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New York and Boston,

To THE EDITOR OF Thu SuN-.Sfr: There is
something delightfully."- Bostonese in the tone OF
Mr.. Edward Z. Greenes letter in last Fridays SUN.
"NaIvete's" tomtoolery about Boston and "Aber-
jonas" complimentary observations on New York
have evidently upset the Boston spleen.
Nearly twenty five years OF my life were spent
as a Bostonian. and about the same amount OF
time has been consumed In gathering experience
in New York. My observations have led me TO
the following conclusions: The Bostonian Who
blows the loudest for his town and knocks" other
towns the hardest Is, as a rule, the dycd-in-the
wool native. who has grown up with the notion that
II a thing isn't as 1t Is In Boston 1t must be wrong:
while the person who shouts loudest for New York
is rarely the true New Yorker, but the importation.
who halls from some smaller city or town, and has
never gotten over his admiration for New York
Institutions and customs. ! have also noticed that
the Boston ~breadwlnner will peg to and fro be-
tween his home and business day after day and
rarely leave the beaten path TO look around his city.
A vacation may bring him 10 New York, and then
he will nose around in stores and localities OF a
character that he never visits In Boston. The fact
that his New York cousin Is taking time and money
to show him the sights does not deter him from
ridicuIing half he sees. for he left Boston with that
intention, and half his pleasure is In telling how
they do things In Boston. OF course, these re.
marks do not apply 10 all Bostonlans. but to the
majority, In my estimation. and | am willing to
confess that when l lived there l trained with this
majority.
These letters from Bostonians Interest me, espe-
cially when they find fault with some New York
experience, for usually | can recall somo similar
experience In Boston.
Mr., Greene kicks because a certain department
store does not serve as much coffee in a 10 cent
pot as In two 8 cent cups, a typical Boston com
plant. / know OF a Boston druggist who does
not give as much tooth paste in his so cent boxes
as he docs In two % cent boxes. A while ago a
Boston woman wrote a doleful letter 10 a morning
paper telling how a New York conductor gave her
all silver change when she handed him a hve-dollar
bill. claiming that no Boston conductor would do
such q rude thing. A few days later. when ! was
In Boston, a Cambridge woman met with the same
adventure in a Boston car. My Idea is that they
are both pretty good old towns, and | have learned
that the town that holds our home is the place that
is dearest 10 our hearts, and we will overlook faults
there that we condemn In another town.
NEW YORK, March 20. BAY Stair.
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Only a few days g the Chinese Imperial
Commissioners rustled away In their Celes-
tial silks, and now comes a new inspector
from the Orient. The Hon. PoNAMpALAN
RAMANATHAN, X. c., G. M. G., Of Colombo.
Ceylon, is in Ithaca. He ia here to study
our methods Of university administration,
with a view Of founding, upon his return
to his own country, a university for the
education of its men and women. The
peculiar feature OF Mr.. RAMANATHAN's
plan Is that he hopes to combine the ideals
and practice Of the East and the West, ito
reestablish il possible the ancient Hindu
civilization"
Mr.. RAMANATHAN is Solioitor-General OF
Ceylon, a man of affairs and a religious
expounder held in high esteem by his coun-
trymen. Both Harvard and Cornell stu
dents have had the advantage Of listening
to his lectures on -The Spirit Of the East
and of the West"
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right Of combination and Of peaceful
persuasion during strikes. The Ban
herman Government is committed, too,
to q vigorous administration Of the
Factory act, with special regard to over
time, unhealthy trades, the treatment OF
women workers and the safeguarding
of the motherhood Of the nation. To
London the Liberals have agreed to give
a new port bill, together with an i'm
provement of the waterway; a further
equalization Of rates; and to assure fair
play to, the County Council and a con-
siderate treatment Of its transit and
housing schemes.
AS regards the colonies, it is announced
that the Ministers will recommend the
establishment OF an imperial consulta-
tive council, which will be authorized to
examine schemes Of common defence,
trade interests, industrial law and emil
grafton. AS for the employment OF
Chinese labor In the Transvaal, we have
already pointed out that Sir H. CAMP
BELL-BANNERMAN has relegated the def
mite solution Of that problem to the
Transvaal Legislature, which will pres
emily be created, as soon as it shall have
been decided whether the franchise shall
be based on population or on voters.
Evidently the programme is extensive,
and British Liberals will be lucky if they
succeed in placing ever a part OF 1t on
the statute book. They have to reckon
with the House of Lords, and it remains
to be seen whether Mr.. JOHN E. RED
MoND is right in concluding that the
upper house will be daunted by the over-
whelming triumph Of the Liberals at the
polls. The peers are likely to look
askance at any tampering with the Eng
lish land laws, and as most of them are
members of the Anglican communion
in the Education act demanded by the
Nonconformists. 1t may prove difficult,
also, if not impossible, for the Gov
eminent to carry through the upper
chamber bills embodying the concessions
which have been promised to the Irish
Home Rulers. There is only a very
small number Of Liberal peers, and it is
by no means certain that they will have
the support of the Duke Of DEvoNsH1RE
and other Unionist opponents of Mr..
CHAMBERLAIN upon any other question
than free trade.
1t is a complex and difficult task that
the Zimmerman Government has under
taken, but among the Premier's col
leagues are several men Of remarkable
ability and energy-Mr. AsoUITH and
Mr.. HALDANE, for example.
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A Log Cnbln Pitcher.
AT Stair.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In reading an
article on the Log Cabin campaign In to-day's SIN
! am reminded OF an incident connected with the
same campaign.
A great uncle Of mine, living In Louisville. was
the president OF a "Tippecanoc and Tyler Too"
club. At the closing Of the campaign the club
gave a banquet and presented their president with
a yellow earthen pitcher filled with a gallon OF
cider,
II Is a handsome pitcher, with Its four likenesscs
OF President Harrison. surrounded with wrcaths OF
laurel leaves. topped OF with four pictures OF the
old Log Cabin. and below the American eagle.
To the handle OF the pitcher Is tied an old
brass campaign medal attached to a cross band on
which is the word Harrison" On the medal is
found a likeness of Major Gen. W. H. Harrison"
encircled with his name, and below the words
"Born February o. l775." On the reverse side is a
picture Of the old Log Cabin and The Peoples
Choice. In the Year 1870"
should he Interested to hear II any OF THE SUNS
readers know II there are any other like pitchers
In existence o-day. l.. NJ. C.
CONCORD, N. H. March %.
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The Bailey Amen dments.

Senator SPooNgR is leaving very little
life in Senator BAILEY's much heralded
discovery of the power Of Congress to
limit the processes Of those inferior
Federal courts which Congress itself has
created.
The proposition Of Mr.. BAILEY was
specifically plausible, and it has at
tracted attention because Of its novelty.
His amendment to the Railway Rate bill
proposes so to employ this principle of
the power Of Congress over the jurisdic-
ton of the lower courts which are Of its
W creation as to prevent them from
~suspending a rate fixed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission pending judicial
review.
Mr.. SPooNEB reminds Mr.. BAILEY Of
the important distinction between juris-
diction and judicial power. "Jurisdic-
ton existing, he says, Il do not think
it is possible for Congress to pass an act
to limit the judicial powers necessary to
carry out that jurisdiction by appropriate
orders or deerees.'
Apparently Mr.. BAILEY and his sup
porters in this theory would hold that
because every Federal court except the
Supreme Court rests on statutory en-
actment, Congress could do what it
pleases with regard to the judicial proc
esses of these courts-deprive them Of
the power OF temporary injunction,
take away the power to punish for con-
tempt, and so on to any extent not ex-
pressly prohibited by the Constitution.
Mr.. SPooNER asks:
If the Congress can take away the right OF the
court 10 issue a temporary injunction for the pres
ervation OF the property which Is the subject mat
ter of the controversy. what is there left Of the
judicial power except what Congress wills, and of
what use Is the Federal judiciary"
Perhaps the answer might be that
even if Mr.. BAILEY were right and Mr..
SPooNER were wrong on this funda-
mental question, there would still remain
the Supreme Court, not the creature of
Congress but of the Constitution itself;
that there would still remain the inalien-
able right of the citizen and of property
to protection by means Of the judicial
powers Of which Congress had deprived
the inferior courts; and that, conse-
ouently, the necessary judicial powers
of which Mr.. BAILEY's amendment had
shorn the inferior courts would have
to be exercised, Immediately and orig
inally, by the Supreme Court itself.
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VOltatre.

T. THE EDITOR OF THE sUE-sfr; In THE sun
the other day appeared quite a remarkable letter
from "A Citizen" relating 70 the matter OF exhibit
ing Voltaire's picture In the public schools OF New
York city. "a Citizen" did ] sayt Yes. and he
freely denounces the man who did so much to
bestow this title upon the oppressed and suffering
brethren OF his day.
At the outset ! wish to quote the following pas.
sage from the Philosophical Dictlonarya" I'VE are
intelligent beings: and Intelligent beings cannot
have been formed by a blind, brute, insensiblo
being, There is certainly some difference between
a clod and the ideas OF Newton. Newton's In
telliz cAme from some greater Intelligence"
And yet the writer OF that letter would have US
believe that the above came from the pen OF a
soofnng atheist, What Voltalre did was 70 enable
man TO throw of the shackles OF religious fanati-
cism and monomanla. which by the way has a far
more baneful effect upon mankind than the tenes
OF free thinkers.
John Morley says: "Voltaire is the wlttlest and
mou trenchAnt writer the world has ever seem
Indeed. he was an intellectual lion whose picture
must be looked upon with reverence and rspt
admiration by all who truly appreciate the great.
ness of the leaders of men.
Y. WILLIAM JAMES, JR.
BRooKLYS HuIoIITs. March %.
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American Antiquities.

Scattered over the semi-arid region in
the southwestern part of the United
States are uncounted historic and pre-
historic ruins Of the utmost Importance
and value to students and of great inter-
est to the public. The Federal Govern
ment has attempted in a few cases to
protect these ruins from vandalism, but
as it possessed no general authority for
this purpose, and no appropriation has
been made to pay the expenses Of the
work. these efforts have been incom-
p]ete. Commercial relic hunters, tour
lists and vandals Of all grades have de-
spoiled many monuments reared by
ancient man, erasing the records Of a
civilization that has passed from the
earth, and rendering it impossible to use
them for the advancement Of science
and learning.
Already much injury has been done,
and records of inestimable worth and
utility destroyed, but there still remain
ruins Of communities, burial places,
cliff dwellings, towers, communal houses
and shrines from which the trained in
vestigator may reproduce the conditions
under which their builders lived, and
thus throw light on the history of the
continent we inhabit. Thu arc colo
gists throughout the country have made
strong efforts to obtain the passage OF
a law for the preservation OF such ruins
on public lands, and this year a bill has
been reported favorably to the House
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providing for this. Ruins Of potential
Importance or interest would be treated
as Government reservations, excavations
would be permitted only under license,
and these s~uryivals Of a former age
would be preserved for scientific study
and public inspection.
The object to be attained by this
bill is of prime importance. No other
Government in the world permits the
Ignorant and indiscriminate destruction
OF the remains of the past. Congress
should make no question Of passing
the bill which has been reported to the
House, and thus placing the United
States on a plane with the other civil
lied and progressive Governments Of
the world.
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FENCING IN THE NANDI.

The British in Uganda recently decided
to put the Nandi tribe on a reservation and
mako them stay there. The Nandi, living
TO the northeast of Victoria Nyan2a, are
the only tribe near the great lake that hos
given the British n serious trouble since
the whites gained the upper handi In Uganda.
They did not take kindly to the idea OF
having a fence around them, and Capt.
de Crespigny of the British expedition that
has been driving the blacks to the land
selected for them writes that about 1000
OF the Nandi were killed in the operation.
Not even the Nasal have been such a
thorn in the flesh of the whites. The Nandi
have lived on the southern slopes Of Mount
Elgon, which is noted for the caves that
honeycomb it's sides. Years ago many
OF them lived in these caves, but they have
recently been settled at the foot Of Elgon
among the plains and forests, 5000 to 1000
feet above the sea. This Is one Of the
regions which the British have recon-
mended as suitable for white colopists; and
1t is only sixty or seventy niles distant from
the lofty plain which the British Government
offered 10 the Zionists as a refuge for OPP
pressed Jews.
Six years q the British lost hope that
their last war with the natives Of Central
Africa was over, FOR they made up their
minds that the Nandi must be repressed
II force could accomplish it. The tribe has
always shown itself inimical to the white
man and their aggressions had really be-
come unbearable.
The British did not attempt to impose
the hut tax upon the Nandi. They did not
permit caravans to travel through the
and country, and In fact were content
to let the tribe severely alone. But the
Nand unfortunately would not let the
British alone. When the telegraph wire
from the Indian Ocean was strung along
the Nyando valley the Nandi could not
resist the temptation to swoop down now
and then and carry off a mile OF two Of the
wire. Then they began to make raids ON
transport carts, mail carriers and isolated
telegraph stations.
The difficulty had to be faced, and 30 a
strong expedition was sent against the
tribe 1t took four months 10 give the
Eandi their fill of fighting and then they sued
for peace and obtained it. They behaved
themselves until they forgot the lesson they
had learned; and a while ago they began
to menace the railroad that joins Victoria
Nyanza with the Indian Ocean and to
attack the white pioneers who are opening
farms or the high plateau.
So the second war with the Nandi began.
After the natives had been severely trounced
the British determined to give them a reser-
walton and to keep them strictly away from
the settlers and the railroad. The objec-
ton Of the Nandi to this proceeding has
resulted in more bloodshed; but there is
little doubt that they VIII be forced to live
on their reservation just as their relatives,
the proud Nasal, are now tending cattle
In the two districts set apart for them and
to which they are wholly confined.
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UNREST IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Tax Rebellion Easily Suppressed, But Ma
tiyes Likely to Make Moro Trouble.


To THE EDIToR OF THE SUN-Sir: Natal
papers received by the last mail contain de-
tailed accounts Of the operations against
the natives who were in resistance to the poll
tax lately imposed or failed to come in and
pay. The leaders ct the beginning appear to
have been Ethiopian Christians. as they are
called. but later the movement seems to have
been taken mp by the natives generally.
The Colonial authorities acted with great
promptness and not only avenged the deaths
OF the police sub inspector and trooper who
we're kill ed In the first ARRAY, but were round
ing up the natives all over the disaffeoted
districts and compelling them to surrender
their assegais and shields and bring in their
cattle.
The Colonial force at the disposal of the
authorities was $500. with sixteen field guns.
seventeen maxims and a pom-pom section.
Martial law was proclaimed and correspon-
dents were not allowed to accompany detach-
ments in the field: In addition a censorship
was established over the press and all persons.
white or black, repeating rumors likely to
cause uneasiness were being arrested and
punished. Two whites were court-martialled
and natives were sentenced to long terms OF
Imprisonment and flogging: several also were
shot.
The Durham correspondent Of an English
agency for putting into the cable ONCE. q
despatch for transmission, dealing with the
troubles was arrested ana taken before a
magistrate, who discharged him after a warn
ing and severe reprimand. The impression
Of persons qualified to Judge Of the situation
was that there was no organised resistance
on the part of the natives and that the Colonial
! authorities lost their heads.
British regular troops were asked for and
a batta lion was sent TO MaritZburg to restore
confidence and overawe the natives. who.
| since the withdrawal of the British garrison
| from the colony. were said TO have become
| Impressed with the idea that 1t had been given
up by the White King"
News from other parts Of South Africa
speaks Of a good deal OF unrest among the
n~stives. ond in the Cape Colony the Native
Political Association was taking steps to send
Of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony
the same political rights and privileges en-
| joyed by themselves In the Cape Colony.
Altogether II would seem that the native
question In South Africa is likely to come up
In an acute form before long. F.
NEW YORK March 90.
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Gnod American Rnsineas.

It's good American business all along the line
or an of1cer of the Northwestern would not be able
10 say: our lines are all as busy as they can be.
The road has every car and every locomotive at work
that is not in the shops, and could use more. The
requirements, apparently. will be even larger this
year than last" Other tranlc managers are saying
the same thing. The reported railroad earnings
show that. Here we have forty three roads re-
porting for the nrst week Of March an increase in
gross earnings OF sos, 600, or II. "a per cent. and for
the second week OF March such increases as Wa
bash, 5000: Denver and Rio Grande. s45. 900:
Missouri Pacific. $4,000; Central of Georgia, $47, 600.
and others like that. Steel rail orders last week
were 10000 tons. worth $4,000, 900. the largest
aggregate OF orders for steel rails in any one week
for some time past, and the 500" line ordered
fifty locomotives, / 500 box cars, nifty refrigerator cars
and twenty i've passenger coaches. Furthermore,
there is so much new railroad building In the West
that the railroads there arc facing q labor famine.
1000 men being needed in the Northwestern and
Southwestern States, with every prospect that
double that number will be needed by June /.
Yet again: the Lake shore moved 100 trains In
twenty four hours between Buffalo and Cleveland,
using s.6AO cars. against the previous high record
OF 1873 cars. The very next day Gals cars moved
on the same division, and they were. both days.
loaded cars al that.
Note the good American business in our foreign
commerce for the eight months ended February.
81. l9s. O00. 900 worth of exports, an increase over the
1905 period OF Si90, 600 000 over 1904. sl5l 600 OOO.
over 1908, Sy6. 600. 900: over 1902, 1924. 600 900. and
over 1901 the preceding export record yean, Slss,-
100000. Total increases in the nve eight month
periods since 1901 were 1904 600 900. or an average
increase for each period OF $685. 900. 900. That's
good American business.
In like manner our imports show n total increase
In the 1--WE subsequent periods over 1901 OF $50 600.
900, or sl6s 900, 900 for each period. That Is also
good American business, because half our Imports
are OF raw and partly manufactured materials.
and the other half are luxurics or non competing
products.
Our State banks gained si4.l9eyO0 in resources
between November o and February 30, three
months and eleven days. with total resources of
$3.50. 900. 600, and our State trust companies gained
Sss, 56s. 900 In resources since January 1. only
nifty days. with resources of 81 ,s6l .ooO, 900. Unless
this was the day OF good American business on all
sides these things could not be.
Boston hobs up with grain shipments 20 foreign
countries In the past two weeks Of 1,lsi 100000
bushels.
In passing we may note the Pennsylvania Rail-
road net earnings OF SO, coo 600 In 1905. or SO 900 600
over dividend disbursements. and the new 40
mile road in Moth Dakota; the electric apparatus
companies pillng IN millions OF dollars worth of
orders, and also shipping millions OF dollars worth
OF apparatus each month.
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How Ihey Sing Il in Boston.

From The Spr1n9NeIdR cpuB7t0n.
Every one labors except our distinguished progcni-
b tor.
He reposes in a recumbcnt position within our
residence through the day,
His pedal e&tremlties idllng upon the bronze OF
the steam radiator.
SeTencly engaged In extracting nebulous atmos-
phere IRON a tobacco receptacle OF mundane
matter.
Our maternal mentor receives soilcd linen for the
purpose OF cleansing H.,
And In this connection ! should Include nllnl Ann.
Indeed. everybody Is engaged In some variety Of
occupation In our domestic habitat
as primarily suggested, our dlstin'
guished pfogtnltor.
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The house 10 be erected upon the crown OF the
hill will be three stories high and will contain twenty
seven rooms. Here II is the purpose of the HooSler
poet TO gather around him the men and women
who have made the country famous for literature.
-NeEs from Indiana,
Obviously, the house is too small. Every
hamlet, every crossroads village in Indiana
has a sufficient number Of those who have
made the country famous for literature"
to fill more than twenty-ssven rooms,
though the rooms be huge and the board
ers packed In like servants in a hotel dor.
mitory. j. W.. RILEY is too modest, and
his literary barracks are too small.
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To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: In your
editorial OF 10. day entitled The Great Yazoo
Jester" you attribute the authorship OF The
Charge OF the Wood Brigade" TO John Sharp VIII
ians. In the Congressional Record of March IS. on
which day the poem was read In the House. Mr..
Williams ~pretaced the reading OF II by the remark
that the little" poem was prepared by one'of the
members OF the House and handed 10 him not long
ago" II seems TO me. therefore. that you are
mistaken In implying that the poem was original
with him. ELIZABETH j. RAYMOND
WASHINGTON. d. C., March p.
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If the yellow magazinists were not blush
proof they would be asking themselves;
which Of US is TITUS OATEs?" AS it is,
they will probably resurrect, illustrate and
make copy out of the picturesque knave,
with an extract from Senator LODGES
speech by way Of introduction.