The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-02-27

Tired Citizen.' This is what he says:
One American citizen-he still seems to take an
interest in public affairs, strange man that he is
writes an indignant letter. He wants to know
many things. He wants to know whether the
American idea of liberty has died out, and with
it the principles for which our forefathers fought
He wants to know if it isn't true that in our
land of freedom they sell bogus goods for genuine
and charge you the price of the genuine. he
wants to know if honest competition isn't driven
to the wall every day. He wants to know if public
officials do not represent corrupt corporations in
stead of the citizens.
It is really cheerful just now to find even one
citizen who appears to take interest in the varl-
GUS well-organized schemes for robbing the public
Leaving out his first question, every statement
suggested by the friend who writes us is true.
That the American idea of liberty has died out,
and with it the principles of our forefathers, we
are not prepared to say.
There is no doubt, however, that the American
idea of liberty has lately been getting little tired
The great American eagle it seems, screams very
Indignantly for while; then his vocal cords get
out of order he stops screaming and seems to say,
Let somebody else scream; | am tired"
The American people are tired. They have been
feasting on their own wrongs for some time. The
that got lost, lit on tree and had about 400 crows
flying at him and biting him in turn. For while
the parrot said, Zone at time, gentlemen, please"
and after that he said nothing He gave up.
Just at present the American people seem to
have given up. Their indignant vocal cords are
tired 1t is evidently pretty good time for the
Industrious trusts to show energy.
Pick up paper and what do you see?
One heading says, Panic was Made to Order"
The big trusts, robbing one another according to
this view, organized the little panic that put mill
ions out of work, in order that the big steel trust
might gobbe up the little Tennessee coal and iron
trust That is nice for the big trust owners
Their stock is very strong, they make plenty of
money. When they have made the money and
sold the stock to the public, they will perhaps get
hold of some convenient judge, some highly indig-
nant public person, and make the steel trust give
back the Tennessee coal and iron to the former
owners. And then the foolish people that have
the stock will suffer- as usual But this is in the
regular course of events, and nobody thinks of
complaining
The lower branch of the legislature has passed a
bill which provides that section of chapter 172 of
the Session Laws of 1907 be amended to read as
follows: That the boards of county commissioners
of the several counties in this state are hereby
empowered to make exhibits of the products of
their respective counties at the Alaska ukon-
Pacific exposition and to erect buildings in which
to place said exhibits, and to appropriate money
from the county current expense fund to meet the
necessary expenses to be incurred in making such
exhibits and constructing such buildings, pro-
vided that the total amount thus appropriated
shall in no case exceed an amount equal to one
half &c. +1o Io11o nof%
as shown by the assessment roll for the year 19OS
p>S
A Chicago women recently began proceedings
for divorce on the grounds that her husband COM
PEELED her to arise every morning and curl his
mustache But that was not sufficient grounds,
even in Packing Town. Perhaps if he had COM
PEELED her to get up at 2 a. m. and curl his mus
tache and had come to her on rainy days when
the water had taken all the crimp out of it, she
might have succeeded in securing the divorce but
the Chicago judge could not see anything in the
lady's case to justify her receiving alimony which
she asked for.
In the United States district court Chicago
Judge Anderson is arranging the preminies for a
retrial of the case against Standard Oil in which
Judge Lands imposed fine of $29, 24O,OOO. The
court issued venire for $50 men to appear Feb 25
Speaking Of this, that and the other, isn't it
fortunate that woman's hair doesn't naturally
grow the way they fix it up?
The ordinary newspaper reader of today accepts
the cartoon symbols Of the elephant for the repub
lican party, the donkey for the democratic party
and the tiger for Tammany Hall without ever
stopping to think that somebody must have