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The Georgia Mob Defended.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Since the
ynchinR Of the two negroes in Georgia some
time ago [ have noted the letters published by
you that have been written on the subject by
various persons. and | have not seen one pub
lished in defence of tho means adopted by the
Georgia mob OF avenging the crime OF this
negro.
wish to make a defence. In the first place
there is not one person who has written a letter
which you have published on this subject who
knows anything at all about the South, or the
class of negroes there or the horror OF the
crimes they commit | an sure OF that,
for If they did know they would not
dcnounce as they do these Southcrners
who are trying to protect their women There
are many reasons why the same state Of affairs
does not exist in the North. but | state as a
fact that whore the negro has committed tho
crime Of outraging a white woman in the North
he has been lynched | cite the ease at Wash
ington, Court House. Ohio. j was present
t II tba Every srs 81 E, at.eHIing the burning
1907. II had ever been opposed to lynchings
before. | have not been since that time. will
not dwell upon the horrid details OF this crime.
whore this bury negro outraged a little inno-
cent 7-year,old girl. This shows the nature
respected in dealing with these negroes. out
RACES would be increased tentold in q year.
II is only by setting the example illustrated
by the Georgia mob recently that a great many
negroes arc restrained from outrnging white
women: and not one Of these persons who have
written so bitterly against the southern people
for lynching. negroes would not do the same
thing were their own homes affected by this
most fearful of crimes. | believe in law and
order. ! believe in humanity. but ] believe in
killing these fends who violate these Southern
homes the same as one would kill II rabid dog,
Just az quickly as he can he seen. / respect
those negroes who try to be manly and live
upright lives. | think they deserve credit,
and / do not classify, such with those who are
bitter hatred in the South of the whites against
the negro race; and your correspondents may
haranRuc until the day nj Judgment, but Just
the South Just so long will they be lynched for
II, though the whole South should he declared
under martial law. and every city, village and
hamlet garriSoned with United States soldiers,
Stop the crime and the punishment will be
South for any other crime. A SouTHERNER.
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The Antitrust law passed by the Mis-
souri, Legislature in 1891 contains this in
v~itation to dishonesty:
Any purchaser Of any article or commodity
from any individual company or corporation trans,
acting business contrary to the preceding sections
of this act shall not be liable for the price or pay
ment OF such article or commodity. and may plead
this act as a defence to any suit for such price or
payment"
The National Lead Company sued the $.
F.. Grote Paint Store Company OF st. Louis
for the price of lead sold To the latter. The
defendant pleaded the statute. The plain
tiff company asserted that it was not a
trust, an unlawful combination under the
Antitrust law, but had been reorganized
AS Il corporation. The st. Louis Court OF
Appeals has sustained the constitutionality
of the Antitrust law and held that the Ma
tional Lead Company, the successor of the
National Lead Trust, or any other com
bination illegal under the Antitrust law,
cannot be operated, under the cloak of n
corporation, by its constituent members or
governing bodies"
The National Lead Trust was a combi-
nation OF thirty corporations, constituting
a majority OF the lead dealers OF the coun-
try 1t operated from 1897 to 1870 under
atrust agreement which the court describes
as "a contract to suppress competition, fix
the prices of commodities and limit their
production, and to restrain trade" 1t issued
trust certificates to the tune Of 500, OOO,-
600. In 1901 1t was r~eorganized as tho
National Lead Company. The purpose and
not the name must be considered.
rnrnGaI for iha laa1 nNpnnonu yuhfoh y,o,
organized under the laws OF Wisconsin ,
tried to show that it was contrary to the
comfy due to a foreign corporation to
go behind the record and investigate the
purpose OF its organization. The Court
thus laid down the law:
THE doctrine on this subject il simple and clear.
II comedies no rights to = cooperation OF a sister
State which the foreign corporation enters for bust.
ness. This law OF comfy was not established for
the purpose nf giving any state an unlimited power
to dispose of the franchise Of acting in a corporate
capacity In other States. To obtain a charter for the
purpose Of cyading the laws Of a foreign State.
under cover OF the rule Of comity. would be a fraud
upon the State granting the charter. aud to attempt
to act under such charter in the foreign state would
he n fraud upon the latter
1t was not the business Of the Court Ia
consider the moral character OF the provis-
ion Of the Antitrust law pleaded. The
Missouri Legislature has, in fact, author,
lied fraud. 1t has said that any man who
can get a Trust to give him credit, may buy
goods OF it and evade payment, or, rather,
! boldly refuse to pay for them. So wicked q
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The Talk About n Longer Session.

Reports concerning the probability Of an
earlier calling Of Congress than on the reg
ular date rest on a foundation Of fog. The
discussion OF the necessity OF an extra
session is altogether premature.
Various dispatches from Washington
nave represented the Administration as
considering with some anxiety the pros
pect that Congress will not be able to get
through its work next year unless il begins
sooner than the first Monday in December.
Some correspondents have gone SO far as
to say that the President is seeking advice
on the subject from Legislators who happen
to go to the White House. The story APP
pears to rave originated in Il remark by
Gen. HENDERSON of Iowa that an cx-
traordlnary session next autumn is pos
Sible. There is no doubt about that. An
extraordinary session is always possible as
long as the President possesses the power
conferred upon him by the United States
Constitution to convene Congress, one
branch or both branches, whenever in his
judgment national affairs require its pres
ence at the Capitol.
The report has been caught up eagerly by
the currency reformcrs, so called. They
have been clamorlng for an extra session
for the benefit Of their particular hobby ever
since Mr.. MCKINLEY'S Inauguration. The
most intense sOlicitude about the ability of
Congress to get through with its task be-
fore the hot weather of 1900 is at present
found among the currency rcformers. 1t
is they who are most apprehcnsive lest the
new Speaker he unable to get his rom
mittces in shape and the House organized
for work as promptly rs Mr.. REED would
do the business. 1t is they who are most
! appalled, by the volume Of legislation con-
corning the Philippines and our other new
territory that will confront the Fifty-sixth
Congress. The currency reformers, so
called, rave always firmly believed that il
they can only succeed in assembling Con-
gr, So in some month outside Of the regular
schedule they can then procure all the cur
rency reform they want and just the sort
of currency reform they want.
In the progress OF events in the Philip
| pines. in Cuba. in Porto Rico, and in Hawaii,
| the main questions presented by the Amer
lean policy of expansion may have reached
by October or the first of November a stage
imperatively requiring immediate legis-
lative attention. In hat case President
MCKINLEY will most certainly assemble
Congress before the regular term it will
be his duty so to do.
But suppose there Is no actual cmcr-
gency, or absolute and obvious necessity
for immediate legislation. With political
human nature what it is, with Congresses
what they invariably are at sessions pre-
ceding a Presidential election, and with the
Fifty-sixth Congress showing a Republican
majority OF only fifteen in the House, it
would seem that there could he no more
inauspicious choice OF a year for lengthcn-
ing the ordinary term.
The shorter the better, in the case of n
session devoted, on one side at least, to
purely campaign speeches and political
Obstruction and misrepresentation.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: Semi
narians have always boon n Inspirations hot
headed lot. We are no better than our prede-
cessors OF the middle ages. and we should
surely have taken some part for or against DIR.
Briggs long ago had we not been too busy in try
ing to pass our own canonical examinations. l
should like to state, however. the lightin which
the whole matter appears to one preparing for
holy orders. who is OF n simple Protestant turn
Of mind. and desires only TO conform to the
faith as his Church has received il.
Almost all our men here are graduates
Of colleges. and possess an average amount
OF intelligence. We are obliged to study
three years. and we all know that we should
have little or no hope of having this three
years of our candidateship shortened. no
matter how urgent was the need Of getting
Immediately to work. When we are ordered
deacons. we must serve as such for a
year at least. No standing committee would
shorten our deaconatc because we happened to
be sailing for Europe a week or so before our
time was up. Yet when some notorious person
casts in his lot with our" communion. he is given
every advantage. The Bishops and standing
committees use every opportunity that the
canons allow to hurry the man into the deacon
ate and push him into the priesthood.
We do not think this is exactly fair. We put
aside. of course. the fact that DIR. Briggs knows
u great manv things which are not so and a
great many things which are. but our three
years candidateship is not only to test our
learning. Its primary object Is to assure our
Bishops that we have spent three years. not in
making patchwork out of the Word OF God. not
in studying the deepest philosophy of the ages.
but in learning simply the forms. statements
and beliefs which enshrine the Christian faith
as our Church teaches It. To this substratum
OF knowledge much else is added. of course.
see how men like DR.. Briggs can ever have
arrived at any such appreciation OF what we
EpiScOpalians teach as set forth in the fOrmu.
laries Of the Prayer Book.
Why is so great care used in admitting us to
holy orders. and So little in the case Of men
coming to us from other churches | am not
in any way an extremist. but | have as much
right to protest against DR.. Briggs as | have to
protest against the Pope.
AS for DR.. Rainsford's lucid and logical areu-
mcnt of "'poppycock.' which appeared in
Wednesdays. Sun, the rational mind is quite
o~verawed hyit: DIR. Rainsford does not pretend
to be 4 theologian. much less n canonist. 1t is a
pity therefore that he has lowered his argu-
mcnts to the plane Of abuse. One feels sure
that such remarks rs his tend rather to dam
age than to aid the Protestant cause, ana could
wish them unsaid. No man was ever convinced
Of his error by being called an ass. no matter
how loud his opponent shouted. and though a
blow from the shoulder is useful at times, yet
when the. weapons are rapicrs. skilfully
handled, Charles Marie! will probably be run
through the body before he can use his fists,
and that would be an enormous pity:
GENERAL T~HEoLoGIcAL SEMINARY. CHELSEA
SQUARE Mnvl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-06

The Idaho mining troubles at Wardner
and Mullan have once more illustrated tho
value of the regular army for the preserva-
ton of law and order at critical times.
Governor STEuNENRERG's proclamation de-
claring Shoshone county in a state OF insur-
rection had made military rule necessary;
and what is noteworthy is the prompt rec
ognition Of the army as the representative
OF the Federal Government, and the yield
ing of the rioters to it. Within n few
hours of the arrival of CompanyM Twenty
fourth Infantry, at Wardncr, scores Of
those concerned in last Sundays disturb
anceS We're arrested, and only one in the lot
resisted. There was a general scattering
through the hills in the effort to escape.
Another noteworthy fact was the prompt
ness with which provision was made to
suppress the riots. Gen. MERRIAM, COM
handing the Department of the Colorado,
quickly had on the move or under orders
for Wardner Troop +, Fourth Cavalry, from
Boise, and Troop A from Waila Walla, be-
sides Company NJ. Twenty-fourth Infantry,
from Spokane, and Company b from VAN
couver, while to Mullan were ordered d.
Twenty-fourth Infantry, from Fort Harri-
son, and X from Assiniboine, besides two
companies from Forts ID. A. Russell and
Douglas. Possibly others have been added,
and troops may he held at Burke and Wal
lace, as we'll as at Wardner and Mullan. The
cxigenries ofthc Antilles, and particularly Of
the Philippines, have caused many regulars
to be sent across the sea, but skilful dis
positions of the garrisons left behind and
abundant railway facilities allow force
enough for duty OF the sort required in
IlahO.
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A Guthrie despatch to the Inter Ocean
records the organization there OF a secret socI-
ETY. known as the Loyal Sons OF America. The
object OF the Loyal Sons is Ito enforce by bal
lot land arms II necessary a radical change in
the management Of affairs and to overthrow
trusts" The members take IAN ironclad
OATH and learn the manual OF arms. The
Oklahoma Sons ARE all believers in socialism
and arc retlcent regarding their aims We
must be permitted to have our doubts as
to their reticence. and also as to the allega-
ton that there are already 10000 Loyal
Sons in the United States. But these things
are OF no moment. What is important is that
the first meeting OF the organization will
take place In Buffalo" Inevitably. 1t could
take place nowhere else. Once more. but not
for the last time. we invite attention to the
great fact that Buffalo continues to be the
headquarters OF reform.
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Speedway Park.

1t is to be hoped earnestly that Mayor
VAN WICK won't imagine that the amend,
mcnt to the Speedway law in the Grady
bill concerning the possible effect of it
upon the value of adjacent lands properly
forms an obstacle to his approval of the
bill. The amendment referred to will be
practically Of no effect, or it will guard
against injustice to certain private owners.
In no way can it wrong the city.
As THE SIN has frequently said before,
Speedway Park would he cheap to the public
OF New York if it had cost twice as much
as it has cost.
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OyERDOSED WITH HEBREW.
Senior TheoloEs Object to One Feature of
Studies Mt the Seminary.

Senior Theologs Object to One Feature OF
studies at the Seminary.
TOO much Hebrew IL one Of the woes OF
life at the General Theological Seminary. II a
complaint from the students in that Episcopal
institution which appears in the pages OF the
Sen,indrian, the annual publication edited ny
The senior class. which has Just been issued. 10
true. This years !Semindridn is n generous
volume. bound in paper covers. and is filed
with matter OF especial interest to student life
as exempliled within the UNCOVERED walls OF
the buildings In Chelsea Square. In CRITICS..
ing the seminary curriculum fault Is found
only with that part OF II devoted TO the study
OF Hebrew. In treating OF that subject the
seniors say:
Nine out OF every ten mon in the %institu-
ton are agreed tina, the curriculum requires
too much Hebrew. This unanimitv Of senti-
mert is overwhelming. We have too much
Hebrew. One-fourth of the. lectures Of the
junior year are devoted to Hebrew. and II. We
take into consideration the time required in
preparation IL appears that One-half OF the
first seminary year Is consumed i'll the study
OF Hebrew. The incubus OF Hebrew WEIGHS
heavily upon the seminary. one is induced to
doubt whether he has entered a theological
seminary or a Hebrew Rramma school. There
are positive evils in such a onc-sidcd course
OF study. When a man has cramma into his
brain n half thousand or more Hebrew roots
there Is no room for anything else"
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The Kansas City Times, which is the sole
owner Of the boom OF the Hon. FRANCIS MARION
CoCKRELLfo for President. allows q correspondent
to nominate for Vice President the Hon. MOSES
{. WETMoRE Of st. Louis. whose name will be
a tower Of strength throughout the country"
Col. BRYAN is known to have n great admira-
ton for MOSES. and. perhaps. Mr.. WETMoRE is
the MOSES whom the Colonel from time to time
urges 10 awake" Certainly the original
MOSES was too much of an eXpansionist to he
approved by the Colonel. MOSES c. WETMoRE
is "among those who believe the man is supe-
rior to the dollar As the chief purpose OF the
dollar is to buy a Jeffersonian dinner. this
view OF the inferiority Of the dollar to the
Bryanite seems a little unjust. No dollar. no
dinner. No dinner. no BRYAN.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-.Sir: Some
time ago n clerical gentleman. now Of the Re-
formed Episcopal Obedienrr. made use OF a
phrase that. doubtless to his own surprise,
awoke at once n responsive echo in the Ameri-
can Church, The speakers name has been for.
gotten and his bishopric hath another taken,
hut wherever the Prayer Book ia opened men
Corner. We have grown broader since that
day, for the gentleman used no such terms as
Church's discipline. but. il I am not mistaken,
it will not need these flights Of DR.. .Rainsford's
eloquent good tasteto recall he Little Coun-
towers no longer, sounds on Second avenue,
All honor to the Little Country Parson !"
and with him to 5000 loyal ministers no less
ready to maintain the faith! And to the BIC
CITY Rector let us say: I'VE thank Won Law
for giving us that word EvANGELIcAL'
NJ;
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To THE EDITOR OF lHE SUS-S,r' Don't You think
the Cabinet IA wasting . good deal Of valuable time
and attention on poor old Edward Atkinson Here
in Brookline. where We know him. We regard him a.
4 perfectly harmless crank in the same class with
George Francis Train. George the Count Joanucs and
DR.. MARY walker, We never think Of taking any.
thing he says seriously. II the Government would
simply ignore him. and not lead him to think his
"yawp" was worthy even a little bit of their copsid.
Grafton. he would soon forget hs latest trouble, and
go hack to his f%ayorlte occupation II figuring ont
lust how many inches a pan of bread will rise in
4 hours 10 minutes and - 20 seconds, provided ii
was mixed with XXNS -four which had been shipped
East eyer the Boston and Albany Railroad. and the
wBRQP cpE. Mass. May Q.
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and tho ordnance corps, when II comes to
a question of criticism as to the origin Of
existing faults.
However. the publication OF Capt. Gro
TIERS report may have the effect Of arous-
ing Il general discussion OF the needs OF the
forts, particularly as to the practical use OF
the new mortars and guns. The relative
Importance OF the artillery has greatly in
creased OF late, and, as q general rule, it
should have thorough control OF the forts
and ornaments at which it Is stationed.
There has not only been neglect hitherto,
as set forth in Capt. CRozIER's report, but
for many years there was an inadequate
representation Of the artillery in the solu-
ton Of the problem OF coast defence.
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Thu" Washington Times sees a real and APP
palling danger lying in wait for the United
States. This is the probability that the great
American novelist will deal with" trusts and
syndicates. The body Of fiction that has grown
up around these boGies is great enough al
ready without any help from the great Ameri-
can novelist. If it is his destiny to poke his nose
into trusts and syndicates. the longer he puts
of his appearance the better. We are inclined
to believe. however. that the novelists will
form a syndicate OF their own. Why should
they compete against one another? They can
do good to themselves by forming a trust and
good to the rest Of the world by limiting the
production OF novels. And there are novelists
whom we could bear to see retiring from the
business and living on the income OF their cer-
tincates.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-06

From the PinsburD Dispatch.

Pittsburg Presbytery is not a unit on lynch
cent lynching in Georgia. The resolution pre-
cipitatcd one of the hottest de bates ever known
adopted bore scarcely any resemblance to the
original The original resolution was present;
read:
In view of the dcplorable frequency Of the lynch.
ing Of negroes in the southern portion of our roun-
be in ttew Of the possible future 10 when such nc h a
course must inevitably lead, therefore. the Prcsby-
terry of Pittsburg feels called upon at tins time to
utter its most . 'lemn protect against the inhnman
Expressing it's deep abhorrence OF de- r"nditi"n Of
society that permits. and. above all. approves. OF
only savage Violence. and has n" tendency to de er
criminals. Resides, from the commission, of or mo
tratoIs and plunge the land into a most fearful IA q
war We hereby etMr"sri also, our sympathy With
mob violence.
The. Rev. Allan Douglas Garlic said: AS
whole resolution With my whole heart. ] rro
gard il as a picc" Of cheap buncombe. when
wi do no good whatever. and will only make
The resolution is %unJustly sectional. as many
parts of the North are Just as guilty. Agar. I
similar circumstances | would do myself. II
my wife were assaulted and, murder commit
ted as in the Georgia case. | would chcertuIIy
He further said some laws are written in the
' nTSsr' a I hand Nv With Fn' the mo i"E Under DE fhs cirr HmHe
stances. in getting away with the wretch who
committed the crime down in Georgia.
The Rev. DIR. II. =. Holmes said b" was the
son OF a man who kept an underground rail-
brought up to believe "a man could not be- a
Democrat and go To, heaven but he had
changed his mimi as he grew older. He wa.
Presbytery did not know the facts in the case.
and in all respects II was out of place.
Tn" Rev. George W. Montgomery's substI-
tute was adopted. after a motion to table the
whole business had been voted down. Mr..
follows:
Rr:oirsi. That this PreSbytery looks with horror
upon the seeming, growth OF the mob spirit az re-
Gently eNCInulifrd in different parts Of the country.
Rr'oir'd. That this Prtshytery extends its heart.
felt sympathy for all those who are strIyIng 80 molly
to build up a higher appreciation OF the dignity ~
tn Law.
The action OF tho Presbytery was discussed
among the members after adjournment and
was generally regarded rs meaningless.
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An Amcrican-German on the Renegade
GermAnA.

ToTHF Enron oFTHE SrS-Sir; Your good sense Of
humor will he greatly amused by reading the spiteful
responses of the German Amercan' editors to our
just and significant Judgment about them IN last
Mondays editorial. II aroused so much their fcar.
full wrath and spirit of fool revenge that with the
true instincts of a lower race they struggled to hide
their pcrpleNity by indulging in martial harangues
and trying to defame the character Of their Accuscrs.
It's a pity that no decent and educated American
OF German or other descent ever reads the editorials
of the Stats ZritunG on account of their low intel.
lectual standard and defective logic. or of the poor
satirical wit and degenerate E Johann ans Mumpitz'
or of Gullashec.
or these German. American" editors, while they
lack the moral courage Of becoming and calling
themselves good Americans. the most Characteristic
epithet would he to call them plagiarists. As they
are neither sincere Germans nor true Americans, and
as Z" hyphenated hyhrids' and degenerates have no
hold on either of the civilized nations, the inner.
most soul Of their whole desolAtc existence il A
tristo and disgraceful plagiarism Of the civilized
races, GEoRGE CASTER.
NEW YORK. May 3.