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JOB PRINTING. you Save Money. get YOUR When you Want Butter Paper, JOB PRINTING DONE at the WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE PARCHMENT. Headlight Offiee. Literary Supplement.--Tillamook. Oregon, November 30, 1905. HOME OF WASHINGTON. HOW WOMEN PAVED THE WAY FOR RESTORA TION OF MT. VERNON Historic Place Is Now Exactly as it Leaked During the Lifetime of Great Statesman-General - Thous ands Visit it Annually. The bell is tolling, the band playing "Nearer My God to Thee” and the passengers know, even before they raise their eyes to the fair sweep of Virginia’s shore line, that the steamer Is passing Mount Vernon. A pretty custJm—-the tolling of the bell and the playing of the fine old hymn. A hush falls on the crowded decks, and one for future generations this home of General George Washington. In this connection it is interesting to know that during the ten-day annual meet of .the Board of Regents in the month of May a banquet is given to the Covernor ot Virginia. After the feast Is ended and the toasts are >unk the entire association conduct the ¡ov- ernor about the house and grounds, that he may know, by personal observa- tion, that the pact entered into so long ago is being faithfully kept. It is the custom of the ladies of the association to live al Mount Vernon during the yearly session. At this time the old home wears an air of un wonted gaiety. The kitchen gives out the most appetizing odors, and stimu lated to unusual activity by tales of the old days, the corp cf Virginia servants are anxious to show their fitness for the honor of "servin’ de ladies." Even tlie brick oven, a relic of colonial days, is called into use, the beautifully browned bread, pies and cakes attest ing its superiority. STEM INDUSTRIAL CRASH. STANDARD OIL MAGNATE PRE DICTS CRISIS AND SUGGESTS PALLATIVE MEASURES. Would Have Nation Begin Work of Vast Internal Improvements. Ex Premier Meline of France Al»o Sounds Warning. J. II. SHANNON. That the land is the source of all real wealth, has been said by plriloso- phers time out of mind, and now with the urban districts draining from the country much of tlie flower of its man hood the cry is going up from tlie lips of legions of wise men. "Back to the Land!" All manner of colonization projects are being devised and tried for the purpose of diverting foreign immigration front the cities to fields and to relieve the pressure of eouges- tion in tlie over-grown centers.tlne Thirty States Represented. WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE. From a Painting at Mount Vernon. feels the thrill of patriotism stirring the hearts of the people. Hut do the thousands who annually sail down the Potomac to visit the stately home of George Washington know that to a woman’s initiative is due the restoration and preservation of tlie beautiful Mount Vernon of to-day? Away back in 1853 this home was in a rapidly deteriorating condition. John Augustine Washington, a son of Gen eral Washington’s nephew, was the owner of tlie estate. The descendants of Washington evidently did not inherit the clear business sense of their illus trious ancestor, for in General Wash ington’s time the farm yielded a hand some income. Now the fields were ly- impends will be precipitated by over production of manufactured goods, lie says “Consumption must have its bounds, and so with the consumption of manufactured articles. When <a man has tilled all his requirements in clothes and furniture a mere lowering of prices, which is all that mechaulcal improvements generally mean nowa days, can no longer attract him. Therefore, when tlie output is not re strained the market necessarily be comes choked.” • Mr. Rockefeller is specific as to the time when the crush Is to occur. It is likely that he errs in this, because pre dictions as to periods of depression and readjustment are seldom fulfilled as to dates. Crises as a rule come un expected and the immediate reason is most apt to lie due to over-expansion of credit, and overproduction of secur ities than to actual overproduction ot goods; tint when to tlie cause of over- expanded credits is added overproduc tion of manufacture« and a lop-sided industrial system.recovering from the crash is more difficult Day of Distress Near. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associa tion is a most exclusive body. It is composed of a regent, who is president ot the association, and a vice-regent from each of the States of the Union Thirty States are now represented. The women are justly proud of the work that has been and is being acconi plished, and so value their places in the council that it has become a cus tom for the oifice of vice-regent to de scend front mother to daughter or other near relative. When a vacancy occurs in the council the Governor of the State is invited to nominate some prominent woman; but should the name not receive the favorable consid eration of the regent and vlce-reg>nts no appointment is made until one ac ceptable to all is proposed. Miss Cunningham, the first regent, lived at Mount Vernon from 1868 to 1873, when she resigned on account of ill health. She died the following year. The present regent is Mrs. Jus tine Van Rennselaer Townsend, of New York. During the Civil War, though in the very midst of the conflict. Mount Ver non escaped serious injury. This was mainly due to the heroism of Miss Tracy, the secretary ot the association, who took up her abode at Mount Ver- The r’chest man in America Is posi tive. however, that the crash will come about 1907—year after next—and so sure Is lie that the trouble Is on its way, that he is already weaving a plan to provide work for those who will lie thrown out of employment, and thus ameliorate the panic. He Is certain that the number of men who will need help will be about 7,000, 000, and when is added to those men tile number of dependents, tlie total Is ap palling. Mr. Rockefeller thinks this vast army of unemployed should be set to work by the government on in ternal improvements, the building of new roads, improvement of old ones, dredging of streams, Irrigating land, etc. lie says; THE TARIFF PROBLEM. over the revision of the tariff. He de clared that it would be an easy job. As Simple as Can Be. REVISION AND ANTI-REVISION "What would you do with the SENTIMENTS IN WASHINGTON. tariff?" he was asked. Speaker Cannon between Two Fire» Question to be a Live One During the Next Session of Congress. “Why,” he replied, “it’s as simple as can be. All you have to do Is to lower the tariff on woolen goods and to make a big reduction In the shoe schedules. Practically that would satisfy every one, and if you did no more the coun try would be pleased.” The Illinois representative was In formed that he had been preceded by a member from Massachusetts who thought tliat all that would be neces sary would be to put coal, hides and wool on the free list. “Hides on the frae list!” exclaimed the Illinois speaker. “Not while I have the strength to stay here to tight it." “Now you see what an easy thing it Is to revise the tariff,” said the speaker. “If 1 was Hod.” again remarked the speaker in his quaint style. “I would make some changes In the tariff. I would put them into effect before any- lsxty knew what they were to be made. Then there would be no unsettling of business and at least some people would be happy.” It is rather amusing to those who are on the inside of the political arena in Washington to obaerve the manner in which discussions of the tariff are conducted throughout the country. In an academic way the theories of the tariff are talked over. Hut to the men on whom the real work of revising the tariff would devolve there are very dif ferent considerations to Influence them. They openly declare that the tariff ought to be revised, but they say the danger to business Interests would be so great that they fear undertaking it They insist that a struggle over the schedules would last six months, and that during that time the business in terests would ta> suffering stagnation that would afflict the country very sorely. This view is scouted by the revision ists as one that has no standing with men who believe in doing tilings. They Question an Absorbing One. claim that if such considerations are, to prevail there never could be a re What alarms so many prominent vision of the tariff. protectionists is what they claim is tile danger of unsettling the business I So Easy To Revise. conditions of the country. The the Not long ago the difficulties in oretical adjustment of the tariff ac agreeing upon changes In the Dinglei cording to the principles of protection Vast Plan of Construction. "There is enough labor today needed on the public highways to employ all the Idle or surplus labor for a century. Tlie improvement of the roads, the dredging streams, and especially of tlie Mississippi, where annually mill ions of damage is done by the over flow. the irrigation of arid lands, the preservation of forests and the drain age of tlie swamps are the great pub lic problems that should lie occupying tlie public mind. Municipal, state and national laws should be enacted now for the. building of roads, so that when the industrial storm comes it will not be too lute to breast it.” J. I). ROCKEFELLER AND HIS NEW WIG. feature of the ominous flow of people to tlie cities Is tlie phenomenal develop ment of manufactures. There may come a time when manufactures will so overbalance agriculture that there will not lie enough bnalc wealth pro duced to afford a profitable market for tilie factory-made goods. When tlie industrial situation shall become so unbalanced, a commercial crash of stupendous magnitude must ensue. From the WashlngtonPost' "Ordinarily my experience has been that bears were not greatly flur ried when I suddenly came upon them."—Theodore Roosevelt in Scrib ner's for October. As Helpless Babes. House In which Washington LI veil. The KI teli n a it was a Ilunilreil Years Ago. Ing untilled and useless, and the house and outbuildings were showing signs of the passing of the years. The glory of that splendid home was departing. A Woman’» Work. non, accompanied by only a few serv ants. Miss Cunningham, the regent, was prohibited from crossing the mili tary lines and could not join her. For four long years Miss Tracy remained at the lonely home, managing the estate and guarding the buildings. The plan of the rehabilitation of Mount Vernon, by returning to its rnnms the original furnishings, or arti- To the great credit of John Augus tine Washington it Is related that he refused absolutely to consider proposi tions advanced by private companies and individuals to purchase the estate, to be converted later into a pleasure resort. Think of the desecration—a vaudeville performance on that magni fleent stretch of lawn, waiters bearing their burdens of food and drink through those stately halls, the daily uproar of irreverent crowds. And then can.e Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, of South Carolina. She visited Mount Vernon in 1853 and was shocked and grieved- at the fate in store for the historic spot. She con ceived the plan of rousing the women of her beloved southland to the true state of affairs and enlisting their co operation In the raising of a fund ol $200,000, the price asked for the house outbuildings, wharfage, garden an< some two hundred actes of farmlands So Bhe went to work, and It must b< remembered that fifty years ago ft took no small amount of bravery for a woman to Inaugurate and carry on an undertaking of such magnitude. But after five years of effort the whole of • he $200.000 was In hand. It was found impracticable to confine the propaganda to the Southern States, so the North was invited to assist, which she did in generous measure. At the close of 1858 the Mount Ver non estate was purchased and the title OLD FASHIONED passed to the Mount Vernon Lsdie3 cles similar In design .nd construction Association of the Union. generally Butaev«? Freed from Taxation. woman should kno women of A charter was secured from the State that to the loyal. Patriotic »omen ot of Virginia, granting exemption from the land belongs the credit of saving taxation, the association in return from ruin and obliteration the fine old binding itself to the task of restoring to its original condition and preserving home of the Father of his country. Then the city-trained men wlio know not how to make bread out of the soli will clamor for work, curse the economic condition of the period, denounce tlie state, threaten tlie re public witli nil sorts of fantastic then- rles. and there will be acute friction la-tween tile few rich and tlie multi tude of poor. Gradually men will drift back to the land and learn to make their living with the plow and reaper and a satisfactory equilibrium between agriculture and manufactures will once more be readied. Before tills result Is attained, there will be intense suffering. Families that are in comfortable circumstances will know the meaning of misery, and families now affluent will fall Into beggarv. All this is not a dream. Men of clearest vision see it coming. Rockefeller’» Prophecy of Panic. It Is what Mr. John D. Rockefeller sees when he predicts, as he did in a recent interview "an industrial crisis of world-wide extent and unprece dented severity.” ....................... Mr. Rockefeller says the crisis will he brought on by overproduction In ail lines. The Standard OH magnate JULES MELINE. It makes no difference whether Mr. Rockefeller be right or wronfc in his forecast of a gathering storm, Ills plnn for tlie employment of surplus labor is a practical and profitable one and his enumeration of road building, riv er Improvement Irrigation, forest pres ervation and swamp draining, as tlie truly great national problems Is phil osophic. The work needs to be done, and eventually it must lx* done, If the United States is to progress. Waste is national loss—waste by flood and drought as well as waste by Are. Every acre of land should tie made to pay. The government promotes re- scorch and experimentation In agri culture, with a view to Increasing tlie effectiveness of tillage; there is no reason why it should not give counte nance and support to reclamation of land and the enchancement of the fer tility of land already under culture. It Is the land the farm, which is the pedestal of the republic. There should lie no effort to mini mize the wortli of manufactures— processes that work up the raw prod ucts of the earth into serviceable forms. The ores from which are ob tained the metals of commerce are as much a product of the land as corn, wheat and cotton—not as primarily Important, but quite as necessary to man In Ills present highly organized social state. It Is difficult to draw the line tietween some of the basic manufactures and agriculture, for the Iron furnaces and steel mills build the railroads and bridges which give farmers a short-cut to markets. schedule« were Illustrated by rep- esentatlves who called on Speaker Cannon. It happened that one day a prominent Massachusetts ........ called to Impress the speaker with the easy milnner In which the tariff might be revised. ‘You see,” declared the Massachu setts member, "we nil make too milch over tlie difficulties In revising tlie tariff. It would really be very sim ple. We would only have to put hides, wool and coal on the free list and the country would Is- practically satisfied. We might do more, but that would really tie enough. There could be no difficulty in coming to an agreement on that—merely a matter of n few weeks.” The speaker listened Intently as he always does listen to advice. But trailing on the heels of the Massachu setts member «"nine a representative from Illinois who also wanted to re vise the tariff. He started in the same as his predecessor. He thought there was altogether too much fuss made French Statesman Also Predicts Panic« But tbe point is. that where manti- fsetures develop out of proportion to the growth of agriculture, the world Ils being turned wrong Side up. Mr. Meline In declaring that tlie overpro does not stand alone as a prophet »f dnetion of manufactures will lend to Impending evil. Essentially the mime an industrial crash, says; "There Is | prediction Is made by Senator Jules room for everyone under the sun, but ! Moline, once premier of France, and on condition of sharing up the good of the earth, instead of concen- I a man of keen perception. penetration i things and of broad understanding. This »rating upon one department of actlv- statemau says that the crisis which 1 ity.” Is having very little effect on them. In fact the protectionists do not even cure to discuss that phase of the ques tion. A revision of the tariff with the declared purpose to simply lower the schedules they say would have the same effect on .........ountry that they claim would follow an attack on tlie tariff principles by tlie free-trad ers. They claim that merchants would not buy goods when lower tariff rates might still further reduce the price they would have to pay. That condi tions lasting six months they fear would upset all business conditions. They say It might mean panic. But they are likely to have their views very forcibly contested by the tariff revslonlsts next w inter. The re visionists and the men who believe in tin- principles of reciprocity are band Ing together to give battle In the halls of Congress. The citadel Is now dis tlnctlv In tlie control of the stand pal tors and It Is to be seen what pow< • the revisionists will develop In contest ing their ascendancy. 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