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New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Economic. Not Racial

Already some OF the benefits ap-
pear of President Harding's wise &C
tion in linking the questions of the
Pacific with the limitation Of arma-
ments. 1t has greatly hastened the
solution Of various vexing problems
and holds out hope of the settlement
of others.
The latest report of a settlement
expected before the conference
meets concerns the question of Orl-
entail immigration. A Dispatch from
Toxic states that it is the belief in
japan that this will be separately
arranged between Japan end Amer
lea. Whether in this case the belief
is fathered by the hope, or whether
the report is merely trial balloon,
it is particularly interesting in that
it originates across the Pacific.
The problem of the immigration Of
Orientals has been frequently OBJ
scured in both countries. Owing
to Americas unfortunate prejudice
against all peoples whose skin is not
white, there has been an enormous
amount of criticism and agitation
based upon an imagined bogey of
race. The question has been consid-
cred sentimentally and from the
point of view of racial antipathy,
when, as matter of fact, it is pri-
marily economic. This sentimental
treatment has naturally provoked
resentment among the excluded, a
resentment based chiefly upon the
personal and tribal insult contained
IN an obvious implication of inferi-
ority. Injured pride, whether indi-
vidual or collective, SO easily leads to
trouble that the wonder is not so
much that there have been clashes in
California but that they have not
been more constant.
Neither color nor race should be
emphasized in the present negotia.
tions. The matter is one of work
wages, productivity and cheap liv.
ing. In the same way that Japanese
labor cannot compete economically
with Chinese, so American labor
cannot compete with Japanese.
Remove the stigma of racial inferi-
ority and frankly admit that the
question is economic, and agreement
will not be difficult to reach.
The late President Roosevelt threw
much light on the immigration ques-
tion when he pointed out to his
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17

were MANY Tammany election off,
cials who practiced this doctrine in
the past. The present; election laws
were devised in order to counteract
their ingenuity. These laws have
worked well in elections. But when
it comes to a ruction inside the
family circle respect for the one
man~one-votc principle is likely to
receive scant recognition. Even a
Republican, candidate for the mayor
atty nomination was the victim OF a
mistaken count in the primary four
years ago.
Tammany's ability to resist temp
tation and to give the political
under-dog his due is now to be
measured in the cold light of arith-
metic The Wigwam is strong on
morale. How strong is it on pri-
mary morals? The fact that Muir
phys candidate, even on the face of
the returns, received majority of
only 5000 is prin,n facse evidence
of the reasonableness of recount.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The Duty of Democrats
(Froa, The World)


National politics has no place in city
governments. The Mayor of New York
does not deal with tariffs, or with
armament, or with foreign affairs, or
with any of the numerous questions
on which public opinion legitimately
divides in respect to the Federal gov
ernmcnt. He is concerned only with
the business of New York City and
the general welfare of it's citizens.
Neither political party has ever had q
distinctive program of city govern
ment, and consequently there is no
place in municipal campaign for
partisan considerations.
"The World" finds nothing in Mayor
Hylan's candidacy for Mayor that sheds
light or lustrc on the Democratic
principles that it upholds in national
affairs, and it finds nothing in Mr.. Cur
rams candidacy that is antagonistic to
those principles. On the other hand,
1T is Mr.. Curran who represents the
principles which "The World" has con-
sistently advocated in municipal gov
ernment. In so far as Mr. Hylan has a
program OR is capable of adhering to a
program it is mainly Socialistic and
at variance with all the Fundamental
tenets of the Democratic party. His po-
litical guide and overseer is Mr.. Hearst
who is the avowed enemy Of everything
in which the Democrats of the nation
now believe. So much for that.
"The World" advises it's friend and
reader to forget all about the Demo-
cratic party and the Republican party
when he goes to the polls in November
and center his attention on the relative
qualifications of Henry Curran and
John F. Hylan. If he does this we think
he will agree with us that the Demo
cratic party has nothing to lose by
the election of Mr.. Curran and it has
nothing to gain by the reelection Of
Mr.. Hylan.
New York City, however, has a great
deal to gain by the election of Mr..
Curran and great deal to lose by four
years more of Hylanism. 1t is of New
York City that every voter and every
newspaper should be thinking in this
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Ultimate Ambitions

Julius Caesar had moments of sat
isfaction, and Alexander at Arhela
felt pleasurable glow, and the
young Napoleon at the bridge of
Lodi did not regard his life as wholly
misspent, but in no book is it set
down that any of these gentlemen
ever in one season hit ball on the
nose for fifty-five home runs and the
next day added another for good
measure.
To Babe" Ruth, who may be re-
garded as an infant no longer, has
come the high distinction of achiev-
ing an ultimate ambition. We would
like to have been Wolfe when first
his foot reached the top of the
Heights of Abraham, or Paul Jones
when the Serapis struck, or Sheri-
dan as he thundered down the Win
chester pike, or Dewey at Manila, or
Papa Joffre when he heard the Ger
mans were running. On other
grounds we would not object to being
the man who broke the bank at
Monte Carlo, or old John L. in his
prime, or to having the figure of the
fellow who poses for clothing adver-
tisements, or to be the chap with
hose supporters whose metal never
could touch him. But in the way of
a genuine soul-filling ultimate ambi-
tion Swatter Ruth is Texas and all
others are Rhode Islands.
Shame on the New York crowd
that smashed only 221 hats in honor
of the great event! Are we becom-
ing a cold and Indifferent genera
ton? Are we unmindful Of truly
historic moments? Time was when
the whole town would have strug-
gled for the honor of carrying home
the masters bats.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The 1'arnmany Recount

Mr. Illness demand for a recount
IN Manhattan Borough of the Tam
many primary vote seems justified
by the known facts and nuts tho
Murphy organization in increa sed
jeopardy.
Iammany hasn't had a serious
primary contest for years. The
principle of rule from the ton is
so lngrained in the Tammanv svs-
tenn that the primary has been gem
orally looked on as only harm
less outward concession to modern
theories of party "self-determina-
tion." Popular rule and the sover-
eighty Of the enrolled are not
honored in East Fourteenth Street
The word of one man is law, and
he who disputes it is a seoffer and
a hereto.
1t will be worth while to discover
to what extent the Tammany work.
ers who counted the ballots ad-
hered to the doctrine that no quar-
ter should be given to the rebellious,
q It wrong to Illustrate the intan-
ions of the wfeng-hesdedg There
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Patient ENCOURAGEMENT

When President Obregon first in
vited Mr.. Thomas w. Lamont to
visit Mexico to discuss that country's
foreign debt and financial readjust-
ment the International Committee
of Bankers on Mexico, of which body
Mr.. Lamont is the acting chairman,
replied that no step would be taken
not thoroughly in accord with the
policy of the State Department.
So the announcement that Mr..
Lamont will now go to Mexico and
that the Department of State is cog
infant of the fact is doubly sig
nificant.
Following the successful negotia-
ton of the oil diplomats, the labors
OF Mr.. Lamont in behalf of Mexico's
creditors should not be fruitless.
With our State Department sympa-
thetic, it should be possible to evolve
plan to place Mexico once more on
a sound financial basis. This will.
Of course, be of great assistance to
President Obregon.
There seems no longer any ques-
ton of the Mexican Presidents sim
cere desire to do all in his power to
reestablish the good repute of his
country. He realizes perfectly well
that to do this he must make it safe
and attractive for foreign capital.
For SO long as Mexico's foreign debt
remains in default and the country's
revenue and budget indispensable,
foreign interests will come in only if
given very special guaranties-guar-
antics, in fact, which might even be
considered violations of Mexico's
sovereign rights. This condition
must therefore be remedied. In
seeking to do so no better counsel
can be found than that of Mr.. La
mont. His experience is broad. and
his sense of fair play is above ques-
tIon. While as advocate of the
creditor nations he will, of course,
safeguard their interests, he is wise
and just enough to realize that these
interests can best be served by
strengthening Mexico politically and
industrially.
Contrasted with our Mexican pol
icy of 1918 and 1916, the present
Administration has shown admirable
clrcumspection. Fully approaching
the fact that country cannot be re-
built overnight or program carried
out in day, it has made no attempt
to dictate or to use it's great power
to achieve it's selfish purposes at the
expense of weak neighbor. The
policy of Patient Encouragement is
bearing better fruit than it's pred
ecessor, Watchful Waiting.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The Pier Scandal

Dock Commissioner Murray HUI
bert was able to prove on the stand
that he had tried to abate profiteer-
ing in pier leases. When the leases
for the new Staten Island piers were
being prepared he recommended the
insertion of a clause giving the city
control of the charges for "berth-
ing" 1t was received and filed" he
testified, by the Sinking Fund Com
missioners-a body presided over by
Mayor Hylan.
His Honor exhibited recently some
rather vague ideas of what a sink
ing fund is for. He knows, however,
what a Sinking Fund Board is for.
Its usefulness in this instance con-
sisted in multiplying the Dock Com
missioner's laudable efforts to end a
grave port abuse and to restrain
favored pier lessees from farming
out port privileges at scandalous
profit. The city officials who have
winked at such transactions try to
defend themselves by pointing to
court decisions constituting to the dis
advantage of the municipality some
doubtful phraseology in the present
form of contract. But no court deci-
sions prevented the Sinking Fund
Commissioners from amending the
lease form in accordance with Mr..
Hulbert's businesslike suggestions.
Is the port to be run solely as an
enterprise for the public benefit, or
is it to be operated as a plum tree"
proposition for special interests?
The Board Of Estimate and Appor-
tionment has been not whit behind
the Sinking Fund Board in trying to
parochialize the port. 1t fought the
Port Authority scheme and the uni
fication Of the harbor. 1t has tried
to limit the use of the facilities
which nature has offered the city,
but which have remained unskillfully
developed. Congestion here, as Cen
eral Black shows, is artificial. Our
terminal system is lamentably out of
date. Yet the Hylan administration
has been doing what it could to pre-
vent modern:zation Of the port,
which is indispensable if the present
excessive cost Of freight distribution
here is to be reduced.
Commerce is obstructed and scien-
tific port management is opposed;
but pier profiteering is countenanced,
and those who take toll out of de-
fective port mechanism continue to
flourish.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The Largest City9
Hard to Make Just Comparison Of
New York and London Population

Hard to Make Just Comparison of
New York and London Population
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A recent dispatch from Wash
ington states that the National Geo
graphic Society is endeavoring to
prove that New York really should be
classified as having larger population
than London, according to the figures
of the latest British census.
Radical differences in topography
and forms of local government seem to
render any just comparison extremely
difficult The Geographic Society sug-
gests taking City Hall as center and
describing circle of fifteen miles
radius, SO as to equal The area of Lon
don's metropolitan ana city police dis
trict. This would embrace not quite all
of the five boroughs and would extend
far into New Jersey. On the other
hand, it would comprise large areas Of
salt water and marsh, including the en-
tire Upper Bay, Jamaica Bay and New
ark Bay, with portions of the Lower
Bay and Long Island Sound London
is far more compact and homogeneous
Excepting the Thames, a few small
streams, such as the River Lea (Which
is the source Of the British capitals
water supply, some canals and dimin-
utive lakes, there is no water.
The Geographic Society also makes
the rather singular observation that the
County of London, which in area is no
larger than our Queens, ais still under
the 100000 mark" 1t is extremely
improbable that this mark will ever be
attained, for the reason that the
county, which might properly be de-
scribed as Victorian London, in contra
distinction to The old "City," which is
medieval London. has been declining in
population for at least twenty years;
that IS to say, since the census OF l9uts
People are moving more and more IRON
the business district into London's
"outer circle" A similar exodus has
lately taken place from the County o.
New York, or Borough of Manhattan
There is another important point. Il
New York's metropolitan area is ulti-
mately to comprise it's port area, then
the port area CT London, or at least
part of Uncertainty all of the great
docks below London Bridge-should be
similarly included According to Whit
aker's Almanac, tho port of London OF
fcially extends from Teddington Lock
to the More, distance of seventy
miles, and controls one-third of tha
commerce of the United Kingdom.
New York, Sept. II, 1921. A. E. G.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Defending the Slave Auction

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How can any one take this
"slave auction" idea as more than o
symbol or as anything but a much
needed reminder that our social de-
velopment has not become quite 100
per cent perfect or efficient since the
dark days when men actually were
auctioned off at the block? But the
most important difference is that these
unemployed men of to-day are not be-
ing auctioned-their services are being
auctioned.
The men, as soon as a bidder comes
forward, are selling their services. and
upon receiving pay for them will be
more free than if they remained un-
employed objects of charity.
AS for the sensationalsm of the
stunt something must be done to
break through public Indifference. We
are generous people, but the pressure
OF keeping our affairs running right
gives most of us little time to think
of the less fortunate. No person is
more deserving of a helping hand than
the one who wants to work but can
find no work to do. The unfortunate
thing is that the earnest, worthy and
really deserving are neglected because
OF the worthlessness of the loafers
who won't work when they are offered
work to do
would agree with any one that it
is a pity that such sensational meth
ods need be resorted to in order to
jar the complacent wellbeing of those
OF US who eat regularly, but see moth
ing "degrading" in it.
MATLACK PRICE.
New York, Sept is. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Studying the Bible
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to express my hearty
appreciation of your editorial of Sep
tember IS entitled Studying the
Bible"
have just passed the threescore and
tenth milestone on my earthly journey.
and / have been connected with tine
protestant branch of the protesting
church from my seventeenth year. Dur
ing these years l have been quite q
dlllgent reader of Biblical literature
and hearer of the preaching of MANY
noted clergymen and evangelists, in
Guiding Beecher, Talmage, Cuyler, PEN
recost and Moody. And now, as near
the cleaning of my earthly life, I am
fully persuaded of the power of the
Bible to interpret itself, and, to quote
your words, "it is the easiest book in
the world to read and understand"
The power in the preaching of Moody
and Pentecost lay in the liberal and lit
eral use of the words of the Holy Scrip
lures. We need to study and mediate
upon them, not IN the "many colored
lights of the various 'isms' of the day.
but in the clear, white light of the book
itself and with the prayer Of the
Psalmist in our hearts: Open thou
mine eyes that may behold wondrous
things out Of thy law"
HENRY VAN DEUsEN.
BROOKLYN Sent ii 1901
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The Coming 7 ower
JUDGMENT

Take me DER the trail I've trod
When the last black tide is in;
And upon the hands of God
Lie my virtue and my sin.
Let there be no empty tears;
Let no mourners go before me
When travel through the years
Backward to the land that bore me.
Where a steeple reaches high
Through the elms where robins
sing;
When against the summer sky,
You can watch the gilt vane swing,
Take me. Up the narrow aisle
Bear my body.to it's place.
Leave it there little while
Let it rest an hours space.
They will come to meet me there,
From the years of long ago;
Ere is said the final prayer
They will come, though none will
know
They will look their last on me;
They will judgment pass, unseen.
One, the boy | used to be;
One, the man I might have been.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
From a Brooklyn Voter
he Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: From your news itens on yes
terday's primary contest relative to
Haskeil's small Brooklyn vote one
would assume that the women alone
were responsible.
AS male Brooklyn voter ! wish to
state that any candidate that opposes
the Eighteenth Amendment, or the Vol
stead act, or any of the dry enfores'
ment laws, will never receive my vote
| am quite sure | am not the only enc
that holds these views here In Brooklyn
as we'll as elsewhere.
LEWIS e. H0uSLEY.
Brooklyn, Sept. IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Books p.,., Hammond zs

is set forth and scrutinized in a short
story by Louise Dutton. Madgie Carr,
being fourteen and a woman, tires of
Stub, her steady company, and covets
Pig Plummer, who is devoted to Sally
Belle. Madgie's schemes to acquire
Pig are frustrated. The period of the
romance is that in which "Rats!" was
q favorite outcry, and we said $50
way back and sit down." instead of
as zat so?'
"The Philippines for Some Filipinos"
Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan, perspi-
cacious and eloquent observer of i'm
portant circumstances and historic
events, writes her discerning impress
sions Of our nervous archipelago. She
makes keen studies of Hon. Manuel l..
Quezon, the Filipino ringmaster, and
of Hon. Sergio ]. Osmeno, who is also
wary, Oriental and patriot.
Taking a tip from Mr.. Lords advice
to the burgeoning journalist, that a
knock is better than boost, one reports
that Mrs. Egan speaks in no tender
terms of former Governor Burton Har-
rison. She includes his arrival in
Manila among the few catastrophes
she has missed, the others being, it
seems, the Creation, the San Francisco
fire, the eruption of Mount Pelee, Mr..
Cohan's withdrawal from the drama,
Pompeii, the recent dinner to Tray
cock the traveller: Waterloo. the
abrasion of the tablets on Sinai's sum-
NIT, and the denouement of the Ar
buckles. Mrs. Egan's account of the
Philippines is cool, Informative and
judicial. She is the most believable of
the important lady journalists; seem
ing to deceive not, and to be not de-
ceived
Editorials-Wise words from one of
the sanest of those who speak persua-
sively, honestly and fearlessly to a
multitude. "The Saturday Evening
Posts" editor is gentle, maste rful
and convincing councillor who seeks
to mend the broken things: and to tell
us what it is best for US to do. This
week he writes readably of "The Great
lmpasse," which treats of cosmic COM
mercial discomfitures, and of market
ing the Crops" Concerning the last
named thing, the editor says that the
only one who is clearly and indubitablv
benefited by existing arrangements is
the banker
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
The Irish Deadlock

There is surprise over the decision
of Lloyd George to postpone the Irish
parley because De Valera said ahet
the delegates of the Dali Eireann
would appear as the representatives
of an independent and sovereign
state.
It's not so much what man says
as what he does that counts. 1t is
true that the Irish leader, with an
extreme of logic suggestive of an
old-fashioned dogmatic theologian,
laid down the condition mentioned by
Lloyd George. 1t is also true that
this was hard doctrine for British
Prime Minister to ignore. But it is
also true that De Valera indicated
that if his plenipotentiaries were re-
ceived in the capacity he insisted on
they would at once enter into negoti-
ations to divest their country of
it's independence. To say that a
country is sovereign and in the same
breath express willingness to
compromise that sovereignty is to ad-
NIT its sovereignty is a Pickwickian
igment. Had Lloyd George directed
attention to the actual, rather than to
the theoretical, status of his visitors
he might have found reasons justify
ing the conference.
That which De Valera had in mind
when he took his pen in hand is not
difficult to discern. He was engaged,
if we mistake not, in the ancient and
honorable practice of saving his face.
Or, to put the matter in more COM
plimentary way, he was quieting
Sim Fein fanatics by the fuss Ind
: fury of his rhetorical defiance while
he agreed that Ireland was to re-
main politically connected with. the
federation known as the British En-
pire. Lloyd George has been widely
praised as an opportunist statesman
as one above the weakness of put
ting theoretical matters first when
practical good could be done by Tut
ting them second. In this case he
has apparently lapsed into legalism
and has neglected, on a temporary
issue, to close bargain he has been
most anxious to make.
The feeling that the verbal OUTPUT
of De Valera need not be taken too
seriously is strengthened by the
parts of his letter which deal with
self-government. AS nearly as can
be made out, his convictions with re-
spect to self-government are eclectic
and geographic. He is persuaded
that the British Empire has no right
to hold Ireland against the wish of
majority of the people Of the island.
But he is also persuaded that it is
all right for Ireland as a whole to
hold six counties of Ulster against
their wish. Then, with respect to
parts of the six counties, self-deter-
animation comes to life again in favor
OF local minorities. SO it goes on
down the line of communion. AS
nearly as it can be stated, the De
Valera doctrine is that any group
Which agrees with him and accepts
his supremacy is entitled to self-gov-
ernment, but if they keep their knees
unbent they should be deported.
Great Britain's affairs are, of
course, her own, and it is not SEEM
iy for Americans to obtrude advice.
But there will be great regret here
that the hope of an early settlement
OF the Irish question is lessened, and
lessened because the words, rather
than the concrete proposals, of De
Valera have been studied.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
friend Baron Kaneko that 'if scores

friend Baron Kaneko that "if scores
of thousands of American miners
went to Saghalin, or American
mechanics to Japan or Formosa,
trouble would almost certainly en-
sue. Just in the same way, scores
Of thousands OF Japanese laborers,
whether agricultural or industrial,
are certain, chiefly because of the
pressure caused thereby, to be a
source of trouble if they should come
here or go to Australia"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Ashamed of Ii,
Brooklyn, Sept. IA, 1921

fFrpm The sen Fraacisce ohnoaiolsl
AS evidence Of womap's ability y
keep secret, the imperial wizard o.
the ku- -klux says not enc of th"ss
made the robes for the KlaHaVk DIS
closed members identity. II seems
fair, then. to conclude that kisnsms''
consider it important not to let thes'
identity be disclosed. And net W.
naturally that is one reason why Amer
leans suspect the Klan.