Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-31

railroad that the important i'm proyements it had entered upon in volving a new entrance and term inal in Jersey City, and estimated to cost all told over $20,0OO,O 900, are to be abandoned, at least Tor the time being. This is calculated to make even the most reckless and thoughtless men to stop and think for a while whether the wild work with railroads is to continue or not. The chief trouble with the Erie fact is that it is not alone, but belongs to a class. There IS seldom day passes without some railroad announcing that it is haul ing in, instead of expanding; that operations that were to cost mil lions, and the money for which was at nand, are now put on the shelf, because the money cannot be got to push them through. The railroads have been hard hit, in their business and in their standing and the public will soon find that it's time to suffer is fast approach ing. When railroad stops big improvement it means that millions of dollars of money that would have been spent will now lie dormant, consequently there will be so much less to float among the people, fructifying the labor market, and, following that, freshening up all lines or trade, and putting the mar ket in it's finest condition. We have been declared to have been enjoying an unprecedented degree of prosperity, but check has come to it. The harum-scarum crowd has had their parjandrum and now the public can prepare to pay for it. It has taken seventy-five years to build up the railroad system, it has taken only few months to bring it to the edge of ruin. and common people have been thinking that all that would happen would be cheaper rates, and less cost to themselves; but soon they will find that business has dulled down, and that there is less money astir, and that they are getting less than they were getting of what is afoat. It is time that there was a let-up on the railroads, if it is not already too late. A brave effort has certainly to be made to stay the destruction, and alas, the men who can best make it are discredited, and de- prived of the power they once possessed to strengthen the bnsi- ness and system.
 What an army of foreigners is landing on the shores of America at the present time. It is not to be wondered at, as the United States Is the second love, if it is not the first, in the heart of every mortal on the globe. who has enough to know that there is any country outside of iii5 his own land: And so they come in many ships. sometimes . dozen or these come staggering into port with such loads of human beings that never were heard of before. On one day last week 12,000 i'm migrants came into the part of New York as steerage passengers. There were so many that the United States accommodations for immi- grants were exhausted, extensive as these accommodations have all ways been, and greatly enlarged as they have lately been made: Some of the ships had to hold passengers until room could be made for them. The inspectors are able to handle only about 5000 day, and here came enough to create new city, for many cities with all the ma chinery of city government are not as large as this army that poured upon our soil on that one day. That is not an isolated day, by any means. It is the largest day, to be sure, but many approach it, so that city is added to American ter ritory about twice week. Well, the country needs labor; Canada needs labor; and here it is. How long it will take to mold all this raw material into citizens none can tell. Some of the men and women will yield quickly to the influences of American life; others will stick to their old ideas and preserve their foreign ideas and