The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 March 1911 — Page 3

DEAL INJPLOW Appointment of American as Persian Treasurer Results. Serves to Bind United States and Germany—Some Inside Facts of Recent Negotiations in the Far East. Washington.—The appointment of W. Morgan Shuster as treasurer general of Persia, on the recommendation of Secretary Knox, is the newest link in the diplomatic chain that ( is binding the United States and the German empire together, so far as Asiatic affairs are concerned. The fact that the reorganization of the finances of Persia has come under American control is not the outgrowth of any Sentimental attachment for Americans which may or may not exist in Teheran, but is the result of the international political situation in China and Japan. The much advertised “dollar diplomacy" advocated by Secretary Knox has not been as successful in the far east as its projectors had hoped. The plan for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways was not well received in any capital of the world except Berlin. The Crane incident embarrassed the American government no little even at home, but it was significant that the Berlin newspaper press openly sympathized with Mr. Knox. After Mr. Crane's commission as minister to China had been revoked and before Mr. Calhoun, the present minister, had started to Pekin, the interests in China inimical to the United States took advantage of the weak spot in the American diplomatic armor to “put one over.” The dollar diplomacy apparently had been successful in obtaining for American financiers the loan with which was to be built the important Chin-chow-Alguan railway. This was a railway proposed to be built wholly within the territornal limits of China proper, not at any point touching any territory in which any other nation has even the color of right to interfere with the Chinese socereignty. That American capital was to be used in the construction of this railway was due not only to the “dollar diplomacy," but also to the extremely friendly attude of the Deutsche Asiatische bank. The British financial interests, which hitherto have entirely dominated Chinese finances, resented the German activity in the matter. Russia and Japan felt aggrieved that the United States had proposed that all of the powers should take over the railroads in Manchuria owned by Russia and Japan, without consulting either St. Petersburg or Tokyo. French interests were brought into enmity with the American propositions, largely by reason of the German war scares and the force of the British entente cordiale. There was no American minister in China at the time; the American ambassador to Japan was at home on a leave of absence, and the time was propitious for a general campaign against the Americans. Great Britain, Russia, Japan and France each sent notes, identical in spirit, but varying in letter, to the Chinese government, practically forbidding the construction of the Chin-chow-Alguan railway. The fact that some of the prominent members of the American financial syndicate which was to furnish the capital for this railway were Jews who had been active in the movement to force the American government to demand that Russia respect the passports of American Jewish citizens had an important influence on the Russian minister in Pekin. The Russian note was couched in terms that may have been construed to be positively insulting to the United States. It was significant that the American state department was unable to obtain a copy of the Russian note for several months, and then not until an American newspaper reporter obtained it by accident and carried it to the legation at Pekin. At the same time, again taking advantage of the absence from the Orient of any high agent of the United States government, Japan and Russia entered into an agreement, which later was embodied in a treaty, pledging themselves jointly and severally to maintain the status quo of the railway situation in Manchuria and northern China. China, without an army and a navy, was absolutely powerless to resist the coercion of the four great powers. The result was that the Chinese government was forced to abandon its plan to build a Chinese railway in Chinese territory for the development of Chinese commerce and respurces. Incidentally, the American capital that was to finance that railway lost its opportunity for a profitable investment. The wholly unexpected action of the four powers so staggered the state department at Washington that for a time nothing whatever was done. “Dollar diplomacy” had met with a rebuff that for a time completely paralyzed it But it was not killed. The scene shifts from China, on the Pacific shores of Asia, to Persia in the heart of the great continent. Russian and British interests in Persia were more or less at war. The Persian revolution brought matters to a climax. Neither Russia nor England was willing to abandon the Persian field. On account of European complications, it. was impossible for Germany to make any direct protest against the Russo-British agreement At the

same time the Germans were unwilling to submit to the permanent control of Persian finances by the bankers of St. Petersburg - and London. In some manner, probably by indirect negotiations with Persia, the Germans suggested that the Persians ought to reorganize their finances on a basis which would give them, ultimately, complete control of their own affairs. Obviously they could not do this without outside aid. No European nation could be invited to assist, without running the danger of unpleasant complications with Russia and England. What more natural, then, than that the Persians should turn to the United States? The Teheran government asked the state department at Washington to submit the names of several Americans of ability and experience, qualified for the position of treasurer-gen-eral, and prepared to undertake the complete readjustment of the government and commercial finances of the shah. From the list submitted the name of W. Morgan Shuster of Washington city was selected. Mr. Shuster is a young man who went out to Manila as a clerk and who rose, by virtue of his own ability, to the position of Philippine commissioner. As the head of the educational department in the Philippines Mr. Shuster organized the school system of the Islands in such a manner as to win the highest praise from every European traveler who has visited the Philippines in the last five years. Unfortunately, perhaps, Mr. Shuster’s sympathies with the Filipinos were so pronounced that he was led into the error of taking sides with the natives, even as against the will of the government at Washington. His position then became untenable and he resigned. * Now he goes to Teheran as the treasurer-general, and he will have three American assistants. He will work, of course, solely in the interests of the Persians. But there is no doubt that both Washington and Berlin believe that his work in Persia will have great Influence upon the larger situation in China. It will be necessary for Great Britain and Russia, if they are to maintain their commercial advantages in Persia, to respect the wishes of the United States. This will give Mr. Knox power to bring pressure upon the British and Russian governments with respect to affairs in China that he has not hitherto possessed.

MAIL-CARRYING FREIGHT. In 1860 the postal deficit was $lO,652,543; in 1910 it was $5,848,566. The postal rate was four times greater in 1860 than now. Coming down 12 years to 1872, the total weight of second-class matter was that year less than 65,000,000 pounds. Now it Is 817,428,141 pounds, more than 12 times greater. Then the postage rate was four times what it is now. When the gross revenue was $21,915,426; now it is $224,128,657, more than ten times as much. Then there was no rural free delivery; now that system costs $36,923,737. Then there were no registered letters; now there are 42,053,574 a year. Then there were issued $48,515,532 in domestic money orders; now there are sissue $547,993,641. Then postmasters were paid $5,121,665; now they fcre paid $27,514,362, and their clerks are paid $38,035,456.62. Then city delivery cost but little; now it costs $31,805,485.28. In 1872 there were issued of stamps, stamped envelopes and wrappers less than $18,000,000 (there were no postal cards); now are issued, including postal cards, $202,064,887.96, more than ten times as much. The weight of second class matter is 752,428,141 pounds greater than in 1872, costing therefore (according to some official mathematicians), more than nine cents a pound for transportation, on a total of $67,718,532.68. The deficit for 1910 is almost identical with that of 1872. As late as 1885 the government income from the issue of stamps, stamped envelopes and, wrappers and postal cards was $35,924,137.70. In 1910 it was $202,064,887.96, more than five times as much. The number of registered letters issued in 1885 was 11,043,256; in 1910 it was 40,151,797. ' The amount of money orders Issued rose from $117,858,921 in 1885 to $498,699,637 in 1910. The total postal receipts rose from $43,560,844 in 1885 to $224,128,657 in 1910, an increase of $181,567,813. The postage rate on second class matter in 1886 was double what it is now. During the intervening period the weight of second-class matter had increased about 600,000,000 pounds. In 1906 there was a gain in weight of second-class matter of 41,674,086 pounds; in that year the deficit was $10,516,999. In 1907 there was a gain in weight of 52,613,336 pounds—ll,ooo,ooo pounds more than in 1906; the deficit was reduced to $6,653,283. In 1908 there was a loss instead of gain in weight of second-class matter of 18,079,292 pounds; the deficit went up to $16,873,223, an increase over the year before of more than $10,000,000. In 1909 there was only a slight gain in weight of 28,367,298 pounds; the deficit went up $17,441,719. In 1910 there was t. gain in weight of 94,865,884 pounds, the largest ever known, and the deficit dropped to $5,848,566.88. From 1906 to 1910 there'was a 198,863,387 pounds increase in the weight of second-class matter; the deficit was less in 1910 than in 1906.

CAP and BELLS ■", FOUND WHERE NOBODY LIVED Clever Manner in Which Cabin Boy of Certain Little Vessel Averted Severe “Rope’s Ending.” The skipper of a certain little vessel relates the following story, though the laugh is decidedly against him: When anything goes wrong aboard his boat, the skipper likes to get to the bottom of the affair if, as he puts it, “it takes me a month of Sundays to do it.” One morning, while lying in port, a trifling accident occurred in the usual mysterious manner. No one was to blame. The skipper tackled each member of the crew until he came to the cabin boy. "Now, young shaver!” he remarked, “Maybe I’ll get the truth from you. Who did it?” “Nobody, sir,” responded the youth, who scarcely deemed it wise to blame any of his superiors. “Indeed!” ejaculated the skipper. “Mr. Nobody again? You seem to know the fellow well! I should like to have a look at him myself. I am going ashore now. You can come with me, and if you don’t point out the house where this Mr. Nobody lives, you’ll get the finest rope’s ending you ever got in your life!” The outlook was anything but pleasing, and the cabin boy was the reverse of cheerful as he led the skipper up one street and down another. The skipper was enjoying the lad’s discomfiture when suddenly the boy pulled up and nodded to a house across the way. “But that’s an empty house! ” said the skipper. “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “Nobody lives there.” The rope’s ending was averted. HASTY DECISION.

Daughter—The count says his love for me will never die. Millionaire Pa—He overestimates my earning capacity. Easy. First Patent Medicine Man—Our rivals in advertising their consumption cure state that 60 per cent, of deaths are due to that disease. Second Ditto—That’s easy. We’ll double it. Tell our publicity mhn to announce through the papers tomorrow that 120 per cent, die annually from hard colds. Maybe that won’t boom our Pneumonia Panacea, what? —Puck. The New Philanthropy. “That millionaire is very mean and selfish to want to get all the money himself.” “Nay, he is the latter-day altruist. He says in all his public speeches that money is a burden and poverty a blessing. So he nobly shoulders the burdens and leaves the blessings to others.” Indisputable Proof. The Landlady—The gentleman that was occupyin" the room last, sir, was a literary person. The Possible Tenant—What makes you think he was literary? The Landlady—Why, he had ink on his fingers, sir, an’ went away without payin’ his board. Use of the Impractical. “Aren’t you afraid some of the reform ideas you express are impractical?” “Os course,” replied Mr. Sprediggle. “But the people who don’t know they are Impractical enjoy them, and those who do know it aren’t afraid of them.” The Discouraged Sneer. “So you have quit laughing at your wife’s hats?” “Yes," replied Mr. Growcher. “The funnier they seem to me, the more convinced she is that they must be correct in style.” Works ioth Ways. “I suppose in this one-at-a-tlme entrance there are no passes. You have to pay as you go?” “Don’t stand there blocking the way to talk. Yes, you have to pay as you go, and you have to go as you pay.” Do You Get It? Mother —No, cnlld, I won’t let you go and see “Camille." It isn’t a fit Play. Daughter—Oh, please, Dumas.

IT WAS REALLY UNEXPECTED Girl Had Given Lover Many Splendid Chances for Proposing That She Was Quite Surprised. When he proposed marriage she asked him for time to think it over “This is so unexpected,” she said. He gave her the necessary time, and she finally decided that he fulfilled all the requirements of the situation. Then they reached a point where they could discuss matters calmly. “Os course,” he said, jokingly, “it wasn’t really unexpected at all.” “Oh, yes, it was,” she replied. “Absurd!” he exclaimed. “A girl always says that. She knows what’s coming, because she is naturally an expert in such matters.” “I thought I was, but you fooled me,” she insisted. “And it was a complete surprise?” “It was.” “I don’t understand it,” he commented. “Well,” she explained, ingenuously, “you had overlooked so many splendid chances that I gave you for a proposal that I had begun to think nothing ever would give you nerve enough to speak out; so it really was unexpected.” “Oh!” he said, and that was all. There didn’t seem to be anything else to say. THAT AWFUL MOMENT. Marne —When Edwin proposed he was too excited to speak. Kate—Then how did he do—write it out? Mame —No. He Just stood gasping for breath and I knew what he meant Sangfroid. (In the practical examination of majors for promotion to lieutenantcolonel great importance is attached to coolness of demeanor upon receipt of information.) Excited Staff Officer (reading urgent message from headquarters)—Your main attack has failed, your cavalry has been annihilated, two batteries have been captured and the enemy have cut your communication. “Fed up” and Weary Candidate — Oh, they have, have they. Well, just hold my mXp while I blow my nose.— Punch.

Out of Date. “You can sing ‘Larboard Watch, Ahoy!’ can’t you?” said the old fashioned man. “That’s always been a favorite of mine.” w? “O, we don’t sing that any more,” hastily explained the popular vocalist who was entertaining the company. “There is no such word as ’larboard’ now, you know. It has been changed to ‘port,’ and that doesn’t fit the musie.” Barring the Few Weaknesses. Livery Stable Proprietor—l’m afraid we shall have to cast him, Murphy. He’s about worn out. Murphy—l wad not be sayin’ that. Barrln’ the wakeness he has in the legs an’ that touch of cataract, forbye a thriflin’ suggestion of the staggers, ’tis a grand horse he’d be for the funerals —if ’twere not for the color of ’um. —Bystander. Starchy Food. Mr. McQuinn —What’s the matter with the goat? Mrs. McQuinn —An’ shure I don’t know. “What’s he been eatin’?” “Shure, he did ate most of the family wash yisterday.” “That’s it. Don’t you know the doctor said that starchy foods wereh’t good for any of us!” Strong Hold. Biil —Experiments with thousands of subjects have shown that the average man attains his maximum strength in this thirty«flrst year. Jill —A woman’s strong age is twen ty-eight, I suppose. “Why?” “Haven’t you noticed how they hold on to it?”—Yonkers Statesman. A Gallant Man. “Mr. Townman, I am heading a movement looking toward the beautifying of our city; will you not work shoulder to shoulder with me?” “With pleasure, madam.” "Then the movement has your ap proval?” “Yes, madam, and the shoulder.” Double Pointed. “Say, I don’t know just how to takt Miss Cutting’s comment on my sing ing.’> “What did she say?” “She said Caruso’s voice was excellent, but mine was better still.”—Lip plhcott’s. Forewarned. The New Teller —I can’t cash this cheek, madam, unless you are identified. Lady—But my husband is the cashier of this bank. “Yes, I know—he Just warned me against you.”—Life. A Sufficiency. The Cynic—l suppose she is all the world to you? The Lover—Not exactly; but she’s all I want of it —5,000 acres and an Elizabethan mansion.—London Opin ion.

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