The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-05-02

enacted at this session will not be put through.
recapitulation shows that when the session ends
congress will probably have failed to pass many of
the most important measures recommended by the
president. They are as follows:
Restricting the power of the federal courts in
the issuance of injunctions in laboring disputes;
amending the Sherman antitrust law as to es-
tablish system Of federal license for interstate
corporatons to enable the railroads to form traffic
associations so as to secure greater stability OF
rates and returnS to remove of the restrictions
from combination and labor; to prohibit the rail-
roads from blacklsting union employees empower
lng-the interstate commerce commission to control
future issues of stocks and bonds of railroad pro-
perty; to permit the attorney general to name one
of the receivers appointed for insovent railroads;
to remove the duty on wood pulp; to establish
postal saving banks
The republican congress which refuses to handle
thses measures is making clear record for itself
as a republican congress- for none but democrats
would dream of passing such laws This summer will
probably be devoted to explaining that the demo-
cratic minority kept congress from enacting any
good laws but the record that is now being made
in favor of the trusts may possibly be remembered
by voters next fall.
In last weeks Reveille, a paper published in
Colvie in connection with the Statesman Index,
we note the statement that boy should rejoice to
be sentenced to the reform school, and that it
should not be considered disgrace to be confined
in such an institution. The explanation given is
that his parents can comfort themselves with the
fact that they will always know where their boy
is.'
If Colville paper having any general circulation
were to make such statements as these, the public
might wonder how many juvenile criminals this
town possessed, that such an article of eXculpatOn
needed publication That the editor of the Revee
learned the printing trade in the reform school,
as the article would imply, or in an insane asylum
is hardly sufficient proof that such institutions
tended to create the best character in the youth of
this country.
The nominal manager of the Reveille has been
profuse in the publication of clipped articles bear
ing upon the rearing of children. Most of these
articles were good and can be found in any alma
nae. 1t is with pain that we note this sudden
swerving of admonishments toward the path of
rectitude but for fear of Judging unjustly we pre-
fer to think that the real editor of the Revee is
perhaps responsible, slipping it in while the nominal
editor was busy looking up the meaning of demo-
cratic doctrines
moner candidate for the democratic nomination
for representative from this district, in writing up
his trip to Colville on the occasion of the demo-
cratic county convention April 49, where he made
two addresses before the assembled delegates, has
nothing but eulogy for the conditions in which he
found the democracy of this county. Referring to
the Jefferson banquet, he says: Most of the del
egates remained for the banquet in the evening
which was served at the Hotel Colville and was
most successful affair. After my address, num-
erous short speeches were made all Of them bub-
bling with enthusiasm and ringing with true de-
mOcracy. 1t was one of the most enthusiastic and
successful banquets have ever attended and in
dicates that the democrats of Stevens county can
be counted upon to make determined and ag-
gressive campaign. The enthusiasm, loyalty and
harmony among the democrats of Stevens county
is inspiring, and their hospitality and friendness
make me look forward with pleasant anticipations
to visiting them again in the future"
The patience the people of this country have
shown under extortion and unjust laws ought to be
sufficient to show that they can be trusted. We
have lesson to learn in this country and an i'm
portant one that God made man and it is not to be
disregarded in the worship of the man-made giant,
the corporation Man made the corporation to
make money. God in making man made the tallest
man only little taller than the shortest and the
strongest man but little stronger than the weakest
and God put limit on his age so that bad man
could not be bad long, Man made the corporations
thousand times greater, and raised limit on the
age so that some would make them perpetual.
This man-made giant has lobbyists in every capitol
of the country. It's favorites have debauched So
ciety demoralizing it's possessors while it robbed
it's victims. The panic which recently spread over