The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-03-01


representative a few days ago: Il do
not consider $4,000 per year any too
much salary for thoroughly capable
master OF a steam yacht to receive"
American Shlpbullder.
Aside from the question of competel-
cy there ought to be some compensa-
ton 10 the steam yacht skipper for
catering to the Whims and enduring the
bad temper of some yacht owners. We
recall an instance at this port where
tne captain had sent a boat ashore for
milk without consulting the owner,
who thereupon assaulted the skipper
with yolley of profane language.
The editor of the Lewiston Sun has
found it necessary to make an explana-
ton concerning his policy as to the
suppression Of news. He says: ''To
begin with, no person connected with
The sun has authority to promise to
keep any neWs item out of The Sun. :"
And no doubt he might have added that
no person connected with the paper has
authority to promise the insertion of
any news item. This may sometimes
prove as troublesome as the matter Of
suppressing news. The Sun well says
that the decision what to publish or
what not to publish is often difficult.
sometimes the public good demands
that matters should be made public
that may bring sorrow or annoyance to
lew; but no well conducted news
paper VIII give currency to idle gossip
or personal and private events in which
the public can have no concern. 1t
Wou.d no doubt be surprise to many
cautious critics OF newspaper if they
knew bow much comes to its knowl-
edge mat does not get into print
The February NUMBER of Out West,
d magazine of the old Pacific and the
new. is an Arizona number, and an in
teresting feature is the page after page
Of municipal advertising by boards of
trade. Tue California boards have long
made specially of this kind of adver-
Using, calling attention to town or
city as desirable for home on account
Of It's educational facilities, its churches,
its water supply, its lighting facilities,
the condition of the streets, sidewalks
and sewers. In many of the advertise
ments the fact that there are no saloons
is brought out and particularly empha-
sized In the advertisement of Pasa-
dena, for example the statement is
made in big type that there are no
saloons there. and that by the provi-
sions Of the charter of the city there
never can be legal saloon established
within its limits The Portland Even
ing Express says i'll this connections:
In not single instance in all the adj
veItiSing of towns by boards Of trade in
the magazine of which we are speaking,
does the fact that saloons are permitted
appear as an lnducement to men to
make those towns their home. There
is no reference to high license, or low
license or free rum, or to the number
of saloons doing business, save that SO
many of them make the point that
there are none at all. The members of
these boards of trade are live business
meN actively interested in doing the
most that can be done for the communl-
ty which they represent. If they re-
garded rumselling as an important in
dustry, adding to the prosperity of the
towns i'll which it is permitted, they
would surely announce the fact, when
Il 70 hat
liquor selling is permitted. Often we
find mention of the number of banks,
the number of manufactures, the num-
rer of newspapers, the number of stores
of various kinds, but never statement
that there is saloon. Still in Maine
there are those who would have us be-
lieve that the saloons contribute to the
prosperity of the towns in which they
are located. The Californians know
better. So do we in Maine.