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under whom they serve and generally,
In both the army and the navy, the
distinction between officers and men in
those respects Ia not'so broad as many
people imagine.
Our system OF offering the two SER
vices is on the whole demooratic. The
appointments OF cadets for the Military
and Naval Academies outside Of those
-at large conferred by the President,
usually from among the sons Of men
who have rendered conspicuous military
service to the Union-are made by each
Senator and Representative in Congress,
and the custom OF selecting these
by competitive EXAMINATIONS now pro-
walls largely. 1t happens. therefore,
that a great part Of the officers como
from the plain people In tho army,
too, are many officers who have risen
from the ranks.
Under the apprentice system Of the
navy, introduced for the purpose Of i'm
proving the quality OF tho enlisted GER
vice, by which minors between is and
II years Of age we're enlisted until at
tanning their majority, many boys OF
excellent antecedents were brought in;
but It has been found by experience that
very few have reenlisted on coming OF
age and tho large expenditure OF the
Government on their naval training
seems not to have been justified IL the
results That Is. the experiment has
not been successful. Our correspond
ents among the enlisted men, however,
who have contended that the wardroon
does not by any means contain all the
education and refinement, on board
ship of our navy have facts to sustain
their assertion.
Among the enlisted men, OF our army
the Hon ARTHUR REGINALD FRENCH
will find comrades who are fully his
equals in education and conventional So
Cial refinement
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A British Baron's Sons Enlistment
In Our Army.

The discovery that missing son and
heir Of British Peer had enlisted in our
army is particularly interesting and sug-
gestive at this time, when there is 80
much discussion concerning the large
percentage of assertions from both the
army and the navy.
The enlistment in our army OF for
eigner Of education and Of social cult
walton, however, is by no means an
extraordinary event. When our civil
war was in progress many foreigners
of that sort and Of military experience
came to lids country with the expecta-
ton OF getting commissions in the army.
and the instances where, failing to get
such a commission. they enlisted as
private soldiers were not few. Since
then and up 10 the present there has
probably never been time when in
the enlisted ranks there have not been
foreigners of education belonging TO
families Of more or less social distinction
in their own countries. Among the en-
listed men OF the army are also Ameri-
cans Of a similar character as regards
their social anteoedents.
In the navy also there may be found
enlisted men who in education and re-
iinement are on q level with the officers
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On the Trail of tho OIL Company.

There is TO be an official Investigation
Of the Standard Oil Company. Miss
TARBELLs dignifed analysis of its in
EQUITIES and Mr.. LAwsoN's pyrotechnio
verbosity have not served to stale its
infinite variety The sleuth hounds
OF the Bureau of Corporations are TO be
set on its trail, hotfooted and relentless.
to lay bare to the public that with which
the public has long been entirely familiar.
They are to begin at once and go to
the bottom
This work will probably draw on tho
public treasury for more than 500 900.
1t will be found that the Standard Oil
Company has secured control of the
market by buying out. squeezing out
and freezing out its competitors. 1t
will be found that the company saw fit
to stop buying oil in Kansas and that
those from whom it had been buying
were losers by the suspension of their
sales II will be found that the company
can pay any fine that may be imposed
upon it, or the cost Of any suit that may
be brought against it, by making the
public pay cent or two a gallon more for
its oil Among other discoveries it may
also be learned that while individuals by
the score by the hundred, perhaps by
the thousand, have been injured in purse
by the commercial methods pursued
by the company, other thousands have
found well paid employment through
its operations and millions have bought
burning oil at prices which are far from
extortionate and which are less than
half the prices paid few years ago.
BY all means let all rascals be shown
up. If there are any in the beef business,
show them up. If there are any in the
oil business, show them up. If there
are any in the railroad business, show
them up. If there are any in official
life. show them up, and spare none.
What is the public most likely to get
IA a result of the expenditure of more
than 100000 and the revelation of that
which is already well and generally
known? Verify, it may get good, hard.
healthy run for its money.
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Automobile Manslaughter.

Senator THOMAS FRANCIS GRADY's bill,
introduced in the Albany Legislature last
week, for the regulation Of automobiles
would make the driver who exceeded
the legal rate of speed and while doing
50 killed a person liable TO prosecution
and punishment for manslaughter in the
second degree The punishment for
manslaughter in the second degree may
be Imprisonment for fifteen years or a
fine of 1000, or both. PROFESSIONALLY
the enactment OF law providing severe
penalties for reckless Automobiles
would be approved by the public, Sew
eral recent incidents have shown that
there is class of car operators who have
no regard for the laws, the rules Of the
road or the ordinary decenoies Of life.
II was one OF this class who, after his
machine had struck and injured Sc
verely an old man in one Of the highways
in The Bronx last fall, wrapped the vic
tim in a blanket and left him unconscious
by the roadside, running away from the
scene of the accident TO avoid its conse-
quences. There have been a number Of
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certainly, quito easily. by insendble de-
Greee. and never presenting clear issue
for valid objection by the United States,
acquire control which will In its effect DO
equal 10 territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
II such European nation, In the interests
OF It's children across the seas and with
due regard for the welfare and progress OF
the world In general, shall propose TO un-
dertake a work only less benefoent than
the great work on the Isthmus Of Panama
to open the heart OF South America 10
civilization by improving waterways, and
requiring, let us suppose, concessions from
Brazil and Paraguay similar 10 those which
we obtained from Panama-wfll the Govern
ment Of the people Of tho United States
forbid and PREVENT That is not to bs
imagined
But is equally impossible TO assune that
our people will allow matters In all that part
Of the world to drift along until the oonclu
sion Just mentioned shall be forced upon
them; until they will have to adisit, eating
their own words, that the Monroe Doctrine
stops short at certain coast ranges and docs
not extend TO southeastern America
The alternative is-the Orinooo.
MARION WuCoL
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are the newer States OF Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, Utah and Idaho. and even in them
feminine sentiment does not seem to be
united earnestly in It's favor.
SO great Is the opposition OF women
20 such suffrage that they have formed
associations to concentrate their intlu-
ence against it. Whenever proposal
10 grant political equality to women Is
made in a State Legislature its women
advocates are counteracted and out
numbered by stout and even passionate
women opponents Whenever we admit
to THE Sun a letter from a woman in
behalf OF oman suffrage we get 80 many
letters from women protesting against
the innovation that we regret having
allowed the controversy 10 start. We are
going through that experience now, II
we gave full liberty TO the discussion 1t
would fill columns Of our space con-
tinuously, and the great majority OF the
women controversialists would be on
the side OF the opposition.
To-day we print three letters on the
subject, selected from many received
most of them in opposition, but we give
TO the affirmative the advantage by
printing two on that side. 1t would be
useless to continue the controversy, for
it is over n question in which there is
comparatively little interest among men,
or women either. Woman suffrage is
now even less q question OF practical
politics than it was generation ago and
it will never enter into politics az a CON
siderable issue till tho time comes, il it
ever comes, when women themselves
are united in asking for the suffrage.
Who would be free, themselves must
strike the blow; but the vast majority
of women refuse to strike the blow, so
far as concerns equality with men in the
suffrage.
Elsewhere, however they are assert
ing their freedom in every department
of social activity, from the drawing room
and the ballroom of fashion to the shop
and the factory of the world of industry.
They have emerged from the seclusion
of domesticity into the broadcast light of
publicity. physician who wrote to
us the other day thinks tho consequences
are bad, so far at least as concerns the
women Of fashionable society; but
obviously the movement of women
toward the brightest blaze Of that light
will continue at an accelerated pace.
Will it finally force them into the sphere
Of politics and make them there as promi-
nent and forceful factors as they are
now in purely social life and in the world
OF professional and industrial activity?
Our medical correspondent lamented
that already they have suffered de-
terioration so far as concerns the best
graces of womanhood, both spiritual
and physical, and it will be seen that
Mrs. CoRBIN, in her letter to-day, ex-
presses the same opinion. So far as we
are concerned, however. we discern no
such deterioration, but rather observe
more perfect Towering Of beautiful
womanhood.
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Cen. Lew wallace at tho beginning OF His
Military Career

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN7Sir The passing
OF Gen. Lew Wallace brings 10 mind an Incident
In nis experience In military Affairs that did not
give any lnii.na,on Of his subsequent distinction
either a military oheflAih or as al author.
In 1859 at Lafayette. Ind, there was military
enoampncnt OF several militia companies from
Indiana and Kentucky. Con. Simon Bolivar Buck
ner was comfnandant and Mr.. Lew Wallace. First
Lieutenant OF a Charlottesville organization. was
appointed AdjutAnt. At the nrst guard mounting.
a new experience for NJ. Wallace. he got mixed up
somewhat. having the sergeants corporals and
prvAtes OF the guard all In rank without regard
TO relative positions. Gen. Buckncr VINO was
looking with evident dissatisfaction. said 70 me.
Captain. kindly 90 over and show Mr. wallace
how 20 mount guard he knows absolutely nothing
about It. although he has copy OF tho Army
Regulations In his hands.
few years ago Gen. Wallace was at the Waldorf
Astoria, and Gen Buckner at the Piflh Avenue, and
drought them together Wallace, said Buckner.
In tho course OF conversation. your military his
tory and mine were somewhat different. Your nrst
experience at lafayette Ind. was a failure decid-
edly but you learned something during the war.
and ended In a blaze Of glory. while graduated at
the Military Academy, and well-you know the
nnAle-Allow me 10 ring the bell"
PRLKAM MANOR, Feb. 10. VETERAN,
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Inoon,i,tsuoy in the Courts.

To THE RDrroH OF The SuS-SIr; A gentleman
while waiting for a party OF friends at Weber's
Music Hail on Broadway on the evening OF Feb. IL
lighted q cigarette. and. without expectoraung In
any sense OF the word, blew some loose tobacco
from the cigarette out OF his mouth. He was i'm
mediaiely arrested. like any common thief or pick
pocket, and hustled OF 10 the Tcnderloin police
station. There. after he had been searched his
pedigree taken and the formal charge against him
read he was locked UP In cell so nthy that 1t can
be called nothing but disgrace 10 a civilized city
He was not Informed as 10 what bail would DO
accepted for about an hour when friend managed
70 Gnd out that 800 would llberAte the prisoner.
The bah was produced and the prisoner released
with orders 10 appear at $50 O'Clock the next morn
ing AZ the Jefferson Market court. Then he was
nned 81. The Magistrate accepted tho word OF a
policeman noticed while my friend was waiting
In the Jefferson Market oour. four distinct viola
tons OF this Anticipating law which occurred
behind the railing In shat court. the offenders not
being prisoners. but either lawyers or court o1lcers
NEWARK, Feb. II. T.
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Mrs Corbin Of Chicago Saws the Last Word
Against Woman Suffrage.

To rHx EDITOR OF THE SuN-,Sir, Aside from
the general fact that women and suffrage are bet.
ter kept apart. for the hest good of both. the fol-
lowing few reasons why tA1pAying women
should not be given the ballot
Because the property qualification for voters
has been long ago eliminated from our Government.
and any return 70 It in this time when the dangers
OF plutocrAoy not only serious but are b,ing
used TO inclte sedltion and Violence is III timed aad
ineIpedient
Because the majority OF women owners OF prop-
erty have become possessed OF It through gin or
Inheritance from the original male aocunuiAtors
~ II, and not by the exercise of any business SKIN
en-, 3.'re OF their They are passive rather
than active property owner. and are thus the res
liable 20 be htted for the active duties of ownership
As q matter OF fact, few OF them do vote In thoss
corporations where tho ownership OF stocks gives
them that tight.
Because much OF the property in the hands Of
women has been placed there by male relatives
for the sake OF those privileges and immunltl,s
which the law allows 10 property held. In most
States women property owners have already more
privileges than men. fact which makes willing
TO place property In their hands. In which tacy
themselves hold all a voters interests.
Because the paramount duties and interesis Of
women lie In higher sphere than that OF the ma
terial interests OF life. and anything which tends
unnecessarily TO divert their attention 70 she sensh
and material aspects Of the business world sub.
tracts just 90 much from their possible usefulness
In that higher life which has for It's aim the develop
ment and Improvement Of tho morals OF the home
and society. This dis unotion "a already too much
lost sight OF In our modern social condition. where
the effort TO place men and women on a 80 called
equality has resulted In the lowering OF TIE
Ideals of womanhood In way that involves grcAi
loss 70 the higher Interests OF society.
Because the call for suffrage 10 by no means gen
eral on the part OF taxpaying women. A large pro.
portion OF them when the question has been raised.
have enrolled themselves against IL. while many
women properly owners are among the most r.
fective supporters OF the Gntisurrage AssoclA-
lions. This country has always erred on the side
OF too liberal rather THAI TOO restricted SIT.
frare, and every measure iScreaSnx this hberNlity
should be carefully sorutulzrd. and only approved
when weighS reasons can be induced IN It's favor.
No such reasons can be found for giving the bsioI
10 taIpAying woven. CAROLINE r CoHBn
CHICAGO, FEB. II.
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cases in which the evidence showed that
operators responsible for collisions were
intoxicated and entirely unfit to hold the
wheel. The number OF lawbreaking
automobile owners IL declared TO be a
small fraction OF those who use cars.
but they are sufficiently numerous 70
warrant drastic legislation for their pun
ishment and suppression.
The conviction and imprisonment for
long terms of few Automobiles guilty
of running their machine, at dangerous
rates OF speed would have wholesome
effect For killing man the penalty
imposed on chauffeur should not be
less severe than that inflicted on any
individual whose reoklessness causes
tho death Of another.
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The Always Engaging Woman oues-

tlOn.
The many letters on woman suffrage
which we are now receiving from women
would seem to suggest that there is
revival of feminine interest in that ques-
ton. Actually, however, there is prob
ably now less public interest in it, among
both men and women, than there was
generation ago.
In that period there has been some
thing approaching a complete revolu-
ton so far as concerns the rights and
activities OF women. AS correspondent
remarked in THE Sun the other day, the
women of the society called fashionable
have been brought far more conspicu-
ously before the public. When about
generation ago our newspapers began
70 report private entertainments, OF
which women were then and are still
the chief figures, they pushed American
women into the same light of publicity
in which their sisters OF the aristoctacies
of Europe had always lived. At first,
there was something Of an cutlery against
the innovation, more or less genuine, as
an interference with peculiarly private
and domestic affairs. 1t was raised by
men rather than women, for maniiestly
the publicity was not ungrateful to the
Of such functions is expected and de-
sired, if not provoked by those giving
them, though at the moment in very
limited section of the circle OF fashion
there is said TO be an effort 10 create
a revuson from such publicity If,
however, the names Of these o5tensibly
retiring characters should be omitted
from newspaper reports of functions
of fashionable prominence 1t would
soon be demonstrated that their modesty
IL an atfectation.
One of the strongest forces in bring
ing about the social distinction most
desired by that circle has been the
publicity given to its doings and the
members of it. The phrase, the 400 >
coined by a sef-apponted but readily
accepted social drum major singled it
out for special celebration at home and
abroad and kindled ambitions to enter
its ranks which have brought in many
promising recruits. In truth. its vi
tality has come from publicity or has
depended on -44SIigArr9yS 2aTJ O = .t4st
society and in all society of fashion, in
this country more especially, women are
the leaders and the law givers, il is they
chiefly who have been made prominent
before the public.
Meanwhile, women have gained all the
public and legal rights for which the early
leaders n the organized movement for
their emancipation from the restraints
on them then imposed by civilization
contended, with the sole exception OF
the suffrage They are admitted to col
legcs and universities. no department Of
trade and industrial orprofessional activ-
ity is closed against them, and long be-
fore this they would have been admitted
20 full political equality with men if they.
or the great majority of them, had not
resisted that final innovation. In only
four States Of the Union have women
Teen granted the full suffrage, and these
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Twice within six months the residents of
Long Island towns have been worked up
to point Of indignation at which they were
ready to take the law into their own bands
and inaiot summary punishment upon
negro lawbreakers. In each case the au-
thorites were able to protect their prison
era and save their lives. II it had not been
for the prompt and decisive measures
adopted yesterday by the Oyster Bay con-
stables negro might have failed to get
square deal under the very caves of the
Hon. THEODORE RoosByKLTs home
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Commodore Barrr,s Mixe,.

To TEN EprroB OF TIE SUs--Sir In TO days
Issue OF THE Sun Daniel Kelley says: Ills
tBarry's) remains repoSe beside those OF bis sec
Dad Wife -this second wife was OF swedish Descent
and died before Barry. BaTrys nrsi wife. Burns
or Cleary. died FEB. o. 1T. On July 7. I'M. he
married Sarah Austin, who died on Nov. IS. 1881,
a. the age o, II. PATRICK FORD. Jr.
ERw YORK, FEB. IL.
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For Holidays Away. on saturday.

To THE EDITOR or THR SUN-.Sir. The men
and the deeds celebrated by our holidays are
well worthy OF the time given to them. and tho
education and inspiration Of genius that those
ceremonies and themes afford, should ever
abound.
Az these arc facts OF grand careers and
achievements mere days for such oommem-
grafton are unlmportant-
Days should be selected that are most
suitable and that most nearly conserve the
employed and business interests. disturbing
their economy and the convenience OF the
public TO the least extent.
All our public holidays should be celebrated
on Saturdays. The following day being
Sunday. the weekly public holiday OF rest.
religion and recreation. makes the holiday
preceding IL the more useful and enjoyable
and does not break into tho following bust
ness week as Monday holidays do. TO the dis
advantag e OF labor and business alike.
All religious days and birthdays OF great
men may be celebrated by the oeremonials
and functions that please those Interested
and on the very days they desire. but in no
way require the setting aside OF public days
such az wo wish to provide for our great
national characters and events. which form
In an educational sense the landmarks OF
history.
Many favor tho selection OF day In August
for President Day. taking tho place as a
public holiday OF Washington's. Lincoln's
and MoKlnley's birthdays as now celebrated
However. II might not please all to have less
holidays. Let us have them better distributed
throughout tho year and thus made more
enjoyable and popular.
on this plan We should have our holidays
celebra ted As follows.
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A woman. Reply to a Woman opponept.

To THE EDTroR OF THE sus--Sir' When nnish
reading OF MIS-. Corhin's Letters against woman
suffrage feel as do when my four yehr-old leans
my knee and liking his earnest eyes upon me.
asks, Mother why lsut the moon made Of green
cheese1"
There must be a similarity. too. In the views Of
real life held By the lady and the child. We women
are sull 10 conhne our efforts 10 the home. are VIZ
just VIC have done for generations And how
are TO do this successfully, when our water Is
scAnty and impure, our meat at famine prices.
our milk full OF formaldehyde, our gas smoky, our
gowns ruined by splitting, our nerves racked by
rapid transit the health OF our collateral relA.
tlvts ruined by poison In their patent medicine.
our children III or dead OF prrvcntable disease and
last. but not least, our money nichcd from US for
an absurd and unconstitutional barge canal'
BROOKLYN Feb. u. A. W. s.
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Porto Rtos's Finest.

From ~ annual rtporf OF Governor " II. Hunt
Order prevails throughout the Island. Never,
since civu government was established. has there
been call for the military forces. We have relied
upon the Porto RicAn lnsulaI police. which 10 well
abo 70 meet any situation that may arise.
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Docs not tho President regret that the
mathematical mind OF the Hon. EIIHu
Roor Ia no longer at his service to defend
tho infnitesimal reoess theory against the
aspersIons OF SPooHKB?
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Somothinx Dolng
From ne Monument Enfsrprt,,.

Frorn me Monument Enffrprtfs.
This morning the sweet slumber Of our peaceful
and quiet town Was aroused by bang bang bang.
IKE the report OF firearms about O'Clock indlcst-
ing that a shooting ARRAY was taking place Ia SONS
pan OF town
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RECORD Y.ar for rrade Mark,.

From ne Trade Marx Record.
According 70 the latest report OF the Commissioner
OF Patents. $40 trade marks. prints and labels were
registered In tho Patent once during 1908. This IA
the largest issue OF certificates OF regStralon in the
history Of the once.
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n our friends uho fdror ~ '''ih "dnu'orfp" Io'
publication rtsh n hnrs 'steefsd drfeie' returned meV
must IN aA cgWs send siauipJ for MAJ purDo"'