Morning Oregonian., April 21, 1913, Page 2, Image 2

GROWERS TO FIGHT
BATTERY CHARGING
AND REPAIRING
TARIFF Oil FABRIC
Sparking Batteries Loaned Two Days Tree.
All work guaranteed satisfactory at reasonable rates.
We are in a position to take care of all kinds of electrical
work.
Rewiring; of ears and installation of electric lighting and
starting systems a specialty.
Sheepmen Believe Manufac
turers Deserted Them in
Final Emergency.
Republican Report Declares
Radical Tariff Revision
Is Uncalled For.
SENATORS IN QUANDARY
BILL APPROVED ABROAD
LEADING FIGURES IN RECENT CONVENTION CALLED TO STUDY FARM CO-OPERATION IN
MARKETING AND CREDITS.
MINORITY ASSAILS
AD VALOREM RATES
QlminaUon of Maximum and Mini'
nrnrn Feature, Which Has Add
ed Greatly to Export Trade,
Is Also Criticised.
WX&HlSaTCX. April 10. That ad
valorem duties tttcn aa ara proposed
In tha Democratic tariff bill ara "a
delusion and a inirt"; that tha rad
leal tariff revision submitted by the
Democrat Is Inexcusable and nncallad
for, and that an accounting; will com
(or its enactment Into law. are conten
tions of tha Republican members of the
wars and means committee In a mmon
tr report to be presented to the House
tomorrow.
"There Is no excuse for the radical
change In our revenue system pro
posed by this Democratic bill." says
the report. "The people have not
asked It. The party proposing; It Is
In power, not by the grace of a ma
jority of the American people, but by
a division In the ranks of tha majority
on other questions than that of pro
tection. Tba Administration has the
power to enact this legislation. The
aocountlng for the abuse of that power
will come later."
Bolaeaa Alan Reported.
The report contends that the bill
has caused "Intense and widespread
alarm In business circles."
Asserting; that the Democratic bill
, "seems to meet with universal approval
on the other side of the Atlantic." the
. report declarea that the protective fea
ture has been entirety eliminated In
the framing of the bill.
"It is easily apparent." the report
adds, "that many of the duties have
been placed on articles used by our
manufacturers snd Imported wholly
from abroad, as a tax on manufac
tures'; that many duties have been
lowered so tbat they are much less
than the difference In the cost of labor
at home and abroad; that many articles
aw paying eery low rates of duty have
been put on the free list, while the
comparative cost of production here
and abroad Is such that It will be Im
possible for business to continue with
out bringing; down our scale of wages
ta the level of the rates paid abroad.
Pim Material Attacked.
"In many eases articles are put on
the free list, while a protective duty
la laid on the material used In their
SBenuXaetare."
The elimination from the Democratic
bill of the maximum and minimum fea
ture of the present law Is deplored by
the Republicans, who contend that
through this provision great tariff con
cessions and regulations were procured
and much added to the export trade of
the country.
Defending the existing Parne-Ald-rlcb
tariff, the minority asserts that
in the last tour years "the people of
. the country have been more prosperous
" than ever before In our history."
JUDGE IS INVESTIGATED
fVdrral Jurist of Jxnilsiana District
Under Inquiry.
WASHINGTON. April 2. An loves.
Ligation of I'nlted States Judge
Boarman and the United tUates Court
of the Western District of Louisiana,
with headquarters at Fhreveport. has
Just been finished by the Department
of Justice. Officials are reticent as to
the reason for the investigation, but It
was learned tbat It originated primarily
within the department. .
Tha inquiry Into Judge Boarman's
court. It was learned, was begun In
Kebruary before the retirement of Attorney-General
Wlckersham.
SHREVEPORT.TZ. April 10. "Poli
tics is at the bottom of the whole mat
ter." Judge Ales Boarman said when
he was told that a report had been filed
of an Investigation Into affairs of the
Federal Court for the Western District
of Louisiana. Judge Boarman asserted
he bad no Intention of resigning from
active service. For two years he has
ben eligible to retirement.
SENATORS DEFY GOVERNOR
Arlaorutns to Ilcpaaj Bill In Form
. In Which It Was Vetoed.
PHOENIX. Aris.. April SO. Defiance'
of Governor Hunt's wishes regarding
the passage of amendments to the penal
code and attacks on his prison reform
methods characterised the session of
Arizona Legislature Saturday.
In the upper house, where the Gov
ernor's prison reform policy was under
fire. Senator Uubbel described the chief
executive as an "inefficient but se'f
sufficient Governor."
The Assembly, after a stormy debate,
decided to repasa the penal code amend
ments bill in exactly the same form In
which Governor Hunt vetoed it at the
special session immediately preceding
the present one. The Governor's ob
jections were based on the section
in wfclcb the chief executive's power to
reprieve condemned criminals would be
'.lmited.
ROAD ORDERED TO IMPROVE
state Railroad CVm mission Inspects
Corvallis & Eastern Line.
SALEM. Or.. April 20. (Special.)
Aa order Issued by the State Railroad
Commission Saturday requires tha Cor
rsllls Eastern Railroad, within the
next two years, to replace Its present
fO-pound steel tracks between Corvallis
md Yrqulraa with 75-pound steel rails.
It also recommended that the road be
allaMted and the roadbed Improved in
.ertaln places. It Is estimated that the
-ost of the Improvements will be in
neighborhood of $500,000.
This order follows the recent trip of
inspection made by the commission over
the road between Corvallis and
Yaqulna.
Ontario Creamery Opens.
ONTARIO. Or, April SO. 'Special.)
The Ontario creamery opened the
first of the week. The plant will make
fsncv butters an-) Ve creams. R. J.
rfmltn. the manarror is an experienced
butter maker. Tha machinery and
rqulpment is of the most modern and
improved type. Farmers of this sec
tion and rtslrrmen in the Eastern
states are Just beginning to realise the
-rport-jnttie of the dairy business here.
The market for butter fat is always
blither here than II is at F.lgln. 111., the
cntor of the Eastern dairy Industry.
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TLl"r"rlet.r of "a Riltbt Relatioasbl. I-e of Mlnae-poll., IKmKrtc- HU- - umuers, of
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MARKET IS
PROBLEM
Waste Between Grower and
Consumer Strikingly Shown.
NEW BUREAU ASKED FOR
Professor MacPberson, of Oregon
Agricultural College, Analyzes
Recent Chicago Meeting Ap
peal Made to Congress.'
rootlnud From Firnt P.
wtih adequate funds and place upon
it the responsibility of working out
and helping to apply such methods of
sale and distribution of farm products
as would insure to producers reason
ably staple and remunerative prices
snd to the Nation an adequate food
supply."
The other Incident which showed the
temper of the conference was the dis
cussion following the paper of R. F.
Harris on "Improving Farm Credit in
America," Mr. Harris is a gentleman
and a banker, an aristocrat of the
banking fraternity: in fact, having for
merly brin president of the Illinois
Bankers' Association. He has been car
rying on a campaign against what he
considers the extreme misrepresenta
tions of our rural credit needs. Mr.
Harris is convinced that all that is
needed is National currency reform.
Apart from much-needed currency leg
islation, our present credit facilities,
together with education In production
and soli conservstlon are adequate to
solve all oru rural problems, he be
lieves. As a farmer Improves his soil
and Increases his product, he will have
no trouble in getting all the credit-he
requires at reasonable rates.
The discussion showed that, while
Mr. Harris' analysis applies to a mul
titude of well-to-do farmers who are
losing credit by carelessly allowing
their farms to run down, it fails ut
terly to take account of the thousands
of farmers who cannot get credit on
terms which will enable them to build
up farms already impoverished. Nor
does it provide any assistance to the
Industrious and thrifty landless man
who wishes to buy a farm. It makes
no provision for the man who has In
some way gotten hold of a piece ' of
land, but who has not the means to
provide the necessary equipment to
make a fair start.
Old World Experience Ignored.
With the easy generalization that
Euro'pean remedies cannot be applied
to American conditions, Mr. Harris
sweeps aside the fact that tho most
progressive countries of the old world
began their co-operative credit experi
ments when they were on the verge
of bankruptcy; when they were with
out equipment, and knew least of soil
conservation: when their basis for
credit was poorest they organized the
Landschaften and credit unions. These
associations led to others, and the
farmers' societies became the chief
agents in promoting soil conservation
and scientific farming.
Mr. Harris would continue our Amer
ican policy of hitching the cart to the
wrong end of the horse. But the farm
ers are tired of it, and he aroused little
enthusiasm.
On the whole, the papers of those who
i.ri th riixcussion were Intelligently
and conservatively optimistic regarding
the outcome of the present movement
for better credit and marketing facil
ities for farmers.
President Van Hlse, of the University
of Wisconsin, opened the conference
with a strong paper on "Waste in Dis
tribution." lie gave illustrations show
ing where foodstuffs were retailing at
prices ranging as high as 250 per cent
over the price received by the pro
ducer. He also drew attention to the
enormous quantities of food products
which go to waste annually because the
farmer cannot get enough for them to
pay the cost of marketing. At the same
time thousands of city consumers are
deprived of those very commodities be
cause they cannot afford to pay the
high prices demanded by retailers.
Concrete Kxamnlee Given.
Last Summer, for example, he said,
vast quantities of Colorado cantaloupes
rotted in the field, while the consumers
of Madison and other Middle West
cities were forced to pay 10 cents each
for Colorado cantaloupes in lots of 10
or a dozen.
The remedy, according to President
Van Hise. lies in co-operation. It must,
however, be a system of co-operation
which Includes the consumer as well as
the producer, and which establishes a
more direct and less costly relationship
between them.
In working for the establishment of
co-operative associations, we are liable
at nnv time to be taken to task for
violating the Sherman anti-trust act.
"Indeed," said the speaker, "the de
cisions under the Sherman act have
unlformlv held that selling exchanges
and combinations, where the commerce
was clearlv Interstate, which fix prices,
divide territories, or limit output, are
Illegal. Yet some of these things must
be done if co-operative societies are to
be successful.
It tli us appears clear that to reduce
the waste of distribution land success
fully to Introduce co-operation will re
quire a modification of existing anti
trust laws. National and state."
Throughout the conference, discus
sion, focussed on the. various aspects of
the general problem, as laid down by
Dr.sVuB Hise. The result was a gen
eral clearing of the air of much of the
fog which has obscured the National
vision on ti;e subjects of co-operation,
the mnrketing of farm products and
agricultural credit.
Revenue amd Waste Contrasted.
B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the board
of directors of the Frisco lines, con
trasted strikingly the Nation's tariff
revenue with its annual waste. He
began by giving $326,000,000 as the
total revenue of the t'nited States from
last year's tariff collections. The loss
from agricultural waste he estimated
as follows:
100.000 carloads of fruit and
vegetables which rot on the
around from the lack of
liipplnr and storage facil
ities and the knowledge of
recenttva markets, at S350 a
car I 35,000,000
Loss In cm stalks, rice, flax
and ottier grain straw now
burhed
Additional amount which 'the
250,000,000
farmers should receive If. by
co-operation, they knew when
and where to sell their prod
ucts to the best advantage... 1.500.000.000
Total loss
. . . .Sl.785,000.000
E. M. Tousley, director of the Right
Relationship League, of Minneapolis,
held that farm products should be
graded and standardized by state and
Federal authority, and then marketed
co-operatively. "Trusts, syndicates and
combines have set thfe example of the
efficiency and economy of co-operation,"
he said, "but have selfishly .converted
to their own use all its benefits. True
co-operation will apply those benefits
to the common weal."
w Duty Confront Schools.
H. J. Waters, president of the Kan
sas Agricultural College, said: "The
colleges of the country must teach the
principles of marketing and distribut
ing and co-operation. The high schools
must teach the girlB how to buy econ
omically for the farm, and teach them
also the relationship their purchases
bear to the development of their com
munity or the state."
Harry Pratt Judson, president of the
university, of Chicago, was also a lead
ing factor in the conference. He was
toaetmaster at the luncheon and round
table discussion. --
Episcopal Hall Site Dedicated.
NYSSA, Or April 20. (Special.)
Bishop Paddock dedicated the site for
the new Episcopal Hall in Nyssa last
Sunday. Work was started the next
day and the foundation Is nearly
ready. The structure will bo 32x56
feet and will cost 52000. - It will be
used for an amus .lent hall as well
as for religious soi . ices.
Effort Also to Be Made to Obtain
15 Per Cent Duty on Raw Wool,
but Small Hope of Suc
cess Is Seen.
OP-EGOSflAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 20 Fearful that they
cannot restore raw wool to the dutia
ble list, Democratic Senators from the
wool-growing states are hopeful of ap
per.slns the rrath of the woolmen by
making a fight to force wool fabrics
and other woolen manufactures on the
free list. They realize that this will
not aid the woolgrowers. but there long
has been a feeling among woolgrowers
that the wool manufacturers were get
ting an advantage over them in tariff
and if these Senators can make wool
fabrics free, in the event raw wool
remains on the free list, they feel that
they at least will have placed both
industries on an equal footing, so that
one enjoys no advantages of which the
other is. deprived. .
For a great many years the wool
manufacturers of the East have pro
fessed to work with the woolgirowers
of the "West In keeping a substantial
duty on all tortus of wool, both raw
and manufactured. Yet the woolgrow
ers have known that the advantage
has been op the side of the manufac
turers and that the growers, especially
under the Payne-Aldrich law, got only
a fraction of he protection they were
supposed to receive, owing to tricks
of the manufacturers In grading for
eign wools.
: Grower Promptly Sacrificed.
When the Democrats came Into con
trol of the Government and it was
evident that a radical rev'.sion of the
tariff would be made, some of the East
ern manufacturers threw aside their
bluff and came out openly in advocacy
of free raw wool, though they were
equipped with many reasons why their
own product should not be brought Into
unrestricted competition with the man
ufacturers of foreign countries. For
years these manufacturers had Used
the "poor woolgrower" in maintaining
a high duty, not only on all wool, both
raw and manufactured,- and when the
time came for the sacrifico they shoved
the woolgrower to the front and of
fered him as a sacrifice.
The Democratic Senators who want
to see raw wool protected are trying
to devise some means of amending the
House bill so that they can vote for
a duty on wool without being forced
to break with their party. Once It
was proposed to split up the Under
wood bill and revise the tariff sched
ule by schedule The wool Democrats
thought that if this could be done they
might be able to muster enough, votes
to take wool off the free list, or at
least that they could so vote, and not
be at odds with their party on tariff
revision generally. That idea Is not
advanced as frequently of late and new
schemes are being studied.
What the wool Democrats ha-e In
mind Just now is to have the Senate
finance committee amend the Under
wood bill, after It passes the House,
by striking wool from the free list
and imposing a duty of at least 16 per
cent ad valorem. Then these Senators
cn register their votes In favor of
the committee report and explain that
inasmuch as the Democratic commit
tee amended the House bill it was their
duty to stand by the committee. More
over, if the committee will take the
responsibility these Democratic Sena
tors from the wool-growing states can
defend their party regularity, even
though they vote for a duty on wool.
Caucus Gives Another Chance.
The next opportunity for thfc wool
Senators to get In a word 'for 15 per
cent on raw wool will come when the
Democrats of the Senate hold their,
caucus, after the tariff bill has been
reported by the finance committee.
That caucus will be called with a view
to placing the Democrats on record, so
that the bill, when it goes into the
Senate, will be sure of a majority on
the final vote. In caucus the Democrats
from the wool-growing states, that Is,
all but Senator Myers, will make a
valiant fight for the woolgrowers. They
promise thus much In advance, just as
they promise to use their Influence
with the finance committee. They will
take a bold stand in the caucus and
they will demand that wool be trans
ferred to the dutiable list. If the fl
nance committee does not repeal the
free wool clause, however, there Is lit
tie reason to expect that the Demo
cratic caucus will override the com
mittee.
"These Democratic Senators from the
wool states will Aght for a duty on
wool, both before the finance commit
tee and in the caucus," said a promi
nent woolgrower, now in Washington,
"but if the committee and the Caucus
turn down the proposal to place a
duty of 15 per cent on wool, these self
same Senators will abide by the caucus
action. They won't make their fight
in the open. Tney naven t tne nerve.
Tbat man knows exactly what be is
talking about. The Democratic Sena'
tors from the wool states are scared
and they are hearing from home, too,
which only adds to their alarm, but
they are wofully lacking In nerve.
ANKENY TRIAL IS DELAYED
Judge llardin, . at BelUngham,
" Strikes Case From April Calendar.
BEt&JXGHAM. ,Wash.. April 20. On
motion of the state. Judge Ed E. Hardin
yesterday struck from the April calen
dar the "trial of R. V. Ankeny, cashier
of the Seattle National Bank, set for
next Thursday.
Mr. Ankeny Is charged with being a
co-conspirator with. Jacob Furth. who
was convicted of the charge by a Jury
yesterday of aiding to receive de
posits for the Schricker & Co. private
bank at t-Aconner, wnicn ianea a. year
ago, when they knew the bank was in
solvent.
Attorneys for the defendant opposed
the motion. The trial probably will be
heard at the June" term.
Springfield Names Educators.
cTTjrvmrrF!Tjr nr. Anrll 20. fSne-
tlal.) The Springfield school board
has chosen tne loiiowing nign acnooi
teachers for the year: R. U. Kirk, su-
l - rn - .Th n Tfl V 1 fl P. manual
training; Miss Hartung. of Corvallis,
domestic science; .Miss Gertrude Wall
ing, of Corvallis. and Miss Nora Soren-
' f cnrincflolH. teachers. It is not
ecu, j i" o . - - -
known whether or not all of those
chosen will accept. Graae teacners win
be selected early next week.
The per capita cost of municipal govern
ment in New York is ;.". It
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GRAFT IN KRUPP WORKS
SCAXDAL DESCRIBED AS XG
LIEST EVEKl.V GERMANY.
Secret Rehttlons' With Underlings in
War Department Discussed
Openly In Reichstag. .
BERLIN. April 20. (Special.) It
would be Impossible to exaggerate the
painful impression that has been caused
In Germany by the revelations concern
ing the secret relations maintained
by the Krupp Works at Essen with un
derlings of the German War Depart
ment. . .
This scandal, which was descriDeu in
the Reichstag Saturday by the Socialist
Deputy, Dr. Liebknecht, who brought
the facts to light as "Panama and
worse than Panama." promises to
prove one of the ugliest affairs that
Germany has ever known. Graft in
such high places has hitherto been
..iIagiw nVinri of in this country
and- Germans have been brought up to
believe that that was a species of cor
. . . , , .i .,
ruption wnicn was exclusively lummou
to the United States.
The disclosure that the greatest and
richest industrial organization in the
realm, which is regarded as almost a
tn.i (n,tit,iHnn ATiri nnlnvs the per
sonal interest and regard of the Kaiser
himself, has stoopeo. to corrupt om-
Alain In tlia tHIHtrv'H TTlOSt Vital deDSrt-
ment for" its own selfish purposes has
caused a serious situation.
Nothing else was discussed in the
Reichstag today and the spokesmen of
all parties, even those supposedly Iden
tified with the "Armor Plate Patriots,"
condemned the participants In the
scandal In unmeasured terms, although
emphasizing the necessity of withhold
ing final Judgment until the official
investigation was completed.
A large portion of the press Is mak
ing a somewhat studied effort to reduce
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