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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

The people OF Brooklyn have learned to
admire the young comptroller of New
York. and are justly proud of the honor
he has conferred on their locality by Jus
ttfying their judgment in selecting him,
when comparatively unknown. to an ex-
alted and difficult position. which he has
filled with pre-eminent ability and sue
cess. Seldom, II ever has a young man
been entrusted with a more responsible
end important Office than he who became
The first comptroller of Greater New York
The consolidation OF numerous petty town
ships and municipalities with their varied
provincial methods. into one great city
created chaotic condition OF affairs that
required a master mind TO regulate and
reduce to one homogeneous financial sys-
TEN. The task before the comptroller of
New York was second only TO that which
confronted Alexander Hamilton when
obliged to formulate a financial system for
the Federal Government after the Ameri-
can Revolution. Yet the untried young
official proved equal to the great emergen-
cy and showed himself an executive ge-
MUS and financer of the first rank. There
is no branch of our municipal government
that is conducted with such perfection of
system and orderly. up to date business
methods as the finance department of our
city under the present eomptroller's man
agement. But he was not content with a
mere perfunctory performance of his du-
ties; he was no ordinary, complacent Off
cial who could suffer waste and extraya-
gance TO go unchecked OF allow wrong
doing to go unpunished
He bravely assumed the unwelcome bur-
den OF unearthing the rascality and pecu-
lation in whatever form or guise Il might
exist. He had public account books over
hauled and public thieves of both parties
exposed, indicted, and sent to jail. He
stopped the common practice of over
charging for public supplies. He saved
thousands of dollars to the people by put
ting an end to the everlasting, tapewormy
street opening commissions and the Cro-
ton water shed commissions He fought
the system OF confessing judgments
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The Public and the Coal Strike.

With the exception Of the Markle men,
who have been false TO their agreement
10 submit grievances TO arbitration before
leaving work. the Pennsylvania coal min
ers. we believe. are wholly within their
rights in remaining idle. II they don't
wish to work. no private citizen or public
officer can force them against their Will
Not even on MARBLES men. who violated
their contract, can a hand be laid to compel
them to work. Damages legally due 20
MARKLE must be collected through the
courts. The points Of the situation, there
fore. are easily seen.
The coal companies would like to have tho
mines opened. They offer wages that would
make the heads OF miners in every other
place in the world outside Of the United
States fairly swim. But the miners will
accept nothing, because the coal COM
panies refuse TO recognize them as one vast
labor consolidation. or trust. This the
companies who are themselves not so con-
solidated. or intrusted. refuse TO do, saying,
each Of them, that they will treat with
their own particular employees when formed
into a union. but not with a trust. in which
these same employees are but an insignifi-
cant and powerless minority. This refusal
is as clearly within their rights as II rs within
the rights Of the miners to make the demand,
andin case the miners present determine
ton remains mistaken. the companies have
the same right 70 hire other men that the
miner have TO seek other coal fields.
II the public continues TO pay a greater
price for its coal. 1t must know that the cause
Of II is not the mine owners failure TO offer
liberal wages to their men.
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An Addres. by a wage Earnert to wsse Farmer.

FELLOW WORKMAN: Don't you remember the
business conditions of six years ago' That was
before Mr.. Bryan was thought OF as a candi-
date for President; before Mr.. Mckinley was
President.
DROP your party rrejudiccs and think. The
mar who thinks - entitled to q hearing. I'm
fortunately. not one man in fifty really thinks.
The man who is Influenced by a politician OF
any parry who Is paid for speaking (unless he
speaks ruth and not sophistries) is q sheep. A
sheep is the only animal that gets lost.
Think and remember! Don't you remember
the bu-inss, conditions Of six years ago when
wages were cut down? When the savings
banks took advantage Of the three months"
clause in thor charters and refused depositors
the withdrawal of their savings?
SIX years ago MIR. Cleveland was President
4 Democratic majority was then in command
Of the Government. Month after month it held
sway in Washington and could not agree upon
a business policy. You rememberl
To save the public credit Mr. Cleveland was
compelled to run the Government in debt.
Thirty-year bonds! DO YOU remember?
Drop party prejudlces and remember! Then
II was that merchants bought from hand TO
mouth; when thousands Of employees were
discharged, when wages were cut and TO get
them back. has taken six YEAR, All this hap.
Dt0eO, utn I you TtlheI ptIF Inc SIthhtIt Ol
both great parties, Republicans and Democrats,
tUlk poliuc~-lmpcTialtsm. 10 10 !, Trusts, Anti
Imperialism, Gold. But what do YOU remem-
bcr Of the consequences OF the party in power
six years ago, n Iarty that couldn't agree upon
n business policy
Mr.. BRYAN, Imperialism and 10 n I are not
the paramount issue Just now, The issues to
be- dread d by families who do not feed at tho
public crib are the election Of n President and "A
party with no unity Of business purpose. Re
member, union ia not unity. A business firm
which cannot agree upon a business policy
cannot obtain credit. The same Is true OF the
United State- Government.
SIX wears ago, when the Democratic majority
could not agree upOn q business policy, mer-
chants all over the United States, scared,
adopted a plan of wholesale retrenchment,
let the manufactures hold the goods and suf-
fer Buyers for firms were threatened with
DISCHARGE II they bought Quantities. Merchants
lad no faith in the then Governments business
polic,.
Has Mr.. Bryan's party, or parties, any bnsi-
ness policy2 Consider The business o~ontrao-
ton Of six years ago led Ia a Wholesale cutting
OF wages. Don't YOU remember
Wages are the first item in the business econ
omy 10 b. cut. They are the last item to rise.
Tuat Is an axiom. Don't forget 1t.
1t isn't because there are not able, respect
able, patriotic and brilliant Americans in Mr..
BryHn's parties that they should be refused
mower now, but because they have no business
policy upon which they can agree as a unit
Don't you see?
IL Is as necessary for the Government Of the
United State 10 be dominated by q harmonious
business unit IN It's conduct, asi Is for a firm.
Don't you sceP
Beware an excuse for cutting wages.
BROOKLYN. oct. O. WAGE GARNER.
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The Lesson OF Richard Croke-.

Mr.. RICHARD CROKER has uuflinChingly
urged the election Of WILLIAM JEN-
NrNGs Bryan, the Democratic candidate
for President. SURPRISING his previous
utterances favoring expansion and honest
money, and ignoring the personal incon-
ve~nience or injury now required OF hlmset
as an advocate OF the Kansas City platform,
Mr.. CROKER has " gone the whole hog
drifting with the Democratic canvass
at large. and therefore combining his atten-
ton of late TO trusts. But If the argImentS
of the entire array Of Democratic speakers,
BRYAN included, could be put into one,
their combined force would be less than
Mr.. CRoKER's individual act of severinS
his connection with all business concerns
which, as a disciple Of the Kansas City
platform. he Is obliged 70 condemn.
Mr.. CROKER has sold his shares in the
Ice trust. lie has left the Auto-Truck
trust. He is ready, doubtless, to purge
his safe OF every share in any corporation
in which he can be shown TO be an owner.
And in so dong lie layC bare the utter in
compatibility between Organism. which he
supports, and business as it is now organ
lied in the United States,
To give himself solid ground on which
to stand for BRYAN, Mr.. CROKER has been
obliged practically to 90 out Of busin IS.
He can promote or take profits from
no partnership or stock company now
existing. For If he should 80 again into
the market, he would find that he could
not buy a share in a railroad or in a com
many classed as " industrial" or in any
great incorporated manufacturing concern
without stultifying himself in politics.
The great cooperative stock companies
OF to-day, which BRYAN calls " trusts
are the foundation Of American business
and the secret OF our unrivalled industrial
activity and success in the world at large.
According to the Hon. JOHN i, SrANCH-
FIELD every important industry in the
land " Is In the shape Of a trust. The Demo-
cratic party does not simply demand Of
its followers to turn their backs upon the
" important industries Of the land IL
declares unrelenting hostility to them.
II aims at their complete disruption, thus
threatening to American industry a shock
such as was never felt before.
Voters who do not themselves desire
TO 60 out Of business or TO see COM
mercial revolution and paralysis set in.
will not retire as Mr.. CROKER has done.
nor help BRYAN in putting into effect his
demagogic theories for business destruc-
ton and Generalization. They will sup
port the Republican party.
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The Republican Platform.

We have received an advance copy Of the
Final Number" Of The Anti-Imperidiist.
We welcome it. Ii closes with Mr.. EDWARD
ArKINsoN's belief that " the anti-impcrial-
lists may deem their work finished and their
ends accomplished. Both the old parties are
now in process Of dissolution, and out Of
their d~isintegration the true National Party
will be evolved"
Whatever party succeeds the Republi-
can party. IL will be founded upon this
sentiment:
NO nation can hold its standing before mankind
that will depreciat, IT, own currency any more than
a nation can stand before the world that will not
defend is nag and honor"
This is a quotation from the Hon. WILLIAM
McKINLEY's address to the first voters Of
Cleveland on this day four years ago. Mr..
ATKINSON may run away from MCKINLEY.
but his National Party will never run away
with its life from the policy that Mr..
MCKINLEY described in 1896 and since
then has never failed to uphold. II Mr..
ATKINSON is a friend of honest money he
will vote for the Republican platform rs
MCKINLEY expressed it next month.
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The Commerce Of Brooklyn

The length Of the Brooklyn water front Is
thirty-three miles and a depth suitable for
large ships prevails for the greater part
Of the distance,
Before municipal consolidation. however.
the control Of this Brooklyn water front.
first granted TO New York by the British
Government before the Revolutionary
War in the Cornbury Charter and later in
the Montgomete Charter. belonged to
New York under the provision which fixed
New York's boundary line at low water
to the city Of New York a strip OF land along
the Brooklyn front between high and
low water mark. varying in width from
100 to 1900 feet, known as the tideway.
1t was not generally expected that the
effect OF the consolidation charter would be
TO promote the development Of ~Brooklyn's
riparian interests, but it appears h have
done so. The lock and wharfage facilities
of Brooklyn have been increased and its
share OF foreign commerce enlarged since
Jan. l., 1898. The Eagle Of Brooklyn re-
ported on Friday, among the ships then
loading or unloading on the Brooklyn
water front, the Begonia for South Africa
and the Kafir Prince for the River Plate,
the Grecian Prince from Pernambuco and
another vessel With cargo of copper from
Newfoundland. The Burgundia was dis
charging a cargo Of $500 barrels Of white
grapes from Spain and the Victoria was
loading freight for Glasgow. Two German
steamers were booked TO sail for Mediter-
ranean ports and the United States steam
ship Knight of st. George was loading
for Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. A
Mediterranean fruit steamer and a steamer
from Porto Rico were at Brooklyn wharves
and another ship was completing the taking
on of a cargo of 10000 bushels Of oats for
export.
These details Of commercial activity are
reassuring and need be supplemented
only with the statement that by the con-
struction Of new bridges between New
York and Brooklyn for passenger. vehicle
and railway transportation. the former
exclusion Of Brooklyn from dock and ferry
revenues is being rapidly done away with.
to the permanent advantage OF citizens
on both sides OF the East River.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-09
AMBASSADOR WHITE AT CORNELL.
In an Address He Says We Have Less to Fear
From Importation Than Demagoguelsm

ITHACA, n. Y, Oct. s.-Andrew ~. White
Ambassador to Germany and the first Prcsl-
dent Of Cornell University, delivered an hours
address to the students and members OF tho
faculty to-day. The applause which greeted
him was spontaneous and prolonged. MI
White will leave here tomorrow for New York
and will Immediately set sail for his post abroad
In his address to-day he spoke briefly on
political issues. His main subjects were I'M
perialism. trusts and plutocracy. lie said
that our Government has less TO fear from
imperialism. with which the present Adminis-
tration il charged, than from denagogucism'
which, We hear on every. side, tie gave MS
torical illustrations OF this, saying that no re-
public In history has ever fallen because II
carried on q healthy expansion; IL was, moro
dangerous that GLASS distinction should be
drawn and sectional disturbances stirred up
by the demagogue speakers on the platforms
OF the present campaign.
"Plutocracy is not an evil TO rear, was MT.
Whites emphatic statement. Nor Is the trust
question confined TO our country. This disease
Is prevalent throughout the industrial ana
commercial world. Whatever remedy We
apply must be discovered and decided upon
after a thorough diagnosis Of the case.
In his direct remarks TO. the students he sara
that sobrety OF judgment Is the greatest quality
can and English people as distinguished from
the French aud Spanish. lie spoke, OF the
great growth Cornell had made since he trSt
occupied the Presidents chair and predicted a
glorious future for the institution founded by
Ezra Cornell,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-09
Millionaire Rice. Careful Dict.
From the Gdireston Daily Ners


HoUsToN. Tex, Sept. 20 In reference 10 tho
new, from New York city touching the death OF
the late William NJ. Ric', and some matters that
came out as to the cause of It. Mr.. Hervey. the
proprietor of the Capitol Hotel, was asked this
evening for some information. In answering
the questions Mr.. Hervey mentioned the fact
that Mr.. Rice had spent several weeks al the
Capitol on his last visit to Houston. Among
other things he said:
Rice was one OF the most careful eaters
ever knew He read a great deal on the sub
iect Of diet and wholesome and nutritious food -.
While at the hotel here he ate IN his room all the
time. lie would arise about 5 o'clock in the
morning and eat a small bowl OF granola, a nu-
tritious and very dgestible food of crushed
would after a little eat an apple or two. At II
finest tend"rloin 1t was almost like extract OF
beef. IN the afternoon he would eat a baked
apple or two aud drink a glass Of the best milk
obiainablr. He kept a pitcher OF fresh and cool
milk in his room most Of the time. He ate ripe
apples even uucooked. The above made his
whole diet. never knew a more careful man
about hi food. He had a little stove In the
room and frequently would core and bake the
apple. lie had n book written by Dr. Naring, |
think, on hcalth ana foods. ] had the oonsomma
specially prepared without seasoning, so he
could season to Suit his taste.
Il think hi plan was TO see how long n man
could live on the very best diet and by the
greatest care. aud he frequently indicated that
he believed he would live ten or fifteen years
perhaps TO he 100 year. old
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that officers attached thereto and study
| ing there might = hnd leisure to xamin
and report on new appliances for the use
Of the military service, such as outomobiles
now being experimental with abroad.
This would give the cadets an opportunity
also TO become acquainted with them.
The suggestion is made that the pay OF
cadets be increased until II equals That OF
the naval cadets. At present the pay Is
$40, and under the various laws Of Con-
gress a cadet is obliged TO spend at least
| $500 a year, 80 that he raduates In debt.
! unless he has private means. This IA the
first time that this proposal IA made we
think. As the idea Of the two academies
ia 10 prepare any citizen 10 become an
officer, without regard to his finances, It
seems proper that he should not be re-
Quired by law to spend more than his In
come. The board also advocates raising
the standard OF admission. in order hat "a
larger percentage Of persons admitted
may be graduated. II is interesting to
find a body Of men 30 representative as this
board suggesting possible imperfectons
In that shibboleth Of theoretical reiormers,
competitive examinations. The board
does not believe that cadets likely to make
good officers are always to be found by
such examination.
On the subject Of hazing. the board thinks
that the published reports have been ex-
aggerated, and it says with much peril
hence: = Parents who complain OF the ha1-
ing to which their sons are subjected during
their first year will be found the second year
oriticising the severity Of the rules against
what they have then discovered to be a
mere expression Of youthful spirit"
In concluding. the board says that no
one can examine nto the Academy and its
methods without being satisfied that 1t Is on
the whole admirably fulfilling the pur-
poses of its creation. We could better
spare almost any other institution for the
instruction Of youth than the Military
Academy and its kindred school at An
napolis." The Board Of Visitors as a rule
does not find its suggestions adopted by
Congress. The recommendations about the
Academy that lie unaccepted will Ill a largo
p~igeonhole. But the recommendations Of
this board are exceptionally %valuable;
thy should receive attention. and might
well be embodied in future legislation for
the Academy.
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Congress.

Bpv,N Is in Illinois and Is giving his
special attention to close Congress districts
That il. he is hustling TO get a Bryanlte
ma ority In Congress.
Py his industry he is giving warning
to every friend Of the gold standard Oh inc
necessity Of combining In every Congress
district 10 elect as Representatives only
men pledged TO support a gold Adnuh-
istration against It's enemies. with freel-
dent MCKINLEY In the White House. there
il security against silvertsm, OF course
but a hostile Congress could produce serious
disturbance for business 10y causing q
deadlock In legislation. always damaging
The gold majority In the present ouse
OF Representatives is so small that the
Bryanltes need 70 win only comparatlVeIy
few seats to overcome II. In the SENATE
too, that majority Is also In danger as
Senator ALLISON has demonstrates
That a Congress generally harmonious
with Mr.. MCKINLEY's Administration IL
requisite In the interests Of business Is
too obvious for us to need to explain why
To make complete the victory OF his electloh
such a Congress must be returned.
Knowing that, BRYAN and lis managers
and supporters are now expanding Their
efforts to get a Bryanite Congress when
would enable him to carry out his po"'y
II elected and If he was defeated Won q
hamper Mr.. MCKINLEY in carrying out a
policy which would bring prosperity "
his Administration because II would bring
prosperity to the country.
Az we showed the other day, the respon-
sibility for the political complexion OF
the next House Of Representatives rests
with this city Of New York. New York has
It in its power to assure a gold and Admin
i~stration majority which shall represent
the sentiment and the interests of this
great capital Of commerce and finance by
defeating every candidate for Congress on
the ticket with the Bryan Electors.
Every where the forces for gold shoul be
equally united in voting for President and
Congressman. With such unity Organism
will be powerless against them and the har-
monious Government requisite for the best
interests Of the country will be assured.
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Why Wayne Macveagh Will Tote for
Mckinley.

The Hon. WAYNE MACVEAGH, who is
about as independent rs they make them,
does not approve the policy Of the Admins
tration In the Philippines. but will vote for
MCKINLEY and ROOSEVELT on this i'm
pregnable ground:
The controlling reason with me for supporting
MCKINLEY and ROOSEVELT I 5 the unwulinsnes
feel 70 lntruSt the government Of the country 70 the
men who now represent and control the Democratic
organization. standing as they do upon the Chicago
platform Of 1890.
The same men on the same platform.
with some humbug additions. a platform
which means now, as II mean In 1896. bad
money and bad business for the people
and bad faith on the part OF the nation,
danger TO the power and independence
OF the Federal Judiciary and the triumph
Of the spirit OF lawlessness which Mr.. BRYAN
Ia now making desperate efforts to raise.
The attack on Trusts is only a variation
Of the essential principle OF Organism. the
setting OF the poor" " the producing
Glasses" against " the rich" As for i'm
perialism. were it now possible to give up
the Philippines, did not even Mr.. BRYAN's
promise of a stable government for
them imply a permanent occupation. were
the question Of the future and not Of the
past, it would be nothing, as it is nothing.
beside the transcendent duty here at home.
II the United States had to turn back from
the new path. a path of honor and advan-
tsge, as we believe, well and good; but the
United States must never turn from the
old path of honest dealing, Of inviolable
courts, of respect for law. Whatever
men have thought or may think about the
new possessions in the East, let these old
inestimable possessions never be given up.
Mr.. MACVEAGH has not let his private
opinion on a single matter lead him into
supporting the unchanged cause and Leaders
whom he held dangerous in 1895. He is
not independent for the sake OF being indie
pendent but for the sake Of carrying out
the duty of a good citizen as he conceives
II at any particular time. At this time his
notion of that duty is to fight Organism
and all the unsound and visionary and
~perilous policies which II means. We
believe that the majority Of independent
anti-imperialists, outside Of the few noisy
gentlemen who wear their brains In their
heels, have reached the same conclusion.
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A Useless Office,

The Coroners Of New York county have
requested the Board Of Estimate and APP
portionment to increase their salaries
to 5000 a year apiece.
The Coroner's Office in this city costs
the city about s3Oo,OOO a year. This is
exclusive Of extraordinary expenses. such
rs fees Of chemists and Of other experts,
which are frequently incurred. The
salary of n Coroner in this county is
now 5000 a year. II was 5000 a
year before 1895. Whether the Coroncrs
are ovcrworkcd or not, and whether
their iabors are now such that they de-
serve additional compensation. the fact is.
i~ndubitably. that the C%oroner's office is,