Arizona republican., 1909-03-15
THE WESTERN MOVEMENT
 TOWARD WASHINGTON
CREATED BY THE LATE INAuG-
 URAL CEREMONIES.
A Further Advance in the Cost of
 Living.

Chicago, March 1o.-(SpeciaI Core spondence of The Republican)-Th west has broken all records for travel to the Inauguration of a president this year; the people have swarmed on to Washington through Chicago for the week past, requiring extra coaches on regular trains. extra trains and special trains until passenger agents of east ern lines passed the point of distrac- ton to stolid endurance a week ago. Telegrams from every state in the west, asking for sleeping car reserva- tions. have been pouring in for a fort night. Several special trains de luxe were made up in Chicago and it was matter of comment in railroad of fices that never has a throng attend ed the inauguration of a president of the United States in such pomp and circumstance, spending money so free ly and seemingly so well satisfied with prospects under the new president. The contrast drawn by the inaugural tion crowd of 1909 and that of Wash ingtOn in 17S9 was in keeping with the salaries of the first and the twenty seventh president, Washington having declined any salary and Taft being the first to receive the advance to S75,000. It is not generally remembered that in addition to his salary of S50.000. President Roosevelt has had $25,000 for travelling expenses. and, of course, the White House, for the maintenance of which Uncle Sam spent s5O.O00 in 1907. Chicago had a foretaste of a unique feature of the inauguration pa rade in the arrival of the Philippine constabulary band of eighty-five dim inutive, enthusiastic musicians, who gave concerts in Chicago, as well as in San Francisco, Lincoln and Omaha. The band was organized in Manila while the governor of the islands was William Howard Taft, and at his spe- cial wish was on its way 70 head the parade in Washington.
 To make new laws to suppress white slave traffic in Illinois invulnerable, a diligence has been shown to test every constitutional point that promises to set a mark of new efficacy in state legislation against a fragrant public evil Representative Lederer of Chi cago, sponsor for the measures, de- clares they will pass because they are not Utopian but practical" The bills. as first prepared by United States Dis trict Attorney Parkin, for the Wom- ans World. of this city, have been submitted to several of the best law yers of the state and will have their O. K. when introduced and referred to an sU,ls enactments have, in recent years. been declared defective in some constitu- tional point that the utmost caution has been advised in the efforts to pro- tect girls of Illinois homes from the appalling activity of procurers, and insure enforcible punishment for those engaged in the white slave trade" The pandering act passed by the last legislature by the personal efforts of Speaker Shurtleff will be amended to make the punishment for the first Offense much more severe. The only. opposition to the measures. it is found. will come directly or in- directly from city, particularly police, officials of the larger cities-which is a sidelight of importance upon the re- lations of vice to the police depart ments in many, if not all. larger citiea
 Loan sharks losses in bad accounts proved. upon audit of several sets of . books in Chicago for the Legal Aid ! society. to be mighty small, going to i show the effectiveness of their meth ! ods of collecting the extortionate rates I of interest they charge. The losses of 1 six concerns were variously only 1, 3i5. 1 2. 2i2. 5i2 and GA per cent of the total | amount loaned. The office expenses | including soliciting. amounted to mors 1 than expected. the gross expenses av- eraging nearly B per cent of the cap ital employed, although gross earn ! ings. on the other hand. were 40 to SO | per cent per annum. The net profits | averaged less in Chicago than in some 1 other cities. the average profit dis ] closed by the audit being from 13 to i 26 per cent on the investment" The 1, bills now before the Illinois legislature. ! fixing 1 per cent month as the legal : rate for chattel and salary loans, and | requiring that borrowers be given data | as to the papers they sign, were | strengthened by the report upon the | cost of making and collecting loans. | Legislation in several other states has | been found ineffective in practice be- cause too drastic to be enfOrcible l without shutting off the needy bor- rower with nothing to pawn. when the possibility of getting loan when sick ness or death makes a loan impera- tive. Inquiries from many states in dicate that Illinois pioneer policy will be watched closely. especially by the loan sharks trust"-their protective association.
 The failure of current methods of