The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-07-23

price OF everything; yes have increased the price
OF articles on which the tariff was not changed
You can't raise the cost of living to a man
who is producing something to SELL without forcing
that man to raise correspondngy the price of what
he has to SELL
Suppose both of us are in business, and that
each has to use what the other produces. Suppose
the tariff on the article handle is increased while
the tariff on the article you handle is not increased
BY virtue of my increased protection. l force you
to pay increased prices. What are you going to
90 about it? What must you do abouti it? Answer,
you must increase the price of what you have to
sell! And that's just the way it works out all
along the line and in the end all of the increases
fall upon the broad shoulders of the consumer
But you will hear it said constantly with refer
ence to something on which the price has been
advanced Oh that isn't in the tariff at all. That
increase has nothing to do with the tariff. But
the fact is tariff revision upward on few articles
reaches all along the line.
The new tariff law has COST and is costing the
American people millions millions of dollars, in
increased cost of living. And if the Payne-Adrich
bill had been beaten, those millions would have
been saved to the people,"
We have noticed the newspaper statement sew
era times that this or that aviator took small
drop when many feet up in the air. People seem
to be getting more careless every day with the
liquor habit
One of the crowning sins of the congress which
recently passed into history it's failure to pass
income or inheritance tax legislation All of the
first class nations of the world have either an in
come tax or an inheritance tax, and many have
both
We now raise practically all national revenues
by placing a tariff tax on things eaten, worn or
used by the people, This system requires the
workingman to pay not less than 1OOO% more
taxes in proportion to his income than millionaire.
Yet the workingman likes it. He votes for it.
! Herman Zierenbyrg, German, and Donald Mac
lean, Scotchman became involved in an argu-
mept about the Spanish language while drinking
Irish and Canadian whisky in an Italian saloon in
Spokane last week, and regular American fist
fight was the result They were arrested by a
negro policeman The keeper of Chinese noodle
joint paid tfe fines, and through Norseman who
was friend to both, they became reconciled, and
were last seen drinking Holland gin in Swede re-
sort and discussing the respective merits of the
French and Swiss people.
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The Stevens County Local Option League has
issued notices to it's followers that county local
option convention will be held at the Christian
church. Colville, at 2 o'clock next Wednesday,
Several matters will be discussed. and President
Ananias E. will be greatly pleased if new set of
resolutions can be devised which will help to bolster
nh hic ,totiO md poip to tho hot ho
is not making beer any more, but is attending
church now and running for congress-
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If there's one thing more than another hate
to run over" said chauffeur, ''it's baby"
Quite right" his companion agreed. Those
feeding bottles do play hob with tire, don't
they?"
Work is progressing rapidly in Spokane on what
experts say will be the longest span of concrete
bridge in the world. The central arch of the
Monroe street bridge in the heart of the city has
span Of 281 feet the highest point being LIS feet
above the foot of the falls. The total length of
the structure is between 100 and 200 feet. This
country's largest structure of the kind at
present is the concrete bridge over the Wissahckon
river in Philadelphia. 1t has span of 233 feet.
The Rocky river bridge now under construction in
Cleveland will have clear span of 28O feet
S~s
An armless man in Cincinnati ran off with an
other mans wife. Another case of unaccountable
feminine TASTE
Prosecuting Attorney H.G. Kirkpatrick returned
last Saturday from his homestead on the Coeur
d'Alene reservation, after having made arrange
ments for the completion of his house, building
roads, and cutting cordwood for the winters use.
He has a fine claim with LARGE u,lantitv of the