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OUR BOYCOTT OF CHINESE.
Comm :sslrner Ridsway Declines 70 Extend
IL tn n DMeller ut tho CnnsuIate

II to DWeller At tho Consulate.
United States Commissioner Ridgway
in Diminishing cases against Chinese resi-
dents charged with violating the Chinese
exclusion act yesterday took occasion to
criticize the existing immigration laws
"The object of the Chinese exclusion act .
said the Commissioner. was to prevent
the coming into this country Of laborers
from the teeming population OF China,
who would enter into competition With the
laboring classes OF this country, and yet
a greater menace to the wellbeing Of our
people is permitted under the laws BY ths
landing here of about one million OF aliens
per annum from Italy and other foreign
countries who come into competition to
far greater degree with our own native
born Americans and who take the bread
and butter out of their mouths
The COMMISSIONER opinion was rem
Chinese scholar. who was not in this country
registration. He came to New York at
the age Of II and lived with his uncle. Chin
Yung Kow. secretary to the Chinese Consul
the two making their home at the Chinese
consulate here. Chin Yung's father was
a teacher in one Of Chna's largest univer-
sites, and the young man came TO the United
States to complete classical education.
Notwithstanding these facts the young
Celestial was arrested by the Chinese in
spectors and charged with being in this
country contrary to the Chinese exclusion
act. BY the Commissioners opinion he Ia
enabled to continue his studies.
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Far East. With Italy and Austria tied
by the triple alliance, Germany is tending
rapidly to become irresistible on the
European Continent, and her Emperor's
recognition of the fact was betrayed by
the defiant interposition in the Morocco
affair which Immediately followed the
Russian defeat at Mukden.
France then, must earnestly promote,
and Germany perhaps will secretly OPP
pose, al early arrest Of hoAilities between
Russia and Japan. So far as British
statesmen are concerned, they must sur
vey the progress of events with divided
feelings. The more complete shall be
the collapse OF Russian prestige and re-
sources the more prolonged will be
British India's immunity from invasion.
On the other hand, farsighted English
men cannot wish to witness such an i'm
poverishment Of Russia's power a. would
level the main barrier to GermaLy's alb
sorption of Holland, Belgium, Switzer-
land and the German speaking provinces
of Austria and her swift ascent to the
mastery Of Europe 1t should be possible
lOl lllt bllllsi AoiCIkI SihNS w
the seemingly conflicting interests Of
England and British India by stopping
Russia from bleeding to death in Asia,
and thus leaving her u considerable
power in Europe, while at the same
time the safety OF the Calcutta Govern
ment might be guaranteed by an offen-
sive and defensive alliance with Japan.
1t is plain that the United States is, Of
all countries, most disinterested, and
would therefore be most willingly
trusted by both belligerents with the
negotiation of peace. Even we are
peculiarly concerned in the speedy ter
mination OF the war, for when our manu-
facturers and merchants survey the
barred condition OF Manchuria they can
hardly be blamed for exclaiming, a
plague on both your houses!"
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In an Indian Territory Town.

FROM me Mus.ooee democrat.
hooking bird sang In the tree by our BE- droom
window TO wake US In the morning. 4 bob white
pcrched himself on tho fence opposite . $4,000
residence near the heart OF the city and piped his
cheerful call at us as We plodded our way down
town to business. trolley car whizzed by us at
the next corner big. sharp nosed coyote showed
his glitterng white teeth At us from q cage on the
sidewalk In front Of handsome six story hotel.
He was captured here and Gagged for shipment to
an Eastern city 4 Federal jail doomed up dlseo-
nally across the square. containing approximately
$50 prisoners. while the door sprang open to
admit half dozen mora boo,leggers and petty
offenders In charge Of deputies. VIC lodged
gallopng cowboy with rope swinging from the horn
Of his saddle at street crossing and gathered our
equilibrium In time to lift our hat TO tho chief OF
An Indian nation and his handsome daughter, driy-
Ing behind pair OF thoroughbred horses. We
stepped into the Democrat once at the metropoll
corner OF Wall and Lombard streets to cogitatc
bneny over the spice and variety of life In Musko.
gee. l. T.. An Indian came In. cultivated accom-
pishod and the peer the average prosperous bust.
ness man, and disturbed our revere to discuss
tho interests OF our newspaper as friend. Mus.
kogee is certainly an infatuating country for ono
who loves variety energy and activity.
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The DOG In Court and on the streets

To THE EDITOR OF The SuH--Sir: | would like
TO call attention to the conduct of Magistrate Moss
and his treatment Of Mrs. Samuelson, whose PET
dog he had taken from her In court to be killed.
as told In this mornings SUN. \ dog is property
II nothing more. and only well auestcd ev,-
dcncc, seems. should warrant depriving her OF It..
Her story believe. have had a dog and have
seen people OF and intelligence tease 1t until
II snapped and would have bitten them II It could.
There are people who fni .ch things amusing.
never blamed the dog
On Sunday saw a dog In Fifty seventh street
chased by small boys until It was nearly frantic.
Yesterday rescued al two different times dogs
from the little outlaws OF the streets. do not
doubt that these e1pe. enees can he paraeled
countless times every day In the year by person
and another.
The case recorded seems especially Migrant
from every point OF view. ] ,rus, 1t may not be
allowed to 20 unrebuked. NIGH.
NEW YORK. May 81.
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MEANING or rOGo,s VICTORY
henoct'ons by Ono OF tho Fist Orss"'
izer's Of Japan's school system.


'zers OF Japan's School system
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sr: Inc
browning demonstration OF Japans sea
power In which q feet manned py srau-
yates OF the public schools Of the Princess
country has overwhelmed the RUSSIAN
heet' means the destruction OF the oogma
that Asiatlo peoples exist only to Do oon-
quered by Europeans.
Iogo's victory means the power OF oom-
mon school education to unity nation
enabling the common man In Japan 70 m
ner7t and enlarge the Samurai's ideals'
from the American point OF view ~ ID
vindication and establishment In the WORLDS
politics OF the American doctrine that
Asiatic peoples are to he helped, healed.
treated as brothers, and thus be enabled
to work out their own salvation. inc
iaith OF the fathers Of 1874, as we'll % OF al
who prayed and hoped and toiled on the
soil OF Japan since 1889, and In the new
Japan that was born in 1893. ia amply JUS
tilted.
NOW let us enlarge our faith further
and believe in Japan's real purpose. which
accords essentially with the best traditions
and ideals Of the Anglo-Saxon nations.
The scholars have long known how absurd
1t Is to call the Japanese yellow people,
and that to designate them as white
would accord as well with ethnology, his
tory and psychology. Togo has helped
nightly to blow away the traditions, no.
tons, falsehoods and racial bitternesses
associated with the purely Fictitious terms
Oriental and Occidental
Some day even our textbooks, geo.
graphical, historical, theological as well
as for tender youth, will be thoroughly
revised in the light OF what Japan has
accomplished. In her yet greater task OF
making over her homes, her standards OF
commercial, sexual and personal morality.
In exalting her spiritual ideals by allowing
full academic freedom of research and
publication-in a word. in those victories
Of peace not less renowned than those OF
war-may Japan raise up many Togo
and Oyama and gain even more Just fame
than in war.
Even more, may she shame US in her mild
persistence in securing the evolution OF
the average Japanese. even every citizen.
into a modern man fashioned after the best
model Of the age and OF the ages.
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFT1s.
NEW YORK, June /.
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Francisco, causing the demagogue tc

roar.
Tho arrivals at the port OF San Fran
cisco are about 500 month, including
both coolies and students. This is no
great number when set alongside the
arrivals OF Lithuanians, say, or Poles,
or Italians in the port of New York.
These countries, with smaller popula-
tions than Japan, are less crowded. Why
haven't there been more Japanese?
The fact is that the coolie Of Nippon
emigrates with the greatest reluctance.
No emigrant to the United States leaves
moro fun behind him when he leaves
home. The pretty ceremonies Of Japan,
the art in little things which appeals to
the poorest and most stupid Of nation
Of artists-all these things the coolie
loves. He would take cut in wages
at any time for a chance to be near
Nippon. And when Corea, run by the
Japanese, becomes not only new Japan,
but land of opportunity. the coolie
will waste little time in making a choice
between that peninsula and the United
States.
Japanese coolies employed on Western
railroads and irrigation works are as
we'll paid as unskilled Italians.
II Is paradoxical that the students,
not the coolies, are the greatest present
danger to American labor. These am
bilious young men land in the United
States at ages ranging from ~ to Is, and
take jobs at any wages 30 long az they
get chance to learn English and go to
the public schools Many Of them plug
their way, in this fashion, clear through
the Pacific Coast universities. Boys who
will do all the drudgery Of housework
for SO a month or SO are boon to the
housewife in moderate circumstances,
but the labor leaders, not altogether
foolishly, ask. How about the American
servant girl?
The Japanese victory will tend to
check this stream also. The island
people are building their own schools
colleges, technical institutes. Every
year there is smaller reason for stu
dent. wanting a thorough education in
any line, to leave Japan. In this war
the Japanese have measured themselves
with their Occidental teachers and
found how little they have 10 learn
Home education will probably come to
be as popular in few years as foreign
education is now.
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Church and State and the Bible.

A citizen of Kentucky of the Roman
Catholic faith undertook to obtain an
Injunction against the board of educa-
ton of his town to prevent the reading
Of the English version of the Bible, the
saying Of prayers and tho singing Of
religious songs in the public schools to
which he sent his children The decision
of the court was against him, and on
Wednesday it was affirmed by the Court
of Appeals, on the ground that the ap-
pellant's religious freedom under the
Constitution was not interfered with,
since his children were not required to
attend these exercises nor to participate
in them
The court made this specific decision
concerning the reading of the Bible:
The Bible Is not of Itself a sectarian book. and
when used merely for reading In common schools
without note or comment BY teachers. Is not Sec
tartan instruction. nor does the use OF the Bible
make the sohoolhousc = house OF religious VOL. .
sAip."
1t is interesting to read in conjunction
with this judicial decision an article in
the just published June number of the
Messenger, Roman Catholic magazine,
which gives and discusses the doctrine
of that Church concerning Biblical Iner-
rancy." This doctrine, az proclaimed
by the late Pope LEO XIII. in cele-
brated encyclical issued in 1893, is that
the Scripture is "infallible truth" and
that -those who maintain that error Is
possible in any genuine passage of the
sacred writings either pervert the
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7. Turned ont According to His Prayers.

To THE EDIToR or TIE SrN-Sr: History
repeats itself | am glad to see in your edi-
tora OF TO day your comparison of tho great
sea fight which has lately been fought with
others OF similar nature in the history OF the
world. Ii demonstrates that the Ruler Of the
Universe Is still behind the scene. and by His
overruling providence IL guiding and shaping
the condition of things in the world in such
way as will y" ,IG- to the advancement of
There was the great Russian fleet of war
ships, with their crews Of excited men. -
a past in cident has revealed. emer ging out Of
A fog and finding themselves in the presence
OF the fleet Of their antagonist, VINO began to
made it very diNcult for those inexperien ced
excited men to handle their guns and FIRE
with accuracy, as the Japanese could do.
In this il is evident. Providence favored
the Japanese and contributed to their gaining
complete victory az 20 small cost TO the
victors.
The writer being lover OF mankind in
general. he's been praying to God for weeks
past that He would glorify His name in re-
vealing TO the nations OF the earth His pres
ence In the outcome Of this struggle: In de-
the japanese without too much sacrifice OF
lives, and at the same time spare as many
Of those poor creatures as possible, who are
the sport ri a powerful. proud. del uded
bureaucracy and whom they sacrifice in an
unrighteoMs cause.
Now. greatly rejoice because IT ha. come
out lust as desired Of the ord. and see
Gods hand manifested In His overrulng
providence, repeating itself In history only
view II from religious az well as from a
historical point q v mSsrcvv. q, u,,,on,
NV Work. NAV n
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The New Secretary OF tho Navy.

There is nothing in the career or known
aptitudes of Mr. CHARLES JEROME BONA
pARTE indicating his special fitness for
the Office to which the President has
called him. The same thing. however,
might have been said, at the time OF APP
pointment, Of any one Of his predeces-
sors, MORTON, MOODY, LoNo, HILARY
HERBERT, TRACY, WHITNEY, CHANDLER,
HUNT, THOMSON and robson. All of
these, except MORTON, were members of
Mr.. BoNAPARTE's profession. Some OF
the lawyers made very good Secretaries
Of the Navy. GIDEON WELLEs, whose
name carries the list back to the period
of the civil war, was journalist.
The choice Of Mr.. BoNAPARTE as a
Cabinet officer seems to have been made
by Mr.. ROOSEVELT simply because he
desired to have his old friend and es-
teemed counselor in his Administration,
and without much reference to the par
tcular post to be occupied at the present
time. 1t is possible that some future
redistribution Of Mr.. RoosEvELT's official
advisers may put another portfolio in
Mr.. BoNAPARTEs hands.
The new Secretary is a man Of high
character and intelligence, with an I'M
doubted capacity for concentrated effort.
The South will be gratified by the ap-
pointment. The public generally will
watch Mr.. BoNAPARTE's development as
national figure with some pardonable
curiosity to see how much Of him is Balti-
more and how much A jacco.
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CAN'T STAND FOR LAWLESSNESS.
Congressman Cushman DenOunces Labor
Unions That Resort TO Violence.

CONGRESSMAN Su6nnHn DenOtlnCeS IaDOf
Unions That Resort to Violence.
TACOMA, Wash, June In closing his
Memorial Day address at Mount Vernon,
Congressman Frank Cushman denounced
the lawlessness and murder practised
under the guise Of labor unionism. He
declared himself stanch friend of labor,
but when violence and bloodshed are re-
sorted to he will fight for the greater Union
of the United States.
Mr.. Cushman referred to the violence in
Chicago and to the recent longshoremens
strike in Tacoma, when number OF men
we're believed to have been pushed of a
vessel and drowned. Subsequently all were
accounted for. In part Mr.. Cushman said:
Il have never been recreant or unfaith-
full to the cause of those who labor, but
when they resort to violence and blood
shed, right there I quit. l won't march
under a flag that is dren ched with the blood
of assassinated victims. don't care who
is carrying II or what emblem is painted
thereon"
Labor troubles have recently been moro
frequent in the Northwest than ever before.
Cushman's address is taken to mean that
he will be a candidate for United States
Senator to succeed Levi Ankeny, whose
term expires in four years. The political
forces Throughout the State are already
being lined up for this contest.
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Bennykiil and Others.

To rHR EDITOR OF THE SuS-.Str: am much
Interested In your discussion OF the word benny
kill. At Delhi. on the upper Delaware, II II pro
nounced. think. "blnnikll." the word meaning
. little tributary, running from spring 10 tho
river. and often only few rods In length.
The cold. clear water made tina bInnlkill . favor
tie resort for trout. but apparently did not suit
the !gnoble mummy club" which required
more icpid stream. suppose that mummy
chub." as II Is there called, Is the local pronuncia-
ton of "munmychog."
II has occurred to mo that the word binnikll
may be In part derived from the same root as the
scotch word burn" brook, and German "brun-
nen." = spring the termination kill" is plainly
enough Dutch, as you suggest. There are in this
country several Instances OF small streams named
something KILL as Tremper XIII. Batavia XIII. &c.
A. Guyot quoted by the Century Dictionary as
regards the word "vly'1. says To the Dutch are
duo the geographical applications Of kill for stream.
Glove for gorge and Wy for swamp. so frequently
met With In the Catskllls."
These terms are occasionally met with In Della
ware county. which was no doubt partly settled
by people from Greene and Ulster counties.
DELHI. ~ Y. May 80 SIS.
To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--.Sfr: IS. b." con-
sders "bcnnyklu" as meaning a small stream be-
hind An island. The first, second, third. fourth
and NTH b!nnewaters form . chain of ponds In the
town Of Rosendale and county Of Ulster
But why do photographers ignore Ouleoutt
creek Of this name flows through the towns Of
Franklin and Sidney In Delaware country, and
emptes into the SusQuchanna. II Is also the name
OF an inlet OF Upper Shateaugay Lake. near Ralphs
In the Adrondacks.
The word appears In chapter s. Of tho laws Of
1890. II Is noted In frenchs Gazetteer of the
State of New York; page POI. that IN the form
Oulyhoudt the word appears In an Indian pur
chase of some 2J00O acres OF land In or about the
town OF Sidney, made June IA. ICES.
NEW York. May 20. EDWARD c. DKLAvAS, Jr.
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Kosher Meat Preferred hy Christians.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SrN-Sir: DR.. Singer in
his startling review Of the Judaism of this city cites
the crumbng OF pillar of orthodoxy In the Dietary
Law, In that the most fashlouable Jewish restau-
rants have long ago thrown away tho
las, religious ng leaf. mean the kosher Sign"
Its quite true that many renned place Of Jewish
eating does not bear upon Its outer wall the three
consonants without which In the Ghetto tho ortho :
doX will not eat. But Is Il not merely the sign that
Is thrown away, Is tho food In such places irefes
Would oysters, for Instance. be found the bill of
fare! My experience has been that In these res
taurarts the food stu remains kosher.
Furthermore. am informed by large dealers In
meat thu, beef killed by the rabbs and bearing the
kosher lcadcn seal is extensively called for by retail
butchers with a trade exclusively non Jewish.
Surely Or. Singer would not have us believe that
the Goy,m better observe the law OF the killing than
do the people OF the Law The lies In the fact
that discerning Christians have discovered that
kosher meat "a In a more wholesome condition and
therefore better eating. BARJrpAs.
NEw YORK, June L.
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Japanese Migration Likely to 90
Westward Hereafter.

Westward Hereafter.
Along with the Russian ships. Admiral
ToGo's torpedoes blew out of the Pacific
last Saturday an American bugbear.
Except as it exists in the imagination Of
the fanatcal, there is probably no more
Japanese immigration problem"
Al present the people of the Pacific
Coast are frothing at the mouth over
Japanese immigration just as they
frothed over Chinese cheap labor"
twenty years ago. While the movement
has not the spasmodic ginger OF the
Dennis kearney riots, it has found SUBJ
stantial backing. 1t may get before
Congress next session in the form of a
bill with substantial labor backing.
Even the Pacific Coasters have stopped
to wonder what Japan would do about it
we're such bill to pass. Ifa weak, in
vertebrate land like China, the football
of the nations, resented exclusion to the
extent of a commercial boycott what
would proud, energetic and victorious
Japan do?
Whatever the terms of peace, now that
Russia is beaten, Corca will fall abso-
lntely to Japan Further, big piece
of Manchura will probably fall under
her direct or indirect control. The
new territory should nearly double the
area of the empire. These new lands
are thinly populated, as Oriental coun-
tries go, and very rich in possibilities
Corea, for example, is said to have re-
sources as great, acre for acre, as those
of New York State-and big mineral
bodies in addition. The adjoining dis
trict of Manchuria, as the Russians
knew when they staked it out, is hardly
less valuable. For the next generation
Japan will be improving, expanding,
building. Her contractors and her pro-
motors will need laborers, mechanics.
farmers and settlers. They will prefer,
OF course, their own people, by virtue Of
both principle and merit. That is lust
why Japan fought this war--to find an
outlet for her surplus population, a tiny
traction Of which is sitting through San
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Ode to CoHey.

O sportive nymph Of the Titan hair.
The seagreen eye and ardent airi
Once more--oHce moro
Upon the shore
We see thee hash thy bumished smiles
And spread around thy gided vtles:
Onoe more-once moro.
In vain We try to turn away:
In vain VIC try to say thee nay.
Our wisdom falls.
Thy lure prevails.
Or young or old We feel thy power
And seek thy incandescent bower
Our wisdom falls.
q Concy, sure thou art unique
A dear. delightful. naughty freak.
oh. very dear.
Albeit so queer.
For thee We brave the censor's croak.
For thee ven sometimes cen 60 broke
Oh vsry deaTi -
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Catholic notion Of inspiration or make
COP the author of such error
This is substantially the position taken
by the Bible League, Protestant asso-
citation for the defense Of the Scriptures
against the "higher criticism" which
lately held convention in New York.
1t contradcts, however, the position
held by a great body OF Protestant
Biblical scholars, including practically
oil those of highest distinction, and also
by some Roman scholars of weight, for
example the Able LoIsY. who contends
In a recent article that "a book abso-
lutely true for all time, in every sphere
Of truth, is no more, possible than a
square triangle.
The relatively small dissent OF such
critics does not change the fact that the
authoritatively proclaimed doctrine OF
the Roman Catholic Church is that the
Bible is "infallible truth In the Prot
estant Churches, however, there Is no
such positive and authoritative procla-
nation, except in creeds and standards
which have largely lost their power over
the actual belief of clergy and laity.
Why the only Church which sticks abso-
lutely to Biblical infallibility objects to
the reading OF the Bible in the public
schools is explained, of course, by its
rejection of the authorized or King
james version, and its doctrine that the
Interpretation OF Scripture is function
which belongs to that Church only.