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PRESIDENTIAL ORATORY.
Pornrlo Diaz's Birthday Remarks 10 HE
Friends At OaxaOa.

Translated bv the Merican Herald.
when one has lived for long away from tho
native spot. IL is 30 delightful to he surrounded
by ones own people. though but for abort
time, that feel not only grateful. but happy
and even proud at the felicitation which you
have come to offer to me. Popular manifesto
tions are to be priced and held in honor In
proportion to the civic virtues. the loftiness OF
spirit and independence Of character OF the
persons Offering them. And the fact that the
people Of Oaxaoa possess in high degree
those noble virtues Is well known to all who
either itnessed or have read that at the mid
die OF the nineteenth century that people
maintained long and sanguinary struggle
within and outside of the State in behalf OF
liberal principles and the laws Of reform; that
in the war for our second independence the
arms OF Oaxaca were the first to combat the
French. not merely acting on the defensive.
on Oaxacan territory, but seeking out the
invader during his first steps on the national
soil: that Oaxaca was one OF the last states
which temporarily succumbed to the weight
OF numbers and brute force. and one OF the
first again to take the initiative in avenging
the blood Of our countrymen and chastislng
the affronts put upon the national nag-A
establishment which was. indeed. meted out
in full measure at Miahuatlan. LaCarbonera.
Oaxaca. Iachitova. Puebla and San Lorenzo.
whence our ensign was borne In triumph and
again flung to the breeze on the highest RAM
parts of the capital Of the republic.
Herein. gentlemen. lies the explanation OF
the noble and harmless provincial pride
which animates that nursery Of loyal patriots.
from which rose the genius who. by making
all Mexicans equal in the eyes OF the law. made
us 1T to form a great nation. rich and power
full. as IL is natural that every nation should
be whose citizens have the same rights and the
same duties and who are conscious that the
former can only become effective by means
OF the punctual fulhlment Of the latter
May our country meet with no obstacle
in the broad path that leads hAr on to her
destincs; but II she ever stands In need OF US
and summons us to her side to enforce respect
for the fla that has so often been anonted by
the blood Of our forefathers. may our people.
at the first sound Of the bugle, remember that
they are Oaxacans."
The words of the President were followed
by enthusiastic accamations and then in
turn all present, the highest and the humbest
pressed forward either to shake the President
by the hand or to exchange with him an
abr1so. 1t was noted sight and tho touch OF
local color and sentiment impaired to II special
interest.
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HIGH PRICE or SILVER.
1t May Increase Enough Ia Equal the valus
OF the Philippine Peso.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 3s.-Col. Clarence
Edwards, Chief Of the Bureau Of Insular
Affairs of the War Department. said to-
day that the officers Of the Philippine Gov.
ernment are not at all alarmed over tho
high price Of silver bullion. and are satis.
fed that bullion will not increase in pric.
enough to cause the retirement Of the
Philippine peso, as has been suggested
by officers Of the Treasury Department.
The offers of silver bullion YESTERDAY
ranged from 8O.25 to 1858, and it has been
suggested that a rise of little more than
three cents an ounce over the present
figures will make the price OF bullion equal
to the value of a silver peso. This is not
the opinion Of the officers Of the Bureau
Of Ins,ilar Affairs, who say that the value
of the Philippine peso IL nearly 90 cents.
and that there is no reason to fear that
silver will reach that figure
The question of Philippine currency
has been giving the authorities much CON.
Germ ever since the discussion OF that sub
ject in Congress and the announcement
in the House by Representative Hill OF
Connecticut that Secretary Shaw favored
the exclusive use OF American dollars in
the Philippine Islands. There is a sug-
gestion In some quarters that the officers
Of the Treasury Department are still anx-
ious to see the retirement Of the Philip
pine peso and that they are only too glad
Of the rise in the price OF silver, "a it would
be an argument against the use of a sepa-
rate Philippine rloney, and support Secre-
tary's Shaw a idea that the American dollar
should be introduced as the currency OF
tho islands.
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The House Cleaner, Orchestra.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIE SuS-SE In this morn
ing's Sun IF. u. H." refers. with no lttie disgust
to the nuisance OF organ grinders and states VIA
some truth that the pigs In our streets many yea'
ago were less offensive than some organs, The
pigs OF OH were no doubt more musical ,han organs
out Of tune, ind should Ike 10 have hi, opinion
upon still another class OF music To be had graf:
IN almost any part Of New York, at all ho4rh.
refer 10 the continuous beating OF rugs, cs-I+ss
clothes, matre scs, &c. with sticks OF every ''t'
and shape In the hands OF mcn and women -s,re'
times number OF them beng beaten at the same
time.
II there Is any nuisance under the sun that olSh'
Co be- stoppea quicRiy and 'orcibIy, not only on
account OF H., di,cordant noise, bat Tor sanitary
reasons. II IL that. To mo II Is without exception
the most intolerable OF all noises.
NEW YORK, Sept "a. LONG SurryHxs
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MORE ARTILLERY NEEDED.
Net EnSugh Men Now 70 Care For tine
Costly sesc>sst Defences.

Net EnSugh Men Now 70 Caro- FER the
Costly sesoeast Defences.
WASHINGTON. Sept 25.-The General Stan
h considering plans for an increase OF the
Artillery Corps so that an adequate num-
Der Of men to care for the valuable seacoast
guns may be provided Reports received
at the War Department show that the
ordnance at q number Of the seacoast
Notifications is deteriorating because OF the
lack of sufficient number Of men to garri-
son the forts.
Several officers in command Of artillery
districts have urged the War Department
to increase the number Of men to each COM
pany In the coast artillery. and one officer
has strongly recommended that the coast
artillery companies be increased from the
present strength Of 100 men TO 1875 men.
Ma or-Gen. Chaffee, in reviewing this rec
ommendation, says that the necessity for
an increase in the artillery is general and
he is OF the opinion that immediate action
should be taken to provide some RELIEF
from the present situation.
A study OF the present condition has con-
WINGED officers Of the General Stan that
the only adequate remedy can be secured
from Congress-, which limited the organi-
zation Of the Artillery Corps to IL. 800 men.
The coast artillery as now organized CON
sists OF 1874 men, and this includes the
force on the Pacific Of well as Atlantic ana
Gulf coasts Gen. Chaffee believes that
coasts should he not less than 10. 600 men.
which would provide but one relief for the
guns. At the present time he has only
10 600 men
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Real Estate Assessm ents for 1904.

The assessment of real estate in New
York city for purposes of taxation in
1904, which was begun on Sept. 1, will be
affected by two important laws passed
by the last Legislature. The duties
Of the Deputy Tax Commissioners, by
whom the assessments are made, are
defined by Section $3.50 of the Charter,
and the new matter provides that their
returns to the Commissioners Of Taxes
and Assessments shall show "the sum
for which in their judgment, each sepa-
rately assessed parcel of real estate
under ordinary circumstances would
sell If it were wholly unimproved; and,
separately stated, the sum for which,
under ordinary circumstances, the same
parcel of real estate would sell with the
improvements if any, thereon. That is,
the value OF the land and the improve
ments are to be separated in the reports
of the deputies.
Another important amendment pro-
vides that the annual record Of the as
sessed valuation of real estate shall be
printed az a supplement to the City
Record. The instructions to the Deputy
Tax Commissioners declare that these
amendments were adopted ito prevent
discrimination and to promote equity
in the assessing Of real estate. The
publication of the assessment rolls will
be an expensive JOB. In 1902 there were
4s7 ,ssl parcels Of property on the tax
rolls, and this year the number rose to
477,O08.
The object of the publication ia to give
wide publicity to the valuations placed
on each parcel of property, in order that
mistakes and inequitable decisions made
by the Deputy Commissioners may be
exhibited to the public. and by the public
called to the attention Of the Commits
sioners 1t is believed that when a
deputy has neglected to place high
enough valuation on piece of property,
owners of other real estate in the same
neighborhood will be quick to notice it
and make complaint to the department.
and that favoritism on the part Of the
deputies will thus be made practically
ineffective. The inconvenience Of con-
sulting the tax books has prevented
most persons from attempting to make
a study Of the valuations placed on prop
erty by the assessors in the past. With
the figures easily accessible there will
be a great increase in the number Of per-
sons who study them, and some abuses
may be corrected through volunteer
criticism.
The city administration is committed
to the 4full valuation assessment plan.
In the address to their deputies the Com
missioners declare that "the results are
a more perfect equalization Of values, q
solution of the debt limit problem ano
lower taxes.
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Last year the number of births re-
ported and recorded in New York was
s5,842, and it was an increase over 1901
of 4,907, or little more than sper cent.
This growth may be taken as indi-
eating large increase in population and
also in people of peculiarly prolific races.
On Wednesday Dr. LOUIS HAUPT, one of
the Commissioners of Education made
report on the subject to the Board of Edu-
lscation, in which he calculated that the
present increase in the birth rate is much
greater, and he attributes it to the ex-
traordinariIy large volume Of immigra-
ton now pouring into New York, In the
district in which these immigrants settle
in the greatest numbers DR.. HAUPr
finds the highest birth rate--the district
bounded by the Bowery, Houston street,
Catharine street and the East River.
II is not merely because OF increase in
the birth rate that the public schools are
unable to furnish sufficient accommo-
dation for full-dav instruction to all the
children who apply for admission, though
this demand is most urgent in the very
quarter he finds most prolific, for these
foreigners, happily for the future of New
York are peculiar in their eagerness to
obtain for their children instruction in
our language and in the elementary
branches; it is because OF the greater
saving OF lives of infants under years.
In New York during the last quarter OF
a century the Improvement in sanitary
and tenement house regulation hh been
enormous, as Is indicated very strikingly
by comparison Of the death rate in
the territory Of which New York con-
sisted before the consolidation with that
Of 1880, In the summer quarter OF this
year, the quarter in which this child life
Is subjected to its greatest dangers, the
rate was 1897. In 1880 it was 81 &c. or
nearly twice Ms great, In 1902 the actual
number OF deaths OF children under 5
years OF age was about the same as in
1901, in spite Of an increase OF nearly
five thousand in the births
This is showing highly creditable to
New York and specifically to the Health
department under the administration of
DR. LEDERLE, for the problems the de-
partinent deals with are more difficult
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Under the existing option, the Govern
ment of the United States agreed to pay
to the New Panama Canal Company OF
Paris $40, 100000 for its franchises prop
erty and uncompleted work on the 18TH
mus that u.s. to pay SAC, OO0, 900 in case the
French owners could give good title and
the Colombian Government consented
to the transfer.
1t has been reserved for Col. HENRY
WATTERsoN of Louisville to make the dis
covery that every cent Of the $40 600
was intended to be divided among
thieves. With his accustomed sobriety
Of Judgment, thoroughness OF research
and fulness of information, the Colonel
finds that the price was fixed at that
figure by collision between the agents
j. of the New Panama Canal Company and
certain corrupt and avaricious Amerl-
cans whose names are not yet disclosed
= by him to the public
By this arrangement the French
thieves" were to get $50, 100000 for what
Col. WATTERsON describes as a few pots
. and a lawsuit" y, while another SIC, OOo, 900
was to be divided among thieves on
this side of the water, including news
paper correspondents who helped to
manufacture public opinion, alleged
engineering experts who came out OPP
portunely for Panama in preference to
Nicaragua, and the gray wolves OF the
Senate" who helped to enact the Spooner
amendment.
1t will be observed that the two allot-
ments of plumber amount to just
$40, 900, 900, as Col. WATTERsoN shows with
mathematical accuracy-"$2 O,OO0,00 to
the thieves in France and the $50, 900 900
to the thieves in America, completing
the sum agreed upon in the Spooner act. y
This lacks only names, facts and proof
to be quite convincing.
Has Col. WATTERsoN noticed the fur
Their coincidence that the exact sum
Of $40, 100000 needed to provide tho
20,e0O, 900 for the French thieves and the
$40, oOO, 600 for the American thieves was
fixed, long in advance Of the stupendously
nefarious transaction, by that notorious
body known as the Isthmian Canal Com
mission, which arrived at the $40, 900 900
total by this process of appraisal Of the
Z pots, pans and lawsuit:
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This Is very satisfactory. with Its fivefold
increase in exports in this line for the ten
years .
Comparing the 1908 and the 1854 exports OF
agricultural implements with exports OF IRON
and steel manufactures, the growth has been
fortyfold for the former against thirteen
fold for the latter.
And the end is not yet. Reports gathered
recently by the Department of State from
our consu!s At the request O. the National amd
Vehicle Manufacturers. for use at the APP
proa ching annual meeting OF that association,
show many openings abroad for our manu-
features in this line.
The wide distribution Of our exported i'm i'm
factory. As the Bureau Of Statistics aptly
says: The sound Of the AMERICAN cam mover vra
and reaper Is heard in British French nn ana
and Ksiatic Turkey. in Japan. in India. n
Australia, and in practically al OF the South
Europe, while the American plough and cul-
tivat?r 20 TO practically every country IN the
world WALTER j. BALLARD.
SCHENECTADY, Sept. -.
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NIDSHIPMAN FRY DISMISSED.
Disclosures as to Iiazins at the Naval
Academy 10 Be Investigated.

WASHINGTON, Sept. rs. -Midshipman Fry
Of the Naval Academy was to-day ordered
dismissed from the service Of the United
States because OF repeated violation Of
the rules Of the Academy. This action
was taken by Secretary Moody on the
recommendation OF the academic board,
and the Endorsement OF that recommends.
ton by Capt. w. II. Brownson. the Super
intendent Of the Academy. Capt Brown
son had talk to-day with Secretary Moody
in regard to the recent disclosures as to
hazing at the Academy. It was deter
mined to make a thorough investigation,
and il hazing exists to put q stop to it.
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s4O,0oO.OCo

How singular that this pretentiously
detailed and affectedly conscientious
process of valuation by Admiral J. Ct.
WALKER, SAMUEL PAsCo, ALFRED NOBLE,
GEORGE S. MORRISON, PETER c. HAMS,
WILLIAM Fl. BURR, o. H. ERNST, LEWIS
NJ. HAuPT and EMORY r. JOHNSON should
figure out to precisely the same total as
is reached by Col. WATTERsoN by the
simpler method of adding $2O,00O,0 900
for the French thieves to S2O,OOOO0O for
the American thieves!
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The Man Who Spoke Up.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir' Your
editorial comments on the municipal cam
paign merit the highest commentator of
right thinking people.
move a vote OF confidence in the Hon.
William Travers Jerome. J. W. +.
NEW YORK. Sept Is.
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Ode to tho Ancients.

As ancient as the wine they drink;
As ancient rs the Jokes they crack
AS ancient A. the lips they smack:
AZ ancient a. their weapons dread:
As ancient as are myrrh and nard:
As ancient as their glowing red
As ancient AS the streets they guard:
Like resuueG,iOns from the past
They stand on Boston's classic heigb Us
And always are, from nrst to last.
Embodied thirstS and appetites.
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lsoa-ChIcaxo. Centary-I9O3.

Not
Is that SOL
Has our Chicago got
To the hundred spot
Has she
Pulled of a century,
A hundred years
or hopes and fears.
or clouds and clears.
OF hogs and steers.
OF Jokes and jeerst
And still so frcsh'
Oh. say.
Ain'titgay.
To get old that way'
Amt 1t right
To be out OF sight.
Day and night,
And scoop
Everything with whOop'
Amt II the goods,
Not 10 60 back to the woods.
But to keep straight ahead.
Painting It red:
And grabbing the graft
Fore and aft.
In science and art,
And the busy mart
OF Industry and trade.
Where the money Is nader
Aad doing stunt
In socictys !rUnt'
And spreading out
over all the country roundabout
Amt 1T
We'll. we guess
Yes.
Say. on what meat doth this Chicago feed
That she hath grown SO big!
Pig
OF course. and that's why
She roots for ChicsCo
And turns UP the stu6
To back her bluff:
That's why she bristles oil over
With the energy that pulls
Fronts out Of the inpossibles.
And makes q stake
Where others break.
10, there she stands
The marvel OF all lands,
The pride
or her own countryside:
The Windy Wonder OF tho West;
The best
Example Of tho new
The Pole star OF the Skies
OF Enterprise
The SoTcercss of Sausage.
The Lazy of our Lards,
The Princess of The PackerIes,
The Empress Of the Yards;
The Ccaselcss Seller OF the Snaps
She reaches out 70 scoop:
The Royal looter Of the Realm
or Got there with "a whOop.
That's her
With bin, bang. whiy whir
Chicago.
And II within q century
shes got 70 where sheis
Just think whats coming In the next
One hundred years
GRF, WHII'
WILLIAM J. HAMPTON.
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Wifred De Style-Mamma IN Indian baby boy 10
called papOosc, isn't he,
Mrs. DE S,yle--Ycs. my dear.
Wilfred DE Style-Then when be grows up 70 be .
man Is he called a DAphDoose,
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Figures OF 1854: no data for 1850

'FTgures Of 1851, no data TOT IooO
There is no reason to apprehend that the
production in 1908 was less than In 1900. 1t
was doubtless considerably larger. still. as
Stunning only the same production for that
year. the figures show a ivefold increase In
the forty-three years.
1t Is interesting to compare the export Of
agricultural implements in 1898 with those Of
1905 and the proportions sent to - ch country
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We shall merely request all Democrats to walt
until we have nominated our candidates before
they commit themselves 10 a Republican. CHARLES
r. MuRPHr,
Tammany is no more the Democracy
than is the Citizens Union.
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AnaChrOnisns,

Cooper was writing his Misunderstanding Tales.
II know they're old fashioned" he admitted
sadly they should have been football trousersl"
Patiently. he tried TO cOuntcr alanca this by
war whOops almost as good as college yclls.
Fulton was exhibiting the model Of his steam
boat
And don't you think" he asked. Il have in
vented wonderful benent ~ manklnd'"
We don't know" replied the carping critics.
Just think, II will make the Staten Island ferry
possible"
Horror stricken by the sugg eston. he was tempted
10 destroy the product Of his genius
Dante was conducting his trip through Inferno.
And THIS" he exclaimed, rs the Stygian Lake:
the wOrs, Of all the tUrmcnts'"
But asked NlrgiI, where are the people whose
cooks have lcf'"
Fcrreiving that he was stumDed the poet began 70
grind out another canto
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AMERICAN TOOLS ROR FARMERS.
Their Growing Importance In Our Export
Trade to All the World.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: While
in some lines our export trade is not by any
means as large as it ought to be. nor increasing
as fast a. it should. yet in the export Of agri-
cultural implements we have made good
progress and are doing remarkably well.
The growth Of this industry In production
and export is graphically told in the follow
lx,rs Au,lr
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Readers Of THE Sun leaving the city can have the
Daily and Sunday editions mailed 10 their addresses
(which may be changed when necessary, for "
cents a month. Order through your newsdcaer
or THE SUN, 40 Nassau street.
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4 Business Head.

Her Little Brothcr-Say. MI Saply, oASS yo'i
hold on week longer I'm getting ~ ooas
night. and I've got most enough 70 buy football
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II our friends rho ia r0r US Uas mdnnscTfpts Io'
publication irish 10 hare rejected articles ''furnea "eV
must IN all cases send stamps Tor that purpo"
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PARu-Kiosoue No. Il. near Grand Hotel ana
Kiasaue No. TO- boulevard dcs Capucines.
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A Connecticut Historian Writes OF faction
Cake.

STDwELL 3. RANDALL.
BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. Sept. -.