Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-10-21

to even the dullest minds in the city.
The temperature in winter shows some
remarkable differences at different
points, there being several degrees
lower temperature at the corners Of
Spruce and Nassau streets; corner
Church and Jay streets; Boelman street
and Park Row, Wall street and Broad
way and other places where breezes
produced by the lofty buildings sting
hapless pedestrians with cold while in
other quarters Of the city no discom-
fort is experienced Then there have
lately come TO the city varieties Of
winds, Of sudden and untimely guests,
Of bowling and whirling dervishes of
blows that buffet humanity in manner
never encountered before.
Conscience, after all is not lost art
in the groat metropolis. There has
been a tremendous raling up in many
lines Of the life in this great city. Men
Of national reputation, leaders in all
circles, social, mencantile, legal, fnan-
cial political have been stunned, as
"the mills Of the gods" which grind
slowly, are showing that they are also
"Grinding exceeding small" " Indeed,
they are fairly pulverizing and 1atteB
ing in the work they turn out. Men go
in the mill puffed up, portly in person
and self conceit, and they come out
from between the rollers 80 exceeding
, ly fat and thin that they might easily
be taken for the shirt fronts that they
used to wear in their full dress at ban
quets and meetings called for the bet
terment Of the public interests. But
conscience finding there is so much less
Of them TO handle, is moving them to
remarkable acts. Armitage Matthews
quailing before his trial for looting an
estate, plunges head first 10 the pave
mept. James H. Hyde, the perfumed
darling is skulluing around the danger
line and is expecting to expatriate him
Depew, the jaunty and really agreeable
senator, drops the Republican eonven
tion that once did him honor. The list
is too long to quote in full, but enough
is shown to mako sure that the "cOn
science that makes towards Of us all
is cutting wide swathes in the rank
Of the outwardly respectable and in
wardly rascally men in whom the pub
lie has believed.
Who is to succeed the dethroned
Mr.. Alexander is no longer president o.
the Equitable. There are others tha
predict that Mr.. John A. Mccall o.
the New York Life, and Mr.. Riehart
A. McCurGy of the Mutual Life, viii
follow in his footsteps. If this prov,
true prophecy, who will take thei
places and reproduce the results thes
men learned in insurance, wisdom an,
methods during the years they hav
ruled the insurance. Large fortune
have been made but we must remem
Der that it came from piles that thes
past-masters of insurance, and perhap
We may as well say assurance ha,
heaped to a huge height. First elias
insurance men, men who know the bus
ness from the bottom, win have to
chosen as their suecessOrs. OF coursG
there will be several years Of poor rG
suits, from the ripping and tearing tina
has startled the world, but after tina
the revenues must be up 10 past fl
ures or the public win be disappOinteC
1t won't do to produce a situation
which the lOOters are made to appea
10 have been more profitable to thei
companies despite the stealings tha
the successors who win turn ever
penny in the treasures and leave
there.