The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-11
o. X. & N. Time Card.
Stages Leave CoIfax For
The Grout Dairy Bill.

state should bring pressure to bear
upon their representatives at Washing
ton to secure the passage of the Circuit
BILL says the Seattle Pust-lntelligencer.
Especially should this be directed to the
senate, as the bill has passed the house
by a majority 80 large as to ensure it
against defeat if it ehould be returned
with any reasonable amendments. The
only danger is that it may be held in
the senate until too late to be passed at
this session.
The dairy interest of Washington has
put itself on record. And a splendid
and thriving interest it is. 1t produces
now two thirds of the butter used in
the state, and yet there is a market 80
wide and so rapidly increasing that
there will be little chance to catch up
with it, The city of Seattle alone. at
it present rate OF growth, will furnish a
steady demand for years for all the
added dairy products of its tributary
country. And then there is the great
Alaskan territory. Butter and cheese
must be furnished to the thousands who
are added each year to the population
OF the gold fields. The dairy owner can
look ahead and see a certainty OF good
prices for all the wares that he can
bring to market for years to come.
Washington is the ideal home of the
dairy interest. Every ton that
aids in the production of the highest
grades of dairy products exists here
Good food, a cool, but not cold, moist
climate, abundance of clear, pure water,
fat pastures and quiet, chilly nights.
all that it needs is fair field and protec-
ton against fraud. 1t is mOnstrous
that the latter should be denied to it.
1t will not be if the Grout bill is made
law.
In this measure there is injustice to no
one. No product is shut out OF the
market. Purchasers who wish, for the
sake OF economy, to buy oleomargarine
or hutterine or process butter can do 80.
All that is asked is that these commodi-
ties shall be sold for what they are and
under their own names. There is
heavy tax imposed only when they ap-
pear under false preteDces. Against
that, against the sale OF these manu-
featured goods as creamery butter and
at creamery butter prices, to the injury
OF the consumer and the destruction of
the dairy interest, the whole community
should protest.
The wheat crop OF the United States
for 1900 is estimated by the statistician
of the department of agriculture at
522 ,229, sos bushels The area actually
harvested being 42,495, 1856 acres and
the average yield per acre II 9 bushels
The production of winter wheat is esti-
mated at 350,205, 800 bushels and that
OF spring wheat at 172 ,204 ,026 bushels,
the area actually harvested being 90
235, S97 acres in the former case and
1928, 1888 acres in the latter. The
winter wheat acreage totally abandoned
in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois
is finally placed at 3, 1922, 1877 acres and
the spring wheat acreage totally aband-
oned in North Dakota and South Dakota
at l, 793, 467 acres.
The most glorious days Of the United
States government - in advancement,
progress, prosperity and education
have been under republican administra-
ton. RepubIicanism has always meant
advancement; democracy has never
sought else than to tear down and re-
tard, and the so-called new democracy,
which is no more than the voice of
popullsm, fears only that somebody NAV
prosper and labors only to keep every
Douy IN poverty. As party this new
democracy views with alarm" a man
who lays up cent, and he is put down
on the party blacklist as a Dlutocrat
and robber of popnIists and their half
brothers, the democrats.
Shipments OF wheat from Argentina
this cereal year aggregate 100000
bushels, against 63,67O,OOO bushels
during the previous year. The CORE
spondent OF the London Times finds it
probable that a surplus of 100000
bushels will be left for export during the
coming year, and the more conservative
estimates place the exportable supply at
6O,OOO,OOO. This is a competition TO
be taken into account by the grain-pro.
duclpg interests of the United States
Chairman Patterson of the populist
national committee, advises all popu-
lists to join the democracy. No doubt
good many have already done so and
Others will follow, but this makes tho
matter OF recognizing the democratic
party problem more serious than ever
1t is always best to cleave to re-
publicanism.
Over in Idaho there is a last dvino
kick of silverism and that to which Il
pertains. Fred Dubois is to he rato-noa