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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 30, 1915. I FREE TRADE GOSSIP. ------ o-------- Some Interesting Paragraphs Culleu I ' From Leading Newspapers. I -----o------- The fear of free-trade is the begin ning of wisdom. ------ o------ • The present free trade Congress will soon be sized with attacks ot tax. ------ o Adequate defense, by all means, and let it begin with proper protection tor home industries. FOLKS “BACK EAST" TO HEAR OF OREGON / T ------- °------- Letter Writing Week to be Set By Chamber of Commerce. Have you any relatives or any friends in that far away region gen erally described somewhat indefinite ly and inadequately as "back East?” Of course you have. What do they know about Tilla mook ? Probably not much. Why don’t you let them know some thing about it? Changing its title irom bonds to in Will you join in a campaign of creased taxes doesn't make the added united effort, along with the other >urden on the free trade ruined citi People in Tillamook, to bring Tilla zen any easier to bear. mook to the attention to the rcmain- the country? With our free trade Congress This letter question soon will be threatening to levy a heavy tax on asked by the Portland Chamber of tobacco to raise the revenues neces Commerce. sary to tide us over the few remain In a form to fit each particular com ing days of free trade farce, the last munity of the state it will be asked •lopes of smoking the pipe of peace by the people of all Oregon by their vanish into thin air. respective commercial organizations. Affirmmative Answer Wanted. The Underwood free trade advo It will be asked of the students of cates admit the failure of their law, all the schools, the colleges and uni out say it would work satisfactorily versities and nothing but an affirma under peaceful conditions. Unfortun ately for the burden-bearers of econ tive answer will be permitted. So that this idea of informing the omic government, Free trade legisla folks “back East” of the particular tion has ever proved itself a disturber attractions of Portland and 01 Ore ot industrial peace. ------ o------ gon may be thoroughly impressed up When the war is over not only will on every resident of the state the Chamber of Commerce has decided foreign orders drop, but under the ex to set aside a “letter-writing week.” isting tariff duties we are certain to The name suggests the object. suffer an influx of cheap foreign During this one week—probably the made goods that will drive American third week in January—you are ex manufacturers out of the American pected to write to all your friends and market. 1 here must be a change of your relatives and tell them of the policy if there is to be permanent superior attractions of Oregon—her prosperity. attractions for the tourist, particular The only invasion this country need ly and for the prospective settler in fear from foreign lands is the’ inva cidentally. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Com sion of goods made by the 10 cents a merce urged, try to think up all the day wage earners over there. The nice things you can about your city only preparedness the country can and state. Try to enumerate the ad have for such an invasion must come vantages of visiting here—if visiting through a protective tariff. Anyone here. If the climate appeals to you as ivho seriously disputes this statement something worth mentioning—that is. either ignorantly or wilfully misrep resents. favorably—why note it down and when “letter-writing week” rolls At the dinner which he gave in the round, tell your Eastern acquaint White House to members of the ances about it. Democratic National Committee, The same applies to the scenery. 1 resident Wilson asked whether any Letter Forms Prepared. one present could suggest any cam If you are a good letter writer you paign argument other than the tariff can compose a communication of which the Democratic opposition your own, sufficiently appealing, no could advance, and those about the doubt, to attract some of your folks table shook their heads. “The only- out here next summer. issue the Republicans have is the tar That is the idea, anyway, of this iff,” said President Wilson. “Nobody letter-writing campaign. knows at this time what sort of a If you are not so handy at writing tariff measure must be framed to meet letters, why some of the accomplish changing conditions resulting from ed young men of letters around the the war.” Protectionists in the Senate headquarters of the Chamber of Com have accepted the challenge of Presi merce will supply blank forms that den Wilson, and the tariff will be you can follow. These same young made the big issue of 1916. Protec men are working on various form tionists will tell the President what letters to fit almost every kind of kind of a tariff should be made. situation. ------ 0------ They will prepare a letter to be sent On the direct issue of protection vs to business acquaintances, only. It free trade, could it be brought to a will be quite formal, but somewhat vote to-day, is there any reason to be cheery in tone and cordial enough to lieve that the American people would make the man who receives it under repudiate the former and accept the stand that the writer really is sincere latter, that they would vote for direct about asking him to come out and taxes in preference to meeting the give this country the “once over. expenses of the government very Then there will be a set of letters, largely through the levying of an altogether different, to be sent to impost on foreign-made goods? Yet your boyhood or girlhood chums. Mr. Wilson wili not listen to any pro They will contain blissful reminders posal for the revision upward of the of some of the intimate incidents of duties fixed in the Wilson-Under early young manhood, and contrast wood tariff act. Direct taxation is them with the peculiar activities of the only proper method of replenish the Northwestern country in such a ing the treasury, as he sees it. His way that the friend of your youth will proposition has had a cool reception, want to take the next train for Ore judging from the press comment. The levying of new and unheard of taxes gon. Folks Back Home to be Told Facts. in time of peace is something the American people find it difficult to The expert letter writers will not swallow. attempt, of course, to supply you ------ o —— with words for letters to your immed “ It is evident that the movement for iate families, but they will deal out an abundance of facts and information a non-partisan tariff commission is to that you can use to fill in with when rough seas. For one thing, various powerful industries that desire pro you write to the folks at home. tection do not want just enough but Meanwhile they want everyone to all they can get by party favor or get busy and think of all the Pcr’ sons with whom you are on writing otherwise".—Chicago News. Just enough protection is all that terms—even those to whom you any industrial producer wants, asks 1 never have written, for that matter. for, or expects. More than just When you think of them note down enough would be of no possible ad- their names and addresses. Then you vanuge. __ _ __ enough _ Just to hold the will be in shape to do your share of American* market against the compe the good work during the established tition of cheap foreign labor; no letter-writing period. more, no less. Then the law of com This letter-writing idea has been petition, and not the tariff, will keep under consideration by the L hamber prices down to a reasonable margin officials for the last two or three of profit. Has the News forgotten at weeks, and the more they considered one time the tariff on wire nail» was it the more the plan appealed to them 4 cents a pound and at that very time as a good, sensible, practicable way the domestic price of wire nails was of bringing Oregon to the public at 3Vi cents a pound’ Four cents a pound was more than enough, but no tention. producer of " ire nails could take ad Strong Committee Appointed. vantage of it. Competition at home The whole scheme was turned over settled the question of prices, as it to the publicity and conventions bu always has done and always will do reau, which proposed to labor w'th it under a protective tariff. until it is carried to a successful and glorious conclusion. J. C. Ainsworth, Candidates and Issues. chairman of the bureau, appointed The Literary Digest has compii ted the following committee to liandh I a poll of Republican editors, senstor* the details of the work: Julius 1. and representatives of the ™“n,rvi ™ Meier, chairman; Frank C. Riggs »''■ | the man and the i««ue t in toib. Over ...jved to the que»- Frank E. Smith. committee of 7» replie* wtr* recetv This, apparently, is a . Of this i piargr novel, original and <ffc !<<Urid m <•>"' jf Root. fiotjgns of its own._____ _ | e Bin. - '-M 1 >r Siierm for Borah. 77 i'X’ CuinimngS. Another sort of "reunion of the fu Fairbanks and >3 fur Weeks, ture will be the "Veteran» of lhe »■ were also 5l who fsrored Tsft for Roosevelt .Sixteen votes car II." n of Cahlo' i»« Can a cocked hat hold two entlntnt cast for Job”’ sp of those w h cx- personages at the same time than one o if the shall see next year. plans the f 'act tl replu» “King Peter eicapes on h°r"b'’^ votes exce eds the resting That’s a headline and a suggestion U Such an in itiuirv > ctes bat it a, an indtcatK*" King George to practice up e’f r repelar is not conelnMve .If America is ever invaded '’V ' IO b < Il is feeling, nor ” “ Teutons, it may be expected th Ew th* vet too mriy «« 1 bqpib will fall on the New as to lonMlso« ot «•« ' people Herald. candidate* and i I n.<nn| President Wilson says *c ’rc ", uho non <*»'■* ‘ jn partjggrship with the J-A , another u r»to (hr w i»n countri«f; and two or t con «Meta' .’"wicked pirtoer” »•’ bi U" « I' r» ide ill ♦eleittO" ^Henry Ford might h»»« ”*b| that »1 R ■ ** i i«M* # until ptetusea and tapestries sith r h«vc be»' lions, but why be a «nilli00*1 »nalytrcd A 1*4« « ■ of can’t be original’ .<«,■<« it k S'*»*. i ¡.»¿hr« I. are No man is ever nominaicd t 1 idem in the town he five’ *n . »,<- Bill Thompson's last h< 1 I question. This is indicated in the re- I suits of the Literary Digest's inquiry, I and it seems to be the predominant thought of the gathering of Repub- I icans from all parts of the country in Washington this week to attend he meeting of the national commit tee and the National League of Re publican clubs. There were not many avowed advocates for any candidate, but the names of Root and Hughes were most often heard, and it appear ed to be the conviction, even among some who expressed opposition to him. that Hughes could have the lomiuation if he would accept it. But this is December. fhe Literary Digest gives to the Globe-Democrat ---- the • - distinction Of sounding the keynote of the coming campaign in declaring the supreme is sue to be the tariff, which, despite many other issues, is “alone sufficient unto victory. And this view is sup- I'orted by 451 out of 685 Republican ■d'tors, and echoed by a majority of lhe senators and representatives who TiPreJised opinion upon the subject. * he first plank in the Republican platform to be adopted in Chicago next June will demand a restoration of a protective tariff. We feel quite sure about that. Whatever else may occur between now and June to de- iclop or modify other issues, protec tion will not fail to be the daminant one.—Globe Democrat, ELAND B. ERWIN, J INSTRUCTION. PIANO BAKING POWDER •h » ». Diploma from Chicago Musical College.—Beginners receive the same careful training as the most advanced. Terms:—$4.00 per months Instruc tion. All lessons given at Studio. Factory Representative for the Chute & Butler Pianos and Player Pianos. V * T BO ALS, N.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Surgeon S. P. Co. (I. O. O F. Blilg ) Tillamook AbsolutelxPure Uregi u - ERSTER HOLMES. ATTORNKY AT LAW No Alum—No Phosphate COMMERCIAL BUILDING. FIRST STREET. TILLAMOOK, II. OREGON WA 'I GO Y NE, O. A. C. natural death far in excess of the | birth rate. Vienna reports indicate ATTORNEY AT LAW. that the Austrian capital is losing 400 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I he House, by a narrow majority citizens a week, either through death Office: OPPOSITE Cot’KT H ovsb , of sixteen, has passed a resolution or non-existant maternity. Birth in FARMERS’ AND HOME MAKERS’ WEEK extending the so-called "war tax" 1 Paris arc about 390 a week as against Ol'TKUII. Tilliiincok and RURAL IIFE CONFERENCES tor another year. 1 he action was ex i Soo normally. The weekly civilian , January J to 8, 1916 pected and even imperative, provided death rate has not been officially J. CLAUSSEN, the Democrats are determined to fol computed. What all belligerent na Live Information, »»tactical Help for the Hone the Harm, the Community. . LAWYER. low their theories as to the proper tions and cities have suffered in civil Conventions of Oregon’» G tea test Industrie» sources of revenue and preserve in ian citizenship losses proportionately, DEUTSCHER ADVOKAT Conferences on Oregon’s Moat Vital Problems extravagant appropriations. The out of the estimated 9.000,000 military 1;S DEMON’S I’R ATIONS— Democrats are poor on estimates, casualities of tlje world war to date, LKCTl’K KXI11HI IIONS KNTKKTAINMKNT8 2!8 T illamook B loc * i hey estimated that the “ordinary” can be accurately estimated only after Two thousand people attended last year. It i» a receipts for the fiscal year ending peace is declared. great place to mak< friends with live Oregon Tillamook June 30, 1915, would be $278,000,000 tbiukcr» and live thought», good wurkrr», and good woik, and that the “oidinary” expenditures Misons and Stars Install Officers for would be $710,000,000. These esti R J ACK OLSEN, Insuing Year. WINTER SHORT COURSE mates eliminated postoffice expendi January io to February 4, 1916 tures. But the ordinary receipts were DENTIST. On Monday evening Dec. 27th, St. A Prat th at Agriculture’ Cour»e in a Nut Shell. only $097,910,827.58, while the ordi Applied St ieiiCf * h Actual Work of (I. O. O. F. Bldg.) nary disbursements were $731,390.- Joh <'e Day, the Masonic and Star the Farm Mini Houm hold. 759-H, leaving an actual deficit of Lodges of this city met and celebrated Course» in FRUIT RAISING, FtKM CROPS, *33,4*8,931.53 instead of an estimated the occasion by a joint Installation of Tillamook • Oregon bOU.S STOCK RAISING, HAIRY WORK. POULTRY RAISING, G A R DM N IN G. COOK surplus of $18,000,000. The excess of the Royal Arch, Blue Lodge Mason», ING, SK A ING IIOl sKHOl.l» AR I S. liOMK total disbursements was $57,442.509.75 and Star Lodge officers for the ensuing NURSING, UU m INE s S MKTII o DS, ROAD T. BUI la BUI 1 iflNG HARM KNG IN I I RING, RURAL 1 hese figures are quoted from an ar ORGANIZATIONS. MARKK I’lNG. ticle by Chairman Fitzgerald of the year. ATTORNEY-AT LAW. The Royal Arch officer«, the first to Correspond« ncc Courvea Without Tuition. House of Committee on appropria Kxpert Instruction in Mu»ic. tions. Complete Set of Abattue t Book« in be ihatklled, were installed by Compan Rtduced railroad rate». The customs receipts for the first ion H. T. Botts assisted by Marshal Office. Foi progtan» wt lie to Th» College Exchange, Oregon four months of the present fiscal year Walline and weie as follows: Agricultural Ceilege. Corvallis. Uw 12 1 lo l-l) Tnxea Paid for Non Residents. were nearly $13,000,000 less than for H. P., H. T. Botts; King, John Le T ii . lamook B lock , the corresponding month of last year. oGGOOOOCCOOOOOOQOCOOOMOC Yet the Treasury Department "esti land Henderson; Scribe, Ray Walls; Tillamook .... Oregon mates” $240,000,000 from customs for Capt. of IL, E. J. Claussen; l’rin Soj , i Sidney E. Henderaoi’, Pres., Botli Phones. this year as against its estimate of E. M. Condit; Sccy., Carl HaberlHch; 1 Surveyor. $220,000,000 last year. The actual re Treas., C. I. Clough; Third Vail A. A. John I.elund Henderson, Sec QR. I,. L. 1IOY, ceipts from that source last year were Pennington; Second. A. H. Gaylord; retary Trena., Attoiney-at- $209,000,000. The budget provides for First, J. E. Reedy. , L hw . Notmry Publie. $170,800,000 greater expenditures for PHYSICIAN ANI) SURGEON The following Blue Lodge Officers ' 1917 than for ¡916, of which only $39,- T illamook B lock , 800,000 is due to extraordinary mili were tnen installed by R. T. Goals as- | tary and naval expenditures. Either a sisted By Marshal Walline: Oregon. bond issue or extra taxation is neces Tillamook, W. M., E. J. Claussen; S. W.. Frank j sary. Heyd;J. W.. F. R. Cardiff; Treas., I Ln w, Abstract«. R m I Enlate, The Republicans and Progressives Surveying, I naurnnee. QR. ELMER ALLEN voted against the House resolution, Irvie Keldson ; Secy., A. H. Gavlord ;'. Both Phones. not because the money was not need S. D , John Keldson; J. D., H. A. Wil- I ed, but because they felt that there liams; S. S., A. A. Pennington; J. 3. I i (Successor to Dr. Sharp), - OPKGON. TILLAMOOK were other ways of getting it. Im Morris Schnal; Tyler, M. V. Stillwell. DENTIST. ports for the year ending November After the Installation of the Blue 30 were greater in value than for any Commerciul Building, Tillamook year prior to 1013. The Underwood Lodge officers. Installing officer Mrs, rates stimulated importations of free Carl Haberlach assisted by Marshal articles. The Republicans would pre Mrs. C. I. Clough installed the officers I E. REEDY, D.V M., fer increased tariff duties to special of the Star Lodge. and carry nround a load The work waa <J « taxes on business transactions. Mr. cf water and a cold, v Mann objeeted to a year's extension carried out in full form, the above VETERINARY. Tower's Fish Brand on the ground that conditions may mentioned ladies carrying it .out in ii change so as to make this form of manner very credible to themselves. Both Phonea. taxation unnecessary. Mr Cannon Following is the list of Star officers: • Oregon Tillu mook suggested the sale of Panama Canal W. M., Theresa Gavlor ■; W. I’., A. bonds to reimburse the treasury for IL Gaylord; Asso. M., Mrs. It. T. advances on a great permanent im OllN LEI.AND HENDERSON, provement. The Democrats have Boals;Con., Ethel Gaylord; Asso. Con., i beds every drop. practically used up the $166.000,000 Mrs. Albert Plank ;Chap., Mrs. U. G Easy fitting and treasury balance the Republicans left Jackson; Marshal, Mrs. John Groat; ATTORNEY \ strong a< every them at the end of the fiscal year Organist, Mrs. D. L. Slirode; Ada. \ point RffiuEdgu AND 1013 They might as well draw on k stop every drop Mrs. Knthryn Erunklii; Rutli, Mrs COUNSELLOR AT LAW. past Republican savings from the cur from running in rent revenue. But the word "bonds” Zells Condit; Esther. Mis. Louise T illamook B uk k , at th« front »,'• frightened every Democrat. Will the Reiehers; Martha, Pea: I Coates ¡Electa. Tillamook - . . Oregon Protector Hat, 75 cents JU I margin be narrower when the addi Mrs. Thad Robison; Secy., Mr«. Liona ROOM NO. XL Satisfaction GucrantrxJ tional war tax measures mmi to a Hill; Tree.. E. J. Claussen; Walden. Send for catalog vote in the house?—Globe Democrat. Mrs. J. E. Reedy ; Sentinel, U. G. QARI. HABERLACII, A. J. TOWER CO. Jackson. '/■JORA.*9 BOSTON BIRTH RATE MUCH After the installation services the ATTORNEY AT LAW. DECREASED BY WAR company sat down to a fine banquet T illamook B loc k and the evening was spent in different Great Britain Shew» 77,000 Fewer amusements._________ ____ Tillamook *- • • ¡Oregon Than Y«er Ago. ------ o If I FAIL!» CURE w CANCER «TUMOR i t>*t ||R. GEORGE J. PETERSEN Ravages of the war on Great Brit bsfors It POISONS <M| (Ms W ittsebss to BONE ain'» peaceful civilian population I have some choice young pigs for WitbwtKmhirPiiaA DENTIST, sums up 77,000 fewer babies and more the kind th t Na PAT Until CUREDfT Ilian 50,000 additional deaths as com sale, both sexes, Succeaeor to Dr. I’erkina pand with the peaceful year of 1913, matures very young. One of my herd according to statistics available to boars weighed 620 lbs. at eighteen swlndls. AnlsUni JI .OREGON. TILLAMOOK, day Seventeen thousand fewer babies months old. My hogs have won rib plant insk«st>>e<-urs^^ A nr TUMO*. LUMP than in 1913 have been *■ born in the SOM on th« fip. bons at county and state fairs. U. HAWK, county ot London alone. In Greater or body long Is .J Phone or write for prices. CANCER: It never HOME London, which includes contiguous pain. JOE DONALDSON, suuuiv*. there is a birth ...... decrease of suburbs, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. .•5,000 within the year while 15,000 R. F. D. 1, Tillamook. montais. »S. M mt WWX more civilians than normally have Oregon dud London’s outer ring, which in Bay City cludes cities not properly termed sub urb«, has had 8,uoo fewer infants and /"• KOKGK WILLETT, ,,u.io more deaths than in 1913. Bir One woman Inevery 7<!iesofMDcer u R We refuse many who wait loo long A moat die \ J Liverpool, Mancheater, mingham, Poor cored at half orh « jf cancer 1» yet email and Mietheld, Dublin, Edinburgh, ----- ATTORNEY AT I AW Glasgow also are affected, in addition T illamook C onnmcml B vjldino to the babies unborn, the United kingdom's frightful infant mortality CANCC.R Oregon* kindly mail this m i illamook indirectly due to the war, is mounting Public effects have been instituted to . ombat the latter condition, but the R. K. E, DANIELS. tall m the birth rate is regarded as an evil directly attributable to the gen- CHIROl’RAC TOR. Pastor Russell says every . ral devastating influence of war. The Ixx-al Oflice in tlie Commercial ernes» of civilian mortality is ascrib makes his own hell, the idea is not ed by medical authorities to the es- new; and that's not the kind of hell Building. . itement of the war and resultant re- Billy Sunday docs business with. nnplion, cerebral hemorrage and One explanation pf the statement of ¡TILLAMOOK • ORK 4,t t disease, ,li.e*«e, principally the latter, latter. the mayor ol Detroit made in New ■ induced by worry and »hock, York that though there are 40,000 Th. majority of civilian war victims automobiles in Detroit nobody is run arc prisons more than $0 year* of •»ver, is that everybody rides in auto i-i-ur hundred such death» oc- mobiles and there is nobody left to . urred in London during the single run over. ..<rk ending November x> Figures What has become of the old-fash ..11 the birth and morality rates in ioned freak tales of yesteryear about Berlin, the next greatest European I dum dum bullets? war city, show that the German cap Our diplomatic representatives to ital ■ • losing civilians at the rate of H„, a week. The birth rate is more some of the smaller European states 1 han 4°o less a week than normally. now have to keep their trunks packed Hambur ' * e. Breslau and oth- and get their laundry bundle back Extending the War Tax. * V. E ! Reflex Slicker $3.00 J 1 WILL GIVE S1000 O.I.C. it cmicer ir.-.i.'M'KrKtasj Have Your House Wiring Done by I ✓ * > . -r ■« Gogt power Co. EAT VIERECK’S DONE RIGHT TILLAMOOK BAKERY BREAD X lh' r I» . W<- % ’ Tillamook Title and Abstract Co. Don’t Get Wet -t 9 ■/< <0 e