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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
Farmers Needed
In Panama lone

it is probable that the agricultural de-
partinent will establish experiment
gardens" there which would aid the
farmer immensely. ~
By far the greatest difficulties
which the settler would encounter is
the labor problem. Though it is a hard
thing for the American to understand
the average Panamanian is not strong
enough to make a good farm hand. As
the natives in Panama are not both
cred with the high cost of living they
are content to depend for sustenance
upon a half-acre tract where there
grows, in spite of his idleness. great
variety of tropical fruits and few
kinds Of grain.
BY occasionally selling little of
these he is able to buy enough clothes
and almost enough rum to satisfy him
self For the rest of the time he Tolls
around in a pair of trousers and a sun
tanned back, dreaming great things
and seeking greatness by throwing
salt on the tail of progress.
When the. canal is finished the West
Indian laborers will doubtless fill up
the holes in the labor market as most
Of them will be obliged to remain there
because they have not saved up enough
to get back home. They make willing,
if not over-intelligent. farm hands.
Taking it all in ALL said one Of the
experts, there is good opening there
for the man who will stick and who
likes that sort Of a country. There
are a good many Americans there now
who have been in the tropics for ten
or twenty years, and who have no de-
sire to return to the north. Malaria is
about the worst bugbear. Some men
it lays out completely. while others are
never bothered with it. They have not
had any yellow fever for five years and
the mosquitoes are not as bad as
here. at least in number. Those they
da have are fierce. They don't bite.
they chew Panama City is a most az
tractive town and Americans there
seem to have a very good time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
ed and turned.

ed and turned.
The symptoms did not materially al
ter the conviction that great progress
had been made in clearing up the
situation and in strengthening the
technical position. The process of
accumulation of speculative holdings
by the larger class of operators was
believed to have set in. The halt in
the recovery and the lack of agrees
sive action toward bidding up prices
was read as an indication of a desire
on the part of the important financial
interests to continue their accumula-
ton without too rapid rise in prices.
to time today gave rise to the sIppo-
sition that liquidation remained to be
completed in spots.
The statistics for January of the
copper producers association We're
much more favorable than had been
anticipated a small reduction in the
output of the metal was accompanied
! by larger deliveries for domestic con-
sumption and export than for any
month of last year, the surplus stocks
being reduced in consequence upward
of 43,00O,000 ponds to 98,463,339 lbs.
The rate at which the exports of the
metal are going into stocks in ware
houses abroad rather than into con-
sumption, modifies the advantage of
. the position. Business for the current
month also is believed not to be hold
ing fully at the January rates. For
these reasons the effect of the showing
on copper industrials was neutralized.
Resumption of interest payments on
the Peoria and Eastern income bonds,
a subsidiary company of the Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Lou
is, was regarded as significant of div
idend policy on the part of the infiu-
entail Southern Pacific directors was
not expected.
Bonds We're irregular. Total sales
par value 1871, 900.
United States bonds were unchanged
on call.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1O-Dr. VIII
ey's advice to the housekeeper in the
present financial crisis brought about
in the family purse by the high cost of
living, is to abstain from worry and
buy everything she has been buying
only not so much of it.
"A ten cent soup bone will flavor
half bushel of potatoes said DR..
Wiley. land will, if cooked right taste
as good as dollar steak. With the
addition of an onion. a carrot and a
sprig of parsley. that soup bone can
be made to produce enough good,
nourishing soup for a big family
Then, after the soup is made, save a
little of the fluid and boil it down in
the kettle with the meat Then you'll
have a pot roast which. if made right
will be fit to set before the presi-
dent
Canned goods of all kinds are
cheaper than ever before in our his
tory. Beans and peas have not risen
appreciably in price, and make the
best food for man. Wheat flour at
the price it is now selling is the cheap
est food that can be bought, and corn
meal hasn't changed in price for the
last 10 years.
If the American cook would study
the methods of the French cook, who
| uses up all the left overs you would
not hear so much about the increased
cost of living. The average American
cook throws away or wastes enough
to keep the ordinary French family
going. Over there they save every
scrap of fat and every drumb of
| bread. and convert them into appetiz-
ing dishes. They know how TO make
the most out of the cheaper cuts of
meat. Over here the average cook
turns up his or her nose at the coar-
ser grades of meat and thinks that
! nothing is fit to. eat unless it comes
from the neighborhood of the tender
olin
"Of course a great deal of the ad-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
EDITORS IN CELEBRATION

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11--New Or
leans, which was the birthplace of the
National Editorial association, a quar-
ter of a century ago. is the scene of a
gathering of the nations scribes TO
celebrate the silver anniversary of the
great body OF ''moulders of public
opinion
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged for the entertainment o. The
guests at New Orleans. A. Nevin
Pomeroy of Chambersburg, Pa. is the
president OF the association and will
preside at the business meetings. Joe
Mitchell Chappie,s editor of the Ma
ton Magazine at Boston. is scheduled
for an address.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
Stock Market has
An Uncertain Tone

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-The uncer-
tain tone in today's stock market was
q natural consequence of the rapid
ity of the recovery the day before.
The suddenness and violence of that
movement carried prices away from
the level which had been the attrac-
ton for the kind of buying which
bridled activity of the bears. There
began to come back on the market
the stocks which had been bought for
purposes OF support In the period when
the downward movement was check
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Feb. If
Panama is to be made sufficiently pro-
ductive of food to provide for the So
900 canal diggers, this must be accom-
nlished by others than the Panamani-
a.
This is the conclusion of the experts
recently sent there by the department
of agriculture OF agriculture to study
farming conditions. They will short
~ Issue a report upon the opportuni-
ties in farming which that country Of
fers to settlers and the practicability
of the establishment of government
farms for the supply of Uncle Sans
employees.
Discussing THE farm settlers chan
ces. one of the experts said that there
was a market for products unequalled
in this country. Practically all of the
food OF the Americans working upon
the canal is canned or cold storage, and
this diet is beginning to tell upon
them, moi only in their energy, but in
the apathy with which they face vege-
tables tinctured with tin and meats
that even though FURNISHED with high
ly seasoned sauces, have the suggestive
ghost like taste of personalities A
good idea of their eagerness for real
unbenzoated food is the price they do
willingly pay for fresh lnilk4from 80
to so cents quart
Of course the men now there will
return when the canal is completed,
but it viii be necessary always to
maintain a large operating force there
and the canal itself will mean large
growth in population, just as at Suez.
There now seems every probability
that the zone will be garrisoned
Though the ground is rough and bro
ken there is little soil erosion and the
climatic conditions make up for the
difficulties in cultivation A stick sawed
eff and stuck in the ground would al
most take root ad grow. OF course
some experimentation in the vegeta-
bles and grains which are best suited
to the region would be necessary. but
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
CITY LAND FOR LEASE.

blds will be received by the City
Clerk for leasing OF the following land
owned by the city. for year 1910: The
iSaacs pasture lying on Mill creek east
90 city, and the parcel of land known
as the orchard pasture lying east of
TIC CITY Park. and south of WATERFOWL
Addition. This land is divided into
three tracts, and bids will be received
Tor any part or ALL Bids must be
lied not later than February 81, 1910.
The city reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Il. ID. s. HART. City Clerk
First publication in Evening States
man, Feb. II. 1910; last publication,
February Is, 1910.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
Bill ;ntroduced.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1i.-That the
bill appropriating $4,000. 900 fer riv-
ers and harbors will probably be re-
ported in the house late this after
noon was intimated today by the men,
hers ofa-the. rivers and harbors COM
mittee. The work of the committee
has been completed and the bin is
practically ready now for forwarding
to the house
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
THOUSANDS OF ACRES FOR FARMS

be given to take up a farm VARYING
in size from ten to forty acres, upon
which the charge for building the irri
cation system is $50 an acre, payable
SIS per acre at the time of making en-
try and SIS per acre annually thereaf-
ter. The land all lies below an eleva-
ton of 500 feet above sea level, thus
insuring climatic conditions favorable
to the early ripening of fruit.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
Income Tax Much
... Favored by Borah

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-Senator
William E. Borah, of Idaho, took oc-
the position of those who oppose ac-
ceptance by the several states of the
proposed amendment of the constitu-
ton of the United States which would
permit the levying of a tax on in
comes without apportionment between
states.
Incidentally the senator paid his
respects to Governor Hughes of New
York. including by inference among
those who profess to be in favor of an
infome tax but oppose practical meas
ures which would permit its enforce
ment His allusion was of course to
Governor Hughes's annual message to
the New York Legislature urging de-
feat of the proposed amendment on the
ground that it's language might be so
construed as to authorize congress to
tax incomes derived from state and
municipal bonds.
Senator Borah pictured the mind OF
the public as in state of suspicion
and discomfort toward the government
not much longer be withheld from
radical action if taxation were con-
tinued in protection of wealth and in
exemption of incomes which sustain
luxury and breed idleness and idiocy."
The senator said in substance:
"The history Of the income tax since
1894 has not been one which any cit
izen can recite with pride. For a
hundred years a rule of construction
as established by the men who helped
to write the constitution has received
the approval of an undivided court
time and time again. During this
period there sat upon the bench OF
the supreme court some of the great
est lawyers of that or any other per-
iod Of this or any other country. Dur
ing this period the wealth of this coun-
try had not become so domineering,
SO, powerful, so determined to have it's
own way. During this period, there
fore. we had under the constitution
the right to impose a part of the tax
upon wealth and a part upon con-
sumption and we did so.
TN 1894. and 1895 these precedents
were overturned, this constitution re-
ceived an Interpretation unknown TO
it's makers. In the face of two most
powerful dissenting opinions to winch
two other judges assented, the humil-
announced that the makers of the re-
public had hedged wealth about so
that the taxing powers of the govern
ment could not reach it even upon
equality and justice had made it i'm
possible to divide the burdens of gov
eminent between consumption ana a
large class of gathered wealth; last
session of this body we were ca:,ed
upon to ratify and declare by express
act our assent to that Interpretation.
Under the rule of the majority we did
So We submitted this proposed
amendment to remedy this supposed
hideous defect in the fundamental
law
Nov the scheme and plan is to
defeat the amendment Having as q
law making body solemnly accepted
this construction of the constitution,
thereby making it impracticable again
to appeal to the court, if this amend
ment can be defeated thus, the gov
eminent of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people, will stand alone
aiming the civilized nations of the
earth shorn of the power to tax thai
form of wealth best able to bear thu
burdens Of government.
THAT is the scheme and plan, and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
DR.. Wiley on
Food Boycott

ded cost in the price of meat pro-
ducts has come about as result of
combinations of dealers. The farmer
is not getting much more for his cat
tie than he did 10 or Is years ago. The
government or the state will have to
step in one of these days. if these COM
binations continue to increase the
prices, and enact laws prohibiting
dealers from making more than GER
tain amount of profit
This suggestion of course, will be
hailed with cries of 'paternalism' Well,
let it be paternalism, if you please.
All government is paternal, when you
come right down to brass tacks. If
the government can enact laws declar-
ing the amount of interest or profit
d dealer in money shall make--like
should it not be justified in setting
down the lines for the dealers in the
necessities of life? The men who rob
the market basket are more criminal
than the men who extort money on
illegal loans
"A limit of say Is or % per cent net
profit a year might be set down for
goods merchant or the contractor who
builds houses would be glad to make
as much, and, if it worked out for the
good of the people in the case of the
grocer and butcher, might be extend
ed to include the clothier, the shoe
dealer, and all other tradesmen hand
ling the necessary goods of life.
of you not to become a food faddist.
/ am therefore opposed to these six
months boycotts against meat The
human frame was built for a mixed
diet and to cut off meat suddenly is
likely to play al kinds of havoc with
the system. | have observed that
those vegetarians, not eating. and I'M
cooked victual cranks do not live any
longer than the average run of us
poor meateating mortals | do know
that they all look hungry, and when
ever / meet one of them I am tempt
ed to invite him into the nearest res
taurant TO have a good steak-if I
happen to. have the price.
What the present situation requires
is a little more judgment in buying, a
little more Judgment in cooking, and
less worry over the food trusts"
DIR. Wiley specia.izes in eggs. He
modestly says he's an expert on hen
fruit. and the other day dropped little
gems of egg wisdom to the members
of the house subcommittee on the
District of Columbia. during their
consideration of the high cost of
living problems at the capital
The doctor appears before the COM
mittee with about a peck &c eggs of
varying ages and dubious ,asts a bag
Of salt, and big glass. In tie later
he mixed a strong brine solution.
If you want to know whether the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11

WASHINGTON, Feb. I.-Land-
hungry homeseekers are given anoth-
er opportunity to acquire farms from
Uncle Sam today by the opening of 90,
000acres of land bordering upon the
Columbia river, about 200 miles east of
unit of the Umatilla irrigation project
in Oregon.
Within this tract, opportunity will
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11

such men as the great governor of
New York is giving them aid and COM
fort. Men say with great fervor of
patriotism, Il am in favor of this pow
er being given to the government to
be used at least in time of war and
straightway proceed to help defeat the
amendment. If those who are the real
enemies of this measure would come
into the open its friends could deal
with them far more successfully
MIR. President, no one ever saw this
country in just the condition it is to-
! day Never since this government
was launched has there been such rest
less spirit among the great mass or
the p. ople, suon ugly questioning, such
persistent inquiry. No part of the
government seems to escape challenge
or criticism, and it is fast becoming
popular to scott at the constitution
itself. An unquiet, dissatisfied, suspic-
ious public mind is the public mind Of
today.
Senator Borah outlined his con-
clusions as follows:
| THAT the proposed amendment
dds nothing 10 the taxing power of
the national government. This power
| fore. 1t can be no more than that
should the proposed amendment be
adopted.
2-The proposed amendment does
not deal or propose to deal with the
question of power which is already
complete but simply with the man
ner and method of its exercise and
use of that power
+! 3-No one has ever questioned the
national government to lay an income
tax for as was said by Justice White.
the question has always been whether
an admittedly unlimited power to tax
has been used according to the in
struction as to method" and it was
to remedy the method alone that the
amendment was submitted
/ 4-The words from Whatever
source" adds nothing to the force of
/ the amendment. 1t would. in coasti-
tutional parlance, be just the same
| if it said ito lay and collect taxes on
| incomes without apportionment" for
who could say that you would not
have the right to lay taxes upon. all
incomes. The present taxing power
would not be a particle stronger il
it said to lay and collect taxes upon
all property from whatever source.
5-To construe the proposed amend
ment so as to enable us to- tax the
instrumentalities of the state. would
do violence to the rules laid down
by the supreme court for a hundred
years, wrench the whole institution
from it's harmonious proportions and
destroy the object and purpose for
which the whole instrument was franz
ed.
6-To construe it to cover those in
comes from sources within the juris
diction and control OF the sovereignty
laying the tax is to construe it in har-
mony with the principles given us by
Marshall and followed from that hour
to this
At the conclusion of Mr.. Borah's
speech, Senator Brown requested that
the resolution lie on the table. that
he might have an opportunity to speak
on it. He said he hoped the amend
ment would be favorabIy acted upon
by the states regardless OF its effect
upon the salaries of state officials
and state securities. He thought the
fact that the amendment makes no
exception in favor of any might COM
mend it to the public, and he expires
sed the opinion that the amendment
would be accepted
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-11
FULL HOUSE
HEARS TRIAL

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 1O-Again
, today the federal courtroom where
former Congressman Binger Hermann
is undergoing trial on charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
in public matters was filled to it's lin
it's with spectators, drawn thither by
the battle of keen inteEects in prog
ress.
And they We're amply rewarded, for
Oregon's gifted speaker, former Sena-
tor John NJ. Gearin, in display of
brilliant oratory, painted in high COL
ors the character of the defendant and
scared into the minds of the jury their
enormous responsibility.
Calmly and in strange contrast to
the eloquence of his associate, Colonel
B. S. Worthington took each bit of evil
dence, dissected it and subjecting it to
the keenest scrutiny, explained to the
jury why in his opinion they could
do naught but acquit.
Colonel Worthington had not con-
Guided when court adjourned for the
argument tomorrow, concluding by the
noon recess.
The rest of the day will be occu-
pied by f. ]. Heney, in the concluding
argument. The case will be submit
ted to the jury not later than Satur-
day noon.
Colonel Worthington followed Sena-
tor Gearin and began the final plea
in behalf of Hermann.
Taking up the subject of Meldrum's
testimony upon the truth of which,
| counsel for and against Hermann agree
rests the whole fabric of the alleged
conspiracy, Colonel Worthington de-
clared that there was every reason
to discredit it.
Medium, Colonel Worthington said,
was bound to adhere to the testimony
he gave at Washington in the Hermann
trial there
Already, under two other indict-
ments in connection with misconduct
in office, besides the one on which he
was convicted and had served a pris-
on sentence, Medium realized that if
he swore differently in the present
case than he did in Washington, he
faced the additional and imminent
danger of being indicted. tried and
again imprisoned for the additional
crime of perjury. What greater
reason exclaimed Colonel Worthing
ton, could this man, who had already
served a term in prison, possibly
have for testifying as he did,
Besides the general suspicion Mel
drums testimony was under, Colonel
Worthington said he did not consi-
der it had been .corroborated by the
collateral evidence the prosecution in
troduced to support it.
The speaker said that one act alone
of Hermann's should compel acquit-
tai This was developed, he said, by
the government witness McVain who
testified that Mcvain recommended
only the exclusion of The Dalles wagon
road company's holdings from the Blue
Mountain reserve but that the COM
missioner insisted that the private
holdings of all persons should be TAX
en- out. do you think any man would
cut out the property of his fellow
conspirators and thus defeat the very