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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-25
HOW THE SYSTEM BEGAN.

As 2 matter Of fact. practically every dollar
that is paid out in the running OF the city is
borrowed upon what are known as revenue
bonds The reason for this is that New York
spends ifs revenue before II is collected. That
happens in this way
In most other American cities taxes are paid
at the beginning of the year. so that the mu-
ricipal authorities start out with enough reve-
nue. in the treasury pay the cost Of admins
1ering the city's affairs In New York taxes are
not demanded until October /. and are generally
not fully paid until the end Of the year, so that
the city authorities start out TO pay the cost
Of administration without dollar Of revenue IN
This is where Father Knickerbocker shows
what a good fellow ne can be- He does not
bother about collecting taxes when he needs
ti9er even though be could easily secure the
legal power TO do Instead, he borrows the
money he needs to the city His name is
good Of course, because the bankers know THAI
his tax moneys are bound 10 come in at the end
of the year. Consequently he begins drawing
upon his credit and issuing bonds for the money
he needs, and keeps it UP for the entire twelve
months. Most Of these bonds come due In the
following year, and are paid out of the taxes
which begin TO roll in just nine months after
they might be paid.
This would no doubt. be a splendid arrange
ment. If Father Knckerbocker didn't need SO
rnpch ready money TO run his own business and
didn't have 10 pay interest on the amount he
borrows. When he started this practice, away
hack IL the early days. a few thousand dollars
year covered all the taxes he collected for his
modest needs: but time went on both his
revenue and his needs began 10 increase. Now
the modest town OF the olden days has grown
tnto the greatest city Of the Western World.
and the price he pays for being good fellow"
has increased in proportion Still he keeps up
his ancient and most unbusinesslfke habit,
though he knows that he cannot well afford it
New Yorks revenue is derived from taxes col
lecred by the city, from proportion OF those
levied by the counties In which the greater city
is situated. and from license. dock. ferry and
other fees and fixed charges imposed by the
municipality Under the charter all money
raised by taxes may be used TO pay the cost
of the city government. All fees and fixed
charges are paid into what is known as the
general fund The contributions TO this fund
amount 10 a large sum annually, but the greater
part Of il is used TO pay interest and sinking
fund charges uDon the city debt, which now
amounts 10 SJOo,oOo.eGo. The part which is not
thus pledged also goes TO help defray the cost
of administration Under the charter the city
IS empowered TO hypothecate from year to year
the revenue raised by taxes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-25
STUPENDOUS WASTE.

II is practically impossible 20 get at the exact
revenue the city has collected from taxes since
the present practice was begun just about a.
quarter OF a century before the outbreak OF the
War Of Independence. 1t is possible however.
10 approximate the amount. In Durand's
Finances Of New York City the figures are
given for the period between 1880 and 1896.
From that date TO the present time the amounts
are easily ascertained. The tax levies prior TO
1890 have 10 be more or less guessed at. A con-
sentative computation. based upon figures thus
obtained, shows that New York has raised the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
BREEDING BETTER CITIZENS.

General Fred d. Grant in his ad-
dress to the Grant Family associa-
tion, recommends as a measure con-
ducive to better citizenship that in
corrigible criminals be segregated
from society and prevented from
leaving descendants" says the San
Francisco Star.
The theory is as old as the Jukes
family, The interesting thing is the
Endorsement by a distinguished mill
tary man of the views of Lombroso
and other students of criminology.
Exactly what disposition the general
would make of the undesirables he
does not suggest; ''it would not be
Christian-like to kill them," and
prisons, he says, are made too attrac-
tive,
But as a further means to the i'm
provement of citizenship, asks the
New York World, will General Grant
advocate the abolition of armies and
the distribution in the pursuits Of
peace of the picked men who COM
pose them? What contributes more
than war to depress standards of citi-
zenship? A Gettysburg or a Sedan
or a Sadowa, by its sacrifice of the
flower of a nations manhood doub-
les the evil effect of the births of
the degenerates who survive.
The waste of nearly half a million
of our vigorous youth in the civil
war, the lowering of the physical
strength of the French nation by the
long slaughter of the Napoleonic
wars, are examples familiar to every
student of history of the lamentable
and lasting effects of war upon citi-
zenship. stop this drain and human
ity will gain immense benefit in sim
gle generation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
WHuSKEY AND GUN.

The saloon and the gun, whiskey
and a revulver-how many thousand
murders and other crimes a year do
they cause? says the Oregon Daily
Journal
Scarcely a days budget of news ia
free from the story Of some murder
committed in consequence of whis-
key and revolver, and so common
Is such an occurrence that it usually
IS told in a brief paragraph, unless
Ii happens in the papers home city
or one near by, and no more is
thought Of 1t than Of the announce
ment OF a change Of weather.
The latest whiskey-revolver MUIR
der in this state, at this writing,
occurred at Lexington, little town
Of Morrow county. A saloon keeper,
more or less drunk, while in another
mans saloon, shot and killed a man,
also drunk, with whom he had quar-
relied over nothing, as drunken men
will.
There lies a corpse for burial.
there in his cell sits candidate for
the gallows-though ne can prob
ably prove insanity" there are the
rnourners, and there are the tax
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
NEW RURAL ROUTE NEEDED.

Now that the stage line between
this city and Pilot Rock will soon be
abandoned, the farmers along the
wagon road who have enjoyed daily
mail delivery by means of the stage
should have a rural mail delivery
route.
1t would be easy to secure the re-
.quired number of patrons for such n
route within the prescribed distance
and early efforts should be made to
establish this service.
While the stage line was in opera
ton the farmers enjoyed what was
practically a rural delivery, as the
stage driver left mail at every house
along the line. but now that the mail
will be carried on the railroad the
farmers will be deprived of this con-
venience and unless efforts are made
to establish rural delivery, that thick
1y settled portion of the county win
be cut "out Of the world" as far as
mail delivery is concerned.
The rural route recently out Of
Adams north and south Is we'll pat
ronized and has added much to the
land values along the route and in
the vicinity and there is no reason
why another such route should not
be established in the country be-
tween here and Pilot Rock, includ-
ing the Birch, Mckay and Tutuilla
creeks settlements.
The East Oregonian hopes to see
this matter taken UP by progressive
farmers of those creeks The rural
delivery is waiting for you if you ask
for it, for you have the required
patrons if you can enlist them in this
movement for their own benefit.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
WE DO NOT APE

FOR SALE - OLD NEWSPAPERS,
wrapped in bundles of 15 Oeach,
suitable for wrapping, putting under
carpets. etc. Price, 15c per bundle,
two bundles Csc, Enquire this office,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
THE R.ATTLER.

A cold coiled line of mottled lead,
He lies where grazing cattle tread
And lifts a fanged and spiteful head.
His touch is deadly, and the eyes
Are hot with hatred and surprise
Death waits and watches where he
liesl
His hate is turned toward everything!
He is the undisputed king
OF every path and woodfall spring
His naked fang is raised to smite
All passing things; light
Is not swifter than his bite.
His touch is deadly, and his eyes
Are hot with hatred and surprise
Death waits and watches where he
lies!
-Hamlin Garland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK? Z?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news.
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24

payers who pay the bills-look them
all over, and consider whether 1t
pays for society to allow saloons in
every little country settlement like
Lexington, and everybody. young
and old, good, bad and indifferent,
to pack gun"
This man Doherty, the account
says, had a reputation of drawing
his revolver on slight provocation,
and he was known to drink to ex-
cess, yet he was allowed to continue
in the saloon business, in which he
could tank up" readily, and to
carry a gun wherever he went, only
awaiting a little provocation to use
It,
If this were a rare or unusual
case, it might not point a moral so
clearly: but 1t is a common case,
one happening every day. Isn't It
time to try to put the revolver out
of the numbering business, or to,
break up the whiskey-revolver COM
binaton?
Does a young fellow have a brain
storm because a girl won't love
him? out comes his revolver and
he kills her and himself. Does a
young cigarette-pufting degenerate
start out to steal? He takes re-
volver. Does a dissolute, ill-tempered
fellow set out to get drunk, knowing
beforehand that he will pick a quar-
rel? He carries along a revolver.
There are hundreds of lrresponsi-
BILE, depraved, ignorant fellows in
this city, all the way from Is to so
years old, who habitually carry a
revolver, and for purposes of crime
or mischief only.
The 4O-rod whiskey saloon and
the revolver are a tough combina-
tion. and society has suffered alto
gether too much and too long at
their hands already.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
AS MIKE SAW THE LAW.

An Irishman wanted to take d
"homestead." and not knowing just
how to go about it, sought intorma-
ton from a friend. Mike" he said,
"you've taken a homestead an l
thought maybe ye could tell me tn
law concernin' how to go about IT,
well, Dennis, I don't remember
tn exact wordin' Nv tn law, but can
give We the exact manin' NV II, The
manin' Nv it is this: The government
is willing T. bet ye 100 acres Nv land
again $14 that ye can't live on 1t tive
years without starvin' t DEATH
Emery Thompson, aged II. was
drowned in the backwater of a ditch
near Mabton, Wash, Saturday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24
WHY Is NEVADA NOT A STATE?

President Roosevelt reads a timely
lecture to Governor Sparks on the
duty and responsibility of the state
to do its own police work and pro-
vide all the reasonable mechanism
for performing its sovereign func-
ton in the crisis it is now confront
ing, says the Lewiston Tribune.
OF course, just what the rights
and wrongs of this special case are
the public does not know so we'll as
the respective officials know. They
have confidential and exact inform
alton on which to base their conduct
that outsiders do not have in form
ing their opinions.
It seems quite certain, though, that
if Nevada is entitled to statehood it
must prove its right by maintaining
public order and protecting life and
property If these be violated, the
penalties are duly prescribed and the
means for carrying them into effect
duly provide in the solemn cove
nant of all society.
1t would seem under all the cir
cumstances that the state could
handle the situation if, as the presi-
dent suggests, it shows a serious
purpose to. do so.
There are, or ought to be, enough
patriotism or enough sense Of self
interest in that section to be organ
lied into a local guard that would be
quite as determined to secure order
as any others may be to secure disor-
der. They would. have every possi-
BILE advantage on their side with the
exception Of assassination and other
secret crimes.
The Western Federation has never
yet brought down a victim face to
face. They will not openly show
their hands in Goldfield whether
troops are there or not. A handful
of determined men, acting under the
law. is as potential as an army corps.
All that is needed is the purpose. II
the state cannot supply this purpose
II ought to go out of business and
make way for some authority that
can.
There are, to be sure, exceptional
and difficult circumstances surround
ing the Nevada case that must be
taken into consideration. The West
ern Federation is composed of good
fellows and free spenders. They, In
their personal relations, have many
friends and strong business connec-
tions. They are a power in local
Il
politics and elect their own men to
the positions OF authority. They
reach out over the state and up into
the executive offices. They have so
much voting power, through their
trade and purchasing and personal
relationships, that no governor or
senator can be elected except
through dealing with them.
The story is an old one and has
few new phases. 1t has been told in
the criminal courts Of this country
over and over again and written
deep and red in many a landscape.
It is not childs play to cope with
the situation effectually yet merci-
fully.
It is a situation that has run too
long and grown too strong to be
composed in a day or to be solved
by compromise or toleration. 1t is a
mans work that has to be done now,
the work Of earnest, robust and self
less men. Nevada has such men,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24


The grange and fruitgrowers of
Josephine county have adopted a
plan long advocated by the East ore
gonian, that of giving name to the
farms of the country. If there is a
farming country on earth which has
farms large enough and rich enough
and distinctive enough to deserve in
dividual names those farms are to be
found in Umatilla county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24

surely and they have a right to take
up their task and carry 1t on to full
fillment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24

cures made by Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century {;
discovered after years
of scientific research
by DR.. Kilmer, the
eminent kidney and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24

bladder specialist, and is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing lame back,
uric acid, catarrh of the bladder and
Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
smmended for everything butif you have
kidney liver or bladder trouble 1t VIII De
found Just the remedy you need. II mas
been tested in so many ways, IN hoSpitaI
work and in private practice, ana mas
proved so successful i'll every case thai
special arrangement has been made Dy
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have sample
bottle sent free by mail, also book tell
ING more about Swamp-Root, and now 10
fndoutif you have kidney or bladder troa- ;'
Bile. When writing mention reading tnis
generous offer in this paper ana seno your
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fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles are Home Of s"amph00N
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the NAME
Swamp Root, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Koo
and the address, Binghamton, N. H'' on
every bottle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-24

Buy tea by the ounce
until you get Schilling's
Best ; it makes no differ
ence then.
Your grocer returns yosr monsT II you don't
Nks Il: Ne pay bin
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

has eyer been done before as Colonel Goethals has been doing on the isth mus, according to statistics in the off, cial canal record just received For in- stance, it is shown that every fifty working days the commission is mov- ing an amount of material equal the pyramid of Cheops, which it to.
 100000 men twenty years to build and
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24
HEAVY FOG CLOUDS
Weather Bureau Made a Rec ord Yesterday for Bad
 Weather Conditions.
BEAUTIFUL DAY CHRISTMAS
Prospects Are for Clear, Ripping Weather, But No Chance
 for Sleighing.
Should a body meet a body Coming through the fog, Should a body Kiss a body, Should a body sob?"


 Should body sob?"
 They could have done so in a score of places about New Haven at dusk yesterday evening without anybody having been the wiser The rye fields Of old Scotland would have been no comparison in their ability to hide those who have wandered among them with the streets of the Elm City. A good part of the day those New Ha- veners who were out of doors were living each in little world all to themselves, for so thick was the fog that it shut out all the familiar scenes about them and the sounds, too, in good part.
 Those few people who were about the streets after midnight Monday morn ing saw one of the most beautiful sights of nature. The sidewalks and railings and trees were tAickly cov- cred with hoar-frost which giistened and gleamed in the light of the street ligEts in a manner to make the city look like a veritable fairyland. But after Sundays excellent weather and the beauties of the early morning yes- terday Monday did not live up to the record set by any manner or means. The temperature went up to a maximum of $ as compared with 2S for the corre- spending day last year. Tne snow, what was left of 1t from the recent storm. began to melt with great rapid ity and the rain came down in torrents. As result the air was filled with clouds of fog that rolled in from every hand At the upper end If the Green and in some of the outlying districts, where the most snow was melting, it was so foggy that there was great danger of trolley accidents, so that the motormen took every precaution.
 The precipitation up to D. m. was 1.16 The wind velocity at 8 a, m. was six miles an hour; at 8 p. m. it was 2C miles an hour. The latter fact had much to do with the breaking up ot the fog. At that time the wind was con Ing from the southeast.
 If cur friends of the weather burear had tricG to produce a day of more unpleasant character they would have had to put on their thinking caps tt have Gono so. There was one consola tion in knowing that New Haven wa! not the only locality that was suffer ling. The storm was one that covered a large area, some 800 miles in diane ter Last Saturday morning it wa central over Texas. Since then it ha moved slowly northward up the Mis- sissippi and the Ohio valleys to thi section of the states. The center 0 the storm passed very near New Ha ven at about noon yesterday when tn lowest pressure was experienced here
 The prospects for to-day are fo cleahing and colder weather Loca Forecaster Tarr said last evening tha he thought there would be fine weath CT in New Haven and vicinity flo Christmas. There was a good pros pect that there would be frost and per haps good freezing weather, but h was afraid that those who longed i'd snow for Christmas would be dsap pOinted
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

the services of the same numoer Of men for ten years in constructing the road connecting the work with the quarry. The commission could build
 tte Suez canal at the present rate of progress in 5.S years, though it took
 ten years for De Lesseps to complete his work. The famous Manchester ship canal could be eEcaYated by the AmAi-
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

ican canal workers in just 25 months and even Emperor Williams magnifi- cent Kiel canal could be dug by the Americans in just five years.
 According to the latest health report from Panama, the isthmus has been frss from yellow fever for more than IS months and there has been a steady and continued improvement in the
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24
GREENE AND GAYNoR LOSE.
Supreme Court Refuses Writs to Cen tractors Defrauding Government

Washington, Dec. 23.-The supreme court of the United States to-day de- nied the petition for writs of certiora- ri bringing to that court the cases of Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gay- nor, who are under sentence to pay a fine of $575,749 and to undergo terms of imprisonment of four years each on the charges of em'bezzlement and con spiracy in connection with Oberlin M. Carter, then captain of engineers of the United States army, to defraud the United States in connection with the harbor improvements at Savannah
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

health conditions. Comparing the deat
 rate for the year up to Dec. 1, wit
 that for the corresponding period 1906, there has been 50 per cent. dc crease. the figures being for this yes 2o.66 per thousand against SO.6l la, year. The sick rate also showed marl ed improvement, being 2O.49 for N vember against 2S.sO for October. 1se
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

Notice has been served upon City Clerk Street of the claim of Mrs. Elm ma L. Dingman of New York for $5,OOO damages from the city for in juries she received by fall upon the walk in front of 10 orange street on October 25. Mrs. Dingman claims that the walk was defective. Her claim was presented by her attorney, Carl M Mears.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

The main floor of the Young Mems institute will be closed for repairs from this evening until further notice. No books will be issnel or received, but the newspapers and magazines will be on file in the chess room on the third floor.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

An invitation has been extended to Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York to address the members of the New Haven Young Mems Republican club at their annual Lincoln day ban quet, and it is considered likely that he will accept, The function which has come to be one of the most notable gatherings of the winter season takes place Feb. 12.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

The Howe & Stetson company have left a few of the very attractive desk furnishings and smokers sets which are selling at remarkably low prices, considering the splendid material and fine workmanship. There are still enough of them for you to find it easy ito make selections.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24
 BRIEF MENTION.
High water to-day at 2:O2 D. m.

Plans for the new county home to be erected in Allingtown for the city of New Haven, have been completed by Architects Allen & Williams of this city, and will besput out for estimates some time next week According to the plans the cost to the city will be in the neighborhood of $1OO,0OO
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

Unique candlesticks and ash trays for the masculine den are of green bronze, faintly tinted with color.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24
DIRT FLIES FAST.

Past Month a Record Breaker-Ye
 Death Rate 50 Per Cent, Less.
 Washington, Dec. 2S,-The excaya- tions from the line of the Panama last month aggregate 1,SSS,4S6 cubic yards and would have covered ten city blocks to a depth of fortyNeet. No such work
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

2 For mans den there Is a waste basket of dark green wicker in the shape of an urn that is unusually at-
 tractive.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

A meat carving apparatus consist ing of d framework to hold the roast up and a special knife to slice it might prove acceptable to the practical house. wife.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24

The latest thing in the way of a purse is an alligator claw, worn swing ing from the belt.