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The cabled reports Of the International
Automobile Cup race, in Ireland, show it to
have been great contest, engineered in
manner well-nigh faultless. Like similar
contests In the past, this one was intended
to demonstrate not only the qualities OF the
cars engaged, but also the ability Of their
drivers. JENArzY the winner, proved him
self to be charioteer of rare skill and cool
ness of head, and that he controlled the
machine best adapted to the course there
can be little doubt.
The American team was seriously handl-
capped, not only by lack of experience in
long distance road racing, but also on ac-
count of the evident unreadiness Of their
machines. WINToN's went wrong at the
start. and got into more trouble during tho
race, while the machines Of MooERs and
OWEN seem. likewise, to have been more
or less rebellious. We dare say these driv-
ers will be better prepared for their next
international race.
Compared with the record breaking time
OF sixty-five miles an hour averaged by
GABRIEL in the ris-Bordeaux contest, that
OF JENATzY (fifty-six and one-quarter miles
III nOuF) may seeil IhtneI SLOW. All tne
same, there are probably few people who
would care to ride over 1858 miles Of coun-
try road in less than seven hours; and the
hours SO minutes and seconds, net time,
occupied by the winner should be consid-
cred as highly creditable.
The cup will now go from Great Britain
to Germany. Some day it will cross the
Atlantic.
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Alton ID. Parker i'm the South.

The mastery address delivered yes
terday at Talmlah Falls by the Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals of New
York before the Georgia Bar Association
led step by step to a conclusion which
Judge PARKER stated, not in his own
strong and clear English, but in the
language OF the Supreme Court OF the
United States itself, in the case Of
HOLDEN against HARDY:
THE Constitution OF the United States which
Is necessarily and to large extent inhexible ana
exceedingly diflicult Of amendment. should not BIO
80 construed as to deprive the States OF the power
to so amend their laws as to make them conform
to the wishes OF the citizens they may deem best
for the public welfare without bringing them into
conflict with the supreme law of the land"
In not sentence, line or word Of
Judge PARKER's learned discussion OF
the phrase Due process of law, d" in re-
lation to Federal powers and State
powers, is there a trace OF political in
tention or the suspicion of bid for
political favor. There was, perhaps,
never delivered an address on such an
occasion more strictly impersonal, or
freer from anything like craftsmanship or
more obviously dictated on the highest
plane of judicial reasoning. And yet
somehow it happened that no train of
thought could have concerned more
Immediately and intimately our contem-
porary politics in the largest and most
important sense.
The distinguished honors now paid to
Judge ALTON B. PARKER in the South and
the interest which his remarks will in
spire there and throughout the Union
are due to something more than a gen.
eral recognition Of his eminent qualities
of mind and character.
The time is getting ripe for the states
manship which can understand not less
promptly and perfectly than the highest
judicial intelligence what is meant by
due process of law.
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results can be shown the world will b
big enough to absorb all that can come
from that area without any disturbance
to American interests.
The results of the railway enterprise
az commercial investment may seem
uncertain. So did the Northern Pacific
and the Canadian Pacific. The con-
struction OF one or two Canadian trans
continental lines with spurs and branches
is to-day far less Of doubtful problem
than was the construction OF those lines
in their day. General conditions are far
better known than they then were, and
the establishment Of new lines to the
northward means no more than the
opening up of territory contiguous to
that already developed and in process OF
development and quite in the line o. the
movement and advance Of settlement.
II the Canadian Government and
Canadian investors can see their way to
converting those millions of acres OF
prairie land into wheat fields and cattle
ranges, the American people may well
glory in their neighbours pluck and
energy and yield any and all possible
encouragement to the enterprise.
The Canadian Government has already
invested some s2O0,OO0,OOO in her trans
portation systems. Necessarily, this has,
for time, imposed a heavy burden OF
taxation upon the people, but that 1T has
been quite worth while is indicated in her
fair domestic prosperity and by the fact
that she has doubled her foreign COM
merce in seven years. Her total exports
for the last five years have been 1923 ,o72,-
229 and her total imports 1896, 395557,
thus showing credit balance of SGT &c.,
672 for the period. Her bounties and
subsidies have been liberal, and in some
cases perhaps extravaganza, but i. is not
to be doubted that they have been largely
instrumental in converting her from a
province into a nation which the United
States may we'll take into its most friendly
consideration.
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THEY DID NOT DREAM.



ti0n.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: They
did not dream, in 1778, Of republic 80 vast
as to include within its borders the icy winds
OF the Arctic and the heat-laden breezes Of
the tropics.
They did not dream, In 177s, Of eighty
millions Of free American citizens.
They did not dream, in l778, of eighteen
millions Of children attending the free
public schools of the worlds mightiest
republic.
They did not dream, in l77d, that they
were giving birth to Power which, in a
century and quarter, would stand fore
most among the Powers Of the world.
They did not dream, In l778, that the
oppressed OF other lands would flock to our
shores at the rate Of nearly one million a
year.
They did not dream, In 1778, OF six hun
bred Thousand factories, with their seven
millions Of busy workers.
They did not dream, in l776, of a salary
payroll for schoolteachers greater than the
entire expense Of administering the gov
eminent OF the country.
They did not dream, iii l776, Of conduct
ing an internal commerce which should be
greater than the combined foreign COM
merce Of all the nations Of the world.
They did not dream, In l77e. Of nag
which should become the accepted symbol
Of liberty the wide world over.
They did not dream, in 1778, Of a day
when the forces of Niagara should be har-
messed to the wheels Of American progress
and commerce.
They did not dream, in 1778, Of being able
to communicate over an American cable
with the Orient and get an answer in less
time than would be spent in writing letter.
They did not dream, in 1776, of being able
from New York to whisper to a friend in
Chicago.
They did not dream, in l77e, Of being able
in sixty days to place million trained and
equipped men in the field to defend their
country.
They did not dream, in l77e, OF ever own
ing a money power Of such strength as to
sustain stock losses Of over eleven hundred
millions In two weeks, without any dis
turbance OF the commercial conditions OF
the country.
They did not dream, in l77s that day
would come when fifty thousand school chill
dren In Porto Rico, and two hundred thou
sand In the Philippines, would every MORN
ing salute the Stars and Stripes and sing
the songs Of freedom in the language Of the
land Of It's birth.
They did not dream, in 177e, Of being able
to put upon the seas naval power, mainly
human. which should win every battle
from Perry's I'VE have met the enemy and
they are ours Of Lake Erie. to Dewey &
"You may fire now, Gridley,' Of Manila
Bay, and Philips Don't cheer, boys, the
poor fellows are diving q Santiago,
They did not dream, In l776, that they
were founding nation which would be
able to pay $3.50. 900 900 Of war expense with
no more effort than the purchase OF few
postage stamps.
They did not dream, in l778, that the
infant then Graded would become the
giant Of 1908. WALTER j. BALLAHD.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, July3.
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ReDaNinK Over the subway.

To THE EDITOR OF TIRE SUN-SH: Please
call the attention Of the authorities TO tho
method pursued by the contractors in repay
ing over the subway
Their method is to fill in with soft earth.
allowing 1t TO remain several weeks until it
has been trodden hard. then remoye the sur
face and lay cement and asphalt, This is bad
enough on the direct road. but at the cross
ings, especially on the Boulevard. where the
car tracks are widely separated, II causes I'M
told annoyance. Loaded wagons are bound
to get stuck. as the wheels, after leaving the
car track. slump into the soft earth. Either
the horse or a portion of the truck usually
remains on the track. and then ensues the
usual scene of the horses being beaten while
long line of street cars and swearing pas
sengers wait.
The contractors should be compelled to
make the street passabe,o or else keep the cross
the manner of other city streets.
NEW YORK, july. HENRY ID. HATCH.
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The Letter OF Bishop Potter.

To THE EDITOR OF The SrN-Sr: Over two
hundred years ago my ancestor. Roger Will
liams, founded community based on the
according to his conscience. This principle
has become the law OF the State. Bishop
Potter certainly does nothing extraordinary
in advising that the States attention be called
to any iniraction of this law. Only, instead Of
mincing his words and indulging In few
paragraphs of parliamentary palaver he comes
!. e.. he simply states the law OF the land.
Perhaps. then, a little righteous indignation
discovered between the lines has given Of
Indignation Do we forget that disorder
within the Temple once upon time gave rise
to n very terrible and effective righteous
Indignation X. W. G. W.
NEW YORK. July 2.
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Lord Rosebery on the Chamberlain zollvsrein,
From the London Spectator.

From the LONDON SptuUW
Lord Roscbery delivered long speech on Mr.
Chsmbcrlans proposals at dinner of the LIBERIA
League on Friday week. He adhered to his state
ment at Burnley that free trade was not diN."
dlspensaton. Periodical inquiry into Its operation
was desirable, and discussion was not to be depfe
Gated but the example OF other zollvcreihs In sell
contained areas was misleading. In the BRUSH
Empire distance a preliminary obstacle fertile
in disputes between competing sources OF supply
Hence he did not think these proposals II carmel
would help to cement the empire; while II not car
ricd this Intellectual raising OF the question would
perhaps inhlct lrreparaDle damage by throwing
the union OF the pre into the base arena OF party
politics. Again, II the proposals were reahEeu'
they would Involve annual struggles with repre-
sentatives from every part OF the empire, claiming
revision OF the tariff for their own spcca advansUr
while at home they would constantly force the worN
ing classes to measure primary necessities againS'
imperial sentimental the certain preJudicc OF the
latter. In fine. Lord Roscbery declared the pro
posas TO be not only intrinscaliy unsoun' an"
detrimental TO the empire. but dangerous from their
premature introd uctlon.
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Waterboy's running In the renewal Of the
Suburban Handicap calls attention to the
remarkable series of record-breaking per-
formances which have been witnessed on
both the Eastern and the Western tracks
during the past week Three new worlds
records have been established, and numer-
GUS track records have been demolished.
Rarely, il ever before, have the thorough
breds in this country acquired so much dis
tinction in single week. If their present
hot pace is maintained throughout the sum-
mer-.and there is no good reason why it
should not be-the list of records now stand
ing may have to be revised completely
before the end Of the season.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-str: Having motel
with interest your recent correspondence WITH
"Landsman," allow me 10 say that on one or two
occasions Revolution has been noted about the
harbor this season. and can be found most any OLD
time AT the yards OF the Gas Engine and Power
Company. Norris Heights. where her hull was oull'
Is It hardly fair that this, Americas Hrst turbine
yacht should exc out such an obscure existence
Surely the Revolution is a success. as far as 40 Is
concerned We have all seen the bone in her teeth
more than once. LANpsMN IL
JERSEY CITY, NJ j., July ?
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The Same Old Fourth.

It's the same old Fourth that it's always been,
With its rattle and bang and shout;
It's the same old Fourth that it's always been
And nothing can knock it out
With its whizz.
Flzz,
SiZz.
And its fireworks biz:
It's biff,
Bang,
Snap.
With its whooptedooden
From the oldest man
To the very littlest chap,
Oh, say,
Amt it THE day?
Its gladd rag
Is the Starry Flag.
And it aaunts IL In the breeze.
From the hills of Maine.
Over river and plain.
And out TO the Orient seas.
My scat!
Everybody knows where it's at.
There ism b a man on the big. round earth,
No matter who or where.
That doesn't I'll
With a stirring thrill.
When he sees Old Glory there;
And the kids Of the lands not blessed as this
Let loose wailin8 cry
Because they are born in a country where
There ism any Fourth Of July.
TOO bad;
Amt 1t sad?
Oh, It's in the air.
II Ia everywhere.
In religion and politics.
On sea and land,
In heart and hand.
And we've had IL since 70.
A hundred and twenty-seven Fourths--
Oh. shades Of the Patriot Band,
Wouldn't you like to be here
To whoop and cheer
For your own, your native land'
It's the same old Fourth that it's always been
And it's going to remain that way;
It's the same old Fourth that it's always been
For. you bet.
Come
To
Stay.
W. j. HAMPTON.
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Again tho Question. the Law or the
lynOherr

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: notice
that lynching or burning. wherever 1t oc-
ours, always brings forth number Of letters
Of protest from people who want che law to
take its course
v Guild the same people. il their sister. wife
or mother we're being attacked by some lust
full monster. run to hunt a policeman? Would
they stand by and see their sweetheart's. rela-
tive's or friends body despoiled hear her
agouized dying cries and calmly say with
dispassi onate mien. The law shall take It's
It is absolutely absurd for any one to say
that in u gathering OF thousands OF people.
as at Wilmington, there were not hundreds
OF representative citizens whose sympathies
were with the fate the brute received
Your cool. unprejudiced. legal rights-loving
correspondents do not seem to see the good
these iynchings and burnings are doing.
First they are arousing the, press and
the ReSpe in
and murder, or the former alone, In less
than two years laws will be passed In all the
Southern States and half me S2rths siI deal d
OF criminals, Then you win see no lynchnss
" Secondly it is seldom you hear Of repeti-
ton of the crime in IA community where there
has been q case Of majority law being dealt
The reason 10 this: The negro seldom
reads the newspa pers, generally because he
ia illiterate and does not care anything about
airairs outside his little circle SO when a
girl is murdered, the crime discovered. the
man caught, great stir is created for u day or
two and the murderer Ia lodged in jail Blank
That is all the illiterate negro ever hears OF
It. He knows not that five months later the
fend Is hanged.
But let one be burned or lynched and the
whole county knows OF the fate that awaits
the man. white or black, who dsres to assail
our womankind The news flies on the
tongue OF every one. it needs no newspapers
to spread 1t to every nook and corner Of the
county in which II occurs, and 1t certainly
acts az a powerful deterrent.
And our women will know that every man
who respects them stands ready to defend
and protect their persons and honor at all
times, and avenge any wrong perpetrated
on them in our absence. W. w. u, Jr,
NEW YORK. July ..
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Rsxors Don't "Tire They Get Dirty.
From ths Buffalo EXPRESS.

FrOnl Tie BuOdI0 ELpTsyS
DO you know why We dip razor In warm water
before we begin shaving. and do you know WIN
some ignorant men say a razor is 'tircd'7" asked
the barber Well this is all due to the fact that
razor is a saw not a knife. and II works like ga"
not like knife. Examined under the microscope
It's edge. that looks so smooth TO the naked eye
seen TO have innumerable and hne saw teeth. Wher
these teeth get cogged with dirt all the honnE and
s,ropping In the world will do no good-the razor
ia dull and nothing will sharpen 1t. Then 10 the
time the ignorant say II Is tired and stop using II
but the wise know II is only cogged.
THE wise, though. don't suffer their raEors n
get cogged. They dip them in warm water before
they uss them and thus the teeth are kept clean
IL 10 because razor Is saw that lather is used on
the beard. The lather doesn't soften the beard as
so many people think It strens It. so that II VII
present a hrm and resisting surface TO the rslor
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Baseball by Electric Light.

The many thousand lovers Of the game Of base
ball are much Interested In the effort being made
by Charles ID. Jenney OF Indianapolis to perfect
plans for the lighting OF nbaseba park In that city
by electricity. II this can he accomplished, games
can. OF course, be played by night and thus will
thousands now dobarrcd he enabled 10 witness their
dearly loved game, professionally played. Several
years ago Mr.. Jcnncy experimsn!ed with very
strong Echect0rs but these cast a shadow, and the
players could not Judge ball. lie claims now
that his new plan Is far superior to the OLD one and
with IL he Is able to bring about dffused illuminA
ton all over the grounds, making them almost ss
light and as shadowless Hs day II can bo imagined
what an immense boon 20 the national game will
be this doubling OF the time IL can be played tho
inventors plans go through.
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AMERICAN HORSES FOR JAPAN
Some Things the Mikad0's Commissioners
Learned at tho Chicago Derby.
Fron lhe Chicano Inter-Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter-pcedn.
We were sent abroad to purchase, in
England and France, horses for breeding
purposes. but after seeing this contest which
YOU call tho American Derby We have de.
cided to 20 to your province of Kentucky
and secure animals there. We watched with
great interest this race. and were surprised
beyond dispute when we saw how fast the
distance had been covered
x. Tango. graduate OF Yale and now
one Of the Board Of Ministers OF Agriculture
In Japan. drew his silk kimono over his en-
broidered slippers In his room at the Audi
torium hotel and nodded at his companions
They were Y. Kato and 4. lshiwata. who also
are members OF the Government board In
Japan. They nodded their assent
While We had the privilege. when We left
our country. 10 select whatever we thought
Mr.. Tango. I'VE were told that the best
could be, found In England and France. 1t
was our intention to so there direct, but We
heard a contest between the most splendid
horses of this country was to be held here
in Chicago. SO weremained to seeit
Mr.. Charles Henrotin saw that we had
the grandstand. Although l was educated
in America l never saw race OF this kind
before. Whom the horses passed us w, We're
surprised when they kept on going In Japan
all races are the same distance. When We
learned that here burdens are put on the
horses in an endeavor TO equalize the con
testants and found that some races were one
distance and some another, we realized that
you were far ahead of IFS in this sort OF thing.
But we noticed one thing that went 10
our minds. That was that every horse had
sire who was famous. Before the race We
heard people speaking OF Falsetto. ,Esher,
Wadsworth and Salvador, and found they
We're backing certain horses to win because
Of these sires. Mr. kato and MIR. 1shiwata
and | conferred on this matter. and when
We found that the get OF these amin als really
showed the speed and stamina Tor which
their sres were noted. we. resolved mat
We would investig gate the matter.
Yesterday Mr. Young, the director o. ne
race. introduced US to some OF the owners OF
solved to go TO Kentucky. which Is, | un-
derstand, a province famous for Its fast
horses, and purchase there all the good breed
ing animals recommended.
I'VE will not pass England and France bv
entirely. IL we can get what we wish here:
we win buy Ave horses in Great Britain and
the same number In France. The Govern
ment stables. of which there are eighteen In
the kingdom, have none but these Anglo
Arabian horses. and l think that the step
we are about to take In putting your Ken
lucky province horses into our breeding
farms will benefit us greatly. III we are mis-
do not think we are. We have a number
Of American and English soldiers In our
army and they always have been calling
for the kind of horses they knew in their own
country"
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Milton and the Automobile.

To THE EDITOR on TIE SUN--Sk: Not long since
an ingenious correspondent discovered tho auto
mobile in the book OF Nahum. ! now desire 10 put
In John Milton claim to the English patent on the
ground Of tho following quotation from Book VI.
paradise Lost
The third sacred morn began to shine
Dawninx thro' Heaven. Forth rushed with whfrE-
tplnd sound
The chariot Of Paterual Deity,
Fgashino thick flames, phed within whed. undrapn.
Itself Instinct with spirit
The Italics are mine. Tho motor Is evidently Of
tho gas0lene type, II. b. GoSTscHlUs
NEW YORK JulyS
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The little Firecracker lived
Tn In the land OF Shout:
He never walked. he never crawled
But simply rolled about:
He had long and slender tall.
HIS body was bright red;
And almost twenty times . day
On powder he was fed.
Nobody knew the funny thing
Could make such awful noise,
Until one day long, long ago
Two little fairy boys.
Who lived away up high somewhere
And who were bad and frail,
Tied on some parlor matches
To a Firecracker's tail.
The frightened Firecracker rolled
And shook his little tail
To try and shake the matches OF
But twas OF no avail:
Until at last the matches struck
Upon q little stone.
And Jared and flashed until IL MAIDS
Tho Nrecracker groan.
A. last the flame II III his tail
And though II seemed quite queer.
Tho little Firecracker's tail
Commenced TO disappear:
The fairies looked on joyfully
Thoy thought II lots OF sport
And when tho tail Il had all gone
They heard loud report.
And so they went all though the town
Those fsys so bad and fraii.
And with little match they 1T
Each Firecrncker's tail.
And since that tiHno down hero below
East. West. or South or North.
We light tho FirecrAcker's tall
To celebrate the Fourth.
F.P. PrrzKA-