Connecticut western news., 1907-09-05
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1haA hhS ulN feited with politics and refuse to be turned from the path of commercial and industrial prosperity by the poll ticians was the declaration of Vice President Fairbanks in a speech made at the opening of the fifteenth national irrigation congress in Sacramento, Cal. MT. Fairbanks said: Upon such an oc- casion as this I would not venture to obtrude politics; nothing could be more inappropriate. The fact Is that we have a surfeit of politics. What we need most Is more business and less politics. Unless the business affairs of the people are arrested by unwise poll cies, unless the seeds of distrust are sown among ourselves. unless commer. cial unrest is encouraged by doctri- naires, we shall continue to expand our industries. and the great west will continue to grow and fulfill her mighty destiny"
 An increase of twenty-five cents ton in the cost of steam sizes of an- thracite coal has gone into effect in New York. At tidewater the prices will be S3.25 a ton for pea, $2.T5 for buckwheat and S2.25 for rice. To New York consumers the cost will be S4.10a a ton for pea. $3.60 for buckwheat and S3.25 for rice. This advance, according to wholesale and retail dealer, is un- precedented at this time of year. He added that 1t was due in part to the recent erection, especially in New York city, of skyscrnping office build ings and large hotels and apartment houses and to the practical doubling within five years of the cost of labor. material and transportation, while the market price of coal has remained about stationary during the same pc riod.
 Ground will be broken in Washing ton in a short time for the new build ing of the international bureau of American republics, which will be unique not only in the capital city, but in all the world. It will serve as the International headquarters or offices in one national capital of twenty-onc different American nations. The near est approach to 1t will be the new temple of peace now being erected at The Hague. The cost of this pan. American structure when it is fully completed and ready for occupancy will be nearly $1,000,00u, of which Andrew Carnegie generously contribut. cd S75o,ooo and the different American nations approximately $2b0,ooo.
 Report that the earnings of Ameri can farmers are $1,0O0,oO0000 greater this year than last is made in q pre-. liminary statement on crops which will be published in the next issue of the American Agriculturist. This big gain will be entirely due to the increased prices of farm products, as the produc. tion in general will be fully 10 per cent less in quantity than in 1906, which was the record year. The wheat crop this year will approximate 625,0000OO bushels. 150,000.000 less than last year
 Woodchoppcrs employed by A. k Johnson, who has q portable sawmill in Dark hollow, wild section of the town of Glastonbury, Conn. quit their work for fear of rattlesnakes. Several thousand railroad ties are piled up in the woods ready for shipment, but Johnson cannot get the men to load them.
 
 land, Me- ex-Judge Alton R. Parker of New York declared he had no desire ever again to hold public office and that in respect to this his views had not changed since his defeat for the presidency in 1904.
 Canada Is being threatened by the yellow peril. Long before the outcry against the Japs in San Francisco was heard throughout the world, the prov. ince of British Columbia had complain. ed time and again about the influx of the yellow and other races, which is getting worse every day and which may result in a rupture between west. ern and eastern Canada if not reme' died. During the month of July over 500 Japanese have entered British Co. lumbia. Since January last over 4.000 have come in, and 2,000 more are sup. posed to be en route from Honolulu. This is going 1t rather strong, and such an authority as R. G. Macpher. son, M. F., says: If the Jap is not checked by treaty or otherwise, there will be within two years something like 30,000 of them here, all ablebodied males. To offset this we have 80,000 nntfva i'm h n hitonts u