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FOR JUL.T WAS 121.009.
rfcUadtlphli. ThonJtj, Autnil II, 1916.
To understand all is to become
Very lenient. -Madame de Stael.
Vfhon the schools opon there will
be E00O fewer part-tlmo pupils than last
year. This la progress In tho right direc
tion. Once It was tho high cost of living.
Now li Is tho super-high cost of living.
Tho next Btage Is It the soup house coat
of living?
Administration hopes tho strike
wilt be delayed. Headline.
Tho rest of us hope that It will he
Indefinitely postponed.
Hughes motors 10,000 feet above
sea level. Headline.
Yes, but he never goes up In tho
fclr so far that his feet lcavo tho ground.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has put
an embargo on the shipment of explo
sives, but this will not prevent the po-llce-ln-polltlcs
lssuo from traveling back
and forth from tho shore to the city as
usual.
Tho Mayor says ho will send those
policemen who refuse to patrol their
beats properly to "Siberia," meaning the
fringes of Philadelphia. Crooks who
mako suburban rcsldenco burglaries a
specialty will be grateful.
Tho President told Congress this
was no time to (place tho blame for fall
tiro In tho past, to enact the legislation
V which ho says would bo valuable and
necessary even If there were no railroad
crisis. EUhu "Root's speech before tho
Bar Association glvc3 ono cluo in the
mystery of fixing the blame. He finds
our youngest and least experienced law
yers getting into Congress. Such legisla
tors aro simply not equal to the task of
far-sighted legislation1.
Contributions to the Children's
Country Week Association have fallen
off greatly, due to the mistake of many
patrons in believing that its -work for
the season is about through. As a mat
ter of fact, tho Infantile paralysis 'situa
tion has made the activity of tho asso
ciation more necessary than ever. It is
taking: city-ridden children Into the vital
izing air of the country and preventing,
no doubt, many of them from contract
ing disease- The Country Week Associa
tion la an enterprise well worthy of the
support of the community.
The destruction of the Memphis by
a. tidal wave In San Domingo harbor re
calls the wreck of tho warships Trenton
and Vandalla by a hurricane at Samoa a
few years ago. Bach was due to condi
tions over which human beings had no
control. The San Domingo tidal wave
woo probably causod by a submarine
earthquake of which it is 'impossible to
get advance Information, and the sea
lifted the 14,600-ton mass of steel and
burled It upon the rocks as if it had been
a chip of wood. This sort of thing hap
pens often enough to keep man from getting-
too vain of his might.
Berlin was rather too quick to dis
count the effect of the Rumanian dec
laration of war, and was evidently far
from prepared for the emergency. The
chief of staff. Von Falkenhayn, was bo
opposed to sending troops from the hard
pressed zones, where they are badly
needed, to he new theater that his dis
missal was necessary to co-ordinate the
readjustments in strategy. The fact that
there is such radical difference of opinion
In .the staff la significant enough. More
significant Is the Inference that In the
yes of German strategists the fata of
Austria now hangs in the balance.
The President lias said that new
taxes have to be levied because the fall
ing off of importations on account of the
war has reduced the returns at the cus
tom houses. The total Importations for
lbs. Jat fiscal year wero 12.197,833,310.
The total Importations for the Ascal year
ndlng June 30, 1914, the year before the
war began, were Jl,893,925,567. There
seems to have been' a considerable in
crB in importations. The revenue pro
ucad by the Payne-AIdrlch law in the
Uitt year when it was In force was $318.
14tt344. or 17.8 per cent on the total im
parts. The revenuo produced by the
TJnderwoodSLmmgna law last year was
$211,863,222, or ,9.9 per cent on the Im
ports. If the 17.8 per cent duties of the
jUpubllean law had, been levied last year
th custom houses would have yielded
TJS,000 more than was collected. The
J)ocrst!will have to find some other
r9a ir lbs allure of their revenue
lattitiztUm thUM the falling off in lroports.
Cta of tba comioonest bromides la
Um hbm 4tm et ib railroad, wage qua.
Man J t&x & gearR4teW r pal
tm miim we ww run tn tranw
leo HMfc. W jam toW that no jean U
pMfe mM ytr. Tbwa an not
;' mm wnrtk titat ww, K U true,
- kw m&tm ntB tat mibiMd. tta ks
MR teii." t W imxt MM PUW it iat
feet so that it earns dividends on Its
common and preferred stock he deserves
nit that the grateful shareholders feet
like paying him. There are many such
Business geniuses In charge of the rail
roads today. If they have not rescued a
road from bankruptcy they have pre
vented it from going Into the hands of A.
receiver In these times when both the
State and tho National governments
have been making it difficult for the trans
portation companies to do business at a
profit. Thero aro somo men who can't
be paid more tlian they aro worth. It
would bo cheaper for this city to give
an executive genius $lOo,000a year to
rescue It from tho tangle In which Its
business affairs aro Involved than to
worry along with a commonplace cx
ccutlvo who receives only $12,000.
INCONCEIVABLY NEFARIOUS
TTTE TRUST that every citizen of Phil-
' ndelphla, particularly thoso who havo
not taken tho trouble to vote In recent
years, has read and Inwardly digested the
following statement by Mayor Smith:
1 have been" In politics for yeara.
I know what things aro done and that
knowledge Is guiding mo now. But I
never dreamed that politics could leftd
men to do such thlng3 as 1 have dis
covered havo bcon dono In Philadel
phia, My mind Is made up, and I am
going to teach policemen that they
cannot tnko orders from tho outside
and expect to get away with It.
This ndmlsslon that tho pollco have
boon taking orders from tho outsldo Is
interesting, but it la not news. Yet tho
pollco were not taking ordors from tho
outsldo a year ago. They wore not In
politics then. Thoy got Into politics be
cause tho Mayor appointed as their chief
a well-known politician. Ho appointed
him for political reasons, and that was
as much notice as the pollco forco needed
that a political reglmo was in the saddle,
wherefore holding ono's Job depended, In
the event, on obedlonco to tho instructions
of politicians.
Wo say in nil seriousness that tho
Mayor invited tho situation of which ho
complains, and ho knows, as everybody
elso knowa that thero Is not tho remotest
possibility of changing that situation so
long as Director Wilson Is retained In
office. To try Superintendent Robinson Is
meroly to trifle with tho Issue, for, what
ever his delinquencies, they flowed from
and had their origin In tho acquiescence
of tho Director of Public Safety. Either
so, or that Director Is a babo In tho woods,
utterly incapable of filling tho office which
ho holds. -
Tho Evening Ledoer can havo no con
fidence in tho professions of the Mayor,
nor do wo bollevo any fair-minded citizen
can, until he has mado thoso professions
good by tho ejection of tho politician
under whoso reglmo tho monstrous con
ditions to which the Mayor confesses havo
reached their fruition.
But far more important to Philadelphia
than the Mayor's declaration that tho
police force is ruled by politicians Is his
nalvo announcement that even he, hard
ened in the roughest school of politics
known and inured by long acquaintance
to its immorality and lawlessness, could
not conceive that men would do such
things as "I have discovered have been
done in Philadelphia."
So often have tho newspapers pointed
out the nefarlousness of the gang that
each now revelation of wickedness has
almost fallen flat. High-minded citizens
simply would not bellevo that the things
It was declared wero being done could be
dono. Yet hero Is the Mayor himself,
elected by tho gang, confessing the fact.
It is enlightening; It is illuminating; It
Is humiliating.
Wo have no comment to make. If a
city deliberately votes for such govern
ment It gets what it wants. We doubt if
there can be Impartial and honest en
forcement of law with a gang Mayor in
City Hall. But we do venture to hope
that Mayor Smith will oust Director Wll
Bon and, having done that much to clean
things up, will devote his attention to the
great community enterprises for which
money has been voted. The electorate
will take care of the gang when the next
election comes along. Meantime Phila
delphia Is waiting for the Mayor to get
busy on business. There will be a con
ference today relative to the floating of
some bonds In the near future. It de
cency In government cannot be obtained
straightway, at least S50O a day can ba
saved by paying the mandamuses which
now bear interest at 6 per cent.
A LITTLE GOOD IN A BIG
BLUNDER
TTTB HAVE no faith in the Government
YV shipping bill as such, .It is a mis
erable effort to purchase an Industry
which can be developed and matured only
by the native enterprise and devotion of
business men. The American has never
yet failed to grasp an opportunity for
profit. Show htm whero his skill can
ba productive of returns and he la game
for a try. He has been legislated .off the
seas and In addition the development of
his own country has offered a fairer
chance for investment. But his forebears
needed no subsidies to carry the flag to
the far seas nor Government money to
get them vhlpa. There was a carrying
trade to be got and they got it.
We vew with soma hope, however, the
creation of a shipping board. It has long
been apparent that a commission of ex
perts was necessary to advise Congress
as to the best means of rehabilitating our
niaiuie, It may ba that this shipping
board will be able to perform the func
tions of such a commission, to derive, in
fact,, from its own experience a knowledge
of the fundamental requisites for a- res
toration of tha Hag: on the high seas. Its
jFftcoamwidatloaa would have behind
ttwt tt TrJht of, aatkority which might
wy b provKtlv oi caod,
EVBNIHG iiEDaBE-lILADELPHlA HUBSBAY, AUGUST 31,
Tom Daly's Column
TUB BUM OF BUMMER
Done tho dash-dinged days dulled "dog";
Ucre'a the Slit of Aug.t
A3 LONG as we can remember one of
Xl our most vivid notions of tho acme
of luxury was to bo traveling somewhere
on a cool autumn day that Is to say,
nfter the heated term usually associated
with tho holidays of tho common people
and to settle back, nfter tho Pullman
porter had Intel our light overcoat and
now fall hnt In tho rack, to tho leisurely
leading of tho Atlantic Monthly.. Wo
used to think tho Atlantic tremendously
literary, but every onco In a while of lato
years wc'yo had that notion Jolted. Oc
casionally It prints poetry sufficiently
human to bo classified ns "newspaper
verso." Such a thing Is In tho current
number. It's called "Newark Bny," and
It's got stuff In It too good for Newark, in
splto of tho fact that It's freo verso and
In splto of such low-tldo lines ns these!
Hut 1 like Newark Bay.
You don't know whero It Is unless you are a
Jersey commntorl
And no cllfts encircle It. . .
No famous cities lend It a llttlo of their renown.
No beautiful bulhllnen are reflected In it.
No typhoon ever toro It out of Us bed.
Nor Is tho color ot It very wonderful.
Never mind. ,
It has n wonderful war of catching color from
tho sun.
YOUR correspondent, C. C. S., opens up
somo forgotten floodgates of memory, or
words to tho samo general effect. Thus
It Is remombored: Cy Hall was translated
to other worlds in tho courso of human
events. He was a Baptist. Tho Daptlst
minister was 111 and could not, naturnlly,
conduct tho services nt tho funeral. Good
old Eldor Blakoly, of tho Presbyterian
Church, was called In hurriedly. He be
gan his prayor: "O Lord, as Thou know
est, when I left home this morning I did
not even know that this our brother was
dead." TAB.
Inheritance
In Donegal, whero old romance yet blows
O'er hill and hearth, tho children In the
blast
Of storm hear cries and clashing arms of
thosa
Whose dreams wore deeds, In Eire's liv
ing past.
And looking on tho fields with clover
spread,
Thoy never stop to pick tho wind-stirred
bloom;
Thoso flowers might be tho blood their
fathers shed
Now come to ruddy blossom on their
tomb.
They loot: upon tho lifted sea that flows
In mountains shoreward, breaks and piles
again; '.
The winds, they say, thus heap a calm for
thoso
Who have God's acre in the unmarked
main.
I never saw the fields thoso children see,
The fog-scarfed mountains, nor the hilly
deep,
But shared their every dream and memory
Only tho age-long hates I cannot keep.
For there they lay, my fathers and their
foes.
As in ono grave they watt the trumpet
call;
O'er some the foam, o'er somo tho clover
blows,
Tho while they'ro sleeping long In Don
egal. CHARLES L. O'DONNELL.
WE don't know what spell Krlcghoff
wrought in his sketch of Miss Sykes as
she appeared in court though wo fancy
the secret lies in the treatment of tho
oyo3 under the hat brim- but It lent a
distinction to our front page yesterday,
that's all.
THE sharp eyes of W. T. Door, aboard
U. S. S. Connecticut at League Island,
detcotcd this premature explosion on
Tuesday morning, wherein a Democratic
morning contemp. was "hoist with his
own petard":
"Mr. Daniels shows that our navy lost
second place In the world In 1911, when
Mr. Roosevelt was President This pricks
the Oyster Bay nubble."
ANOTHER morning contemp. and I.
F. G. Is the Informer was guilty of this:
He was overcome by smoke and
badly burned while trying to extinguish
the fite In the boiler room. At the
Jewish Hospital small hope was held
out for his recovery. Mr. Steffy has
nine lives and children at 1589 Lom
bard street.
Very likely a member of tho same re
markablo family Is Fireman Ambrose M.
Sherman, of Engine Company 63, who,
according to o. o. dear paper, "has sacri
ficed his life many times to help others,
and who now offers his blood for ex
perimentation in infantile paralysis
cures."
Passing through Albany, George A.
Fernley, of this burg, was delighted to
read in the Knickerbocker Press that Al
bany lui-snds to send a big delegation to
the convention of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association next month, and
that the Albanians expect, among other
things, to visit "Benjamin Franklin's
house In Falrmount Park, the largest nat
ural municipal park in the world; the
treaty oak In Kensington beneath which
Franklin signed the treaty with the In
dians." Heavens I Is It Possible?
That's what we said and right out
loud, too when, sitting at our desk, we
read In the Springfield (111.) News
Record: Twenty Years Ago Today
Auiutt IS, 188S.
Mrs. Mary Piper left for a visit In Mon
mouth. Tt. II, McAnulty returned from a business
trin to (micoro.
deorgo M. Buck, a clerk in the Leland
Hotel, left tor a visit In Chicago.
Ml Bertha Buck raturned to this city
after a two months' visit in Philadelphia
and other eastern cities.
BILL Rocap wasn't too busy vacation
Injg to do a little scout work for us, He
says he saw this sign outside a restau
rant on Falls street, Niagara Falls;
A LA CARTE WAITRESSES WANTED
And, sez BUI. maybe they'd prefer
peaches In pairs.
And Bon No. 3 reports that a friend told
htm of a sign under a Reading (Pa. Dutch)
doorbell which ran :
BUTTON WONT BELT
BUMP n addition which the Lkdobr dassl
fled ad. depL supplies evidence of a, firm
which advertised for a bookkeeper Mnot
taller than five feet Avo Inchea." This
was a necessary qualification because, the
bookkgeplng dopartmant was located la a
mossatUae gallery.
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PfFniSiP ADMlMlSTR-ilil
-REVELATIONS OF
Confessions "Filthy Beyond Description" Found in It His Friends
Denounced as Ireland's Worst Enemies.
Sinn Fein Outrages
By ALFRED NOYES
Believing the American people Jiavo
a wrong impression of the Irish re
bellion and tho British Government's
attitude thereto, Mr. Noves, after a
personal investigation and a perusal of
Sir Roger Casement's personal diary,
offers this message to all Americans.
Mr. Xoycs holds tho chair of English
literature at PrincetoH and has spoken
in more than S00 American cities as a
poet and- publicist.
CERTAIN features of tho Irish rebel
J Hon have been overlooked by many
friends of the Allies' cause in tho United
States.
In this particular matter whatever
the blunders of England may have been
In the past It Is possible that hero mod
erate estimate of hor own case In the
Irish rebellion may eventually redound
to hor credit as did her first moderato es
timate of tho Jutland battle.
Neither Ireland nor Irish-Americans
desire to mako martyrs of men who, by
the "sudden publication of cortain records
quite unconnected with politics may
mako every Irishman ashamed of the day
on which he helped to canonize thorn. '
Tho cry "God help Ireland" will take
on a new significance If Irishmen begin
to think that any political Injustice done
to them in the past allows them, for In
stance, to murder their own countrymen
Indiscriminately. And these rebels, be
yond tho shadow of a doubt, did mur
der, ruthlessly, deliberately and Indls
crlmlnately, men, women and children,
their own kindred, without even tho
slightest attempt to discover whether
their victims were in political ngreement
with them or not.
This new method, devised by Irishmen
of the very lowest and vicious personal
character, was a criminal tyranny of a
kind that hag been unknown anywhere
in civilized Europe, even in Germany,
probably even In Turkey, for more than
two hundred years.
Wen the Germans do not exercise their
"frightfulness" Indiscriminately against
their own people. They do not shoot Herr
Dernberg in cold blood, because they see
him posting a letter in Berlin, Nor do
they massacre their own wounded sol
diers for riding on the top or a bus. Nor
do they shoot their own women and chil
dren for the mere fact that they hap
pened to ba alive. Nor do they fire on
ambulances, carrying their own wounded;
and every one of these things the Irish
rebels were convicted of doing over and
ove,r again.
I ask these persons In America who
accuse England of "ruthlessness" what
steps she should have taken, under the
existing machinery of law, to deal with
certain cold-blooded murders that had no
'relation of any kind either to politics or
to nationality, - "Qod help Ireland" In
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
From the West comes the news that Mr.
Hughes's tariff speeches are most enthusi
astically received. Yet tho Democratlo man
agers are not satisfied. They declare that
he is "talking time-worn, tariff twaddle."
Reports from Maine indicate that Republi
can votes are being made there by the dis
cussion of the tariff and of a true Ameri
canism that will make an American proud
of his nag anywhere In tho world even
In Mexico. Bridgeport Standard.
"i '' "' "
The publlo generally believes in the eight
hour day for workers, but there must b
grave doubt as to the wisdom of the uao of
tha presidency to force It upon employers
and then tell tha employer to go and col
lect from the public, It Is an assumption,
Of power that may prove, d&sgerova 1 the
precedent Is followed. ac4 max work as
PILING UP
CASEMENT'S DIARY
deed, If her friends can look through a
mist of rbmanco at tho spectacle of Irish,
criminals deliberately firing on tho
women who wore attending wounded.
Romance and beauty and sorrow havo
clothed Ireland like a garment in tho
past; but thero Is not a ribbon, not oven
a red ono, to bo added by thoso men who,
fully nrmed, approached tho unarmed
Irish constable at tho castlo guto and
shot him,1 without warning, through tho
heart.
It was a daughter ot Ireland only
eighteen years of age that another felon
shot In tho name" of Irish freedom, out
side the Dublin Postofllce, for no crlmo
but that sho was young and helpless. If
this bo a subject for tho harp of Erin, tho
sooner that every string bo broken and
every echo of it dead tho bettor.
When the rebellion began, It took tho
unprecedented form of an attack by
.armed men in tho streets of Dublin upon
crowds of absolutely unarmed people.
Nono of tho soldlere, none of tho police,
wero armed. Tho Sinn Felners deliber
ately fired on wounded and crippled men,
homo from tho front.
A poor carter was Bhot dead In St.
Stephen's Green because he did not at
once hand over his master's cart to a
Sinn Felner. Does any true Irishman
glorify this?
At Castlo Belllngham, a young man
motoring through tho town was mado to
stand against the roadsldo with an un
armed policeman. The Sinn Felners, with
out oven the" court-martial neutrals have1
characterized as "ruthless" when held by
England, shot the policeman dead and
he young man through the lungs.
Wo might, of course, have sent thoso
who killed and wounded 400 of our sol
diers a handsome Invitation to the funer
als, with an emerald ribbon attached.
One Irish soldier In a London hospital
on. hearing of It, cried, "By God. It's the
Irish themselves aro shooting men and
women now for the wearing of the green!"
And the chief Jeader of these rebels
I cannot print his own written confes
sions about himself, for they are filthy be
yond all description. But I have seen
and read them and they touch thelowesc
depths that human degradation has ever
touched. Page after page of his dlaiy
would be ap Insult to a pig's trough to lot
the foul record touch It The Irish will
canor-ize these things at their own potil.
Let not Ireland be "too late" In re-
osmizlng the burning fidelity to their tru's
cause in what Mr. Redmond has told
them of the nature of this foul blow
pot at England but at Belgium, at
France, and at Freedom herself; for It
was delivered In collusion with the most
sinister enemies of all that Ireland pro
fesses to believe In.
greatly to the disadvantage of the workers
as of, the employers. Springfield News
Record, There . Is one issue that dominates all
others and can awaken tho Interest of
voters, and that Is the subject of adminis
tration. The country can do without poli
cies and legislation for a generationbut
It cannot get along wlthqut an honest and
efficient administration, Ohio State Jour
nal, Underlying this question of . arbitration
Is the Question whether those li charge ot
the railroads of the country and that
means both sides to this eight hour and
overtime Pv question are at to bo trusted
with antral nt Rl Vital ami unn-..,M
pubtto. Interest s the maintenance ot thj
wuitry dz-J-Uw-uk Eiwl,
1916.
What Do You Know?
Ourrics of general tntertit iclli lis answertd
In this column. Ten euemons, the answers to
which tveru wcll-inlormed serton should knoie.
are aiked dally.
QUIZ
Ahont hotr mnny lawyers ore there In the
United .State?
What nillrouds are comprised in the "Biff
Tour"?
Who uas Whtstltr?
Who was, Oarlbaldl?
Drnrrlhs tlm iroccus In the arts called
"stliwllnc."
What are riparian rights?
Whrro and ultat Is Parnassus?
What Is the crow's nest an a vessel?
What Is a fortnlcht?
What Is a dcmltasst?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Transylvania: the southeastern part of
lluncury, now Invaded Ir the Itusso
lttunanlans. Coollesi unskilled laborers ot India and
eastern Aslu.
Gobellnt a famllr of French drrrs. part
of whose property heenme the homo of
tho fumous tapestries which bear tho
mime of the orlstnul owners of the place
of manufacture.
Mercerized coods: those treated by n chemi
cal Drocpss which Imnnrts a nermanent
silky lustre to the fabric.
(MiMlmo I'orto or l'orte: seat of the Tur
kish (lOTcrnment nt Constantinople.
Sapphires are usually a transparent bine.
Thntrhed roof: one mnde of straw, rushes
or (In tropical countries) ot cocoanut and
other leaves.
Terpsichore: the Muse of danclnr.
Golferlnc: to make wavy or crimp with a
neuieu iron, utunur rrierrin? io tne treat
ment oi plans or irius.
10.
Ukulele! o Hawaiian strlncrd Instrument,
small und shaped like n. cultar.
Inheritance Tax
It. J In Pennsylvania estates of less
than $:E0 are exempt from Inheritance tax.
Bequests to parents, husband or wife, chil
dren or- lineal descendants, stepchildren,
adopted children, wife or widow of son are
exempt, but bequests to all others are sub
ject to a 5 per cent tax by the State.
One-Armed Attendants
Editor of "What Do You Know" A.
friend of mine says he knows of a one
armed man who Is an 'attendant In an In
sane asylum In this State. I claim that the
State would not allow a one-armed man to
bo an attendant In such an institution.
E. J, P.
Many of the attendants have their hands
full subduing violent patients, but, ot course,
all Insane persons are not violent, some
needing only supervision ond no restraint,
and It would not be a calamity if a one
armed men were placed over those patients
who are incapable of doing harm to them
selves or othevs. However, If you will state
which asylum 13 referred to and what ward
In that asylum, it should be possible to
learn whether or not a one-armed man Is
employed there.
Incomes in Porto Rico .
L. I. S, Only one person In Porto Itlca
had an, Income In excess of J 100.000 last
year, according to Income tax returns re
cently received by the Tax Bureau of the
Insular Treasury. Of the largest individual
Incomes recorded for 191S there are 0 in
excess of 150.000. and of these 20 It range
between fBO.OOO and S7B.O0O, Ave between
576.000- and 1100,000 and one above 1100 -000.
Sjxty-slx Individuals are assessed o'n
personal incomes ranging between 120 000
and 150.000. In all there are 957 individ
uals and 1J1 corporations taxed on Income.
The total revenue amounts to 1120,000 as
compared with 177,000 for the previous
year,
United States Aero Service
Editor o "What Do You KnoWJ-Where
can I get Information about the united
States Aero Service; how to join, the pay
of members, the training school and so
forth? k H "u
A letter of inquiry addressed to the Sec
retary of War, Washington. D. cT, will sa.
cure all the Information you wUh,
A Quotation From Browning:
- W. L. The lines you quote ar ,-.
Browning's "A Soul's Tragedy." The com
plete passage Is as follows: "Ever iudgs
of men by their professions. For thoufh
tho bright moment of promising! but a
moment, and cannot be prolonged.' v i
sincere In Its moment's extravagint rood,
nej. why, truat It, and know th??
by It-Hot by hU wrtormancTwhlch teSg
the world's work. Interfere as the www
needs must with Its accidents and clwum
stances the profession. wa m$$?uZ
man's own, I judge ppi$ by what tbi?
laigH be o,q. are. or ! ?. ' ls,y
THE VOICE OlA
THEPEOELE
iAn Analysis of tho Railroad Sit
uationConcerning tho Iden.
tity of Gibboney
TM Cfpnrfmoif. I fre to all ...
Ivlsh to express their opinions in S5tes
current Inleresr. It is fin open fnum'Wf.tf
vaHvo htdper assumes no rerm?il,i57'M
the wlctos oi its correspondent, 5,,1'' ?
be sinned bv the name ana'aMiV,PrK,'un
A PLEA FOR THE RAILROADS
To the Editor of the Evening Ltiaer-
Sir At this critical Juncture of th"
road situation, when both sides r Iami i
for publlo sympathy, I believe "comr?,?.
son between tho trainmen and th ."
gers would not bo amiss n Wan'
Let us conslSer first the employer,, th
havo met tho 1 arbitrary demnnds of iu
men In a conciliatory spirit. Thtr
willing to arbitrate, but quite naturaii .'
fuso to bo held up. ' n'
Thus fnr they havo shown a great ri.M
for the public welfare by not reiCiiIS
tho ultimatum Immediately, which, ilw
respecting men, they hnd every moral tltto
to do,
Contrast this spirit with tho attllM.
of the employes. "
From tho outset they have shown lli
they to uso a vernacular expression "dW
glvo n hang" for tho public, Just so' tWi.
demnnds aro granted.
Indeed, thoy nra taking advantage of lKt ;
very fact, to forco tho publlo to bring breu
sure to boar o;i tho railroads. The offw
to nrbltrato was met with nn obstnti
refusal. All that tho trainmen ask must
bo granted, or tho public will suffer Thst
Is their code; tho "Inw ot tho Medea arnt
Persians which nltereth not."
It Is qulto obvious, who, In the event
of a strike, will bo to blnmo for tho terrl.
bio calamity. In which case tho publla
should not bo permitted to suffer wlth6ut
railroad facilities for oven a fraction ol a
second. It should then be up to our "Gov.
ornment of tho 'people, for the people and
by tho people" to call out the army, state
mllltla and all nvallable Government efti
ployes for railroad service. Congress
should provide nil necessary authority.
It Is tho duty of all fair-minded, public
spirited citizens, who have the love of
liberty and fair play at heart, to do all
In their power to ' defeat the shameless
men Who visit destruction upon the coun
try, merely to further their own selfish la
torcsts. R. M. a.
Philadelphia, August 29.
WHO IS GIBBONEY?
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir As you havo of lato quoted Mayor
Smith and D. Clarence Gibboney, I am
somewhat In doubt as to what city posi
tion Mr. Gibboney holds. If he does not
hold any official position, what does he gala
through all this publicity?
Is he connected with John Dunk and Wil
liam Coin in tho detectlvo business or
what? Has ho any more legal rights
than any other citizen?
Kindly print this and perhaps some per
Bon can glvo tho, people Borne Idea hat
Gibboney gain's through his theoretical
work. GEORGE 3. QRANTLY:
Philadelphia, August 29.
NO SAFETY WITHOUT FORCE
To f ho. Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Our country is the first In wealth,
population, manufacture and agriculture
and Its greatest need Is power enough to
protect Its pcoplo and Industry. If we wast
to stay the first nation of the world
must Increaso.our fighting strength as tht
population increases, and there is only on
way to do this, and that Is to have military
training in the schools, to keep the children
In good health and to have every' one la s
position to protect his country at a mo
ment's notice
Wo all know that a country cannot t
money and prosperity and no' armyasi!
navy and have it long. So what we need,
is preparedness, and tho sooner we get this'
tho better. PAUL L. BODQEE3.
Mexico, Pa., August 30. "'
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