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The sun., 1906-02-15

and meet their fate with calmncss that 's alinoa
| oriental. As band Of working individuals the
|! faculty might be hard TO match. but that wonder
ful variety. which is great part of It's strength
| seldom suffers II to net as unit"
This is no individual lament. Itmerely
points out the fruitess threshing Of chafI
that takes up large portion OF the time
and energies Of college teachers. Not
strenuollsncss alone Ia called for, but a
simpler life. Further on in speaking OF
future legislation, Dean BRIods takes
college methods of thinking to task and
prepares to dispense with it, as we un-
derstand.
In every ono OF these questions II tthe faculty.
should strive. earnestly believe, for large sim
plicity and should intrlst details to administrative
omn,i,ecs responsible to itself for nothing but tho
reasonable exercise OF full power The radical fault
In Its schemes whether for admission or for gradua
ton or for anything else. Is, as have intimated'
detailed complication result OF unwilling ness
to accept anything without minute Information
regarding every nook and corner Of II. Such
Information can never be thorough. after ALL NO
scheme that concerns the lives OF varied human
beings can fall to reveal. after short trial. ne"
hooks and new corners. not merely unexporeo
but unimagincd. and thus the faculty finds itsel
hoistcd by some OF Its own petards which, from
their innocent appearance. have not been rccog
nized as petards at all II Is therefore constantly
| revising Its plans. but not so much with view
to simplicity as with q view TO una'talnaoe
! thoroughness. What It needs Is simple laws sup
ported by thorough administration.
| -In the art OF touching nothing thatit docs no'
compllcate the Faculty Of Arts and Sciences Is BY
no means alone. Those persons In charge OF
| athletics have attempted similar thoroug ghness
In defining professionalism. with even sadder re-
suits In tho relation OF one universityto another
whether for athletic purposes or for academic
crying evil Is tho attempt to establish many
elaborate rules that shall take care OF themselves
| rather than a few simple rules that assume the
service OF Judloous and honorable men to take
care OF them"
Representative and legislative govern
ment becomes cumbersome as the COM
munity growslarger. Administration by
executive officers is needed Harvard
has outgrown govern ment by the faculty
it is run now by administrative boards
and committees.
And yet Harvard professors are still
raging over the Filipino outrages.
The sun., 1906-02-15

The minor politicians of Maryland have
few indictments to hilarity. 1t is hard
grind for the workers" in q State in which
the two parties are very evenly divided.
But a diversion comes occasionally to the
statesmen Of Annapolis, and such diver
sion is now reported by the Sun Of Balti-
more: An employee of the Legisature'
whose home is in Baltimore city, had only
recently obtained his place on the payroll
Of Maryland and was much gratified at his
success. He rented room at hotel and
retired about 1880 o'clock. At o'clock
on Wednesday afternoon, no one having
seen OF heard OF him in the meantime, some
OF his friends became worried and it was
even feared he might have committed sui
eide. His friends went to his room, which
they found locked. Being unsuccessful in
their efforts to rouse him by knocking, the
door was finally forced and the new en-
ployee was found asleep. After consider
able difficulty he was awakened, but instead
OF seeming glad tosee his friends he became,
as the Sun says, quite peevish and asked
them to 20 away and let him finish his nap.
When told that he had already slept nearly
nineteen hours he replied that that was all
right and would they please 60 away and
let him alone. Il am on the payroll now"
said the Baltimore partisan, and my mind
Is at rest. Let me sleep
This incident recalls the case Of the cam
didate in New York for a small appointment.
He worked hard for several months to
secure 1t and when at last successful refused
to perform any OF the duties Of the office,
II did all my hard work, he said, getting
this job. Now I'm going to loaf
The sun., 1906-02-15
John Mitchell and Patrick Dolan.

Those possessing ordinary discern
ment perceived as long ago as last August
that Mr.. MITcHELL's s power was waning.
Nothing but knowledge that he was
losing his grip on his multitude Of fol-
lowers could have induced those manipu-
lating the Wilkesbarre convention Of
miners to attempt using the President
Of the United States to exploit Mr..
MITCHELL. That this plan of unheard
OF audacity failed was due primarily to
loyal supporters of the President who
knew the inside situation and who upset
the scheme by publishing it to the ooun-
try through special correspondence from
Scranton to THE SUN. The President
appeared at Wilkesbarre; the dignity
of his exalted office was preserved, and
he told the thousands swarming around
the speakers stand some calm, unmis-
taxable facts as to the rights of all
Americans, regardless of class or per-
sonal position. But, most assuredly, he
did not appear under the sheltering wing
of Mr. MITCHELL nor even, by the same
token in the shadow of that abnormally
developed wishbone which supports SO
inflated chest
From that day Of deep and bitter dis
appointment it appears that Mr.. MITCH
ELLIS iron grip on the United Mine
Workers has been gradually but surely
relaxing. At present the hundreds Of
thousands of members are pretty well
convinced that instead Of being q god,
hailing from Olympus, he is common
clay like other men, and halls from a
State which has only a secondary interest
in the anthracite industry. Mr., MITcH-
ELLIS day of power and glory is decln-
ing. The chances are that he will soon
be but an unpleasant memory, like
EUGENE DEBs, MARTIN IRONS and the
host of other labor leaders whose very
names are forgotten.
Unless present appearances are decep-
tive, PATRICK DoIAN Of Pittsburg may
be the coming man among coal miners
of America. Thus far he has given
decided evidence of strength, sound
judgment, fearlessness and breadth Of
vision somewhat approaching statesman
ship. If he can mould the United Mine
Workers into an organization which pro-
tects labor instead Of imperilling it;
which makes membership therein high
privilege to be eagerly sought; which
substitutes hardheaded business sense,
skilful diplomacy and fair dealing for
threats, terrorism, strikes, riots and
assault, he can make for himself an
envable place of permanent regard in
the minds Of right thinking Americans.
The sun., 1906-02-15
Cash for the Shudder Motive.

One of the choicest delights OF the
veteran theatregoer is the musical ac-
compartment to the action.
When the villain. with "full dress
suit" and cigarette stalks across the
stage with TARQUINs ravishing strides
why are villains always long steppers?
when the murder is about to be COM
mitted; when the heroine, with laced
petticoats and diamond rings and with
out wrap to her back, leaves the mort
gagged house and walks off amid the
cruel, cold, property snownakes; when
the hero in a frock coat, is about
to be fed to the circular saw or strapped
to the railroad track; when the secret,
black and midnight assassin comes on
to smell carefully at all the doors, flash
ing his dark lantern, and cry Sh' and
deliver long soliloquy; when, twenty
years after, Lovely Female Innocence.
not a day older than in the first act,
returns to her darkened home and Kisses
at the Bad Man, "Rdlph Harerstrqu, you
are the forger!' or "Sir, these are not
fit words to address to a poor sewing
machine girl"-in Paris clothes-"I pri-
thee let me passl'-in such and thou
sand other passages of crime and woe
"weepy-weepy' music plays softly. Il
did love you once, Reginald, but you left
me by the river" Then soft and low
and quivering and passionate and tense
and intense, the weep-weep tremolo is
touched for all it is worth. Tears and
lace handkerchiefs gush forth. Fat men
sob in the darkness. Music and night
and somethin' doin; slight sensation
as of goosefesh on the back; Jumps in
the throat Good old convention. Much
better than realism. No good assassin
would hire musicians to play when the
critical moment comes. When one meets
ones old love under the greenwood tree
and buttersh moon, one often forgets
to bring music along. This old musical
convention is lovely and beloved
Neurasthenc Chicago finds that this
plaintive "butting in" Of the food of
love is wearing on the nerves. The
Musicians Union of that town insists
that this musical shuddering and shiv-
ering shall be paid for at higher wages.
If the managers say No, then the villain
rsust stalk to "ragtime"
Ragtime won't do. In fact, it is
overdone. No good villain has rag
time legs. His legs are stealthy, slow,
long drawn out. His walk is q dirge.
The sun., 1906-02-15
BRAZIL ANDABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Brazilian
Ambassador was a distinguished guest at
tho Lincoln banquet at Grand Rapids. In
view OF the increasing interest in our reia-
tions with Brazil and the increasing desire
for closer relat ions with our big neighbor
In South America, there Is both interest,"
and significance in Ambassador Nabucos
comment on Abraham Lincolns world
influence. He said In part:
1 viii deal Grst with his direct world influence.
Before anything else Lincoln represents 70 .he
world the spirit OF national union as opposed 70 'hc
spirit OF local separatsm; the riGht and du'y OF
nations 10 night disintegrauon. In that line o,
thought he embodes also the spirit OF ns"ona'
greatness, which ho seoms 10 have made every
where the spirit OF his century and which Is as yet
growing spirit From II has sprung already after
him more than ono great nation. and II seems 70
be broodlng more than ono great empire from
west TO east.
Thirdly, Lncolns name brings at once TO every
mind the thought that he stood for Monroes doc-
trne at lis critical moment and that but for him.
with the breaking OF tho American Union our
continental system would now be divided aga'nsS
itself and rent perhaps In two. with different polt'
lcal poles. Tho fourth world influence OF Lincoihs
own personality 10 the magic OF his name for all
who have had or still have to night snywhcro
against slavery. can myself testify TO that In e.
6piraon for the Brazilian Abolitionists. and my
friend the Minister OF Cuba. although he only
knows 1t by tradition can givo the same testimony
Tor the Spanish and Hlspano American Abolition
lists Brazil and Cuba owe 1t to Lincoln especially
that new great Power was not created IN Norm
America forty years ago having African slavery
as Its anmating spirit and the principle OF Its
national expansion. On tho other hand. we. like
other American countries. owe II 10 him that he
made the leading country Of our continent wholly
free nation. settling In that way dennitively the
liberal and progressive character OF American
civilization.
Special significance is given to this grace
ful tribute by the fact that Sehor Nabuco
was one of the stanchest supporters Of
Brazil's great Emperor Dom Pedro IL.
when the law was passed which gave free
dom to more than 700 900 slaves.
The sun., 1906-02-15
The Deans Humor.

The craving for administrative eff
cheney which seems to be growing and
the desire to substitute the one man
power for time honored but slow de-
Lucrative assemblies has touched ap-
parently even so conservative an insti-
tuition as Harvard University. 1t was
early in his tenure Of office that irreverent
undergraduates poked fun at President
ELIoT's efforts toward that end with a
parody of ave Are Seven, and now the
most august of the Deans, tho one who
presides over the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, genially roasts that faculty in
his official report.
Prof. LIE BARON RUSSELL BRIGGS is a
manysided man. Besides being Dean
and a professor of English in Harvard
he is president Of Radcliffe College. He
has written delightful charades, he has
delivered Phi Beta Kappa oration, he
has injected plain speaking and humor
into official reports for years. He has
been an extremely efficient administra-
tive officer, who while dispensing the
college discipline managed to retain the
affection of the students. His friends
only regret that the time spent in man.
aging the college should have been lost
to teaching and to letters.
Now, after nearly twenty years of dis
cussing graduation in three years
and similar never ending subjects, Dean
BRIGGS in his report for last year, which
is appended to that of President ELIOT
turns on the faculty and its Sisyphus
labors. After stating that the faculty of
Arts and Sciences consists of l43 members
besides the president. he says:
The Faculty OF Arts and Sciences Is a collection
OF able and interesting men, and Its debates. even
when most discursive are worth hearing, but II Is
too large and varied a body TO do much efIlclen'
work In two hour meetings. AS time goes on
more and more Of Its business is turned over to
boards and committees. or to divisions and de
partmcnts. In these smaller groups Of men nearly
all the hard and efYiclent administrative work
OF the faculty is done. Even those committees
whose careful plans are sure to be shattered In
the discussions Of the faculty work with as much
vigor and enthusiasm as confident Of success
The sun., 1906-02-15
Porto Rico's Mistake.

Porto Rico's desire for broadening
Of her political 81 atus demands the care
full consideration of Congress. Whether
or not it is either wise or possible to
grant all that is asked, the right Of the
islanders to make their appeal Is beyond
question. Inasmuch as the appeal Is
distinctly along American lines, the atti-
tude OF the Porto Ricans deserves
approval.
But there is another Porto Rican move
which is Of doubtful wisdom. Her dele
gate to the Congress has introduced a
bill calling for the imposition Of duty
OF FIVE cents a pound on all coffee i'm
ported into the United States or any OF
it's possessions. Admitting that an in
dustry which is the means Of livelihood
for the majority of the islanders is en-
titled to the same protection as is afforded
her less important industries, sugar and
tobacco, it must also be admitted that
her request is unreasonable and that it
will prejudice her case. This can be
demonstrated by figures.
During the calendar year 1905 the
United States imported 100000 900 pounds
Of coffee. duty of five cents pound
on this normal importation would amount
to $45, 900 900, or more than five times
the market value Of Porto Ricos bumper
coffee crop of 1896. AS a business propo-
sition this is unreasonable. Perhaps
more persistently than any other publi-
cation in this country The Sun has
urged the economic needs of our for
gotten island. But it is impossible to
approve proposal to make the Ameri
can people pay the sum of S45 900 600 to
protect possible crop worth $40, ,OOc, 900.
The submission of such request is
political mistake. There are many
cheaper ways Of affording the aid which
is undoubtedly due to the island.
The best solution Of the matter has
several times been set forth by US. 1t
is the creation of market in this coun-
try for the superior berry Of the island
and the purchase of Porto Rican coffee
at the price to which it is properly en-
titled by reason Of its quality.
The sun., 1906-02-15
Has a Tariff War With Germany Been
Avcrted?

We learn with satisfaction from Ber-
lin that instead of applying on March
the maximum duties of the new German
tariff on goods imported from the United
States, Chancellor Won BtLow has been
ordered By Emperor WILLIAM to suspend
such application for time, in the hope
that after'the election of our next House
of Representatives. it may prove more
practicable to negotiate with us COM
mercial treaty based on reciprocity.
The suspension may be expected to be
criticised in the Reichstag by members
of the Agrarian party, but it will be well
coined by the spokesmen of manufac-
turing interests, as well as by the Radi-
Gals and Socialists. 1t is undoubtedly
a boon for the masses of the German
people dwelling in cities and towns, who
d have been looking forward with dread
to an advance in the price of food which
inevitably would have followed the dis
appearance of American competition.
The truth, indeed, is that the Germans
are more deeply interested than we our
selves are in escaping tariff war. Con-
cerning the extent to which we should
have suffered had Germany imposed
her maximum duties on our products
there is good deal of misapprehenson.
In the first place, even the new German
tariff, framed though it is on high pro-
tectionist principles, has, Of course, a
free list, on which figure cotton and cop
per, which between them represent in
al bo1f nf tn
the German Empire. Altogether we
sent thither in 1904 raw materials valued
at about sl44 ,OOO, ,0O0 our total exports
in that year amounting to some $780,
, 600 900 All of the dutiable products,
which besides manufactures, included
few raw materials, as well as bread
stuffs lard meat, &c, had an aggregate
value of less than s92 100000. Even if
the maximum duties were imposed the
Germans would have to take some of
our food staples and some tobacco,
petroleum and lumber, which commodi-
ties now are dutable. On the whole, it
is improbable that our exports to Ger
many would undergo a shrnkage OF
5O,OoO, 900. We should not, however.
ONeTIOoh lilc ! d'l lildt we SIlpull lOse lll6
prospect of expansion, which has of late
been promising.
BY tariff war. on the other hand, the
German people not only would be obliged
to pay more for foodstulls, but-should
we retaliate by imposing on German
manufactures duties rs per cent. higher
y than the Dingley rates they would lose
almost the whole of their export trade
to this country. which in 1904 was valued
at 500 ,o0O,0 900, Germany having out
stripped France and come closer rapidly
to Great Britain. In the same year Great
Britain sent us goods valued at no more
than sl64 900 900, while the valuation Of
our imports from France was only $751;
000, 600. Pretty nearly the whole of Ger
many's export trade to the United States
would have reverted to Great Britain
and France had the Berlin Government
applied to us the maximum duties pro-
vided in its tariff and had we proceeded
to exercise reprisals. Whether it would
be polite for us to retaliate by imposing
extra duties on imports from Germany
The sun., 1906-02-15
Nr. Harding's Modest Card.
From the saturda v E venino Post.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
Henry j. Harding OF Henrico county Virgins
had the honor recently Of inventing the most re.
markaole political advertisement ever seen In
print, He published this charming bid for votes
- GARD.
"The undersigned is candidate for oversesr
OF the Poor.
who Is It that has always shown In season and
out OF season, his deep and loyal Interest In the
welfare Of the poor Of this county, Who Ia II that
has never failed 10 respond to cry OF distress no
matter from what direction II oame o. how far
away from his resdcnoc' Who 10 II t.,lt during
the frost and snow and hall and Ice and rein OF last
wlnter--a particularly trying season, as we all
remember who Is 1t that sent free gratis sides Of
bacon and bags OF hominy and rice and corn meal.
and In many Instances yams and Irish po,atoe,,
to the suffering poor, Who Is II that ministered
unto the suffering the widows and the fathcrless'
Verify, verify. as Nathan said unto David Henry
j, Harding, thou art the nsE,'"
The sun., 1906-02-15
BY joint Resolution.

No remark has hit 80 close to the truth
OF the situation respecting caucus action
on the Santo Domingo treaty as that
which was attributed the other day to
the Secretary OF State. Mr.. Roof was
reported as saying, in substance. that
the unprecedented application Of caucus
methods to defeat this treaty established
a conclusive presumption that it had
already received tho approval of more
than two-thirds of the Senate.
In full Senate OF ninety, thirty-one
votes would be needed to prevent the
ratification Of the Santo Domingo treaty.
II treaties can be disposed of by the
means now attempted by the Democratic
minority, it requires less than one
third Of the Senate plus one to prevent
ratification A minority party Of thirty
one can hold a caucus in which sixteen
Senators can decree that If two-thlrds
of the caucus, that is, twenty-one Sena-
tors, oppose the treaty, the entire thirty
one shall vote against it, under the coer-
cion known rs party discipline. If this
is done, the treaty is rejected not by the
thirty-one votes required by the Con-
stitution, but by twenty-one votes in
the caucus; or even in another view OF
the matter by the sixteen votes which
originally applied the screws. 1t makes
little difference whether you consider the
rejection as having been effected by the
twenty-one votes or by the sixteen. In
either case the number is considerably
less than that which the Constitution
requires to prevent ratification.
Tho arithmetic of this business is plain
enough. The perverson Of the advice
and consent prescribed by the Constitu-
ton in the matter of treaty making is
also plain.
Not so much for the sake of this par
ticular measure, but on account OF the
outrageous and dangerous character Of
the precedent, and its revolutionary
effect upon the independence of Sena-
tors in the exercise of one of their most
important and least partisan functions,
we earnestly hope that the attempt by
caucus dictation will fail
If it succeeds, we hope the Admins
tration will at once proceed to accom-
plish it's purposes as to Santo Domingo
by the remaining and equally effective
constitutional method of joint resolution
by the Congress.
The sun., 1906-02-15
Work and Pay in the servisa.

To TIE EDITOR or The suN-Sir: IN
The Sun Of yesterday National Guard" de.
lvered himself OF few statements. some OF
which think were by Ignorance out OF
Prejudice.
lam not prepared to speak as To the sentl.
ment in favor OF increased pay for army
officers. since have made no canvass Of
general opinion. as National Guard" evil
IDENTIFY has II his cate gorical denial OF the
existence Of such feeling Is TO go for aught.
The introduction OF a bill In Congress pro.
vding for increased pay does not seem to
have tendency to provo his contention.
however.
Referring to the $1,000 per annum received
by tho mounted ofI1cer OF twenty years
service / think National Guard" will find
that most officers look upon this as gross
rather than net. as he calls it by implication.
Army officers will be glad TO learn that all
they have to do is to pile e this % years $3.50
learn that the amount Is really net; glad TO
learn that coal is placed In their cellars free
Of cost: glad to learn that they are relieved
glad to learn that the large majority do no
nssr hSHs % tReS kae to hnk Tsfk qccs
5ress, khaFi, oiyedrab ,, q, ,white i. daski; :.
pas. pass. asla sissses. Beadns Or Or 5orss farnsh:
ings no longer nced tney supply, thefllselVes
with professional textbooks; no longer need
they indulge in those social amenities here
and about the necessity for which. OF course.
there may be two opinions. Quot homines
tot sententip.
y, Doubtless, the sympathetic heart Of Ma
tional Guard. yearning 10 spread comfort as
q mantle over the monotony Of life OF little
doubtless. say, his heart will be soothed to
learn that there are other reliefs than that
he mentions For instance. athletics. in
struction in gunnery. non commissioned
officers school, submarine mining. small
arms instruction, officers school, signal drill
missary mis- S" Ordnance 0fticer, signal oflcer,
post exchange officer, Adjutant. &c, which
even the silly subalte rn Is allowed to try his
hand at and on occasion is even requested
to do so These and a few other occupations
operate quite successfully. to relieve the
tedium. EX ARMY OFFICER.
NEW York Feb, 49,