Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-12
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The hrst war expert to get Ont
else account of what has really ~. q
in the far East will meet ,ppsy
want. Never since newspapers t ,oa'
report wars in detail has there ~
unsatisfactory a state of affairs
general reader as now exists o,I
average person declares that he bn'
ped trying to puzzle out the nnws y,
day for fear of learning so NAM
that are not so. If any of tbo y
spondents at the front really knon'
facts he could hardly do better ~
give up his place, escape from tba 49,
and hurry home to give the World y
full and unbiased account. Last NJ.
news is better than to-morrows \
and the East got itself a bad Man,
fabricated news as long ago as tbp !.
riots. The very strictness Of the miry
censorship on both sides gives fs
scrupulous wider feld.-Sprng6pn
publican.
According to the insurance denar,
OF the State of Wisconsin the annu
by fires in this country during the n
ty-five years preceding the current !,
has amounted to $13O,000,0O0. OF IL
a very large part Of this was made !
to the owners of the destroyed pnrI
by the insurance companies, but
does not really supply the loss. 1t u
ly shifts the burden. For the cr,s
year the losses are already abnorl
large and, estimating them for tsI
II ainder of the year at the average
will reach $300,O0O,000, or consilesl
more than double the annual ayeragI
the quarter Of century named. IN
were merely transformation Of one
Of property into another, or transfers
one ownership to another, or fuctI
in price bringing loss to some corresp
ing gain to others, it would mater
tie. But it is absolute loss as mar
the appreciate wealth of the world
far as human uses are concerned A
annihilated property. There is no
son why we should not have such
Of building and Of management as W
cut down these losses one-half with
single decade. Chicago Chronicle.
-
AS a result Of a rate war betv
steamship lines, Immigrants have of
been coming to the United States
cost of ten dollars. and in certain
for even less. This is a great loss 10
companies. AS business situato
is for them properly named war"
the larger question of the effect on
American people of such immigrants
mains unsettled. Strength is in /
ways measured by effort. In the
days of the country's history it "
serious undertaking to cross the Oce'
a light sailing vessel, to seek hon
the wilderness Of the New World
privations Of the early English SCI
at Jamestown, Of the little band Of
grims at Plymouth, to say nothing 0
Dutch at Manhattan or the Swel
w LOiA, III lCl1IAl1uIs LAW dlL
it is to get to America for ten Dc
to find it well settled and full 0
friends and neighbors! A rather
man can get here for ten dollars,
sent here by those interested fol
reason in getting him away. Two
dred years ago it took a strong II
brave the inevitable hardships, and
the jump. The grain was thus Sc
sifted that the choicest kernels mi
planted in this New World-to use
ure Of a former president of III
College, III describing the early
ment Of America. Now there rema
way to make migration to these
difficult except by legislation i'm
additional restrictions. Such laws
have are already rigidly enforced.
steamship war complexities a pc
problem which no man as yet has
wise enough to solye.-Youth'S Coz
ion.