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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. V'EDNESDAY. MARCH 23. 1001.

Views of Eagle Readers on Public Questions Expressed in Letters 12 I HEBE, YOTJ VACCINATORS, NEGRO WOMEN'S MISSION JEFFERSON ON WINE. SAYS PROMISES WERE BROKEN. or otherwise prevented from registering. AH such registries could be verified the same as haw i A L' -nihl trav nal aura'- eomrahat of a reminder of that hsht I had urn. tn one oth abiert ass the next t'-iture I ww this same liKht thuugh not nearly clearly; but after gaz-j ing me time in blank, pleased wonder, it h'uiiKht me a nervous auccstion as of somp presense arcomn.inyinit the lisht.

lliat in almost and in-lctd truiy tubbing anx-ii-tv. luned to fold the earnest living presence la lis arms and protect Dim: and this eiiug rlii.iK with rue ever since, and grew stronger and stronger, and I had several fol- lowing experiences of pondering, and ner- vi-usiy walking tne tlror wltnout realizing it. the worrying being checked only by that old asurance that "heaven takes care of Its own:" until 1 concluded that my peace of mind would be better assured by keeping out uf contact with the cause of Its disturbance. This is not romance, ner fanaiiclpm. nor trau'1- nor dlunw' talk" because I ara not a me.lium; nor do I see now the ap- pearanr, of whicb at the time I could in no way account, could nave oeen purely a product of ruy Imagination which.

t. speak candidly. I would not for an Instant trust, as I know- it to be nervous and rest- ess, more or less vivid, and only with per sietent difficulty kept under control by my r. ason and til. This last frar.fc.nofs.

however, though it seemed necessary to the absolute truth, unless met with in the same spirit of unprejudiced questioning I fear will h-- apt to throw me open to a broadcast critical accusation of nelf-rondemnation." TRUTH. Brooklyn, March 1. NO RELIEF FROM NIC CLELLAN. Mr. Flaherty Doss Not Expect Improve-I ment ac the Bridge in the Next Two Years.

UNIFICATION CALLED FOR Flatbuf Makes a Tew Remarks on the Existing Political Situation. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Easle: Is it not due the of this t) as well as all ituens to know exactly why cx-Judjte Haggcriy was so sum- dtl-U'V COlumiSfrlontT of! he as as HaenilJ and ao.l it should nliv he ill 1 not havi' as much tho.e influcnilii to survive as under-i ai attractive Moors. As 1 'h Mr. Hiigiirty a appoints! tnroua iee ui 1'immanj. i aucoe-sor will oe in ran syrnimiuy na orsaui'ai am: the municipal a-lmiu- i i a matter of piliue.

Jllil SullUOU have been sug- These tore cellent men and of iuem Miuld police commissioner nike choice deputy praciiral solu- Hon til Jtnomu-ss count as tn uv by iho selection of either r. rivf.i no' S-'hcvlin l'n rick Hayes or Frank 1). ivr.nier. unfa lo avoid luriher unraiiea tor or criticism, let the new man be too conspicuous during me Piisl cartumien and one wno is pot -nut, up or 'encouraging dissension in the part we are on the eve of a most im-toriiicl election let there be unification strong Dcntocrais. FLATBUSH DEMOCRAT.

B'ooklyn, March In. ir4. PHENOMENON OF THE DOUBLE. Cdd Experience of a Correspondent Who Put a Popular Lecturer ou a Spiritual Pedestal. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Your recent review of the scientific work translated from the French.

-Evidence for a future Wo," In which you speak of the "phenomenon of-the double." has given me au impetus, how far advising I don't know, to offer a personal experience Boinewhat relative to the same subject, or at least to what science appears to corroborate "psychic rt-aseareh" and even theosophical study, in calling the "personal aura." A -popular lecturer In one of our largo cities bad impressed me not so much with the leauti'ul and harmonious and yet pathetically dangerous blending of spirit and "intellect" and sense, of his unique personality, whkh was a study in itself, as with his remarkable gift which, having an attractive superficial outward aspect of powerful intellectuality, keenly thrust upon one the Uiit of Its actual intuitional source, and tLst lite seeming extraordinary mentality was far morn definitely a condition of negative receptivity than of positive assertion, and the laborious mathematical calculation tnora definitely waves and flashes of spiritual Impression, upon a nature harmoniously cttunsd to and in affinity with such high sphere of thought. And the strong feeling preyed upon me in spite of tho growing conviction that the philosopher himself, an ardent and Inspiring messenger of the divine supremacy of man's "Intellect," and apparently holding the subservient mission and the possible misleading channel ot his intuition, would probably be sightless to the sincere reverential spirit of my thought and scorn it as unapprectattve "fanaticism." Listening the moro interestedly and intently aB the acquaintance increased, apprehension crept into my admiration and reverence, apprehension of a dangerously underlying frailty within the beautiful character end fine spirit, like a delicate sensitive flower or glistening crystal, before me: and again and again would come before my mind, in some way dimly reflected, the central moral theme the study of an exquisitely line spirit's possibilities and failings of Marie C'orelli's "Sylvion Guidel." When the earnest lecturer was towering at the pinnacle of his sweet and dignified appreciation of the highest ideality of human living, Its esthetic seemAl dangerously outstrldlng its ethical emotion, and I felt an uncomfortable sense as of tho frail winged spirit weakly quivering there in its dizzy cloud-helglns; strongly impressing me with the likeness of the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of human nature to a symbolic wheel turning on Its axis, the tiny point that separates its final, farthest reach of idealty from its first beginning of progress speeding around the wide circumference until, its exhilaration checked an Instant too late. It has passed over the dividing line and what then? "Ah!" I thought, after all, the beauty and the wonder aud the significant sympathy ot it all is, that human nature is a frail cup for the overflow of divine inspiration! Finally I felt this deepening impression of sympathetic solicitude, "The ono thing you need is the firm protecting shield of a strong character a positive and noble spirit that will appreciate you at your strongest and weakest points to uphold you steadily on your feet, and keep you from wavering, and eldo-traeklng aud fulling by the wayside unless divlno guidance Interferes before all this cur3lng blast of public adulation!" This feeling would have become a positive distress had not 1 felt with It the soothing assurance that, "heaven takes care of its own." And I want to say here that this interest "interested" myself not a little, and afforded me some curious opportunity lor introspective character study; as. appealing to me as a "mere" man and mortal. I found this unique personality more amusingly than seriously attractive; his and tho strong and peculiar and to himself harmful magnetic atmos-nhsro surrounding him positively distnste-ful, and In fact, deepite the protest of my more aspiring self, Inducing the amused irreverent cynicism.

"Well a simple high tvpe cr strong manhood and womanhood is good for this globe. We're not vet prepared for nivels; and the worst of it Is they're so apt to become badly contaminated without appreciaiiu? the situation!" After a time, one evening while as usual abfeut-mlndedly listening rather to the lec-li-rer's spirit than to anything he was saving, I felt my gaze suddenly fascinated by tli appearance of a soft light of the most beautiful azure bino that 1 had ever before seen, er havo ever read or dreamed of like a rMftlng rain expanding and growing more mure clear about the speaker's form-until it. flosted there, in outlines like thai or tne rmon but of mucn greater dl- trensions, ann to thij right so that a small fraction of iis left portion wan hidden behind the lecturer's own body. 1 thought the gas lights must have blurred my sight 'and looked away for a few instants of rest; but when aRaia I turned toward the platform, ihcre, was the same azure cloud half enveloping the speaker, and the queer instance was thnt I noticed that It I i Kit LI moved and quivered when ho van standing still, making me feel quite sure that It. could be no unaccountable shadow of his own casting.

Then I found mvsclf forgetting all about hall and audience and eakcr, and everything except that lovely azure cloud with the dim otitllnea o' a man. and mentally exclaiming, "O-h-h-h! in't that beautiful'" And when I would come in myself and incredulously peer toward the platform with a strong impulse to lean forward in my seat to study and yet try to hold the charming hallucination, it would fade and go and come, and come and fade and go. and most annoyingly and distressingly flicker and quiver until again I would forget myself and just delightedly watch when there it was again, clearer and stiller and more bewllderingly lovely with each instant. The next day I found that first feeling of apprehension growing on me and making me so nervous that I didn't realize until I felt very tired, that I had risen and was walking tip and down the floor of my room; though I riiil not in any way connect, this already settled opinion with my strange experience of the night, before, and It was some months or weeks after this that, seeing the Eagle's review. glanced it.

over in the library and found In the author's theory of the "pct- I i i coun- i Listen to Strong Kick From Man With Children. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Of late the vaccinators of the Health Department have been carrying things with high hand In the public schools. They have literally created a panic, a reign ot terror. They "swooped" down on the schools as though they were vested with absolute authority from which parents have no ap-1 peal. They have assumed to Judge by casual examination of vaccination scars of children's arms whether or not they are duly protected, and have ordered that certain children be revaccinated.

even though they show certificates from reputable physicians that such children were successfully vaccinated by them on a certain date within one or two years. Failure to comply with these arbitrary orders Is suspension from school. ine certincates of Dhvsicians in aood standing have been repeatedly snd persistently ignored by these Health Department snlpklns. In some cases within my personal knowledge, when physicians have recently vaccinated school children, covering the place with Isinglass plaster for protection, and have provided the child with a certificate stating that he did on a certain date vaccinate said child, theso medical dabsters have deliberately pulled off the coverina ascertain, as they said whether or not the doctor lied! Who and what are these indolent medicos? No great shakes, sny way. If they were doctors of reputation and experience they would hardly be vaccinators of he Health Department for the insleniflcnnt salary paid.

Do not understand me as say- t.g that they are underpaid. Most of them surely get all they are worth. ould not the Health Department afford a separate needle for each child vaccinated? It may be economy to vaccinate several children with the same needle. Indeed, it would he more economical to vaccinate an entire school with one needle. Still further, until tho splinters or toothpicks with which the virus Is rubbed in are presumably steril ised I prefer that my children shall get their pathogenic bacteria in some less dubious way.

The teachers snd school nrinclnals are seemingly compelled to become particins criminis in this unholy raid upon the fright- enea scnooi cniiaren. Is it not time to call a halt In this matter? A. W. ADETO. BRIDGE ISSUE PARAMOUNT.

Mr. Sullivan Would Have the People of Brooklyn Organize to Obtain Their Eights. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: We looked for energetic action on the part of our new Mayor In bringing about Improved terminals for the Brooklyn Bridge. The energetic way in which he took hold of public matters on assuming office was in deed pleasing to the thousands, of people who are obliged to use the Brooklyn Bridge but he seems to have been suddenly seized with a disease that helped to destroy Mayor i.ow, tnat or "masterly inactivity. lite bridge problem could have been set tled by a positive and determined effort within two weeks after the present adminis tration took office.

If there were a desire to do so; three month3 have passed, and -we are no nearer to action, and It looks though we will get no better treatment than that accorded to us by Mayor Low. ine people of Brooklyn should take the matter into their own hands and commeuce agitating at once for the selection of candidate for Mayor at the next election who would run on a platform providing for iiuiutuiuiB runei ot tne nrooffiyn itrine. VWK.V SLLLIVAN. Brooklyn, March 16, 1904. WHAT.

ST. PATRICK DID. Generous Appreciation of One Who Was a Scholar, a Gentleman and 1 a Preacher. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: This is St. Patrick's Day; one of the glori ous days which is celebrated In every pari of the globe as well as in dear old Ireland; one of the days which will always be green as long as there is one son of Erin aive and well, for if ever a man deserved well of his country it was St.

Patrick. He not ouly converted it to Christianity, but also leit bis individuality stamped upon it, as long as Ireland will be Ireland his name will be revered as the greatest of her saints and the most blessed of her sons. There is some doubt as to the place of his nativity, but It was probably near the coast of little BriL tany in France, where he was captured by some passing pirates and sold into capUviiy in Ireland, where he was employed minding his master's flocks. He remained here about six years before he effected his escape, which he finally did and escaped to bis na tive land, France, when he entered a monastery and studied for tho sacred ministry, He was ordained a priest and soon afli went to Rome and laid before the pontiff Pope Celestine, his hopes and aspirations relating to Ireland. The venerable pontiff confirmed him in his hopes and made him first bishop of Ireland and with a few follow missionaries they started out and arrived in Ireland in tho year 432.

They landed n- whero ho had served in slavery and tlte first to receive baptism was his former master and his family, who received them with every manifestation of delight. After which they departed on foot for Dublin, tho capital city of Ireland. Tho andrigh or chief king and all the petty kings and chiefs as well as the Druids or prlesls were assembled ta council In the halls or great tent of Tara. Here Patrick and his companions approached as tho council assembled and St. Patrick addressed the assemblage in their own tongut about the one true God and the three per sons in the trinity.

This seemed a startling truth to them which they could not under stand until Patrick stooped down and picked up a piece of clover and held It up showing them the three leaves on ono stem. This simple explanation seemed to please ihem and they readily followed him In his further views on Christianity. This was the begin ning of his preaching, which showed fruit with marvelous rapidity in the number of his conversions. It Is said that he baptized over twelve thousand himself in the space of twelve months. His mission after this was one series of sue cesses and a virtual triumph from one end of Ihe island to the other.

He established churches and monasteries for the young men as well as nunneries for the piously inclined maidens of Ireland, who led by (ho noble maiden St. Brlgiil, devoted their lives to lie educntlon ot children and works of mercy among the poor and lowly, ably bc-onding St. Patrick in his noble mission. Before his 'death, which occurred about, sixty years after, they made Ireland a veritable island of saints, and for centuries afterward the Indelible marks of his mission were seen in Ihe multitude of monasteries, convents and seats of learning, where the youth of Europe were sent to complete their education. To-day the tourist from America, Africa or Asia, as well as Europe, can see the relics of old monasteries and seals of learning scattered all over the island.

This proves that it was a center of piety and education long before other Ttarts of Europe had emerged from barbarian influences. When those who remain at home In the old land will see full light of freedom dawning on her sunburst the mission of St. Patrick wMl he remembered and ns he down from the battlements of heaven on his children assembled this day In all parts of the world, he will feel that his memory is still green as he beers the noble refrain o' Ireland's noblest hymn ascending as In-rense above the clouds. All )a to St. Pntllck.

Who liroueht to our borders The irirt nf (ioil's fslth And the light of Ills lov. i HIBERXICCS. Brooklyn. March 7. eling agents to register and vote.

A onei outline oi suco amaavn migni as follows: State of New York, County of Klnas. John ivie. otitic duly sworn, My cam la My ace ta I rcM at No. street, tlia Kleotion liirtrict of the AwemMy IMstrtel. In the Poroumi of Brooklvn.

City and State of New York, and I have resided, or will hava reaided OB election dav next emrtitna as follow: In the I'mted Mates of America years. In this state years. In Klnas County years. in the City oi New York 7'; In tha Assembly district aforesaid years. In the Election tH.trlct of Mid Assem- terahly Plmrli daj.

months or jean tas the i am may he). Voted lant from No street In the city Itown or village) tne State ot Wis 'r in the Court at Sworn to before me. Richard Uoe. Notary Public. JOHN DOE.

it- A anpnlle.ll Voters As a tact tne oim-mi In the several political party organist ons Is copied by the commissioners of ejection iot nn dav by such rrom Dianas nin-o w' voters stating their party affiliations. No i ei at ri rt objection has ever oeen iy vslld objection could be made to the commis sioners of election copying affidavits as the foregoing in the official registry lists In the city. Moreover, ir tne party worat-ra Tide each voter in their respective election districts with blank affidavits to be filled out and sworn to before a notary public or commissioner of deeds, no one should object. ha iiireiv tn lareely In- OULIl HCUlllJ crease the registry and the votes on election day as well, snd tnus secure mm --e- sion of public sentiment. I have not been able to conjure up any very fatal objections to this plan of enabling .1 A en to ropister alien voters as urn.

po 11.. t.U,.l Mnitl.ln. Iham to 1-OPIStcr aUllUUliy hiiuiohb -3 1 M. MalDlpatlnn only personalty on tuw unjo ui It wouia not uuenere wim iue pitjai-iii. oj tem of personal registration.

1 T. J11H.UUUU. Brooklyn, March 12. 1904. DANGER OF RATE WAR.

Correspondent Calls Attention to the Need of Salt Water Mains for Fire Purposes. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you let a "farmer," who Is still interested in the great Brooklyn shopping district, tell your readers what looks like a very real danger if measures are not immediately taken to increase the water supply for fire purposes? That is, the insurance supply, already insufficient for the large stores and their neighbors will be further shortened by the withdrawal of a number ot companies. I am told that Borne fool assemblyman is trying to put through a bill to break up the New York Rating Association, and also that the president of a large fire company who thinks his amour propre was injured at a recent meeting, wants to persuade some others to withdraw with him and thus probably lead to a fire insurance rate war. Well, In such event, the insurance available for what experts call "congested districts" is going to be from $30,000 to $200,000 less, for each risk, than at present, and that means curtailment of credit and serious difficulties for many enterprises. So the point is, push the new pipe scheme as hard as possible, with the salt water mains provided, the trouble anticipated would not be so serious.

EX-MERCHANT. STUNTS IN THE SCHOOLS. A Father Tells of Some Features Which He Regards as Bank Nonsense. To the Editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle: Now that the question of the absurdity of fads and faddists in our publicTschool system has begun to force itself upon some of the members of tho Board of Education, will you kindly give space in your valuable paper to these few facts? In the school where my children attend, it is a lamentable fact that but forty minutes are allowed daily for that most essential study arithmetic. Again, there are ten mill utes allowed tor spelling; another essential study, reading, is cut from the programme altogether on two days of the week.

Now comes the nonsensical part: My boy is In a mixed class. For two peri ods each week (thirty minutes each), the teacher (God help her) is required to give a double lesson. The girls are employed. my boy says, in pulling threads out of pieces of clotn. while tne boys are to make a con struction drawing of a glove' box.

a picture frame, a wall bracket or any other nonsensical thing that the drawing specialist chooses to dictate, none of which will ever be thought of or come In those children's line after they leave school. My wife is perfectly competent to teach our daughters plain sewing and plain cooking. Another and, to my mind, the most non sensical and irrational of all the fads is one called "physical culture," where children are required to do stunts of all sortsfland even to play games, in the class rooms "three deep," "relay race," "third man," tagging each other with a knotted handkerchief, passing blackboard rubbers across the room and many other equally silly things. It must be very humiliating to a stately, dignified teacher to be obliged to lead a class boys especially through some of the stunts that my boy does. I know that his mother is kept busy with her needle sewing trousers that have become ripped in the stunts.

Now, from a taxpayer's point of view: Consider the expense connected with each of these. The drawing calls for colored crayon, water color outfits, charcoal, extra pencils, compasses, erasers, two or three kinds of drawing paper and large salaries for specialists who go to the schools, not to teach drawing to the children, but to criticise the efforts of the class teacher. Then the sewing teacher has her supplies of muslin, toweling, gingham, thread, needles, thimbles and other things too numerous to mention. Then come the cooking specialists, with their array of pots and pans, kettles and tongs, to show our girls how to'boil a potato. And the physical culture specialists, with their wands, dumbbells, Indian clubs and what not to develop our boys.

Each of these specialists receives a salary greater than the class teacher, who does their work. If the poor, overtaxed class teacher stays at home a day, or comes late by reason of a trolley tie-up or something else which she cannot control, she loses her pay, for economy's sake; but what about, the vast sums of money that are expended yearly for all the things? I consider it a reflection upon the women and mothers of New York City that they have to send their girls to school to be taught how to boil a potato or hem a towel. It is high time that the taxpayers woke up and demand from the Board of Education an accounting of the misspent school time of their children. Teach our children the three Rs and our wives will do the rest. A TAXPAYER.

Brooklyn, March 11. 1904. PROFESSOR GOODYEAR'S LECTURE. An unusually large number of extremely fine photographs wero used in Illustrating a lecture at the Art Gallery last evening, on "The Discovery of Vertical Curves and Other Architectural Refinements In the Gothic Cathedrals of Northern France." by Professor William H. Goodyear, A.

curator of the fine arts at the museum, before the departments of fine arts and architecture of the Brooklyn Institute. In it he set forth some of the resutls of his discoveries last summer, prefacing it by an epitome of similar ohservai ions from ltoH, at which time English architect studied Ihe lines of Greek temples and accurnto modern observation of early arcitUeciuial forms began. Opposed Taxing It, as legislation to Compel People to lake to Strong Drink. i To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In view of the present excise agitation and the failure of most of the excise laws to produce the effects for which they were designed, especially the Haines law snd Army anti-canteen, it Is of interest to consult the opinion of our great exponent of democracy, Thomas Jefferson, aa evidenced by his following letter, written to M. deNeuville in IMS.

"I rejoice as a moralist at the prospect of a reduction ot the duties of wine by our national Legislature. It is an error to view a tax on liquor, as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens and a con demnation of them to the poison ot whisky which is desolating their homes. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage, li is in truth the ouly antidote to the bane of whisky. Fix once the duty at the rate of olher merchandise, and we can drink wine as cheap as we do grog, and who will not prefer it'f Its extended use will carry health and comfort to a much enlarged circle, everyone in easy circumstances las the bulk of our citizens are) will prefer It to the poison to which they are now driven by their government, and the treasury itself will find that a penny apiece from a dozen is more than a groat from a single one.

This reformation, however, ill require time. Our merchants know nothing of the Infinite variety of cheap and good wines to be had In Europe, and particularly in France. Italy and the Grecian Islands." It is clear from the foregoing letter that Mr. Jefferson, although not favoring liquors, did. like the great founder of the Chrisian religion, believe in the use of wine as a beverage, also that it should be cheap.

That in order to accomplish this, the duties and revenues should be reduced to the plane of other merchandise. If this be the proper view, why should not measures be taken to put such plan in operation? Since the great majority of our people are resolved lo Indulge in Rome alcoholic drink, either liquors, beers or wines, and the liquors being strongly alcoholic, while the wines snd beers relatively weak, and as many persons for various reasons cannot drink beers, they are therefore driven by necessity to liquors, whereas if the wines wore so cheapened, such non-beer drinkers could indulge in the wines. To-day, owing to tho prevailing duties, revenues, the price of wholesome wines is such as to preclude its steady use as beverage by the majority of our people. Furthermore, the use of wine Is to-day sancioned by the church, as Indicated by their communion service. Therefore, the moral aspects of the mat ier are confirmed.

F. HOWARD COLLINS. Manhattan, March 12. 1904. SMALL HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY.

Evert With Cleveland for President, the Party Outlook Is Not Encouraging, Correspondent Says. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Your leader of to-day, "A Crisis," ought to have an awakening power on those who continue to vote under the title of Democrats. But I do not believe that it will The political imbecilities which have been thir issues for so long a time will have their successors in 1904. It is painful to one who for many years has deemed himself old-fashioned Democrat to have conviction. In 1861-1865 the larger pact of the Demo crats actively sustained or sympathized with the great rebellion.

While that war for the I'nion was going on a Democratic general was the presidential Candidate of his party on the Issue, "The war is a failure." None but sodden Imbecility could have expected victory under so craven a war cry. Much the same sort of issue was raised under the banner of Seymour. In an interregnum of comparative san itv Cleveland was twice elected. Whii there was no imbecility in bis platforms, there was no real and substantial difference between it and that of the Republicans. The "man" was the "platform." Indeed, writers of platforms were greatly put to it to know how to draft on issue, and I still believe they failed to state any.

Twice I voted for Mr. Cleveland, and but for absence should have voted for his third candidacy- But I should vote against him if he were, a can didate now. He Is too near to the Bryan- WinBle-w imbecility of surrender to the Filipinos. Wren the imbecilities of Bryan-ism in 1S and 1DO0, with its platform of Repudiation, Surrender, Anarchy and popu lism, swallowed up the great majority of th; Democratic party, I ceased to vote under the folly tarnished banner, and as An Old-Fashiuned Democrat, did what I could twice to elect McKlnlcy, for, in both of his campaigns, he, and not Bryan, represented the great principles ot Jeffersonlan Democracy. Shortly after Mr.

McKmley second elec (ion, 1 had the honor of a brief talk with him in the Cabinet room, and said: "I con gtatulate both the country and you that once more we have a true Democrat for President." My remark and consequent ex planation appeared to please (he "well be loved" President. The uncontradictible fact is that, ever since Bryanism debauched De mocracy, no great, party except the Republic an stands for the dominant principles that guided nomocracy before toe era of lm beoilities. I see small, very small, encouragement, to hope for better things. On the contrary, in your day or mine, the outlook considered In your editorial is of a yet more duradfu blackness. God knows Bryan was bad eneugn.

but what of the unspeakable Hearst For it is said that Bryan means to out Herod llerod by nominating Hearst! Ex cept for the feeling ot shame that would dye every honest thinker, such a nomlua tion, insuring victory to Roosevelt, would be welcome to those who see In his re election a result devoutly to be wished for, For no one competent to form an intelligent opinion can doubt that the Hearst-Bryan ticket would bo turned down In resentful disgust, and that a third disgraceful defeat of "Democracy" would remit It to the con temptible darkness In which It long dwelt until Cleveland came as its Joshua to lead it f--om the wilderness. Why do you not lot your fellow Democrat know exactly the grounds of opposition to Hearst, personal and political, before it be too late? That Mr. Cleveland Is the best posslbl- Democratic nomination I do not doubt. You have proven it. Ho Is less tainted with Bryanism than Parker, Olney, Hill or Gorman, all of whom supported Bryan Parker twice voting for him, If I bo right in my belief, I can sa that very nearly every independent Demo orat who voted twice against Bryan him self will vote against any candidal who supported Bryan In 1806 or 1900, in eluding the five men I have named, unless thev express public repentance for thel support, of the Rryan Imbecilities and stand upon a platform of denunciation and a plat form or oid-tRsnioneo iemocraoy.

But. sir. even if that he done (and it wll not be, despite your efforts and mine), th- majority of the voters will see only pollev. nml not sincerity, and will vote the other ticket. Profoundly do I believe In the great desirability of tne rivalry or two great par standing upon piairorms or real prin ciples," end should glory in such a spec taele.

We will not see it in The wo'k of the Enele In the campaigns ana was tne greatest Indepeud ettt single force in achieving the victonen of MeKinley, and, unless my misgivings be so grent as to deprive me of all politien foiesicbt. the Eacle. 1004. will play the same part of noble Independence In behalf ot Kooseveii. who.

at least, is a "man free trom I he Imbecilities that won tl1 approval of Bryan and the satellites wh voteq- for Mm. As between a "tainted Democratic plat term or ennuiftate and Kooseveii, as opposin e-inniniie tint puitrorm. tnere can be no hesitancy fe.r the Palmer and Buekner men. nor for (he larger and Increasing number or llinse IndepeMd-nl ole- who sirree this DRMnrtMT nroi'klyti, March 10. 1P04.

Letter to Superintendent Smith of the B. Bu T. Complains of Alleged Ineffective Service. The following letter has been forwarded to Superintendent Smith of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company: B. F.

Smith, General Superintendent, Brook lyn Rapid Transit. Brooklyn, Dear Mr. Smith Your brother called here a month or more ago In respouse to some complaint and at the time he promised that certatn things referred to wouia oe aone. As a matter of fact, I regret exceedingly to say that these promises like many others made by your organization have not been kept. Your letters are business-like and seem to be written in good faith and personal Interviews tend to Inspire confidence in your willingness, not necessarily to do the best you can, but at least to do beter than you have done.

I am sorry to say that experience teaches me that it is foolish to confide In these Indications. Of course. 1 know that it Is too much to ask or expect that the service be improved by more trains on the elevated or by lengthening out the rush hour service as it should be and I know It is a waste of time to point out a -oren v. ays whereby the present serv ice, both on the surface and tne eievatea, could be materially Improved, but 1 should think that whoever is immediately responsible for the lax discipline, or rather, I should say, for the utter lack of discipline, and for the go-as-you-please way In which trains are started from the Brooklyn side of the bridge, would at least take sufficient personal pride in bis management to inaugurate and maintain a radical change in the present conduct of affairs. Your brother acknowledged tne utter irresponsibility of your guards and their general inefficiency on the ground tnat you uia not have sufficient work to pay for the employ ment of competent men and so had to conduct your trains with boys and dollar-a-day men, equally unfitted for the purpose.

I BUggest that it might not oe a oaa piao lo nvereome this difficulty by a Eeneral in crease In your elevated service, which would be very gratefully acRnowieogea oy yuur patrons, and by devoting a very Infinltes-lmally small part of the $20,000,000 you propose to spend for the public welfare in the hiring of permanent and efficient guard3 necessary to complete your outfit. The public is willing to make every reasonable allowance for things which your company cannot very well perform and, as I havo stated over and over again, they neither ask nor expect impossibilities, but if you were even to make an effort in the direction of doing the best you could under existing conditions the service would be so greatly improved and the people so pleased and satisfied that life in Brooklyn would be rendered tolerable thereby. Yours truly. W. W.

HALLOCH. Brooklyn, March 17, 1904. MR. BROWN SEEKS LIGHT. What Has Cleveland Done That Boose- velt Has Left Undone in Real Statesmanship? To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I am trying to decide in my own mind what claims Grover Cleveland actually has to a third term; what did he accomplish in his former administrations to cause him to be idolized, and furthermore, what Bins of omission or commission has Theodore Roosevelt been guilty of that he should be denied second term Grover Cleveland's title to his first term was clouded, Without New York state he would not have been elected.

He carried the state by only 1,100. It is a matter of common knowledge that the frauds in Gravesend and some of the river counties were sufficient to turn the scale. His administration and policies were un satisfactory, for he was defeated for re-elec tion. His second election was tne result on a free-trade hysteria as unaccountable as the free silver wave that followed it. The second administration was a record of disaster and hard timcB of only too painful memory.

His foreign policy, notably in the Venezuelan Imbroglio, was as hasty as ever was any act of Theodore Roosevelt's. The "Sale of Law" and bond syndicate scandals were as bad as the present postal scandals, except that in the bond affair the President himself was Involved. Theodore Roosevelt is opposed by Wall Street. Grover Cleveland notably played into their hands. His currency ideals -were as sound but no sounder than Theodore Roosevelt b.

On the other hand, Theodore Roosevelt is hasty because he is a lightning thinker. His Panama policy has been indorsed North and South. He is essentially a man ot action; but no act of his as yet has involved the country in doubt or uncertain ty. His every step has been a step forward. He is flghtine corruption regardless of party.

There never was a more thor oughly American President in the White House. As a matter of party government has the country ever prospered under a Demo cratlc administration? Does not history bear out the assumption tnat the Democrat ic policy has always been one of destruo tion and that of the Republican party one of construction? Why then, as an lndepend ent paper, do you advocate a change from the certain to the uncertain? Yours truly, WALTER B. BROWN, 128 Cambridge place, Brooklyn, March 8. REGISTER BY AFFIDAVIT. J.

L. Mitchell Thinks His Suggestion Would Materially Better Conditions. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In connection with the proposed efforts to better or ameud the registry and election laws applicable to this city, permit me to make a suggestion which It seems to me would surely better present conditions. Now the law requires that all voters appear per sonally before the inspectors of election on the fixed days of registration and furnish certain Information which determines their right to vote on election day, I have no doubt, because of the inconvenience which a personal registry requires, many do not vote at all and many are greatly Inconvenienced. Any person who will bo a qualified voter on election day can now register on any of the registration days even though he is not a qualified voter at tile time ho registers.

I am unable to see why any person who will be a qualified voter on election day should not bo entitled to vote If he shall file with the commissioners of election, a certuln time be fore election day, or before the first day of public registration, an affidavit which shall contain the same Identical information as now required by law. Tills blank affidavit could be secured from the commissioners or at the stationers and could be sworn to before the commissioners, or before any notary public or a commissioner of deeds. This affidavit could be filed (as before stated) a certain time before election day or before the first day of registration with the commis sioners of election. The commissioners could be required to copy theBe names and the contents of thiB affidavit In the registry list or book of the election district in the Assembly district where the affiant resides or if deemed best the duty of copying these affidavits in the official registry of the prop cr district could be performed by the in specters of election, such affidavits being nied witn tnem on tne nrst registration day together with the other supplies now required by law to be filled nt that time. The tame penalties for making a false affidavit or a false statement in an affidavit could be nxeci as now applies to any false statement mnde to the inspectors of election at the registry.

This would accoinodato thousands of voters who do not move from year to year or who are qualified voters, some of whom because of this reqlrement Ipersonal appearance at the plate of rrglslry) are deprived Of llllngelher, being Out Of tOWIl To Stop Lynching and End Jim Crow Laws; Not to Save the Heathen in Distant Lands. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Those Afro-American women who met at a certain residence a few evenings ago to talk of foreign missions in the face of the perplexing problems that confront them at home ire wasting time. For unless the Jim Crow car fever Is quarantined the chances are that the missionary desiring to lift his or her brethren on the dark continent will be able ony to travel on the hurricane deck of the ship. One little woman talked herself Into lears a she tried to urge upon ber hearers the great necessity and tbe "crying need" of more workers In the cause of uplifting "the poor benighted heathen." I wonder doesn't the heathen think the same of us? There was a time when we might ss a nation have done a good deal of effective work among the heathens, but they "are on to us now," because the devils from Christian lands have so overwhelmingly outnumbered the good people on these missions of love In Interfering with the heathen, this country has perhaps done as much ss sny other and this love for the poor heathen has not at all been sectional. That old familiar missionary hymn, "From Greenland' Icy 'was familiar to every slaveholder in the South.

One of the most eloquent and most popular divines In Cumberland County, North Carolina, before the war never prayed in church without asking the' Lord to "remember the heathln in ferin" parts. Yet that very man abetted in that law which kept tbe Bible and spelling book out of the hands of slaves. I would further inform those doae that the South has never lost interest in "the heathln in ferin parts;" that even South Carolina and Mississippi hold missionary meetings and send out workers among the heathen. But what such people can say to the heathen we'd have to call up Satan io raiiui. rrom tne tenor or that good woman's remarks the other evening the work is not seemingly tso promising ie ight be.

Yet in this enliehtened in euoh should not surprise us. Journalism especially has made such wonderfuly rapid advancement that even the king of Dahomy can keep Informed as to our doings. imagine bis majesty seated serenely beneath hie palm-leaf canopy. New York newspaper in hand, in conversation with the lord high executioner of the realm. King Lord High Executioner.

I. H. E. Live forever, Oh King (salaam. ing.) King I see by the morning paper that they have lynched another man in Alabamu cooked him, baked him.

L. H. E. It is a sad truth, Oh King. King Tore oft pieces of his flesh re ft died and threy it away more's the pity.

Why! we would have been less wasteful, would have eaten It. L. H. E. To be sure.

Oh King. King If my memory serves me right it was the presiding elder of the Methodist Church, who on the morning of the 10th of November, 1898. at a place called Wilmington, took his rifle and iolned a moh of roughs assembled just across the street from his bouse, for the purpose of killing inof-fendlng citizens. L. H.

E. Is it possible, Oh King? King While a Presbyterian divine led a mob in another section. If there be any missionaries of these denominations in the kingdom, summon them before me Immediately." There is far more pressing need of the services of the women of both races right here in our own land than In meddling with the heathen just at present. God 'will take care of the heathen, "he shall not ba beaten with few stripes." There is a rising tide against the Afro-American woman that requires all of her energies to stem. For after a lapse of forty years of freedom, a cunning enemy is seeking to convince the world that she Is less fit now to enjoy civil rights than when a slave.

The Jim Crow ear laws with other humiliating enactments which started operations in the Gulf states a few years ago have crept steadily and persistent- ly northward until Washington is In the tolls and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is waging a stubborn fight against their further advancement. The scotched snake has lifted its venomous head and is crawling again toward Canada. The old Union saviour ot the nation is cowardly retreating, apologlz ing for the victory at Appomattox by consenting to the annulment of every constitutional amendment which that victory wrought The Confederate armies have at last Boston In ihe persons of Henry W. Grady and ex-Governor Northen and tie sacred temple of Liberty which once echoed the silvery eloquence of Sumner, Phillips, Garrison and Douglass has been jarred by the rasping appeals of these Georgia orators bewailing the freedom of the slave and demanding the nation retreat snd acknowledge to the civilized world that we are a nation of crawling cowards. With both houses of Congresj Republican, the little general from South Carolina is holding up the confirmation of a federal appointment.

Following the practical repeal of ths fifteenth amendment, is the demand for return of rebel flags, the opening of trie doors of soldier homes to those who sought to destroy the government. The Grand Army man will next be asked to take off his badge and Morgan raiders and Wheeler's bushwhackers will have the honored place in Decoration Day processions. Rev. Cortland Myers said a few Sundays ago that "Duty is destiny." "But will they do it? Dare they do it?" No, not unless the women take a hand. Let negro woman cover herself with sackcloth and scatter ashes upon her head and cry aloud through the streets if need be, that Tlllmanism and Vardamanlsm are more blighting, more damning, more humiliating to womanhood that Smootism.

Say to the philanthropist that a firm stand against this Jim Crow car epidemic Is ever more essential than the endowment of colleges. The girl who walks out from Atlanta University with her diploma has the right to feel that she is of more consequence than the ignorant stupid "Dinah" who follows her mistress Into a first class car to enjoy all the comforts of travel because she is nursing a whito woman's baby, while this cultured and refined student must travel to her home from a college of high repute amid the most filthy and humiliating surroundings. It is on tho Illinois Central Railroad, ntioHe tributary runs from Chicago south Into New Orleans, that thiis Jim Crowism can be witnessed in all of its humiliating phases. Train employes of this road enter mo6t lustily into the pleasure of licensed insult and humiliation of women. Education revolutionizes.

Education refines, lifts, stimulates to high and ennobling aspirations affecting alike all human kind, and it is unfair to blight the hope and aspirations of a college bred girl, to herd her in with the low, vicious and uncouth. Show me a man or set of men who champion laws that license the humiliation of women and I will show you the most abject cowards that ever followed the advice ot Satan. "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther: Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape In the king's house more than ail the Jews." This can be the negro woman'B slogan in seeking the white woman's aid in this fight, for with one woman humbled and degraded the other is not safe. Greed for money has stifled man's nobler aspirations and caused him to barter away bis own child. Societies for the prevention of vice and for the prevention of cruelty to children In the North and West are kept busy night and day trying to stem the rising tide of traffic in white slaves women and girls bartered off for immoral purposes.

The British parliament might have delayed' tl freedom of the slaves in the West Iniies fid not the petitions with which it was urged l-ten weighted down by the names of the women of Great Britain. Woman Is the masterpiece of God's handiwork, nearer to Him than any of His creatures, and when she's aroused she can shake empires. Jim Crow cars are not tor Jim row negroes who seek no other, but they are to humble the refined and respectable. It Is a shameful sight to witness a train conductor In the South walking through a train vulgarly scrutinizing the faces of octoroons that he may insult and humiliate them. Rise, women.

In your might. There Is a battle to be fought. There Is a victory to he won. "JACK THOR.VB." Brooklyn, March 3, 1904. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Being now considered vassals, we cannot expect much from the Tammany administration, and the promises of Mayor MeClellan concerning the Improvements of the Brooklyn Bridge terminals will amount to the same as the promises of politicians generally.

The stand taken by the Eagle and Its vigorous editorials on the subject of bridge relief arc appreciated by tho people of Brooklyn. Nothing, however, will be accomplished in the way of relieving the bridge terminals until the Belmont and Metropolitan Street Railway syndicates agree upon what they want. They are the masters of the situation. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company would be in a position to give better service on the Brooklyn Bridge if tho situation at the Manhattan terminal would permit of the same. Therefore the attacks that are frequently made on this company for its poor service are unwarranted.

Those of us who are compelled to use the bridge will have to continue to face "pneumonia lane." as it looks as though It will be with us at least while this administration remains in office. A number of robust policemen died from pneumonia contracted at the bridge terminals during the last few months, and hun dreds of our people contracted sickness and disease during the same time and trom tne same causes. in any event we believe Controller Grout will continue his fight for the relief of the people of Brooklyn. J. J.

tL.AHfc.KH Brooklyn, March 1004. SAVE FOURTH AVENUE! Citizen Pleads That Beauty of Street Should Not Be Sacrificed for Subway. To the Editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle: Through the columns of the Eaglo I would like to make a protest against the despoiling of Fourth avenue for the use of the subway tunnel. Fourth avenue, as is well known, has Just completed a beautiful drive from Flatbush avenue to Sixtieth street, to connect with the Shore Road. Small parks, 200x20, planted with shrubs and trees and grass have been bunt at the expense of several hundred thousand dollars for the benefit of the whole southern section of the city, and from Washington Park to Brook-ljn Heights, down to Red Hook, all these are connected with fine asphalt roads, so that all may ride or drive to our beautiful Shore Road.

Now, before a tree or shrub has shown a bud, or a blade of grass has sprung up, on the Flatbmh avenue end it is proposed to despoil this what has Been boasted as the finest drive in the country. It is only two or three short years ago that some of these very men who want to destroy this drive were shouting themselves hoarse to have Fourth avenue improved. When it was doue tney were never done talking of what they had done nt their grand dinners with banners flying and music playing. But now here they come with a mighty roar and rush, crying, dig up our beautiful little parks; use them as shafts for air for this ditch, as they are Just the proper thing for that purpose, -end spoil forever the avenue as drive, for surely no one with common sc use would drive carriage horses along side where trains will be rushing along every lew minutes and scaring the horses into runaways, killing and injuring those they have taken out for pleasure. Let these men have their way in digging this ditch, and they will fill our houses with malaria and the deadly ills which follow that dread disease.

There will be no mistake about thi3, for I know pretty well the kind of ground they will have to dig through to at least as far as Thirty-sixth street. They tell us this subway is necessary to he buill at once, because tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit Is a detriment to the building up of their section, as they give such poor service. Well, in that case, let the people step In and take the roads from tbem by the right of Justice for the benefit of tho people; have a law passed to buy them at a liberal valuation, but to be sure and squeeze out the water that has been put in tho stock this last 20 or 30 years before buying. Allow them a good liberal interest on their money say, 6 or even 7 per cent. I bellevo it would be the best Investment Brooklyn ever mnde.

If this was done it would soon bring these railroad magnates to their senses. As it is far better for peoplo to travel in onen air and sunlifzbt. it would be far het- ter to improve the present means of traveW than to dig this subway. Why not continue the present Fifth avenue elevated out to Fort Hamilton, back of the government re- servo to Bath Beach and Bensonhurst and Coney Island? Also continue the present Fifth nvenue elevated to Fort Hamilton, and also continue it from Thirty-ninth street to Flatbush avenue. Make the Flat-bush avenue elevated a four track road to the new bridire and still connect with the old bridge.

Make it. as handsome as pos sible, not like tho dirty three-legged affair that they have now. Make It noiseless and absolutely snfe as they were compelled to do in Berlin, Germany; have a handsome railing and tootway on both sides, so. in case of accident, the people can walk with perfect safety from one station to anolher. Compel the railroad company to run their surface cars on much shorter headway; run the Seventh avenue cars under Greenwood as far as the avenue goes, and when the new bridge Is open, and whatever improvement can be made on the old bridge so as to handle trains and trolleys as fast as they can come, you will find that you will have all the rapid transit which will be re-qeired to build up South Brooklyn and outlying distrirts.

without destroying the only one drive snd its beautiful little parks which have been built at such a vast expense, and let our avenue he known, ns some one bas said, "the Avenue Beautiful." Destroy it iind it will ever he known as the Miserable avenue. ALBRflT SCAI.K.-5. US Fourih avenue. March 13. 100-1.

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