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FAGS FOUH ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. CIK morning flstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 ' PUBLISHED BY AST0R1AN PUBLISHING COMPANY. . RATES. By mail, per year ' $6 00 By mail, per month 50 . By owners, per month 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 LYNCHING STATISTICS. In the current issue of the Independent appears an interesting article by George P. Upton, associate editor of the Chicago Tribune, on the subject of Jynchings. Mr. Upton is the recognized authority on this matter in America, and for 20 years he has fapt a record of all lynchings reported in the news papers of the nation. . Mr. Upfon's figures show that there have been 2S75 lynchings in the United States since 1SS5, the nly states in which lynchings have not occurred eing Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Utah. In the south 2499 lynchings took place; in the west, 302 j on the Pacific coast, 63, and in the east, 11. The most prevalent cause of fynching is shown to be murder, and Mr. Upton adds that, startling as it may seem, murder is the na tional crime. His tables assign 73 different reasons for the commission of the 2875 lynchings. Of the to tal number lynched, 1099 paid the penalty for mur der, while 564 were subjected to mob violence on ac count of rape. The other 1212 lynchings were com mitted for minor offenses, not one of which "offered the slightest justification," Mr. Upton says. The lynching record is certainly an appalliing ene. That 2875 persons should hava Vilfoj W mobs in 19 years seems almost incredible in this in telligent land, and in a measure the condition is a Hot on our national reputation. Bishop Chandler. f Georgia, avers that "lynching is due to race hatred, and not to any horror over any particular trime," hut this conclusion seems scarcely logical. T Iff TTlTinK V.1n il A. iV- ching record denotes a determination on the part f lynchers to curtail the criminal tendency by mob methods than a disposition on the part of the lynch ers to shed human blood. Bishop Chandler's asser tion is that of a man whose antipathy for mob violence has made him unreasonable. Everyone will agree that the law should be al lowed to take its course in all matters, and lynchings are therefore to be deplored." However, we of the aorth have little idea of the feeling of southerners. In the south the crimes which result in lynchings are committed. Negro criminals, knowing that death will speedily overtake them, persist in the most fiend ish atrocities, in many instances their victims being women and children. Drastic measures are neces sary, and' if the, law is ignored by outraged com munities it is only because its operation is inadequate to the occasion. The statistics are so arranged as to make the most mfavorable showing for the south, and at the first fiance the ordinary student of national conditions will form an erroneous conclusion. He will put it flown that southerners are inclined to murder, through the medium of lynchings, when, as a matter ef fact, lynchings occur with greater frequency in the south than elsewhere because the crimes which might possibly justify mob violence are most fre quent in that section of the country. The lynch ing spirit is not the spirit of any particuar section, and the people of Massachusetts, New Hampshire; Vermont, Rhode Island and Utah would be quite as prompt as the southerners to take the law in their own hands if rapists and murderers were as numer ous in their states. Not infrequently some rapist is fynched by a northern mob, and, indeed, it is the exception when a avisher is turned over to the law. . The experience of the nation with colored crim inals Vill not justify the declaration that legal pro eednre will stamp out rape. With crime of this tort no' punishment is too severe. -And as to the attitude of the south toward the negro, we believe the people of that section thoroughly understand the conditions. Certainly, they ought to, for the negro is theirurden. In point of humanity and intelli gence, southerners will average very well with the lest of us, and there is not the slightest foundation lor the oft-repeated statement that they are indus triously seeking the lives of colored residents. Lynching is terrible, and greatly to be deplored; hut rape is a thousand times worse. , over expenditures. This is in striking contrast with the showing for August, when expenditures exceed ed receipts by $6,400,000. The total deficit for the curent fiscal year," beginning with July 1 amounts to $17,865,000, whereas on September. 1. it amounted to $2,790,000. . During July and August the government's ex penditures are always extremely heavy. This is be cause federal appropriations for the new fiscal year become available on July 1, and for several weeks thereafter there is an enormous drain on the federal treasury.. This drain is now practically at an end, and for some time to come unless there should be a marked falling otf in customs receipts and internal tax revenues the government's receipts should con tinue to show an excess over expenditures. Should this expectation hold good, Secretary Shaw's fore cast last winter of a deficit of only $23,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30 next may not prove to he far out of the way. There is a possibility given improved trade conditions which now seem probable, that by that date there will be no deficit whatever. " , With September's excess of receipts over ex penditures the situation of the federal treasury has materially improved. The available cash balance now to the credit of the government is substantially $151,500,000, over 33,000,000 of which consists o actual cash in the treasury, the remainder being on deposit in national banks. This is an encouraging gain over a month ago, when the available cash in the treasury had dwindled to almost $25,000,000. Had it not been, of course, for the $50,000,000 that was paid out last spring on account of the Panama canal project, the government's cash bal ance would now be in the neighborhood of $200,' 000,000. .There is no likelihood, however, that the present slender treasury balance will cause any un easiness, lne banss are amply supplied witn money for crop moving purposes and there is no probability that the treasury will be asked to come to the aid of the money market. ;p. : A. STOKES :" I "The Store That Does Things." S X ' ,. '-.''-.-,, , o V TO A I1MIMIIII , - . . . . W 0 0 o I ) 0 ) o o If you want () to know what smartly dressed . ' . THE TREASURY SITUATION. The government's receipts for fhe month of Sep tember show an excess of practically $5,900,000 BUSINESS AND EDUCATION. When the colleges, law schools and universities clasp hands with the banks and insurance companies in the matter of fitting men for the special work de manded by the latter, we may well congratulate everybody immediately concerned, says the New York Commercial In 1903 Harvard university conferred an honor ary degree on one of the most expert and distin guished among the well-known insurance men and actuaries of the world. Now comes news from New Haven that Yale, at the next meeting of the corpo ration, will appoint Charles Earl Johnston, of the Phoenix Mutual, as head instructor of the new Yale insurance course, which opens this fall. At the meeting two weeks ago of the American Bankers' Association a report was presented from the committee on education that is of especial inter est to every progressive business man. This com mittee, under the title of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, has for some time promoted the study, among young men aspiring to the higher banking positions, of books on practical banking, commerial law and political economy. Now, as a culmination of these studies and of work done in lecture courses cov. ering these fields of study, the committee thanks to the efficient work of its New York secretary, George E. Allen, of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company- is able to report the establishment of a system of official examinations, conducted by men identified with American universities and familiar with their high standards. In commercial law the examiner is Professor Eu gene Wambaugh, of the Harvard law school ; in po litical economy, Professor J. C. Schwab, of Yale university, and in practical banking, William B. Ridgley, comptroller of the currency, and Joseph French Johnson, dean of the New York university school of commerce, accounts and finance. Already about 200 application for preliminary examinations in the courses are reported, and before the next annual meeting of the bankers' association it is hoped that final examinations for certificates will have been inaugurated. All this means insurance and banking on higher planes of intelligence and the clothing of business callings with the robes of professional dignity. The current notion that perjury is one' of the crimes that are on the increase is not borne out by the figures just issued relating to the German em pire. In 1882 the number of persons convicted in that country "of perjury was 1607; in 1902 it was only 1292, the decrease having been steady from year to year. Allowing for the great growth of the popu lation, this means a decrease of nearly 30 per cent in two decades. The rate charged by the United States postoffice on merchandise is 6000 per cent more than that charged by Germany. 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