ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22
Clic morning fistorian
KSTAIILKSIILD 1873
eiid resources fnun which it would be harder for
her to recover than it would be for Russia.
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FAR EAST "WAR LOANS. ?
The Japanese government has decided to raise
new domestic loan of $40,000,000. In addition
New York and London bankers have been ap
iproaehed recently as to the prosect of Japan being
able to secure a loan of anywhere- from $100,000,000
to $250,000,000 within the course of another year.
The replies to the proposition have not been satis
- factory to the island empire. Neither in New York
nor in London does there seem to be any spasmodic
rush for Japanese government securities. . ,
f The reason thereof is not strange. Japan is not
f a ricl nation. It has made marvelous and oommend
3 able progress industrially, socially and otherwise
within the last 20 or 30 years, but the great mass of
?. its population still remains steeped in what, in this
? country, would be regarded as abject poverty. For
' several years the people of that country have been
ennrmnTlslv tflXpH in flrrW tn nerfebt ' its' militnrv
system, and the fact that it is now forced to look
abroad for means to continue its present war with
itussia indicates that the limit of taxation that the
Japanese can andure has nearly been reached.
This is borne out by the conditions under which
the foreign Janflneslnnn nf Inst Rnn'nor trna flnnfwl
xiSKs ior money, Dotn m tnis country ana in Eu
rope, were,cojparati easy at that time; yet
Japan was unable to float a 6 per "cent loan of $50,
000,000 except at a discount of about 6 percent be
low par, and even then was compelled to mortgage
Iter customs reecipts as collateral for the debt. She
las other assets, such as her pyernmentrOwned rail
ways and her monopoly of the tobacco traffie,' which
ahe eairld put in pawn for , additional borrowings
abroad; but should the present 'war 'continue ' for
any material length of time, it is an open question,
even thaogft Japan should be 'victorious over Riis
ma whether' th Japanese government, with all of
tfier enterprise- and push of the Japanese people
would be able' to meet its national obligations.
Count Gkaraa, a former premier of Japan, estimates
that, the east of the present war to that country
wHlf reach! one btjjpn dollars, and for a country of
the Emited resources of Japan, that necessarily
Beans a tremendous strain and burden.
' tTnriiniDifldly,. these considerations have had
siucfi to fo with the recent decline in Japanese
leersrilies in foreign markets. Although the liew 6
per cent bonds were floated last spring at about
54, they have been sold this week in London at as
law a price as 90, ex-dividend-and that, too, al
though Japan's custom receipts are pledged aa crl
jateral for these bonds. What would happen to
these securities, in case the Japanese army in Jlan
thuria should meet with a succession of' reverses
an easily be imagined. Unquestionably this contin
f ency, together with the narrow resources of Japan
and the heavy burden of taxation that is now. ira
josed upon the people of that empire, accounts
siainfy for the way that foreign financiers look
askance at the proposition for a hew Japanese loan.
It does not folw, of course, that there is no
aouan tt isussia s national purse. While Kussia s
icsouxces are vastly greater than Japan's, her na
tional debt is nearly ten-fold greater; and the fact
that the seat of the present war is near the ex
treme astern boundaries of her vast dominions has
frufoMj made that conflict immensely more costly
to Iter than it has been tQ her adversary. In ad
iti all accounts agree that the great mass of the
Xussuam people are sunk to almost the last degree
f poverty and that their situation ia such that it
b next to impossible to wring from them another
lopwefe is taxation. In an article in the September
Xevww af Reviews Dr. E. J. Dillon, who is familiar
withi Eossia, declares that the average Russian peas
ant csh spend generally,' but not always, three
ents- c day for food for himself and his wife and
aiMrra' So far as ability to stand the. exactions
f war is concerned, therefore, it would seem that
. the Ecnskn people are little better off than the Japanese.
The fact, however, that foreign financiers are
efikpwsvd! to favor Russian securities without !ol
jfeteracT as against Japanese securities backed by a
lea vn 'Japanese revenues is significant. This may
irot hrply that they believe that Russia will emerge
Irons the present conflict a victor, but it does im
jfjR apparently, that should Japan emerge as con-
wiwir she will do so at the cost of shattered finan
THE MATTER WITH OREGON. .
'"John Pinney. in a letter published in the Jour
nal yesterday, usks: "What is the matter with Or
gtmf" We know out here that Oregon is all rilit
but why is it that so few people Imek east know
anything about Oregon, or if their attention has been
drawn to this state at all, regard it with a vague
suspicion that it is a poor state! The reasons for
this have been often stated, says the Portland paper,
but if what Mr. Pinney and others say is true, it
seems that the stating of the reasons and all the urg
ing of action to make Oregon knowu in the eastern
states have had but little effect.
Early last spring the Journal urged that com
plete, coucise, tastefully arranged and attractively
dressed information about Oregon be systematically
distributed at St. Louis and elsewhere in great quan- j
titles, but visitors to eastern cities keep repeating
the story that they can find plenty of such literature
about California and Washington, but none about
Oregon. And this seems to be the main matter with
Oregon. v
Nearly everybody perceives that Oregon's priu
cipal need, in order to progress and become the great
state that nature so richly fitted it to become, is more
people, more home-makers, workers, producers, de
velopers, taxpayers. But to get these people here,
they must be told about Oregon ; their attention must
be attracted, their .interest aroused. This can lu
done only , by literature of the kind indicated, dis
tributed judiciously. A little work of this kind has
been desultorily doue, and the O. R. & N. railroad has
accomplished much along this line; but not one
tenth enough has been done. If Oregon is going to
achieve her proper destiny, and keep up with the
procession in this age of rapid and large movements.
she must toot her horn loudly and continuously,
and do it so that millions of eastern people will
hear. , ; "
In proportion to size, this state, in an all-round
view excels California, so famed throughout , the
eastern states, and is fully the equal of Washington,
that has left this state behind in population, wealth
arid development. But it counts for nothing for us
to know these facts. They must be made known
throughout the land.
But how, and by whom? The next legislature
ought to take tip this matter, and deal with it liber
ally. And Portland, as the state's chief city, ought
to do more than it has done in the past. Here is
work, too, for the development league, for the expo
sition management, and for every kind' of organiza
tion, and even' for individuals. . ' .
Within thg' next few months five million people
living- east of the Rocky mountains -ought tor-be
made, to hear about Oregon, to believe the truth that
Oregon is the best state in the union. ' '
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SHOULD REGULARS HAVE HIGHER PJtfl
General Funston, in order to raise the general
standard of the men in the army, recommends an
increase in the pay of army men, 50 per cent for
non-commissioned officers and 30 per cent for pri
vates. He says that at least half of the army tdday
is composed of inferior men, and that so much
money is wasted in efforts to make soldiers out of
them that an increase of pay, and consequently
better men to train, would not prove more expensive
to the government. t 1
Army officers have been somewhat at a loss to
explain and find remedy for the small number of
enlistments, and doubtless such an increase in rec
ompense would tend considerably to lessen thjs
trouble, but while it might be the means of increas
ing the number of desirable applicants for service
would enlistments on account of mercenary ends
result in a better class of men generally than those
now in service? While men in service in this coun
try are better paid than in any other, probably even
a material increase in their pay would be of use to
them. Still they must surely be a better class of men
than if remuneration were to be the sole inducement
and excuse for enlistment. And what if Uncle Sam'n
subjects are not generally desirous of giving up the
many interests of private life in order to help main
tain a large army! As in times past, if emergency
should arise and their services be needed, there
would be no lack of volunteers from among the in
telligent and patriotic men that are most wanted.
Until there is a much greater need and demand
for an increase in the number, and for better re
cruits for other than the given reasons, this recom
mendation will probably not be generally approved
by the majority of people. ' ',.
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We have been asked to publish the popular vote
cast for McKinley and Bryan in 1896 and 1900.
In 1896 McKinley 's popular vote was 7,111,607,
while Bryan's was 6,509,052, McKinley 's plurality
being 602,102. In 1900 McKinley received 7,218,:
353 votes, to' 6,357,807 cast for Bryan. McKinley V
plurality was 860,546. McKinley received 271 elec
toral votes in 1896, while Bryan received 176; in
1900 McKinley received 292, to 155 for Bryan. I
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