The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-05-07
Governor Hay has issued the following procla-

Governor Hay has issued the following procla-
nation:
q" "A mothers love, how sweet the name.
What is mothers love?
A great, pure and tender flame,
Kindled from above,
To bless heart of earthly mold
The warmest love that can grow cold;
This is a mothers love- +
In recent years there has sprung up in many
portions of our land most beautiful custom; that
of setting aside one day in the year to be desig-
mated as mothers day. Of the many observances
we have there is probably none that appeals more
to the average person than this, and as long as
this nation shall endure may this custom never die.
Therefore, in conformation with this usage, !,
Marion E. Hay, governor of the state of Washing
ton, do hereby designate and set apart Sunday,
May 8, 1910, as mothers day; and do recommend
and request that it be observed such throughout
this commonwealth. urge that on that day all
persons wear white flower in acknowledgment
and honor of the one who went down into the val
ley of the shadow of death for us.
mo more fitting place can be found for holding
special services of this character than the churches
and I request that all religious organizations
throughout our state prepare special program for
this day, and I urge all good citizens to attend
these services"
S~N
Will the revelations of graft in our state govern
ment never cease?
The legislative investigating committee which
made its final report to Governor Hay last week
reports deplorable state of affairs in the Office of
the state land commissioner as we'll as evidence of
graft incompetency and unbusinesslike methods
in other departments of the state government
For years it has been not only broadly limited,
ministration of the state land Office was rotten to
the core. This charge has been time and again
fatty denied by E. w. Ross, present commissioner
and republican candidate for governor. Yet Ross
has been perniciously active during all the time
that he has been commissioner to prevent an in
vestigation of his Office.
Now the committee after only cursory exaini-
nation of the state land commissioners office re-
ports that the state has been Systematically and
continuously robbed for years in the sale Of its
lands, particularly timber lands, involving total
loss of over $11, ,00O, 900. The benefciaries, of
course, have been the purchasers of state lands,
principally timber spectators and mill owners,
the Weyerhauser syndicate in particular Thus
ever since statehood began the spectators have
been gobblng up the valuable lands owned by the
state for mere fraction of their true value
If the plundered state of Washington has any
recourse in this matter it should exercise it to the
limit. It should not only nulify these fraudulent
sales and compel dishonest purchasers to pay for
the timber they have stolen but the dishonest
cruisers, who perjured themselves in making false
reports of the land department. should be run
down and criminally prosecuted. If the state is
to continue to employ such men, it should find
work for them in it's penitentiary.
And, by the way, Land Commissioner Ross has
been spending the winter comfortably in Washing
ton, D. c., and, of course, at the states expense
He should be required to come home and show
cause why he should not resign his Office at once.
He should not be permitted to dodge responsibility
again, artful dodger though he is He is directly
responsible for much of this immense loss to the
state and he should not be permitted to evade it.
The wholesale theft that has been going on all
these years in the sale of state lands is only one
chapter in the long story Of corruption maladmin-
istration and incompetence that has marked the
rule of the republican party. The men that that
party has elevated to high Office have permitted
plunderers to loot the state treasury, to rob the
state of its valuable lands, and to inict upon the
people an unjust and insufficient code of laws to
worry and harass them. In addition, republican
administration of state officers has been widely ex
travagant, necessitating laying upon the people
tax burden that is really little short of confsca-
tion. Yakima Democrat.
Leigh Richmond Freeman, the oldest journalist
in the west candidate for u s. senator on the
republican ticket, was Coville and Stevens coun-
ty visitor this week. He has been eight months
in the field working up his candidacy, and ex-
presses himself as very we'll satisfied with his