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The Irish standard., 1905-02-25
New Atlantic Gable.

New York, Feb. 2O.-Clarence H. Mac
kay announces that new transatlantic
cable will be laid this summer and that
the money for the work already has been
furnished.
The Irish standard., 1905-02-25
Found Guilty Of Murder.

Dubuque, Ia, Feb. 23.-After being
out all night the jury in the case of
James Reade, the slayer of Policeman
Norton, Wednesday returned a verdict
of guilty of murder in the second de-
gree.
The Irish standard., 1905-02-25
Plague Causes Panic.

Santiago, Chile, FEB. H3 ---Bubonic
p alue has appeared at the port of ri
qua Qorty-four miles north of I1ui-
uuD The discovery has caused u
,auIc among the Inhabitants
The Irish standard., 1905-02-25

Well-Known Composer Dead.
New York, Feb. 21.-Albert LaRue,
we'll known among musicians and music
al publishers, as an arranger and CON-
poser, is dead at his home here
The Irish standard., 1905-02-25
BISHOP M'LAREN DEAD.
Well-Known Prelate Passes Away at
New York After Long
Illness,

New York, Feb 20.-Rt. Rev. William
E. McLaren, Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Chicago, died here Sunday
night. Death was due to heart failure.
The bishop had been ill for a month,
during the greater part of which time he
was confined to his bed. The members
of the bishops family, with few friends,
We're at the bedside when the end came.
Besides widow, the deceased is sur
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conditions Is now expected, although a
little time may DO required In a process
OF adjustment. A recently issued de-
cree put into elect measure passed by
the Mexican Congress last December,
and Mexico will now put her finances on
n gold basis. After May the peso Of a
value OF 80 cents in gold will become the
standard Of value, although the silver
peso, or dollar, will remain as a circu-
lating medium with unlimited legal
tender power The former system Of
free coinage is suspended, and 'the
emission of money of all kinds shall be
reserved to the Executive subject TO
laws for control and regulation.
From time 10 time assertions are made
that successful self-government is i'm
possible in any Latin-American country.
The rule Of such a man as PoRFIRIo
DIAz is at least a very good substitute
for that institution, and we could wish
some Of our other neighbors nothing
better than a ruler made in his image and
likeness. He has lifted his country out
Of the mire Of revolution and insurreo-
ton and his people into a life from
which they will not easily return TO
their former condition.
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To rHH EDITOR or T1IE SUE-ST: In your edi-
torta Of to-day you omit TO mention In connection
with the Republican nomination for Lieutenant
Governor Of Massachusetts, the name OF the Hon.
william Brown Plunkett OF Adams. Here In Boston
we have learned 10 respect and admire the business
ability OF "favorito sons Of the Berkshire Kills.
Governor Crane rave us great Republican plurali-
tics and splendid admin Situations. We have pTao-
tlcauy decided 70 name for Governor the present
Lieutenant Governor. Curtis Guild, Jr., a man OF
many and brilliant attachments and a newspaper
man; and Mr. Plunket as his running mate" Is the
best suggestion thus far made. Mr.. Plunkelt IL
man Of the Crane type; a business man pure and
simple yet a Republican who was sufnciently
esteemed BY Mr.. Mckinley 20 act as one Of his ad-
yisers during the framing OF the Mckinley bill
II tho Republican ticket Il 70 be successful In
the BAY state this fall, Il will be 90 because the
marry has strengthened the ticket with business
man who will stand squArely upon the platform
prepared by the Republican State convention. II
.the shoemaker who knocked out BAtes In 1904 u
AGAIN triumphant IL will only be beoause the con-
ssryauye business interests Of the STATE prefer
him.
For my pArt l select Guild and any prominent
Rertshlre business mana combination Of Boston
and berkshire. a great Republican plurality and
splendid ADMINISTRATION Guild and Piunkeu-
means victory, bosroEtAN,
BOsTO.. April 10.
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far submitted do not permit an analysis
which shows clearly the source Of this
croat increase In the China account As
there has been Il falling Of in some items
il would DO necessary TO account for an
increase Of more than $20,OO0OOO in the
total OF other items. A part OF It APP
pears in s2,7CO,OOO worth Of copper, the
sales ofwhich 10 China have hitherto been
included among those TO all other coun-
tries The notable item is cotton cloth,
which shows an increase for the period
Of Sl2, 700 900, and which alone represents
nearly half our sales to the Chinese
Empire. Mineral oil shows an increase oil
sl,35O,OOO. The remainder Of the increase
is scattered through the list in items OF
various amounts, representing manufao-
tured tobacco, hog products canned
beef, locomotives, electrical machinery,
wearing apparel, &c.
Trade with Japan shows the effect OF
the war. The notable item Of increase is
raw cotton, S7Os7, l6s as compared with
S2,9i5,149 for the corresponding eight
months of 1904. Cotton cloth increased
from $4,000 TO S673,0OO. while mineral
oil fell from 50, 2S6 900 to 81 40, 900. Other
items, some showing increase and some
showing decrease, are either not re-
ported in detail or are scattered through
the general list.
Holding the present pace our sales
to Japan for the fiscal year 1905 should
approximate 4O,OOO,OOO and our sales
to China t45,OOOOOO. A very pretty
I,g;poaa
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Universal precedent

To THE EDIToR or THH SUN-lSir. You
are 10 be congratulated. You are doing
a great work in this Equitable matter. They
are nearly in tho open.
Hydes letter 10 Frick can I've regarded only
as a bold play by a desperate man. 1t was
evident that this matter was coming out
He quickly takes this step. admits the ugly
truths and thereby thinks TO delude the com
munity into thinking that Il cannot be any
thing very terrible that he has done, since he
speaks OF Il 80 frankly. Able and ingenious:
but II won't dol That letter carries its own
condemnation.
Universal preoedent-i There Is the kernel
Of the whole matter. Undoubtedly there
arc directors In many large iduolary ins THU
lions who have the power 10 USE the money
Of these institutions. and who do use them
for their own profit. II can be done In several
ways. in this instance the syndicate Was
formed apparently 10 underwrite-that IL,
10 buy without advancing any money to
speak of-seourities. which securities they
forthwith sold through themselves as d.
rectors Of the Equitable 10 the Equitable At
an enhanced prize from the underwriting
price. calmly putting this profit into their
own pockets. IL matters not whether they
sold all or only a part Of tho securities they
underworld 10 the Equitable. The under.
lying principle is the same.
This IA the kind Of trHnsa elton which HYDE
says has the sanction OF universal precedent
He means Il has the sanction OF such directors
Of hduciary institutions az have grown rich
from Just such methods. Il has not the APP
provAl OF any man possessed Of even an
ordinary sense OF honesty. hope that pub.
lie opinion now aroused. win not rest.
HHw YORK, April 20. OBSERVER.
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A weak Defense.

The memorandum with which Gov
ernor HIGGINs accompanies his sigma
ture of the Stock Transfer bill is not
document which he will wish to include
in any selection Of his public papers. His
given reasons for signing this indefensi-
BILE measure are singularly disingenuous
and futile. II is true that similar taxes
are levied in other countries; but they
are not levied on stock transactions OF a
particular locality. A uniform tax on
all stock transfers may be economically
bad as a tax on business, but at least there
Is no injustice in its incidence.
1T is generally conceded, says the
Governor with the same disingenuous-
ness, that the imposition OF like tax
by Congress during the Spanish war
did not drive business opt OF the United
States That tax was not like tax,
as Governor HIGGINS knows perfectly
well. Il was a general tax, not one that
New York had to pay and Hoboken,
Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago hai
not to pay.
The Governor sanctions the imposi-
tion in peace Of a tax cheerfuly borne
Is a war measure, extraordinary and
temporary. II such tax " now neces-
sary II has been made necessary by the
eXtIavaGa1Oo Of Republican State ad-
ministrations and Legislatures and their
unwillingness TO let the people know, by
means Of direct taxation, who is paying
the piper.
Governor HIGGINS closes his strange
paper with a laundering admission that
the stock transfer tax is sin some degree
experimental If it dsappoints in the
amount of revenue which it produces
or proves "inimical TO the welfare Of the
State, he trusts that the present session
Of the Legislature will create a tax and
revenue commission 10 suggest & more
equitable and productive substitute.
With this ludicrous confession that he
approves a tax which may be hostile TO
the welfare Of the State, Governor HIGGINS
ends a memorandum that should never
have been begun. He would have done
much better 10 sign and say nothing.
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Mexico with tho Lad On.

For the information Of those inter-
ested, and also for those who ought 70 be
interested, the Department Of Commerce
and Labor has recently issued a mono
graph dealing with commercial condi-
tions in Mexico and with American COM
mercial interests In that country.
The transformation Of Mexico from
an ever ebulient and sorely disorganized
political institution into a land Of peace,
progress and prosperity has been one
Of the striking features Of recent world
history. From 1910 to 1876 Mexico was
land Of war, tumult and civil strife. It
was a land Of perpetual revolt, with
bloodshed and desolation as its ever at
tendAnt spirits. In less than thirty
years one strong man has given 1t a
place among the nations, with every
promise that It will hold its place. It's
relations with the United States are now
close and intimate, and American activ-
fly has contributed much toward Mexi-
can development, In fact, II is quite
difficult to say what Mexico would be
to-day had It not been made a field Of
American activities.
While our political relations with our
neighbor have been most amicable for
many years, special interest centers in
our contribution 10 and participation
in her material development. In 1873
we bought from her 1850, S64 worth Of
merchandise. In 1904 we bought tGs.-
62S.275 worth, or ten times as much.
During the same time our exports 70
Mexico have increased from tS,O4S,Ssp
TO tlS, s4I,72O. The greater part Of this
increase has come during the last ten
years. In 1894 our sales were tl2 ,sI7,iIo.
Our increased purchases from Mexico
antedate her increased purchases nom
US, and in 1894 we took from her little
more than t2s.OOo,OOO worth Of her
products. Imports and exports are now
fairly balanced, with a small margin in
our favor. The total commerce for the
last three calendar years stands thus:
Exports 70 Mexico, tis7, 900, 900; imports
from Mexico, ti2s, 900, 900.
A marked improYomsut IN MEXICAN
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BOUQUETS FOR COMR. SHIELDS.
Everybody From Judges 10 scrubwOmen
COngratulateE Him.

United States Commissioner John A.
Shields, who celebrated yesterday the
fiftieth anniversary Of the day he began
service In the ofice Of the clerk Of the United
States Circuit Court, was kept busy all day
receiving gifts and congrat ulations. His
desk was full of flowers.
Early in the day Federal Judges Wallace,
Townsend, IAcombe and Coke summoned
the Commissioner 10 the court room and
offered their compliments in the form Of
a resolution, which was given TO Deputy
Clerk s. d. Ediok for entry on the records
Of the court.
Later in the day the employees OF the
Office, through United States Circuit Judge
Townsend, presented 10 the Commissioner
a travelling bag. Judge Townsend N
his presentation speech said that In his
lectures 10 Yale law students he had always
referred them to Commissioner Shields
OF New York as the one man who had
complete kno Wedge Of the Federal practise
A gorgeous inllstand was given 10 The
Commissloner by Airs. Shields The women
cleaners OF the Federal Building, some
Of whom have been there as long as the
Commissioner himself, came in and con
graduated him. Commissioner Shields, In
spite OF his 90 yeau, Is still the youngest
man In bis ONCE.
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CensorinR Billboards.

So little attention Is paid by the pub
lie TO billboards and dead wall adver-
tisements hereabouts that the character
Of the pictures displayed on them Is not
a matter Of lively interest. In other
communities, however, considerable at
tention is directed toward this subject,
and many communities enforce a strict
censorship over all posters Of this class
that are displayed within their bounds.
The Aldermen Of Holyoke, Mass, have
adopted a new ordinance prohibiting
the exhibition Of certain classes OF theat-
rical posters. 1t is typical Of all such
enactments, and is worth reading:
Every such llcensee shah prevent his place Of
amusement and any performance or exhibition
therein nom being advertised BY means Of pictorial
posters, plAcsrds or show bills which have not been
approved by the City Marshal, or by some person
designated by him. No posters placards or show
bills which are lewd, Indecent or vulgar, or which
plctonauy represent the commission or attempt
10 commit any crime OF bodily violence, shall be
exhibited or displayed within the city; nor shall
any theatrical exhibition. play or performance DO
advertised on any poster. placard or show bill
within the city by any name or title which indi-
Gates that the exhibition. play or performance
portrays. represents, shows, enGcts. or explains
scenes Of immortality or the commission Of or al.
tempt 10 commit, crimes against chastity. The
City Marshal shall exclude all posteu, plaeLrds
OF show bills which violate the above provislons.-
The 'licensee' referred to Is the In
dividual holding a city license for
place OF amusement. Some cities have
their marShals 60 about and paste strips
Of white paper over Objectionable por-
lions Of posters, but Holyoke's Alder
men regarded this as tending TO make
their city ridiculous, and would have
none Of it. Their ordinance is a very
strict one, however, and It's enforce
ment would bother the owners Of many
theatrical organizations.
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GOES on SPOONING BEANS.
SIS 900 Legacy Can Wait for Tom Smith
TO Wind Up Ills Contract.


Thomas Smith, a young Irishman, who
presides over the lunch counter Of q
saloon at 6S5 Sixth avenue, was cutting
a hot roast beef sandwich, price FIVE cents,
the other morning, when an envelope bear
ing the Dublin postmark was handed 10
him. The letter contained a draft for eloO
and the announcement that young Smith's
father bad died on March 10 and left him
about $1,000. Smith put the draft and
letter in bis pocket and handed out plate
of beans 10 the next man.
Smith Is % and a man Of silence. Some
how his story got out and to a SUN reporter
Yesterday he admitted that IL was true.
His father, he said, was dealer 10 wooden
goods In King street, Dublin, and mortal
fond OF sports. At one time even, accord
ing 10 Smith, his father rode TO hounds
with the Prince Of Wales, now King Edward
VII.
The story Is that about FIVE years ago
Smith fell In love with a Scotch girl who
is a Presbyterian. He being a Roman
Catholic, her parents objected TO the match
and 30 he left for America, Smith now
believes that when be goes hack to Dublin
In October 20 get his inheritance lie will
get the girl. too. The e7,0OO he believes will
make for religious tolsration on the part
OF his future parents-in-law. When asked
how he could contain his soul in patience
until October be said:
Il have q contract with me boss until
then. And money Is something that won't
spoil: II will keep. Me lawyer and me
three sisters In Dublin will take care OF me
'' And smith cut another hot roast beef.
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The Relipiou, Celebrations.

The closing Of the Stock Exchange and
Of other exchanges both to-day, Good
Friday, and tomorrow, Easter Even, is
one Of many indications Of the increasing
Difference to formal conventions which
is now paid in this country.
Besides the Christian fast and festival,
there occurs almost simultaneously the
Hebrew celebration Of the Passover.
This Jewish celebration began at sun
set on Wednesday evening and will be
continued for a week. OF the Jewish
population in New York, amounting now
TO about three-quarters Of a million, the
number Of the strictly devout, as indl-
Gated generally by attendance on the
synagogues, may be relatively small, but
the Passover as commemorative prima-
rily of the staying Of Egypt's frstborn
and Of the exodus from Egyptian slavery
appeals to the intense race spirit OF the
Jews, however wide may be their depar-
ture from their ancient faith.
The two Christian denominations most
numerous in New York are those which
have already given special regard to
Good Friday and Easter. To one Of
these, the Roman Catholic, about a
third of the population Of the town is
attached. The other, the Episcopal. con-
tains more than one-quarter Of the
whole number OF Protestant commune
cants, and it Is gaining more rapidly
than any other Protestant communion.
Moreover, even the Protestant Churches
which formerly rejected and repudiated
this fast and this festival as Of 'Popish
superstition now pay heed to their
celebration very generally.
As a consequence, the close Of the
I,enten season and the incoming Of the
Easter festival now receive formal and
hearty recognition from the whole body
Of Christian believers in New York, and
together with the Jews, who are oele-
brating almost coincidentally the Pass
over season, they make up the majority
of the inhabitants Of the town. This,
therefore, has become a great holiday
time.
This year the Easter season comes
much later than usual and at time Of
the year when the milder weather is
favorable for such a general popular
celebration. Easter Sunday will come
to New York at the actual opening Of the
spring.
The late date in April at which Easter
comes this year is very unusual Only
In three years Of the last century was
it as late or later: in 1886 on April rs, the
latest possible date, in 1859 on April "a
and in ls4s on April %. Nor in the pres
ent century will it be so late again until
1919, on April %, in l94S>on April IS and
In 1000 on April 2s. As the central Of the
movable feasts Of the Christian year the
time Of Easter determines the times Of
all the rest.
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State" He would probably say: IF that
DO anti-Americanism. crack your whip
and make the most Of it, He stands for
Cuba. but IL not hostile to the United States,
and no has many strong friends In this
country and among Americans resident
IN Cuba.
An effort will undoubtedly be made to
play tho United States In the Cuban cam
palgn, and a propaganda In the interest OF
mr. Palma may be looked for on this side OF
the Florida straits. For the welfare Of the
mutual interests OF Cuba and the United
states, amateur commentators should pro-
coed with caution. They should not state,
as did the writer referred to In the fore
gong, that Palmas message gave the in
crease In American exports under the
reciprocity treaty as from 40 10 ~ per cent,
"hlle the Bureau Of Statistics in Washir e
Ton reported the increase as 10 per cent
neither said anything Of tho kind. Mr.
Palma said that the United States supplied
4O1i per cent Of Cuba's total imports In
1908 and M per cent. Of the total In 1904.
Inc Bureau Of Statistics reported that
American exports to Cuba in 1904 exceeded
those OF 1908 by $50 per cent.
Amateur commentators should remember
that mistakes in figures and in politics are
exceedingly easy for those who don'tknoW
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Stern CrItlel,m Of Certain shOpksspsr,.

To rHE EnTroR or TIE SUS-,str: You speak In
A sarcastic manner Of the proposition 70 license
butchers, &C, but when Il "a considered how great
a change few years have brought about IN our
community, r. Las type Of the small store and shop
keeper and OF tie racial and other characteristics
OF those who largely handle the meats, vegetables.
fruit and even the bread which constitutes the mate
nal part Of the daily food Of the people, u would
appear that there IL now occasion for the inter-
vsntlon OF some systematic ofAoial supervision.
The manner OF transporting meats, sc, by the
railroad and express companies and the ordinary
handlers IA careless, repugnant 70 good taste and
often positively indecent, - Is indeed true also Of
the manners and customs OF dealing with were.
tables fruits confectionery, &C., piled up or spread
about on the Sidewalk and the 1oor OF the shop or
booth and exposed 70 the contact OF animals. dogs
and cats and, through the medium Of every passing
breeze 10 the deslocated NTH OF the street.
Smoking, habit almost universally INDUCED IN
by shopkeeptu should also be interdioted. A little
observation viii readily lead ono 70 this conclusion
NEW YoRK, Aprl 20. JouN Y, cvLIER.
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Fourteen words Off Undiluted Wis
dom.

Among the many recent utterances Of
wisdom and experience which the dis
clssion of ratio regulation has elected
from practical railroad men, what Is
more to the point than this brief SEN
tence from an address delivered last
month in Boston by Mr. DAVID WILCOX
president Of the Delaware and Hudson
Company?
Political rate nNing would play havoc generaHy'
and business by lawsuit would be inIoleraele'
We commend to the attention OF the
Senate committee the entire address
from which the foregoing sentiment Is
extracted. Mr. WILLCoX's remarks on
the subject Of further extension Of the
powers Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission are not only distinguished by
the epigrammatic quality here noted'
they are freightcd with sanity reason
ableness and common sense.
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The subjoined autobiographio announce
ment and summary Of experience viii in
terest ali students Of Nature In her awful
moods, and likewise Of Col. WATTERsoN.
We copy from the editorial columns Of the
Courier Journal:
Il have stood awestruek In the presence Of the
Everlasting, solemn, silent, impenetrable, a. II
rises out Of the Innnlte, and seems 10 stand watch
and guard over the Ages. upon the unohbnglng
battlements OF the Jungfrau and the Elder; have
wandered heSrt-full, and sometimes teAr-eyed,
hrourh the Businesses OF the Rockies and the Alps;
have seen song and story reelected from hintop
and forest In the wAteu, about Storm King and
The Dales. about BlnEen and BlennerhhssetrI
Island"
No doubt the Colonel has stood as stated,
and has stood pat. Who would not have
admired TO SOC him standing awestruck
on the Eder7