The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-08-28

for another four years to pay tribute to the inter
ests which control our national legislation.
The republican party in it's platform, and the re.
publican candidate in his speeches, having prom.
ised reduction of the tariff burden, republican
congress has increased that burden, and now these
men who have broken the pledge they made to the
country are seeking by false parade of meaning
less figures to conceal their crime from the people,
whom they have cheated and betrayed. New York
Times Taft supporter.
The presidents compromise with the party
traitors who repudiated the pledges of revision
downward given by him during his campaign is
received by the country with profound disappoint-
ment. Most of all is it disappointing to the re-
publican voters of the middle west and the north
west who took Mr. Taft at his word and gave him
the presidency. If they do not revenge them
selves upon the party which has betrayed them,
the temper of the American people with respect to
the binding force of popular verdicts has changed
in way that is unbelievable le-St Louis Re-
public Dem.
The future of the tariff revision rests with the
people. Will they bestow censure in the one effec-
tive way upon those men in congress who not only
have supported the high schedules of the present
high tariff, but have done their best to make some
of those schedules materially higher? If so there
will be noticeable scarcity of standpatters in the
next congress- Chicago News, Taft supporter.
The tariff question will not be settled until
honestly settled in the interests and to the benefit
OF the patient and long-suffering people. "-Grover
Cleveland
The Washington Water Power Company, owner
of street and interurban carine in Spokane, has
acquired by location valuable water right on the
Spokane river in the southern end of Stevens
county on the Spokane reservation. A power
house will probably be erected there shortly If
power sufficient to operate the lights and carlines
of the company can be generated so near to Spo-
kane the company will build a power house there,
ais it will cheaper power considerably. The power
at present comes from point about 60 miles from
Spokane, near Wallace Idaho.
1t is we'll known fact that man s ingenuity has
caused the desert to blossom as the rose but why
not drop into Stevens county where mans ingefl-
ity is not thus taxed and where life is worth the
living? You just tickle the bosom of Mother Earth
and in due season she smiles bountiful harvest
A question has been raised as to how far above
his property man may claim ownership of the
air. At present he owns down to the center of the
earth and no one may tunnel under him without
permission. The courts have recognized that he
has some overhead rights too, by penalizing peo-
pie who allow signs or other contrivances to pro-
ject over their neighbor's property.
But the advent of the aeropane has raised new
questions The new balloon hardly ever suggested
trespassing for the balloon usually flies high. The
aeroplane, however, skins along at short dis
lance above the houses, and if it ever comes into
general use it will not travel at very great dis
tance from the ground.
In the very near future each house may have to
be equipped with roof and chimney protector to
keep the air chariots from carrying them away.
Aerial surveying may become as important as is
land surveying, for no property owner who owns
an air space overhead will want some stranger to
come along and anchor in his air yard, or throw
ballast on his onion patch. Suppose you were to
awaken some morning and find that some one had
filed location on the atmosphere over your lot,
and had pumped all the air out of your yard!
With airship transportation, we will have to be
careful how let strangers drop into town. for it
would be most inconvenient to have passenger
drop into town by means of your skylight or front
window, carrying with him his suit case and part
of your window frame. Laws will have to be
made to cover all these things, and the law of
gravtation should be changed as soon as possible.
An American tourist hailing from the west was
out sightseeing in London They took him aboard
the old battleship Victory, which was Lord Mel
sons flagship in several of his most famous
triumphs An English sailor escorted the Amer
lean over the vessel, and coming to raised brass
tablet on the deck he said, as he reverently re-
moved his hat:
'sEro sir is the snot where ord Nelson fell -