The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-10-01

county because of it's politics practically in
spite OF them. Usefulness in the community is the
standard of strength for newspapers as we'll as in
olViduals. And just as the Examiner is not likely
10 forget the encouragement and patronage
rendered it by the republicans of this vicinity, so
Will these same republicans not likely forget the
paper which gave them rightful recognition during
conditions which it is to be hoped are now part.
In the office of the Examiner are many letters,
newspaper clippings, and excerpts from legal docu-
ments, pertaining to the former editor Of the In
dex. These could have been published but they
Were not. AS it has turned out, it was not nec-
essary all of which goes to show that the public is
perfectly capable of attending to matters such as
ths' without the Intervention of newspaper.
All OF which brings us back to the time when
Mr.. Veatch controlled the management of both the
republican and the democratic papers in this city
three years ago, and when the democrats Of the
county proposed to start paper of their own
the Examiner. The following article was printed
by Mr.. Veatch in the Statesman Index in greeting
OF the new paper ian exact reproductions
We sorry to learn that third
paper is to be started in Colville.
During residence here have
done everything possibly could for
the people of Colvlle and Stevens
county We.have spent..the money
we ave made in our lifetimes of work,
in this city and. all that have made
mere in the past eleven months. At
tn: present time building
addition to our:: r::resdence with the
calculation of making this city,
home, and the Index Office is nearing
completion and is credit to a: city
of 10000 inhabitants. If third
paper is started in this city, it will
be prompted by malice and not be-
cause the city needs another paper.
So far as concerned,
give warning that hell will be
frozen lake before the scrap is
The bars down and if the third
paper and its hackers want into the
ring, they step in with the warning
that quarter will be asked nor gi-
until time is called
1t is now evident that time has been called"
and that it is the finish for somebody. Let it
be the finish
State taxes will not be reduced in the future un-
less there is marked and decided change along
intelligent lines from present conditions. Just
now there is a lull owing to the fact that many
taxpayers who settled up with the treasurer in the
spring are over their crouch, but with the second
half payment due soon vehement objections to the
high taxes demanded will probably be resumed
The time to protest about high taxes is not after
the levy has been made and when the taxes are
being paid, but before the money has been spent
The next legislature will be more extravagant
than the last, unless the announced plans of pop
ular candidates for election to that body are
changed. The legislators who pledged to oppose
every extravaganza, to oppose if need be their own
pet county appropriation scheme, are the ones who
alone can reduce state taxes but do the taxpayers
want that kind of legislators? It is for them
to decide.-J. H. Brown in State Capitol Record
Olympia.
Everything is in readiness for the international
Dry Farming Congress- which will have its fifth
convention in the state armory, Spokane, Oct. 8
to 6, and its third exhibition of grains, grasses
vegetables and fruits at the Spokane Interstate
Fair grounds, Oct. to 9. President Taft will
formally open the congress by pressing a golden
button in the White House at eight o'clock Pacific
time) the evening of Oct. 3. Judging at the ex-
the board of awards will announce the prizewin-
ners in competitions for total of $4,000 in pre-
miums the afternoon of Oct. a.
The conservation craze has proved this year that
whatever may have been its purpose its result has
withheld from the use of the people millions of
dollars worth of property which the fire has de-
stroyed. Therefore conservation got it's satisfac-
ton, the fire got the forest and the people got
nothing. .-Harlnda Sentinel
Stevens county must pay $73, 7O3 state taxes this
year, an increase over the $685. 768 levied last year.
because the state board finds assessments in this
county are lower than the average in the state.