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Overworked Sympathy.

From Minnesota comes an example of the
sympathetic excuses of the persons who
meddle ignorantly with military discipline
and pity the volunteers for mostly imag-
mary hardships. The Thirteenth Regiment
Auxiliary Association was formed" says
the 81 Paul Dispatch, for the purpose OF
sending and receiving messages to and from
the volunteers in the Philippines" An ex-
cellent purpose, which did not long content
the association, for Its scope has been en-
larged until IL has constituted itself the
guardian Of the men as Of a collection Of in
fants in a day nursery. The main business
OF the associations meetings now seems to
be to quarrel over how the volunteers are
to be treated, what they get to eat, their
hours Of rest and work, and the military
proceedings generally"
Some volunteers returned TO st. Paul and
reported that the soldiers in the Philippines
had to do police duty for twenty-four hours
c~onsecutively. Whereat there was great in
dignation until 1t was discovered that a
part Of the regiment did police duty for two
hours, then rested two, and so on for the
rest of the day, having the whole of the
next day to rest in.
Such Is the nervous condition OF the 1850
citation that at a meeting last week the
original theory was advanced that the sol
diers should mutiny whenever they were
dissatifled. Apparently some kind souls
in Minnesota believe that the volunteer
system Is or should be an absolutely volun-
tary system, u series Of electives, with nom
compulsory attendance and frequent re-
cesses for pie.
Grotesque ignorance Of military condi-
tions and a disposition to consider the
American volunteers both as the victims Of
a cruel Government and as children to be
fed with sugar plums and encouraged to tell
tales nave been and are unfortunately com
mon. The spectacle is not pleasant of a
country. after q splendid achievement, try
ing to discredit itself and growing maudlin
because war is not a high school picnic or n
chowder party.
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Our Minister in China.

The short despatch from Pekin telling
how the American Minister, Mr.. CoNGER,
In accordance with Instructions from Wash
iDgton, had protested against certain con-
c~essions to France in the neighborhood Of
Shanghai, brings into new prominence the
Sntire Oriental question as it concerns us.
The partition of Africa among the Euro
pean Governments has proceeded without a
word Of remonstrance on our part. We
had no relations with any country there
which the spread Of European power prom
Used to affect. But the partition of China,
as it is contemplated by Europe, would af-
feet us greatly, and any American Govern
nnent which should look on theprocess with
the Indifference shown toward Africa would
be u~npardonably neglectful Of American in
terests.,
Those interests demand for their easier
and surer defence ar American road to the
Asiatio coast, passing through the Sand
witch Islands and the Ladrones and ending
in the Philippines, as the simplest and
plRtiest Of necessities.
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alone. and leave the powers Interested to
make such expenditures for naval purposes
as they may see ft. The curtailment Of ex-
penditurt. In some degree at least, would
be the natural effect Of such an agreement
to maintain the international status quo.
1t lie by no means with an interest purely
academic that the United States will watch
the efforts made to carry out the Cars ex-
emplary design. It is true that a proposal
for disarmament could not, with IN pro-
prlety, be addressed to us, for the reason
that our army and navy arc at present in-
adequate to the responsibilities imposed on
us by our treaty with Spain. The develop
ment, however. of American industry and
commerce would be immensely furthered
by the knowledge hat tho peace Of the
world was to remain undisturbed for n long
time to come.
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AMERICANS IN SAN JUAN.
Many Enterprises Launched-The Money
Question Causes Friction.

Question Causes Friction.
SAN JUAN. Port Rico. Dec. 31.-San Juan 10
fast filling up with Americans. Many extern
sive enterprises are being put on foot. chief
among whica is o large cold storage ware
house. Ice factory and brewery. This will en-
able the butchers here to have their meat re-
frigerated. which they are unable to do now.
Meat butchered in San Juan must be disposed
OF in twenty-four hours or it spoils. Tainted
meat is a prolific cause Of sickness among the
American residents Of the island.
The money question is a disturbing factor
in San Juan. The silver peso. the money used
before the American occupation. being con-
trolled by the native bankers. continues ito
f~iuctuate in value. but it's tendency is inward.
This causes friction between the American
soldiers and the Porto Rican me5chants each
sFed; When M.s s. 5h D. army t1 y, f Prs t6 LANDED |, h the bs sx,
In itself is Of little moment II 1t could be main
TUNED. It is important when those who con
trouble is barely averted when the merchants
and restaurant keeperS attempt to scale down
they are being fieeced and protest vigorously.
American money is not 2 full legal tender.
further fnH I SaIS dYs s"iSs S%S n'' To T pay a af biz i II Is nec %ea
sary for the person rendering the amount in
American money to accent the exchange de-
manded or To 90 to the nearest mOneV changer
and secure the amount necessary. The money
changers rate NAV be a few cents higher than
that ofSthe merchant. who ~is.compelled to re-
main on the safe side or run the risk Of losing
on the next dav on the American money he
accepted.
The merchants prefer to do business exclu-i
siVely In Porto Rican currency. aS it gives rise
to less friction. Al the Custom Houses and Mt
the Post Offices Porto Rican money is only ac-
copied at , to /. This Is an additional source
Of friction. since 1t doubles the cost of all mail
matter Of the island. In the Custom Houses
half American money and. half Porto Rican
money at a rate OF , to ] is required. An
American business man IS required to go 10
the money changer md buy Porto Rican
money at the rate Of $3.50 to 81 and turn il in
at the Custom House at the rate Of 2to l..
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Cigars.

AS might be expected, the managers OF
the silver campaign are fertile in ingenious
means for raising the wind. Tn plan Of
collecting one dollar a month from gener-
GUS Democratic brethren and sending II to
the Hon. Com HARVEY OF Chicago has not
been given up, and Mr.. BRYAN still drops
In his monthly mite cheerfully. 1t Is said,
however, that collections have been rather
slow. Possibly SANTA CLAUS has inter
cepted supplies that should have gone to
Com HARVEY. At any rate, a new project
is said to be dazzling the ayes OF the Hon.
jim JoNEs's Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. JOSEPH LECHLEITRR, a maker Of CT
CARS in Minonk. H., Ia the father OF the
new scheme, which he laid before the COM
mittee in solemn session last week. Natur-
ally the members OF the committee are
averse to communicating the details to the
world Of money changers, but the plan Is
said by the Chicago Tribune to "involve the
selling Of cigars in some way-it is thought
by means of a brand to be approved by the
committees certain part OF the proceeds
to go to the committee treasury" Thus
smoking may be made a political duty for
faithful Democrats, and every putting
Bryanite may find strength to struggle
with even the most refractory and abomina-
BILE tobacco for the sake Of fattening Com
HARvEY's strong boxes and boosting down.
trodden silver.
While the design for the label has not
been selected officially, there can be little
doubt that it will bear a picture Of Col.
BRYAN and the mystic legend, 10 to 1. Let
plutocrats nurse their ~insolent perfectos.
The producing classes" will be asked to
smoke only the Democratic cigar, the Bryan
impcrfccto. Under the gold standard they
are used to hardships.
We shudder to think what the human
nose has yet to endure IL the Chicago plat
form is to be smoked all over the country
every day.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In your
editorial on "A Woman's Hotel" you asked the
very pertinent question: DO working women
want to live in a hotel for women only 2" l
have heard that question much discussed
among working women. and the answer is an
emphatic No" in every case.
The fact Is. they do not want to live in any
hotel. There are thousands Of ~self-supporting
women In Greater New York who want the
privilege Of making homes for themselves.
They are constantly searching for rooms where
they can have a quiet. refined retreat outside
OF the hours given to their daily work. They
want apartments In respectable neighborhoods.
with all the surroundings scrupulously neat
and orderly: rooms where they can cook their
own meals when desired spread their
tables with the dainty touches that q refined
their friends. than which there Is not n more
eXSqnisite pleasure for a Woman; md. above
feeling which goes so far to reconciling them
to a life of constanttoil and conpensatinG them
for it.
For these purposes they need apartments OF
from two to five rooms. with steam heat. bath,
SD to SIS per month. What do they ind ;
Flats Of four, rooms. without steam heat.
no no. l hath; and Il ether conHenienccs to be
sometimes by ali the tenants Of the house,
One ingenious landlord, had removed the
The applicant slyly asked II a ladder was kept
on the premises for the tenants use in reach
ing and leaving the bath. There arr, other
splendent brasscs at the street door. which
have mere closets for sleeping rooms. either
opening into airShaits. or with no opening or
window except the door into the hall
Let it he remembered that many. very many,
OF these working women have been tenderly
reared III homes OF culture and refinement and
still have the tastes Of gentlewomen, notwith-
standing their altered circumstances There
are hundreds of single women and widows.
thrown on their own resources for n livelihood.
with that Unborn love OF home which charac-
teriZos the true woman. who are longing, wait
ing. hoping. not for IA working wonan's hotel.
but for n chance to make a %restful. happy
working woman's home. y T.. b.
NEW YORK. Jan. Z.
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Let Them All Come In Together.

Mr.. RICHARD CROKER is for expansion,
for "holding whatever possessions we have
gained by annexation, purchase or war,
and he takes the ground ns n Democrat, for
"every patriotic American, and every Dem
oorat in particular, should avo expansion
The suggestion that we should abandon
the peoples we have released from bondage,
or what would be more dlsgraceful, sell
them to the highest bidder" he denounces
as ian insult to the American people,"
"When the question is brought to an is-
sue" continues Mr.. CROKER. they will
arise as one mar and demand expansion"
Mr.. CROKER, thus, is in hearty agreement
with the vast majority OF his countrymen
on that matter, and he announces that he
is also with the majority OF them on another
matter OF pivotal Importance. He is for
showing aside the 10 to 1 issue as "a
decidedly dead issue" That is, the leader
OF Tammany Hall proclaims that he Is for
expansion and for prosperity.
Why then, should he not go in for u
new "era of good feeling by advising all
Democrats OF his way Of thinking to get
together and join all other patriotic and
progressive Americans in supporting a
common ticket representative of their com
mon ideas and aspirations, without regard
to past political dlfferencesP
What is the use of keeping up partisan
division when really all hands are agreed?
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| be called in, as 1t logically should be, II the
Government is not to issue any money but
gold coin, the banks would rave TO substi'
tute their notes for Il, and their profit on
these notes at only 4 per cent, on the
average, would DO sac, DOC, 900 annually.
For this prize they can well AFFORD to make
an effort, and do their utmost TO detude the
people into giving It to them.
Fortunately, the Vaccinations OF the
banks and their allies are not likely to sue
coed. The present Congress Is hostile to
them and so will the next II be. The
mass OF the people demand the best cur
rency that II Is possible to give them, and
that currency Is gold and Government
notes redeemable In gold on demand. Such
a currency we have now in substance,
though in a mixed and complicated form,
and very little Is needed to perfect It.
The only dangers TO which IL is exposed
are the coming into power Of a silvcrite
Administration md OF an Administration
like President ~CLEvEJANDts, which would
make an overissue of Government notes to
supply deficiencies In the revenue. From
the former we can be delivered by defeating
the Democratic party at every national cleo
ton, and from the latter by the adoption
Of the provision, originally proposed by
The Sun and nov urged by President Nc
KINBEY, that no Government notes, nee
redeemed, shall be reissued for any pur-
pose, except against a deposit OF an equal
amount OF gold. BY these means our paper
currency will be made as good as IL need be,
and tinkering with 1t will be supertiuous.
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The Hon. POTATO PINGREE's advance
agents swear that he will be elected President
in 1904, and even in 1900 II the monopolists try
tocrowd him. 1t Is clear from his message to the
Michigan Legislature that he imagines himself
to be President now. Alarge part Of that immor-
tai document is taken up with the discussion OF
national affairs. PoTATo throws himself. piping
hot, against the unnecessary" war. the Ad-
ministration, annexation, vassal colonies and
so on. Evidently he regards Mr.. MCKINLEY as
an interloper and pretender. Students of Pin
greeism watch his development with delight.
From Mayor Of Detroit he has grown to be
President OF the United States. and he feels
himself to be as firmly seated at Washington
us he is in Lansing.
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The Centenary of washington,s Death.

To THE EDIToR or THE SUNNI; The first in.
auguration Of Washington a. President was cele.
hr1tcd in New York April 1880 and May !. 1881.
with great Iomp and enthusiasm. ON Dec. II. 1899,
will occur the centenary of the death Of the great
c%hicftlin, statesman and father of his county.
The coming anniversary shopld be celebrated a. a
sacred holiday. and AZ tbs intervening time rs only u
little over eleven months, it il not too soon TO begin
the necessary preparations for s0lrmni2ing it. |
would suggest that there he Washington funerals in
every church throughout The land in reverence to
his sacred dust at Mount Vernon. All the church
bells should toll forth 100 times each OH his death
centenary, also thirteen times, indicating the mum.
Der of States in the Union at that time, and likewise
the number Of States In the Union in 1871. woUll
also recommend that every one Of the original thir.
teen States erect all equestrian statue 10 the greatest
OF American patriots, ions 4, BIpwELL.
New York, Jan. :.
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This year, for tho first time in many
years, the Governors elected in twenty.
two States have taken Office, or are about to
take Office, without friction or cont oversy,
appeal to courts or any conflict OF authority
whatever. In every State there has been
prompt and general acquiescence in the de-
clared results OF the election, although IN
several, notably Nebraska, South Dakota,
and Nevada, tho pluralities for the success
full candidates were very small.
In New York, in spite Of the cuinbrous
and unsatisfactory system for counting the
soldiers and sailors votes, the session ofthe
State Board Of Canvassers at Albany was
brief, harmonious and almost perfunctory,
and the State Legislature has convened
without any prospect OF contests. Nor
were there any to disturb tho canvassing
of the vote OF $4,000 in this city. 1t Is
the same in other States and cities, and in
the Legislatures already convened for the
choice Of United States Senators. The lndi-
cations also are that the Committees OF
Elections in the next House Of Representa-
tives will have few contests to decide and
few disputed questions to settle.
This result seems to demonstrate the
efficiency OF the existing balloting methods.
They have been the means Of preventing
political contests which were fruitful
causes of bitter and sven dangerous parti-
san controversy, legal tribunals have been
relieved from the irksome and distasteful
duty Of deciding election results, end the
prompt and efficient transaction OF legisla-
tive business has been facilitated.
Other grounds Of objection to candidates
duly elected to office, however, are how
put forward. Remonstrance is made
against the admission to the next House
Of Representatives of the member from
Utah on the plea that he is u polygamist.
The admission to the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature of a representative from Philadel-
phia is opposed on the ground that he in
Cured the censure Of the Purity League.
In West Virginia the military service OF
two legislative candidates, regularly elect
ed, is urged against their eligibility.
Nowhere, however, is there any dispute
as to the result Of the election, the accuracy
of the canvass, or the fairness of the count.
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As against n total Democratic membership of
more than LOO Legislators in eleven Stntes
there are q little more than 100 Republicans,
and the Populists are Democrats on all essen
tial questions OF party action. The Republic
cans are wholly without legislative representa-
ton in Florida and Mississippi. and prac-
tically without representation in the Legisla-
lures OF Arkansas. Georgia. South Carolina
and Texas. They have, representation so
small in amount rs to be politically insignitl-
cant. in Alabama and Virginia. and notable
representation only in Louisiana, North Caro-
lima and Tennessee. the mountain regions OF
which adhere as steadily and as steadfastly
to the Republican party as they did during
the civil war and Immediately after
The mountain Republicans oil Tennessee
rolled up the customary majorities. q In some
counties more. at the ELECTIONS OF 1893. In
Scott county for instance, the Democratic vote
for Benton McMillin was 175, and for his
Republican opponent 1.177. In Sewer county.
q, typical mountain county OF Tennessee.
publican vote 1,94S.. In North. Carolina
the mountain Republicans made a like
stand for the Republican party. but with
out affecting adversely to the. DEMOCRATS the
result. for whatever expectation the Republi-
can leaders in North Carolina may have had Of
recovering control OF the State and retaining
il against Democratic. opposition ceased at the
breaking. out Of the Wilmington race dispute.
In the. Fifty.sixth Congress the representa-
tion Of these eleven States in the House will be:
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IngersolI OH Immortality.

To rHE EDITOR oF THE SUNNI Your CORE.
H%pondent, Mr.. William l.. Stone Of Mount Vernon.
says that NJ believes the I 'achings of Col. lngcrsoll
with regard to immortality ar, most pcrnirioIs.'
In:etsnll teaches rs flllows: "rhc idea of immor.
tally, tina; like a ga has eObod and flowed IN the
human heart, with its countless waves of hope and
fear beating against the shores ami rocks Of tmo
and fate, was not born Of any book. nor of any creed,
nor OF any religion. II was born of human affection.
and 1t will continue TO ebb and now beneath the
mtsts aud clouds Of doubt and darkness as long a.
Love kisses the lips Of Death. II is the rainbow
Hope shining upon the tears Of Grief" C"Pr1ss
Poems and Selections" page 2d3J
NEW YoRG, Jan, q. u. +. MAcDoHALR.
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Boston is still breathless with alteration
as she gazes at the new car sheds. A prose
poet of the Transcript dwells dellghtedly on
the mosaics and the ice water. and closes his
raptures with this whack at Egypt
d" The PHARAoHs who carved their names on vast
and useless granite structures had to be content
with less splendid memorials"
The PHARAoHs made the mistake of their
lives in not building chariot sheds. The
list of the wonders of the world has now been
revised. For Pyramids If ERypt" read "Bos-
ton Car Sheds"
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BAR-" CONSENT OF THE GorERNED.Y
A Striking Retaliation of the Arguments of
the Anti-Expansionists.

From h' Louisriir COurisr-Journal
An address was delivered not long since before
the Western division OF the Army of the Potomac by
Col. Charles II. Clark Of Cedar Rapids. Is., entitled
imperialism in 1891 and 1898 Col. Clark is the
Leading lawyer Of his State and a man of dislin.
gnished ability. Taking up the hogy of imperial.
ism. Col, Clark states tho arguments against It with
even more force than the majority of the anti.
expansionists are able to do.
To illustrate his position that tho use of force Is
not necessarily dangerous To liberty. Mr.. Clark re.
ours to the war of 1851. Just b fore It began there
was a cry in favor OF adhesion 10 our peaceful tradi.
tons. A Pros dent declared that the right OF scccs.
sion did not exist and neither did the right or
coercion. A great New YORK Re publican Newspaper
took strong ground against the Use Of force. In ba.h
parties IN the North there was u shivcring over YSy.
ernInnnt by military force.
II was said that a Cove -nment by force, a mere
vulgar. commonplace empire, was staring us in the
face. There were great 'flrts to avert il. Both
houses of Congress passed II propO'e | Constitutional
amendment that no subsequent amendment shoull
ever he passed giving Congress the powcrtJ legislate
against the domestic institutions Of any State. War
came however, aud \ great many of the people Ct
the North believed that our liberties were porma.
n,ui y sub,ertcd, Yet no such result followed.
Though practically all the able. bodied male nopu.
latinn Of 10th sections were used TO bearing arm,
and werc in tho army by hundreds o. thousand. AT.
tachmomt to peaceful methods was not dc.tr wed.
NJ military organization since the close Of tho civl
war has made any appeal 30 arms. OHAcorS and men
who 'ervod IN the civil war have been good and
peaceful citizens. So II was with Washington. JACK.
son and Taylor, and the men who followed them
Mr.. Clark says;
Not only did the civil war fail to bring the evils
which were anticipated from the force and lighting
power developed on both sides. hut the present
prosperous and happy condition OF the country is
due very largely to that war and it's r~esults."
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The Bible Translation Accurate.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: a little knowl.
edge is a dangerous thing" Had your correspond.
ent IS. O." been more familiar with idiomatic Greek
he wonld scarcely have presumed to impugn the
sch plarship Of the revisers OF the New Testame nt.
whose translation of John, H., 4 {" Woman, what
have I to do with thee ~ Is absolutely correct. In
Mark, ". !, the same Greek words c'Ti emoi kai
sol , are used by an unclean spirit. and It will readily
he seen that such a rendering as IS. O." suggesta.
What 20 me and to thee ~ would in this case be
peculiarly inappropriate. Snch extreme literHlness
would make II familiar French idiom. IN y a." mean
" 1t there has" instead of There is"
Greek, however. was not the language commonly
spoken by Jesus and His Disciples. They used the
Syriac. or Aramaic, veruHcular of Palestine. aud the
nrst OF the synoptic G ,spcls was originally wrltten
in that tongue. In Mrs. Lewis : translation of the
four Gospels from the Syriac OF the Sinaitic Palimu-
sest, the manuscript OF which was discovered by her
a few years ago In 81. Katharine's Convent, IL is ex.
planned that fifteen verses Of the second chapter Of
John dncluding the text in question, were among
the missing sheets. Mark, v, 7, however. reads
What have l to do with thee 90 thus confirming the
accuracy OF the revised Translation OF the Greek text.
NEW YORK, Jan. l. \. q.