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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21

from imports were larger than they
had ever been under the Wilson law,
and they continued to increase until,
at the end of a decade of uninter-
rupted and adequate protection, the
volume of government receipts from
customs compared with the high
water mark nnfrr the Wilson law
from the same source as the June
rise in the Mississippi compares with
any of the upper stretches of the
Arkansas River after a long drought.
There can be but M explanation
for this for business men, OF men of
sense in any calling. Revenues from
imports must always depend upon
the purchasing power of the people
of a country. If the purchasing
power of the people is impaired the
volume Of imports cannot rise. Dur
ing the silver campaign of 1896 much
was heard of 1.-The purchasing power
of the dollar" Our statesmen talked
of little else. The only Bryan organ
in ST. Louis at that time insisted
almost daily that, if good times were
to come either through silver or gold,
or both, they could not come
coincident with an increased pur-
chasing power of money, and that,
if the gold standard brought lower
prices it would bring harder times.
The result has proved that the pur-
chasing power of the dollar was not
increased by the gold standard, but
that the gold standard gave that
stability of money values which, after
the purchasing power of the people
themselves was Increased by the
Dingley tariff law, brought I'M
precendented prosperity to the coun-
try. Still the statesmen are droning
at Washington of a reduction in tariff
rates increasing the of the
government. This is Scriptural, for
it is written that Though you bray
a fool in a mortar yet shall his
%foolishness not depart from him.
1t is Srriptural, but also provoking.
particularly in warm weather.[Globe
Democrat.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21
NATURAL CURIOSITIES
as IN HUMBOLDT.

II is an acknowledged fact that
Humboldt county is one of the great
est mineral sections in the state,
with almost every variety in the
category of metals, besides sulphur,
borax, salt, mira, soda, gypsum and
many of the precious stones as well.
Now comes the news of great FOSSIL
beds having been discovered near
the Oregon line. Lindsay DEMO, who
arrived in town a few days ago from
Pueblo valley. stated to a representa-
tive of this paper that there were a
number of professors and students
from some college in California now
in Virgin valley, in the vicinity OF
Thousand creek, inspecting the great
petriied forest and fossil bed in that
section. 2 ia4 8lf.
Mr.. DEMO stated thai the party,
had some very interesting specimens
Iof. petrifed bones of prehistoric
animals and among a lot or specl-
linens were the skulls of animals re-
an elephant and rhinoceros,
.besides the bones of animals not
found in this country at b present
sneriod. These fossil specimens are
lbeing shipped to California. where
they will be placed in a
! Thousand creek is a very interest
ing section of Humboldt county for
BIT is there that Mr.. DEMO and as
esociates located a deposit of opals
THAT has the promise of exceeding
anything of the kind ever found IN
the United States. The stones found
there are very beautiful, being OF al
most every variety of opals. includ-
ing black opals. that have beautiful
s%cintillating fire. These opal beds
lie between deposits of Ignite coal.
In that section, large samples OF
amber have been found and the
petrified trees found there are SO
large that they are wonders to be-
hold. Virgin valley is an isolated
section of this country. bordering on
the Oregon line, and is a veritapie
wonderland and paradise for curiosity
seekers.-Humboldt County STAR
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
STATESMAN AND BUSINESS MEN.

The more WE know statesmen the
more w like business men. Business
men can change their view without
changing their viewpoint. Their
viewpoint is always one of profit, and
business men are not hypocritical
about 1t. They will try a thing until
convinced that it dosen't pay, and
IL, in that demonstration. it is made
plain that the exactly opposite theory
Is the paying one, the exactly OPP
posite theory is the one they will
take up next They will do this
without equivocation of concealment.
The statesman must, or think they
and worse, they must, or think they
must, stick to old notions. Some
times they justify the sticking on
grounds of a higher necessity, as if
the business of government was to
do more than give the people a
chance to prosper. This attitude ac-
counts for the bowls or rage with
which every allusion to 1.-The full
dinner pail" as a sufficient vindica-
ton of tariff protection is always
met. A full dinner pail indeed, cry
the idealists and theorists of free
trade. Such grossness, and such
%pandering to low appetites, they de-
spise. Fill the minds and hearts of
the people they say. and let them fill
their stomachs as best they may.
There is a hint in this that gov
eminent might eventually be SO
~sublimated that people would cease
eating foods and live sn ideas.
This generation. which retains
recollection of the old story of the
horse which died just as he had been
well trained to do without feeding,
balks at the suggested theory. We
have had our fun with those who
have suggested it. Their noble rage
has moved us. often to undue exalta-
ton of 1.-THE full dinner pail" as the
chief end of human government. But
they are not only idealists. There
are others. Statesmen still go on
droning about adjusting the tariff
schedules in. such ways to regulate
evenue. y What do they know about
it? While the Wilson tariff bill was
under discussion in the early COS, it
was the %concensus of statesmanlike
opinion that it would increase rev.
enues by largely increasing imports.
1t made many reductions in schedules
then under protection, but official
statistics show that, while it was
operative, the revenues of the gov
eminent from tariff duties increased
to the extent of millions annually.
This was strange enough, for all who
had been deceived, but what made
it infinitely stranger was that, soon
after the Dingley tariff law became
effective, in 1897, annual revenues
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21
AFTER SHELTER AT OGDEN.
Understood That Deal Will be Made
Whereby Plant Will Be Turned
Over and Opened Early.

OGDEN, July l4.--From an au-
thentic source it is stated that a par
ty of Montana mining men are nego-
tiating for the r~eopening of the smell
ter, west Of the Utah Hot Springs.
While nothing concerning the deal
or those interested in it can be
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21

struck by a telegraph pole as he
swung arothnid d passenger dnrs,the
running board of a New Haven tfol-
ley car, William r. Elliott. Of Carroll
Ia a Yale Law School freshman,
working as a conductor during the
summer was probably fatally in
Jureo, sssssg " asl. : " Ea Z Y
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21
A O SPELLe

1t is some time since spelling
bees were popular forms of entertain
ments in this country, but still n
occasionally comes across the very
superior person who tells you he can
easily spell any. word ever printed in
a dictionary If you ever meet this
type of man. Just ask somebody. to
dictate the following tumble to him
and see how many mistakes he viii
make: .Antinous,, a disappointed,
d~esiccated physicist, was peeling po-
tatoes in an embarrassing n shar-
assing way. His id~iosyncracy and
privilege was to eat mayonnaise n
mussels while staring at the Pleiades
and seizing peoples t~ricycles and We
locipides. He vas an erring tetotaler
and had been on a picayune 1ambou-
rec. He rode a paltry stallion and
carried a salable PAPER mache, bou-
ouet of asters, phlox, mullen, chrys-
anthemums, rhonodrons, ana
Nnasturtiums. He wore a sybifs re-
splendent turquoise paraphernalia, an
ormolu yashmak and astrakhan CHAP
erejois. He drank crystallizable ana
disagreeable curacao 1uleps thru a
sieve. He stole some moneys n hid
| them under a p%eddler's mahagony
, bedstead and mattress. Like the fiend
| in an ecstacy of gayety / rushed after
| him into the maelstrom, or melee.
| and held him as a wise. l could not
Tease him. however, and he addressed
me. with autocracy, in the following
| imbecile words, which sounded like
a soliliouy- or a su%perseding pean on
AN oboe: You are a ratable luna
moth, a salaaming visier, an equlno-
tical corphee and an isosceles
daguerreotype."
Evening star., 1909-09-03
Hearst and the Mayoralty.

Will history be repeated in Greater New
York this year? Is MIR. Hearst, after
swearing that he would neer consent to
run for mayor, going to consent? His
admirers are after him.
Several years ago ne returned from Eu-
rope full of interest in the approaching
mayoralty contest, but resolved not to
run for the Office himself. All he asked
was the defeat of Tammany Hail. and
toward that he was willing TO contribute
in every way short of leading the opposi-
tion.
But his friends laid the case before him,
and in the end convinced him that it was
his duty to run, and that under his lead
ership success would follow. lie yielded,
accepted nomination, made a whirlwind
campaign, put energy as well as cash
into II. and came out with flying colors.
doubt was cast on the very small ma
jority claimed by Tammany, and the
courts were asked to decide. The strength
shown by Mr.. Hearst was extraordinary
Again Mr.. Hearst has returned from
Europe on the eve of the opening of a
mayoralty campaign. Again Tammany is
under a hot fire. Again the situation
looks promising for a well directed oppo-
sition. Again Mr.. Hearst expresses a de-
sire to see Tammany defeated. Again lie
declares against candidacy of his own.
And again his admirers insist that he can
win against Tammany. and should lead
them In the fight. VIII he yield?
General interest begins to center in
New York politics. Control of the me-
tropolis is much. but more than that is
in the scale. The anti-Bryanites are try
ing to get possession of the democratic
machinery In the state, for use next
Evening star., 1909-09-03

year and in 1912. Their first object is
to defeat the income tax proposition, and
their second to name the delegation to
the next democratic national convention.
At the Saratoga convention the first steps
will be taken. and if that meeting Is a
success developments should be rapid.
Mr.. Hurst is no longer a democrat. Nor
is lie Bryan man. Largely on Mr..
Bryans account he left the democratic
party. and started a party of his own.
But he favors the income tax. and views
with disfavor the Saratoga meeting. In
that matter he and Mr.. Bryan are again
political bedfellows.
There is a good deal therefore to en-
list Mr.. Hearsts interest at home at
present, and to incite his followers to a
strong appeal to him to grid up his loins
and take the field in person. He prob
ably does not care for office for him
self The duties of public station are
exacting, and he is a busy man with his
large private affairs. But sometimes
busy rich men are overruled in that mat
Evening star., 1909-09-03

York from Queenstown in four days, elev-
en- hours and fourteen minutes. She
Travelled an average of 25.S5 miles per
hour and she delivered her passengers
and mails for the first time on record
within five days from Queenstown, thus
making her, in the parlance of the sea.
a four-day boat.
1t was more than twenty-five years ago
that the six-day boat was developed. She
was a marvel then. She would be tub
now in a race with one of the great pair
of turbiners. 1t was ten years before
the five-day boat came into service and
the world stood aghast at the spectacle
The Lucania and Campania We're in the
five-day class, marvels of the seas. Men
declared that the art of sea navigation
had reached It's absolute maximum. But
even then the turbine engine was being
developed. just as doubtless even now.
with the four-day boat finally in actual
service, some new device may be in proc
ess of evolution to quicken the speed of
ships and to bring the three-day boat into
existence.
1t cost $16.25O for coal alone to bring
the Lusitania on this ord-breaking
trip, sum which would have sufficed
a few decades ago to build good-sized
vessel. From one point of view there Is no
economy in this tremendous speed, but
for advertising purposes it is of great
value. There are certain people who al
ways prefer to travel on the fastest ships,
regardless OF the urgency of their engage
ments. Consequently it pays the steam
ship corporation to spend money unre-
servedly on coal to clip an hour from the
record If possible, for the boat that carries
the broom at her masthead always has
full passenger list.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
The Supreme Moment.

The utmost enthusiasm over DIR. Cook s
achievement in reaching the north pole
Is justified by the event. Assuming the
verify Of the explorers announcement.
this is something that will never occur
again Great disasters are reported to
shock the world and to elicit unbounded
sympathy for sufferers, but there is no as
surance that even greater ones may not
be recorded In the future. Nations may
go to war in circumstances to stir civ
ilized peoples to the depths of human
feeling and to arouse the widest excite
ment, but no guarantee can be given
against occurrences. Marvellous inventions
or discoveries In the material field may be
announced to cause amazement and ex-
ultation over further progress in the de-
velopment of physical science, and yet
20 one can foreten that The end has been
reached
But there can never be a second dis
covery of the pole. Other men than DR..
Cook may reach the ultimate north, but
their achievements will be of conlpa
lively little interest The south pole may
be discovered, but such a performance
will only be of secondary importance
compared with the first polar attain
ment
So it was supreme moment in the
worlds history when the tidings flashed
from Copenhagen to all parts of the
world on the 1st of September, 1909, that
Dr. Cook had actually reached the north
pole. The thrill that that statement
caused In the breasts of news readers
i'll all lands can never be aroused again
from the same cause. For DR.. Cook has
done that which no man can possibly
ever do again. and In the presence oi
that fact the world paused from all It's
accustomed activities to grasp this mo-
mentous fact and undertake to appre-
clate it at its full value. 1t is no wonder
that this process has taken time and that
skepticism has prevailed and that de-
tails and proofs are demanded, for this
announcement has been awaited for sc
many years and the achievement has
been regarded so long as impossible that
in the hour of disclosure the fact seemed
incredible.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
The Taft-Bryan Correspondence.

Mr.. Bryan doubts the Presidents sin
cerity in the matter of the election Of
United States senators by popular vote
According to his argument, had the
President been sincere he would have
recommended an amendment to the Con-
stitution covering that proposition at the
time he addressed Congress on the SUBJ
ject of the income tax.
In his letter to Mr.. Bryan the Presi-
dent gave a sufficient reason for his
course. He might have gone further, and
pointed out that there was no such need
OF an early expression by him in the one
case as In the other. As to the income
tax, Congress had under consideration
the whole question of taxation, and the
income tax had many supporters in both
houses. The President must take notice
of this, and did SO in way both to meet
the situation there, and TO express his
own views.
The other proposition could wait. Good
as it is-and likely after awhile to pre-
vail-it is not indispensable to the cor
rection of the evil complained of. The
people could get along without 1t. A
remedy has been found, and is being sue
cessfully applied in a number of states.
In effect, popular preference as to
United States senatorship may now be
obtained by the process of instructing the
state Legislature.
The income tax proposition is arousing
interest everywhere. Its friends and It's
enemies are both at work. When the
Georgia Legislature refused favorable
action many explanations followed. One
was that the strength of the proposition
in democratic territory had been much
overestimated. Another was that Inn
proper influences were being exerted
against the tax. and would grow in force
as the campaign proceeded.
This is the explanation of the Atlanta
Constitution, and it is entitled to the
highest consideration, as coming from
newspaper published on the ground. and
one representative of democratic senti-
ment I'm the south:
What the legislature did. and all that
IL did, was to decline to consider In the
closing hours of its session a question
that was in no sense pressing for solu-
ton. because 1t was deeply involved In
other matters. the disposition of which
vitality concerned the interests OF the
state The federal income-tax amend
ment will be taken up next summer at
the second session Of this same assembly,
when its consideration will be unham-
pered by pressing state questions, and 1t
will be ratified by such a majority as will
leave no doubt as to Georgia's attitude
toward this recognized just and reason
able democratic principle.
So important Is this question, we should
all rejoice that the President did not
couple it with the senatorial question. but
presented 1t for consideration without en-
tanglements Of any kind. Do, or do not.
the people desire an income tax in time
of peace, as q settled feature of the gov
ernments revenue problem? II the an
swer is in the affirmative, pressure will
at once be brought to bear to impose
the tax, and once 1t is imposed. 1t is
likely to remain on the books That is
enough for the people to consider at one
time; and upon their decision a great
deal depends.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
The Fowler-Cannon Affair

The Florida Times-Union:
I'm the personal criticisms of Speaker
Cannon Mr. Fowler has told US nothing
new, and nothing that has not been said
time and time again.
And nothing that any well Informed
man has accepted at its face value. Mr.,
Cannon has often been assailed, but not
oftener, nor more severely. than other
aggressive men of prominence in our al
fairs. His fate has been the common fate
of all such. And yet he has survived. Ills
hold upon his constituents. as was DEM
onstrated last November, is as strong as
ever, while his hold upon his party at
large. as was demonstrated in March by
his reelection to the speakership. is still
strong enough for some very practical
purposes.
The Fowler-Cannon controversy IS not
edifying. but deplorable. Two experienced
legislators have spoken in anger, and
recklessly. Neither has injured the other,
but each has injured himself Mr.. FoW-
ler has not persuaded the country tuat
Mr.. Cannon is the sort of man or offlclaI
he describes, nor has Mr.. Cannon In his
retort fixed the status of Mr.. Fowler.
The New Jersey representative aspersed
his party when he spoke as he did about
a man the party has frequently and Sig
nally honored, and the Illinois representa-
tive reflected upon his own record when
he aspersed Mr.. Fowler. He gave Mr..
Fowler his prominence in national affairs.
The general complaint is that too little
respect Is shown for the law. Little fel-
lows violate 1t without apology. while big
fellows. under highly paid legal guidance
circumvent it often with ease.
But is this not encouraged by the treat
ment accorded the lawmakers? When
the assertion Is repeated time and again.
first for one purpose and then for an
other, that the Senate is owned body and
soul by great business interests, and that
half, need we wonder that where there is
discomfort with conditions it is increased.
and every untoward thing charged up to
Congress? The character OF the national
lawmaking bady cannot be injured with
out injury resulting to the law itself.
Mr.. Fowler and Mr.. Cannon might well
have remembered this. Both knew of 1t.
Why, then, not have have left the ira
ducing OF public men to the sensational
lists? They are an Industrious lot, and
need no assistance.
1t is reported that when Congress con-
venes in regular session Mr.. Cannon,
from a place on the floor of the House,
will reply to his critics in general There
are many things he can afford to ignore.
but such as call for notice should be
treated In a conservative spirit and with
a we'll tempered statement And maybe
we shall have that after a few months
reflection on Mr.. Cannon's part.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
A New Ocean Record.

During this wonderful season of 1909.
which has witnessed the announcement
of polar discovery and the full demonstra-
ton of the flying machine" progress has
been made In the lowering of ocean
records comparatively as important as
any mat has been scored heretofore. The
great turbine transatlantic liners have
Deen kept diligently at work improving
ON their past performances. with the re-
suit that every few days either the Maui
retania or the Lusitania has made some
new nigh mark. for a days run or an
average mileage or a quick passage east
or west.
Yesterday the Lusitania reached New
Evening star., 1909-09-03
Tax Stock Gambling +.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
It would be unfortunate if serious
question should arise concerning the h-
gality of the stock-transfer tax owing to
the inclusion in the collected statutes of
the invalid law of 1906 instead of the
valid law of 1905. Whether a corrective
act is needed Gov. Hughes will advise
the legislature. But there is one thing
for the people to say, and they should
make it emphatic.
Wall street gambling is pernicious In
it's effect on industry. 1t should be
stopped. If that cannot be done it
should be taxed. a traffic SO vast as TO
give to voluntary association in one ex-
change value of $Sa,OOO,OtN should not
escape taxation. leaving mems homes
and Industries to bear the burden. On
the possibly ) per cent of legitimate in
vestment in stock sales the tax is a
trifle. On matched sales and gambling
business a heavier tax should prove, If
paid, wholesome check.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
lncompleteuesS.

Willie is a curious chap,
AS people all agree.
He always falls a little short
OF what he wants to be.
His golfing clothes entitle him
To an enduring fame.
The only difficulty is
He doesn't know the game.
He has a handsome hunting rig,
But is afraid to shoot.
He only needs a touring car
To fit his auto suit.
But as his wardrobe grows. he says,
With confidence sublime,
1.-THE most important part is clothes.
The rest will come in time
Evening star., 1909-09-03
Home as a Summer Resort.
From the Buffalo Courier.

Though not far from the sea, a Boston
philosopher speaks a few words as fol-
lows, which may be a comfort to the
stay-at-homes: go to the beach? No!
Not any! Home and mother and pajamas
for ours. Our own bed and cellar, our
own bathtub and backyard are blamed
sight better than doghouse on the sand
or berth In a summer hotel, where you
hear man snoring ten rooms away, and
where you wash in a tin cup, eat in a
hy-blown barn, suffer from heat and
fleas. and have no more privacy and
peace than a cop on a Washington street
crossing. Beach? Gwann'
Evening star., 1909-09-03
Good Roads.
From the New York Herald.

NV 1OfK ffefaId.
Every time a farmer invests some of
his surplus from the years crop i'm an
automobile a new vote for good roads is
recorded in a way that counts" Denver
Republican.
And contrariwise, the moment a road
is improved and made a credit to the
community that instant the scoffing tiller
Of the soil finds the worth OF the horse
less vehicle. For double back action, all
around effect in civiliZing the public there
is nothing like good roads.
Evening star., 1909-09-03
Virtue of Keeping Clean.

From the Kansas City Star.
1t might be too much to say that there
is nothing so easy as to keep clean, since
the subjugation of dirt does mean labor
But Ii is not too much to say that there
is nothing so possible as to keep clean.
Water is plenty, soap is not prohibitive in
price, and no better use can be made of
labor than to make things tidy and pure
and undefiled.