The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-06-26

may be used for correspondence with the use or
film five-siXteenths of an inch in width and but
few feet in length, and that may be mailed for
one cent, will prove of much value to the busy
office man. Recording ones conversation is SIM
plicity itself A thin daphram in the machine
vibrates when struck by the waves produced by
sound These vibrations operate very small
gaugelike knife, that is in reality tiny and nicely
fashioned TOOL made of little sapphire jewel.
The sapphire gauge cuts the impressions deep or
shallow, as desired, on the ceuloid film passing
beneath it.
This means the attainment of all that is desir-
able in taking machines as operated simultaneous
ly with moving pictures as is now being done in
Europe and the larger cities of this country. AT
the present time two machines are used in doing
this. With the new invention by the use of an
attachment, the phonograph may be placed at the
side of the moving picture machine. The photo
graphs may be taken upon the talking machine
record at the same time that the songs and
speeches are recorded on the same film Both
may then be reproduced simultaneously.
A law passed by the last session of the legisla-
turc intended to protect resident merchants and
taxpayers against the annual invasion of the
itinerant peddlers and vendors who sell anything
from patented toothpicks to threshing machines is
now in effect.
Section two of the law provides that every ped
dler who shall sell offer for sale or expose for
sale, at public private sale, any goods. ware or
merchandise, without county license issued as
hereinafter provided shall be punished by i'm
prisonment for not less than 30 days or more than
80 days or by fine of not less than $50 or more
than 5000 or by BOTH"
Section three says: Every peddler, whether
principal or agent, before commencing business in
any county of the state must make an application
in writing and under oath to the county in which
he proposes to make sales, for county license
and shall at the same time make special deposit of
$500 with the county treasurer aforesaid and shall
pay the county treasurer the county license fee
follows: Peddler on foot, $10O; with one horse
and wagon, $3.50; with two horses and wagon,
$3.50; with any other conveyances, $780,"
The enforcement of this law will undoubtedly
Danish, bag and baggage, the vendor Of cheap and
shoddy articles from the state and protect the
pie against the plying of his nefarous trade. Thou
sands of dollars are picked up and kept from legit-
innate channels of trade every year by the peddler
with his smooth tongue and spurious wares. This
drain of hard-earned money will now be stopped
and the dollars spent with the merchants who help
to pay the running expenses of the county and
state.
The wool schedule like the cotton schedule,
taxes the clothing of the people for the benefit of
the various industries that make it. This was
patiently endured to build up American industries,
in the expectation and on the promise that the tax
would be taken off or reduced when these indus
tries were full grown.
Conurocc ic hraakinU that anciant pronica apaip
in the woolen as in other schedules. No duties
are to be reduced, unless they are more than pro-
hibitory. In pretense none are to be raised, but
we encounter the same insdious changes of ad-
ministrative regulations and Juggling between
specific and ad valorem duties by which the tax on
the consumer has been increased in other articles
without his knowing it till the mischief was done
All schedules are complicated enough, but the
wool schedule is bottomed on a duty on raw mate
rial 1t is needfu to protect the sheep growers of
few states from the pauper sheep of South
America, as the sugar growers of Louisiana have
to be protected from the tropical islands we have
benevoently assimilated. This adds to the COM
plexty of duties on manufactured goods a differ
entail or compensatory duty to compel the sheep
grower to transfer his benefit to the woolen manu-
facturer in higher prices for clothes.
The plain citizen can not pretend to understand
any of these schedules least of all those that begin
with tax on raw material. 1t is not considered
needfu that any one should understand them, be-
cause they are invariably made in congressional
committees by the manufacturers who are to benefit
by them All the plain citizen knows is that he
must pay more money for his clothing and get a
poorer article, shoddy wool or underweight cotton
If by slip of the present tariff law he can buy a
good German or English article for reasonable
price, the purpose of the Payne-Aldrich bill is to
prevent him. Walla Walla Union.