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HARD COAL FOR LARGE CITIES.
(New York World.)
The great maw of New York city, the
largest user of coal In the world, ab
scorbs over 10,000,000 tons of anthracite
a year. This rate of consumption
amounts to approximately two tons of
ujtthraclte per inhabitant annualy. Ac
cording to the Coal Trade Annual, 67.6
per cent of ull the anthracite shipped
is sold in the three states of New Yol k
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Anthra
cite is eminently a product to be used
in great cities, and the presence in
these states of New Y’ork, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Newark, Jersey City, Roch
ester, Syracuse. Scranton, Paterson and
Albany, whose populations aggregate
6,600,000 persons, accounts to a large
extent for the great proportion of the
output sold in them.
LETTING POSTERITY PAY.
(Chicago Journal.)
The bonded debt of the city of New
fork is $1,307,020,221. This is about
$300 for every man, woman and child
in the greut city, it is nearly $200,000,
000 greater than the debt of tile United
States government. Moreover, New
York’s debt is utmost wholly a crea
tion of the lust eighteen years, it has
increased nearly $1,000,000,000 since
1607.
How long can even that wealthy city
travel such a road without landing in
(he ditch of bankruptcy
The situation in New York today is
a legitimate result of the doctrine so
popular with pay-roll politicians and
grafting contractors—the doctrine of
let posperity pay.” When a city
ceases to pay as it goes, when bonds
are issued for every paltry public im
provement, the inevitable result is j
what we see in the metropolis.
NO NEIGHBORS IN NEW YORK.
(New York Sun.)
‘ Neighbor!” There are no neighbors
in New York. This city is a huge filing
cabinet, rows and stacks of pigeon
holes, into which families are tucked,
in which they live and move und have
iiieir being, with no reference whatever
io the blood in the next compartment
or in the one above or underneath. The
purtitiuns that separate one pigeonhole
from the next might be of armor plate
for all that they let out or let in of that
spirit of human fellowship that makes
smaller cities real communities. There
Is the story-—and it Is fairly Illustrative
of metropolitan life—of the banker
who lived next door to the counterfeit
er. The surprise was mutual when the
banker, called to counter one day to re
pudiate the signature to counterfeit
notes, found the prisoner was his
neighbor, who had not even known
thut the signature he was forging was
that of the man next door. Now', into
this city of such unneighborliness
comes an idea couched in the phrase,
"Be u good neighbor.” It is almost
beyond the understanding of the city
folk whose sense of the existence of
others has been atrophied by the iso
luting conditions of the flic cabinet
existence.
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.
(Dayton News.)
The three natons doing the biggest
business in South America when the
war broko out were the United States,
Great Britain and Germany. During
the year 1913, the United States did
$326,000,000 worth of business with
South America. Great Britain and Ire
land did $322,000,000; Germany did
$217,000,000 worth of business in that
country.
A popular misconception of affairs
with South America is that there are
no lines of steamship transportation
between this country and that. The
truth is there are nearly thirty steam
ship lines plying between the two
countries. There are thirteen separate
lines of steamship plying between the
United States and Brazil, Argeutlna,
Uruguay, Chile and Peru. Four of
these thirteen lines are operated under
the American flag.
So we aro not so badly off as many
people suppose, when we talk about
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Germany doing no business in tin
country, and with everything favoring
America at this time we ought to get
hold of a large part of the half bll
: lion dollars of trade that has been go
! ing to the nations at war.
A CASE TH "■ IS DIFFERENT.
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tl ti n News.)
Ordinarily ii iid that those who
bring on war do not light; that at n
rule it is a rich man's war and a pour
mail's tight, and that if we could com
pel those who vote for war to get out
in front we should liave no wars, lint
the statements do not hold gyod at
i)us lime, especially In regard to Km. -
land.
Out of tiiO members ol parliament,
more than 200 are in the army, it is
said. When it is remembered that i
many of the members must be wet!
along in years, in that all ol them are
certainly past tile period when men
usually go to war, the showing is all
the more remarkable. it certainly
allows that the so-ealed 'upper classes
me better represented in Hie army
itnill are Lite so-called 'lower cinssc.
rot it the people of Kngland genet ally
had enlisted in the same proportion mat
tile members ol parliament went 11.U1
me war, the army would at tins tune
run up toward ten million soluiei a,
whereas, there are nut more titan a
.union Kngilshmen under aims
USING UP CUPPER.
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USeattle P.-l-J
The extraordinary conspnuion ox
copper Uuiiug the present war means
much to the United Slates, which is
not onli the foremost copper produces
in tile world, hut which in tact, pi i
duces more copper Ilian aii of the rest
if the world together, 'tlie Engineer
ing and Aiming Journal of tlie cur
rent issue discusses this subject, tail
ing some figures recently complied
abroad us tlie basis.
It appears that Germany and Aus
tria, between them, ere using up loi
war purposes copper at tlie rale ol not
icss than 100,000 metric tons per an
num. This is a German estimate. An
| English estimate of the German ex
penditure lit that direction is ennsidera
j aly higher.
If the Germans and Austrians are
consuming that amount of copper, cer
tainly the allies are not far behind
.hem in that respect, if, indeed, they
are not using more. This would bring
the war waste of copper up to 300,000
tons per annum, which is about 30
per cent of the world’s maximum pro
duction. At present the rate of pro
duction ism aterially less than the
maximum. Germany and Austria are
unable to buy copper from abroad, but
the loss of the German market is more
than made good by the extraordinary
demands of the British, French and
Russian allies.
In England it is predicted that Ger
many will be seriously embarrassed
before long on account of the lack of
a supply of copper up to the present
enormous expenditures. Normally tlie
copper production of Germain anu
Austria amounts to rather less than a
i third as much as the present war con
sumption, and they have no sources
of supply which can be reached by them
now.
It is satis to say, however, that the
war will not be ended hy Germany run
ning out of copper, notwithstanding
these predictions.
AN ANCIENT INITIATIVE.
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iSeattle P.-I.)
The initiative and referendum are
looked upon as modern novelties. Yet
some of the older states have enjoyed
.hese devices in the past to an extent
.hat they became unmitigated nuis
ances and had to be curtailed by leg
islative action. The- Provident Jour
nal calls attention to the introduction
of a bill in the Rhode Island legisla
ture amending ono of the q^lest laws
cn the statute books of that state, a
lew which distinctly provided for the
initiative and also, in a measure, for
the referendum.
This law provided that in any town
having Irsc population than 3,000 any
seven electors, by making a request In
writing, could have a town meeting
called for the transacting of any busi
ness relating to that town. In towns
where the population is in excess of 3,
000, 5 per cent of the voters can have
such meeting called and public busi
ness transacted.
This initiative privilege Was abused
to such an extent, the Journal recites,
■ many meetings were called on such
■ ions in texts that, some years ago,
ho- general useiubly modified the law
by u. provision that special meetings
• mid nut i/e Initiated by petition more
• han once in six months for considera
ion ••!' the same proposal. This did
not whuilj correct tlie evil, and the
present measure before the legislature!
imends the old siutute by the require- ;
ment that at least 10 per cent of the
electors must sign petitions before the
special town meetings can be called.
1'nder the old practice the Journal
says that the puwei uf the Initiative
was resorted 10 by advocates of some
proposition day after day for a con- I
siderable period, In the attempt to
bring the majority around to their way
of thinking, to the exhaustion of the
body politic, the scandal of town gov
•rnment and the shame of pure dem
ocracy." In some instances the only
purpose of the seven petitioners in
calling the town meetings was appar
ently to make public nuisances of
hemselves.
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