Pullman herald. [volume], April 22, 1910, Image 4

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The PACIFIC FARMERS UNION
wH Published every Friday at Pullman, Washington, and entered at the Pullman
Tl postoffice as »econd-claM mail matter.
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$1.00 par Year if paid in advance; if not paid in advance 50 cants additional.
Pullman, Wash., Friday, April 22, 1910
CLEAN-UP DAY, SATURDAY,
APRIL 80,
The mayor will issue a proclama
tion early next week setting Satur*
day, April 30th, as official clean-up
day for the city, when a concerted
effort will be made by citizens and
city authorities to clean all rubbish
out of the public, streets ami alleys.
The city will furnish teams free
of charge for hauling the rubbish
away, and the citizens will be asked
to have the Utter raked up in front
of their respective places, when
teams will cart it away.
Saturday was selected as the best
available day, as the school child
ren will be at liberty, and are ex
pected to do good work in aiding
their elders.
Senator Jones is being strongly
commended for the attitude as ex
pressed In his open letter, published
in these columns last week.
Assist the census man in every
way possible. If you think he has
missed yon, tell him about it. We
don't want a padded return, but we
do want all that's coining to us.
If the west side expects this por
tion of the state to stand behind a
candidate for United States senator
from over there, they should kill off
some of the big grist of would-be
statesman. King county should insist
upon the preliminary primary, and so
eliminate most of the bunch.
With the announced retiring of
Aldrich from the U. S. senate, and
the spiking of the congressional
Cannon, the powder of the insur
gent has been greatly dampened. The
republican situation has been
largely clarified, and the side shows
can come within the main tent.
An agreement has been entered
into between (lie city council and
the college authorities whereby the
city takes over the college sewer,
from the college grounds down Mai
den Lane, and the college connects
up with the city park sewer. This
relieves the Maiden Lane sewer till
it will be ample for the demands
upon it, and gives the college a
direct outlet through the ten-Inch
park sewer.
Tim president is expected to issue
a proclamation early next month eli
minating certain tracts of land good
for agricultural purposes from some
of the western forest reserves. The
present law seems to cover th.'
ground pretty thoroughly. Agricul
tural lands are now open to home
stead within the reserves, and the
supervision of the forestry depart
ment over large areas good only for
grazing has an excellent effect upon
the stock industry. To throw these
lands out of the re-serve will open
anew much of the old range war
that government supervision of range
lands makes impossible.
There never was a lime when tic
"back to the soil" idea had so firm
a hold on the American people as ii
has today, it ims become almost a
erase, and there is some danger in
overdoing it. Not every quarter see
tion of fuel,. Sam's domain that is
still available to homestead entry
is worth the filing fee. Upon some of
these claims a grass hopper would
die of starvation. The danger lies in
uninformed people being Imposed
upon, and being located upon home
steads without value, and where both
time and money will be squandered.
There are good homesteads available,
and if yon can find just the right
one, it becomes a most laudable am
bition to become a homesteader.
The enactment of the ordinance
proposed by the city council pro
hibiting the obstructing of streets or
alleys with building material, ma
chinery, etc., will go a long way
in assisting the Pullman beautiful
committee in its work. The rights
of th*) citizens are sufficiently safe
guarded by the provision in tic or
dinance by which the council can
grant the.- use of streets or alleys
for the temporary use of builders or
others when occasion requires. No
city can ever be very beautiful when
the streets are used as annexes to
stables, and we believe the provi
sions of the ordinance should ex
tend over the entire town. The coun
cil can be depended upon to deal
with the matter with firmness and
justice.
Hoses and Asters for the
Churches.
To the Committee on Pull
man Beautiful:—To further
encourage the movement of
beautifying Pullman, we will
give to any and all of the
churches in Pullman two dozen
asters, to be planted on the
church property, and will give
to the church that takes the
best care of them during the
season of '.» 10, $10 In cash.
College View Greenhouses
Thos. Neill & Son, Props.
HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.
A great many politicians and
newspapers arc trying to persuade
the country that the Parmer's
Union is responsible for the high
price of meat. Such is the purpose
of the following editorial:
'The opinion of Wallace Pierce,
given before the senate cost-of
living committee, to the effect that
the fanner is enjoying most of
the benefits of the higher prices,
adds to the accumulating testi
mony to the same end. In due
time we may expect an array of
statistics and arguments from the
farmers' Union and the cotton
planters' organization of the West
and South in effort to refute that
charge, but until all the facts are
in the public is at least likely to
entertain the suspicion that the
farmers, those who have effected
Organization, are exerting "trust
methods" to good effect mi their
own profits and to the disaster
of the consumers' pocketbook."- -
Boston Advertiser.
Fortunately the argument of the
Advertiser and others of the same
kind are completely refuted by a
bulletin issued by the government
Bureau of Statistics which bases
its comparisons on figures and es
timates furnished by the Census
Bureau and the Department of
Agriculture. These figures show
thai while during the past 10
years the population of the Unit
ed States has increased by 12,000,1
000, the number of available food
animals, has decreased 5,000,000
during the same period. The bul
letin also shows that while the
population has increased 1(» per
cent, and the supply of food ani
mals has decreased 3 per cent., the
value of that supply shows an in
crease of 22 per cent. At tin; same.
time the price of grain has risen
56 to 75 per cent. According to
the estimates here quoted there
were ten years ago about 2.3 food
animals to each person in the
united States, while now there ay I
only about 1.0. Commenting upon
these figures the New York Jour
nal of Commerce says:
"It is impossible to trace closely
or in detail the relation between
the raising of food animals, with
their cost em the farm, and the
price's of the various meat pro
ducts in the markets of the coun
,l-.v but the general relation ami
its effect arc sufficiently obvious,
"he failure of farm production
generally, of grain, vegetables;
and hay, to keep pace with the in
crease of population caused an
advance in the cost of raising
food animals and preparing i! em
for the market, while the rice
they would command did not re
spond at onec. As a result fewer
were raised ami the supply fell
in relation to demand. Then the
advance in price was bound to
come. That will naturally stimu
late larger production, but this
takes more time with those than
with most other supplies. There
are certain general causes, such
as less unoccupied land to be
taken up, higher cost of that al
ready occupied, and increased
cost of raising food animals due
to other high prices, which are
likely to prevent a return to the
level of prices formerly prevailing
in this country for food products
in general, unless there is great-..*
economy in consumption.'
FREE SEED FARCE.
A subscriber to the Practical
Parmer, of Philadelphia, writes a
plum letter to his congressman
who favored him with the annual
small package of free seeds. His
letter, given below, expresses
some sensible views in a common
sense way.
"Thank you for the courtesy
and good intention evident, but I
don't want them. 1 have a reliable
dealer who supplies me annually
with such seeds its I require and
lie does not expect my continued
trade unless he supplies good
seeds. Hence lie sends me only
good seeds, true to name, and just
such varieties as suit my needs. I
note that of these five papers you
have sent me, none are claimed to
be anything but old standard
sorts. J wish to call to your atten
tion the fact that this free seed
distribution was originally intend
ed to place in the hands of the
farmer new or improved varieties
whose success or failure was de
sired reported to the secretary of
A SPECIAL SALE
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Ladies' Tailor Suits and Millinery
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, '10
MUSIC BY COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
YV7E have made a fortunate purchase of the entire factory sample line
VV of Redfern Tailor Suits, which we will put on sale Saturday
at prices so low you can't resist buying a suit, even if you don't need it.
We have purchased these suits at a very low price and will give our
customers the benefit of the bargain. The line has all the new colors in
misses' sizes, 16 and 18, also ladies' sizes, 32 to 38. If you do not
need a suit or hat, come anyway and hear the music.
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All Pattern Hats in the Millinery Dept.
Go at 25 Per Cent Discount.
$15.00 Hats . . . $11.25 II $ 0.00 Hats . . . $7.50
$12.00 Hats . . . $9.00 $8.00 Hats . . . $6.00
Don't miss this opportunity to buy a fine hat at a big saving
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-50 Ladies' and Misses' Jackets at 1-4 Off
In the sample line we purchased were more than fifty new Spring Jackets, all sizes,
ranging in price from $5.00 to $20.00; all the new colors, also fine Of- Per Cent
assortment of blacks. Come and take your choice of the lot at -*<& Discount. ;
The purchase of this big lot of Jackets and suits will enable the people of Pullman to
supply their needs at a big saving, and we are always planning to serve you in the best way
Thsr y Burgan-Emerson Co. P™N
agriculture. Now I ask you why
you ask mc to report the results
of these poor, unfathered seeds'
growth, whose origin a 'congres
sional investigation' could not de
termine? Can you tell who raised
these seeds? Do you think it any
more fair to distribute poor gar
postal savings hank, and redeem
ing some of the pledges which our
president is insisting upon, we
may give another your opportuni
ty. J ask you, in ease you have
any defense to make of this free
seed graft, to give it to us. If not,
kill it at once. If you consider
this package of garden seeds has
any value, please send stamps and
I will return them. Possibly you
could use them in your own gar
den."
den seeds free, than it would be
to send out to the voters in your
district any other class of mer
chandise in return for a support
which you must have to enable
you P. stay where you are 1 Do you
think 1 can afford to plant seed of
doubtful origin?. I cannot. The
cost of dependable ones is trifling. 1
Do you think we can afford to pay
the bill of sending thousands of
tons of free matter through the
mails at a cost of 200 per cent,
greater than our avaricious ex
press companies would handle it?
We cannot, and unless you get
busy in giving us a parcels post.
EXCURSION RATES TO THE EM
■■ DURING 1010 -FROM ALL, POINTS ON
THE OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION COMPANY
to rates
• Chicago $72.50
Council Bluffs I
Omaha I
Kansas City ', 60 00
St. .Joseph 1 *>
St. Paul I
Tickets will be on sale May 2nd and 9th; dune 2nd. 17th and
24th; duly ."ith and 22nd; August 3rd; September Ml,
St. Paul via Council Bluffs 63.90
Minneapolis direct tin.tin
Minneapolis, via Council Bluffs (;:{.!»(>
Diilulh. direct 66.90
Duluth, via Council Bluffs 67.50
St. Louis 67.50
Ten days provided for the going trip. Stop-overs
within limits in either direction: Pinal return limit
three months from dale of sale, but not later than
October 31st. One way through California $15.00
additional.
Inquire of any O. R. &N. Agent ) \ WM. McMURRAY,
for more complete information \"\ ____?, o '_-_
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