Tillamook headlight., March 08, 1906, Image 4

QUIT ROGAR CONSOMPTION.
“TOO MUCH LAW-MAKING."
Beet Sugar Now Mom Than ti*M the
World*. Total Production.
REPRESENTATIF E ROWERSOCK,
OF KANSAS CITY, CRITICISES
Of the more than 1,200 million dol
HllL MAKERS.
To be one of an army of 10,000; to
travel by rallron 1 23,000 miles every
year; to stand in a car forming part
of a swaying, rushing train, surround­
ed by open-mouthed sacks and pigeon
holes, shuffling letters and papers at
the rate of 2,500 per hour; knowing
that every error goes against your
record; to work sometimes sixteen to
twenty-four hours at a stretch, often
sleepy and hungry—these are some of
the daily experiences of the railway
mail clerks. Then add to these the
conetan t possibility of being knocked
Into eternity or crippled for life in «
wreck.
Yet they are a contented lot, these
railway mall clerks, happy only
when “on the road.” But it is not
the environment for a omestic man.
nor for him who has passed the top
■f the hill of life and is jogging dowli
Into the dark valley beyond. 'Thus a
majority of the clerks are young men;
these are preferred by the Post Office
Department, for they have fewer
cares, are more active, and can work
faster and with greater accuracy.
Uncle Bam is proud of the person­
nel of thia expert force and takes
every precaution for their safety and
comfort. Tbeir hours are fixed, and
overtime is required only in cases of
absolute necessity.
tie wide. The comparatively light
tender and mail car responded instant­
ly, while the heavy baggage and
passenger coaches constituted a drag
that broke the coupling. Relieved of
this burden the engine, t rider and
mail car shot ahead and leaped the
twenty-foot draw, landing on the oth­
er side in safety, ’he engine ca ened
and side-wiped the iron bridge wo v,
tearing its Jacket to tatt rs and
knocking the cab into the rtv*
The
rest of the train, with brakes set au­
tomatically, came to a stop without a
foot to spare.
/fees Natanti Spcnrtthrifta.
The New York Times reprinted from
a Montreal paper—which doubtless
most
lifted It from one in London-
amiable story to the effect that when
bees are taken to Australia they learn
In a single year the uselessness of stor­
ing honey for a winter that never
comes and that they thereafter aban-
lar’s worth of merchandise brought in­
to the United States during the last
year more than 150 million dollar's I Says Selfishness and Ambition Lead
worth was sugar. Sugar formed by them .hrough a Wilderness of folly
far the largest single Item In this larg­ gnd Buncomb and Valuable Time
est Importation whlcn the United I is Wasted.
States has ever made in any single ’
"I have long criticised and seriously
year.
objected to the making of so many
The U ited States is increasing ’ laws, and I have long contended that
steadily and rapidly its consumption 1 men are not made good and honest by
of sugar. The sugar producers at ; statute,’’
remarked
Representative
home are increasing their out-put of ’ Justin D. Bowersock, of Kansas, re-
both cane and beet sugar, but even ‘ cently.
their rapid increase in production is
“The comparatively Indiscriminate
not keeping pace with the increasing
home demand, and as a consequence 1 enactment of legislation on all subjects
the quantity of sugar brouglft into the , —general, special and personal—is a
country increases from year to year. great evil and a greater folly. I have
It has doubled in the last twenty years, insisted that selfishness and prejudice
while population meantime increased are at the basis of too many enact-
but 50 per cent. The annual average - meats, and that human nature and
importation during tho five-year period the settled principles of business and
ending with 1885 was 1,031,149 tons, commerce, honorable competition, and
and d’— Ing the five-year period ending the results of supply and demand can
with 1905 the annual average was 2,106, hardly be changed by law to any ben-
043 tons, despite the fact that the sugar eüeial extent
production at home had grown from
"Corporate greed, cupidity, and cor­
176,035 tons in 1885 to approximately ruption cam be, ought to be, and will
600,000 tons in 1905.
be modified, curtailed, and brought
The United States Is the largest within decent limits, to say the least
sugar-consuming country In the world, No man desires this
ore earnestly
though the per capita consumption in than I do; no man will go further
this country is not as great as in the along any reasonable lines in any le­
United Kingdom. The total consnmp- gitimate and practicable effort to
bring this about, whether it be in con­
nection with railroad rates, Standard
Oil rebates, beef trust, un’awful com­
bination, watered stocks, or whatever
or whoever may burden the consumer
or producer, unduly or unjustly, for
extortionate gain.
“TSriual rights to all. special privil­
eges to none’ will not come through
impracticable, non-cnforceable laws
drawn on the theory that wo have ‘
reached the millennium.
“The ordinary legislator, and his
name is legion, has a legal panacea for
every ill. If he had as much honesty
as assurance, the title of his bills
would be:
“ ‘An act to make men do business
on earth as it is done in heaven,’ a
consummation devoutly to be wished;
but let us not forget the effect of the
Pope’s bull against a comet and the
beating of tom-toms by tue aborigines
on an eclipse.”
A Traveling Postoffice.
A railway ma. car is technically an
“R. P. O.” or Railway Post Office. ..
It
runs between stated points, receiving
and distributing mail through post
offices along the line. It is A govern­
ment post office on wheels, and is
United States territory, though owned
by the railroad. It is as well built
and as completely equipped for its
purpose as a Pullman. Iron racks for
mall sacks extend along each side.
Above are tiers of open boxes and tig-
eon holes. “Work tables” si ? on
the racks. There Is neither plush nor
mahogany. It is built for work and
Is the abode of workers.
Let us Imagine that this car Is the
“R. P. O.” leaving Pittsburg, Pa., for
A Two-Fcot Rat.
Cleveland, Ohio, over the Pennsylva­
nia road. The Pittsburg city post office
A
warehouseman
at the Oriental
delivers to the t ar mall for points east
dock, in Baltimore, had the distinc­
of Cleveland (called "local mail”) and
MTEfilOe Of A MAIL CAB.
"through mall” for Cleveland and
tion the other day of killing the larg­
points west. The train rushes out of don their dear-bought fame as models tion in 1904 aggregated 2,767,000 tons, est rat ever seen along the local water
Pittsburg. The whistle blows for a of industry and hilariously devote to making an average consumption for
station. No stop here. A "helper,” sport or idleness all of their time ex­ each individual for the year of about front. The rodent -weighed nearly
seven pounds, and from the tip of his
opens a side door, swings out the mall cept just enough In each day to satisfy 75 pounds.
__
“catcher" and pieks up a mail sack that day’s hunger. No doubt this tale
During the half century prior to 1890 nose to the end of his tail he measured
from a crane by the track. Now the will shock and grieve a large number beet sugar formed a small proportion, two feet.
work begins. This sack contains mail of estimable people, but for our own of the world’s sugar production,
It was only after a desperate fight,
from the station Just passed. Some of part, says the Times, it very consider­ tho percentage which beets supplied
lasting twenty minutes, that the im­
it is for the next office, some for ably increases such little affection as of
the
world
’
s
sugar
product
being
in
mense rat was killed. For some time
Cleveland, some for the
for west. We previously had for these tiresomely
Who mail is dumped on a taf>lA and a virtuous fowl and ther.-fore will we 1840 but 4.3 per cent, in 1850 14.3 per «craps of paper anJ wood In the tool­
cent,
in
1890
63.7
per
cent,
while
1900
room of the warehouse indicated that
clerk pounces on it like a wolf on a do our best to believe it. There are
lnmU He tosses letters In all direc­ some difficulties in the way of doing showed for beets the highest propor-' a swarm of rodents was at work. Then
tions. He throws papers and pack­ that Bees, despite their reputation for tlon tn the world’s production of sugar, one morning the warehouseman en­
ages hither and yon, this way and intelligence, are evidently about the 67.7 per cent
countered the big fellow.
With a
that, as flist as afi expert eard player stupidest things with wings—merely
broom handle he attempted to put an
can distribute a deck. But every pi<*ce animated acquisitiveness, indeed work­
end to the rodent’s life, but the rat
Ghostly Ashes.
of mail find« Its mark In a particular ing aa hard as an American million­
showed fight. Back and forth he
•ack or box. The sack“» and boxes are
They had just moved in the house «Tampered, and when cornered he
la I a-ted ; but the label« ard unneces- aire to pile up wealth fa- beyond any and,
as is usually the case, the former ntsbed at his assailant Once he hid be­
needs, without a single talent
■ary; Ills quick eye catches only the possible
1
tenants ' had left much rubbish behind hind a coil of rope overhead, and then
to get, get, get.
name of the office, ignoring that of except
1
he dashed at the man’s head. The
the addressee. Though Ute work p-
Aa fighters, while bees are brave them.
"Just Took,” complained the little latter dodged but the rodent's sharp
pears iuecltaulcal it callfl for a high enough,
1
they are unable to strike more
degree of training. Note the marvel- Utas a single blow against any of their woman, "here are three horrid palls teeth grazed his face. At last the rat
was killed and measurements proved
lout* accuracy—less than two per cent. more
1
dangerous foes, dying themselves of ashes In the yard.”
that he was the biggest ever seen in
of errors fn the work of the wLola as
1 a result of it, while the foes, after
"Ah,” laughed the big husband, port.
force for a given year.
howling with pain for a bit, calm down “speak of them with more reverence.’
The whistle blows for another way asd hunt more honey. It is almost
The anfmal Is supposed to be a spe­
“Reverence. Why should I?
at a tlon. Tbe door is opened, a sack 1« fncredible, therefore, that a creature
cies found in South America and it is
'Why,
they
are
the
ashes
of
the
de
­
thrown off. and the catcher yanks an­ Incapable of seeing the futility of work
believed he camo here In a ship, all of
other sack about for distribution. And carried to an absurd extreme only for parted."
which carry many rodents.
so it gneu without cessation. The the profit of human robbers should be
whole scheme is so arranged f’M
there is just time, working wl.a the able so quickly to draw an inference
utmost speed and accuracy, to make from the failure of winter to appear
when expected.
"Almost" is not
connections.
“quite,” however, and we. too, can be­
Stull Needed to Throw Sacks.
lieve what we want to believe. So we
'Throwing off sacks calls for anoth­ will not question the story from Aus­
er kind of skin. The expert knows tralia—where everything is possible,
from the weight of sack, speed of anyhow—ami we hope that somebody
train and pressure of w'«d just when will take a few of our sets down there
■nd how to let the sack go. He can and prove that they. also, are induo
drop K on a mark. If
pistform be trious only because they have to be—
crowded or lit Sr red with baegagu be that they are not a bit fonder of indus­
niuat ptrk a < tear spot lest Kts eaimoo try than are the butterflies or any of the
ball ef leather and * m 11 lesrxx uu sluggards who have always had the
against some unreapectiug nuvewr. I sense to see that between toil to-day
have seen a mall cterk drop a sixty and hunger tomorrow there is so little
pound sack from a train gulag a mile te chooee that differences of opinion
a minute, landing it lightly on a truck on the subject are entirely permissible.
twenty feet from the track.
• Of course there are accidents, and
danger is ufways present Yet tn ten
Fautaua for ArtiHeitl Noses.
ieara past but 9(1 clerks have been
The city of Indore is modem .sad
Hied on the road—an avrrage of ten
• year, wtth a forxv numbering up to ugly and nutntereatlag. Apart from
11,000. The legal representative -f being the prosperous capita! of a rich
rsch clerk so killed receives >1,000 native stale, its chief <laim to notor­
from the government Arrengrmeets iety rests upon Its hospital, which has
are contemplated tot payment of an won universal fame by the manufac-
That may
■nnnlty to every clerk permanently Iture of artificial aoeee.
dltutbled in fine of duty.
seem a very limited industry on which
The mat! car Is usually next the to build a name. But in India there
tender and runs a grenter risk hi ac­ are several trays of promoting thia In­
cidents than a passenger car.
But dustry When a woman comes to the
the position Is sornet lines advanta­ hospital carrying her none tn a naphta
geous. An Instance Is cited of a pecu­ you may fairly assume that her hue
StNATOR LODGE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE HIS AMENDED Mil.
liar wreck near I’onghkevp-je, N. T. band suspects a breach of the Seventh
(The train was crossiug a bridge when Commandment .When a man appears
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Senator Lodge’s bill providing for :P„l^nii?ent' Sl,,zens recommended by
the reorganization of the consular ser­ legislators should accept paltry places
vice has been shorn by the Committee at the foot of the list was intensely
on Foreign Relations of its most in­ repugnant to the Senatorial sense. As
cendiary and detestable features—the statesmen representing watchful and ex­
provision for examining candidates
pectant constituents, many of whom ex-
for appointment, and this still more erciae
valuable influence in behalf of
objectionable section:
their party, they could not consent to
“That whenever a vacancy shall closing the door of hope. Every Con­
occur in the office of consul general,
gressional di-trict has its share of
or consul abovo the sixth ($4.000) class «■derly
students of the
members of the two classes next below M’f1? ’ and hlghminded
m< n who may hava been
that in which the vacancy occurred
“ffet®d by fortune and who
shall be deemed eligible to be selects J cherish b the
hope of dodging further
to fill such vacancy."
This was a palnable attempt to en­ cruel strokes by landing in a pleasant
graft the merit and promotion system consulate. They are man who have
done yeoman service for their party,
"non the concn’.ar service, and thereby and
often they retain connections that
to deprive national la-makers of their can not be ignored. Are these to be
ancient sacred right to assist the Presi superseded and thrust aside by dod -
'ent in selecting consuls general and fojavs. Are the oxen that tread out
bigheaiarted enntmte. A majority of
“J,zxl«d? I® the accurs-
the committee regard it as the sordid d thirst for ** cold
commercialize th«
njection of commerelallsm Into a pure­ honorable office of to consul,
so long the
ly political matter, on the flimsy pre­ haven of ancient mariners tempest-
tence that fN> consular service is a tossed on chartless political sens, the
business institution.
tte badge of
Tf the Committee on Foreign Rela.
tions had pe-mttted this section to
The Senate Committee on Foreign
stand ft would have been an abject cap- Relations will not have ft so. That
itnlation to the fore« that are sur­ committee, consulting it» bowels of
reptitiously robbing Congress of Its
C00««" «hall
patronage powers.
The Idea that share
share with the President tbe pleasures
young consuls that hare made good re­ tLr<Z,aL['i!"8 f,he faithful with the tat-
•»»• pllrtt you may set him
down as a usurer who has fallen into
the hands of hie clients, and has had
no Portia to plead his cause. Indore
Is th« Mecca of these unfortunates.
cord« should bo promoted and that test consular plaooL
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