The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21

immigrants pouring into the
country at the rate of more than
a million a year, crowd mostly
into the great cities, where they
are a menace to the public well
fare, while the farming districts
cry l n vain for labor.
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The mills using the water pow
er OF the Genesse river have turn
ed the falls at Rochester into a
dry preclpice, and electric light
ing at Quebec has reduced the
falls of Montmorency to a thin
rivulet. 1t is no false alarm that
represents Niagara to be in dang
er.
-Four war governors still sur
vive. They are Sprague of Rhode
Island, Holbrook of Vermont.
Crawford of Kansas and Pettvs
OF Mississippi. The governors of
the civil war period varied in ex-
ecutive ability, but some won i'm
mortal fame in the history of the
country.
The senate Saturday passed
the Panama canal emergency
bill, appropriating $1,000, 900 for
the work, after a long debate. An
amendment was tackled on which
requires that congress shall be
supplied with regular estimates
OF all salaries, except those paid
TO laborers. =
The contract for building an
electric railway from South Bend
TO Chicago has been let to the
John r. Lee construction COM
pany OF New York and the presi-
dent of the company is now on
the ground directing the work.
The men who are at the head of
the enterprise say that it will be
the finest traction line in the
United States.
The South Bend Tribune ad-
vocates the establishment of a
work house or similar place and
instead OF sending strong, heal
thy men and women to county
Jail and giving them three good
meals a day, often much better
than they have when free, SEN
tence them to the workhouse and
e that they stay there and work
out their sentences.
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The Panama bond bill will
pass this week, and will be fol-
lowed Immediately by an issue of
$4,000, 900 or $50, 600, 900 of Pan
anna bonds, bearing 2 per cent
and subject to deposit to secure
national bank circulation upon
the same terms with other Gov
eminent 2s. The original amount
authorized was $135, 900, 900, but
the whole sum will not be real
lied at once.
There is not the slightest
doubt that the government car
ries vast quantities of mail mat
ter for which it does not receive
adequate compensation. Much of
this stuff could be cut out with
benefit to the government as we'll
as the people. Tons of rubbish
nov pass through the mails that
would better be reduced to ashes
than delivered to those to whom
it is addressed.
The thirteen saloon keepers of
Montpelier have banded together
in a kind of law and order league
of their own and have signed res
olutiors that all saloons conform
strictly to the law so that they
may avoid the suspicion of Great
ing the Sunday drunks and
nightly disturbances. They call
on the mayor to arrest any saloon
man found open after hours and
promise their support in assisting
TO convict the offender.
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The Sault Ste. Marie canal,
which connects the waters of
Lake Superior with those of
Lake Huron, is the busiest of all
the artificial waterways of the
world. 1t carries in the seven or
eight months in which it is OPP
en- to traffic, between two and
thre times as much freight as the
Suez canal, which connects Eu-
rope with Asia, does in a year.
This canal, which recently cele-
brated the semicentennial of its
opening, is one of the VESTS and
the c%ountry's marvels.