The age-herald., 1902-01-29
Washington Day by Day

more than any other man is weary or saffron-hned newspaperism, that particu- lar one is President Schwab of the onited States Steel Corporation, commonly eaileo the "billion-doilar trust because, ap- parently. it's capital is not even III
 ''round'' figures. billion.
 MT. Sehwab is in Europe on business seeking, it seems, to acquire steel prop critics in Great Britain, Germany anu Russia In the course of his travels ne tarried at Monte Carlo, as does every other American traveller who can make it convenient to do so. Immediately after his arrival in the incomparably oeautltui town of the far-famed climate and Tar Entertained Casino, saffron newspaperlsm produced "cablegrams" written in New York, showing that MT. Schwab hao
 broke the bank of Monte Carlo ana giving pictures of him at play and or the various salient features of the Casino and of the graveyard of Casino victims.
 That's saffron newspaperism; and MT. Schwab surprised respectable peopie os
 taking the trouble to cable that 1t was
 all a lie he did not win the "hunoreos
 of thousands of dollars" accredlteo to
 him "at one sitting.
 Some of us in this country know oy
 personal observation something or the' workings of the bank of Monte Carlo' and know that there are no "huhureos of thousands there to be won at one sitting" If a man "broke the panK, and there are seven of it, he could not win more than $12,000, or 60,0OO france. Every evening each one of the seven rou- lette ''banks" begins operations with CO., coo francs. and whenever that sum IS lost, which is about one time In piue moon. the bank quits business TOT the
 night. Thus, if one man should oreaN
 every one of the seven banks or Ill other words, perform a human impossl- bility, he would win $S4oOO, plus what | other people playing the same bank hao lost: and it is a familiar fact that when any one player is making great winnings
 at a, "bank'' other players do little put look on in dumb amazement ard envy.
 The bank of Monte Carlo frequently wins Hundreds of thousands at sit-
 ting" but no outsider does
 MT. Schwab having proceeded 10 Vienna and attended the famous mall of the people," where he was kinoly received by that kindest-hearted or Elm
 perors, the aged Francis Joseph sat- iron newspaperism made a great to-do over what was Q most ordinary incident,
 proclaiming that the Emperor had sin gled MT. Schwab out, held him in pro- l longed conversation, and cordially ln- vited him to call at the imperial palace. That in itself is not unreasonable, for | the annual Viennese "hall of the peo- ple" is precisely what its name signi- fies, and there the Emperor is as fa- l ther amongst his children. Anybody present Is in proper maDer, privileged | to approach.
 | But saffron newspaperism can no TUT l ther go than it has gone In bulletin l given out today that "the Emperor Fran | cis Joseph having sent second invita- | tion to MT. Schwab to visit the palace,
 MT. Schwab replied that he was too busy l to accept" Unutterable rubbish! IT the | invitation was really. sent, it could not
 have been declined for any one of sev-
 
 Schwab is anything but a social swine herd; if he is "after business" the Elm. perors favor would mean literally mil lions to him, and the monarchs dis favor would send him in custody of the police to the frontier; and he and the Emperor are of the same intense re- | ligious faith, and the Emperor is vir- 70 f1aA oIi nf | the empire.
 Mr. Schwab is an unpretentious, un- | assuming and pious man, one who builds | churches and maintains charities. at his
 own expense without prostituting char | ity and the name of religion to the pur- | poses of self-advertisement and glorifi-
 cation as two or three men in this coun
 try are so fond of doing.
 | Divorce in this country, which outside
 the South has become a national vice,
 engendering the gravest Immortality, has | of late received more than ordinary con-
 sideration from men and women who are
 neither of the divorcing Four Hundred
 nor of any grade of wickedness. This renewed interest in question of
 morals which threatens the destruction ] of half of the influences which have made
 this nation great and its women the toast 1 of all lands, namely, the homes of Amer 1 ica, has been brought about by the mon- | strous tale of divorces by wholesale de-
 mand in Washington a short time ago l and just before the new code of laws
 for the District of Columbia went into effect The divorce section of this code
 provides that there shall be but one plea
 recognized in applications for the annul
 ment of what is confessedly the most sa- I cred obligation in the world, the mar riage VOW, and that is infidelity, to call
 it by the least offensive term.
 That is in essence the law of the Epis- l copal church.
 l The outcry against divorces made to or
 der on account of fiimsy allegations and 1 for whomsoever is willing to pay for them has resulted in widespread demand I for uniform marriage laws throughout l the country. Probably three-fourths of
 the American people would vote against
 any and all divorce laws. The confusion 1 created by the diverse marriage laws is l very great and often entail not only hard
 ship upon the innocent, but actual dis 1 grace.
 When c. M. Depew, a citizen of New York of some note. recently mGNied with 1 theatrical adiuncts and innossihle forms