TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 27, 1916.
Uncle Silas Says.
Mother I know you will join me in
giving thanks to- the Lord that \\ il-
Uam Waldorf Astor, was permitted to
live until he could obtain the consum
mation of his desire—a peerage of
Great Britain. For this he renounced
the citizenship of his fathers. For
this he took to England the. gre.it
wealth amassed by his Dutch ances
tors from the unearned increment of
New York real estate.' For this he has
been pouring a flood of gold into the
cesspool of the “smart set” of Eng
land until it at last brought floating
to him a barony. But soft—what
means this news item, Listen: “It is
said that some of the king s advisers
entertain the belief that'Mr. Astor’s
honor will be especially pleasing to
Americans.” Shade of our forefathers!
In the name of Washington, Jeffer
son, Jackson, Lincoln and other
patriots of old, let us protest as ve
hemently as they surely will do if
they were on earth right now. If the
English King’s advisers really be
lieve that we are ready to forego
what our fathers have fought for; if
they really believe that we love an
English title above our priceless her
itage of democracy, the dying needs
new advisers, and we ought to disil
lusion him. It may be that the monk
ey dinners, the new rich, the so-called
money aristocracy of America and
those who get their patriotism, accent
and clothes alike from London may
be pleased, but they are not Ameri
cans—just snobs who cannot speak
for real citizens of this "land of the
free and the home of the brave.” That
the English king’s advisers should be
so misled is almost impossible of be
lief, and I am glad to see that our
newspapers, almost without exception
have had the good sense to repudiate
the unjust insinuation. Let us hope,
mother, that the rest of the William
Astor ilk follow his example, so that
England may understand that real
Americans stand just now where they
did in 1776. "Within the castle thrives
the scarnp, ‘tis darkest underneath the
lamp,” says Betel Nuts.
FREE TRADE GOSSIP.
Culled from the Leading Newspapers
From all Parts of the Country.
An oyster must be four years old
before it is tit for the table. Four-
year’s-old free trade is not fit for any
thing.
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Trying to make a nation’s industries
prosperous with free trade is like an
editor drinking stimulants to increase
the circulation of his newspaper.
If free sugar, which is part of the
Wilson Tariff, is such a boon for the
common people, why does the Secre
tary of tiie 1 reasury propose to take
the boon away from them?
“ A protective tariff is highway
robbery,” said the free trade politician
as he stuck a war-tax-stanip-in-tiine-
of-peace on a mortgage to his home
and hurried over to the Treasury De
partment to pay his income tax.
By reducing the income tax exemp
tion, Senator Simmons says it will
bring 2,000,000 men more into the
roster of income tax payers. And
hanged if we are not afraid it may put
1,500,000 of them in the Republican
party next year.
Our free trade friends blamed the
first failures of their theories on the
European war, but now that that
same war has acted as a protective
wall against importations of foreign
goods and caused mushroom prosper
ity in some sections, they credit the
benefits not to the war, but to free-
trade.
It seems the automobile is by the
national administration regarded as a
luxury, and for that reason it propos
es to tax the several million automo
bile owners to help out the Wilson
failures, creating the deficiency under
the Underwood-Wilson tariff for rev
enue and free trade dope, that has
stung business and silenced the wheel
of industry.
In declining to become the free
trade candidate
for
- _
Congress
a
Southern preacher said: “As a preach
er, 1 cannot accept. If I tell the free
traders the truth they will become
convicted of their sins and 1’11 have to
stop my political campaign and hold
a revival. If I tell the truth on free
trade the church will revoke my li
cense for using language unbecoming
a minister.”
Cousin Tom, I see a great deal in
the papers about the stability of the
bank and the excellent financial con
dition of the country, which reminds
me of a story told at a banquet I at
tended in the city last summer. The
speaker, a banker, had been talking
about batik advertising and wound up
with a story something
like this:
Speaking particularly of bank stabil
ity he told of a colored man who had
When the Secretary of Commerce
some money in a bank that failed, quits joking he will see that the best
and hung around the door of the bank and probably the only effective means
several days after the announcement of preventing dumping will be a pro
was made, hardly going away for his tective tariff.
meals. One of the bank officials final
It is hard to see anything jocular
ly went to him and again told him of or funny in the proposition to deal
the bank’s financial condition. ‘But I with dumping by first making it a fel
got some money in your bank mister, ony and then confiscating the goods.
and I want it,” he stubbornly replied .Secretary Redfield is by no possibil
to the. explanation of the official. ity humorous. He is simply preposter
“Now let me tell you what is the mat ous.
ter,” the banker, said. “This bank has
become insolvent; it has failed; it has
Men actually engaged in manufac
been shown that its securities are not turing industries in twenty-two states
sufficient to meet its liabilities, Do recently gathered in Chicago, and
you understand?” "Yes;
that’s all they unanimously agreed that a revis
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right,” was the reply, "but I got some ion of the tariff upward was a vital
money in your bank and I want it.” necessity. At the same time a body of
“Maybe you will understand this: dreaming political theorists met in
The bank is busted!” retorted the Washington and advocated a tariff
banker. "Don’t you understand that? commission, with tendencies toward
Didn’t you ever sec a bank bust?” free trade. Which knew the most
the experienced
or
"Yes, I’se seen banks bust,” said the about . prote ction,
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negro, “but this is the first one that | those who never manufactured a piece
in their lives?
busted right in my face!” The official of goods
_
sent word to the man a few days later
that distribution would be made of
Germany has made it a practice to
the assets in alphabetic order; that is, encourage and assist in the develop
those depositors whose names beg; 11 ment arid manufacture of everything
with letters in the fore part of the that she needs, and that her people
alphabet would get their money first, require. Our country should follow
and those at the end might not re-. her example
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and encourage the
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manu-
ceive . any. It happened that theMacture of all that is required by our
negro’s name was Zimmerman, and peojple. Just now our manufacturers
he didn't get anything. During the are handicapped by a lack of material
tollowing year, however, by rigid which was formerly imported. Our
economy he succeeded in saving a People should manufacture everythin-,
couple of hundred dollars and took it taat they need and the government
to another bank. The teller asked him Should assist them in such enterprise
his name and the negro promptly ere- l>y wisely drawn tariffs.
plied “Ajax!”
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I America should not be compelled to
C ousin Clara, your effort to use the I ask for favors. The British order in
phone a little while ago and the “cen- ' courrcil is a violation of the internat-
i.ia answ-ered that the line was ional ■ law, and the American govern-
''biisy" reminds me of an extremely ment should have dealt sharply and
inquisitive, but otherwise good v Om firmly in demanding a quick revoca
an, who lives about a mile fro ,n our tion of that order, so far as it is con
place. A new telephone line was put stituted interference with American
.UtntT
u°7e
and she trade. In the meantime, the United
immediately had a phone.’, ut in her States should not quibble about polit
house. It was the first she had ever ical theories in finding a rei icdy for
7>? j*1 jyas
a great novelty the lack of dyestuffs. The necessary
to her that she at iml pul jn a good protection should be accord« I to the
deal of time talking z over . the
l
■
dyestuffs industry without further
wire
her neighbor', Now, as you argument.
know, a wire, vritb
more than one
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ph/jpe on it bong's lots of fun to the
Henry Ford has an automobile fac
subscribers, eypr cially when anothcr tory in Det roit. He has another across
party on the lrlle ;s using the phone the river in Canada. It is not the riv
for any lengt’ of time. We)1 when j er that prevents his selling his "made
was over to Osborn’s, on Sugar Creek in America" machines in Canada—it
a couple o'. jays ago> j arTangetj w;th is a high tariff wall. So the Ford Co.
mother .o ca)| me up on the phone jf took its capital and invested in a
any le ters came from t|ie children. Canadian factory, giving employment
-
g ot a letter each from Amos and to Canadian labor, furnishing business
yy.rude, but when she went to use for Canadian merchants, placrng mon
c f’ . ne shc found that the new’ ey in Canadian banks and paying tax
Subscriber had the phone and was es to the Canadian government. Can
talking with a friend.
Of course ada is wise. So will the American peo
mother hung up the receiver, waited ple be wise when they reconstruct the
tor some time, then again tried, and demolished tariff which will keep
bound that the wire was still in use. European and Asiatic products out of
* his occurred several times, and fin American markets and thus rebuild
ally mother listened and heard one and protect American industries.
woman say: “I just prut on some po
tatoes to boil for snpper.” Mother
President Wilson in speaking to the
hung up the receiver again in disgust,
National Committee at a
but a humorous thought struck her, Democratic
W’hite House luncheon, said the Re
?ak*n8, down the receiver again, publicans have but one issue—the
she broke into the conversation with:
tariff. Very well, let it stand at that.
Madam, you must have forgotten to If the tariff had been stuck to in 1912
put water on those potatoes, for I as the paramount issue, there would
smell them burning.” She heard the never have been any such thing as
exclamation at the other end of the watchful waiting, people too proud to
line and a snap as the woman hung
fight in defense of the honor of their
up the receiver; then she got a chance country would never have had their
to use the phone with me, but she praises publicly sung by the head of
laughed and chuckled so that I could the nation, and an administration not
scarcely understand what she was
ed principally for its new phrases and
trying to tell me.
classically composed state papers
would not have had being. The tariff
One thing is generaly accepted by is a question of sufficient itnrortancc
the Republicans of the country, and to be an issue; stick to it. But for
dhat is that the platform will ring heaven’s sake don’t steal the Rcpub-
ftear and decisive for a protective lican thunder.
tariff, and that the candidate will
«and squarely in the middle of the
The issue of 1916 is going to be pros-
wtform, “neither teetering in the •jerity. Not war order prosperity,
»ter nor peering from its edges.”
blood money prosperity partly based
FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!!
Dispatches I
on high tariff wall created by the Eu-1 policy at Washington.
ropean war. But prosperity that will from there say that the president will 1
be an actuality after the war is over, j take no new action because of the
when there will be no sharpnel pros- ; Chihuahua atrocities. Decided action
WE HOPE FIRE
perity possible in this country will ’ is threatened only by boarder men
WON’T COME
meet intensified competition of the contemplating an invasion. "The in
world. And the only way to obtain ' dividual Huerta” is gone. The Mexi
to your home during the coming year,
this sort of prosperity is to enforce a ’ can problem not only remains, but
but there is a possibility that it may,
Republican tariff, which will prevent grows more dangerous.
our industries from being swamped
and if it does you should be prepared
with the competition of cheap labor 1
The New Haven Trial.
for the consequences. It seems to us
in Europe and Asia. At present our I
so foolish when a man says he doesn’t
international competitors are too busy ’ Te division of the jury as to the
need fire insurance, that he has nev
to pay any attention to industry; but ’ guilt of five of the eleven New HaVcn
after the war is over our markets will directors prosecuted for an alleged ■
er had a fire and don’t expect to have
be the richest in the world, inviting criminal attempt to monopolize trans
one. When a fire starts you can never
exploitation from all sides, and if portation to New England makes it
tell where it will end. Be prepared in
there is noth’ng more protecting them clear that some of the jury believed
any event by taking out a fire insur
than the present Democratic Tariff. that a criminal conspiracy existed and
that the conspirators should be pun
ance policy.
Pass it Along.
ished. The acquittal of the six, con- ,
“Take the tariff out of politics"— sequently, may be taken as evidence I
take the sentiment out of love.—New that the proof did not show their
guilty participation within three years
Y ork Evening Sun.
lake the notes out of music—Amer preceding the dale < f the indictment,
February 26, 1912. Such members of
ican Economist.
Take business out of business by the jury as believed that there was no PHONE US.
CALL ON US.
\\ RITE US.
free trade.—The Lyons (N. Y.) Re Criminal conspiracy naturally voted
with the others in acquitting the six.
publican.
"Take the sentiment out of love,” It is possible that the division of the ,
jury was on the sufficiency of the ;
“Take the notes out of music,”
proof as to the guilty participation of
Take the water out of rain,
the five within the statute of limita-1
Take the daylight out of sunshine,
lions, but it is««ot unlikely that some ■
Take the feeling out of pain.
of the jurors felt that no crime had
Take the sweetness out of honey.
ever been committed. The fact that i
Take the color out of stain,
interested the disinterested legal a l !
Take the value out of money
visers held that there had been no '
Take the level out of plane.
crime and that the Massachusetts '
Next?
Commission, Commerce and Industry ■
of 1908 reported that the New Haven !
Can the New Industry Survive?
and the Boston and Maine were not I
competitive lends color to this as- '
It appears according to the New sumption. During the three months I
York Evening Telegram, that “Amer- | trial there was some evidence to the
ica has gained a new industry direct- effect that competition had really in
ly as a result of the war.” The Tele- . creased. It is a notable fact that the
gram goes on to recite that practical chief injury was to the stockholders
ly our entire supply of "quartz glass” of the New Haven, through the ex
formerly came trom Germany, it has orbitant prices paid for lines acquired. ’
been manufactured there by a secret
The public eventually suffered,
process and has found a ready sale in chiefly through the financial collapse ;
the United States, despite a high of the system, attended by a physical I
tariff. The glass is made from a pecu- . collapse.
liar kind of sand which is found only I 'The only pronounced public sym
pathy with the prosecution arose from I
in Nebraska.
1 housands of tons of this sand have [ the prospect that it offered of pun
heretofore been brought to New 1 ishing the directors, not because they
York and shipped to Germany to the ' had violated the Sherman act, but be
quartz glass tactories. The quartz cause they had wrecked the railway.
glass is invaluable for making a var- [ Since the Interstate Commerce Com
lety of articles, such as crucibles, test mission and the state railway com
tubes, retorts and other vessels used missions have been empowered to
in laboratories and throughout the regulate railways as to rates charged,
chemical industrv, since it is absolute safety of passengers and employes
ly acid proof and heat resisting and and maintenance of service, legal en
the only substitute for platinum. The forcement of a largely imaginary
Had
quartz glass—or silisium doixide, as competition seems absured.
in force
it is scientifically known—is now be present regulations been
ing manufactured in New York City. when the Sherman Law was enacted
ft is gratifying to know that this common carriers would have been ex
Flower,*’ a Hard Wheat Patent.
new industry has gained a foothold empted from its provisions.
on American soil. But can it retain
“
Yanjhill
Family
Blend,” Hard & Valley Wheat. i
that foothold after the war ends and MORE MEN THAN WOMEN
HAVE APPENDICITIS.
Germany is once more free to ship
‘‘Morning Star,” Select Valley Wheat.
her industrial products to this coun
Surgeons state men are slightly IQOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOCOCMbOOCOOOGOOOCOUOOCOGGOOCOCs^
try. The present tariff on quartz more subject to appendicitis than
glass, classed in the Underwood law women. Tillamook
people should
as "a glass not specially provided for” know that few doses of simple buck-
1 reasons to believe that she drank.
Still They Wonder Why.
is 30 per cent ad valorem. The I’ayne- storn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed
Oh, I had to get rid of her. Honestly,
Aldrich rate was 45 per cent ad val in Adler-i-ka, often relieve or prevent
she was so bad in every way that 1
orem. Even then Germany made all appendicitis, this mixture removes
The two women were discussing
the quartz glass. It does not cost such surprising foul matter that ONE that never-failing theme—the incom could hardly think of a thing to sav
when I wrote a recommendation for
much to transport quartz sand from SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY petency of domestic servants.
hei!”
Nebraska to Germany. After the sand CASE constipation, sour stomach or
“ Well I am looking for a new cook
reaches Germany it costs about one gas. The INSTANT, easy action of j said one of the women, “ and 1 am at
third as much to convert it into Adler-i-ka is surprising. J. S. Lamar, my wits' end. They come to you as
Needed the Money
quartz glass as it costs in the United Druggist.__________________
experts, well recommended and all
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Stales, t he framers of the Under
that, and they turn out to be lazy and
“
You
say
this
picture is worth $"000
Those
light-underwear-th e-y car incompetent. I declare I can’t under
wood tariff evidently intended that
and yet you offer it for $10.?”
Germany should keep on making round-fellows would like to appear in stand it.”
"Yes.”
quartz glass for this country. If not, cowskin overcoats this week if fash
“What become of the cook you had
“Something w rong here,” declared
why should they have reduced the ion permitted.
last week?” asked the other.
tariff from 45 to 30 per cent? The war
"My dear she was positively the the policeman. “I'll have to t ike you
One of the greatest downtown dis
has acted thus far as a prohibitive appointments in the automobile ex limit. She couldn't cook, she broke in.”
“Nothing wrong, officer,” interpos
tariff. When the war ends, the rate plosion that sounds like a pistol shot dishes, she wasted food, she wasn't
will go back to 30 per cent. It re and isn’t.
neat and she was impudent. 1 have ed the dealer. "He's the artist.”
mains to be seen how this new Amer
ican industry will get along under a
free trade tariff unmitigated by war
conditions.
ROLLIE W. WATSON,
“ The Insurance Man.”
TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, ORE.
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Coincidences at El Paso.
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Time’s whirligigs seldom bring such
a condemnation of a policy as that
brought about in El I’aso Thursday
night. In that border city, between 8
and 9 o’clock, “the individual Huerta"
of Mexico was dying, as the result of
a long imprisonment without a trial.
That fact is less important in itself
than as one of a number of facts co
incident with it.
Those
around
Huerta’s bedside in the last hours
heard United States cavalrymen and
Texas policemen riding through the
streets for the rounding up and driv
ing out of El Paso of every Mexican
of the Villista faction. Could the old
Mexican soldier heard these sounds,
and understood their meaning, he
would have found a victory in death.
He would have known that such as
trocities against Americans as were
unheard of during his constitutional
but unrecognized regime, were occur
ring under the recognized but uncon
stitutional dictatorship of Carranza.
This coincidence at El Paso puts
our Mexican blundering in a stronger
clearer, sharper light. It was like
throwing scenes on a motion-picture
screen for the quick seeing and un
derstanding of all beholders. The ut
ter folly and futility of what we have
done were set before us. Violating
United States precedent and tradi
tion to withhold recognition of a con
stitutional government; attempting
to dictate the manner of conducting
a Mexican
presidential
election;
sending an ultimatum to Huerta de
manding his immediate resignation
from office; lifting the embargo on
arms at Villa’s request; making the
fantastic demand for a salute and
failing to get it; sending a fleet and
an army to Vera Cruz; butchery in
order that “the individual Huerta"
might be deprived of government
revenues and war munitions; restor
ing the embargo at Carranza’s request
after his rupture with Villa: recog
nizing a Carranza
“government”
while there is nothing but chaos in
Mexico—these, and
other things
as foolish, were the causes of a brood
of evil effects.
“The individual Huerta” is now re
moved from Mr. Wilson's path. He
was one of the constructive builders
of the country during the long incum
bency of Porfiro Diaz. He lived to
see the things done during these
vears reduced to wreck, through the
intervention of the
United States
against his government, in vocation
of its own continental policy But his
departure holds out no hope of a new
Prince Alberi is
such friendly tobacco
the national joy »moke
Watch your siep!
It’s eaiy to change the shape
and color of unsalable brands
to imit ».te the Prince Albe-t
tidy red tin, but it in impouiblj
to imitate the flavor of Prince
Albert tobacco I The
patented
process
protects that I