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It is a mistake to suppose that the
senior Senator for the Empire State, tho
Honorable THOMAS COLLIER PLATT, is
Incapable OF further usefulness. He is
not too old or too seriously incapacitated
either in the physical sense or in~tellec-
tually, or too shamefully discredited in
his public and private relation to the
community to perform now, at once,
this week. to-day, the greatest service
which it has ever been in his power to
render TO his honorable constituents, the
people of New York. It ia the states
mans last opportunity to win their APP
proval and applause. With their fingers
defending their olfactories, they will APP
plaud him with enthusiastic feet.
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seems TO have said TO himself: BY your
refusal to find sureties. you avow a de-
termination to be martyrs. Well, then,
martyrs you shall be with a vengeance"
So IL came to pass that the eleven suffra-
gists-every n Of them a lady by birth,
breeding and education were dealt
with precisely as if they had been Or
binary criminals. They were stripped of
every stitch of clothing, compelled to
stand barefooted in a cold room while
their measurements" were being taken,
obliged to put on prison garb and to SUBJ
sist on prison diet, and, in short, to sub
NIT TO almost every degradation which
the British penal system imposes upon
hardened criminals.
When the shocking facts became
known there was an outbreak of wrath
all over the United Kingdom, and from
every section of the House of Commons
remonstrances and rebukes were levelled
at the Home Secretary, who at the time,
however, remained stolid and unshak-
able. 1t is scarcely credible, neverthe-
less, that the eleven suffragists will be
forced to serve out their two months
sentence under such conditions of out
rage. Two Of them broke down almost
at once under ~privation and indignity,
and none Of them is likely ever to forget
the abasement of which they have been
made the victims.
We repeat that from the viewpoint of
opponents of Woman Suffrage no greater
blunder could have been made than to
repress it's advocates with excessive and
d~isgraceful severity. The blood of the
martyrs was the seed of the Church, and
the wrongs which the enthusiastic cham
pions Of woman's rights have been made
to bear in England may yet lead to the
triumph of their cause.
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Relations With Canada.

Consul VAN SAINT, az Kingston, Canada,
gives a very sound and sensible reason
/ for the increasing United States trade
with Canada. He says:
- The needs of the two peoples arc similar, their
business intercourse OF necessity more frequent.
their taste. costumes and style almost alike. and
their social, rellg ious and business interests con-
stantly Increasing. A few hours at most separate
the commercial centres Of the two countries. A
trip from one to the other incurs no more expense
or time than would a trip from one State to an
other. II takes weeks to get a shipment from Eng.
land or Germany to Canada. as compared with a
few days at most to get them across the line"
Canada buys more from the United
States than any other country, except
England and Germany. If from both
accounts raw cotton be omitted, our
sales TO Canada exceed our sales TO
Germany. Our Canadian account in
creases steadily and rapidly. Using
Dur export figures, which are somewhat
below those given in Canadian state
ments of imports from this country, the
figures are $50, 6s7 1921 for 1895, sos, $780,
PA for 1901 and sl58, 1876, 1915 for 1906.
Because of the abundance of our home
supply our purchases from Canada are
much below our sales to that country,
but that side of the ledger also shows a
comfortable increase, thus: $40, Ss7, 565 in
1896, s42, 4s?, 1893 in 1901 and SOS, 249, $50
in 1905.
The most important Canadian import
from this country does not appear in the
trade statistics. canada has within
the last few years, taken a couple of
hundred thousand very good citizens
across the border. She has taken them
not as mere tourists but as actual settlers,
and she finds that they make excellent
Canadians.
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For years the a paid to motormen
and conductors on the street railway lines
in Manhattan have been the highest paid
for labor Of this class in any city in the
world. Recently the company revised the
schedule. making the pay Of the men higher
than ever before. This action. which was
not forced on the company by threats or
the fear OF labor troubles. attracted less
attention than would have been paid to a
dispute over the issuing Of a transfer. This
week it is announced that the company will
put vestibules on all it's cars for the protec-
ton Of motormen and conductors. No
statute compels this action. for the Legis-
lature has refused repeatedly to pass a law
requiring enclosed platforms here. A public
service corporation Ii inherently a wicked and
loathsome thing. yet a balancing Of accounts
will show hat the surface railways on Man.
haitian have done a goodly number Of cred-
table things.
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Suicide OF Animals.
From The Pail Man Gazette.

FTOW w FdH MdH Od@CUC.
The supposed suicide OF animals raises a
subtle problem. and to deny II Is TO ny In the face
of deep rooted popular belief. II Is Just as much
a natural history myth. however. as the hoary
headed belief in the adder swallowing Its young
in time Of peril, the toad living in a stone nodule
for thousands OF years. or the terminating powers
of mummy wheat. The most ancient fefO de Sc
verdict OF the myth mongers relates to the habit
OF scorpions digging their stlngs into their heads
when unable TO escape from nrc.
Experiments have proved the fallacy Of the scor-
pion's suicide. notably those carried out some years
ago by DIR. f.. Ray Lancaster. director OF the nat
ural history department OF the British Museum,
and Professor Bourne OF Madras. Scorpions were
confined In an extremely hot place from which
escape was impossible. and their frantic gymnas.
tics were carefully studied with serene and phno
sophie complacency. As In the case OF the tortured
rattlesnake biting Its own body, the action OF the
scorpion in an apparent attempt to put an end
TO Us sunerings by singing its head was purely
muscular, and DR.. Lancaster himself compared
the action 10 the biting the dust attributed 10
men who die in hand 20 hand struggles. or TO the
biting OF their own hand or arm by unhealthy
children in a paroNysm OF anger.
That animals bring about their own deaths by VIC
lent and abnormal actions Is certain. but n all the
contributory causes could he asccrtaincd Il would
probably be found that they did so under the pres
sure OF some tOrturing pain producing hystericaI
Madness,
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MAYOR SChmitZ.

Soon after EUGENE f. SCHMITZ was
elected Mayor of San Francisco for his
first term he visited New York. He was
practically unknown; his only fame rested
on the fact that his preparation for the
office to which he had been chosen had
been acquired while playing a cornet in
a theatre orchestra. His official conduct
never attracted particular attention away
from the Pacific coast. When he ran for
office again a little vas heard of him, but
it was because of the fact that he repre-
sented organized labor and the closed
shop that his candidacy was considered
worthy of mention.
The earthquake that overthrow San
Francisco gave SCHNIITz the chance to
make a reputation, and he was not slow
in seeing it. In the earliest reports from
the city he was named as one man who
had kept his senses, risen to the emer-
gency and served the public with dis
tinction and success. He was the man
who made good, the ~farseeing execu-
tive who managed the tangled affairs of
the wrecked community with wisdom
and skill, and his praises were on the
lips Of many who had never heard of
him before. When the first excitement
passed SCHMITZ was the biggest figure
in the picture. Later it was asserted
that he had been only a tool in the
hands of RUFF in the earthquake and
fire days, just as he had been before.
Of RUEF's ability no one had doubt, but
the public was anxious to keep its hero,
and SCHMITz is still on a pedestal in
many places.
1t is the reputation that came to him
this year that gives particular interest
to his indictment for extortion. All over
the country there are men who hope he
is not guilty. They do o know him,
in all probability they will never see him,
but they regard him as a strong man
who proved himself in a crisis, and they
do not want to believe him an extortion-
list and a criminal. We're it not for this
he might be sen to prison for the rest of
his life without attracting the slightest
attention.
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A Sage and a Marble Hearted F1cnd,

From the recesses of his wisdom and
the unfailing reservoirs Of his speech
the Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
warns, discomforts and commands the
Democratic members of Congress. He
opens his mind to them in an open let
ter" He tells them how TO add strength
20 the party in the next campaign" As
the unterrifed champion of defeat, who
has added so much strength to the Re-
publicans since 1896, Mr.. BRYAN has a
right to expect that his advice will be
taken by his brethren and partners in
misfortune. He is the leader. He is the
sage. 1t is good to hear him rebuke
"the power of a few men to control leg
islation." There was a Mr.. BRYAN once
who went 10 Washington and labored
with Democratic Senators to induce
them to vote for the ratification of the
treaty with Spain so that he could have
an issue" He succeeded. The issue
did not succeed.
That effort OF one mar TO control leg
islation is ancient history, Mr.. BRYAN
has had many adventures and peregri-
nations since then. He is still supposed
10 be the god of Democratic idolatry. He
emits this letter of advice as one speak
ing with authority. Yet on the very day
of it's publication a mutineer against his
long established sway utters fiat treason
and blasphemy. According to IA ST.
Louis despatch to the New York Times.
the Hon. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
dares to speak these ominous and marble
hearted words:
do not admit that Mr.. BRYAN figures even as
o possibility two years hence"
Such a viper has the Wanderer nursed
In his bosom. Such an migrate did he
-anxiously" approve and "indorse." The
wide smiling guardian of the Democracy
Is rewarded for his efforts in behalf of
this New York rudesby by a vicious jab
in his ca%pacious inwards. Now, when
Democrats are dreaming the beautiful
dream Of "a united Democracy" this
exhibition of malice and ingratitude
must be especially painful.
The humble outsider can only watch
with keen emotion this scorner of the
chief of the Democratic gods,
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Afterward ?

To TIE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The
following paragraph appeared in your news
paper to-day:
These honored and eminent men. having long
since exhausted the distinctions Afforded by the
held OF English letters and conscious OF the obllga-
lions which the higher forms of Philosophical
erudltion inexorably impose upon true scholarship,
have set themselves the arduous but exalted task
Of freeing our English tongue from the shackles
with which ignorance. superstition and literary
apathy have degraded II.
From the context l Judge you are abiding
to Professor Matthews and the Laird o. Skibo.
But, o Best Beloved. after they get this fin
ished, what is left for them to do2 Ii. p.
BATAVIA, November 10.
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Rife and Bayonet In Warfare.

The War Department has printed for
distribution among officers of the army
a report Of personal experiences in the
Manchurian campaign which was written
by Captain l.. Il. SOJAvIEv of the Thirty
fourth East Siberian Rife Regiment, and
which il valuable because some of its
deductions are at variance with battle
tactics as taught in the text books,
Before the Russo-Japanese war the
bayonet had come to be regarded as an
incumbrance to the soldier, if not an
archaic weapon. It's use in the Santiago
and Boer campaigns seems TO have been
restricted to opening canned rations.
But Captain SoLAvIEv holds the bayonet
in great esteem as an offensive weapon.
He gives the following instances Of its
Use in the Manchurian campaign: At
Tumilin Pass the enemy's Entertainments
were taken at the point of the bayonet;
and in another battle an entire Russian
corps depended upon the bayonet to
repel an assault of the japanese. He
makes the surprising statement that
losses caused by the bayonet were
INV 90 ~ 10 NHOSN bldJ Ntlt uuc
20 artillery fire.
The range Of effective rifle fire Captain
SOLAvIEv found to be much greater than
nc had been taught by the regulations.
He puts the distance, as carefully esti-
mated, at 2.333 yards. Apparently he
does not mean the limit of the killing
power Of tho magazine rife, but the
range at which il does sufficient cxec,i-
ton to cause heavy casualties in the
ranks Of the enemy. But the greater
the range the greater the waste of am
munition. Al Liao-Yang one infantry
regiment fired / 100, 900 cartridges. Cap
tain SOLAvIEv advocates moderate and
systematic firing. with more attention
20 aiming. But there will always be "A
temptation To open fire as soon a. the
enemy is discovered within range. espe-
cially when he is in superior numbers.
1t is not to be denied that upon raw
recruits volley fire coming from invisible
troops has "a panicky effect. Could any
soldiers but seasoned veterans be made
10 hold their fire when their ranks were
being decimated by volleys until they
could see and aim at the enemy? IL
seems TO be Il question for the brigade
commander. and TO be answered differ
emily as conditions vary. "a
In Manchuriad determination ofthe range
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-17
How Woman SufYra sists Are Treated
In England.

The movement in favor of woman
suffrage, which Of late years in Great
Britain has not been helped forward
materially by its friends, seems likely
to receive an impetus from the foolish
behavior of it's opponents. The undue
~harshness of the punishment inflicted
on eleven suffragists for the demonstra-
ton made by them on the opening of
Parliament has aroused widespread
indignation, and seems likely to cause
many public men, hitherto unconvinced
or Indifferent, to look with sympathy
upon their claims.
II may be recalled-an account of the
incident was cabled-that on the first day
of the present session of Parliament a
number Of the best known advocates of
woman suffrage invaded the precincts
of the House Of Commons, in order, by
an impressive exercise Of the right of
petition, to call the attention of members
TO their cause. It will scarcely be dis
puted that, technically, they committed
a breach Of the peace, or that the police
we're justified in arresting them and in
taking them before n Magistrate. II
will also be acknowledged that the Magis-
trate did his duty when he required the
persons accused of disorder to find sure
ties for their keeping of the peace. or
else submit TO the alternative OF two
months Imprisonment. The suffragists
declined TO find such sureties, for they
hold that they had a moral right to press
the claims Of their sex upon the national
legislature, and they would not promise
to refrain from cxerting similar pressure
in the future. They decided, accord
ingly, 10 20 TO Jail, and they were con-
dhcted to Holloway prison. So far no
objection could be taken TO the pro-
Ceedings of the authorities, which were
within the letter Of the law.
II is the treatment 10 which the suffra-
Gists were subjected after they entered
the prison to which exception may Justly
he taken. II had been taken for granted
that they would be treated as first class
misdemeanants, that is to say. with the
indulgence accorded TO DIR. JAMESON,
Mr.. STEAD and many other imprisoned
persons far less entitled to consideration.
In the cas- of the ~suffragists, however,
the Home Secretary seems TO have been
actuated by a vindictive motive. He
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gave the Russian officers a good deal Of
trouble. The eye was far from infallible,
and from want OF practice they often
made mistakes. Captain SoIAvIEv rec
ommends frequent exercises in peace
maneuvres to estimate ranges by the
eye, taking advantage Of each favor
able occasion and not treating it as a
tedious formality."
The necessity Of replacing rifles dete-
s.oTated from constant use or from local
conditions OF dust, rain and changes in
temperature" has probably not entered
seriously into the calculations Of the
American ordnance department, but this
Russian officer says that in Manchuria
it became a grave problem, the dead did
not furnish enough rifles to the living
whose pieces were disabled to keep them
all on the firing line.
For elan and bulldog courage the Japa-
nese infantry has won high praise, but
Captain SoLAvIEv has a poor opinion of
them as marksmen. They discharged
their rifles with amazing rapidity, but
wasted All appalling amount OF ammuni-
ton and fred too high. As this critic
writes as a company commander he has
naturally nothing to say about the skill
with which the Japanese were directed
by their Generals. The Japanese artil-
lery, he testities, was admirably served.
and he noticed that the enemy's batter
les did not return a well directed fire,
but at nee stole away to a new position.
Speaking for himself, Captain SoLAvIEv
says that he felt q sense Of insecurity and
%irresolution when he first came under the
fire of an invisible enemy; it wore of only
with repeated experiences. In a pro-
tracted battle the tension was almost
intolerable. The fact that before
were there such deafening, nerve wreck
ing and deadly battles a Liao-Yang and
Mukden makes the Russian company
officers observations indispensable in the
training Of the soldier. His report
should be placed in the hands of every
private in the United States army.
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SAVING rHE PEDESTRIAN.
A Drastic mule for rms Protection Adys
eafed-

To TINE EDIroR OF The SUN-Sir: IL seems
10 me that your article ON automobile fatall-
ties. showing that according to the Depart.
ment OF Health report only eleven OUT OF
eighty-three deaths caused by street vehicles
Of all kinds during April. May and June we're
attributable in any degree to motor cars.
proves conclusively that the carriage ways
should be fenced OF from pedestrian Use:
except at crossings either by strictly enforced
laws or by actual fences. barbed wire pre-
ferred.
am probably at least a generation in adj
vance OF my time on this matter. to when
as an enthusiastic autom0bilist-not one OF
the reckless kind have given conslderaoie
time and study. l am prepared to say. AFTER
careful consideration and experience derived
from driving automobiles close on 10000 miles
during the past three and a half years. anu
my obse rvations of the difficulties with whlch
drivers of horse drawn vehicles and electric
street railway cars have to contend that
something like 90 per cent. OF the street accl-
dents In this country are absolutely ana en-
tirely the result of the catelessness and stu
pidity OF the average citizen on foot. L am
perfectly aware that the average citizen when
I propose fencing of the carriage ways TO
save his careless neck will only exclaim, -au-
tomobile hog, " but AJAX only, a iair nearing
more and more important question OF our
daily life, especially in a great city ike New
YORK.
The figures you publish establish %conclu-
sively that citizens on foot are entitled TO pro,
lection on our streets by being kept out OF
the roadways. but we are hardly ripe yet Tor
over or under passages, with esraiators at
every street. corner. although such things
must inc vitality come during, say. the next
ten years, In New York and Brooklyn.
What 1 suggest L. q law providing that every
person on foot shall step into a carriage way
at his own risk and peril. II a. man. woman
or child stepping into the vehicle street be
killed or MANNED there should be absolutely
no cause for action or possibility, Of recover
ing damages, Perhaps this would. do some
thing toward making people look to see
what Ia coming before stepping into the mldso
OF traffc in the second largest city in the
world; make them look where they are going
when In the streets and compel them to keep
some oversight OF their children to prevent
them from making baseball fields, crap alleys.
&c, out Of our thorou ghfares.
have no fear whatever that drivers, even
OF autos. would be unduly reckless II my plan
were put in force. No driver wants an acct
dent. and a motorist for good and SUFFICIENT
and very special reasons wants one least
OF all. ROBIN THUBsroN.
New YonK, November 10.
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FTOnl a tfNFT ~ NE SDeOdfOT.
There seems tobe much difference OF opinion as TO
the merits OF Macaulay' = orstOrical style. Mr.. Witty
spears OF his perfect art aud consummate mAnage-
ment, and ofhis lust raising his voice enough 10 be
heard through the room" Rut IennIncss "Ancc-
dotal History NJ the british Parliament" says: -Py
all accounts writes Dean MllmAnI MaraIlays de-
livery was far too rapid 10 bc impressive: II wanted
also variety and n~CNlbillty Of lntOnatIon.' And
FrancisS orators % the Age" describes his voice
as pitched In nltO. mOnotonous and rather shTIIl.
pourlng forth words with Inconcclvablc velocity
. " " that extremely voluhlc and not very enticlng
VOICE. &c. one thing. ~ any rate. Is certain -
that MnCaulAy = style was distinguished. like that
Of Mr.. TecLy, by rspidltv OF uttcranCr. and what Is
much rarer. by ~tAnltlcsS grammar.
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The long series of books in which 'hs
associated college professors are narratlrE
leisurely. under the editorship Of Pro.
Albert Bushnell Hart, the history Of 'IN'
American Nation" (HarpersD has u.w
passed the eighteenth volume. The Plaza
OF the enterprise appeared clumsy 70 N-
when II was first announced, and the dIyI- r
and workmanship Of the volumes that ll.'
appeared have not modified that imprrs.INn.
There have been very good volumes In 80
series; but there has been overmuCh pole
functory work by professors who special
too carly. An excellent instance of r.
viduality that the requirements of - -.,.-
could not stifie will be found in Vol. MI. p.
Westward Extension" by Prof. Gr..T'
Pierce Garrison. Phi. D., of the University
Of Texas. The title disguiseS the rcH
from the beginning of Tyler's admin
ton To the end of Folks. II include. rI.
struggle Tor the possession of Texas, '.
war with Mexico, the settlement a. '
Maine and Oregon boundaries; these
author tells about with admirable %cIcaru.
and force. lie does justice az last 10 ls
ana to Polk and discusses the political q
lions with fairness. IL Is the most prnr
ing piece OF work we have seen from thu r..
American historians and we hope to l.a.
more of Prof. Garrison in the future.
h period assigned 10 Prof. 1hcoIr'
Clark Smith, PHI. d., Of Williams Colol
tho years between 1850 and 1880, Is a.mo
hopeless. His book. Vol. XVIII.,i u styled