The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-06-15

About every so often a bill Is turn
ed loose in Congress. in Senate OF
House. some tariff to raise or some
tariff to reduce, some budding reform
err to douse; and then We stand VI
on orr hind legs and let out a yell
like a fan at a game and We swear
and we boot and We shout and we
sweat-but the country goes on just
the same.
Did YOU ever recall it has always
been so since George Washington sat
in the chair? That half of the peo-
pie see nothing but woe in the oiils
that our statesmen prepare, while an
other contingent that's equally vast is
clapping its hands in acclaim? Then
the bill is defeated or bill is passed
but the country goes on just the
same.
You remember the bill that the De-
mocrats had that the Wings knew
would ruin the land? How half OF
the people were thoroughly mad while
the other half thought it grand? Let's
see, that was back in the year 90, an
all the folks were aflame. You don't
remember the measure? Well, neither
do we-for the country went on just
the same.
Now, it isn't the bills that the Or
ators spring, down there in our nat
ional halls; it isn't reforms that the
g, ators sing and shout to the cap
ital walls that make us or break US
that isn't the prize We seek in the
national game; the Congress adjourns
or the orator dies-Lut the country
goes on just the same.
What's the use of us getting ex-
cit.d like that when their climax
tie orators reach when they shout In
surrection, or proudly stand pat IN
a star-spangled-bannery. Speech:
That this bill or that will bring
sorrow or woe the orators loudly
may claim, but Congress come and the
Congress ko--but the country goes on
just the same.
Let us pillow up the field, let us put
in the wheat, let us start up the en-
CINE a spell; let us hang out our sign
board we'll over the street and De
ready to buy and to sell. Let us cut
out the yawp, let us cut out the yelp
let us cut out the pessimist game;
let us get down to business-that' 4
all that will help the country goes on
just the same.
Nowhere have the moving pictures
fought-even for their very existence
more than this metropolis Of thu
United States. All classes of author
tiles have scanned, searched and crit
icized every phase OF moving picture
work; whatever there was Of goot
was always minimized: whatever O
bad magnified, until at one time !
was looked upon as a moral scourge
Rising steadily above these criticisms
shaking off the shell Of ers and faul
in which it was incubated, the movin
picture has proved its own character
and with wise direction in prope
hands has become recognized facto
ia the moral well-being Of the people
From the old unrentable store on
back street to the greatest exhibit
ion hall in the city is wonderful
promotion, speaking well for the wa
in which popular cinematography ha
impressed itself on the great surfac
of the public mind.-Moving Pictur
World.
If Deputy Fire Warden A. W
Frost is correctly quoted in the Bell
ingham Herald he cannot expect tn
cooperation of the ranch owners no
of the press of the county-at leas
not the country press-in his fir
fighting campaign. He is quoted &
saying:
Last year l found, as did othe
deputy wardens, that any attempt Il
prosecute those who started fires un
lawfully brought out the defense tina
it was a back fire. In many case
We were certain that it was not
back fire as there was no other blaz'
within miles, hut it made convictions
difficult. At TIE last session the leg
islature so amended the law that ever
back fires cannot be started without
permit from the deputy warden ana
am going to work along these lines.
"One reform which intend to un'
dertake is to compel all mills with
forced draught in the smokestack te
install spark arresters.'