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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1916)
The Ontario Argus M. E. BAIN, Publisher. Bubftcriptlon $1.00 a year Always in advaric.' Published I wr) Tlmrsilnv. Knlercl In the Post Oltlre at nni.it. o. Oregon, for transmission tkn th malls as second rlns mail mntlci 1(1 M ill l W ( MIIIITKH: I'm president Chart kthh Hugh. M I I Id) hi hark Warren Fairbanks. iu.y. tit:-- la eeniriM n j Binnott Secretary of State lli-n W Olcott Justice of thi Supreme I'ourt Oeorge II. Burnett. Krsnk A Moorp Dairy and food commissioner John I). Mi. kle c'iiiiiiiiIh .iiiiiir of public service H H. Corey. State Hpnator Jullen A. Ilurlpy. Representative Charles M. Crsn 4eJI. District Attorney-- Itoliert M. Dun can. Sheriff Kmory Col. County (Iprk V. B. Staple. County assessor L. B. Hill. County treasurer- 0. 0. Mupllpr. County surveyor James F. Mil ler. County commissioner J. F. Wea ver. County School BupprlntcndPnt Katella Conklln. Justice of the Peace 0. I.. Kin. ('unstable J. H. Denlson Tin- Argus will appesr next week under the guiding hand of Ueo K. Aiken, who has purchased Hip paper and equipment. Mr. Aiken Iibn had any veers experience mm a ni' paper owner and will inakp changes for thp betterment of TIip Ana All rlalniN against the business rill be tattled by the undersigned, all subscription account and paya ble to Mr. Aiken. M. F. HA IN. THK NPK.tlt Ol' I I til Kit I. Touched with the magic spe.it tin Wil'.oiiliiii "Lincoln Itcpuhlii an appear In their true colors (or col laral genuine democrat! of the old copperhead variety They are not to he permllted In niasiiiera.le a upporters of Lincoln and shall not be pel milted to deceive Hie unwary Into supporting a mini creating pel agogue as a statesman Accepting (he challenge that It Is the man and not the parly lo M supported let us examine what the 111 mi hu. done Let us touch Ii - .,.. with "Ithurlel's Spear" and com pare hla word with their result. He elected llryan as his secretary of tate. What was this, wisdom or politics" Certainly lint wisdom and the result showed it to he hint poll tic Was it wisdom to supplant a nun like Hem. W in th.. midst of terrible times in France Supplant a man loved hy the French and who cour ageously upheld the honor and pow er of his country and place an Incom petent In his place Have we rsln d in France and Kngland hy that course? Was it wisdom to permit Ihe ex plotting of Ihe Haitians by "deserv ing democrats" In order to pay poli tical debts' Old a show of power after Carrl (I impress the Mexicans' Then u how of power before I ainpini would liave impressed Ihe Mexicans, and hundreds of lives saved and ruined families permitted to live their liWs Of puce Kveryone in Ihe world knew this hul John l.iu.l and Wood row Wilson What kind ul distinct en is it tint refuses lluel't.i hccullse he supposed ly permuted the murder el M.uleru lid Joins Villa, a confessed murder r and deslroxer of women, or Car rsna, a well known murderer? Was Carrixal one of the "gruveat roiieiueiues ' m result unless at tention was paid to our notea? "He has kept us out of war" Let ua ask the friends of Adair or in terview Cap't Moyer. or tulk it over with the relations of (he victims at Vera Crux (iermany saved our cltlieu at Tem pi. o with a threat of force, while our fleet sailed sway at the order of our government The democratic platform of 1112 aid' "The constitutional rights of American cituens should protect theiu on our borders and go witli them throughout the world, and ev ery American citizen residing or hav ing property in any foreign country la entitled to and must be given the full protection of the United States government." In his note to Carranss President Wilson aald: "For three years the Mexican republic has been torn with civil strife; the Uvea ol American cilixeus aud other aliens have been sacrificed; v;i';l properties develop' . I In American capital and .'titer l .i be IB "royeil or rend red non proiim i u. . bandlta have been pennltted to rnmn at will thro tlio territory contiguous to th' I'nlt m stjit f an. I to telle without pun loiinient or without effMtln attempt at ptmlehmenl ihe property of A mar g hilf I b liv.'s of .-it i, ii tlio Culled Slate; who out tl roil hi remain In Matlcan territory of i" n linn than i" protoel their Interest Inn I n alien. In Komi- M ' hiii l.arou it) Ink. n , anil tho m iirdorei I have n.'itlier I ii apprehended nor ironiM to justice it would h' i 'i inn iii ri'ronnt in-lanre after In stance. iiiiti.ii-'' alter outrage, ntro lit) alter atrocity, hi . 1 1 u Ir.ih' the true nature ami intent of the wlde spiead ronitition in w k iiumn .u uUu violence which liavp prevnlleil " This win In thp note of "gravest consequences" after which Santa Ysahel-folumbua-farrizal We went after Villa Die! wp net him'' Have we done anything we attempted to do and after all these abortive at d'nipts llMten to the plaintive wail "He knpt us out of war." Touched with the "Spear of Ithur lel" we find an iihk parading in the kin of a lion, sychophantlcatly sus urriiting "wp arp Lincoln republi cans." It la to bray. VOICKH. When, echoing down reverberat Inc canyons and ricochetted from the walla In trembling resonance; hen Ihe circumambient nlr la vi brant with resounding echoes Inter mingled with the shrill whistling of revolving cyclones and the hoarse roar of descending water; we hear 'Hires, iipparenlly of passion, sud denly changing from a deep basso -profundo to a mild soprano like ploiiiliiig. it is sometimes difficult to distinguish and correctly Identify the origin of the noli. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, and with entire absence of any de sire to do an injustice, we cannot hut conclude that the "Voice from the North" Is the deep mouthed bray of a hungry donkey. That the voice la "asinine" we de duce from the fart that it denomin ates itself a "traveling pedagogue" and signs Itself as Mrs Urundy With Its lank legs anil rlhmarked body ac centuating its lung ears, hiding be hind tho short skirts of a lady of prevailing fashions, the emission of a trembling roar which weakness dwindles into a sychophantlc whine for dissension; cold and uiei.il, logic can deduce only an ass. Since when, O Voice from I lie North, lias "rumor" over an anony mous signature been anything but asinine? i. ii. fill, brother! Let us not he led uihi . xpl.iii.ii.ir arguments Kv eu a petty county politician can get into the same difficulty as Is our great president. With him, what ever time he can find for other than explanations, Is utilised In writing notes that require explanation It seems that the democratic par ly is to be completely submerged as It passes through Ihe enemy fleet Klse why tills from the "Independent Orgon Journal:" "The political party is what the few men Inside make it, and that la why political parties are not so safe a guide aa la a known character of the man who is the chosen leader " Away with the democrats, hurrah for Wilson' Is that It? "The Journal could not be true to itself or true to its patrons, if it belonged to a party It is dedicated to the great fundamental principles tiiat the Nazurine exemplified in his life of equal rights to all and -pe.i.il privileges to none " Oregon Journ al The mention of the Nazurine in une breath with the Journal seems sacrilege, but we renieuibr the course of the Nazurine resulted in his crucifixion In a Just cause of course We rather expect that when crucifixion time comes to the Jour n. 1 1 next November its "independ ence" will be exerted In help for It self. If the democratic platform was wrong, and If It was ignored, and it was right aud proper to Ignore It; what Is meant by the statement: "We point with pride to the fullfil incni of our promises " Was the promise to have a free canal to our coastwise shipping fulfilled' Haa the cost of living been reduced? Has anything promised been accomplish ed? Was the whole thing buncombe aud if so is the whole democratic platform of 11 to be ignored? Are they better promisers now than in Itll "A thriving hog Industry waw in swing at the prison In Governor Weats's time - Oregon Journal We knew there was a thriving hog business at Salem In those daya but did not know that It was con fined to the prison. A correspondent In the Oregon I Journal, ammiR other things, pecu liar, remarks: "I will hriiHh tho democratic platform of I !M 2 Midi hy saying that It matters very little to mi' what It said " Sure' Why not? Thnt's what their great leader did. Mr Itrcntatin states further: Winn I'resldi'til Wlllon found that the ileiiiorratlc platfonii was wrong it WM hi' duly to Ignore It " lie nre'v perfornii'd his diltv tor every I plank hi - I"' n ilintered to siniih en-ens. linker county Is the only big conn ty of Oregon having a fair thl .:ir. Iiiialilla and I'nlon liavlng de cided to rest Thus the Kastern ' Oregon Fair may ho given hare af-, ter all Maker paper. Say Hrother. come to Ontario and1 see what a real county fair Is like. ' Malheur county has been holding the hest county fair In eastern Oregon ' for many years. Our fairs excell all I others In eastern Oregon in class and' variety of exhibits, entertainment and crowda. According to the Oregon Journal there are two wings to the demo cratic party In Oregen: Wilson democrats and Lincoln republicans. There are a lot of Lincoln republi cans In the United States, probably eight million of thpm, and we rather think that when the Journal reads the Interviews of next November that they will find several of thorn disclaiming any relation to the up holders of Jefferson Oavla. The Oregon Journal insists It Is not democratic. Will the Journal give us a definition of newspaper that supports editorially, and In Ita coloring of news matter, and In ita real and faked correspondence, some particular party, a does the Journal the democratic party? Our Interest in this la that we like to play the game with a fair deck. If the goal Is worthy the sttempt to reach It should be worthy. When an "independent" newspap er continually fights for one parly t the same time disclaiming con nection with that party, we always wonder why they apologise. Champ Clark may be a good vote getter In Missouri but he wouldn't run very fast In a campaign in Cali fornia or Florida In a speech in the house a few days ago he tried to explain that the war In Kurope shut off the Italian lemongrowers from their ordinary market, so they were forced to dump their product into the I'nlted States, with the re sult Hi.. i California lemon produc era left their fruit on the trees, lie neglected to comment upon the fact that the "insidious" Italian lemon lobby spent 1140,000 Inducing the democratic party lo reduce the duly on lemons, and that, because o' that reduction, the Italian growers were given access to our market We ad vise Mr. Clark not to go on the stump in California this year. The farmers of California kuow what hit them. Postmaster Oeneral Burleson is sued an order directing postmaatera in towns where there Is no federal reserve bank to collect checks drawn upon non member state banks but when there was vehement protest against this Invasion of the field of private business, the order was aus peii.ii .1 The administration pro fesses a desire to co-operate with the business men of the country, but loses no opportunity to take a fling at any line of industry If any excuse can be found for such actiou. Let the government do it, is the policy of the administration. Since the post masters woifld receive no additional salaries for the additional aervlce performed aud for the responsibili ties assumed, it would be easy for the government to drive the hanks out of business. "Sugar production under the American flag has quadrupled In the 15 years since 1900" declares the trade reviewer of the National City Bank of New York. Thirteen years H of that period was uuder the repub lican protective policy, and one year, 1115, wan under war conditions Fol lowing hard on the passage of the democratic tariff law, the sugar In dustry of thla country began to de cline, but it was saved by the Euro pean war. Racine tWis Journal-News Mr. Hughes is singularly well fitted by temperament, disposition snd logi cal poweriuto gauge men and events. His calm and reasoning mind will be of Invaluable service to his country. Peoria till. I Transcript It is glorioua to defend "the Interests of humanity," but the particular gov eminent over which President Wil son presides slso needs common sense protection. AMONG TIIK NATIONAL l.rXHKHS Washington, Aug ! (Special Cor respondence ) - The democrats are up in the air In the senate on the Immigration hill. The fnct that th. president Is opposed to the tin and u.inti t put over until the nel session of congress, has caused oral democratic candidates for the sen ile a great deal oT anxiety. The fact thai the republican will at tempt to tack the hill In Its entirely on the child tabor hill, has discon certed tlie administration MMtOfl This IBOMUrc Is one of great public Interest and has almost the solid support of the republican member of the upper branch Senator (Inl lirlnr has iilways been trong for the hill and Is one of the republican leaders who Is forcing the democrats .- gettOTl " nrpnt on this proposi tion. The democrats In caucus bc- ceeded to the wishes of the president and voted to postpone It until the next session, but the republicans pro pose to put thpm on record and will force vote at thl session, If possi ble. A prominent cltlxen of Maine was s recent guest of one of the republi can congressmen from that state. Speaking of the outlook there he aald: "If I can Judge anything from the way people are talking, the detn- ocrata are due for an awful Jolting i down In Maine In September. Prac tically all of the progressive are , back In the fold. There are not enough left for a coroner'a Jury. With a united party, I look for a clean sweop from one end of the state to the other. I feel confident that all four of the congressional ills tricta will be again republican. The second district now represented by i Congressman McGllllcudy will return a republican. We hull elect both United States senators That's the , way th people talk down In Maine." Representative James T Lloyd of Missouri, one of the veteran members of the house, a democrat In politics and former chairman of the demo cratic congressional committee, la not very optimistic about Missouri He gave the other members of the delegation cold shivers when he stat ed publicly that there Is not 1,000 difference between the republican and democratic votes of that state While he stated that he thought the democrats might carry Missouri, his words were not tinged with enthusi asm and apparently Wgff BOl filled' with great hope. Coming from j such n source It Is little wonder thai j (he democrats are alarmist about that Htate. (ion O. C. I'ingree of I'itsliunr. i Knns , a friend and con i in. ni ol i.'ei.i .'illative "Phil" Campbell of I - ., was a re. 'ill visitor lo the national oapltol iking of the outlook In that stale he aid "Kan sas will give SO, (inn for 111" republl can national ticket mid I think that figure Is conservatlvi Tin ie is no progressive part) Ml In our stale It Is united With thl republicans and that means g overwhelming vote for our ticket in N'meniber Unfiles Is a popular Idol In Kansas and the people were for him before the con vention. When he was nominated that settled it l am oi lh up'uton that as Kansas Is going, so Is going the country." Hon. Harry L. Woodward of I'sr kersburg, W. V., who formerly ser ved In congress has been renominat ed by the republicans in the fourth district of that slate He was re cent visitor at the capltol and speak ing of th situation In his state he aald: "I have been campaigning all over my district for some tlm. I have come In contact with the peo ple. I have not the slightest doubt about what la going to happen In our state In November. Hughes and Fairbanks will win by a substantial majority. Our atate Is In favor of protection. Our state ticket will al so win, but by a slightly reduced ma jority. I look for big gain In the congressional delegation " A democratic contemporary re marks that this prosperity holds on UjarrfT1 sfcuVMI' J THE MAN Who buys and reads his home pa per demonstrates both his patriot ism and his intelligence by the act. The merchant who buys his printing from his home paper gives a practical demonstration of his be lief in the policy of trading at home This town is made up of two classes of people those who DO and those who DON'T. Don't be a "don't." The Ontario Argus PUBLISHERS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS pretty well for n "temporary pros perity." True, and bo does tho war hold on pretty well. We expert the aroaparity lo continue as long as th wnr, and not much longer unless we get some sound economic legislation on the federal statute books heforo the war rinses. i'ie ildant wil.oii thinks It unwise for Ihe nieiicin pisiple to swap Whlll crossing n stream Hut we don't know whether we are cross ing or not. Yon can't are Ml son of a slreiim on a horse thai con linually cluirrges his mind nnd 04M in .in iippo Ho direction without nny winning whatever A democratic contemporary wants to know how there can be any Joy in the republican camp when there is no ;.. ....':: :!.- fatt hi hwttw resourcps to a republican tariff law. Well, laying party politics aside, th American people got more Joy out of profits drawn from the battlefields of Europe. DO YOU KNOW THAT The hand that carries food to the mouth ran also carry disease germs. Health first I th highest form of safety first? Tuberculosis and poverty go hand In hand? The U. S public health service will send a booklet on flies and dis ease, gratis to all appltcats? The breast fed baby has the best ohanc? Physical fitness 1 preps red noes sgalnst disease? Pneumonia Is a communicable dis ease? Cockroaches msy csrry disease? TRY SOME of our Ice cream, manufac tured In Ontario from the purest of materials We will dellever free any amount of one gallon or over, any flavor, packed well, for your Sunday dinner. Morten Bros.