The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-01-22

ing to do this, then will join in defending the ole
position and the old leaders, against the assaults o1
any other party. In other words they would sup
port for president conservative republican like
Aldrich, rather than a progressive democrat like
Bryan.
AS long as they hold to this policy the only good
which the insurgents can accomplish is to develop
the position of the administration -Colfax Com
moner.
The harvester trust has just divided $2O OOO, OOC
among it's stockholders. Were you part of this
republican prosperity?
The public librarian of Boston has refused tc
throw out DR.. Cooks books. He is afraid that il
he began putting out all books that contained
things that are not so his library would dwindle
to very few volumes.
The farmers of the Pacific coast alone, among
the wheat growers of this country, have the bur-
den thrown upon them of supplying sacks in which
their grain is shipped to market. Elsewhere in
this country the wheat is shipped in bulk through
the medium of elevators The practice of sacking
grain at the time of threshng it and shipping it in
that form grew up in the absence of any elevator
for Pacific coast wheat was found in Europe. For
the long voyage to Europe it was necessary to ship
the grain sacked, because bulk cargoes were too
dangerous to carry on such long voyage.
The necessity for sacking grain is gone by. A
great share of the wheat is now milled at home,
and it would be just as easy to sack the grain for
export at tidewater as on the farm. The railroads
which serve the wheat belt are inaugurating sys-
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do their part toward eliminating the expensive and
practically useless grain sacks. The only opposi-
tion to the new system comes from the grain
buyers, who object to handling in bulk.
Wheat is handled in bulk, not in sacks, every
where else, and it should be so handled here. The
saving to the farmers would be very great much
more, indeed, than they could make by any possi-
BILE reduction in freight rates, within the margin
of cost and fair profit for carrying -P.-I.
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And now it is reported that kerosene has been
discovered to be good remedy for snake btes
Residents of this section who are afflicted with
snake bites should bear this in mind, although we
do not anticipate the immediate necessity of ad-
vising padocks on the winters supply of coal OIL.
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According to the state bank examiners report
as compiled by Rogers financial record the people
of this state have on deposit in the respective
banks of the commonwealth, the enormous sum of
$187 100000. State of Oregon has but $1O4 0OO 0O0
which makes the deposits of Washington about IS
per cent more than Oregon.
Enterprise does not lag in New Jersey. grave
digger there was recently fined for selling liquor
in the cemetery to mourners at funerals.
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The Monthly Summary of Commerce gives a
comprehensive view of tariff taxation of necessa-
ries of living in the last year. Of the dutable i'm
ports 257 72 per cent consisted of crude foodstuffs
and food animals IT, 81 per cent consisted of crude
materials for manufacturing, 1902 per cent con-
sisted of manufactures for further use in manu-
featuring, 3720 per cent consisted of manufactures
ready for consumption, miscellaneous AS per cent.
Commenting on this the Philadelphia Record
says: 1T is not the taxation of these imports of
necessaries of living and marterials of manufac-
lures that gives the chief of complaint in re-
gard to the rise in prices By far the worst effect
of the tariff is in the enhancement of the cost to
the masses of American consumers of the domestic
products with which the dutable imports come into
feeble competition. While the tariffs puts reve-
nue. from these dutiable imports into the public
fist, it pours a fve-fod greater amount into the
Golfers of the trusts in its indirect, nsidious and
no less certain taxation the necessares of liv-
ing the food and clothing and the housing of the
American people, For this the Payne Aldrich
tariff has its existence. Yet while the secretary
of agriculture and the statsticians and economists
of the department of commerce and labor are CROP
ing about in search of the causes of the rise in
prices they refuse to see the most potential
right under their noses in the brutal tariff system
that is constantly robbng honest labor of it's earn
ings under pretense of protecting it"