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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-05

foreign debts. including debts to our own
citizens.
In the West Indies we are dscharging
our obvious duty under the Monroe Doc
trine to our own people and to European
nationals. In Mexico, however, the Presl-
dent refuses to acknowledge any similar
duty either to Americans or to the citizens
or subjects of European powers.
| Such inconsistency on the Presidents
part would be amazing if his whole for
eign policy had not long ago become a
weller of Inconsistencies. Badly to assert
that American rights stop at the waters
edge is to strike at the very vitals of Amer
lean polty-at the most settled traditions
of American diplomacy. To boast that we
have turned our backs not alone on the
policy of Rome and Great Britain but on
the policy of every other power that has
made a place for itself in history is SEN
timentalism run mad.
The country which admits that it has no
intention of protecting its citizens when
they 60 abroad will not long be able to
protect them when they stay at home.
American rights must be protected the
world over if Americans are to preserve
any status as citizens of the world. We
cannot maintain our prestige abroad or
our self-respect at home if we begin to
divide Americans into two classes-those
whom our government promises to protect
so long as they do not venture into alien
Jurisdictions, and those whom it ostracises
and deserts the moment they cross our
frontier and thus constructively become
Americans without a country.
If Americans in Mexico have no rights,
Americans travelling on the high seas have
no rights and the whole Lusitania cor
respondence was hollow mockery. 1t is
time to change all that-to install an Ad-
ministration in Washington which will re-
store the lost meaning and value Of Amer
lean citizenship.
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Attendance at the Aquarium.
, Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial comment OF yester
day on the recent decrease in the number
of visitors at the public museums of New
York you suggest that the loss in attendance
may be traceable to the increasing popularity
of the movies. After an examination of the
attendance table of the Aquarium l am in
cined to the opinion that the recent losses
can be more safely attributed to conditions
resulting from the war in Europe.
For eight years the annual attendance al
the Aquarium exceeded 100000, amounting
in 1913 to 2,2O5729 persons, the Aquarium
among public museums.
In 1914 the attendance fell to 2,o29,707
after five months of the war.
In 1915, after twelve months Of war. the
attendance fell to 1888, S31, while for 1916 tn,
attendance to September 81 amounts to 1901.
$50. This number compared with the attend
ance for the same months of 1915, show:
practically no decrease, and We may there
fore expect about the same total for 1916 as
for 1915.
After the commencement OF the war there
was decrease in transatlantic steamship
travel and in immigration, both of which
served to limit the number of persons passing
through New York City.
The twelve months of war in 1915, as COM
pared with the five months of war in 1914
produced more effect. immigration from Eu-
rope has practically ceased and the legion OF
tourists going abroad has been reduced to a
mere remnant. These conditions continue
and may be expected to continue for some
time to come.
Meanwhile the annual attendance figures
for the Aquarium show n tendency to become
stationary. We are not yet jealous over the
popularity of the movies. despite the deplor-
able fact that our exhibits are still housed in
the ancient and outworn structure at the Bat
terry, in which growth has long been abso-
lutely checked {. II. TOWNSEND.
New York, Sept. %, 1916
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The Value of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: For some little time my Tribune ha:
been coming irregularly. For instance, got
Saturdays (the 16th) on Monday and Fri
days paper not until yesterday, the 10th
Worse than that, though, Sundays paper ha:
not come at ALL / consider this a calamity
for of all the papers and magazines that
get value my Tribune above them all, es-
pecally my Sunday paper.
take deep interest In the war. My
sympathies at first were with the Germans
but as the facts developed, revealing theil
contempt for truth, for honor and for their
sacredly pledged word; and, further, wher
their truly "frightful" and shocking, inhu
man and barbarous treatment of Belgium and
Northern France were proved to be facts
every drop Of blood within me revoltet
against them. But | didn't believe they
would ever dare to apply their "frightful-
ness" to those Of my own blood, citizens OF
this Republic, that under only normal i'm
tons inculcate and inspire, nterposed her
mailed hand between suffering and down
trodden Cuba and proud Spain. TOO proud
land noble mott to fight" when duty called us
to rebuke tyranny and use the might that
heaven gave to help the helpless.
Remembering the Maine and the wave OF
mighty and manly wrath and patriotism that
swept over the land at that cowardly in
suit, who could have anticipated that within
twenty years over one hundred of our women
and innocent little children would be DELHI
erately murdered and their murderers 20 un.
punished? Truly, what q fall is there, my
countrymen!" G. +. Z.
Tropc. Indian River, Fla, Sept 20, 1916.
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AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Shameful Manner Which They Have Been
Abandoned by Our Government-The State Departments
Eagerness to Free Itself of an Uncomfortable Burden

oeived one can easily see how discouraging II
is to be an American citizen in Mexico. In
general, those of US who have lived in Mexico
consider our governments policy grossly in
efficient. Through incompetence or stupidity
it is causing the ruin of over 80 per cent OF
the people of Mexico both financially and
morally. The richer classes have in large
measure moved TO other countries; the middle
class has for long time been living without
hope and pawning their little valuables; the
poor class has been forced 20 trade their
women and daughters for a bare existence
Hunger makes many men do things that are
ordinarily condemned by well-fed human
beings.
do not speak dispsragingly Of the Mexican
people. The conditions thrust on that coun-
try. largely by the action of the United States,
have made it impossible for many millions TO
gain a livelihood, and doubt if the behavior
of any other race would be better if placed in
the same helpless position through circum-
stances beyond their control.
1t is easy for some one to suggest that the
Mexcans should free themselves from these
conditions. The problem is q large one, but
Mexico would probably have come to a solu-
ton before now if our special representatives
had been competent and the information they
gathered had been acted upon, instead Of try
ing to make the case fit the impossible policy
of our Administration during the last four
years at the cost of thousands of innocent
lives, while our State Department talks of
humanity" and lodges all of its real obiga-
tions to Mexico as a nation and TO its own
citizens in and out of Mexico, as well to
foreigners who must be protected if the Mon
roe Doctrine is to hold
R. S. BURDETTE.
San Francisco. Aug. 4.
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THE BRITISH BLOCKADE
How II Affected an American Knit Good,
Manufacturer.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To substantiate the points advanced in
my correspondence to you, might state tina,
applications were made by me in the fall Of
1915 for the release of several hundred thou.
sand dollars worth of machinery and other
merchandise contracted for and partly paid
for by me before March /, 1915 in Germany,
and that this permit has been pending until
recently, when the Department of State a,
Washington received word from the British
Foreign Office through the acting foreign
trade adviser in London, communicated TO
me September u, 1916, in the following
words:
81 regret that it will not be possible TO
secure favorable consideration Of this case
by the Foreign Office"
Upon the return Of Mr.. Marion Letcher,
acting foreign trade adviser TO Washing
ton, the following dispatch was Forwarded
to me under date of October 2:
"The American Embassy, London, has tes-
graphed the department that in reply to oral
representations made to the Foreign Once
regarding application for importation Of
needles, the British government is unwilling
to give facilities for un Interrupted shipment
of German needles SIS they can be obtained 10
England. Marion Letcher, acting foreign
trade adviser"
This telegram shows 10 what extent The
British government is willing TO assist the
American knit goods manufacturers in keep
ing their plants in operation, and 70 VIA.
subterfuges they have recourse in trying 70
give an excuse for their action. The repF
only covers part of my application and cor
tains barefaced lie. as it is impossible iof
any American manufacturer 10 obtain latci
end spring beard needles from Great Britain
on account of export prohibitions. The bri-
sh knit goods manufacturers the same as
the rest of the industry in the Allied couh'
tries, have been trying to secure such needles
in tremendous quantities from the oyerDaf'
dened needle factories in the United States
and would certainly not permit their own
supplies to be directed to a foreign country
MAX NYDEGGER.
New York, Oct 3, 1916.
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FROM THE FARMERS SIDE
MrhandseOn Thinks They Have
Supplying 70 On
What Them

realize what it means to make" milk. n.
farmer must first pay his hired men, then h.
must raise or buy his cows, care for them
(drive them, in some cases, long distances 10
pasture), stand the loss if one dies or is IN.
jured plant and harvest their winters fodder
which is itself an unrealized item Of expense
to many consumers who consider the price a,
milk too high.
Just at present on this farm there are ten
men cutting and storing ensilage corn. That
including the engine, means an expense O,
$50 day, and SHOULD it continue four days
which is a fair average) means an outlay Of
Sl20 for the farmer.
Last, but not least, come the daily milkine,
twice day every day in the year Tn Al
dawn during the summer, working by Lantern
light at both ends of the day through IN.
understanding carrying and cooling N.
milk that it may be ready for "the team or
else driving ones own team-rain or shine or
freezing weather--to convey the milk 10 The
creamery, which may be four or five mile,
distant.
And for all this the farmer is Willing =.
take approximately an average price Of sY
cents quart through the year. In the vicin.
ity of Boston the price demanded Is a tris.
more. but either price, let it be understood. 4,
less than fair price, all things considered
And why, someone will ask, is the farme,
willing to take less than fair percentage a,
the profit in this most important and nece,.
sary food?
For several reasons.
Because of necessity.
Because he is easygoing and has not looked
thoroughly into the situation.
Because he is unbusnesslike. and make. n.
account of the debts and credits of milk nro.
duction. 1t is to be doubted if one farmer n
fifty knows just what it costs him TO pro.
duce can of milk. And there are oth.,
reasons, few of them creditabe 10 the farr.
er's business ability, but none OF them di,.
creditable to his manhood. The charge tia,
the farmers are trying to force the peopl.
of New York to pay ss,oo0,o 900 more for milk
this year than heretofore is shamefully nm.
true. They are asking for even less than
fair price for their product, and for regina.
tions that shall in some measure take into
consideration their interests-in other word.
they are fighting to conserve their proper.v
rights. Those who accept less than IN.
prices demanded by the league not ONLY
wrong themselves but their brother farm.
ers.
1t Is in the interests Of both distributors
and consumers of milk to understand that II,
production must be put on a sound economic
basis il farmers are to continue dairyine IN
New England and the Middle States Il |,
neither right nor Just that advances in N.
price of milk should be regarded as revolu.
tionary and to be met with all sorts of Cd.
position. Milk. even at IL cents quart is
cheap food. The farmer is asking for no
more than his due, and deserves hearty SUP.
port BLANCHE WATSON
Sheffield, Mass, Oct. 8, 1915.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in to-day's paper on
the milk question does not reflect the usual
observation-disclosures of that page. The farmer
has been supplying his milk for twenty years,
yes forty, for less than the cost of it, and on
top of that working twelve, fourteen and even
more hours day. And for this labor we ask
what mere cost of our milk.
And this cost is not inflated by any divi-
dends or interest on watered stock or by any
salaries as high as the most unskilled laborer
gets. II your milk costs you too much can
you kick the farmer when he has this sum-
mer delivered his milk for a month to the
bottlng plants for trihe over 2% cents a
quart for grade "A" pasteurized? That milk
cost him near to cents. l inclose you a
statement that proves this. The farm in
question is very good one and produces
milk cheaper than the average farmer can
do it.
We have been asking for a good
while, and where does it get US to?-bank-
ruptcy is the only end. Our farms grow
poorer every year, for we cannot afford to
grow or spare a crop to plough under or to
fertilize with commercial fertilizers. This
farm has been shipping milk without inter
ruption for over fifty years, and the best !
can find out the crops average not over half
what they were forty years ago.
II were as rich as some of the milk COM
panies | could pay you big price and have
this statement put on half-page, where all
New York could read it, and learn the pro-
ducers' side of this milk question.
Cost OF milk for IL months. based on cost Of
years 1912 and 1913.
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Cost Items in Milk Production.
r of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor OF Inc IrlDune.
Sir: want to thank you for your fair and
impartial account of the milk question II
Yesterdays paper and to ask the courtesy OF
YOUR columns for few sidelights on the
situation.
Mr.. Horton says in his presentation OF tne
distributors case to the Attorney General
The avowed purpose and object of the Dairy
mans League is to compel the public OF Ne"
York City through its milk dealers TO pay
SO 900, 900 more year for milk than hereto
fore" This puts on the farmer the piame
for an unwarranted condition Of things, such
as can call forth the truthful cartoon en-
titled "The Real Sufferer in yesterdays
Tribune Truly an unfortunate CONDITION
when, In reality, the farmer is the baby
best friend in the industrial world to-day.
This Is the same Horton that but snor'
time ago boosted that he could buy can o.
milk from a New York farmer for 40 cents
and sell it in the city for Is cents quart ir
the light of this fact who is to blame for tn'
baby's predicament, the producer or the ais
tributer? In view Of the fact that the farm
ers create this product and the contractors
merely pass it from hand to hand, Is mol
such transaction as this wanton and un
holy abuse Of power? Even at selling
price of 10 cents quart 1t is far from fail
allotment of profit.
The milk distributors have announced ar
increase of cent quart to the consumer
beginning October 1, and, generally speaking
they are willing to give the producer about
one-third of this advance. Is it any wonder
that the farmers are making determined
stand against this rank injustice?
wonder how many people in the cities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-05
Bunker Bean Revisited.

Now that the mighty Bunker Bean has
been taken from his immortal volume and
paraded before the footlights for critics to
carp at, his original glories stand in some
peril. A book with swift, appealing look
the one fairy tale of the twentieth cen
tury-it can easily be distorted by cynics
and the glad-earnest alike. 1t has about
as much to say to conventional Broadway
as the Argonauts or Alice in Wonderland.
1t is America unadorned that is our
hero. 1t is the American system of unre-
strained Imagination and preposterous am
bition that is expounded. His majesty
Bunker Bean was highly descended on his
mothers side-from no less stock than
the famous Bunkers who were de Bon
coeurs once, as his mother was fond of ex-
planning to his father, the expressman.
But the Beans were just Beans. Had it not
been for the clothing advertisements, who
knows whether young Bunker would have
taken heart enough to amount to anything
The lyrical dope directed at the advanced
dresser" was utterly beyond him, at that.
1t was from the measured praise of "dig-
nifed vet different" suit that he took his
first inspiration:
at is cut to give the wearer the
appearance Of perfect physical devel-
opment. And the effect so produced so
improves his form that he uncon-
sciously strives to attain the appear
ance which the garment gives him; he
expands his chest, draws in his waist
and stands erect"
There speaks America, we submit, quite
as much as in your Emerson or Walt
Whitman. It is the whole democratic
theory at its best and worst. If you like
to see folk expanding their chests and
drawing in the waist you like America.
II you don't, you think it is nation Of
abominably awkward climbers. You can
not free imaginations and chests and put
different yet dignifed suits upon peoples
bodies without modifying their souls and
manners.
We cannot too quickly make 1t clear,
however, that the tale Of Bunker Bean does
not 90 on to reduce the democratic theory
to nonsense or soppy sentimentalism, as
some declare. Young Bunker possessed
the Imagination and he possessed the brain.
All he really needed was an atmosphere
in which he could expand his imagination
and apply his brains to the best advantage.
It is the vice of the too-glad-of -heart that
they profess to see a caulifower in every
cabbage. Perhaps it may be called the
vice of the democratic theory that it tends
to persuade excellent cabbages into trying
to be inferior cauliflowers. But the gen.
eral result, certainly the particular result
in the case Of Bunker Bean, is sound and
Enthusiastically worth while. Starting with
a clever, sensitive boy, you put endless
confidence into his heart and he blossoms
out into his very best.
That is the fairy tale Of Bunker Bean.
The deus er ntachina, the fate by which
our hero came to believe himself the rein
carnation of no less successful climber
than Napoleon Bonaparte, is merely the
particular fun of the piece. The real point
is in the clothing advertisement. If you
don't believe it, expand your chest, draw
in your waist and-see.
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No Higher Title.
or OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent, Mr.. |. A. Mars
land, is distinctly out Of bounds when he OBJ
jects to your using president Wilson" and
"Mr. Wilson" rs variants. There Is no higher
:itlc than that of citizen Of the American
Republic. ES.
Port Richmond, n. Y. Sept 80, 1918
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ANSWER TO ABOVE TELEGRAM.

Washington, D. c., Aug 2, 1916, p. m.
R. S. Burdette, Hotel Suffer, San Francisco:
Your telegram July 81. Department does
not deem it advisable for the present to with
draw the advice previously given American
citizens to remove temporarily from Guada-
lajara district or to make exceptions thereto.
Department will be glad to consider advsa-
biity issuing passport to you as soon as 1t is
satisfied conditions in Guadalajara district
warrant such action. You are in error when
you state department said in telegram Ameri-
cans must leave Mexico. What it did was to
advise Americans to leave Mexico temporarily
for their safety. Department has no funds at
disposal that could be used for your main
tenance in this country or for your return
transportation to Guadalajara. You are
further advised that only destitute American
citizens in Mexico can be furnished trans
portation to their homes in United States.
FRANK l.. POLK,
Acting Secretary Of State.
Before left Guadnlajara, on July 3, the
following telegram was received by the Amer
leans remaining in Mexico:
Consular Department informed several hun
dred Americans in various parts OF Mexico
intend to disregard this governments advice
to leave Mexico. This government feels that
il cannot be responsible for any such Ameri-
cans unless they leave Immediately. Unless
they leave now the abilities to assist them in
their exit will inevitably be rendered ex-
tremely difficult to accomplish. Impress on
all Americans still in Mexico districts that
they are assuming grave responsibilities il
they should elect to disregard this advice.
LANSING.
The telegram saying Americans must leave
Immediately" saw on board the Maryland Mt
Manzanilo on July 8; for this the State De-
partment denies responsibility in its answer
to my telegram. This telegram was shown to
me by United States Vice-Consul Stadden at
Manzanillo on board the Maryland in the
presence Of the captain Of that ship. | be-
lieve the telegram was signed by Admiral
Fullam, and both Stadden and the captain of
the ship gave me to understand clearly that
it came through the State Department, and
called my attention to the word must used
in the telegram. | was anxious to so back on
shore and return to my home in GuadalaJara,
but decided to leave in view OF the telegram
and the urging of the consul and captain.
Comparing my telegram and the reply re-
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Canned Gladness.'

To the Editor of The Tribune. ..i
Sir: Your editorial entitled -. ar.
Gadness": Why send out thoughts s"1 som,
not constructive! Your paper , ma
paper. The home people love f0''S"
She is their ideal. o,r nrY.
New York. Oct 2, 1915
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TELEGRAM.
San Francisco, July 30, 1916.

San Francisco. July 30, 1916.
Department Of State, Washington, D. c..
I am an American citizen. July Sth left
Manzanillo, Mexico, against my wish, after
seeing telegram from department saying
Americans must leave" Went to Mexico
nine years ago after investigating and find
ing l had right to go there to live. All
have is in Mexico and remembering exodus Of
1914 and the hardships caused have left my
wife, mother and two small children at our
home in Guadalajsra, Mexico, with wife's
father who is German. Wishing to return TO
my home please authorize passport and trans
portaton or failing in this please authorize
funds for bringing my family to this country
and for our maintenance here and subsequent
return to Guadalajara where we have the
right to live and be protected as American
citizens. There is no war with Mexico and
having been advised to abandon the results Of
our work in Mexico by the State Department
does not alter our rights nor the obligations
Of the United States towards its citizens.
Awaiting favor of prompt reply so may make
plans accordingly. R. s. BURDETTE,
Hotel Suffer.
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Bangall, N. Y, Oct. 2, 1916.
Not Working for Health.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have been a daily reader Of The
Tribune since 1870, and while find much tc
admire in its news and editorial columns there
is also something that is fairly cri.icisable
Ir your editorial "Phe Public Must Pay" you
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You can purchase merchandise advertised In
THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for
II dissatisfaction results in any case TIL
TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay your money DacK
upon request. No red tape. No clubbing. we
make good promptly if the advertiser does not
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Prom the Mining and Scientific Press)
The Editor:
Sir: The following telegram to the Depart
ment Of State, and the reply, may be of in
terest: