The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-09-09

more important than the direct results the people
are looking for more impatiently every day. For
instance, the people want relief from the burden
of tariff taxes that squeezing billions out of
them that 90 into the pockets of those who have
so much that they do not need any more Con-
gress passed the wool BILL reducing the Injustice
in one of the most iniquitous of tariff schedules,
and President Taft vetoed it on the ground that
it is not scientific, though he lately signed the
Payne-Adrich bill, which nobody ever claimed to
be scientific, and the reciprocity measure, which is
no more scientific than the wool BILL The presi-
dents devotion to science" would be more COM
mendable if it had come earlier and if it didn't
come now so abruptly between the people and the
relief to which they are entitled.
Do you get the full force of that word "scienti-
fc?" It's good word and probably does as we'll
as any other word in explaining that Wall street
does not want a wool-reduction bill, or a bill re-
ducing the cost of living.
Just how much Big Bill knows about science"
may be mystery inasmuch as he has spent his
whole life at the public tilla lifetime office holder
with no claim to any other achievement than being
friendly to his friends
Just remember this scientific business when
somebody wants your vote for Mr.. Taft Then
you can show little science yourself
Nearly three -fourths of Mr. Taft's term of office
has passed into history. He has had sufficient
time to have made progress on lines along which
he promised to proceed when he was a candidate
for the high office he holds He made his cam
pagn on tariff frevision- downward issue, and to-
day the country is.in the grip of higher tariff
tax than ever before in its history in spite of the
fact that the president has had many separate and
distinct opportunities to keep his word. In his
three years of office President Taft can be credited
with having kept Balinger in office until the
country was nauseated; to have almost succeeded
in his attempt to give Alaska away to the Guggen-
helms, and with having quietly co-operated with
the food dopers in their campaign to drive DR..
Harvey W. Wiley out of public life. To this re-
cord might in full justice be added the presidents
action in framing peace treaties with two nations
with whom we are not in the slightest danger of
ever going to war.
Each of the seven days of the Spokane Inter-
state fair has been named by the fair association,
and arrangements are being made for special OBJ
servances on each day. Following is the list:
Monday, Oct, g. Boy Scouts day, Military day,
Children's day, Travelling Mems night; Tuesday,
Oct 3, Spokane day, Idaho day. Iowa day, Stevens
county day, Scandinavian American night; Wednes-
day. Oct. 4, Grocers' day, Canadian day, Missouri
day. M. W. A. night Thursday, Oct s. Derby
day. Okanogan day. Minnesota day, W. o. w.
night Friday, Oct. g. College day. Bolster day,
Live Stock day, Eagles night; Saturday, Oct. 7,
Motor day. Children's day, Labor day. Carnival
night; Sunday Oct. 8, Everybody's day.
Everyone in the Inland Empire who has an in
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chance to display it at the Spokane Interstate fair
the week of October g. Through the efforts of l..
L. Westfa and G. j. Bowen of Spokane, patent
attorneys, department of invention has been es-
tablished by the fair association and space set
aside for working models of the invention, of any,
one who wants to get his work before the public
If the department is successful it may be made an
annual feature of the fair. Inquiries should be
addressed to the Department of Invention, Spo-
kane Interstate fair"
Indications point to 1911 being the banner di-
vorce year for the courts of Spokane county.
While in 1910 the ratio was about one divorce to
every five marriages, the first eight months of
1911 show ratio of one divorce to every three and
two-thirds marriages. The records show that be-
tween January l and September l, 1911, III
marriage licenses were issued and 317 divorces
granted. The divorces equaled 27 per cent of the
marriages for the first eight months of the pres
ent year. Fully three-fourths of the divorce de-
crees granted in the courts go by default without
a contest from the defendant party.
49,
IF the tariff board is to be used as pretext for
delaying tariff revision downward the democrats
will cut off it's source of supplies. The president
rushed in to create an issue. We pick up the glove
flung in our face, and the faces of the consumers