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Republicans and Democrats.

The other DAY We said what, though
obvious enough. may be worth repent
ing, since so many persons are the dupes
Of names and traditions and slow TO
comprehend their actual politics
Mr ROOSEVELT Is stronger at present .han the
Republican party. NJ BRYAN Is strong enough
N the Democratic party. largely radical. 20 prevent
IS success when Il plays conservative. W; mere
must he and will De- n conservative party. party
not disposed to strain the Constitution. It is tho
ruth to say that save by lip service. the Demo-
Gratis be they pa1k-rlies or Byanltcs. have ceased
to worship or regard the Constitution. There arc
In fact. two federslsl parties. and Mr.. BRYAN ia q
federallst without knowing H.
The Macon Telegraph reprints and APP
proves. II sees BRYAN, and some of
his more extreme followers, siding up
TO ROOSEVELT" and it sees "unmis-
taxable indications OF a breaking up OF
party lines and alignment And it holds
with us, that there must be a conserva-
tive party
Can anybody tell where that conserva-
tive party is at present? 1t may be in
the bowels OF time II is not visible.
Mr.. BRYAN went to Washington last
week and resumed his seat on the Demo-
cratic throne Democratic members Of
Congress crowded about him and hung
reverently on his lips He was again
the leader, the boss, the god Of Demo-
cratic idolatry
And DAvID's lips are locked HILL,
the conservative of 1896, the radical of
1902. the conservative convert of 1904
Is dead BRYAN, buried so many
times, and the last time at st. Louis,
is in command of the majority of the
Democratic party He is pretty young
and wholly healthy. The conservative
Democratic party doesn't look large
As To the sincerity OF the admiration
Of Mr.. BRYAN and his follow ers for Mr..
ROOSEVELT, some doubts are permissi-
BILE But Mr.. BRYAN seems to have the
sense to perceive that Mr.. ROOSEVELT
is the only ldrty in sight. H is more
than the Republican party. He is a
good deal of the Democratic party.
Even large part Of the South has found
that he is a pretty good fellow.
Can there be any new alignment OF
political parties so long as Mr.. RoosE-
WELT retains his personal prominence
and popularity? Can the real strength
Of the Republicans or the Democrats be
known while ne maenetizes and masters
both? AS to a conservative party, a
reaction ia sure; but when we see Col
BRYAN, still the one Democrat in the
world for most Democrats-in so far as
there are any Democrats save in dor
mant state-Why, the job Of 'reorganiza-
ton looks apt to take some time.
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Personal TAX IN NEE YORK
Instances or Its HARDSHIP and the Incqual-
ity Of It's Assessm ent.

To THE Enron or THE Sun Sir desire
10 call your attention 10 an abuse which Is
growing more cruel every year | refer TO
the legal robbery OF the estates OF widows ana
orphans by the personal tax l give you only
a few instances, as samples, out OF very many
within my personal knowledge.
have to-day lady client, a widow in ad-
yanoed years. she has one daughter. who
receives a small salary for Singh In a church.
Apart from this. her sole support is the In
come OF SIS, 600 invested at per cent. on bond
and mortgage on real estate in this city. This
SIS, 600 was the insurance on her husbands
life She has been assessed for personal tax
which means the payment this year OF SIS
out OF her $3.50 income.
Another woman. also advanced In years.
has an income OF $500 from two mortgages on
realty In this city, She has been assessed
and her tax, out OF the income OF $500. Will
be this year about sl5i.
During the Spanish war a man died. leaving
daughter and granddau ghter. their sole
support was an estate OF $4,000 invested in
the same way. The city and State tax that
year was $500. inheritance tax 800. United
States Inheritance tax $50; total, $50. out OF
An estate Of 81 600 900 invested In per
ant bonds, was left with trustees 70 be held
for tue children. in the year OF which speak
the tax was s24. 900. the income for the family
These are not isolated cases; they run into
tho thousands. There Is no remedy, once
the assessors obtain the name, except re-
moval from the city.
II is not mere Injustice. It ia absolute rob-
berry: FOR IT is entirely UNEQUAL The distress
il entails Ia terrible. but for the most port not
generally known. The rich m m says, -If you
Rssess ME more than 20 much viii change
my residence This means simply that he
viii choose his country home ss his reSi-
dence and II IL his r1ght.
What Efforts the city Is mskine 70 rave It's
people from the swindle OF gamblers. from
which thev can protect themselves. while IL
Itself thus attacks the innocent and helpless'
Consider also that all the realty on which
these mort Ra-es rest IL now asRe4sed AZ its
fnll value and the owner pays the tax on its fun
value Where can the money OF widows and
orphans be invested II not In mortEaGe on
our real estatei IT Il not de4ir1 BILE nor pos
sible that II should all BE- deposited in ga Wings
banks. Are these people 20 be driven out OF
the cityY
The sssessrn ent Of the tax on the principal
value Of our property. instead or the income
f. a mi stake that will ruin rs in time. Nothing
but the youth and growth Of our country
and the fact that II has not been strictly en-.
forced have enabled US tn bear g. But with
the ever increasing eStravarn nee Of our
Covernments Of everv Kind. city. State and
FEDERAL, q win be before long an oppression
which VIII have 70 be counted among the
many causes looking TO our destruct on.
NEW YoRK. Jan n. PuTLrP L. WILSON.
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Does Medical Education Deserve
Recognition

Medical science gave vaccination to
mankind. This single discovery has
caused practically to disappear from the
earth one Of the greatest scourges Of the
human race. 1t has saved countless
millions OF human beings from the suf-
ferings Of a most loathsome disease.
which killed the majority OF those at
tackled and left those who recovered
from it disfgured for life.
Within recent years, by the discovery
OF the source OF infection in yellow fever,
i. has removed from the list OF cpl
domics this dread disease, which for
merly spread death and disaster in its
track, closed our great shipping ports for
months at a time, and in addition to the
awful suffering and sacrifice of life caused
the loss of millions Of dollars to the COM
mercial interests of the world.
In the discovery Of the germ theory Of
disease, if viewed only in its application
to one single malady, diphtheria, for
merly so destructive to children, now
not only preventable, but when acquired
durable practically in all cases by the
simple injection under the skin OF BEHR-
NOS serum. medical science gave to
mankind something of value which can
not be estimated in dollars and cents. In
the logical development Of this theory
the best minds of the profession believe
that the time is not far distant when
every disease will be subject to serum
therapy.
In surgery the demonstration Of the
aseptic and antiseptic method has done
as much as vaccination in the ameliora-
ton Of suffering and the prolongation Of
life. The operation of ovariotomy and
the abdominal operations in both sexes
which followed McDowELL's initiative
and the development of the science of
gynncology due TO the genius Of MARION
SINS have added millions of years to the
sum Of life and saved hundreds Of thou
sands OF human beings from untimely
death.
These are but few examples OF what
medical science has done for mankind.
They are the fruits Of a higher and broad
ening education.
Last month we expressed regret that
the city of New York was not the medical
centre of the United States; that in spite
of its vast prepondersnce in population
and its financial standing as the first city
OF the Western Hemisphere it was out
stripped by two or three cities of smaller
size. for the reason that they, through
.bair S,ate or rnunicinal Governments ar
by the aid of wealthy philanthropists,
gave largely to the support Of medical
schools.
At that time, writing on the practical
education of graduates in medicine, we
submitted synopsis OF an address by
the president of the medical faculty Of
one OF our educational institutions, the
New York Polytechnic Medical School and
Hospital, showing the work done by that
institution for the twenty-five years Of
its existence. and concluding with the
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gestiop, Senator PLATT OF New York has
introduced bill to place the syStem OF
naturalization on an intelligent and uni
form basis. The bill would greatly re-
strict the number of courts having juris-
diction in naturalization cases. Under
present Federal laws any court of record
having common law jurisdiction, a
clerk and seal, except the police court
OF the District of Columbia, has power
to naturalize aliens, and in only eighteen
States are there supplemental restric-
tive laws. In most Of the States courts
OF minor importance possess and ex-
ercise the power to admit aliens TO
American citizenship.
Senator PLATTs bill aims TO confine
this power to courts corresponding in
dignity and Importance to the Superior
Court Of Massachusetts and the Supreme
Court of New York. To these courts
the United States would furnish forms
for the declaration OF intention and GER
tifcates TO be issued to the applicants.
These forms would be uniform through
out the Union, and a record of each nat
uralization would be kept in a bureau Of
the Department Of State. Al present no
such record is kept.
The abuses complained of by Mr.. HAY
are Of the utmost importance, and the
looseness of administ alton which char
acterizes the admission of aliens to
United States citizenship has been
brought to public attention more than
once. False and fraudulent certificates
of citizenship affect not only the domes-
tic welfare of the nation, but are Of great
annoyance and positive danger in our
dealings with foreign sovereigns.
Senator PLATT' bill would not operate
to prevent any worthy alien friend from
becoming a United States citizen. 1t
would stop forthwith some of the more
notorious abuses of the system.
A related subject, as TO the invoicing
Of intending immigrants, is discussed in
letter which We print to-day from a
former member Of our Consular service.
His suggestion is interesting.
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Religion. AwAk,n'ne In England.

Their Arc not wanting slgut that vc in England
arr on the eve OF a great rriTious awakening as
tht result OF pro found rcvulson OF feeling against
the worldlness and matcualism that have for so
long held bAnrrul sway. a most remarkable wave
Of religious emotion is passing over Wales. The
nuhl,c houses arr losing their trade football clubs
arr experiencing depression as profound As /; Is
unvonted. snd meetings for prayer and praise
arr carried on BY night as well as day.
klreAdy the move ment seems spreading 70 Eng
land. and ,here Ia much 10 confirm the views o.,
th0sn who Tor long time past have bern asserting
that the train laid and that she spark alone wns
now needed 10 e., the kingdom 10 blArc. NAyl
1, II not even possible that VIZ on the verge Of q
world Wide revival, such an event al any rate.
would only b. In keeping with the teaching OF bis
torv which shows very plainly thai II 10 just whrn
rnsterfArsn seems 10 he marching 10 ia AustsrltI
that II meets Instead with It's Sedan
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Necessary Reform OF the Naeuraliza.
tlon Laws.

Under the United States statutes regu-
lating naturalization 5000 Federal and
State courts have authority 10 admit
aliens to citizenship, Secretary HAY
in a recent letter to the President de-
clared that many cases Of false. fraudu-
lent, improper and improvident naturali-
zation' had come to light from time to
time. and recommended that Congress
be urged TO pass an act recasting the
present laws and providing for uniform
practice In naturalization matters
throughout the Union.
At present the proofs OF eligibility,
residence and worthiness required of
applicants for citizenship differ in various
States, and an alien rejected by one
court may be admitted by another.
Moreover, our diplomatic and consular
officers abroad, particularly in Italy
and Haiti. have discovered numerous
frauds and an extensive traffic in spu-
rious certificates Of citizenship. Some
times, says Mr.. HAY, the State Depart
ment receives letters from Judges Of
local courts which disclose primitive
ignorance Of the laws which they are
called upon to construe. II the courts
do not understand the law, is it surpris-
ing that certificates are Issued 10 inn
proper persons or that they are used for
wrongful purposes?
To carry out Secretary HAYS sug-
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expressed conviction that slich an insti-
tuition deserved recognition by this com
munity and perpetuaton by endowment
We are glad to know that since the APP
pearance OF that article there seems
TO be an awakening interest in medical
education in New York, and that this
institution has just received substantial
contributions from different sources
which have enabled it almost entirely
to cancel in so short a space of time a
large mortgaged indebtedness.
One Of tho contributors, a business
man of large affairs, thoroughly ac-
quainted with the management OF the
Polytechnic, referring to the president 8
report, said:
The extraordinary record you were able on
that occasion lay before Us. showing tho esuls
Of the years Of EFFORT devoted b. you and tho medi-
cal stall unsclnshly 10 this nobIe and brnehcent
plan for giving the most advanced medical and
surgical teaching and clinical denomination 10
physicians unable otherwise 10 obtain such practical
instruction. together with the bonenn OF the very
best treatment and caro- gratuitousy given those
Of the sick and helpless poor should prove beyond
~ question tho usefulness Of such combined
school and hospital and It's Just claims for the con
slderauon and aid Of all into rested In the higher
education anC tflinibg OF tue members OF the modi-
cal profession.
When we bear in mind what medicine
has done for the word we may wonder
that in the absence of individual phi
lanthropy our State and municipal Gov
ernments have not long since discovered
that medical education deserves a wider
RECOGNITION
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Tho Metropolitan Museum

The trustees Of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art yesterday elected a
new managing director to fill the place
so long held by the late Gen. CEsNoLA,
and their choice was not little SUR
prising. II fell upon a man who is
perhaps the most con spicuous and emf
nent in museum management in the
world, and not only that he should have
been selected, but that he should have
consented to accept the position. is, it
must be admitted, a very remarkable
occurrence. We think the Museum and
the whole public are to be heartily con-
graduated. The Importance OF the ac-
ccssion of such figure as that which
Sir c. PUBDoN CLARKE presents in the
world Of art education is not easily
overestimated, and it CO mot fail TO
give an extraordinary impetus TO every
interest connected with he Museum.
He Is a man of the most varied and
extensive accomplishments, wide learn
ing and experience, and above all Of
the most conspicuous mastery Of the
entire technical detail of museum man.
agement.
We accept the appointment at its
fun worth and take it simply as an
earnest of what we may look for under
the administration OF the affairs Of
the Museum by its new president
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Mr. Rooscvclt's Attitude Toward the
South.

The announcement made by Judge
JoNEs of Alabama that he had been in
formed by President ROOSEVELT that the
proposal 10 enforce the second section
of the Fourteenth Amendment would be
opposed by the Administration has been
received, as might have been expected,
with lively satisfaction in the Southern
States. Farsighted Southerners had
predicted that the reduction Of a given
States representation in the House Of
Representatives and in the electoral col
lege, proportionately to the number OF
adult male voters excluded in that State
from the franchise, would, in its political
and social consequences, prove disas-
trous to the civilization of their section.
and indirectly to the whole American
people, owing to the economic solidarity
OF the Republic.
There is no doubt that before the dis
closure Of the President S position with
reference 10 the matter there waS serious
apprC hension in the Southern States
that this time the threat to enforce the
second section OF the Fourteenth Amend
mcnt might be carried out An attempt
to commit the Republican party to such
a POLICY had often been made and been
frustrated, but at Chicago in 1904 dis
tinct approval Of it had been expressed
in the platform framed by that party's
national convention. II is true that
for an Endorsement Of that plank Mr..
XoosEvELT's letter of acceptance and
speech Of acceptance we're scanned in
vain He did not repudiato it, however, in
so many words and his silence was taken
tor assent in many quarters. According
Is, soon after the opening Of the pres
ent session Of Congress, Representative
CRUMPAcKER and Senator PLAT Of New
York, in their respective chambers. in
troduced resolutions looking 10 a prompt
and drastic enforcement OF the Four
teenth Amendment by Federal legisla-
ton. II was a natural inference that
such veteran politicians would not have
made such a move unless they felt as
sured that il would have the countenance
Of their party'e Executive head. That
they reckoned without their host is now
made evident by Judge JoNEs's report
of his conversation with the President.
The contemplated Force bill may, there
fore, be looked upon az dead
We have no doubt that in arriving at
his decision Mr.. ROOSEVELT. like many
other fair minded Northern men who
have made the situation at the South the
subject Of earnest study has been pro-
foundly impressed by such considera-
tons as those which we're set forth
clearly and forcibly in the January num-
Der OF the North American RerioD by Mr..
EDGAR GARDNER MURPHY, secretary Of
the Southern Education Board. The
author Of that timely article pointed out
hat should the second section az the
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There are welcome novelties In Harpsr's Monthly
Majestic for February. an interesting article 10
which everyday New York Is made picturesque
with pencil and pen By Mr. c. H. White, and de-
nrhttul unpublished lecture on Man Stuart In
FRANCE By Longtellov. The descriptive articles
are on rsdiun. by Prof. Rutherford: on whales bY
Mr.. J. p. Connolly; on marine curiosi,es. on IA
Sale. and on picturesque wales, with nhtur
study By John Burroughs The short stories ar
seven: their err many pictures OF ,snCd hue. with
Q greAi deal OF versa
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TheIr Choice Of Hymns.


Fr0r Tie B0tI00 IToN1fTIpI'
When Burton Holmes. the lecturer. WAS In Eng
land the pas summer be wished famous prison.
He vas there on sunday ana attended the church
services. Tho prisoners were permitted 70 select
INC hymns that they were TO sing. and M. Holmes
.Ald that they threw much feeling iato Froe From
TIC Law. Happy Condition.
The last hymn was God Do With You TIL We
Nee, Again" This seemed curoua 10 the visitor.
especially as be noticed thai many OF the oonviota
smiled broadly while singing lie inc uired about
the song. and the warden explained that prisoner
who had been there Tor years was 70 be discharged
the ne1t day
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~, wr,r,, Aam,r,tion soe,,t,

To I'm EprroR or THE SuS-sD: You have
spoken OF the citizens Union q mutual admiro-
ton society. You do not seem 70 be aware OF It's
hrh character and lofty purpose. The Citizens
Union Is our Anglo Saxon representation. It
desires 20 1--WE us the ben,nt Of the mighty genius
which Is 70 direct the whole world. II aims to
turn acme Of tia, genius from ~ International
channel and 70 pour II upon ia for the regeneration
OF our city. Unsolicited. Il oners Us this boon.
Cease your ratings and let the Citizens urion
move 70 It's mission. PLAIN AkERcAS.
NEw YORK Jan 81
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nrn,,,pt Surgeon, Not wantea.

ST. Fredsret Trerrs n ne Young Men.
Genius Is some sort OF neuro~is an uncAlculated
nervous disease. The frw men Of genius have
met were exceedingly impossible persons. They
ar, certa!nlv entirely or, OF place In the medical
profession. vhrre even eleverness not 70 Be- en-
courarcd. Indeed. OF al desperately dangerous
pcrso.S TIC brilliant surgeon IS tho mosi L.,asE<
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Cooked Quotations.

cook IN the country IS wer,l two IN N stem
gence once.
Cooks are not always what they seem
a commuter and MS cook are soon pas'-f
The pan IS mig 1iitr taAa the sword
Money makes the cook 20.
4 mans house isa cooks fusrr'oe
Cooks never sii.Ae twice 20 lne same p3
wives rush IN waerr cnuss tear 80 Urea!
Distance dres not lend sn-gaI-a.eai ta tae
CHARITY begins ~ hH. ...-. ~
49, Trunrr IN. IrrrTrfI
Al 'a,as- oam-'o aim e-9ea... :-F' -
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Jos-ph hsd iu@t been thrown into me p,i.
The boys ddnTknowr vas q subway entrance. =
be ohucklcd.
Taking the nrst train. ne emerged at tho terminal
Ard thenct 20 KEypi.
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Literary Education.

He always resd best selling books
Nor touched classic leader.
And thus he came. IN oourBs OF time,
To be tks bssI sod reader-
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TO clothe the heA,hrn iA-r win n ~
Then they n proccod. fusoott,
To drnp- and trin anu oruam7ut
And cloihe the naked Truth.
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To THE EDITOR or The Sus--Sr' II always
Amuses an Engshman TO be called allen IN
this country-cspeclaly by men who are them
selves aiens-snd very vcrdant ones. too. This
county was all practically settled by Eng!ishmen.
so tncy next 10 the Indians the original in
hahliants here. and the English Government Was
driven out praeJeAy 20 Engishmen or ther
descendants K ii. :.
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