The Portland daily press., 1893-06-24

ing. 1t occurred to me that the BUSH
ness Of mail correspondence for the
press had had its day, butin the course
of time the very cheapness and ubiqui-
ty OF the telegraph have brought mail
correspondence back to where it once
was. The ocean cables, being still on
Sunday or after eleven o'clock on SAT-
urday afternoon, American time, in
vite the press to come in at cheap rates
and multiply words under the ocean.
Because of those cheap rates we throw
out good deal of good American mat
ter to get some very cheap stuff from
Europe, as to how Countess Duff
ferin tied garter and Mrs. Highjinks
was introduced to the queen in bor-
rowed tippet. The low scandals of the
British aristocracy and those who imi-
tate them are bundled across the ca
bic, being of about as much conse-
quence as the low forms of police re-
ports which make the startling crimes
in the American journals. People
trained to vice and who never drew
the breath Of chastity are described
under flowing headlines as if they
lived on some noble street, where's
as they live up some hideous lair or al
ley, and what is just found out had
been going on with them since the fall
of man.
When I look over the present ex-
hibition and see gunnery which has
developed since our civil war, and also
see how such appliances deter nations
from, eois,r 10 fco1 tho Vnov a-1
civilization are an everlasting puzzle.
When we suppress wars, however, for
a long time, we perhaps encourage
mutiny within the society. Since /
have been in Chicago there has been
an incipient strike of the walters al
ways pending and never quite due,
and thought could understand how
this came about when I went to look
at rooms in certain new quarters of Chi
cago. Landlords with empty houses
were charging figures the like of which
hospitality, not to say Christianity,
never knew. The influence of New
York city, for hotel charges, has been
very bad upon the rest of the country.
Chicago hotel men and hotel keepers
in the minor cities are lying awake at
nights wondering how they can get
New York rates. The man who keeps
fine restaurant in Chicago and has
made more money than his father
ever expected of him must needs go up
to New York and charge more money
than Delmonico there, in another ho-
tel. went to a big Notwithstanding
place on the South side yesterday
and the man promptly threw out his
book, as il he thought the victim had
come. I said to this Bedouin, who
only required to have a pistol under
the desk to make his character and
attitude complete and shoot me flown
if did not pay his price: "How much
will you charge me for room with a
bed alcove and a bath?'' son the
American or European plan?' said the
Bedouin.
European" said I, having seen
enough of America hereabout.
"Nine dollars" said the Arab.
Mine dollars for room without
board?"
eyes"
Mine dollars a day merely for .
room?"
"Just that" said the being. wheeled
about and left the place without any
more remarks. aE9
I have no doubt that very soon he
will have visitor who will stay with
him, and that will be the sheriff. Said
Mr.. Gregston, who keeps a conserve
tive hotel in the middle of the city,
where I have often stopped: .Our
men have put up their rates with SO
little conscience that they are going
to be left. The fair is going along
and they have got no guests, and their
prices are known all over the land,
and people do not start for this show
until they will get some equity"