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the former is 1872, but in the lower East
Side districts, with much moro than
twice the population, 1t is only lls. In
the Fifth avenue districts, however,
there is liquor license to every $50 OF
the population, as enumerated in 1900,
and in the lower East Side districts only
one to 375 persons.
That s the Fifth avenue region is
far ahead in both churches and liquor
saloons. The relative prevalence of the
vice of which our correspondent speaks
is not determinable by any statistics
obtainable. but unquestionably 1t is
very much greater proportionately in
t!se Fifth avenue region.
These are facts which seem to justify
the suggestion of our correspondent that
the clergy in the most prosperous part
of the town have at their very doors a
field which is even more in need of moral
cultivation than the region of the town
where the population is most crowded
and 10 poorest.
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that no export duty should be levied by
the Filipino government on products
shipped to- and consumed in, this coun-
try. It is from exports of hemp that the
insular government derives a large part
of its income, the export duty being $3.50
per ton. Now, from March, 1902, until
June 80, 1903, s8,044 tons of hemp were
shipped to the United States, from which,
had an export tax been levied, the in
sular treasury would have received
s645, $3.50 In other words, the net out
come Of the act, intended for the benefit
OF the Filipinos, was net loss to their
insular government in about sixteen
months of some S40O, 900.
We have said that the representatives
of our sugar and tobacco interests were
mistaken in supposing that, if the Ding
ley rates were reduced by rs per cent,
our market would be flooded with sugar
and tobacco from the Philippines. AS
a matter of fact, the total amount OF
sugar exported from the Philippines to
all countries during the three years ended
June 80, 1908, was but 50, 100000, whereas,
during the same triennium. the value
OF the sugar imported into the United
States was upward Of S2l7 100000. IL Is
obvious that if we had imported, free
of duty, every ounce Of sugar which
the Philippines could have exported, no
impression could have been made upon
our sugar market. Much the same
thing NAV be said OF tobacco. During
the three years ended June 80, 1908,
the aggregate value of the tobacco
exported from the Philippines to all
countries was only s., ,OOO, ,ooo although,
during the same triennium, the total
value of the tobacco imported by the
United States exceeded s57, ,OO0, 900
What Congress ought to do without
delay is to cut down the duties on prod
ucts coming from the Philippines to 25
per cent. of the Dingley rates, and to
allow the inslllar government to levy
an export duty on the hemp sent to the
United States, until the imports into the
islands shall have undergone such ex-
pansion as largely to increase the reve-
nue. derived from the insular customs
duties. But if Congress is unwilling to
do this at the extra session, it should
at least recognize the plain duty OF re-
pealing the provision of the act of March
8, 1902, which forbids the insular govern
ment to levy an export duty on hemp
sent to the United States. 1t was by no
means the purpose Of that act to bring
about shrinkage in the revenue of the
islands.
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GREENE STILL AFTER GAMBLERS.
Questions McCluslty About = Story Thst
the Houses Are Opening.

The report printed yesterday morning
that gambling houses and poolrooms were
opening up in different parts OF the city
caused Police Commissioner Greene to start
an investigation as soon as he reached MS
office. He sent for Inspector McClusky OF
the Detective Bureau and questioned him.
McClusky told Gen. Greene that the gam
bling houses were not opening and that the
number of poolrooms in operation was
small
The report named several gambling
houses uptown where 1t was said that play
was going on every night, and declared that
800 poolrooms were open An inspector
and two captains we're accused OF protect
ing them. Tho names OF these three police
officials, 1t was said. were known to DIS
trict Attorney Jerome.
II don't believe any one in the District
Attorneys Office would give the names OF
police officers against whom either the
District Attorney or the Police Commits
sioner was supposed to be getting evidence,
said Gen. Greene. such disclosure would
manifestly tend to defeat the ends OF JUS
tice.'
inspector McClusky reports to me that
the places named are not open. The police
are endeayoring to get the evidence against
poolrooms required by the courts wherever
there is reason to suspect that poolroom
is in operation.
II told Inspector McClusky the morning
after election that there was to bs no
change in regard to enforcing the law against
gambling. It must be enforced to the
letter.
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want. to Reform Mount Vernon.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE--Str. I: would se
humorous were II not pathetic. the business basis"
on which Mount Vernon Is run. and the utter lack
OF reverence and sentiment attached 10 . trip to
the tomb OF the Father of His Country"
Another thing The ignorance on the public
side Of the history Of the estate Its purchase by
Miss Cunnngham's heroic efforts mot by the
women OF Amcnca1, Mr Everctt's noble cooper
alton and contribution. and the hard. hard life"
OF the superntendents and private secretaries
there since the purchase from John A. Washing g;on
while the resident regents splurged and posed and
received distinguished visitors: the buying and
selling Of everything from photograph TO a pa
triot-popar walking cane: the monotonous tricklc
OF the cicerone as he explains to the sovereign
from Chicago or Oshkosh the various curiosliies
and relics.
Al this Is an extnguisher OF thought and an
asphyXiator OF sentiment. and all this ought TO be
changed,
An annual appropriation should be made BY
Congress, and the lady regent should live on
the placelkc lady and not a bargain counter
glrl-and supcrintend II through officials (properly
paid and not kept on board wages. as now con
Quoted minus the buying and selling. and minus
the personally conducted and loQuacio ou sly cceroned
Inspection. Catalogues should be supplied on the
boat, for consideration, and that and the fare
should be IN only trade features connected with
pilgrimage n Mount Vernon. Y. j. MARKS
pLATTsBuRo. n. Y. Nov. s,
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An Election Philosopher Astray.

Among the many philosophers who are
drawing wise moral conclusions from
the election of Tuesday is the Evening
Post, but its philosophy is not novel,
We hear the same sort of moralizng after
every election whose results have brought
disappointment to the mugwump heart
more especially.
Neglect of citizens in the well-to-do
districts to vote on Tuesday was largely
responsible for the catastrophe, Accord
ing to the Evening Post Now, in fact,
all these districts, eight in number, were
carried by Low, and the percentage of
diminution in the poll from the registra-
ton was just about the same as in the
rest of Manhattan and The Bronx.
Our mugwump friend mentions par
ticularly the districts on the upper
West Side as especially negligent yet
in those districts the falling off of the
vote from the registration was only
the rest of the two boroughs, and in the
three West Side districts just below
them, the Seventeenth, Fifteenth and
Thirteenth strong Tammany districts.
the percentage of the falling of was
even greater.
In making calculations Of the diminu-
ton of the poll as compared with the reg
istration, amateur political philosophers
and statistioians forget to include the
votes for outside candidates for Mayor,
though these were numerically many.
Actually. last Tuesdays poll in Man.
haitian and The Bronx was 937 per cent.
of the registration, az against GAL per
cent. in 1901, difference SO small as to
have had no effect on the result of the
election as Tammany victory.
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Origin Of a Grand Old Hymn.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr; Iobscrvc
with pain that In your analysis OF the origin OF the
athletic school OF poetry, you have overlooked the
plagiarism In these beautiful lines;
"Hobblc Gobble Raz1lc Dazzle! Zis boom ahl
Washburn College. Iopekal"
The trst line. SO full OF grace and beauty so ci.
fugent and cfiorescent with triumphant power,
is copied from an early battle hymn of the class of
o. at Princeton which was as follows:
"Hobble. Cobble. Razzlc Dazzle. Zs Boom Ahi
o. p2. Rah, Rah, Rah"
But al that period an effort being made TO
modify and soften the standards of the Presby
tcran Church--with which Princeton is proml
ncntly Identified These weakening influences
almost immediately showed themselves In de
based form OF this glorious anthem. The corrupted
version. advocated by tho rcvisionsts. was as
follows:
Mobile, Gobble, Razzle Dazzle Pigs In Clover,
'ps 90, green all over
1t should be said in Justice to DR. Francis l..
Patton. AT that time president OF the college an
leader OF the anti rcvisionistS. that he has never
used the dcbaScd form. \ CHuRCH g2.
NEWARK. Nov. O.
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ALaundrNmsn,s Defence.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN--.Sir: Although
i am not running metropolitan laundry
I feel that my brother laundrymen in the city
are grossly misrepresented In your editorial
on laundry work in to-day g issue Of The Sun
As near as l can understand the "varnlsh"
you speak of refers to the high gloss impaired
to linen by very few modern laundries. being
confined almost entirely to Chinese workncn
The present finish demanded by almost every
wearer OF good linen is domestic" or ex-
acty as new.
In regard to the statement that laundries
rot and tear linen II the writer Of the editorial
will buy four good shirts. mark date OF pur-
chase on them send two to a washwonan
who "rubs them on board" and send the
other two to me just as often as he sends to
her. | will guarantee the two sent to me will
last longer than the other two. II.
STANFORD. Conn. Nov. s.
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ANALYSIS or THE CANAL VOTE.
Methods OF BIO Ocking the waste OF
SlOO,OOO.OOO.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-.Sir: 4 few
days ago you published an interesting and
suggestive editorial on the recent vote au-
thorizng the expenditure of slOl ,OOO. 900 for
widening and deepening the State canals.
which went to show that the referendum"
thereon was a failure 30 far as the city of New
York was concerned. In the rural counties.
especially along the Hudson River. this Ques.
tion was discussed and voted on free from such
distractions as were due to the municipal
campaign in the city of New York, which
overshad0wed all other questions, and which,
in the last stages at least was characterized
by violent personal abuse. 1t Is not to be
wondered at. therefore. that the canal project
was partially. II not wholly. lost sight Of or
voted Oh without discrimination. and it is
possible that had tho electors read and pom
dercd the able letter Of the Hon. Andrew
H. Green. which appeared in the press
few days before the election, they would
not have voted as they did.
On the other hand, in the rural districts the
referendum was apparently success, at
least. the electors there were not diverted
by other issues. and in voting no" they acted
in no paroch!al or narrow spirit. nor can they
be charged with desire to escape the burden
of paying for Improvement. for the reason
that, than ks to the State Board OF Euualiza-
tion and a compla cent Legislature. the city
Of New York pays more than half OF the
entire State tax.
Although this project has received the sane
ton of the people. vet the matter is by no
means settled. for the State Constitution un-
der which this vote was taken expressly pro-
vides (Article VIII;
Tho Legislature may at any time after the ap-
prova OF such law BY the people, II debt shall
have been contracted In pursuance thereof
repeal the same: and may al any time by law for.
bid the contracting of any further debt liability
under such law.
An opportunity is thus presented Of bring
ing the question again before the Legislature.
Again. there is still another possibility by
which the project may be delayed and re-
tarded. II not altogether checked. II is this:
The act under which the bonds are to be issued
to raise the necessary funds (Chapter l47 of the
Laws of i9Osj provides that they shall bear in
terest at a rate not to exceed 8 per cent. to
run for a term not to exceed eighteen years.
and they shall be sold for not less than par
In the present financial condition OF the
country would such bonds prove attractive
TO an investor? In other words. are they
salable at the present time. and are they
likely to be for many months to come?
NEW YORK. Nov. 9. DUTcHEss COUNTY.
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CAN BEGIN WORK ON CANAL MAY1
State Engineer Bond Says He Will BE
Ready Then 10 Award Contracts.

ALBANY, Nov. 6.--Work can be begun
by May on the State barge canal, which
the people of the State voted for last Tues
day and which is provided for in law
passed by the last Legislature. No more
legislation is necessary. state Engineer
Edward A. Bond said tonight that he can
get ready for the awarding of the first con-
tracts for the barge canal work by next
spring. 1t had been expected that before
work on the barge canal could be prose-
cuted another and more complete survey
than the one taken two years ago would
have to be made. That survey, while 1t
was preliminary one, and cost $l7O,OO0,
State Engineer Bond says was complete,
and that he Is satisfied the work can be
done within the siol 600 900 appropriation;
Wherever there was question OF doubt
as to cost Of construction at any point,
he said, "the highest figure OF the cost was
estimated upon, 30 that there would be an
ample margin to meet unforeseen con-
tingencies. A second survey is not needed,
and all that now will be necessary will be
to complete the preliminary survey work
by carrying it forward in all details. 1t
will take about seven years to complete
the canal improvement work, There Ia
much of ii that can be carried on both winter
and summer wit thout interfering with navi-
CATION, such as the canalizng OF the Mo-
hawk River from the Hudson River to
Clyde, which is nearly half the length of
the Erie Canal, and the construction OF
the new section each side OF Rochester,
between Fairport and Greece distance
Of fifteen miles
"Then, again, 1t would be wise to first
complete the survey work and let the con-
tracts for those pieces Of work which pre-
sent the hardest engineering. problems and
the most difficult work, such as the six
teens at Cohoes, the heavy rock cutting
"a a al
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RemOter Results.

A material change was wrought on
Nov. in the political prospects of sew
eral American citizens Some who have
been regarded as possible candidates
for the Presidency are now eliminated,
while others hitherto in the background
have been brought to the front.
The prestige of Senator HANNA has
been immeasurably increased by the
amazing victory of the Republicans in
Ohio, where their plurality for Governor
exceeded hundred thousand, and where
their majority in the Legislature on joint
ballot for Senator will exceed ninety.
To appreciate the magnitude Of this
triumph, we should recall the fact that
Mr.. MCKINLEY was only able to carry
Ohio in 1895 by less than $4,000, and by
less than 10000 four years later. On the
other hand, decades have elapsed since
the vote cast for any Democratic nominee
for Governor in Ohio was smaller than
that secured by Mayor TOM l.. JOHNSON,
who considered as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency, must be looked upon as extin-
guished. 1t is now improbable that he
will be permitted to head the Ohio dele
cation to the Democratic National Con-
vention.
Not only in Ohio has Bryanism been
wiped out as political force, but also in
Colorado, which was supposed to be its
stronghold, and in Nebraska. where the
Republicans gained decisive victory,
making clean sweep even of the county
in which Mr.. BRYAN lives. This in spite
of the fact that in Nebraska fusion had
been effected between the Democrats
and the Populists.
In Massachusetts the success Of Gov
ernor BATES, who is reelected by
plurality almost equal to that which he
obtained last year, puts an end to the
delusion that, under any probable cir
oumstances the Democrats could carry
the State. With that delusion will vanish
the idea Of putting forward ex-Secre-
tary of State OLNEY as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency. The Democrats will nominate
nobody who has not at least fair chance
Of carrying his own State.
There are those VINO think that the
election of Mr.. EDWIN WARFIELD, the
Democratic candidate for Governor in
Maryland. will strengthen Senator Cor
MAN in the eyes of the Democratic
National Convention, 1t is certain that if
the Republicans had carried Maryland,
Mr.. GoRMAN's name would have been
expunged from the list Of Democratic
candidates for the Presidency and even
his influence over the Democratic minor
ity in the United States Senate might
have been sensibly impaired. We do not
imagine, however, that the Democracy
will choose a nominee solely for the
purpose Of capturing the eight electoral
votes of Maryland.
1t is Of ncomparably greater moment
to win the thirty-nine electoral votes Of
New York.
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UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND.
Some OF the Commissioners Have Loaned
the Funds ImprO,IdentIy.

ALBANY, Nov. 8.-At a meeting of the
Commissioners Of the State Land Office
to-day the fact was developed that the
United States Deposit funds have been
loaned improvidently in this State. These
funds are loaned out by commissioners
named by the Governor, who invest the
funds in farm and other mortgages in
various parts of the State. These invest
ments have resulted so unfortunately .ha
the State has been compelled to forenl,se
and take good deal of the property.
Attorney General Cunneen and State
Comptroller Miller were named to devise
an amendment to the law to safeguard these
loans in the future and to provide for the
disposal to advantage Of the property
held by the State.
The commissioners to-day considered
several applications for grants of land
comprised in the abandoned Clark and
Skinner Canal, which lies in the city OF
Buffalo and covers plot rs feet wide bv
400 feet long. The city Of Buffalo apple,
for the entire plot, and applications for
parts Of the land are on file from the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
the Buffalo Cold Storage Company and the
Schoekopf Company, tanners. The com
missioners deferred action to special
meeting to be held on Nov. 10.
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Let Us Be Just to the Philippines

Let Us Be just to the Philippines &.
The extra session Of Congress, which
begins on Nov. 9, is called for the e9-
press purpose of rendering operative the
act Of justice to Cuba embodied in the
reciprocity treaty which our Senate
has ratified. 1t will scarcely be denied
that we owe as much to the Filipinos as
We owe to the Cubans. We have de-
prived them of the market for two of
their principal staples, namely, sugar
and tobacco, which they formerly pos
sessed in Spain, and we have practically
excluded those commodities from the
United States by imposing upon them
duties amounting to rs per cent. of those
levied by the Dingey law. On hemp
the third Of the chief products of the
Philippines. we impose no duty, but
we have forbidden the insular govern
mont to levy an export duty on such
hemp as ia sent for consumption to the
United States. The net result of the
act Of Congress which became operative
In March, 1902, and which, ostensibly
was framed for the relief Of the Filipinos,
Is that for the sixteen months ended
June 30. 1903, the insular treasury was
actually worse off by 100000 than it
would have been had no relief act been
passed.
This can easily be demonstrated. 1t
will be remembered that the Fifty
seventh Congress declined to heed the
earnest recommendation of the Philip
pine Commission that reduction of rs
per cent. of the Dingiey rates should be
made in the case of commodities inn
ported from the Philippines into the
United States The recommendation
had the warm approval of President
ROOSEVELT and was strenuously urged
by Secretary RooT; nevertheless, no
attention was paid to it, because the
representatives of our sugar and to-
bacco interests mistakenly assumed
that the proposed reduction of rates
would cause our market to be flooded
with sugar and tobacco from the Philip
pines. Accordingly, they prevailed upon
Congress so to limit the reduction that
IS per cent. Of the Dineley rates should
w Ao''ou VIA Hhpiho SoHHioIllieS, WIN
the proviso that the duties thus col
lected should be returned to the insular
treasury to be expended for the benefit
Of the islands. How has this act worked? I?
From March, 1902, up to Aug. 80, 1903,
the amount of duties collected in our
ports upon Filipino products, and paid
over to the insular government, was
s25s,e62 This was but small contribu-
non to the insular treasury, yet it would
have been better than nothing had it not
been more than counterbalanced by a
provision OF the act Of March s, 1902,
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Tho Sound Of the Iona Explo.ion.

To THE EprroR or THE SrN-Sir: In a despatch
In THE SIN OF TO day II is mentioned. as II II were
a remarkable occurrence. that the explosion at
Iona Island was heard at distance OF twenty
miles.
This should not cause surprise At tho battle
Of Lake George In September. 1885, when General
iaf,crward sir Wl,am) Johnson defeated the
French General nieskau. tho cannonadIng of
tina, action was distinctly heard at Albany--fully
sixty miles distant The reason OF this WAS un e.
doubtcdly. that the gorgcs OF the mountains be
tween that city and Lake George formed great
natural speaking trumpet, which conducted, or
rather transmitted. the sound
Indeed II Is singular that the Iona explosion
should not have been heard at a much greater dis
tancc than twenty miles, as the Highlands Of the
Hudson prcseut the same conditions in the way
OF transmitting sound the ranges OF mountains
between Lake George and Albany,
WILLIAM J.. STONE.
MOUNT VERNON, Nov. s.
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Baby mine.
Darling. Heaven -soulsA,
Dearie. Adored,
Duckie mino.
Face, Angel.

President TANsEY OF the United Textile
Workers has the right idea. Last summer
the price Of cotton rose and some conscience
less, inhuman, shrewd men made money in
the market. Mr.. TANsEY noted this, and
addressing the annual convention of his
organization. he said;
Another matter which should receive some
attention from the delegates Of this convention Is
that which has unquesonably brought want into
many homes during the last six months wherever
cotton spinning Is carried on. through the action
OF class OF men known as bulls, whose bulsh
greed and whose conscience. 1t they have any. Is
steelcd to such degree that they have scruplcs
whether the operative or the children of operatives
Who are depending on the cotton Industry to main :
tain life should die OF starvation through what
can only be termed and should be considered a
criminal offence"
Mr.. TANsEy should repeal the law of
supply and demand at once.