The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-04

sources, therefore utlllZdtlOH Will
out waste should be the governing
principle. Monopoly of water pow
err should be instantly suppressed
but the progress of our people should
not be dwarfed by unreasonable and
unjust Withdrawals from public en-
try of the government domain. Com
mon sense and progress should pre-
vail over sentiment and hysteria
We believe that the interest of those
states most affected should be first
consulted, therefore the interests OF
public land states whose develop
ment and progress are deeply con-
cerned should prevail over the SEN
timentalists and alarmists of the
East who have appointed themselves
the conservators and guardians OF
the West. A wise and beneficen'
progress is better than blind and
unreasonable conservatism. We cal
attention to the fact that nearly q
third of the landed area of this state
is now in forest and Indian reserves
natural parks and other unsurveyed
and unoccupied public lands with
drawn from entry. We believe thai
lands most suitable for agricultural
purposes in the forest reserves
should be restored to entry, that
homes may be established and civ
ilization extended wherever possible
and that the development of Oul
mineral resources should be encour.
aged.
Hays Administration Endorsed.
We commend the selection by
President Taft as a member of his
cabinet of that distinguished citizen
of this state, Hon. Richard A. Ballin
ger, in whose judgment, wisdom, in.
tegrity and patriotism we have un
bounded confidence.
We indorse the administration Oh
Gov. M. E. Hay and the other state
officers, as embodying highly com
mendable example and display of en-
terprise, economy and efficiency.
We heartily indorse and commend
the good work done by the state
railroad and state tax commissions
and we favor the extension or scope
of authority of one of these commits
sions so that supervision and con
troll over public service corporations
in the state may be had similar tC
that exercised by the public utilities
commission of the state of New
York We favor the fullest public
ity as to all public service corpora
tons doing business in this state.
Tariff Law Commended.
The principle of protection is ar
essential part of republicanism
American markets should and mus
be preserved for American produc
ers. The late revision of the tariff
was made by a republican congress
in sympathy with this established
republican doctrine. The new tar
if is, in our judgment, practical
fulfillment of the pledge of 1908
This law has substantially reduced
the taxes on many of the necessar.
les of life; it raised them on nothing
but luXuries. 1t has converted a de.
| ;as% tn
surplus. 1t has been placed on oul
statutes without disturbing the bust
ness of the country and causing a
loss of employment to any laboring
man. We believe in the revision OF
the tariff from time to time as con-
ditions change We believe that the
wisdom of intrusting revision of the
tariff to it's friends has been fully
justified by the Payne-Aldrich law
Favors Employers Liability Law.
We favor the passage of an en-
ployers' limited liability law, which
shall lay the burden of accidents oc-
curing in the industrial pursuits up
on such industry and not upon the
shoulders of the helpless victims of
such accidents.
That in the new erection of public
buildings in this state by the federal
| government that the representatives
and senators in congress from this
state are requested and urged to use
every honorable effort to have spec
flied and used in all such public
buildings materials from this state
where readily available whether
from forest, mine, quarry, mill, fac
tory or foundry.
That if in it's wisdom the legisla-
ture of this state should see fit to
authorize the erection and appropri-
alton for any state buildings, that
lit would help home industry by pro-
viding that all material used in the
erection of such buildings be from
the state of Washington, where read
lily available. We have the mater
ials; we have the mechanics, whose
skill is equal to the best.
We favor the repeal of second
choice provision of the present pri-
mary law.
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