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The Portland daily press., 1892-07-07

At the beginning of political cam
paign it is important that the questions
at issue should be clearly stated At the
coming election in this state a governor
and members of the legislature are to be
chosen, but in every county also there
are to be elected certain executive
officers. The governor and members of
the legislature make the laws. There
fore it is not only proper, but absolutely
necessary, to consider their views on
matters of public policy, because their
views will be reflected in the laws they
make. MI. Cleaves believes in the wis
dom and efficacy of prohibition as a
means of restraining the liquor traffic.
Mr.. johnson does not. Presumably the
Republican candidates for the legislature
will agree with Mr.. Cleaves while the
Democratic candidates for representa-
tives will agree with Mr.. johnson. Which
hold the sounder views? Which hold
views that when embodied in the laws
will be most conducive to the public well
fare? This is perfectly legitimate
question for public discussion, and of
course it follows that the prohibi-
tory issue is perfectly proper
one to raise in connection with the
candidacy of these men.
But the county officers to be elected
stand on an entirely different footing.
They have nothing to do with making
laws. They are purely executive officers.
The crucial question as regards them is,
assuming the candidates to be of good
character and sufficient ability, viii
they faithfully performthe duties of their
offices, that is to say, will they faithfully
execute the laws of the State? But the
Democratic party has reversed this test
and is appealing to the voters to elect a
man to an executive Office on the ground
The Portland daily press., 1892-07-07
FINANCIAL.
The Attention Of Investors

Is invited to the Securities of the Northwestern
Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis,
MINI.
This company was founded in 1872, incorpo-
rated under the laws of Minnesota in 1884,
ana had on Jan. 10th 1892, according to the re-
port OF the public Examiner and Superintendent
OF banks Of the State of Minnesota.
Saplial stock paid in. 81 ,25O, 0OO.o 90
Additional Liability of stock
holders under laws OF Minnesota 81 ,250, 900, 90
payment. In letter written by Its Vice
PRESIDENT to us on the 9th of June, he says,
we are today mailing checks to our stock
holders, the seventeenth G7th) semi-annual
dividend at the rate of eight (8) per cent per an
mum. We will add Twenty-Five Thousand
dollars to surplus account July 1st."
We are offering for the present, at par and
accrued interest, The Gold Debenture Bonds
of this company, issued In denomination of $50,
500, $500 $1,000; bearing interest at the rate
OF per cent, payable Semi-annually.
These bonds are fully secured by a deposit
OF real estate and other loans, with its Trustees,
and also by q guaranty fund.
We also offer Prime Commercial Paper,
Guaranteed by this Company, in every case
secured by ample collaterals, at current rate
of interest,
We have handled large amounts of this paper,
and in every instance It has been promptly paid
at maturity.
We solicit the most searching investigation
as when ever this has been made it has been
greatly to its advantage.
Inquiries by mail promptly answered.
CHAPMAN BANKING CO.,
1877 Middle Street.
ju2 eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1892-07-07
Then and Now.
Editor Of the Press:

10. the Editor OF the Press:
The Maine law was enacted in June
1857: that was forty-one years ago. More
than generation has passed away since
that time. Persons now living who are
not more than fifty years old can have no
recollection of what the liquor traffic was
forty-one years ago. They see what
Portland is now but know nothing of
what it was in that old time. There are
some respectable people living here who
think no harm would come of it-perhaps
there might be good, by going back to
the time when we had licensed grog
shops all up and down our streets; mixed
in with the many wholesale liquor-deal-
ers. Many of these, perhaps all of them
were respectable men and good citizens,
and would be retarded as such now, all
but the liquor-selling. 1 well remember
the streets of Portland as they were then
lined on either side with liquor shops,
wholesale and retail. 1 will tell you a
little about it.
Beginning on Congress street at the
head of Green street, remember ten
grog-shops to Oak street on both sides
and seven to Preble street. A great one
at the corner of Centre street, another on
the ground floor of the old city hall, an
other at the corner of Preble street
From Preb1e street to Elm was long
row of wooden shops, except tavern Of
brick; think at all these shops as well
as the tavern, liquor was sold. Down
Middle street to Union remember seven
The Portland daily press., 1892-07-07
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Advertising Rates.
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The Portland daily press., 1892-07-07

People of different circumstances
necessarily requires contracts mater
tally differing in chacter. The policies
of the UNION MUTUAL LIFE IN !
SURANCE COMPANY are framed
so as to cover every conceivable re-
quirement of the intending insurer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

ceived an annual from another road with
the restriction, mot good on limited
trains" He promptly reciprocated by
sending pass with the following words
written in red ink across the face: mot
good on any trains" The hint caught
TELEGRAPH FRANK.
In addition to railroad passes there are
telegraph and express franks and passes
see cut B-calling for accommodations il
sleeping and parlor cars All these are
mostly issued TO railroad officials on bust
ness basis, and may properly be considered
an equitable trade, as farmers and grocers
exchange butter and eggs for sugar and tea.
Railroads carry free the officers and cleo
tricians of telegraph companies, and the
latter do certain amount of telegraphing
to balance the account. Franks are given
to persons entitled to use the wires under
this arrangement. Contracts between rail-
roads and telegraph companies also have
provisions regarding the mutual use of
poles and wires, which vary according to
circumstances. The Pullman and Wagner
Palace Car companies exchange passes-see
cut C-wjth the railroads over which their
cars run. Ordinary railroad officials are
given sleeping and parlor car passes re-
stricted to their own lines and such connec-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
THE OLD DAYS.

Prior to the enactment of general railroad
laws, and before public opinion in regard to
corporations had become crystallized, char
ters and grants were frequently obtained
by scandalous lobbying and lying Such
methods were easier than argument and
often more welcome to the parties of the
second part, Many bad scheme was con-
summsted by bribery, and many a good one
blackmailed out Of existence by people who
insisted upon being bribed. There were
honest railroad projectors and honest legis-
lators-blessed be their memory-but thew
did not set the style or make the history Of
the epoch.
In those days nearly all influential people
had passes, aud nearly everybody else was
mad in consequence and endesvored, with
mere or less success, to beat conductors ont
of their fares. The railroads sowed the
seed, and have ever since been reaping the
natural crop.
To-day the typical railroad official would
rather part with an eye-tooth than issue a
pass, but three generations of bad educa-
ton cannot be easily or suddenly overcome.
"a pass" said Woodworking New York
manager, lis a badge of slavery if held by
an employee. Ii held by public man il ia
a mark OF dishonor. The executive. leRis.
lator or Judge who has q railroad pass is a
rascal in whatever light you look at him.
If he allows it to influence his acts he is
certainly rascal, and if he accepts it and
has NOT the common decency to desire tn
reciprocate in some way, he is worse ras
cal still.''
The man who made this remark issues
T. 600 annual and as many trip passes every
year He is one of the fellows who is rean-
ing the whirlwind.
The adoption of the interstate commerce
law gave the railroads an excuse for cut
ting off thousands of obnoxious compli-
mentary passes, which they did with de-
moniac vengeance, but the deadhead sys-
tenn within state limits retains many of its
old-time features.
DAVID WECHsLER.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
A cabmsn Caught.

One day it was raining very heavily in
Berlin, when wealthy merchant, on leav-
ing the exchange, hailed cab and asked
to be driven to distant part of the city.
On the way the merchant discovered that
he had forgotten to put his purse in his
pocket What was to be done! On reach
ing his destination he got out of the cab
and said 10 the driver:
'Will you please give me match7 1
have dropped sovereign on the floor OF
the cab"
Instanter the cabman whipped up his
horse and soon disappeared around the next
corner.-DipdSkdlid
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
ALL IN THE TEXT.

A clergyman in Texas not long ago took
quite an active part in politics, as many of
his profession have from time to time done
in other states. He was rewarded for his
services by being appointed chaplain of the
penitentiary. Before departing to assume
the duties OF his Office he preached fare
well sermon to his congregation, who were
in arrears with his salary, and who in
other ways, had not treated MIN well, and
he took for his text these words of the
Savior: II go to prepare place for you,
in order that where l am We may be also -
ARKANSAS IrdUelfr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
Fired the Gnn and All.

In the Crimean war raw recruit was
told off to watch the fire of the Russian
artillery and cry out to his comrades when
shot. she'll or rocket was fired, so that they
might be prepared for it. He gave the
signal, "Shotl" "shell' "shot" 'tshell !"
punctually until he saw rocket, which Of
cours IS a long, tubelike missile. 1t was
the first he had SEEN anu imagining it was
a cannon ne yelled out: "Tare and ages,
boys, the gun an all is comm If the
Rooshans are coming after it they won't
lave a mothers son of US alive. Irish
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
In Her Sleep.

Helen -, aged four, has a new baby
sister to whom she is devotedly attached,
and oyer whom she watches with all the
care and attention of mother. The other
day Helen was lowering over the crib in
which the baby was sleeping and saw her
mouth open and close as babies mouths
do in their slumbers. Helen became ex
cited and called cut, "Papa, see; Marg'eet,s
swallowing dresml"
Where do children get their poetry-St.
Louis Republic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
To Fit the Crime.

"Mr. Newcombe.' inquired the city edi-
tor, ibid you write this article in nhich
the statement is made that K. X. Perkin-
son suicided yesterday afternoonp }"
"Yes, sir" answered the new man on
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

Certain conditions, of which out is an
example, sre printed on the back and many
roads compel The recipient 10 affix his sig
nature before the pass viii be accepted by
conductors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
NEWSPAPER MEN.

Passes of various forms are issued to
newspaper men, but, properly speaking,
such transportation should not be termed
free, as it is given in consideration OF ad-
vertising, under arrangements more or less
definite. People in the back woods believe
that every editor carries a pocketful OF
passes and is owned, body and soul, by the
railroads. The fact is that newspaper men
are Influenced less by such transportation
than railroad men are. Most railroads now
make formal contracts with newspapers,
providing for the publication of their time
tables and a specified amount of reading
matter, in consideration of a fixed amount
os transportation, confined to persons con-
nected with the paper and the dependent
members of their families. The railroads
seldom use all the advertising named in the
contract, and the publishers seldom use all
the transportation, but this sort Of arrange
ment is more business-like, more manly
aud more generally satisfactory than the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
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old method of swapping unknown quaint
ties. Large papers charge cash for adyer-
Using, in addition to transportation. if they
accept the latter at all, and significant pap
ers do not get chance to charge either
cash or TRANSPORTATION
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

The privilege, If it is a privilege, of
issuing passes is usually confined TO rail-
way presidents, ylce-presidents, general
managers aud general superintendents
ANIMALS over the New York entral can
only be issued by President Depew. and
must bear his personal signature. As there
are 5000 or 1900 OF these passes each year,
the job is an irksome one. Many officials
have adopted the easier method of having
their own signatures printed on the passes
in fac-simile and compelling their chief
clerk or secretaries to countersign them.
In addition 10 ANIMALS, there are quarterly
and monthly passes, issued TO minor officials
and usually limited to specified portions Of
the road. Trip passes are still less COM
prehensive, emitting the holder merely to
one passage between the stations named.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
ANNUAL PASSES,

The most comprehensive form Of pass
&c the annual, which entities the holder to
all the travel he wants over the railroad
issuing it during the calendar year. An
uuals are usually printed from steel plates,
Rrtistically designed and skillfully en-
ErEved Cut a is q sample:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
RAILROAD PASSES
Who are Entitled to Them and
Who Get Them.
VARIOUS KINDS OF DEADHEADs
Newspaper Men, as a Rule, Pay in Advertis-
Ing for Any Courtesy Extended Them
by the Railroads.

lFor TIE SUNDAY neutrality-suspicious.
There are 15,O00,0 600 grown-up men in the
United States, and it is safe to say that
half of them have, some time or other. on
some sort Of pretext, considered themselves
entitled to free transportation on some rail-
road. One man wants a pass, because he
is the biggest gun in his district another
because he is engaged in charitable work, 6
third because he controls party going to
prize fight, a fourth because he had dog
killed by locomotive and fifth because
he has invented a scheme to do away with
passes altogether. The several million
minor desdheads wait for political cam
paign excursions and auction sales Of sub
burban lots
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
WHO HAVE PASSES.

The Observation-Disclosures part of the inter
state commerce law prohibits granting
passes to anybody except railroad officials,
and the railroads obey the law in this par
ticuler with q thoroughness that is refresh
ing. The law, however, only prohibits
passes between interstate points, and with
in the limits of individual states. Free
transportation is issued to governors, mem
bers OF legislatures. judges, sheritfs, asses
sors, and other influential public officers
who request or demand them. 1t is mis-
take 20 suppose that railroads give such
passes to people who do not, directly or IL
directly, ask for them. Occasionally road
gets on its dignity and demurs, but we'll
directed 'oleeder'' generally brings it TO
Its senses and its knees. a "bleeder" is
bill introduced in legislative body under
the guise of reform, affecting the interests
OF some railroad or railroads in general.
Sometimes such bills are just, but oftener
unjust. They seldom pass, but they serve
iseir purpose, making passes flow freely,
ana often money as well Railroads sin
much. but demagogues sin more, and not
withstanding all the talk we hear about
corporate greed, the railroads usually get
the worst Of il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

tions as form through palace car routes.
Ia other words, the holders can get into
any sleeping car on their own line and be
provided with seat or berth free to their
destination, regardless of where it goes. A
few presidents and vice-presidents receive
passes of special form from Sir George NJ.
Pullman, providing drawing room or sec
ton in any of his cars in the world. DIR.
Webb. of the Wagner company. also issues
few such passes. Mrs Pullman has
pass which directs Pullman conductors to
give her such accommodations as she re-
quests for herself and accompanying
friends, which might mean whole car or
a whole train. AS matter of fact, how
ever, she seldom uses this remarkable pass,
preferring to ride in her husbands special
car, which is tie finest in the world.
FREE TRAVEL WITHOUT PASSES.
Railroad men, like other mortsls, have
their peculiar whlms and conceits. One OF
these is shown in the custom adopted by
numerous roads OF permitting certain of
their own officials TO ride free without
passes. The theory is that chief officers
are known TO conductors and other en-
ployees, or ought to be. The fact is that
the custom is merely an affectation. The
book of rules or some circular specifies
what persons are entitled to this peculiar
consideration. The affectBticn occasion
ally takes the form of not giving passes to
the select circle at all, but letting them
travel exclusively On their face and figure.
When an officer SO honored meets conduc-
tor who does not know him, he usually
shows pass on some other road as means
of Identification. Usually. however, he
merely tells who he is and growls like a
bear Roads having this sort of free list
generally include in it the president, vice
presidents. general manager and superin-
tendent, general freight and passenger
agents, aud division officers within the
limits of their own territories Train men
and sleeping car conductors and porters.
as well as employees of dining cars, are
considered to be part of the furniture, and
need no passes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
EXCHANGE PASSES.

The interstate commerce law permits
railroad officials TO issue passes to them
selves, their employees and the principal
officers of other lines. Ali ROADS allow an
nuals to their general and division officers,
the chief clerks Of various departments,
and limited number of subordinate officers
who travel on business. Certain small fry
get quarterly or monthly passes, but the
vast majority Of employees are obliged to
ask for trip transportation and leave of alb
rence whenever they want to ride. The
great volume of ANIMALS go to officers of
other lines and are known as exchange
passes Formerly every road exchanged
freely with every other road, but now re-
ciprocity is generally confined to lines
which interchange business, and a sort of
code mas been established which knows
few exceptions. Each road makes up an
exchange list and sends it TO tributary
lines in December, requesting ANIMALS for
the coming year for its president, vice
presidents, general manager, general super
inteDdent, traffic manager, general freight
agent and general passenger agent. Some
roads include their secretaries, treasurers.
attorneys and chief engineers, but the
names OF SUCH persons, as well as division
officers, are usually embraced in supple
mentary list which is only sent to immedi-
ale connections, the list undergoing addi-
tions and erasures as circumstances re-
ouire. Presidents of lines closely related
occasionally give each other passes calling
for the transportation of the recipient land
party with special car but such courtesies
are extremely rare, the conveyance of
special cars usually requiring special ar
rGngement IN each case.