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June 23; 19041

and May. Lastyear
in April 91,000
came in, this year 63,000. For May t h e
corresponding figures a r e 92.000 and 68,000. The total immigration at New
York for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1903, was 599,485; the total up to date
is 479,286. F o rt h e
wholecountryit
would seem safe t o predict an immigration in 1904 not exceeding 700,000.

,The N a t i o n .
hi's department has inherited.Atevery
t o End lying
point he must be prepared
and
concealment
in
behalf of those
Lund"higher up." AlreadyInspector
berg, who gave theGeneraZ Blocurn clean
papers fiveweeksago,
refusestoan"on the
swerthecoroner'squestions,
groundthat it mighttend to incrimshows
inate me." Such an attitude
clearly that it would be absurd merely
t o order an investigation of t h e inspection
service
by
itself.

Wordsaretoofeeble
to expressthe
pity and the hsorror of the Genera2 Slocum disaster. The cbarader of t h e vicA remarkabledelegation
of Engilis5
tims-women,
mostly,
and
children
of
tenderyeus-theswiftness
of the de- clergymen waited upon. t h e Archbishop
n of Canterbury la few days ago, upon a
struction
that
has
overtaken
half
errand.
Tkey
sought
a
modestparish,theterror
of sweeping remarkebb
change in the rubrlc requiring the pubflames, and of loadeddeckscollapsing
into the furnace below-all these heart- h c reading 'of i!he ,Atbanastan Creed on
certamgreatfestmals
of theChri'stian
rendingfeatures
of thetragedystrain
spokest h e compassion of the mere reader to the year. Btshop Welldon was their
xman, and his remarks, together with the
point of numbness.Thecoroner'sinquest has already brought out the facts Arah~blshop's long and careful reply, inthat the examinatnon of life-preservers dlcatesignificantly a theologicaltrend
c'hiefly diwas perfunctory, that the fire apparatus of t h e day. Theappealwas
at all, that t h e sec- rected, as may be supposed, at, the minawas not inspected
bhe
Creed. Torightly
ond officer had never taken out a mate's tory clauses of
license, that no fire drill had been held apprecimate bhese, affirmed Bidhop. WellanMstorical splmt, a
wlththepresent
crew, t h a t the crew don,"demanded
itself contained a number of incom- theologilcal learning, whkh could not be
men
found in congregatlons consisting
petents. Thus, step by step, ,the responsibiluty is driven homme, on the one hand and women, ,educated and less educated,
even
little
children."
As much
to the owners of the boat, on the other and
thesteamboatinspectors.Both,
it might be said, one would 'think, of many
appears, willingly took desperate chances of ,themetaphysicalparts of thak most
f o r the
metaphysical
Creed;
but
as
to theirvigwiththelivesentrusted
damnatorydauses,therecanscarcely
ilance. Theomners who mannedtheir
boat with the riffraff of the docks and be two minds. Whatever else they may
m,aintained unlicensed officers, assumed be fitted for, bhey do nolt go well mt'h a
religious 'service meant t ~ obenphftmg
that no better class of men would ever
and joyful. To
begin
with
"'witBout
be needed, just as themanufacturers
wh,o supplmied worthlesslife-preservers
do'ubt he shall1 perlsh everlastingly" m d
figured that they were to be paid for andto end wPth "he cann.ot be saved," 1s not
used in the a gbod way to invite ,branquil meditation
exhibited in racks-never
. water. Upon the basis of t h e evidence upon the theological do,ctrines whmh lare
already brought out by the coroner, we affirlmed in between. Anch.bishop Davldmay expect Secretary Cortelyou and Dis- son poimnted out thedifficulties inthe may
trictAttorneyJerometo
proceed fear- of cpiactical r e h d , but left ik In no doubt
lessly. Already it is clear that we a r e whwehissympatkies
bay He did not
dealing with a kind of negligence which attribute the movement to ,evil hearts of
morally reaches cfiminality, 'and it may unbelief. To him it was, rather, a gratibe legally as well.
cfymg sign of greater inltelligenloe on t h e
pant of the Christian commonalty.
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Gen Uhler'shintthatthesteamboat
inspectors'Eneshavefrequentlybeen
remitted
through
political
influence
ought t o be followed up with names and
specifications. Such a state of things
would gofartoexplainthecomplete
demoralization of t h e inspectors.What
can a man do when he finds, on the one
hand,steamboatownerswilling
t o pay
himforleavinghisdutyundone,and
o n theotherhischiefsreadytomake
a fool of him for doing his duty? When
Gen. Uhler says that Senators and Congressmenhavehadsuch
fines reduced,
he
undoubtedly
speaks
by the book.
Clearly, he should continue the subject
beforethe CommiSsion of Inquiry, and
SecretaryCortelyoushould
not fail to
carry back to its source the rottenness

Our Ameri,can theory that prosperity

can come only from taxation (has recelved a severe Mow in Europe. The theorp
was applied ,with all rvgor in conmention
111th Me beet-sugar industry of tbe Continent.Year
&er yearthegeople
of
Germany,Austri'a, France, ansd Belgium
were bled to prop up this clammom infant, but even then it was necessary to
combine to regulate prices. Flnal'ly, the
Bruseelq Convention decrded toabolish
the
the
bounties
on
exports
Though
condition of the sugar indusltry the woTld
over seemed to- make &his a w5se step,
khere wac nevertheless. a fear khat it
would result in r u m to many of the beet
producers. But, wonderfulto belate, ia
Austrla fhe effect 'appears t o h,ave been

48'5
quite t h e leverse.Theimmediatereoff of t h e export
sult of theoutting
bmnt:eswas
decreasein t'he tax on
sngai, ,but man intereased consumption.
Thls IS as t,rue of the other na.tions a.s of
Austria. From September to April,
many ancreased her consumption by 207,000 tons, F r a m e 210,000 tmons, Belgmm
27,000 tons. and Austrla 60,000 &om. WXo
befomre ever heard of low prices bdnging
prosperity? And yet
i t 1s admtted that
t h e h s t r i a n s u g a r i n d u s t r y wsas never
better off than at present.
the whu1.e
We are far from #knowing
truth a%,outt b e stiff Eghting at Wabhat 'a Japamesa
fang-ku, (butthefact
force of 30,000 men has fought imts way .
twenty-five milesnor'th of Pox% Arthur
is sgnnldcant. It Uooks like tLhe beginmng of ,a concerted m'ovemen't, in wbich
Kurolri will later p,aeicipa'te, upon Kuropakkin's extreme mght. T h e
tlmt
Oku can spare Nozu with 30,000 men also
sboiws that the terceof Investment below
Kinch,ow 'has morethanreachedthe
necess'ary f o r the
btmngtlh reckoned
reduction of thefortress.Everfihing,
gesneral folrwird
i n &ort, points DO
movement by Kuroki,withoutwaiting
for .%e taking ,of Pmort Arthur.
Gen.
Stakelberg's defeat receives a hwr'crus
turn through the naivet.6 'ok his dispatch
shating that just ass he had codortJably
'
Japanese righ$, his own
e"nve1oped te
rlgiht was turned with an overwhelming
force. But lthe fight ltself 'was mrrous
business enough. It cost t o eitber'sidt,
Rusmanythousandmen,andtothe
siansfourteen guns. It is knowq ithat
Stakelberg has his main 5orce near Kaipmg, fmorty miles above the scene af. the
enga.gement of June 15. Kuroki;a left,
.
atShyen,isabout as near.

T h e i-aid of the Vladivostok 6.qwadron

in ;a ceritain imprachasbrozghtout,
ticable Idealism, t h e seamy side of Japz
mesavalor.Suchincidents
as the refusal af troops on transports to surre.n:
cier to warships, t h e wholesalepreparation -of suchtroops
t o c o m m t SUIcide, and fhe demmd that an 'unsuccess188,
ful lallmiral shml,dtakehisown
remlnd us startlingly of t h e gulf 'th,at
lies between [ourselves and these
Orien,tals. As for thetroops -who laybelpless under the guns of Me Russilan c ~ u t s ers, then preferencefordeathgratiEed
only a personal punldtllio. Bysurrenderm g at digcretion they could have put tbe
Russian fleet 'to @onsiderabbleembarrassment.Clearlythe
.Russianscould
not
have 'Caken @hem (prisoners; mcleed,
would have 'been obhged bo furnish
meana (of escape from 'the sinkingtransports.
Under
such
circum'Stances, 'the
Japanesewouldhave
been under no
paTole, theRussians would hlave been
subject to a peril,ous delay, and a thousans troovs would !havebeen ap:ared to
fight the battles of t h e Empire.
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