The Colville examiner. [volume], November 16, 1907, Image 3

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THE COLVILLE EXAMINER
Issued Every Saturday by the Stevens County Publishing
Company, Inc. Entered at Postoffice as Second-Class Mail
J. C. Harrigar;, Editor and Manager
Last Tuesday the state of Washington passed its
18th birthday as a state in the union.
It is pleasing to note that with the approach of
winter the climatic conditions in the vicinity of the
Examiner give promise of being warmed by blasts
of hot air from Nebraska.
A local advertising sheet appeared last week
with the startling statement that the Colville
banks had suspended payment. Although the pa
per's circulation and influence were not sufficient
to cause the banks any particular trouble, yet an
attempt such as this to further agitate financial
matters is to be regretted from any Stevens
county source. No bank in the county has
suspended payment or even restricted payment
in any way to injure commercial interests. The
injustice of personal attack by a county paper
needs no further comment than to call attention to
its source.
In these days of high prices and ' 'republican
prosperity" comes a report from the Massachusetts
bureau of labor statistics that in 797 stores in Bos
ton—and there is no reason to believe that the con
ditions are peculiar to that city—the number of
debtors on the "hopeless list" was 45,482, about
7J per cent of the population of the city, with a
total indebtedness of $570,912. In this list of non
payers 2.32 per cent, or a little over 1,000, were
classed as moneyed people. Therefore, more than
7 per cent of the inhabitants of the entire city
were unable through lack of funds to meet the
current expenses of living. Some time the east
will awaken - long enough to rise up and help
slaughter the financial system of manipulation up
on which corporation control is based. The west
is about ready now.
An article in "American Industries" for Novem
ber shows that republican managers are worried
over the likelihood that organized labor will become
aligned with the democratic party next year.
There is no political party whose principles offer
more hope to the working man than the democrat
ic party, and should the laboring vote be allowed
to learn and understand this fact, it would indeed
mean disaster to the empire of money dreamed of
by the republican "board of control." Oblitera
tion of economic facts has been the basis of repub
lican political education for many years. Unless
this system can be successfully continued, an en
tirely new set of machinery must be installed for
placing and keeping political tools in public office.
This would take time and money and before a new
system could be perfected a democratic congress
might slip in and catch them unaware. Then it
would be take your hat and good-by to corporation
control of governmental affairs. Then it would be
too late to talk to the laboring vote of the beauties
of republican stringency. So now is the time to
make provision for either crushing the laboring
vote or keeping it away from the school of democ
racy. Perhaps this can be done. Perhaps it can't.
But if a panic is "the result of good times," a
panic may this tim? remit in bringing good times
—by demonstrating the übiquitous conditions
which the domination of money has caused.
Judge E. H. Sullivan of Spokane county has de
clared the anti-cigarette law unconstitutional and
Spokane dealers are again offering their paper ci
gars to the people. The famed Turkish cigarettes
made in Chicago from Maryland tobacco may now
once more take their place on the tobacconists'
shelves, along with the Piitsburg stogies, and the
clear Havanas manufactured in Duluth. Since its
enactment the anti-cigarette law has been the sub
ject of much controversy. So long- as the use of
tobacco is given legal sanction, it seems immaterial
to many that the law should prescribe or proscribe
any particular method in which it may be injected
into the human system. Where one prefers to use
it in rope size, another will desire the German
basket method, while a third may have a predilec
tion toward placing his in wrapping paper and us
ing it in nail lengths. Judge Sullivan declares
that through faulty wording the enactment is
void. The supreme court will be called upon to
settle the question. And again the attention of
the voters of the state is called to the necessity of
electing men to the legislature who have sufficient
intelligence to make laws which will stand. The
legislative picnic sessions at Olympia are paid for
by the people. They want results from their law
makers.
V . %
HOTEL COLVILLE
American Plan Rates $ 1.25 to $2.50
LARGEST HOTEL IN STEVENS COUNTY
Carroll's Wall Papar Sale—For the next three
weeks I will sell wall paper at 25 r/f off on all kinds.