The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-03-25

goes to show that the dress question is fad-and
fads are changeable
With all the recent back to the farm. - simple
life" and sanitary clothing" ideas which have been
floating around through the atmosphere, it may be
that something will eventually be evolved which
will allow both men and women to wear clothes
for comfort. 1t may be that this nation is not yet
sufficiently civilized for the change to come immed
lately, but with the probability of democratic pres
ident in two years, the people may be able to
catch up with themselves soon.
After careful and exhaustive study of market
conditions in the Pacific Northwest during the past
eight years. President Beckwith Of the Portland
Commercial Club, makes the startling statement
that prices paid to farmers for eleven different ar
ticles of food, all necessities, advanced 31.4 per
cent between April 1902, and October 1910, and he
backs up his statement by quotations from market
reports published in Portland during that period.
These figures indicate that high prices are direct
ly chargeable to the great increase in consump-
ton over production. The demands of rapidly
growing population have more than kept pace
with the increase in the quantity of essential food
sufs sent to market by the farmers, and this con-
dition is one that is not likely to be changed for
long time, if ever and the situation is a very in
viting one to the producer.
The republicans who fondly expect that what
ever good legislation is passed by the new demo-
cratic house of congress will be turned down by
republican senate, stand good chance of being
disappointed The new senate will be near-demo-
cratic with men Of the LaFollette type holding the
balance of power. The country need not be sur
prised if Senator LaFoette, who is patriotic first
and partisan afterward, puts some democratic
measures through the senate a-fying He will if
they are meritorious.
Saturday Evening Post: No member of con-
gress who opposes the Canadian reciprocity treaty
and still calls himself tariff reformer can be talk
ing seriously. The treaty admits, duty free, some
Canadian woodpulp and printing paper, thereby
dspleasing the trust-controlled paper industry in
Maine. It admits fish, duty free, and this alarms
the fishery masters at Gloucester, Mass. 1t gives
free trade in grain, butter, eggs and foodstuffs
generally, so in certain localities, under certain
conditions, American farmers may have to meet
some Canadian competition.
Are we to break the tariff wall and still leave it
intact at all points? That is exactly the sort of
tariff reform our standpat friends gave the coun-
try in the Payne-Aldrich bill.
We are still exporters of farm stuffs. The bulk
of our farmers on the bulk of their products have
always had to meet the free competition of Canada,
and every other country in the markets of Europe.
Meanwhile nearly everything they bought has
been charged with high tariff prices
J. P. Morgan is organizing magazine trust,
with the double purpose of making the publications
more profitable by eliminating waste, and of con-
trolling their edtorical policy, so as to avoid crit
cism of high finance, according to the New York
Press. He already owns magazines with an ag
gregate circulation of more than three millions,
while exercising financial control over others
that have combined circulation of two millions.
The latest to be taken over is the American Maga-
zine, the publication that began so bravely the ex-
pose of barbarous Mexico, and then funked. AS
great many of our most forceful writer's on the
rottenness of high finance are under contract to
either the American Magazine or the Crowell COM
pany also controlled by Morgan. it may be said
their mouths have been effectually closed.
S~S
A carload of lemons and one of oranges were
recently shipped from San Francisco to New YORK
by water and the Panama Railway. The rate was
ten dollars per ton The trans-continental rate by
railway is twenty three dollars per ton. Only seven
per cent of the oranges were lost by decay and five
per cent of the lemons. There was delay in the
hot weather of the Isthmus because the railway was
congested with business. When the canal is finish
ed, it will not be congested. There will be no de-
lay. The tolls will either be nil or lower than the
railway rates across the neck. The time of pass
age from coast to coast will probably be less than
that required by the cars now used. The fruit
growers of the coast may we'll rejoice at the pros