The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-08-21

other words, the average specific duties in the
Dingley bill were As per cent and in the Payne
Aldrich bill the average specific duties are az
per cent.
But the specific schedule duties do not consti-
tute the real rates. and this is where the public is
being deceived about the real tariff. In section
of the bill is where the consumer is handed good
sized lemon. That section provides that after
the 31st day of March, 1870 there shall be levied
collected and paid on all articles when imported
from any foreign country into the United States
the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and
paragraphs Of the dutiabe list of section l. and in
addition thereto 25 per cent ad valorem; which
rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the
United States''
This means that in addition to the rates fixed in
the more than 1000 specific schedules there shall
be added to the tariff Is per cent of the value of
the articles as the real tariff the same, and
hence this raises the average tariff rate to II per
cent, the highest by far ever levied
The extra session which was called to pass this
tariff bill cost the United States the enormous sum
of $4 100000. Even this in the end has to be paid
by the people, in addition to paying the increased
cost of goods marked up under the schedules-in-
creased for the benefit of the eastern manufac-
turers, the millionaires and the Wall street in
terests.
The people have to pay for it, but as long as
they like it, let them keep it up.
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The new school code provides that any eighth
grade graduate may upon application be given
course of reading parallel to the work of the high
school, thus enabling those students who are un-
able to attend high school to study at home in
their spare time, and to enter, upon passing an ex-
animation in the subjects included in the course
of reading, any of the institutions of higher learn
ing in the state This includes the University of
Washington. The examinations will be prepared
by the state board of education, and it will be
der their direction that they will be given. These
examinations will be held at the same time as the
regular teachers examinations This course is for
those students who are not attending any high
school. The county superintendent of schools will
be glad to correspond with any one desiring TO
know more about the state law.
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The national reclamation act was passed in 1902.
At that time there were in the governments name,
in the 16 states affected 6OO 900 acres of arid
land which it was estimated possible to reclaim
sufficient to support 5O,OOO,OOO people. By 1911
the reclamation service will have reclaimed nearly
1000 900 acres at an estimated cost of $70 OO0 O00
There are 40,00O0OO acres of arid lands suscepti-
BILE to reclamation by irrigation. The construction
cost of the reclamation works is returned to the
government from the sale of land, the proceeds to
be again used in furtherng irrigation development.
Irrigation is making garden spot and an empire
of the Great American desert, and the work of
the irrigation congress is yet in its infancy.
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A French aviator in Seattle declares that he can
project his machine through the air at hundred
mile gait He claims that he can carry five pas
sengers in his machine. He proposed to the Off
cials of the exposition management that they al
low him to race with the Wright brothers and
Bleriot, but was turned down with an incredulous
laugh He says that his craft is projected through
space by means of two screw prOpellers, as he
finds that planes are unnecessary The inventor of
this flying machine was born in France, but has
been in the United States for the past 10 years,
having settled in Minneapolis. He says that after
his shameful treatment Seattle will never have an
opportunity of seeing his machine, and he will not
even give the papers photograph of it.
! Since Julius Verne's greatest romance Tour of
the World in Eighty Days" was written there
| have been many improvements in transportation
facilities but one would after reading this narrative
of fast travel be tempted to believe that the greatest
speed in the world had been reached, but now
comes the story of circling the globe in 4l days.
one day more than half that in which Vernes hero
did the stunt. Two Chicago boys members of the
schools of that city, won first prize in contest
conducted by the Chicago American, and under
the supervision of one of the staff Of that paper
they are making the record breaking trip. Sew
era other Hearst newspapers in other cities are
giving the winners in similar contests the same
trip, starting from their respective cities
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