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DatL Otir an year, three dollafa. All mall aub
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the unskilled uorkman cart hold hit
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OUT OF THE MIRE
TIlE Record rejdlccs In tho prosperity of
the Evenino Ledoer, but "had hoped Tor
' a helper In pulllns Philadelphia out ot tho
protectlvo mlro."
Just what reason our contemporary had
tor Its hopes la not clear. Tho EvENiNq
; ItEtxiEn happens to be dedicated to the In
' terests of this city, as well as tho Interests
of the nation. It was scarcely likely, there-
1 , fore, to advocato empty dinner palls, soup
nouses ana penny lodging places tor tnn
workmen of Philadelphia, or treasury defi
cits for tho nation
l
lj unaruy oeRins at nomc, ana numamta-
nanism is a sicKiy dream wititout solid pros
perity to back it. Philadelphia gets Into a
Mlro only when an excellent company of
, theorists get to Washington and begin ex-
lrlmentlng. which they have a chance to do
now and then owing to tho treachery of a
few nepublican leaders who aro In the busi
ness of statesmanship for revenue only.
CITY OR CENSORS?
THE courts of Allegheny County have, In
a recent decision, nullified the police
Tights of Pennsylvania cities. By declaring
that tho Stato Board of Censors for moving
pictures Is tho final authority, they havo
taken away the fupdamental power of each
etty to govern itself It is Impossible to bo
ltevo that this decision will stand when onco
Its meaning has been made clear.
Tho Board of Censors has plenary power to
Allow or disallow nims for exhibition In this
pute. The tyranny of this body has been
suffered only because appeals to the courts
' nd to the police hayo been available as a
eheck upon It. Now the Court has decided
1 that -when a film has passed the censors It
. cannot be stopped by the police.
Tho full effect of this decision Is to tie the
hands of individuals and to deliver the cities
bound and gagged Into the hands of the
board. The censorship of plays properly
rests wth the people. Their protests are
if There 1A nothing Inherently wrong with the
movies to make another kind of censorshlD
fW necessary. And there is nothing sacrosanct
sreout the Board of Censors to make Its
. -aclsIons Irrevocable. Thero was almost a
p riot on Broad street last night, yet the
to' jroltco were without authority to forbid the
hf exhibition of the pictures to which objec-
'jf tlon was made. Irrespective of tho merits.
or demerits of the particular show, It is
apparent that the city Is placed In nn ln-
Jk' tolerable situation.
HOW NOT TO GET FOREIGN TRADE
ON THE day that the Foreign Trade
Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce was
opened In this city a Phllodelphlan was send
ing broadcast throughout tho United States a
plea Intended to arouse public sentiment
against a loan, tho solo purpose of which
la to protect our foreign trade. "
We cannot slap the foreigner In the face
, -with one hand while we hold out the other
lor a large order for goods, that is, with any
intelligent hope of getting the order.
FOLLOWING LINCOLN'S EXAMPLE
Cabinet spells one word conscription.
JCvuhIno Ledoer, May 22.
THE qablnet, notwithstanding the evident
meaning of the breaking down of party
government and the summoning of the lead
ers of all parties to unite and to share respon
sibility for the Inevitably unpopular cpurse,
declined to admit that It was considering a
forced draft of men.
But four months have passed since the
ministerial upheaval, and now Premier A"
qulth Is saying In public what he must have
been saying In private from the beginning.
lie is not yet ready to- announce when the
conscription order will be Issued, nor to state
tho number of men to be dratted, but con
tents himself with announcing that when the
Government has arrived at Its conclusions
they will be presented to Parliament.
In the meantime the advocates of con
criptlon are urging the example of Lincoln
In th Civil War, and tellinc the British pub.
Uo o-a about American history than it
it new before.
THE GAMBLER
p-mbler Is not even a sport, Ho Is a
i, a picitpocKci, a criminal Tho pub-
prey. Tnerefore. It is distressing
,fkt tha Police Department lacks
erueft ib recrudescence of gunblltig
ct tw weaKUngs who think they
l jhe game from themselves.
, would never pay as n regular
nM or profession If it nv
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jp , - - -.- r -?
akMignwr man a rams horn Luck would
yjl-)cau88 by the law of average (t, coula
t-(lie vitally "break" irj favor of the bank,
ir evn usually All thp legend f "gam
blur's uck" Is piffle- plcturesrjue-, maybe, per.
-siKii'ua, certainly Professional proficiency
t any t!MIn will, of, courae. Bid an ata
taaari io win uwni me novtcc, A jiraamri"
u. i luck," aMrtvmr, 14
EVENING LEDGEB HIJiAPELPIA'.
q
mrtcsty. m tiM lMi in Hm 1S, th weight in
the wttert, tha nfck in the Card.
As t tha famed gambler's "honor," he
hasn't any, for such an attribute Is purely
mythical He surrenders It when he loads
his dice, weights his wheel, nicks his pack
of cards. In his real colors tho gambler Is
devoid of even a rudimentary vestlgo of
honor, as men understand tho term, what
ever curious code ho may follow with his
fellow professionals. For that does not ex
tend to tho public
The gambler Is an economic waster. He
shows no compunction for his Victim; no
mercy should be shown him. He seeks and
gets something for nothing. He panders to
the most debased cupidity. He Is an encour
gcr of waste, fraud and dishonesty In
others. He Is an associate, abettor and ac
complice In tho entire range of tenderloin
ism and criminal activity.
Tho gambler has no legitimate placo In the
body politic or social. He Is a canker which
should be cut out or off. Ho does not belong
tn Philadelphia. Superintendent of follco
Itoblnson's statement that Councils has re
fused to appropriate funds to reimburse tho
department for Investigations of gambling Is
another stern indictment against that body
for Its callous dlsregnrd of tho public weal.
DR. HEXAMEtVS SPECIOUS PLEA
DOCTOU HKXAMEn'S protest against tho
Anglo-French loan Is superficially shrowd
but fundamentally unsound. There is a cer
tain element of political cunning in his at
tempt to call up tho bugaboo ot the. Money
Trust and to chargo It with conspiring to rob
the American people of their savings for tho
benefit of tho Allies. It will frighten a few
people, deceive a few more, and muddle tho
thinking of others.
The unsoundness of tils' statement lies In
Its assumption that tho loan involves some
thing more than an arrangement for Bot
tling bills already Incurred hero or about to
be incurred. Tho loan Is merely a plan for
deferring payment for auppltes needed In Eu
rope. Negotiable securities', bearing Inter
est, are to be Issued to creato credits In tho
banks, and bills aro to be paid with checks
drawn on the banks, and In flvo or ten years
tho loan can be repaid. Nono of tho money
Involved Is to go out of tho country. It will
all remain hero for tho development of our
.resources.
There is more involved In tho loan, and In
the salo of war munitions also, than tho
relation of the United States to tho Allies.
That relation is so remote that It does not
deserve serious consideration. Tho right of
the citizens of a hcutrnl nation to deal with
belligerents has been maintained by tho
United States from the beginning. Our
statesmen have known that circumstances
might arlso In which It would bo neceasary
for America to seek munitions abroad and
they havo refused to establish any prece
dent which would Justify any nation In re
fusing to permit us to buy munitions. They
have known also that thero may come a
time when it will bo necessary to rnlso
money abroad for national defense, and they
have thus far refused to lnterfore with
American money lenders. ,
Still further, however much tho United
States may need Its available capital for Its
own enterprises, tho time Is fast coming
when this will bo tho only nation with a
Burplus available for developing South
America and rehabilitating Europe. Ordi
nary business prudence requires us to tnko
advantage of every opportunity to strengthen
our position as a great International banking
centre, to which men of nil nations Will
come. We can do this only by accommo
dating them when they do como with proper
security for tho loans which they seek.
THE ANTI-QUEENSBERRY MOSQUITO
A BOXER living In Now York city has been
taken to a hospital to aavo him from
mosquito bites. As boxers go, the gentle
man was Btrong and hearty; as mosquito
victims go, he was a babe In arms.
That's Just the trouble with these mos
quitoes. They haven't the background of
chlvalrlc fighting which humanity enjoys.
They do not realize that In a fight tho con
testants must weigh in at the ringside at a
specified figure. Tho mosquito is an arrant,
a notorious fouler. He hits below the belt
and he bites In full clinches. He strikes
when his victim Is down and he doesn't wait
for the bell to ring. Ho Is guilty of every
pugilistic crime in the Marquis' calendar.
He ought to be debarred from the ring for
ever. WHAT ARE TEACHERS' UNIONS FORT
CHICAGO and New York are both much
exercised at this time by the prospect
ot unionized labor In their public schools. In
the former city a crisis has come with the
refusal of the authorities to allow a teachers'
union. In Now York the question still hangs
Are.
With those who hold that all collective ac
tivity Is criminal when it is conducted by
the laboring classes, there can be no argu
ment But open minds will still question
the motlvo and the manner of the teachers'
union. Is It to bo for the benefit of tho
pupils and the schools, or for the benefit
of the teachers? Is It to be professional or
personal? Will the teachers Insist on a
closed school?
The graver question is this: Do the teach
ers propose to baso membership In their or
ganization on recognized ability and apti
tude in their profession, or are they pre
pared to insist upon equal treatment, in sal
ary and prerogatives, for everyteacher, re
gardless of merit?
Before these questions are satisfactorily
answered no Judgment can be passed on the
plan. If they are satisfactorily answered
the necessity for a teachers' union will be
as alight as the danger which may come
from It.
Muscular Christianity is apparently plan
ning to become militant.
Something to lie awake oyer the Cabinet
of Colombia (South America) hart resigned.
There may be a scarcity of beautiful
blondes in Chicago, but it is not notlceanjo
in Philadelphia. We have beautiful bru
nettes also.
The German Crown Prince has been beat
t M head again Verdun so long and so
unsuccessfully that It is not surprising that
his mind' is going back on him.
1 ' ijiii.
Latest Atepatches frem the Sast are highly
satisfactory The Kuaelana are conducting a,
Vtgerows oWeaalve a4 ate retreating rap.
idly. Bo both slsea are satl-m,
If the Princeton undergraduates are In the
.habit of postponing until tomorrow what
i-ney otu o ioay, as FreaMent Kitten
sa tfeoy tea, why k net teat that
1
GUTCHKOFF, MAN OF
THE HOURIN RUSSIA
If It Had Not Been for His Work In
Reshaping Military Affairs His
Country Could Not Havo
Fought In This War
Djr V. A. TSANOFF
Tir Ercll Arranc-mcnt with Harptr'a WmVIt.
tn the opinion of many welMnormed"
olcrver, the prttcnt eritl tn the country
of the Otar will place in a potlllon of Men
reiponlbUUv the man who i the tubject
of the following tkctch. Jtuulan new
papers have been perslstcntlu reporting that
Alexander Outchkoff Kilt be called upon to
eolve the serious munition problem.
WHEN tho Far Eastern war filled the
hearts of Jows, Poles and landless peas
ants with a hopo Buch as comes once a cen
tury, tho issue of the federalization of Rus
sia, and the forcible expropriation of landed
properties wfts formally moved at a congress1
of Russian Liberal leaders In Moscow,
Outchkoff as a minority of one, cast his vote
for tho unity of Russia and against federal
ism. Outchkoff did not falter when the drum
head courtmnrtlal law was thrust threaten
ingly In tho face of Russian resolution by
Peter Arkadlcvltch Stolypln.
I was lunching with Outchkoff In a Mos
cow hotel when the newspaper extra con
taining tho first announcement Including
full detalla ot tho rapld-flro Justlco which
Stolypln had had promulgated by vlrtuo of
paragraph S7, was brought to our table. He
read It carefully, allowing no traco of emo
tion to break across tho impenetrable mask
of his face. An ho lifted his eyes from the
reading with a word or two he expressed ap
proval of Stolypln's act, which was to restore
order at the cost of thousands of lives, young
lives, mostly.
A Cromcllian Step
With a majority behind him. pledged to
support Stolypln, In the Third Duma, Gutch
koft's first stop was a Cromwelllan ono.
Gutchkoft formed a Commlttco of Imperial
Defense, and had himself elected chairman
of It, and saw to It that no ono was elected
to a membership In that commlttco who be
longed to tho Opposition. He Insisted on
having only such as he considered loyal aons
of Russia associated with him In his charac
teristic work. Army and navy affairs, nnd
parliamentary, or more correctly legislative,
preoccupation with them, stamped the work
of the Third Duma, under Gutchkoff's guid
ance. Gutchkoft's first speech on military affairs
In tho Duma was n moro astounding sample
of hit courago than anything he had dono
up to that tlmo. Ho had breasted tho revo
lutionary current, he showcd"ho could breast
the reactionary one Tho grand dukes nnd
their meddling In tho nrmy wns tho topic
ho dared expound. He exposed the corrup
tion which marked this grand ducnl trail In
one department of nrmy llfo, and tho favor
itism and Inefficiency which marked it In
another department. Four grand dukes al
together were singled out, to tho amazement
of tho Duma and of Russia. Tho purposo
of the blow was to free tho Emperor of
tho grand ducal cllquo and restore to the
monarch his prerogatives: to froo tho army
departments of outside Interference and ro
lnytnto tho Minister of War Into his rightful
nuthorlty; and to gain for tho Duma a voice
In this vital matter by force of her achieve
ment incleanlpg tho Augean stables.
Struggle Against Reaction
Against the grand dukes Gutchkoft was at
least partially, though gradually, successful.
Ho had In this crusado tho lntropld Finn,
General Rocdlger, Minister of War, as an
ally, nnd General Pollvanoff, Assistant Min
ister of War, after nn Interval, also. Roe
dlger told persfans of weaker flbro that a
placo was always open for him In the
Finnish Scnato, nnd that ho did not mind
losing his post In a campaign of this sort.
On a question Involving the Duma's right to
sanction tho establishment of a naval gon
cral staff, thus penetrating far Into what
might bo considered tho exclusive province
of tho supremo powor, the upper chamber
picked up enough courage to resist the lower
ono. All tho Irresponsible Influences of re
actlonarylsm which Gutchkoft had been
fighting against massed themselves behind
tho Council of the Empire. WItto also saw
his chanco against Stolypln In this struggle.
Stolypln, tho Duma and Gutchkoft were
worsted In the test. The Emperor vetoed
the bill which his Ministers had approved
of, but which his Irresponsible advisers as
sured him Infringed upon his prerogatives.
In order to preserve formal authority, he
surrendered that real monarchical unity ot
authority which Outchkoff had been erect
ing. Stolypln, however, could not be spared;
ho remained, a broken reed, as facade to the
odlflce, until malignant Influences In his own
Department of the Interior caused his death
at Klov by assassination on the part of a
pollco spy.
Yet tho good work accomplished did not
go for naught. Duma mombcrs, for tho first
time In Russia's history, had entered Into
army and navy life, had formed the ac
quaintance of all tho leading officers In the
central government of theso services. Visits
to arsenals, shlp-bulldlng yards, barracks,
military schools and ncadomles had been
made by the Duma Committee on Imperial
Defense. Czarlsm's mightiest arm, the mili
tary, had learned to bco In the legislature
not an enemy, but a friend. For the Duma
by word, and by deed, by voting enormous
credits for army and navy, had shown that
the cause ot Russia's armed might In the
councils of the nations was a cause dear to
the peoplo's deputies.
In an. Humble Role
autchkoft'a wagp was the customary one
for all obedience to duty unto the end.
He was not elected to the fourth Duma, the
voters, mostly landholders, functionaries and
priests obedient to court nods preferring
an invertebrate! and the Cadets and other
Opposition groups, fearful of this Duma.
Army combination, preferring a straight
Liberal Ideologist, without a will of his own.
In the humbler role of City Councilor for
Petrograd, Outchkoff has been giving the
capital good water, by no means an easy or
inoonslderable achievement in a country and
city where the cholera Is almost endemic.
Having fought for tho Boera In South Af.
rica and done much in Red Cross work
throughout the Manchurlan war, Outchkoff
left for the front with the first Red Cross
hospital last year, and he has scarcely
paaMd wore than a night on any of his hur
ried buelneae visits at the capital since.
Buch to the personality of the man who
may yet be destined,, if things become bad
enough, to enter through the Assistant Mln
toter m War dopr into the citadel of u.
4a government Vhere no will, Intellect or
intense devotion to country can matt Me
.fgtfRSPAt,
"HARDLY FASHIONABLE, BUT STILL
EVANGELINE'S LAND IN WARTIME
Little Stories Which Show tfhat Though Nova Scotia May Not
Know So Much About the War as Philadelphia, Her Peo
ple, in a Quiet Way, Are Very Much "Interested"
By RENE KELLY
THE United States Is at peace and Can
ada Is at war; but so far as Nova Scotia,
outsldo of Amherst and Halifax, goes (Am
herst, where the Germans arc Interned; Hall
fax, proinclal capital, naval base, summer-nnd-wlnter
port nnd well-defondcd military
establishment), ono 5ften finds It hard to re
alize Recruiting In those parts of Nova
Scotia, which aro farming or fishing commu
nities (and that means almost all of the po
nlnsula), has yielded rather , slim results.
Thero are notablo cases, of course, ltko that
of tho Mlcmnc Indian, John Johnson, who
tried three times to enlist at Truro, but was
each tlmo told that thero were no Instructions
to enlist Indians. John, who Is 22, finally
went to Halifax, whero' he was accepted, nnd
Is now training for the front. John Johnson
set a worth-while oxample to his palo-faco
subjocts.
But I am not sure that enlightened sym
pathizers need regret the slackness of re
cruiting in Nova Scotia. Tho fact that tho
province Is prospering theso days as she has
not prospered this long while, Is by no means
sinister. It means that her metal industries
at New Glasgow nnd clsswhcrc have token
a now leaso of life and nro busy with tho
making of munitions and other supplies
needful to Britain Canada's share of Brit
ain's war contracts amounting to $166,000,
000; It means that her fishermen aro busy at
a time when many fishing boats of Old Eng
land havo been commandeered for mine-laying,
mine-sweeping and patrol duty (to say
nothing of losses In trawlers, etc., by sub
marine action), and tho prlco of fish has
risen 'alarmingly in British markets; It
means that Nova Scotia lumbermen havo
found new markets In England and Franco;
It means that Nova Scotia farmers aro busy
with their crops and Britain nnd hor colo
nies need to study their food supply, and to
become, so nearly as possible, self-sustaining.
Scandals in Army norses
More discreditable to the Maritime Prov
inces than any relative lightness of enlist
ment have been certain scandals In the sale
of army horses. (In one cose a steed which
had been traded some time slnco for two
ducks and a drako was sold for J1G0, and in
another an animal rejected as too old for tho
iSoor War had so regained Its youth ns to bo
accepted at the same figure.) But thero Is a
brighter side oven to thtB tale of graft. Tho
Cunadtan Government has undertaken to un
cover the malefactions and to punish the
malefactors, and that speaks well for the
spirit actuating Canada In 1915.
Obviously one reason why recruiting in
Nova Scotia has not shown more spectacular
results Is the fact that a high proportion of
her young men had emigrated before the
war, either to Now England or to the Cana
dian Northwest. But tho Northwest, where
such fortunes were to have been carved out
by enterprising youth, has passed through
two exceedingly lean years, and Is only now
convalescing from a financial joy ride that
ended in something like a smash. No one
remembering how population is distributed
In Canada need be much surprised if British
and Irish-born recruits furnished, 60 to 70 per
-cent, of Canada's first contingent. And these
men came out of the West not from the
Lower Canada of the habitants nor from
those maritime provinces of which Nova
Scotia is nearest, physically, to Europe.
(Newfoundland is not, as yet, a part of Can
ada at all.)
Nova Scotia newspapers are relatively
tame. Also, their sources of war news are
more limited than those of Now York and
Philadelphia: newspapers. Said a Brooklyn
girl ln Nova Scotia the other day, "Why,
they don't know as much about the war
here, and aren't as much Interested in It, as
we are at homo!" She was right, doubtless,
in her drat statement, But the word "inter,
eeted" was badly chosen.
Hereee ef the Maple Leaf
"Interested" in the war Nova 3cotlft fa,
perforce, and far more vitally than the folk
who crowd before the bulletin hoards in
Cheetnut street to see what the news is
frow Wilbe Park and the Dardanolles, Nova
Jeotl&'s beet bloos Is actively "lnterete" In
the war either at the front or training for
war on "Jlly beef at Valoartler. Few
AmerieaM few lie u 'intikB" in the
r are tkf fasaUUe ef Umm yeuag men.
urna, tMtaMl bsmm Ktujsm, f the
dlan Militia, gavo out an Intervlow last fall
saying that "fully 200,000 Americans had
gono tp Canada hoping to Join tho Canadian
forces" but no ono takes General Sam too
seriously. Thero havo been nearer 2000 than
200,000 Americans recruited In Canada con
siderably fowcr than Canada gavo to tho
Union during our Civil War. (Sir John A.
MacDonnld, Canadian Prlmo Minister, said
nt tho tlmo that there had been 40,000 Cana
dian enlistments.) However that may be, no
ono can fairly say that Nova Scotia Is "less
interested" In tho present war than wo of
the United States.
And yet I enn see just what that Amerlcanr
girl meant by her remark. Canadians are
not a demonstrative people. Quebec and
Ottawa, Sydney and Hnllfax (also, no doubt,
St. IJohn and St. John's) swarm with men in
khaki but thoro in no fuss mado over tho
heroes of the Maplo Leaf. A Boston doctor
complained to mo because nt Canso, on tho
Gut, the hotel man registered officer after
ofTlcer, then turned to tho Bostonlan and
said, "Sorry, but wo havo no moro rooms."
Tho Boston tourist neemed to think ho had
some sort of grievance because he hadn't
had first go! To that extent, at least, tho
military takes precedence over tho civil In
Nova Scotia. But there nro no evidences of
public ndulatlon. When a hundred or so
raw recruits march off in tho early morn
ing and entrain for Halifax, or whon, at the
provincial capital, they embark on a trans
port for Valcartlcr or Bermuda, tho crowd
is nlmost as silent ns tho crowd In Grafton
street, Dublin, when tho Tommies of tho
garrison went swinging by ono morning of
August, 19H. raising their shout, "Aro wo
down-hearted? No-oo-ool"
The yapping llttlo Toronto weekly called
Jack Canuck makes a good deal of racket
about Ill-treatment of tho Canadian soldiers,
especially of Invalided veterans, but so far
as a dlspasslonnto observer has noted both
the comforts afforded volunteers and the
monetary arrangements Burpnss anything In
pnst wars. Tho soldier's pay Is hlgh-a'dol-lar
a day; tho Dominion nnd sometimes the
volunteer's home town aro pledged to mako
a substantial payment to tho widow of any
soldier. Perhaps It Is only Just that tho Im
mediate compensation should bo highest in a
war whero the chancos of survival aro in
deed so slim.
THE MELTING POT
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
,.sirwcn I buy any evening paper I prefer
the rvnNmo Lnnosn. In your yesterday's Tis
sue I nnd an editorial, entitled "awing the
Melting Pot a Rest," which voices my sentU
ments precisely. As a working man-macWn rt
and cnglneer-na a foreman and for 12 ye.
?,TrinVm,Scnt.0f a lar Iron wort, up S
1906, I have given this labor problem consM?
erable thought, both as a workman and as an
employer of men. ami have been convinced for
?.LleiSt ?.2'ars that unrestricted I mmlgraT
tlon it) a detriment to the welfare of h 52T
loyal American working men or w0m.Bl&
desire to live as American, SSght to v.
whether skilled or unskilled: V "'
Philadelphia, September 11.
A PRESS MISSIONARY
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Borne people believe In foreign mla.in.
others believe In home missions. ?belev, Trl
both I also believe we should have a nreu
missionary It would be a wonderful thlS If
we could have the press Christianized; what a
wonderful work It would do for Ood n2 L
uplifting of mankind Cu? out all adv.rtl..
mont pt rum or anything eUe of an tmmJ7
nature that would lead tS sin. crime anTtS
rty; cut out all literature that a sodW m.
would be ashamed to read. Do notciM
graft; be Just; never afraid to T print thVEi.ft
Deliver Sundty papers on Monday) have nA
Monday papers that have to SJ 2
Philadelphia September 11. TUDOR.
THE MECHANISM OF EXCHANGE
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger?
Sir Can you tell me how the loan of a hmin
dollar, to France and England could aee'?.e
Price of change on London? And what .
the price of exchange, anyway? I am Interiati,?
in the loan Negotiations, but I do not know
enough to understand what It all means.
Haverfofd, September u. wnwHaio.
IThe price of exchange Is the price which an
American banker charges for collecting in Lon.
dot. a bill due in America; Where 'h trtdl
balances aw about equal the bill l ient iS
London and oKaats there a debt which n
American , a Urep cuetomer. sit
SERVICEABLE!!'
to send tho actual cash here from London
to settle the difference, and the price ot ex
change on London goes up, for It must cover
the cost of tho transmission of the money.
Exchange Is high now because Americans have
been selling largo quantities of goods abroad
ifor which they have been paid by drafts on
London. The Americans send the drafts to
their bankers for collection until the market
is glutted nnd the alue of the London draft
has slumped because the supply Is In exceia
of the demand. A English pound, represented
in a draft, ordinarily worth about $4.86, Is now
worth about ft 60 or 94 65. The proceeds ot
the proposed loan would be deposited in Amer
ican banks for the payment of bills duo hero
by checks on the banks Instead of by drafts
on London. Editor of tho Evenino Ledoer.
THE NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Tho acttvo constructive work of the Navy
Department will be carried on under new aus
pices. It should prove valuable. Boston Post.
America's future battles, if they must be,
aro being won now In the plans already under
way for adequate national defense. Colorado
Springs Gazette.
The Initiative and referendum were wisely
designed for tho use of tho people when Legis
lative bodies become nonreeponslve to general
desire or public Interest. The initiative and
referendum need to bo protected from their
fool friends. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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