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investments through syndicate OF It's
directors. All it's dealings would be di-
rect and il would acquire it's bonds and
securities at the actual price OF issue
without any Of the heavy tax imposed
in such transactions Mr. ScH1FF, it is
true. controlling the price of issue when
he himself issued, and knowing what IT
ought to be when somebody else made
the issue Mr. SCHIFF would make more
money which is his undeniable right
but the Equitable would save enormous
sums to it's policyholders Of which under
the present system they are mulcted they,
and TO an extent the house Of issue too
by the operations OF the syndicates
Practically the whole ddty and respon-
sibiity of a director in great life insur-
ance company lies in his relation to its
investments. If the Equitable has an
income of ss0,OO00O0 a year and &lS'-
100000 of assets. il is obvious that be-
tween investment, reinvestment ana the
use of cash on hand a most colossal power
is vested in the hands OF those directors
whose authority brings them in actual
contact with its resources. No one oould
deal more effectually with this criminal
abuse than Mr.. SCHIFF. No one else
understands il half so we'll and it is only
n conscientious. upright and scrupulous
adept in finance like Mr.. ScHIFP who
would be equal to the situation.
In other details of management 1t
would be practically the same. Mr..
ScHIFF would never wound the suscep-
tibilities of polcyholders by giving
frivolous entertainment, masked ball,
at SHERRYs. BY no possible effort can
we imagine Mr.. SCHIFF giving masked
ball. even if II we're at the expense OF the
poliCvholders.
What THE Sun would like to know,
without appearing to be in the least in
tr7lsive, is whether Mr. ScHIFF and his
most estimable brother directors and CO.
svndics can take hint2 Ii is scarcely
possible that they contemplate furnish
ing the public with the well founded
suspicion that there ia not only ample
foundation for LAwsoSs Nominations.
but that he has not told half the truth!
The danger to the body, polite, the
danger of highly centralized, bureau
cratic government in this country, does
not lie in the direction of the in
dividual proclivtes Of the Chief Mags-
trate or in the debility and perversity
of the Congress, but in the growing
recklessness and dishonesty of the
management Of our great corporations.
This it is which is sapping the founda-
tions of the social structure and which
threatens the stability of the very Gov
eminent itself.
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Aroused Public Sentiment.

Ii is improbable that the Kansas State
oil refinery will ever be open for business.
The labor unions will not permit convicts
TO labor in the proposed refinery, as the
law establishing it directs. Then, how
serious are Governor HoCH and the other
Sunhower statesmen now flaming against
the oil monopoly?
The bin was put through the Legislat-
ure by familiar means. A little band of
oil producers, steerers OF oil stock com
panies, owners of little wells and makers
of large prospectuses, is not satisfied
with the price of oil. Presumably, the
low price is owing to the large supply
But what do Legislatures or spectators
cure for supply and demand? The mere
phrase the Standard Oil Company" il
an invaluable bugaboo 1t is worth at
least million legions OF devils as raiser
Of gooseflesh.
SO public sentiment was aroused. >
There was the usual course Of petitions.
public meet ngs. hot talk. The little band
of oil producers, spectators, foaters Of
oil companies became the people Their
artificial noise was popular clamor
The Legislature and the Governor sat
isfy supposed popular sentiment. The
state refinery bill becomes a law.
Congress is asked to take a hand in
this purely private quarrel; asks the
ever vigilant Department OF Commerce
and Labor 20 investigate the causes OF
the low price of crude petroleum in the
United States, especially in Kansas. .
Mr.. ROOSEVELT instructs the ever vigi-
liant Commissioner Of Corporations to
act in the matter at once.
Meanwhile the hated Kansas tentacle
OF the great world octopus resumes the
interrupted work OF building pipe lines
and buys Kansas oil once more.
Thus. artificially aroused public sem
timent" has worked as the Kansas oil
we'll men and oil stock men wanted il to
work, and to their advantage. Kansas,
Congress, the President, have jumped
10 their aid.
Such is the genesis and such the re-
suit OF -arousing public opinion. An
art invaluable in legislation and bust
ness, but destined, we fear to fall more
and more into the hands Of specialists.
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II we look now at the corresponding
constituents OF Russian society we
shall find the brain of Russia aroused
to far more unflinching utterance and
TO far more desperate activity. The
outspoken demonstrations made, not
only BY professors and students in
every Russian seat of learning. but by
the law associations and by large pro-
portion Of the mobiles in their zemstyos,
or district assemblies had no correla-
tives in France in l7Ss, and their inn
perative demands for drastic consti-
tutional reforms were unparalleled in
the Gathers, or memoranda OF grievances
and requests, forwarded from the prov
inccs to the States-General.
There is in history no instance Of a
permanent revolution from below. To
be successful and lasting political
or social revolution must emanate from
a nations brain II this be charged
with dynamic energy it will electrify
the body That is law OF sociology
to which contemporary Russia can no
more offer an exception than could the
France Of the ancieR regime. We have
seen the storage battery replenished
year after year in Russia with wrong
upon wrong, blunder upon bmnder
atrocity upon atrocity. Now that the
nations brain is fully charged, how can
an explosion be averted?
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y most earnestly recommend said
Mr.. ROOSEVELT in his message of Dec. 8.
that there be no halt in the work of up
building the American Navy
The Secretary of the Navy suggested
that four battleships be built. With
the aid Of Democratic votes Mr.. CANNON
has just succeeded in keeping in the
Naval Appropriation bill the provision
for the construction Of two battleships.
Some fifty Republican Representa-
tives are either disciples of ToIsToI and
tho Hon. JAMES BROCK PERKINS. or are
fanatics for economy when there is
nothing for their districts in an appro-
priation bill.
The course Of the Senate on the Naval
Appropriation bill will be watched with
curiosity. abroad as much as in the
United States Is the Monroe Doctrine
to have a first class navy behind it? Is
the American policy in the East to be
regarded as continuing fact?
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WHERE THE VOTES VENT.
Apparently I.II2.OOO Democrats voted
Against Parker.


Some interesting election hgures, and some
interesting deductions from them. were sub
mtted to the House OF Representatives on
Wednesday. Feb S. by Francis F. Shober
OF New York in the course OF the debate on
railway rate legislation. lie pointed out
that whereas Judge Parker received only
5.ces. 275 votes in 1904, the Democratic can
didate in 1898 Ind received $500 92h That
Ia 10 say. the Democratic vote fell on In the
interval by more than 400 900. although.
by dnt OF natural increase during tine eight
intervening years. II should have been larger
than it was in 1900 by at least 600 900. What
became OF the missing 1000. 600 Democratic
votes?
Mr. Shober pointed out that We can account
for more than million Of them. for in twenty
four States alone the difference between the
aggregate number OF votes cast for Demo-
cratic Governors ard the votes cast for the
Democratic candidate for President amounted
10 i,lI2.OOO. The remaining 100000 needed
to make M the deficit must either have stayed
at home or voted for Mir Roosevelt
Again, II We assume that the true Republic
can vote which would have been given 10
anv acceptable candidate named at Chicago.
is 10 be reached by adding the votes cast for
Republican Governors. IL would follow That
~ least IN. 900 Democrats must have voted
for the mans personal qualities and indl-
vidual political views. But IL this be true.
the hard pan Republican vote IN 1904 was
only about o. 400. 90. or trihe less than the
BRYAN vote OF 1870 plus the natural increase
which might reasonably have been looked for.
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The Bryan Hymnbook.

Hymns and psalms TO Mr., BRYAN are
roared in every number OF the Congress
sioadl Record The brethren beaten at
st. Louis last summer are having their
revenge. incidentally, they are having
innocent fun with the Republicans, so
many Of whom are wearing, rather I'M
easily, the Democratic domino.
Dip into the Bryan hymnbook min
ute The Hon COURTNEY WALKER
HAMLIN OF the Seventh Missouri dis
trict rolls faithful eye at the rejuve-
mated and restored Peerless;
9" DO you ask me II We have always followed him
nnsver. both sadly and sorrowfully, No In
the last campaign We departed from the teach
ings OF the fathers and gave up our jewelry out OF
which the leaders of certain branch OF Democ
rscy, not known In the days OF MONROE, JACKSON
and JEFFERSON. sought to make golden calf but
We were ANONYMOUSLY punished for our foolish
ness
The jewelry is coming back. The
Republican railroad rate bills, these are
the Democratic jewels.
The Hon JOHN LAWSON BURNETT Of
the Seventh Alabama district is the next
singer;
Not tul the mutterng storm OF popular lndiguA-
ton rose high and higher did the conscience OF the
Republican party become qulckened 10 the neces g..
si,y for action In at least two Presidential cam
paigns has the Democratic platform demanded
II In no uncertain tones For eight yeas has the
voice OF NtbrsskA's peerless son been crying from
the hiiltops and the valleys for al least modoum
Of relief for his people. and back Of him was the
great Democratic parry. Not ti the people them
selves. from the Atlantic to the Pseine, rose in
their might and demanded action did The stand pat
banner Of the Republican party espltuls,e 10 their
Atiscks-
Fact is not TO be collected from poetry.
The muttering storm Of popular. indig-
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III, Candle. the Gun and the hoard

To THE EpTToR or THH SuN-si some one In
the columns OF TnK sUS said he shot a candle
through a pine board on. inch thick. and The Sos
advised those who were sceplical TO make tho
experiment for themselves.
Acting on the suggestion took ny Old Queen
Anne and put about nve fingers OF The best powder
N her and then candle. and as al the boards
out of doors have about nine feet Of snow on TOP
Of them. took the bottom board OF my bunk In
the camp and stuck It in the snow about seven
fathoms distant and nred.
When got 10 the target found the candle had
struck all nghi, but II had not even dinted the
board and was natteucd out nhlter ihhn my pocket
book after had bougai my winters rum.
IcAme TO the conclusion that some one was telling
THE Sun some damn lies. However. ! did not
lose the candle altogether scraped 1t on the board
and took Is back into the camp and fried pancakes
with II for my supper. LovER OF TRUTH.
HERRISo cow, Nova Scotia. Feb II.
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Mingate-HoNify.

Miss Ethel g Rowley was married 70 VIII
liam II. Wingate yesterday afternoon in
Christ Episcopal Church. Broadway and
Seventy-frst street. by the Rev. George
Alexander Strong. The bride was gyen
AWAY by her father. A. Stewart Rowley. and
entered with her uncle. Edward p. Tyson
Her gown OF white chiffon velvet was trimmed
With duchess point lace, and her yolumnous
tulle veil was caught with a wreath Of orange
blossoms She wore a diamond crescent.
presented by the bridegroom. end carried a
bouquet OF gardenihs and lilies OF the valley.
Miss Blanche Spadone was the maid of
honor. She wore pink chiffon cloth co.,
tune and " hite lace hat with pink feathers
aud streamers, and carried Golden Gate and
bridesmHid roses The bridesmaids were
Misses Eioise Lent. Marie Louise Conover
VI Katharine Jones and Edna Graham storm.
They were dressed In white chiffon cloth.
with white lace hats, trimmed with pink
feathers AM streamers, and carried Golden
Gate roses and lilies Of the valley. EDWARD
Yale Weber was best man, and Richard
Garden. William Il. liptrott. A Winter Coz
and Or. Ulysses Kahn were ushers
After the ceremony a reception was given
by tho brides uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs.
Edward T. Tyson, at the Hotel Majestic.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-22
GoryG AFTER TEsTCEESTER co.
rhe Port Chester Onicials wui Attack lis
Franchise in the Courts.

The announcement on Monday OF the
names OF the directors OF the New YORK,
Westchester and Boston Railway Company
was followed Yesterday by the announce
ment by President Gotshall OF the New
Yorl, and Port Chester Railroad, the rival
corporation, that an action in equity will
he brought al once in the supreme Court to
test the validity Of the Westohester com
pany's charter This is the fret move in u
legal battle which the men behind the Port
chester company say will Last az least three
years During that time they believe tho
rival company will hardly caro- to begin
building operations. In the meantime the
Port Chester company VIII 60 ahead with
its fight 70 enter the city limits
According to President Gobshall an act on
against the Westminster company would
have been begun AZ soon AZ the company
got its franchise from the Aldermen, Tut
the men behind the Port Chester company
were unable TO obtain the names OF the
directors. Under the law 1t Is necessary N
such an action to name majority OF the
board OF directors.
-Now that the names have been made
public, said Mr. Gotshall yesterday, -coun-
sel for this company will begin suit think
by Saturday. and ar least two more actions
will be brought by residents Of We>tchesier
and The Bronx
The men in the Port Chester company
argue that the WeStchester company has
no legal standing. 1t will be commended Mr.
Gotshall said, that the charter OF the West
chester company was sold at White Plains
in 1891 TO judgment creditor named Van
Pelt who orga ni2ed the East River and Con-
necticut Railway Company as Successor 70
the Westchester company, and that IN lpo5
the Court OF Appeals decided that no com
pany oyge nized under the act of 1880 as IL
il admitted the Westminster company was
could ever build railroad under the exist
i..a. Ia.
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ToTHR EDIToR or 1HR SuN-Sir; bin has been
brought before the Legislature by Assemblyman
Pendry requiring that the trolley cars in Man
haitian ana Brooklyn be equipped with Vestlbues
40 as to protect the motormen and conductors
during the severe winter weather. As the Law
now stands, oil the street railways In the State.
except those IN Manhattan and Brooklyn. are
obliged TO provide vestibues on their cars. There
is 40 good reason why such exceptions should be
made as what has proved success In other
crowded cities can just as well be used here.
In the progressive cities OF Chicago, Boston.
Philadelphia. 81. Louis and Buffalo, yesiibule
cars are in use md humane citizens In Greater
New York are anxious 10 have the trolley en-
ployees here share the consideration shown by
corporations outside the city Many cases IN
known TO the public OF pneumonia and frozen
faces and limbs among the motormen resulted
from the late billiards. Passengers who have
received tlists OF icy air when the front door OF a
car was opened 10 let people in or out have been
able fully to resiize JUST what the moiorman was
enduring. The motormen dare not complain for
fear OF losing their positions and the corporations
do not care how much the men sufer
The New York City Federation of Women
Clubs composed offorty clubs with eight thousand
members. has lndorstd Assemblyman Pendry' $
bll Several political associations. as well a. some
womens clubs in Kings county have also e1 pressed
approval Of the vestlbue plan.
NHw YoRE, Feb. 20. MARTA WILLIAMS.
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Parcels Post Treaties.

To TIM EpIToE or TIE SvS-.Sir, The news re
Gently printed IN TIN Sun that new parcels post
treaties have been negotiated with Great Britain
and France is OF interest 20 many business men
and TO others who may have occasion to transact
business with these counties. II Will be noted that
the eI enslon OF tine privilege is not so great as VIII
naturally be desired by The Egitators FOR better
facilities in this line, but It Is opening wcdgr.
We get a weight OF pounds and ounces al -
cents a pound. which Ia great concession.
This extension must not. however be confused
with the present demand for a domestic parcels
post In this country. That scheme would provide
for packages not exceeding 1t pounds In weight,
al 9 cents for the hrsi pound and cents for
each additional pound. This plan IS manifesily
inprActicablc at this time II costs The Post once
Department an average OF cents pound for
Transporting the malls OF the United States. Hence.
II will be Impossible to burden these mails VITA
thousands OF tons OF merchandise packages Al >
cents pound. without increasing our present alarm
Ing postal denclt TO a.: extent which would soon
cause a popular revolt.
The fact is that whole postal service Is crude.
Inconsistent and complicated. 1t needs thorough
revision. and there must manlfestly be some new
Arrangement with the railroads TO carry parcels
as they are earned IN England, freight trains
in ni carloads instead OF carrying them on the
fastest etptcss trains. at the rate OF only two or
three tons the cAf as Is now done with all classes
OF our mall IHE SENTRY.
WARRINGTON Feb 20
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-22
Espeli E1pell r1pcli-rhs Hon. Rosxnr BAknn.

ESpen EKpell F1pcli-The Hon, RobEhr BAKEB.
But they wouldn't expel; and nobody
seems 10 have had an exorcism handy
Only few scattered amateur demonologists
take any. interest in the question: is the
Hon. ROBERT BAKER pcs .essed?' Whom
has the Money Devil more reason TO hate
and haunt? And that passionate cry,
"Expel Expel Expell' does it not indicate
that the Money Devil is suffering torture
and would fain be expelled from tho temple
which he has sought to troubled But why
should we trifie with that word, possessed E?
The Hon. ROBERT BAKER is possessed in
a nobler sense. inspired, driven to his
sacred task as An oracle Of miscellaneous
reform and the single tax. IL will be a long
time before another as industrious ex-
pander of the Congressional Record is sent
10 Washington.
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nation means "the frequent prayers
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission
for its own magnihcation.
We still love the platform and can
dldate OF 1895, pipes Mr.. HAMLIN, prom
ising Missouri to the Democrats as soon
as they return to JeTersonian princi-
pies.
But Mr. ROOSEVELT seems to have the
JefIersonian principles just now. viii
he consent 10 return them?
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VIM or Or. DE COSTt.
Leaves Residue or his Estate 10 Catholic
College In Bost on.

The will Of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin +.
De Costa. the Protestant Episcopa minister
who several years ago rcnounced hi'
faith in that Church and became n Roman
Catholic. was filed YESTERDAY
To William II De Costa and Elizabeth C..
De Costa. children Of brother, the tesiator
leaves 81 and $500 respectively. To his
eodmother. Frcderika Bsnevides, he be-
tiuea thes his manuscripts, including hts
autobiography. which NAV De published
il she so desires. and 1890 From the manu-
scripts given to his godmother. however,
he excerpts his iournel of more Than twenty
volumes. which he directs shall be deposited
in the archives of the New England His
torical and Genealogical Society Of Boston
The residue Of the estate he leaves 10
the Roman Catholic College OF Boston, the
income TO be applied to the benefit Of some
needy student in good standing. The Rev
Thomas j. Campbell is appointed executor.
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~Atnerind- which Nj. +. $. Dellenbaugh. that dis
tngulshed authority our copper colored brethren.
defends In THE Sun but there arc folks who don't.
II reminds me OF "tsmartnd.- II sounds good
enough 10 tat
since. however there ore conservatives who
kick at It. I suggest 10 NJ Delenbaugn that In
juns," the old. common and classic form unlun
pvddln rye and lnjun. &C. be substituted.
Indians would be restricted TO Fast Indians;
"lnIuns- would denote Tawucs
BROOKLYN, Feb a. iScREAsK n, CARROLL.
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j. II. MANIE,.S VIII.
The Estate. valued At $1,000. 600, Is Left
10 His Relatives

AUGUSTA. Me. Feb. 2i,-The will OF the
late Hon Joseph II. Msnley has been filed
for probate. The estate is estimated at
81 OOo.0 900. 1t leaves sioO to a nephew.
Joseph s. Manley Of San Francisco; $1,000
each to his grandsons, Joseph VI Mellen
and Chase Mellen. Jr. of Garden City,
l.. l.: 500 20 each Of his four children with
which 10 purchase some memento. and all
the property which came 10 him by the will
OF his father, to his sister Abbie s. Manley
OF Augusta,
All the rest Of the estate is given 10 his
son, Samuel c. Mauley Of Augusta, in trust
to divide the net income equally among his
surviving children. Lucy NJ Mellen Of Gar
den City, l.. T.; Harriet, Sydney 8. and
Samuel C. Manley Of Augusta. Samuel
c. Manlev is appointed sole executor.
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From mr. NSr YORK COMMERCIAL.
The total depotltS In all ,ho savings banks In tar
world. according 10 the latest available statistics.
amounted to SioSC0Ooo 600 cont buted by 50 nm
deposiioB. OF This total the United States shows
aggregate deposits Of ss,oO0i7oOoo. credited 70
1906 900 d,posiiou. These figures Indicate that
the United States. with less than pis per cent OF
the total population considered. contributes over
20 per cent OF the total savings deposits recorded
These figures help 10 explain the remarkable
manner IN which the recent large bond issues have
been absorbed II has been estimated ;hsi more than
81 900 90 600 OF bonds annually purchased by the
investing public in the United States The savings
banks and the Insurance companies the heaviest
purchasers OF bonds, but there hrc estimated 10
be nearly 10000 persons in the United States
who have an annual surplus 10 invest
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-22

The annual dinner Of the alumni Of the
City College will be- held in the Hotel Aston
tonight. Ex-District Attorney William
NJ. h. oloott 81 will preside and the speakers
are expected 10 include President john
Huston Finley. Edward Lauterhaoh. Comp
troller Grout, Attomey-G General Julius NJ
Mayer, President Tiff OF the Board Of
Education, Major Charles E. Lydecker
Henry W. Taft, the Rev. DR.. Henry van
Dyke. James l. Waterbury. Col A. r. Ket-
cham, James W. Hyde and Everett p.
UhasAlnr
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EoUfrABLE WINS.
Defeats Attempt 10 Compel II 10 Distribute
snrplus In MIsn0nsln.

Tho Supreme Court Of Wisconsin he's
decided in favor Of the Equitable Lille
Assurance Society In its controversy with
Zeno NJ Host. the WISCONSIN Insurance
Commissioner. who sought to compel in
surance companies doing business in the
state TO make annual distribution Of their
surplus among policyholders The Wis
cousin statute SAYS that the companies
may" make such distribution once in one
two or Ave years as the directors deternlna
The Supreme Court holds that the statute
Ia permissive; that the Equitable mas not
dend policies, and that the latter form Of
policy. which constitutes IS to 10 per cant
Of all the insurance written, is valid ana not
In conflict with any provision Of law The
ca se was presented on behalf Of the society
NV j. G.. Flanders. d. +. Watson and Balm
bridge Colby Of Alexander 4 Colby, co lnsel
for tho society in New York. The Com
missioner OF Insurance was represented
by the Attorney General Of Wisconsin.