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rORTLAKD, OREGON, SUNDAY MOEJflSG, JAXUABY 13, 10O7.
riUCE FIVE CEMS,
VOL. XXVI 2VO. 2.
ANOMOHoroLror
SOUTHERN
Road Hofds 3,000,000
Acres in Oregon,
PARTS Of OiiluClAL GRANTS
Company Evades Limitations
Provided by Congress.
NOT BINDING, IT DECLARES
Lands Were to Be Sold to Actual Set-
tier at Not to Exceed $2.50 an
Acre, and No More Than. ISO
Acres' to Any' One Buyer.
Tltr. ' SOUTHERN PACIFIC GRANT
LAMM IN OREGON SHOULD
. 1 SELL' FOR '0T OVER
9.50 AN ACRE.
Renolved. THa.t it I. th sense of
the Shippers' ana Froducers' Con
vention at Albany, that the attitude
of the H arrlman jBtm In refuclnc
- to sell the timber and airlcultural
lands which were placed In the banda
of the Oregon it California ftallraad
Company by the Government at a
' lime wha they aorly needed theae
' lands tn order to use them as col-
lateral for loans to be used In the
'construction of th road and which
were,' try thi term of the arrant, evi
dently intended to he held tn trust
by the railroad company and later
"old. to the settlers of Or von. ha
workad and la working great harm
to the people and interests of Ore
gon; and we emphatically proteiit
aaalnat this . policy and reaneetf tilly
request the members of the Orecon
Viwure to bring forcibly tto th
4 ! attention of the National Con r rets
t this condition of affairs and memor-
i lall.ee Joi jrr-ns to the end that these
1 l?nds may be put on the marKet at
an early date and at the price and
tinder the terms and conditions con- ,
I tetnptated by the- orlar'nal grant.
ir Adopted January 10, 100T.
. Vast areas of .land are owned in Ore-
gon by the Southern Pacific, as bonuses
granted by the United States to the Ore
son & California Railroad . In 1866-1370
and to the Oregon , Central Railroad in
1ST0, In order that those companies might
U86 them a collateral lor loans where
with to build the roads, or sell them for
money for that same purpose.
The price 'at which the lands were to
he sold was never to exceed S32.50 an acre.
only '-actual settlers" might , purchase,
and no one buyer should secure more
than 100 acres.
Such were the safeguards set up by
Congress against creation of a great land
monopoly, like that now held by the
Southern Pacific, amounting; to about
3,000,000 acres of land, which In the last
three years It has refused to sell. Before
that time It sold 3.500.000 acres. In most
cases .for more than 92.50 an acre. The
3,000,000 remaining acres, at a conserva
tive estimate, are worth J25.000.000. '
The orlsTlnal purpose of Congress was
that the lands should boost the finances
of the two struggling . railroads. The
roads were to sell the lands whenever an
actual settler wanted to buy them, and
were to charge him no more than $2.50 an
acre, and to -sell him not more than 160
acres. Instead of a cash bonus. Congress
was i vine; a land bonus, which was to
be converted Into cash, under the condi
tions specified.
Railroad Evadrs Limitations.
: Naturally the Southern Pacific 'denies
it is bound by the limitations specified.
The objections raised by Its attorneys are
various, numerous and ingenious. It is
contended by them that "actual settlers"
means such persons as then occupied,,
without title, the lands covered by the
grants, and that such settlers have now
leased to be. It is contended, further-
' more, that the limitations were mere in
cidents to the grants and did not condl-
tlon 'the title, which passed to the 'two
railroads. Again as to the Oregon A Cal
ifornia grant. It Is set up that the limlta-
tions specified are contained In a law ap
proved April 10. which was an amend
ment to the original srantlng act of 1866:
that the title, now held by the Oregon At
$ A. M. He Learns Thai the Presi
dent Xs . Writinar a aCessaa-e About
Him.
1
Ca-lifornla, wa vested in the original act,
and could not be conditioned by tlie later
etatute,
Against this latter argument it can be
objected that title was vested, not by the
act of 1866, but by the very law con
taining the limitations' as to. "actual
settlers." "160 acres" and "S2.SO." The
reason for this objection is that the act
or im atepdea the time under wWcti
the Oregon & California was to fulfill
neeessary conditions for secuting th
grant, without which extension the Brant
now held by tlie Oregon & California
would have lapsed. TJnder the act of
1869, the Orpgon & California accepted
the grant.
This part of the subject requires his
torical treatment, which will, be made
as brief as possible. But before turning;
to it an Idea should be given of the size
sty -y-
Tlllmui, of Nonth CbthIIim. '
H ho Atta'Ks President's Treatment
of Negro Troops.
or the vast area acquired by ,the South
ern Pacific. "
Grant to Oregon
Sfc California.
A strip or land 20 miles broad and 362
miles Ions;, stretching from Portland to
the California line, is" the area or the
grant secured by tlie Oregon & Call-
fornla. It consisted often alternate sec
tions on each side of the road, designated
by odd numbers, Lands already owned
by settlers or otners were exempt from
the grant and in their place the company
was to receive as Indemnity an equal
amount of land outside the 30 mile
limit," as It was called, containing the'
ten alternate sections on eacii side Of
the road. Beyond " that limit . the - in
demnity .trip was to be lO Tnlletf : wide.
parallel with the' stfip'adj'ofning, the road.
i '' 1 t1 ' , i n
In that strip, the company was to make
Indemnity selections on odd-numbered
sections. And by a general act of Con
gress wherever lands were wanting in
the indemnity strip.'
made wherever tl
choose. .
lieu selections were
e company might
The grant to the Oregon Central,, from
Portland to McMinnvllle, 40 miles, was
of the same sort. ' . ;
The area of the Oregon k California
grant was theoretically " nearly S.000.O0O
acres;' but actually exceeded that figure
more than i.ooo.ooo, by means of frequent
bends In the road as laid out. That of
the Oregon Central, to McMinnvllle, was
about 500,000 acres. ' The two grants to
gether, therefore, amounted to ; about
9,500,000 acres This. Is 10,560 square mlleei
The area- of the. Cascade Forest Reserve
in Oregon is 7000 square miles; - of the
State of Vermont, 5563; of Rhode Island,
1250; of Connecticut.' 4490; of' Delaware,
3050; of Massachusetts, 8315; , of New
HaTOpshtre3305; of "New Jersey, 7815. The
grants to two railroads "in-Oregon, then,
were larsrer than the Area, of Vermont,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware,
Massachusetts, ' New Hampshire or New
Jersey". , The ; remaining lands of .the
Southern , Pacific.. 4687 square miles, are
a larger area than Connecticut, or Dela
ware. It will be seen that1 a Kreat land- mo
nopoly exists; in Oregon, in the Southern
Pacific, that this was not Intended' by
Congress, . which thought- it was putting
up safeguards against it; that on techni
calities the railroad bases Its thus lar
successful non-compilanca with the limi
tations, put on the ands by Congress:
and that the people of Oregon have an
interest m the matter that should cause
them to take action, through the State
legislature or through Congress, or "both.
That this matter will not be overlooked
by Oregon's lawmakers, either In the
State Legislature or in Congress, there
is good reason to .believe. W. c. Hawley,
Representative-elect to Congress for the
First District, is taking it up. and .there
are members . of the legislature, chiefly
from Southern Oregon, clamoring lor re
lief from the tie-up of lands. The 3.000.000
acres are barred against settlement.
(Concluded on Page 3. )
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10 A. M. He Bears That the Inter-
tat CtMntnm CiiminlI.ni Will
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DEED 15 IK
IM SLEPT
Somnambulism as Ex
cuse for Crime.
JUDGE MIS THE ACCUSED
Walks in Sleep Himself and
Knows About It.
SEQUEL OF NEW YEAR BALL
Freeman, Captured, In Act of Beating
Man and Wife, Remembers Xotli
lnB or It Judge Helps
With Own Experience.
CHICAGO. Jan. 12. (Special.) When
Ross F"reeman broke into Fred fol-
gcr'g saloon at Armour and Fortieth
street? as New Year's day was dawn
ing, end attacked' the saloonkeeper In
his bed-room and terribly peat Mrs.
Folger, he was sound asleep, according
to the Judgment pronounced by Judge
w. n. cottrcii, ol the Municipal Court.
Freeman was acoultted on the ground
of Bomrumbullani, after being captured
reHianaea and witti a ma&R in his
pocket. Tlie case Is unprecedented in
court annals, and. presents one of the
most remarKabie instances in the reo
ords of psychology.
Judge Also Walks in His Steep.
With apparently not the. slightest
shred upon which to hang a defense,
except the good character oC the de-
lendant'and his own solemn declar'a-
tion that he had not the slightest recol
lection rany of the acta attributed to
rn m mm thi- Wadi
With t hv. cJJTihullsrri theory aiid to
cap the climax, of a- mas of testimony,'
expert and otherwise, on 30mnaKlt)U
llsm, Judge Cottrill himself became a
witness for t.e accused, youth and.
drawing upon an experience of. his
own as .a sleep-walker, 'unqualifiedly
acquitted Freeman, against the pro
testations of the complainant and those
who Had aided in the capture ol the
accused man. ' " j '.
Evening at Masked Ball.
- Freeman's story is one of t'le Strang
est ever told In court. . On New Year's
eve, .he said, he went down town to
see the festivities. On the street a
man distributing cards handed him a
ticket to the ball grtven at the Coli
seum. Me went there, bought a mask,
met and danced with Grace Kellcher
ard two Of her friends. Elsie Steve
and .mma Barz..
-When he offered to escort Miss Kelleher
home, she told him that two young men
were going home with her and the other
g-irls and proposed that they -all so to
gether. The two young men were in
troduced to him. One of them was a tall
young man who gave the name of
Schulti, whom none of the srlrl seemed
to like, m the weird drama enacted
later In the night, Schultx Is now credited
with some mysterious part and, although
a detective searched for him for ten days
his identity has not been established and
he has not been found. The other man
grave " his name to one of the Birls as
Peter Moore, but search lor him also has
been In vain.
. Glass of Beer, Then a Blank.
According to the story of Freeman,
corroborated by the three young women.
they all took a car and went to the house
of tlss Bars, who had -Invited her two
friends to remain with her for tho night,
After parting from the young women,
no Freeman's story runs, they- walked
about a block, but in which direction he
is not certain, and then went into a
saloon and ordered beer. He says that
as the tall man pushed his beer over to
him, he noticed that the man held his
hand over it, but thought nothing of It
at the time; He swallowed half of the
glass of Deer, ' he says, and from that
time the rest of the night Is a blank.
His last .recollection. Freeman says. Is
that ha set the beer down and from that
moment he knows nothing until he was
FEW BUSY HOURS IN
11 A. ML Me Is Indicted for Rebat-
awakened by blows on the soles of his
feet and found' himself In a cell at the
police station.
FORTY PERSONS HUNGRY
Revenue Cntter to Rescue of Isolated
. Town in Alaska.' -
WASHIN'GTOX. Jan. 1 2. The Secre
tary of the Treasury has received from
Sitka, Alaska, a copy of a telegram
dated Juneau. - January 10. from the
commander of the - revenue cutter
sttka, in which he says he lias re-
ceived a cablegram from Deputy Mar-
shal Wad dell at Catella. Alaska, to the
effect that 40 persons. Including: nine
are short of provisions and that some
ot mem are sick.- me leiegram acias:
you send revenue cutter to remove or
take provisions? All are able to pay.
Twenty-five tons of provisions for
Yakatajra at Kayak Highlands, but no
boats are aval 1 able for Winter service.
I have notified Governor Hoggatt to
take the matter up with thA authori
ties at Weshlnston." :
In response Acting- SecretUry Ed-
wards telegraphed Captain Atnswortll
of the revenue cutter Rush that unless
other Arrangements can be made to
o . , i .. . . t ........ 1 i. r -- VntH era. h
should proceed with his vessel. In
response to this telegram the Depart
ment late today received a teleffram
to the effect that the Rush had sailed.
Asks More Money for Famine.
ST. PETEBSBtJRG. Jan. 12. The
Minister of the Interior has asked the
Council of Ministers for a further
famine relief credit of s535.500.000.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Wctber.
YESTERDATS Maximum temperature, 34
degreos; minimum, 28.
TODAY'S Fair and continued cold: north
east winds.
foreign.
Seven rioters shot In presence of populace
at Orizaba. Mexico. Page 2.
Russian election campaign grows warm
PaBe S.
Radical reforms in Ch.nee government.
Page 5.
Stead propones pi 1 gr1mBg of pact to Th
Hasua. Pace 2.
Rational.
Tillman and Patterson have verbal duel In
Senate on Brownsville rioters. Page 1.
Bids opened for Panama canal contract.
Page a.
president proposes ' Government close Col
orado River break and irrigate whole
Hey. Page 13.
President m ay abandon
Wlckerahara. " f ag 5.
flcht for Judge
Polities.
Tebate on Bailey charges begins in Texas
Lesjlaluture. Page
Bryan admits he is candidate for President
rage 2. t' ; . .
Domestic.
Man accrued vT crime on- ground he did t
in P.r. i. ,
Harrltiiar a'jrartr merger with . Atchison
linfe ij. rorthetn CallfonUft. pag- 2.
Union Pacific cranti ihlppinc facllltlM to
'. boycotted coat mine. Page 2. . i . '
W'ells-Farjo'ti) replace Pacific Exprtsg on
. Union Pacific. Paste a.
I'l-rf packers finally arrange trust. ' Page 2.
WMtern ' railroads gram "waaej Increase to
engineers. Pafe 2.
Civic Federation conference In Mrs. Potter
Palmer's mansion. Page S.
rae.He CotMt.
n6ureentP claim organisation of Wash-
' ington;Leglslature. Page 14:
California -n-tll endeavor to shako off grip
of Standard oil trust. Page in.
Eight men crow Columbia on ice at The
Dalles, page 15.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat and dour higher because of Increased
demand from China. Page .iO.
Effect of enow, blockades on Eastern mar-
kets. Page ,19. '
General recovery In stoefca at New York.
Page 3I.
Large cast, gain by New York banks. Page
3.
Portland stock market more active. Page
89.
Bark Big Bonanza safe In San Fran
cisco. Page 17-
Portland and Vicinity.
Southern Pacific Company holds vtrtual
land monopoly In Oregon by Its disre
gard of limitations under which vast
tracts were granted by Congress. Page 1.
Malarkey announces that he will iupport
Haines for president of Senate. Pane 24.
Spokane's demand - for terminal ratea will
be heard tomorrow; Portland sends rep
resentatives to hearing. Page 8-
County division fights will .give Legtsla.
ture xcork. Page 24.
Heal estate men will demand legislation;
want status defined. Page 16.
Mayor Lane's annual message, ready; goes
. to Council Wednesday. Page 10.
Amanda Reed's heirs abandon fight to break
will. Page 8.
Bandit holds up woman; two masked thugs
rob St. Johns man. Page 10.
S. G. Reed denies that he Is a candidate for
president of Commercial Club. Page 32.
Onion growfrg look for better prices; rejolcs
over defeat of buyers combination.
rage 11.
' Features and Departments.
Editorial. Page 6-
Church announcements. Page 31.
Claasined advertisements. Pages 17-23.
When Russia loaned the United States. 500
sal lore, page &x. .
Mr. Dooley. Page .
George Ade's revised story. Paae 45.
Outlaw horses that never can be trained.
Page 43.
Mo.t exalted of Government positions. Page
Why American Jews are miccestjful.- Page 49,
French Cuirassiers abollfched. Page 44.
'Help wanted;" America's cry. Page 42.
Tallapus Indian legend, children's eupplHmcnt.
The making of a successful wife. Page 49.
Book Review?. Page 50. ;
Social. Pages 26-27.
Dramatic. Pages 3-4 -35 -Musical.
Page 28. -
i Houeenold and fashion?. Pages 48 and 47.
THE LIFE OF A MODERN RAILWAY MAGNATE
12 M. ". eneral Clsmor About Car
bhortBK Reaches . Him.
no
UE5T1
HDTLY DEBATED
NorthernYersusoilth-
- ern Democrats.
MVM'S TYPICAL ORATION
Accuses Roosevelt of Arousing
Negro Hopes.
PATTERSON ON OTHER SIDE
Colorado Senator Defends Discharge
of Xegro Troops and lias Wordj
Combat VYllh Till am n, IVlllcll
Makes Galleries Applaud. .
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. The Senate
listened to a debate on trie race question
today in which Tillman was the principal
participant and Patterson of Colorado his
opponent. They brought Into striking
contrast the ideas of the South and .North.
President Roosevelt's . action in the
Brownsville matter? was the subject of
discussion. -
Tillman held that nothing was Involved
in it except tta tm question, and that
the Admlnlsfcrmtlon was responsible for
the growlrrff' acute condition of the race
question inf me South, Tte FTesIdent. 118
maintained, had encouraged the negro to
a-aert his eQualttsr and then had wrought
vengeanoa on a whole battalion for f ol-
lowing tliat ' encouragement. He con-
demned theL President's action in some re-
ipercts. r
Patterson) defended the President's right
b dismiss fhe troops, but said there might
be some gfound to Question its policy,
lie condemhed in strong terns what he
regarded a,
tfte radical position of Till-
man, and
redlcted the extinction of the
DemocratL
party tn the Korcn would fol-
low a conti
nu&nce of such tactics.
t.1Clll5ieJ four lours and v.au
listened
tlironya
with great Interest by the
1 lr- T tilled the aralleries. by
maxiy methbers of the House of Rep re-
1 'II . ' I t. .... 'i I ,
Stmiauveg H0 lUICd the Senate chamber.
and by ma
iy Senators. On several occa-
aiona -f. the.
callerles. had, to be warned
against applause by the' Vice-President,
who finaUy threatened to clear -them.
No- aVtion
taken on the resolution
for ia.ii investigation of the Brownsville
affray, but. Foraker gave notice that on
Monday he would endeavor to have it dis
posed, of. - '
' Discharge Contrary to Law.
SenatOfi-TUlmaj) characterized the Pres
ident'. action in the. matter as "nothing
more or less than lynching.'"
Ho challenged anyone to produce, in the
army regulations or articles of war, any
foundation for the charge of conspiracy
or silence, mutiny and treason made
against the soldiers, although he declared
there was no doubt that the soldiers were
responsible for the "outrage at Browns-
vllle."
Mr. Tillman held that 'it was contrary
to the fundamental principles of liberty
of English and American law that the in-
nocent should suffer because of the sins
of the guilty; he also declared that a man
shall be considered innocent until he is
proved guilty.
"In this case' he said, "167 rnen have
been punished, while- not more than 20
men have been charged with particlpa-
Hon in the crime." Mr. Tillman maintains
that the negro .troops should not have
been sent to Texas. They were sent there.
he said, against the protects or one of the
Texas -Senators and one Congrdssman
from that district.
This was done, 2hXr. Tillman explained,
"without any thought or care pn thv part
Of the President or Secretary of War as
to the result. The first thought of the
President was to protect the negroes and
to punish the citizens by abandoning the
post."
Officers to Blame..
"Especially Major Penrose and Captain
Macklln." .Mr. Tillman said, "are shown
to have acted with areata negligence and
incompetence." .
Mr. Tillman declared all the soldiers in
the trouble were from Macklln's company
and that Macklin did not believe that a
negro had seized Mrs. .Evans by the hair,
and that he made no effort to detect the
soldier. This, he thought, raised the ques
tion as to whether or not Captain Mack-
lln was in sympathy with the scheme of
P. f. Indicted for Train Wraka
Thrvusb InelTlclent -sual Bjftteiu.
revenfe. Air. Tillman declared Senator
Foraker had "belittled himself by attach
ing Major filoksom as a man whose fath
er was a copperhead.
"Are we never to nave an end of the
war and ,ts bitterness?" he asked. "It is
useless to deny that the race question lies
at the bottom of all this. It la equally
useless to say these troops were not dis-
Charged because they were negrcs. If
the negroes had been treated the same
way as white regulars were treated at
Athens, Ohio, the civil authorities would
have arrested those believed to be guilty
and let the matter be decided in the
courts. In that instance the War J-e-
partmeht defended the regulars, alttioujli
they had committed murder, and it was
declared the troops were the wards of the
Jation a very proper and right position
Jo take.
Whole Issue One of Race.
"The whole issue is one ot race, and the
Senator T. I. Patterson, of Colorado,
iieniocnt, Who Oof ends llsciiars;e
or Nffro Troopi
President is primarily more responsible
than any other man for the position the
negroes in the South have taken on the
question of Negro rights. He gave recog-
mtton to Booker T. "Washington In a eo
cial way., He did it knowing: he was
lying in the face ox caste feeling among
seventeen ml I! tons of Southern white men
and against tha same feeling of two-
thirds of the Northern people. Me does
not. understand the negro or the deep and
vital character of the Issue involved. He
made' a mesa' of it In the first" instance
and has made a worse mess of the last.
"The attitude of the administration onv
soctel riivjf.'t'o'.!) his been the cmt n
great and notable change tn the demeanor
of th negroes throughout the South, and
tho greater question of relationship be-
t'wefin the' races cannot be 'much longer
Kept down.' c; --
After predicting: in: the near future a
race connict, Mr. Tillman said; ;
"Broadly stated. -the white people of the
United' States are face to face with -the
vital Issue as to whether alio Caucasian
race shall' share its inheritance with the
other races of the earth. ' In Cuba the
Question presses for solution and. imme
diate action. Shall that Island be gov
erned by negroes or white, men? Shall it
be doomed to the fate of San Domingo,
or "shall . it he saved for the white man?
The question ol a protectorate or.annex'
atlon and of the future status of the peo.
pie, there must be determined in the near
future.' Tbat la only one phase of the
question. ,,' .
Same Issue on Pacific Coast.
"On the Pacific Coast the relationship
between the Mongolians and the Cau
caslans is involved. The President an
nounces -himself favoring the policy of
absolute obliteration of the race line, the
granting of full cltizenshb to the Japan
ese. The Americans of the Pacific Coast.
as I understand it. are hltterly opposed- to
this policy, and without regard to party
lines. These Americans ought to know
what is for their best interests, and they
ougbt to and undoubtedly will have the
sympathy and aid ot their fellow citizens,
North and South, in protecting- their In
terests. "But these two phases of tne race
problem sink Into insignificance alongside
of the greater and more vital question of
the relationship of the races in the South
ern States of the Union. - .
,"In elx Southern States In ' the . aggre
gate the negroes outnumber, the whites,
and in two of them. South Carolina and
Mississippi, the negroes' - preponderance
lg very heavy.
. "Under the law these people possess
very right that white men have as far
as the Federal Constitution confers rights
and the fifteenth amendment expressly
forb.ds the' enactment of a law which
shall discriminate in voting- on account
ol race or color. Large numbers ot
these negroes 'are disfranchised at this
time, but- the laws are only- temporary.
and work no injustice, and in near future
enough negroes will -be able to vote to
make Inevitable the struggle for mastery
between tho races.. In Cuba the color line
(Concluded on Tage 4.)
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tin W et.
Famine Cove
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1 0- H !
IMC
TO UNITED STATES
Surpasses All Move-
merits of Nations.
ISRAEL'S EXODUS MERE PIGMY
Millions Drawn by Lure ol
American Freedom.
ALL BECOME AMERICANS
As Many Italians In Xew .York af
" "Ve-i. ice X m it. J ft rn nt? A-o it niti late
Much wealth and .ltlain
llislt Office.
rt-T FREDERTCK J. Tt.PrtI?C.
The whole vocabulary of mankind
Contains no more alluring name than
that - of America. This country has
attracted more homehunters than ever
went anywhere else since the world
began. All the other migrations of
men are . puny affairs in comparison
with the movement to the United
States; In fart, the grand totals of this
unparalleled "trelc" to tlie land ot tli
free, and the home of the brave are ;?o
staggering that mere figures do not
convey their full slsniflcance to the
mind. Iset us make our similes with-
out the aid of figures,
There are more Jews in tht State of
New York tiian were numbered among
the hosts wlil on followed Moses from
Egypt to the Promised Land. The man-
ner tn which the subjects of the Kaiser
have flocked to Yankeeland Is indlcat-
ca by the fact that there are neatly
700 newspapers in this country which
are printed In the German language.
There are so many French Can ad I ana
ill Lowell. Mass., that they hold the
balance of power in tlie municipal elec
tions of that busy manufacturing con-
tcr. The Swedes are so ttilcK In the
Northwest that a Minneapolis news
paper recently offered the S31ble printed
in Swedish bb a subscription premium,
and there are so many Irishmen in
New York: City that each year 40.0OO
sons of rin march, in the parade on
St. FatrlcK a Day.
More Italians Than In Venice.
"Thai the lure of America is not a
myth is proven by the material condi
tion" .of the 175,000 natives of Italy
who now make their home in New
York & colony in a single community
Of the United States containing more
Italians than there are in the City
of . Venice. These New York Italians
possess property worth $'30,000,000.
They have over $15,000,000 in the sav
ing banks of Manhattan. They own
10,000 stores, 4000 pieces of city real
estate and they are Increasing their
substance every day. At the last horse
show held In Madison Square Garden,
an occasion when the richest women
of America vie with each oth
er In
flaunting their collection of jewel:
the
most resplendent ot them all was Miss
Moroslni, the daughter of an Italian
banker in Gotham.
JVs sl rule it does not take Ions' for
the foreigner to prosper in opulent
America If you Inquire, in all likeli
hood you wiiliind that your servant
srlrl Is sending part of her wages to
the home folks In Europe. The organ-
grinder and the banana-man usually
send a portion - of their nickels and
dimes to dependent ones on the other
side, and tje sum total from such.
sources soon clmba into the millions.
The enormous sums - groins from this
country to Europe In this manner ar
shown by the postofttce reports. Dur
ing the last fiscal year the I'nlted
States sent postal money orders abroad
to the amount of $62,937,738. and Inas
much as most business transactions
are conducted through banks, tlie bulks
of the money order receipts Is con-
ceded to be personal remittances.
Italians send more money home than
any other class of adopted Americans.
Last year they snt to their families
and friends in Italy and to the Italian
savings banks for deposit, over 913,-
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