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per month. rtfer may lero0 aewsdeeleTS dirtily to Publication Office TEE SUPREME COUBT. Thre Is a movement on foot In the Ife' Kngland States which will undoubtedly receive support In other parte of the country to bring to the attention of the President the desirability of filling the vacancies In the- Supreme Court the earliest practica- a rtn. mAUAmAnt la antlr. gIV flunir liu ilia ly legitimate, snd we have no question that It will'recelve respectful and probably favorable' consideration from Mr.

tTAFT. readers will recall that' at the of -the death of Chief Justice Vullkr Tub Times urged with the sjarnestneas the Importance of the matter merited that the vacancies caused toy this event and by the approaching retirement of Justice Moodt should be at an extraordinary session of the Senate called lor that purpose. basis of this recommendation was, of course, the Important litigation pending In the court, the decision of which 4iad then already been" awaited a long Jlime. The chief caeea in this litigation i ua atttnAawA nil and Ignited Tobacco Companies. The principle Involved in these cases ts of the tutmoat consequence, not raerely to the laTorporatlons defendant and other large Combinations, but to the entire business community.

Whatever may be the view of that principle finally taken by the Hupreme Court, it is essential that it lahould be reached In a full court and as promptly as possible. On that de -clalon legislation may be based, or the ftuslnesn of the country may proceed long the lines of its previous evolu tion. In any case, the entire country la interested that a definite and author-: ttatl)-e Interpretation of the law shall be reached with no unnecessary delay. t-Againat this view and the suggestion of an extraordinary session of the Pen- ate we have seen no argument that Vent to the merits of the matter. The saving of time that would thus be achieved la not denied.

The only question raised has been whether the gain be enough to justify the expense and the Inconvenience to Senators. To this' question. we do not see that there can be any anawrr but one! The expense will be insignificant compared to that lightly Incurred for objects of far less Interest. The Inconvenience to Benatora would be no more than they should, and doubtless would, be quite billing to submit to for the public advantage. If a full court heard the pending cases early In the term commencing Oct.

10, a decision might be In January. If the court i were not filled until December the cases would probably not be taken up "before tho holiday recess and the decision might well be delayed until late Spring. At the most moderate computation at least three months would be saved by calling an extraordinary session of the Senate. It certainly Is well Terorth saving. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

The meeting this week of the British 'Association at Sheffield will signalise the fact that, science has begun to apeak the language of the people. The semi-official forecast of the proceed-'fngsof this British parliament of scientists, printed in The London Times, I declares thst a large number of joint of the Into which the association Is split will be held, and lectures will be delivered setting forth "In as simple language as possible, for the benefit of the educated and Intelligent public, who yet are not specialists, the progress that is being made In the several branches of science." This departure will benefit the scientists, too. The sections have hitherto grown to become sectusive, cryptic, mutually repellent meetings of specialists, taken up with the reading of lndfvidual papers of very restricted interest. They have tended to Ignore the fundamental truth that the sciences are really Interdependent. pASTKt'R, for example, was not a physician, but a chemist, yet Ms "discoveries in organic chemistry revolutionised medical science.

The fight of hU lire was made to obtain recognition of the physicians. The holding of the. joint meetings of the different groups of scientific men will bring be fore their united vltien. the results of study' upon questions of wide interest andcJmportance to humanity. It will provoke discussion from different angles, and stimulate research along new and hitherto unthougtit-of avenues.

Science exists for the benefit of hu-nisnity. It is for 'humanity's use, understanding, profit. Narrow and obscure and technical lan- g-uage are foes to a broad human culture. the Janovatioa ct stripping their gathering, so far as la possible, of the effects of such Incumbrance the leaders of the British Association have also taken a look forward. They belteva that Its members Should act as missionary agents cor Cat advancement of liberal aclentlflo andeavor In the self-goTernlng flomTnlons of the empire.

Hint Of th development of this poller war observable last year when the association went abroad to a. Winnipeg, and In th Tint to Toronto in 1887 and to Booth Africa In 1905 They ars now planning to bring the stimulation of their presence to Aus tralia. Tho meeting at the antipodes will ba held probably la 1913 or 1914. Scientists aro busy But the facilities of travel about the world are over Increasing chiefly as tho result of their own work and. that of their predecessors.

Great populations upon the earth's surface are rising by means of their Influence. The men of science are not the last to recognize this Im portant phenomenon. THE KAISER IS STILL THE KAISER. Kaiser Wtlhelm's divine right speech has stirred up Germany. But the only real significance It has Is his abandonment of his recent policy of Imperial reserve." The Kaiser has always believed what he said of bis powers as the chosen Instrument of Heaven to rate his fellow-men.

In spite of parliaments and the will of the people, and everybody In and out of the German Empire has known his belief. Tet the speech seems to have caused a great deal of temporary embarrassment and consternation. Even the conservative newspapers lament. Only the 'Radicals and Socialists are pleased. But the German Government and the nation will go on precisely as before.

No new Imperial policy has been proclaimed. No threat has been uttered. The Kaiser has merely said In publlo that he rules by divine right as his grandfather did. Constitutional authority may have been Ignored, but it has scarcely been endangered. The Kaiser Is the Imperial head of a progressive, energetlo nation of who are showing Increasing activity In all branches of trade and commerce, who are generally Inspired by the revolutionary spirit.

The la not unpopular. The number of his subjects who believe In his divine right is not Inconsiderable, but they are not of the most Influential classes. Viewed as politics, In the present stage of German feeling, the speech was. Indeed, lamentable. But the Kaiser Is not a politician.

The prices In the Boerse will rise again, business will not be disturbed, and the Radicals will continue to overturn Conservative In a few weeks the Kaiser's latest utterance will be forgotten. He may have another spell of "Imperial reserve, or he may make another speech so much more startling as to cast In the shale the memory of his proclamation of divine right. UNION CRUELTY TO LABOR. The recent strike of the Grand Trunk employes In Canada developed unusual cases of hardship, illustrating anew the cruelty of trades unionism toward wage workers In some cases. The strikers stood upon something like equality regarding forfeiture of positions and sen- florlty.

Uniformity is a principle of trades unionism, and all being put back to scratch were reduced to a common level, although with Inequality of sacrifice. The case is somewhat different regarding the sacrifice of pensions which had been almost earned. A man whose life had been spent In working up to within a year or two of retirement will never get there again under like conditions. He will reach the age of retirement, voluntary or compulsory. In the course of nature, but without the accompanying solace.

It Is necessary to recognise the hlgn degree of loyalty necessary to Inspire a man to be true to his union rather than to his own personal Interest. This Is the patriotism of class, and comes next to patriotism to country. It is not altogether surprising. In all ages men nave proved their readiness to suffer for an Ideal Added to this motive Is the almost unsupportable position of a man who prefers his selfish Interests above those of his comrades as a whole. Life would not now be worth living for the men who might have preferred to be loyal to their employer rather than to their unloji.

But how about the union's procedure In such cases? Strikes are often ordered by the younger men. whose sacrifice ts less, and therefore with a smaller sense of responsibility. Moreover the older men nave already made a sacrifice to the younger In accepting less than they were worth In order that the younger men might receive more. Ought there not. then, be a loyalty of the union to Its members as well as of the members to the union? If the unions order sacrifices, ought they not to make them good in some compensatory degree? If they shrink from this burden, ought they not to dispense with such extreme tests of loyalty? The cases are not numerous enough to make any appreciable difference In the settlement of strikes, but they may be numerous enough to chill the sentiment of loyalty to class, which from one innt of view Is admirable.

The unions suggest that pensions earned should be paid In the proportion In which they are earned Instead of being wholly forfeited. The railway replies that the-pension is not a right, sn Indirect payment of wages. Wages are union wages, the prevailing rate. THE NEW YORK and payment ends the obligation of the employer. Pensions are In the nature of an Insurance fund, designed to create a feeling of loyalty and solidarity to the employer.

When this object is not attained, as Is proved by conduct Inconsistent with such sentiments, there Is a failure of consideration on the part of the pensioner, and the gratuity Is forfeited altogether. Some unions also maintain a pension system under one name or another, and for the same motives. In both cases the payment Is for motives of self -Interest, and therefore not from charity patronage. The laborer, or the unionist, is as worthy of his pension as of his hire, and it la equally the laborer's duty to earn and deserve either. Would i the unions who ordered the strike, and who think that the railways are blameworthy for the refusal to pay the' pensions, themselves pay their allowance to unionists who were disloyal to the union? It is a pity that the unions are so inconsiderate both their own members and the capitalists.

Self-interest ought. to bring these antagonists together, rather than array them in opposing armies. There is something wrong -with either the employer or the employ who Is altogether incapable of taking the point of view of the other party. There is a sort of Immorality In ordering a sacrifice without making It good. And It may be asked whether the making of such an order ought not to absolve from such an excess of loyalty to class as results In destroying the sense of loyalty to family and self? The pensioners stood the test to which It was cruelty to subject them, and their predicament ought to Increase the sense of responsibility of the unions toward their members.

A DEATH ROLL. Death breeds death when It comes In the form of cholera. Here Is the roll of the dead by provinces for one week In Russia: Provinces. Don Cossacks Tekaterlnoslav Kuban Cossacks Veronesh Simbirsk Deaths. 1.089 857 MT 554 383 Saratov 362 327 S4.

vropol 2543 Tambov 233 Kalser-Ketbr AitTict Total The grand total of 121.001 cases and 58,030 deaths tn Russta from this pre ventable disease does not tell all the tale. The plague has been borne to Vienna, one of the chief emigrant cit les of Europe, and to Italy, whence immigrants arrive on these shores by the hundred thousands. We have had disastrous epidemics of Asiatic chojer. But the means of quarantine. Inspection, and prophylaxis are better known than In 1S73 and In 1892.

It Is a terrible pestilence, but Its Invasion of this country can and will be prevented. The Marconi wireless dispatches to The Sunday Times indicate that Italy Is not alarmed by the Invasion of the cholera. Since 18S4 Rome has been considered Immune. The Russian pilgrims to Apulia, lately placed in quarantine, seem to hsve carried no cholera germs Into Italy. THE BOSSES HE IS HITTING.

Theodorb Roosevixt announces that he will give the New Tork bosses all the fighting they want. He will hit them hard and true. But who made them? Mr. WooDRrrr was made Chairman of the Republican State Committee to succeed Mr. Odell at the behest of Mr, Roosevelt.

Mr. Barnes was made Surveyor of the Port at Albany by Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Merritt was appointed Post master at Washington and Collector at Niagara Falls by Mr. Roosevelt.

Mr. O'Brien wss made Collector at Plattsburg by Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Hexdricks of Syracuse wss made Superintendent of Insurance by Gov.

Roosevelt. Mr. Ward was msde a member of the Republican National Committee with Mr. Roosevelt's approval and consent. Mr.

wads worth, whom Mr. Roose velt created Speaker of the Assembly. Is a new recruit in the company of Ward, Merritt. O'Brien, Hendricks. Barnes, snd Woodruff, the bosses whom Mr.

Roosevelt advanced on the road to power. nr. koosevslt is a practical man. He was never ssked to smash the machine In this State' before, nor even to refrain from patronizing Its leaders. Now there ts a great popular outcry to down them and to smash their machine.

He expects to "down" and smash. We hope he will succeed. THE TALKING PICTURES. Mr. Edison, having solved the problems of congestion In cities and cheap but wholesome living for the poor, by inventing a new kind of dwelling house, which can be poured in liquid form out of a pitcher wherever there happens to be a vacant space 'for it to "occupy, has lately turned his attention to the combination of the phonograph and the moving picture.

Thus far. his klnetophone Is in an experimental stage, but the experiment according to good judges who have seen and heard It. works well. The voice of the moving figure on the screen is heard at the right Instant. Phonograph and picture work In unison.

In control of electrical appliances Invented, by Edi-sox. The records for the eye and the ear are made simultaneously. By means of this machine Mr. Edi- THIES. SUNDAY.

som Intends to mass the personality and voice of CoL Roosevelt, Johm Dw, and the great opera singers fa miliar In the remoter parts of the earth Probably be win not neglect Mr. Pinchot. Kaiser Wa.Hs3.st. and Marie Dresslktc Broadway productions are to be made accessible In tbe deserts and frontier towns. The educational possibilities of the "new Invention are undeniable.

Already the moving pic ture has measurably helped In the development of human Intelligence." and the singing and talking machines have done much for the increase of 'musical knowledge and taste. But with all the improvements Mr. Edison's Inventive genius can supply, moving and talking pictures win never supplant opera, and drama In Its natural form. They may greatly Increase the demand for musical and drama tlo art by cultivating the taste of the multitude. That Is something worth doing.

MR. BRTAlf Is Mr. Bktam trying to get -out of the spotlight and avoid unpleasant comparison. In this hour of world-wide excitement, with CoL Roosevxlt and the Kaiser? Tbe report that he has announced his determination not to run for the Presidency in 1912 suggests that he feels that he needs one of his longer rests between campaigns." He rested In the campaign of 1904 rested, with a vengeance. It would be more gratifying to the whole country If Mr.

Bryan would couple the announcement of his temporary retirement from the role of perpetual candidate with the assurance that he will give loyal and vigorous support to the Democratic ticket that year. There Is promise of sound leadership for the Democratic Party in 1912. A number of good candidates for the Presidency are already talked of. Others are likely to make their claims felt' before the nominating convention meets. If Mr.

Brtan really retires from the contest the work of the convention should be easy. But will Mr. Brtan promise to support the candidates It namea? A STARTLING LABOR DECISION. Judge Gory yesterday decided that the strike of 60,600 cloakmakers for the closed shop was. In effect, a conspiracy In restraint of trade, and Issued an Injunction against -the strikers In the case of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association against the International Garment Workers' Union and others.

Judge Gorr based his decision on the prece dent of the Court of Appeals In the case of McCord against the Thompson-Star-rett Company. In that case it was alleged that the employers- combined to compel the workmen to join a particular union. Judge Gorr says: If the rule laid down in the McCord case be the law. and It must be accepted as such, being the latest expression of the Court of Appeals, It must be applicable to workmen as well as to employers. It would be repugnant to reason to hold that It applies to one and not to the other.

What the employers may not do the workmen may not do. If a combination of one to refuse employment, ex-- cept on condition of joining a union, be against publlo policy, a combination of the others to cause refusal uf employment, except on condition of joining a union. Is alike against publlo policy. 4 The decision Is important and is likely to have far-reaching consequences. It affects, of course, only the closed shop stipulation of the strikers.

They demand also shorter hours and larger pay. But the court holds that these are not the primary purposes of the strike," which he finds to be to deprive other men than the strikers of their opportunity to work, and drive them from the industry. Labor unions have not had so hard a blow from the bench. Comment, at this time, would be. superfluous, as doubtless the case will be carried to a higher court.

WILLIAM JAMES. Probably the strongest Impression made upon the common mind by William James was as an Investigator of the claims of spiritualism. He dl-1 good public service in his-rejection of the manifestations produced by some practitioners of spiritualism as sheer trickery. as he continued his investigations, he found himself In volved in the mases of doubt, like, so many other learned men who have wasted valuable time listening to the seers and Investigating metapsychl cal assertions. He was.

to some ex tent, one of the victims of Mrs. Piper, and only last year he was convinced that he had communicated with the spirit of the late Dr. Richard Hodgson, the English psychical researcher. In this Incident, however. James kept an open mind.

But his reserved approval of some forms, of spiritualism, and metapsychlcs was as encouraging as Sir Oliver Ladox's to thriving Imposture. It Is a pity that Prof. James 'ever went so far afield. But speculation on the theory of Immortality ever Interested him. and his great reputation as a scholar was assuredly not materially lessened by bis brief dalliance with such trivialities as the professed spiritualists deal with.

It would oe well If these unimportant passages In his life could be speedily forgotten, as In time they surely will be. and his fame rest on his deep and sound scholarship, his services to the world In physiological and philosophical science. He lacked no honors In his own time. Throughout the civilised world he was held In rested AUGUST 3. 11EW CENSUS SHOULD BE 4,787,000 Federation, of Churches Bases Calculation on Past Growth, Im-- migration, and Vital Statistics.

IN APRIL 75.000 OVER JUNE In Latter Month. 2 Per Cent, Escaped Enumeration In the City In 1900 Who Were Counted In 1110. Ts fas Xdltor of TU Snt York Anroeoe Of thai annonnmim anr fwwkiw thai Census Bureau that the population of New xore-aty, as recently ascertained. win be given eut la a few the rollowlng considerations may be of interest. XThe 1910 eltr census wa takan in April, Instead of In June, as In 1900.

It is altogether likely that the change of month enrolled, among New Yorkers, from 60.000 to 100,000 people, who. in June, would have escaped enumeration altogether, or would have been enumerated in terms of their Summer homes. It is possible that a portion of the shrinkage of Vermont population, as announced by the Census Bureau, Is due- to the Inclusion, In, 1800, among Verm outers, of Summer residents from New Tork, Boston, and ether In any case an appreciable element la New York's 1000- 1810 gala Will be the anumorat of April, who would have escaped New Tork Buumerauoa in June. The absence of but 2 per cent of the city's DODulatlon from the enumeration made by the State In wouia have made the true population Of the city In that year 4.005.004. Instead Of 4.013,781.

a difference of 81.013. A fair minimum for the names added, in 1910, by April in place of June enumeration, would seem be 75.000. It should re membered, when the actual flm, th increase of New Tork are given out. that a cnange or method In the census Is responsible for a population Increase equivalent to over one-sixth the slse of Buf falo. 2.

The State census of 1905 a-ava New Tork City a population Of 4.013. 781. a rain of 676.579 above the Federal census of iwo. or 113,316 annual Increase. Continu ing this Increase for the four nH nnv.n.

eighths years ending Aorii is inio th minimum population of New Tork at that date would be: Population of 1005 4 Oil TSI Contlnuatloa of l00-l0o 682 162 4.S7S.S43 But the annual lm-Nu iwwvt ixdio, whereas 1890-1900 It was but wjs. a difference of 23.338 per annum. The lmmlarratlati of the rivm VMr. June 90, 1903. was 8,833.078.

and of the nve years ended June 30, 1910, 4.9E.S10. New York certainly rained, inrvuin the gain 1900-06. from this Increase of immigration. Tbe excess of births over rioatha iotvtu as given by the Board of Health, was (M.7B1. ana 1903-09 209.914.

From these two causes alona. anf fin. ceding that removals tn th nk.i.k. balanced by domestic Immigration into wew Tor, it seemed legitimate to the writer In February. lBia to inrruu minimum population of April 15.

1910, as aoove given, by adding 4 times the annual' Increase HMVWvt iiv. Increase lKfc-1900. This yielded: Minimum population. 1910. as Continuation oflSOO-1000 surplus 110,896 To' 4.68M39 Add 75,000 names dua to April enamer- am 75.000 4.781,833 This was our estimate in February, 1910, sf the population of New York as at April 13.

1910. Almost the same result can be reached in another way. The Increase of Greater New York 1880-90 was 503.716, and 1800- 1900 334.02 more, or 020.788. Conceding that the Increase of the decade 1900-10 above tbe decade 1890-1900 was aa great as the Increase 1890-1900 above the decade 188U-90. the population of Greater York Apr5 15, 1910, could have been com puted as follows: Population of 1900 8.437.202 Nina and srven-rlshth time annual in crease.

1800-1DU0 Sis. ISA Xlna ana seven-eighth tlmea adSed annual Increase 188O-1S90 830,770 Total 4.686,128 Add 75,000 name dua to April anumer- 75,000 orand total 4,761.18 3. New York grew, 1800-1900. 37.1 per ir it grew 1900-10 at the same rate and allowing 73.000 extra names for tbe April enumeration, the forthcoming an- nouncement of the Federal Census Bu reau should show a population of 4.787. 403.

If the figures issued by the Census Bureau are a whit less than this. New York Is not continuing to compound the increase of its population. WALTER LAIDLAW. Executive 8ecre tary New York City Federation of Churches. New York.

Aug. 20, 1910. The Census In Vermont. Ts Ifte Editor of The He Tork My attention has fceea -al)4 to ths dispatch front BftrUnstoa bearlns; data of Aug. 14.

which appeared In your Unite of Auf. 25, relating to the census of Vermont. Tbe statement Is thora made that From sources close to the Supervisor's office It learned that only two or tiirea towns In the Stat have Increased In population In the last decade." No Information ha been given out from this office re sardine census returns, and your cor-rarsroadent certainly stretched his Imasinatlon when mad any such ateUnient. There baa been no decided decree the population of Vermont; on the contrary, there baa been a substantial and healthy tacreaa la tbe last ten I would like to live you the fig ens, but Supervisors art not permitted to give out returns. I may.

however, aay to you- that th population of Vermont, t' not la danger of losing on of its two Congressmen. LT.VN U. HAYS. Supervisor of the Census. Burlington.

VX. Aug. 36. J910. Personalities lit Politics.

Ts the Ediior of The Xew Tork The extremely personal ton to the political situation at present calls out practically as rebuke from the press, or from awn la general. Tat It these same conditions prevailed with women aa tho chief figures what a bowl would go up as to their unfitness for world affairs, the narrowness of their par. aonallUe snaking them unfit to judge large questions impartially, aa on speaker said last Winter. BUFTRAQIBT. New York.

Aug. 96. 1810. Hughes's Successor. re (A Editor of Th4 Xac Tork If tho JUpubUeaa Party would really place la that great Capitol at Albany a fitting, fighting successor to Got.

Charles E. Hughes, to say mind It baa at to go very far. There, standing forth In rsliaf. far sur-Peesing all other candidate Is one arho Is a seal man. aa nonast, and a true man.

Con. grassmaa William S. Bennet. the maa who baa dona It 1 lu. at 1 -New Tork.

Aug, XT. 110. A NEW ORLEANS FAIR. BBBBssBasBwaanwassaasswaaa, 1 Would Do Better to Put tne seven Millions Into Advertising. To Editor of Th Sew York Timet: The leading abos dealers and other mer chants of Now Orleans are Interesting themselves considerably in eacurlng the approval of Congraas for a Panama Exposition," to be aM la New Orleans ta celebration of the com pletion of the Panama Canal.

They expeet rats 37.300.000 by subscription and taxation. This particular kind of folly must' be painful to advertising experts the Valtad States over. (Of course, any World's Fair la primarily an sdvet-tlsemenL) The people of New Orleans expect te profit by this exposition; they expect their city ta grew ta population aa a result. How long will It require to get It Into the understand lag of all clues that the only way to build up a city la ta build ap Its manufacturing It Is maaufaoturing and com merce that make cities sad that give them aay reason for artnee It Is the Immense volume of manufacturing none ta New York, which Is greater than the output of aay State la. toe Union ewoept one or two, which holds and in creases Its Immsn population.

Instead of hi wing this 17.600.000 for a cheap' lath aad plaster show, which will be merely a reduced miniature ef Coney Island, plus a New Tork department store or two. why does not New Orleans put the same money into a sensibly managed advertising campaign fund and devote Its attention te attracting new manufacturing industries aad new commercial enterprises, and ta securing supplies of labor te operate the new enterprise If the city has any merits at an aa a location for such enterprises aa advertising fund of that amount would place la the hands of every man, woman, and child able to read la the Unite! States aa attractive output of literature descriptive of It merits, and leave snough to start a hundred factories. W. T. New Tork.

Aug. 26. 1010. GRADE CR0SSING8. Elimination Work to Extent of One Million Dollar Can Be Begun.

To the Editor of Tho Sew York Timet: la regard te tbe editorial topic, Hearing ts Not Acting," in THI TIMES this morning, I venture to call your attention to the fact that th law requires a public hesrlng as a prerequisite to action by th Public Service Commission te eliminate grade crossing. At least ten dsrs' notice must be given of such hearing to all parties. Including ths owners of lands adjoining the crossing, and it must also advertise a notice of th hearing In at least two newspapers published In th locality affected. After such neariag the commission deter mines what chang In th condition of th crossing shall be mad In th streeta, for It has no power to alter th grade of ths railroad. The reason that proceedings for the elimination of grade creasing In this city were not taken sooner Is that no appropriation by the State was available until this year, when the last Legislature set aside fSSO.OOO as the State's contribution toward eliminations In th City of New Tork.

Ths 8 tats doe not pay one-half, but only one-quarter of the cost, th company paying on-half and th city one-quarter. Th appropriation of 250.000 by th State, therefore, means that elimination work costing $1,000,000 can be undertaken. 3. B. WALKER.

Acting Secretary Publlo Berries Commission. New Tork. Aug. 26, 1910. TARIFF PLEA REFUTED.

Washington Lumber Is Underselling Canadian Right In Canada. To the Editor of The Sew York Timet: In th tariff bearings prior to th paasag of th Payna-Aldricb bill, a great deal was said by Paciflo Coast lumbermen of Washington about their Inability to compete, and the need of protection against importations from British Columbia. They assigned, for on reason, thst Aslatio labor was employed la British Columbia. It may interest you ta know that Washington mills are now selling rough fir lumber In New Westminster. B.

C. and vicinity, which Is th oantr of th largest lumbar manufacturing in British Columbia, aad they are underselling the local mills. The Washington mills not only do this Jn British Columbia, but also throughout the Canadian prairie provinces, and their shipments Include all grades of fir lumbar and shingles, but principally the lower grades, about which so much was said In favor of protection which would tend to forest conservation. Th lumberman of British Columbia last wek sent a delegation to call upon Sir Wilfrid Laurler, who Is now on a visit to the coast, asking for som protection from these Washington Importations of lumber. Th writer's horn Is Ithaca.

N. and he well remember th sympathy expressed for the laborer of Washington In competition with Oriental laborers la th lumber Industry of British Columbia. Th Washington labor la now coming to British Columbia on account of the higher wage, they are paid In th lum ber Industry. E. H.

BUCKLIN. President and General Manager the Small A Bucklln Lumber Company, Limited. New Westminster. B. C.

Aug. 20. tola Search of the Mauretanla. To the Editor of The Xete Tork Timet: If there Is one thing more likely than an other to make a Free Trader of th avarage American cltlsen. despite hi protected earnings.

It is this onerous Customs system as administered at our principal entry port. I have never been abroad and have never had trouble with the Customs, but I appreciate th probability that a majority of ua are would-be tourists; and that when we gratify our ambition by going to Europe It Is our Inclination to bring back a few trophies of th cbas without being treated a criminals. are, first of all. a freeborn people, and secondly, though soma of us may derive direct benefit from tn tariff, are all ultimate consumers. I knew that th ultimata consumer has stood for something of a Joke, just, say.

aa corporate interests hss stood ss a synonym for wickedness." But ths ultimate consumer, so long a frail, sickly thing. Is beginning to sit up and take notice, and unl some of the doctors in attendance are more circumspect there will be risk of their losing the.r Jots right away. Quick' don't all. on returning from foreign parte, expect to be welcomed, as exalteU por-Mmages. but wa do look for eee-vllity," and in time we wui see that has it.

HOME BOOT. New Tork. Aug. 27. 1010.

An Example for To the Editor of The Sew York rir. I Evidently from th letters of a few of rour eortaspondents there are a numb i pedestrians ta tills town, famous for Its white lights and things, who would be glad to Join a walking club. Toe would doing aa Inestlmabl favor to your readers by opening your columns to them for the purpose forming sack a club. As to th healthful and beneficial effects ef walking to aa office worker, all we have to do la to point to our Mayor as tbe best knowa and most shining Let th lonely walkers get together on Saturdays or Sundays snd walk, aad they wlU get mors out of It and mor out of Uf, too, as a result. O.

E. DRAPER. New Tork. Aug. 27.

ltio. Britain and the To th Editor of Sow York Timet: all must ackaewledge the unquestionable evidence of how Americans loved on another only a few decade age. Naturally It leads me to th eonelualoa that as sur. vlved our period of ta put It mildly Uttto misunderstandings. It Is safe to assume that Britain and the Domlnioa will stand th strata of any ordinary misunderstandings that may arts concerning such general matters aa ml-gratlon.

navy, militia, aad tariffs, aad with, eut wasting a single aumaa Ufa. AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. Aug. ttt, ISle. AUMCAimnnsijis.

ARE HIGHEST Pi)' i Average Hero $6631 64,830 Preachers Cot $69,667,587, Government. Reports. PRESBYTERIANS BEST PAID New York Churches Worth $153,95340 Are Mortgsgeff. for Episcopal Debts Lowest. A bulletin Just Issued by the Government gives facts never before collated about Christian ministers In American! cities, their number 'and salaries, anl about the mortgage debts of The figures are for 1008, but have Juit, been made public, and are more exhaust.

Ive even than religious bodies ever have" attempted There were 164,830 Christian mininert and 1.084 Jewish rabbis In the Uhltea) States In 1906, and they Increase at toe' rate of ierlv 4.000 a year. Their aver salary Is 1063. and there was paid ts them In 19U6 a total of S00.OS7.SS7. Bap-. tUts and Methodists have more than half, the whole a umber of ministers In, tb.

country, due to their large number of small 'churches, especially. In rural 41. trlcts. In Manhattan and Brooklyn are eral scores of ministers whose sahtrles exceed $3,000 a year. The highest salary ever offered a minister to preach la Vrr Tork was a year and a hoosa.

offered last year" by the Fifth Aveaot Presbyterian Church, Manhattan eci' declined! Several ministers receive a year, and there are a dozen of tnorsi who get These salaries 'are the highest In ths' world. London and IJerlln averages arej hardly more than a year. That ls.i a London minister who sets Is near! the top. In New Tork he Is near the bow torn. I Th nAvernmnnt atiom-a Vim ir.ri,, mLI ries of ministers In cities having 3M.MS-ponulatlon anl over to be: Baptist.

SLTuSl Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed, gl.tvot; Koroaa Catholic, $084. and $1,41. in the smaller cities and rural districts, -ministers' salaries run away down. Sap. tists In the South average IXH.

and colored Baptists In the South l-J. On other hand, bodies that are alrongeat tn' the cities, like the Unitarian, the Protestant Episcopal, and the Roman He. the averages stay about the same, -i For example. Unitarians receive thei highest average salaries of all. their flg.1 r.

holns 1 1 tivt Th PrntMtsnt F.nlano.1 pal rangea down from $1,873 to the Roman Catholic doea not fall off at all, the rural districts ranging higher than the average, at $724. The average salaries of Cbristiaa Science readers Is only $234 for the who country, wnn n.u". as me average in cu les having 30o.0 population or mora The Government explains this curious fact S3 due to readers being practitioners as a rut. and are expected to ears their own support. In actual money, Metliodiat ministers get most of all.

their salarlea amounting annuallv to $16,130,000. Baptists recwlve Presbyterians Ro-' man Catholics Episcopalian M.887.OD0. Congregatlonallsts Reformed $1,082,000. and Jews Not all bodies reported, so these practically every Instance, ought to be Increased by one-fifth for 1000, aad. another fifth tor the present year.

It la estimated on the basis of these- reports that in 1910. will be paid ia salarlea, and that, congregational ex- penses. ml us Ion, and extensions will In-' votve more.1 The value- of church property in. Isew- Tork is Sl.Vl.!)r3,74a This does not UV elude parsonagna. hospitals, or asylums.

only buildings usea for puollc worship. The debts upon all Is I10.0C2,-. 41ft. about 12.3 per cent. Boston has Invested tn churches non.oun, with dents amounting to per cent, of their value; Chicago has the same sum Invested, with l.lVi per Baltimore 14,010.

nort, with 10'i per cent; Phil-' edelphla M.VUXi.Odo, with 9 per cent Newark with 7H per aiwt Washington $10,000,000, with 10 per centi debts. In New Tork the proportion ef debts to valuation of properties ts much higher anions: Roman fat hollos and Jews than amons; Protestants. Roman Catholic Church properties In this city are valued at 811, Olio, and the debts 20 per cent of their value. Jewish places of worehle, are valued at $8,700,000. with.

19 per cent, debts. AmOng the Protestant churches ths Baptists have the highest debt per-i centage, 8V, per cfnt1 Methodists H. Con; 6. Presbyterians 4. Rr-formed 3.

and' Er.scora)ians only It, In New Tork City Episcopalian place-, of worship sre held to he worth non, Presbyterian Methodlstl Btptlst Keformed 7.000.0n, Lutheran. $0,300,000, and Con-' greirattonal ti 20O.0O0. These valuations in some enf sre far. below the appraisals made bv New Tori City for tax exemption. For example the city values Trinity Church at lit fOO.nnn.

St. Paul's Chapel In Vesey Street i ursce initrrn in iciiii Street at $1,000,000, the Cathedral of 8t( John the Divine at and BL Thomas In Fifth Avenue at Here Is almost PRESBYTERIANS PROSPEROUS, More Than a Million Dollars More Re I aat rails, PHILADELPHIA. Aug. '27. 8tatf Clerk Roberts of the General Assembly makes public figures of growth last year of the Presbyterian Church North.

shovV' Ing that in receipts all previous annual' amounts have, been distanced by saoier by merer I Calved I went than $1,000,000. Of the $23,000,000 i for all purposes, about $7100.000 benevolence, a larger proportion thaa ever before. There has been a falling off la amber of Presbyterian churcbea since 1007. doe' to an attempt at union which did hot -unite. In that year the Cumberland bedr came In and swelled the number.

Not slT stayed In, nenee tbe decline. Cnnbr-' hind Presbyterian affairs are now In a deplorable condition, with many congr-. gallons homeless. .1 The growth in Presbyterian memher-i ship last year was only 17.014. lees lbs half what It has been In aome Th whole number amounts l.SJU.UUX The' Sunday school pupils number lntOOUj one of the highest enrollments In propor- tton to church membership of any rv, llglous body In tbe world.

A CRY FROM THE N0RTM.w-" Oh! for. a slssle of Broadwayj -For the nice warm heat that glows And shimmers and steams la tropical streams That the Broad wayfarer knowa Ohl for the sun of Manhattan To blase on my frosted spine And melt with Us beat The Icy cold feet Attached to-these limbs of Oh! for the touch of the Summer That visits New Tork these hays And brings out the sweat One cannot forget. No matter how far oft. be strays, Oh! for a shirt of.wsrra flannel A pleasanter circumstance Than the gausy shew s- Of August, and Ohl For a heavier pair of panta. Oh! for some sweltering weather Sent u( from Manhattan's clime.

To give us a taste, i. In this shivery waste, If Of the good old Summer A W. 3. LAMPT0 Mont Jolt. Province Quebec, Aug.

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