The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-02-25

laws increasing the postage rate on magazines.
To make it acceptable to the general public it is
alleged that this increase will be wholly upon the
advertising pages. This is merely subterfuge.
Any increase in rates of postage means conse-
quent increase in the rate of subscription or
lowering in the quality of the magazine. 1t is ex-
pected that the increased revenue to the govern
ment from this source will pay the cost of the
ship subsidy desired by the interests"
Did you ever Stop to consider the reason for add
ing to the postage rates on magazines? Is it be-
cause the department really needs the money? Or
is it because the magazines of today are printing
more inside facts than are good for the interests?
You might judge by looking into the personnel of
the lobby which is in favor of raising the magazine
rate.
The present day magazine is largely devoted to
spreading information regarding the inner work.
ings of our government, and purely from bust
ness standpoint such articles are preferred by the
magazine owners because the readers eagerly call
for copies containing such articles in preference to
those which do not
The severe lambastings which are being given
Roosevelt 10y the way, who was heD, Taft AID
rich, the national legislative machine, " and the
corporation lobbyists are enough to make the
interests" take notice, and demand the suppress
sion of the magazines.
That socialism is fast gaining firm foothold in
the state of Washington is shown by the subscrp-
tons to the Appeal to Reason, only five states in
the Union having greater list than this state,
and they being Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Cali
fornia and New York.
Railway men in Spokane predict that the colon
ist movement beginning March 10 and continuing
80 days, will be the largest in the history of the
Pacific slope country. Special rates have been
made from Chicago and points in the Mississippi
and Missouri river valleys, and special equipment
will be added on all lines tapping Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and the provinces of AL
berta and British Columbia. Advices received by
the Spokane chamber of commerce are that there
will be large influx into eastern washington ard
northern Idaho and the boundary country of small
farmers, fruit and truck growers who have sold
their holdings in the middlewestern and southern
states at good prices and are coming west to clear
and improve cut-over timber lands, while others
will take up homesteads. Several thousand acres
of improved lands have been sold recently to east
ern parties.
Residents of Stevens county are taking excep-
tons to the report of State Highway Commissioner
q
there is general demand that this road instead
of being shelved as a memorial of poor manage
ment upon the part Of the state, be completed
according to the original plan.
State road No. 2 was ordered in 1905, the first
state road planned in eastern Washington under
the road law passed in 1905 Beginning at New
port, the proposed road was to traverse the Pend
Oreille valley to Tiger, then run across Stevens
county tO Orient since 1Q05 throo ctato annro-
priations amounting to Sal, 900 have been made by
the legislature, and Stevens county has itself ex-
pended 81 1884 % on the road. The result is about
13 miles of dirt road in the mountainous country
between the Pend Oreile and Colville valleys,
without either ingress or outlet-a monument
marking the neficiency of the state highway
commission, and startling revelation to the tax
payers of this state as showing the actual work.
ings of the state road law.
To connect the roadway built by the state with
any existing county road or open highway will
require the building of miles Of road leading
east and nine miles west. The states road is a
good road so far as it extends, although $500
would build much better road than the state has
seen fit to furnish, with the aid of Stevens
county, at cost of $45 1884 %. But it's inaccessi
bility to any public use calls for immediate action
upon the part of the state, that the excessive
moneys already expended may not be lost en-
tirely. There is not even right of way marked
out from the ends of the constructed road
The residents of Stevens county ask that the
road be completed between Tiger and Coville. An
appropriation of money is not asked for the futity
of throwing money into the hands of the highway
commission in the hope that some part may be left
for road construction has already been shown.
What the people desire is ROAD at the hands of