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WHAT IT COSTS PER DAY.
(Scribner's.)
The cost per day to the United
-Sente* of our Spanish war of 1898,
•oid to England of her Boer war of
1399, was about $1,00,000. Our civil
• ;..i :o*t the northern government $1,
'■•oo.OOO a day In its earlier stages, and
something like $3,000,000 toward its
'.‘iid* The Franco-Prussian war im
posed an average dally cost of perhaps
*3.000,000 on each bellgerent. But the
present European war Is already cost
ing all the belligerents combined at
east $60,000,000 per day.
England alone Is spending $15,000,
000 dally on the war, whereas her av
erage dally expenditure for all gov
ernmental purposes, before the war
' broke out, was only $2,750,000.
CORRUPTING CHINA.
(Manila Times.)
Do uie Filipino gins wtio recently
•‘railed l/ninu, and whose basketball
playing won them popular acclaim,
ivalUe- that they are an iusidious dan
ger to the land of Confucius? Do they
snow that their visit to President
r uan sihlh-kai has so much perturbeu
a Chinese student of affairs that lie
.->ee» therein the shadow of impending
doom ?
The Far Dust, a weekly published in
'i'ukyo, quotes ibis student, und givea
•he association of ideas in his mind as
follows: "China lias a unique civiliza
tion which it is tier most solemn duty
10 preserve 1’ree front the corrupton
of the material west. She can easily
do this. Political adventurers may
come and go, Japan may march her
armies over the land and seize prov
inces, but the soul of China remains
undefUeil. The corrupting ideas of the
west cannot enter the minds of the
people by these means. But for the
highest dignitary of the state to cuun
tenace an Amerlcun-Asiatic product,
represented by a group of Oriental
girls who have been trained In un
' irlental ways—here is an insidious
■attack on the Chinese national life."
As a Harvard student remarked on
a famous occasion: “Isn’t that too
'lamed bad.”
CANADA’S SHARE OF THE WAR.
(Monetary Times.)
A year of war has cost Canada $90,
eOO.OOO. It Is costing Canada $300,000
a day. The total war expenditure up
to July 31, or practically twelve
months after war, wild declared on
August 4 last year, was $81,500,000.
The ratio of expense is going up all
the time as the Dominion places more
and more troops in the flold. Almost
the whole expenditure is military in
character. The pay of the troops alone
> osts little less than $100,000 per day.
Of the $90,000,000 which constitutes
the total expense of the war so far,
$50,000,000 was voted at the. special
August session of parliament last year
and $40,000,000 came out of the war
appropriation of $100,000,000 made at
the last session, and which is being
borrowed in England. Besides pro
viding for the direct war exepndltures,
the minister of finance had to Increase
the revenues, which wer0 falling as
u result of the war, and for that pur
pose imposed extra tariff and direct
taxation. That this will bo sufficient
to take care of the financial situation
nil the next session is being demon
strated, customs revenues during the
oast few months having largely in
creased.
AN ENGLISH VIEW
OF MR. BRYAN
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^ (London Mall.)
I do not wonder at his immense
popularity. Put Gladstone’s or O’Con
iieU’s tongue Into the head of the av
erage Hunday school teacher and you
not only get Mr. Ifcryan, but you get
a mixture that always and everywhere
appeals to tho taste of the masses.
Mr. Bryan has stirred up many ques
tions. But he has never yet found
the right answer to any of them. Tie
| lias proved himself an effective voice
cf protest against social and economic
inequalities and Injustices. But he
has proved himself nothing more. If
; is Intellectual equipment were as
great as his sincerity and hiB sensi
tiveness he would be a statesman. As
it is he has been hampered by a flat
inability to rise shove the most ele
mentary level <reflection, insight
and eomp'reheir cm. He would have
cut a most In >g Mg figure In the
i French revolut. when rhetoric,
| shallow metaphysics and a readiness
| to make a new heaven aod a new (
I earth every other week were supposed
to qualify a man for the business of j
| government. But in 9uch a land as
• the I'nited States and at such a time
i ns the present supreme power I sfor
| ever barred to him. At the bottom
( of their minds the American people
distrust his capacities. — Sydney
Brooks.
OUR R08ITI0N.
(Boston Record.>
if we are unprepared in u military !
and naval sense. We evidently are
equally unprepared -and thank God
tor it!—to cope with German diplo
macy on an equal fooling; and for
the very simple reason that we, in our
administration’s futile effort at par
ley and persuasion, are using weapons
of mendaciousness, trickery corrup
tion. What does the case of bumba 1
mean but that’.’ What else do we 1
read in the efforts to disorganize Am- :
crican shops the redult of which
would be not merely to check the
export of munitions, but would be to
precipitate industrial disorder and
probable violence as well .’ In this ex
tremity of having no weapons of de
ceit, would it nut be better to sus
pend diplomatic relations with those
Teutonic governments which exalt
those diplomatic resources which are
not exercised or honored in the Uni
ted States of America?
If the United States needs so many
submarines why not offer to buy Ger
many’s as a way out of the undersea
difficulty? We should have the sin
cere support of the allies in such an
offer and it might be the first step
toward peace! Mr. Bryan, please
write. Also Mr. Carnegie. And Honry
Ford.
SALARIES OF FILM PLAYERS
ARE SMALLER THAN RUMORED
(Boston livening Record.)
The press agent's generosity of hy
perbole has been censored. The Oc
tober issue of Photoplay Magazine
contains the first comprehensive and
nuthentic article ever published on
what payment leaders among film
players really receive for their work.
The following Is from "What They
Really Get:"
This little incident was reltUod to
the writer by Daniel Frohman and it
authenticates the oft printed stories
that Miss Mary Pickford receives a
weekly salary of $2,000, fifty two
weeks of the year. Rut Miss Pick
ford’s salary is uniciuo in the motion
picture industry. Her earning capa
city and tremendous following can
only bo compared with that of Maude
Adams. For she is indeed the Maude
Adams of the film.
Just as the salaries of actors and
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! press agents, the salaries of film stars
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With the exception of Mary Pick
ford, Charles Chaplin and possibly
Marguerite Clarke, there is no film
star In America who receives more
than $760 a week as salary. Tet doz
ens of legitimate and vaudeville stars
ern that amount In the aggregate.
Recognized film favorites Uke Clara
Kimball Young, Florence Lawrence,
Blanche Sweet, Norma Philips, Anita I
Stewart and Ruth Stonehouse. re
ceive from $200 to $600 a week. This
is the weekly salary of Clara Kim
ball Young, who ranks second only to
Mary Plckford in popularity. When
it comes to male film stars, their sal
aries are considerably less. From
$100 to $400 is the weekly salary for I
Francis X. Cushman, Arthur Johnson.
Maurice Costello and Carlyle Black -
well and King Baggott.
Here are some specifically stated
salaries per week: J. Warren Kerri
gan, $400: Eurl Williams, $300: Marv
Fuller, $600, Mabel Normand. $600 and
Charles Chaplin. $1,200.
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