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among the judges. We have been inclined
to suspect sometimes that the college TAX
ing the side which has the honor OF being
supported by these superior creatures
would not DO likely to lose. Not that they
do not mean to be fair, but II Is hard for
anybody to separate the merits OF the argu-
ment and OF its presentation from the
merits Of the causes. A jury OF farmers or
mechanics might be better than the culti-
waited men now selected as judges. For
such a jury might get more nearly the real
effect OF the argument and Judge the merits
OF the arguers without the ovcr-rcflnemcnts
such rs the judges in their anxiety to be
just may be compelled to resort to.
This year the subject was this:
Resolved. That the present method OF electing
United States Senators is preferable to 4 method OF
election by popular vote"
Yale had the choice and took tho mega
tive. According to the Boston Herdlds re-
port OF tho debate, "Yalc's argument was
scattering, hesitating, and wandered from
the point OF issue" Even IL this was the
case, Yale need not be ashamed. Most OF
the arguments that we have seen against
the present method Of electing Senators
have been scattering, hesitating and wan
dering. We would not detract from the
glory Of Harvard's triumph, but we opine
that the actual foundation OF it was the
%soundness Of her thesis and the weakness
Of Yale's.
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The Richmond Times, which Is resolved
TO be a Democrat without being n Bryanite,
makes every day pathetic efforts to perfect
its impossible task. 1t sees and says that
times are good, that money is abundant
and business is booming. Therefore" 1t
says very truly, free silver Is not the
Issue that 1t was In 1890, for thoughtful
men have opened their eyes to the fact that
the evil prophecies Of 1905 have not been
fulfilled" The Bryanites do not admit the
prosperity. or. II they do. they assert that
It Is an illusion or a mere temporary con-
dition. No permanent prosperity for them
until the Crime OF 1878 has been avenged.
The Richmond Times, forgetting that it
must stand on its head II 1t wants to see
things as the Bryanites see them, declares
that 1.-The time Is ripe for all true Democrats
to meet each other In the spirit OF concilia-
ton, harmonic their differences and stand
shoulder to shoulder together upon any
old-time Democratic platform"
Any old-time Democratic platform! Any
old-time Democratic ghost! The old-time
Democracy is practically dead, and it Is not
any more alive In Virginia than elsewhere.
The "true Democrats are the Chicago
DldLIOIm DcIloStubp' iva "a
them there are only a few Of the old
fashioned kind. The Democratic party Is
q fierce, wealth-hating, radical socialistic
party. The little.minority that agrees with
the Richmond Times Is animated by q re-
spectacle but feeble conservatism. The
ni~nety-nine hundredths Of the Democracy
are not not going to seek harmony with
the ~one-hundredth. The members OF the
minority can get harmony by accepting the
Chicago platform, but, as Mr.. BRYAN says,
"if they want to come back into the
Democratic house it shall not be for the
purpose OF throwing out those who are In
the house."
The DEMOCRATS who want an old-time
Democratic platform can have a little
rarity OF their own, but II they want to
belong to the Democratic party they have
got to put up with the new-tlme Demo-
cratic platform.
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The Iowa Candidate.

Gen. DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON Is
highly esteemed by his associates in the
House, and he Is a man worthy Of both re-
spect and affection. With a temper that
sometimes sputters like the DEVILS Frying
Pan, he is amiable even when testy. His
intense partisanship is OF a sort pecu-
liarly exasperatlng to unbelievers. yet
his political opponents persist In lik-
ing him in spite OF his best efforts
to provoke. A homely manner of speech
and an apparent crudeness Of ratiocina-
ton do not conceal the big stock OF common
sense which nature and long experience
have bestowed upon him. While the Cen
eral does not exactly belong to the fine old
Roman type, no impartial judge Of human
nature probably would fail to class him
at least among the fine old Carthaginians
now in public life.
The solid qualities behind the superficial
aspect Of this low statesman are such as
to make him one Of the notable figures in
Congress. He has been sixteen years In
getting to the front. His record OF contin-
uous service is one term longer han Mr..
HoPKINss. and two terms shorter than Mr..
Tom REEDS. In the last Congress his sta
tion was among the half dozen foremost Re-
publican leaders he held the Craftsmanship
OF the Judiciary, and was a member OF the
Cars Cabinet--that is to say, the Commit
tee on Rules. Avigorous orator and a pictur-
esque personality, Gen. HENDERSON CON-
mands attention wherever he goes. He Is
n one-legged veteran OF the war for the
Union. Tho crutches he carries are his
badge OF courage and honor. When he
arises on his remaining leg to speak, peo-
pie who know him listen.
We infer that Gen. HENDERSON must be
regarded as q formidable competitor by
tho friends Of other Western candidates
for Speaker. Some Western newspapers
are already attacking him, and campaign
literature in the form OF anti Henderson
circulars has come to our notice.
Tho first OF the charges against Gen.
HENDERSON is that he said once in tho
hearing Of young Mr.. WILLIAM Z. BARRETT
OF the Boston Daily Advertiser and other
Congressman and citizens that American
hams for export ought to be inclosed in
wrappers striped and starred to resemble
the American flag, We understand that
the friends OF Gen. HENDERSON deny that
he ever advocated the use OF the flag as a
ham wrapper. 1t does not seem to make
much difference whether he said 1t or not.
III said anything of the kind, his obvious
intention was to emphasize his convic-
tlon hat American hams are some
thing for Americans to BIO proud OF,
and not to insult the banner In defending
which he once lost a limb. Whatever may
be thought Of the good taste OF Gen. HEN
DERsoN's suggestion, supposing he really
made it, everybody may he sure that he
was as innocent OF disrespectiul purpose as
was the early German artist who. in paint.
Ing the Last Supper, was impelled by con-
siderations Of local pride to place in front
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The Omcial Trust In New York.

The Eight-Hour law, just signed by Gov
ernor ROOSEVELT. perfecting the regula-
tions concerning public employees, shows
how this Stats inclines to aid In estab-
fishing the great system OF consolidation
that Is now seeking 80 widely and efec-
lively to put down competition.
New York has made a sort Of trust In the
commodity OF labor, not for the benefit
Of its W mass OF population, but for the
benefit of the few who happen to have OBJ
tanned employment from the State. The
State has, to n certain extent, fixed the
price Of labor, notlow, 80 hat the State may
purchase moro cheaply, but high, thereby
paying moro for the article needed than it
is compelled to pay. And the State does
this, confessing the hope that as a result the
price paid for labor by private employers
will be raised throughout the State.
When the State thus sets out to raise
prices In the most important Of all com
moditles. 1t can scarcely surprise any one
when private companies seek to fix prices
for minor products like shoes or sugar.
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Divorce Law of MASSACHUSETTS,.

To THE EDITOR OF The sUN-Sir: In re-
gard TO the remarriage OF divorced people.
allow me to show how this State. more liberal
in the matter OF divorces than New York. deals
with marriages made in defiance OF its own
law. In this State the law Is that the marriage
OF any person or persons in another State, who
left this State to evade the marriage laws.
shall be null so far as this State is concerned.
Had New York such a law. the wise provisions
OF us divorce law YOU'D stand lor somethtne,
you are wrong in assuming that divorce will
not be- made harder to secure in this country
than 1t now 10. In my opinion the tendency OF
the times is the other way. and would respect
fully submit that the recent action OF the South
Dakota Legislature and the. popular outbreak
over the Sloane case are evidences OF this ten
dency.
will say. however. that the more liberal
element In the Catholic Church seems to favor
the granting OF absolute divorces for infdellty.
and while the, Church does not sanction it. it
Boston. May III. JOHN CLAY C~RITTENDoN.
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Not Learning, but Faieh.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SU%- Srt note In
you- Issue OF May Is a report Of a sermon by
DR.. Savage. in which he gives CT" ii t. psychical
research for proof OF immortalitf Is II not an
astounding thing tina. a man. or men. paid to
preach salvation or Immortality. through Jesus
Christ. should try to find 1t in every other place
except the Word OF God? Frederic W. H.
Myers. as quoted by DR.. Savage. says: There
is no such thing as death" Ezekiel says:
The soul that sinneth 1t shall die Paul
says: The wages OF sin Is death. but the gift
of God is eternal life; through Jesus Christ our
thy hand fndeth to do. do 1t with thy might:
for therei Is no work. nor device, nor knowledge,
nor Misdom IN !t the g grave Gss,S whittier thitahSsr th u Coes5"
. S5saf tha M sFs' F a l0 IN f fimss EnU sa Snssa s!s o;
And again. in Romans. speaking Of God who
will render to every man according to his
a einSsne Ss l na Tysil do d2t then Ssek T Iof p p5 pn and SS Snor
and Immortality. eternal life
MI; Savage e leading his congrsgation,
ssSss Is TsspoSsibis ior sspiEitjsm;a cSfIssIna
destroyed. ana in, despair, people leave the
churches and try first one ism and then an;
o1sts; e goa an t fnde sHe th to f bei,e S!tai r OH fhs SON I
Of God hath the witness IN himself" which the
scientific critic. he Is nothing more than that:
arrived at the position OF another class OF apos-
tstss Ct whom Paul Su says; And for this cause
should believe a lie"
The greatest trouble with protesting Chris
tians is that they rely on great brains and
great scholarship for, the Interpretation Of
Gods Word. when all that is needed is an
you lack wisdom. let him ask o: God. that glveth
to all men literally. and upbraideth not: and II
shall be given him" Paul says: Not many
wise men after the flesh. not many mighty, not
many. noble are called. that no flesh should
glory in His presence" The whole teaching OF
the Word is believe and you shall be saved. or.
in other words. have Immortality, Abraham
did not reason; = And he believed In the Lord.
And now in closing / want to ask IL the height
OF hlasphemy has not been reached. when. as
in the ordination oil DR.. Briggs, one unbeliever
commands another unbeliever to receive the
Holy Ghost2 AsHDoD
BOsTON, May II,
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Mr.. Depew and the Ford Bill.

We assume that the Hon. CHAUNCEY
MITCHELL DEPEw, expert in affairs, partic-
ularly those Of railroads, has been cor
rectly quoted rs saying that the Ford
Franchise Tax bill, II applied to all electric
roads as 1t is proposed TO apply 1t to the
New York Central, would drive out Of bust
ness every country trolley line In the State.
Mr.. DEPEw argues that the rural trolley
lines, which barely pay for operating ex-
penses now, would be destroyed by the i'm
position Of taxes under the Ford bill. The
SUN will, without criticism other than ex-
PLANTATION, afford our Junior Senator an OPP
portunity to reGxamine his remarks.
1t Is very evident that the franchises OF
country railroads which are in the financial
condition Mr.. DEPEw describes. have little
or no present value, and as they are, by the
Ford bill, only to be taxed on their present
value, they will escape taxation altogether.
The scheme, also, which representatives
Of the railroad companies seek to substi-
tute for the Ford bill, to wit, a tax on the
gross receipts instead Of upon the value Of
the franchise, would work most unjustly In
the case Of the little companies Mr.. DEPEv
speaks of. For them there is practically
no profit in the carriage Of passengers at
the present time. In other words. 1t costs
the whole fare to transport the rural
passenger. Yet such companies would
have to pay the same percentage OF
their gross earnings to the State as COM
panies would to whom on the carriage
of each passenger there Is a profit Of
one-half or one-third Of the mount re-
ceived. or course, the large and profit
able companies do not wish to crush
the Improbable companies in the thinly
populated portions OF the State. They
lave no such object in view. But the
"nigger In the fence" Is exactly here: the
injustice Of taxing the Improbable compa-
MES to any large percentage on their gross
receipts will be 30 apparent, and 1t will
be SO plain to the public, that any great
tax on those receipts Is conflscation. that
the percentage of gross receipts will be
fixed by law at a very small figure. Thus
the profitable companies, instead Of paying
q fair tax on the value Of their properties,
the same as other taxpayers OF the State
are compelled to do, will get off with a
charge which, in their cases. will be but tri-
fling in comparison to the actual profits
they make, though In gross amount it may
seem large.
The Ford bill embodies a proposition
harder to assail thar many high author
| tiles in the practice OF the law pronounce
It to be.
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The Debate Of Yale and Harvard.

Naturally the indoor debates between Yale
and Harvard don't interest nearly as many
persons as their outdoor debates. The
blood more stirs to see a boatrace or a
football game than to seea ~syllogism run
down. The world is 30 made. 1t will not
cross the street to see HERBERT SPENCER
and will break its neck to get a peep at the
horse that won the Derby. Yet the college
debates are heard by considerable audi
enccs. They are reported at length in the
local newspapers. The victory in them Is
eagerly sought by the colleges. This may
be some consolation for the remarkably
forlorn persons who believe with the Hon.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON OF Brookline
that football is the curse of the colleges,
the parent Of war and the ruin of the re-
public. 1t may help to convince the doubt
ers that considerable reading and writing
Is done at Princeton and New Haven and
Cambridge. The process doesn't require to
be encouraged and nursed by cheers and
diabolic noises as the college games do, but
1t Is going on, quiet n healthy.
Harvard was very fortunate In debate at
first, but for three successive years Yale
fioored her. Much subtle inquiry was
made as to the causes. The philosophers
drew parallels between the athletic and tho
intellectual performances OF the two coll
leges. Yale had better team work.; Yale
had better coaching. and so on. This
was to consider too curiously. 80 far as
we have followed the debates. the lot OF
victory has seemed to depend largely upon
the subject and apparently somewhat on
the caprice OF the judges. One or two
years the Yale men seemed to be quicker
In taking up unexpected points, or re-
butting arguments, while the other fell
lows with their solemn set speeches were
less nimble OF wit. This year the same
thing was observed OF the Harvard men,
and they won. But 1t may happen that
therea are one or two magnificent mugwumps
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Southern Negroes and jamaica Negroes.
To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: I read
with much interest the varying views OF the
persons. Northerners and Southerners. who
use the columns OF THE Sun as their arena In
discussing the negro lynchinR question in our
Southern States. Your correspondent. F. F.
Crawford. whose letter Ia printed to-day. says:
For q man TO fully understand the negro he must
live In one Of the Southern States who're the colorsd
population Is as great as or GREATER than that OF the
white. l do not saw they are all bad or all brutal In
their instincts. for I have seen negroes who behaved
themselves q great deal better than the average
kind IL treated as he deserves. have never seen q
negro who has been in slavery who was not polite
and respectful and with vhom I would be afraid to
trust a white woman, hut the new generation OF
negroes are q different class of people.
I have twice within the past thirty years Wis.,
tied and travelled over the West India island.
age That island has a populat!on Of som
There are no ravishments Of white women
there by negroes. and no lynchings Of negroes
for that or any other crimes. Negroes. are en-
ployed In the public service there and feel the
Importance Of such. service. and are not killed
or burned out Of their homes because they hold
negroes A more respectful. peaceablc. good
tenn pered and polite population ia not to
be found anywhere under the sun. WIN
some OF the controversialists on this bitter
and embittering tonic set forth the reasons for
ment between. say, the negro population OF
Georgia and that OF Jamaica in, their relations
to their white neighbors and vice versa2
ALBANY, May Is. A. W. @.
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Not Criticism. but Upbu,lding.

To THE EDITOR OF TIL SUN-Sir: 1t cannot
hinder Gods truth taking root in the hearts OF
the people because a few leaders run up
against Coils mysteries and beat out their
brains trying to solve miracles which they can
not now and never will discover, Never was
the Bible SO read and loved. Millions upon
millions of copies are sowed broadcast in the
world. Never were the precepts and example
OF Jesus so lived rs to-day.
Let Mr.. Charles A.. Briggs sail away. Let DR..
Van Dyke step down and out Of the ministry.
far more pertinent and important subjects
than their criticisms To think about. There ia
the matter OF divorce; for instance. 1t is a
lately among the four hundred should give an
illustration for thousands OF pulpits for ser
mons on thou shalt not commit adultery"
ITHACA, May II. MABEL KELsY.
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Perpetual Franchises.

4 system OF taxation like the Ford bill
wipes out the argument against granting
perpetual franchises. With the complete
power Of exacting rental for franchises
the community's share In the profits OF
their operations will be as great with the
franchise granted in p~erpetuity as though
It had been granted for a term OF years.
Any franchise for supplying light or heat
or power or locomotion can be safely granted
In perpetuity when franchises are taxed.
How discouraRing, though, to the under
taking Of enterprises for such purposes Is
franchise taxation ? That must depend upon
the amount OF tho tax.
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TIE CRIME or TEE soUTH.
Tho NeEro's Politics II the True Reason for
the L~ynchinRs.

To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Sir: Evil
IDENTITY Mr.. +. +. Crawford OF Fort Meade, Fla.
does not read The Sun regularly or CLOSELY.
II he did he would not have made such an
eRregious blunder as he has made In his nrti-
Gle In to-day's SUN In charging me with utter
ing an untruth in respect to the causes OF
lynchlngs at the South. and in stating that /
have tried to give the impression that more
negroes are lynched for political reasons than
Tor rape. Now. l haven't uttered an untruth
In respect OF this matter. nor have l tried to
give the impression that there are moro ne
Rroes lynched for political reasons than for
rape. but / have shown conclusively from the
record that there have been more negroes
lynched for political and other reasons than
for the specific crime OF rape.
The President Of the Roanoke College. Vir-
ginia. MIR. Julius P. Dreher. in his able article
to THE U q few days ago showed that Of 127
lynchings last year only "a were for rape or
suspected rape or completely in It. and that
the other 1903 were for murder. theft. &c. and
tES were ere. ADMITTED ted cases Of mistaken Ts, IDENTITY IT,
The Richmond Planet.one ofour very best race
papers, publishes from. week to week q list OF
Tins were lygsseai. Between Jan. g. 1897,
81 various parts Of the south, The causes as
signed for seventy. nine OF these lynchings are
tySS s@ % sta Msat, tS be 3 dI %Srd Si soda Sasie %stss.
tEouSSlesome niger. and talkklnS too much:
Who s snf,e ,les for f t2s srlm oel ni ra tTs oT stts SISi'%i
rape. They are lynched for stealing. talking
back TO white men and for other triyialofiences.
}ona in sGa be ss shoN \ by the record II Mr. oraw-
Mr. Crawford cannot excuse the South for It's
bloody work in butcherinR and roasting ne
place q the North. and that white men are
point to a single lynchine Of Whit, men p any
snd brutality any Of the recent outraRes in
Georgia
One does not need to read between the lines
lynchinR to discover that his objection to the
erner gives himself dead away" when he as
ssns shst the * fe ,pnS ss a pp p1tI,tl's Gives ef tSs negro ,nTSo
ofices over the white man and holds him as
an equal for the purpose a. getting his vote,
just 50 long Will he De punished Tor his crime
by being lynched. be It In the North or South. ;,
WHICH means that SO long as the negroes Of
section they will be ,lynohed whenever and
sists in being a Republican: MI; Crawford is
negro. will be punished. for his crime By being
!TE pS c nsdr Whether ot e.. i be In .t the Nor North an 2r South"
the majesty q the law then tho white persons
L, the South for whom MI. Crawford speaks.
They are not 50 intolerant IN the North as TO 2
don't believe that they would roast one for
rape or attempted rape. There have been
%TeaTE P By bad G MEM. but SoI ehey ssr. al all 9 SsS tss
benefit, OF trial by, jury and have satisfied the
, inTIy s d199e m The Ia sen same sn Ssn r. &c, t II 18th
knows II. JOHN EDWARD BRUCE.
IL Congress street, Albany, N. Y.
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Expsrt Detective Testimony from ohioes"
for an indianapolis Clergyman
FROM ne cAicdoo Trtbune.

RYOW W W
Tbs Rev. W. W. Reynolds. pastor OF the
brentwood Methodist Church in Indianapolis
has asked Capt. Colleran OF Detective Head
quarters tor answers to two questions. They
are:
HAS the introduction OF the bicycle had any
efYect upon the morals OF the women who ride
them in Chicago2
Capt. Colleran does not claim to ne an expers
upon matters pertaining to ,wheelinR, pte y
gave his views in the following answer 70 the
letter:
-. n. Rev. W. ". Rspnotd', Pastor Of Brqh,oooo
M,tsodist Epiieop al Church, Indianspoln. nd
DEAR SIR; Your letter OF In quiry addressed
~ mo making II the use Of tho bicycle among
the women has affected their IN orals u any
manner, is at hand. l must confess that
am not an advocate OF the use OF inc p,cgGto
among women. when viewed from a moraiity
moral training. addicted to the use OF the
wheel. are not 1nfreuuently thrown, among the
uncuitivated and degenerate OF both sehes,
whose coarse. boisterous. and immora, conoucs
~ strs SonS'a and' s soui Many there are.
doubtless. who escape the contamina.a3n
though the contagion be ever present. AGAIN.
many OF our women bicyclists wear shorter
dresses than the laws Of morality and decency
From these facts l must. certainly consider
the adoption OF the bicycle by women, IS detrl.
mental to the advancement OF morality, nay.
even its stability. have always entertaineue
deep sympathy for the hosts OF nopis ana nons
orable ladies' who. while riding their bieySies:
morality will not stand investigation and whose
LURE +. CoLLERAN. Chief OF Detectives"