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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
SAY SUBWAY HURT BUSINESS.
Union Square Merchants Arc Suing HOl.
brook, Cabot 4 DAILY.

DfOOk, CeOOt u Dely.
The suit Of the Linton Pharmacy. a cor
poration in business at Seventeenth street
and Union Square, to recover $4,000 from
Holbrook, Cabot Il DAILY, tunnel sub-con,
tractors, was argued yesterday before
Supreme Court Justice Mccall. j. B.
Mcdonald and the Metropolitan Street
Railway were made defendants in the
suit, but Justice Mccall dismissed the suit
as against all but the sub-oontractors.. The
plaintiff asserted that its business had been
Injured by the excavations.
William Barclay Parsons, chief con-
sulting engineer OF the Rapid Transit Com
mission, testified that the work could not
have been done safely and expeditiously
except as the sub-contractors did it, and
that the distractions complained OF were
necessary and unavoidable John B.
Mcdonald gave similar testimony
For the Linton Pharmacy it was con-
tended that its business had been hurt by
the removal Of the Metropolitan tracks
from the centre Of the street to the curb
line and the erection Of trestle and plat
form which prevented the access OF car,
riages or wagons to the store, and compelled
pedestrians to approach the pharmacy
by a circuitous route
A similar suit was brought by Alfred B.
Marx, a billiard table manufacturer, of
"a Union Square. Justice Mccall, after
hearing the evidence in both, reserved
decision
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THE SUN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6. 1908.

to control the Germans OF New York.
fit to be Mayor, to continue, as Mr.. RID
DER says, Mayor Lows good works
and to avoid his errors? Where 10 the
man 80 described?
Is not the head Of this organization
an independent Democrat, with Ridder-
bund views on the excise question, and
acceptable to the Germans Of New York;
Would he make the mistakes Mayor Low
has made? We believe not. Would he
be acceptable to Mr.. BIDDER? We be-
lieve so. What is his name? HERMAN
BIDDER.
If Mr.. RIDDER fails to land his man
this time in the place coveted for him it
will be one of the very few great failures
Of probably quite the most remarkable
Office getter in town.
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On Saturday We expressed our opinion
that Al ROBBINS Of Absecom Light could
not be the genuine deep-sea sailorman he
said he was when in his prejudice against
Reliance he called her scow and Shamrock
III. real ship" We met him on his own
waters to show that the differences between
the new challenger and the defender were
not worth speaking Of This lively briny
letter follows:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: In spite Of
your answer TO my letter In Saturdays Sun. /
have not changed my opinion about the yachts. and
fail TO see how. at this early date, you hgure out
the Reliance to be such dead sure winner.
Il will bet you barrel OF bluehsh caught with
my own hands. and delivered at THE SUN ONCE
against a years subscription TO your paper that
Reliance does not even defend the Cup, II was all
very well In 1901 to lay the blame for Constitution
poor showing the shoulders OF Mr. WILLIAM
B. DUNCAN. Jr.. but the fact Is that HHRREsHoYr
reached his limit when he designed and built the
Columbia more OF a boat and less Of a scow than
either OF the later defenders. When came To
time two years ago the New York Yacht Club was
afraid to start Constitution and sailed Columbia
In her stead.
Truth Is truth. and facts are what they are
even II unpleasant at times. AL ROBBINS.
"ABsEcoM LIGHT. N j., May"
Capt ROBBINS is mistaken in his asser-
ton that we have figured out the Reliance
a dead-sure winner" Untried boats, like
tried horses, are too mighty onsartin
for veteran like THE Sun to be found roll
licking in such prophecies. Nevertheless.
just to add gayety to the nations 1t shall be
year Of THE Sun against barrel Of buefish
under the conditions named.
As for the Columbia being the limit, we
must refuse to believe 1t. The Indepen-
dence was too sensational in her superiority
on some points for us not to share the gen.
eral belief that to make the Relis nee HER
REsHoFF culled virtues from Columbia and
Independence both. Before the summer Ia
over we hope to see Capt. ROBBINS sending
in his barrel OF bluefish
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
The Democratic Party and the Rule
OF Freedom.

OF Freedom.
An important conservative Demo-
cratic journal the Galveston NeDs, puts
its finger square on the Republican dan
ger and the Democratic opportunity:
Tho tendency Of the present Administration
especially Is 10 run all TO Government. That
tendency is marked that even men who have
preferred strong government a. they call It.
In doubt to the policy Of ncre aslne further
the patronage and power Of the men In the public
service and OF proportionately diminishing the
power and privileges OF the people. The great
principle Involved is. at last the rule OF freedom for
which the American people have stood from the
nrst. The liberty and right OF the citizen to seek
happiness In his own way Is the rock on which the
Democratic church Is built and 1t is the only poti
cal church with this f. rm foundation"
OF late the Federal Government has
been playing the part of benevolent
but capricious all-powerful Cadi or
Caliph. bastinadoing or howstringing
corporations. Against the over-growth
of Federalism, the Democratic party
needs to bring out the one essential
and definite Democratic principle. the
least government consistent with the
great purposes of government. In the
everlasting twaddle about Demo-
cratic principles this primary Demo-
cratic truth that the business Of the
Government is to mind its own business
seems to be forgotten. Can the Demo-
Gratis overcome the socialistic and radical
notions which have ragged among them
since they were attacked with Populism?
If they can beat Mr.. ROOSEVELT, they
cannot beat him on his own ground. He
is more skilful fisher of the labor vote
than they are. He is stronger hand to
put hook in the jaws Of the Octopus.
He is all for interference, regulation,
control Can the Democrats bring them
selves to stand for hands off and the free
play of individual effort, freedom to do
business, freedom to labor, without any
hampering of the one by the Federal
Government or of the other by the labor
autocrats?
All that can be said of the case now is
that the Democracy is convalescing.
The long fever and delirium are over
The old party is able to sit up, mediate
on its sins and make good resolutions.
After six years Of Organism, it is becom-
ing rational once more. That is q great
and happy change.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Tendencies on the supreme Bench.

Recent opinions Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States show two opposite
and conflicting lines of tendency with
regard to the assertion or non-assertion
of the Judiciary's supervisory relation to
the Legislative Department of the Gov
eminent.
This is stated here as fact for obser-
walton. not criticism.
In the decisions of the Court on ques-
tions concerning the extent to which
the interstate commerce clause warrants
Federal invasion of field that otherwise
belongs to the States, the tendency has
been and is to throw back upon Congress
the ultimate responsibility.
Political questions, questions OF ex-
pediency and policy which the Legislat-
ure alone must determine, is the formula
in these opinions,
In the Courts two recent decisions in
negro suffrage cases, that from Alabama
decided last week. and that from Ken
lucky decided on Monday last, the gen.
eral direction is the other way.
Both of these cases concerned Con-
StllullOIldl MUM HiViV uCiiiitO
and much less elastic or doubtful in its
limitations than the interstate commerce
clause: namely, the Fifteenth Amend
ment, giving the negro citizen the same
rights at the polls as the white citizen
enjoys Both decisions, beyond their i'm
mediate technical import, manifest dis
position on the part of the Court to go
behind the law. or at least to procure
a substantial good by declining to inter-
fere for the enforcement of existing law
In the Alabama case, where negro
disfranchised by the State Constitution
applied for relief under the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments, the Court
went into the merits of the case. but re-
fused to pass upon the question Of con-
flict between the State Constitution and
that of the United States; and thus prac-
tically constituted itself an arbiter of So
cio-political e4pediency rather than an
interpreter of statutes.
In the Kentucky case the difference Of
the Court attitude from that which it has
held in matters of interstate commerce
regulation is still more striking The
Court reaches back to legislation enacted
thirty-three years ago, at the time of
the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment
and intended to give effect to that amend
ment. The Court declares the Act of
1870 entirely invalid. and lays down the
principles which restrict the power of
Congress to protect the negro voter
under the Fifteenth Amendment.
This marked variation of attitude and
method somehow recalls the recipe of
Mr. Justice HOLMES for arriving at a
Judgment: have considered the pres
ent tendencies and desires of society and
have tried to realize that it's different
portions want different things, and that
my business was to express not my per-
sonal wish, but the resultant as nearly
as l could guess, of the pressure of the
past and the conflicting wills of the
present"
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The stoppage Of work in the subway is
due to what we may call halfminds.
The individual laborers, mainly Italians,
30 fresh in residence here that the scent Of
Vesuvius still remains in their garments,
would have been without practical force
unless backed up by their associates in
labor; and this backing has been given to
them, although the reason against such
action was morally Of cast iron.
The general body of subway laborers
had solemnly agreed not to stop work with
out notice. At recent meeting to decide
whether these strikers should be supported.
speakers were not wanting to point to this
agreement and to protest against its re-
pudiation. But the half-minds capable Of
seeing but one side of the question, and that
not the side exposed by the cooler heads,
were in the majority, and the result is
known.
The heads with the whole brains are
bound to win in the end, though.
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FIGHT AGAINST BORAx DUTY.
Chicago Concern to Test Decisions In
Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON. May 5.-The validity Of the
Treasury ruling against the granting Of a
rebate Of the duty on imported borax used
in curing meats afterward exported has
been brought before the Supreme Court
through the application Of the Anglo
American Provision Company Of Chicago
for review of the judgment Of the Federal
District Court in Illinois and the Circuit
Court Of Appeals sustaining the Depart
ments position.
The company, to which the Treasury re-
fused the rebate, brought suit to recover
the duty paid on the imported borax it
had used within a certain period Of 1901.
alleging that it was entitled to it under the
law, as the borax entered into the manufac-
ture of cured meat and the process Of pull
verifying it was In itself process OF
manufacture.
The Department was sustained on both
contentious. and the Supreme Court ia now
asked to correct these errors.
Counsel for the provision company, in
his brief urging this action, makes the
rather startling assertion that for all practi-
GAL purposes the suit is one between the
packing industries Of the country on the one
hand and the borax trust on the other.
and the evidence Of one of the companies
officials shows it was forced to use imported
borax because Of the high price fixed by the
trust on the American product,
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PORTO RICOS CUBAN CLAIM
For o., OOO. 900. Which Gen. Wood De-
clined to Pay.

WASHINGTON. May 5.-Federico Dege-
tau, resident commissioner from Porto
Rico, has presented to the State Depart
ment, In behalf of the insular Govern
ment, a claim Of about S1,Oo0,000 against
the Government of Cuba.
was loaned to Cuba by Porto Rico, |, i
alleged. when both islands were under
Spanish rule.
Gen. Leonard Wood, when Governor
General Of Cuba, declined TO pay the claim
on the ground that it was based on tram"
ton of the Spanish Government and was
for the benefit of that Government and not
for the benefit of Cuba.
Mr.. Degetau has asked the State Depart
ment to request the present Cuban Govern
ment to pay the amount of the claim. III"
Department has not determine the cour-'
to be pursued.
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PHILIPPINES CERTIFICATES.
First Remittance Received for Deposit
In the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The United States
Treasurer has received the first remittance
OF the new Philippines certificates for de
post in The Treasury as security for Fedora
deposits in the ational banks. The am un'
received was 100000.
The total issue of Philippines certificates
was 5000. 600 and it il the expecta'.'n
that a large number Of these certIt!'d'"I
will be deposited in the Treasury by nati"l a
banks which wish to receive Federal mol'y
on deposit.
The certificates will be accepted IN pIa'"
OF United States bonds for this purp -
provided they he substituted for holiS
already in the Treasury but which II
national bank circulation
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To Classify the speech writer's.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sf,: II is painfully
evident since State Day at ST. Louis. that the oict
OF Ohcal Speech Writer to the Governor OF New
York Is still In the domain OF the spos hunter II
should be placed at In the CLASSIFIED and com.
pettve civil service. This done. competent
will write our Governors addresses hereafter,
and our Chief Executive will never again undergo
such humiliation as Governor Odell experienced
last Saturday. KARL SHIRTS.
NEW YORK Mays
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Helen Keller and Sacrifice.

To rHE EDIToG OF THE SUS-.S': The following
appeared In your columns 1t Ia, perhaps worth
reminding the readers that the wonderful feat OF
drawing Helen Keller out OF her hopeless darkness
was only accomplished by sacrificing for II another
woman whole ufe'
did not sacrifice her whole life OF the twenty teach
ers OF the blind deaf know, not one did. Nor Is
there any danger than another will. Miss sullivan
most certainly did sacrifice her own interests for
her pu Pill. and no credit be too high TO give her
for her unselnsh work: hut that u moi sacnnclng
= whole lIfe. W WADE.
OAKAoNT. Pn.. May T.
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entry into its ministry. It Is piece Of
close reasoning, with deeply spiritual
illumination, but throughout marked
by a complete self-efacement so far as
concerns the peculiar and distinguished
learning the world Of scholarship recog-
nizes and honors in the Rev. CHARLES
AUGUSTUS BRIGGS, ID. D.
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To Revise Hospital Corps Rule..

WASHINGTON. May s-A board Of army
officers has been ordered to meet In this
city on May 10 to revise that part OF the army
regulations referring to the Hospital Corps
The board liz composed Of Major Charles
F. Mason and Capts: Francis A. Winter and
Frederick p Reynolds Of the Medical Dr.
partnient. They are instructed to outline
rules for first aid and prepare scheme and
course OF instruction for members OF the
Hospital Corps, and consider the desirability
OF side arm for members Of the oorps.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
n. y. UNIVERSITY TO DROP Pr. b.
Will Give Only Two Bachelor Degrees in
the Future.

Announcement was made at New York
University yesterday of an important
change in the granting Of degrees. In
future only two degrees. those Of A. B.
and B. S., will be given in the college, A. B.
taking in the courses formerly leading to
Phi. B. Chancellor MacCracken said Of the
change:
~The main distinction in past years be-
tween the baccaaureate degree In arts
and that in philosophy has been that the
former indicated that the student had
studied Greek for at least four or five years.
BY almost general consent colleges have
ceased to emphasize Greek. This college
therefore joins the great company of older
colleges in ceasing to make any especial
note OF the election which the student
makes between Greek and German and
French"
New York University il one OF the last
colleges to accept this change.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
THE FAMINE N CHINA.
$50. 600 Persons Said to he starving
kwangsi Province.

WAsHrNoToS May. 5.-The State Depa r
ment received telegram from Cons
McWade. at Cant on. to-day, saving thai -
famine was increasing in kwangsi provll
and the sit nat ion was becoming more aiai..
ing. About 10000 persons are starving.
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For the Year Just Closed the Lowest in
Islands History.

WASHINGTON, May Sin a report to the
State Department Mr.. Squires. the United
States Minister to Cuba, says that since
Jan. l, 1890, the beginning Of the American
occupation of the island, there has been
a great decrease In the Cuban death rate
and the rate of the year just closed was the
lowest in the islands history, being 81 10
per 1000, while that Of Washington, D, c.,
was 81 per 1000.
Bet ween 1870 and the present time the
highest death rate was Oh O3 per ~ 900 in
1898, the year Of the Spanish war, when the
RECOMMENDATION camps were in operation
and many people were starving.
The lowest rate in the Spanish regime
was 20. 30 per 900. in 1885, and the avera oe
rate for the thirty years ending 1900 was
Al 95 per ,OOO
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n our friends rho iaror US nth manuscripts for
Tube0non utsh TO hare rSjfced drficts returned fv
,7ua In all cases send stamps for hOf purpose.
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pIprs MOSQUE No. II. near Grand Hotel. and
kiosque No IN. Boulevard DIES Cspucines
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-31

was the admiral, similarly equipped.
Strangely enough, I remember smiling
to myself at the voluminousness of his
white duck trousers.
briggs, who was acting as master of
ceremonies, had stationed himself mid
way between US, his back to the great
open fireplace. Unconsciously I noted
that the ashes of dead fire still lit
tered the hearth.
"After leave the room," briggs was
saying, "the lights will be extinguished,
and that will be your signal to CON-
mence firing. You each have five
rounds. When your ammunition is ex-
hausted we will turn on the lights and
attend to your injuries"
| He moved quickly to the door. and
| the next moment we were in total dark
ness.
The full horror Of the situation can
not be expressed in words Like
drowning man, l lived lifetime in a
few moments. The darkness seemed
to crush me. l gasped for breath. My
hands grew cold, and drops Of moisture
trickled down between my shoulders.
am not a coward and did not fear
being shot at. 1t was the possibility of
becoming a murderer that unnamed
me. dared not discharge my pistol at
random lest a human soul be launched
into eternity.
At that instant brilliant idea darted
into my mind. I acted upon it at once
and with noiscless step crossed the hall
| N1
the rough stone mantel. Then, stOop-
ing down. l advanced the muzzle of the
revolver into the yawning fireplace and
pulled the trigger five times in rapid
succession. secure in the thought that
no harm could follow such an action.
The flash Of each discharge was com.
, pletely hidden and the reports strange
ly muftled, but the unearthly yells
which burst from the chimney could
have been heard for a mile. A rapidly
:, moving body hurled itself into my
!, arms and bore me to the floor. The
lights came on. and the members
rushed in, with frightened faces.
- "Who is hurt?' cried briggs, drag
:, ging the admiral and myself to an up
= right position.
:, "Mon Dieu" walled the Frenchman
Il have been murdered. For safety
ascend flue, and Eat monster direc
his fire up re leg of my pantaloon."
:, But they We're only blank car
9 tridges," briggs protested. The whole
thing was Il joke"
" "You call Eat Il joke" demanded tn
Il admiral, mt the same time exhibiting 1
II badly scorchcd calf.
Il did not know that our friend wa
, such Il fire eater that he would chas
s you up the chimney for the sake of
~ shot" explained briggs. 1t seems t
!. have been the bite of the lamb"
1T is best" said l, diSliking his met
n aphor, mot to wake the sleeping lion
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sole survivor rescued from the metallic
life raft by the Gloucester whaler and
was backed up by the affidavits of the
captain and half the crew. Most men
would have gone down under such a
blow as that, but l am made of sterner
stuff.
Really" l laughed, you are going
to a great deal of trouble to make your
self ridiculous. Joking aside, there new
er was such passenger. The whole
story is fictitious"
Events followed one another quite
rapidly during the next few moments,
and am unable to say who first intro
duced the word Liar" into the CONVEX
sation. There were great hubbub and
overturning Of chairs and interposing
of mutual friends, while all the time
the Frenchman kept yelling "Zatees-
vaction.' at the top of his voice.
l am peaceable man and cannot yet
understand how l permitted myself to
be dragged into a duel with the admit
raj. My first clear conception of the sit
uation came when I was left standing
alone in one end of the large banquet
hall with revolver tightly grasped in
one hand. At the other end of the room