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."
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