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The Kansas City Times remarks that
Governor LEEDY OF Kansas and Governor Hot
COME of Nebraska have similar records " This
seems unjust to tho former Of these eminent
Populists. He is now scattering jack rabbits, or
promising to scatter them, among the poor and
hungry plutocrats of the East. Governor HoL-
COMB Is known to have been at one time
q mortRaReo. q money lender, and conse-
quently n character Objectionable to the true
Populist. A man who lends money or has money
enough to lend Is known in good Populist com-
pany In Kansas and Nebraska as a usurcr and a
money shark. No doubt the Hon. SILAs Hot
COMB has long repented Of his error, but no
amount Of repentance can place him on that
lofty plano occupied by the Hon. JOHN w.
LEEpy, jack rabbit distributor.
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Tho "sneer" of the Speaker.

An anecdote concerning Speaker REED,
printed the other day in the Providence
Journal represented him as saying that
the fact that a certain bill had passed
the Senate without a dissenting voice was
the very best reason why it should not
pass the House."
Our esteemed contemporary, the Boston
Herald, regards this remark as of serious
Importance, and 1t rebukes the Speaker for
what it calls "his reported sneer at the
Senate"
1t Is Mr.. REEDS fortune or misfortune to
be credited with many u~tterances of which
he Is entirely innocent. Like other states
men who have fairly won q reputation for
incisive wit and chain-lightning repartee,
he has become in his turn q convenient
hook on which to hang all sorts of pleasan.
tries, both modern and ancient. He can
only suffer and be silent.
Perhaps he never said it.
Perhaps If he did say 1t, he did not mean
1t In any sense d~isrespectful to the Senate.
q body bound to hia own HOUSE by living
flesh, even as CHANG was bound to ENG.
The speaker is a philosopher, even before
he is a wit. Is it not true that q measure
which entirely escaped scrutiny in one OF
two coordinate legislative bodies, ought
for that reason, first of all reasons, to be
regarded attentively by the otherf
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A silly Piece Of Impudenoe.

With comlcal assurance the little clique
engaged In the effort to divide the Repub-
lican party in this city and State demand
that they be represented in the appoint
ment Of Republican Commissioners in the
new Police Board. Section 270 Of the
Greater New York charter provides that
OF the four members Of that board "no
more than two" shall "belong to the same
political party or be Of the same opinion on
State and national politics."
The disorganizing clique make their de.
mand on the pretence that they are "the
representatives of the majority Of the Re-
publicans Of the city" and that the genuine
Republican organization "does not repre-
sent the Republican party" But who made
them the representatives Of anybody ex.
cept themselves, Republicans or otherwise
They are s~elf-appointed only any other
little coterie Of individual Republicans
would have as much right as they to as
sumo to be the Republican party.
The Citizens Union movement, in which
these would.be Observation-Disclosures took part.
expressly disavowed political ~partisanship.
1t had no party color whatever, according
to Its ~pretensions. but denounced the intro
auction OF y opinions on state ana natlonal
politics" into q municipal contest as a
grievous moral and political sin. 1t was
made up Of Democrats, Mugwumps, and
Republicans, and 1t nominated q ticket
without any authority emitting it to
representation as q political party
under the provisions Of the charter.
1t represented the Republican party
no more han the Democratic party, and
neither of them, save In the volunteer sup.
port of individual Republicans and Demo.
Gratis Independently of their partisan " opin.
ions on State and national politics." Its
nominations were made by a se%lf-appointed
committee of Democrats, Mugwumps, and
Republicans.
Mayor VAN WYoK, therefore, would be
as much justified in yielding to a demand
from the Citizens Union people to appoint
Democratic Police Commissioners OF their
selection as to pay any heed to the resolu'
tions passed on Thursday evening that
these boilers should have the Republican
representation In the bipartisan Police
Board. The resolutions are simply a silly
piece Of impudence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-18

The Hon. SoLoN CHASE, who bears a
name celebrated throughout Maine In con-
nection with steers. made "a spirited and forci-
Bile presentation Of the free silver arguments"
In Lewiston the other night. There seems to DO
something about free silver which gives a great
happiness to the man who talks about 1t. The
audience may feel q less enchanting pleas
ure. but tho orator has deep JOY every
time he emits his speech. 1t may be said
that this is often true Of orators who devote
themselves to other subjects than free silver.
but the free-silver spouter seems o get more
pleasure besides finding good health in his pur-
suit Of the goldbugs. There are silver shouters
who have been talking FREQ silver for nearly
twenty-five years; and the longer they live and
talk the healthier they seem to be.
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The Bicycle Nose.

1t would be unfair to medical science
and to mankind at large If the year were
Allowed to end without proper attention to
the latest affection said to be caused by
bicycling. A recent number of the British
Medical Journal contains this statement
by a physician:
Al . consid ar able majority OF the patients who
have lately consulted me for nasal trouble have com.
planned that the sensation OF obstruction has either
commenced or considerably increased since they have
taken TO the bicycle, the question arises: Arc we to
place this otherwise healthy and almost necessary
mode of locomotion among the causes OF nasal mis-
chief2 II is quite conceivable that the quick rush
through the air. inhaing large quantities Of dust on
the country roads. and all sorts and conditions Of dirt
on the London ones, might cause considerable irrita-
ton to the nasal mucous membrane"
So it appears that John Bull has got a
"bicycle nose" and also that the peculiar,
overstrained countenance known as the
"bicycle face" has again been s~ubdivided.
The doctor has failed to say whether the
bicycle nose is peculiar to any one class of
w~heelmen, but, inasmuch as 1t is supposed
to be produced by "a quick rush through
the air" it is doubtless mainly character.
lstic of the scorcher. Therefore, the bicycle
face, so far as 1t distinguishes that loose
jointed individual, now emhodies four dis
tinct features, namely, the bicycle nose, the
bicycle eyes, the bicycle ears, and the
bicycle jaw.
Perhaps the differentiation of the bicycle
nose is not altogether surprising in view OF
some other developments reported from
over the sea- Only q short time ago DR..
DEsToT. In an account of his cycling ad'
ventures published in the Gazette DIES Hopt'
tGur, declared that latter a long ride he
experienced paresthesia in the fourth and
fifth fingers, With impaired sensibility, and
paresis in the interossei, lumbrlcales, and
the adductor politics." and that "this
paresis was followed by distinct atrophy In
the affected muscles"
There is no reason to suppose, however
that there Is anything 80 serious about the
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The Rapid Transit Decision.

In form, the Appellate Division Of the Su.
preme Court has confirmed the report Of Its
Commissioners in favor Of the construction
by the city of New York Of the proposed
underground rapid transit railroad but in
substance 1t postpones the confirmation
until, by further litigation, the Court Of
Appeals shall have decided whether the
construction sought will or will not entail
upon the city a debt exceeding the consti.
tutiohal init.
More than this, the court makes Its APP
prevail conditional upon the filing by tho
Rapid Transit Commissioners OF a stipula-
tlon to require, from the contractors for
building the road, n bond with a penalty
of not less than $15, 900 900.
1t follows, therefore, that nothing car be
done in the way of commencing the work
until the Court of Appeals afflrms its
legality, nor until contractors for 1t can
be found who will put up security to the
amount of $15, 100000 or more.
This looks more like a defeat OF tho
scheme than u victory for 1t.
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Park or Gymnasium

The project Of certain we'll meaning per-
sons to turn the East River Park, above
E~ighty-sixth street, into a gymnasium is q
plan Of perversion, not of improvement.
There is other park territory available
for the use which the promoters of athletic
joys have in view; but the ground they
want at the riverside is too valuable for
other and at least equally important pur.
poses thus to be appropriated.
Let them look elsewhere. As we'll might
the Riverside Park, on the other sid of the
island, be converted into a sort of Elysian
Fields or Olympia.
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THE "xArIoxAL UNIVEnsIrr."
A Fhys,cinn who ThinLs we need ono Merely
TO Inch the Degree OF ~. ID.

TO Inch the Degree OF ". u.
To TIRE EprroR OF THE suS-Sir: In your
editorial article to-day on tho question OF Q
national university you say: I'm the first place
there Is no necessity for It,"
With regard to the degrees Of A. NJ, A. -,
PHI. D., SC, there may be little to DO said against
your position in the matter. but In the case OK
tho degree OF NJ. ID. there is much.
In these modern DAYS this degree seems 70
be rs worthless rs the parchment on which nih
engrossod. A young man begins a three OF
n four years. course OF study thinking that, IL
no is diligcnt and succeeds in passing his nhaA
examinations, ho will receive a diploma con-
ferring the degree of NJ. ID. and, with It, the
privileges naturally pertaining thereto.
But IL is not 30. He receives the covesoo
"shoepskin" 1t is true, but 1t Is OF very little
value to him, for. before he can practice his pro
fcssion, no ust p So another examinations
equally rs rigid as the first, under the Hoard OF
Take. Tor instance, the case of q young. man
who wishes 10 be thoroughly httet before locet
ing. He spends a year or two in. hospita ls and .
term ut a postgraduate school, and Wishes 70
and physiology two years before graduating, %
that 1t IL now nearly five years since ne heA
the dull, dry facts Of these two BRANCHES Of the
curriculum, yet no must pass as rigid an ex-
nmndd.'' Me may ns g be barred redy out BY failing to pass
in these two branches. yet, no one Will dc y thne
he is better qualified to shine in his CHOSEN PRO-
fession than when he graduated.
Again, suppose that he Qualities settles near
wishes to move to a better location a few miles
away. in an adjoining State. Once more ne
thousand times better fitted TO minister unto
the ills of m ,nkind." but, he remembers even
used in passing examinitions. What 10 the
cause OF this deplorable state OF %affairsi Simply
that there Is no national standard o. medical
dollars In one State; In another 1t may be oh:
tained by paying the fees at a one.horse m,dlcsl
easy examination.
The people have been obliged to protect them.
selves by instituting these State boards OF
medical examiners. II, however. the STANDARD
was fixed by a national university and all modi-
cal schools were obliged to grad uate theif
classes under Its supervision, n diploma would
mean something and would enable q physician
to practice HIS profession In any State
WHITINGHAM, VT, Dec. ID. MEDIcus.
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Jan. IL will be a day forever memorable
in the annals Of literary composition. There
will be a run on the vocabulary. All tho words
in the English language will be required for use
by the committee OF tho Peoples party which
will meet in st. Louis on the day hereinbefore
mentioned and make q call. and a loud
and largo ono. for q national convention
Of that party. The callers are Middle-of.
.the-Roaders, and their equals in sorority are
not to be found. Imagine a whole national COM
mIttee of JAMES R. ~SovEREIGNs and you got
some dim notion Of what Is going to happen at
ST. Louis and be heard around tho world Jan.
IL. Now 10 the time to begin to hoard words.
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ella at the bargain counter. The two have
no relation. The only value worth con-
Alteration Is In the feeling.
Great complaint is made Of the unequal
distribution Of the blessings Of lie, but
the organization Of the social system does
not cause any inequality In the distribu-
tlon of the greatest blessing Of all. AfFec-
ton Is Independent Of poverty or riches;
Il bears no relation to material circum-
stances. Everybody gets Of 1t the full
share he deserves, since the blessing IL
rather in the bestowal Of the affection than
In the receiving Of 1t.
Accordingly, we do not need to suggest
to our Inquiring friend any particular gift.
Whatever he gives to the girl will be glo-
rihed by the affection it symboliSes and
to which IL appeals.
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The mingling of anxiety and caution
which the Mikado's Government shows
regarding Germany's seizure of Kiao Chou
Bay is suggestive. The inquiries which Its
representatives at various European courts
and at Pekin, according to the dispatches,
have been instructed to make, are as to
Germany's chief object In that seizure;
whether 1t is to be temporary or perma-
nent whether Germany, France, and Rus
STA consented to 1t beforehand, and how
China regards 1t.
These inquiries show that Japan not only
knew nothing about the move, but is still
completely at sea on the subject. Her
questions go to the root of the matter, and
involve what we all want to know: but
they also indicate that she has not been
consulted by any other power, and is con-.
PEELED to make advances in order to OBJ.
tain elementary information.
There Is little doubt that Japan feels
keenly the German encroachment in China.
1t was said, at the close of her great victory
over that country, that she was anxious to
form a league with her against European
aggression; and, however that may have
been. it Is clear that In Russia's attitude,
practically causing her withdrawal from
the mainland, and regulating the character
of her protectorate in Corea, she recognized
that Europe was a bar to any notions Of
continental ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
In the absence of an agreement between
China and Japan for mutual support, the
capacity of the Celestial Kingdom for
laundering is SO enormous that Japan would
hesitate to link her destiny with that Of her
neighbor. Japan's future points to growth
and greatness, while China may any day be
broken to pieces. Not only China's military
and naval weakness but also her fatal habit
of procrastination exposes her to constant
peril. Japan wisely ~refrains from stand
ing by her now until after sounding the
European powers as to what they think
and will do.
This policy, also, avoids the danger of .
rebuff which Japan might get should she
protest on her Individual account against
Germany's conduct. Such a step in the
dark might be a severe blow to her slowly
growing prestige. Japan has too lately
come out of the list of negligible nations
for very positive self-assertion. She Is
steadily growing into a power that must
be reckoned with In international affairs,
but she knows the risk Of presumption.
Meanwhile che becomes spokesman for
the rest of the world in regard to what we
all want to know. II the answers to the
questions which her Foreign Minister is
reported to have drawn up, are frank and
prompt. and are made public, all needed
light can be thrown on ways now dark at
| Kiao Chou.
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BosroNs CHAMELEON DoME.
IL There Any Connection Between This Ph0s
uomenon and Contemporary Political

IL There Any Connection Between This Phos
uomenon and Costeupornry Poiiticsa
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-tSir: As dear
to the heart Of the true Bostonian as 10 io
sacred Goldfish, iB the gilded dome Of the State
House arising over our famous Common 40.
customed as we arc day after day to gaze upon
the golden dome. imagine with what startled
chaRrin we awoke one morning recently 10 ind
that Its golden glitter had vanish ed. and that
in the place of the familiar brilliant hue o dull
red had spread itself over the browning glory
Of the State House. Surprise gave way to won
derment when one morning soon after a dull
gray-white shade was observed tealing up from
the base OF The dome and mantling 1t to lts
"What Is the cause Of all this T. But none
there was who g. lid explain.
ing ~populace the connection betwe cen the strange
conduct. OF that celebrated dome and the present
political campaign. Putting aside the simple
repairs under way on the old Built nch structure.
the dome having been stripped Of its golden
coating and treated with coats of paint prepare
shown that while the Hon. Josiah Quincy, under
charges OF the Bryanized Democracy Of being q
70 another term as Mayor, the State House
dome preserved untarnished its golden huoj
but so soon as the Hon. Tom Riley. he Of
arena as the bowling advocate of Bryapism In
Its most rabid and rampant form, the dome
into q dull red, emblematio OF the peculiar char.
acter Of tho Riley movement, and then, as II to
typify the complexion OF the Democratic party,
The silver Of Brynnite Riley has for the mo-
ment overcome the old gold Of Josiah. In the
golden splendor a new dome. as Edward Upton
Curtis will triumph over the warning factions Of
the Democracy in the coming city election. Lot
BOSTON, Dec, 10.
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India Demands elr-Government.

The British Government seems to have
awakened to the fact that it has something
more to deal with in India than a mere
passing wave of discomfort. 1t has been
forced to recognize that 1t has to face a de-
mand On the part of the people of British
India for some share in the government of
their own country, some voice in the way
their taxes shall be raised and expended.
At the present moment they have neither
one nor the other.
On different occasions, notably In 1858
after the mutiny OF the native army had
given the British Government the oppor-
tunity to assume the direct administration
of India, the people Of India have been as
sured by royal proclamation that the
sovereign recognized no distinction be.
tween her British subjects and her native
born subjects. In the proclamation of Nov.
], 1858, which the people of India regard
as the great charter of their rights. the fol-
lowing special clauses occur:
eve hold ourselves bound to the natives Of our
Indian territories by the same obligations OF duty
which bind us to all our other sub iects. aud those
obligations. by the blessing OF Almighty COP. we shall
faithfully and conscientiuusly fulfil.
"And)it Is our further will that. so far as may DO.
our subjects. Of whatever race or creed, be freely
and lmpartlally admitted to Offices In our service,
the duties of which they may he qualified by their
education. ability aud integrity duly to discharge.
ain their prosperity Will be our strength. in their
oontentmeut our security. aud In their gratitude our
best reward. And may Con grant TO us. and to those
In authority under us. strength TO carry out these
cur wishes for the good OF our people,"
Nothing could be more explicit than this.
1t was received in India with public re.
joicing, fireworks, illuminations, and the
firing of cannon. On the faith of it, thou.
sands Of young Indians set to work to aual
lily themselves for official posts in the ad.
ministration and government of their
country, only to find that all the fine
promises of the royal proclamation were
i~llusory, and that, whatever was the inten,
tion of its trainers, 1t had been studiously
nullified In execution.
Soon after this proclamation was issued
. committee was appointed by the Secre
tary of State for India, composed OF Ave
Anglo-Indian members of his own Council
They made their report on Jan. 90, 1860
In 1t they found that while theoretically
there existed no positive disqualification
and the natives of India were not excluded
from the civil service of India, in practic,
they were excluded. The difficulties en-
countered by u native who wants TO leav,
India and reside In England for a tim,
ere 90 great that, as a general rule. 1t /
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WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.


From the Chicago Record.
The bottle OF orty.dve-year.old whiskey which
Major Barrack @. Thomas gave to Miss Richardson of
Lexington, KY, to send to the Secretary to baptize
the battleship Kentucky has been totally consumed.
It was . perquisite OF the last administration, and
was partaken OF by President Cleveland. Secretary
olney. Hoke Smith. ]. Sterling Morton. Attorney.
General Harmon. Postmaster-Genera Wilson. and
tho faithful Thurber. whose cons, Grafton to the inter
ests of his chief and whose devotion to duty required
him to consume forty.nve;year-old VIII skey and all
other beverages that were used and appreciated by
the President. Secretary Carlisle and Secretary La.
mont were not guilty.
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CHIEF Justice Marshall on tho Censti u tional-
ity or AnneXntiOE.

To THE EDITOR Of THE sUN-sir: Noting
your convincing answer in to.day's Sun to the
assert on that annexation of territory Is uncon-
stitutional. I beg leave to call your attention to
the decision Of the United States Supreme Court
rendered in 1878. in tho case of the American In.
surance Company Us. Canter Il Peters, Bib
wherein Chief Justice Marshall, In delivering
the unanimous opinion of the court, said:
THE Constitution confcrs absolutely on tho
Government Of the Union the powers OF making
war and Of making treaties; consequently. that
Government possesses the poper Of acquiring
territory either By conquest or by treaty."
Adds B. BROWNE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.
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Kansas. 1897.
o the Phiifstins.

From the PhilfStiRs.
Just a haulin' out the stun
From the plains o. kansaA,
Railroads can't get cars enough
Fun to empty Kansas.
Ort to see the farmers grin
Stroke the lilacs on tleir chin.
As the cash comes rullin' In.
over there In Kansas
Women singin' songs o. gle0.
Bout OIL fruitful Kansas.
Babes CROWN mrrrily
Everywhere IN X ansaB.
Purity girls u buyln' clothes.
Toggln' out from head to toes.
Styls2 You bet your life she goeA.
over there In Kansas.
When the cares o. day 10 done.
on the plans o. kRnsas.
An the Kids begin 10 yawn,
Sleepy like In Kansas,
Farmer wipes his glasses blurred,
Reads a chapter o. thu Word,
Then kneels downs and q tbs LORD
That he lIyes In Kansas.
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The case of the Topeka seven-year-old boy
to whom has been granted q conditional license
to practice Law will not be classod among the
wonders of the world by persons who are famIl.
far with Kansas and remember that Populist
judicial officers have sometimes gone to
work to study law after their election.
The old Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union. the first sketch of tho Peoples party.
would not admit lawyers; and tho prejudice
against them has not been lost. Yet nobody
likes to make laws better than some OF these
haters Of lawyers.
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most everybody would prefer TO die than eat, not
that the eater Of them would have any remark
able chances Of surviving. Thus he has grad
ually inculcated into tho breasts Of those
who know his economical cooking a distaste
for all cooking and all eating. At any rate they
will save a great deal of Z cd and come peril
ously near starvation rather than eat his food.
So. In a way unexpected. he must DO adding
greatly to the worlds savings; and. II the use Of
his oven wero general, tho savings Of money
would DO enormous. somewhat approaching tho
terrible loss Of life.