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New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
The Loyal Coalition
Brooklyn, May 6, 1920.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was to be anticipated that
the old cry of religious intolerancs
would be raised to befog the real is
sue. l quite agree with your corre-
spondent that any organization whose
object is religious intolerance would
be obnoxious to any one who is an
American at heart, and challenge hlm
to produce evidence that such Is the
intent of the Loyal Coalition. The e
ligious element has been introduc. BY
those against whom the coab' Is
directed to camoufage their rec oo-
ject-alien domination Of Al rican
politics. Why beat about tn bush !!
Your correspondent alleges at the
Loyal Coalition is anti-Catao' .. fhe
allegation is untrue. The org g.nisatio"
is directed solely against those WIN
masquerade as American citizens p1s
actually place the Interests OF an aiie''
racial group or nation before our o"'
honor and welfare.
Your correspondent speaks OF prov
lens of vital Importance" What preo-
lem is more vital than that of keeping
America American? What probe"
should command more attention tha"
that Of insuring the worlds peace py
maintaining friendly relations with our
recent associates in arms? He speaks
ambiguously of the Loyal Coalition
ingratitude Ingratitude to whom? 10
the Germans we were fighting and the
Irish who gave them moral support
They are the only ones who should fee!
epprehensive over the coalitions &C
tivities.
I might add that the Loyal Coalition
has moved Its Offices to "a Mount
Vernon Street, Boston, in order to gss
more room. JAMES C. M'MULLlN.
New York, May 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Elder Hays

Those brash young intellectuals
Of the minor leagues. largely resi-
dent in the neighborhood Of Green
wich Village, who have been damn
ing Puritanism and predicting it's
speedy demise always conveniently
forget the Middle West. They treat
Puritanism as a strictly New Eng
land disease that has cramped indi-
vidual styles hither and yon, but
that is localized chiefly on the North
Atlantic seaboard.
Now, the Puritanism of"the Mid
die West is somewhat modified
form of the original complaint, but,
as sundry philosophers like William
Allen White have pointed out, it is
basic part of the moral fibre west
of the Alleghanies and east of the
Rockies. You may sit in a little
theater on Macdougal Street and
deceive yourself into thinking that
America is on the brink of Moral
Freedom and Breakfastless Mar
riages and other phenomena Of the
Fetterless Eden; but one sniff of
any Middle Western town will tell
you just how egregiously wrong
you are.
The phenomenon of Elder Hays,
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, gives an admi-
rable hint of this granite fact. A
most complete and ingratiating per-
son is this Mr.. Hays, as the entire
Republican party now knows. He
could have been Governor of Indiana
this year had he not preferred his
national duties. A most human
soul withal, as American as George
AIDE fable and almost as salty. Yet
as matter of Indiana routine Will
Hays succeeds to his fathers posi-
ton as an elder Of the Presbyterian
Church in his home town Of Sulli-
van, Indiana.
We expressed the view that Mid
die Western Puritanism was modi-
fed brand; we think it permits a
distinctly more open-hearted human
being. The granite is not so near
the surface as in New England
there is an ampler and warmer soil
above it. But the granite is there,
all the same, and anybody who is
looking for landslips and moral
mushiness is likely to be disap-
pointed. And while granite does
annoy the hasty Utopians, we think
it fairly valuable commodit<- in
the slow building of a nation
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

of all lawyers rated the most tech.
nical and narrow.
The resemblance between a Span
ish lawyer and a professor whose
mind is marked with the peculiarities
of Scotch Presbyterianism has often
been remarked. There is the same
tendency to argue minutely and to
use words not to express ideas but
as something in themselves; the
same inconsistency and the same
disposition to talk of something else
when it was noted. So President
Wilson and Carranza,s - although in
their first relations they were SYM
pathetic, grew to dislike each other.
1t was the misfortune of Mexico
to lack the services of q real
man when the career Of Diaz drew
to a close. Madero, we'll inten-
toned and high principled, would
not do because merely a visionary.
Villa lacked the needed qualities be-
cause of defects of education and
his bandit record. Carranza, silly
and stubborn old man, was a dry-as-
dust without imagination. Felipe
Angeles was apparently MeXico's
best hope, but Carranza had him eX-
ecuted. About Obregon is little sug-
gestive that he is equal to his task.
The success of the Obregon revo-
luton, of course, means another
postponement Of any decision with
respect to Mexico. What will the
new crowd do? 1t will, of course,
promise everything, and this coun-
try will pretend to believe. 1t will
take time to tell whether now there
is to be progress or merely con-
tinuance of anarchy plus the hypoc-
risy that seems to be a part of the
equipment of Mexican public man.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Immune Consciences
D the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The claim of your correspond
ent who demands that Christian Scien-
fists be allowed to let their children
die without medical aid opens up in
terestlng vistas. II members of the
sect may with impunity commit such
acts, what right had the Federal govern.
ment to suppress polygamy in Utah ?
The Mormons were but following the
dictates of their consciences in marry
ing many wives, just as an international
Socialist might consider it his rclig-
ious duty to insult the flag. And if
all exotic consciences are to be i'm
mune may we expect that, when a few;
more Oriental prophets have settled
on our lucrative shores, pious widows
will burn themselves on their hus-
bands funeral pyres, and an American
chapter of thugs will sacrifice suburb
an wayfarers to the goddess Kali ?
How deny legal immunity to these SIN
cew though unconventional forms of
worship, SO long as Christian Scientists
claiming preposterous monopoly Of
faith, are allowed to defy society by
letting thefr children die without med
ical aid?
Of course, the fact is that religious
toleration, like political, has to stop
somewhere, and the American. people
will rightly insist that it stop when
the results of religious belief consti-
tute an obvious menace to society. I
submit that the manslaughter of help
less children is no less a menace than
polygamy.
incidentally the execution of witches
In Salem was not by burning.
T. LAWRASON RIGGS.
Washington, D. c.. May 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
An English Act of Settlement

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your correspondent Arthur &
draper makes singular mistake IN
an assertion in the article of to-dov
IN reference to the marriage of the
frlnce OF Wales. Every one acquainted
with English history is aware that bv
the Act of Settlement, made in 17Oi
Section 7, it is said: mo Roman
catholic or person marrying Roman
Catholic is henceforth capable Of re-
ceiving the crown of England" Wbv
then does he say There is no legal OH
stacle in English law or the constitutio,
to the marriage of British heir to
person of Catholic faith ?" He is quite
right If he means an Anglo Catholic, but
certainly the Prince of Wales cannot
marry Roman Catholic and remain
heir to the throne. because the Act of
Settlement never has been set aside.
HARTMAN NAYLOR.
New York, May 9, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
The Beecher Family
SIX Sons Who Became Minis.
fOro

} the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial on Preachers
Sons was interesting, bus the refer.
ence to the Beecher family vas not ouits
accurate. You say: "A familiar exam.
pie is the Beecher family. Henry Ward
beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher.
hardly less famous, who also gave an.
other son, Edward, to the ministry" So
far so good. But it happens that Lyman
Beecher gave six sons to the ministry
Edward, Thomas K, Charles, Henry
Ward, George and another whose name
L do not recall. One died in his TWEEN.
ties, l think. Another Il believe it was
George was for time associated with
Henry Ward in Bethel Mission Of
Plymouth Church. Afterward he located
IN the wilds of the Adirondacks. Be
did missionary work among the scat.
tered settlers Of the mountains. Il is
said he kept track of the days by cut
ting notches in q stick. Calling at a
cottage one day, he mildly chided the
lady of the house" for washing or
Sunday, but she was able to prove TO
him that he had forgotten to cut
notch and it was therefore Monday and
not Sunday.
Edward was president Of a college IL
the West for several years; his last days
were spent in Brooklyn. Charles xss
pastor Of church at Penn Yam, N. Y,
for many years. He was a gifted musi.
clan and wrote the music of sewers.
hymns. Thomas X. was the best known
of all-excepting Henry Ward, of course.
He was for many years pastor Of =
large institutional church at Elni~
N. Y. All of the "boys" showed ths
peculiar Beecher characteristics. 1t was
truly remarkable family.
+ e. HOBBY.
Brooklyn, May 6, 1920.
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he had to follow superior directions
from Washington his own views
were negligible.
Sims never claimed to have di-
rected American naval operations.
He was not allowed to. For the
future benefit Of the service he has
criticized what he holds to have been
faulty direction in Washington. The
present investigation concerns the
strategy of Daniels and Benson. At
tention cannot be diverted from the
main issue by irrelevant counter
attacks on Sims.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Because Carranza Was Carranza

i Carranza is fugitive not wholly
because Mexico is Mexico, but large
ly because Carranza is Carranza.
There was no special reason for
chasing Carranza out; it is doubtful
whether he was much genuinely
feared; he simply wore out by his
everlasting fussiness the patience of
those with whom he came into con-
tact. His long-winded disquisitions
bored to extinction literate Mexi-
cans. From chihuahua to Yucatan
there was one vast yawn, and Obre-
gon was easily successful because of
the universal WEAKNESS the strut
tings of Don Venustiano developed.
Carranza had posed as an apos-
tie of liberty and q reformer. But
IN this he was in continuous tug
against his temperament and his
habits. His years were in excess of
sixty when he came into prominence,
but for twenty-four years he had
served Porfirio with humility. AS
Mexican Senator he was a rubber
stamp for the man he now speaks of
as a tyrant. While Governor of
Coahuila Carranza revealed nothing
which showed he was q progressive.
He was conventional large land
holder, proud and stupid, whose
mood was that af 4 Spanish lawyer.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
MIR. Daniels Irrelevancies

Secretary Daniels defends himself
by attacking Admiral Sims. The
gist Of four Of his six charges is
that Sims was too "pro-B British"
Sims himself would hardly deny
the impeachment that he believed in
cultivating close relations with Great
Britain. His record on that point
was public. 1t ran back to a repri-
mand received BY him during the
Taft Administration. But when the
United States was on the point of
declaring war against Germany and
it was plain that our naval opera
tions would have to be co0rdinated
with those of the British navy, al
ready blockading Germany, Sims's
prepossessions certainly didn't handi-
cap him for service in London.
He didn't go to London on his
own motion. The Administration Sc
lected him to go-partly, no doubt,
because Of his known personal views.
If Mr.. Daniels had wanted to have
man in London who "would as
soon fight the British as the Ger
mans" he could probably have looked
around and got one. But he pre-
ferred Sims. And he not only kept
Sims in London until after the
armistice, but recommended him for
promotion to the grade of admiral.
The discovery Of the noxiousness of,
Sims's pro British" tendencies was
apparently made only after the lat
ter had called attention to defects
IN the departments methods of con-
ducting war.
Mr.. Daniels also charges Sims
with two mistakes in military judg-
ment. 1t is said that he failed to
start campaign in London for
mine barrage across the North Sea
from Scotland to Norway. He is
also accused of advocating the con-
centration of destroyers at Queens
town for the purpose of protecting
merchant shipping rather than
transports. The North Sea barrage
came along in course of time. It
was completed just before the
armistice was signed. Sims had
made repeated and urgent calls for
destroyers in the early months of
the war.
The submarine war on Allied COM
merce was at it's height in the spring
OF 1917. 1t was more important in
military sense to check it than it
was to convoy American troopships
or guard the American coast. Few
American troops, in fact, were sent
to Europe until after the submarine
menace had been abated.
Whatever merit may have at
tached to these criticisms Of Sims's
strategy, Secretary Daniels immedi-
ately destroyed their effect by tell
ing the committee that Sims was
never really in command of the
American naval forces in Europe.
although the world was allowed to
think he was. He was, according to
new official version, only naval at
tache and assistant abroad to the
chief of naval operations. But if he
had no command and no authority,
how could any errors Of strategy
imputed to him have counted? If
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
A Fair Exchange
(From The Nebraska State .

(From The Nebraska State JournaD
An inquiry in the British House of
Commons on the subject of freedom for
our Philippines shows saving sense
OF humor at work there. Our Senate
takes on itself to tell the British what
to do with their Irish problem 1t is
no more than a fair return that the
British should now suggest freedom for
the Philippines. Thus fools are an
swered according to their folly and
everybody is good humored and happy.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Conscience Us. Ldw
Religion, Contagion and the Welfare
of the Community
To the Editor of The Tribune.

OF the community
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent under the
caption Of "Conscence vs.. Law" seems
to miss certain vital points in her ar.
gument of a practical and scientific
nature. l am not writing to argue
against Christian Science, but trying
to point out some Of the fallacies oil
her reasoning.
Death, not in the theological or relig.
ious sense but as the end Of life or
earth, comes to all, and all that healers
or doctors can do is to prolong life for
a space; the end is inevitable. The
argument, then, that there were fifty
one death notices in your paper has
no meaning. Whether one believes that
Christian Science or the services of q
trained physician are the more efficacious
IN prolonging life is matter of opinion
and viewpoint. Science, the study of
causes and effects, has proved rather
conclusively that diphthcria is a con-
taglous disease, germ disease, and
that the antitoxin to kill these germs
by numerous and we'll authenticated
tests in large number Of cases has
proved to be successful. Of course, it
may fail at times, but that does not
alter the results as whole Society
has the right to demand protection
from contagious or infectious disease,
and it may properly demand that those
who are in "error" or are out Of health
shall have their cases diagnosed by
those capable Of doing so, that such
patients may be isolated or quaran-
tined to prevent contagion.
Now, the conscience Of an individual
or sect cannot be allowed to override
on that account the welbeing of
others or the duties of the state toward
the people as whole. A Science healer,
no matter how perfect a disciple Of
the religious cult, cannot be in as good
position to decide the nature OF a malady
or its danger to others as those trained
in medical schools and in the art of
diagnosis from much practice and by
the scientific tests which they can
apply.
If we admit the doctrine that believ-
ers in the Christian Science methods
are above and beyond all the protective
laws of the state, and such meth DDS
become universal and physicians are
thing of the past-and it is perfectly
logical to carry the stand of the Scien-
tist to that end-what would be the
result on the health of the nation i?
Should all the scientific research from
Pasteur through the long line of those
who have devoted themselves to finding
remedies and cures be thrown aside
for the conscience of a sect, what then {?
The proposition is it's own answer.
l have a right to demand that the state
protect my child from the ignorance
of the character of a malady, though
in many neighbors' views there is 10
such thing. Such belief does not Sc
cure me from the results of the actu-
ality. Religious views. as long as they
affect only the individual, may be a
matter of mind and conscience, but
when these views are extended to cover
conditions which imperil the health
and wellbeing of those who do not
share them it becomes peril to the
state and ceases to be religion, becom-
ing fanaticism. J.H.B
New York, May 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
The Transportation Blockade

The Tribune has as little liking
for the alarmist as for the sensa
tionalist. 1t has faith in the in.
telfigence of the American people
and their quick ability to meet ar
emergency when it is clearly seer
to exist.
But it is common sense, not
pessimism, to recognize frankly and
courageously that all things are not
we'll in the economic life of the coun-
try. For eighteen months, ever since
the armistice, floating on the high
tide of diffused prosperity, we have
drifted where a sound of breakers
ahead can be heard.
The country suffers from the dis
ease of lack of transportation. Re-
ports of freight congestion come
from every section, but particularly
from the region of throbbing &C
tivity east of Chicago. Coal is run
ming low. There is paucity of raw
materials. Plants are shutting down.
Unless restoration Of normal
freight circulation soon comes many
thousands will be out of work.
The trouble started to be acute
when the so-called OUTLAW" strike
began. The transportation machin-
cry was limping along on three
cylinders before this, but another
piston was put out of commission.
The engine was barely kept revolv-
ing. The strike has been advertised
as over, but the number of "vaca-
tionists" is larger, Goods are piling
up in the railway yards and in
warehouses.
New York has about a ten-day
supply of coal, seven-day supply
of flour, with other necessaries in
similar small supply, So, with the
railroads helped out with trucks,
there is little likelihood of starva-
ton. But there is danger of still
higher food prices and OF a sudden
cessation of many factories. Raw
material is called dead freight
that is, not perishable or of imme-
dlate necessity. But the pay en-
velopes of New York obviously de-
pend on the shipment in of dead
freight and its shipment out.
What can be done? There is no
royal road. We must work and
work out Of the waters into which
we thoughtlessly drifted or allowed
ourselves to be driven. But though
there is no specific there is one
simple thing all Of us can do which
will be helpful. This simple thing
is to recognize the full depth
and width of the dogma that those
employed in vital industries, such as
the railroads, may quit when and
how they please. 1t is not neces-
sary to suggest what opinion should
be formed touching this doctrine
The conclusion can be left to the
most primary intelligence provided
that intelligence can be induced to
think. But at present there is an
indisposition to think, and we thus
strengthen the hold of the fingers
which are about the public's throat.
The freight will move on the day
when the public commands it to
move and refuses to accept the ex-
cuses of those whose special busi-
ness is to move it.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
VENERABILIS.
New York, May 4, 1920.

1t is, in my judgment, against pre-
cisely such legislation as this that
our state constitution intends to pro-
tect every citizen when it declares that
no person shall "be deprived Of life,
liberty or property without due proc
ess Of law" These latter words are
an early legal paraphrase of the words
law of the land" in Magma Charta,
which are also adopted from it into
another provision of our state consti-
tuition. The restraints they create
were originally imposed on the
executive power. Our Anglo Saxon
ancestors, jealous in behalf of the
common law, often invoked their pro-
lection, not merely against the arbi-
trary acts Of the sovereign, but against
his attempt to introduce novel proc
esses similar to that adopted in this
act, and borrowed from the same
source. Brought to this country with
other sacred traditions of ancient free
dom, they were inserted in our Amer
lean written constitutions as restraints
on the legislative power in favor of
individual rights. In this state the
language of the restriction has received
we'll settled judicial Interpretation.
1t has been held to restrain the Legis-
lature from itself usurping judicial
power over life, liberty or property, and
for creating any new process for the
forfeiture Of these great rights which
should substantially depart from the
customary procedure of the common
law. This established construction
must have been familiar to the able and
learned lawyers who shared in the
discussion of this part of the constitu-
ton IN the convention of 1846. In the
exact words which had received such
a construction the clause was adopted
by that body and was ratified as the
deliberate and permanent will of the
people expressed in the fundamental
law of the state. In the same sense
1t is now binding on their legislative
agents and on the judicial tribunals.
l am of the opinion, therefore, that the
prohibitory act--the provisions which
form its distinguishing characteris-
tics are interviewer with its whole
structure, and supply the means on
which it relies to effect it's purpose
is unconstitutional and void.
Such legislation springs from a mis-
conception of the proper sphere of gov
ernment. 1t. is no part of the duty of
the state to coerce the individual man
except so far as his conduct may af-
feet others, not remotely and conse-
quentially. but by violating rights
which legislation can recognize and
undertake to protect. The oppo-
site principle leaves no room for in
dividual reason and conscience, trusts
nothing to self-culture, and substitutes
the wisdom of the Senate and Assem-
bly, for the plan of moral government
ordained by Providence. The whole
progress Of society consists in learn
ing how to attain, by the independ-
ent action or voluntary association Of
individuals, those objects which are at
first attempted only through the agency
OF government, and in lessening the
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Tilden on Prohibition
A Ne,U York Law of 1855
Declared Unconstitutional
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In Tilden's public writings and
speeches is given the patriarch's reply,
in 1856, when candidate for the office
Of Attorney General, to request for
his views of the prohibitory legisla-
tion of the preceding year. Salient
in that opinion, learned and cogcnt,
occurs the paragraph appended hereto
for opportune reproduction.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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use for republication OF all news dispatches credited
10 1t or not otherwise credited IN this paper and
slso the local news OF spontaneous origin published
herein
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved.
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The Disturbing Element

(Fro1n The Providence JourraD
The good feeling and substantial ac-
complishmentof the San Reno confer
ence may be traced. in part at least, to
q certain Distinguished Absence.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

The gray sea, the gray sea,
Surf flung like strings Of pearls,
The pale mists flowing endlessly by
Where the white foam whirls.
J, D. Mem.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-11

Speaking Of orthography and bills,
Miss Carolyn Wells has received, from
a dealer in Rares and Antiques, a bill
for
1 London Rhymes by Austin Dodson
1 Alice (First Ed by c. l.. Dodson
/ Babb Ballads (First Ed
1 Sylvia Bruno (First Ed.).