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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
THE GOSPEL OF SPOILS
Alone Rules American Policy in the
Philippines, Says Reader.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir The traditions of The Tribune for
the nifty years have known ii have stood
for the motto. principles first party Sec
ond." Permit me to say that | am not
quoting this as a dare nor challenge,
still less with the idea that YOU would
lose sleep over my approval or non-ap-
proval of the policies of your paper.
But there was ring OF sincerity about
your editorial The Philippines and
Facts" which appealed to me as based
upon something higher than the sturdy
partisanship Of The Tribune. IL is this
belief which prompts me to hope that you
may courteously grant a hearing in your
columns TO one whose conclusions are
based upon twelve years Of close and as
nearly impartial observation as kinship
with other finite folks will permit.
The Tribune in its laudable demand for
facts as to the equipment of the Filipinos
for autonomy, has lost sight Of the fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

With the price of hogs and cattle and ever! thihg
else soaring we do not see how the system couid
expect to buy silence at cheap figure Until sing
Sing becomes Il far more popular resort IMAM IL l.
martyrs consigned thereto will command handsome
salaries.
All the same the sentence of Patrolman Thomas
+. Robinson 10 from six 10 zen years lor en-
torton is sad and unexpected blow Tor the pur-
chasers Of silence. The current quotation mas been
In the neighborhood of $1,000 a year. with plenty
of sellers il is reported The severe sentence I'M
posed by Justice Seabury changes the situation con
sidorably Six years is good long time to pass
i'm Sing Sing even with $1,000 year rolling Ill.
And on the other hand. $4,000 is good deal OF
money to roll for that lengthy number of years
No wonder there is diSmay among the silencers
and slenced alike.
Among the general public there will he wide
spread and righteous satisfaction at the sentence.
If ever a policeman deserved severe punishment IL
was Robinson. Here was no easygoing soul ca
ioled into winking at what everybody was doing
Rather was ne a capable and active traitor to his
out 10 plan and insgate it, The old theory that the
police merely live and let live had no application
10 his case He was creator of vice. corrupter
of morals if there ever was one
Justice Seabury deserves the thanks of every de
cent citizen. The right and Just sentence which he
imposed is the most effective diScourager of silence
yet put forward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
Heroes of the Looking Glass.

If the United States does not lead the world in
masterpieces Of autobiography it is not the fault
of the federal government. which maintains in ''Ihe
Congressional Directory" an endowed magazine for
The cultivation of the gentle art of self-reveaon
In this publication statesmen are accustomed 10
pass estimates upon their own personalities and
achievements which bubble with unsophistication
and beat warm with human interest
When "The Directory of the ed Congress- was
published two years ago none could dispute the
palm with Adam Brown LittIepage He hailed
from the Sd District of West Virginia and thus
rounded out as chaste and graceful piece of self
appreciation as has ever passed the board of cen
sorship at the Government Printing Office:
He bears the reputation Of being very grateful
man never forgetting a kindness. and is faithful i'm
his friendships and thoroughly reliable He stands
for the under man in life. Works hard late and
Sarlv az a congressman and is rejecting credit upon
Tho country by his manly conservative and wise
course i'm Washington as a representative Of all the
neonle He Is a patriotic man, Of ability and fine
qualities of mind and heart
Probably despair at equalling that all-round trib
ute cowed most of the contributors to the directory
for the 63d Congress, just published The only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
A Time for Plain Words to California.

The long statement of Governor johnson SHOWS
clearly that what is needed more than anything
else in California is a little wholesome regard for
the United States of America.
No fair-minded person is criticising California for
regulating land tenure She has that general power
beyond question. But equally beyond question II
is subordinate 70 the nations right 10 control It's
foreign affairs. And when a treaty conflicts Win
the state law, the state law must give way.
That is the whole of the Californian trouble
If the Governor and legislators Of the state will
frankly concede this truth they 90 ahead and
lepislate to their hearts content. The treaty OF
1911 with Japan does not pretend to give japanese
citizens complete and-owning rights in America
And in so far as it is silent California can limit
such rights as it pleases.
II our California friends will APPROACH the sub
feet thus frankly and openly. they will have not
the criticism but the cordial support of the entire
nation.
Secretary Bryan should, Of course, take the dove
If peace with him to Sacramento But he will dc
we'll TO put the Stars and Stripes in her beak as
an additional symbol of whence and why he comes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
WHY is SABOTAGE" ?
The Source Of This Excellent Word Is
Variously Explained.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: You have published ,wo letters
during the last week on the word "sabo-
tage" and you yourself have denned the
word as meaning literally the practice
OF kicking things around" This is all
right as FAR as ii goes. but have you seen
the pamphlet entitled 'Syndicalsm' puo-
lished in Chicago and signed by Earl s..
Ford and William Il. Foster? The follow
INK paragraph occurs In this pamphlet;
The term sabotage Is derived from
the old and widespread habit Of OPP
pressed and poorly paid workers. acting
on the principle Of poor work for poor
wages 10 deliberately lessen the guam
tlty and quality for their products. This
custom. which is the basic one of all
sabotage. known I'm Scotland as 90
canny.' was described in France by the
argot expression TRAVELLER coups de
sabots PouGet. lie Sabotage. p. 81
This may be freely translated To work
as one wearing wooden shoes is. To
work a little slower and more clumsily
than one more fayoraby shod. II was
from this argot expression that Emile
Pouget. a prominent syndicalist, derived
ana coined the Npih SfNptfr' 'hh'it'iis
wooden shocageD. now In universal use
among syndicaists.'
Philip Hale. OF The Boston Herald.
saws the word sabotage" was probably
derived from the verb "saboter which
first meant TO make a noise with one :
sabots or wooden shoes or 10 move clum-
silly and later to work quickly and badly
on job. saboter de rouvrage, or. as we
say. to scamp a job. SaOot in colloqulal
speech and slang has several meanings
a poor fiddle. "A poor billiard table. man
who likes to sleep a boat dhieves' slanGG
a kind Of spinning top" But one Of Mr..
Hale's CORES pondents tells him that the
word was coined by the French syndical-
lists To denote tampering with a railway
track by removing the shoes connecting
the ends Of the ralls-a kind of mischief
not likely 10 be noticed until a wreck
occurred. Hence sabotage would come
to mean any sort of yillany prepared on
the sly"
To define slang with more slang is not
very helpful, but in \lrmaitres Die
tionnaire d'Argot' one finds this definition
OF a piece OF work. "Sabote. Tn Outrage
bien pres detre un loup.'
W. Il. BLAKE
New York. April -. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
Broadening the Federal Power If
Railroad Regulation.

The decision of the Commerce Court III 'he
shreveport Texas rate case extends the app"a
ton of the rational principle that where S''''
regulation of railroads clashes with federal resuT
latlon the authority of the state must yle'u ~ '
authority of the nation The states nave VI
course acknowledged that they have no rish' u
Interfere directly in the regulation Oh lh'erSu''e
rates But many of them have tired to INTERFERE
Indirectly by resortins 10 the device OF mahlp"
lating interstate rates TO discriminate III iaVor
of shipping points within their own territory iheN
have used ntrastate rates as weapon 10 '"N'
home shippers and manufacturers.
In the Shreveport-Texas no trouble was
taken IL Jonceal the purpose of the Texas ian
road Commission TO make local rates IN Eastern
Texas lower than the interstate rates preVall'hS
there in order to give Texas jObbers an advantage
over the iobberS in Shreveport, across the LouS'-
ana border The Louisiana merchants asked 'he
Interstate Commerce Commission to protect them
against unfair discrimination. and the commission
ordered the railroads TO raise their Texas charges
TO the higher interstate level Not wishing 10 incur
tho wrath Of the Texas Commission, they appealed
10 the Commerce Court which has now ruleu
souarely that they must obey the federal COM
mission Its order the court says. operates l" SuS
pend any interstate rates which give undue PREF
erenceo TO the citizens of state against the ct-
zens of another
This is logical development of the federal power
to regulate interstate traffic. Uniformity of oppor-
tnnitv in thar traffic must be assured TO ALL ana
the states in exercising their power 10 fix local rates
nnst not try TO subvert and Overrule the national
policy.
Much the same principle is involved in the Mime
sofa and other rate now before the supreme
Court Judge Sanborn. of the federal Circuh Court
of Appeas held in the Minnesota case that the
intrastate rates fixed by the Minnesota Railroad
Commission were out of harmony with Interstate
rates and were therefore improper attempt to
substitute inequality of treatment for equality 1t
is significant that Democratic Attorney General
has fled brief in this in support of the broad
est assertion of national control and against the
narrower state rights view taken by the Minnesota
u Railroad Commission
TRANSFORMATION conditions have changed so much
in recent years that state lines, such. are being
r8pdlv blotted out. There few intrastate rates
any longer which are not definitely related to inter-
state rates and the possibility of maintaining wholly
independent and isolated systems of local rates III
fortveight separate states has gone aglimmering
The regulation of transportation is becoming more
and more national function. Decisions like that
in the Shreveport-TexaS only recognize the fact
that the federal power is the one to which the coun-
fry must turn for an impartial, harmonious and
scientific solution of the problems of railroad rate
regulation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
An Open Forum for
Public Debate

that this is no longer an issue, or is at
most minor one. Loot, pure and un-
disguised Is the issue at stake and none
other. II the formidable list Of valuable
mining numbering and agricultural con-
cessions granted to Americans in the
Philippines was published it would not
only corroborate the gospel OF spoils, but
establish the other fact that independence.
now or at any time. was q dead issue. an
issue in which the qualifications Of the
native cut no figure
II the contention be made that our eX-
ploitation OF insuiar resources IS beneficial
development work it is pertinent to ask OF
what especial utility is II 20 the native to
be trained up 20 our SPLENDID modern
processes in gold dredging. numbering and
scientific agriculture. If. after we have
carefully and thrifty harvested the
cream. we finally turn over to him the
residuum OF very thin skinned milk?
When that time arrives. and when every
possible dollar shall have been wrung from
these people I'm the way of eXtortionate tax
alton, there is 10 doubt but that the IN
different discovery will he made that the
native is competent To manage MS Hl'e'"f'
affairs.
There are other specific facts to demon
strate that our sole aim and intent IS 70
render the Filipino incompetent Tor SELF
government now or at any time
With one hand We give him soo'
schools. good roads and every possible IN
centive for him 10 grow up and be De
nevolentlv assimilated." With the other
and with Nachiavellian cunning. We exert
ourselves 10 the uttermost 10 incite him
"a some act or acts OF sedition or dis
loyalty which shall call FOR military IN.
tervention Such contretemps would o.
course releeate the question OF indepen-
denco for all time 10 the limbo of forgot
ten things. WILLIAM = LIN
Manila. March =. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
The Cocaine Senator's. Thompson and
Coats

DO Senator Thompson. of Niagara County. ana
Senator Coats of Franklin, wish TO be known as
the cocaine Senators? DO they pretend that they
were representing the interests Of their districts
when they conTived 10 have the bill restricting the
traffic in this dangerous drug sent to the morgue,
from which il will be eXtricated with difficulty at
this late stage of the session:
The Tribune believes that they SANDER their con
that the people OF Franklin and Niagara counties
do not share in the overwhelming sentiment Of the
entire state in favor of protecting the public from
the. drug habit If they have succeeded in defeat
their constituents not allowed 70 forget IL,
should they ever mp for reelection.
And the cocaine Senators will have TO do q lot
of explaining TO justify their action TO the voters.
for the bill which they sent To the "moreue is de-
signed 10 check a monstrous evil II was drawn 10y
Judges and district attorneys who have had expert
ence with the utter mpossibility of dealing with
cocaine peddling under the present law.
1t has the approval of medical societies. II has
the approval Of every except quackS with poison
Gus nostrums for sale which foster the cocaine habit
and so far as know. the two cocaine Senators
whose votes sent ii 20 the 'morgue'
1t would be thousand ptes If the votes of these
two Senators should delay legislation for year and
send dozens of drug victims to real morgues.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
Maine Leads.

Maine is again living up to its motto, Il lead.
The Republican State Committee there has Just
passed resolution urging the Republican National
Committee to take hand in pOpularzing the ma
chinery of party government.
The Republicans of Maine want 10 see the basis
of representation I'm national conventions altered sO
TO put control Of the party i'll the hands of the
actual voters So do most Republicans in the other
Republican states. Why doesn't the Republican Ma
tiona Committee heed a demand which ii cannot
dodge much longer. even if it stuils lis ears with
cotton and then encaSes them in mutlers:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
AS | WAS SAYING


How Is Mr. BRYAN TO SOW harmony among the
nations when ne damages their ambassadors with
i and ,,,s,,oi dr,rlso To ne SIRE they have
shown an almost uncanny forbearance so far The
French German. Italian and Russian representa-
tves are sitting up in bed and directing their sec
retaries TO deny the effects Of grapejuice. But
wait till it comes out about the three unsuspectnS
South Americans who taxed their systems Win
water There will be ructions, and quite properly
Fact is diplomacy requires alcohol, not only physl-
cally. but temperamentally. when slightly sober
not Just see how MIR. Bryan's drinks have alarmed
our newly appointed American diplomats Man
after man. they are heeing the country
When We finally remove the lsthmus To prevent
landslides we shall be sorry We built the Darned
,rbin,, Ga high nm In the air
\ gallant fellow is remarking that when England
has the manliness TO shoot down rev rank
bursts' the fuss will be over We quite agree with
him. and 50 we fancy. do the Pankhursts Recall
n, ,ba, bannened in Sidney street We assume that
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none Tor men
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We are ashamed 10 YEN you an" p'' - "
time to put IN a row oil those cunning "'"'
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Smith has Jolly eood jingle III i'e' "'"' "''''i
We snip the folo"lhg'
81 read with admiration the witty WORKS OF Sha"'
Assaing aH society ana 'huIch IN" H'"'e anu Law
But when ! look more ''"sc', seem W ''
WIN ne" '"o'S"'S "0" "7
Beautiful YET we can so sumo o"i0e''
We read with mfth ana laughter the WORKS o Pckl'u
smith
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

Is defined Illustration OF the catastrophe
character of this one-eyed theory than
during Cleveland's last administration.
Mr.. Wilson's memory should be old
enough to include the suffering that en-
sued and had TO be endured by honest
labor He may be eXcusable, however. If
it does not for perhaps he was even then
industIiously formulating Presidential
theories. with a protecting salary of his
own sufficiently large for his own wants.
and had no time TO note the disasters Of
unemployed labor then swarming about
him. \. r. THOMAS
Franklin Park, y. j., April g. 1919
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
THAT DOUGLAS RESCUE
It Could Not Have Occurred on His
Birthday, Apparently.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your surprising" statement con-
corning the Hon stephen Arnold Douglas
is more surprising than you thought by
the fact that it is not true. In his Life, "
written i'm 1860 is this statement concern
ing his father:
ION the first day Of July. 1915, without
previous illness he died suddenly OF heart
disease. lie was playing with his daugh-
ter and holding his SON"
His son. born ON April %. was months
and days old Your dispatch says 'tt
was on his birthday" The history SAYS
nothing about fire. A. c. ARNOLD.
Stamford. Conn. April ~ 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

laureate who pushes Adam Brown at all Is the
new Senator from Kansas, Mr. thompson WIZ a'
nts that his political success Is without paraiiei
in the history Of the state" and says that II =
acknowledged by all who know nm 'ha' "s Z"
Senator he will not only bring credit ana no"oi ~
himself. but To the state and nation as we'll
This lacks little the full note OF triumph s'iuch
by the gifted West virginan, yet II Is not 10 oe
deSpsed.
Many men have faced the lannon's mouth WITHOUT
trepidation. II is only through the government
generous encoura cement of the autobloGraphic III
Sinct that we are raising race of statesmen WHO
can gaze without fear and 1inchng into the ioohis
glass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

and make them study the rudiments of party self
government. After these rudiments are mastered II
will be time enough TO consider the ACCESSIBILITY OF
statewide primaries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

The German order for army officers to keep away
from the French frontier when they are cruising IN
the air is iudicous and reasonable. the air over
Germany is surely as good to fly in as that over
France and repetitions of the Lunevie episode
would be agreea bic TO neither country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

Performers at the rehearsals for the new Massenet
opera in Paris aver that they saw the composer
ghost gliding about the stage and beating time Win
its hands American rights in this opera ought u
contain stipulation that the ghost snail cross 'e
ocean and do little press agent walking mere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
NOT YET-OR SOON.

From The Philadelphia Press
The opinion of New York contemporary that Gov
ernor Sulzer quietng supporting evidence
and the Governor isn't supplying II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
MAYBE THAT'S THE REASON.

From The Boston Transcript
Port" has been abolished a nautical term IN the
navy, the steward could tell whether the cap
tain bringing his ship about ordering drink.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26
GAYNOR IN THE "TAlkIES."
The Rnstnn Herald

From The Boston Herald
MAYOR Gaynor has just posed and vocalized for the
film and roll makers. This quite eclpses setting out
ma oral elm tree
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

The Legislatures liberality in increasing the SAL
aries Of the state Civil Service commissioners from
s., 600 to $1,000 is not likely to be taken generally
as an evidence Of uncomfortable enthusiasm Tor
civil service reform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

1t will be interesting to discover how many OF III
so-caled poems" Of baseball will he liable to tn
Wilson Underwood income tax.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

de Wolf Hopper Is once More Divorced liner
is more than one way OF making life monotonous'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

"Ty" Cobb signs and the world can now fesuih
its normal rotary movement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-26

Where is Senator b. r. Tillman this year WIN I'll
favorite protective duty on South Carolina sassaiIi
tea?
The midland journal., 1913-09-12
JAPS DEMANDING
WAR WITH CHINA
Dramatic Incident Inspired by
Abe's Assassination.
MOB AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE
Fifteen Thousand Demonstrants March
On the Foreign Office, Where
They Find the Big
Gates Closed.

Toxic. The assassination of
Mortiaro Abe, director Of the political
bureau of the Japanese foreign office,
has infiamed the masses, and Sunday
Q dramatic chapter in the history of
the new Japan was written.
Fifteen thousand persons gathered
in mass-meeting in Hibiya Park, call
ing for military action against China.
"A majority of these marched to the
foreign office and clamored for ad-
mission. They demanded the dispatch
OF troops to China to take such
measures as were necessary TO obtain
satisfaction for the killing Of japanese
at Marking, or failing this, the
resignation Of the minister Of foreign
affairs, Baron Nobuak Maxine.
The speakers denounced the empti-
ness of Japanese diplomacy in connec-
tion with California and China, and
insisted that the insult to the Japan
,ese flag at Nanking should be wiped
out The manifestation was clearly
nm explosion Of popular resentment
against the ministry in its treatment
OF the California and Chinese ques-
tions.