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Grain and Hay Wanted
Newmark Grain Co., Ell Centro. Al
ways pays the highest prices for alfalfa
and barley hay and ali kind. OF grain,

10 secure cotton pickers, will nav
one half the subscription of this paper.
any address, up to 1000 subscriptions
Remit One-half rates to r. D. Mccall
Fox 297, Imperial, Cali. Phone
G-i57.-(adv.) :,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
OUR MAN-MADE GOVERNMENT
Gould It Be Made Very Much Worse
by Women?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The president Of the New horh
State Association opposed to Woman SUI
frage rakes up that old saw about inc
"rottenness'' OF politics in a town in one
Of the mining states where women vote
She should look to her own state ana
city. where men only vote. Some OF Us
think il Is not absolutely pure even
though the women don't vote.
Our forefathers had TO adopt militant
methods TO get their rights from the bri''
ish which make the miltancy in Englah"
look like a prayer meeting. our women
are not to he driven TO any such eN'
tremes to get recognition from their fa'n'
ers, husbands and brothers.
OF course. so long as there are ANTS
and bad men women cannot accomplish
everything they want to. even with the
vote, but surely no one would pretend u
imagine that the women, nearly all o.
whom stand for decency and honesty. are
going to make any government worse
They must be powerful II they can MAKE
this state or city worse than men have
made 1t. GEO. NJ. BEERBOWER
New York, Oct. 20, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
A PLEA FOR MR.. ELKUS
He Is Declared to Possess Every
Qualification for the Bench.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For the information of voters may
say a word relative TO the candidacy Of
Abram 1. Elkus, nominee for associate
Judge of the Court OF Appeals on the
state Democratic ticket?
During the last ten years Mr.. ElkuS and
I have been brought into intimate rela-
tons through the work OF the Merchants
Protective Association, of which ne was
counsel and / was president. As such we
were constantly dealing with commercial
fraud in all its thousand and one rainih-
cations. With sound practical sense ana
a remarkable degree of constructive anil
ity he devoted himself TO securing reforms
both in law and procedure. which nave
very much promoted the welfare ot mer-
chants as we'll as the uprightness OF busi-
ness life and custom. From my acIuaint-
ance with the workings of his mind J pc
lieve he has the judicial temperament
and from my knowledge of his character
| am sure that he possesses an unshaka-
BILE integrity. His information on matters
Of commercial and business usage mas
been acquired by many years OF very
large practice along those lines. lie mas
every qualification to Justify his choice
as a candidate. EDWARD ID. PAGE.
New York, oct. 81. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Thrift.

The American Society for Thrift. as its name i'm
plies has undertaken the rehabilitation of an old
fashioned virtue If it were the American Society
for Telling the Truth it could deserve no greater
support from the American people; and that in the
heat of the present campaign. is designed as heart
felt tribute.
Thrft-how quaint the word, how expressive,
like the note of the flute Of those simple good old
days of industry and sObriey of mind and body
growth of this great country Like our forests and
our buffalo herds and our natural resources it can
he found fourishng now only in half forgotten
nooks
In seeking to preserve and spread this fast dis
appearing virtue these new propagandists will have
but Il well defined intellectual hostility. The more
extreme socialists are preaching the futility of
thrift and even its wckedness it appears 10
them The Progressive party, by seeking to per
petuate the great combinations of capital under
government sanction and by its advocacy of state
pensions, is admitting the nadequacy of thrift &C
modern weapon of individual advancement.
Mr. Straus and the governors identified
with the Society for Thrift must first make plain,
therefore, that thrift still enjoys its unique reward
under modern conditions they must align them
selves with those who would check monopoly on
the one hand or the perpeuation Of aboring class
on the other For thrift has for its sole object the
requirement of capital and can thrive only where
such requirement is each mans privilege
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Four Important Changes in the Constitu
ton Should Be Approved

The four amendments to the states constitution
on which the voters will be called to pass to-mor-
row should be approved. Three of them are dis
tnctly important and represent genuine advance
i'm governmental activities in the interest Of the
people The other while less important is proper
and necessary
Amendment Number One is the so-called excess
condemnation proposal, permitting the Legislature
to authorize municipality in tondemning land for
public park street to take additional land abut-
ting on the proposed improvement. This additional
land is to be divided into building SITES which the
municipality may sell lease. Cities should be
permitted to make the profit out Of the natural ap
probation in value Of property adjoining newly
completed public improvement which private indi-
viduas specializing in real estate make under ex-
listing conditions. The system has worked well in
European cities, where a large part of the cost Of
improv is betrayed in this way; and in Phila-
delphia and Boston, where it is being tried. This
amendment has the approval of the administrations
of many of the cities of the state, regardless of
politics.
Amendment Number Two permits the Legislature
to enact laws to protect the life, safety or health
of employees for the payment OF compensation for
injuries or death resulting from accidents and fox
the adjustment of issues arising therefrom. 1t is
designed to meet the situation which caused the
Court of Appeals TO hold the Wainwright employ
ers liability BILL enacted in Governor Hughess adj
ministration unconstitutional because it sanctioned
the taking of property without due process of law.
This state is without anything remotely resembling
satisfactory statutes this important subject
Eminent lawyers have held that no mandatory law
may be enacted until the constitution is amended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Genuine Economy-Fusion Brand.

While Mr.. Mccall prates of economy Yam
many brand-the present fusion Board of Estimate
and Apportionment makes up budget for lol4 on!
$2S4 40 greater than the for the current year,
notwithstanding an increase of S3.Oo0OOO for main
tenance of schools This is the smallest budget H.
crease registered since the greater city came INTO
being. 1t means a tax rate for Manhattan TOUR
points lower than the present rate OF Isl.
This very genuine and material economy was not
accomplished by cutting huge chunks out of depart
ment appropriations indiscrminately and Gripping
the ctys business for year 1t was not accom-
pshed by denying proper and necessary appropria-
tons for extending the scope of department actvi-
ties 1t was accomplished by the most careful ana
painstakng analysis of each item in the budget anu
the Topping off of each proposed expenditure which
could not be justified. In this economy there IS no
place for favored job holders or grating contracts
1t is fusion economy. not Tammany's brand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Actual Residence and Voting Residence
Should Coincide.

Justice Gavegans ruling that mans residence
for voting purposes should be the place where ne
lives rather than the place where he does pusihesS
is supported by common sense. When voter mas
two actual domicies in one of which he lives
mart of the wear and in the other another part he
should have and does have the right to select 'ne
one from which he is to register Either is properly
his legal residence according to his intention
But when man lives the year round IN one
domicile and then tries to register from announcer
where he carries on a business or has an ONCE au-
dress the purpose of the registration and election
laws is being trihed with. voter is generally better
known in the voting precinct in which he MAIN
tans his actual residence than he can be in the
precinct where he merely has business address,
and the possibilities of fraudulent voting are re-
duced when he is compelle' to register where lis
domicile is 1t is only proper that AssemoIymen'
aldermen and other officers elected from limited dis
tricts should he chosen by those who actually i've
within the district lines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
DT>ODT DC COJ TINTN An Forum
LIE NoLoN4< Public Debate

, over the place, but the more inquiries /
made the more puzzled / became, and one
factor fact il is-dd not tend to make
things clearer.
Never, within the memory Of man, has
a member of the London police-metro-
politan or city-been attacked by the dis
ease" page 79)
In view OF the well known immunity or
those most accustomed everywhere TO
handling wild, strange and vicious dogs
(and most accustomed to being bitten by
Dogs, such as policemen and dog catchers'
the (abouO so per cent of cases OF rabies
declared with calm confidence in their
method of diagnosis by Pasteur Institute
authorities reminds one Of the shrewd Old
dictum:
There's n screw loose somewhere.
Have any other readers Of The Tribune
| wonder, delved among old witchcraft
trials and read the evidence so conclusive
to the minds of our forefathers? 1t is
strong evidence, especially to a panicky
mind-quite as strong, think. as the evil
Gence for most cases Of hydrophobia!
ANOTHER ANTI-VIVISECTlON
Manchester, VT, Nov. l. 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03

desert their homes because of the prospect OF
war against their fellow Slays in the Balkans Dut
tbev wore also attracted to this country by the labor
conditions prevailing here.
The Immigration total for the last fiscal year
has boen exceeded only once the increase over the
preceding year being more than ~ per cent
chief increases were among the oiaVs anu i'ali"l'
While the latter did not make ne" recoru iol
themselves, never before did so many fo'es anu
Russians knock at our gates lhere were hloi'
than $4,000 of the former and olooo or the iat'ei
The newcomers were chiefly laborers. That tnere
is a demand for them exceeding the supply Is e'i-
dent from the fact that the wages for the type OIL
labor which they furnish have risen within year
to 81 10 and 81 day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
IN THE 31ST DISTRICT
A Republican Reply to the Progress
sives' Statement.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | take the liberty of requesting
space in your paper to reply to the ar
raignment Of the Republican organization
in the 3lst Assembly District by Mr..
Prayer in your columns.
We are as fully alive to the desirable
ity of defeating the Tammany candidate
In our district as our Progressive friends.
And we were at all times as anxious TO
accomplish this purpose as they were.
We have not in the past nor do we now
propose to conduct a campaign of mud
singing" We freely admit that Mr..
Schaap's record is fair, but by no means
perfect. His vote on the Cohalan i'm
trust reposed in him. How does he ex-
plain his connection with Tammany Hall
for a number Of years and his present
standing in the Owasca Club, a Tam
many Hall subsidiary?
As a working basis for fusion we sub
mitted To the Progressive leader in the
Slst District the name of Samuel Marks
for Endorsement by them. Some consid-
Grafton should be ours for being the senior
ioii ~, lApilN, ilOh tNtil VI hilt
sives, dares impeach Mr.. Marks's integ-
rity, independence and ability. as dis
played by his conduct in the offices of
Assemblyman and alderman. Endorsement
was refused him. We submitted our
proposition TO the Progressive organiza-
ton before the primaries, but il was not
until nearly a month after the Republican
voters had chosen their candidate at the
polls that the Progressives submitted their
proposition. 1t is entirely antagonistlc
to all Republican principles TO vitiate the
wishes of the voters as expressed at the
primaries, and we refused TO be party
to such an invasion of the peoples rights,
even IL their proposition had not been
based on the dog in the manager policy.
The cheerful predictions of Progressive
victory are merely the buoyed up hopes
of inevitable losers. The Progressives will
not recognize the fact that Straus carried
Schaap to victory and not vice versa. The
writer is authorized to say for the Re-
publican organization OF the 31st Assem-
bly, District that TO substantiate our be-
lief in Mr.. Feinbergs election to the AS
semb)y we will do this: If the Progress
sive organization will post $1,000 we will
do the same, and the party polling the
lesser number Of votes will have the sat
isfaction of giving $1,000 TO charity.
Upon their refusal to fuse. except under
those eminently unfair conditions, we re-
nominated Mr.. Marks for alderman and
nominated Aaron A. Feinberg. brother OF
the president OF the Board of Coroners,
Tor Assemblyman.
Let the Progressives prove that their
Wanted confidence is based on real faith
rather than political hopes. The Republi-
can party will vindicate its policy by
electing Aaron A. Feinberg to the Assem-
bly, and Samuel Marks to the aldermanic
chamber. !. A. SCHILLER.
New York, Oct. IS, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Time for an Isthmian Settlement.

Ten years ago to-day occurred the Panama reyo-
luton. The ways and means of that episode have
been much discussed, and may be, academicaly, to
the end of time The facts of practical present in
tereSt are these That Colombia lost much 10y that
revolution that the United States enabled to
gain much. and that therefore the former country
feels itself aggreved and entitled to substantial in
identification
Colombian logic in the case is not altogether con
vincing On grounds of technical law the claims
against this country not to be conceded nor do
they fare better on grounds of equity. BY their
own admission Colombians sought TO compass the
confscation of the French Canal Company's prop
erty even more directly than the United States if
their charges were true would have been aiming at
tie confscation of COOmbias isthmian province.
But there are grounds superior to even those of
law and equity After ten years it is certainly high
time for Il permanent and mutually satisfactory
settlement to he effected 1t would be most un-
fortunate have the controversy still i'm existence
when the Panama Canal is opened. On grounds Of
generosity and good fellowship and as the larger
and elder Of the two countries and the gamer from
the revolution, the United States might well afford
TO waive technicalities and to renew the friendly
overtures which Colombia few years ago failed to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
IS SUFFRAGE COMING?
An Advocate Finds Humor in the
"Antis' Denial.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The denial by anti-sufrragists thst
suffrage is coming after 1t has ALREADY
come in a territory exceeding one-quarter
of the United States in area Is GOOD oea'
like the remark that the farmer maue
when he was shown a giiaffe for the hIs'
time. He Immediately exclaimed: There
amt no such thing" The "antis' have
been astounded by -he enfranchisemeht
OF Illinois womens including the second
largest city in the country. Their denial
of the approach Of suffrage is merely a
characteristic part OF their incessant
perennial unconscious humor, which IN
trying TO put a wet blanket upon human
progress only invites public discussion
which paves the way for victory at all
future elections.
MEMBER NEW YORK AND NEW
JERSEY MEMS EQUAL SUFFRAGE
LEAGUE
White Plains, n. Y, Oct %, 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Tammany Has to Thank the
"Chief's Intellectual Lapses
for Its Present Plight.

q Tho r,unicinaI campaign which ends to-day sees
Tammanv more disorganized and demoralized than
at any other time in its history. The niger mas
been hard driven and hard hit before now. but
never before has big stake been thrown ava!
with such recklessneSs by those Responsible ioi
Tammany's leadership. That is what makes the
rank and file so heartsick. All the breaks III tne
campaign have been against Murphy, yet by MS
own fatal laundering he put the organization III I"
position in which it was certain to be pounded anu
almost certain TO be stampeded.
Three months ago Tammany prospects were rosy
The fusion elements were fighting among theni-
selves Had Murphy had the intelligence to re-
nominate Mayor Gaynor, 20 that on the latter
death he might have had the opportunity to replace
him with some other Democrat satisfactory to the
GaynOr Leaguers. fusion would have faced din
cult uphill fight. Turning down Gaynor for TAM
many handy man like Mccall was dehant notlce 10
the public that Tammany intended to play for all OF
nothing, and on the heels of that foolish clanehse
came Gaynor's death, removing all obstacles TO
complete combination of ant-Tammany interests
The Sulzer impeachment was an even more
colossal blunder than the nomination of Mccall
Murphy should have known that he could not afford
to break with SulZer Living in glass house.
Tammany should never have started the stone
throwing. The Hennessy disclosures were an in
evitable offset to the exposure of Suffers activities
as campaign fund collector, 1t was impossible to
wash the Sulzer dirty linen without also dragging
the Murphy dirty linen into the washtub. Muir
phys part in the Suzer impeachment was that OF
a cheap vendetta leader trying to get revenge on an
insubordinate lieutenant. The public has rightly
appraised his motives and is only too delighted to
see him squirming as the victim of the SuIzerien
messy counter revenge.
1t is not a comedy Of errors but a tragedy of
errors. in which Tammany deliberately cast itself
for the Villains part. 1t is hopeless, helpless and
even citleSs now. because it knows that it is suf
fering not so much for misdeeds committed as for
foolishly Overadvertsing those miSdeeds. Its sins
are not worrying it half much as the sOftening
of gray matter which has forced those sins into
the limeliGht There they are, and Tammany will
have to answer for them not only at the polls to-
morrow, but in many other fashions before another
election rolls around.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Emigration and immigration.
accept.

1t is only a few years since many persons were
charging European countries from which there was
emigration to America with stimulating the move
ment in order to rid themselves of undesirable ee-
ments in their population To those who still hold
that belief the heading of recent cable dispatch,
Austria Stops Smuggling of Emigrants to Amer
lea" must have seemed curious. AS matter of
fact more than one European country contributing
largely of its bone and sinew to American industry
would have cut off long ago the stream of emigra-
ton had it been practicable
Emigration has depOpulated many of the villages
of Southern Italy and is robbing the armies of
Hungary and Austria of their material More than
a year ago Hungary complained that the emigra-
ton of SlOvaks from the slopes of the Carpathians
had thrown the country back upon the prospecting
Magyar peasants in the plains and that these were
also leaving. Now Austria is striving to stop the
exodus of Slavs from the Polish province of Gacia
on the ground that they evading military ser
vice. The number who have done this within the
year is said to be eighty thousand.
The order to arrest those capable of military ser
vice who are seeking to leave is symptom of one
of the notable changes in the character of the
stream Of American immigration this year. The
ablebodied men Of Gacia may have desired to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
boomerang-a rotten egg.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A correspondent writes: I'm the light Of recent
disclosures this seems to be the Nth street deca-
logue:
al am the Chief who has brought thee out Of
the slums into the Land of Graft.
80. Thou shalt have no other Chief before me.
80 Thou shalt not take the name of the Chief an
vain for he will not hold him gutless that useth his
name except for spoils.
81. Remember Election Day to help the Chief.
On that day thou shalt labor, thou and thy son. thy
daughter thy man servant, thy maid servant and
the stranger within thy gate, for the Gang.
80. Honor Tammany and the System, that thy
days may be long in the office which the Chief shall
give thee.
SO. Thou shalt not commit murder-except it be
the reputation of those who offend the Chief
al Thou shalt be faithful always.
IS Thou shalt not steal-the Bosses will attend
to that.
80. Thou shalt not bear witness against the Gang,
even though they be caught with the goods.
30 Thou shalt not covet thy Leaders house, his
automobile his pull with the Chief; take what
he gives you and let it go at that You should
worry"
Luck and Industry met the highway of life.
81 understand we are related" remarked Luck.
"Yes, in a way" replied Industry. 81 the
mother OF Success, while you are a distant rela-
tive."-Philadelphia Record.
Positions to the number of 80 filled every
month, according to the report Of the employment
bureau of the West Side Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION. Recently the phone bell rang and the
director OF the employment bureau heard a woman 8
voice the wire
Send me a husband she said.
The director gasped. and about to reply that 1t
was not matrimonial bureau, when the woman
continues:
-"and wife; the for chauffeur and the wife
as housemaid"
sense lines"
I'm what way?'
well. for instance, he says he won't hire Il man
who comes from New York unless he also knows
something Detroit Free Press