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the pioneer Of orthochromsttc photography
and the authority on 6olored visioni 80,
also, IL Mr.. PREEoB, the chief electrician Of
the Post Office. Among British physiolo-
gists are several whose names arc renowned
all over Europe, yet they are passed over
while court surgeons and fashionable
physicians receive baronetcies and knight
hoods. Turning to engineers, the Sdtur-
day RevieiD ~pronounces 1t n scandal that no
recognition has been given to OsBoRNF
REYNOLDS Of Manchester, b RANK1NB OF
our time, or to WOLFE BARRY, the engineer
Of the Tower Bridge.
In the world OF letters there has been dis
played the same lack Of acknowledgment
or Of discrimination on the part OF the
Queen, the court fiunkies, and the Minis
ters. ALFRED AUSTIN Is Poet Laureate,
and LEWIS MORRIS writes "Sir" before
his name. The far greater poets, BROWN
ING and WILLIAM MoRRrs, died with
out receiving any official distinction,
and SwINBuRNE, the consummate liv-
ing master of tho English Tyre, is
again omitted from the list Of hon.
ors. CARLYLE n FRoUDE, DICKENS and
THAcKERAY, died undecorated; and the
same fate seems likely to DO reserved for
JOHN RUsKIN and GEoReE MEREDITH. In
applicable, finally, and objectionable, ex-
cept upon the ground Of sheer Ignorance, Is
the Queens failure to offer Mr.. HERsERT
SPENCER, the one English name Of world
wide fame in philosophy, the n distinc-
tion which he might nave consistently &C.
copied, conferred on HUXLEY, that Of being
sworn of the Privy Council.
1t may be regarded as preposterous that
anything the Crown can do could confer
distinction OH some of these great names.
A Crown, however, can honor itself by
promptly and gratefully awarding honors
where they are VIGOROUSLY due. 1t would
have been prudent, to say the least, for the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland to try
to prove that she has not passed sixty years
in utter hcedlessness Of the men who
mainly ave made her reign illustrious.
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RunaiA'a Census.

Prince Krapotkin in the Geographical Journal gives
some extremely interesting figures as to the nrrt gs1
eral census OF the Russian empire. made on Feb. .,
1897. Tho total population of tho empire IA, %
round figures. $50. 900, 900. and OF these almost Ell
actly half are women. The density OF the populatioa
to the square mile is 2.5. In 1881 the total populs.
tion was estimated at only o.. o0O. 900. II the early
figures were accurate, which. however. is improbable
Russia has nearly doubled her population in forty.
six year,. Poland appears to be the most denseiy
populated portion Of the empire. Russia can show
some nineteen great towns. st. Petersburg has l.267.
029. Moscow has close on 1000. 600. and Warsaw has
over SOC, 900 people. The census does not OF course
express, except mutely. what is the great fact about
Russia. She possesseI. waiting for development. q
country as large and as rich in natural resources ~
the West Of America. Fifty years ago WHIST are now
the Western States were rs wild and as unteveloped
as siberia. 1t Is curious to wonder whether at tho end
OF the next nifty years the Russians will be able to
boast Of cities like Chicago and San Francisco. and
thousands OF miles of railway. all between southern
Asia and the Arctic Ocean. It would be interesting
to know exactly how many OF Russia's 100, 900, 900
are white men and how many not. We should our
selves guess the non.white population at some 20
900, 600,
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stand" Finally, Mr.. wrLps calls on Uncle
Sam to settle at once.
Mr.. WILDs in his zeal for the rights OF
Father Knickerbocker, seems disposed
to bully Uncle Sam, II not to go to the ex-
treme of actual rebellion against him, un-
less that little bill IL settled in short order.
But why Is he 40 rashf There Is now a
Congress in session ut Washington which
ia engaged in the adjustment Of the tariff,
the revenue from which will amount to many
millions. When this matter shall have been
settled, doubtless an adequate and proper
appropriation, II Justified under the law,
will DO made for the payment OF MIR.
WILps's claim for vault privileges. II,
however, the Congress should withhold
such an appropriation and SEQ At, as per-
chance It may, to sustain the views Of Sec
rotary GAGE, Mr.. WILDs will have no re-
course, except to submit, or proceed to the
indefensible extremity Of selling Federal
property for the debt he alleges Is due his
department. That would be a ~deplorable
experiment for Mr.. WILDs.
Mr.. WILDs, with a bill against Uncle
Sam for 81 a square foot of surface for
vaults, threatens to force n new national
issue into h municipal campaign.
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Concerning The Sun.

It IL somewhat put Of THE Suns habit,
but We must permit ourselves this public
expression of our thanks to our staff in
London. Tho account we printed yester.
day Of that city's great and splendid pageant
was something never before approached in
the history of the American press. For
comprehensiveness, for clear and quick per.
ception Of essentials, for force and felicity
of description, there was nothing else that
could approach 1t, nor anything else that
ever did approach it.
Take 1t for all in all, and be we as
modest as we may, The SUN yesterday was
perhaps the best example of an American
newspaper ever published.
viii our readers please oondone this
seeming egotismi Henceforth reticence is
again our rule.
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Tariff and Trusts.

In the Senate on Monday the Hon. Or
which has been exhibiting itself about every
day since the tariff bill was reported. He
said that "all that seemed necessary to get
a duty lowered was to present some newspa-
per clipping declaring that n trust existed
which would be benefited by the duty pro-
posed. Absurd antitrust amendments have
been offered, and most of them, as was nat.
ural, have come from the Popocrats and sill
yer fanatics. Proposition after proposition
for the reduction of duties or for putting
articles upon the free list has been sup
ported by no other argument than the as
sertion that there was a trust interested in
the production of those articles.
The idea that the tariff bill ought to pro-
duce revenue for the Government seems
to have disappeared from the minds of
nearly half the Senators. The mere rumor
that some article is the subject Of a trust
is enough to make them eager to cut off or
modify the duty IN that article. They
seem to suppose that the object of the tariff
is not to provide revenue, but to punish the
trusts. Many Of the trusts against which
they inveigh are palpably mythical, but
even II the existence of all the trusts invent
ed by INSCRIPTIONS newspapers or unsuc.
cessful competitors could be proved, the
tariff bill is not the means of making life
unpleasant to trusts. There is n Federal
antitrust law, and there Is a very wide de-
cision Of the Supreme Court to support it
and for some time the State Legislatures
have devoted their energies to the manu-
facture of laws for the discontinue of
trusts. There is artillery enough to use
against trusts without trying to distort
the tariff.
Presumably the chief purpose of the SEN
ate declaimers against trusts is to provide
more bait for the Populist and Popocratic
%gudgeons. The crime of the trusts is that
they are believed to be making money, a
very heinous crime in the eyes of the
wealth haters who swear by the Chicago
platform. In seeking to use the taxing
power of the Government to injure bust.
ness and to fine prosperity, the antitrust
Senators are only following the line of pol.
icy which led to the income tax. Appar.
emily they think that they can make a
majority Of the voters believe hat success
in business ought to be discouraged.
Intrying to insert their demagogy into the
Tariff bill they arc wasting the time of the
Senate with humbug. The Connecticut
Senator's rebuke of them was sensible and
well-timed.
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Citizens Union Deals with Socialists

The little knot of men who are most con-
spicuous in the running of the s~elf-consti-
tuted Citizens Union make a great boast
OF their superior virtue in refusing to enter
Into any deals" with the Republican or
ganiZation of New York. They are loud
and persistent in asserting that the in
d~ecency, the discourtesy, and the absurdity
Of refusing to hold any intercourse with
the only organization which can furnish a
nucleus for the union of the forces of con-
servatism against the menace Of revolution.
AIRY Organism, constitute indubitable evi.
dence of their sublime moral isolation.
Meantime this same self-righteous com.
mittee is catering to mischievous and dan
gerous socialistic elements. 1t is counting
obsequiously Labor leaders," whose fol-
lowing, II they have any following, can be
conciliated only by the surrender Of social
and political principles, upon which the
security of n stable social order depends.
With them IL does not hesitate to make
"deais," the evidences OF which appear I'M
mistakably in its claptrap platform and in
the tone and character of the anvass 1t Is
making to obtain the Endorsement of
the candidacy of Mr.. SETH Low. 1t has
rtNtNu pio' III Nv luhittIh ~ tht tO"u
where dangerous discomfort resides more
especially, making promises which are not
only deceitful, because impossible of fulfil
ment under the law regulating our politi-
cal system, but also infiammatory of pas
Eions which will be all the more obstruc-
tive Of prosperity because they cannot be
gratified lawfully.
In the Citizens Union itself there Is n
small but active socialistic element. 1t
could not he otherwise than small, so small
Is the receptacle containing 1t. The Rev.
DIR. RAINsFoRD, for instance, Is the victim
of a temperament to which fantastic social
theories are always congenial, and directly
or indirectly his influence with the more
violent OF the scatter.brains of the Citi-
1ens' Union clique Is great ana strong.
The tendency Of this passionate parson
Is revealed very clearly in Il letter he
wrote recently to DEBs, commencing
that social inc%endiary's scheme for up.
roofing the existing order of society by
establishing another to destroy the safe
guards which have been established as
civilization by the experience of mankind
In its upward march from savagery. One
of the most prominent OF the Clti.
gems Union bosses, too, is the Head
Master, or Head something else, OF
the University Settlement, a form OF
philanthropic activity which tends al.
most inevitably to develop into pure social.
Ism. 1t is a wholly artificial contrivance
OF unphilosophic minds, which is operated
In defiance of 1.-THE laws of human nature and
81 the constitution of the social system.
But the University Settlement Is the gen,
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Times Have Changed.

1t would be difficult for a document DOS.
sessing equal claims to consequence to fall
fiattcr than Queen LIS fiat against the
annexation treaty. The protest of Japan
has already drawn out a response from
Secretary SHERMAN but although the re-
marks of Mrs. DoMINIs on the same subject
were filed on the very day the treaty was
sent to the Senate, nobody seems to be pay
ing any attention to them.
And yet they have a certain curious in
%terest, as showing how utterly this unfortu-
nate ex-monarch was misled by the former
public fu~nctionary whose residence has
been removed from Washington to Prince.
ton. Therefore, !, LILIUoKALANI of
Hawaii" she says, in winding up her pro.
test, do hereby call upon the President of
that nation, to whom alone / yielded my
property and my authority, to withdraw
said treaty ceding said lands from further
consideration" Up to the hour of going
to press President MCKINLEY has still
neglected to obey this mandate, and the
treaty Ia not withdrawn.
Among the reasons which Mrs. DoMIHIs
or her secretary, Mr.. PALMER, sets forth
for her demand, Mr.. CLEvELAND's proceed
ings have the front place. She recalls that
Mr.. CLEVELAND, Mr.. GRESHAM. and Para
mount BLoUNT all reported in official docu-
ments that my government was unlawfully
coerced by the forces, diplomatic and naval,
Of the United States, and that / was,
at the date of their Investigations,
the constituted ruler of my people," She
reminds us that Mr.. C~LEvELAED's decisions
on thisp point were officially communicated
both to her and to President Dole, and
that the latter's resignation was formally
demanded by him finally, that the per-
sons with whom we are now treating for
the annexation of the islands are those
whom Mr.. CLEVELAND declared to be
I" f~raudulently in power and ~unconstitu.
tionally ruling Hawaii"
We are bound to say that all these allie
cations of Mrs. DoMINIs as to what Mr..
CLEVELAND, Mr.. GRESHAM, and MI. VIII
LIS said and did are correct; very mortify.
ing and shameful for the country 1t Is that
they are correct. But they do not help her
case a whit. 1t vas not true that she
had the right to reign in Hawaii 1t was
not true that President DoLE's Government
was fraudulent and If Mr.. CLEVELAND led
her into believing these preposterous asser,
tions, that fact gives them no weight. He
was the real usurper In Hawaii when he
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orator Of the CitirsnS Union, 70 which Il
has impaired lie fanatical real. and which
IL IL now aiding by drumming up the So
cialist vote for Mr.. SETH Low to the extent
Of It's power.
Al every politician knows, there IL moth.
ing easier han to got "labor leaders" to
offer their services In any campaign where
there IL promise Of . largo p~ecuniary ex.
penditure. It IL not necessary to 60 In search
Of them; they are sure to put In an appear
snce Of their own motion. They belong to
the variety of "Labor" which tolls with It's
jaws only. and they scent u~nerringly
an opportunity to get pay for their
noisy industry. Tho Citizens Union has
been expanding It's tenderest care on such
',labor leaders," Upon them IL Is laying
its fondest hopes, and they are exacting
and receiving tho most cowardly conces-
sions from 1t.
The Citizens Union Socialists are busily
engaged in making deals" with these
fellows, yet they pretend that they are too
pure to have any intercourse with a great
and conservative political organization !
The real reason Of their refusal to confer
with the Republicans is that, as their propa-
ganda for Mr.. SETH Low ia carried on chief
ly among the dangerous elements Of the
community, they arc afraid Of alternating
the sympathies they have taken so much
pains to cultivate II they enter into any
alliance with an opposing party. Their holy
horror OF a " deal" is solely dread Of associa-
tion with a sane and sober political organ
~ization. They have a crazy notion that they
can make themselves the leaders Of the
hordes of social discomfort and rebellion
and that they will gain more than they
will lose by insulting conservatism.
1t is remark ble that Mr.. Lows canvass
for nomination as Mayor should be con
Quoted by these allies and would.be organ.
izers of forces in New York stubbornly
arrayed against the social institutions
which make possible the great university
Of which he is the President. They are do
ing the best they can to drag him down to
the level of a socialistic demagogue.
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The Gu.h About, the Queens Virtue.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In the
name OF all true women l thank you for your
leading editorial in THE Sun of to-day. Queen
Victoria's jubilee has already fostercd SO much
sentimentality and exaggeration that it is time
that a sensible view Of the affair should be taken
by the American people.
Divested of glamour, the fact remains that the
Queen is a genuinely womanly woman OF the
heavy, sensible. practical sort. without n bit Of
romance or nonsense about hor. To laud her for
purity Of life is. indeed. an insult to the over
whelming majority Of women. As you have
truly said, the low type may be dismissed from
consideration AZ abnormal and morbid"
Why should the Queen not be good VIII at
temptation has she over had TO be otherwise /
Hedged about by conventions. of a quiet, domes.
tic temperament, early married to a man she
loved. many times n mother, It would be dis.
graceful to wonianhood were she not precisely
what she Is.
All honor TO the homely virtues OF the Queen.
but do not let us be childish about them. since
they are in no wise exceptional. MARCIA.
METuCHES, n. j., June d..
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From Walker county. Tex. comes a joy
Gus cry. full-throated and hearty. The Populists
Of Walker county met Mt GRANTS Colony last
week. and at once spread a bounteous lunch"
after which they proceeded to spread themselves
with equal bounteousncss. They emitted a
series Of resolutions. among which the most
spirited and filling cries for the infallible Popu-
list specific, 1.-THE initiative and referendum and
imperative mandate" Always attractive. the
initiative and referendum and imperative man
date must DO especially attractive after a boun-
icons lunch. Texas is fortunate in having
ample room and verge enough for the circula-
ton of this magic phrase.
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McENrFY has gone to tho Republican party;
CATFEBY has gone 10 the Palmer party; MEYER,
DAvEr and BRoUssARD have quit the Democracy. and
the upshot OF IL all 10 that Louisiana now has orly
three Democrats In CongrcssI Shame on the traitors
Appeal.
This is the lament Of an unfaltering Bryanite,
but 1t doesn't express the situation fully. In
neither Of the two wings into which the Dc
mocracy has been formally divided. the Bryan
wing and tho Palmer wing, is there anything
that satisfies the Democrat Of the past. The
Chicago Democracy is for tho fraud OF FREQ sill.
ver and It's rabid socialistic accomplishments.
The National Democracy, stopped 1 in Cuckooism,
rests chiefly on a particularly fimsy and imprac'
ticable issue of currency reform. Tho funda,
mental principles of Democracy nre to-day
whore they were in 1896, in the keeping of the
Republican party.
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View History or the Chicago Ya,r-A calau,.y
From the Chicago Chronicle.

FTom nc thtcupo ChrOntcfe.
The moneys to crate the Columbian Exposition
which. for Chicago, was the most unhappy occurrence
in Its history. more disastrous than the flood OF ls49
or the nre OF 1871. the panic Of 1887 or the hard
times OF 1s7s-csme from a great variety of sources.
They were collectively from Chicago to the extent
Of 90, 200. 900; individually they came from a large
number OF hari.worked mechanics. who were sys-
tematically dunned for contributions. They came
from the national Government. which. by some hocus.
pocus, was made TO contribute to the AFFAIR. They
camo from railroads and corporations OF various
kinda, as well as from public-spirited citizens. who
really felt that they were advantaging Chicago when
they undertook the great work from which Chicago
suffers to-day. as is the history OF all cities that, under
the mistaken supposition that they are engaging in
something of great benefit to themselves. undertake
colossal works OF this character. stimulate people into
ventures which they ought never to have made. antict
pating the growth OF the town for ten years. and
leave the succeeding years dull to the verge Of decay.
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The Oklahoma Legislature was a yer

The Oklahoma Legislature was a very
good Legislature. but the Texas Legislature is
still better. When any little discussion arises
In this interesting body. all the members stand
up and yell, sometimes at each other. some
times at the Chair. Hurting defiance at the
Chair" is one Of the most popular amuscments
Of the Texas House. and the account OF the pro-
ceedings Of TINT council of thinkers seldom fails
to record that then the usual bcdlam reigncd
for fifteen minutes" or more. as the case may
DO. The Texas lawgivors may be a trifc queer
in their laws. but their bodily activity and com.
mand of voice are beyond comparison.
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A DANGER TO CYCLISTS.
On the Riversido Path Taken from the Pedes.
trinna.

trinns.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: Several
weeks ago. when THE Sun opposed tho unjust
way in which the footpath on Riverside Drive
was given over 10 bicyclists, 1t was not apparent
that the new use Of the walk would prove dan
gerous TO tho wheelers themselves. 1t may
have been thought that. as the right to use tho
walk would give them an exclusive area to ride
on, the chance OF accidents would be lessened.
As a matter of fact, however. the most unsafe
place in this city at present for a wheelman to
visit is the bicycle path on Riverside Drive.
During the day it seems to be the rendezvous
of persons taking their first lesson in wheeling.
They wabble helplessly from ono side of the
course to the other. now and then running
against a tree or n bench or barely escaping
collision with other riders But at night. when
the path is thronged with cyclists, tho greatest
danger appears. Despite the fact that the bicy-
Gle policemen do their best to restrain fast
riding. dozens Of scorchcrs may be seen on the
path any evening whizzing along regardless of
everything and everybody. At the same time.
scores OF young people are pedalline in both di-
%rections, many OF whom are too unskilful as
cyclists to ride any where at night. The scorcher
flies along within only n foot or two of the other
r misb, m w ,b should tr ,ney ,b tsiI to SS See nm ma n f ,II'S:
crippled. II not killed outright.
The roadways, which were formerly crowded
with wheclmen and wheelwomen. are now al
most deserted by them. The rows of lamps
which line the path make the riders vision very
uncertain. When he passes from the light OF
one lamp he sees nothing distinctly until he
reaches another, when the glare from that
in both directions and sometimes three or four
abreast. II a riders lamp goes out suddenly
he must use mighty good care TO get out OF the
way OF wheels behind and to avoid being crashed
into by those coming toward him. Cyclists have
to keep straight ahead: it doesn't do to stop.
turn aside quickly, or even look over ono's
shoulder. Minor accidents occur on the path
constantly. and II Is source of wonder that more
serious ones haven't been reported. w.