East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-10-11

the ani-third term tradition is wise
and who do not want TO see the gov
ernment of the country turned per-
manently and officially over to men
like Perkins, Gary and Hanna who
believe in rule by Plutocracy and who
ii they have their way win legalize
the trusts and fasten the burden of
overcapitalizatlon and special tariff
privileges permanently upon the backs
OF the people.
The Eight for Wilson is more than
a partisan fight; it is fight for
Americanism.
1 That the federal law regarding the
collection of damages against a cor
poration having a ship
Forty Dollars lost at sea is proving
Tor Life. sad farce in the case
if the Titanic wreck
is pointed out by the New York
World.
Judge Hough has directed the
Ocean Steam Navigation company,
limited. to furnish a bond of ss6. 600
as security for payment pro rata of
claims against the wrecked liner Ii
tanic This covers, with a margin,
/ the limitation of losses under federal
statutes to the value of lifeboats re-
r"vered and net freight and passage
money prepaid-in all $91,SO5.
1T is an absurd law. There were
s,296 Titanic claimants recognized as
legitimate by the Mansion House COM
mittee. For these sufferers, chiefly
widows and orphans of passengers
rnd crew, more than $4,000, ,00O has
1een subscribed by private charity
esidcs sums possibly nearly as grea;
already spent for immediate relief
But the wealthy company which sac
rificed 1900 lives to speed and lux
ury in ship without sufficient life
boats or proper bulkheads can only
he sued for an average of $40 each
oy the surviving sufferers
The statute limiting loss claims
was passed before the days of big
shipping companies, when ships We're
owned by individuals and few owners
) had more than one ship. When she
sank the owner lost his all ana the
limitation operated like discharge
in bankruptcy. In these days of great
} transportation trusts it is as absurd
as it would be to limit damage suits
for a railroad collision to the value
of the junk left when a wrecked
train was burned'' -
And what makes the Titanic case
SC remarkable is the fact the great
ship was owned by the richest men
in the world.
In his talk at the suffrage banquet
the other evening the republican
/ speaker declared he
The Tariff favored equal suf-
And the Price frage because if the
OF Hosiery. women could vote
/ they would be repub-
licans But wonien would not be re-
publicans if in politics they displayed
the energy and judgment they mani
fest in shopping. - t.'
! Women are the especial victims Of
the protective tariff. There is scar
cely an article of woman's apparel
that is not higher in price because of
the protective idea. Take the tariff
on seamless hosiery of. the class that
retails for so cents a pair. The i'm
port duty is 1S 1-3 cents per pair In
other words more than one fourth the
retail cost is due to the tariff. The
duty on seamless hosiery is more than
| four times the cost of the labor in
the hosiery. The tariff works no
good to anyone save to that particular
/ branch of the textile trust that man
ufactures hosiery. The workers get
none of the profit. They are en-
ployed on a competitive basis and fig
ures show they get practically the
same pay as is given hosiery makers
| in Germany. Such a tariff on hosiery
/ is nothing but a plain steal in which
the women of the land are the vic
Tins and the trust that manufactures
hosiery is the gamer. The govern
ment does not gain by the high duty.
I 1t does not provide as much reve-
nue. for the government as would a
lower duty for the simple reason the
eXorbitant tariff bars the importa-
ton of hosiery and when there is no
/ Inn npt tati