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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
SHIP BILL IS NO HELP
(Continued From Page Onel

expect the steel trust and it's friends
to oppose it. The friends Of an Ameri-
can merchant marine and the common
|people' should align themselves in sup
port of the proposed change in exist
ing law
Realizing the strong argument that
the democrats would probably make
for free ships, a free ship" provision
was inserted in the Taft Humphrey
bill by the republican members OF the
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries. That this clause was not
drawn in good faith, but with the OBJ
vious intention Of misleading the pub
lie, is evidenced by the fact that the
trainers of the bill themselves do not
anticipate that "a single steam ship"
chant carine under the free ship
clause Of the Taft Humphrey bill. The
free ship" section of the administra-
ton bill Is so hedged about with re-
'strictions that little, if any, good would
be accomplished by it. The value that
the majority of the committee that
made the bill place on it may be best
judged by the following language in
their report:
cit is not believed that there will be
a large demand for American registry
Of foreign built steamers under this
will not add one single steam. ship to
the feet under the American flag en-
gagged in the trans oceanic commerce
UPON either the Atlantic or Pacific"
On the other hand it is anticipated
that under the Spight bill between 300
and 400 steam ships will be added to
the American register.
Briefly summarized, the object Of
both parties is to build up the Ameri-
can merchant marine. At cost of ap-
proximately 100000 annually, Ito
start WITH, it is hoped that under the
Taft Humphrey bill between eight and
twelve vessels will be added to the
American register. This $4,000, 900
must be raised in the end by some form
Of taxation, as the government has no
other way Of raising money. Under the
Spight bill it is anticipated the Ameri-
CAN merchant marine will be increased
by several hundred ships, and without
ny cost TO the taxpayers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
RAILROAD VALUATIONS.

Most closely connected with the
problem Of railroad taxation is the
qeestion of how railroad properties are
to be valued. Upon this point Mr.. Rip
ley, in his valuable article on Federal
Railroad Regulation in the March At
lantic, says:
There is nothing revolutionary in
the idea of the valuation of railroad
property by public authority. No less
than four states have done it elaborate
ly and one of them at least has inven-
toried the possessions of it's public
carriers since 1893"
Mr.. Ripley then goes on to show that
railroad enterprises never prospered
anywhere more than in these states.
Such a course reduces good deal of
suspicion in popular opinion that rail-
roads are undervalued. And wherever
there has been an under-valuation, it
is only fair to honestly conducted enter
prises that the fraud be exposed. There
is another result that the people are
entitled to, and that is, iI making in
vestments they have a right to know
the actual worth of the property, and
official valuation gives them this OPP
portunity We have delayed a long
time getting at the true basis of this
matter 1t should be remembered there
is not a public arrier or public util-
ity of any kind in which the people
are not a partner and should, therefore
know actual conditions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
John W. Sawyer
222 E. ALDER. TELEPHONE 1ash

improvements on the property, and if
present plans are carried out, when
completed the building will contain a
I, full basement, besides several other
| rooms for the meeting places of the
different trades. 1t will also be pro-
vided with reading rooms, where the
men who have no home to go to, may
spend their leisure hours in reading.
The present quarters of the temple be-
ing limited it is very essential TO pro-
vide more room for the ever increasing
trade unionists.
'The Cigar Makers were the first
union organized in the city of Walla
Walla, being organized in 1900 with
II charter members. After they or
ganized they received an increase in
wages and bettered their conditions
in many other ways.
"Since then" continued the speaker,
"have been organized the following
Unions: typographical, carpenters,
painters, printing pressmen, meat cut
tiers, bartenders, bricklayers, plumb
ers, hotel and restaurant employees,
metal and wood fathers, brewery
workers, electrical workers, BARRIERS
and musicians All are in good order
and are flourishing" Concluding, the
speaker said:
1--WE have a central labor council,
which is composed of three delegates
from each local organization in the
city.
1--WE, the committee appointed to
prepare this paper have tried to give
fair and impartial view of the con-
ditions confronting labor organizations
in the city of Walla Walla. We have
endeavored to get data from all the
organizations. In some instances we
have failed, but have made q report
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

as near correct as possible at this
time, and if any one feels grieved in
any oversight of the committee, thew
can attribute it to the organization and
not to the committee. Thanking Won
for this opportunity and for your kind
indulgence, we beg to remain
GLENN HARRIS, Carpenter,
FIRED BOWMAN, Plumber.
81. F. CLARKE, Typographical
]. L. Dumas was the last speaker of
the meeting, his subject being: Our
Surrounding Resources" Mr.. Dumas
took up the question of dividing up the
surrounding farms into acreage tracts
to be sold to the laboring classes for
homes. He said that the wage Garner
has hard time to accumulate any
thing under present conditions, but
that if he could get out on the cleo
trio line onto a few acres, where he
could have chickens, fruit, hogs, COWS
and other things Of the kind, he would
save more and live cheaper and better,
and his family would be healthier.
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But this growth and development will
take years Of time and hundreds of
thousands of dollars. If the citizens of
Walla Walla will take an interest in
factory development Of this valley it
will not be necessary for them to in
vest their surplus cash in Mexico or
South America; nor in town lots in the
coast cities, or uncertain mining or
other enterprises, as it can all be safely
invested here at home with the positive
assurance of good dividends each year.
Factory development in Walla Wal
la was the first address of the ses-
sion, and Gilbert Hunt gave a brief out
line of the manufacturing industry for
the past century and outlined what
Walla Walla. has and should have.
A committee appointed by the Cen
trail Labor Council prepared a paper
on Labor Conditions, which was
read by Glenn Harris, and in part is as
follows:
1--WE have been selected by the Cen
trail Labor Council to prepare short
sketch for this institute upon the ques
ton of organized labor in the city of
Walla Walla. We must confess that
We entered upon the task with some
hesitancy, realizing that we had
question assigned us that if properly
treated would require a great deal of
careful preparation. The organization
of labor is a big subject-it covers a
very large scope, and there is much
that can be SAID in regard to the
movement in a general way, but as we
have been selected to cover the local
field in the know Your City move
ment, we will confine ourselves so far
as possible to the conditions that ac-
tually exist in our city.
THE aims and purposes Of organiza-
| ton, and especially in the labor move
ment, is for the uplifting of mankind
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
PUBLIC TURNS
EYE ON COURT

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search to disclose it's trade secrets
to competitors.
Fourth-It is a violation of the
tenth amendment to, the constitution
in that it is a burden and tax upon
an an interference with the power
Of the state reserve to it to charter
and incorporate corporations.
Fifth-While it is designated in the
law as a special excise tax, it is not
in reality a special excise tax with
respect to carrying on business, but
is direct tax, and is not apportioned
among the states according to popu-
lation. Neither is it uniform, as re-
quired by the constitution, because
it leaves free from tax all individuals,
firms and partnerships engaged in the
same kind of business as corporations
Although the Vermont case is con-
sidered the most important, as affect
ing many thousands of similar corpor-
ations, several other cases aimed at
the constitutionality of the corpora
ton tax provided in the Payne tariff
act have been filed. Six of these cases
are on the docket today for hearing
as one case with the Flint suit
All phases of the effect of the pro-
vision on corporations are represent
ed In the seven cases-banks, insur-
ance companies, street railway COM
parties and state corporations.
They are Wyckoff, Vanderhoef VS.
the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
company of New York, Francis l.
Hine VS.. Home Life Insurance COM
pany Of New York, Fred w. Smith vs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
EVEN MONACO RESTLESS.

Stirred perhaps by the partial sue
cess of the Persians and the complete
success of the Turks in establishing a
constitutional form of government,
the people of the smallest independent
state in the world-Monaco-ar now
agitatlng for a constitution. Monaco,
which has about $4,000 population and
is supported by the gambling industry
at the two centers of Monaco and Mon
tie Carlo, is an absolute monarchy The
oretically, Prince Albert has the power
of life and death over everybody
Practically he is a pretty easy boss.
Taxation is light The $350000 paid
each year for the gambling concession
makes burdens on the people light. The
judiciary consists of one justice of
the peace, and an appellate court made
up by arrangement of Paris judges who
agree to help out the prince. There is
a consultative council which has no
real authority 1t is entirely possible
that In the effort to get rid of the the
oretical despotism the subjects or
Monaco may jump from the frying pan
into the fire.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Anna Gould that was, wife of Prince
Helle de Sagan, becomes a duchess
through the death of the duke, who
was the princes father. The late Ia
mented Jay Gould may yet get some
thing like an approximation of his
worth, as such things are
counted in Europe. But there can be
no doubt that, were he living, he would
enter all OF these transactions up to
profit and loss.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14


the Northern Trust company or Chi
cago, Cedar Street company VS.. Park
Realty company Of New York, Lewis
w. Jared VS.. American Multigraph
company of Cleveland, Ohio, and Will
liam H. Miner VS.. Corn Exchange Ma
tional Bank of Chicago.
In each case q stakeholder sought
to enjoin the company from paying
the tax, and in each case the petition
was ordered dismissed.
Among other cases pending are
those Of Percy H. Brundage, stock
holder in the Broadway Realty COM
pany of New York, to prevent that
company from paying the tax, and of
Paul Lacroix of Paris, a stakeholder
in the Motor Taximeter Cab company
of New York, asking for similar re-
lief
Next in Importance to the corpora
ness of the entire nation, are the
pending suits against the Standard
Oil company and the American Tobac-
CO company. The latter case has al
ready been argued, while the oil trust
suit will be threshed out this week
Attorney General Wickersham, per-
sonally presenting the governments
side
Although some legal lights expect
decision against the tobacco trust"
the stockholders are not worrying, as
they are receiving dividends large
enough to repay them for their invest
ment, even on the assumption, which
of course is not correct, that their
stock would be worth nothing in case
the company is dissolved. Recently
the directors declared the regular
quarterly divident of IL per cent,
on the common stock and an extra
divident of IL per cent, which
makes the payments at the rate of 40
per cent. year. For several years
the company has been paying dividends
ranging from 20 to 80 IL per cent
year and has been earning as high as
so per cent, at times.
James B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco company, is one
of 10 men who together own go per
cent. of the stock of the company.
In 1906 he owned $4,000 shares.
Should the suit against the Stan
dard Oil company be decided against
the company, as the government pros
ecutors are confident it will be, then
there must be dissolved one of the
greatest industrial corporations of the
world.
Although the two cases are in
sense to be considered together, they
differ widely, and in this difference
some we'll known attorneys profess to
see the safety of an industrial COM
bination such as the tobacco company,
not to be gained by the Standard Oil
corporation. The Standard Oil COM
pany is a holding company. Under its
New Jersey charter it acts as a con-
trolling power rather than as a pro-
Queer
In the case of the American Tobac-
CO company the situation is held to
differ, although there is no assurance
that the court will mark this differ
ence. 1t is a producing company, ac-
cohrding to some of the attorneys who
discussed it today, and it's history is
very unlike that of the oil corpora
ton. 1t is held that the Standard Oil
company started with a monopoly and
has been attempting ever since to
hold and perfect it. Much Of the BUSH
ness of the American Tobacco COM
pany is held to have been gained by
natural growth.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
Increase Banks CAPITAL.

BOSTON, Mar. 14.-Shareholders Of
ing today to consider the final details
of the issue of 100000 of new stock,
the proceeds to be divided equally be-
tween capital, surplus and undivided
profits, which will bring the total up
to $S,5OO,OOO Payments on the new
stock are to be made April 4.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

John D. Rockefeller has applied to
Andrew Carnegie for his recipe for
distributing surplus wealth. Mr.. Car
negie's recklessness as a speaker will
exactly suit the oil magnate.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

The continued advance in beef and
pork prices is the packers way of
the meat boycotters, What are you
going to do about it?"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Mr. Rockefeller says that giving
away his fortune will injure nobody.
Perhaps a fear of doing harm re-
strains Mrs. Hetty Green from rash
beneVolence.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

No economist has been able to ex-
plain why trust control does not make
necessaries like beef an dcoal as cheap
as it makes luxuries like cigarettes
and chewing gum.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

While it may be true that J. Pier
pont Morgan controls one-ninth of the
wealth of the United States, it is
equally true that every other indus
trious citizen is trying to control as
much of it as he can.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

In trying legal experiments on mice
with poison pellets care should be
taken that none of the mice are sub
ject to emotional insanity. The inge-
npity of criminal lawyers calls for
caution
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

One of the members OF the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigation is described as
chewing tobacco. This is not danger
Gus to forestry interests as would be
habit of chewing sassafras or slip
Dery elm
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

One IF Buffalo's leading railroads
has decided to build a large modern
terminal in a central part of the city.
Investments of this kind are among
the best dividend promoters.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

One lecturer on the high price Of
food insists that the best remedy is
for farmers to raise deer and reduce
the price of meat two thirds. Ten
cent venison would not be bad if the
currant jelly is not overlooked
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

An expounder of the poultry bust
ness says any man can succeed in it
who has brains and loves work. Ev-
cry hobo will claim the first Qualifica-
ton, but may request cautious
course of training for the rest.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

BY covering a portion of Roosevelt's
European route ahead of him, Mr.
Fairbanks may be able to locate a few
valuable danger signals for American
speech makers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

A $4,000 mansion in Washington
for the vice president is proposed. At
the usual rentals at the capital that
would be about the equivalent of
coy flat.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Admiral Evans is afraid that the
railroads are plotting to ruin the
Panama canal. By the time the canal
is completed a number of things may
happen to the railroads.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

The late Senator Plat began his
public career as a singer. The fact
may account for his always being
ready to sacrifice anything for har-
mony.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Uncle Joe Cannon's declaration that
he feels inclined to sing should per-
suade his constituents to keep him in
congress indefinitely.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
trouble it took to be cordial and court
eous to DR.. Cook.

An organization has been perfected
In Chicago for the uplift of the drama
"a kind OF hold up that Is new to Chi
cagO
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

There are statesmen who seem in
clined to disregard all claims and
throw the north pole open to new dis
COVererS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Crops are looking so we'll in the
United States that Uncle Sam is not
worrying over minor troubles.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
WEATHER FORECAST.


For Walla Walla and vicinity: Fair
tonight and Tuesday.
For Washington: Fair east portion
tonight and Tuesday; showers west
portion tonight or Tuesday.
Weather Conditions.
High barometric pressure continues
over the western portion Of the Unit
ed States with it's crest over the Da-
kotas, and the weather has remained
fair at most places west of the Mis-
sissippi river. Light precipitation fell,
however, on the northwest Washing
ton coast and there was a light rain
fall in the Willamette valley. 1t is
raining along the middle and southern
California coast. An area of low baro-
meter over New England is attended
by light snow in the Ohio valley and
north Atlantic states. Colder wealth
err is prevailing from the Dakotas to
the Great Lakes. The indications are
for a continuation of the fair weather
in this vicinity tonight and Tuesday.
JNO. GROVER. Observer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

1t will be impossible to distribute
even so great fund as that set aside
by John D. Rockefeller without invit-
ing jealousies and resentments.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Some inclination has been manifest
ed to lay down the muck rake and
take up the harpoon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

Vegetarianism has had so much en-
enlargement that mushrooms may be-
come as expensive as meat.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

The sympathetic strike that involves
an ambulance call makes too strong
an appeal to the sense of pathos.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

1t was unkind to call New York the
most impolite city on earth after the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14
Fashion Tip No. |.

Simplicity is the dominant charac-
teristic In mems dress for the current
season. Novelty effects have been COM
pletely thrust into the background.
Freakish cuffs, pocket flaps and lapels
are distinctly out Of date. This is to be
a gray season with a distinct blue
tinge and with a decided leaning to-
ward soft materials.
This is but the first of a series of
fashion tips which will appear from
time to time in this paper during the
season. You can rely upon them as be-
ing correct. 1t is not only to my in
terest to know the truth about fash
ion but also to speak it, for it is one
of my strong selling points that. as
my garments are made up after being
ordered, can always give you the very
latest style.
A Sawyer garment is a merchant
tailored garment at the price of a.
ready to-wear
John w. SAWYER
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-14

cagO.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-05-20
A BACTERIAL DISEASE OF
ALFALFA, A STEM BLIGHT

A bacterial disease of alfalfa,
manifesting itself as a stem blight.
is becoming more or less prevalent
in certain parts of Colorado. What
appears to be the same trouble also
occurs in Kansas, Nebraska and New
Mexico, although, as yet, it has not
been of sufficient economic impor-
tance in these states to cause any
alarm or call for any special con-
sidcration.
The disease has been known in
Colorado since 1904, where, in some
practically eighty per cent of the
first cutting.
1t makes its first appearance
about the middle of May to the first
of June. and is present up to the
time of the first cutting, after which
no more of it is seen until the next
season. In the earliest stages, the
stems have a yellowish, olive green
color and appear watery and semi
transparent; soon the color changes
subsequent drying of thick, clear
cxudate. This dried cxcretion gives
the stem shiny, vanished ap-
pearance, and slightly rough feel
to the touch. These stems blacken
in six to eight weeks, become very
brittle. and are easily broken. which
fact makes it amo5t impossible to
handle the crop with out an i'm
mense amount of shattering
So far as our observations go. the
disease is confined practically to
the stem and lower leaves: 1t APP
pears to run its course with the first
cutting. and those pants which have
sufficient vitality throw out a good
growth for the second and third
cuttings.
The disease has been shown to be
due to a germ, Pseudomonas medi-
caginis. II. sp. (SacketD which pre-
sumably lives in the soil, and which
enters the plants through cracks in
the outer portion of the young
stems, which are the results of late
freezing.
Where the areas under cultivation
reach such tremendous proportions
as the alfalfa fields on the noun
tain ranches, all schemes for soil
sterilization are obviously imparc-
be said of the use of germicides to
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-05-20

be applied to the plants either in
the form of sprays or otherwise, for
even though some such means
should be discovered by which the
infection could be prevented, the
only practical way of combating and
controlling the blight is by the in
PRODUCTION of resistant varieties. The
Colorado Experiment Station has
been conducting work along this line
for the past three years.
We recommend, as a means of
control, that the frosted alfalfa be
clipped as soon as one is reasonably
certain that there is no more danger
from frost. BY this means the frost
spit stems, in which the disease ap-
pears to originate. will be gotten rid
of, thus affording an opportunity
for the early growth of a new cut
ting.
WALTER G. SACKETT.