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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1904)
The CoInmMa Register. HOCLTON, ORE.. MAY it. 1M.7 -ri'HHIlSl KVKKY rRID.IT R. M. MITCMKLL. KJIIar. Application ha btfll Made to nr tat -IH't a- mrml cla tuattrr at tnp lioultoti, Ckr- SubHtkn pricv l 00 per yrar la alrano. A'tii-iiteing rate (vanab.e. THK ItKMOCKATtC TIl'KKT. t-iiptrme Judge, Tho. O'Pay f VultnoMah. Cnngrrtiuau Slid ilUtrk-l, J. K. Kimtuou . Iair and KikmI Cittuiui-oioiier, 8. 51. Itouglaa. I'lvjiiK-ntial Klvclor John A. JvSrrton, M -lon;T. H.CrafcrU, Viiion: W. n. IXlUrd, Columbia; and Jvl. Smith 4 CUtw.p. Joint Senatur Irww Multnomah, Washington, and t'oluiuhia, J. T. Millnor. ItKMOCKATIC CVl'STY TM KKT. For Representative, A. YOUNG, ; Of Clalskanie. For County Judge, U S. IIATTAX. Of St. Helen. For County Clerk, II. IIKNDEUSON, Of Mayger, For Sheriff, J. M. 11 ILL, Of Mist. For Surveyor, , J AM KS RARR, Of Chitfkanio. For County Commissioner, Vm. I'UINOLE, Of Pittsburg. For County Treasurer, t!. W WKLSCU, Of Marshland. For Assessor, U. W.CLARK, Of Houlton. For County Senool Superintendent, W. A. WOOD. Of St. Helens. We can all see. where the taxes can le lessened, it has been plainly pointed out. The only question remaining is, do we want another dose of the l'.H)3 prescription. The matter is now up to the voters. "in the last issue of the Mist the editor devotee considerable space to abuse of the Socialists, because aa he alleges, tliey are guilty of the crime of support ing Mr. It. S. 1 latum for County judge in the coming election. Flag states that the working man posessed of a good brain soon rises to be a capitalist and an employer of men. If the question is pertinent, why ia it that Hopper Flag has not risen to the eapitalistic state; it eurcly cant be lack of brains. No each thing as an explanation, of any kindcan be wrung "from Flag, ex cepting always, why he left the demo crat party, which for a Fairy story has grviy Grt n us fib I to a farewell. He is aa uncommunicative about taxation past, present ami future as he is about the republican County platform, which ia so conspicuous by its entire alwence ; 1-aving the people without any guaran tee whatever that next years tax levy will toot be raised with a jack-screw and stall fed ; and a raise we must expect if a ehange is not made in the financing of the county's affairs. . M. J. Butler of Gohle grange has been appointed chairman of the finance com ' inittee for the com ins session o f the Or egon State grange. I. H. Oopeland of Houlton has been appointed chairman of the committee on education and is a memler of the committee on Good of the Order.,- Mrs. Anna I: Copeland is a member of two committees: Resolu tions and Women's Work. J. P. West of Scappoose is chairman of the Legis lative committee. It. P. Burns is a member of committee en Appeals, and Mrs. Mary X. Burns is a member of Co-operation committee.. M. J. Butler is also a member of the committee on By-laws. ' One of the la. est methods of advertis ing the candidacy for the republican candidate for representative in this county is by silk banners with gilt let ters hung from a pendent in some con spicuous place. Quite frequently in a saloon. Of course the people should be advised as to who the candidates are. But it is questionable if the method is not a bad adveriseuient. The question has been asked how does the candidates for representative stand on the question of local option. Mr. Young has pledged himself for its support by his vote at the polls and in the legislative halls too if rir-ed be. How about the repub lican candidate? Some attempt is made, it is true, by individual politicians, to give a reason for such excessive taxation, by explain ing tha our State tax is, much, very much, higher than before, and that the 'School was made unavoidably larger by j the act of the lust legislature; and here 'it ends, and here it must remain. We ay again, as we said in our first issue, that the State tax was raised between $1000 and $5003 and the School tax rais ed alsjiit $7000. making aliout $12,1)00. 4if possibly an unavoidable raise. But j this in no way explains how ..our taxes bave practically doubled since 1 897 ; j and it cannot be explained, for we have ' bad no excessive expenses nor valuable . ' . ... !jl . I improvements, ia iaci on. improve ments whatever. . tHWar., -? wti tfUmrt tf.UTr 3 ft'- V-";? - .H.tfJ." ; A republican candidate at tin meet- i ing Mij : I never scratch my ticket, 1 always tote it straight, and it there it weak man on tlie ticket, it U alt the more a reason that wo sttouM make a pedal effort to throw our strength to him." . In other word if there in a "yvller" dog on tl ticket, i is tlie July ot republicans to vote (or him. Teddy, in a recent speech, denounced thin kind of sentiment as criminal. "Ilea)-: A party man wlio offers allegiance to hi party as an excuse for voting bis party ticket, right or wrong, is a criminal. We arise to ask it the dear people of Colunilta County are not a Utile supprised that they bear nothing from the Mist man explanatory to the pres ent excessive taxation, and why it ia so dispropertionale with other yearn, for example: why it was $7S56-I.?1 for the past year aa against $41240.00, in 1S97. Does be think the republican majority w ill fail to note the desolation process of confiscation now going on uqder non ue jMumeoi iXauon f u so ne, ami Uian $i;,0D0a year. Now will the Mist hi. machine male ticket will tind that ; u.n the HH.ple for what purine the oth the voters arctic so partisan in their m M ,oU e,,..,? It would lhtscal aftiihatians as to sacrifice their buy MxltMn r(xk VTmUvn HnJ 8IV. o n mieresis ior me saice 01 voting tor ' a name. That tax receipt of 1903 hub left a seal brown taste of heroic dimen sions in the mouth of every tax payer in the County. The recent session of Pomona grange at Scappoose was well atteuded every subordinate grange in the comity except .Mayger being represented. There are fourteen granges now jn ao. tiveoweration, with a total member ship of 622. This is but a very slight increase over a year ago, but it may well and truly be said of the member ship as it now stands it is composd of the very best elements of society in Co lumbia county. If you do not belong then you should. The entertainment by Scappoose grange was royal, and nothing better or nicer could have been wished for. The next session of Pomo na grange will be held the first Sat urday in August, at which time it is ex lKYted the Slate grange Grand officers will Ik? present and will confer the fifth and 6th degrees to all who may desire to take the national or seventh degree. This is the degree which crowns the faltric of Husbandry and it is only the chance of a lifetime th.it onu may n ceive it. The thirty first annual session of the Oregon State grange will be held at Cor vallis, begining Tuesday, May 24, at 10 a. m.. This will be a very interesting session. Much business of importance will come before this session of the grange. The selection of a new set of officers to direct the work of the state organization of another term of two years. Ami another very important matter is preparation for the National grange which will convene in Portland next fall. Not only the entertainment of the national guests devolves upon the state grange, but a lasting favorable im pressiom must be made upon the visit ors while there. To do this a fair is talked of. To make a creditable show ing of fruits, vegetables, " and various products ot the state ill require no small amount of work. But if the matter is properly taken in band, and no doubt it will lie, and the right way, Oregon will make a great success in advertising her resources. Every farm er every man women and son or daugh ter over the age of 16 years should im mediately connect themselves with a subordinate grange and help to swell the seventh degree list of members in Oregon to about 8,00) instead of just the required 2,000. You may count on the Rbuister doing its part. Will you do yours? The recent importation from Snlem, introduced for the purpose of running the Mist, carrying the County for re publicanism of the John II. Mitchell brand and, if he does not sooner change h:s politics, stand for the legislature in 1906, mounts his tripod, grabs the styl us with a death grip and proceeds to ex. plain why be left the democrat party, how he saved the Country from finan cial dishonor and thereafter (unlike Tll.lnn rtf nl.l ...1. . . i. t . 1 , u. vi vm no uoou in;mg rewarueu for his iniquity went and banged him - m ... tL self) ran for office, like many another ..,fo( ,i 1 : ,.uf. -"" " uneragei of an uninformed and over heated ma jority of Marion co-nty, was elected. The spectacle of a republican of the Mitchell school, advocating with sincer ity the gold standard, wonld be a sight for all the Pagan Gods of Mythology or otherwise. But Mrl Flag may have leen honest in his endeavors may have been anxious for a medium of ex exchange that would not only be good in '-Yourup" Semiahmoo but would also pass current in Piscataquis county, Main. We hive, therefore, no inclina tion to doubt our worthy brother's word as to his etrenous efforts to preserve pure and undefiled our monetary syst em', or that in 1896, he stood upon that most unique of, all , political platforms demanding at one end, protecteon, in no uncertain voice, against the pauper labor of Europe, and at the other, offer ing up in most abject humtlity a prayer to England to please allow the U. t. to coin the product of her own niinee. "To what base uses may men return" and live to brag about it ; what a pic ture jirile Ameri an ism ! As an expert in the art of self laudation Flag holds tlie belt. Verily he hath a. large head and steps this little earth like a Titan. ry Jf VftlK: FIGURES. During the year 1903 the toUl amount of money expend! for rounty purposes. vtlwr than rusd am) I! Igvn, aa flft,-i 679.1 1 The amount of money rained this ! year for county purjxx ie $22,:W.V W, or in exov of last year $&!7.69. The total amount of money to be col lected m taxes (and it ia all in but about $S.000) is $78,004.7 1 . Almost double the amount ($41,601.09) levied in lStV. State tax for this year.. $I2,&S3.00 i.Vtuw.w 5,7M.5.1 1,1523 Scbool fund general School fund spevial Road fund special Total other than county gen era I and roads and bridges. . $X2,.V)2.68 Deduct this last total from the $78,:64.7l col levied, leaves a balam-e of $ 45,9711.1 at the disposal ot the countv court. An amount ttrester than the tax levy for all pin-posts in any year of the county b:story prior to 1MH). And in the year 1901 the county indebtedness was wiped out. We are told in the Mist that the J running expense of the county is less on,j itni engines. POMONA RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were adopt ed at the Scappoose Pomona meeting, Saturday : Whkkkas, It is the sense of Pomona Orange of Columbia county, that the "tSood Kotuls" movement, stands fore most ot all our immediate wants, and demands our earnest consideration. Wiikrkas, There has been introduced into the Congress ot tho United States bills for national aid ot public roads in the several states, and calling upon the several states to appropriate sums equnl to those appropriated to the said states, Therefore, leit, Resolved, That our state representa tive and senator from Columbia county be urgently requested to use their best efforts to secure the passage of a bill in the Oregon Legislature to appropriate state funds among the several counties to be used in the construction and im provement of tlie public highways to the end that our public roads shall in the future receive the aid from the State and National Government that is their due, and to the end that our roads U improv ed and made equal to our other institu tions. Resolved, That Columbia Pomona (range go on record as favoring the passage of tho direct primary law to be! voted upon by the electors of Oregon at the coming June election, and that we urge all subordinate granges of the coun ty and each meiulcr thereof to work for the passage of said primary law. Resolved. Thai the Pomona Grange oi Columbia' county go on record as favor ing the passage of the local option law, and that we urge all members of the subordinate granges to work for the pas sage of said local op' ion law. REGISTRATION. The registration closes; May l."th. at 5 p. m. The 15th. comes on Sunday this rear ami to make sure of your votes you had U'tter register at once if vmi lilv. nn( At wh IM., ........ ' jvm .aw liw, liv CVi miiffn nig was the registration up to Monday night: Apiary 12 Auburn H2 Beaver Falls 41 Clabdcanie 258 Goble , us Marshland 21 Xehalem 77 Oak Point n. Rainier 199' ricappoose . . . .' 86 Union 220 Warren ." 50 Total 1309 ' A few days ago Attorney General I Crawford ruled that the registration books should close at 5 p. m. Saturday 1 even'ng. His interpretation of the law does not meet the views of District At-' torney Allen. Mr. Crawford contended I that the law provided for closing of the 1 books on the night of the 15th, and that'i the books could not, except by act of the WUlafnr.. (ui ,.. nnun uf,. ..... .,. ' ,,!"" aZ "'"7 .Hi ruling was that the non-judicia day, I ut1niuv n u , - V 1 Sunday, which falls on the l.j. was not to j in..lII(i(i w:.llin . til specified for registration. The district attorn ey takes just the other view. Practi-1 cally alf of Oregon's laws make pro- ' vision for non-judicial bays, bnt the registration law is defieiant In this re spect. Mr. Allen says the supreme court has rulled on the matter,however and'that, where a date 2oecified in a law falls on Sunday, the following day is to be counted jn the place of the non judicial day. He has made thorough search into the proposition and is quite ceartain tee attorney general's opinion is erroneou so far as we can see no l...rm can come from leavins the books ooed one day longer. The object is to give the voters a chruce to register. We understand the clerk's office will be open for registration until 5 p. in. next Monday. The May bulletin of the Oregon State grange suggests one of the finest Flora Children's Day program for subordinate granges that it hag been our pleasure to examine in late years. Every subordi nate grange where practicable should take it in hand and carry out the pro gram to the letter. It will pay your grange for making the effort. THE CHANGE C I by J. . DARiOw. CWtMM. N. T, lrm 0twmm!im4 .Vn Jut Stat NATIONAL GRANGE POLICY. Ha. kmtmm Jaa H-ltl Maatvr. Kmll Mat mt OHNn, The tension of the national grang he kl at Rochester was one of much Im portance not inly to the Order of Pa trons of lluabaiHlry, but to the agricul tural claaa lu general. As outlining the iKMtltlon and working policy of tbs grange the resolutions adopted were significant. They Indicate that the high official of tlie Order are awake to the nccda of the farmers and are endeavoring to secure for thciu such legislation and other benefits as shall give agriculture Its rightful oaltlon among the greut productive Industries of the world. Of the retention that most clearly define the public policy of the national grange and will determine the line ot action of the legislative committees throughout the twenty-eight statcj rep resented these may be mentioned: That reciprocal tariff rclutlous should be maintained In the Interests of farmers with those countries that consume the agricultural products of the United States; that our "agricultural products ilmuld be protected as well jis our manufactured articles;" that since a small icrcciitagc of farmers' sous and daughters ure able to attend state ag ricultural colleges the grange stiould favor the establishment of county or district agricultural high schools; that alleged cm-chsIvc charge on railroads for currying the malls aa compared with those exacted from express com panies sltould be Investigated by the legislative committee; that rural free mall earners should receive as much pay na city umtl carriers; that the es tablishment of Hstal savings Ixinks should he advocated; Hint the legisla tive committee should persist lu Its en deavors to procure legislation favora ble, to the parcel post system; that "good roads" legislation, aa outlined in the llrownlow bill, should be favored, nud Hint u federal law should U en acted to "protect the grape growing In dustry from huitosltlon and fraud." Many other resolutions were adopted, particularly with reference to the work within the Order. It was voted to re move tho natlotud secretary's otflce from Washington to TIpiMH-anoe City, O. Grange headquarters will be es tablished at the St Louis exposition. The next meeting of the national grange will be held at Portland. Ore. The following otilcers we're elected: Master, Aaron June-, South Kend. Ind.; overseer, T. C- Atkeson. Morgan town. V. Va.; lecturer, N. J. Puclwldi r. Concord, N. II.; steward. J. A. New comb. Golden. Colo.; assistant steward, George V. V. Gaunt Mulllca Hill. X. J.; chapiuln. V. K. Thompson, Uberty 11111. H. C; tnastirer. Mrs. IJvn V. Mc IiowelL Uome, X. Y.; mcretury, C iL Freeman, Tippecanoe City, O.; gate-kci-por. It (X Pattersou, Torrliiuton, Conn.; Ceres. Mrs. Martha M. Wilson, Magnolia. 111.; Pomonn, Mrs. Kmmu M. Derby. Woodslde. lk-L; Floiu, Mrs. .Pnultue 8. Itnln Moutlcello, Mohidy nsslstnut steward, Mrs. Ijiuru T. Itaap, Martinez, Cal. One member of the executive committee Is elected ench yeur for n term of three yeara. C. J. IU'U. East Hardwlck, Vt, was re-iiect-ed. The otla'r members of the commit tee are F. II. Norrls of New York ami V. A. Derthlck of Ohio. NEW JERSEY STATE GRANGE A Co-operative Daalaaa of Over - SIOO.OOO. . Every grange In the state but two wns represented ut tlie meeting of the New Jersey state grange recently hold at Trenton, X. J. Kcports were most encouraging. By virtue of Its small area, Xew Jersey can never be a large grange state, yet It claims 0,000 mem bers of the Order, a gain of 1,XM) hist year. The change proposed by tlie national grange providing for biennial elections In Pomona granges wns approved. Among the resolutions adopted was one asking that the protection afforded the robin under tlie gnmo laws of the state be removed while fruit Is ripening or hangs ripe on trees and bushes, the de struction heretofore wrought by these birds having been very serious, Iteportg of the subordinate granges showed a co-operative business In the state ot over $105,000, with a great saving to tlie members. One grange reported a business of $33,000. This Is certainly 3 fino showing lo co-operation, and larger states may find "food for thought" lo tlie comparison. The Ideal Grass;. I think that the ldenl grange will be one which gives some attention to all phases of the Individual needs the so cial, the Intellectual, the financial, the political and the moral or Inspiring fide. It Is a mistake for any grange to permit any one factor to dominate. Nevertheless the grange finds people toming to It with all sorts of prepara tion for. grange service, with all kinds of tastes and with 'all degrees of edu cation., If It is to live and thrive It must deliberately enter to these vary ing needs. Professor Butterflcld. " Mrs. Brigham, wife of Colonel Jo seph II. Brigham, assistant secretary Of agriculture, d.J In Washington on Nov. 20. She was stricken with apo plexy , on the . Wednesday . previous. Colonel Brigham Is past master of tlie national grange. Orange grange, in Vermont, recently held a "reminiscence" meeting, that grange having been organised a quar ter century ago. MR. ALDRICH REFUTED Claim That the Tariff Doesn't Create Trusts Knocked Out. WHAT Q TEE TAETJF REALLY fOB arrr4 Frovra That ! Tra la Tariff lral4 Maaapalr-A rr4f at U'araa, hat Slot Itoaaa. Haw la Attaraar Uraarat Dlaorlat laatea. Senator Aldi'vh In a speech at Provl douce, It. I., ou March t said: "Wo believe that these duties levied do not encourage or create monokines or trusts or combinations, which are nil Incident of our Industrial development and In nowise affected by the Imposi tion of tariff duties." Commenting ujhmi this foolish and absurd statement of Heuator Aldrlch, Savoyard says In the Washington Post of March St): "Whut Is the tariff for If It be not to cur'tall or destroy coniHtltlonl Can a trust exist as long as there U competi tion? What Is a trust but the absence of competition! I believe that a rea sonable tariff on trust made goods or free trade In them would do more to beneficently compose, tho trust Issue than all tho demagogues In tho Union will ever do or all the Sherman laws you could wrlto on a st roll os vast as j tuotucy. 'Here Is the steel trust, that will sell tho Canadian Pacific railroad, a foreign corporation, steel rails cheaper thnu It ' will sell them to the Northern PacUl railroad, a domestic corporation. Thxt ' may be expauslou of foreign trade, but 1 It U restraint of domestic trade. If 1 there ever was un occasion for an at torney general to run amuck, hero It Is, but It sevmis that tho present attorney general reserves his muck running for benetlceut trusts that expand trade and cheapen rates and bus nothing but en eourngeuient for vicious trusts tlmt sell to Americnii consumers at mouo oly prices and foreign consumers ut competition prices. For example, n railroad cororatloii In the state of Washington wanted some atctl nils. Instead of ordering them directly from the trusts It run amuck nnd got 11 tlrui In Vancouver to order them and there by saved 11 lot of money. All this b:ip pened under the eyes of the attorney general and Senator Aldrlch. Free trade In Iron and steel would not ile stroy the steel trust, and Indeed It I.- not desirable to destroy It, but It would chnngo the nature of the thing, mid after the surplus water hud lccii squeezed out of Its stock It would nmko a respectable and a beneficent trust of It." Itepubllenns oppose the removid of duti 911 etiiil, hides, wool, pulp, etc i No one who understands the relation of tlie Itepubllenn party to trusts, the business connections through campaign funds and tariff duties, will for a mo ment suppose that the Republicans lu congress Intend to do auythlng to liiirnt the trusts. Tho Itcpubllcun congress men owe their political existence to the trusts, and they lose no opportunity to show their gratefulness, although they often Indulge In harmless talk against tho trusts. In theory the Itepubllcans nro most bitterly opposed to the trust connorouts; In practice they never vote for any measure that will curtail trust profits. As President Itoosevelt has told us, "Words are good when backed by deeds, and only so." Republican words as tff trusts ore not backed by deeds. This fuct was demonstrated most conspicuously on March 23 when, by a party vote, the house committee on ways and means voted down mo tions made by toe Democratic leader, John Sharp Williams, and by Champ Clark of Missouri to favorably report bills placing salt, coal, twine, hides, wool, pulp, agricultural Implements and other articles on the free list. Tho Democrats all votod lu favor of taking action to put these trust made goods on tho free list and thus to take the quick est and most certain way of curtailing the excessive profits of tho trusts. Tho Republicans all voted to "stand pat" on their trust protecting tariff measure. It should be easy for the voters to de tide this year between the party that backs Its words with Its deeds nud the party that talks one way and votes the other. Rich Criminals I'npontahrd. It appears that the gentlemen who engineered the merger will not be pun ished for violation of tho antitrust law, for the reason that they did not know It was good law until after n decision was rendered settling Its vulldlty. And the only means they had of learning whether the law wns vulld was to do something and then have the law test ed. Having discovered that 'tho law is good and that they had vloluted It. they will now be allowed to resume their efforts to frame up some sort of scheme that wjlj permit them to ac complish what they sought to accom plish through the merger. This ex planation may not be quite clear to those who nre so old fashioned as to believe that rich criminals should snf fer the same penalties ns poor crim inals when the offenses nre equal. Commoner. Tor a on (ha Light. It Is well to keep the people In mind that the Itepubllcans In .tho hottsi stand like a stone wall ngnlnst a con gressional Investigation Into the post office department. Wherefore? Evi dently beennfif! they believe that the half has not been told concerning' Its rottenness and that tho truth wonld hurt them 'n the Impending campaign. Turn on tho light. Champ Clark. . A WHINING ORGAN. aeoa llraaarltlral Tears Over taa Tvaal Mlaaaa Aatvrlcaa Faratar, rljme itepubllcans In Minnesota and 0lli,r states bordering on ('unite' a. art rrry anxious for reciprocity with Can ada. The American Keoiiomlst, how vr. denounces this rcclproclt-- as "a oiini vt adding to the profits of this oitllers, the Jobbers nud the railroads' 4 ml "a selfish, senseless scheme of .nejiK'iilng the domestic market for farm products." The Kconoiulat also ttal.ua "ft would bresk dow n the price t Miieat at Mluueniiolls, and for pre cisely that effect uiid for that reason (lie Minneapolis milling corporations liu? tbs Twin City dolly newspapers art urging reciprocity with sit their ; Ip.M and lunlii." 1 every farmer knows, this rruda 1 reasoning Is based on tho supposition j that the price of wheat Is fixed I11D Minneapolis according to the amounts of wheat, received there. But tnel facts nre that tin price cf wheat M controlled by the combined crops oft tho world and the demand for the sur plus after our own and other home, uinrkets nro supplied. Those countries) like Knglnnd which do not -ralsoj enniiKli whent to supply their own people buy what they need from tho V lilted States, India, Argentina. Ilus-j sin or any other country tlmt hns a' surplus to sell. The ileiuund for that' surplus fixes the price of wheat nil over the world, and the Canadian ! wheut has but 11 slight Influence to raise or lower It. If the Canadian wheat does not come through Min neapolis, where most of It would bo ground Into Hour In American mills. If would be shipped to eastern Cnn.tdii and either made Into flour there or shipped direct to HiuliuiJ. In any event the most of It rendu Knglnnd 11 ml competes In regulating the prlco t tin t Is paid the world over. The American farmer has Imtii badly treated by the protect lotil.sti. He bus to pay hlch tariff price for nil he buys nnd has but little protection 011 what he rnlc. The Kcoiioinlst knows this and uiiM bolster up Its protection full. teles by U pretended iinxtety for tho American farmer. The Pndectlvit Tariff leu Kue. tvhlch supplies the mon ey t' publlHh the Pcoiioiulst. lit coin MHcd of eusteru iiiniiufiicturers, uiot of whom nre now orgunUed Into trust nnd combines," which uro bleeding the farmer nt every Mre. mi l their anxie ty, expressed throudi thdr organ, the Economist, for the. protection of tho farmer Is like the love of tin lion tor the lamb- to nuiLe a good liietil of. This coiiti ntloii Mining the Uepubllc an protectionist on the virtue of reci procity, which, by the way. wns fn vored by Blaine nnd urged hy McKlu Jey nud wns part of the polltlcul crcod cf President Ilootcvelt until Hit "st-uitl patters" forced him to yield to their d nothing policy. Is favored by many Ite publlcans who see that protection can not long exist unless some of Its bar riers to trade nre lowered. The Democrats tuny accept reciproc ity ns a menus to brei.k down protcc' tlon, but It Is not tho Democratic wny of curing the evil of monopoly. When the farmers Hre relieved from trust cxnctlotis by the tariff Mng reformed so that the trusts can 110 longer limrgo them hi uc h higher' prices here tlmn the same trust production ure sold for abroad, the wheat prntdrm will lie set tled at the same time. All the farmer wants Is to be allowed to buy In thff cheapest inn rket and sell In the best market that the world affords. Tho farmer, with the truU removed from tils hack. wilch are now riding him to lil undoing, will then have equal rights with the monopolists, who nro now enjoying social privileges nt his exMnsc, Elkloa Aatl-rclialf Un ETaard. When the hiklns nntl-rebnte law was passed lust year the Republican crow ed loudly. They called It 11 nt It rust law which wns to curb the railroads by compelling them to treat nil shipper sllke. It wns observed, however, that the railroads were not opposed to this law. And why should they be, when Its object wns to prevent the secret cutting of rates by one road ns ngnlnst n not her nnd to guarantee that all roads would charge uud collect thw maximum rates? Is"lt surprising that tho Values of rnllroud stock rose rap idly In Wall street after the passngo of this act? But. Just as tbo Democrats then said, the law Is proving Ineffective to stop discrimination. Tho Iron Age of March 81 jrientlons one way In which the low Is being evaded. It ts doim through the payment of switching charges to switching compunles. Theso amount In some cusps to $15 n cur. The Iron Age says that this devleo has "been In operation since n very few months after the pnssuge of tho Elklns law, and its existence has been a matter of frequent comment." Another way In which this law In evaded Is this: A big shipper, locntod favorably for shipping over two or more railroads, ships over tho road that will allow the greatest claims for lost goods. No pneknge or goods nre actually lost in transportation, but tho agent I authorised to deduct bo much for such losses. In this way rebates amounting to 20, CO and oven BO per ceut of th freight bill 'nro allowed. Which la Srnae, Which Koasenset While Senator Aldrlch wns saying nt Provldenco that tariff duties "dv not encourage or create monopolies or trusts or combinations" tho German minister of commerce, Mocllnr, com menting upon the recent decision of the United States supreme court In tho case of the Northern Securities coin pnny, wns saying that "the evils-of tho American trust system enn only be counteracted .by a tariff rtduetlcui be cause the high protective tariff Is., the cause of the evil acts the trusU'ttm guilty of." "'r-j. ns i,,.' m