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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
1
The piece questions President Taft's 18,000 mile tour and the Aldrich Payne tariff focus. It argues the trip offers surface spectacle with little real gain, noting Taft's hesitation on tariff discussion and the defensive political bind he faces.
The document argues for a graduated income tax as fairer and better than property taxes, urging 10 to 15 percent of large incomes go to the commonwealth. It notes tariff revenue issues, cites the Aldrich Tariff, and mentions political shifts in Georgia Alabama Indiana Ohio amid constitutional amendment debates.
The speaker warns that special interests run deep but predicts a hard fight for income tax supporters in New York Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware New Jersey and the New England states. He expects growing popular sentiment within two or three years to align eastern legislatures with Western and Southern views.
Whitney asserts both Dr. Cook and Commander Peary reached the North Pole and says Cook's 12 month absence seems truthful. He sailed on the Jeanie as a hunting trip and now faces polar controversy, while denying Peary moved Cook’s stores. Also, St Johns seniors hosted Miss Catherine Hogan’s send off to Washington.
The Olympia Presbytery met in Olympia and adjourned after a busy session. Rev. E R D Hollister of East Hoquiam was elected moderator for the coming year. The meeting included talks on Brotherhood in the church and Missions and praised by visiting clergymen as one of the most successful sessions in the history of the Presbytery.
At a mass meeting in Mills hall residents discussed granting a fifty year franchise to E Shoemaker for a light and water system. A motion urged the town council to grant the franchise under restrictions by ordinance. Shoemaker promises lights by Christmas and work on the water plant within four months.
Senator Bailey has wired acceptance of an invitation from Atlanta's Young Men's Democratic League for a joint tariff debate with William J. Bryan. The event is scheduled for sometime next month in Atlanta, Georgia.
Vessels loaded and sailing plans at West Union Hart-Wood Slade Wilson Aberdeen and Slade mills. Ships and steamer movements include Ludlow loading for San Pedro Mary E Foster for Honolulu Tahoe for San Francisco Westerner for San Pedro Claremont for San Diego Quinsault for San Francisco Watson A West for Antofagasta Sehome for Santa Rosalía G C Lindauer for San Francisco Chehalis for San Francisco Arie loading for Guaymas A B Johnson loading for San Francisco.
A. Duke of Jefferson avenue sits in the city jail on $500 bail after Deputy Youngeberg arrested him Tuesday night for wife beating. Hearing set in Judge Bush's court tomorrow morning. Mrs. Duke alleges he demanded $100, struck her and kicked her in the side. The new law classifies the offense as serious with up to $1,000 fine or 19 years imprisonment or both.
Carl L. Peterson, who sold his plumbing business in the city last spring and moved to Hoquiam, has returned to Aberdeen and is now located at 106 South G street opposite the post office.
In Olympia on September 29 Judge Walter W. McCredie of Clark County won the nomination to succeed the late Congressman Francis W. Cushman after hours of caucus bargaining. The Southwest Washington counties united, blocks were shifted, and Finch suffered defeat as the bloc chose McCredie for the convention.
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