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1t would be wrong and unlawful for the
superintendent of immigration at this port to
discriminate against, or to discriminate in favor
of the immigrants who come here from any
particular country of Europe. or who belong to
any particular race Of mankind. 1t would be
wrong for him to deal less favorably with immi-
grants from Italy than with those from another.
or any other. European country. Comparatively
few Of the Italians who land at Ellis Island are
learned persons. but nearly all of them are
healthy. muscular. and sensible. possessed Of .
fair measure of discernment, and exceedingly
anxious to procure work of any kind. Among
the immigrants who reach Ellis Island daily.
there are some who are more learned than the
Italians. yet who are far less desirable additions
to the population OF our country. The law does
not permit the superintendent to open the gates
more widely to foreigners Of one race than to
those of any other race, or to make any dis
elimination. one way or the other, In the case
of immigrants from Sweden. Italy. Germany.
Ireland, or Russia.
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Honest effort, however humble, misdi-
rected, or %fruitless, ought to be patted on the
head and get an honorable mention. As the
month of March is about to he discharged. 1t is
. favorable time to say that the present bearer
OF the name is worthy Of tho family. No halter
or March hare ever was as mad as this March
has been. He ranged with the versatility Of
genius from snow to thunder and lightning. He
has been ACQUIRED like a rugged Russian bear
one day and he has worn a linea suit and n
rose In his buttonhole the next; and the next
he has been full OF mackintoshes and has car
ried a lightning rod for a stick. His thermomc-
ter has ranged from summer heat to colder
than a Reform Club celebration. He has pro-
duced more wind than could be turned out by
q Populist Convention grated on o Goo GOO
club. He is a wonder and a credit to his race;
but nobody is indispensable.
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Col. WILLIAM B|ELLERoPHoN GAITREE of
Columbus, Vice. President OF the Ohio league OF
Rspu blican clubs. declares that there will DO
ample room and verge enough for all the Nc
KINIEY clubs in the country In the Exposition
Hall at st. Louis. and he is anxious TO have
them all accommodated In that temple. Col.
BEIIERoPHoN GAITREE little knows the num-
Der OF seashores on the card or MCKINLEY
clubs in the nation. II some facts and many
fancies do not deceive themselves, the whole
State OF Missouri, enlarged into twelve stories
and a double cellar, win be too pinched quarters
for the MCKINLEY clubs as they come booming
on. AS for the Exposition Hall, when the lean
ing towers and an elevator and storehouse have
been added to It for the accommodation OF tho
world famous ~patulous whiskers OF the Hon.
MOSES PRONoTIoN HANDY, II will be reserved
as his headquarters, festquarters, magazine,
and bureau OF prediction.
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ical calculation, algebraic formulas, per-
mutations, and combinations that IL IL the
man with the smooth and not the man with
wooded countenancs who has had and has
the best chance TO be elected President Of the
United States. He looked at the row Of
gentlemen whom he would not object to
succeed, and saw that the majority of them
had voted against moustache and beard and
every palisade and paling Of whiskers what
soever.
1t doesn't take Mr.. REED a year and a day
TO do what he has determined to do. There
was scarcely n quorum in that moustache
any way, and yet he must have loved 1t.
Sternly he laid down the gavel and took the
razor up, and in n few moments a new o
REED was issued and published, smooth,
strong, lustrous, harmonious The nous
tache was a little weak and appealing. II
was not in sympathy with the rest Of the
features. 1t was somewhat OF an anachron-
ism and a discord. The excelsior OF it showed
the face which IL unfortunately not famil-
lar in Boston, but Is good to look at, not
only for MCKINLEY and MORTON men, who
are all believers in the smooth standard, but
for the Quayites. who swear by the nous
tache, and for the Allisonians, whose candi.
date yelled his superlabial stretch soon after
the Speaker uncovered his. A kindly eye, a
particularly firm and stiff upper lip, n
jaw no weaker than a wise, and climbing
above all, that fine old steep Of brow such
as belonged to the Hon. WILLIAM SHAKE
s~PEARE-that is the image Of the Hon.
THOMAS BRACKET REED in his habit as he
lives, and as he cannot too soon be known
to the Republicans of Massachusetts,. They
have a correct appreciation Of his mental
and political characteristics, and they only
need a contemporary map Of him.
The exact topography of statesmen should
be preserved. 1t is true enough that the
moustache Of Mr.. REED was never big
enough to keep much rain off his face, but
he Is better and more beautiful without it,
and no calophilist will mourn its loss.
without it he looks as different from his
older self as the Hon. GEORGE II. LYMAN,
Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican
Committee, or the Hon. EBEN S. DRAPER,
one of the Massachusetts delegates at large
to the St. Louis Convention, would look in
long faxen ringlets or in a flaming topknot
of straight red hair.
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1t is unfortunate for the aesthetic reputa-
ton OF Boston, a city which prides itself on
its discernment In questions of abstract and
concrete pulchritude and the arts of decora-
ton and design, that the portraits pub
lished by its newspapers last week Of the
Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED depict him
as he was and not as he Is. Those mis-
leading paintings of his ample lineaments
bear the date of 1894. They show the
REED who was reelected to the House of
Representatives that year; they do not
show the REED for whom the Massachu-
sets Republicans last week howled until
the roof of the Music Hall nearly jumped
down in it's curiosity to see what was max
ing at least n hundred times as much noise
as ever shriaked and Numbered in a de-
mand for a repetition of II classical melody
on the programme of one of the Pop"
concerts in that solemn ediice.
The Mr.. REED still known In dilatory Bos-
ton wears still that inefficient and inchoate
moustache which used to cast a shade OF
failure over his superior lip, That capil-
larry weaklinG has since been rudely de-
throned. 1t represented some years Of
painful labor and hope unfulflled no doubt
it's owner had watched it with a plying
fondness; but 1t had to go, and it went. Mr..
REED Is no Populist; he devotes himself to
interior growth, and the processesof exterior
foliation are not in his line. Besides, he
had looked at the Presidents in Lives of
the Presidents" and 1.-THE Cyclopedia OF
American Biography" and had convinced
himself by personal inspection. mathemat-
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This city q BrGoElyp is now at Tom PhArr's

This city Of BROOKLYN is now at Tom PtArr's
mercy. Hsrdtd.
Well, he has not suspended the habeas corpus
act yet; nor have Mayor wURsTER and the
Gowanua Canal been put under martial law.
The schools and cars and the machine and the
Hon. JACOB WORTH are still running, but OF
course nobody can tell how soon the Hon.
GEORGE WARRINGTON ALDRtDGE will assert
that the bridge Is an integral part of the canal
system or the Hon. EDWARD LAUTERBAoH
resist the intention of the Hon. PAT
RICK JEROME GLEASON to declare Long
Island a free city. Yesterday the main
result Of Mr.. PLATT's mercy, or want OF mercy.
to Brooklyn seemed TO be that the side doors in
tho Brooklyn saloons no longer bit their
thumb-latches at the side doors In New York.
New York and Rochester. too, are Mt Mr..
PLATr's mercy, and probably they will survive
somehow, and the prize OF coal and the liber-
ties of the subject not be ruthlessly interfcred
with. Patience, patience a good deal OF pa
thence, and an occasional draught of spring
tonic will still do much and go far In a not
wholly hopeless world.
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younu MAJ az Monteyideo has undertakan -
r,do 10 N.,v work nm bors.hocI
No,LovsLI h,s wr,tt,, n b,ua, c,ue, raur,a-
which has been successful a, perl,n.
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,r,,oc, :. .v,,tbo, rhadr,m, ,,kos n,,cc st the
nroaent tim. +, yt,,v and ia so,d m he a new ds.
n,rture in dramatic at and I'm the authors work.
pro, sy,v..tor + u 8 Of OXFORD the motb..
u.,,,,a, ,,,a oor,,.r ,o,d nro,.a.ors,,ns n, IN.
I,,,.or.,r ., VIRGINIA aud ot lain. Uorkins I'm.
hoo, .I..toI n foreign member Of The Turin Rcysl
,oo,,orv -, sc,enc.s
sn,,nor,ar ,nou,h ,s sborcs b,va been occu.
,otoIy .uryeycd has never had IT'S interior cxp,ored.
A scIentinc cxncdItion will set our from England
, n, ,o,h =, ,.n,,h
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The Case of tho william Todd.

Whatever may be the exact facts In the
case OF the American schooner said to have
been fred upon and boarded, the other day.
of the Isle of Pines, there Is no doubt that
the account OF the affair given in the
Kingston dispatches j~ustifies and requires
prompt and thorough investigation of 1t by
our Department Of State.
The case recalls the Alliance outrage, Tor
which Spain was forced to apologize, yet on
..s .s.ce presents one striking difference.
The Alliance, when fired upon, was off Cape
Maysi, in the Wipdward Passage between
Cuba and Hayti, the natural and usual
highway as Secretary GRESHAM described
It, " for vessels plying between ports OF the
United States and the Caribbean Sea. Forci-
BILE interference" he added, cannot be
claimed as a belligerent act, whether they
pass within three miles of the Cuban coast
or not, and under no circumstance can be
tolerated when no state of war exists"
Turning to the William Todd, the Isle Of
Pines is south of Cuba. about fifty miles
from the coast. But as the schooner cleared
from Mobile for Kingston early this month
with a load of lumber and shingles, her
regular course would naturally take her
west Of Cuba, past Cape st. Antonio, and
thence past the Isle OF Pines. 1t is undoubt-
eddy a question Of importance whether,
when fired upon. she was in the open sea
south OF the Isle of Pines, and, as the de-
spatches assert, six miles away, and hence
beyond the territorial jurisdiction Of Spain.
AS we now get the story, the Todd was
brought to by the firing Of several shots
across her BOWS from a Spanish Runboat,
she having, after the first shot, hoisted
her American %colors; and an armed boats
crew, which boarded and searched her, found
nothing ~contraband. East and west Of the
Isle OF Pines are chains of islets or keys,
which would extend SPANS maritime
jurisdiction beyond Il marine league from
the island itself; but the first point to
ascertain is the schooner's position when
fired on, and her distance from any Spanish
land. The case, as has been said, differs
from that of the Alliance, because it does
not deal with a great commercial highway;
yet, as the treatment Of the Alliance was a
plain violation Of American rights, we have
every motive for searching closely into the
conduct of the Spanish gunboat.
If an American vessel. in the present in
stance, has been fired upon and searched on
the high seas, at a time when, according to
Spanish views, no state Of war exists, Spain
will have to make amends.
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An Honorable Record.

The Hon. LEVI p. MORTON was q member
of the Forty-sixth Congress, wherein he
represented the Eleventh district of New
York, a New York city district, and one Of
the most important in the whole Union.
There was before that Congress a bill pro-
viding for the unlimited and free coinage Of
silver, and for the unlimited issue of certih-
Gates against silver bullion. The silver
dollar was then worth 81 cents in gold.
Protesting against hat measure, and de-
claring that in his opinion 1t meant the i'm
mediate reputation, pure and simple, Of
one-sixth part Of all Indictment, public and
private, and that the measure of future re-
pudiation would be determined by the future
value of silver bullion, Mr.. MORTON uttered
in the Hous these significant words:
"If this bill 10 to becomeiaw. II is inevitable that tho
country will be drained sooner or later OF the gold
coin and bullion, and that silver will become the sole
unit of value. and that instead OF q double standard
we shall have a single standard, and that OF silver.
Renewed and continued prosperity cannot be re-
cured in this manner.
LET us not attempt to force tho issue OF silver be-
yond the amount which can be used as q circulating
medium until European nations will Join with us In
making silver currency equivalent In value to gold
Let us rather maintain the honor and good faith Of
the nation at home and abroad; retain and maintain
a gold standard. the commercial standard OF value
throughout the world, and in my opinion the day is
not far distant when the city of New York will be
the clearing house for the commercial exchanges Of
the world"
Mr.. MoRToN's position to-day is precisely
what it was seventeen years ago, and his
words mean now just what they meant
then. He represents New York and New
York's interests in 1896. precisely as he
represented them in 1879.
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The Texan Republican Convention may
have transgressed in some or many respects the
rules OF parliamentary proceeding laid down by
the estimable MIR. CUSHING and other formu-
lists and precisians. but In the matter OF real
spirit, few Conventions have ever come within
twice the size of Texas of It. II was repletc
with interest from cover to cover. as novels
used to be in the language of ceremonious
critics who didn't read them, and It included
on the bill one or two OF the finest rushes that
ever were rushed. Prof. WALTER CAMP, Prof.
DELAND, and other students OF the comparative
dynamics Of football must not leave Texas out
of their calculations.
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UR DUrr TO cUBA.
Further ESpressior OF The streneth or
Americas sympathy snd Friendship.

American sympathy and Frtenashtp.
To THE EDITOR OF TnE suN-Sir: The pos
session of the island OF Cuba, the key TO our
entire southern seaboard. by a foreign power,
would not DO tolerated for an instant by any
other Government than our own. Can any sane
person suppose that Italy would consent to
the occupation Of Sicily by the United States,
or that France would allow us to occupy Cor
sicnH IL IL an insult to the intelligence Of both
the Cuban and American people to mention the
case OF Madagascar as one at all parallel. In
one case an island Of great size and vast natural
wealth Is being developed by the French. bnt
this IL done In the humane way characteristic
OF French coloni2inR methods. On the other
hand Is an island also of great natural and arti-
fetal wealth, peopled by n civilized. brave, and
cultivated people, whose very life's blood has
been wrung from them for two hundred years
to replenish the empty Golfers OF spain. From
the terrible crime OF becoming tired OF this on.
preston and wishing to govern themselves-and
In Heavens name can they do lcse and still be
men 2-thcy are treated as criminals. shot down
without mercy. and the aid Of the so-cnlled
civilized world Ia invoked by spain to help her
in her bloody task.
II the present case Is not one for Intervention
by the United states, none will ever arise. Tho
appointment of tho butcher" Weylor to su-
pcrsede Gen. Campos, who was too much
u sehtIehhh 10 eult spanish iucas'
Is illustrative OF Spanish feeling. The
case OF DR.. Delgado simply shows the
true feeling Of the Spaniards toward this coun-
try. Had he been killed, as hundreds arc being
killed daily, does any one suppose for an instant
that his fate would ever have been known? or
course not. and his would be murderer, instead
Of being shot as he should be-. will at most be
censured and privately promoted a~fterward.
In the name of humanity, Justice, and God,
let the United States intervene at once to the
extent at least OF compelling the Spaniards to
treat the owners OF the soil as civilized beings.
II this means war, let It come; and tho more
quickly 1t comes the better. J. d. D..
NEW YORK, March %.
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There is no great reputation which es-
capes the tooth Of envy. AS Coney Island looks
at the sea and the sand and the almanac and
listens for the coming Of the swallow, the
prophet OF the summer. and reflects upon the
ancient, insoluble problem OF thirst and espe-
cially the dense and cumulative thirst Of
Sunday "trippers," Coney Island thinks a
little bitterly of the Hon. JOHN RAINEs and
oven hopes that he may get the soapy foam and
foamy soap in his eyes when he visits the isle
of delight next summer. So Coney Island
thinks; and even goes so far as to deny that the
Canandaigua statesman is handsome. That he
is great, nobody. not Coney Island, not him
self, will deny. And Coney will be happier when
tho sausages begin to sizz once more.
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The bridge.

I stood on the bridge at midnight,
The clock was striking the hour.
was standing there from six O'Clock.
In the midst OF a driEzlinR shower.
Among the long black ~raftcrs,
At the entrance | had 10 pay
Three cents TO ride. though l had to walk
Three-quarters OF the way;
And like the waters rushing
Among the wooden piers,
Was The crowd that surged around me
huttering curses, threats, and Jeers.
How often, OH, how often,
In the days that have gone by,
have stood on that bridge at midnight
Because ] could not fly.
How often. oh. how often.
Am | caught In that human tide,
And though vainly striving for brooklyn,
Am swept TO the New York side.
Yet, whenever ! cross that river,
on the brooklyn bridge OF tears,
Like the odoT Of bones from Hunters Point
Come a thousand and one odd fears
And think how many thousands.
Encountered with heavy cares,
Have crossed upon that dreadful bridge.
Victims OF dire despairA
But forever and forever,
As long as the river nowA.
The cars ON the Brooklyn Bridge will stop
And the crowd will tear your clothes
And the moon and its broken reflection
And It's shadows will appear,
As the token Of system In heaven.
And its utter failure here.
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Out OF North Carolina great and new
things come continually, All the historians In
the world could not record them; all the poets
in Indiana could not frame them in golden song.
Now comes the newest and the greatest thing
OF all. The Hon. TYRE YORK Is a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Congressman
from the Eighteenth district. and he has an
nounced that he proposes to take the stump, or
rather the bull, at once. lie is going to ride q
bull all over the district. II is clear that no
cOnqueror, no candidate, no hRwbuck glver OF
the glad hand from C~INoINNATUs down. no king.
potenLate, grand lama. supreme snark. or We
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-30

The Hon. JOHN RINALDO TANNER is still
reaping most of the Republican hearts and
votes for the Republican nomination of Gov
ernor of Illinois by means OF his unique Glad
Hand Machine, which shakes a hundred
hands n minute, and Is operated and pro-
PEELED by electricity. They have a machine
in every county In the State and forty
eight machines in Chicago; and this artificial
pressure Is SO cordial and so warm that even
Republicans who dislike Mr.. TANNER look with
admiration and respect at their machine
shaken hands, and rasp their throats with
cheers for tho irresistible TANNER.
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"ChrIstenIng" ships.

To ruE Enron ~ TnE sUS-Sir: To your CORE.
spondent's letter ON christening ships / would say
in answer; "Go ahead: chrIsten and keep on chris.
tening.' II our friend objects TO the term he may
also tell us where he gets the authority for calling the
sRcrament OF holy baptism christening" Evidently
he is not a very good Churchman, for the word T" chris
teniny Is not found anywhere IN the Hible, The com.
mand Is. haptise' II our friend will content himself
Win following the divine command AMI be satisfied
to hAptiZe his "men, women and children. - no doubt
the humanity perverted term "christen" Will be
dropped and LETT for the use OF ships.
Why should he "christen - when he Is commanded
to hAptiLe CHURCHAAN.
NV YORK, March 81.
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rowance Of long-plug roanoke ever appeared
In public on the stage, addressed the populsce,
or led and capercd in the procession on a prouder
beast than a bull IL. Candidates on horseback
and muleback, candidates in gigs and ohaises
and barouches and private cars are requested TO
20 and hide or sonk their diminished heads.
Enter the Hon. TYRE YoRK on bullback.
Sound, trumpets, while he horns, losses, and
tramples on his adversary.
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The Vaccinations Of the money power, the
hydra head work OF plutocracy. the fine claw
and tiipper wrestling Of the devilhsh of Wall
street. aud so on and on so. for the full ~particu-
lars of which see Populist small bills. are only
too visible in Nebraska. For the purpose OF
weaving the sons OF the soil from the theory
that gold is Il G root OF all evil, gold is found
from time to time in Nebraska. Who puts 1t
there? Not the silver men. The Hon. WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN. for example. would have
Congress forbid the use of gold even as a
metaphor except at the ratio OF 10 to l. Not
the farmers themselves. 1t is trouble enough
for them to wash or dig out the dross. OBJ
viously, then, certain parts OF Nebraska are
"saltcd" by the hvdras. fish and devils herein
before mentioned. But the scheme will not
work. Who is going to take the trouble to pull
gold from the ground when he can get all the
money no wants by applying to the nearest
printing press? The money devils will be baked.
The Hon. JONAH JEREMIAH MORT and the Hon.
WILLIAM Jennings BRYAN are on guard.
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1t appears from the declaration Of princi-
pies issued by the National Reform party, which
will hold a National Convention in Pittsburgh
on May %. that both the large currency and tho
small change of reform are in circulation among
the select thinkers who have been thinking
about national reform. They want the liquor
traffic abolished. They are willing that liquor
shall be used as q drug. medicine, or lotion, but
insist that even when 1t is to be employed in
those ways 1t should be dispensed by
the Government Here the Hon. PITCHFoRK b.
TIILMAN ought to be able to convene
with them. Likewise the whole Dry party.
They are for the free coinage of gold and silver
at the ratio OF l6 to l; 1t is singular how many
curious and rapidly rotating intellects there
are. They are for Government ownership Of
the means OF communication and they are for
q general business in reform. wholesale and
retail. There is nothing wonderful about that.
1t Is wonderful. however. why, like the Pro-
hibitionists, they choose Pittsburgh as their
Convention city. What has Pittsburgh done In
the way OF reform, or do the thinkers hope to
convert the Hon. CHRISTOPHER MAGEE?
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Painted from Memory.

From the Columbia Ddilu Ners.
We were shown to-day a very beautiful painting
OF Christ which was executed by Mr.. j. =. Weaver.
II Is not a reproduction, hut painted from memory,
and REJECTS great credit on the young artist. Tho
painting will be presented TO Trinity Rero rmod
Church.
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Three Myths.

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
whats the use OF going on with thiS farce" eE.
claimed Gessler Were both mytlL We don's
exist"
I'm that case" said william Tell, deeply chagrinsd.
Il may as well go and drown myself in the mael-
stTom -"
20, yes. you viii. l don't think! 4" snesred GesslsA
"ThAts a myth. too"
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Eeoa0ay ,a the Quaker c,tz.

Prom ths FhtIddsipAtG Record.
The economical girl Is making her last years sleeves
ever into bloomsrA