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Wants to Call II American |!

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir: Your
editorial on the teaching Of German in our
public schools Is sound, wholesome and
slightly Objectionable In one particular. 1t
says: The first duty of pupils in public schools
is to learn English" Again Should there
be any more tinkering let it be In the direction
Of improving the children's English"
1t seems to me Mr.. Eiokemeyer In to- day g
Sun strikes the nail sauarely when he says:
What the American people want is one nag.
ono country and one language. Editorially
you persist In referring to the language as
English. Why English; everlastingly and
always English? To my way OF thinking II
We called 1t the American language our Ger
man fellow citizens would not be % siren
ueusly insistent on the study of their
"aprache" In our common schools. But Eng
lish there's the rub Could We leave out
that Objectionable word and give it a dis
tinctly national term there would be less de-
sire to thrust something else on the rising
Gener grafton.
In dark, dismal days the sun breaks through
the clouds. enlightening. reviyng and drying
up the mud Of ignorance and prejudice and
- / dislike to see even one spot on it trust
TIE SuN will express Itself in American or
good United States. II the term English"
language could be sunk In the bottom OF Bos-
ton harbor 1t would suit US to Tea"
D. HIRN.
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their sentiment knows that practically
they are unanimously in favor OF Eng
lish instruction. They send their children
to the schools, first Of all, to learn the
language Of this country, a. q prime
necessity to them in an English-speaking
community. Thus, the younger genera
ton grow up American in speech and in
spirit Not a trace of their foreign deri-
walton remains in their speech, and a
strong link connecting them with the
countries from which their fathers came
is destroyed to their own advantage and
to the advantage of the republic OF which
they are to be citizens and voters.
Moreover, the time spent by these
children at the schools is almost uni
versally too short for them to get sulta-
BILE foundation in even the English ele-
mentary branches. To take away any
of it for instruction in languages not
requisite here is to cheat them out OF
their rights under the school system.
The Board of Education will show mex
cusable ignorance Of the sentiment OF
the foreign-born population OF New York.
and OF the Germans in particular,
should it allow itself to be bulldozed by
threats of political vengeance for per-
sisting in making the elementary school
instruction primarily English; and it
could 60 further and abolish all instruc-
ton in foreign languages without Of
Tending any intelligent and disinterested
German sentiment.
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DOG ORDINANCE PASSED.
Muzzlins Order win Apply to All the Bor.
0ugfn.

AuI1un8 VSUe1 Will AMY 10 All INC Dur
ougfn.
The dog-muzzling ordinance was passed
by the Aldermen yesterday. The duty
Of impounding unmuzzled or unlesshed
dogs is given to the Bergh society. The
society undertook to do the work on the
understanding that 1t would get an ap-
preparation from tho city sufficiently large
to pay for the extra ostchers it will have
to employ. No reference is made In tho
ordinance to this appropriation, and ap-
parently before the new law is put Into
effect the Board Of Estimate and the Alder
men will have to vote money to the society.
The resolution as originally drawn ap-
piled only to Manhattan. An amendment
was adopted that it should cover al the
boroughs. The Aldermen who represent
suburban districts announced that their
lection from rabid dogs as the people living
within the fire Nnes.
While Alderman Doull was fighting the
measure he said its passage would mean
that owners who kept dogs At their country
houses within the city limits would have
to muscle them. Alderman Heller, who
speaks with q pronounced German accent,
sDo I understand you, II I have . dog
down to my place have to have . n1ukxle
on the house
It was made clear to Mr.. Hollsr that
dogs on private premises would not have
to b muxxled.
Tho ordinance was ultimately adopted
by a. votes to II. Upon being signed BY
the Mayor 1t will 90 into effect Immediately.
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1t is said that until Monday night
nobody had ever been lynched in Della
ware. That night this reproach to the
glory Of Delaware was removed. The
negro GEORGE WHITE was burned at the
stake. Apparently he was not mutilated
or disInembered; and the distribution OF
pieces Of him as souvenirs to the mob
was avoided.
Ostensibly, WHITE was burned TO
death to express the popular indigna-
ton at the refusal of the Judge OF the
Superior Court to call a special session
for his trial. Really, he was put out OF
the way because the suggestion as
the hypnotists would say, the germ
Of lynching has spread to Delaware
Here was a niger charged with
crime. Do not wait for the law to deal
with him. Burn him. Each lynching
buys the rope or lights the fire for
another one. The primeval savagery,
the thirst and craze for blood, have been
stimulated by each new barbarity.
The passion for lynching, however
atrocious and horrible be the cause,
10 disease, a mania, symptom Of the
homicidal hysteria of crowds, and it
should be stopped in the names of hu-
manity, justice and common sense.
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What viii He Do With 1t?

II 4 young man were possessed of 100
shares of Northern Pacific Railroad stock
and he should wed with young woman
who was the holder OF 100 shares of Great
Northern Railroad stock, the marriage
contract would be illegal. 1t would be
in restraint OF trade" Such is the scope
and potency OF the Sherman act, as in
terpreted by the Supreme Court, when
reduced to the bare bones Of It's ultimate
logical significance.
1t is not alleged that the individual or
the corporation has committed crime
or that he or it plans or contemplates q
future violation Of the law; or that, II the
law were transgressed, he or it would
profit thereby. No! The damning black
ness Of the thing lies in the fact that the
individual or corporation could, were he
or it 80 minded, violate the law. It is
now set forth in tho law that to be able to
commit crime is to deserve the full ex-
tent of the penalty Of the law.
All men are naturally good, Only the
exceptional few are prone to evil. To
this wholesome view of life we hold I'M
detachably. The President of the United
States. in our eyes. is like King he can
do no wrong. But there have been
Kings and Kings and there might be
Presidents. II our Supreme Court holds
that it is not enough to be innocent Of
wrong or of the intent thereof, but that
one must be impotent Of wronS-doing,
then the President of the United States
is not scathless and he too should be
Invested, or should divest himself, of the
faculty Of wrong-doing. This duty we
leave to the President. II he be not in
capable Of all shadow of evil he alone is
aware of the fact and to his own con-
science the needed purgation may safely
be left.
Congress at its last session passed GER
tain laws touching the corporations. and
at the behest and under the guidance
OF the President so framed those laws
that they clothe the President with singu-
lar powers affecting the corporations
They are singular powers in that they are
more drastic, arbitrary, oppressive and
confiscatory than any other laws that are
contained in the statutes of this or any
other country. The Car of all the Rus
sias has no such faculties conferred upon
him as are invested IN the President of
the United States by his own Antitrust
laws When the fancy or the passion to
do so takes possession of him he can
rend the corporations limb from limb
and twist their financial bowels until they
howl deliriuisly and die. For this he is
answerable to no man save only himself
and none may review his acts but at his
own peril, And the law ia his pleasaunce.
for he may invoke it at no man. bidding
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Catholicism 40 Credible - Professionalism

SStnOuclsm - NTesuOsc - hIOtcBtAutis".
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir: Your
correspondent DR.. Fillinghan believes in
the Incarnation. but ridicules the Real Pres
enoe. He says God asks US to believe things
above our reason. but not thing against 1t.
To men whose convictions must be on good
terms with their reason. both things beyond
and things against reason are absolutely
incredible. and Of two or more things alb
solutely incredible. one can't be any more
incredible than the other.
The idea that the Creator Of the Universe.
II there be such q person or thing. became
incarnate in a man. and the idea that the
same person or thing materialzes in cake.
arc TIVE propositions identical in absurdity
both with each other and with the case Of q
man who believes one and ridiculse the other.
Your correspondent might reasonably OBJ
ject to the Real Presence on the ground that
II is inconsistent with the bsdy Of Christian
doctrIne but not on the ground that, that 1t is
believing in the Incarnation. ! can't really
see why, 40 far as his reason Ia concerned
he shouldn't 30 on and believe tn at Mary
was conceived without original sin. The
difference bet ween believing one and believ-
ing the other, II there is any diff erence, s one
Pretestants seem to have, the notion tn At
their religion Is more credible than that Of
the Catholics. Newman and olbbon were
your correspondent Is that he Il; IN the same
whiskey because 1t 10 into SicatinE. q 10 the
pot calling the kettle black.
NEW YORK. June 20.
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or belest but solely as may to him seem
f1t. No one in history exercised sucn
powers since JOHN Of England created
the illustrious order of dentists to draw
tho teeth of wealthy Jews until they gave
up copiously of their substance.
It is not, Of course, supposable case
that President ROOSEVELT would exer-
else these powers, but six years hence
in 1909, we shall perhaps be concerning
ourselves with his successor, provided
he himself be averse to a reelection, and
then who knows what different manner
of man may befall us! All Presidents
are not RoosEvELTs, and although it
may not be our good fortune, when we
are compelled to accept President who
is not ROOSEVELT, to have one who
nearly enough resembles him to insure
the public welfare, yet there is that in
the contingency which must give us
pause and make US think
In these days when the Supreme Court
takes no account of the purpose, the mo-
tive, the intent, and tho dignity OF the
law, but exhausts its powers to expand
phrase and fall tractably in with
masters whim, 1t is pardonable If one
betrays undue concern touching the i'm
probable. or course the statute which
makes Mr.. ROOSEVELT the ToRQUEMADA
of the Trusts will never be invoked by
him; but years hence, who shall say how
many years hence, it may be invoked by
Mr.. RoosKvELT's successor in the Presi-
dency; and in view of the all-embracing
attitude Of the Supreme Court in regard
TO all things which are not but may be,
we are forced to ask If such statute
with all its latent possibilities ought not
to be expunged from the books? Does
not Mr.. ROOSEVELT owe 1t to himself
to see that 1t is expunged?
Think of that time, happily remote,
when there should issue from the White
House a summons like this: Come
down here to Washington, You JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER And come yourself.
Don't send DoDD! No, nor JOHNNY
ARcHBoLD neither! Come yourself; for
this is no child's play!"
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HERMAN MAY GET CONTRACT.
His Bid for Postal Blanks a4E 900 I,owrS
Than WynkOOp's.

WARRINGTON. June 2s-Paul Herman OF
Rutherford, N. j., the lowest bidder for the
contract for manufacturing money order
blanks for the postal service, whose low
bid and the effort made by former Surt
Metoalf Of tho Money Order System TO
throw it out were responsible for that Off
GERS recent dismissal, called on First As
distant Postmaster General Wynne thus
morning He offered to submit bond III
any amount for the performance OF the
contract. No award has as yet been made
contract, as his bid is s.s' GOO " lower thAn
that Of the Wynkoop- Hallenbeck-C rav-
ford Company, which formerly held the
contract continuously for sixteen years
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The American ships, those ships which
ruined for time the relations between the
United States and Kaiser WrLHELM, BY its
being arranged that they should not visit
Kiel. have arrived in that harbor. ct
his Majestys good invitation. We trust
that not drop Of rain or sea will fall upon
the uniforms Of either country in the course
Of the usual interchange Of official visits;
that all the more important functions
aboard ship will be marked by the charac-
teristic Teutonic joviality; that the gig
races will be carried in uninterrupted good
fellowship to victory and defeat, which
from our impartiality we refrain from
awarding before the event, and that when
the American squadron sets sail again, 1t
will be With unqualified admiration for
the German Navy men and ships the
same being reciprocated in appropriate
spirit BY tho hosts.
Ais we'll that ends well.
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Denver on "a.

From the Dencer DG1p Ne,os
II Is the ambition of the successful New Yorker
and his chief ambition, 10 scrspe together By any
and all possible means enough money 70 enttsls
him 10 enviabis classification With the mutt,
millionaire. that proud term invented and being
worked TO death By tho corporation -subsidlle /
New York press. The money In hand, fs poasss
cor. lacking educstion and any real reanemsnt.
sets himself 70 get nd Of II. In ways thai appsa,
irresstibly 70 his crude ideas. These usually take
the form OF building big. ugly houses. decorated
and furnished by contract driving fast horses or
speeding his $4,000 automobile alsng the Riverside
Drive. loading his wife and dsurhters with costly
clothes and pounds OF diamonds. giving barbarous
feeds to men Is coarse and sordd - himself.
There 10. Of oourse, bottsr elemsnt but of late
years this haa been crowded out Of the way and
pushed 70 the wall By multi -urhoaalIes and
"climbsrs-
Architecturslly. New York 10 blot on the face Of
creation. The streets are nlthy. tho parks ner.
lected. the system OF rapid transit tho very wors,
that could be conceived. The stranger sAeounters
everywhere savage rudensss from puslic EN-.
ployccs. from the street car conductor ~ police
the clerks in shops the attendants In 0AAy Of the
libraries Of which an aboriginal south 90 islander
would not be guilty. The struggling. fighting mob
70 be seen nightly At the Brooklyn Bridge. where
men and women knocked down, their limbs
broken and their clothes torn from thelr backs
can be compared only to n free for all mix I'D.
With Its billions OF wealth. Its millions Of people
II has but two OF three good museu few public
art collections that they scarcely count at Ill. The
theatres With also but few exceptions arc IN thu
clutch OF half dozen men. who have no more COM
prehension OF dramatic art than Digger Indians And
whose Idea OF the function Of the drama 4.
ts,swen the box once receipts With tho aid Of chesp
companies. They have vuated the pubic tas,.
until the production OF good and decent play hs.
become vsl-aish impossible. Thsrs y . seasop Of
grand open, which 70 generally spoiled for mune
lovers BY hsrAes Of people who ~ half clad IN ~
boxes and talk suAisly and witAsut osAsans Nsv
York has set hsrssf mp - dcssAor - The ~ az
the country upon al qvssssns II sthios anA 49,
She has never yst made good her oaaam 10 me ex
srcass Of such suthoEtty. In the Language al N.
Wild and woody wsss, ~ hss practice VIA ~
presohaa Or. n ether vsrds, -atAs. pus -upsor
shut up.
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pre.iden, Ro>ssvelt's Tee Ardent Frisads.

President HoSsevelt's Too Ardent FrtsAds.
To TlE EDrrol OF TIE SuN-s1r: md the fol.
lowing IN enc Of the CITY newspapers:
When the Postmasters attention was called to
the assertion made by some Democrats that the
Post once investig alton would injure President
Roosevelt's chances In 1904. he said: They can
beat Roosevelt. no mattel what happens
The Postmaster reformed TO Is Postmaster Van
Colt OF this city
As . Democrat who voted twice for Mckinley
and once for Seth Low. beg leave 70 warn Post
master Van Colt. OF any other Republican Of his
class as aims, this sort Of boast. ! am not one OF
welt should be held to account for this Post Once
scandal except SO far as his duties Executive 20
in turning out the rascals." But Postmaster Van
Colt or any one OF his class would do well to think
backward before looking too far - tho front
The Republican party made q boast once before
that could net be beat ne master what ha ppens
And when It made that boat Il had the prestige
Of having saved the country. But even with such
prestige II got stuck in the mad and stayed there
while the Democratic chapot passed BY and went
up and occupied the heights The fact that the
Democratic chanot didn't stay where It landed was
due TO the political stupidity OF the driver and not
to the Republican party.
What has happened once can happen again. Mr..
Roosevelt may be elected. but he can't Sc elected
mo matter what happens" The Republican IA rty
made boast once In It's history that II had con.
tract With "Gsd and Morality" but IL got most
everastingly fooled. F.H.B.
NEW YORK, June 10.
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ATTACK GENERAL STAFF.
Bureau Chiefs to Make Their Objections
to Secretary Root.

w OeVsOSesS s~~Os'
WARRINGTON, June 2S.--Secretary Root
has decided to consult with the bureau
chiefs Of the War Department before acting
upon the new regulations for the General
STAFF Of the Army. Orders were given
several days ago, directing reference OF
the proposed regulations to the heads OF
bureaus for comment, and when Secretary
Root returns next week he will hear from
these officials on the subject.
Already considerable opposition to the
new regulations is developing in the War
Department bureaus. Until the formation
OF the General STAFF the supply and equip
ment Of the army has been exclusively
under the control of certain supply depart
ments and the new regulations change this
to such an extent as to interfere with the
power now exercised by these departments
Another bureau which will have ite func-
tons largely interfered with. ACCORDING 70
the bureau chiefs, is the Inspector-Gen 9
department. Under the new order Of
things Inspections will be largely mAde
by officers Of the General Stan, and not by
officers Of the Inspector Generals depart
ment.
The new regulations also provide that
in the matter Of equipment the General
STAFF shall largely determine what soldier
may wear and what he may eat. There
are representatives OF eacn Oh tne UuIoou1
detailed to the General STAFF but the bureau
chiefs say That their representatives have
which gives too much consideration to
the opinions Of offioers who know little
about matters outside Of their own branch
of the service.
Some comment has been made on the
fact that the three divisions Of Che General
Sta6 corresponding to three great branches
Of the army are under the direction OF
Colonels instead Of officers with the rank
Of Brigadier- General.
1t 10 explained that Secretary Root has
not yet approved the present organisation
OF the General STAFF, and when he hears
the opposition to some Of it's features, and
particularly to the regulations prepared
by the provisional organization, he will
refer the entire matter back to the provis-
ional General Staff for reconsideration.
Under the authority Of Congress pro-
viding for q General STAFF it cannot become
operative until Aug. Is. This has been
eiroumvented by the organization OF .
provisional General Stat with the idea that
no change in its personnel will be made
upon the date set by Congress. and that
it will continue a. organised.
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OOWEN NAY GET OUT.



--I1sns seceet Talk Over HIN.
After meeting. Of the City Record Board
Yesterday, the first held since March, Mayor
Low Comptroller circuit and Corporation
Counsel Rives, who form the board, went
into executive session and TALKED for nearly
two hours about the charges which the.
Comptroller and T. B. 6idebotham, the city
printer, have brought against Supervisor
Cowen. They would not talk afterwaId.
Another meeting will be held nsxt Tuesday u
and it is expected that the report Of the
Commissioners of Accounts about MI
Governs Office and Mr.. Converts defence viii
then be given out.
The Mayor does not think the charges
warrant the removal Of Mr.. Cowen, but the
Comptroller thinks differently. and IL Mr..
Circuit can bring Mr.. Rives to agree with
him. the Supervisor will have to go. Some
sign. He said yesterday:
Ever since the third week have been
In ONCE have been bounded and pounded
One examination OF my Office has followed
another and the less the people / am re-
ferring to could discover the more anxious
they became to hunt up something on which,
to fasten a charge against me. have
been unable to GIVE any attention whatever
to my own business and l am getting de-
cidedly weary Of the pounding have been
getting, especially when l know that II is
undeserved."
Mr. Cowen has Vsk,d for an extra appr,-
priation Of sl3s.00o to cover a deficiency
says that the deficiency was caused by hav-
ing to do additional work that could not he
for,,seen when he sent in his estimates.
Action on this was deferred until Tuesday
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vet. and With three black velvet bar. seross each

vet, and with three black velvet bars scross each
siesve.
THE school in which each degree was given Ii
designated ON ali gowns by . double eso~'s foot
placed on each side In front near the collar and 10
color distinctive of the school - follows: Arts
white: science. gold yellow; philosophy dark blue
agriculture. golden brown: veterinary medicine
gray dental medicine. lilac: medicine. green: law
purple: theology. scarlet: honorary LII. D., and
d. D., triple crows foot on each side"
Arts, white, the white light of truth;
science, gold-yellow, for it brings the
price =; philosophy deeply, darkly,
beautifully blue, like heaven and certain
stockings: the scheme caresses the
aesthetic sense. But why should any
graduate seek to emphasize or to in
crease his collection OF crows feet?
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Nickel Steel Rails Successful.
FROM tie PHILADELPHIA Record.

FFOW NE PhalddeIpTld TtC"7H
The value OF rails of nickel steel has been
10 s6sotually demonstrated that iarg" orders
are being given In many directions. More
than 1000 tons OF nickel steel rails, eighty
fve pounds to the yard, have been laid ny
1e Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Conn 40
tbs spring on curves where tram" is heay,
gave rood resuIts p the wear being very much
tces than with the ordinary B.ssTmer stec,
10 considerably harder, and. a!thoutH
n the end. In one test nickel steel was lsia
y lSe7 apd new Beesemer steel In 1895 "a
leo2 the latter had TO be renewed, whus M
niokN steA appeared GOOD for ssv1A mo''
'1o41O OF service