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Our esteemed contemporary, the Philu-
deiphiu Press, is grieved and moved because
Yale and Harvard choose to row at New
London rather than at Poughkeepsie, and
because they are satisfied to row with each
other. 1t says that 1.-THE public will be dis
appointed, but in our eye, II the graduates
and undergraduates of Yale and Harvard are
satisfied to have the crews Of those colleges
row at New London, and row each other
If Cornell objects to coming to New
London, as she has a perfect right to
do, and, no doubt, good reason for doing,
there Is no more to be said about the
matter. II it be true, as the Philadel-
phia critic darkly imagines, that there
is rather a purpose manifested to be rid
of a rival superior to both of them on the
water, but to do 1t in a way that would
delude the public into believing that It Is
the fault of the hated rival" then the
public must refuse to be deluded, and Cor
nell can add to the glory OF vanquishing
Harvard and Yale the glory OF having in
spired fear in those craven bosoms. Surely
this consciousness Of moral superiority
will console the public and Cornell, and, as
Yale and Harvard are content to enjoy
themselves at New London, everybody can
be satisfied and the world can go on n little
longer.
Besides, a day of %retribution Is in store
for the arrogant chaps Of Cambridge and
New Haven. "With the progress now
making" exclaims the Philadelphia scourge
of "snobbery," sit will not be many years
before the great educational institutions of
the country will be outside OF New Eng
land, and then Harvard and Yale will be
compelled to sue for athletic recognition
from those they now wish to ignore, unless
they are willing to emphasize their provin-
cialism by keeping their contests strictly
between themselves" When the sceptre
has departed to Oshkosh and Devils Lake
the miserable provincials will regret too
late that they rowed where they wanted to
row. They listened to petty geographical
and traditional arguments when they
should have been listening to the spirit
Of the future. They thought about such
insignificant things as good training quar-
tiers when they SHOULD have been making
good their claims to future athletic recog-
milton" So they are doomed.
We cannot be sorry that they are doomed,
and the rest OF the New England colleges
with them, when we read the sentence:
There is nothing which will emphasize more
quickly the fact that New England's educational
supremacy has passed than the exhibition OF a snob-
Dish spirit in intercollegiate athletics
The theory that education is dependent
upon intercollegiate athletics will be cor
daily approved by JOHN the Orangeman
and Handsome DAN, the Yale mascot.
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To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: In q
book called draining of a Priest" young.
New York. 1897. the Rev. John Talbot
Smith. LII. D.. accuses the Catholic colleges OF
falling back-of being. in fact. sixty years be-
hind the age in methods of teaching.
On page % he claims that the methods Of
teaching Latin in our Catholic colleges remain
as they were sixty years ago" which is another
serious criticism. In non-Catholic colleges
there has been within n half century a complets
revolution in methods. = = " A change to
better methods " " = would no doubt have
its effect" &c.
To this we reply: 1t is not true that our
methods have effects inferior to those of nom
Catholic colleges. On the contrary. our results
Latin. Where did the author get these no.
tons? He, never gives an authority. except
w yrs not sfrG iS a ( Go% of c TSst p9jnt, B NTH nv w ta{i I'VE we
that Yale. for instance, does not come up to us
in Latin tnF and civ give as s 9 4aJ Hu t
reading OF the use Of Latin at the last Baltimore
Council. declared that not a living Yale man
Second-The President Of one OF our Catholic
colleges attended the. banquet of his class at
dress told us that one Of his old chums had
been very much Interested IL, knowing a." that
we teach Latin so successfully and proposed
visiting the college referred to in order to Oh
Third-As far as the value Of our degrees is
Catholic colleges told the undersigned that he
considered the haccalaureate degree of George
town or Mount st. Mary's at least AS good as
that OF Harvard. OF which he himself Is a grad
uatc.
We fear that DR.. Smith has in mind the
special courses Of those old and wealthy insti-
tltions, and unfairly compares their average
OF 200 graduates in literature with our meagre
dozen. When one remembers the social and
commercial advantages of the mass OF the
students at Harvard. Yale. Princeton, &C.. and
their nrmhcrs.oi il is not surprising that they
cut a larger figure in the world and IA mora
striking one. But we are ready. If needs be. to
maintain that. abstracting from those adj
yantaGcs aforesaid and adhcring to numbers
alone, The graduates of our Catholic colleges
hnye achieved far more in proportion. even in
what the world calls success. than those Of me
nGn-t athollc ones, EDWARD MCswEEh-.
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A Tribute to Mrs. Ballington Booth, from
n simmer Saved.'

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: I have
recently been reading in THE Sun Of Mrs. Bal
lington Booths addresses on How to Help
the City's Poor and also about her boys"
In both Of these lectures she spoke Of the
transforming power Of love. and I want to give
a personal testimony to that.
am one of her girls" converted through
her efforts over three years ago. and her love
for me. her faithful efforts in my behalf and
her strong belief that I was going to live right
and be good gave me the greatest impetus for
righteousness after the power of Christ.
said: My little mother will never he dis
appointed in me: she loves me and | will never
give her n moments pain" have faithfully
kept my promise, as who would not to her?
or course, | have to protect myself now lin
deed. she would be the first one to gricve did |
make the facts public. but II / told my story.
full OF romance. sadness and sin. and showed
her letters. her true love for me. her brave soul.
and her good works done in the dark. the
heart OF. the American public would grow
warmer for her.
| have never been able to do anything for
her and / am positive she would not let me do
this II she knew It. but | want to say that her
works will live and her brave. Christly soul
will march on when the aesthetic ministry"
that breaches John Ruskin " and culture and
Shakespeare will have gone the way OF all flesh.
May God raise us up such preachers OF the
cross as she is. who believe in a living God and
who lives her %religionl
New YORK. Jan. 10.
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is no doubt that he will bow to the will OF
tho majority, and to Mr.. CRoKER's dictum
that "the money question should be settled
in Congress"
Then Mr.. CROKER proceeds TO announce
enthusiastically that Tammany will stand by
any position the National Democratic Con-
vention takes on the coinage question:
when. In convention assembled, the majority Of
the delegates demand u certain standard or a certain
reform, New York will. as IL ever has, fall faithfully
in line, without a moment Of opposition or a murmur
OF protest. But the Democratic platform Of 1900
has not yet been written"
OF course. the New York Democracy will
fall into line behind free silver in 1900 as
1t did In 1895, II the convention goes for
the destructive doctrine. The vast major
ity OF the Democratic party, tho power
controlling its machinery in nearly every
State, or the silver advocates, understand
that well enough. Tammany and the New
York Democracy are ready to do as they did
in 1s96-declare positively for gold one
month, and the next month take back their
words and declare az fatty for silver. Con-
sequently, Organism Is in no fear OF Tam
many, for it knows that 1t can whip 1t into
line whenever IL wills.
Mr.. CROKER even notifies the free silver
dictators that he Is prepared TO submit alb
solutely when the time comes, and only ex-
presses a faint hope that next year their
fidelity will not be again tested in that
way
or course,i"the Democratic platform Of
1900 has not yet been written" but what
ever 1t is, it will be written by the free silver
Democracy, and Mr.. CROKER will not be
consulted on the subject. He will simply be
allowed to " fall faithfully into line"
He is a sensible and a hard-headed man,
yet he advertises that he Is ready to play
the part Of a fanatical wrecker Of the ma
tional prosperity If, or rather when, he is
ordered so to do in 1900, detestable as 1t
will be to him. If he wants to escape from
the harsh necessity, the only course for
him to pursue Is to advertise, rather, that IL
the Democratic Convention departs from
principles he holds, which he knows to be
essential to his country's welfare, he will
depart from it.
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Fate OF an Anti-Expansionist.

JOSIAH QUINCY was one Of the ablest
men New England has produced. He won
distinction in the law, was an excellent
Judge, and achieved a fair degree OF fame
as an historian and a biographer. As Pres
ident OF Harvard College during sixteen
years, he stood in the front rank OF
American educators, while long before
he filed that Office he was the undis-
puted leader of the Federal party, not only
In New England, but in the commanding
field Of national politics. AS an orator he
was preGminent, while his mastery OF the
superb organization which elected ADAMS
and fought JEFFERSON and MADISON was
so supreme that he was characterized and
caricatured by his political opponents as
liking JOSIAH the First"
In his brilliant public life Mr.. QUINCY
made one grievous blunder, which the
succeeding generations of Americans have
never fo~rgotten-his acrimonious opposi-
tion to the policy Of national expansion in
the acquisition Of Louisiana. On that ques-
ton, which stands out In our history
next in Importance to the Revolution
itself, Mr.. QUINCY took a position not
unlike that now occupied by Senator
HoAR with respect to the Philippine
Islands. It's annexation he denounced as
contrary to the spirit Of the institutions
of the young republic. 1t was dangerous
and would prove to be disastrous. 1t would
disrupt the Union and justify the New Eng
land States in breaking up the Government
II they saw fit to do so. These unfortunate
declarations and dire prophecies Of evil
have pilloried, as it We're, JOSIAH QUINCY in
history. Scarcely anything else Is remem-
bered Of him or, rather, they have left SO
deep a blot upon his name that all his
splendid service in other respects either is
forgotten or recalled rarely.
The unfortunate fate Of this early STATES
man is not without its lessons to-day
for those that have the wisdom to see
and to read them. In the field Of war, OF
diplomacy, OF legislation and executive d.
~rection, history is working full time during
these e~ventful weeks and months. She is
writing new names on her pages in letters
OF enduring light and radiance, and at the
same time is adding to that not enviable
roll of wrecked regulations on which the
name of QUINCY stands first.
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by the people of my native state. and that is glory
enough for me-
Not being n candidate for office at present,
BOB pitles candidates who, like Governors,
are p~estered with ~vultures and snakes:
ITO me there is nothing in this world 40 pathetic
as a candidate. He IL Ike a mariner without a com
pass. drifting on the tempest. tossed waves of uncer.
tainty, between the smiling cliffs of hope and the
frowning crags of fear. He II n walking petition
and a living prayer; he Ia the pack horse OF public
sentiment; he is tho dromedOry Of politics. And
even IL he reaches the goal OF his ambition. he win
soon feel the beak Of the Vulture in HIS heart aud
the fang of the serpent in his soul"
And now the snakes must be water snakes
and Boz smiles from the portfolio OF his
ark among his native mountains and COOS
us follows:
81 am no longer a candidate. Never again will l
be inAugurated into public office. The ark OF my
humble public career now reAts on the Ararat OF pr.
vato life, aud 1 stand on its peaceful summit ana
look down OH the receding hood OF politics. The
dove OF my destiny has brought me an olive branch
from happier fields, and I go hence to labor and to
love-
This is particularly affecting when we
recall that Governor Bob was certain that
he would not be a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Senator in Congress,
and yet he was. He needs to be very care
full or his ark may drag it's anchor yet.
Finally, Boz celebrated this amazing
marriage:
DENTON MCMILLAN has given his heart and hand
to Tennessee. l now pronounce them man and wife
and may the LORD have mercy on their souls. To
change the hgure-the United States boasts Of q Hob.
SON who sunk the Merrimac. but Tennessee hasa
Merry MAC that proudly floats on the billow-our
own BENTON McMmLrS."
Our own BENTON will stick to arithmetic,
but at the same time keep an eye on the
bird on the mountains.
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Mr.. Croker Announces His Willingness
to Surrender.

RICHARD CROKER says that Of course
New York is against 10 to / and conse-
qucnt business paralysis and disaster.
He takes pains to explain, however, that
he expresses this opinion "simply as a
citizen of New York, and not as n repre-
sentative of 1.-THE Democracy Of this coun-
try" and then he goes on to add these re-
markable words:
However, in my opinion the money question
should be settled in Congress-
Now, Mr.. CROKER knows, everybody
knows, that Congress is the only place
where the money question can be " settled, -
and that II the money question could be
settled by the Democrats in the present
Congress or in the next Congress il would
be settled in accordance with the Chicago
platform, or on the 10 to 1 plan, or, as he
says, disastrously for our business and in
dustrial interests. Under his direction all
the Democratic candidates nominated and
elected in New York refused 10 confess
their opinions on tn" subject, with the
single exception OF Mr. SULZER, who de-
clared for Organism but when these New
York Representatives take their seats in the
next Congress it is manifest that, under Mr..
CROKER's mandate also, they will all go
with the majority Of their party associates
in Congress, whether these are for or against
free silver. Mr., JEFFERSON LEVY is one OF
these Congressmen-clcct from New York,
and in private he is an outspoken and UNI
compromising gold Iean, but when it comes
to a Democratic caucus at the Capitol there
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and practically turning over its control to
Germany and England. Indeed, 1t will tbe
remembered that when the German AM
bassador called his attention to the lack Of
American warships at Apia to aid the other
treaty powers in putting Town a rebellion
against MALIEToA. after the latter was re-
stored 10 the throne, Mr.. CLEVELAND, In
stead u sending the ships, urged this as an
additional reason why VIC should surrender
our treaty rights.
The war with Spain and the pressing oc-
equations connected with the expansion OF
our territory nave caused Samoan affairs
to sliptemporarlly into the background. The
appearance Of the Philadelphia in Samoan
waters vii! signaliae the resumption OF our
full rights and responsibilities there.
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Our Rights in Samoa.

The belief in Washington that Germany
will repudiate any unlawful acts OF her Con-
sui at Apia, and will also disavow respon-
sibility for the extraordinary attempt of DR..
RiFFEL. the President of the Municipal
Council, to run the Supreme Court, proba-
bly, accounts for the calmness with which
the Administ ration regards the matter.
Indeed, tho officially attested facts on
which any protest TO the Berlin Govern
nIcnt would have to be based seem to be
still lacking, and accordingly the ~instruc-
tions to Admiral KAUTz are likely to he
general in character.
1.-THE recent aggressions Of local German
representatives in Samoa had been the first
OF their kline we might be at some loss to ac-
count for them; but We must go back more
than a dozen years for the beginning of the
efforts Of the German traders to control the
islands and to turn them, II possible, into a
German possession. AS long ago as 1885
Consul STUEBEL and Herr WEBER, the head
of the leading German firm, whose influence
in Samoan politics has been fully described
In our columns, tried to bring King
MALIEToA under their control, and, finding
this impossible, encouraged TAMAsEsE, the
Vice-King, to plot against the Government.
In 1887 a German naval officer landed his
men at Apia and hauled down the Kings
flag, the unfortunate monarch being soon
afterward taken away on a German ship to
. distant island, and TAMAsEsE set up in
his lstead. Tho people, finding TAMAsEsE
only a German puppet, chose MATAAFA to
be their King, and he distinguished himself
by defeating with considerable loss a land
ing party from the German cruiser.
Meanwhile the vigorous protests OF Con-
sulIieneral SEwALL, our able representa-
tive in Samoa. backed up by those OF the
English Consul, were followed by tho meas
ures of Secretary BAYARD against German
aggression, and the result was Il confer
ence at Berlin. ending in the trlpartite
treaty under which the islands are now gov
erned. Yet the intrigues of the local Ger
man traders to control the Government
have continued under the treaty as before.
They were undoubtedly encouraged by Mr..
C~LEvELAND's reactionary advice to Con-
gress to withdraw from the Berlin agree
ment, abandoning both our rights and re-
sDOnsibllities inkhe government of Samoa,
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Bishop Potter as n Public Counsellor.

To H EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Bishop
Potter's foolish utterances about the social me-
cessity of the saloon are no more surprising
than his amazing speech in Newark recently.
where he addressed n large audience upon the
subject National Greatness or National Big
ness" The Bishop was patriotic in his exalta-
ton OF the United States as the greatest ma
ton in everything, but he could not trust them
to care for the Philippines. and was against the
acquisition Of those islands. for reasons exactly
like those OF the EreninO Post.
Bishop Potter had been asked. But what
are we to do with these islands which destiny
has thrown our way?"' The Bishop answered.:
Why, do the broad. Christian and humane
thing: and say to the leading Continental
the, Orient: now England. Russia, Germany
nnd France come and Join hands will US to
help these 100000 people to a higher civiliza-
ton and u perfect freedom"
| submit that it is not remarkable that any
man who could make such a proposition to an
intelligent audience witness what has hap
pencd In Samoa should with cool composure
have argued that the saloon is a social neces-
sity." Bishop Potter has never been a safe
counsellor in critical times.
GEORGE NJ. THORNTON.
NEWARK, Jan, 20,
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We reprint n part Of the speech made
before the Indiana Legislature by the Hon.
ALBERT j. BEvERIDGE after his election as
Senator last week. Mr.. BE%vERIDGE's words are
instinct with that spirit OF brave and hopeful
progress which is the American spirit. From
the thread Of scanty settlements on the At
lantic coast the Americans have spread to the
Pacific. They are now to spread on the islands
of the Pacific. The blood of the pioneers. the
conquerors. traders, settlers. ciyilizers. the
makers of States and the soldiers OF progress.
is not exhausted. The anti-expansionlsts do
not know or trust their countrymen and are
afraid of expansion. the natural and inevitable
American movement onward.
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DRINK.
The SQUIRREL Inn Plan cr,,,o,,ed.

TIC THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir! VIII you
| permit me to suggest to those divlnes VINO are
solicitous for the social necessities OF our
less favored brothers" that they utilize the
Easements or annexes OF their churches In the
needed situations for so laudahle n purpose?
II certainly can be no Dissertation OF the house
OF God to devote 1t TO the betterment OF man
kind. bodily and spiritually. the object for
which II Is supposed to be dedicated. Such
meeting places could be called clubs or by any
other appropriate names. but never should
they be dubbed inns. that name savorlng too
much OF liquor saloons. which are a bnne to
the city.
Should such n desirable scheme be adopted
1t might prevent a blockade" OF the town by
temperance or intemperance inns. and prove a
great boon TO. many worthy workingmen who
would be enabled to crafty their intellectual
and recreative INSTINCTS" by the %,perusal OF
the papers and periodicals OF the day aud by
participating In some harmless and amusing
games. which would willingly he supplied by
many helping hand. There should be no tax
levied upon the members but that OF %solf-re-
slect and respect for the house Of God.
NEW YORK. Jan. 20. SYMPATHY.
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DESTINY.
The American People Believe in II and Are
Not Afraid of 1t.

Npt AlTulu Oi As
From a sp,rch By the Hon. Albert J. Ber,rids,.
The day for the provincial and the transient has
passed in America craftsmanship. To-day our des-
tiny is brooding over every sea. We are dealing with
the world and with the unborn years. We are deal
ing with the larger duties that ever crowned and
burdened human brows. American Workmanship
must be as broad as American destiny and as bravo
as American duty. And American s~tatesmanship
will be all this II it draws its inspiration from the
masterful American people and their imperial
history.
For the American people have never taken fear for
a counsellor. They have never taken doubt for a
guide. They have obeyed the impulses of their
blood. They have hardened to the voice of orr God.
They have surmounted insuperable obstacles on the
wings of a mighty faith; they have solved insoiuble
problems by the sovereign rule of liberty; they have
made tho bosom of the ocean and the heart Of the
wilderness their home: they have subdued nature
and told history n new tale. Let American states.
manship listen to the hoar!beats of the American
people in the present hour and there will be no con.
fusion. no hesitation, no craven doubt. The faith Of
the Mayfower. as it sailed into tho storm -fringed
horizon. is with us yet. The courage OF Lexington
and Bunker Hill is with us yet. The spirit Of Hamil.
ton and Jefferson and Jackson and Seward and Grant
Is with lis yet. The uncomfortable heart of the pio.
neer still beats within American breasts. and the
American flag advances still in its ceaseIess and inn
perial progress. with law and order and Christian
civilization trooping beneath its sacred folds.
The American people are the propagandists and
not the niscrs of liberty. He who no longer believes
in tho vitality OF the American people. in the immor.
tally and saving grace of free institutions. in the
imperial greatness of American d 'stinT, belongs not
in the councils OF the American nation, but in the
sombro cabinets OF the decaying races Of the world.
The American people are not pcrishing; they are
just beginning their real career. The full sunrise Of
the day which peculiarly belongs to The American
people IN the progress of human events has flooded
all the world at last: and We Will live each golden
moment of our mighty dag In u way as great as the
ngy itself.
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When KeeIy Was Exposed.

ToTHE FDIroRoFT THE sUS-Sir: As various pa pers
claim the credit Of hayin! first exposed the Keely
motor to the tender and unsusplcious public. it is
possible by searching the hles of THE SuH that the
story may be found as told nearly fourteen wears
since.
About the fall of 1855 the late Charles A. Dana
commissioned Mr., John b. Waring tbrOthcr of the
late Col. George Il. warinGJ TO visit Philadelphia,
make as thorough examination into the ner.ts Of the
motor as possible, and write up the matter for
THE Sun. Asus READER.
NEW Yonr. JaI. al. DAA'