Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

as well as from England. Spain. Italy,
this In spite of the thousands of acres
set out to onions In the United States
every year. AS for cheese. IL alone
comes To us from twcnty.onc countries.
And then there are eggs. Why. China
alone had to help us out with eighty
thousand dozen. and we had to call on
Canadn, Mexico, japan, England and
France beside. The sheep hcrdcrs of
the world watched their hocks by
night and by day that Americans
might he covered with WOODEN cloth.
ing. Pepper ana spices are imported,
too. and Uncle Sam had TO buy horses
from Norway and Sweden. milk In
Denmark. cider In Spain and Cuba,
snusages In HOngkOng. ana coffee from
various places. We generally suppose
that. except for the sipccs. most
things that we ent are homegrown.
but Uncle Sans records tell quite an.
other story.
4 pretcnder to the throne Of Korea
is hiding In this country. He's foolish.
IIc might pretend just as well In some
dime museum and get Il good big sal.
ury for 1t.
One of the judges of election arrest
cd In Denver on charges OF violating
the election laws II u woman. This
slightly Jars the confident assertion
that when women get into politics cor.
ruptlOn will cease.
~SA
william Dean HOwells says the au-
thors of the country should form n
union. II they should do SO they
would be sure OF general sympathy and
cncOurn cement In case they should go
on II prOtracted strike.
Uncle sam II now doing rushing
business as u builder. lie has fifty
structures, mostly pOstOfficcs. under
contract. and nearly three times as
many more under authorization. The
cost Of buildings still uncOmpletcd will
De almost as much as the total annual
expenditure Of the government Il half
century ago. when the supervising ar.
chitect's office was established. The
construction of public buildings IL one
of Uncle Sans methods of "lnying up
money" He cannot put It out ut In.
tcrest In the savings banks like an or
dinary individual, but he can cut OF
rents by owning his own business
houses. Yet he builds so much more
substantially and therefore expensive.
~ than private concerns that the rents
saved ordinarily amount To u very low
rate of interest on their cost, often less
than the rate on government bonds.
But this Is not wholly II dOllar-and.
cent matter. The dignity of the fed
eral government, as well as the con-
vcnience of its officers, Is involved In
having suitable quarters for the trans
action of public business. The present
architect IL now employ
ing the style of architecture seen in
the great Washington buildings, nota.
bly, the Capitol, the Treasury and the
White House. This will carry Il gov
ernment look to the national editiccs
In all parts of the country, 50 that they
may he distinguished at n glance from
mercantile offices and collegiate insti-
tutiOns. II Is desirable that some detin-
itc and reasonable rule should be oh.
served In the selection of places where
public buildings are to be erected.
Some towns of four thousand inhabi-
tants have n government building; 9TH
ers of forty thousand have none. This
result comes from Congressional log
rolling. This evil--like the spoils sys.
tem--will eventually disappear.
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If there are 100000 milliOnaircs In
the United States, as Senator Depew
said at the dinner given by John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr., to his bible class, an
official of great commercial agency
and the president of one of New York's
richest banks are decidedly in error,
10th placed the number of millionaires
in the entire world at 10000. There
are 1000 in the United States and 1000
of these live In New York city, whether
they pay taxes here or not, says the
New York Press. The financial Red
Book, a most carefully compiled pub
licatlon, gives the names of practically