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e5i, 200, 900 worth Of coffee, and about
go, 900, 900 worth from Mexico, Central
America, Colombia, Venezuela and other
South American fields.
Taking the import valde Csc, ,4sS)
Of u purchases from Brazil last year,
and dividing It by the number OF pounds
imported (e23, 800, se1), II appears that
the average price was about eight cents
o pound. A similar calculation shows
ten cents a pound as the average cost
Of all coffee imported from other ooun-
tries. Brazil's margin Of advantage over
all competitors Is not 80 wide that she
can afford to play with It careleesly.
The plan may work with entire sat-
~isfaction to everybody, but there is
O good deal moro than a possibility
that the planters may find themselves
In the fire instead Of In the frying pan'
and that the Government may burn Its
fingers during the proceedings. 1t also
appears that the American people must
pay a higher price for their coffee.
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A CRITIC ~CORRECTED.
Charity Pronted by Two Wills He Was
Misinformed About.

To THE EDITOR or The SUE-Sfr: In TIE
Bun OF August 8 Mr.. Edward Mccarthy Of New
Haven took me to task for not criticising
three distinguished gentlemen who, he
says. left wills. and not a cent 10 charity. .
Mr.. Mccarthy has criticised them, n with
out regard to the facts, He should have made
himself acquainted with the truth before he
rushed into print.
The facts are accessible In the offices Of
the Probate Court. I find several m~lsstate-
ments in Mr.. McCarthy's letter. In the
first place, he refers to a clergyman-the Rev.
John Hughes Of Hartford-who. ne says,
left a fortune OF more than hah a million Of
dollars" and nothing to charity. The fact 10
that the estate was worth about $4,000. This
can be easily verified. What proof has Mr..
Mccssthg that hs n. nG y Q, this money was left
Another misstate% f4lt, if r 70 the sne .Sst that nt
Inventory Inv Be taken; which y ebsurds as the
testator knew well that the Judge Of Probate
Is obliged to have an inventory made in every
porary' Of mine,the Rev. Father ,Cremin Of
: sr ssss % chSllsy d'ed The ESs's sseord fn 81 Ter M aHs
least s!S Se9qeats toT religious purposes:
.o M hsfse sS. Fst Tsn sSnae ss., sl :os q ! srld Rss-
S es.sl,y.!e The rEs!' truth ! sh I .s sas F aSS = s sSns {
Pq mPPssii ytri tyHi ID per mssdief Kin Z T q 40 si 70. Az
to his nephew-e priest-who devoted thou.
sends OF dollars to the support Of orphans and
evidently Mr.. Mccarthy is not acquainted
with the facts IN these cases. He deals out
AA WALTER j. STANLEY.
DANBuRY. Conn. August Is.
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Tho LAW OF tho Matter.

To TIE EprroR OF THE suN-Sfr: ] concur
In your attitude in regard TO the ~precipitate
action of the public on the decision of judge
Gaynor In the Macfarlane case. Was the
second fare question here involved or de-
cided2 Justice Gaynor decided that Mac
farlane's arrest was improper. because be
was not guilty Of a breach Of the peace In
refusing to pay a second fare. TO make an
opinion o decision there must have been an
application Of the judicial mind to the precise
question necessary to be determined. " " .
Therefore, the Supreme. Court tof the United
States) has never held itself bound by any
part Of an opinion which was not needful to
the ascertalnment Of the question between
the partles.'
question "needful to the asoertainment Of the
question between the parties"f 1t appears not
for had Maofarlane refused TO pay any fare at
all without a breach Of the peace. the railroad
company's remedy Ia limited to election with
out unnecessary force. Therefore. what the
Justice said In this connection was q nero
dictum-hls own private opinion-a similar
one being given by him In the McNulty case
in the Supreme Court In 1901. the Judge ad-
hitting, however. that he was bound to fol-
low the ruling In the prior Barnett case.
That being 30. the railroad company has
a clear right. under the Barnett decision. to
charge and collect q second fare to Coney Island.
But concedlng It's right to do so. or oonoeding
the right Of It's patrons to ride the entire
distance for one fare, II Is lamentable that
such scenes of violence should be permitted
with 30 great Indifference by the guardians
of the peace. The desideratum Of our gov
ernment Is the preservation Of the public
order, and the public right overrides and
supersedes all private rights. It has been
disgracefully sacrificed. and this untoward
incident might well su1use our faces with
bushes Of shame. @. +. @.
NEW York. August 10.
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Mr.. MoNrAau sHEARMAN, X. c.; Of Lon
don, in arguing that the shooting Of the
Japanese seal poachers at st. Paul Island
cannot be justified unless 1t was done In
self-defence, says;
One cannot argue that q policeman 10 entitled
to kill d person whom he desires to charge because
II not killed he might escape. This amounts 70 an
execution before trial"
The same might be said Of the killing by
a policeman Of one who had committed a
felony and who refused to stop in his flight
when summoned to submit to arrest; yet
the act OF the policeman In shooting ct the
runaway would be justifable under the
English and American law. A seal raid
within the three mile limit cannot be re-
garded as a misdemeanor, and II patrols
are to be limited to arresting poaohers with
their hands and are to be denied the use
Of firearms In enforcing the law, then the
law will be . dead letter and seal poaching
will become q safe as well as q profitable
industry.
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MIat,s XIII All tho Lawyers."

Somewhere on this page a conserva-
tive thinker raises a natural protest
against laws made by lawyers, vested
rights and such other baggage Of antique
precedent as survives to plague this age,
Still, since laws are not to be kept; since
O corporation that insists upon its rights
under lawyer made laws is "lawless'
and Is to be regulated by popular riot,
and since the "pe-pul" in rough house
assembled are the final court, why object
to laws? So elastic, impotept and use
less they are; and one dictumin a Judges
mouth can override them all and I'M
leash all Yahoodom.
We are living, we are moving in a
grand and rapid time. Ten years ago
the heart of Bedlam heaved wofully at
the thought Of government by injunction.
Now all government except mob is tossed
away by a proud stomached end en-
lghtened Ape-pul.'
This progress is most gratifying; but
every advance means a displacement Of
labor. A policeman Is already an an
achronism; and Sheriffs-why, FLAHERTY
a q Sheriff.
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What Next?

The opportunities for melting to riot
along the Coney Island trolley right Of
way will not be as great in the future
as|they have been in the past few days.
In what field will the President Of the
Borough Of Brooklyn and his gifted adj
herents display their talents next?
Will they proceed against the market
men, the green grocers, the purveyors
OF meat and drink Much might be done
to encourage murder and the d~estruc-
ton Of property by a few misinterpreted
court decisions, ingeniously circulated
among their customers. The urging Of
men in high Office, the sanction Of a
minister Of the Gospel, might result in
the descent Of a gang of thugs and row.
dies on the sellers of soda water, or on
the vendors of f~rankfurters. In the
population of a large community there
will be found always men willing, in igno-
rance or love Of trouble, to follow gladly
ths noisy demagogue and his eohoing
Footers. =.
The Hon. BIRDIE CoLER loves blood
and blows where some n else sheds the
blood and feels the smart Of the blows.
His next eruption will come o
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Opinion Of q Misinfermed Laxman.

To THE Enron OF TIE 6uN-Str: To o
man who has read TIE o for forty years
your ARTICLE on B. r. T. fails to appeal with
the usual korce, and the second short para
graph seems to a lay mind q trife contradict
tory In saying that -the law must stand;
the law must prevail: and that both the law
and the sober judgment Of tho community
should confirm more strongly than ever before
the established and legal rights which in this
case 1t has been sought to overthrow and
forfeit"
Is, then. the decision Of q respected Justice
Of our Supreme Court to stand for nothing
beside your own, or that Of paid and preju-
esteem 1t good public service In Q paper OF
your standing to accuse the Justice Of de-
llberately prompting "lynohine"2
To any one who Is at all acquainted With
the malodorous history Of the company. Its
financial soheming, it's brazen attempt TO
put of on the public $50, ooo. 900 Of bonds
biased on what. II any. securityO, the ardent
support rendered by a small portion Of the
press, by certain officials. by the police force
when It suits them. by Interested lawyers.
serves to create an unpleasant impression
In the average mind that. to use the common
term, some one has seen them.
1t is no use to argue that the people cannot
Judge Of q matter such as this AZ well as q
lawyer. The people are slowly finding out
that franchises and charters drawn UP and
made into law by lawyers are liable TO be
constructed In a fashion that will furnish
future work for said lawyers. and not entirely
in the peoples interests. and I believe this 10
tending largely to lead hosts OF oonserva-
tive persons into the ranks Of the growing
parties that at least do promise some relief
from existing conditions In such matters,
whether feasible or not. Too much regard
for so-called sacred vested rights will only
result In trouble; and throwing discredit on
the official acts Of q Judge Of whom. I be-
lieve. nothing can be said to touch his hon.
esty seems to me a poor way to right q wrong,
II such exists. J.W. MAcRAB.
NEW YORK. August Is.
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Brazil and Her Coffee.

Even when viewed In It's most favor
able light, Brazil's scheme for aiding
her coffee planters by fixing an artificial
value on their product can be regarded
only as an expedient Of doubtful wis
dom. The situation in the Brazilian
coffee districts is no novelty in the
history of economics. Similar conditions
have existed again and again In our own
agricultural tracts, the cotton regions
Of the South and the corn and wheat
districts of the West. Cuba's sugar
planters are familiar with it, and there
is perhaps no country Of commercial
Importance in which at some time the
same question has not appeared.
About ten years ago the Braziliaas
plunged" on the production Of coffee.
! Conditions favored the expansion of the
industry, great areas were planted, and
| the output was increased enormously.
The inevitable result followed. Prices
| fell with the increased supply. Planters,
| with estates heavily mortgaged in a
| time of cheap money, saw their profits
dwindling and found difficulty in meet
| ing their obligations. Just a the pro-
| ducers OF sugar, wheat, corn, cotton and
| other crops have done In other lands,
the Brazilian coffee planters turned to
their Government and sought a political
| remedy for an economic evil.
The proposed scheme Is not entirely
| clear, but it seems that the national Gov
| eminent Is to secure a loan or lend It's
| credit to the amount Of some s75, O0O, 900.
| This Is to constitute a fund from which
a commission will practically purchase
| the entire crop at a price. arbitrarily
| fixed, which will presumably give to
producers a margin Of profit on their
industry. The price IL to be elastic to
| the extent Of two francs a bag Of 1872
pounds. The Government will protect
it's investment by the imposition Of a
surtax Of three francs a bag on all
coffee sold. This Is In addition to the
a. n export tax. It 10 estimated that this
viii bring the cost Of Brazilian coffee
| laid down in New York to about eleven
cents a pound.
Should that, or an approximation OF
| that, price be the result Of the new plan,
| It IL just there that the scheme Is likely
to be wrecked. Brazil has no monopoly
in coffee production, although she sup
plies something like two-thirds Of the
worlds requirements. Her hold on the
market has been due chiefly to her
supply OF low priced coffee. Many
! countries give q better coffee, but it
is grown at a cost that prohibits COM
petition with the Brazilian berry. Every
sent OF advance in the Brazilian product
brings that product into competition
with the coffee Of other nations. The
United States took from Brazil last year
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The United states Uniform.

In Tacoma, Washington, the managers
Of a public dance refused to admit to
the hall In which the merrymaking was
In progress q decent, clean and sober
young man because he wore the uni
form Of a petty officer in the United
States Navy. Very appropriately, this
~elevating and patriotic incident occurred
on the evening of the Fourth OF July,
the excluded young man being q mem
Der Of the crew Of the United States
cruiser Chicago, which had gone to the
city on the invitation Of the municipal
government to assist in the local cele-
bration Of the day.
Rear Admiral GOODRICH, in command
Of the Pacific squadron, characterizes
the action Of the exclusive citizens OF
Tacoma as "unwarranted snobbishnees.'
The Admiral is not too severe. Yet,
unfortunately, their conduct is not with
out precedent. The army and navy
uniform subjects its wearers to many
snubs and Sights, no matter how I'M
exceptionable their beha vior may be.
President ROOSEVELT and Secretary
BoNApARTE have called attention to the
hardships inflicted on the enlisted men
In several public addresses. Patriotism,
good sense and good manners alike con-
denim the distinction made against the
nations uniform. What explanation can
be put forward by those who pretend to
see in it a badge Of contempt?
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Chickens In the Catskills.

The last belated boarder had left the Ca tskils
ten months ago, giving the mountaineers q breath
ing spell and q chAnce TO turn from secular affairs
to better things. Now was the time to convene
the presbytery and the Methodist conference, and
Il happened that they met on the same day IN tho
picturesque valley town Of Hunter. The coincidence
was pleasing and everything was suspicious for
a social reunion. No differences Of sentiment or
opinion divided tho brethren on the great question
Of Inner, and they decided to dine together. They
were ushered into the banquet hall at tho appointed
hour. Tho landlord had q message OF depressing
import, but he tactfully repressed Il till the bless
ing had been pronounced and then he begged TO
say . few words.
you spring chicken to-day. ! have secured this
country for miles around. but there Isn't . singlo
spring bird In this part OF the United States. Tho
boarders have eat EN- al up. I'm sorry, GENTLE
men, but the best I can do for you 10 roast beef"
To-day 100000 bosrders again throng the Cats
kills and ali arc oiamoring for spring chicken. A
naturalist who has been studying bird life smong
these delectable mountains tells all who will listen
that he has found eighty-ono species; but tho
average boarder waves him OF with impotence.
What docs he care for the eighty-one species Of
b,rdsi Tho robins, pudding birds, phRbes, wood
peckers aud all the rest of them may 20 hang. An
be asks for is plenty Of chicken and its natural
conoomitant, eggs.
Tho farmers are struggling with the situation
and are nearly masters Of Il. The chief article OF
import into the mountains last spring was fncn.
bators. BrooderB and colony houses dot every
sunny slope. ITEMS Of thousands IF chickens arc
living In an earthly paradise with every want sup
Piled TO r~epletion. Why don't shey grow fasterf
How tantalixinyly they iinger Just under two
pounds when they should weigh two and q quarter
. for egss-tt 10 q capital crime for D Cxtsknl
hen In these days 10 60 on strike and decide 70
sh q while. on goes her head and shs adoms
the cooking pot.
Chickens were never 20 plentiful In theps noun.
tains before, and yet the homo supply must be
supplemented by carloads from the West and The
wholesale price 10 10 10 20 oents Q pound, live weight
while the city quotations arc 10 to IL cents, Tho
farmer expects complete absorption Of his supply
before the boarder makes his coming inrcads on
the city markets..
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Master of Conquest andsof Contrast.
The telegraph operator at Atlantic City
sent the glad news in red. Red dazzled
the eyes Of the receiver in this town; red
bushes the face OF the jovial universe:
ATLANTIC CIT. N. j. Aug. 1.-THE Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company Of Boston has
engaged rooms for 800 to como here October . and
remain for four days. They will have q band Of
forty pieces. The resort will receive them with .
military day celebration"
OF that 800 grant but three to make
a new Therpopyle. We have seen the
Anoients in hanson trains, in auto
mobile cavalry charges, in armored
~bottleships, in protected boozers; and
always they have been beautiful and
terrible. To sec them, II the sight be
not too brilliant to be borne, in wheel
chairs on the Boardwalk, and oceans
gray and melancholy waste glouglouing
softly to stir and sharpen the u%nquenoh-
able fire Of their thirst: that will be the
supreme happiness to be had from that
triumphal phalanx. An early poem at
tributed to Judge ROBERT GRANT sings
itself to the rejoicing ear:
.An Ancient stood BY the ancient sea.
His bright nose beetling over tho brink:
% salty. shoehony, o dear to mo.
Thirst breeding. undrnkabie. useful sea
\consoling, contrasting, excellent sea:
while the red sun glows and the red stars wink.
The main win be good enough for mo-
Water to look at and rum to drink"
Rooms for 800; that means for from
| so to 100 Ancients. They are very roomy
warriors.
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The Religious Crisis in France.

Although the Pope's encyclical re-
plying to the request Of the French
Bishops for instruction as to the course
they should pursue with regard to the
law divorcing Church from State in
France has been published, the text Of
the document has not been cabled to
this country. We must therefore de-
duce the purport Of it from the comments
In French newspapers, which are on
ficting. Some of the writer's think that
the confscation Of Church property by
the Government and the Withholding
of pecuniary support from the existing
e~piscopate and priesthood are now in
evitable. Others opine that the position
taken by Plus x. is itself suggestive Of
compromise, and that some method Of
averting exclusion from church build
ines and the forfeiture OF stipends may
be agreed upon before the Separation
law becomes operative some four months
hence.
Let 8 recall the state OF things that
existed during the interval between the
enactment Of the g law and the issu-
G Of the Pope's encyclical. The
crucial question was, Would French
Catholics comply with that provision Of
the statute which prescribed the transfer
Of church buildings and other property
now held by the religious authorities
under the regulations Of the canon law
to 80 called cultural associations" that
a. civil oorrnrafiopo nopoDoeol
exclusively Of laymenf The penalty
for noncompliance was the imposition
upon Catholic laymen Of the whole bur-
den Of securing new ediioes in which to
worship, and Of maintaining at their
OWE. expense the episcopate and priest
hood. The views Of the Bishops and
the clergy as to their proper conduct in
the premises were by no means unani-
nous; some Of the former seemed to
favor submission to the civil law, and q
Legs majority Of the latter were so far
from exhibiting an intractable temper
that they accepted forthwith the stipends
which the Government offered to pay.
We need not say that French laymen,
thrifty as they are, would naturally de-
sire to avoid, II possible. the necessity
Of erecting a multitude OF church build
inss at their own charge, and Of bearing
the whole cost Of feeding and clothing
their spiritual advisers. Under the cir
eunstances 1t seemed probable to Ameri-
can NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the ease
with which the Catholic Church has &C
o~ommodated itself to the requirements
Of the civil power in the United States
that the Vatican would find some
NEAR Of adjusting the relations OF the
Church in France to the Separation law
without subjecting the piety Of its lay
adherents to a strain that might prove
excessive. We say excessive because
adefance Of the civil power would proc
tiOslly call upon the present generation
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the Democrats Oppsrtuuisy.

From no EpsAisg Poa.
A feeling akin To nausea pervades the peo-
pie Of the State a. they contemplate che per.
formanoes Of the Republican bosses. BIG and
little. Indeed. 90 strong " thu contenipe ana
anger aroused by the goinss on Of tho party
machine. 20 deep 10 the resentment % the
complacens weakness Of HiGsine, thse p
"deslre to punish ID reported 40 becofnins
more intense each day In all parts Of the state.
II the Democrats were 10 present . ssrcns
and clean candidate. on D sound platform.
their triumph at the polls would BE- conceded
by every impartial political observer. This
is the situation which makes the call for
Jerome 90 significant. There ID o general
sense that no could Gre the party and tnspire
q campaign a could no other man IN che
public gaze. There 10. TO Be sure. tho Hsarse
menace. or diversion. or whatever ID may be
called. ,It plainly constitutes the only hope
Of the Republicans. But for Hearst, they
would 60 into the struggle CONTRASTING defeat
In, advance. But II the follies and vices Of
tho Hearst movement have TO be exposed
and fought. who % well ftted for that work
a. Jeromef with him 40 Democratic nom.
inee we should have Q leader whose fearless
tongue would give US such just but BLISTER
ing charaeterisations Of Hearst and HE mo.
tives a. would make for the public well being.
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Painless Msrtyrdom Of Buncombe bird.

Painless MsFtyrdom % Buncombe Bird.
To THE EDITOR or TEE suN-Siy: Your
article OF lynch law for corporations causes
me to writo you o few lines representing the
humorous slde Of O serloue subject.
A Judge gives an opinion that hve oehts ID
the legal fare to Coney Island. when BY law
as laid down by q court the company charges
ten cents. and invites a further test OF the law
to remove any uncertainty.
An officer Of the city could ride on the
trolley cars. He could pay the fare demanded.
under protest. before witnesses. make .
proper demand Of the company, and then II
necessary bring the matter before the courts
for final settlement.
But we read that an oflciai Of the city does
not do this. but states that amy one who
pays ten cents for o ride 10 Coney Island
10 only half O man. This Official, however.
takes q carriage, we read, and from this
carriage advises the plain people 10 refuse
to pay the fare demanded. get themselves
pounded. and the greater the pounding the
greater tho damages they can collect.
President Roosevelt would not ride In o
carriage while the people were being pounded:
no would be In the front seats, getting o
square DEAL" either Of hard knocks or Of
applause.
Men, women and children suffer hardshfps,
their pleasure 10 destroyed, and too late they
learn the lesson In philosophy that
He who will In q eight tntcxposs
Must expectto get Q bloody nose.
Moral: Ride In q carriage and set the
other fellow on-and get painless glory.
BROOKLYN. August is. q.