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i THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, FRIDAY MORfs'lNG, JULY 25, 1913. M Iggjc f -alt fake f f itome. Issued von' morning by Salt Inke Tribune Publishing Company. ? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ally and Sunday, ono month J 1.00 Dally and Sunday, three months.... 3.00 Dally and Sunday, ono year 'S Sunday Tribune, ono year....: z0 Sunday Tribune, six months 1.00 Stml-Wnekly Tribune, one- year... 1.30 The Tribune la on sale In every lm ' nortant city In the United States. : Readers of the paper may ascertain the name of the local agent In any , city by telephoning this office. S. C. Beckwlth. Special Asent, Sole .Eastern Advertising Agent. Eastern of fice. Tribune Bulldtne, NVw Tori:: West ern office. Tribune Building. Chicago. i Business communications should be iuI 'dressed: "Tho Tribune. Salt Lake City. Vtuh." i Matters for publication to "Editor The Tribune. Salt Lake City. Utah." Telephone Exchange 2C4. When you fall to get your Tribune, '-telephone the city circulation department nnd a copy will bo senf: you by special mssancer. Jared at the Fostofflce at rial: Lake fc Cltv as cond-clPR matter. Friday, July 25, 1013. 1 It was a glorious day for the colo uration and gloriously enjoyed. The Pioneer celebration was in every .wav worthy, and was on an admirable .scale of completeness and artistic The man who sends a "black hand" 'Jotter as a joke, should have the joke turned on him by a caustic application of the law. A ninrriape liceusc can now be had iu Chicago at any hour of the day or jBBH 'liight. And purely, no place on earth Hgj has more need of that facility. BEE j Embassador Wilson, on leaving the mj '3itv of Mexico, told the people there BfjjQ W he would be back in three weeks. MR But it would have, been better to keep Ewu a, firm grip of that chin, and hold it flflfj rm wagging. Bftfl Mgjj p If American mediation in Mexico DnTi tomes by consent of the warring fac- HfJI Ponpi 't be well; but if not by H9 that consent, it would bo intervention Mm force, and war, which would be the MBfl tyjverse of well. Hral I &MI $ Senator Poindexter, the lone Pro Hnl Passive who votes with the Democrats Hill ir their tariff revision, has twelve HSi relatives on the public pay roll. Docs Hh fiic hater of base politics serve The inciter Cause for naught? mm 3 . BU 1 Report is that the price of coffee has MHj dropped forty per cent by reason of HH the valorization suits. But the retail fluff buyer of coffee has not found any evi- HfijJ donee that the news of this fact has ffj percolated down to his grocer. DBS St. Louie Globe-Democrat: "Mr. Hnja Bryan says he is compelled to lecture Ifljilrr iji older to add to his salary as Sec retary of State. It seems that Mr. Bryan is not willing to trust to tariff revision to reduce the cost of living." What a pity it was for Bulgaria, that when she was considering the fjuestion of opening war on Servia and Greece, to get the lion's share of "the spoils," that some one was not stand ing bj to give the counsel that Punch yuvo to the matrimonially inclined The Rochester (N. Y.) Domocrat and Chronicle puts it fittingly and well when it says: "Mr. Hitchcock, when Postmaster-General, disposed of Mul hall effectively by saying: 'You at tend to your business and Til attend to mine' Some othors would have been better off today if they had followed his example." Italy has just provided $20,000,000 to build railroads and otherwise de velop transportation facilities in Tripoli and Cyrenaica. It will no doubt be money well invested, whether con hidered from the civic or the military standpoint, and ought to aid materially in establishing firm and sure the Ital ian sovereignty and develop trade. The Internal Revenue report shows that though tho drinking places de creased by 13,000 in this country dur ing the fiscal year just past, compared with the year before, there waa more liquor consumed is the United States than ever before, though not more per capita. And licenses of various kinds paid a very substantial sum in taxes cf various kinds. There is no question but that Senator "Works is right when he challenges the interference of tho President in the law-making function of Congress as vicious. Ho is nlso quite right in de nouncing the binding of men's votes against their consciences, by means oT the caucus obligation. It is all vicious and bad. But what is to be done about it? Pittsburg Dispatch: "One contrac tor in New York, by a bid on the gar bage contract, proposed that tho city should pay him $650,000 for tho work. A rival bidder offered to pay tho city $4S7,000 for tho stuff. The contrast is somewhat remarkable. It is under etood that New York City will take the money. In many places, however, it would be regarded as flagrant violation of precedents." Thft U. S. Senato seems to think that Postmaster-General 'Burleson has ex ceeded his powers in his new parcel post regulations, and its Postal Com mittee rails on him to explain. But i,t would be hard lines indeed if bureau crats of many sorts, of high and low 1 degree, could set aside the law at will and substitute therefor their own will and pleasure, aud tho head of a great department, n Cabinet officer, must be bound b' the strict letter of the law. THE YEAR'S TRADE BALANCE. Preliminary figures are given of tho foreign trade of the United Stat03 for tho fiscal year which closed June 30th last. These .figures will not differ ma terially from tho final official figures that will pass into the record. The totals of the imports and exports of .merchandise, of silver, and of gold, aro given as follows, as wo find them in tho New York Commercial and Finan cial Chronicle: Article. Export. Imporli. Dilince. Jlcrchindlie, J. (SS.TM.SIG Jl,liC:i.!W JSK.H0.760 SllTcr 71.4H.3H U.J45.6U 2MU.ST0 Gold 77.T:,e:2 cs.ias.o::. s.kt.bjt TotI l2.6tS,i:$,83 Jl.?a.0S5,S:S JS3I.0K?O17 Compared with these are the figures for the fiscal year of 1911-12, ending June 30, 1012. as follows: Anleld. KxpnrtK. Import. Blance. Merciuudiio. 'i:.ro(.j::.03 ;i.43.:',.j.r:i js-.i.S7.7s Silver eUM.SC 7.Mi.513 17.5(0.4t Gold 57,3;S.:i5 .3JS.100 s.3M.$; toui j:.3:$.mi.:: ji.7?.:m.6JJ is77.:jo."3 Tho total foreign trade, including imports and exports, for tho year end ing June 30, J913, amounts to S4,53S, 224,660. For tho previous year ending Juno 30, 1912, the total foreign trade, including imports and exports, amounted to $1,075,783,075. Tbeso fig ures show a gain in tho aggregate of our foreign trade during the fiscal year just closed, compared with tho previous year, of $462,441,594. This gain was made up of an increase of $2SS,597,420 in imports and an increase of $173,844,173 in exports. It appears that in spito of heavy ex ports on the gold account, we gained $8,567,507 in our foreign trade during the year. In silver we sent out up wards of $30,000,000 more than we im ported. On both accounts we stand materially the gainer, as far as those two metals are concerned, for the rear, as well as compared with the year be fore. ! Taking the trade as a whole, tbc year has been an immonsely prosper ous one for the United States, exceed ing all previous records. The trade balance of $092,053,017 makes a now record. That is the showing under the high ly protective tariff that ought to have been improved by the Republicans four years ago; and it would have shown a record fully "as good under the improve ments. It is now up to the Democrats to show a record under their proposed tariff bill that will, in the words of President Wilson, expand our foreign trade and give greater activity to our commerce with other nations. WHAT AMERICANS DRINK. It appears from the report of tho Commissioner of Internal Revenue that the American people consumed more liquor (luring the past fiscal year than the- have ever done before, although the number of places where liquor is sold by retail to bo drunk on the prem ises has decreased by almost 1S,000, chiefly, as appears, in- the "dry" States. The people of the United States con sumed during the fiscal year, which ended Juno 30th last, 1,999,500,000 gal lons of beer, also 143.300,000 gallons of spirits. Estimating tho inhabitants of this country at 97,028,497, there was in all a per capita consumption of 22.0S gallons, which is a decrease of .71 of a gallon per capita from 1907. which was the high-water mark for the amount of liquor drunk by each in dividual in this country. That year of 1907 was also distinguished for hav ing the Roosevelt panic, and (hat panic appears to have driven tho peoplo to an uncommon degree to hard drink. Superintendent II. L. Sheldon, of the Anti-Saloon League, finds encourage ment in the figures as given, showing that on tho whole, as he claims, there has been a per capita decrease in tho consumption of liquors. He attributes the aggregate gain in liquor consump tion to the increase in population, rath er than to any increase per capita in the drinking habits of the people. He also claims that what he calls tho "liquor States," as New York with a per capita consumption of 45.3 gallons, Pennsylvania 32 gallons, Wisconsin 64 gallons, and other States that show consumption largely above tho average, arc chargeablo with tho excess of li quor consumption, which overcomes the gain of prohibition in the "dry" States. He sh ows that in 1S93 about 25 per I cent of the people lived in unlicensed territory. This unlicensed territory is now increased to 50 per cent of the whole population. He asks therefore, "Has this increased dry territo- af fected the consumption of liquor?" As a matter of fact, it appears from I the Commissioner's reports year by year, that there is strictly no "dry" territory in tho United States, oven though it may bo nominally "dry," according to the statutes of the States. Thus. Maine for many years has been nominally a "dry" State, and yet the number of special tax receipts is sued per capita in Maine for tho salo of liquor has been fully up to the av erage of the liko receipts issued per capita in the "wet" States. So that in the strict sense, there is no such thiug as "dry" territory in the United States. Mr. Sheldon in explaining the figures gets on hotter ground when he refers to the increasing population of tho cit ies and the increase in liquor sales corresponding to that increase. He es timates that in hot weather Chicago consumes 1,000,000 gallons of beer a day, and that annually a million for eigners, accustomed to drinking in the Old country, "aro added to tho drink ing population of our cities." IIo concludes, therefore, that the in crcaso of liquor consumption in tho cities offsets the increase in the "drv" territory, and that this is the reason why thoro is not tho decrcaso in tho consumption of liquor that the increase in the dry territory would naturally lead ono to expect. Thcro is a good deal in. what. Mr. Sheldon says, but tho. grim fact re mains that tho increase in drinking keeps- full pace with the increase Sn population, despite the gains in "dry'' territory, which, as Mr. Sheldon shows, now includes half of tho population of tho Unilod States, It is a clear case, therefore, that for' any one thus to speak of "dry" territory, in the sense in which ho uses the term, is misleading. That there is large con sumption of liquor in "dry" territory, iu spite of the nominal "dryness," is certain. Still, as has been shrowdly observed, it is worth while to have sta tistics like these, that please both the liquor sellers and the Anti-Saloon League. SECRETARY BRYAN TO JAPAN. The text of Soerctary Bryan's reply to the Japanese note has not been, given out; but the Washington cor-' respondents say that this reply is de voted largely to two points. Tho first, in effect, is that an arbitration treaty with the United Slates on matters puch as aro involved in this Japanese dis puto as to California legislation, would bo futile without a. decision of the Su premo Court of the United States af firming the arbitration award. This, if true, is a most singular admission. To concede its force, one would have to al low that the United States is not able to enforce its treaties entered into with various powers; but. this is exactly what cannot bo admitted by tho United States, nor could the liko be admitted by any nation. "We must conclude, therefore, that, either Mr. Bryan has been misled into a false position, or that he is misrepresented in this re port of his reply to Japan. Tho second proposition is thnt be cause of tho "State rights" princi ple, any treaty between the United States and a foreign power has no binding effect if a sovereign State sees fit lo violate its provision. Hero again we come to what seems to us an impossible situation. The United Slates could not. with any sort of dig nity or propriety, admit anything of that kind. The truth is that the United States is just as fully empowered to enforce treaties with foreign powers as it is to enforce tho Constitution itself. But to say that the United States Constitution cannot be enforced in Slates that do not seo fit to yield to such enforcement, would be a re iteration of tho old "Stato rights" doctrine, nnd in effect tho destruction of tho Union itself. We cannot believe, therefore, that Secretary Bryan has made such ad missions to the Japanese. Especially do we Tofuso to believe this since a conclusive reply was obvious in this case; that reply being that tho legis lation of California in no wise in fringes upon, tho treaty between the United States and Japan. Since tho California legislation traverses and in cludes in it the language of tho treaty, it is impossiblo to seo why Secretary Bryan should wander afield and make admissions such as are attributed to him, when his conclusive reply was so obviously at hand. We therefore conclude that Secre tary Bryan did not make the admis sions which are attributed 'to him. but that he fairly and squarely put it up to Japan that tho legislation of Cali fornia is not violative of Japanese treaty rights, and if Japan thinks it is, tho opportunity is open for any Japanese, or any one else who considers himself aggrieved by this California legislation, to bring suit in the Federal courts to determino tho point at issue. . This is probably what Sccretarj' Bryan " stated. At any rate, it is clearly what he ought to have stated, and there would bo no propriety whatever in his putting forward tho other points, which are (doubtless erroneously) attributed to him. ENGLISH SPARROW NEGLECTFUL. A good many efforts have been made, aud are making, toward the extermina tion of tho alfalfa weevil. These ef forts so far have met with indifferent success, but it is hoped that among tho many remedial propositions some ef fective remody will be found. A suggestion of this kind which we find in the June number of the Na tional Geographic Magazine, would seem, however, to be rather futile. That number has a fine showing of "Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard, with Fiftj' Illustrations, in Eight Col ors." Among these we find the Eng lish sparrow (passer domestiens) illus trated in rather moro vivid colors than the dull colored bird that is most com monly known here. A good descrip tion of tho sparrow is carried, with a refcrenco to its "quarrelsome disposi tion, and abundance, and familiarity about human habitations." There it is noted that this bird is "Almost uni versally condemned sinco its introduc tion into the United States," which is quite true. Among other objectionable features of the sparrow is "in rural districts :t is destructive to grain, fruit, peas, beans, and other vegetables." But it ia ftated, on the other hand, "tho bird feeds to some extent on a largo number of insect pests, aud this fact points to the nedl of a new investiga tion of the present economic status of the species, espoe:all3' us it promises to be of service in holding in check the licwly introduced alfalfa weevil, which threatens the alfalfa industry in Utah and neighboring State?." Inasmuch, though, as tho sparrow was abundant in Utah before the. alfalfa weevil was known hero, the latter bo ing, in fact, an introduction of but a few years i ast, and since ii thcro was any beneficial service to be rendered by the EDgli-h sparrow in suppressing t that woovii, one would suppose that that would havn bctn rendered whon tho weevil first appeared, if it was to be rendered at all the hint of sparrow service hero is hopeless. For, at that time the sparrows being over-abundant nnd the wcovil just beginning, the spar rows would have had their best op portunity, but h far as kuown, tho English sparrow has nltogclher ignored tho alfalfa weevil, which was intro duced and has spread destructively in spitn of the- abundauc- of tho sparrows. Still, if there is any possible way of introducing the sparrow to tho weevil, we trust, that the Agricultural Depart ment scientists will show tho people of Utah how this introduction can bo best made, so that the spairow can get in his work on the -wncvil, which thus far he has steadily ignored. The later advices frpm Washington, that the meadow lark is tho true Tlo vourer of the alfalfa weevil is subject to the same comment as abovo on the liko claim for the English sparrow; for tho meadow lark, liko the sparrow, has missed the. weevil by an indifference that is hard to explain if he is iu fact a feeder on tho woovii. AN ORGAN'S HARSH GRIND. It is a curious fact that the Smoot organ is obliged to come to the defense of President Cleveland and the ruin that his second election brought upon tho country. In order to conform its comments to the singularly erratic and exaggerated expressions of Apostle Smoot in his speech against tho Demo cratic tariff bill, the Smoot organ is obliged to rovers history nnd to claim that Cleveland's election was the sig nal for good times. Inasmuch, however, an President Harrison, whilo making tho best face possible in recounting the events of his own administration, was reduced to the strait of preparing a bond issuo prior to his retirement from the Presid ency, but wns prevailed to withhold it so as to let the Democratic eyclono sweep over the country with out relief from Republican distress. But. every one recalls so vividly the slump thnt followed Cleveland's election that its plea for Clovoland will hardly ef fect the result which it seeks. The public recollection is so clear on the point of the disasters to the country's business which began imme diately aftor Cleveland's election, thnt it is vain to undertake any boosting up of the Cleveland tragedy. For Cleveland's second administration cer tainly was a National tragedy. It was a tragedy also for the Democratic par ty, ono which has been its handicap over since. This handicap has been so tremendous that nothing but tho split in the Republican party, engineered by Roosevolt last year, prevented the de feat of tho Democratic party in the Presidential campaign in 1912, as usual. Even as tho vote stood, it showed a tremendous majority of the x'otors of tho country for protection, countiug tho votes for Taft and Roosevelt as protection votes, as it is fair to do. Tho industrial activities of the coun try had gone to ruin under Cleveland in 1893 to such an enormous extent that to compare conditions now under Wilson with those twenty years ago under Cleveland is simply absurd. There is no such panic in tho country now as prevailed in 1S93; quite the con trary, Evorj-thing now is on a fairly stable basis, and the idea of a panic is about the last thing that the people are considering. It is a singular piece of mcndacit3r and dishonest presenta tion for the Smoot organ to undertake to comparo the conditions now with those that existed during the panicky conditions in 1S93-1S94, in the way of making them the same. Now labor is employed at unprecedentedly large wages. There are no "industrial ar jinies," either active or threatening. There is no shut-down of manufactur ing plants. There is no widespread financial panic iu the country. In fact, eveiything is now under President Wil son as nearlj" as possible in exact con trast to tho conditions that prevailed during the first year of President Cleveland's administration. Why it is that any newspaper should put itself in a position of undertaking to make likeness between the conditions now with those twenty years ago is amaz ing. Such effort could be explained only on the hypothesis that as a faith ful henchman, tho Smoot organ must play tho samo tune that its master is playing now in Washington; oven though that tunc is a harsh discord, it must continue to play it just the same. HISTORY'S REPETITION. The public is much disturbed just now, and has been for some time past, over the alleged indecent dances such ns the "turkey-trot," the "bunn hug,'' and the "tango." This leads an English writer to compare the de nunciations uow directed against those modem dances, with the manner in which the polka was received in Lon dou when it was first introduced there. The English writer quotes from "The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer Stanhope." of date 1S12, as follows: Lady Kllzaheth gave a very successful ball, where for the first time in London the polka was danced In public, and puo plt! stood upon the chairs and rout-sent to watch It. - . . Mr. Theodore Hook de clared that "the obnoxious dance was calculated to lead to the most licentious consc'iucncos." . . . Subsequently the Sporting Magazine . . . denounced tho dance which, "to tho dlsnicrj of senst and taste, has obtruded Itself Into the whole circle of the- fashionable world. . . . a wlll-corruptlnc dance ... a compound of immodest scaturc nnd Infectious poi son." It appears from this that the polka was considered at that time as out rageous a dance as the "turkey-trot," the "tango," or any of the modern dances that are so much denounced. 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