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1t Is reported that the exposure of SETH
Low as simply a tail to the Henry George kite
induced some Of the brokers on the Stock Elk.
change yesterday to turn in their alarm to VAN
WICK as their means Of political salvation.
That showed that however much they know
about the stock market they know very little
about politics. Obviously. tho strength Of
GEORGE is the weakness Of VAN WICK.
GEORGE is only formidable because he Is likely
to carry OF the great bulk OF the Tammany
vote, leaving VAN WYCK's candidacy beyond
salvation.
A merely casual examination OF the election
returns OF last year and for several years past
will prove conclusively that if GEORGE is beaten
1t must be by the Republican party. In that
there is a sure and calculable vote, and If to it
is added the conservative vote without regard
to party, Gen. TRACY's election ia certain. 1t IL
sure anyway II all the Republicans pull to-
gether; but the addition of tho other vote will
make it certain that the calamity Of the election
OF HENRY GEORGE will be prevented.
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To TIE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sfr: No one has shown
the "true tnwardness {" OF the continuance Of the Low
candid cy. which. originating in Mr.. Lows proper
ambit on. would have been abandoned under pre-
vailing conditions had Mr.. Low Judged for himself.
Unfortunately for the city. for the Republican party,
and for the nation, exceptionally clever wire pullers
were on hand to work President Low through Rey.
nolds and Others Of the clique.
All men have their weaknesses. Low Is not sui
oenrris. Strange he should be weak enough to allow
so paltry "A British parody 10 influence him; but alack.
alas so It is. And now for the niger In the pile,
Hho steers Repuoldsy
BAH Who but the astute lawyer with Gallo cog
nomen ana virulent hatred OF everything Repub-
lican increased tenfold by the bitter necessity OF vot.
ing that ticket In 90. He and GodkIn. the ~hlunderer
who manag d TO flop the Post over TO the Democrats
at exactly the most inopportune moment that could
have been selected between '5S and 90. Their and
their owners pockets safe, one or both would far
sooner have George or Van wyck elected than any
nominee Of the X publican party.
The above remarks are written by a friend, and, to
a certain point. an admlrcr OF Mr.. Low: by one who
certainly would have voted for him under almost any
other conceivable conditions than the present dog.in.
manager. smash II he can't get for himself. and abso.
lutely suicidal policy OF his AdulIamite congregation.
A REPUBLICAN VINO VOTED FOR CLEVELAND.
UNION CLUB, Oct. 8. 1897.
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Persona Grata.

We print elsewhere a summary OF an ex.
ceedingly able and comprehensive state
mcnt of the reasons for the annexation Of
Hawaii, together with an examination of
the arguments which have been advanced
by the opponents of annexation.
The whole case Is there, and there has
been no clearer or fairer statement OF the
whole case. 1t is an enlightening and con.
vincing document which every American
citizen should read.
The author of this notable pamphlet is
the Hon. LoRRIN A. THURsroN, formerly
the Hawaiian Minister to the United States
and persona o grdta to the Hon. GROVER
CLEVELAND, but distinctly and emphati-
caily persona gruta to several millions of
Americans who will shortly welcome him
to fellow citizenship.
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THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1897.

use; some preferred life in the cities
to work on a farm, and q good many of
them left the country, In a discontinued
state OF mind, before they had lived in It
for q year. 1t is doubtful whether more
tina 1000 Russian Jewish immigrants
are now living in the Argentine colonies
that were founded, at a heavy expense, for
their especial benefit. It Is grievous to
know that such has been the outcome Of
the generous purpose that was enter.
tanned by the wealthy Baron. 1t has been
made manifest that the Jewish Rus.
slams, unaccustomed to farming in their
native country, could not be quickly fitted
to engage in 1t in another and q strange
country. 1t would be unfair to cast too
much blame upon them for the failure of
the agricultural colonies.
A filter man than Baron De H1RscH to
carry out the plan which he devised could
not have been found in Europe. His mil.
lions were counted by the hundred and he
was ready to eNpend many Of them in what
he believed to be the interest of his people.
He was a mar of large experience In practi-
cal affairs. He had been successful in nearly
all the undertakings Of his life. He sympa-
thized deeply with the unhappy Jews Of
those countries in which they are sub.
jcct to disabilities, and he was most
anxious to offer them such relief as
he believed it to be in his power
to provide. 1t was before his death
last year that the Argentine enterprise fell
under q blight. His widow, exceedingly
DESTROYS to carry out all his wishes, and
,.tll Lace, Il
yet unable to accomplish the purpose for
which he provided so great a fund. She
has recently sent much money to Russia, to
be used for such educational, scientific, and
industrial purposes as promise benefit to
the six million Jews who live there.
1t was that shrewd observer of Jewish
character and Jewish experiments, Rabbi
ADRIAN S. IsAACs, who recently made the
remark 1.-The Russian Jewish problem
can be solved only in Russia"
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IL Cen. Tracy Guilty or Repub,cnn,.m,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: Mr.. Low argues
that the election of Gen. Tracy would please Senator
Plat. Granted. and what Of itp What great disaster
that would bring to New York. neither Mr.. Low nor
any one else pretcnds to say. MIR. Low does not claim
that In that case the Affairs OF New York would go TO
tho dickens. To the contrary. his complaint is wild rly
different. and Ia that Gen. Tracy. in making appoint
ments. would select Republicans In order to strengthen
the Republican party as much as possible for the
Presidential election OF 1900.
As n II were q monstrously wicked thing to think
of, Mr.. Low. at Cooper Union last night. launched
this fearful indictment ct Gen. Tracy: Appoint
ments will be made to strengthen the party, and tho
patronage OF the city. wherever possible. will be used
for the same purpose" That is, n Republican Mayor
would be guilty OF the heinous crime OF building up,
instca OF pulling down, the Republican party. How
shocking! Because OF the apprehension that Gen,
Tracy would perform that fearful thing. patriotic
duty. we Republicans are urged to bolt. Yes, scri.
ously beseeched to destroy the Republican party, tho
hope OF the nation at this crisis, lest, otherwise, Il
may become powerful In the nnanc al centre OF the
New World. Was more senseless twaddle ever ad.
dressed to a sensible community?
The Inference TO be drawn from Mr.. Lows arraign.
ment OF Gen. Tracy 10 that, though claiming to be q
Republican. Mr.. Low. II elected. would make APP
pointments so Us to ward of the dcplorable evil OF q
strong Republican party In New York. Judging by
his past, there ia no room for dolbting him on that
point. From 1879 down, except when he was a can.
didate for Office and there was hope OF gaining the
support OF the Republican party, Mr.. Low either has
been engaged pers.stently in Organizing or favoring
movements for the overthrow Of Republication.
1883. 1854, 1883. lsss. aud lse22 What he then
did Is precisely what he is now attempting. disrupt.
ing the Republican party. SrErHES B. JACOBS.
BROOKLYN. oct. Z. 1897.
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The End of n Great Experiment.

About five years ago the late Baron DE
HIRsCH, the Jewish millionaire, controller
Of large financial enterprises and liberal
handed providcr Of funds for the use of
those charitable institutions which seemed
deserving of his favor, devised a plan for
the bcttcrmcnt Of the condition Of the
jews of Russia and other parts of eastern
Europe by establishing large colonies Of
them in a new country. His plan was
wrought out with the utmost care. lie con-
tributed several millions Of dollars to pro.
mote its execution, he established a great
fund for its permanent support, and he per.
sonally supervised the labor of the men
whom he employed to carry it to success.
believing that the accomplishment of his
design for the relief of his suffering CO.
religionists would be the browning achieve
ment Of his life.
1t Is with regret that We learn from an
official report that Baron DE HTRsCn's plan
for the formation and development of great
Jewish colonies in the Argentine Republic
has proved to be n failure. a stop has
been put to assisted Jewish emigration
from Russia to Argentina. The funds
which the Baron had intended for the en-.
largement of such colonies as already Exist
there are to be used for other purposes.
The change has been brought about under
the advice of his widow, who is a woman
OF sound judgment. and who acts under the
authority which her husband gave to her
while yet he was hopeful Of the growth
and the success of his Argentine colonies.
She Is unwilling that more money shall be
expended upon efforts that are not justified
by their results.
There is no country in South America or in
any part of the world that offers more advan.
tages to Jewish agricultural colonies than
Argentina. There are millions upon millions
of acres of %unoccupied and fertile land in
that country, both farming lands and pas.
ture lands. Wheat and other graius can
be raised there; grape vines and sugar,
and many varieties Of fruit can be raised
horses, cattle md sheep are raised. The
climate of the greater part of the coun.
try Ia temperate and healthy. Were So.
100000 new settlers added to the 1000.
o inhabitants, there would he room for
more. Hundreds Of thousands Of Italians
have found the country a desirable home,
and the foreigners residing there number
more than a fourth Of the population.
1t Is also to be said that the Government
of Argentina favored the Jewish immigra.
zion. 1t was upon easy terms that Baron
DE HIRsCH acquired agricultural lands
to the extent of 100000 acres in the
provinces of Bucnos Ayres, Santa Re and
Entire Rios. Here was a country for the
dissatisfied Jewish people of Russia, better
and more friendly, and with more liberty
than that in which they lived.
1t has never been possible. to induce more
than a very few thousands of these Jews to go
there, even though u free passage and other
favors of far greater value were offered to
them by the Jewish Colonization Associa.
ton. From those who went there com.
plants were constantly received at the
offices OF the association some OF
them refused 10 settle upon the lands
| which had been provided for their
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The Impending Deficiency of Bread
stufIs.

In the current number of the Forum, Mr..
c. WOOD DAVIS, who is an authority on
the relation of food-bearing acres to the
worlds bread-eating population. under.
takes to show hat our Western farmers
are entering upon a period of unbroken and
increasing prosperity. He maintains that,
after Europe shall have exhausted all pos.
sible supplies from the harvest of 1897,
and such crops as may he harvested prior
to July, 1898, there will be a deficit of the
equivalent of 700, 600, 900 bushels of the
bread making grains, with no resource ex-
ccpt meagre remainders from former har.
vests. and with no substitution possible,
unless Europeans can be induced to eat
bread made from Indian corn.
A review OF the prices Of wheat during
the last century furnishes the premises
from which Mr.. DAvIs's deduction is
drawn. 1t seems that, from 1921 till 1882,
the worlds seasons were so equable, and
wheat acreage was so we'll proportional to
increasing world requirements, that prices
were comparatively constant. In England,
they never fell below $l.2O per bushel,
and rarely below $40; while but twice,
and then only for periods OF three and two
years respectively, did they rise to or above
81 per bushel. In 1880, 1910, and 1871
the rise resulted from scanty harvests in
both Europe and America. In the other,
which was a biennial case, the advance was
caused by the Crimean war. Owing to the
addition of more than 1000, 900 acres to
the wheat fields Of the United States be.
tween 1870 and 1880, the very scant Euro
pean harvest of $40 and $50 caused only
a moderate increase in the prices of the
bread making grains, although, through
an exhaustion Of reserves, they served TO
prevent the rapid fall that would nave fol-
lowed had the harvest in either of the two
aforementioned years been as abundant az
was that of 1852. From and after 1882
prices fell rapidly until the year of the Rus
sian famine. The harvest of "contributory
areas in 1852 exceeded the average of the
preceding three crops by as much as 800
100000 bushels, or IS per cent, and, In
conjunction wish imports of a. ,O0O, 900
bushels from Asia and North Africa, cx.
ceeded requirements by 100000, 900 BUSH
els. Had thc harvest of 1882 not been fol.
lowed by one still larger in 1854, and that
by other crops of equal proportions in 1887
and 1883, the decline in price would have
been arrested, for consumption was then,
as 1t Is now, increasing more rapidly than
were grain-bcarinS acres. Indeed, not an
acre has been added to the worlds wheat
and rye area since 1854.
The fact is that the enormous world crop
OF 1852 was but the beginning of an al
most continuous succession of great world
crops of wheat, so much above the average
in acre yield that the oyer-average product
of the fifteen harvests ending with 1896
| was more than 1.2O0.OOQ.OOO bushels. Not
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The difficulties of municipal administra-
tion in the city of Chicago on the non-par.
tisan plan, or any other, have been aug.
mentcd recently by conditions peculiar to
Chicago among American cities; that ia to
say, by prairie fires. Recently there have
been n number of prairie fires In the fiat
plain upon which the city of Chicago is
built. 1t is no uncommon thing for a resi-
dent Of that city to find at his doorsteps in
the morning an excited crowd of fire fight.
ers battling with the devouring element
and endeavoring, with the cooperation Of
the Chicago Fire Department, to keep the
dry grass in the Chicago streets from burn.
Ing too brightly. One day last week as
many as six prairie fires were reported
within the limits of the city, some of them
upon its important thoroughfares. Here is
q Local narrative Of the danger which besets
some Chicago residents:
"Another prairie nre was reported q. Evanston
avenue ana North Fifty ninth street. but 1t was put
out without causing much excitement IN the neigh.
borhood. Soon after another alarm waa acnt. in from
Tooth street and Avenue X where namra were sweep
ing the prairies In that district and causing much un.
easiness among the residents. Headed by onicer BAD.
COCK, q crowd OF citizens, carrying buckets of water.
eA''hkhiah'h u kIbSs hTo "hNh oiisiuhtou IN the
vicinity OF Eighty fifth street ana Pittsneld avenue,
and much excitement prevailed until tho bucket
brigade accomplished their purpose"
The Chicago Fire Department. 1t is we'll
known, is superior in efficiency and prompt
ness and in organization to the Fire De-
partment Of any other city of Illinois. The
Chicago bucket brigade has been as effec.
tive in fighting prairie fires as the bucket
brigade in any other city in Illinois. Indi.
ana, or Iowa. Prairie fires must be met
with vigilance, eternally the price Of secur-
ity, when they threaten to close Chicagos
thoroughfares to pedestrians and to vehicles.
Prairie grass is easily ignited, especially In
the fall of the year. The luxuriant prairie
grass which sprouts in Chicago streets
easily becomes inflammable. The danger
of such q catastrophe rs that of a blazing
Chicago street has to be ayerted, If 1t can
be averted, at any hazard.
1t happens that wood from the neighboring
forests of Wisconsin and Michigan enters
largely into the makeup of Chicago. There
are wooden houses in great number. There
are wooden sidewalks. The wooden docks
of the Chicago River have long attracted the
attention Of tourists from other parts Of the
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A Successful Antitrust Law.

Some doubling spirits have questioned
the value of statutes against trusts. The
country is crowded with statutes of that
sort, they say, and yet trusts Increase and
multiply. The Illinois law against trusts
at least is of value to the Federal Govern
mcnt and to all the citizens of the United
States, and the fact was proved last week.
If hat law does not hurt trusts beyond
remedy it helps the country in general, MS
will appear in a moment. For six years
Illinois has possessed, If not enjoyed, a law
fo%rbidding trusts and threateningt them with
big and cumulative fines. Although a fat
part of these fines is assured to the informer
when a conviction is obtained, the law has
slept and informers have not been enriched.
Last week the law awoke, threw away its
nightcap Indignantly, and called for pen
and paper. The Secretary Of State, who is
fragrant in the name of ROSE, but has sworn
to be a upas tree to the unholy combina-
tions of monopoly, notified $4,000 incorpo-
rated companies that on or before Nov. 9
they must place on file in his department
afiidavits that they are not doing a forbid
den business in the trust line.
Twenty-Five thousand two-cent stamps at
two cents apiece come to $500. Twenty
five thousand more, for the answers at the
same, to the same. The direct addition
to the revenues of the Post Office Depart
ment is ST 900. To this sum may be added
a contingent pile, the size of which will de-
pend upon the formal exactness of the aft
davits submitted. In drawing these up the
services Of a notary public will be required.
Say 1000 atiidavits and notary publics at
fifty cents apiece, making $4,000.
Here is a direct benefit of 81 900 to the
whole country and $4,000 to the Illinois
notarics. Moreover, when official corre-
spondcnce Is once begun, its inertia quickly
becomes enormous, and it is hard to stop
it. If Secretary ROSE is the man we take
him for, he will afford great happiness to
Postmaster-General GARY before this cruel
war against trusts is over.
But perhaps it is unjust to a great princi-
pie to dwell too long upon the merely pecu-
MARY results of the Illinois Antitrust law.
The noble simplicity of the plan of forcing
suspected or suspectable trusts to write
themselves down in an affidavit will appeal
to all the foes of trusts, and would nave
made DoGBERRY wag his head and wave
his lantern with satisfaction. If it is
thought that some of the %, 900 companies
are trusts and false knavcs, yet will it be
writ down that they are none. The Illinois
law is terrible when 1t is set a-going.
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HALL GAME is already Mt work on n new novel
which deals with the drink northumberland
Rg.nrIyr

HALL. GAME is alrcady Mt work on n new novel.
which deals with the drink observation-disclosures
Recorder.
Mr.. CAME will be panied beyond the power OF
even his own expression by this indiscrcct dis.
closure. Ever stunning notOriety. composing
In solitude his enormous masterpieces. nourish.
ing upon solitude his mighty heart. hating the
shrill penny trumpets OF the literary sandwich
men. he lives and works apart, a misty granite
cliff. a lonely island of the mind. Since his
secret is no longer secret. however. it may tran.
qullize an excited universe to say that his new
masterpiece will be alcoholic. total abstinent,
allopathic, homeopathic. therapeutic. patho-
logical, hypnotic. vegetarian, physicopathic.
Mahatmic, osteopathic. and hyperhyperic. 1t
will contain 1877 characters, all OF which have
been studied from life and repaired and cor
rocted by 1877 specialists. It will be the most
sublime production OF Surrey melodrama ever
printed In book form. Satisfaction guaranteed,
or money refunded.
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The Japanese are very practical people,
and the extent to which they are rushing emf.
grants into Hawaii gives a pretty clear hint that
they know annexation to our Union is coming.
or course. the steamship companies are specially
concerned in this movement, as they want to
get all the passage money they can while tho
treaty with Hawaii remains in operation. With
annexation the treaty lapses, and Uncle SAM
laws will prevail. We doubt whether the Japan.
csc would talk of putting 5000 more OF their
people on the islands. between now and the New
YeAr. unless they felt that they must make hay
while the sun shines.
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II requires no inauisition and no inquiry into private
mNttersi 1t simply uses the evidence OF a mana
means which he already oners."
This tax has the merit Of being a substt.
tute for the existing income tax. In de.
Tending 1t the Commissioners again expose
their theory Of taxation. They say that it
would nat be felt outside of the cities, and
would be paid 10y the well.to.do and rich.
II to mulct those unfortunate folks is the
chief end of taxation, this Massachusetts,
plan of taxation deserves praise.
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Behind Seth Low.

The business community are at last thor.
oughly awake as to the danger OF the Low
movement.
His candidacy Is { threat against the
prosperity Of New York and the security
Of property, which becomes more and moro
obvious to all conservative citizens.
Behind SETH Low stalks HENRY GEORGE,
IN alarming figure, and tho two are In.
hRuarabla
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To THR EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: l admire your
stand on tn" Mnyoralty question. The average In.
struotor IA not nj for public once, and II he be nt for
public ONCE hc ,s but a sorry teRchcr.
TUE suN Is gaining many friends by It's advocacy OF
rra' good government, not the bogus KIND.
! hope that Low win hnd himself as high a. Hannah
on Nov. 2. BROOKLYN VorKR
BROOKLYN. Oct. 0.
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pleasures or rrayel In south Africa.

Mr.. j. B. Buchanan. travelling along under tho
hHuanga with . wagon. came across Ave lions. two Of
which were adult male and female and the remain.
ing three cubs, Tho whole family sat eighty yards
on and watched the oxen pass, md the only weapon
In the wagon was one rusty a-srgai.
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who Arc Their Trl-pd-a and Who Their Iu.m,e.

From 'e Commercial Advertiser.
Dir. Lows friends could not confer with the Repub.
Leans 10 defeat AMMAN but with Henry George
defeat the Republicans.
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threatening In An II. Aspsets.

From the Rochester Denloc,dt and ChronfcIe.
The Citizens Union itself. III its inception. actions,
motives, and tactics Is q consolidated threat ~ the
good nAms and welfare Of New York
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T~ARp-Kio,que No. -. near Grand Hotel, anc
Eiosque No. 10, boulevard dcS cnpucineS.

Bour Friends rho Cdtor US ,rt;h manuscripts fer
p+.6;fcdtion wfsh TO hare reJtSied articles returned.
O,ev mu,t IN all oaSes send stamps FOR that purpose.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Why does he ask
for New England pumpkin plea when we mako the
genuine article in New Jersey? We are not DEALER
In the article. hut will be most happy to MI that
be made in any state. p
NLwAEK, Oct, s,
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To THE EprroR OF THE Srx-Sir: "a New yorker"
can get his mothers or grandmother's pumpkin pies
from the woman's Exchange. i2 West Thirtieth
street y they, do mo-, touch the spot I am much mis-.
taken. He VIII probably he Obliged TO wait for a
while after frost time To get the full Favor. YANKEE.
NEw YORK. Oct. &.