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A. man in hatle to be rich stubs Ms toe on
unforciccn obstacles.
Councils' Jitney Blunder
THE present state, of tlio attempt to regu
lato the Jitneys Is a very pretty example
of Councils' political blundering. It has failed
to secure tho public jjood or servo Its own
evil purposes.
Councils started out 16 regulato; at least,
that was tho legitimate find public excuso
for tho ordinance. A bond, a driver's llcenso
and certain trafllc regulations of a minor
eort were manifestly necessary If tho pub
lic safety was to bo guarded. Tho law
enacted was supposed to accomplloh this. As
a matter of fact, an apparent dcslro to drlvo
tho Jitneys out of business nt tho suggestion
of what Interests It Is needless to speculate
dttuscd Councils to Insert Buch a drastic regu
lation of fares that tho act became virtually
confiscatory. The, result Is an Injunction
suspending tho law till September 20, when
tho Court of Common Pleas next meets. Tho
ostenstblo purposa of tho law Is thwarted,
the publio Is left without protection, and
with tho poor consolation that Councils' sin- ;
Istor designs havo failed.
There Is this much satisfaction to bo got
out of tho situation: Tho Jitneys haven't
been drlvon oft tho streets. Phlladclphlans
can get cool, quick, comfortablo rides In any
reasonable direction at a rcasonablo price.
In tho courso of their summer respite the
Jitney drivers can do a lot to Justify their
further oxlstenco. More, they can do some
thing toward molding public opinion In such
a way that Councils will bo made to sco tho
futility of Its wholc-hog-or-nono position and
enact a reasonable and public-spirited law.
Falling this, tho Jitney men can and un
doubtedly will do their pnrt toward worst
ing such a Councils In tho election which
will then bo In full swing.
Philadelphia Can Contribute
PHILADELPHIA hps over been a city of
Inventors. From tho tlmo Benjamin
Franklin astonished tho world with his dis
coveries In electricity until tho present It has
moved In tho forefront In science, Invention,
education and Industry. And now, when tho
Government is canvassing for materlnl to
placo on the Naval Advisory Board, this city
caji contrlbuto its quota of great men In
whatever capacity they aro needed.
Turning to tho national aspect of this
board which Secretary Daniels Is forming,
tho Government will do well to treat It gen
erously in furnishing funds for Investigation
and oxperlment. No salary could luro for
tho country's servlco such men ns Edison,
Wright, Maxim and Ford. They are willing
to give the country tho benefit of their
knowledge. But funds for experiment work
are -essential. Tho history of tho world is
full of Incidents where Invention was har
assed by skepticism arid lack of money. Tho
United States probably will not dlscourago
these geniuses by any such niggardly policy,
Tho Inventive genius of America, encour
aged with sympathy and urged on by pa
triotism, Is capablo of results of which tho
lay mind has never dreamed.
England Making a Sclf-Analysia
DEMOCRACY has Its advantages. But in
trying to perform Its part in tho Euro
pean war, England has found that It also
has certain disagreeable disadvantages. Re
cent events have given English optimism
some stunning body blows. One part of tho
London press la criticising nnd harassing the
Administration. Tho number of troops at
tho front In northern France and In tho
Dardanelles Is found to bo hardly half so
many as supposed, duo to tho shortage of
munitions. And now, when tho country has
rallied to tako up tho tremendous English
loan, the Government has moro obstacles to
overcome because 200,000 Welsh coal miners
go on strike.
At last the English people are beginning
to roaliro that their supremo confidence and
Imperturbability of spirit aro not a proper
substitute for the preparedness of Germany,
They aro learning slowly what Is wrong.
And when all selfish Intercuts, whether rep
resented by striking laborers or a refusal to
enlist, are .subdued, the English people will
be ready to pit their beat against the beat
of their enemies. , '
Seven Hours of Life
THERE aro butterflies that are born with
one sun, to die with the nt. Their
man-made brother, the aeroplane as Orvllle
Wright tella ua, has an average Ufa In war
time of no more than seven Iwurs. It seems
iv pUlbly short usefulness tmt a. thing into
whose marvelous contrivance goes so mjieK
of nuin'B brains nnd Ingenuity. Yet bttw
hjuc& longw is the sum at Ummm momenta m
a man's life whn b acoorapiialiM a, thins to
Justify the miracle of hl own ereatfonT
Kfr4tive Temperance Leadership
TV TIJB Nattotml Abatoiwtf Ulon
,i vr ttoe wtioie wutry. aa is planning
fp wr PWtadelpbtg, it wM b dm at t
Mt ffaotiv aids tfa tepiranc mum fasia
jwr bAd Everything that aclancft aduaa
Uoo. tn4utry and morality eaa :ac ta
btnT tnllated Eten moving pldur scenario
rUers wiij bt enrolled that the kinMfejke
way turn us liaJU 00 0I4 Pemcn Rgt.
One uf th wukuouM in tmsparanoe am-p-otriMi
1ms ta (& Jack f wMnwratiw, t-
EVtmVa
Iween tho amenta the union has enlisted and
tho church and the Sunday school. Science
nnd Industry havo segregated tho ovll of
i$Rhol as a beverage, so that such a cam
paign n that planned ought to make the
educational propaganda effective.
At tho recent national Christian Endeavor
convention In Chicago, which closed with 1U
slogan, "a saloonlesa America by 1920," Uan-
lol A. POHntr, tho superintendent, sent tho
young pcoplo away with tho messago to pro
vide In every city nnd commuhlty "a free
employment bureau and community centro
where laboring men can go," and ndded that
"cVory church ought to conlrlbulo to tho
support of a community nurse, playground,
comfort station and social betterment, ns
well ns hold religious meetings."
Tho leaders In tho temperance movement
aro showing themselves to bo men and
women of vision; but their campaigns will
bo effective only to tho extent that church
workcru convert .their pnsslvo ncccptanco of
temperanco Ideals Into actual work. Tho
Natlonnl Abstrtlnfcrs' Union promises to fur
nish tho right sort of leadership.
The Gang's Knife for Ilrumlinugh
THE Davo Lnne vnrlcty of harmony car
ries a sldo line. Atlantic City thinks It
Is n Itnlfo for Governor Brumbaugh.
Whllo tho frvo knights of tho round table
conferred at their shoro hotel, squires and
henchmen of varying degrees were said to
bo gathered in tho neighborhood listening
to orders and ovolvlng plans for tho destruc
tion of Governor Brumbaugh's personal ma
chine. Tho only purpose mentioned so far Is to
put a spoke In his chnnccs for tho Repub
lican nomination In 1910. But It Is a safe
bet that tho rock-bottom purpose, ns well as
tho rock-bottom renson, lies nearer homo.
Tho gang was ready to uso tho Governor's
good tcputntion In tho election to rldo into
ofllco on his shoulders wherover tho chanoo
offered. But events slnco last Novembor
havo been disappointing, to say tho least.
Tho Governor has put through somo men
nnd somo measures thnt Irk tho old-lino
crowd. Any half-way decent program of
reform was bound to do so. Tho rub of It
Is that Governor Brumbaugh's work In many
directions has gono a 'good deal farther than
half way, and that tho attention of tho coun
try Is beginning to centro on Pennsylvania.
Limelight is bad for the business of tho
Stato gang. Power for a Governor llko
Brumbaugh Is worse. Hcnco tho knife.
Curbing the Dynamiter
TUB du Pont Powder Company is doing
what tho Stat os or tho nation ought to
havo dono long ago. It Is going straight at
tho'root of tho bomb outrages that All tho
news columns by curbing the salo of explo
sives to Irresponsible parties. Hereafter
nobody can buy nny of tho stuf from which
tragedies nro mado uplcss his Identity and
that means, of course, his responsibility Is
known to tho firm.
Thero nro always going to bo men with
renl or Imagined grievances against indi
viduals and ngainst tho Stato. There aro
always going to bo somo of theso with so
little moral senso or so flcklo n sanity that
for a fatnl moment nn urging toward assas
sination or vandalism will rulo their actions.
Tho only wny to curb such men and to chock
the deliberate criminals who live by terror
ism Is to make tho securing of oxploslves nil
but Impossible. A littlo social sanity can do
It. Du Pont shows tho way.
Shadows on the Place in the Sun
GrERMANY'S "placo In the sun" Is under
f an eclipse. A half of tho colonial pos
sessions, whoso aggrandizement has ever
been a watchword on tho warring tongues
of Teutons, nro now shadowed over by tho
avid, swelling paunch of that arch-colonizer,
Jphn Bull. Japan has snipped off a corner
In China, Franco nibbled nt a bit of Africa,
but it Is England that Is responsible for tho
news of the ecllpso which has resulted from
her successful expedition against German
Southwest Africa, A. Bonar Law tolls Parll
ment that tho Allies now hold 460,000 square
miles of German territory, which totaled
1,100,000 before tho war.
Tho futuro Is another matter. Tho Allies
must secure n full victory If they expect to
kcop tho colonics; nnd If they make peaco on
nny decent basis of dividing torrltory by Its
Inherent nationalism, they must prove their
betters claim to lands whoro tho population
Isn't oven Caucasian. If England does keep
the territories she has captured, It will un
doubtedly mean the ago-old process of giv
ing them their freedom in many vital ways
In order to bind them securely to tho British
Empire.
But thero Is a future for tho map-making
Industry, any wny.
Carranza's offensive isn't half so much so
as his inaction.
Moran will havo his Phil of victory before
tho season ends.
Fourteen varieties of Philadelphia genius,
fourteen. Count 'em,
HuerU may learn a few things beside Eng
lish while he resides with Uncle Bam.
Kiel, the home town of tho German navy,
rejoices In a theoretic state of siege,
Let the significant fact be noted thnt Dave
Lano didn't call It a square table conference.
Of course. Germjtny attacked the Nebraa
kan by mistake. Ho Is her best friend In
America.
Germany has a queer habit of forgetting to
put her concessions In her notes. It reminds
one of other correspondents,
Tho guardsmen who participate In cocaine
scandals and "heave rooks" nt passenger
trains are furnishing valuable material for
the pacifists.
Harry Thaw must havo fpllowed Mr.
Roosevelt's trial attentively. Ha marshajed
that Jury far a photograph with m mueh
skill as tho Colonel himself could have done.
Judging from the undisguised haste Car
ran Is ehawlng ta get his Mexican hgusa
In order, President Wilson must have added
a postscript to hU recent nate oontalnlng- a
time limit.
The rumofad ruling of the Fashion Art
league of America that no baek will be
s-ompieie witho.it 38 buttpne next season
wtli probably cause more pubtte distress,
throuffc the cer toons It losplre, than
through the half dogen wives who will be ua
wfaH tousii i try to make fauMty wteM the
hat fan fcrurlr
UEPaB-PHTTJAPDPHr FtttTVAY. JTrCT Xff, 1015:
SAD STATE OF
THE WOUNDED
They Aro nn Incubua on tho Army,
Which Must Devote Itself to De
struction Instead of to Succor.
Privnte Help Needed,
By ARNOLD DENNETT
Through lha CourtMy of the Wounded AIIIm ndlef
Committee.
THE primary object of this war and of nil
wnrs Is to lacerate human flesh, to break
bones, to Inflict torture, to paralyzo and to
kill. Every army lp tho field today is out
for maiming nnd homlcldo, and for nothing
else. Certainly nrmles mnko prisoners; but
not because they want to do so; rather be
caUso they nro afraid to carry out logically
their principles. Evory explosive weapon,
from tho 42-centlmetor gun to tho servlco
revolver, Is designed, made, charged and
fired with the dcflnlto and clear Intention of
cither doing men to death or Inflicting upon
them tho severest possible disablement,
which must nearly always bo accompanied
by Intense physical paln.'nnd which very
often Involves lifelong misery nnd woe. Guns
nro nlmcd ognlnst buildings only for tho
reason thnt they servo directly or Indirectly
to protect men from murder nnd disable
ment, nnd tho purpose of destroying build
ings Is to deprive men of Borne kind of do
fonse, and thus oxporo them to destruction,
torttiro and paralysis. This Is war.
Visualizing tho Wnr
Wo seo on a poster, "Ton Thousand Cas
ualties." But wo forbear from letting tho
words raise nn Imnge In our minds. Our
conception of the nffnlr Implied by thoso
three words Is a mnthcmntlcal conception
more than anything else Wo do not sco
1000 prisoners led awny In despnlr, nor 1000
decaying corpses lying In strange, contorted
attitudes on tho ground, nor S000 tortured,
bleeding men, whoso torn nnd plorccd bodies
havo In a fow moments exuded hogsheads' of
blood. You protest that I ought not to uso
such a phraso ns "hogsheads- of blood" It
sickens you. And why should you not bo
sickened? Thoso hogsheads of blood, lacer
ated limbs, smashed bones, glazing eyes,
screams of pain, aro exactly what wo nil In
CT'cry country nskod for when wo voted sup
plies. A battory which could not point
proudly to such results might ns well splko
Its guns In shnmo. I do not say wo weren't
right. I emphatically say wo wero right.
But I also sny that wo ought at least to havo
tho pluck to realize what wo nskod for. The
Kaiser, It Is 'said, cannot bear to look on
blood. Naturally! But It Is n pity. It Is a
tremendous pity that those who causo wnr
seldom sco what tho thing Is that they havo
caused. It Is a tremendous pity that wo
cannot all of us sco on tho cinema tho fall
of a shell Into n tronch crowded with mon
and tho convulsions of tho wounded In tho
open field. What men can suffer wo ought
suroly to havo tho strength to witness!
Could wo bring ourselves to do so, could
diplomatists, overlords and financiers bo com
pelled to do so, thero would bo nn end to
war and of bellicose Ideals, even In Prussia.
War only persists' becauso pcoplo do not
realize what It K Pcoplo object to realizing
what It Is, and their dellcnto sonslbllltles nro
cnrefully respected by practically all nows
paper correspondents and writers of prlvato
letters home.
How tho Man Feels
What about the treatment of tho wounded'
In considering this wo must bear In mind
both the psychology of tho wounded them
selves and tho psychology of tho army In
general. Tho wounded man has suffered a
horrible nnd tragic disappointment, for ho,
like every soldier, hoped to cscnpo damage;
very probably this hopo nmounted to a be
lief. He knows that he has dono his duty,
nnd tho mere fact that ho Is wqunded proves
thnt he hn3 nffrontcd risks. But ho knows
also that ho Is useless for tho tlmo being, If
not for life. Ho knows thnt ho Is only In
tho way, n dead weight, a source of posslblo
danger, a drag on tho operations. Further,
his mind Is perhaps perturbed by sudden
anxieties about hla fnmlly. Lastly, ho Is In
great pain, ho 1b acutely enfeebled nnd ho 1s
helpless'. If over a human being needed
comfort, special attention and tho full aid of
medical sclenco, apparatus and highly skilled
nursing If over n human being needed to
feel that he wan the centro and chief object
of all activities In his neighborhood tho
wounded man Is that human bring.
But, on tho other hand, tho nrmy, llko tho
wounded man, knows that tho wounded man
Is useless and a dead weight. The nrmy
cannot help wishing that It might bo freed
of tho Immense Incubus of Its wounded. And
It Is well awaro that whero tho Interests of
tho wounded clash with military Interests,
military Interests must prevail nnd tho
wounded must bo sacrificed. The devotion of
Rod Cross workers and of comrades Is
superb. All Is dono that In tho circum
stances can bo done, but tho circumstances
nro nearly invariably against the wounded,
the general psychology Is against them nnd
tho Imperious prnctical-necesslties of tho sit
uation nro against them.
Nobody deserves succor as a wounded man
deserves It. Ills need la a thousand times
greator than that of tho averngo person for
whoso benefit the National Relief Fund was
established. Ministries of War cannot do all
they would wish for tho wounded. Tho de
votion of Red Cross workers, though abso
lute and marvelous. Is unequal to tho tre
mendous circumstances. The necessity of
private enterprise, especially in tho allied
armies, nnd In all tho allied armies, is so
clear, so heartrending, so compelling, that
charity was bound, as It were, to leap from
the pocket and organize Itsolf, and It has
done so.
LIFE IN FORDVILLE
From tha Detroit Free Freae.
One of the things we can't understand about
neighbors Is why they do all their loud1 laugh
Ins on the front porch after 10 o'clock at night.
I 1 ' '
THE HEEL OF THE TYRANT
From the Rochester roit Expreea,
If the claims of a Newark Janitor that he Is
a grandson of aeorge IV are substantiated, it
will have to be admitted that the hereditary
ruling elaas Is getting a firm foothold in demo
cratic America
THE TELEGRAPH BOY
Death olds hi heralds go their way
On red-rlmmed bicycles today.
Arrayed in blue With streak of red,
A boy bears tldbiga vt the dead;
Ho pedal merrily along, I
Whistling the ohoqia of a aenaj
Passing the time of day with friends,
Tjnttl the Journey almost ends.
Than, slowing down, he scans eaeh gate
For the doom'd name upon the plate
That found, be loudly knocks and rings.
Ilaade la the yellow mlssivei alun
Ills . The nwld yi at the door
"711
o answer!" and he's o ones jor.
ir through the empty years i
re bat a mother's tears I
"NkkbiuieiniiK J
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MEN OF THE MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN
George H. Earle, Jr., Has Rehabilitated So Many Bankrupt Enter
prises That His Friends Are Saying He Is the Kind of
"Business Doctor" the City Needs at This Time.
By HERBERT
This is the seventh in a series of
sketches of men who may figure in the
mayoralty campaign, intended to let the
voters know something about who they
aro and what they have done.
IN THE gathorlng twilight of tho evening
of August 10, 1911, nn elderly gontlomnn
hurried along Spring Garden street to tho
corner nt which tho great mansion of tho
Mayor sent forth upon tho dusk tho mys
terious gleam of many
softened lights. It
was high time for Mr.
Dave Lane to be go
ing somewhere. For a
great streamer had
been stretched across
Chostnut street, from
which beamed down
upon tho hurrying
world tho cherubic
and successful faco
of an ambitious
Vnre, n candldnto for
executlvo o.Tlcoln de
fiance of tho wishes
of tho overlords of
Pennsylvania. Thero
QUOnOE. II BAHLE. Jit. wna hard work bo
fiJlo tho harmonizing Nestor of tho Organ
ization. Sopn tho others came Penrose, McNlchol,
Clay, Wolf, Seger, Scott, Devlin, Martin
and Reyburn, who had permitted the uso of
his houso for this historic conference, was
there. Historic, becauso thoy wero about to
olect Rudolph Blankenburg Mayor of Phila
delphia, as events proved. But, oven if they
had known tho outcome, two of tho con
ferees would probably not havo acted dif
ferently; Penroso nnd McNlchol. Blanken
burg was not their supremo enemy nt that
moment. That enemy was tho emblazoned
Vnro, who was threatening to wipe Penroso
and McNlchol oft tho map of this Stato.
Who should be Mayor mattered littlo In
comparison with that Issue. It was wnr
to tho club, and Reyburn held the club.
Clay held It, too, as Director of Publio'
Safety. Would Reyburn hand over the
pollco club to beat down tho Vares and
wreck tho first real primary Philadelphia was
to onjoy? No, ho said, ho would not.
Anything to Beat Varo
"Then let Clay run for Mayor," said Mc
Nlchol, finally, nnd the worried Penroso
nodded.
Anything to beat Varel And surely Clay
could do It, holding tho club. Then lot
Blankenburg swamp him; tho prestige of
tho Penrose machine would bo preserved.
But Reyburn clung to the Vares, and the
fight was on.
Incldontnlly, after the meeting, when the
reporters, who had been held back nt the J
aoors oy policemen so they would not dis
turb the leaders, were allowed to seo tho
Mayor, ho remarked that several com
promise candidates had been mentioned,
among them George H. Earle, Jr. That was
the first hint the public had that the
banker might bo n candidate. Possibly It
was the first hint he had himself, The
choice showed how sore beset was Penrose.
Earle was a self-willed man. As ho eatd
himself later, he had defied the most de
termlned man In the United States, Roose
velt. There was no reason to believe that
he would blot his business career with po
litical subservience.
Bo here was the Penrose answer to the
Vare defiance: "You won't compromiser
Very well, thenwe'U give you a rival whom
the highbrows can vote for; yes, and the
Independents, too." It Is ftn Jnterestlng
study of the psychology of the "god from
rhe mae.hlne."
Earle as a BIcNiphoJ "Club"
Again, this year, when the Varea are
threatening another ordeal for the Penrose
MeXiehel prestige, the name of Harle an.
Peara as a MeNlehol "dub" over names
that pear too much of the South Phlladel
phla flaver. H.e polled seme ISO.O0O votes to
BlanHenburg's ui.OflO. and considering- the
unity of the reform ranks, the personal
popularity of their leader an the eulklna
of the Varesi that was doing pretty well
He would net be up again a Blankenhurg
In 191ft. and be would make fe, bw fw the
labor vate, a he 414 In 19H. and for eertain
MctJo&s of the business men's vote. But It
ttua eru warta Mr. U tS
aLiTll, ?' I. vww ""tf'rtttl him
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S. WEBER
crowds In, their own downtown, denouncing
tho brothers ns contract grabbers nnd falsa
friends of tho poor, buying proxies with
buckets of coal nnd baskets of food.
If McNlchol ran Earlo again, In tho event
of a factional war to tho knlfo, It would bo
as a "business doctor," nnd ns such tho
banker has an cnvlablo reputation. Hero
you havo a city (It would bo said) which
has plunged Into somo big financial under
takings, n great transit enterprise, particu
larly. What could bo moro needed than a
financial expert, who has pulled a dozen or
two companies out of tho Jaws of pordltlon,
and who can handlo millions as doftly ns a
shrewd housowlfo handles pennies? Tho
troublo would probably bo that Earlo has
not taken nny part in tho political world
Blnco his dofcat, except for brief servlco on
the Mayor's vico investigating commission.
He has stuck very persistently to business,
with his usual success1, nnd only tho other
day received a silver loving cup from tho
employes of a department store, whoso
positions ho had made tcnablo by rescuing
the concern from Us difficulties.
Succeeds Where Others Fail
Hla first feat in business doctoring was
porformed when ho was a young lawyor.
His family owned a considerable amount of
stock In tho Pennsylvania Warehousing
and Safe Deposit Company. Thoy had
bought It at 60 and It hung around 5. Then
Earlo told tho directors thoy had better
mako him president. Ho cut deadwood out
of tho concern and bought a lot of dock
property. Pcoplo said ho was a visionary,
but later tho railroads wero scrambling for
water terminals nnd ho had his turn. Tho
company sold somo of Its land at a prico
which put It permanently on Its feet. Ono
after nnother ho took tho Quaranteo Trust
nnd Safe Deposit Company, tho Finance
Company of Philadelphia, tho Tradesmen's
Bank nnd tho Market Streot National, and
mado them flourishing Institutions. When
the Chestnut Streot National Bank and tho
Chestnut Streot Trust Company went to
tho wall, Earlo became receiver. Both
banks wero full of tho paper of tho Phila
delphia Record. Tho Comptroller could not
allow tho receiver to protect these loans
with tho cash assets that wero left, so
Earlo, and Richard Y. Cook, after securing
tho Record's equity with tholr own money,
got control of tho paper, ran It successfully
for four years nnd sold It nt a big profit
Instead of pocketing tho pVoflt thoy paid
the bank's creditors 100 cents on the dollar
with back Interest, nnd nearly ns much to
tho creditors of the trust company. This Is
tho achievement of which Mr. Earlo Is most
proud. .
His next success was with tho Real
Estate Trust Company. Frank Hippie, tho
president, shot himself Jn 1908 when ho
found that Adolph Segal had mnrtn n i
of him. The big building nnd an empty
safe In It were all Earlo had to go on. Ho
asked tho directors to give him ,
2,600,000. With this ho offered tho deposl
tors, who nt ope time would havo taken 50
cents on tho dollar, one-third of their de
posits In cash and two-thirds in cumulative
preferred stock. In 60 days the doors were
reopened for business, and on the first day
new deposits of nearly $1,000,000 were taken
In. His war on the Sugar Trust followed
and the trust surrendered in the middle of
a savage lawsuit, and gave several millions
back to the Real Estate Trust Company,
A Rapid Transit
In 1901 Earle was made a director of tha
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company He
not only represented 80.000 shares of stock
hut he became one of the most Influential
tmt railway men In the country threuSl
his various holdlnge. j 1908 Wh tXK
pany faced severe criticism h6 S
thav he might state his opinion as a c! fJen
He returned to the directorate in June 19W
zB: ass
could be reator: He"; SJ " "fi
under way the wnsld.raW of a tt
sharing, plan for the oarmw, ' a IToat-
It was natural that two years lat. x.
Penrose brought him f6 lZhm
be was heralded as "the EL .
and the defender of the righu 07?htJ1T
for cheap transportation." Th ? pMpI
went of his candtoaey ,l0wL ,. T
ference with Penrose at : KJ. -
Atiantle ctty, the rJkt,C,'tM
LAW OF NATURE
Ul,fwj
t- I". At,. M.
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$W 'U.V,
Indorsement to tho candidate Through!
irnnK tfeenoy, JiiciNicnoi s rrionti, the AUUal
uuliaing Traaes council of tho America?
Federation of Labor Indorsed him, but tSl
carmen's leaders wero rebellious. They eaM
that In tho car strlko of 1910 Earlo "first r
fused to bo mediator In tho strike and thti$
entered Into n lengthy controversy with '!
I'rait, mo Btni;o icaaer, wnicn only con
fused tho issue."
Fights Government by Contractors ! i
Earlo mado his fight on "governmeht of a
contractors, by contrnctors, for contractor! ?j
Penroso also said somo amazing thlnci
about tho Vares as contrnctors. Tho wordi',!
of Penrose, tho foo of contractors, dfierrs
to bo recorded: "The so-called contractors,
leadership in tho local Republican Organ1!
izatlon in Philadelphia has for eeypraj
years beon tho subject of criticism and re.
proach through tho State. The sit
uation becomes indefensible when It cut
mlnntes In tho proposition of n contr&ct6Jj
candldato for tho office of Mayor." Edwin
Varo answered by announcing that iij
would quit as n city contractor so as not (
embarrass his brother. Meanwhile the Cat-
lln inquiry was opened ngainst U19 Varsi
erang, nnd tho Investigating commlssloa
was adjourned Just ns it was about la
prove too much.
A very pretty legal problem developed
tho fact that Mr. Earlo spont a good di
of tlmo nt his country residence, and In 1J0I
voted nt Radnor, out of tho city. Tho chui
ter says a Mnyor must havo' boon nn ltf
habitant flvo years before being clectedj
and If voting outsldo tho city within thitl
tlmo disqualified tho cnndldate, his rccoi
disqualified him. An Injunction was sough!
to prevent his namo being put on tho tlckel
Earlo replied that ho had been n. bona (Wi
resident of Philadelphia all his life, but1
DImncr Beeber, tho candldato of the Hi
publican Nomination Lengue, offered (:
glvo $1000 to somo charity If John G. Joluji
son would back Earlo' opinion. The court
refused to decide, saying It had no Jurfodle
tion till Earlo should bo elected, so tl1n
tcrcstlng point was never decided.
But Penroso won his main point. El
defeated Varo nt tho primaries by 105,155 Jo, 3
82,256, with Beeber n bad third with 13,
una ino nonaior, "roe or contractor govern-;
ment," remained boss of Pennsylvania. "
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THE NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Our statesmen would ns well refrain from
speaking two or three times on tho auMect ofj
the German note until tho President ahail have
nan tlmo to think once. Houston Pout
So great are the nreacnt responsibilities rests
Ing upon Woodrow Wllgon that the qumtlon oil
ins position m tne 1916 campaign ngurea ais
comparatively small politics. Washington 8tMj
How astounding It Is that Germany doe 1
seo that this country's answer to the Gent
. proposal must be the same answer that ifa
Biyen oy Belgium to the same proposal!
Charleston News and Courier.
Mr, Bryan correctly notes that an embargo oaj
unns snipments would be unneutral. But ?
pose euch an embargo were forced on her GW'i
eminent in retallatlnn fnr this nrhltrnrv Intel;
ference with nM v.....i ..n,t.,ritnrAUlea'.
Sentinel. , W
This Is Carranza's great chance. HU AMI
novo snouiq be to seo that the people or iflji
"i"'i city are led. This would not only net.
win the sunnort of h nrn! vltallv concerned
but must apponl to the favor of the world :
nothing else could do. Springfield Republicans,
COLQUITT AS MEXICAN HARMONIZE!
To the Editor of tha Evening Ledger J
Sir I hope you will nardon this maiden effwOT
of mine in calling the American pubiu a tj
tentlon to your editorial of yesterday enUtll
w "eican Whirligig," and to the pronounww
mem or j'regident Wilson on the impossiw"
Of further nnornhv in xrAvf.n Will tha lOBff
suffering American mibllo ask the horttSIV
President Wilson why the good offices of !
,uii, w. u. coiquut, governor 01 a "r
not, accepted some 18 months ago, wnen n
clearly shown that he was the only man vr
could bring peace to MexIco7
JOHN S HAWKEY
Philadelphia. July U.
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