Show JAPAN AS A WORLD POWER A grat deal of speculation is rl ga to the moral effect of japan alc lories on the asiatic peoples we mist face at once the fact that not only to asiatic but to all subject races i the overwhelming defeat of russia means to a certain extent and with certain people a loss of prestige to eu rope and to the christian faith and a gain in the position otah while toils Is the case it Us a mistake to lip a fabric 0 fears on this foundation atia has no soil darity either of race or religion and from some points of view the japanese success disunites dis unites instead of ang races this is peculiarly the cae in central asia and on the frontier of india where the weakening of russian prestige has undoubtedly been greatly a advantage of britain japan will extend her moral influence but she can never weld together northern asia and como down into central asia till her frontiers are coterminous with those of the indian empire but this as the nightmare of thoe who had watched rus ceiaa expansion nevertheless a fresh spirit had undoubtedly been breathed into asiatic peoples by ohp nascence ren of japan the first and most striking result by the arrest of that process of carving up which lias been going on tor some time the reproduction of the european situation in further asia has received a check and we shall see fresh combinations and developments on the whole this is advantageous to europe for this reduplication of her affairs at distance wan beginning to embarrass her serious and threatened to become a grave danger to the peace of tha world in the new far east the united states as a pacific power will play a part hitherto undreamt of our position and interests are openly avowed a great change from our previous pose of splendid isolation FOREIGN COMMERCE the foreign commerce of the united states in the fiscal year just ended exceeds that of any preceding year having been ln comparison with in 1304 tho previous record year an analysis of the statistics of foreign commerce during the year ending june 30 1905 just prepared by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics shows that both imports and exports made new high records imports having exceeded by 92 million dollars the total recorded in 1903 and exports the figures of 1901 in 1903 imports having for the first time passed the billion dollar limit with a total of in 1904 they again fell below ono billion dollars in value being and for year just ended exports first rose above ona billion dollars in value during the fiscal year 1892 but fell below that limit in the following year and so remained until 1897 when the total was in 1898 the total were in 1900 in 1901 1 a total which was not again equaled until 1905 when the figures stood at not only surpassing the record made in 1901 but tor the first time in the history of our commerce passing tha one and a halt billion dollar limit an unusual feature of tho of tho fiscal year 1905 is the very small increase in customs revenue despite the very great increase ble imports the gears imports acro valued at as against in the preceding year an increase of the imports of dutiable merchandise during 1005 were valued at as against in 1904 an increase of this fact the revenue derived from the largely increased dutiable imports of 1905 la less than in excess of that derived from the imports of 1904 being tor 1905 as against tor this decrease in customs revenue Is lu part due to the admission of cuban products especially sugar and tobacco at a reduction of 20 per cent from the regular tariff rates under the reciprocity treaty of december 27 1903 and in part to the unusually largo amount of dutiable merchandise remaining in warehouse at the end of the year upon which duty had not been paid as well as to several other causes which cannot be fully stated f until complete detain odthe years am ports are available J f t NO MORi PANICS the export trade aibe united states ft helping to jetaun for this country a financial independence wholly unknown to us twenty years ago or even prior to the ending of the dull period terminating with 1896 since tho beginning of the fiscal year of 1900 the united states has exported over eight billion dollars in goods during which time the imports have been but five and a halt billion dollars leaving a balance of trade in favor of this country of nearly three billion dollars the figures arc al ewt loo large for one to fully ampro aiato their significance but here is something on which to make a comparative para tive estimate during the bryan agitation for more money tho gold supply was only tour billion dollars had the other nations of the world in the past six years been compelled to pay in gold the balance of trade against them and bad the mines 0 the world failed to pour out new wealth in the form of the yellow metal this country today would have all the gold As it is we have a greatly increased amount old debts held against us by europe have been liquidated and today tho united states 13 virtually freed from obligation to the mighty foreign financial institutions that held a grasp upon our monetary affairs tor a century when the baring brothers fv felure lure occurred in london the financial institutions of this country were called aponto pay up we were then a debton nation subject to the mooda of the and sensitive to every disturbance in tha money markets of th c world we arc still a pat of tha financial fabric that embraces all nations and must be responsive to world demands but no longer can europe demand now they must come soliciting aid by asking that their bonds bo taken the financial freedom of the united states la a mighty factor assuring us against panic IS IT MANLY TO RETRACT the publishing of a first class news paper calls for reposing of great confidence and responsibility in a small army of employed emp loyes any one of whom may err orbe imposed upon at any almo yet the owners of the paper tira responsible at all times for what aay of its numerous employed emp loyes may write for the paper it li even unlawful to tell th eruth about people sometimes the courts have held that when a man is not a public officer or a candidate for such it is unlawful to tell the truth aboul him if the publication thereof has a tendency to impeach the honesty integrity virtue or reputation of a person unless tho publisher can show that the matter published was a fair and true report of a judicial legislative or other public official proceedings but even not in that case if malice shown from this it will be seen that newspapers are not at ji berty to publish rumors and hearsay remarks many people have seat communications and have personally called on this paper with complaints that others were guilty of this crime of that crime and they have felt offended because the paper refused to publish the statements sometimes a reporter is assured by the best citizens of a certain matter and after the story is published the newspaper discovers that tho party giving tho information did not know of its truth but was told the story by a friend and the friend in turn heard it from a neighbor etc etc when tho reporter makes a mistake under such circumstances is it manly to apologize tor the error made Is it wrong at any almo to do right the greatest and most influential daily newspapers in the united states have retracted anda apologized time and again for arrora made in publications na fearless honest fair and just newspaper has ever reached greatness and influence before making ica raccoons and apologies and many have defended libel suits for thirteen years the standard publishing co under its present roan argement has never been found guilty ot or slandering any one it has made less corrections retractions and apologies than any other newspaper in thee tate tor the same length of time this paper has no malice in its publication it has no intentions to injure anyone and if it unintentionally wrongs a person it will always make proper retraction and apology we believe the manly thing for a newspaper to do la to correct a wrong or error as soon as its attention Is called to the actual error wa shall continue to act on that principle during aho last few days suits for damages have been filed against us aggregating over each suit charges that william glasmann caused the matter complained of to ba published and yet the attorneys knew that mr glasmann wab in portland oregon with the standard examiner young ladies when the stories were published and could not havo had anything to do with the publishing of the reports what Is the object of filing abeso suits against mr glasmann when ho was not here the other dally papers in utah also published practically tho same matter and if the standard did wrong all the other papers are equally guilty the salt lake tribune we bellave was more the dior examiner and be millions of wealth back of the tribune should have at least suggested it as the first mark to strike at because ita circulation larger and therefore ther eforo more damaging wo do not know why abo standard publishing company waa chosen as the one to prosecute or why william glasmann was brought into the matter at all when he was 00 miles away at the time the matter referred to was published but promptly on mr glas return from portland he mad an investigation and insisted that the paper should retract and apologize it has done so the real motive of these legal attacks on standard and its manager after making the correction will undoubtedly be shown up at the trial we believe it Is manly at all times to right a wrong and we believe that both sir T G richards and miss viola lewis stand better before the public today after the standard publishing company has exonerated them than they would it the standard and examiner had never said a word about tho matter because the seal ot falsity has been placed upon the rumors which were flying fast in every direction in ogden city EXCELLENT NEWS SERVICE the associated press has grown to be a mighty power in american and even in international affairs owing to the tact that it la the only news ser vica that penetrates into every nook and corner of this continent and has back of it all the largest newspapers with perhaps one or two exceptions in the united states the wonderful expansion of the associated press is in part the personal triumphs of melville E stone who in the century contributes the following story of the associations ciati ons war service giving some idea of the energy put into the work to obtain for the reading public the news of a conflict at arms it was in the cuban and spanish wars however that the associated press achieved its first notable success although by the terms of the existing compact the field of operations both in the caribbean sea and in the philippines was territory which the french agency had engaged to cover early preparations were made tor an american service in the cuban insurrection special correspondents were stationed at various points of interest and did creditable work neither of tho contestants desired publicity and following midnight marches and early morning raids and transmitting news 0 o new york by surreptitious means were efforts which taxed the courage and ingenuity of the best trained men when gen weyler was in command at havana he forbade all newspaper work nevertheless thrilling accounts of the horrors attendant upon his system were smuggled out by associated press men at imminent risk ot being shot tor their pains it was an associated press story of the destruction of the united states battleship maine in havana harbor that vas published exclusively throughout the world the morning after that unhappy event but the work of these correspondents ended when the united states and spain joined issue A new plan of campaign was then organized the situation presented serious problems land battles had been reported many times but this must be a naval contest and prompt newspaper reports of battles upon the high seas were unheard of the outlook was made more unpromising when all the ocean cables touching cuba vere cut but the federal government was reasonable and lent its aid A capable reporter was installed upon the flagship of each of ane squadrons and both sampson and schley gave them every possible faculty to enable them to do their work A number of fast seagoing sea going dispatch boats were chartered and sent to the cuban coast the whole sen ice was placed in charge ot my assistant col diehl ho managed it wisely and succeeded in making a new record in the business of war reporting A splendid staff of correspondents was landed at santiago with gen shatters army and their copy as well as that ot the men on the flagships was carried by tha dispatch boats to the cable stations on the jamaican or haitian coast when hobson sank the merrimac Merrl mac at the mouth of santiago harbor tour men wrote a composite story which was so skillfully fully interwoven that th reader thought it all the work of a single pen in the actions before santiago the associated press men showed great courage and transmitted reports which for power accuracy and comprehensiveness have never been surpassed the story of the fateful encounter with cerveris veras fleet cost for cable tolls alone over and the total expenditures tor reporting tho war exceeded MORMON DAY the salt lake tribune editor has an ample supply of words at his command but Is afflicted with a woeful deficiency in logic ho attempts an analogy in which be says the catho i lies havo as much right to take to themselves october as the day on which a catholic discovered america and claim exclusive right to celebrate as the cormons mormons to proclaim july da the only difference Is this that not a catholic or his immediate descendants live today who took part in the discovery of america several centuries have passed and the very nature of the race of which columbua was a part has so radically changed that they bave no right to set up a claim to great achievements because of what other centuries and a distinct people did but there live today mor mons who came over the plains and mountain wilderness when guide posts were found only in a religious zeal that bid them go on until their leader should aay here la the promised land have these pioneers no superior right to claim july as their day than have the italians or the spaniards to proclaim pro clam october as their special time of rejoicing and bow about the descendants of choso pioneers ot the same bone and sinew and participatory participators in the labors of laying the foundations of civilization in the far west ot couras the cormons mormons do not ask the exclusive privilege ot making jelv ah their day they are like the rest ot us who are flattered when the corll takes cognizance of our TOS hs bolc conduct and joins with us in a glorification |