The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-05-06

ed. Certain it is that many of the so-caled good
citizens did not relish her attack on the local option
law which had been voted in Washington, and it
may be that she will not receive so hearty well
come with club as she did before But just
the same you will find the newspapers carrying
scareheads about her when she gets here, and the
people will all read these scare heads and in the
end know more about her and her work than they
do about their president or their governor or their
pastor.
All Of which shows that Carry realizes the value
of advertising.
For the first time in forty years the national
house OF representatives is not controlled by the
trusts, the interests, the agents of Wall street, or
the republican politicians 1t may be for this reason
that reciprocity passed the house, or it may be
that the eastern legislative sush fund was not
great enough to 60 around among so many new
representatives. At any rate, the good work is
going right along, and reciprocity legislation is be-
ing followed by looking into the tariff which
mulcts the working people on their everyday nee
essities.
And that isn't ALL There are other things on
the program for the democratic house, and when
some of the smoke clears away there may be sew
eral new faces in the republican political grave
yard.
A part of the democratic program will be to
Investigate the colossal sugar frauds and reveal
what part President Roosevelt took in suppressng
the facts in this case.
Investigate the Panama Canal corruption and as
certain how many people beside Mr.. Hartman,
who raised $3.50, 600 at the request of President
Roosevelt to help re-elect him in 1904, profted by
this public enterprise.
Investigate the cost of living as affected by the
extortionate tariff and the trusts
Investigate the extravaganza of government ex-
penditures amounting now to 81, O98, 847 90 in
one year.
Investigate the part played by Mr.. Wickersham
in the sale of the friar lands in the Philippines.
Investigate the absorption of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by the Steel
Trust.
Investigate the amount of money that Mr. Cort-
elyou and other cabinet officers and government
officials squeezed out of the plutocrats for COM
paign purposes when Roosevelt ran in 1904 and
how much Mr.. Hitchcock raised for Taft four years
later
Investigate the efforts of trusts and syndicates
to grab timber and mineral lands and water-power
sites, and Ballinger's relation thereto.
Investigate the enormous expense of jngoism,
wars past and to come, costing $431, 600, 600
year
Investigate the reason WHY President Taft
joins the Guggenheims in denying to Alaska a ter
ritorial government.
Investigate the influences that were behind the
rubber schedule, the cotton schedule and the wool
schedule of the extortonate Payne e-Adrich tariff,
and ascertain which members Of Congress had
direct pecunary interest in the tariff and what
they made by it.
Investigate the part played by national officers
in promoting the pundering of the civilized Ind
ians of Oklahoma by lawyers, claim agents and pol
iticians.
The country wants FACTS. The people want
TRUTH. The Democratic majority in the House
of Representatives is especially charged with the
responsibility of turning on the light and opening
the books. There is no partisanship in publicity.
Only rascals fear or suffer from it.
Representative LaFollette who has never been
credited with brilliancy that would eclipse the
stars, gives it out that he will glue his ear to the
ground, and if his constituents bawl out against
the proposed reciprocity with Canada he will throw
the irresistible weight of his influence with the
opposition. This is very peculiar position for
Mr. LaFollette to assume when it will be remem-
bered that only few brief months ago he was
strutting up and down the country, roaring him
self black in the face, and in his nmitable elo-
quence denouncing the robber tariff, promising
that if elected he would hardly WOO the drowsy
god until the CALLING yoke pried off the should
ers of his suffering countrymen. 1t was largely
upon the strength of his violent antpathy to the
tariff that he was elected, and now when the first
entering wedge is offered to eradicate or at least
ameliorate, an evil so monstrous in his eyes, Mr..
IaFollette ia troubled with cold feet-Oroville