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Entertain the Cheerful Day.

There is 10 solder "old American
family" than that of the sacred bird
of Thanksgiving whom confusion of
ideas and tangle of sixteenth century
ornithoogies and Biographies have at
trlbuted To Turkey, whom our Latin
friends ascribe to India. and who has
even made II pathological settlement On
the Guinea coast and got mixed mp
with those sweet chorlsters guinea hens.
There is only one kind of turkey. no
matter what the books say. and as the
adage hath II:
Turkey cooke and turkey henne
BE fowle of Yankee. not Mussulmenne."
May this victim of the November
jehad he fat as DAN LAMBFRr and ten
der as young love: and the pumpkin
pie. which. some ancient housewives
held, il the drys will forgive us. should
he associated with sherry in the max
ing and even the eating, he worthy of
the great traditions of the POmpiOn
clan; may comfort not merely physio-
logical accompany the feast.
War has spared the United States
and ii j. reported that the Congress
and the President intend to spare 1t in
the future.
The Mexican mess Is still being
watched by the Administration as II
constable watches the wicked little boys
set fire.
The crops are corpulent and the peo-
IA. n.,.I
are ordering American manufactures
literally. Cotton Is on the move.
The new financial system is at work
Money is easy and the limited opening
of the Stock Exchange is but two days
away.
Mr.. WILSON wishes well TO the rail
roads: let us he grateful for that AMI
hope that the Interstate Commerce
Commi sSiOn may have bowels after all.
The thirst for political patent medi-
cine seems to have abated
In Florida the palm Is dreaming Of
the pine and Mr., BRYAN has been
dreaming of Chautauqua What heart
l. not stirred to thankfulness by the
thought that whatever international
perpleXities and troubles may arise. the
great iilnerant will seldom lie on hand
at Washington 60 muddle and ma:
Praise and thanks to Chautauqua. and
may Mr.. BRYAN's vacations be even more
numerous and prolonged than has been
his habit. Hes of again tomorrow.
Better times are come. better times
are coming: so we believe and hope on
this good old day of the New Day.
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Politics Remains Political.

The Fifty first and Fifty second AL
dermanic districts lying In the Borough
Of Brooklyn. are now represented by
members chosen To- MI vacancies in &C.
cordance with the Charter The state
Constitution says that:
The Legislature shall provide for filling
vacancies in office. and In case of elective
officers. no person appointed to ill a
vacancy shall hold his Office by virtue OF
such appointment longer than the COM
mencement Of the political year next sue
ceeding the first annual election after
the happening Of the vacancy"
This constitutional provision was
overlooked when the official election
notices were prepared and no provision
was made for filling the vacancies
which will occur in these Offices on the
expiration Of the current year. But
certain lively Democrats in each dis
trict, taking notice OF this situation.
wrote ON the official ballots the name
Of one Of their number. The election
officers refused TO canvass these ballots
anu tue lultItottu pO4lllCldHS uIplleu
to the Supreme Court for an order
compelling the election officers to count
the votes and make a return thereon.
This order has been granted and I'M
less it is reversed by the higher court
its beneticiaries will take Office on
January |.
Meanwhile 1t will be observed that
neither the direct primary law nor the
elaborate election law. with It's pro-
visions against any mark of any kind
on the ballot except those preScrib bed
hy the statute. has So far availei to
deprive the astute politicians who en-
gineered this AFFAIR OF the benefits OF
this enterprise. and that the chances
seem excellent for It's ultimate sue
cess. II Is commended particularly to
the consideration Of those who believe
that politics has undergone a radical
change becauSe OF the activities OF
recent years.
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FdTaL PAN-GERNANISN.
Interesting Opinions OF the Hon. Herman
Kidder's Paper I'm 1905.

To THE EpiroR or THE SuN-Str. The
New York SfddtS-/,funD Is strong sup
porter of the German cause and lays the
blame for the present condition OF affairs
upon Russia and England yet In the edi-
torial columns In January, 1905, Il ad-
DIRE ssed some very plain words 20 the Pan
Germans in connection with the Pan-Ger-
man meeting az Lubbock Ia that year.
The Italics are mine:
II and how far German interests will b.
injured by the agreement between England
and France can FIRST be known after q Is
found out whether or not France keen. her
promise 10 maintain the open door iu Mo
rocco when. however. any body undertakes
to speak about tn. interests Of Germany IN
thu matter. 90 can only he commercial IN
'erests that are meant, and Interest. Of that
kind sre not promoted Dos the provocative
attitude Of the Pan-G~rman society.
~ Germany day N general - unbelorea
and is ante 50 rd'Iy 10 become Suspected
ne drf Gnf principal reason far ms - the
provocative Gcfnuy Of ne Pan Germans h,U
rdingiory and Rctr mama for treating other
Poioets t1ith mornfyiRO insolence when
ftry complain dbout me agreement bsftreen
France and England they sto"H not forget
that her Unmedsured enm'ty against Great
britain has drives that country INTO me arms
Of France. The Pan Germans should begin
by critcisinr themselves They are small
minority. but they understand how 60 exert
a kind Of personal Influence over the Ger
man people which any day might prove
Itself IN the highest deFre" 'ataA
The fear expressed by the StnGfs-zeit-
unO In Its editorial OF nine years ago has
been justified by the facts READER.
HARTFORD, Conn, November %.
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sentiments were justified In supposing
that the Jurors knew what they were
talking about. 1t is now asserted that
such was not the case. but that the
jurors Incorporated In their report the
allegations of State Board Of Chart
ties Inspector and sent this forth as the
fruit Of their own labors. The head OF
the accused department writes to the
Mayor that:
80 the Grand Jury after all was not
talking about what it had seen. but about
what somebody else had seen.
at plagiarized shamelessly a report by
the inspector Of the State Board Of Chari-
ties and then palmed 1t OF as the result
of their own careful investigation, without
even bothering 10 bring 1t up to date.
"All through the presentment one finds
clumsy reproduction of a report by the
State Board OF Charities made weeks be-
fore, with no effort to verify the same.
and with no knowledge OF the fact that
the State Board of Charities itself in sub
seauent reports had recorded the correc-
ton Of many of these conditions"
That is this solemn body, to which
the widest powers of inquisition are
con6ded. appears in the act Of assailing
a public institution. without the energy
even to edit the second hand matter
with which it fortified its assault, or
the intelligence TO inquire whether. or in
what particulars, the situation had al
tered since that matter was prepared
This town has lately seen Grand
Jury present public Job holder us
unfit for office, not because it accused
him of crime. but because he refused
to surrender the common constitutional
rights Of citizen. Here Is another
obvious abuse of it's power Is it ut all
remarkable that there should be here
a pretty general distrust of these pre-
sentiments and certain inclination
To follow the lead of those States which,
disguised with their incompetence, NAL
ice and untrustworthiness. have COM
pletely abolished Grand Juriesi
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The Comethcr and the Foot.

The Rev. JAWS OWN HASSAY,
Canon ~ ST ratrick's Cathedral. Dub
lin. and under the name George A.
birmingham" the author OF some anus
ing il rather farcical novels and Of
couple Of plays. visited this country not
long ago and inevitably composed n
book. recently published, thereon. A
favOrite passage In il on the principal
American product has been suspected
of little too sugary fiattcry in it's
first sentence and is calculated further
10 disSa tlsfy the dissatisfied of the rul-
ing sex. who weep over the denial of
women's rights in these United States
81 want next time I am horn. 10 be an
American woman. She seems To me to
have a better kind Of life than the woman
OF any other nation. or indeed than any
body else, man or woman"
A Chicago school teacher sends this
eulogy to THE Sun ana asks:
For a clergyman is not Mr.. H,NNAr
laying IL on with "A trower? Th. is
what the Dublin people would call trying
10 put the comether on the American
women"
This is llttle unjust 10 the excellent
Canon. Delicate shading is not his
mental or literary habit. He uses
strong coors Has his Chicago critic
noticed this his singular confession and
accusation?
VERY clever women sometimes trIshten
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THE VOICE or THE SOONER.
lie Jeers In Detail At 1.-The strenuous
Greatness" OF Reform Things Done.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Str: Why
Is THE Sun, that should shine for all,
cynical toward reform and reformers
Has not peace in Mexico. as promised
when Huerta should get the sack. besn
fully and finally accomplished? Has not
the skilful Federal handling OF business
brought employment begging to tho em-
ployees that ie, to all but about four
millions of them?
Has the price OF meat, coal and neces-
sares generally increased more than 20
per cent. under our ideal tariff? Has our
city reform administration raised our tax
bill more than forty millions above that
Of Tammany, and cannot property now be
sold for almost 60 per cent. OF Its assessed
valuation? Are we not now supplying
$3.50 week secretaries for everybody
that will accept one 100000 worth OF
swimming instructors to teach their art
under the city shower baths, and magnifi-
cent touring cars for the reformers' wives
and little ones?
Has not our army OF priceless young
imported factory inspectors created oceans
of vacancies for rent and driven that
sbominable manufacturing class to New
Jersey or we care not where" Haven't
we an income tax TO supplant tho knocked
out sugar industry? Even II the price OF
sugar has gone up will you not conCede
an Improvement In chocolate candy?
Haven't We a new Federal supertax on
top OF the income tax to read evenings
and work for daytimes? Hasn't a billion
dollars worth Of those nasty railroad Sc
curities been thrown to willing receivers
and IL the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion won't allow the wherewithal for the
railroads TO run. can't we walk? Has
THE Sun no soul that II does not throb
with pride at these accomplishments?
NEW YORK, November 25. READER
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Kansas raised about one-tifth of The
total American wheat crop this year.
which for the blessing of the nations
amounted 10 more than 9OO.o0O.OO
bushels. No other state ever raised
even threc-quarters as much grain in
one sea- son. and il would take the com
bined harvcstS Of the three next lary-
est wheat growing States 10 equal the
Kansas yield this year, which j. almost
two times as much as the State ever
produced before.
The facts cited are taken from II
statement i'm which they are anything
but proSaically set forth by the Hon.
j. c. MoIGIER. Secretary of the STATE
Board of Agriculture. Secretary Mon
IFR seems 10 be n worthy successor to
Farmer toBURN, and he could not please
his constituents better than by follow
ing the word painting example Of his
predecessor in dcScanting on the mar
wells of Kansas agriculture. His fellow
citizens like 10 have farm facts inter-
pretcd for them in language which
visunlizeS prosperity:
kansas raised wheat enough this year
TO make t0.205,5io barrels of flour Were
this flour converted into bread il would
make eight and one-half billion loaves
enough q meet our nations need for
bread for q year, or nearly ninety-fve
loaves fo' every man. woman and child
in the United states The value OF this
record smashing crop II apportioned
equally among the states inhabitants
would give 70 each little more than 500 ="
And wheat is not by any means all
that Kansas farms raised this year
No wonder Cantank"rOus radicaiSm
was rejected At the polls ana senator
BkIsIow and Representative MURDOCH
sent 10 the political discard.
Kansas deserves u leading place
among t0rtv.cjght reasons for working
and forgetting which will be duly re.
nenb"rcd to-day.
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Governor Hunt In a Temper

The attitude of Governor HCNT of
Arizona regarding the execution OF
eleven men now under sentence II
death in his State is altogether I'M
worthy Of his high office II Is Illogical
and III tempered. to say the least Of It,.
"" is opppScd to the death penalty I.
the pcopl" of the state differ from him :.
therefore he PROPOSES To hold whole
sal" hanging and 10 do everything in
his power 10 convert il into scandal
such proposal carries its own cen
sure.
Al first the Governor was quoted as
advocating a public hanging. a "rHrni-
val Of death in the public square. .
Later h" seems to have discovered that
the statutes clearly provide for urivaIn
executions within the walls of the
prison before selected witnesses. so his
present scheme is to designate num-
Der OF wealthy men all over the country,
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TaxatiOn.

To THK EDITOR OF THE SUS-Su: You
reported on November % a resolution in
the English House of Commons to cut out
salaries of the Members OF Parliament
Some weeks ago | suggested through
THE St'N a very similar method that could
have been easily adopted in these United
states II America. Mine was designed
however. TO touch the income OF every
pad public servant. including our pen
s."ncrs. Simply by reducing their incomes
by "a small percentage.
Instead Of tn" enormous taxes We now
must face would Il not have been far
more patriotic for bill TO have been
passed putting back the burden on those
now receiving financial benefit from the
taxpayers rather than on the great ma
Jor.'y u middle class and working people
"a particular
feel sure our officials could we'll at
ford a small tax OF from per cent. to
10 per cent. and inside OF two years
there would possibly he a surplus that
would astouud not only The United States
OF America but the world. And our work
man would not have occasion to pay 10
Gems for a pint Of beer. where nc formerly
paid but 10 cents
There IS no wonder whatever that our
last election went rather contrary to the
desires OF Washington, n. c. | am told
hy several prominent officials IN WASH
iHgton that their salaries are not quite
large enough II they happened to be
English Members OF Parliament their sala-
r.cS w,a'l / calculate. be just about one
half what they now receive, for an Eng
l!sh member OF Parliament receives ths
excellent sum OF $1,000 year.
JAMES e. DALI.
RAILWAY, y. j. November %.
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including some New Workers who hap

pen to have capital invested I'm Arizona,
as official witnesses Of the hangings.
His theory is that his easy murder
measure was defeated through capital
istic influences.
There can he little doubt that in
mass the people Of Arizona are just as
humane as Governor HUNT. but they
are not goaded by fixed idea. They
take a common sense view Of crime and
their sympathy is not mawkishly Law
lshcd OH the ASA ssin, but shared with
his victim. AS for the great industrial
interests Of the State, 1t Is quite certain
that il they took any interest In the
cause they were forced to the belief
that public security required that stern
examples he made of those who wan.
tonly took life.
In venting his personal spleen he
cause Of the defeat Of his views the
Governor forgets that he is the servant
Of the voters and the exponent of their
will. IL Is his duty to carry out their
mandate decently and temporarily. The
possibility OF mercy in the individual
cases on their merits has not been re.
moved. II there are reasons for spar.
ing any Of the eleven condemned. the
popular vote on the general principle
Of the death penalty has made no diff
ference in that respect, and the Cover
nor instead OF hanging all indiscrimi-
u1tply 10 shock tho State should act
dlspa sslonately In every detail.
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To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sir, In
Attfibuting the words OF We Are Coming
Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thou
sand More to william Cullen Bryant !
had no idea there was any contention.
There was no intention of Withholding
lauros from James :. Gibbons. who. It
Seems, was its actual author and Bryant
merely the publisher in his EroHiHg POST
1t must have been the prevailing rule OF
anonymity that caused the song to be
ascribcd 20 Bryant. Certainly hr was
then popularity accredited with the au-
thorship. and | am glad the real writer
il como into his own. | have looked up
an old first edition copy Of the song in
sheet music In our family collection Of old
music II was published by Joseph T.
shaw. ll0 State street, Rochester was
copyrighted 1862, and in the first music
page IT reads Words by William Cullen
Bryant. music by George L. poultun."
Mr. Gibbons certainly wrote "A tlne and
appealing song, and Poulton contributed
a melody that deserves immortality FOR
its lire and Vigor Y. T.. \.
LOUISVILLE Ky, November 20
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INC4NNED ENGLISH.
4 short Dissertation on TRY and 60"
and similar Phrases.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sir: How
old is and In the sense Of in
order to-" which your correspondent Mr..
X. H. Dunno discusses in THE SUN for
November 10? Away back about the time
when Bluff King Hal was cutting capers
around Anne Boleyn ia England, and
Francis L. of France was cOnsoling him
self with arts and literature for the lack
Of gcncralship that caused him to be
made prisoner by Charles Of Spain, who
later became King Of the Romans and
Emperor of Germany with the title OF
Charles YIN those days William Tyn-
dale busted himself with translating the
New Testament into English, and when
NE came upon Acts ri. 4. promptly rem
dered the text, Peter began and ex-
pounde the hinge" This was in the year
1896.
Ten years later poor Tyndale was
s'rangled as a heretic---a fate that some
Of Us may wish might befall those purists
VINO object to Try and md the age Of an
.diomatic phrase before they condemn 1t.
Whom form Is nearly four centuries old
surely IL has earned tile to place in the
first rank as good English. II not, per
maps the sponsorship OF John Milton. OF
samuel Johnson, Of Thomas Moore and OF
William Stanley Jevons is sufficient to
place the form beyond the reach OF med
ding pediers Of canned English"
Quite apar: from this. such expressions AZ
TRY and do your duty" "go and bring my
hat may have ;wofold explanation.
They may express merely the close con-
junction OF the two acts. the idea Of pur-
pose or result belonging TO the verb try
or go) rather than TO tho 'and." which
still retains IFS conjunctive force or,
the and may be used as a common
ur colloluial equivalent Of "to" used with
tho iHhnitive, try and 60" and go and
bring" being used for try to 20" and
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PERKINS on COTTON.
Criticism or the "Saint.In-W aiting to
the Multitude"

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sir.
Really, now. ! had thought better Of Mr..
George W. Perkins as song and dance
artist than TO suspect him of taking the
boards for such lightweight entertain
ment as he furnishes on 1.-THE Cotton
Problem" That Mr.. Perkins Is gore on
what he has been rubbed against for
some years past I experienced no difficulty
In believing-any man might be : but that
he should so far forget himself as tn
think he truly believes as he talks on
this rather momentous subject can
scarcely credit.
Isn't George w Perkins. for instance,
sufficient of a political economist to dis
Germ the difference between monopoly and
straight economies? Isn't there a dis
tlnCtion that amounts TO difference be-
tween buying up good thing, peddling y;
TO "A furnishing public at a beautiful profit,
and an exhortatiOn TO those in the busi-
ness OF producing the good thing to check
the overflow Just so as to give everybody
concerned time to draw breath?
Suppose Mr.. Perkins had underwriren
the present cotton crop without calculat-
ing upon the paralyzng effect of the Euro
pean war What would he do else than
shout. Hold Enough! !" Are the South
ern bankers who have financed this crop
in materially different position?
VIII any fair minded man accuse those
Alabama bankers of striving for more
than an economic principle in the inter
est Of their constituents" Are they gull y
OF counsellng anything worse than live
and let live policy Could anything be
more rational than an appeal to diversity
agricultural ACTIVITY under tho circum-
stances?
Does il not all sound a note OF eet-
preservation for the community
Does Mr.. Perkins take adequate ac-
count Of the lapse OF time between his
celebrated appearance IN the role OF clever
manipulation and his present self-imposcd
part Of saint-in-waitnE to- the multitude ?
NEW YORK, November 2j. r.
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MARINES TO SANTO DOMINGO.
New Revolt Takes Transport iinu-
cock From Guantanamo.

WASHINGTON, Nov 3D.. The TRANSPORT
Hancock, with between 500 ana goo m.-
r.nes aboard, has sailed from GIar. ..
namo fpr Santo Domii 20 70 protect Amer.
lean lives and property.
\ new revolution has just broken ...
there, according TO S1cr,t.ry OF tho SAvy
Daniels.
The marines were despatched 80 the
request Of the state prrtr,W" TIE
reported new revolution came 1~ O. ,l..
prise. because the Sauto Dom rgr t,...
mission had just announced that r'' .
had been restored after months of ..y F
WAY.
Up To a few weeks ago n large 80
tachment of American marines We, ".A H.
tanned in Santo Domingo. bur ptt'.'. D.. @
so reassured Of the ,oudit tG.r Pic ..-
tire body of marines wcr, ftl.. ha.. 20
Guam tanamo.
Although details ~ the new revolt re
lacking it !s believed To- hc u1 ou'.
of bitter feeling over IN" roc'.t ,..
in which the votes cast were
even divided between the rival 't.' ".r
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The reaction against social justice"
through reckless legislation asserts It.
self in numerous ways. The mere deci-
sion of a Minnesota Justice that the
minimum wage law Of that State is I'M
constitutional might be mistaken for an
exhibition Of molycoddling regard for
first principles. But the obter dictum
with which Judge CARLiN accompanies
his ruling seems to indicate that he
considered the statute in its social as
well ~ its legal bearings. He said:
THE actual working of the law would
be apt to increase immortality II morals
are dependent on wages" meaning, Z
course. that a minimum standard of pay
would drive all the weaklings out Of
respectable employment. 1t is encour-
aging to note that common sense IL
again asserting its superiority over
hySteria
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New revolt in santo Domingo.
line.
The only exercise OF tho people Of
that lively State.

Major-Gcneral Sir DESMOND O'CALLA-
GHAN, the British artillery expert who
has been pres dent Of the Ordnance
Board asserts N letter to the London
TmCS that while the Germans may pos
soss Il en- hOwtzors rs en- Ul2 inch)
gun was used to shattcr the Belgian
fortihcItions. The shell of this piece
weighs $50 pounds, and it carries a
"burstcr" of III pounds high explosive.
It weighs only 6,3 tons. and with car
rlage, recoil cylinders, SC, liS tons.
Thus the gun is easily transportable in
parts
General b'ALLAGlIAN says there Is
little doubt that the - en-. howt2crs
exist, and he is inclined To think that
If they do exist two of them may have
been used nj the siege of Liege Such
enormous weapons, he adds, would have
to he bolted down to concrete plat
forms, and their transportation would