The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-01-14

built up by Wall street manipulators enables the
interests to control the financial system of this
continent.
He says: "Our system can fairly be called
panic-breeding system, whereas every other great
national banking and currency ysystem lis panic
preventing. AS long as we continue under our
present system liable to panics, and the de-
vastations of panics reach republicans and dem
ocrats and all parts of the country alike. Panics
are no longer necessary or respectable. It is for
the government to say whether we shall have
panics in the future or not It is choice"
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Next Tuesday, Jan. II, the County Federation
of Commercial Clubs will meet at Colvle for the
annual election of officers, and for the transaction
of number of important business matters, among
them the canvass of the work of the past year,
the receipts, expenditures, and amount of work
accomplished.
Every member of commercial club in Stevens
county is entitled to attend the meeting and every
interested resident Of the county is entitled to
membership in some club upon the simple payment
of small membership fee
The attendance at the annual meeting will be
large, and the Colvie Chamber of Commerce will
see to it that all visitors properly entertained.
cordial invitation is extended to all the towns in
the county to send representative delegations to
this important meeting.
In the early days of justice court proceedings it
is related that two lawyers got into wrangle dur
ing case. One, losing control of his emotions,
exclaimed to his opponent:
Sir, you are acting like the biggest fool I have
ever seen!''
Order! Order!' said the judge ''You seem
to forget that I am in the ROOM"
Many important measures are to be presented at
the 18th session of the legislature of this state
which convened at Olympia, Monday, Jan. 8.
Much time will be required. it is presumed, in a.
consideration of workmen's compensation act;
public utilities bill will also be presented and
there will come up the matter of aboshing certain
state Offices and commissions and the creation OF
one commission to assume the duties of all these.
It is believed that the railroads will introduce a
measure to prohibit trespressing upon double
main track The railroad commission has pre-
pared, and will have introduced, measure grant
ing it additional powers
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1t is said that the Forthcoming report of H. L.
Bowlby, state highway commissioner, will COM
prise one the most exhaustive publications on the
subject of road building ever attempted and will
be of great assistance to county. officials. In it
will be Incorporated figures showing the cost of
construction of all classes of highways, and all
kinds of highway bridges.
AS the result of an editorial in The Colvile Ex-
aminer, relative to the cost of state aid road in
Stevens county, the bulletin of the state hgway
department has been corrected to show the cost at
$25 900 instead of 1000. The report being pre-
pared will consequently be corrected pursuant to
the editorial referred to-
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Stevens county received larger proportion of
the $685. GIL paid the state by the federal govern
ment from the proceeds of the sale of timber in
forest reserves in Washington in the fiscal year
1910 than did any other one county, The state
treasurer has just announced that S. 164 was dis
tributed by the state to Stevens county.
The increasing prevalence of opinion that the
next president will be democrat is cheerful news
to the many ng-suffering democrats in the west
ern states.
Graft and financial oppression have become so
heavy in the eastern states that the people refused
longer to stand for the republican methods, and the
last election put something of quietus upon the
plans of the interests" which have for so many
years manipulated governmental affairs in the
various states.
But in Washington the people were not ready
last fall. The expenditures of the legislature
and the peculatons of the state officials were
many, but not so heavy but that the people could
pay for them and still have something left for
breakfast. And being thankful that the republi-
can party had even left something the people
voted republican again perhaps to see just how
far the party would go if let alone.
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