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Bell, 3000 Walnut. Keystone, Main 3000
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ENTERED AT THE PHILADELPHIA POSTOFFICE AS
SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER.
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
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SENATOR PENROSE REPREHEND-
ETH YE "STEAM ROLLER."
Senator Penrose in the interesting
interview printed in yesterday's PUBLIC
LEDGER makes a spirited attack upon
the Democractic method of framing a
tariff bill in a close caucus and the
refusal to grant anything like adequate
hearings upon doubtful sections in
most important schedules. Mr. Pen-
rose denounces the Democrats for their
aggresive, downright, tyrannous prac-
tice; declares that when the bill comes
before the Senate he proposes to have
a thorough debate, and asserts that the
"steam roller" which the oposition is
now using so ruthlessly is a rough and
brutal tool, unscientific and anachro-
nistic.

It is to be hoped that Mr. Penrose
will insist upon a discussion; the House
will also undoubtedly debate the bill;
it is too true that the accepted methods
of framing tariff bills, whether they be
named McKinley orDingley, or Payne-
aldrich or Underwood, are not defen-
sible. There is scarcely any doubt that
the method employed by Mr. Emery,
of Mr. Taft's tariff board, is infinitely
safer and more businesslike than the
plan that has been followed since tariff
bills have been made in this country.

Get the facts; collate and digest
them; study the industries here and
abroad; find the cost of production;
compare efficiency, contrast the wages
and other factors and then attempt in
a deliberative fashion to reach a def-
inite conclusion based on truth and
the facts.

That is the scientific method not only
proposed but actually carried out by
the Taft tariff board, and if the Demo-
crats remain in power they, too, must
in future adopt such plan. If at
this time a steam roller is rumbling
down the highways of trade and com-
merce who must take the responsi-
bility? Mr Penrose cannot escape his
share of it: the Republican party must
accept its share; the old "standpat"
dyed-in-the-wool regulars long in con-
trol of Mr. Penrose's party must bear
the onus. Paye and Aldrich, Cannon
and Penrose, Mann and Dalzell—they
and men like them, the dominant
figures in the Republican party—
brought about the present tariff re-
vision, and it is due to them also that
steam rollers and not tariff boards are
shaping tariff bills.

If Mr. Penrose had talked in this
resonable and statesmanlike way
when the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was
being forced through he would have
been rendering a real service to his
party and to his country. Steam rollers?
All tariff bills are jammed through by
steam-roller methods and when the
Payne-Aldrich bill us under discus-
sion the lumbering machine rolled over
not only the Democrats but even the
Republican Progressives, Tariff legis-
lation in America is a synonym for
ruthless methods and apparently the
only way to remedy the abuse and to
awaken the public conscience to the
enormity of playing hide-and-seek with
the steam roller in the hands of the
opposition for one and let the other
party see how it works.

The McKinley bill was the product of
a steam roller and something much
more dangerous—it was the outcome of
a deal by which the Republican man-
agers got their tariff while the silver-
ites got the Sherman silver purchase
act which later on dangerously de-
pleted the treasury reserves, nearly
threw the country upon the silver basis
and finaly wrecked the Democratic
party through Cleveland's heroic meas-
ures for rescuing the nation's honor
and credit. The crucial battle in that
great contest was fought in 1896
against the Byranized Democracy. Re-
publicans and sound money Democrats

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he left a perpetual heritage to his
country in the form of an accumla-
tion of art treasures which more than
rivals the trophies of Napoleon's vic-
tories; for, though in the disposition
of it, as in the disposition of all else,
he emphasized his confidence in his
executors and heirs by refusing to bind
them with conditions, his wish will be
sufficient to render the several collec-
tions "permanently available for the
instruction and pleasure of the Ameri-
can people." They are thus his lega-
tees to the extent of more than half
his fortune.

There is a wonderful humanness in
the document. He remembers all of
his servants, some close friends to
whom an increased income will be a
real benefit, all of his business em-
ployes, and provides that those whom
he has accustomed to aid regu-
larly shall continue to receive assist-
ance from his estate. And he has
brought the world up short in its mad
worship of materialism, for he who
seemed to the unthinking public to be
the very embodiment of that ideal, in
the first sentence of his last testament
lease unto his heirs and through
them to the world, his richest legacy
his own belief in the insufficiency of
man and the all-sufficiency of God. It
is an extraordinary and striking utter-
ance. It is a trumpet call and a chal-
lenge to Christianity. "I commit my
soul into the hands of my Savior."
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A FAR-REACHING MOVEMENT.

The PUBLIC LEDGER most earnestly
invites the attention of its readers to
the appeal which the joint organization
for Equalizing Industrial Opportunities
and the League of Civic and Political
Reform is making another part of
this issue for funds to conduct the rev-
olutionary movement which it is under-
taking in behalf of the negro race.
Those back of this movement have
spent years and years, at great per-
sonal sacrifice, in evolving the prin-
ciples upon which it seeks to operate.
No appeals for funds were ever made
till they were in a position to put these
theories into immediate and practical
operation. There is none of the radical,
bizarre or spectacular in this effort.
Those back of it are noted for their
staid conservatism and sober common-
sense.

The generosity of the public has of
late been taxed to the utmost for char-
ities of various kinds, and because of
the dire calamities which have befallen
the country. But the needs of this
organization are excedingly modest.
So simple are its plans that $5000 will
cover its present demands, and prob-
ably place it in a position to make
this its last as well as its first public
appeal for funds.

The conditions which inspire this
movement represent a rising flood
of antipathy and antagonism between the
races which if not checked will eventu-
ally create a lamentable and dan-
gerous situation which will prove a
reproach to American humanity and
intelligence.

This organization represents an im-
mediately operative and widely effect-
ive method for dealing with this situa-
tion. There are scores of liberty-loving
persons in this city who could easily
advance every cent needed by this
organization for the prosecution of its
noble mission. There is not an individ-
ual in this city, or in this country, for
that matter, who in any way comes
in contact with the opposite race, to
whom the work of this organization is
not of direct personal interest. Surely
such persons will not allow the modest
appeal of this organization for funds
to be made in vain. The PUBLIC LEDGER
will gladly recive any amount which
is given for this cause.
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NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN
NECESSARY.

The action of the responsible officers

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under the Constitution, [?]
to themselves. Be that as it may, a
new treaty with Japan is imperative
or renewed efforts for exclusion in
California will precipitate other and
more dangerous crises. What is
wanted now is breathing space and it
will not discredit this great nation or
California to act with extreme patience
in an effort to calm Oriental hysteria.
The Administration simply needs time
in which to settle decisively, through
diplomacy, that status of the Japanese
in the United States.

THE KRUPP SCANDAL IN GERMANY.

The charges brought by the Socialist
Deputy Liebknecht, in the Reichstag,
that the great Krupp works at Essen
have been maintaining secret and
irregular communications with the German
War Department have lost none of
their effectiveness by the admission of
the Krupps that they maintained
"friendly relations" with the Govern-
ment for the purpose of "obtaining
business information," and even "ex-
erted pressure" on certain subordinates.
It has generally been supposed in this
country that the Krupp estalishment
was a quasi-governmental institution,
in the full confidence of the established
authorities and in a position to obtain
what information is desired. The con-
trary is true, however, and Germany
is gasping at a revelation of corrup-
tion of the type which is popularly sup-
posed in Europe to exist only in the
United States.

Just how far the revelations will
chill the enthusiasm of the ardent
patriots who have been shouting for
the new war levies is conjectural, but
as the Krupp establishment would
profit tremendously by the proposed
expenditures it may be that national
resentment will express itself in decisive
demonstrations in opposition to the
whole programme of the Government.
Impartiality and frankness in the in-
vestigation under way may soothe
public opinion, but any disposition to
substitute scapegoats for the real
offeners is likely to provoke a political
crisis.
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A significant tendency in the various
States is the larger use of direct taxa-
tion. For instance, Ohio will get its
$700,000 a year to pay the pensions for
mothers by a tax of one-tenth of a mill.
Good roads have doubled the direct taxes
of several States. In other States there
are efforts to get a direct tax for agri-
culture, as much as a mill. The direct
tax makes itself known rather more
bluntly than the other kinds of taxation
and it has educational value.
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Unnecessary Judges, dual officeholders,
legislative sinecures and the whole list
of extravagance and worse make the self-
respecting Pennsylvanian turn his eyes
away from Harrisburg and wonder when
this State will ever be redeemed from the
spoilers.
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Boston's Chamber of Commerce is send-
ing fifty business men to investigate the
trade opportunities of Panama and South
America. If we had persuaded our busi-
ness bodies to unite, perhaps Philadel-
phia would be doing something like this.
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In his very successful essay Thomas
Jefferson said all men were born free and
equal; but they don't keep that way long,
especially when Jefferson's party has an
income tax and $4000 exemptions.
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We don't mind Japan going on the ram-
page and singing war songs, but we trem-
ble when we think of the effect on
Hobson.
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If the inheritance tax keeps up its pace
New York will soon be able to spend an-
other hundred millions on public high-
ways.
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The Senate bathrooms have been closed.
Many of the Senators never could under-
stand what they were there for, anyhow.
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It is the tragedy of municipal reform
in America that every good Mayor is
embarrased by the City Councils.
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when the filtration works were put in
there was a great outcry about the ex-
pense. Just now we hear a similar de-
nunciation of the cost of the Broad street
subway. But that too, will prove a cheap
investment. When you multiply the time
saved each day by one person going up
or down town, by the scores of thousands
whose minutes will be saved, it will far
outmatch the interest on $43,000,000 of orig-
inal cost.
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Was it ever your misfortune to have
to visit a physician? If so, I'm
sure you must have been impressed by
the great number of other persons who
were similarly afflicted. Did you ever go
into a popular doctor's waiting room and
not find someone waiting ahead of you
and more coming after you? You never
did. I feel confident in saying that.
There is a constant procession in and
out.

Now it happens that there are a couple
of thousand physicians in this city, all
more or less popular, at least, until it
comes to to pay your bill. In each one
of these offices people throng. So it must
happen every morning say at 10 o'clock
that there are from five to ten thousand
persons in doctor's waiting rooms at one
time. It would seem as if half the town
were being invalided.

It is no reflection upon the medical
profession when I say that, measured
alone by the number of visitors, the town
never appears to recover. The throng
continues as big as ever.

In one doctor's outer office there are
15 chairs, so he himself tells me, for I
have not seen them, and often a waiting
patient sits upon each of them.

I wonder if the crowds would grow less
if the Chinese method were introduced.
There the physicians are paid to keep
people well and not to cure them after
they become ill.
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A COUNTRYMAN came to the city and
was struck with the fact that many
persons seemed to prefer to buy high-
priced things just because they were high
priced. This set him to thinking. He
knew something about making candy.

Why not, inquired him of himself, make
a good quality of candy and then ask
from 25 to 50 cents more for it
than any other candy in the market?
If folks damand simply a high price, why
not give it to them?

Acting on that idea he produced a
candy of about the same quality that
other confectioners sold, but made the
price so much higher that many persons
imaged it must be of a far superior
brand. That idea of advertising a com-
modity by merely charging an exorbitant
price for it made him successful and
rich. People were humbugged by the
price tag.

This country has in it many people hav-
ing such easy money that they do not
know the value of a dollar. They look no
further than the label; then buy what
costs the most.
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THE AMERICAN flight to Europe has
started again in earnest. Each
spring witnesses an exodus of people with
fat letters of credit. Each late summer
and autumn sees them homne again with
a lean letter, but a new sensation or two.
country's capital, because foreign trav-
elers carry abroad as much as 100,000,000
every year. It is a big drain on the
country's capital, because foreign trav-
elers do not fetch into the United States
$5,000,000 a year. American tourists cut
a real figure in international finance. Eu-
ropean bankers invariably take the gold
these travelers carry with them into ac-
count just as they figure up the amount
of interest and dividends that goes from
the United States upon securities owned
abroad.

It pays Paris to keep up its title as
the world's chief show place. It is the
best possible investment of the kind any
city on earth possesses, because tourists
pour into that capital scores of millions
every year.

Incidentally I often wonder why more
Americans who go to Europe do not go
earlier in the year. When the average
tourist reaches Paris, London or Berlin
in July or August they are coming to
Philadelphia in the same months. They
are seen in their greatest charm in the
spring.
GIRARD

in upright negroes combining especially
through their churches, to curb such disturb-
ing elements as are mentioned above, and in
upright white people agreeing, especially
through their churches, to apply such rules
of social and economic justice in their dealings
with negroes as measurably accord with the
accepted ideas of Christian civilization.

Applying these principles, the League of
Civic and Political Reform will co-operate
with municipal authorities in eradicating from
among negroes all questionable reports, habit-
ual corner lounging, rowdyism and public in-
decency. It also will urge that all negroes
who are habitual idlers from choice be either
forced to earn an honest living or subjected
to prosecution as common vagrants. The Asso-
ciation for Equalizing Industrial Opportuni-
ties will take up jointly with the owners and
employees of specified industrial concerns the
question of merited recognition of colored
labor.

For the purpose of opening and maintaining
headquarters, extending the cause, disseminat-
ing literature and maintaining copentent
workers, this organization is in pressing need
of at least $5000. The undersigned persons,
who are thoroughly conversant with the plans
and scope of this movement, believe that
for alleviating the every-day problems of the
negro, improving public relations between the
races and advancing the cause of good gov-
ernment it represents a work of boundless
value which the vital interests of society must
sustain in sheer self defense.

All contributions should be sent in the
PUBLIC LEDGER, which will deposit the final
amount in trust for this organization, to be
withdrawn only through the joint written in-
structions of Dr. A. J. Rowland, secretary of
the American Baptist Publication Society,
1701 Chestnut street; Henry W. Wilbur, sec-
retary of the Annual Conference of Friends,
139 North Fifteenth street, and Dr. John W.
Lee, pastor of the first African Presbyterian
Church, 741 South Seventeenth street, who by
special request of the promoters of this cause
will supervise the expenditure of every cent.

FRANK P. PARKIN, superintendent Cen-
tral District, Philadelphia Conference Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.

Dr. A. J. ROWLAND, secretary American
Baptist Publication Society.

HENRY W. WILBUR, secretary Annual
Conference of Friends.

JOHN WATHORN, pastor Central Methodist
Episcopal Church.

C. A. TINDLEY, past Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church.

JOHN W. LEE, pastor First African Pres-
byterian Chuch.

P. A. WALLACE, pastor Zion Wesley Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church.
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SUNDAY "COMICS"
Comment Upon Their Discontinuance
in the "Public Ledger."

To the Editor of the Public Ledger:

Sir—The letters to the PUBLIC LEDGER so con-
sistently approving the discontinuance of the
Sunday comics remind me of when I was a
kid and, with other kids, played pots and com-
mons on a lot owned by a man said to have
been 65 years old. Well, here's how old he
was to us—we peppered his knuckles as hard
as we did ours. Now, opposite lived some peo-
ple who objected to us for our noise, but being
on private property with permission they were
helpless to remove us. Yet, secretly, they
purchased that lot and a church was built
upon it.

I meet these boys, now men, and chatting
over those days, we never can decide whether
those people bought that lot to get rid of us
or of that gray-haired "kid."

BEN COLL.
Philadelphia, April 16, 1913

To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir—When first we missed getting what the
little folks call the "funny part" of the Pub-
lic Ledger we supposed it mislaid in some
way, but since we have learned it is discon-
tinued we are satisfied that it is for the best.
Although the comic sheets have been universal
in all city papers, many of your readers
have no doubt thought it was somewhat out
of its element in your worthy PUBLIC LEDGER,
not, indeed, that we would pretend to be too
sanctimonious to enjoy "now and then" what
is relished by the "best of men" but one
cannot help feeling that the exaggerated frolics
at the expense of the older characters are not
calculated to elevate the youthful minds to
have proper esteem for their elderly friends
or people as they go through life. But our
PUBLIC LEDGER is now, and ever since I have
any remembrance of it, a requisite and a
household treasure, and especially of late years,
with its many splendid features of dependable
news, fine editorials, business opportunities and
delightful Sunday treats. Congratulations and
continued sucess to Philadelphia's PUBLIC
LEDGER.
McCODVILLE.
Philadelphia, April 15, 1913
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STARBOARD AND PORT
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A Seadog Discusses the Altered
Vocabulary of the Deep.

To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir—It seems that the Honorable the Sec-
retary of the Navy of the United States of
America, Josephus Daniels, of North Caro-
lina, has called all hands aft and admonished
those who go down to the sea in ships.
Through trumpet from the quarter-deck of his
department he proclaims the death of "port"
and "starboard" and that "left" and "right