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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
OUR NATIONAL HONOR SAFE
Will Not Be Tarnished by Our Man
agement of Panama Canal.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some OF the foreign newspapers
seem much afraid we shall lose our honor
as nation I'm our management OF the
Panama Canal II we relieve our ships
of any kind and In any degree from tolls
we arc a sOrdid and dishonorable violator
Of treaties There is tone and an ac-
cent in what they say that are not usual
ly found in fair and friendly judgment,
and which compel the suspicion that envy
qualities them. Would this be the kind
of Judgment that the Hague tribunal
would give US?
Has II ever been professed by us and
is It in the nature OF the case that We
have built the canal I'm our benevoIence
toward other nations, to help their COM
merce and 10 be careless OF our own?
The rivalries of commerce may be sharp
and strong. not only within the limits OF
honor and justice, but with their help.
Whoever requires their use by another
should practise them Maybe the dis
honorable and sordd elements are In the
claims of our rivals, and not In our prac-
tice. n so. II would not be the only time
that the vice OF one was charged By him
against another.
The canal is unQuestionably ours, &C
CURED at great expense and risk. our
government has not needed to call for the
aid Of others TO build II, nor do we now
see the need OF calling for representatives
of our rivals to sit I'm the Presidents
Cabinet or either house Of Congress.
Perhaps our critics are not more COM
petent to gauge our rights and honor
than we are.
Ii has not been held against us az
sordid and dlshOnorable because we have
favored our coasters. The principles that
Justify us I'm this also justify us in letting
our ships, especially our coasters. 60 free
through the canal, which is really q part
of our coasts. 1t is said that this natural
right OF caring for our own household
was given away by us I'm the Hay
Pauncetote treaty. This is denied by very
able and honorable statesmen and law
yers. But II il were so. must we be go
grievously bound and injured by It? Must
our vital liberty OF legislation be curtailed
by vassalage TO Great Britain? Impossi-
BILE,
We will use this valuable property in
a ueighborly way. but our neighbors
should not call us names and blacken our
reputation and show venom because we
prefer our own family.
EBERT CLEMENT.
East orange. y. j.. Sept 2, 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
They May Be Made Great Education
for the People.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The pagan satyrs. having fed from
the Neronian groves. have installed them
selves, this year of grace In the gal
leries OF the moving picture vaudeville
shows. They are also found under the
rooted coIseums OF the New York Univer-
sty. academic, municipal and religious
forums They have proved faithless to
the nymphs OF tho sylvan shades. to lit
tie girls aged eleven and fifteen.
These monsters work In the dark and.
having once entered the system OF the
body municipal they have a fast grip.
Retaining all their ancient obscene indi-
vidualism, they represent the abnormal
man monstrosity OF the contemporaneous
modern epoch. They frequent wherever
are found the children Of the people They
are In the audience at Cooper Union They
are I'm the galleries and pews OF tho Labor
Temple, Second avenue and 18th street.
They are among the audiences at the
lecture halls and free school exhibitions.
They prowl the public parks, highways.
the railroad stations. deserted huts. the
dark corners of laundries. cellars. silent
and sinister river fronts. They honeycomb
the West Side and East Side vice dis
tricts, Death AVENUES Assassination
block" everywhere where growing child
hood. unprotected girlhood and woman
hood. find themselves.
Citizens. should such so be?
A most vital reform. relaxation and re-
pose is the clean moving picture vaude-
Vile show. 1t reaches the poor when all
else fails-the parish people. to whom
a first class diva or artist Is inaccessible.
1t sets before this people life In it's pathos.
its majesty, It's sorrows, Its consolation.
1t reveals TO the toiling-ofttmes starv-
lng-student the foreign man of letters.
the great, generous life OF the Western
ranches and gaucho boy. II is the song
without words OF the composers OF the
Old World. Its silent portrayal and COM
prehension OF the living human heart are
inspiring and profound. It proves that the
American mans 'chivalry," his protec-
ton OF woman, his warm and loving COM
radeship. are neither dying nor dead. 1t Is
fragrant with poetry. Did not an alien
peasant poet and omposer-Dvorak-
expression and poetry In the American
Southland?
Is IT not for US to sec that, like a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
INFANT MORTALITY DROPS
Fifty Fewer Deaths of Babie'
than Week Before.

There were fifty fewer deaths Of babiei
under ono year OF age last week thar
there were the week before In the entire
city. In the week ended August 81 Their
were 800 deaths from all causes. Th'
drop in infant mortality which the Babies
Welfare Association has been awaitin'
for four weeks has come. The record o
baby saving this year is still SIS bettel
than last year at this time.
While the drop this year was fou
weeks later than last year. II has oeel
much more sudden. The first decline &
mortality I'm the summer Of 1911 wa
thirtythree for the week: this last wee
II was fifty. II is confidently expecte'
that this decrease will continue sum
mer diseases are declining steadily. Will
the danger from hot weather Is not pas
freshened the water supply. That thN
year will break even last seasons recor'
is now assured. Tho Babies Welfare 40
ISOLATION feels that these results are
triumph for effective organization.
While the persistence with which tn
weekly death record lowered around th'
maximum point this last month caused
great deal OF anxiety among the workers
inspection Of the figures shows that II Is
not due primarily 10 diarrh9al diseases
against which the chief warfare has been
waged, but to congenital diseases. whlch
have been unusually prevalent this las'
month In some boroughs during Au'
gust the weekly record OF deaths from
congenItal troubles has been nearly twice
that Of tho corresponding week OF las'
year
There were only 1879 deaths rom
diarrhea last week, as opposed TO liS N
the corresponding week OF last year III
Brooklyn there We're only forty from ui''
cause, against sixty-one IN the same wee,
last summer That borough which cause'
the workers so much worry early III tn'
season, owing to contagious deaths Is no"
the star borough There were only elgnU'
three deaths there from all causes is''
week. as compared with l09 in the CORE
spending week the year before "hn'
Manhattan In the same time showed an :"
crease OF thirty-six over last year
At the milk stations there were l"oe'
babies registered at the end OF the weeA'
a decrease Of 1871 over the week before
Among these babies there were only th'f'
teen deaths.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
MALADROIT ANXIETY.

The Temps" OF Paris. which is one
of the best Informed and most judi
clous and friendly papers on the Euro
.pean continent. seems TO be worried
over the outlook in Nicaragua. Ever
since the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, IT
says, the United States has been diplo-
matically active in that country with
Il view to securing complete control Of
it, so as TO prevent the building of q
rival canal to that at Panama, and ut
the present time it holds the little re-
public in the hollow Of its hand; so
that 1t would cause no surprise If the
current complications there led to the
establishment Of an American pro-
tectorate. 1t might not cause surprise
in imaginative Paris, but we rather
think II would in the United States
and In Central America.
There Is some apparent infelicity in
the "Temps's" sttribution Of motive
70 the United States. Down to ten or
twelve years ago this country was
itself planning TO make a canal at
so could scarcely have been acting
for the purpose named. Moreover, the
Clayton Bulwer treaty effectively shut
of any rival canal enterprise, where
fore that instrument obviated the ne
ceSsity Of the intrigues which the
Temps" imagines. SO long as that
treaty was in force there was no need
Of our grabbing Nicaragua for such a
purpose. and since it has been replaced
by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty there
have not been lacking other means in
abundance for protecting the Panama
Canal from rivalry at Nicaragua.
Nor are we inclined to admit that
the course OF this country toward
Nicaragua and the other Latin Ameri-
can states justifies in any degree the
imputation of the Temps" We could
have seized all Of those states if we
had wanted TO, but we have not taken
one. Far more fitting would It be TO
say that France, for example. holds
Morocco in the hollow Of her hand, as
q result of persistent intrigues ever
since the conquest OF Algiers, and it
would cause no surprise If present
complications led not merely TO pro-
tectorate but to actual annexation; or
10 hear the same concerning Russia
and Mongolia, or Japan and Man
churia, or Great Britain and Tibet, or
Austria. Hungary and big slice of
Turkey, or various other European
powers and helpless minor lands. We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
KING COTTON"

Cotton may not be king of American
products. as it was once bOastfuliy said
TO be. but Il certainly retains an i'm
portant place among the nobility and
bids fairdhis year to hold an absolute
Is. though Of course not relatively
higher rank than ever before. If the
estimate Of the secretary Of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange Is even ap-
proximateIy correct, the cotton crop for
the year which ended on Saturday i
the largest ever known in America.
That estimate is lGl3S.42G bales. or
about 100000 bales above the largest
preceding crop. That Of 1901 was ID
G97.3lO bales and the crops Of 1906 and
1908 fell only little short of 1t, those
three being the only crops amounting
10 as much as l3.OO0.OOo. while one
other reached 100000, two reached
100000 and seven reached lo,WD,voo.
The really important growth Of the
cotton industry has occurred In the
last third Of "A century. Before lS9
the production though il huctuated
considerably, remained on the whole at
pretty nearly the same net level Thus
i'm 1850 II WIS 3.22O,TS2 bales aud In
1874 It was 3,J2S.276 I'm 1859 II was
4.3Og.642 and I'm 1878 il was 1.I4o.O1S.
IN 1879 for the first time il reached and
exceeded 100000. and ten years later
il similarly attained the 100000 mark.
In 1894 il for the first time just
reached aud passed 10OO.OVO, though
four times IN the next seven years 1t
fell below that figure. Since 1901 IT
has kept above that figure. with the
fluctuations already noted. This Is not
unfairly comparable with the progress
which has been made in the corn crop,
which has grown from m average Of
about 1GO0,OO0OOO bushels IN the SOS
20 2.GOOO0O,000 in the last decade and
3.125.713.OO0 in 1910.
The growth of the cotton crop has
been partly due 10 improved methods
Of cultivation. hut more largely 10 the
increase of acreage, particularly in
Texas. The increase would have been
far larger had the Southern States in
recent years confined themselves as eX-
clusively to cotton culture rs they did
before the Civil War. But they have
diversified their crops I'm marked de
gree. and millions Of acres have been
given 10 other products with, on the
whole, Salutary economical and in
duStrial result II may hc observed,
however, that cotton culture in other
countries is increasing more rapidly
than here, and that while the United
States still has an easy lead over all
others 1t must put forth uuceasing eff
forts II II Is to retain not merely so
great lead hut any supremacy at all,
There Is plain threat Of the cultiva-
ton of almost limitleSs areas in Africa
by means Of labor Of the cheapest yet
not least efficient kind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
IF WILSON WANTS TO FIGHT.

Consistency requires Governor VIII
son to oppose ex-senator Smiths can
,didacy for reelection to the Senate in
New Jersey. and in opposing it again
! he should get credit for his consistency.
But IL he himself or his followers ex-
ipect his latest attack upon this profit
able foe TO impart vitality TO the New
Jersey Governors Presidential cam
Daign he and they are sure TO be dis
appointed IL requires no courage 10
oppose q beaten man, and Smith has
been beaten often and thoroughly. He
is "down and out" How completely
so was shown when he failed to con-
troll more than a handful Of the New
Jersey delegates to the Democratic Ma
tionsl Convention. The country has
seen the defunct boss knocked down so
often that It will not be thrilled at the
sight again Some sign Of courage,
some OF the fighting quality which Mr..
Bryan gave to his cause in the Demo
cratic National Convention, would put
life in Mr. Wilson's tagging candidacy,
but something more is necessary than
squsring off against the totterins Jim
Smith.
If the Democratic candidate would
like to reawaken the interest in his
personality which was aroused when
he entered the lists against Smith in
the day Of Smiths power let him make
fight against some of the real live
bosses who infest the Democratic
party. That is what Mr.. Bryan found
it necessary to do at Baltimore. and
Governor Wilson was never so strong
with the public as he was when Mr..
Bryan resigned the vitalizing of his
candidacy into the candidates own
hands. Since then, by shrinking from
giving offence, by trimming and dodg-
ing and seeking TO cOnclliate all shades
Of opinion. the Governor has steadily
dwindled until his followers will no
doubt hail an attack upon the ridicu-
lous boyle man Smith as an example
of viIility. If Governor Wilson would
stir the public Imagination let him take
up the fight upon Murphy where Mr..
Bryan left off. and do something more
positive to prevent the blighting effects
Of the Tammany boss's leadership in
this state than to utter vague decla-
rations TO the effect that the Demo
Gratis should nominate progressive
state tickets everywhere. Governor
Wilson's praise Of Mr.. Strauss nomina-
ton was plainly meant as tip TO Muir
ply. 1t takes more than tip to move
Murphy, and Il will take more than a
tip TO a live boss and fight upon a
dead one to make the public feel that
the Democratic candidate is man of
real courage and force.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09

satisfied with me!' Referring to the size
Of the new forts, the Emperor said: IF
things should ever come to such pass
/ must see to it that the first shells
don't fall on the heads of my Mayencers!
Later In the day. commenting on the
handsome appearance of tho thousands
Of children who fringed the route along
which the imperial party passed, the
Kaiser said Apparently, Herr Burgo-
master, you haven't introduced the TWO
child limit into Mayence yet"
What are you puzzlng about|
I'm writing a sketch for vaudeViiIe on
the current political situation.
well. you ought to have plenty OF good
stuff TO put In.
THAT isn't what puzzles me. I've got
so much good stuff l don't know what 10
leave out."-Louisville Courier-Journai
The number Of women studying medi-
cine is decreasing according TO the annual
report on medical education in recent
number OF "The,Journal OF the American
Medical Association" In the last year
there were go women studying medicine.
This is one less than In 1911, 22S less thah
In 1910 and 242 less than In 1903. TINS year
li2 women were graduated from medlca'
schools. In 1910 there were l5I women
graduated and I'm 1909 1872 graduated, while
I'm 1904 there were PA women graduated
from medical schools and LIS women
studying medicine.
"What caused the GOODNESS between you
and that young doctor? | thought you
were engaged" ,u,.,o tIa
sent me a note calling for 10000 kisses
"Well?" .a
81 thought It was prescription ana
took IL 10 the druggist TO be hlled. -
Washington Herald.
In trying to collect small claim re-
Gently In distant state, THE Green
Bag" a well known legal publication
received the following report from us
local correspondent: This man is county
Judge here, but is absolutely worthless
for his debts The saloon element Keeps
him IN Office TO serve their interests. lie
owes everybody who will credit MIN.
therefore return claim" THE Green
Bag adds this p. s.: County judges
reading this will please not think we
mean anything personal"
Happy Though Married Member Of the
DorcaS Society," wonder why IL says lH
the Bible there are no marriages III
heaven. 1900. 90
Caustic Old Maid-It's plain enough 10
me-it's because no men go there'-'uus'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
HIS sHRsWpNEss GONE ~ RAY

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In spite Of the fact that ,ls news.
papers have done so much fos Coonel
Roosevelt the colonel has come out de-
nouncing as trust controlled all American
newspapers which do not happen 70 favor
his betrayal of his own party and his at.
tempt 10 get what was not granted TO
General Grant. This, too, In face OF the
coloners unhappy financial intimacy with
the trusts which he denounces.
Yet the colonel is hardly showing Wis
dom I'm denounclng the press. Were he
left out OF it's columns altogether the
little that remains Of him politically
would entirely disappear.
SCUDDAY RICHARDSON
Blue-domed House OF the Nine Pines
Houston, Tex, Aug. g. 1912
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09

are not reproaching those countries for
their practices. They formed the habit
long ago and cannot break it. Per
haps it is only human nature. too, TO
judge us by themselves and suspect
us Of designs which they in our place
would almost certainly cherish. and,
indeed, would before this have full
filed. Only. if they are not willing TO
credit us with being different from
them in this respect. they certainly
should not censurc us for being. Il
they suppose, like them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

during the week just ended have been
similar TO those Of previous weeks. \
preponderance of dulness. interspersed
with spasmodic activity; higher prices,
followed by declines. is the summary Of
changes, leaving a trail of uncertainty
which has kept traders guessing from
day to day. The last week. If any
thing, has shown broader trading, par
ticularly on Thursday. when sudden ac-
tivity began, which included railroads.
and the whole list advanced on COM
paratively small volume of trading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
THE TAIL WAGS.

The course of the Democratic can
vaSS so far proves that there can some
times he more red blood and gray mat
ter in the tail Of national ticket than
in its head Governor Wilson's vapid
afternoon tea talk has been offset by
the bold. dashing confident heart-to-
heart utteranceS Of Governor Marshall.
Where the New Jersey Executive Is
timid and circuitOuS the Indiana En-
ecutivc is fearlessy epigrammatic. lie
wears his heart upon his sleeve and
welcomes the plain people into the in
ner sanctum Of his intellectual work
shop.
There is nothing foxy or pussy footed
about Governor Marshall. He just
thinks aloud and the public gets The
benefit OF il. While Governor Wilson
has gone no further in eight weeks
than to say that "a platform is not a
programme" thus Kidding himself of
the embarrassment Of discussing the
pledges Of the Baltimore platform,
Governor Marshall has enriched po-
l'tical literature with dozens Of meaty
epigrams. While Mr. Wilson circum-
specify says that the tariff revision
which he favorS is the kind which will
hurt nobody. Mr.. Marshall condenSes a
whole philosophy Of tariff reduction
into a nutshell, as when he remarked
at Portland Me:
am IN favor Of q system OF taxation
which will compel the protected manu-
facturer 10 sell the surplus at home and
the product abroad. This will, for the
first time In history, compel the for
eigner to pay the tax.
On the trust question lie Is equally
definite and scintillating. Here is an
idea from his speech in Augusta. Me-.
Forfeit the charter Of every corpora
ton in a trust. A few revOcatiOns and
a few shaved heads viii take the swell
ing out of some fortunes and warn
others not TO swell.
Again. from the same speech
There IS another solution. Make the
lawyer who counsels, aids, abets or adj
NiSeS the lorna lOn OF trust CTlliI-
nally liable. What right has he be-
cause he is a lawyer to draw vicious
contracts which will enable his clients
to loot the public?
II might be good idea TO include as
subject to criminal prosecution the
typewriter who writes the trust agree
ment and the safe deposit company
which receives il for safe keeping.
Anyway. In the trail Of Governor
Marshall we get somewhere. His ideas
have what IS technically known rs
punch Governor Wilson must feel
cheap and awkward when he reads the
pulsating speeches OF his associate. If
he could only Marshallize himself ne
could hold the voters spellbound telling
them what the Wilson programme is
which IS intended 10 supplant the Bal
timOre platform. But evidently that
is not To be. For enlightenment, thrill
and good old-fashioned communicative
ness the public will have TO depend on
the wagging-not 10 say waggery
the tail Of the ticket
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
PeODIe and Social Incidents

York, are late arrivals at the Hotel A
pinwall.
Mrs. william G. Foulke. Miss Anna 7.
F'oulke and Mr.. and Mrs. Gerrit Z. Judd
OF Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs Wilson p
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Hill. Miss =
e. Winans and Miss X. F. Carpenter. q,
New York; Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Hopper
of East Orange; Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew ]
Smith, of Washington, and Mr.. and Mrs
f. b. Adams and Miss Laura F.. Delano
of Barrytown, have arrived at the Maple.
wood, in Pittsfled.
Albert H. Gallatin arrived on Saturda,
for the horse show. Mr.. Gallatin is a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. VI. Taylor Pyne, Of New
York, are at the Curtis Hotel
II. ingalls, Kimball, of New York. has
Joined Mrs Kimball and family at the
Curtis Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry L. Lee have George
Forrest Butterworth. jr., Of New York
and Lauren Carroll, Of Tarrytown, y. Y,
as their guests at the Curtis villa.
George Pollock, who has been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. William Pollock In Pitts
field, has gone to town.
F.. G. Benedict motored to Lenox from
Greenwich ~ Y, with party Of friend
on Saturday for the week end. In Mr.
Benedict's party were Mrs. Frank S. Has
tings, Miss Rhoda Jones and Harry Roe
Shelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W Paterson gave
a musical at Blantyre tonight
Mrs. William Brock Shoemaker. Mrs
Paul Bayne, Miss Helen +. Chacc, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles w McAlpin, Miss Benja-
min, DR.. C. +. Mcclure and Mr.. and Mrs
Edward c. Delaield, of New York, are
among the late arrivals at the Curtis
Hotel.
Mrs. John Hobart Warren motored 10
the Curtis Hotel to-day for luncheon from
Hoosick Falls, " Y, where she has a
country place, with a party Of seven
guests.
DR.. and Mrs. Arthur VI. shradick and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert s McCreery, OF New
York, have arrived at the Red Lion Inn IN
Stockbridge
A. Coleman Smith, Miss Margaret G.
Smith, Mrs. Z. A. c. Smith. Miss jeanette
Condor. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Huh.
Mrs. A. p. II. McMullen. Mrs. c. n. Jud.
son and Mrs. L. s. Gerhardt, OF New
York. and Mrs Charles II. Taylor and
DR.. and Mrs. J. j. Ames, Of Boston, have
arrived at the Red Lion Inn, In Stock
bridge
There were six tables OF auction bridge
at Heston Hall, in Stockbridge. last night
The winners of the principal prizes were
Miss Edith Burtis, Miss Helen Symms,
Miss +. VI. Smith and Mrs II. c. Havin