The Athena press., August 25, 1905, Image 2

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Hie I'llKHH Atbena, Oregon
ATHENA, AUGUST ....25,1905
American producers of foodstuffs
are awakoned to the necessity of
ebuiigiiig our tariff system to meet
tho new European conditions. One
by one other nations aro raising their
tariffs to the exolnsiou of Amerioan
goods and, unless this country can
enter into reciprocal arrangements, a
serious blow will bo struck at our
homo iudustrios. ,, Germany has a
maximum and minimum tariff, the
latter being especially designed to
favor those countries which lower the
tariff barriers on German produots.
Massachusetts republicans with a
potition signed by 60,000 substantial
votors, have demanded that recipro
city be made a cardinal issue in the
future campaigns of that state. It
will take a hard fight to win, as the
"stand-patters" are bull-headed and
are afraid that . any lowering of the
blessed tariff will "hurt tho party. "
But the Amerioan farmer looks ou the
whole matter as pure business and sees
plainly that his property, his very
bread and moat is largely dependant
upon the issue. The question of
abolishing the tariff, .or deciding
against tho protective prinoiple, is not
before the people, but only one of so
udjusting rtrtos as to bring us trade in
stead of losing it. There is such a
thing as making tariff so high that it
will operate against the welfare of
our own people. When ono cau pur
chase American goods in Europe
cheaper than they can be purchased
at home, thore is something wrong in
the application of the system and it
should be corrected. The original in
tent of the protectionist was to foster
homo iudustrios. Duties were im
posed on foreign products to offset the
difference in the wage scale in order
that the American workman' could
live like Christian people. Where an
iudustry ueeded encouragement, a
tariff was Imposed that would equal
ize wluitovefc disadvantage the
American manufacturer was working
under, and enable him to compete in
the home market with the foieign
manufacturer, But when the tariff
goes beyond that point, it enables tho
manufacturer to pile up millions at
the expense of the peoplo aud that is
just tho condition today. "
Agitation which promises to be
vigorous aud widespread1 has been
started by the government authori
ties with. the object of , ultimately ab
olishing tho issuauae of official , crop
reports. Tho agitation is the result
of tho recent leak in the agricultural
Our Crockery
In now currying tho boHt stock that has over been carried by any store in
this part of the country. Every detail is looked into with care, and
everything is now found here tVnt can bo found in auy crockery store,
lit'.siilns carrying numerous diunurjsets which are all in stock patterns,
and may be had in auy pieoo set you wish, we carry all kinds of novelties,
fancy plaUs, odd curs and sauoers, fine cut glass and hand painted
China waie seta, lamps and all kiuds of glasses.
All our goods are bought in such largo quantities that we sell them at
prices that are all bargaius compared with prices asked at other stores.
Our trade is now so large that it necessitates our buying often, and in this
way we alvays have only the uewest and most up to date goods. If you
kuow of anything new in the Crockery line, you are sure to find it here.
Write us for description aud prices ou auythiug in our Hue, and we
will be pleased to seud you same by return mail. If order amounts to
$10.00 we will prepay freight to your station, aud then, too, we guaran
tee staisf action or icf und your niouey. Let us hear from you, for we are
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WALLA WALLA, WASH.
department . whereby the cotton re
ports wero given out in advance to
speculators. It is pointed ont that
at the best the government reports are
only estimates and are of no benefit
to the country. They are of value
only to speculators, and so many and
so great are the temptations thrown
about those who are engaged in col
lecting and preparing the reports that,
despite all precaution, it seems im
possible to prevent their beiug ."doc
tored," or at least fairly accurate
advance information being handed out
to a favored few. This is especially
true of the cotton report.
The Portland Oregonian cannot pull
the' wool over the eyes of Eastern
Oregon'people by the stand it has tak.
en on the Normal school question.
The Oregonian did all it could to close
the Weston school.
f Secretary t Taft says he , was : not
angry when he wrote that letter to
Wallace. Then it is difficult to see
how the socretary conld fully express
himself when angry without plagiariz
ing Admiral Evans.
' A Japanese admiral has found that
the cruiser Izumrud, late of the Bal
tic fleet, is a "complete wreck."
There is such a thing as .doing work
too well. ,
Chicago and New York continue to
talk about how big they are, while
the rest of the country is talking
about how bad they are.
; The boat rocker has just succeeded
in drowniug a party of three in New
Hampshire, fortunately including
himself.
KANSAS CROPS.
(Tribune Farmer.)
The fact that Kansas produces more
wheat than any other state or country
in the world naturally causes much
earnest watchfulness and discussion
of its aoreage, condition, prospects,
yield and quality at borne, and
throughout the grain, milling, trans
portation, breadstuff, baking aud
commercial centers of civilization.
This would naturally persuade those
without knowledge of the faots to
suppose that wheat is by far the
state's main and foremost crop; yet,
compared in importauoo and value
with her com, whoat is a side issue,
and only one of the various secondary
items the worth of which must be
aggregated to even approach the
value of corn.
In the last 10 years the value of
Kansas' corn crop has been $106,000,-
000 more than that of the wheat pro
duced in the same period, which in
cluded three of the state's largest
wheat crops and one of the smallest
of corn. In the preceding ten years
the corn was worth nearly 200,000,-
000 more than the wheat The Kan
sas corn crop was worth over 6,000,
000 more than all other products of
Jhe soil in 1002, and in two preoeding
Benson's corn overvalued all the other
Hold products, wheat iuoluded.
Great as the wheat crops have been
for the 25 of the 43 years of whioh
there is reoord, statistics reveal that
the aggregate value of the corn crop
was more thau double that of the
combiue yield of winter and Bpring
wheat, aud in but few years has tne
value of the wheat orop approaohed or
surpassed that of the same year's
corn. The value of the corn alone in
each of the 15 years of the last 20 has
boon greater than that of all other
field crops together, wheat omitted,
Aud in only one year, 1901, of the last
decade, did corn fail to overvalue the
same crops. In other words, in each
of the last 10 years save one the anuu
al corn crop was of greater worth
than tho same year's oats, rye, barley,
buckwheat, Irish potatoes, sweet po-
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tatoes, castor beans, cotton, flax.
hemp, tobacco, broom corn, millet
and Hungarian sorgum, milo maze,
Kaffir corn, Jerusalem corn, prairie
hay, tame hay, alfalfa and. horticul
tural produots marketed.
-In 1890, according to the govern
meat's report, the Kansas corn yield
was greater than that of all the New
England states, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Michigan, Virginia,
South Carolina, Florida, West Virgin
ia, Maryland, Minnesota, Wyoming,
Montana, Colorado, New " Mexico,
Utah, Washington, Oregon, California,
and Oklahoma. Five yean later, in
1904, in spite of her destructive floods,
Kansas produoed more corn than all
New England, Pennsylvania, Minne
sota and thirteen additional states
and territories. In almost any year
three or four of the more northern of
the state's 105 counties produce
more corn than the entire dominion
of Canada. In 1889 the yield of com
in Kansas was 373,888,321 bushels.
The value of the Kansas corn crop
of 1902 from only 13 per cent of ber
area was sufficient to more than cover
five times the ' cost ' of the entire
Louisiana purchase and nearly 11
times as much as the United States
paid for all Alaska. '
The value of ber corn grown in tne
last 20 years was $100,000,000 more
than that of all the wheat crops
grown by Kansas since her beginning.
The three or four states excelling
Kansas in total corn production are
her immediate neighbors of the prai
rie. Of these she is neither jealous or
envious and to overcome any deficit in
meat making food caused by a de
crease in corn, she bas only to utilize
one of her three, four or five cuttings
of alfalfa harvested each year. Mis
souri, for example, is admittedly one
of the world's foremost corn states,
yet Uncle Sam's reports show that
Kansas in 1898 and 1899 raised more
corn by 40 per cent than was raised
by Missouri. "
Uncle Sam's reports point out tnat
in the five year period ending with
the year 1900 the combined value of
Kansas' corn and wheat exceeded
that of the same crops of any other
state in the Union. Illinois came
next, but fell behind Kansas by a
little less than $19,000,000.
In corn, Kansas is a billionaire. In
the last 20 years the state has raised
29,57,122,161. bushels, worth on the
farms where grown over $821,000,
000. , .
BIDDING AGAINST KOOSKVBLT.
(Spokesman-Review.)
The Great Northern's reduction on
freight rates on grain from the Mon
tana-Dakota line to the lakes means
doubtless a gain of at least $1,000,000
to the farmers of the greatest wheat
growing area in the United States.
The railway officials give out the
statement that it will save the pro
ducers two or three millions. r Minne
sota and the two Dakotas will this
year market ftS.OOO.OOO to 200,000,
000 bushels of wheat, with much
other grain, and if the average reduc
tion reaches one cent a bushel tbe
large estimate will be justified, as
the Great Northern's cut, it is said,
will perforce be followed by similar
action ou tbe part of tbe other roads
serving the same territory. Hence
every farmer in the great wheat belt
will profit by Mr. Hill's dramatic bid
against President Roosevelt's demand
for government reduction of freight
rates.
That this is the controlling motive
in the Great Northern's action can
hardly be doubted, although it will
more or less officially be denied.
Already the amusing tale of Mr. Hill's
enmity to Mr. Lowry of the "Soo"
road is revived to explain the cut
This will fool no one. Proper credit
can be given Mr. Hill for the benefit
the farmers will receive from this
reduction without losing sight of the
reason impelling it
James J. Hill is a leader in the op
position to extending the powers of tbe
interstate railway commission. He
hns long and plausibly expounded the
doctrine that the railways, if left 1 to
themselves, can be trusted ' to make
rates that will be fair to shippers and
consumers, as well as just to the own
era of railway securities. No doubt
we shall soon be hearing from the
corporate organs in all parts of the
country the inspired - arguments that
this cut on northwestern grain proves
the companies quite as likely as the
government to safeguard the interests
of producers. But while considering
the gain resulting from Mr. Hill's
coup, the public will not miss its real
significance.
If the companies are able at one
swoop to lop off two or three' millions
from their freight charges on the
grain of three states, when - for' sever
al years they have protested that these
charges were as low as equity would
justify, on how many other lines of
freight ought similar outs be made in
justice to the producers and oonsumers
affected? The Great Northern's ac
tion is a confession that the rates on
grain in the states named have been
unnecessarily high. Bnt they have
notoriously been lower than tbe rates
on other freight of similar bulk and
value, and lower than tbe rates on
grain from the Inland Empire to the
Pacific ports. '
The farmers of tbe Dakotas and
Minnesota will therefore be justified
in drawing two conclusions from this
reduction ; namely, that tbe cut, in.
stead of being charity to the pro
ducer, is a delayed concession of what
has long been due him, and that, in
stead of being an argument for leav
ing rate regulations to tbe companies.
it adds another to tbe many existing
proofs that government supervision
is Eteodtid.
Repairing
I want to call your attention
to the fact that I do ell kinds
of Watcb, Clock and Jewelry
repairing. I do accurate work, '
get it out quick and guaran
tee every job sent out. -
Watches and Jewelry
. I carry a line of cheap and
r medium, price watches that
will stand rough use and are
dust proof; also a line of jew
elry, novelties aud silverware.
ROYAL M. SAWTEU
Jeweler ' : Athena
PETERSON & PETERSON.
Attorneys-at-Law ' .
A1HENA,
OREGON.
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