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TILLAMOOK HK. ABT .TOOT I could nut help thinking to myself the timber and the land and the young whether it might not be possible some growth and everything for >2.50 an day or other to awaken the people of acre. Taking the value or that timber the Mississippi valley to a realization at what the stumpage actually sold for of the fact that forestry is a problem upon some of the government land in extending from New Orleans to the con Minnesota, >15.06 an acre, the govern AT THIRTY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE tinental divide of the Rocky mountains ment has lost >40,000,600 by that pro HE HEARS THE BIGGEST PRINT on the west, to Canada on the north ceeding. But the stumpage on the 3,- and to the crest of the Alleghanies on 000,000 acres located during the last SHOP IN THE WORLD. the eajt, where the Ohio river has its two years was much more valuable source; and that failure and destruc than that. And If the government had tion are inevitable if it shall be ex managed its timber land business as His Office Pays Out Annually Over pected in the years to come to control any business man or any man of Four and a Half Million Dollars in ' that great flood by Increasing the sense would have managed it we Wages—Is One of the President’s ' levees to protect the sugarbowl of tho might just us well as not have realized Youngest. nation. Tiie time will come when they >70,000,000 from that stumpage and cannot luiild them higher and the have had our young forest trees plant At the head of the biggest printing country will revert to a swamp condi ed in southern California and the sur tion and be as desolate as it is today plus left over. office in the world at the age of 34. (Applause.) where the St. Francis basin is covered That is the position in which Charles A Few Suppositions. with water through which you may A. Stillings finds himself to-day. When look down and see the tops of trees We are told that there is going to be the Hon. Frank W. Palmer resigned that once grew on dry land. How are a deficit this year in the treasury of you going to prevent that? the United States of >22.000,000. If from the office of Public Printer last This great problem of forestry, is we had not thrown away that >70,000,- not alone a matter of sentiment. It 000 we could have covered that deficit summer. President Roosevelt found is just as much a gold blooded <ju< s- at least twice over and still have had himself facing the necessity of making tion of business. The speakers who money left in the treasury. In other one of the most important appoint preceded me have spoken upon the im words the public lands cotnmittee of ments that had ever fallen to his lot pôt tuuce of forestry to mining. I the house has thrown away over have listened with much interest to >70,000,000 of the people’s money <n to consider. The printing required for their masterly discussion on the rela the last two yeurs. If we should put the United States Government is so tion of forestry to mining, and it this total loss at only >50,000,000 for voluminous and of such diversified de brought more forcibly than ever to my the two years it has amounted to over tail that it is necessary to operate the mind the conviction that the whole >2,000,000 a month or ubout >70,000 a enormous plant in which the printing country and those engaged in all its day. industries are fast coming to recog Now suppose some enterprising and is produced, in the most perfect way. nize the Importance -of forestry. I ingenious person had succeeded in At the head of this great printery the regret that we cannot include the tunneling under the United ____ _______ States lower house of congress. They do not treasury and cut a hole Into the vaults President knew he must place a man seem to huve yet waked up to it. and carried off >70,000 a day. Don’t who would be manly among men, you suppose we could get the people strong of character, quick of decision ’ How to Get Things Done. of the United States to wake up the and with a thorough grasp of every I am not going to take up your time public lands committee if it required detail or the printing business In with any further dissertations upon some action by it to stop that steal That is exactly what is going everyone of its many branches. Many the importance of forestry. But I want ing? to offer some practical suggestions as on; for if the house public lands com men backed by strong political influ mittee does nothing in this session of ence were presented to the President to what we should do to get what we ! (and it has already voted to want done. I listened with the great- congress ' do nothing) the loss to this country for his consideration In making the est interest and pleasure to the presl- Revolutionary Russia. Like the Stuarts of Great Britain and the Bourbons of France, the reigning dynasty of Russia goes from blunder to blunder. Such a revolution as is in progress throughout Euro pean Russia cannot be suppressed by the sword. The thing to have done was to make concessions to the spirit of liberty when the agitation began. Grants that would have been When you buy a Wing Piano, you buy at whole hailed as liberal a year ago would be | sale. You pay the actual cost of making1 it with only our wholesale profit added. When you buy rejected with scorn to-day as wholly j a riano, as many still do—at retail—you pay the insufficient. retail dealer’s store rent and other expo ises. The revolution is strikingly like that You pay his profit and the commission or salary of the agents or salesmen he employs—all these of France, and there will be no stop on of what the dealer himself has to pay to ping it The proletariat has fought the top manufacturer. The retail profit on a piano and tasted blood. Suppose they sup is from $75 to $200. isn't this worth saving? press the revolt In Moscow? It will break out at some other point—In Po land, or Lithuania, or Finland, or SENT ON TRIAL ANYWHERE WE PAY FREIGHT. . . . elsewhere between the Baltic and the NO MONEY IN ADVANCE Black seas. The army will be kept on We will place a Win? Piano in any home In the the jump, and Its loyalty put to the su- United Statas on trial, without asking for any ad premest test. Then, when order has vance payment or deposit. W« pay the freight all other charges In advance. There is been shot into the nation, and reigns and nothing to be paid either before the piano is cent everywhere as It once did at Warsaw, or when it Is received. If the piano is not satis the revolution will break out afresh In factory after 20 days’ trial In your home, we take back entirely at our expense. You pay us noth Tn 38 years over 42,000 Winar Piano« Moscow or somewhere else, and It will it ing, and are under no more obligation to keep have been manufactured and sold. They are recom all have to be done over, again. the piano than if you were examining it at our mended by seven governors of States, by musical > Before the thing Is finished. Russia factory. 1 here can be absolutely no risk or ex- collegesand schools, by promlnentorcheetra leaders, to you. music teachers and musicians. Thousands of these will be a republic; not a free republic, pense not imagine that ft Is impossible for us to do pianos are in your own State, some of them undoubt but a revolutionary republic guided by as Do we say. Our system is so perfect that we can edly in your very neighborhood. Our catalogue con a Cromwell or a Napoleon. And if such without any trouble deliver a piano In the smallest tains names and addresses. any part of the United States just as should be her destiny, she will be a town in Mandolin, Guitar, Harp, Zither,Banjo as we can in New York City, and with ab mighty ugly customer in a quarrel with easily solutely no trouble or annoyance to you, and —The tones of any or al! of these instruments may1 a neighbor, just as England was in the without anything being paid in advance or on be reproduced perfectly by any ordinary player on the I either for freight or any other expense. piano by means of our Instrumental Attachment. middle of the seventeenth century, just arrival This improvement Is patented by us and cannot be We take old pianos and organs in exchange. as France was at the close of the eight A guarantee for 12 years against any defect in had in any other piano. WING ORGANS are made I 1 appointment for Public Printer, but tone, action, workmanship or material is given with the same care and told In the tame way aa Wing none seemed to be possessed of all of eenth century. Pianos. Separate organ catalogue sent on request. For a full 100 years republicanism wHh every Wing Piano. the necessary qualifications, until his attention was directed to a progres has been driving autocracy to the wall sive young man whose knowledge of | in Europe. France Is a pretty good re- the printing business covered the en | public and getting better every day. tire field and who had had practlca’ The Kaiser of the great German Em experience in Boston, Philadelphia ar J pire has In the Reichstag a partner In Washington—one Charles A. Stllllrgs. the government, ofttimes a very med And so, after a thorough examination dlesome and a very obstinate partner into Mr. Stillings’ commercial career, at that. The Cortez holds the purse of the President, finding that Mr. Stil Spain, and Italy Is a constitutional lings' ability was just wbat he had monarchy. Austria-Hungary has a leg been looking for, appointed him as the islature, and the Scandinavian peo executive head of the Government ples have enjoyed liberty for ages. lb»-S«S w 13 Russia is rousing from the slumber of Printing Office. The Senate promptly and she cannot be put to confirmed the President's appointment centuries 1 again. There will be battle and and so Mr. Stillings has become the sleep • blood and terror, but it will end in a active head of the establishment the Booh 0/Complete /«J republic —at least, in a legislature— A brief Idea of the volume of busi then Russia will begin the new ness conducted by the Government and • of learning what liberty la and! Printing Office may be obtained from lesson 1 WING & SON * the following figures. Last year they what to do with It. paid in wages to Its various employees V 358-309 W. 13th 8t„ New Tork the sum of $4,616,781.70 and nearly 1868-38th Year-1906 Don't Ask Again. three millions more were spent for various supplies, including paper, new An amusing incident is related of machinery and maintenance of the j Nat Goodwin, the actor. Not long ago Couldn't Milk the Bicycle. plant Every dollar of this great sum , Goodwin was standing on the corner Some years ago, soon after bicycles is expended under the check of the , of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. for sellinr U.» pat kiM Public Printer and it is evident that New York City, where three car lines began to be freely used throughout the M 10 eu. uTt United States, an agent for a New York beauty. Ten kevs, S atop, much wisdom is needed in handling converge, i when a seedy-looklng indi house turned up at a village in Central •buaiMd rtia, doublo M. money where so large an amount is in vidual, apparently from the country, laws, protectora and claapfe New York. He expatiated to an old Tou can earn U in a day. volved. approached him questioningly. W> triwt yow. Mead upon the virtues of the new ma for Bluinir, aell the package* Mr. Stillings is especially fitted by “I want to go to the Brooklyn farmer chine, dwelling upon what a time-saver at 10 eta. and return ua th« money. Than wa tend y<* the training, inclination, and ability for Bridge," he said, looking in perplexity it was, and withal how fashionable it Aocordeon. We also (five Vlollna, Guitar», Mandolin^ GrnphophonM A other el earant preaenta. Writ.new. the position. He forms an attractive at the cars rushing in six different di would be for the old farmer to be able TRUE BLUE CO., Dept. 465, BOSTON, MASS. addition to the ranks of the young men rections. to ride down to the village on one of with whom President Roosevelt has ‘‘Very well," said Goodwin, severely, the new-fangled machines whenever he wanted toi "Why,” said the salesman, "whenever you go to the postoffice, bank, or store, everybody will stop and stare at Farmer Wilson, and pretty soon you’ll be the most-talked-of man in the whole coun AMERICAN CROWN ty.” "That may be so,” replied the farmer, “but I tell you I’m a-needin’ a good new cow mo’n I am one o’ them things you’re a-talkin’ about” Nevertheless, the agent extracted a promise that the old man would save ’« a green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect up his money and purchase a bicycle cleanser for automobile machinery and al* when the agent came around in the fait vehicles; will not injure the meat highly According to promise, the agent was polished surface. Made from pure vegetaN« on hand in the fall with the wheel. The oils. If your dealer does not carry American farmer took him in charge and carried Crown Soap in stock, send us his name and him out to the lot and showed him a address and *re will see that your wants are fine Jersey cow. supplied. Put up in 12^ 25 and 50 lb pails, “That’s what I bought with the money I saved up for you,” said the farmer. And __ without waiting ---- ,, for --- the — agent to — _____ '' ■ • recover £- from his surprise he went on: CHICAGO. Ill* “I 'lowed that I needed the cow mo’n I did the bicycle, an’ there she is. Ain’t she a beaut?” When the agent recovered his breath he said: “You’ll look funny riding that Pine, Mr, Cypres, and Yellow Pine. cow to town, won't you?” Write for Catalogue. “Ya’as,” drawled out the old farmer, "but I’d look a darned sight funnier i Eagle Tank Co., 2SI N. Green St, tryin' to milk a bicycle.” j Chicago, Ill. »CENE IN MINNESOTA. Timber Devastation After Lumbering and Fire. dent’s adaress yesterday and one of of >70,006 a day—>2,000,000 a month— his sentences struck me very forcibly. >25,600,000 a year, and it is much more He suid; "We want to change the than that—will go right along and hope of accomplishment to the knowl continue until all the timber land of edge of things done.'* If we are go the government has been stolen. That ing to do that we must have a clear will be a little over a year, according cut ldeu of what we are going to do to the report of tho senate public and of what we want Congress to do lands committee. And after the land —so plain and clear that there is no is nil gone—after the horse has been possibility of uny man being so stupid stolen—the house public lands com that he cannot understand IL mittee will awaken from its Kip Van We have listened to these gentlemen Winkle slumbers and close the stable here today telling of the necessities of door with a bang. the mining industries and of the injus Some Things to Do« tice brought about by insufficient laws. There is u most simple way to Before 1 close I wish to specify get all tlie things done that they have some definite and specific things which rsoommi ndi *i. ami mor«^ too. The first should be done; is to come to a perfect understanding First—Kepeui the timber and stone with u business bureau of the govern act. ment, if we can create such a bureau, Second—l*ass the consolidation bill and the way to do that is to pass the putting tiie government forests undei bill consolidating the forest reserves tiie management of the bureau of for under the control of Gifford I’inchot. estry. (Applause.) And ufter you hnve done Third—Provide by national legisla that and he has consulted with the tion that every ucre of ugricuiturul lumberman and the miner and the far | land that can be reclaimed under the mer and understands what they wiuit, I national irrigation system must be then back him up and make your con ' saved for the homemaker who will go gressman help to get It done. there und make a home upon It. In that way you can breuk up the A Case of Masterly Inactivity« timber combinations, and in that way only; because the land thieves of Let us look at the business end ____________of that proposition. _ Other ’ll... 11.1. things be- North Dakota, under tiie commutation sides bees have business ends. ___ For _ a clause; the land thieves of Montana, number of years the president of the under the desert land act; the land ’•’United Slates, the secretary of the in thieves under tiie timber und stone act terior und Lite commissioner of the in—well, perhaps 1 might be permitted mention Oregon (Laughter) are general land office luvo been trying to to You will have to Impri ss upon congress, without suc working together. cess, llie necessity of repealing the explode some of those Japanese shells timber and st<*ne act. I want to give among them to break up the combi the exact facts. The president, in De nation. To show you why we cannot depend cember, 1602, more than two years ago, called the attention of congress in upon congressmen from the timber tiie strongest possible language to tho slates of tiie w«*Nt to correct this enor necessity of doing something to stop mous evil, a year ago both Oregon and both repi esentatives tiie frauds and depredations upon the senators public domain under the limber and from Oregon were bitterly opposed to Repre «tone act. The secretary said in his any change in the land laws. annual report inoru than two years sentatives Hermann and Williamson both went before the committee and ago: Mr. “The timber nnd stone act __ , will, ___ , __ if protested aguinst any change. not repealed or radically amended, re Hermann was before the committee. sult ultimately in the complete de At that • x.ict moment the Oregon struction of the timber on tho unap grand jury was in session in the cily propriated and unreserved public Ot I’m H ind, composed of men diawn by lot from ail over the state, and that lands.*' I find these words in tho report of grand Jury urged the repeal of all the senate committee on the public those laws—the timber and stone act, lands, und tiie date is February 19, tiie desert land act and the commuta tion cluuse—and sent a memorial to 1903: The Government Printing office “It can be plainly seen that nil the the public lands committee to that ef Now the grand Jury has had valuable timber lands of tl.o United fect. —The Largest Print Shop in some business with Mr. Hermann since Blates will be owned by speculators (Laughter and applause.) the World. within three yours if tiie opportunity that time. In al) those western states the state to acquire them at >2.56 an ucru la has tiie power to form districts for continued.'* local public inipruv» imuts. such as ir That was February 19. Charles A. Stillings, the New now pretty close to February 19, 1905, rigation districts, sanitary districts, and one year from that date the three drainage districts or levee districts Public Printer. and I for one do not believe that that years will be exlir.usted nnd all the timber lund will be gone according to i- the right policy that tiie h itional government should assume the burden Ibis official statement. of protecting from fire forests now Has the bill been repealed? No! lias the house of representatives owned by men who have g<»tt« n tin m done anything to stop thlH shameful from the government for one-tenth of The state and nation waste of tiie public property under I lie their value. should co-operate to form forestry surrouoded himself In the administra timber and stone act'.’ No! you can go this time, but never ask They have done nothing whatever to districts and have assessments levied tion of the Government affairs. He re me again.” •top the abuses and frauds constantly on all private land« in tlie district, and j every ucre should contribute its pro ceived his education in the Phillips being committed under that act. portion to the cost of preserving it Grammar School and the English High from fire. (Applause.) President Sees the Necessity« School at Boston. After leaving school An Improvised Excuse. ‘ There is one more thing that I was Again tho following year the presi going to urge as a mere matter of per lie entered his father's printing office, Tommy was absent from school for dent In his message to congress made tonal opinion. In making tiie suggt «- where he received a varied and thor substantially the same recommenda lion I do not speak for California or one entire day. But he brought a note tions. They were reiterated by the for the National Irrigation Associa ough experience In all branches of the of excuse the next morning, which: trade, finally working up to the posi secretary of the Interior. The senate tion, but for myself alone. 1 have committee on public lands recom been nil my life a republican and in tion of general manager and later be would prove that he had been detained mended a bill to repeal the timber and my earlier year« advocated tiie repub coming sales manager of the Griffith- at home legitimately. The writing was . a. t and the senate p t -<c,| the lican doctrine of a tariff (or protection hardly that of a feminine hand, and the i bill in the lust session of congress. It 1 In many political campaigns in my na StilUngs Press, an organization which went to the public lands committee of tive state of California from tiie Or took over the business formerly con note appeared to have been written la- | boriously. Furthermore, the penman the house or representatives. T. B. egon line to Mexico; but because I be ducted by Mr. Stillings, Sr. Walker appeared before that commit lieve in preserving our industries and In all of Mr. Stillings' transactions ship seemed to be strangely familiar to tee and waved his magic wand and not in destroying them 1 believe that they gave two votes for the repeal of in order to preserve the forest Indus he has shown an unusual aptitude for his teacher. 1 he note read at foUowi*. “Dwir Teacher: Please excuse Tom the bill out of eighteen members of tries of this nation we should repeal organization, and. possessing a marked the committee. Two votes! Ami the every tariff law imposing a tariff upon my for not coining to stool yhtid.v, be bill is lying there In that committee the products of the forest, whether degree of personal magnetism has couldn’t come I tore my pants. Yours yet. . timber or wood or wood pulp, at any drawn into a close friendship with In this session of congress without rate for a limited number of years and himself many men of dignity and posi truly, Mr>. Mulligan.” waiting for anything, or for anybody until w« shall have planted forests tion. Mr. Stillings is a Mason, having to do anything, they passed a resolu enough to harvest annually from our tion in the public lands committee of own forests all the wood and timber attained the honors of the thirty-sec nf.r* l!es7h* body of Mary Ann the house continuing this whole sub we may use in any one year. ond degree of the Scottish Rite, and Is ject over until the next session of There ar« a number of other thing« also a Mystic Shriner. congress. But mighty tough for Al,r.h.mA ‘ that 1 have in my mind to suggest The next session of congress will that ought to be done: convene at a time within two months that would make him feel the full ot the expiration of the three years Pass the Appalachian Bill. weight of an outraged national pubbe new forests by the national govern- • within which the senate committee One is to pass the Appalachian for sentiment. 1 Applause.) They are not ment on the wide level prairies and . told COBgrBM that till th.- titular land bare, rolling foothills which are now would be gone unless they g<>t action. estry bill, which 1« ready to be passed liable to punlaliment criminally, but supposed to be among the waste places Another Is to stop now and for all they are morally responsible for every In the two years that have expired i of the land and fit only for grazing time all «xohang« ot lands in forest fraud committed under the timber and •Ince the president has called th« at If the gov stone aet »In. e they shelved th. bill to ground for a. few stray cattle and , tention of congr««« to that thnb«r and reserves for other land«. sheep. ernment needs any such land let it buy repeal It passed by th. seuat. In th. stone law there have been located under It Is the vast possibilities of forest them and pay for them their fair value last session of congress. the timber ami -»t oie act os <r 3 i '. i O,- and no mor«. planting and timber production in this ( All lieu land «crip Put It Is not enough merely to re 000 acres of timber land, the greater should be called In nnd canceled and region that make it almost a crime part of It the magnificent timber of no more «ver issued under any circum peal the timber and .tone act. Every against future generations to part acre of public forest lands or brush the northwest, which, according to th« stances. The forest lieu land ex or woodlands which conserves a water with the land in Its present condition I, report cf thr secretary of th« interior change law should be repealed. suppl." should be at once embraced In to stockmen under such a scheme as | and the commissioner of the general the Kinkaid bill for the creation of ,1 The bill providing for the consolida land Offic«. 1« worth anywhere from tion of the government forestry inter permanent forest reserves, the title to large grazing estates In private own >10 to >ioa nn acre for th« mrr« value ests 1« ready to b« passed by the be always retained by the national ership. | government .nd th. stump«,, of ma of the stumpage, to say nothing of the senate and should be passed In this The mining Interests more Immedl- I tured timber only to be sold. young timber or the land itself. session of congress. It has M (ready Mo.drrtal ot the Arid ately than any other ought to oppose) passed the house; and if thl« cession this G40-acre homestead idea anywhere, Rewlo«. Four Million Dollar L obb . of _w congress ____ ___________ adjourn« without ________ the bill The whol. great plains region tn the great plains or Rocky mountain I state« and h. ip to Inaugurate a great bring passed by the house which has In other word«, as a result of the should be studied and developed as a daliherat« delay of the public lands passed thr senate repealing the tim vast area which can be transformed | national policy of planting new for- ' wmvn v»n ---------- oe transformed ests. not to furnish and •. recion f->r only the miros but t> wood < ■•nserv r semi-arid - to one of timber committee of th« houee. Instead of ber and »tone art. every member of from ’a** having th« value of th« «tumpage from the public lands committee ought to be lRthJ „r—t («rtilitv and of more immense humid cllmat« and lnr **<«e riv- the rnlnfnll floods and fur-' t' _. planting area«, flow of r the up to popular obloquy and that 3.006,000 acres of timber In the held tional treasury w« have parted with whipped at the cart's tail with a lash hundred, vt thousand, ot sort», ot nl.h water waler for for Irrigation. [ irrigation. Are Sold Direct From Factory and in No Other Way YOU SAVE fROM $75 to $200 5i I I ■ T IMWrfiW Payments Kirk’s SOAP James S. Kirk i Company SILOS OATF ONE LIFE TO LIVE That’s the Reason Why EVERYBODY should get the most out of life that they can. 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