The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-02-06

TO be presided over by that preeminent standpat-
ter, the Hon. Joe Cannon. The senate must con-
cur IN the tariff measure, and that will be presided
over by that scarcely less eminent standpatter,
James Schoolcraft Sherman. What kind of
tariff revision measure will it be when it energies
from the hands of these gods of the things as
they ought not to be?'
The interests are already making their wants
known; we are already beginning to hear the tales
of woe brought forth by those who are standing
on the brink of destruction and catastrophe and
universal destruction in any modification of the
tariff. The papers that print the news that is
paid for at so much line to renovate the worm
out arguments in favor of high tariff will have
plenty to do for the next few months png blue
prediction upon predictions blue and gloomy
prophecy upon prophecies of gloom. The confd-
ing readers of the subsidized papers will be nerv-
GUS wrecks by the time the bill is passed. They
will feel that the country has barely escaped an
Industrial convulsion, and that the refusal of the
republican leaders to permit reduction of the
tariff is all that has saved the country from the
demnition boW-wows and then the industries that
have shut down and thrown their men out of en-
ployment in order to coerce congress will open up
and the news columns will tell us of restored
prosperity-al due, they reiterate, to the con-
fidence that the public has in republican sagacity
This will be the course if history repeats itself,
and then the grinding will begin again-the ex-
plotting will be renewed, and the masses will con-
tinue their tribute to the benefciaries of repub-
can privilege and favoritism. How long, O Lord!
how long will it take the voters to understand the
influences that dominate the republican party, and
through that party, the government? How long
must the average man be made the toy and play
thinr of tho favor cookipr thot
furnish the campaign funds for the republican
party and then recoup themselves through the
leaders that have dictated? How long can the
voters be driven, and the readers be misled?-
Commoner
Billy Sundays remarks about theaters and
theater goers show that he is another one of those
who believe that the stage should either be abo-
ished or elevated. Well, the average stage is
sufficiently elevated now for the bald headed row
to see all that the law allows.
Benjamin Franklin described high tariff as
something wanted by it's advocates for their pri-
vate interest under pretense of public good"
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Radical changes are proposed by sportsmen in
eastern Washington as amendments to the new
code of laws for the protection of game to be SUBJ
mitted to the legislature, now in session at Oym-
pia, by the Washington State Game and Fish Pro-
ductive Association.
Until this year the season for quail was closed
in this state. The law was revised to open quail
for shooting in 1908 between Sept Is and JAM l.
Sportsmen will favor an open season only from
Oct. Is to Nov. Is. One months shooting will
serve the purpose of scattering the birds, an
pathological principle of bird preservation. If
the season is held one month later the birds will
be older and stronger, wilder, quicker to the wing,
and it will be matter of only the best shots be-
ing able to bag the limit Sportsmen will not fight
closed season on quail for two years, as is being
proposed in some quarters, for the tanner the quail
becomes when the bird is protected the less liable
he is to mix with other focks. In time inbreeding
will kill off the quail as quickly and surely as
overshOoting.
For years the sportsmen have crtized the shoot
ing of prairie chickens and grouse as early as
Aug. 15 The birds are then too small for good
eating and are too easily potted. Farmers have
also complained against shooting so early in Aug
ust, as many are not entirely through harvesting.
Section 80 of the proposed code does not mention
two species familiar in the Spokane country, the
blue and willow grouse. The attention of the
state protective association will be called to this
omission.
When the ducks begin to come north in the late
winter they are already mated. If one of pair
is killed the other will not mate again for one
year. Thus the killing of one duck virtually
means the killing of whole flock The season is
now open on ducks from Sept Is to March l.
Sportsmen recommend the open season be from
Sept. Is to Jan. l.
An eastern Magazine offers prizes for the best