The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-14

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Of foreigners to Europe for the
winter is making itself felt in tn,
West as never before. Every trair
brings in people of every nat
ionality from all the Middle
WeAt-all going back to sthe ole
country" In one day 1900 people
left Chicago for New York and
IN one week $4,000 left New Yorl
N the steerage for Europe. The
greatest number are going tc
scandinavian and Italian points
The Italians who have been "laid
on" temporarily from railroad
work are going back to Italy be.
cause. transportation included. they
can do It and save money win.
tering In their native land The
financial furry has caused var.
ious Industries to lay off thous.
ands Of men.
It Is Interesting. even to loyal
admirers of President Roosevelt
to see the vitriolic way in which
his accusers state their views. A
Chicago magazine has led off with
several resounding whacks at the
President and his policies. the
three leading articles of the
American Business Man for De.
cenber being "Theodore Roose.
velt, Destroyer URoosevelt and
the Newspapers and "The Square
Deal and Do We Get qtq, This
10 . number which evidently is in-
tended to make the President e
hair curl. All the present financial
etr!ngency ds laid to his account
and then some. Under the head OF
WThe Square Deal and Do We Get
ms SAltefs say :-atIt is general.
" unjust to blame a panic upon a
peresident. for panics are usually
traceable to crop failures, or to
the uncurhed excesses of the gamb-
ling mania, or to other conditions
beyond the control of president
or his administration. But the
present panicky feeling which is
paralyzing the industries of the
country Is not due to speculative
excesses, else it would have reach
ed its climax nine months ago. .
It is due entirely to the destruc-
ton OF popular confidence in the
honesty and soundness of the
fundamental enterprises of the ma
tion. and this destruction of con-
fidence can be traced mainly, II
not wholly. to the public utterances
Of Theodore Roosevelt" And more
to the same effect. Wow!
The creation of new harbor on
the Great Lakes. to compete with
Escanaba and Duluth as an ore
shippang point: is the latest feat
OF the men who control the iron
and ,ateel interests Of the country
This time It is not the Steel Trust
but John w. Gates and his crowd
who have rubbed the Alladin e
lamp that builds cities over night
the place they have chosen IL
Key Harbor. Ontario, on the edge
OF what Is now wilderness of rock,
water and timber, that reaches back
about eighty miles from Lake Huron
to the big Moose Mountain iron field
which, have just been opened up.
Work has begun, and now everything
is In shape to continue, after the
freezer up, the building of the ore
docks, which are to be the founda-
kion OF the port, and from which
the product of the Moose Mountain
mines will be shipped to Cleveland
and other American ports. The mines
twenty-five miles north of Sudbury,
are already lpiling up ore for ship
ment as soon as the Canadian North
It. The railroad is pushing work on
an extension from the main line,
three miles south of French river,
and will run mile long trestle
down to the docks. which will have
q capacity Of 800 tons per ten hour
day. As soon as the connection with
Ottawa is completed, Key Harbor
will be the entrepot for. all the Cana
dian Northern direct traffic between
tide water and the West. This will
mako the new port an unexpecteded
factor In lake commerce, for at the
dockside there Is "a feet of water--
moro than sufficient to carry the
largest boats on the lakes, for the
drauEht Of the So6 Canal and the
81. Clair River is only 20 feet.
"They smell of camphor" J. Ogden
Armour is said to nave! complained
when he had squeezed himself into
'evsning Clothes to attend the recent
wedding of Watson Armour, his
cousin. The glad raiment was un-
fnmi1lar To this multi-millionaire