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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. FEBRUAHYf3. 1916. FREE TRADE GOSSIP. Gathered From the Leading News- Papers of the Country. Free trade has always represented a deficiency. ■'Benefiting business with free trade' reminds us of a man kicking his wife out of doors *to show her that he adores her. The Democratic party is losing on taxing Americans and opening our markets for the foreign products, created by cheaply paid labor abroad. ------o----- A protective tariff is highway “rob bery”—except when, as on sugar, It must be used to help diminish the growing hole of free trade tariff de ficits. If a protective tariff is a diabolical robbery, as our free trade friends as sert, what metamorphoses it into an angelic thing when our free trade friends need a little of it for staving off deficits? A tariff on sugar, for instance. fails to mention the one great reason why he ought not to be nominated and why he cannot be re-elected if nominated. That one reason far out weighs all the six which Mr. Walker names. No other reason need be cited. That is the fact that Woodrow Wil son is chiefly responsible for the very worst tariff law ever enacted; a tariff law that brought in its train a paraly sis of industry, of wage earning, wage paying and wage spending; that in the first ten months of its operation, prior to the outbreak of the European war, had produced the largest unim- ployment, the worst condition of business in general, the greatest num ber of commercial failures ever known in the country's history. This should be the seventh reason, and Mr. Walk er should have named it first; like the man who had thirteen reasons why he refused to lend ten dollars, and mentioned the thirteenth reason first of all, namely, that he didn’t have ten dollars. Our free trade friends as they read the Congressional admonitions from their beloved President for more tax es on tobacco, gasoline, bank checks and notes they have to make to bor row money after free trade breaks them, wear the smile that won’t stay on. ------ o----- Of the many ingenious falshoods fathered by free trade the longest- whiskered one is the lie that under a protective tariff our manufactured products are sold abroad cheaper than to the home folks. Only 3 per cent of our manufactured products are ex ported, remember. A Southern free trade friend recent ly was forced to borrow $3,000 from a bank to tide over the present evan escent wave of free trade "prosperity” When a protective tariff bank charit ably consented to lend him the need ed sum he was horrorstricken to learn that his note was no good without $14.50 worth of war tax free trade stamps attached thereto, in other words free trade busts a man and then makes him pay a war tax for being busted. Even were it true (as it is not) that ftee trade has brought the nation a great wave of prosperity, that would be all the more reason to swat the party of free trade ere it can undo the good it may have unconsciously done. Acting on the principle of the negro evangelist who converted all his con gregation and then prayed the Lord to kill them before they could back slide, free trade should be scorched ere it has time to kick over its own milk-pail. against him a charge of ignorance re-1 PATTI STOOD PAT. garding the duties of his office that he would be the first to resent. Of •h« Wanted Her Money Before She Sang, and She Got It. course, it is possible that an ambas One of Adellua Patti's peculiarities sador might be ignorant of the was that she never sang u note uutll rnacinations of his subordinates, and •be bad her salary either paid or so out of what is notoriously a slush fully assured that there was no doubt fund he might pay these subordinate» as to her getting It. When she saug large sums without knowing how at the Academy of Music, In New the money was to be employed; in York, at one time the manager was nocence and unsophistication have sorely put about to find mouey to pay her. but she always stoutly refused to been known to exist in embassies. •Ing until she had her salary. But not in the embassy of which the One night at a quarter past 8 her German minister to Washington is representative went to him and suid- I “Madam Is all dressed except her the head. The recall should be invoked •hoes. She will put those on wbeu against the German ambassador.— she gets the mouey " | The manager, half distracted, rushed The Spectator. atmut the house and succeeded In rais Mr. Wilson’s New Role. It is reported that Mr.| Wilson is to follow the illustrous example of I Andrew Johnson by taking a swing around the circle. He breathes forth ' dire threatenings against his foes, in I side and out side the party. It is an I nounced that he will divide his atten Life and Death Taxed By Free Trade tion between the antipreparedness ------o------ I crew in his own party, headed by Mr. A free trade enthuiast recently lost his life companion, the mother of his Bryan, and the critics of his Mexican sons and daughters, by death. He hur policy, or policies. This is practically ried to the telegraph office to inform a new role for the president. Success the absent children. He was inform will require a definiteness of state ment and an attention to concrete ed he must affix a free trade tax facts to which he is not accustomed. stamp to each telegram or the oper His messages without exception have I ator could not dispatch it. been ocular. He has announced his He purchased a coffin by freignt and had to put a stamp on that. He conclusions without incorporating in his message the facts on which they shipped his wife’s remains to the dis were based. He has often used rhet tant home of her birth. The express oric so vague that it placed his op company demanded free trade la I ponents at a disadvantage. It is dif- stamps on the bill of lading. i ! ficult to refute a statement whose When he finally reached the jour meaning is nebulous. The president ney’s end he hired an auto hearse tc also has an Emersonian contempt convey the body to its final testing for consistency. The statute for limi place. And on his way out to the tations runs on many of his utter cemetery the driver told him that ances within a few months. This has gasoline and automobiles were soon I been true both as to preparedness and to be doubly taxed by free trade. as to our relation with Mexico, the When he returned sorrowing to his two themes he is to dwell upon in the home he examined his bank deposit swing around the circle. book and found that he had soetit all The president has made but one his savings for medicines, also free notable speech in which he sought to trade stamp taxed. deal with concrete facts. At Indian He gathered all the eggs on the apolis he abondened his ipse dixit farm and hurried to the local grocer's style and tried to argue after the man to exchange them for cash to pay the ner of practical men. The joy with undertaker. There he learned that which the Republican papers seized free trade had imported millions of upon his unfortunate utterances heathen laid eggs from Shanghai should have warned him not to re China, and there was no demand for peat the experiment. He must argue his high priced eggs. ' to the effect in his proposed cam He tried to sell his family cow, but paign. By using his prestige, the pres the butcher said that Argentina beef ident has greatly influenced opinion, was plentiful under free trade. especially that of the Democratic side He tried to mortgage his home, but of Congress, in favor of preparedness. local bank people told him the mort But he did not accomplish it by his gage would be no good without more message. Mr. Bryan, who is skilled in free trade stamps. debate, tore his argument to tatters. He walked sadly over to a sympa- The presidential assurance that there thetcic neighbor who agreed to lend was not even a remote possibility of him the necessary money for the un the country being dragged into a war dertaker’s bill, provided he gave his made it easy for men who occupy the note. But even the note was not legal position the president did in his unless it was plastered over with pacifist message of December 8, 1914, some free trade tax stamps. to deny the need of enlargement of And when he decided to end I it all the army and navy. We trust that and join his dead companion in i the the president may be able to undo grave the hardware man had to in- the effect of his 1914 message and al form him that even firearms were no so that he may be able to prove that longer sold—except under a free our variable Mexican policy has trade tax. been consistent with our obligations. Is it any wonder he hurried home and vowed next November to cast ACT QUICKLY. his first ballot for the party that When a tariff bill throws out of work twelve hundred men for two years like it did in the case of the Chattanooga furnace, there is not much use for you to argue with one of the twelve hundred that he can save a couple of dollars on a mowing machine that is imported from Eng- land or ten cents on a pocket knife brought from Germany. He don’t care so much about these things as he docs does not require free trade stamps, for a job so that he can buy bread and meat for the wife and kids. Invoke the RecaU. "The prohibiting duties w,e lay on all articles of foreign manufacture, which prudence requires us to’ estab lish a home, secure us against a re lapse into foreign dependency. Ex perience has taught me that manu- fatcurers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort, and if those who quote me as of a differ- •ent opinion will keep pace with me in purchasing nothing foreign, where an equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained, without regard to differ ence in price, It will not be our fault if we do not soon have a supply at heme equal to our demand.”—Thom as Jefferson. As a matter of fact, the duty on all meats and meat products has been re- moved. The duty has also ,been re- moved on live stock, The result is that the packers who have establish- ed packinghouses in South America are enabled to and they have been sending in dressed meat from Argen tina, Uruguay and Brazil. Dressed meat from South America has been sold here in Kansas City in competi tion with the home product. By the removal of the tariff the packers, are enabled to beat down the prices for beef by the free importation of the cheap meats of South America. This is no fairy tale, nor is it a political campaign bugaboo. It is plain, un vanished facts, and any stockman will so find it if he will investigate. Free- trade has not reduced the high cost of meats, nor has it helped the meat producers. In a letter to the New York Ameri can of January 12 John Brisben Wal ker names six reasons “ why Mr. Wilson will not be renominated.” He Delay Has Been Dangerous in Tilla mook. Do the right thing at the right time. Act quickly in time of danger. In time of kidney danger Doan's Kidney Pills are evidence of their worth. R. M. Stevens, farmer, Fourth St. Forest Grove, Or. says: "I think there is nothing better than Doan’s Kidney Pills for relieving backache and kidney trouble. I have used them and they have also been taken to others in my home with very good results. I advise all kidney sufferers to try Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Stevens had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. YAMHILL Tillamook, Oregon. Made in Oregon Flour ( "Oregon Flower,’’ a Hard Wheat Patent. 9 "Yamhill Family Blend,” Hard & Valley Wheat. § "Morning Star,” Select Valley Wheat. S noooooooooooooooaooooooooooooGoocccooooQooooooooocoL I__________________ ing oue-balf the amount due the piirna tounil. which lie hastily sent to her But another quarter of an Imnr passed. • nd. though the audieuce showed greai Impatience, there was no Patti, where tt the manager ran to her room “My dear madam, why do you not (o on? I have sent you half the mou sy. ami the rest will reach you before the end of the first act." Patti smiled dolefully, exhibited the tli>s of her feet and said: “You see. I have only t • e shoe on. I cuiiuot go on the stage without the other. It would lie quite iungissible Almost crazed the manager rushed out and discovered that tlie other half if tlie money could tie raised.—New York Tribune. NERVES AND WATCHES When They Don't Agree There Is Sure to Be Poor Time. Oue of tlie troubles ot watchmakers Is the man who gets on his watch's nerves. There are lots of customers ou whom a good watch Is wasted A good second baud watch that has kept perfect time for other people will with Wtnin other people go irregularly when It is not standing still it is common knowledge In the trade that watches lire greutly ipliiivneed by thi-ir owners. Nobody knows the reason, but two i expianatiins have been offered One is that watches are sensitive to per •omil magnetism. the natural electrici ty that human beings contain iu vary ll.g quantities. The other Is t.h“t a watch may be disturbed by the vibrations set up by a footstep which Is heavier than the ordinary. Tlie man who puts Ids heels down heavily usually needs to set the regulator toward alow to keep It from gnining. One of the mysterious sides of the subject Is that watches seldom keep good time on people of nervous, excita ble temperaments Pearson's Weekly Germany’s protest against the ! search which Great Britain made of Herr von Papen's papers seems to have been less because the examina- I tion was made than because it reveal ed some highly incriminating docu ments. But the examination of the re called attache's luggage was in no way a violation of the safe conduct which this country gave him. Herr von Papen’s pass’ guaranteed him security of life and limb while travel ing from this country through enemy territory to his own land; it did not insure and, under the circumstances, should not have insured, his luggage #100 Reward #100. against inspection. The reader« of thi« paper will be plenacd Among Herr von Papen's official to learn that there ia at least one dreaded that science has been able to cure in documents were found records of disease all its staRca, and that is Catarrh Hill's Cure is the only positive cure now money paid to persons who are un Catarrh known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh der arrest here for having assisted being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Germany to ^arry her war to Ameri Cure is taken internally, actin? directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, ca by destroying industries. These thereby destroying the foundation of the and giving the patient strength by records show very plainly that this disease, building up the constitution and assisting government acted wisely in asking nature in doing its work. The proprieto-s have so much faith in its curative powers for the recall of Von Papen. He was that they offer One Il n nd red Dollars tor any that it fails to cure. Send for list of not only a disburser of Germany's case testimonials Address K. H. CHBXEY Ac CO., Teledv slush fund, but a suborner of villian» Ohio. who blew up our factories and work Sold by Druggists. 75c. fake Hall's Family Pills for constipation. shops and murdered our citizens. There was no one in this country To The Voters of Tillamook County. so simple as to believe that Herr von I Papen, a mere attache of the German I I hereby announce myself as a can embassy in Washington, acted on his didate for the office of Sheriff on the own initiative in employing and pay Republican ticket at the primary ing incendiaries and dynamiters to election to be held in May, and if destroy our industries. The docu nominated and elected will do my ments taken from him by the British best to enforce all laws with strict show that his chief, the German am- economy. bassadar to this country, furnished T. W. Lyster. some of the money with which Von Papen paid his murderous employes. For Sale—Four grade Jerscw cows If we profess to believe that the Ger know the and one yearling Roan Durham Full. man ambassador did not L.._„ __ 1. F. L. Buell. --------------------- purpose for which the money was to Price $300.00 the bunch ■hall have be used, we l ___ _ ___ to prefer 4 Tillamook, Ore. MILLING COMPANY, 1 Vse Good Judgment in Buying Hardware and Sporting Goods Ammunition, Quick Meal Ranges, Building Material, Wall Paper, Du Pont Blasting Supplies. KING & SMITH CO., TILLAMOOK, OREGON. FIRE I FIRE 11 FIRE ! ! ! WE Training ■ Dog. It mny surprise some people to be told that dogs time u strong sense of I justice, so. unless you want your pnp to gnlu a poor opinion of yon. be care ful when you punish him. Never pun Ish unless tile pup can associate the punishment with the offense. The cir cumstantial evidence may lie very strong but yon hud better wall and catch him in the acL Common sense la ■bunt all that Is required to rear a pup py Into n dog which will lie a faithful, useful, steadfast companion—common sense and consideration. Whenever I find one of those “anything will do for the pup” kind of |>eople I cau see In my mind's eye what the bunikits in that family look like.— Outlug. A Unique Cross. in the heart of the Rocky mountains may be seen the Mountain of the Holy Cross. whl< b la 14.00U reel In height. It derives Its name from a gigantic cross on one aide, near the aurnmlt formed by fissure» In the rock. It cau be seen for many miles with grent dis tinctness and Is looked iijmiu with su perstitious feat by the iMtlves - Ex change. All Right. "Tbnt girl'a all right " anld tha blond glrl In the dresslitg room aftev ■he hnd looked everywhere for h«r overshors. "The one wbu ha* just left. atie's gone off wltb Ixith the right overshoea and left tue the left uiie»."— New York Timea. His Mistake. “1 cannot live without yoo!” "You have evidently got me confus ed with my cousin, it is slio wtiu M wealthy.”—Houston I’ost. Soma Traveler. “Has be traveled tun. h?" "Be must lime I understand hie'« gone through two furtum« already.*’ Détruit Flee I’rexa. It I« n great bletmlng tu be perfecCV Miluus tu ridicule. HOPE FIRE WON'T COME to your home during the coming year, but there is a possibility that it may, and if it does you should be prepared for the consequences. It seems to us so foolish when a man says he doesn't need fire insurance, that lie has nev er had a fire and don't expect to have one. When a fire starts you can never tell where it will end. Be prepared in any event by taking out a fire insur ance policy. Gestures Part of Talk. There Is 11 inuu who from a very rnrl.v nge has lived In countries where 8| miii I n I i I m the sllnosl universal tongue From force ot this training he speaks Spanish perfectly He has not the slightest truce of au English ileceut 11ml |>ers<iiiM who do not know that he Is or American parentage are willing to believe he is a Spaniard merely from hearing him talk, lie Is so per fectly biliugmtl that It shows e'en In his gestures. When talking with Eng llsh speaking persons he sits quietlf and does his conversing with Ids mouth alone Only In case of making a |silnt most eniphatienlly does he use a gesture. But the moment he drops Into Spanish Ills every word Is iic.-om- panled by a movement of the hands or arms It Is Interesting to wnteb the change from the English to the Span ish side of him. because It comes so suddenly He really can't speak Span 1st) without gesturing.-New tort Sun 3 ROLLIE W. WATSON, », “ The Insurance Man PHONE US. CALL ON US. WRITE US. 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