The Athena press., September 13, 1912, Image 2

"JOKERS" HID -
REVISION UP
Aetna! Raising of Duties Effected
fey Payne Bill
COTTON 10 tVOOL SCHEDULES
Both Indefensible, and Preeident Taft
Knew It Suppression of Facte by
the Tariff Board Statistics Employ
ed to Mislead the Public
By ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA.
tFormerly, consulting expert of the tariff
board.
New York, Aug. .-On not a single
one of the nlnety-flre all cotton sam
ples of fabric taken as the basis of the
tariff board's Investigations of the cot
ton schedule was there an actual re
duction of the tariff by the Payne
'Aldrlch law. .
The samples were selected with great
care by the combined Judgment of the
board's experts, indorsed by the lead
ing jobbers of the United States a$
being representative of all classes of
fabric in use in this country, each
sample being chosen because it was
typical of the most used material of
tariff grarter it w no aoutit mgnrr w
slrable that such facts, staggering as
they are to the dishonest pretensions
that the cotton tariff was really lower
ed, should be burled as deeply as pos
sible in a mass of unexplained statis
tics. But it is to, the advantage of
every honest manufacturer and mer
chant who is seeking stability in busi
ness and fair opportunity to make a
reasonable profit that the truth, should
be made known. Just such policies of
official evasion and suppression have
made possible in the past the Juggling
of tariff legislation by and in behalf of
the privileged few.
It Is undisputed that the cotton
schedule as written in the house 'ways
and means committee by Representa
tive Sereno E. Payne of New York did
not provide the full measure of "revi
sion downward" that the Republican
party had promised. Still it was not
until after the Payne bill went to the
senate finance committee, of which
Mr. Aldrlch was chairman, that the
"interests" got in their most deadly
work. It is well known that Senator
'Aldrlch. freely consulted, if he did not
actually permit, the Lippitt-McColl in
terests to write Into the amended bill
the duties affecting their own products
the fancy weaves made by only a
few of the largest and richest New
England mills. New' Tork "World.
Will Campaign In New York.
New York, Aug. .Governor Wood-
row Wilson will make his first Inva
sion of New York for campaign pur
poses when he will be the guest of
honor at the Workingmen's Woodrow
Wilson club of the lower east.slde at a
FIRE DANGER AT SEA.
How Flames Can Sweep the Inside of
Even a Metal Ship.
The danger from 'fire on a transat
lantic liner is more serious than is gen-,
erally believed. It Is' much greater
than the danger from collision and Is
becoming more and more dangerous
with the increased outlay upon luxury
and display. The main structure of the
ship and most of Its essential parts are
of metal, but many of the fittings, near
, ly every feature of ornament and every
trapping of luxury, are highly inflam
mable. ;., ' ;,
No one who has not been aboard thq
Spanish wrecks at Santiago can con
ceive how fire can sweep the inside of
even a metal ship. Admiral Cervera
described to me the experience on
board the Teresa In these words: "The
second shot that came on board set us
on fire. The fire main was damaged.
Soon we were unable to cope with the
lire. It swept through her from bow
to stern. There was not a space as big
as the palm of your "hand where life
could nave been sustained. An insect
could not have lived on board. We bad
to get overboard or be burned."
It is true the Spaniards had not cut
out their woodwork and thrown over
board all unnecessary Inflammables, as
we had In the American fleet, but the
inflammability of one of their war
ships was much less than that of a
luxurious ocean liner. Captain Rich
mond Pearson Hobson In Engineering
Magazine. v
PINEAPPLE PLANTS.
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its particular weave or class. Ninety
five nil cotton and flvo silk and cotton
samples comprise the 100 Hint appear
In the tariff board's cotton report. ,
Forty-seven of tho nlnoty-flve In tho
all cotton class pay 33.00 per cent high
er duties under tho I'nyno-Aldrich
than they did under tho Dluglcy tariff.
Payne-Aldrioh "Jokere."
Of those forty-seven classes of n:n
terlal on which the tariff was in
creased nine are the fancy weaves
made in three or four New England
mills commonly grouped tho "Lip-pltt-McColl
interests." This la tho
clique of New England manufacturer
politicians who were permitted by Sen.
ator Nelson W. Aldrlch to writ tho
cotton schedule to suit themselves.
Of tho nlno Lippitt-McColl fabrics
the Fayno-Alclrlch law Jacked up tho
averngo duty from 30.57 to 00.33 per
cent In other words, the promised
"revision downward" on these goods
fivas really a revision npwardamountlug
to Gi.97 per cent of tho Dlngley rates.
The remalulug thirty-eight classes of
nil cotton- fabrics on which the duty
was increased were not generally the
rroduct of tho favored New England
ring. Under tho Dlngley luw these
thirty-eight fabrics were assessed nu
nvcrago duty of 35.30 per cent. Under
tho Payne-Aldrich law they puy 44.5S
rcr cent a revlsloti upward equal to
S!0.07.per cent of tho former rate as
compared with C4.07 per cent Increase
on manufactures of the favored few.
On Just thrco nmong tho 100 samples
was thero ft docreaso iu duty. These
v, ere the Bilk and cotton fabrics (silk
htllls) that pay moro thau 100 per cent
duty. On these thrco samples tho re
duction averaged COO per cent on tho j
former duty-a reduction from 110.70
per cent tinder tho Dlngley law to
Jt0.44 per cent under the Payne-Al-i.
.ten law. On one of tho silk niul cot
iiiu samples thero was an Increase
i mounting to 21.03 per cent. Tho fifth
f tho Bilk and cotton samples was left
unchanged. .
Oa tho forty-five of (ho nluety-flvo
nil cotton samples there was no change
la duty.
On tho thive remalulug samples
completing the total of 100) no com
parison is made because of apparent
lack of autheutlc foreign prices.
And still President Taft said iu his
speech at Ronton, April 25 last:
'It (the rnyne-Aldrlch bill) was a
Question; congress could make its own
computations. Tho otllclal explanation
for refusing to publish tho table show.
ing whether the tariff had bctu raised
or lowered was that tho market iluctu
Htlons made It of no value. This was
only a quibble, because the respective
tariff acts were so arranged that the
increase in duty ou a sliding scale kept
pace with tho price fluctuations.
The tariff board cnoso to prlut table
that would show only tho assessment
ct duty under the two acts ami left It
to anybody who desires tho Informa
tion to figure out for himself the sig
nificant facts above set forth.
Benefit Only to Privilege,
From every iint of view of the
arnuirr to ne noicrnt tne enre uouio
vnrd on Sept. 4. Governor Wilson will
deal, it Is expected, with the problems
of Immigration and tho fulse Impres
sions that have been put upon his
views by tho quotations of Isolated
sentences from his different books.
STEALING A RAILROAD.
Not In Finanoial Way, but by Carry.
Ing It Off Bodily.
No stranger theft was ever commit-,
ted than the "lifting" of an entire
railroad, twelve and one-hnlf miles In
length, which once contacted Birr and
Portumnn, in Ireland.
Tho line had cost $450,000, and for
years it did service for tho Great
Southern nnd Western Railway com
pany until tho year 1870, when the
company, which had been running it
at a loss, washed its hands of It Tho
lino was derelict Nobody wanted It.
For a few years it stretched its use
less length through north Tipperary.
Then its neighbors began to turn cov
etous eyes on it
Bolts and screws and other portable
trifles began to vanish.' A few prose
cutions were instituted, but the
charges were withdrawn; Nobody
seemed to care. The thieves, thus en
couraged, grew bolder. Farmers
brought their carts aud horses and
londed them with spoils of rails, sleep
ers, switches and semaphores. One
goodly station vanished, to its last
brick and door, in a slnglo night
They were great times for Tipper
ary. Boatloads of booty, hundreds of
tons of rails, were sent away from
Fortumua by unlicensed "contractors,"
nnd tho work of spoliation went on
until not as much as a turntable was
left Argonaut " !
Looking Ahead.
It was the first night of a Jiew play.
T mi " romnrkeil the author to the
manager, "that scene shifter over there
is n roost peculiar loosing reuow.
. . n . . I. 1.1
"Yes; he s nn uskhuu, "
manager. ' .
"An Eskimo What on conn mnuo
you tako him on?" ,
"Oh, I thought it wonia ij a
fort to seo one hnppy face if tho play
turns out to bo a frostl"
Casee In Point
Rivers-Brooks, that's tho second
time I've heard yxm use the phrase
"aching void." I wish you would tell
mo how a void can ache.
Brooks-Well, not to speak of a hol
low tooth, don't yoa sometimes have
hendacho?-I.oudon Telegraph,
In the Mountains.
Climb tho mountains nnd get their
good tldlugs. Nature's pence will flow
into yon ns sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own fresh
ness into you. niul the storms their
energy, while care will drop off llk
autumn leave -John Mutr
Utt Women lia viTiio twit Judgment In
serious nutttera. SheYes, and men
count on that when they ask women to
marry them.-Baltimore American,
They Do Not Die After Fruiting, but
ReproduceThemselves.
I Pineapples do not grow on trees. Im
agine a plant four feet in extreme
height from the ground to the tip of
leaves, a single stalk at the surface,
but dividing at once Into swordlike
tIades or leaves, fifteen in number,
from the center of which appears a
stiff, upright stem, at the top of which
Is the fruit This stem is short and
the crown of tho fruit when fully
grown is a foot or more below the
points of the leaves.
At the end of a year and a half from
planting each plant produces a single
fruit, even as a cabbage plant produces
a slnglo head. But the pineapple does
not die after fruiting once. Down on
tne stem below the fruit and among
the long, narrow leaves a sucker ap
pears. If allowed to remain this will
soon become tho head of the plant, and
within another year It will yield an
other fruit This process may go on
for a term of years. In the meantime,
however, other Buckers will make their
appearance.
These are broken off, and when stuck
into the ground they put out roots and
become other plants. Thus a single
pineapple plant may produce a dozen
or moro others while it Is yielding
fruit from year to year.
The Intruder,
A certain boat coming up the Mis
sissippi one day during a flood lost
her way and bumped up against a
frame house. She hadn't more than
touched it before an old darky ram
med his head up through a hole In tho
roof, where the chimney once came
out, nnd yelled at the captain on the
roof: "Whnr'a you gwine wld dat boat?
Can't you sco nothin'? Fust thing you
knows you gwine to turn dis house
ober, spill de old woman an' de chil'en
out In do Hood an' drown 'em. What
you doln' out here in de country wld
your boat, anyhow? Go on back ynn
der froo do co'nflelds nn' get back
into de rlbber whnr you b'longs. Ain't
got no business sev'n miles out in the
country foolin' roun' people's houses
nohowl" And the boat backed out
Life. .
The Largest Described Snake.
Spoke in his narrative of the Jour
ney to tho source of the Nile describes
the largest snake that has ever been
seen by man. "I shuddered." he says,
"ns I looked upon tho effects of his
tremendous dying strength. For yards
around where he lay grass, bushes nnd
saplings In fact. . everything except
full grown trees were cut clean off,
ns If they had leen trimmed with nn
immense scythe. The monster when
measured was fifty-one feet two nnd
one-half Inches in extreme length,
while around the thickest portions of
Its body the girth wns nearly three
feet" . .
tton and Harrow.
One of the Eton nnd Harrow school
cricket matches recalls nn amusing in
cident. Eton had n monotonous se
ries of wins for 'some years, and one
day the Harrow captain-received the
following:
O ye boys of Harrow school,
Of cricket ye have no knowledge!
It la not cricket, but the fool,
You play against Eton college.
The Harrow school poet was hunted
out nnd commanded to send n fitting
reply. This clever response made him
famous:
If, ns you say. we play the fool.
No wonder we were beaten,
For nt that game no other school
Could e'er compete with Eton. , ,
REPORT OP THE CONDITION
OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BAHK OF ATHENA
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Athena, in the State of Oregon,
AT THE ;
Close of Business Sept. 4, '12
RESOURCES, "
Loans and discount
Overdrafts secured and unsecured
U 8 bonds to secure circulation
B onds, securities, etc;
Banking-bouse furniture fixtures -Lme
from Mat. Banks, not reserve
agents -Due
from State and Private Banks
and Bankers, Trust Companies
and BaviDgs Banks
Due from apr'v'd reserve agents,
Checks and other Cash Items
Motes of othtr National Banks
Fractional paper currency, nickels
and cents,
Specie
Ked'm'n fund with U 8 Treasurer
(5 per cent of circulation)
Total
LIABILITIES.
$387 51799
2 702 27
12 SOU 00
8K550
10 000 00
8 155 57
760 11
128 816 40
9115
615 00
64 80
3164040
62500
9581 812 09
Capital stock paid in
Surplus fund
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes paid
National bank note outstanding
Due to other National Banks
Individual deposits subject to check
Demand certificates of deposit
Certified checks
Cashier's checks outstanding
Letters of Cre lit
$5000000
50 000 00
4 70508
12 50000
987 68
333 2i4 07
131 916 01
100 00
; ' W8 50
000 00
Total - $ 613l2t
State of Oregon,
Countv of Umatilla f "
I, F. M. Le Grow, cashier ol the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. F. 8. Le (irow. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this tlth
day of September J912, . B. B. Kichards,
Notary Public.
W. 8. Ferguson,
- H. Koepke,
CoiuiECT Attest: M. L. Watts,
Directors
Dlsiirace Is Immortal and living even
when one thinks it dead. Plautua.
Notice.
To whom it may coooetn; Kotioe
is hereby given that artr ttis date
I will not be responsible for any debts
coutiacted by any membeis of my
family. Dated at Atheua, Oregon,
this Sod day of September, 1912.
J, S. Myrick, ..
reaches for Sale.
Foot hnudied trees of flue peaches,
including Malta, Orange, Cling, Ear
ly Ctawfotd and other varieties.. MoNt
be sold in the ucxt 10 days to make
loom for winter orop. Ihe finest
peaohes iu the world at 1 cent per
pound, tfiiug your boxes.
A. R. Badley, 3 tlocks east of
Christian ohurob, across mill race,
Milton, Oregon.
OREGON AGRICULT'L COLLEGE
This great institution opens its doors
tor the fall semester on September
20th. Courses of iostruotion inolnde:
General Agiicnltnre, Agronomy, Ani
mal Husbandly, Dairy Husbandry,
Baoteriologv, Botany and Plant Path
ology, Poultry Hustandry, Horticul
ture, Entomology, veterinary boienoe,
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ing, Domestio Science, Domestic Ait,
Commerce, Forestry, ' Pharmacy, Zo
ology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathe
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ature, Public Speaking Modern Lan
guages, History, Art, Architecture,
Industrial Pedagogy, Pbysioal Ednoa
ton, Military Science and Tactics,
and Music
Catalogue and illustrated literature
mailed free on application. Address:
Registrar, Oregon Agtiooltnral Col
lege, Corvallis, Oregon.
School Year Opens September 20th.
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Umatilla-Morrow Fair
Remember the Dates,
Sept 23-28 Inclusive
The Biggest Fair
. In Eastern Oregon
Bumper Displays of Bumper Products. Livestock, Agri
cultural and Industrial Exhibits; Miniature Hatchery
and Game Preserve; Vaudeville and Band Concert
every evening. For premium lists apply to Secretary
Lee Moorehouse, Pendleton, or to Tres. Hurd, Stanfield.
Roundup on Last Three Days .
Hardware & Implements
G. W. Proebstel, Weston
We are showing a fine line of Heaters, Cook Stoves and
Ranges. Our stock of Hardware, Implements and Ve
hides is complete. We have the new Empire drills, har.
ness and horse Clothing, Wood, Coal, Lumber, Building
Material, Wire Fencing, Plumber's outfits, etc.
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