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ELASTIC
Colonel P0sey .. wilson Yearns Tor UnIim-
tied Paper Bills OF Credit.

To TEE EDITOR OF TEE SUN-Str: When I read
any mans nubila lion. OF rather obfuscation, about
elastic currency" l always halt at these words Anc
say; One more of those who. esteeming them
selves wise, became fools" Elastic currency"
means, In practice, stretching one way all the time
until the catastrophe comes, Elastic currency, IN
It's present sense. Is a philosophical Jack O. lantern.
There Is a money OF gold, with silver as It's az
junct and helper, which can regulate Itself with
reference to the business OF the country auto
matlcally. II legislators will leave to foreigi. trsd'
a little OF that liberty which is Its birthright ami
mankind's In general.
The y ros. even OF the sacred precincts OF New
York, who do not know enough 10 reform q man
eating Kafnr Sunday school, propose to reform tho
currency by making an already redundant currencv
yet more redundant and a heterogeneous one stD
more complicated.
Like Fal stUr. who could turn every passing cir
cumstancc into a reason for a cup OF sack, they
turn every thing into a reason for issuing bills o.
credit, mostly to be poorly secured: and even 10
do this they propose to encroach on the rights o.
depositons. Meanwhile. they are TO obtain vaus
for these poorly secured notes without giving any
thing In return OF the nature OF interest. OUT
out, thou strumpet Fortune" who can put these
people In positions even TO secure a bearing for their
i'm pudent and outrageous schemes
One OF the latest OF these is 10 permit national
banks TO carry their own notes as part OF their n
serves. The idea of a banks carrying Anythin.
but legal tender money In the reserves Is unheaYd
NJ outside of pure and indebted wildcat banking
The currency reform bankers OF the East have no
sense of humor. but they are so preternaturally
solemn and owllike that they are very funny.
Their much coming" each time Offering a worss
sort OF currency. reminds me OF TIN Eulensp'egel
Of German story. who bought the Swabisn mark
womants cock and two hens on credit. But she re
called him and said that she ought to have sons
security, seeing that he was a stranger. Where
upon TIL offered to leave the unpaid for rooster
as security. This is about like the schemes l hay,
read to reform the currency.
They remind me OF the dancing master. the sin gins
master. &C. OF Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhommc :
IAN the evfl there Is comes from . lack Of atten
ton TO dancing. and so on. says each OF his own
vocation.
All the evil there Is In the world comes from our
not having authority 10 issue unbounded paper
bills OF credit-secured mort or less; less. rather
than more. PosRH S. WILSON.
TAOS. N. N. December 4
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Rand Tran,it I'm Iitaratnr..

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Str: G.. X. Chester
ton has some Interesting remarks on this subject
IN an essay on "Contem poraTy Fiction" IN this
months Reader. The modern romancers. he says,
err by trying 10 be too breathlessly romantic. "
They have made the supreme mistake OF leaving
out the dull parts OF Scott. which made us familiar
with the characters and built up a sense Of reality.
. They are content TO throw their hero into
the sea. They forget that Il is part Of their duty
to make us care whether he Is drowned. . . .
We shall never have this human solldity TIL we go
back 10 the old. slower methods. This fault, which
belongs to many good writer's. becomes an sbso.
lutte mbecIity In the hands of the great mass OF
craftsmen."
No doubt: but IN existing conditions OF every
kind Is not a return 70 the odd slower methods
quite impossiblei Must We do without human
solidIty. them X. Y. 2,
NEW YoRK. December 9
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coNTRoL or PuRLI0 scRooLs.
HAS tho Federal Government . Right to
AssumS m ny Treaty?


To rHE EplroR on THE SuN-Sir; Fedora
control OF city school systems. it has been cop
tended. 10 an issue raised by the oomplicatior
at San Francisco. Taking for granted ths,
the treaty with japan gives the japanese Cd,
privileges Of American schools. has our Sen
ate a right to make a treaty which has the
effect of imposing upon q State or community
an obligation or expense which is distinctly
q matter Of local regulationp
Certainly the original Constitution. or even
the Constitution az understood after the civt.
war. never Intended that the Federal Govern
ment should assume such a supervision over
State and municipal governments a. som-
now claim for the Was. ington authorities
Were such a principle admitted the limits
to the powers OF the treaty making Senate
would be decidedly hard to define. or far
more importance than the education OF the
few Japanese in San Francisco is the scope
of privileges which the Senate may give TO
aliens by right OF treaty.
II it were expedient TO give such a power
to the Federal Government il should be given
to Congress as a whole. and not to one OF It's
law making bodies.
But the writer does not believe that eNeu
the treaty gives Japan the right to raise tho
objection advanced. San Francisco is still
to give free education TO the japanese. bur
sees At. for its W reasons. to give thai
education In a school entirely devoted TO the
Orientals. and where probably the best in
terests OF the foreign scholars would be carcc
for. as the special attention necessary for
Orientals could then be given without the
consequent handicap to those of the clsss
accustomed to American teachers. I. r
NEW YoRK, December 7.
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Jim Tawncy's Cacographers.

The Committee on Appropriations has
turned itself into a committee on spelling
and undertaken to dictate how the Gov
eminent Printing Office shall spell doc
uments authorized by law or ordered by
Congress or either branch thereof" In
printing such documents -the rules Of
photography established by Webster's
OF other generally accepted dictionaries
Of the English language" are to be fol-
lowed.
The reference 10 ~Webster's" il I'M
fortunate. The dictionary which bears
the excellent NoAH's name has changed
many or most of his favorite spellings.
He was a reformer. whose dictionary has
reoanted his reforms. That work illus
trates the fluid and changeable nature of
photography. Some future "Webster's"
may revive the forms dear 10 the Nut
meg philologer. Among the generally
accepted dictionaries Of the English
language are certain dictionaries pub
lished in England. The most elaborate
and authoritative English dictionary, a
great series OF volumes not yet COM
pleted. is English. The Government
Printing Office is to have the right, if the
House approves the Appropriation Com
mittee's report. to spell Wagon and
honour The principal American die
tionaries are rich in alternative spellings
and do not always agree. Program y
and "wo" are forms hateful to many con-
servatives, beloved by many radicals.
The Government Printing Office is free
to use these or the longer forms. In
other words, the Appropriations Com
mittee turns it's face away from Morn
ingside and Skibo and the White House,
and yet authorizes any spellings found
in generally accepted" dictionaries.
Spelling is supposed to be a matter
Of authority. Successive photographers
steal from one another and record from
time to time such changes as seem to
them authorized by usage. Reverent
hands urn to the dictionary and find
in what it says the authority" The
dictionary settles it." Now dictionary
is a compilation by a lot of persons,
whose work is supervised by other per-
sons not infalilble, not necessarily wise.
At best it is a record Of guesses, so far
as spelling and pronunciation, let alone
etymology, go; and IL the guess was
right in 1900 ii may he wrong in 1906.
If the American people are to spell by
authority no pallid hacks or scholars
browsing among books and writing
words on cards can be sufficient author
ity. Lexicocracy is as intolerable as
plutocracy. The plain people will not
rely upon pedants. The plain people
who think know where to go for authority.
When they are looking for authority
they will not consult the Hon. JAMES A.
TAwNEY's committee.
Whatever Congress may order, it ran
not interfere with the right to spell as
you please; and so long as that right is
intact the friends of simplified and sane
tilted spelling will not lose heart.
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From the Endionapolis News

FROM The Indldndpois Ners.
To give the President power to dismiss any
officer Of either branch of the service on his
own initiative and responsibility would sub
ject both army and navy TO a degree OF con-
troll by him that would make them practically
his creatures. Already officers show too
great a disposition to court his favor. due to
Mr.. Roosevelt's policy of jumping subordi-
mates over their superiors. Men feel that
with him as their friend their promotion is
assured. their future secure. II he had the
power TO dismiss as well as the power to
promote his influence would be dangerously
strong. We shall be surprised II Congress
acts on the Presidents recommendation
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This FOrtitude Of True Geuiu.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr The letter.
from disappointed literary genluses. so called
published in THE SON show In their very terms
that the writer's are mistaken concerning their
estimates OF themselves. They have what often
is misconstrued as genius an abnormal desire 70
produce something great without a corr espondinV
creative faculty.
The man Of real genius never whlnes. He will
bear disappointment. He VIII put up with pov.
erty and all It's Sordid consequences He will walk
the streets and without "a spAsm see succexan,I
mediocrities vhiL by In their motor cars, possibly
the severest strain TO which he can be subjected.
He will starve. He viii sacrifice everything in
extreme cases even the greatest thing In the world
the love OF woman, 10 the artistic creative impulse
But he never whines. GUSTAV KoBBE.
New YORK. December \.
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From q Profane Specialist.

DH, d NJ N-JEN,
EYE. EAR. NOSE. THROAT AND GENERAL. suRoBRY.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: am glad
that a man In remote Texas mentions Walter J.
Ballard. as noted In your columns 10 day. ] have
long been a silent admireY Of this most erudite
gentleman. and many. many times have wished TO
ask you who the devil he was. I have, however.
until now been able 10 restrain myself for fear OF
betraying gross ignorance In a matter which I
feared might be common knowledge. Now, how
ever. ! venture TO make the appeal for Information,
and most hesitatlngly ask II he Is really an indi
vidual. or is he Incorporated under the laws Of New
Jersey, and II not Incorporated. why not! In
behalf OF the thousands who have repd miles on
miles OF his statistics In your columns. | ask you TO
spare the Twenty -Afth Infantry and Vice President
Fairbanks for one issue and tell us OF this statistical
geyser. whom all the world should know and love.
ST. JoBNsRUKY. w.. December q. J. NJ. A.
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Spelling Both way, I'm Washington.

FTO1l ne Washington HeT1Id.
The copy cutters In the Government PRINTING
once arc having their experience with the Pres
dents spelling. In consequence of the decislul
by the Printing Committee OF Congress to adhere
TO the ancient manner OF using the alphabet, there
are really two languages running sido BY side 10
the big print shop.
As every bill or document may be several pages
long, and must necessarily be cut up into many
takes" given out to- scores OF compositors. 70
would not take long for the confusion OF Babel IN
result from tho use OF two kinds Of orthogrsphy
under the same roof. All documents coming from
the White House or from the executive depart
ments must be set up In the Presidents spelling
Those from the Capitol must be done in the spelling
OF TIM fathers.
To keep the hundreds OF compositors straight
rubber stamps have been furnished all the oopy
cutters, so they can mark each take In an execu
tive document. and the compositor when he gets
his take" sees the words in big red let, ~ "Nu
spelling" and acts Accordingly.
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sums stolen, the thieves lived in poverty
Mr.. PINKERroN v

W.T.. says
Like all criminal occupations. sneak robbsEy
does not pay. I do not know OF one of these pro-
fessional sneak thieves who is to-day prosperous,
and II we were 10 search into the circumstance
Of those who have crossed the Great Divide we
would md that their last living days were spent
In poverty, that they died poor. many not leaving
SUFFICIENT funds TO defray funersl expenses. we're
buried by subscriptions OF friends OF by police
orncials who persistently followed them during
life and who frequently informed them what the
end would be. but the criminal instinct was there
and could not be eradicated.
" Most OF the bank sneaks stu alive are either m
prison. living on the charity of others. or active
IN other lines OF crime, Had many Of these so
called sneaks devoted their talent and skill TO honest
pursuits they undoubtedly would have developed
into good citizens and been a credit 10 the business
world
With the monetary rewards OF the
occupation small, prison constantly be-
fore them and the police after, it is
difficult to understand why these men,
some of them of unusual intelligence,
persisted in their ways. Mr.. PINKERToN
nee asked an old and famous sneak
HOW TIC &OJ lltO Llo u tuc. Inc Lldu as
a boy had hooked" change from the
till of the country store in his native
place, and pies, cake, tobacco, pipes and
such small wares from its counters.
Once, on the. eve of the Fourth of July.
he stole a supply of f~irecrackers and
torpedoes from the shop. Some Of the
torpedoes fell to the floor. Their explo-
sion betrayed him. He was arrested,
convicted and sent 10 prison. There he
met older thieves, who completed his
corruption. This story might be re-
peated with slight variation of many
professional criminals" Society has yet
10 learn how to bring a young offender
back to the right path. In many Gases
the punishment for the first offence con-
firms a weak willed man in wrongdoing,
and subsequent police persecution pre-
vents any long continued attempt at
reform. Civilization has failed dismaliy
to provide an intelligent and scientific
method Of treatment for the criminals
who are such mainly by reason Of acct
dent or opportunity.
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Great IL football W. CAMERON FoRpE

Great IL football W. CAMERON FORBES,
NOW Governor OF the Philippines" &C.
cording TO a Boston paper. is mentioned
a. coach Of next years football team AZ
Harvard. Mr.. FORBES is a member OF
the Philippine Commission and Secretary
Of Commerce and Police for the Islands,
and from the Filipino point Of view he il
a dignifed and important parsonage. But
a victorious football coach would be a
bigger man at Harvard, and IL MI. FORBES
will come pack and turn out a football team
strong and It ioky' enough to humble Yale
his fame will go laundering down the ages.
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Anything that VIII make headlines will cause
papers 10 sell, but the correction OF a story mex
day does not induce the publisher to refund the
money paid for the paper the day before - Hon
Nor, we suppose, Toes the distinguished
Secretary, when he makes mistakes, return
TO the public treasury any part Of the salary
paid him by a sovereign people. We are
all fallible. editors as well as Cabinet officers,
and ought at least TO be credited with good
intentions and good faith.
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New Orleans 20 Have q Cellar.


From ne Washington Post.
"A new hotel Is being built In New Orleans, AID
II Is going TO have a cellar. That ought TO be vorby
Of note" said Martin BehrnAn, Mayor OF NeV
Orleans.
During the last few years. continued -.
BehruAn. -tho sewerage system OF Nev OTlear
has been revOlutloniEed The waste vster ar
refuse matter are no longer washed away IN sur'sc
sewers, ,or gulleys. rev. well regulated scw-'
planted under the ground. have taken the p.s"'
o the old style sewers which made our city nc
torlous. By our new drAInss sc system Il is possib'
now to build cellars under houses. A few yesst
ago a native Of New Orleans did not know what 4
cellar was"
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President Jordan. Grandfather.
FrOr1 M BostOn Recon

FrVrn me Boston Record.
President David Starr Jordan OF Leland StAEiors
University. who delivered an address before Ins
educational congress recently. rather surprised -
audience by his reference 20 the possible status y
the other world OF one Of his great grandfather
He Vas speaking Of an address written BY Ne
old geDuomsh which he had recently read. az
was telling Of the queer ideas It contained besrEs
upon futdrc prosperity. Il often wonder what
grandfather would think.- be said. IF be eoLd
look through . crack OF tho pearly gates, or as soD'
have suggested. from his coaey corner ~ tbe Are
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What fault can no find with this admir-
able sentiment:

What fault can no and with this admir-
able sentiment:
1t should be our steady aim TO raise the ethical
standard OF national action. iusi Ss W strive 10
raise the ethical standard of individual action"
And what exception can he take to this
just and gentle precept:
1T is morally % lndefensible for . nation 70
commit q wrong upon another nation. strong or
weak, as for an individual thus to wrong his fellows"
We think there will be general dis
appointment at the warlike comment of
Mr.. BRYAN upon q message which cannot
fail to enhance Mr.. RoosBvELT's reputa-
ton as a lover of peace and champion of
international morality. For MI. BRYAN
when he has charged Mr.. ROOSEVELT
with appropriating his reform thunder
there has been a measure of sympathy,
although, if Mr.. BRYAN is the older, Mr..
ROOSEVELT is the better radical in his
endeavor to perform what Mr.. BRYAN
has only professed; but there is no copy
right on the application of the Golden
Rule TO international polity. We shall
hope, therefore, that Mr.. BRYAN will not
add to his indictment of Mr.. ROOSEVELT
a count that he has appropriated senti-
ments which all good men share in COM
mon, although some utter them with
finer effect than others.
On further reelection Mr.. BRYAN, being
IA just man, will confess that the tone Of
the message as a whole is pacific and not
wsrlike, gracious and not provocative,
and as benevolent as the spirit of his
" homilies.
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The Brooklyn Theatre Habit.

To THE EDITOR or TINE SUH-iSfv. The o,bcr
evening just after I had got inside OF the Automo.
bile Show l was approached by a young man who
looked as II he might have come over from Brook
lyn. lie was accompanied by a girl to match
They had paused for a moment when they entered
and had looked about them as n IN doubt and In
some haste, Said the young man TO me: "How
long has the curtain been up" Before I could
gather my startled wits into the sembIauce OF
answer they had rushed Oh. looking. | suppose. for
an usher. Now what do you think Of that
NEW YORK. December z Ian
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The Justices Admission
JAR.


from ne lALdhdDdd Pioneer
The proprtetorS OF a celebrated SwadeShi ,ollet
preparation have been collecting testimonials from
the leaders OF indian society. Ono learned JUstios
ingenuousiy offers tho following surprising test1
mony: Very enncacious for weakness OF the brain.
Q use q daily"
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" or friends pAo favor Us nth manuscripts for
publication Uish 70 haze rejected articles returned they
must IN or coses send aarps for that purpose.
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The Territory has Increased Its b-nk assets on
per cent. in only ten years.. an average increAS-
OF 90 per cent. a year.
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Banking In Arizona.

One OF Ahzona-s qualifications for statehood IL
the satisfactory progress during the ten years
Of her banks and their present prosperous conditop
In figures the progress appears a. follows:
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subscriptions by Mail, Postpaid.
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La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1906-03-31
QUE NO ~ EoulvoouE.

81 porque no hemos adoptado ell nego.
clio de hAoer refieociones indecentes
inmorales contra el Comanche su es.
pecie, cree que no tenemos en- nuestro
poder prnebas sufoientes para hacerlo,
esta errado de medic medic. ST no 10
hemos hecho es por que aborreoemos Ia
idea do mesclar tan bajas personalidades
en- asuntos pubicos, y porqpe respeta,
mos la santidsd del hogar las suscep-
tibilidades de nuestros lectores; pero 81
81 mantiene su actitud prop6sito de
hacer ataquts personales Elm fundamen.
10 nueve deeimaa parties de ellos fal
SOS, nos veremos preoisados hRcerlo
Por motive de 50 odio Y caletre desc
quilibrado, ha ataoado Felix Martinez
Jr,. y 4 otras personas que no 10 han
ofendido en- 10 mas mfnimo, sin respo
tar nj los derechos nj las susceptibilida.
des de las mujeres.
AHORA, ICOMO LIE GUSTARIA
QUE NOS0TR0S PUBLIOARAMOS
FAC SMILES DE ALGUNAS DE
LAS OARTAS QUE CONSTAN EN-
NUESTRO PODER DONDE Ell, SU
HERMANO, Y AUN SU PADRE HA
CEN ALGUN PAPEL?
Por supuesto 81 cree que tiene el dere.
che absolute de hacerlo contra nosotros,
y que 10 puede hacer con impunidad,
imsginandose y aun jactandose de que
pOr que ea esoribano de la corte dc dis
trito, tiene por clio suflciente autoridad
para abusar aun del respeto dignidad
de la misma eorta Rosotros somos de
opinion que Ell Hon w, j. Mills no aabe
de tai prooedimiento en- 81 cual SO esta
ooInprometiendo
Tambien creemos que el Juez Supe.
| rior del Territ0rio no entiende Que Sc
oundino esta hacienda el papel de espan-
tajo por medic dc insinuAciones indirec.
tas de su poder, con 81 fin de constituir-
80 en- el terror de la comunidad donde
yive.
Ahora, es bueno que entienda el bar
baro que podra usar las bajezas mas vi.
les de su metodo contra nuestros dere.
ohos, nuestra libertad y aun nuestra
vida, perO nunoa nos hara desviar de 10
que nosotrcs consideramos como el Ca
mino do la justicia hacia ell mundo
nuestrO deber hacia nosotros mismos
Hablando dc casas de cristall 81
sabe que 81 campo esta en- Ia cslle, por-
que sus cristales 90 rompieron hace ya
mucho tempo
Reiteramos de nueyo que deploramos
esta oontencion mas que nadie, pero este
charlatap, mete miedo, y 50 atizador, FL
'pantalonel o. y la quiura, su colabo-
rador, no podran atacarnos con impu
nidad sin reeibir tanto como 10 QUE des-
pachRn,