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THE BROOKLYN DATLY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY, SrSOTTATtY 26. T91r5. writable The Young Hen's TO GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT the Cnited States law as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

Ai under that of some Slates, but not that of New York. The plea of murder in the second degree was accepted because Assistant District Attorney Caldwell be gxrtljir fails It! OTaaa Mark "Kafle" Rfflwrcd. lOBU EVESIXU. LC. 1315.

ments of French fumls. Great Britain, on the contrary, has given absolute it erty of action to Iter capitalists. The miing revolutionises a patter which hM made London the center ol the linancial "twlVOTe." Tito bankiT referred to says: i In i-i it Association has the needs of Brooklyn. Its new and valuable equipment will enable It tc make that service more ample and far- reaching, and it may be expected to maintain the pre-eminence which it has long held in the social work of the A new Cabinet crisis is reported from Portugal. Parliamentary responsibility has Its disadvantages in a republic.

We get along without it pretty well, and we never have a Cabinet crisis. Sing Sing prisoners have had their election day, and have chosen their Judges. We hope the warden will keep the recall power in his own hands. A beneficent despotism cannot be altogether abolished in our State prisons. Governor Whitman says: "I won't remove them tonight," in commenting on the Anti-Saloon League's demand for the ousting of Mayor Mitchel and Police Commissioner Woods.

Humor and diplomacy were never better united. Hypnotism Is now claiming to have cored total blindness. There is hope yet for tlie advocates of the shipping bill: but yielding of the will Is essential to hypnotism, and Root as a Svengall is. for obvious reasons, not too acceptable. The daughter of Robert E.

Lee would have been welcome at the White House under any President we have had since tlie war. Yet her pleasure in finding a Southerner there to welcome her Is easily understood, and hurts nobody's feelings in the North. "MME. SANS-GENE" GIVEN WORLD PREMIERE HERE Splendid Cast Sings New Opera at the Metropolitan. Scenic Effects Add to Production.

Music in Military Style. Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Hotel Astor. The Glee Club of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Wilbur A.

Luyster of Drooklyn, director, is to give a concert this evening at the Hotel Astor. It is to be the second annual event of the kind by the club and it will be all Irish music. Victor Herbert, who is the vice president of the club, has written and dedicated a number of songs to the club, three of which have never been heard in public. "The New Ireland" is a stirring, patriotic song, the words to which were written by J. I.

C. Clark. There is also the charming setting of the well-known "Mother Machree." both words and music by Mr. Herbert's grandfather, Samuel Lover. The song should not be confounded with the modern "Widow Machree." There is, besides, Mr.

Herbert's setting to music of the famous battle or war song, "O'Donnell Aboo." Mr. Herbert will conduct for tho songs and others in the programme. Tlie soloists who will assist the club are Rose Marie Campbell, contralto of the San Carlos and Aborn Opera Companies, and John Finnegan, solo tenor at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The officers are: Victor Herbert, president; Thomas M.

Mulvey, first vice president; Victor Howling, second vice president; John J. O'Keefe, treasurer; William J. Clarke, recording secretary, and John F. Joyce, corre-spondlng secretary. Active members, first tenors, Thomas liyrne, William J.

Clarke, J. Joseph Colligan, John Finnegan, Stephen 0111, John J. Naven, William Plunkett and Wllliam P. Rooney; second tenors, John T. Brennan, John P.

Callanan, Harrv K. Clarke, Robert J. McKeon, Joseph M. O'Brien, Thomas F. O'Connor and Alfred J.

Talley; first bassos, John B. Fitzpatrick, Charles A. Hunter, James J. Kane, Thomas F. Keogh, James B.

O'Keefe, Alexander I. Rorke. Joseph T. Ryan, Thomas J. Taafe and Andrew W.

Wallace; second bassos, Leon K. Bailey. John J. Cassidy. Eu-geno Calvin, Marvin L.

Hutchings, John F. Joyce, Frederick L. Kane, Lr-dwith. Richard W. Meade and William It.

McKiever; Joseph T. Ryan, chairman concert committee. Pathos that -be audience give hr tremendoiia applause. the duet with Martinelll lure the tenor also sang splendidly. MM Pervades the A military atmosphere is Indicated the brief and stormy overture by the firing of shots in the orchestra.

There is a crash from cymbals, bass drum and all of the choirs, and the upgoing can tin reveals a laundry, run by Ca-terina, but with Caterlna out ill the Streets running the gantlet of shots in the French Revolution, Irt full swing. Booming cannon is heard and a wounded man is discovered, carried by coo i ides In the street outside. To descending puaaagee of the violins ap- iring in whiti apro and and flour- s.piad of holes him in. he has i-alerina-s t. so much of a mil-runs through the found il .1 itti.uli lie lop of their ices with each other.

1 Emperor gets, the as from Mr insler, Dcs- In fact. I before the footlights pers; interpretation, no more than of a P. T. Barnum, is literal and mathematical and prosaic truth to lie expected of an advertisement writer. The pro prietary medicine men do object to the recent decision of the New York City Board of Health requiring the pub lication or filing of formulas.

Many of the best known concerns refuse to do business in New York City. The fact is that Die politicians who as si nkei, sonoii-lv, f.xler at tacks on newspaper freedom are the same sort of fellows who applauded the late Senator Grady's bill to prohibit cartoons casting ridicule on men lu public life. They are annoyed by the publicity they get from the press when they are working their schemes for grabs roads, canals and "pork barrels." Thev hate reasons for the dislike they do not attempt to veil or dissimulate. Human nature, human psychology cannot be modified by statutes or or dinances Of Investigations. Immoral or suggestive medical advertisements.

fake mining or get -rich quick advertisements, even "Pastor" Russell's sermons, may be excluded by newspaper judgment, but any attempt by law to restrain or coerce the American news paper will work an injury to the community anil to gotenuneiit Itself. There must be the utmost freedom of the press in this particular. No newspaper can do the wrong tiling and long survive. STARTING "PULL-TOGETHER" MOVEMENT An encouraging start was made last night at the University Club in the movement suggested by The Eagle to form a central organization to represent all the civic bodies of Brooklyn in public matters concerning the welfare of the entire borough, so that the views and desires of the majority of the citizens may be spoken with authority as by one voice. Representative men from various sections of the borough discussed, In an informal manner, the ways and means which might be employed to effect an organization of this character.

which would partake of the nature of tin assembly acting directly for all the people, anil thus concretely and directly presenting the attitude of Brooklyn on tlie important municipal questions of tlie day with no uncertain sound and with no unwavering spirit of division. It was recognized that, to have full force, an organization with this ob ject In view should be a federal ion of local civic associations now in exist ence. purely democratic in Its scope non-political, undenominational am thoroughly representative of every sec Hon of the borough. The result of the conference lasl evening was the agreement to issue ai Invitation to ail the civic societies ii Brooklyn to send delegates to a meet lag to he held at the University Club the date or which will he ileternii 1 later for the purpose of discussing the details Of the project. That every one of the local organizations which has the good of tlie entire borougli at heart, as well as the desire to foster its own sectional importance, will respond to this invitation, l-ocs without saying The opinions finis far expressed in favor of the "Pull-Together" movement would indicate that the altcnd- anec at this gathering will lie large.

A GOOD CITIZEN. Alii Peace, who died on Sunday, ex amplified the kind of citizenship foi which any town is the better. He lint a keen sense of his rights and he was willing to stand up for them at inconvenience, which mosl the dm lelighlc Lie for which the Brooklyn man was nit That iia ideal was less imports than many services which Mr. Pea did fm- Brooklyn, but, because he willing to risk arrest iii a cause whl be believed to be right, it got mo city than more important lliiu; He believed Unit I he police rogulutio tratiie about Borough Hull i ted upon the rights of a citizen the streets, and lie deliberate A SIGNIFICANT OCCASION. iiyslcal growth, which provide in ail dtlcs.

bttfldlng will have ie 600 young men can lieved that (he prisoner "was not a iti.irder.-r al heart. The reasor that belief was that Dunn was loaded with heroin when he committed ids The doctrine that irresponsibility ile- lllierately brought about by indulgence is an excuse for crime is dangerous. Drunkenness has been over and over again urged as an excuse for murder. and It has sometimes been accepted In juries and courts. There was once a hard-headed old judge who ruled that "a man who was sober enough to shoot straight was sober enough to be hanged for it." That seems to us a much safer view of responsibility than that of Mr.

Caldwell In the Dunn case, and one to be commended both to prosecuting attorneys and to judges. $4,000,000 LOST TO STATE. The shrewdness with which John Gottleib Wcnilel Invested In the best realty on Manhattan Island, and ran ids fortune up to about $80,000,000, does not seem to have deserted him as death appproached. The transfer tax appraiser is Informed that shortly before his demise, Mr. Wendel transferred most of this really to bis sis ters, who were his sole heirs; and that the Slate of New York seems to hat- lost the which it expected to collect as an Inheritance tax.

Some Western States, we believe, make a year limit as the period before death within Which all property (ran- erred shall be nevertheless subject to the "death tax." New York State has no such provision. It does make transfers Ineffective If made "in anticipa tion of but the burden of proof is on the State and the clause might just as well never have been enacted. If the late Mr. Wendel had not made tho transfers, the Wendel tax would have broken all records In this State. The largest amount paid by any one estate was in the case of John Jacob Astor.

whose fortune tributed 374,200 to reduce the burdens of realty luxation. The wisdom of the Inherlt-tance tax Is debatable. Of its pop. ularity there can be no doubt. It Is In use in thirty-eight of our Stntes.

and has never been abandoned after adoption. ADVERTISING A NEWSPAPER'S DUTY. Coticededly (lie lirsrduty of a new: papc If it helps advertisers to get tile readers money by subterfuge and chicane, it does wrong and hurts ilsclf. A reputa- a sense of duty. The law assists it In this State by imposing a line on the sellers of goods who advertise in false and misleading way as to quantity, quality, value or reasons for selling.

But, on tlie other hand, if Die State were to try to transfer this responsibility for truthfulness to the publishers of the advertisement, hostile poll-tleians winking through prosecuting officials could harry almost any newspaper out of existence, and the liberty of the press would end. The injury to the community would be immense, the benefits trivial and unimportant Such is tin- effect, of much paternal legislation. The Federal Government has already pried into the business affairs of newspapers to a greater extent than into the affairs of any other private enterprises. An attempt to make newspapers "public utilities" was proposed to the people of Colorado, who voted il down. Measures to regulate the printing of nous about court proceedings arc threatened In Albany.

It is time for the press to stand up and light as a unit against statutes Unit have no utility save as the instruments of persecution by political foes of a particular newspaper. As for tile misleading advertising is- ncss for circulation have expressly described the advertisements they re- Ihcti iche virtue by else and no trade secrets is ion or any other si lute. The proprletar: The fun starts at eight! 10,603 shirts in a Sale today. All sorts of negliges plain bosom, plaited bosom, soft cuffs, starched cuffs. Our Winter clean-up.

3700 are $1.50 shirts. 2340 are 2.00 shirts. 2200 are $2.50 shirts. 1380 are $3.50 shirts. 983 are $5.00 shirts.

$1.05 to-day. It's a long ways to warm weather. $15, $20 and $25 now for Winter overcoats that were formerly $18 to $40. Rogers Peet Company, Three Broadway Store) Personal and Impersonal If hydro-aeroplanes are war vessels where Is the international authority that defines them as such and what nations have subscribed? (iiven a few more open winters like this one and Long Beach will find it easy to establish itself as the Atlantic City of New Vork State. Englishmen do not feel that their navy has cost too much.

Militarism has its good points at this stage of the development of the human race. The abundant crops that will follow this war in Kraut and Southwestern uermany will be. largely due to the exc' lleiit sub-soil plowing of the trench The solidity of the marriage tie is again demonstrated by Justice Crane In the Tatum case. Mineola is no Reno for Nassau County couples when Justice Crane sits there. Real estate men condemn the Mayor's new scheme of taxation to relieve, landlords.

Would they favor an occupancy" tax on those who occupy comfortable public positions? The "over-Inspection" nuisance. Is about to be ended by the Mayor start ing an investigation. Real estate, the goose that lays the budget egg, is to have a day in court. That new lerman gun that can throw a ton 28 miles would be more power-fu than legislation in limiting the height of buildings in this city If the plans of (ieneral Von Edelsheim were ever carried out. The Johnson-WIUard prize fight at Juarez, Mexico, on March 6, will be unique in the annals of modern warfare, ft is planned to have the combatants' fists get within striking distance of each other.

One hundred years ago this year when liluecher came up the English were glad enough to see him. The allies of today are the enemies of tomorrow in Europe. How long must the "bloody round" 1 the fixed policy of the old nations? Dr. Von Bethmann-Holtweg's defense of bomb throwing from aeroplanes over the English cities is based on the claim that those cities are fortified. The fortifications at King's Lynn, erected for the most part 700 years ago, did not provide any armored covering for perambulators.

Chairman Walsh speaks glibly of doing away with all work for "profits." He would substitute work for "service." The land monopoly and the power of the employer to fix prices are bringing ns to Mr. Wulsh. And to remedy matters be would not sell foodstuffs abroad high lulces while we need food at home Hut don't we need the high prices? And with those profits can't we buy other good food that will answer us quite as well as the wheat we have to spare? Mr. Walsh includes in his programme an effort to get back into the hands of the people "the natural wealth emhezzld from them." And he would also give all telephone operators $10 a week and section hands $12 a week. Mr.

Roosevelt seemed to promise nil this and more, following Is small wontler that enterprise is dead, capitalists are afraid to venture as the rales of the game of trade shift iKht As soon as Mr Walsh files i he new rules and it is learned who Is pv the freight when people work for "Service" and quit working for profit things may start UP. Beware! IA Habitat He careful, there; Beware, beware! I.esi plans you dare To start On special pleas t'pset the ftpolecart Of salartos. It Is her readiness to raise quickly vast sums of money for foreign countries more than anything else which has given England her International commercial superiority, and no phrase was ever truer than that "trade fol lows the loan." So long as this condi tlon of financial supremacy prevailed no other country could compete with Knghuid In the foreign markets of the world. The (wo signs of wear and tenr are respectfully submitted for what they are worth. Perhaps, tile end Is not so far off before the prediction of Kitchener of Khartoum is verified.

HELPING THE FOOD TERMINAL PLAN. The announcement that the New- York Central Railroad Company will about on a food ter minal between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues and Thirty-fourth and Tlilrty- lifth streets, Manhattan, and calculates reetlng two such terminals In Brooklyn, In co-operation with the new State Department of Foods and Markets. Is of general Interest. The Slate Commissioner, Mr. Dillon, figures that out of every dollar spent for farm products by citizens of the Metropolis not more than 88 cents goes to the farmer, and from 1800,000,000 to Is so spent each year.

His Idea Is that a cut of 10 per cent, Is possible With proper terminals, or a saving to the people of from to $70,000,000. The Chelsea market and presumably Hie Brooklyn terminals of the same sort. Will have elaborate cold-storage plants, and will offer all possible facilities for wagon distribution of goods. They will be operated by a separate company to bo organized for the purpose. Every practical effort to lessen the margin between what the farmer gets and what the city person pays for vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and poultry is to be encouraged.

Those who dream of getting rid of the middleman entirely are Utopians. That cannot be done. But the number of middlemen handling a given product and drawing a profit therefrom may be considerably reduced by Intelligent organization of distribution. NOT FAIR TO COLONEL YOUNGS. The Kagle holds no brief for Republican otliceliolilci-s who are superseded by Democrats.

Such changes are Incident to a republican form of government. Colonel William J. Youngs lias been United States District Attorney In this district for twelve years. His term expired a week ago. The absolute propriety of (illlng his place witli a lawyer in party consonance with the Administration could have been questioned by nobody.

Indeed, the Colonel bud been permitted to serve out almost two years of an unexpired term, while Democratic politicians were clamoring for the position. But It Is not fair to any man, Republican or Democrat, who has a standing in the community, and Is justly proud of the respect in which he Is held by his fellow citizens, to stab at him In the dark. Why was a resignation requested of Colonel Youngs? His term had run out. No resignation was needed. A nomination sent to the Senate would have accomplished the same end.

unless tin- end were to put otit. of office a man whose service was regarded as unsatisfactory. If unsatisfactory, why and how? The answer from the Attorney General's office in Washington comes In this form: Anything about the resignation of Colonel roung, if It is true that he has been asked to resign (sic) will have to come from the District Attorney himself. All that can be said here Is that no recommendation has been made to the rresident concerning his The illsingenunusness of that "If," the refusal to come out into the open, (lie re emphasizing of the failure to name a successor, which makes the Brooklyn PoMothYo condemnation ceedlngS were conducted." And that or the most trivial criticism of what Colonel Youngs has done or left tin- We submit thai "stabbing in tuel, The ii District of York. "NOT A MURDERER AT HEART." uate.

That la Hi" th Bntaraa at Thi Paper ha a Circulatioo ikal of any other Evening Paper is the United States. Its alue a lumg Medium is Apparent. Eicluuve Associated Press Sen Ksl. 1 I'i Hiding i Miuunac. Th.

lallv day ot yakUoaUoa at .,11 lnig Island ios FOREta.s- si-nscnii'TioN nA-rns. Daily and Sunday. 1 enr. 815); fatly at S.noay. months.

JT.UV und Sun.laj- BACK WHERE THEY BELONG. What is known as the Kansas coercion law has been converted into a scrap of paper. What that law provided for was illustrated by the ex perience of a railroad official, who was found guilty of having threatened to discharge a switchman If lie did not withdraw from the Switchmen's Union. The Kansas courts sustained the conviction, but the Supreme Court of the United States sets its aside, holding: That the right of individuals to Join a labor union Is unassailable; That the legitimacy of such organizations is unquestionable as long as they conform to the laws of the land, but That employers have the some right to prescribe the terms upon which they will grant employment as those who ask for It have to say upon what terms they will accept it. There cannot, holds the court, be one rule of liberty for the labor organization and Its members and a different mid more restrictive rule for employ-era, Not in terms, but In effect, it says that what is sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander.

This sustains rather than Interferes With the right of contract. There is no impairment of the freedom ot choice. There Is no compulsion to accept employment, but acceptance does carry with it some loss of freedom. The employee must comply with the terms he accepts, which Is also true of the employer, each being bound by the agreement entered Into. Neither compelled to make a bargain, but bolh become subject to restrictions as long us the relationship obtains.

This goes to the root of things. The Importance of the decision is scarcelj transcended by thai which held the Danbury strikers individually responsible for the damage they Inflicted. Thlr teen other oomnionwealllis, including the State of New York, have similar laws, nil of which go into tho waste paper basket. After this fashion tin court places the contracting partlei upon terms of absolute equality. "Just as labor organizations have the inherent and constitutional right to deny membership to any man who will not agree that during such membership he will not accept or retain employment in company with non-union men, and just as a union man has the constitutional right to decline proffered employment unless the employer will agree not to employ any non-union man, so the employer lias the constitutional right to Insist that the employee shall refrain from affiliation with the union during the term of the employ, ment." In the judgment of the World, the right! As a many of the States have tampered, They are now back where they belong.

SHOES BEGIN TO PINCH. What the war costs, apart Croi waste of "human material" and quentlal damages, lias been ro estimated. It is useless to expect pie to think ii n't do ii Bu them to try to grasp the significance direct expenditures approximate 000,000 a day. Al their leisure, they can multiply that ligure by the number'1 of days the war has lasted ami marvel 1 at the total. They won he able to 1 digest it.

inwardly or Otherwise, but: they will realize that the pace Is fast How long can it be maintained! Those who speak for tlie nations in-The? may a- hut'thero in accounts from Berlin, these reasons were serious i ugh to prompt Ms re tlrenieiii. the richest of tin- iiinn li the strain Little Of I bought or it been tsken bi i which cm great deal to ''il'oad'ui-iur Artur.Twt-aiiinl. Among the novelties promised for the Metropolitan Opera House for this season was "Madame and the great and appealing fact was that it was to he the first performance on Cmberto Ciordnno's score, It was certain in advance, would follow i losely the action and dialogue play, which seen here in Indifferent, and I in both as il was pro. Love- I en- inns line chateau an, I pera. but It does not clow as i aria in other operas as a Ion And yet it had In It il opportunities for a com- diss l-'arrar.

I hough evl.lentlv ir best voice, sang It with such Most voters are Blind chaps Whom jaOhlng cures: Tliev ll end your auto-si And sinecures!.