Show EDITORIAL NOTES mr torn kioshi the japanese minie ter to the united states haa recently spent bome time in the princia ij cities of the south investigating the possibilities of the development of the cotton trade japan in the course 0 a talk with a representative of record mr hoshi edolie of the possibilities of his trade as follows 1 I told the gentlemen in the south that it would be well for them to have depre in japan looking trade moat of our machinery comes from england or germany because they have com to japan to beell it we are manu cotton yarns about seindlea spind lea being cow in operation we braa about twenty years ago and o 0 cotton croaa in japan china or india we ue seme american cotton and will need more ft it aa our cotton has not as strong a fibre as yours we make practically no cotton cloth by machinery and the yarns ere sent into the country and made into cloth by band enough yarn ie already made for home consumption but we do not intend to stop there we are however not yet ready to compete with you we already get cotton from savannah and houston by way of the suez canal but that takes a lon time still the coi ie only about 80 cents a hundred pounds for freight while by rail to san francisco and thence by water a chort er route it costs for freight minister baye that the freight from coast to coast is only 40 cents and it would be desirable if possible a new steamship line to san diego or laa angeles in order to brine eur cotton fields nearer to japan the results of mr bione tione will be embodied in a report to be made before long to abo japanese government ern ment bradstreets Brad streeta anc on monday passed a bill giving the mayor of ogden tall control of the fire and departments ir last utah was not 11 II that it should been and if irregularities occurred that caused the public to smile we bare an explanation for the abort corkings cor bings in the word of francis clowell in the atlantic for march which apply to all legislative badiei he says that our legislate legis latu ie state and national do their work unsatisfactorily no one thinks of disputing the con capitalist and the socialist may not agree in the detail of their criticism but they are quite at one in the severity of their censure newspapers and magazine are filled with vigorous denunciation of senators and representatives and voters are rather vaguely exhorted to improve matters by a wiser chaice of legislators our people must be taught that legislation is a busine ea in the modern world all business is specialized and performed by those who have demonstrated their fitness we do not go for medical advice to a farmer however successful er we do not hire a cotton manufacturer fac to draw our wills for us though his name be a proverb of honest deal ins in two continents we do not maiee our crops according to the counsels of our lawyer though he bo a story and a marshall rolled in one moralists and reformers continually exhort their ellow citizens to elect good men to office A good general character certainly is desirable and even necessary to a useful legislator but general goodness without special ia a poor equipment for legislative service there is much of common sense in what francis lowell |