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railroads, mills, factories, 'and other' in- dunrrln! Antpt-nrlnAN. tfTeflf numbers Of Ttful's fieiter are that the- convention will experience as little trouble In the construction ot its platform qs in the' selection of Us chief candidate. Fulton, Adams and Willooghby traeta, Receiving the Entire United Press Assoela- tlon'a Telegraphlo Service. Enured at the Brooklyn (N. T.

Post 0lca kl Seoond-Claea Matter. -rUBLlSHSD BT THB BROOBXTN CITI- ZEN. JOHN FBOSTr PreeWent. IXUtS XjXNQAN. Bea and Tree date for tne; and believe the solution will be found In Its Intense aversion to men-of, the strenuous type.

"Fat men," as Shakespeare says, "sleep well nights," and men who do this are seldom troubled by the restless energy of superheated brains. What the predatory corporations desire above all else, is a period of somnolence in the White House, and a candidate weighing three hundred pounds Is a guarantee of that calm repose so desired the Harrl-mans, the Hills and thf Morgans. hundred and twenty-two cases pending' against oneoad, and the average of Confinement without trater, rest andv feeding in these; cases was forty- hours, the actual time of confinement varying! from thjrty-one hours to seventy-one hours without water, feed or rest, "An examination of twenty cases against another road shows that the' period of confinement varied from thirty-one hours to fifty-nine hours, -and that, as an average, tbe stock were confined for forty-five hours without water, feed and rest. Clearly, the Twenty-eight Hour Law Is not being obeyed." Thla In the faro of the fact that the Congressional hoeje who enacted the twenty-eight hour law, and the porcine barona of the Beef r. Trust would deem It torture to be deprived of food and liquid refreshments for a few hours.

W. H. M. BAD Wk SERVICE STARTS THE HOLIDAY Georgia made 19 knots, her guaranteed speed, without brealf 3tcept she spurted for four consecutive hours at a gait of 19ft. This puts her at the head- of our battleships for speed, just as, the recent, run' of the Maryland at the rate of 22V4 knots puts few at the head of our armored cruisers for the present.

But, as England has battleships that can beat a 25 knot gait with case, we shall probably try tc emulato them ere long. Protests by Long Island farmers against the drawing up for city uses ot the water in the subsoil don't count nowadays. The water-bearing stratum reached by the 'suction pump is from 100 to 300 feet below the surface, and unless the roots of the carrots, turnips and other vegetables go down that far, they suffer nothing by tho drainage, partial or complete, of the stratum described. Besides, the water found there comes mostly over the rock and clay bed beneath the bottom of the Sound from the hill and moun WEYLER'S COURSE IN CUBA. Weyler, the Spaniard of Dutch origin, who as Captain-General of Cuba became known to us as Bu1chcr" Weyler because of the severity and, as alleged, inhumanity he displayed in his treatment of insurgent Cubans, is evidently peeking vindication.

He has waited an uncommonly long time for it; over ten years, in fact; whereas, our politicians usually look for It at the next election, as Gov. Hughes Is now understood to be corCTcent states. voters will endeavor to strike at them by, voting for the candidate most oaiea by the predatory corporations. In the judgment of the writer, the money kings who have said that they will not enlarge their railroad systoms, will not set. their mills, factories andi manufacturing establishments to work on full running time, until Taft shall be elected, ore playing with 6re.

Jt will be recalled with great bitterness, unless there Is a speedy revival of bhslness, that John D. Rockefeller-was quoted as saying a year or so ago, on his way South, when, he was inveighing against President Roosevelt's policies, and predicting hard times: "I can get along all right. I will not suffer." It a-tll HnnhtWci lie recntled that Senatorial mouthpiece of the Standard Oil Cnnipuny said last year, wnile denouncing President Roosevelt's policies: "It will be natural for the men of wealth to adopt retaliatory measures." At the time thrsn veiled threats of reprisals nere made, "Mnl" fcommented on them in this column. 1 hey-will not ne 1. J.t.lnrt,n..t ill vvfjer, the most effective work that can -be lone for Secretary Jatt canuiaacy yyirl be done by the money kings If they "Minll abandon their intention to refrain from pushing business until after the Presidential election is held.

If It Is their intenlion to make the people of this ciifTnr fnr nnhnldihfr the nolicieS of President Roosevelt, these corpoiliflon magnates may create a greater siorm than has yet beaten upon their heads. The Rockefellers, Morgans, Hanininns, the men of the Beef Trust, and the Coal Trust, nnd the Railroad Combinations, cannot placate the unemployed with soup bouses, nor can they satisfy the people of the middle class by big contributions to hospitals, colleges and churches nor can the people of the United States be driven into submission to corporation ethics by hunger. Throughout this broad land there is existent to-day sentiment similar to that expressed by Carlyle when he said: "'My starving says the rich mill-owner: 'Did not I hire them fairly in the market? Did I not pay them, to the last sixpence, the sum covenanted frvr? Wtint hnve I to do with them Verily Mammon-worship is a melancholy creed. When Cnm, for his own hphoof. had killed Abel, and was questioned, 'Where is thy he, loo, 'made answer: 'Am I my brothers Did I not pay my brother his wages, the thing he bad merited from me? sumptuous Merchant-Prince, illustrious ganie-preservirlg Duke, is there no way of 'killing' thy brother but Cain's rude way! "(Inn of Dr.

Alison's Scotch facts struck us much. A poor Irish widow, her husband having died in one of tne Innta nf Kdinhurch. went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the charitable estab- lilmipnr of that citv. At this char itable establishment and then at that she ni refused referred from one to the nthpr helned bv none: till she had ex hausted them all; till her strength and heart, failed her: she sank down in typhus fever; died, and infected her lane with fever, so that 'seventeen pother per sons' died of fever there in consequence. The humane physician asks thereupon, as with a heart too full for speaking, would it not have been 'economy' to help this poor widow? She took typhus-fever, and l-illnil' aaventnen of von! Verv CUHOIIS.

Tbe forlorn Irish widow applies to her fellow-creatures, as if saying, rscBoia nrn ainkimr. bare of helD: VC must help me! I am your sister, bone of your bone; one God made ns: ye must ncip Thev answer. 'No. impossible: thou art no sister of But she proves her sisterhood; her typnus-tever sins them; they actually were her brothers, though denying it! Had human creature ever to go lower for a proof?" It Is said that vegetarianism is increasing rapidly in the United States. This increase is probably largely due to tbe light that has been shed upon the business methods of the Beef Trust within the Inst two years.

The sickening revelations concerning the Beef Trust output from the Chicago stockyards and canning houses undoubtedly created a great loathing for Beef Trust meats, ond aithongh some of the evils exposed were remedied by law, still we have Senator Beveridge's word for It thnt jt Is impossible for a purchaser of any of the Beejf Trust canned stuff to tell whether it was canned one year or five years ago. The American Humane Association is diffusing fresh information relative to the Beef Trust business. The association is circulating Information from Federal sources showing the infamous abase of live stock while in the course of transportation. In 1906, Congress enacted a law providing that live stock should not be carried on a railroad longer ithan twenty-eight hours without being supplied with water and food. That is to say Congress thought that sheep, lambs, steers, calves and bogs, could get along comfortably for twenty-eight honrs without food on water while crowded into filthy cars.

In a statement mode by George P. McCabe, "Solicitor, Department of Agri culture, Washington, D. he declares that even this wretched twenty-eight hour law intended to protect live stock from the tortures ot thirst and hunger, Is not being obeyed by the railroads; that ways for evadipg the provisions of the law hare been found. He declares that in many cases cattle have been confined in crowded cars and deprived of food and water for from thirty hours to fifty-nine hoursl "An analysis "of the cases now pend ing against the different railroads of the United States for alleged violations of the Twenty-eight Hour law shows," says Mr. McCnbe, "(hot, as a rule, the defendants have 'kept stock on the rail without water, rest and feeding well over the statutory period.

In a block of forty two cases agalpst one road tbe time of confinement varied from thirty hours to fifty-seven honrs, and the average con finement without water, rest and feed was forty-two hours. Twenty-four cases are pending against another road, and In those tbe period of confinement varied from thirty-eight hours to average confinement without water, rest and feed being thirty-nine hours. In a block of twenty-two cases Against another road, stock were con fined from thirty-three to forty-five hours, the average confinement without water, rest and feed being thirty-nine hours. In a group of twenty cases against another road, the period of con finement varies from thirty-three honrs to fifty-eight hours, the average time of confinement without water, rest ind feed being forty-four hours. There are ope Independent et Rings Social, Political or 4 'Fingy" Connera Under Disoust aion Why the Demotratlo National Convention Would Manifest Imbecility by Taking Political Advise from Colonel Guffy, of tho Oil Trust, and Alton B.

Parker, of the Political Morgue Men Who Have Gone to a Cemetery for a Campaign Issue A Grim Menace to Taft's Candidacy Corporation Kings Flaying with Fire A Sinister Threat Recalled Great Numbers of Men and Women employed Why Vegetarianism la Increasing in This Country Due Largely to 'j Light Thrown Upon Nasty and Cruel Beef Trust Methods-Live Stock Deprived of Food and Water for Two Consecu- tive Days. Two Democrats meeting on Montague street, engaged in a discussion of the prominence of William J. Conners, of liiifTtilo, in the councils of the Democratic party. They agreed that it would not help Mr. Bryan's cnrflidacy to have Mr.

Conners at the head of the New York State Democratic Committee. "It's too hnd that 'Fingy' is at the head of the committee," one Democrat. "I sec that the son of a Brooklyn judge has died in Paris of a stroke of paralysis. Now, if Conners were to have a stroke then the speaker paused and smiled suggestively. "One stroke would not serve," said the second Democrat.

"It jyould require at least Ihree or four strokes to be effective and each made with an axe." At the Republican National Conven tion all of the delegates in the pay of the predatory corporations either as lawyers or legislative agents, were busy before nominations were made declaring that (lie country was tired of agitation and that It wanted stability, quietness, a return to prosperity nnd an abandonment of the Roosevelt policies. But the convention indorsed the Roosevelt policies. Out In Denver, CVdonel Guffey, the Standard Oil Company's political representative in Pennsylvania, has talked in the same strain as the agents of the corporations talked at the Chicago convention. And furthermore, Colonel Guffey is quoted as saying: "There are a lot of uniustructed delegates in the convention, you must remember, and if Bryan is nominated it will be only after a tight." M'hrn Parker was nominated In 1904 Guftej and ail the Democratic agent ot the cerporntlons In Louis Instated that the ex -Judge's name ahould head the ticket because ho wna a "conservative," Juat the kind of man to lend the Democratic party to success and to restore the country to a condition of tranquility. country Parker and Ills corporation Democratic associate out of Ha mouth and elected Kooee-vclt by a phenomenal plurality.

Under the circumstances It la gross Impudence for Guffey, Parker, Sheehan and their Ilk to dare to telt Democrats whom tbey should nominate. Gnffey comes from Pennsylvania, a Htate which cast the following vote, for President In 1904: For Parker (Guifey'a candidate) (37,998 For Roosevelt 840,949 Plurality for Roosevelt 518,981 Parker and are leaders of the anti-Bryan forces In thla State, the State whlrh In 1904 cast the following vote for President: For Parker (Hlieehan's candidate) 683.081 For Roosevelt, Plnrnlity for Roosevelt For tho National Demorratlo Convention to accept the advice of Messrs. Parker and Sheehan would be a confession of imbecility by the delegates. Parker nnd Slirplmn are simply political ghosts, denizens of a political graveyard, freshly demonstrated by the fact that they have tried to make of a cemetery a political Issue. There arc very many thousands of men nnd vgamen out of employment in this country, not tramps and hoboes, but men and women not only willing but anxious to work.

Speaking of this fact the manager of ohe of the large places of amusement at Coney Island said to "Mul" one day last week: "Gmat crowds of people come to the island every hot day, but they are not spending money as they did last year. They walk around and take in the free shows but they flo not buy much. Many of the places which employed large forced of waiters in previous years have largely reduced their working forces this year. I know one hotel proprietor who said that on Sunday last, when there were over 350,000 people nt the island, his receipts were per cent, less than those of a Sunday last year, when smaller crowd was nt the -beach. It looks to me as if the workingman and his family had less money this year than he had last year.

If this sort of thing keeps up until Election Day it may cause a big chnnge in voting sentiment." One of the officers of a carpenters' labor union said to the writer: "TJnless there shall be a great revival of business before next November, I think that a good ninny votes will be cast for the Democratic candidate for President that would otherwte be cast for Taft. You know that It is the dispositionvery often the practice of people to hold the Government responsible for hard times. In the carpenter trade many men who were employed this time last year are now idle. It's a bad sign when carpenters fail to pay their dues to the labor unions, and that is what many of them have done this year. I henr the anme renort from other trades.

Lrge numbers of unemployed workitig- men have been eating up their little savings. If they do not get employment before next fnll they will naturally feel resentful and say, as they have said In previous hard times: 'The party in power is responsible for bad conditions of business. It is time for a change of government nnd we can't be worse off -than we ore if we change While It Is true that the money kings of Wall street, the magnntes of High Finance, the heads of predatory corporations, and reckless speculators are the ones really responsible for bad business conditions, nevertheless there seems to be a growing inclination on the part of those who have been hit hard by business depression to hold the Federal Administration responsible. Then, again, It Is quite likely that if the money kings continue to reduce the running expenses of THE CLEVELAND RESOLUTIONS. The resolutions to be offered at Denver in reference to the late President Cleveland will not be drawn In terms to please the enemies of Bryan.

It will be found entirely practicable to pay a handsome, tribute to the -memory of the Jjft Democratic occupant of the White House, without offering an insult, by imiendo, to the present leader of 4.be party. Even Judge Parker, who' was represented as resolved to place before the convention the offensive euloglum, Is reported to be willing to accept such changes in the phraseology of the document as may be needed to render it unobjectionable. The Judge, it is to be presumed', was rather a victim of the plot than a contributor to it. Because he was hostile to the nomination of Bryan, and felt sore over his own defeat four years ago, it was taken for granted by the mischief makers that he would be eager to do anything likely to create dissension in the convention. It must, however, be said that, while the plotters who lacked even the decency to refrain from mingling factional hatred with the tears of sorrow, would hardly have ventured to name Judge Parker as the champion of their odious cause, had he not been much less circumspect than became him for several months past, in evincing antagonism to the prevailing sentiment of tho He.

is embarrassed now, not because of anything that any friend of Bryan has done, hut wholly because of the unwary manner in which he has permitted himself to be identified with the schemes of men who desire to disrupt the Democratic party. The effect, however, of the conspiracy in question has been quite the reverse, Vf what was intended. It has directed the attention of every Demo crat to the fact that there is practically nothing in the opposition to Bryan except what is designed to Improve the prospects of Mr. Taft. With this much made clear, it will be comparatively easy for the main body of the delegates, whose loyalty to the party is not in the least doubtful, to protect the.

convention from any premeditated demonstrations against cither the ticket or the platform. Had t. conspirators been a little more self-rstitrained, either in the preparation of their manifesto or in the comments made upon it at their instigation in the papers subject to their control, the way might have been left open for the doing of considerable crooked work in the committees, if not on the main floor. Animated as the supporters of Mr. Bryan are by a most generous disposition toward all the honest elements in the party, they might easily have gone too far in trusting the honor of men.

without honor, had they not been put upon their guard by the premature publication of -the text of the resolO tions which Judge Parker so Inconsiderately pledged himself to introduce. VICE-PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES. The name of Judge Gaynor still figures prominently in the list of Vice-Presidential possibilities at and it is risking nothing to say that if His Honor were willing to accept the nomination he would be supported by every delegate from the State of New York. As it is, however, there Is no evidence that ho has changed his mind on the subject, 'and it is only a few davs since he informed the public that he had no intention of resigning bis position on the bench for any reason whatever. It is indeed said in the dispatches to one of our contemporaries, that before Mr.

Murphy of Tammany i went West he had an interview with Judge Gaynor and obtained his promise tt accept the nomination if the convention so desired, and further that Judge Gaynor communicated this Important piece of information to Senator Mc-Carren. But the story stands much In need of confirmation. That Judge Gaynor would commit himself to Mr. without consulting either Bryan or the supporters of the latter In Brooklyn, is highly Improbable. Were the Judge inexperienced in politics, he might fall into an error of this kind, but he is not inexperienced.

He knows well what Is both proper and practical. Moreover, he Is very cau tious, and would be unlikely to take a step which, if he were nominated, might put him at a disadvantage In his own county. WHY WALL STREET LIKES TAFT. We are Informed by our sprightly contemporary, the "Sun," that Taft, the Republican candidate for President, weighs two hundred ninety- seven and a half pounds. This Is go Ing some, but there Is nothing In the columns of the "Sun" to Indicate that the Immensity of Mr.

Jaft is regard' cd in that quarter as In an way unfit ting him for the Presidency Tlrls Is all the more singular, as In times past the "Sun" seemed to have a horror of fat Presidential candidates. One of Its reasons for opposing the late Grover Cleveland ias the fact that he wore an eighteen Inch collar, and even before that. In the campaign of 1880, It contemptuously dismissed GcpeTar. Hancock's pretensions to he Presidency with the celebrated 8efr tence: "He Is a good man and weighs two Eundred pounds." We have cudgelled our bralni to solve the mystery of the "Sun's" sup' port of a three-hundred-pound candl 20 RAGES. SUNDAY.

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BRYAN AND THE PLATFORM. Ijo closer the delegates to Denver get tofce work ot making the r.on.ina-tlon, the uibre evident it becomes that the party is almost unanimously ir favor of Bryan. There may be sdThej complimentary votes for Judge Gvuj and Governor Johnson, but unless all the 'newspaper correspondents are in error, there is no opposition of any Importance to the favorite son of Nebraska. According to the latest statements, it is highly probably that more than eight hundred out of the one thousand delegates "Jvill record themselves for Bryan on the lirst rou- and that the remainder win change their votes to bis fide before the call is completed, so that there will be, formally, but one ballot taken. There is thus no other question of moment to be settled but that of the platform, and we see no reason, not the least, for thinking that any trou-1 ble will arise in connection with it.

i Except as opinions may differ oyer the terms of the anUnjunctions plank. 1 there Is small likelihood of any marked i divergence of judgment as to what the -sTiarty had better declare for. But even as to the anti-injunction plank there I has been no suggestion' made of any 'i advance upon the position assumed olphfc vears ago. nor any that would po further than President Roosevelt I has repeatedly urged the Republican party to go. Mr.

Gompers and some J. other labor leaders would, of course. 1 like' trT obtain a much more radical ut terance, but they will not be gratified. Democratic party is not going to make any special bid for the labor vote, and just as little is It going to turn aside from its consistent path out of respect to any so-called conservative 1 There Is talk about opposition to some possible declaration in favor of the public ownership of railroads, but it is all talk, and talk, too, of the kind circulated by tho enemies of the party As Mr. Bryan has over and over again explained, the question for the Amer- lean people at the present time is not at all that of owning the railroads, but whplly that of subjecting them to proper There is therefore nothing in this relation for Democrats to quarrel about, and the same may be said about the proposition to have the railroads properly valued to the end that the reasonableness of their charges may be ascertained In a business-like way.

i Why it should be deemed a piece of dangerous radicalism to that the valuo of the various railroad properties doing an interstate business Bhall he as the values of the city railroads ot New York have recently been ascertained by tho State commission appointed by Governor Hughes, Is more than any ordinary mind, can understand. As matter of fact, there has been nothing proposed by Mr. Bryan or any one close to him In this relation that docs not com- mend Itself to the mind of every person who has nothing to gain by dis- honesty. In regard to the tariff, the proposed Income tax, the jiving of a Federal guarantee to depositors In national tanks, so that all fear of loss by mis management will be made an end of, and the publication of all subscrip tions above a trifling amount to the campaign chest of any political party, there Is surely no room for dissension The obvious fact is that the party has never since the days of the Civil War been less disturbed than at present by rival and the Indications Repairs Reduce Facilities to Shuttle-Train Size. BRIDGE DEPT.

IS BLAMED. Bad Crash Among the Early Coney Island Travelers as Result, Those desirous of boarding through trains from Brooklyn Bridge to points on Long Island during the early morning hours yesterday, were disappointed. single shuttle train was run into the Manhattan terminal at none too frequent Intervals, and the hundreds of persons waiting on the platforms were compelled to crowd into this lone public carrier inx order to get across the bridge and find the trains they wanted on the other side. As a result of this inadequate arrangements there was a fright fnl crush on the Manhattan end of the bridge. The thou sands starting from Coney Island and other resorts had their tempers ruffled right at the beginning of the holiday.

There was a mad rush to get aboard every time the shuttle train pulled into Manhattan, and the bridgemea and police were entirely unable to maintain anything like order. The same condition prevailed at the. Brooklyn end of the bridge, where every one was compelled to transfer. With untoward forethought the Fourth of July had been selected as an opportune day to make repairs on the elevated tracks nt the Brooklyn terminal. This shut off the through service and caused all the trouble.

Shortly nfter lfli o'clock the regular service was resumed. Officers of the H. R. T. declaimed all responsibility for the condition of affairs earlier in the day.

It was explained that the Bridge Department hadd taken the northbound tracks away from the company at i) o'clock Friday night to make the repairs, promising that the tracks would be ready again for the operation early in the morning. A long wait ensued each time tho shut-) tie train came in and loaded up. In took some time' to pack the nomast freight in such a way as to occupy every inch of space. Passengers were jllowed, to climb over the car gates after they were closed order to utilize the space which was needed first to close them. Of course, they had to climb over them again before they could be opened at the other end of the bridge.

Policemen rode back and forth on the shuttle trains in an effort to maintain Whatever dignity their presence would lend to the "maddening crowd." Thomas Kent, nn elderly policeman of the East 104th street station, stood at the head of the first runway which empties on the Manhattan and steered the incoming crowd toward the local train. Kent had his hands (full. He was constantly Surrounded and jostled by an irate crowd, demanding through trains to every old place. "It is the custom to take holidays and Sundays for repairs," said Kent, "but whoeven got the fanciful idea that the Fourth was a proper day for jmeh thmgs had no respect for citizeng OT policemen either." The Bridge.Dcpartment Is laying Iron girders under the crossties to support the tracks in place of the old wooden beams. The new girders run parallel tonthe bridge.

Most of the work so. far had been done at night. ROBBERS GET $180,000. Ruaalan Bandits Hold Up a Train Wear Ufa and Make Theli Get-Away. SAFAItA.

Russia, July 4. Four robbers attacked two cashiers of Satinslc Iron Works aboard the train running between Ufa and Ziatousk to-day nnd took from them a bog containing $180,000. Covering the passengers with revolvers, the robbers set the brakes, brought the train to a stop nnd jumped off. Vot un-, til they had started for the hills with their booty did the "passengers master up enough courage to fire upon them. None of the shots, however, took effect The robbery was carefully planned.

The quartet entered the train at Ufa as passengers and were not suspected until their attack on the two cashiers. Tha passengers were cowed by two of the robbers, while the other two attended to the cashiers. JAPS SPREADING DISCONTENT I. Now Spreading to the Philip pi: rillpinos Predicting an Uprising. HONG KONG.

July la every indication that, the discontent that is affecting the native races in the Far East is under the encouragement of the Jap anese, spreading to the Philippines. During the Inst six months the, nnti-Amerl can feeling In tbe Philippines' has become more Intense. A party of Filipinos arrived here few days ago and opened negotiations with the skippers of several tramp steamers In the port. The authorities became suspicious that "gun running" was and when the Investigation was pressed the Filipinos separated and went to Macao and Canton. Two of carrying French rifles, have also disappeared.

Filipinos here are opposed to a rising in the Philippines, but they say that cue is sure to come. JUMPED FROM MOVING CAR. Frank Halsmachcr, 14 years old, of 11)7 St. Nicholas avenue, in jumping yesterday afternoon from a 'DeKalb avenue car In I'arkside avenue, fell and received a probable fracture of his left srm. He wns attended by Dr.

Woodward of. the Counly Iiosultal. tain region of Connecticut and adja- Malne Republicans have nominated a Slate ticket on a platform that calls for the continuation of what is known as the Prohibition- policy; which means that pocket-flask and corkscrew will remain as part of the traveler's outfit, and every man will be his own barkeeper. Everybody knows now that Prohibition does not prohibit. POLITICAL AND OTHER COMMENT Railroads Restoring Salnrlea.

Traffic on the railroads is cciting sol nenr the normal thnt there is tin end to talk of nny reduction in the v.ii;es of Salaries that were reduced early in sprinc lire heina restored. The number of idle freight cars is hoiiiR reduced many thousands every week and ns harvesting in the West pronresws there prohnblv will be very lillle serviceable rolling stock not in commission. Newburg News (Rep.) Want a River Through This State. Discrimination against the port of New York in the matter of (Train shipments and me recent diversion ot immense freight traffic to Montreal, musing half do7.en of the freight steamers of the While Star Line to he taken off the New York and Liverpool service, emphasize the importance of ennnls as a means of transportnlin if the commercial supremacy, of New Y'ork is to he maintained. The new Cnnndlan canals over which the products of the Great Northwest may be shipped' ivitho'it breaking hulk to Montreal, and at rates cheaper than by the old route to New Y'ork City, are nlrendy having their effect, and most likely Canada will benefit greasy by its foresight in constructing these great waterways, Jwhich insures the Dominion, for years tc come, business and traffic which, under other circiimstnncen, would he enjoyed by this and other States.

Albany Argus (Dem.) The Cost of Living. A newspaper man who has been making a leisurely journey to Denver says that he hits found on the way much dissatisfaction with existing conditions; that the chief complaint is the increased tost of living fact which may have a telling effect on the November election. It certainly should have a telling effect. Why not? Buffalo Courier (Dem.) And Onr State CanaL Do canals pay? Last year the Suez waterway had a total revenue of and paid a 28 per cent, dividend to stockholders. And that in the face of a reduction of rates as compared with previous charges.

The canal is a big convenience to the world, and patrons are mighty glad to make proper return for the privileges. It is easy to foreshadow the general financial result when the Panama shortcut shall be completed. Troy Times (Rep.) Dogs Not Mad, but Angry. Too often canines are irritated and annoyed by children until in resentment they attack and bile the entise of the offense. At once there is raised "'the cry of "Mad Dti." mid demand made for tho instant killing of the poor beast who was acting in self-defense.

If parents would restrain their children from annoying dogs, or better yet, keep them away from the animals, the danger of attack would be avoided. Common sense with relation to dogs is needed. A little more display of it will minimize the number of persons bitten and avert the unnecessary killing of innocent canines. Schenectady Union (Rep.) New York's Honeit Elections. One of the profitable consequences of the recount of the ballots in the New Y'ork Mayoralty election of lfHVi, aside from the extinction of Hearst in the role of a martyr, is the vindication of the honesty and substantial accuracy of the counting of votes in the metropolis.

Rochester Herald (Dem.) Highland Park, Jamaica. Jamaica has eause for much satisfaction over the rmssage by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the res olution to place Highland Park on the official map and to authorize the city to accept a deed of gift of the property. It wan fifteen years ago thnt the Highland Park Society was organized and incorporated for the purpose of making a park of some six acres and more of property in the vicinity of Highland and Clinton avenues. It is a demonstration oT the wisdom of the members of the Highland Park Society thnt the park property, costing originally $3,000, is now worth more than ten times that amount. It is also shown by the fact that they believed that since the pnrk was for the use and benefit of the public It rhould belong to the city and be maintained by it.

The society will prob ably now pass out of existence, but it leaves a rich and lasting legacy which will be a constant reminder of its generosity. Jamaica Dispatch. (Ind.) A Question for the G. O. P.

Althought the purchasing, power of the working people has been heavily reduced, the Beef Trust is nskinir more than ever for meat, the Coal Trust demands at least as mneh as ever for its coal. What't the matter? This id a qnestion which will be asked the party in power with increasing persistence Ss the campaign progresses. Lockport Union-Sun (Dem.) Unnatural Conditions Confront Us. The worst part of the situation Is that every necessity of life is abnormally dear. No sooner did it become hard lor work- ingmen to get in even half time than the Most rust raised the price of nieiitH, Flour much dearer than the times warrant, and.

although vegetables are plenti fill, they are as dear as last year. Con ft ion a are unnatural. There must be a change, mousand out of work and everything to eat.dearer than ever; money going begging and the wealthy closing their lactones; tnese are the unnatural conditions that confront us. Albany templatlng. If re-elected to the place they are said to have abused, they are satisfied, and will look for another when their second term expires.

Weyltr, however, Is seeking vindication Ty a book he Is writing. It will be ready for publication, perhaps, I by next year. His memoirs, it is called at present; and its purpose is, of course, to show to the world at large that he was unjustly accused of brutality In his dealing with the insurrectionists of Cuba, and that his methods were the only ones that could be effectual in maintaining order among such a people. If he succeeds in any degree in redeeming the reputation lost In Cuba. It will be because of the calming influence of time and the experience of the United States of America in dealing with the same people, and with another in the far off Philippines as difficult to handle as those of Cuba, both as impatient of government by another as they are incapable of self-government.

And Weyler has done well to wait In his attempt to vindicate his course In Cuba until this time. It was that which stirred up the people of this country to the fighting point before the blowing up of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor capped the climax; and our judgment Weyler in 1909 is to be tempered by our experience with the Cubans since 1897 and 1898. Force they understand better than anything else, and tlfere is a well grounded opinion here that It Is the only thing we can offer the Cubans today to reconcile them to an honest and fair election for the choice of a new Government or to keep them from cutting each other's throats when the polls are closed and the result announced. THE WILSON POISONING CASE. the police theory, as given out, that William H.

Wilson, long known as "Dr." Wilson, though his real name was W7Ilhelm Freihoff, of German origin of was poisoned by a man who had a grudge against him, he substantiated, it will relieve the Dr's. wife of the suspicion that she did the poi soningunless it should be assumed that she had a man confederate, and both were animated by an Intense desire to get rid of him. Nobody, Indeed, suspects the wife, except perhaps the police; for, the theory that the deed was done by a man on the outside, and not by the woman on the inside, is apparently confirmed by the finding of one Fred. Buckman, an employee of the local express company when the package for Wilson came In on June 23d, but now with the Union Transfer Company in Atlantic City, and his explicit statement describing the man who brought it-in. The letters received by the Coroner from a person who mailed one In Bristol, June 27 at 6:30 p.

and the other in Boston, June 29, at 9 a. stating that he poisoned Wilson are supposed to have been sent by a man who has left for parts unknown, but may be the work of one of those cranks who always Intervene in such cases; or, more likely, designed to mystify the police, who are mystified enough already. AN INTERB ROUGH SUGGESTION REJECTED. The Public Service Commission, acting upon the recommendation of Its acting chief engineer, Mr. Rice, has rejected the suggestion of an organization calling itself the United Bor oughs Transit Association, to substitute four additional tracks In Flat- bush avenue for the Ashland place sec tion of the Fourth Avenue The suggestion was made with a view of establishing a connection be tween the Fourth Avenue anil the Bat tery tunnel of the In terborough.

Mr. Rice In his report says that the idea Is one that would naturally occur to laymen, but it Involves such costly and Intricate engineering as to practically put It out of the question. In addition he directs attention to the feasibility of making' the connection suggested without sacrifice of the Fourth Avenije Subway as an independent through trunk line. In building the: Brooklyn extension of the Manhattan-Bronx subway, two short extra tracks were put In to provide for a possible connection with the Fourth Avenue Subway, and Mr, Rice believes that the consent of the Interborough to the use of these tracks could be had without difficulty. On her trip, from: the Bremerton ravy Yard In Paget Sound, Washlng- to San battleship I'ress-Kuickeruocker Una.).