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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
TRIBUTE TO TUR
NER

The Tacoma Ledger, staunch re-
publican organs says Of George Tur-
ner:
Senator Turner was in no sense an
active candidate for the nomination. of
governor of Washington, but was
nominated in response to Il conviction
that he was easily the foremost and
strongest democrat that could be nam
ed for the place. Washington has no
democrat who is more widely and ia
VOrably known nor who has shed more
luster on the commonwealth through
his distinguished public services
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
TAXATION SHOULD BE EQUIT-
ABLE.

The Statesman said a few days ago
for railroad trackage in this county
was all that could reasonably be eX
everybody's property was assessed at
it's actual value. as the law requires,
on all classes of property. In that case
it would be just to assess the main
100000 to $4,000 "a mile a result ar
rived at by following the United States
supreme courts plan of adding the in
debtedness of a road to the market
value of its stock and dividing the
total by the number of miles of track.
But other classes of property are not
assessed at their full value. Under a
passed by the last legislature banks
are allowed to fix their own assessments
til tlitl Stoth- ana IL lIllS IL lar III
one case it should be fair in all. Few
depostors in banks pay taxes on their
money. This is demonstrated by the
fact that Assessor Bergman was able
to find only about $150,OO0 on deposit
the total deposits are known to be over
$4,000. 000. Charles Sweeney of Spo-
state, yet his personal assessment, the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
THE WISCONSIN MIDDLE.

The WISCONSIN MUDDLE.
IF Secretary Cortelyou can straight
en- out the tangle in Wisconsin he is
indeed a wizard" says the Boston Her.
aid. AT the opening of the trouble
between the two branches of the party
in the Badger state, it was confidently
predicted that Governor La Toilette
would be speedily taught a lesson that
he would remember So far he ap-
pears to have quite decidedly the best
of the contest. His following was not
recognized by the national convention,
but no one ever thought that it would
be. Senators Spooner and Quarles
never bolted without strong assurance
that they would be recognized as the
regulars at Chicago.
They were so recognized, and it was
SO plain that the case had been pre-
judged that Governor La Toilette made
no attempt to obtain a hearing before
the credentials committee. 1t was just
as we'll for him that he did not, for he
would have been merely wasting his
breath. Now it is admitted that a ma
jority Of the republicans in Wisconsin
are with the governor, and he doubtless
also has a number of democratic sup
porters. The boiling republicans, while
carrying with them most of the federal
officenolders and a number of the more
prominent politicians have not a very
large support among the voters.
Nationally, the interest in the Wis
cOnsin campaign turns on what that
state will do in the presidential rather
than the state election. Will the split
in the republican party endanger the
carrying of the state for Roosevelt? At
the present time both factions are
warm in their protestations of faithful
ness to the mead of the ticket; but can
that condition continue from now until
November?
Suppose, for example. that the stall
vance their cause, as they may do when
their case becomes desperate. for one at
pires next year may feel that he is
fighting for his political life. Such use
Of hn fn6n iolf
turn some of the La Toilette men away
from the president.
They might feel that they, too had
to fight for their political lives, and in
such a fight no one would be spared
state. Admittedly. in 1900, Mckinley
had a plurality in Wisconsin of over
question. for Wisconsin is a gold
standard state.
This year, with the currency ques-
ton eliminated, the republican plural
ity may not be SO large. In the congress
carried ten out of the eleven districts
but their net plurality in the state was
only 57S35, or not much over half of
that given Mckinley two years earlier
In 1902 the total vote was smaller
but the republicans showed by far the
greater proportion of loss. The fight
between the stalwarts and the La Fol-
lette faction will at least endanger the
success of some of the congressional
candida ties. if it does not have an effect
on the vote for presidential electors
Quite possibly it is a fight where the
more attempts that are made to settle
it by outside inf1uence-such as the ma
tional committee-the more determined
each combatant becomes to carry on
the fight to the bitter end
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
Read the ads in the Statesman.
NOTICE.,

1nasmuch as there has been A
change in the management Of the
Statesman Publishing company, Il "a
desired that all old accounts be set.
tied with promptness in order that the
old books may be balanced. A new set
of books is to be opened.
STATESMAN PUB. co.
P. c.. Holland, Mgr,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04

tx Senator Joseph G. Painter. who
served several terms in the legislature
with Steven Judson. the democratic
nominee for lieutenant governor speaks
IN the most complimentary terms of the
"a Warhorse, He says that as a par
Humanitarian Judson has no suner;or
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04

Elsie-You know, Dorothy, Bobby il
our first cousin. Dorothy Con whom
Bobby has made an unfavorabla i'm.
pression)-Is he? Well, nope. he's on,
last-that's all!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
CAUTION.

Unless strict observance is given to
the card in Union of this date, the city
officers will be forced to cut the sprink.
ling hours down. A word to the wise
is sufficient.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04

Dick-No, you're not a true friend
or you wouldn't ask me to lend Won
money when you know that l haven,
any myself. Slick-But you forget
that the only friends who are Willing
to lend money are the ones that haven,
got it to lend.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
Is THIS TRUTH OR FICTION?

If the Walla Walla correspondent of
he writes the new city surveyor OF
Walla Walla is expected to put in much
of his time doing political work The
Statesman was not aware that a public
official paid by taxes collected from
Holy Rollers" Boxers and demo-
Gratis alike could lawfully be used to do
political work for any faction or party.
For the sake of fair play all around
it is to be hoped that the Review cor
respondent is mistaken in the following
statement:
The office of city surveyor has been
costing the city about $500 per month
recently. This was considered a high
figure by several members OF the coun-
ell, and if the price had to be paid the
disposition was to give the place to
somebody who stood close to the coun-
Gil and would assist in some of the
political work.
Hence, when Clark asked for. or
limited that he desired an increase in
salary. mis- request was turned down.
Another man, or two men, in fact were
waiting for the place at the present
salary. Clark was given to under
stand that the council would make no
concessions, and if he would not ac-
cept the terms offered he could quit
He took the council at it's word and
left the city service to do a private
surveying business.
u. B. Wilson, two years ago, was
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-04
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
WEATHER..

Tonight and Friday fair; cooler Fri
day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
CHICAGO AND A JUDGE.

7 Golfers Weekly for December II
scores Judge Grosscup by saying:
Chicago keeps track of it's public
men with a precision remarkable in an
American city of it's size. "A few
years ago Judge Peter S. Grosscup of
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals was a man highly honorel in
Chicago, and, as far as he was known,
elsewhere. He has made some of the
most excellent speeches of recent
years. He understands what the new
issues are in politics and he speaks
well upon them. But he has been do
ing certain things in Chicago which he
ought not to do, and he is in all prob
ability down and out" as far as any
political hopes that he may have are
concerned. Chicago still fails politi-
cally at times. 1t failed to defeat
Madden at the last election. But it has
more recent victories to it's credit
than any other American city. Public
opinion now gives orders to the politi-
clans. They were already on the run
and Deneen's election has much accel-
Grated their pace. If the nominations
were made today John Harland would
probably be the candidate of the re-
publicans. and he would have more
than an even chance of victory. This
progress in political standards is not
won without vigilance. Judge Gross
cups rapidly falling reputation is the
result of the close attention which
Chicago gives to it's own affairs. We
have in the past praised him highly.
We believe today that his character
has been debauched by political ambi
ton. Of the injunction in favor of the
street railways, which is being SO bit
terly resented, we say nothing, it being
a legal matter. OF the appointment of
a VIGOROUSLY unfit candidate to the po-
sition of master in -chancery, because
he was the son Of Senator Hopkins, no
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
MOST USEFUL CITIZEN

The Seattle Post Intelligencer has
The following to say of Engineer
Thompson who is now endeavoring to
solve Walla Walla's water problem:
1T has been suggested that during
The spring or early summer City Engi-
neer Thompson be sent to Europe at
the expense Of the city in order that he
may there study the best methods in
use for the disposal of city garbage
and ascertain the best plan to be
adopted for use in Seattle. 1t is doubt
full whether wiser step could be
taken than this.
1T is simple truth to say that Mr..
Thompson is Seattle's most useful cit
izen. He has made the engineering de-
partment of this city model of what
such a department should be. He has
planned and superintendent the con-
struction of the light and water plants
of the city with such splendid efficien-
cy and such keen regard for the inter-
ests of his employers that the work
has been accomplished as cheaply or
even more cheaply than if the work
had been done for any private corpor-
alton, without the sighting Of the
smallest detail. He has been the
watchdog against stealing and against
inefficiency in the public service, and
he has been leader in all work for
the improvement Of the city.
"A worker, an indefatigable student
of his profession, devoted to the in
terests of the city, in which he is en-
gagged in building monuments to his
professional skill. Mr.. Thomson is GER
tain to take the largest advantage Of
the opportunities, which it is proposed
to extend to him. The results of his
trip, when applied as he is certain to
apply them, if given the opportunity,
will be worth to the city ten times
proposed tour of investigation. II
Mr. Thompson takes the trip, and if
the city council follows his advice and
adopts his plans when he returns, it is
safe to predict that the city of Seattle
will be the model city of the country
in the manner of disposing Of it's
refuse. And there will be much more
than that to come"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
THE LAND OF BARLEY.

Two thousand tons of Washington
barley represent the recent purchase
of Seattle firm, says the Post-Intel-
ligencer. The grain was grown in Co
lumbia county. 1t was bought because
Of it's superior qualities for mailing
purposes. The contract price was 81
per 100 pounds. When the delivery
is made it will practically clean up the
barley crop of 1904 for that section.
To haul it away will require two rail-
road trains of about twenty-five cars
each. Yet this includes only a small
portion of the barley that has been
stored in the warehouses of Columbia
county.
The barley of Eastern Washington
has a reputation for superiority in
every brewing center of the world.
Much of it is contracted in advance of
the harvest season and shipped by
buyers to Holland and Belgium. There
it is used in making beer. A large por-
ton of the barley crop Of this state
goes to the grain feeding markets. 1t
is always in demand at good prices
wherever stock food is desired. The
farmers who make a speciality Of pro-
ducing barley for market report it
more profitable than any other of the
cereals
being planted to barley every year.
The secretary of agriculture states
that the barley crop of 1904 was the
largest ever grown in this country.
This indicates that the demand for
that cereal is increasing. There is al
ways a place for more Of the best of
any product of the farm. Barley
growers need not hesitate to plant as
much land as they can handle proper
ly. There will be a sale for the grain
and the prices will probably be as good
as at present. No wonder the barley
farmers are happy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
IN SESSION IN SPOKANE.
Annual Meeting of State Teachers
Association.

SPOKANE. Dec. 28.-Certainly the
school teacheds of the state of Wash
ington may feel proud of this, their
eighteenth annual meeting, and If the
cause of education is to be benefited
by discussion Of methods by intelli-
gent persons, it will be advanced at
this session. President A. B. Warner
Of Tacoma presided today over the
meeting Of the educational council.
The session was occupied with the
discussion Of examinations. and the
study, management and training Of
defective children. The general ses-
sions, together with a number of Sec
tional conferences. will be held to-
morrow and Friday. Evenings have
been set apart for addresses by
President David Starr Jordan Of Le-
land Stanford University and State
Superintendent J. H. Alderman Of
Oregon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
THE ABUSE OF REBATES.

1t would not be surprising if Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his endeavor to have
congress confer upon the interstate
commerce commission the power to
regulate freight rates meets with as
much opposition in both houses as
Governor Mcbride encountered in his
effort to induce the legislature Of this
state : to pass a railway commission
bill The national railroad lobby prob
ably controls a majority Of the men,
bers of the United States senate as
we'll as many members of the lower
house, and it will be no easy task to
get the proposed legislation through
either house as now constituted. But
Roosevelt knows no such word as fail,
and now that he has started out to Sc
cure this reform he will give congress
no rest until he has accomplished his
purpose.
In his annual message the president
called attention to the giving of re-
bates to favored shippers. by the rail-
roads and he declared that it must be
stopped. The making of high rates by
the railroads, provided they are uni
form, is not so unjust or inquitous as
the system of rebates that is now in
vogue. This abuse is simply intoler-
able. The railroads of the country
are the creatures of the state and there
is no reason why all shippers should
not be treated alike
The system Of rebates, apart from
the injustice to the small shipper,
operates to create and protect the
great monopolies of the country, leav-
ing no chance whatever for COMPETE
ton. The great corporations, like the
beef trust, destroy everything in the
shape of competition from the fact
that by using their own cars and re-
ceiving lower rates they can drive
from the field the smaller operators.
The whole system allows the big fish
to eat the little ones, with the general
result that the country is at the
mercy of such favored corporations.
The control of the railroads of the
country is now located in the hands of
so few men that, unless a strong re-
straining hand is brought into play
soon, government ownership will be-
come inevitable.
What the public desires and has the
right to claim is a fair and whole
some competition among the railroads
This competition is not fixed merely by
the fixing of rates. If rates are uni
form between competing lines of rail-
roads then the matter of operation
and management enters into the ques-
ton. A railroad that does it's business
promptly and is accommodating and
kindly to the public secures advant-
ages over those that act otherwise. and
with uniformity of rates between
competing lines, the road that is the
best managed will secure the best re-
suits. for the people as we'll as its
stockholders.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29

advocated more and longer vacations,
n shorter course of study, fewer years
in school and more freedom IN the
choice of studies for the pupil. He de-
clared that the public school boy or
girl should be ready to enter the high
school at twelve years of age.
Professor Yoder expressed the opil-
ion that teachers have had their minds
too much upon the course of study
and that it is necessary to make a re-
adjustment. Certain parts of the cur
riculum must vary with each genera
ton. Studies are put into the course
because of their practical value or
because of their disciplinary value.
After a study has outlived it's useful
ness it is hard to get rid Of it. The
rule today is to make every child take
every study. This is wrong. The
child takes so many studies that he
has not time to think There should
be free time for the development of
individuality in the child. The eight
year grammar course should be
changed to a six-year course.
The average child goes to high
school too late A child at the age of
twelve ought to be able to enter the
high school and to be taught by spe-
cialists. Too much time is given to
sciences and dead languages. The
child is kept in school too long. He
should be earlier adjusting himself to
men and women instead of continually
porting over books. The pupil should
learn to do things.
! There is undoubtedly much merit in
what Professor Yoder says of our pub
lie school curriculum. 1t has been run
ming in the same groove for fifty years
or longer and it is no easy matter to
change it. The teacher teaches what
he was taught and by the same
methods. To question the value of
any study would be to disparage the
Importance of his own book-learning.
So he continues to grind in the old,
old way and resents any suggestion
of Improvement It is on somewhat
the same principle as that followed
by the farmer who buys land to raise
corn to feed to hogs to sell for money
to buy more land to raise more corn
to feed to more hogs to sell for money
to buy m ore land, etc.
In the Walla Walla public schools
some of the useless studies should be
cut out to make way for systematic
course of manual training from the
fifth grade to the high school. The
great defect of the course Of study is
it's lack of practical training. The
most progressive schools all over the
country are adopting manual training
and it is time for Walla Walla to get
in the line of advancement. Even if
it is necessary to lop off some orna-
course, such as the dead languages, in
order to meet the expense of manual
training course in the lower grades, it
would be justified by the end. to be
gained-that of providing for the
greatest good to the greatest number
of school children.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29

;uch reserve in opinion is necessary.
About his Endorsement Of Doc" JAM
eson, when Mr.. Roosevelt, for rea-
'ons of his own, chose to give that
statesman an office, it would not be
Easy to speak too sharply. Judge
1rosscup has seen his best days in
American public life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
Fate Of the Lobster.

Fate Of the Lobster.
A lobster one eve heard a mermaid
grieve
In a coral cave of the ocean;
She was wailing her fate at terrible
Because of faithless devotion.
Now, come, pretty sweet" said the
lobster effete,
Such eyes were not made for crying;
Come, shed no more tears; allay thy
And stop thy violent signing"
"Ah-ha! my good sir, from your words
infer
You know naught of love nor af-
lection;
But perhaps you may learn if yourself
you concern
In the art of making confection.
4
all defeated,
BY that shameful mollusca, the clam;
He shamefully used me and quite
abused me
The brute the stingy old sham"
"Oh, the dastardly fool! But it's always
the rule
With CLAIMS and all their relations,
I'll buy thee pearl, my dear little girl,
For I'm one of your lusty crusta-
ceans.''
little girl,
While she smiled at the game she
was playing.
She no longer could cry, cen though
she would try,
For she worked him with little essay
ing.
Il thank you, good man, as much as
can
You're charming beyond all express
sion;
But now I must go, for surely you
You've relieved my erstwhile depres-
SiOn."
So off, sir, she swan to her husband
the clam,
And the lobster was left very pallid.
He caught such a cold that he died,
am told,
And his carcass was chopped up for
salad.
New York Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
PUBLIC SCHOOL DEFECTS.

In an address before the Spokane
County Teachers Institute Professor
A. H. Yoder of the state university
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-29
NOTICE 70 ADVERTISERS.
WEATHER..

Tonight and Friday occasional rain,
cooler, high south winds.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
JAPs' LAST ATTEMPT TO BLOCK
PORT ARTHUR.
STORY BY CORRESPONDENT
Associated Press Representative Tells
ct Thrilling Fight to Keep the Mi
ISado's Ships from 5ottling Cars
Fleet in the Inner Waters-SeVen
Russians Killed.

St. Petersburg, April 6.-The CORES
pendent of the Associated Press at
Port Arthur gives details of the last
attempt of the Japanese to block the
har5or:
Following a reconnaissance our fleet
returned and anchored in the interior
OF the harbor. After midnight the
darkness became more profound and
our searchlights we're constantly in OPP
Grafton piercing the gloom. Suddenly
a shot Numbered and then a second
and a third. Golden Hill and Tiger
Cliff opened fire when the enemy was
discovered. From the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk, a launch put of with Vice
Admiral Makaroff and other officers
headed from the gunbOat Bo5Tud. The
gunbOat Othvajny discharged her six
inch guns and the torpedo boat Slim
fired a brcadside while hurrying
toward the enemy and let go a torpedo
which fairly struck the PROV of the
first Japanese steamer, carrying away.
Other Japanese steamers came on at
full speed, raining HOtchkiss bullets at
the SLIM, which fired another torpedo
and ran aground. The commander of
the SLIM discovered five of the enc
my's destroyers further away and the
big ships valiantly rushed to the at
tack, firing their guns. The enemy
separated and disappeared in the dark
ness. Meantime the BObrud and Othva
jny continued to fire on the stranded
steamers and on the small boats put
ting on from them.
Commander Travinsky of the Reshi
telny saw a large steamer making
toward the center of the channel, and
fired torpedo, which exploded on the
side of the target. Lieut.. Krinitzky
the SLIM, having fought
FIVE of the enemy's ship. for long
time in the darkness, was himself
wounded and his chief engineer and
six men were killed.