The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-01-02

Huence of government might properly be used to
enhance the fortunes of few men at the ex-
pense of many.
ltdeveloped new and powerful set of privileged
interests that before long began to dominate
national affairs in much the same manner as the
saveholding privileged interests had dominated
affairs before the Civil war;
Above all it founded and rapidly built the sys-
tenn by which the support and favors of govern
ment were exchanged for campaign subscriptions
to any party the most deadly of all commerce
With these new forms of privilege, therefore,
the party that had been born OF passion against
privilege was in greasy intimacy with the very
evil had planned to destroy That was the sum and
substance of the situation. The party was in power
and the men that held fat Offices, who were usually
the men that directed the party's policy, desired
it to remain in power. The new interests made
their huge profits by means of an unfair advantage
that enabled them Tin plain terms) to prey upon
the public. This advantage they secured from
legislation the legislation lay in the hands of the
men that directed the party and wished to remain
in power and the success of the party could be Sc
cured (most often) by campaign subscriptions
The interests paid the counter their campaign
subscriptions and helped themselves to more privi-
leges from the national shelves. That is the true
nature of the transaction.
The privileges lay in tariff duties. These kept
out foreign-made goods and enabled the interests
to charge the American consumer an abnormally
enhanced price. By convenient subterfuge the
interests were supposed to divide with the work.
ingmen the rich proceeds thus devised. This kept
the workingmen quiet and induced them to march
dutifuy to the polls and vote for the continuance
of the system they could have ended at any time
The exact extent of the division and it's nature
could be seen compendiously and at all times by
any one that cared to compare the earthly state of
Mr.. Carnegie Qet us say with the environment of
one Of Mr.. Carnegie's workingmen. But the
workingmen never seemed to make the comparison;
hence the grand old game went on pleasantly as
BEFORE"
Eastern Washington attorneys have started
movement for the enactment at the coming session
of the legislature of law to facilitate the render
ing of decisions in appealed cases. 1t is claimed
that the supreme court is overburdened with work.
plan for creating an intermediate appellate court
or an increase in the present membership of the
supreme bench and the holding of sessions in east
ern Washington is under consideration Judge L.
B. Nash of Spokane last week conferred with
members of the supreme court and states that
majority have preference for the creation of the
new court
South Italy and the island of Sicily have been
visited by an appalling calamity, the extent of
which can not yet be grasped. An earthquake
Monday morning wrecked city after city and OBJ
liberated smaller towns and villages without num-
Der. Then tidal wave swept along the Straits
of Messina and added to the horror, drowning peo-
pie in their helplessness and panic. Fire came to
complete the work of destruction. Flames broke
out in the devasted cities and countless numbers
of injured men, women and children were burned
to death. Any adequate estimate of the total
casualties is quite impossible but the Rome Trib-
une places the number at between O,OO0 and
10000 The horror and destructiveness of this
visitation probably will exceed that of any earth
quake in Italy since 1888, when 40, 600 persons
perished at Messina alone.
William Jennings Bryan probably will never be
president writes George F. Cotter, but his efforts
have made possible all that Theodore Roosevelt de-
serves of fame-all that he has enjoyed of oppor-
tunity and all that he leaves as achievement in
the service of the American people. This is
brief, brilliant, forceful and truthful way of put
ting the frozen facts.
A doctor came up to patient in an asylum,
slapped him on the back, and said: well old
man, you're all right You can run along and
write your folks that you'll be back home in two
weeks as good as new"
The patient went off gayly to write the letter.
He had it finished and sealed, but when he was
licking the stamp it slipped through his fingers to
the floor, lighted on the back of cockroach that
was passing, and stuck. The patient hadn't seen
the cockroach- he did see was his escaped