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Weekly Times $1.00
VOL. 4- NO. .12. v
Amount That May ba Saved Ever
Tear by Government Ownership
of Railroads.
abolishing 680 president*, j
will" their staffs,(one would do** 25,000,000
aholWbinß the Prised
mZ«er.s ami their .staffs 4,000,000
Abolishing tittorneys and legal
expends , . , i»,wv,iwv
Abolishing merely competitive ,
Vffow. solieiiurs, etc, 10,000,000
SuiMng B-Tol the advert lo ing
gcoount. which is incurred tor
■ompetitive purposes 5,000,000
Abolishing traffic associations,
wbicb are employed to adjust
matters between oorapetlng rds. 4,000,000
Bxclltotve uw of short router, 25,000,000
Consolidation of working tlc-
Wte, »fflee« and stalls, 90,000,000
Uniformity of rails, cars, ma
finery, etc., chtaucniiiKi lieir
aunufHcUire, avoiding freight
blockades, return of "empties" |
belonging to other roads, clerk-
UMtokeepacel. of cars and ad- ,
tatt divisions of earning* a
jnoog the roads; by making
tlmple eusilv understood tariff,
saving the time and labor »f
tlerks and the public, by all
the numberless little ceono
■lesofa vast corporation tin
ier a single management, and
io etinpetitive warefare to
iwaite its energies, 15,000,000
Br avoiding strikes and develop
tag a better feeling generally, 10,000,000
Br abolishing tbe corruption
fuadused in legislatures, etc., 80,000,000
Br abolishing the pass evil, 80,000,000
Br abolishing unjust rebates etc. 60,000,000
Br having no rent or Interest, 280,000,000
Br having no dividends to pay, W2,000,000
Br putting 'surplus iv the peo.
pVs treasury, _ 68,000,000
Tetal savings by public the
•wuenbip of railways, $0t»l ,000,000
ISSUES OF COIX.
The following table, showing
fhsnumber of coins of the vari
eut denomination}*, issued dur
inf 102 years from 17 92 to ISO 4
trill be of interest to our readers.
Pieces.
Double eagles, •0,080,349 |
Eagles, 25,268,296
Half eagles, 41,764,0621
Three dollars, 439,792
Quarter eagles, 10,4(52,280
Dollars of gold, 10,499,337]
Dollars of silver, 427,364,446
Trade dollars, 35,966,924 j
Half dollars, 261,024,767
Quarter dollars, 188,792,176
Twenty cents, 1,355,0001
Dimes, 284,801,172
Half dimes, 97,604,388!
Three cents, 42,736,240
Five cents of nickel, 268,648,819
Threecentsof nickel, 81,378,316
Two cents of bronze, 45,601,000
One cent of copper, 156,288,744
One cent of nfckel, 200.772,000
One cent of bronze, 733,178,336
Half cent of copper, 7,983,222
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS- ATTONEYS.
CARROL B. GRAVES. IRA P. BNOLBBART.
Graves & Englehart,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
I Offices: Ellensburg and
North Yakima.
S. C. Davidson,
Boom 8 Davidson Block.
ELLENSBURG. WASH
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tin
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state. Office in Geddis Block.
I ELLENSBURG, WASH.
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fct ttot lictl a I Xoi 10,
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state.
ELLENSBURO, WASH.
W. J. WELSH,
Rittotncij at Sciiv.
Will practice in tho courts ofßoslyn
and Superior court of Kittitas county.
ROSLYN, WASH,
L, A. Vincent,
tlttctncij at £(X\v,
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State. Office in the Davidson Block.
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ELLENSBURG, WASHINGTON I
DRUG HOUSES.
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WHOP COR. A- MAIN STS.
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BOYS
You can get the best five cent
cigar in the world —The Rail
: Splitter—at Deuel's Barber
Shop, ou Main Str., in Shoudy
Block. P. L. DEUEL.
YOUR TREES?
Were they killed by the
severe cold wave in fall?
If so, you may want to
buy more trees and re-set
your orchard. We are
taking orders for spring
deliver}- of nursery stock
for the White Salmon
Nursery. Call and see
our sample book and see
the low prices. All stock
warranted true to name.
Call at The DAWNloffice.
" COTTRELL'S
HOBflllE Al DETECTIVE
MIATIOJI OF AMERICA.
An Organized Agency of the People
for the Prevention of Crime and the
Detect inn of Criminals.
(Incorporated.)
WANTS- Public and private Rep
resentatives, Male and Female at
each Post-office in America, beml
stamp fin- copy of American Detect
ive and Jull varticulsrs free. Aa
dress, J. W. Cottrelt, Gen'l Supt.
,m s*m Austin, Teo-tis.
Published in Tacoma, is an alaround farm paper, one
that every farmer, gardener fruit-grower and stockman
should read regularly. It is published monthly at 50
cents pur year. We can, for 75 cents, send yon one
year the the Horticulturist and
Keeping the Promises lade the
PEOPLE.
Herewith is given the total amount expended by the
McGraw administration, daring 1895 and 1896, and
for which warrants were drawn and the money paid.
Total amount £2,859,767
Less sum paid Capitol Commission 81,420
Net amount expended $2,778,344
Total amount appropriated by the Legisla
ture of 1897 $1,124,778
This will save tlie taxpayers of the state
the splendid sum of $1 ,653,679
—Seattle Times.
ABOLISH COLLECTION LAV/S
It Would Build Up Character
Save Homes and Lift a Great
Burden Off the People.
The question i>? the advisability
of abolishing all laws f<;r thecollec
tion of debts la one of vast impor
tance, for it would not only effect i
change whereby the security would
he not property of evidences <»f in
debtedness, but the mora] cha rac
er of the borrower. While it is the
common practice for parents to
teach their child/en that success
must be acbievd through honest
effort, iiill (-very parent knows that
he i.-? teaching his child the un
truth, for it is not the most honest
who succeed but the most dishonest
and tricky. Every honest man
must compete with all the dishon
est men who are engaged In the
same line of business with himself,
and if he pays his bills and his
men ho necessarily cannot compete
with the man who docs neither.
Another result would be the total
destruction of all large estates. The
funds of ail large estates are loaned
in large sums of unexceptionable
security. This, con Id not be done
if oil laws for the collection of
debts were repealed. The result
would be that it would be impossi
ble to loan cut largesums of tuonej
Even tlie small capitalist, say th
[men with one or two thousand dol
Lars, would not loan all of that 01
tlie moral risk of one man, bu
would loan it out in small amount
to people in whom he had confi
dence. If these laws were repealed
the only security would be charac
ter, and what is better than the
word of a man of character. In the
Highlands of Scotland until very
recent years no security for loans
whatever was given or expected
and yel such a thing as repudia
tion was unknown, in fact every
child considered himself morally
obligated to pay loans made by his
parents if through misfortune it
became impossible for the old peo
ple to meet their obligations.
The abolition of these laws would
also carry with it the question of
interest. If there were no laws for
the collection of debts no man
would ask another an unreasonable
rate of interest for he would recog
nize the fact that as long as the
borrower was under no legal obli
gation to pay either interest or
principal, the asking of unreason
able interest would be likely to In
j (luce tlie borrower to take advant
age of the lonner and pay him
neither interest or principal. While
all interest may he wrong, and the
; writer thinks it is, still we cannot
prevent people from paying inter
est if they will do so, and all that
;we can do is to remove the power of
the loaner to harass the borrower.
! This would be strictly just, for no
man is obliged to loan money to
another, and if he does so, knowing
that he has only the moral risk lo
depend on for security and losses,
he is no more entitled to sympathy
, than he is now if he over estimates
the value of his security.
Another great benefit would be
jan immense increase in the num
ber of producers. The occupation
of the tens of thousands of lawyers
who are now preying on the mis
| fortunes of the masses, would be
gone. The cost of tne mainten
ance of the courts would also be re
duced at least 80 per cent. Instead
of Pierce county paying three
judges $3,000 per year to listen to
{the disputes of private individuals
and also paying out thousands of
• dollars yearly in sheriff's and court
(costs for the expense of robbing the
people of their property, individu
als would |be com;.tiled to settlt
their own private business a-* best
I they might. When private con
tracts are entered Into tho state is
| not consulted, ami why should the
j state lie compelled to furnish tbe
machinery for the settlement of
tie. se disputes? Only a very small
percentage of the people of the
county ever have an occasion to re
sort to the courts, and why should
all the people cf the county be
compelled to furnish and maintain
these tribunals for the settlement
of these private matters at the ux
| penseof the whole county and not
jat the expense of th» litigants?
Consider how the expense of the
j auditor's office would be reduced if
j there were no longer any mortga-
I ges, chattel, or realty, no condition
al hills oi sale, no new judgments
|to record. It is safe to say that at
i least 80 per cent of all the expense
I for conrts would be wiped out. If
all laws for the collection of debts
were repealed, Pierce county in five
years could pay her whole debts
with what is now wasted in main
taining a lot of judges, jurymen,
j baliffs, clerks, sheriffs and lawyers
to settle matters in which, as a
county, it has no interest whatever.
1 The court business of the county
1 should be confined to criminal and
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probate matters, and actions
sounding in tort. These are all
matters that the county should
provide means for settling, for they
are all matters in which tlie coun
ty as a county has an interest, but
the c unty has no interest in pri
vate contracts between individu
; als.
if ue bad abolished all laws for
the collection of debts, say five
years ago, there would £have been
no such harrowing array of mort
gage fort Insures as was recorded in
the last edition of this paper. To
those who have not been forclosed
and have not lost their home, a fore
clasure means very little; but to
any one who has lost everything
and now has deficiency judgment!
hanging over him, they mean a
great deal. All of this could have
been avoided, if the sums loaned
on mortgages had been loaned on
the personal integrity of the bor
rower, the loaner would have had
confidence that he would ultimate
ly lie paid, and the borrower would
have been given an opportunity to
save his credit by an extension of
time. But as it is. every one wants
to get in and get tbe first judgment
and, if possible, secure himself by
an attachment of a levy on the
property of the debtor. —U. 13. M.
Press, of Tacoma.
Can honorable men indulge in or
tolerate dishonorable methods ' The
| question is prompted by the course
pursued by too many politicians and
newspapers. In ordinary affairs be
tween men and men, the) - would
scorn to take unfair advantage, and
would be insulted if charged with
stooping to do little things; but in
politics they are ready to get down
into the very gutter to gain a point
-prevaricate, misrepresent, lie cheat,
Bteal—- anything to win a political
victory or \seuken a political op
ponent. While there is such a lax
idea of political morality, we have
no reason lo expect anything but
political corruption. A political lie
is just as wicked as any other, and
n "small" act in polities is just as
debasing as "littleness" in business.
We wish this could he impressed on
all the boy* and girls of America,
that we might hope for a higher
standard of political honor and mor
ality in the future.
—
Take the profit out of the liquor
business, says reformers, and you
will at once destroy its evil power.
Very true, indeed; and it*is just as
true ofjmany other things. Take
the profit to the bosses out of poli
tical parlies and they would die as
quickly as a Take the
profit to the wire pullers out of pol
itics, and political corruption would
disappear. Take the profit out of
the trusts, and they would melt like
snow'under the tropics. Profit, pelf,
greed- -these are the sources of evil.
GREATEST ON EARTH.
James M. Brooks, Washington
Aye., St. Louis, Mo., make affidavit
that he suffered from rheumatism
for years, until persuaded to try
Drummond's Lightning Remedy,
and that by its use he has been ful
ly restored, lie says the Remedy
is the greatest on earth. This is
high praises, but fully warranted
by other rairraculous cures. If you
want to be cured, send $5 to the
Drummond Medicine Co., New
York, and they will send to your
express address two large bottles of
their remedy. This treatment last
one month, and will cure any or
dinary case. Agents Wanted.
F. L. Chandler, of Yakima, has
been appointed assistant clerk of
the Yakima reservation.