COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Comment on live
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WHO WILL PROFIT.
(New York American.)
The reduction of rates for carrying
anthracite coal from the mine to the
market will mean a loss of eight mil
ium dollars in the receipts of the coal
carrj mg roads.
it should mean a corresponding gain
to the consumer. It has, however, been
tiie i uinful experience of the consum
er that he does not get the reduction
to .vliich he is entitled under the rules
in such eases made and provided by the
interstate commerce commission an!
other rate-making bodies.
Coal rates to the retailer are fixed
by the wholesaler. The retailer makes
them for th? customer. It has been the
custom for many years to sell coal
cheap in the late spring, and to raise
the rates fifty cents a ton per month
until winter, when it remains fixed
through the continuance of cold wea
ther. Cl - 5 !
These rates are arbitrarily made by
the wholesalers. The railroads hive
nothing tn do with them. The whoel
saler’s idea in justification is that
storing coal through the summer is ex
pensive, ami that the consumer, if ha
d( lays his i rder, should bear his share
of that expense.
Unfortunately the majority of con
sumers have neither money to invest
in stored and idle coal nor places in,
which to store It. The rising scale
system works a hardship that Is very
real,
All the benefit of the arrangement is
reaped by people wgho are well off or
colinparatively well off And to them
hte difference of a few dollars is negli
gible.
This year there Is no reason why coal
should not be materially cheaper. To
make it so was the purpose of the or
der of the Interstate commerce com
mission. It was meant that the rail
roads should get less money for the
haul, but it was not mennt that their
loss should he the gain of the whote
siili is, or of the retailers and the whole
salers together.
The consumer, who is never sulfi
eieiuly active in looking after his own
interests, must now take a hand. The
interstate commerce commission has
dune for him all that it can do. The
railroads, in complying with the ordir
make a sacrifice that should be d.s
gain.
He must now either Individually, or
acting in organizations, demand nil
shai'e of that eight million dollars, or
it is very likely to be diverted to pock
ets for which it was not Intended.
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PATRIOTIC ARROGANCE.
(Engineering Magazine.)
In China every boy learns geography
from a map in which China occupies
| (he whole center of the page, while
; l-'runce and Engalnd are out in the
I corners. To a certain extent we alii
learn out geography and our history
i with our own country as a “middle
kingdom.” In the Franco-Prussian
war every Frenchman was perfectly
confident that he would whip three
German savages; Kipling’s poem, “The
Champerdown,” would be ludicrous if
It did not reflect more or less the opin
ion of us all regarding our own na
tional prowess: while only a genera
tion ago in the United States no
Fourth of July oration! was complete
without reference to “the effete mon
archies of the old world,’’ and the as
sertion that we could "lick all crea
tion.”
So a German thinks that everything
in modern science and medicine orig
inated in his own country; if he is in
formed. for instance, that antisepsis
was not discovered by a German, he
merely pities the ignorance that would
make such a statement. This form of
patriotism is not confined to any one
country; in Vienna they have erected
a monument to the Austrian physician
who, according to local tradition, dis
covered the cause of puerperal fever.
As a matter of fact, when this physi
cian was in school, IJr. Oliver Wen
lell Holmes was reading a paper be
fore the American Medical Associa
tion which left nothing to be said re
garding die cause of this malady.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that on the
23rd day of September, 1910, Frank H.
Waskey convened and assigned to the
undersigned certain real and personal
property In trust to apply the same or
the proceeds thereof to the payment of
all of said Frank H. Waskey’s debts
existing on said September 23, 1910,
ratably without any preference or pref
erences whatever. All persons are not
ified to present any such claims to the
undersigned without delay. Such pre
sentation may be made at the office
of the undersigned In Nome, Alaska, or
it the office of Lyons & Orton, 1102 Al
lska building, Seattle, Washington.
IRA D. ORTON,
Trustee for the creditors of Frank H.
Waskey under deed dated September
23, 1910. __
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WON’T BUILD IRISH TUNNEL.
(London Globa)
The prime minister was asked re
■ ently whether the government was
prepared to consider the construction
uf a tunnel between Great Britain and
Ireland, '‘so as to avoid the danger of
submarine attacks." If even the
shortest route available (five schemes
y f the kind have been brought for
) ward in the past) were adopted such a
! tunnel would be of no use In the pres
ent campaign unless the war lasted
tor years and years, as the comic song
has it. The very shortest route pos
j '■Able would be thirteen miles long, and
us a submarine tunnel would take
i longer to construct than one on land,
it is unreasonable to assume that it
would not be finished in less than ten
jyear.s Having regard to this fact, and
■ t the cost of the scheme, the project
I resembles throwing a very large whale
I to catch a very small sprat.
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NEW Year greeting. Lomen Drot.
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