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on which Salina Cruz would become d
port of call.
Whether these plans Of Gen. Diaz are
commercially feasible or not, their Inception
and their essay are alike creditable to him
and to Mexico. That they appear to enter into
competition with the plans Of the United
States in that area Is commendable rather
than otherwise 1t shows life and good
pluck. The more life shown, the more
business will Mexico do. The more busi-
ness she does, the larger will be our share
in it. The more commercial pluck shown
by our neighbors, even though it appears In
the furtherance OF plans conflicting with
our own, the more will Mexico command
respect in the world in which she is now be-
ginning to play a part Of some importance
II she can open up a route which really COM
petes in the field Of interoceanic trade, so
much the better for all concerned. That
Porfirio Diaz believes that this can be done
is known from statements made by him IN
personal conversation and is confirmed by a
review of his attitude toward those Mexican
railway enterprises which will fit in as links
in his projected route between two great
world markets.
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Charles Eliot Against the World

Rather late in life it occurred to Prof.
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to turn away
from DANTE and DANTE RossETTI's 8
drawings and Italian cathedrals and
become the Censor of the American
people. He had learned from his friends
CARLYLE and RUsKIN the art Of bilious
speech and the habit of spanking the
world. The annual dinners of the San
derson Academy in Ashfeld, Mass, have
been for some twenty-five years the
scene of Prof. MOTIONS public admon-
itions Of his countrymen. These admon-
itions must have relieved him of much
bile. So they have been good for his
health; and they have amused students
OF the PROFESSIONAL manner.
We are sorry to hear that Prof. NORTON
has given up his Ashfield chair. He will
preside no more at those oinners Of the
gods 1t is some consolation to find that
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in his farewell address he surpassed HIM
self, as this delightful dictum shows:
1T Is we Of tho white race who are barbarians
and tho inferior"
If we remember right, Prof. NORTON
sat apart from the anti-slavery agita-
ton. He was rapt in BoTTIcELLI, in
DURER. He was reading the vita Nuo-
va" the Egyptian Book of the Dead, I"
the History of st. LOUIS" An anecdote
which he used to tell of CARLYLE may
serve to indicate his attitude of aloof-
ness:
Mr. SooMNER talked to Mrs. CARLoYLE for six
mortal hours aboot tho puir. downtrodden. African
naygur. blank. blank HIM
Prof. NoRToN's present view of the
colored race merely reflects his deter
mination to find the most unpopular
and impossible opinions and hurl them at
a world gone wrong. We shall miss his
yearly yowls. Will he not consent to
be a Chairman Emeritus at Ashfield?
Not all the psychological lore of Presi-
dent G. STANLEY HALL, not all the cur
rents Of culture" forever full, forever
flowing free, Of Dr. HAMILTON WRIGHT
MABIE, can console Ashfield and the rest
of mankind for Prof. NoRToN's s silence.
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Next Comes the Mighty Muskallonxe.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr; In the con
trovcrsy going on in the columns OF THE Sun
as to tho respective merits OF our American game
fish the muskalonge seems to have been entirely
overlooked. For many years have been an en-
thusiasc disciple OF Izaak walton and have caught
the wary black bass In both the OF the United
States and Canada. and while do not wish to de.
tract from his game qualities In the slightest yet
Inch for inch and pound for pound" the Canadian
muskaongc can give cards and spades TO the gamcst
bass that swan. stronger. hcrccr or more
tireless fighter than the longe does not exist. lie
knows all the tricks OF the black bass and few the
bass does not know and when hooked with light
tackle VIII give man for his coin that bass
simply couldn't give CANUCK
NEW YORK, Aug, 2i
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Fierce Competition of University
Drummers.

For some reason, perhaps envy Of
superior virtue and of unequalled skill
in milking capitalists, the Philistines and
Amalekites in Chicago and out of Chicago
have ungodly glee in inventing anec-
dotes about Dr. HARPER of the Univer-
sity of Chicago and his struggle with his
immediate competitors in the educa-
tional line. 1t is useless, therefore, to
try to calculate the respective percent
ages of truth and falsehood contained
in this Chicago telegram to the 81. Paul
Dispatch:
"a contest for students is being wngcd among
the law schools of the University OF Chicago. the
University Of Michigan and Northwestern Uni.
vcrsity according to report current nt the South
Side school, 1t said that any one of these schools
would rather secure student from either OF the
other two than two students from any other source
An instance OF tho rivalry came TO light yesterday.
when an administrative officer OF the Northwestern
University. seeking to put an advertisement in
OF the publications OF the University OF Chicago
declared that he would pay for the advertising with
a scholarship for tuition In the law school but only
on condition that II be sold to some student at
present registered In the University OF Chicago
school. Except on this condition he refused to
sign the contract. The rivalry between the uni
versity OF Chicago and the University OF Michigan
centres about the coming Of Prof. FLOYD n.
MEcHEN from Ann Arbor Co the local school Tho
Chicago laws assert that Prot MEcnEM will bring
with him somo students from Michigan"
Be the tale true or false, it reflects
credit" on the legitimate business en-
terprise of the institutions in question,
1t is the business of the university
drummer" to take away as many of the
customers of his rival as he can and to
bark as persuasively as he can; and
the employment of corps of football
men as "pullers-in' is sure to come if
the present fierce competition between
scholar-factories continues Premiums
and free passes in the shape of scholar
ships, reductions of tuition fees, "spe-
cial inducements, and so on, are legiti-
mate business. Tuition "scalpers" are
inevitable; so are allowances to students
for mileage and cash bonuses
1t would be to the advantage of these
universities to form a pool and abolish
rebates and cut-rates: at least to divide
territory Or DR.. HARPER might buy
out the Others
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British Imperialism and ColOred
Labor.

striking proof of the difficulties that
stand in Mr. CHAMBERLAIN way in
carrying out his imperialistic schemes
is afforded by two simultaneous occur
rences in Australia and South Africa.
The Federal Parliament CT the Common
wealth, under pressure from the labor
party and thanks to the vacllating
policy of the Prime Minister, has Just
passed a postal act that forces Australia
into position that is farcical in its as
sumption of exclusiveness and superior
ity. One clause of this preposterous
piece of legislative impertinence gravely
enacts that the Federal Government
shall refuse to pay mail subsidy to any
company employing colored labor, and
is palpably designed to force the PENN
sular and Oriental Company, one of the
largest carrying companies in the world,
TO discharge it's Lascar seamen.
The facts that these Lascar seamen are
subjects of King EDWARD VII. and that
the question of their employment on the
high seas is one with which Australia has
no possible concern have been pointed
out to the Prime Minister by Mr.. CHAM
BERLAIN, tersely, but with his CUSTOM
ary courtesy. The Colonial Secretary re-
minds the Commonwealth that the Brit
ish Crown stands formally pledged to ex-
tend the same just treatment and pro-
lection to all subjects wherever the flag
OF the Empire flies. All sympathy and
consideration, he says, have been shown
by the Imperial Government toward
sAustralia's natural desire to prevent an
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The Russian Advance in Asia

Early in July last significant greet
ing was sent over the wires to the Car
at Peterhof from the town of Turkes-
tan, in Central Asia, by the Russian Gov
ernor-General of the province of the
same name. The occasion of il was
the arrival at Turkestan of a special
train from Tashkent to celebrate the
opening of the southern section of the
nearly completed railway from Oren-
burg, on the Ural River, that will bring
the furthest Russian outposts in Gen.
trail Asia into direct communication
with St. Petersburg.
The distance between Tashkent and
Turkestan is 1855 miles, and but $50 miles
more were required to be laid to connect
the latter with Perovsk, the point that
had been reached by the northern sec
ton from Orenburg.
This line is of more than ordinary
Importance, because of its great political
and military value to Russia in her adj
vance through Central Asia TO the west
ern borders of China Recent news
from India indicates that Great Britain
lays claim to all Thibet south of the
Kuenlun Mountains, that stretch from
the northeastern frontier of Kashmir
to the southern sources of the Hoang-ho,
but nothing is said as to the Russian
views on the subject.
There is reason to believe that the
Russians would assign a more southerly
limit to the British advance over the
Himalayas, and that it is to give better
effect to their intention TO secure all
of Thibet that they can, that the con-
struction of the Orenburg- Tashkent
railway has been hurried on so ener-
getically that by the beginning Of the
to bring troops direct from any part
Of European Russia to the outposts
on the frontiers of Chinese Turkestan,
instead Of sending them over the more
tedious and roundabout route by way
Of the Caspian.
In congratulating the Car on the
accomplishment of the work, the Gov
ernor-General of Turkestan laid special
emphasis on the increased power that
it would bring to Russia on her southern
frontier, and the great impetus it would
give to the development of Turkestan.
In connection with this subject it is note
worthy that the Russo Chinese Bank
has loaned two millions of taes to the
Chinese Government, without interest,
in return for certain privileges in Chinese
Turkestan. Among these is said to be
the right to construct a railway to kash-
gar and Yarkand in continuation of
the Central Asia road, thus bringing
the hitherto most secluded parts of Asia
into immediate contact with W estern
civilization.
At her present rate of advance from
north and west, Russia will, within the
present quarter of the century, dominate
the greater part of the interior Asia and
u long stretch of its coast line.
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to which we have already referred as a
disturbing feature OF the situation. The
Eagle, speaking officially or at least
semi-officially, solemnly intimates in
one of the most extraordinary articles
that ever appeared in any newspaper
that the Evening Post, by its cynical
and unjust attitude" has forfeited its
chance OF representation on Mr.. PU-
LITzER's Advisory Board There is pain
In the language in which the Eagle COM
municates this official decision:
ut Is within the knowledge of the present mem
bers of the Advisory Board Of the proposed School
that IL was Mr. PULIrzER's Intention on his return
In October. to request well known member OF
the staff OF the Post to become u member OF the
Board. The terms In which he made known this
Intention, should they ever be published. will show
on Mr.. PuLIrzERs part a capacity to be more than
judiciously lust and more than magnanlmously
generous TO those who have been neither TO him
for nearly twenty years."
In this and in much that follows the
tone of sorrow is more apparent than
that of anger. The Advisory Board"
gives our unfortunate contemporary at
Fulton street and Broadway a glimpse
of what it has lost by being overhasty
and too outspoken. If the Board had
been satisfied with that punishment we
should not now be calling President
BuTLER's attention to the case. But,
not content with naked sentence of ex-
clusion from the Pulitzerean conclave,
the Advisory Board proceeds to attempt
a verbal castigation of the offender, in
this unconsciously but really humorous
fashion:
The Eagle employs these words with unfclgned
regret, but with no purpose OF reproach and with
no expectation OF reform Repeatedly the Post
dashcs almost every hope that 1t can or would
like to be fair 1t has been 50 consplcuously un-
fair Ia this and In other instances OF late that one
can we'll despair of change in 1t. Very likely
protest against It's course will only lead 1t to re.
peat and to be proud of offences OF which II should
be heartily ashamed. Yet. under its new regime
the Post more than once sought to encourage the
idea that the maignIty OF preceding regime would
bo more honored In the breach than in the OBJ
servancc by the men OF day on It, But what
Is bred in the bone will out in the types and while
that Will excite sorrow. 1t Justify surprise
Happily. the undcrstudy OF qualities which should
neither be initiated nor emulated Is marked by q
weakness OF denotement and fecbleness OF de
livery which reduce tho damage. though without
decreasing the elementary iudeocncy and the
cotted inanity OF the performance"
Does President BUTLER think that an
Advisory Board" which takes itself so
seriously, and exhibits itself so conf
cally, is calculated to enhance the dig
nifty Of a great educational institution
sitting on hill?
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In 1890 the Russian Government was
invited to appoint delegate on the Public
Debt Commission at Constantinople and
throw its war indemnity claims into the
general debt; but, continuing in the spirit
OF Prince GoRTCHAKoFFs dictum at Berlin,
1t declined the invitation.
The result now is that Russia is in posi-
ton to exercise pressure on the Sultan to
his advantage and at the same time to
protect him to her own advantage. In
the event of new arrangement for the
fiscal administration of Turkey, Russia
can claim special privileges in Asia Minor
in consideration OF her large war claims;
and in the event of a resistance on the part
Of the Sultan to the absorption by financial
commission Of his sovereign attributes,
Russia could intervene with the greater
effect, primarily to her own profit,
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Prof. wO0dberrys Tribute TO His Late Col.
leaRne. Thomas Randolph Price

Sleep. soldier OF tho South. who loved me welll
In many heart Is heard thy passing bell,
Here In the North whore thy last labor was
And down lone valleys OF the long lost cause
Where thy young mates Tapped in heroic sleep
Their green peace, envicd OF the living, keep
The harder lot WAS thine to live and toll
That sons as noble grace their native soil.
Sleep, gentle scholar OF the golden lore
OF English speech, who from thy Attic store
Brought mastery OF all tongues that poets use
And Europe ripcns, sacred to the Muse
o loyal nature, learned. eloquent
Whose kindly courtesy 10 all men went
praise thee not for these. though worthy praise:
These have found not seldom In llrc's ways.
But the sweet patience that adorned thy life.
To take tho blows OF this half british strife
And II on thee some natural gricfS must rain.
With duIetncsS to dignity thy pain
This, more than all the Nurses garnerrd mr.,
Taught reverence to my eyes. lo"r To nv hcar,.
For thou hndSt borne the worst and learned Ia b-or
All lesser SORROWS in one great despair
q much enduring soul who IN tcrcSt peace
S, shalt our love for thee on Garth IncrcaSr.
Now, poet. scholar, soldier on death main
sleep with thy carly friends In battle slain
G, f. WoopBERRY
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Not College of Humorous Jour-
naiism.

We advise President BUTLER of Co.
lumbia University to exercise some Of his
remarkable powers of suasion upon the
so-called Advisory Board of the new
s., ,OO0, 900 Pulitzerean foundation, unless
he wants to SEQ the proposed institution
it gets chance at the ethics and other
higher branches of the profession.
The danger ahead seems to be in the
Advisory Board Mr.. JOSEPH PULITZER
is doing his part, both with his pocket
book and his newspaper. The cash will
be forthcoming. The advertising will
be attended to. The didactic features
will be arranged judiciously on the
Heights according to the sch eme pre-
pared by the Founder. The press and
the public are awaiting with impartial
but genuine interest the progress of the
experiment. Everybody is well disposed
and anxious to be pleased. Everything
will proceed decorously and impress
sively if President BUTLER, a gentleman
Of uncommon tact, can manage to keep
the Advisory Board" quiet for a while.
We are impelled to utter this friendly
word of warning by the surprising rebuke
administered on Saturday, in behalf of
of the Advisory Board" by the Brook
lyn Eagle to the NeW York Erening Post
for venturing to discuss the project with
that candid independence which is the
very handspring of successful honest
journalism. The Post has printed one
or two editorial articles on the subject
of Mr.. PULITZERs s school. Some pas
sages from these articles of the Posts
are here subjoined:
"Tenacity of purpose and strength Of character
are, as MIR. scHUHz remarks with great authority
the crying needs OF American Journalism. But
here again No are driven TO ask, Can n school of
Journalism supply them' We fear not, any more
than Mr. ANDREW d, WHITES school of states
manShip could furnish public men who would
simply because they were specially trained spurn
the wrong and expose the corrupter. The sources
OF character lie deeper than schools; and the men
who are to uplift Journalism must FIRST have the
native stufi"
I'VE bound to admit that no great moral
uplift can derive from q source which has done
so much, In tho past twenty years. TO degrade
American journalisn-even II the gift be made by
way OF eIpaton."
a general refusal to buy or advertise In a news
paper which pcrsistently sins against good taste
and dcccnCy would do far more IN n month 10 tone
up our daily press than would the graduation OF
hundreds OF bachelors of Journalism
Our respectable dailics have little dllculy in main
talnlng themselves despite severe competition.
Such papers do not need to recruit their forces
from schools OF Journalism"
The Post also printed letter from
correspondent who said, with perhaps
unnecessary directness:
such school, to be really useful. should teach
the opposite OF everything that the World has been
or now is
We reproduce these remarks of our
contemporary in order to explain the
disciplinary attempt Of the Advisory
Board" through the Brooklyn Eagle,
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Lynchlns and 1.-The La w's Delays. "

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
As to the much-d discussed subject of lynch
ing, no more vicious nonsense is uttered than
that which regards the lynching mania as
an expression of popular impatieDce with
the laws delays" and proposes to cure tho
mania by taking steps to expedite business
in the criminal courts. The fact that this
nonsense is uttered by men in high position
who ought to know better makes it not tho
less nonsensiCal.
The fact probably is that the laws de-
lays" have about as much to do with the
spread OF the lynching mania as the shorta Re
of the apple crop in Monroe county has to
do with the Macedonian uprising. To sup
pose that lynching mob determines to muir
der suspected criminal because IL fears that
if he isn't murdered his punishment will bs
long delayed or altogether omitted. is 10
attribute to lynching mob something it
doesn't possess. to wit reason To be
sure. the reasoning attributed to the mob by
this theory is very crooked reasoning. but
that makes no difference. A lynching mob
is as incapable of any sort of reasoning
az a mad dog. 1t is a many-hcaded brute
running amuck. swayed solely by the In
stincts Of the most primitive savagery. The
laws delays the cause OF lynching! Bosh'
typical American lynching mob bent on
gratifying it's beastly instincts would take
it's victim off the scaffold, out Of the hands
of the public executioner. rather than miss
it's orgy. Some lynching mob is going TO do
that very thing some day, to the utter con-
fusion of the theorists.
Moreover the remedy proposed by the
theorists is worse than the disease, Stripped
of disguise it is simply "railroading" to the
gallows. innocent or guilty. every man accused
of heinous crime. The theorists. In effect
propose to substitute one form of lynching for
by the courts for lynohng
by mobs. OF the two forms that now in vogue
is decidedly preferable
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The New Plntarch.

SpartacuS was exhorting the gladiarorS TO riSe.
But" they inquired, what brand OF baking
powder shall we USE"
Pcrcciving the hOpcleSsness OF bis case he do
cided TO become an advertisement writer
George Washington was asked why he crossed
the Delaware on the Ice
"Because," he answered, II I had crossed M
Ohio. history would have mixed me up with F!i'a
Here again he demonstrated his wonderful fore
sight.
ACam"mnon was spending his eleventh wear
before Troy.
And why" urged his Generals don't you take
little trip You know N's only forty miles 10
Schenectady"
Yes" he muttered grnnly. but IL y only suo
steps to Paris"
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We invite attention to the interest ing in
terview, printed in another column. with
former Senator MATTHEW CALBRAITH
BUTLER Of South Carolina. on the cotton
condition and outlook in this country.
Since the Spanish war, in which Senat or
BUTLER served as Major General by ap-
pointment of the late President MCKINLEY,
he has devoted his attention TO cotton
planting in Edgefeld, S. c., and along the
Carolina side of the Savannah River, where
he has large plantations.
His knowledge Of the subject is accurate
and his opinions are based on broad lines
of thought.
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To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sr. Az it
seems by the first race that the Cup will not
be lifted, why not have Shamrock Cup and
we will go over and bring il back as an nddi-
tional trophy TO keep the Americas Cup
company, Then there could be no cavil
as to one-sidedness. So thorough II SPORTS
man as Sir 7, Upton would appreciate this
courtesy. !. H. RODGERS
JEKSEY CITY. AUG. -.
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The M0noKlOt EnElishman.



The incapacity OF the average EnglishmAn 10
express himself In any language save his own Is duo
partly TO lack Of lmae enaton, partly TO n half
conscious belief that everything which IL worth
saying at all can be said In English fully well as
In any other tongue, and, very largely. because IN"
absence OF confidence in his mastery of any other
idlom or accent makes him shy and !ndiSNoSed
rs he would say. TO make an Ck IbtIon OF himself
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The Danbury Listener for katydids Answered
From Danbury.

To THR EDITOR or THE SUN Str: /. too am In q.
tcrested In the sign OF the katydlds and have kept
track OF them for several years, and they never
miss the date by more than day or two We nrst
heard them Aug. H. and II up, ". S." whose con
trbution appeared in THE SUN OF Aug. % would
wander along the upper part OF FIN street about
O'Clock In the evening he would be satisfied that
the katydids had appeared. SET
DANBURY. Conn. aug, 20.
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An Automobile Countcrbia asst.

T TOVI Hf Car.
The war will in a few years time not he with th-
British public. for by then IL Will be largely our
side. but solely against the remaining representa-
tives OF reaction. prejudice and Ignorance and
100000 motor cycles and $50 900 motor cars win be
influencing elections, and the position Of the In
dnstry will have compelled and obtained rccos-
milton.
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Explanation rs to the Anti-Kassing Park Board
In

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sfy In your
issue Of this morning you say. under the heading
Kissed in Canoe" Young couple were arrested
for violating rule OF BostonS Park Commission.
What follows shows II Is rule Of the Metropolitan
Park Commission and not OF the Board OF Pnrs
Commissioners of the City OF Boston.
GEoRdE r. CLARKE
JAMAICA PLAIN Mass. Aug Is.
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Nothing Doing"

To THR EDITOR or THE Sun Sir In the story
OF "Dombcy and Son" Capt Cutie visits the old
dealer in marine Instruments. who In speaking of
his troubles uses the following phrase: There
is nothing doing. nothing doing" Was this the
original expression MR.. TooTs
BROOKLYN Aup o9
The sun., 1903-08-24

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