage OF Mrs. w. Willoughby
Sharp, will be married to Gilbert Elliott,
son OF Sir Arthur Elliott, on October 10, in
the Church OF st. Andrews on the Dunes,
Southampton, Long Island.
Mrs. Amory S. Carhart who arrived
from Europe on Tuesday, will spend the
fall at her villa at Tuxedo.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold II. Weekes have
sailed for Europe on the Lusitania 10
spend the fall abroad.
Albert Eugene Gallatin has taken the
house No. Il East 6jth street for the
winter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
A WEAK SPOT.

An Embossed convention nominated
John Palmieri, Of Brooklyn, rs the Bull
Moose candidate for Attorney General
There Is no question that the cOnven-
ton was Embossed. for IL smashed even
the very small and tentative "slate"
which a duly authorized committee had
prepared and refused TO nominate a
man whom the chief Bull Moose de-
sired to have on the ticket Now the
executive committee Of the Progressive
party has appointed a committee to
investigate certain accusations or
charges against Mr. Palmieri which are
deemed serious enough TO warrant at
tention before the party goes into n
hot campaign with him in the run.
ming.
Obviously this occurrence should not
be twisted into a defence OF the
"bOssed" convention. Yet It Is interest
ing to note that It happened because Of
that weakness in the anti.boss method
Of doing business which is most criti-
cised, and most properly crlticised-the
lack Of proper consideration and CO
operation before action. That would
be the weak spot in any statewide sys-
TEN Of direct primaries. II IS bound to
be the weak spot in any Embossed con
vention where business Is carried on
at the rate necessary TO finish a state
convention in less than week The
boss who acted first and investigated
afterward would be an ass. Any va
rlety OF Embossed politics which fosters
such a Observation-Disclosures brand Of
procedure needs lot Of perfecting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19

as in other large cities, but as the law
forbids all games people who wish TO
indulge in them who are not members
Of clubs must pay, and the police seems
to be willing to receive the hush money
To show how restrictive laws are made
TO be broken mention Is made OF the
one against ninepins. But what did the
Americans do? They added another pin
and play the game Of tenpins now with
out molestation. But when they became
competitors for prizes at the Frankfurt
international tournament they lost be-
cause the additional pin was not used
there"
PA. what does II mean when you say
that prices fiuctuate?'
and down. When It's something you've
got to buy, the price goes up; and when
It's something you've got to sell, the
price goes down."-Judges Library.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
CATHOLIC VEREIN ELECTS
Joseph Frey, of New York, Made
President of the Organization.

Toledo. Sent. l9-Members Of the Ger
man Roman Catholic Centrai Nereih
chose Buffalo as the meeting place Tor
next year and closed the nfty-seventh an
nual convention here by electing the fol-
lowing officers:
Joseph Frey, New York, president;
Judge Michael Girten, Chicago. first vice.
presldent. Peter j. Mettler Toledo. sec
ond president; J. @ Juenemann, St
tarv: kdolph Suess, st. Louis. recording
secretary: August Muething. Covington.
KY, treasurer.
The executive committee includes George
stelzle, OF Minnesota; the Rev. #. v.
Faulhaber. of Cleveland; the Rev. Charles
Thiele. of Fort Wayne. and the Rev. J..
Ruessing, OF Nebraska.
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N. Y. VETERANS AT NORFOLK
Antietam Survivors See Fort Monroe
and the Soldiers Home.

Norfolk. Va. Sept. IS One hundred and
nifty veterans of the 4th New York Vol
unteers, who fought at Antietam, arrived
here to-day. following their attendance
yesterday on the fiftieth anniversary OF
the battle. They visited Fort Monroe
and the National Soldiers Home and left
here tonight for New York.
Watertown, n. Y, Sept. s.-The lVth
New York Heavy Artillery, organized IN
this vicinity nifty years ago, held a re-
union here to-day. Veterans from all
parts OF the country were present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
ANTl-SPITTING CRUSADE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With the many stages OF advance
ment we have passed through VIC seem to
have overlooked the law forbldding spit
ting In public places. Signs advertising
salable goods are strikingly large: signs
forbidding splitting are so small that II
seems as though they were meant not to
be seen. Why not have a crusade against
splitting? 1t Is not only a menace, but
revolving. Decent people do not spit
about. and the rest should be compelled
To keep within the law. ! trust you will
publish this, and also start something.
ALICE MORRIS.
New York, Sept. Is, 1912.
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obeyed its work of bringing home re-
sponsibllity for that disobedience VIII
be simplifed by the frank way IN
which the band of the old interests Is
disclosed in the management or their
disinteglated properties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
POINTING WITH PRIDE.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Why does not John Sterling, whose
letter you published In to-day's paper, try
TO "swipe" all the candidates on the Pro-
gressive ticket? He will never find better.
nor even as good. X. M.
New York, Sept. II, 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
PUBLIC FORUM INCORPORATED.

Tho Public Forum RECEIVED a certificate
Of incorporation nr IN the e supreme Court
cussion on public questions and to dis
seminate information In relation thereto
Branches will be organized. The incor-
porators are George Gordon Rattle, the
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, Christian T.
0udebrod. Boyd Fisher and Albert Blogg
Ilnger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19

Rats. Go tell that to the Marines
Governor Wilson at Sioux Falls, 3. ID.
The Governor will show the Wild and
woolly West that he is no academic
don, but a real red blooded roarer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19

Blowing your own horn attracts at
tention in the Hungarian Parliament
just as elsewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19

The walters succeeded so well in their
first strike and their union is so strong
and all-inclusive that naturally they
are anxious to try it again.
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-
Discussing the battle of Antietam
and General McClellan's military and
political career, The Brooklyn Eagle
said on Tuesday:
A political party in a divided North raj
lied around Mcclellan as a candidate
against Lincoln, and the star or Granl
rose TO a military splendor at NlcbSouTE'
the very day the convention met 10 nom
mate Mcclellan against Lincoln at Chi-
cago.
So is history remade. Vicksburg sur
rendered TO Grant OH July J., 1865, and
the Democratic National Convention
which nominated Mcclellan for Presi-
dent did not meet until August ~,
1864.
There seems TO be need Of the Suili-
van law against deadly weapons IN
Ulster.
The Turkey carving plans Of Servia,
Bulgaria and Greece sound well, put
their execution would be different
matter Serbs. Bulgars and Greeks are
so inextricably mingled throughout
Macedonia that II would be a hopeless
task to try TO divide that country INTO
provinces belonging TO those races sep
aratelv even IL Turkey were willing 10
have 1t done.
Progressive matrimony IS ike pro-
gressive euchre-partners change as
the game goes on.
The popular pastime In England VI
smashing Lloyd George by means OF
smashing cheap china plates on WHICH
his portrait appears, AS reported by our
London correspondent, is an interesting
revival OF an old custom. The history
~ British ceramics contains many ac-
counts Of plates and other articles
from earthenware TO finest porcelain
decorated with portraits and inscrip-
tions OF political significance; generai'y
onprobrious. william Pitt was perhaps
the worst sufferer from this form Oh
ahusa hut II is not known that he ever
took Il seriously to heart. Mr. George
may congratulate himself on having
name which does not lend itself 10
rhymes and epigrams as patty as ala
tina, Of his illustrious predecessor.
Smash LLOYD George! is cumbersome
and Intellectual compared with tho
cracking and laconic Hit PITT.
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Netu Dork Tribmne.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1912.

Owned and published daily oy W.. M. ogden
Association. u New York corpora.irV1n' Secre-
NJ. Reid. President; Conde Hamli'j 6Gress.
tary: James 81. Barrett. Treasure. ,treet'
Tribune Building. No 1of Nassau
New York.
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Dewey, a police station cat, has died.
Obviously from broken heart because
OF the present police situation