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IT IS A SHOWDOWN
XUii KNOW no partisanship hi this uai
and no politics. Any American who de
votes himself to the seivlto of either In
this ffreat rrlsit belonirs In hell lire and Is
sure enough of Betting thcie. Men have
lived who played politics on the blink of
the precipice. It Is tiue, and too often they
fell oer. diaggiug their countries with
them; but t,o assume that In tho titanic
tragedy now being enacted there Is no re
sponsible citizen with pettiness m In
grained In his character that he would
sacrifice his count! y and tho hope of hu
manity to the selfish purposes of personal
preferment or a dastardly plan of political
advancement to the pern of national
success.
We are extremely gratified that tho
President met Senator Chamberlatri's ud
dress In Xen- Tork with a sharp public
ktatemeut. Ood h.ive us fiom a Chief
K.Teeuttve who has putty whore his spine
ought to bel (iod vavc us fiom a President
who will not hit back and hit back haid
when the essential policies of tho Adminis
tration In such a period of hires aio as
sailed! We want a man In the White
TIouso who Is willing to put tho Issue up to
the country and who Is to convinced of
tho Integrity of the organization he com
mands that he Is ready to meet Its critics
In the open and fight In tho open. Mr. Wil
son might have rested on his dljjnlty and
stood pat. He preferred to call niiiMt'H a
show-down. He must have n hand or he
would hae bluffed.
But we need not accept the I'lestdenfs
declarations as a teimlnatlon of tho con
troversy. Par fiom It. What we applaud
Is his readlnes to meet tho Issuo huuarely
now- He Is unquestionably light when he
states that the task which confronted the
AVar Department was one "of unparalleled
magnitude and difficulty." So It was and
U. So, too. Is he unquestionably eortcct
in declaring that to assert thcie Is "ineffi
ciency In every depattment and luue.iu of
the Government is to show such Ignorance
of actual conditions as' to make-it Impossi
ble to attach' any Impcutance" to' the
charge. Senator Chambeilaln spoke ex
temporaneounly. Ills address was somewhat
misleading, for he explains that "my argu
ment was dhected to the mllltaiy estab
lishment and not to other depaitments of
the Governnjent," lie does not give the
other departments a clean bill of health. He
has not studied them and he has studied
the War Department. He alo explains that
"Secretary Paker's effoits to better his
organization have my utmost approval He
has made much improvement, but the In
herent weakness of his leorganlzatlon Is.
that nobody between the army and the
President has legal authoilty." An Imme
diate result of the challenge and reply,
therefore. Is to'nariow the Issue to a feasl
ble test. That Is a gain.
The abortive attack of Se.ialor Stcne.
who loves to play with fire, commands
little respect and canles even less weight
because the Senator's policies in lato
mAnths have been painfully distasteful. It
Ua served, however, to clear the atmos
phere. We may anticipate a debate of tho
rlrst magnitude. In which many whlsperod
charges will come to the front, and the
country will be oblo to gather from it con
clusions considerably more definite than
ny now in vogue. Wo Imagine that the
ge'ntlemen attacked by the Senator from
Missouri are quite as patriotic an he ever
w3 or will be. We can afford to give up
(he search for hidden motives and credit all
alike with sincerity.
It would be a miracle If the organization
of this prodigious war had gone forward
perfectly. The Presdent admits that It lias
not. He asks for a nod of confidence on
the ground that mistakes are being cor
rected UH fast as they 'are dUcovered and
that no blunder is repeated. That is good
enough, but, as we pointed out the other
day, mere efficiency Is not satisfactory:
ya must have superofflclcncy. A war three
thousand miles across seas against a power
ful enemy cannot otherwise be concludod
1 auccessfulli. We are going to have to
' lake into of power and ability, suck them
dry In the riatluiml sen Ice and then throw
thJri overboard with as little ceremony
s If they were beggars. That Is what
L'ngland has had to dq, and -Prance, to bay
nothing oC Germany Let any man's nerves
tt wrecked and every ability that Is in him
It fcquetd out by the pressure of war, If
need be. Some must clvo their Uvea and
others, what Is Ueurer than life, their repu
tations. Xor need any man, oven the res
ident, expect to oscupo tho tlarta of brltt
ctsm. Tho job's tho thine, ntid tho' only
thing, and tho Joli must bo done no matter
who or what falls by the wayside.
An) body who spends a day In Washing
ton knows that thcro arc many things
which must bo corrected. The Hcniito is
striving. as bout It may, to device a remedy.
The explosion yesterday tor It was mi ct
plosion Is going to produco good results.
We ato Just beginning to learn that we ato
at war mid tho teallzatlon Hh.upcns the
seriousness of men. "Wo must win" Is
taking tho pUco if sham slogans unil the
p.itiiotism of music. That Is what the
loud voices In Washington Inean, and no
sound moio plea.'ailt to tho nation has
come ftuni thil iiu.titer since- Apill 6. Wo
h.tvo needed moro spirit at home and, thank
heaven, p mc getting It.
IS M'AMOO responsible:
M1:-,
McADOO has gone befnie the fen
ate ntid announced that the i.illroads
will need Jt.UOO.OOO.OOCt to put them on a
war footing, lie told the Sonata that Gov
ernment control of the loads should not be
limited to in fixed period, but that as a
pvlliclplo ho opposed Government owner
ship. At least, that was In rll'ert what he
tiled t" do. Uut us the piei-ent system for
bids a Cabinet member to appear betoie
tho whole body of Senate or House, these
supiemely important statements wcio ac
tually made before that sldehow of a com
mittee meeting nud not in the main tcuL
The lesult Is. that whereas If Mr. Mc
Adoo had spoken thus In full Senate his
words would have been taken as an expres
sion of the Admlnlstiatlon's pemiBiicnt
policy, under tho !f-.s dlgnlllcd flr
.st.uice.i we ate left wondeilug whether
he wiih speaking for Mr. Wilsun and the
Cabinet or only for himseK.
We polnteu out yesterday that there is
good teason to believe that much of the
present friction between Congress and tlfo
Admfnlsttatljit would disappear if Cabinet
members could uppear en tho floor and
take mlnlstctldl reponslblllty In the de
bates. Here Is a case In point.
PUT 'LABOR LOYALTY WEEK"
IN PRACTICE NOW
tlXeoLXS Illrthday is sonic weeks off.
Hog Island needs ."0.000 additional war
wdrkers now.
"Labor Loyalty Week" does not havo
to wait upon the calendar till February 12.
Tho Alliance for Labor and Democracy In
association with tho American Federation
of Labor hja a line idea In Its proclama
tion for "Labor Loyalty Week" In connec
tion with the Liberator's natal day.
Honest Abe, whose name insplies "Labor
Loyalty Week." as his example inspires
AmeilcaiiH for all that democracy means1,
was not too proud tn split iall. He would
not be too proud to take saw. adze and
hammer to help build ships at Hog
Island In the present emergency. Illbow
grease and sweat of the blow are as much
needed right now as Inspirational cele
brations. It will bo laudable for Philadelphia labor
to celebrate "Labor Loyalty Week." It
will be moro praiseworthy and significant
If a fully manned plant contributes Hog
Island's share of honor to Lincoln and a
demonstration of American labor's un
doubted loyalty to Americanism.
PKNNYPACKER ON PENROSE
WIIHX a man guesses light onco he may
be only a good gues-er. Hut when ho
guesses light a second and a third time
you begin to believe that he is not guess
ing at nl but knows what he Is talking
about. The old Idea was that Quay and
Penrose had the same amount and the
sumo kind of Influence over Govetnor Pen
nypacker. That Illusion vanishes foi
evcr after petusal of tho sharp estimate
of Mr. Penrose which the autoblogiapher
has made and which appeals In another
column on this page.
Governor Pcnnypacker did not have the
iuttepldity of a Itoosevelt or the eloquence
of a. Wilson with which to take his fellow-citizens
by storm. Hut In the appoint
ments for which ' he was personally ie
sponsible he gavo us of his best. To the
Senate ho sent Knox, whoe name "was
not on tho Penrose list." He measured
men with a yardstick, and If he had not
been reasonably sano he Would havo put
that yardstick to Its violent secondary use
on somo of those he knew.
To all Intents and purposes the day
out-Sunduyed Sunday Public Ledger.
Hvcept that it was possible to buy soda
water.
What good does It do to shoot Krens!ry'fc
mlnlsteis? Did Lenlno and Trotsky fear that
a revolution would bo organized In the hos
pitals? . .
A popular diversion among the Jews of
ancient days wa to stone the elect, and that
was before tho Senator from Missouri was
even known.
livery home should have Its little pig"
is a new food conservation slogan In country
districts. And every city home should get
I Id of Its big one.
Brazil declares she will not dlstus
peace, but will be a unit with the Allies to
the end. We havo some enormous rasenolts.
Tho only troublo Is with the faucet.
Tko of the rats tried to come out of
their hole and they were mighty ferocious
rats Ut that. Hut the Allied fleet got tho
Hretlau and tho CJoeben was beached.
It Is proper to ask Uie clergy to aid In
the collection of the Income tar, their pa
rishioners having seen to It that so few min
isters have one of their own to pay.
As Mr. ICipItng said:
"It ain't the sur. nor armament
Nor funds that they can pay.
Hut tho ilea co-operation
That miltea them wjn tho da)-."
The Government orders an Industilal
rest In America; In Austria the people take
It by force and In addition strike for peace.
When we know more of the Hun's condition
we'll be less disturbed about our own.
The Government wilt seek to prevent the
reduction of wages for Jobs taken by women
in place of men. If this holds good for war
werlt It should apply to peace work and let
sweatshops take note to piecework.
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
GOVERNOR PENNYPACKER WINS
FIRST TILT WITH PENROSE
Appointment ol' Knox to Succeed Quay Was a Vic
tory for the Governor He Tells How He '
Disagreed With Penrose
r:N.sr.u.Kt.K Atiuniot.rtAritv mi 3i
(Covvrtol.t , 191. Ui J'ubKu J.rdoer Cosiponj)
Tllll dentil of Quay left Senator Holes
Penrose as the titular head of the Itepub
llcan party In tho State. On the third of
dune, along with Dr. Henry D. Heller, tho
nuarantlno physician; Charles 11. IIcustK
health officer; Lieutenant Governor Wil
liam M. llrown, Senator Penrose and many
others', I went down the Delnwaro River
on tho tugboat which had been given my
name to Inspect the Quutantlna Station.
On the way t took occasion to have a talk
with Penrose und told him In effect that
ilrcutnst.incis hud imposed a cettahv, ie
sponslbillty upon him and me. and that
ho could depend upon inn to do all that
ptopcrly totild bo done to maintain the
control of tho State by tho Republican
parly, and that. In my view, It could bo
best accomplished by endcavotlng to woik
out certain ici)lt. Penrose Is n largo
man, tall and stout, dark in complexion,
with a heavy growth of hair on his head,
giadiiate of Haivard. intelligent and able
to make a clear and convincing speech,
cynical In his plilloopliy, given to sclf-ln-dulgetite
and mentallv slothful. I never
knew him to Indicate that he was looking
fuither than tho vcsiilti of tho tif.xt elec
tion. I never knew him to utge support
or a man or a measure upon tho giouud
that the man was tho most rupablo for tho
position or that tho measuie w.ih likely
to pioduco beneficial lesults, but his
thought seemed ever to be to ascettalu
what would tldo over an existing emer
gency in homo political combination. Had
I followed his advlie 1 would on cmo occa
sion havo appointed a Judge Who withtn
two weeks thereafter was arrested upon a
cliHrge of embezzlement.
Penrose "Carefree"
Soon after Quay's death I said to him:
"Senator, thcro will be n. great contest
In this Stato over tho election of tho next
Governor and you had better bo making
your nirangements now In prcpaiation for
It."
His reply was:
"N'onVense, thete is not a sign of dis
tut banco anywhero in the State. It would
cost $250,000. and their- Is not a man In
tho Stato who would bo willing to spend
tho money,' If Durham and I cannot man
age the next convention and election wc
ought to go and hldo our heads."
Ho turned to Israel W. Durham, who
was precnt, and Durham ngrccd with him.
1 Insisted upon my view.
"Why, do you know anything?" ho In
quired. v
"So, I do not know a thing; but let
me tell you this: There are a lot of uneasy
people all over the State whom Quay has
suppressed. Ho had beaten them so often
that they feared to enter n contest with
him. Vou aic untried. They will be up
in aims and you will havo to light for
your seat befoie you can hold It. and their
oppoitunity will tome over the gnveinoi
ship." This process of leasonlng made no Im
picaalon on him, and It maiks tho dlfl'ei
enco between hlin and Quay, who would
havo foreseen tho situation which aiose.
There was a vacancy in the United States
Senate to be filled. If Quay ever had tho
thought that his son Hlchnrd might suc
ceed him there, as .1. Donald Cameron had
followed his father, ho never even gave
me a hint of his wish. Hichaid It. Quay,
a bright, dapper little fellow, who hail
shown an aptitude for making money, had
done nothing in public lifo which would
justify such a selection. His appointment
could only have been made by subordinat
ing duty to fiiendshlp. The newspapers,
ns Is their wont, proceeded at onco to de
teimlno the pel son who bhould bo selected
and the manner in which it should bo
done. In their view, if tho Governor did
not call the Legislature together In special
session for the purpose ho would bo a
iolalor of the Constitution, and they cited
an argument of my Attorney General in
support of the proposition. Among their
selections wcro AVIUiam I-'linn, Jflseph C.
Slblej John Dalzell, I'laucls Bobbins.
Henry O. 1'iick and John 1. Klkln. In an
Interview in the Hxecullve Mansion at
Harrlsburg at which were piesent Penrose,
Robert McAfee and other party leaders, tho
Senator offered me tentatively a list of
about sis names. We talked over the mat
ter at somo length. George T. Oliver, of
Pittsburgh, was the only ono who was
satisfactory In my view, and most of the
men suggested I would not havo appointed
under any circumstance". Finally, I said
to Penrose:
'The pioper man to send to the Senate
is Philander C Knox."
The Contest Over Knox
Ills uamo was not on tho list. The In
tel view then ended. A day or two later I
was invited to dine with the Farmers,' Club
at the farm of A. J. Cassatt in Chester
Valley. There were present, among others,
George F. Baer, Wayne MacVeagh and
Senator Penrose. When the dinner was
over Penrose asked me to walk out on the
lawn and there he told me that "they" had
talked It over and had concluded to ask
mo to appoint Knox.
"I will do It at once." I replied; "that
suits me exactly." 1 had determined, if he
were willing to accept, with the risk of
tho election by the Legislature, to make
tho appointment without an understanding.
Wo were In a cordial good humor and
the Senator further said to me: "Durham
and I have talked over the matter and
have concluded that when the next vacancy
occurs In the Supreme Court of the United
States or In the Supreme Court of the
State to insist upon your having the
place."
This fact further Illustrates the differ
enco in the methods of Quay and Penrose.
Quay never would have made such a prom
ise unnecessarily and unrequosted, and If
lie had made It would have seen that It
was fulfilled.
I mado the appointment of Knox at
once.
He, tlnough his intelligence, expeilcnce
and knowledge of tho law, soon took a
commanding position In the Senate and
the State never was more worthily repre
sented there.
He made a mistake in accepting the
position of Secretary of State under
- PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22,
President Taft, a plnpe In which the In
cumbent, If ho falls. Is sure to get tho
blame, and. If ho succeeds, Is suie to have
some ono else receive tho credit. 1 nccoiU
panted tho appointment with an opinion
giving my view of tho effect of tho pro
visions pf tho Constitutions of tho United
States) and of tho Stato differing fiom that
which had been cspresscd by Mr. Carson
and been suppuited by the newspapers,
which latter had no euro to have tho Stalo
well represented and only sought to cliv
bairnss Penrose and the Republican party.
I'nablo to meet the arguments of my paper,
which no lawyer undertook to do, they
sought to lake It out of mo by calling mo
a "violator of tho Constitution," an "an
aichlst," a "milliner' and by raying I had
committed n "palpable malfeasance" ami
a "violation of law." In fact, I was as
much ubusd by these Intel ested commen
tators for selecting the most capablo man
In tho Stato to lep'ieuent It hi the Senate
us I was later fur seeing to It that Penn
sylvania had the nic-a beautiiul and most
Inexpensive Capitol m the couutr.
Tomorroir f.orrrnor I'ennypatkrr MU nlinut
the nomination ,f ICooteTelt hy the ReiinMiiitii
,itionitl Contention in Ifiot.
JOY! HERE'S A NEW
AND HUMAN POET
Riding Pegasus by Night and
Floorwalker in a Department
Store by Day
WIIIlN little Julinny Keats first dlsmteied
the poet Homer he likened the joy ho felt
to that which conifs to "somo watcher of the
skies when a new planet swims Into his ken."
But Homer was dead, and all little Johnny's
poetic puhiiotois coiililn"t bring him hack to
life again or make him human.
Hut you. gentle leader, aro to have the
privilege of shailng our pleasure in the dis
covery of ono who is not only a true poet
but a !te and ery human creature, who,
though ho rides his Pegasus by night, Is a
float walker In .) TCew York department store
by day ; there's antithesis for you ! And an
tlthesls, you'll admit, If you know anything
about veise-mauing. is a necessary compo
nent part of good pocliy.
So many books of one sort .or another conic
to the desk of a leviewer that only those
healing u familiar name, of author or of
publisher, are likely to win Immediate ntid
sympathetic notice. The thin green olurne
accredited to the unknown IVancls Cailln,
published by the neei-before-heard-of Wolfe
Tone Company and handicapped by the In
sular, unliiMtlng title "My Ireland," might
hae slipped unwept Into tho discard If we
hadn't been fortunately arrested by the warm
and simple beauty of these lines on the page
of dedication:
It Is here that the book begins and it
is here that a piayor is asked for the soul
of the scilbe who wioto It for tho gloiy
of Jod, tho honor of Hi Inn and the pleas
ure of the woman who caino fiom ftoth
his mother.
The (list poem, fiom whhli the book takes
Its title, offeied the le.ulei little Inducement
to go fuithct. It Is only nn echo of Jnines
Olaicnce MaiiGan. and It luo seeral unfor
glvablo flaws, but upon the next page the
eye fortunately caught and hilghlcued at
this:
Tin; STILI.T SKA
My T.oo haa i rosted ult Oredli
IVtr w'hli h no hr, eea hlov .
Aisl I would II hud Hip motlnri
yf but uti ebl and flow.
All- I.o la or a Wuter, ,
A ealin unit thleleas ftA,
And 1 would thiit I had tntluht liar
'lo come In dreams to ino.
Follows a quaint "Ballad of the llees,"
blessed, among othei things with this quick
plctuilng of a deathbed:
t'nciti a pretty Summer dj.
While url.a were hlicli and loud
A Christian Uy unon hl Led
w ll.i oivi hand In hla ahroud.
But almost upon the heels of this stumbles
an eight-line lytic, called "The Happy
Thistles," burdened with this unpardonable
libettj with tho elements, wheiein tho "wind"
is made to blow air at lean to sound two
ways at once.
!..,I"""t l'. "tl" "", i" mind
Ihe tlant forma lh.it ride (h wind
lor white the kr. nor hao (hey innc
And bo their world Is free as wind.
Theio Is much, however, to make amends
for the few- slips and crudities that cu-ep
Into tho singing of this very hum m miiistiel.
His music Is always suro ind endowed v ,th
wide, strong wings, and the flash of his humor
Is like the blue of his Ireland's sky, fccen laid
denly and onl for a moment when the
breeze parts tho cuitaln of mist. This
quality marks his ballad of "Blind o'C'ahan."
It's a shame that we haven't tho room to
Klfl In full so tender a lyric as that "on
lhlbeg Island" in pialfe of the memory of
"Fair Muee," but here's a stanza:
A thouclit of hr la like a dream.
So tweet he as and bnsl.t,
Vi d dreams of her to rny spirit fern
T.IKo visions lost In liifht.
Tet darker than a lohln's ecc
And llchter than the. sea.
Wna tha blue of an eye tn nrlber
Where I shall neer be.
We can't go on quoting all the good things
In the book. There aie ISO pieces In oil"
which makes the cost of each something les
than a penny, since the volume sells for $1
postpaid. But we must give at least p.tit
of this singer'a picturo of the Irish, a chai
autcrUallon deeenlng of a place betide that
drawn by the famous englishman, G. K
Chesterton, who says, in ids "Ballad of the
White Horso":
' Cor tho creat tiaela of Ireland
..Are..'nB '?e" hom Uod mado audi
lor all their w..rs aro merry
And all their songs aro sad '
mi wis young jiisnman says of 'Tho
Irish" :
A Child Is lie
, Win an aced smile
Of mastery.
In tha oldest Isle
Of an ancient tea.
Ard He Who made
The Gaol Is kind
lo the cT-tree's shade
And the duaty wind.
' Where the eld are laid.
In that atiance land
u inniaiau.
H) ani-els p.anned
Tor th childish ci-
Vho holds tjod'o hand.
Ye rail this singer young, 'for the Murit
of youth informs cery pago of bin boo!
though what the sum of hU years may he
he didn't tell In the letter written in response
to a demand for biographic data.
"I'm grateful for Ainettcan appical," ho
wrote, from New York city, "since I was
botn and brought up here. My father became
a millionaire on the day of his marriage and
dying when I was ten, he left his wealth In
the woman to whom my book Is inscribed.
Having gone through grammar school i
began work In a shoe shop, but being weal:
of body I only lasted there a few years. Tho
doctor suggested a trip acioss the sea and
I went to unknown aimts abroad with a bag
full of medicines, which were promptly
thrown on n dunghllt In County Louth. For
I lived next to tho ground In the old land,
and waxing strong returned after thirteen
months to go back ngaln after five years us
ono who left his motherly America for to rteal
a trip to his sweetheart Ii eland. .s
you may have aheady guessed, I am not In
touch with the literary woild, slnco I wear
my hair short and my. face long, as becomes
the seriously practical job of flooiwalker in
a department storo."
So there's your floorwalker poet, and if
you like the samples send a dollar to Francis
Carlln, care of Wolfe Tone Company, New
York, for the book. T. A. D
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THE FREE PORT PLAN
All oi Its Advantages Can Be Secured by an Extension
and Simplification of the Drawback Pro
visions of the Tariff Law
Uy GEORGE
Tm
fie
establishment of
ee ports In Ameiica for the develop
ment of manufactuto for export there Is a
healing on tho subject In Philadelphia today
has appealed to the imagination of the
Inexpeit ever slnco it was (list made. AVo
have been told for earH that tho only thing
needed lo enable Ameilcan manufacturers
to compete successfully In the markets of
the world with the manufacturer of other
nations was the establishment In tho coast
cities of an area In which foreign law ma
terials might bo entered fiec of dim. be
inanufactuicil into finished pioduct and sent
abinad.
"Look at Hambiug:- the enthusiasts have
exclaimed, "and ate how the fiee jioit theio
lias benefited Uennany!"
Yes, look at Hambuig, and what do you
d!scoerV When the fiee zone was estab
lished it was hoped that a gieat manufactur
ing center would bfl cieated which would
send its products Into all parts of tho woild.
But nothing of the kind has happened. The
only Industiy In the Hamburg free aiea that
l-.as tlnlved Is that of shipbuilding and ie
palring. The only figuies ohtalnablo bliow
the activities beforo the war; but then there
wero lMOt) workmen cmplojed In the fieo
poit and 12,000 weie engaged In shipbuilding
in one foim or another. Tho oilier Industries
had increased much more slowly In the free
aiea than in tho rest of tho city. The manu
f.ictuier who wished to sell part of his piod
ui't abroad and patt in Germany was handl
caped by Imvlne his factoiv in tho freo poit.
for when he sent his goods tlnough tho gates
of the free zone to be Bold in Germany ho
had to pay on them the full duty on manu
factured goods, whereas his competitor In
another part of the city who had to pay
duty on his raw material alone could under
sell the man who theoretically was enjoying
advantages denied him. The only Industries
besides shipbuilding In the free zone are
those engaged wholly in expoit or thoso
which happened to be located thero beforo
the" 7ono was established.
Boston Turned" Down the Plan
These fact 1 ave. bce.l disclosed by Amen
call mestlRntois wlo wished to know the
truth. When tie Boston Port Commission
was created a few ycais.ago to develop that
noi t tho head of the commission went to
Hamburg to study the situation. The Bos
tonlans dieamed of making their city a
second Hambuig. But the commissioner re
frained fiom recommending un appeal to
Congress that an area be set apart into which
roods might ne aciir.mca ire m "j ",. "'
use of manufacturer engaged in tho export
""rving T. Bush, of New Yoik. who organ
ized and built the greatest system of terminal
water-front wa. chouses in America, Is on
lecord as opposed to the free port system as
unsulted to the Ameilcan needs. What
Mnerlca needs, in ms opinion, " ""
opinion of othei s who have btudled the sub
ject with any thoroughness. 13 a simplifica
tion of the drawback piovlsiom of the tailrf
"These provisions have unfortunately been
drawn by men who wero busplcious of the
honesty of American manufacturers. While
novldlng that the duty on all the raw mato
vials used In exported goods should be re
funded, they provide also that tho manufac
turer should point out to tho customs official
so that he could see them all the foreign raw
material In a gtvena.artlcle. This If Physi
cally Impossible, especially when the for
eign material is part of an amalgam or a
mixture. For example, who can tell in a
ulven chemical compound where the domestic
nroduct is and where tho foreign Ingredients
are In tho cash of shoes, the manufacturers
have used an imported product In such a
way that It could not bo found without
teatlng tho shoe to pieces.
Drawback Would Open a ''Free Port" in
Every City
Still further, tha regulations under Which
the drawback lias been paid aie so. compli
cated that unless the amount of foreign
material used Is very great and unless the
duty paid was very high no manufacturer
would attempt to get his money bapk. It cost
more time and trouble than it was worth.
A free port has no advantage to offer
whloh cannot be enjoyed more fully by every
part of Ihe country, provided an Intelligent
1918
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
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W. DOUGLASS
drawback provision is Insetted In tho tariff
law. and provided tho custom ofllclals co
opeiate with the Importers and tho exporters
to facllllato the quick passage of goods from
the ships to tho factories und back again.
Tho charms of the freo port appenl moro to
Ihe imagination of tho man who has not
studied tho question than to tho reason of
the man who has attempted to think out
a way for adjusting them to the nianufactui
ing system of America, it is theoretically
conceivable that wo could In time develop a
group of manufacturer who would build
their factoiles exclusively in a tariff-free
zone and nianufacluio solely for expoit.
But viituaily such an outcome Is unlikely.
The great manufactuiliig Industiies of Amei
ii a nie scatteied all over the country. Their
chief maikct Is at Inlme and Is likely to le
maln hero for a generation or more. Many
of them, handicapped, as the free tiaders
would say, by tho tarllT on somo of their
law materials, nie already able to undersell
tho manufai'tuicis of other countries in the
world markets. Tho world maikets are
alwajs open to them for tljo disposal of their
surplus, and It tho suiplus weio laige enough
they would bo ablo to compete ecu with tho
manufacturer in a fieo zone. Their factories
aio usually placed, too, in close proximity to
tho native law mateilals In the interior of
tho country, raw materials which the manu
fa tutor In n free poit on tho coast would
have to haul long distances. Tho cxtia
fi eight which ho would havo to pay on his
natle raw materials would la many cases
moro than counterbalance the amount of
duty ho would sao on his foreign raw
materials.
In Us practical operations a fiee poit be
comes a sort of a prison for tho men working
in it. Tho whole area must bo Inclosed by
a man-pioof wall. Tho workmen must bo
locked In when they enter In tho morning,
and In case the raw materials nro valuablo
and easily portable, each woikmau must bo
searched when he leaves at night lest ho
smugglo out goods on which the duty has
not been paid. Indeed, such a poit would
bo a harvest field for smugglers.
As already said, the drawback system sim
plified and expanded offers all the adwumiges
of tho fieo port and none of thu disadvan
tages,, and offers them to tho Intel lor as well
as to tho coast' cities.
OUT
the late newa has, a stab In It
Tor Kaiser Willie's houso.
Banal goes the Austrian Cabinet
With the accent en the "a us '
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What I a "soviet"?
3. Where Is The Hacue'.'
a. VI hat part of the I'nlled Mat t all re ted liy
the (lurlleld coal order?
4. What U meant liy.tlie "IVur Cabinet" now
bclnc dlacuaaed In lonsrts.
5. VI hat Is "xarabed"? x
0. What Is the "hand and brain" nnrte inriil?
7, Mho are Ihe Manor inasmilek?
s. What does C. O, mean In the unu)'.'
tl. What una the claaalrnl name vt the Dar
danelles? 10. What Is 'Trench leave"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Joseuh rolltser. editor and publisher of tho
New 'aork World nnd other neusnanera, en.
lowed ii School of Journalism at Columbia
UnlTfraitr.
2. fiateoi nltcbcraftl 109J.
3. Illolory la tha aelenro of llfei dlrlded Into
ioolou-. creatine t aulmala, und boiuni.
trrstlnc or plauta. ''"
4. Bernard llarucli If ii New York broker, now
it member ut the Council of National lie.
fenae.
5. lainifellow wrote "lllauathu."
6. llulld! n torporalloii of c riflemen manned In
alinllar, trades banded losether for mutual
protection and adianlucr, """
;, An amtiasamlor rriire.eiil. hotli (be nallon
from whlrh he la ucrrrdllrd und the ner.o
of the. ruleri a lulnlaler has only the former
function. "
s. Tho tw Dremlas were llromlo of fcrracuia
and llromlo of I.phesus. ' u"
8. "Tha ratmlat"i Datld. to whose twthorsldn
many of tho psalms are aatHbed. p
IV. llambon on le Tabs Hirer, to northern fier.
many, la tha Jamal port In Continental
t'.orope. nd ftr I.snden and Naiv j0rk
In the world, '
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McAroni Ballads
XCIX
DA PEANUT EDITOR
I'm editor for dees peanutta Stan'
An' dat's nbout so mooch ns I can do;
Hut you arc wisa newsapapcr man,
So don'ta mind da thcongs I say to you.,
Wat for you frona care to hear da way
I run dees leetla place from day to day?
Wat jfood for you to know da way I plan
For muka trade for dees my leetla Stan',
An' try my manny customer to please?
Stcell eef you want my story here eet
ces:
I have so manny peopla hero to suit
I maka try for gat da besta fruit,
An' w'en dey come I put da besta kind
Eon front, an' keep tin worst o dera be
hind. I don'ta nut a sitrn on dem: "Oh, see
l
How rotten all dese goods of mine can J
no:-
An' cef I trotta battle weeth some man
Across da street dat run nnudder Stan', ,
I elon'tn cry: "Oh! look, ncross da street,!
How moocrm better ho ees ciom ecu' ,
I justa say: "Eef I am catchin' hal
I bat lie ces no better dan mysal'."
I use 1
Eos trotta no connection weeth da news. ',
I s'pose da goods you gotta keep on han', ;
About da war, I no could ondrastan', A
Ilaycausc da besta heez'r.ess rule weeth
me
Ecs, "Put da besta fruit where all can,
see." V
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T'.vt n.liln,. 1m- ilanu ,Artmilln efflll
A 111 CIIIIU1 l IILVD ,..1I1UW dVUII , H
An' dat's about so mooch as I can uoiS
Hut you are wisa newsapapcr man, 1
So don'ta mind da theengs I say to yoivl
SUFFRAGE AND THE SENATE
An Analysis of Alignment on Basis of,'
House Passage of Amendment '
ANALYSIS of the tote whereby the woman's
a. .a. auuiust- ailicuuincilt passvu lliu hums v. m
llepresentatlves falls to Justifj the optlmuxn.
of the lenders of that cause, who already em
the senatorial acaulescenco at hand ana aiuiev
ratification coming. On the contrarj, It BP"
pears to indicate that the real struggle iu
ahead. "i
The congressional delegations of twtntysj
eight States favoied tho amendment by ajj
least a two-thirds maJoMty; tho delegation
of twelve States opposed it by tit least two?'
thirds, while delegations from the other
eight wero about evenly split, On the bul
of a full attendance when the matter comes,
up In the Senate, sixty-four otos will be re;;
quired to insuro submission. The suttraguti
must not loso a slnglo State that was with
them in tho House and must gain naif oiu
doubtful eight. Yet only three of theso cigh
gae even a baro majoilty for suffrage B
41. M Ttnxu,,
It may be. of course, that tho Senator? wliMl
not vote as tho ltepresentatlAes of their sen
eral Stales did or that tho Suues iliemstrttj
when the matter comes up for rallflcKWil
-iii follow ih lendeishh, of their press
Bepresentathcs. Of tha thirteen HtutesjM
the "Solid Soulh." tho delegations or an iw
Oklahoma. Florida. Kentucky nnu -ienne
,vm mralnat Euffrairc. Oklahoma was u
only one largely for it. Kentucky, Ho""'
und Tennessee Representatives being abuoj
equally divided. But Maryland, which usuW'Xj
stands with the "Solid South." was galaa
it, Thirteen States can prevent raiiiiau.v.
St. Louis rost-Dlspatch.
TUB MAKIS O' COr.rOllAI. nYIKSE 3
1- J. llyrne. of nttsbursh, on his war " jWjM
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ubout Iron his bo. .Mnrl: ef K Comimn . ffl
Infialry. lanie lo ue piouicieu in ij.u ",""", V""
who only wlh 11.". Iiml len t.'ci' '
Vnw lttit the Army tattle h ill m d se. I HUM
i'ainp I-wf. mar ivtcrabur., V.i u'-'-ia ""
i, -Mark' a llrat liiahl of ioutr -i ."!
clllcr whu had lii uu lo lih-hn! ' h' " JJ!
Iimnnain. Irlcl tu n all li.i n I S I ,l6'
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l,ut I'm aunerlor cailwr hero ni.il lAW " S
ino tha countaraU-n " And they did
he's I'orporal ilark l)Tiie.
' 'H KNItL'OIl
- Wlist reasui hna tha Yanks to fJ1''
Tho Kaiser wond'red
What reason" Tbouaa. but ons wa cue.
Via leu o Itur. ! aacj.