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PAGE FOUR DAILY EAST OREGOXIAV, PEYDLETOX, OREGOX, FRIDAY, UmiU'ARY 17, 10H. ' EIGHT. PAGtJS A INPEI'KXKEXT NEWSPAPER. rskiKLrd Dally. Weekly Dd Seal-Weekly IlI lVmtiotun. Oregon, by t A8X OltK'itiNlAN I'lHUSHlNd CO. StliSCHU'TIOX KATKS. ally. ca yr. by mall $3.00 Mil;, l i muntba. by mall 2.60 Pally, tbm month, hj mall 1.25 I'ally, one montli. by wall Ml ally, one year, by carrier T.fli 'ally, all motitus. by tarrler I 15 (.ally, three months, by carrier 1.05 tjfcllT. one month, by carrier 65! nl Wek!y, one year, by Duill 1.60 3nii eckly, six month, by mall 73 -ul Weekly, lour month, by mall... .60 proved but that the field from which possible applicants might come would be enlarged. , T.YK1FF COMMISSION BEST. The Dally Kast Ortwronlao la kept oa aalc t the )recoa New Co., S- Morrtaou treet, Portland. Oregon. fcnrthweat New Co.. Portland. Oregon. i Security Hollaing. Bureau. 5'.)1 Four- ;hloao Kurenu. Pot) Security Bolldlrui. aui atreet, N. W. Member United Pre Auoelatlon. Entered at the poatofflee at Pendleton. em. as aeoood claaa mall matter. c.ephona Main 1 Official City and Connty Paper. Beautiful there at the gates they sing, Lips of morning- and throats of aprlng. Creeping and creeping from day . to day, The violet virgins have dreamt of May, And fair and warmer the blue skies blend O'er the silver hills where t,he fairies wend. Fair and warmer, the bluebirds cry; - Fair and warmer, the clouds roil py; Fecret messengers, to and fro, The little beasties come and go. From woods and waters that waking feel The wings of the mystic o'er them steal. Down in the adamant hearts of men, Fair and warmer. It leaps again. The blood far tingling at touch of sun In the dream of another dream begun, With love by the beautiful gates of rose To kiss back spring from her Baltimore Sun. In the issuo that has been raised over the Cunadian reciprocity treaty the need of a tariff commission Is shown once more. Whether or not the tivuiy will be a good thing and will be just to the American farmer U more than anything else a question ; fact. Of the real merits of the treaty the average citizen cannot well judge for the reason that he has not sufficient information at hand. It Is safe to say that not one man in 1000 Vnows the full nature of the recip rocity treaty. The cry has gone forth that the treaty if adopted will work an Injus tice upon the farmer that the gov ernment will be providing free trade in farm products while protecting fust made goods. This argument, ;igainst the treaty may be well found ed, or it may be a piece of chicanery. The opposition of the grange may have been cunningly aroused by other interests that will suffer by the treaty. For instance by the timber trust or the paper tnust. It would be very i.acural for such interests as those to use the grange as a catspaw to pull their own chestnuts from the fire. Those who are defending the admin istration in its move to put through the reciprocity treaty hold that the farmer has more to fear from the American trusts that control the ag ricultural products of this country than from the reciprocity treaty. Tills may be true. AVith the tariff commission plan In operation there would be less oppor tunity than now for mistakes and- for jobbery. The commission would gather complete and reliable data re garding the different industries. Tar iff schedules could then be fixed ac cording to the merits of the case and not in accordance with the political exigencies of the moment. MIS. TAYLORS LETTER. W1IAT ARE THEY? (Baltimore News.) It Is characteristic of the curious and illogical development of Institu tions that this -country Is Just com ing to face a final decision as to what is "republicanism" and what is de mocracy." For more than half a century the two great parties have been called democratic and republi can. What do the two names mean? What Is the essential difference in governmental ideals that the two words connote? And do the people of the the two parties really know to what differences they subscribe when they avow themselves members of one party or the other? The supreme court is going to de cide in the next few months, what is a republican and what a democrsnc form of government. It will pass on the appeal of a case from Oregon in which the democratic governmental system of that state, based on the initiative, referendum and recall, is involved. The Initiative and refer endum provide democracy: of that there can be no doubt. The people may propose and pass their own laws. Hut is that more than can be done under a republican form of gov ernment? The constitution guarantees a "re publican form of government to all the states. Oregon is going to find out from the supreme court whether, in adopting the initiative and refer endum, it has overstepped the defini tion of "republican." The dictionary meaning of the two words, common ly accepted as practically synony mous, makes them decidedly differ ent. If the dictionary be accepted, Oregon's plan, Just now so popular in all radical sections, has no chance at all. The dictionary makes a repub lican government a government through elected representatives of the people, not by the people at all. If the dictionary gets literally vindicat ed, Oregon's plan will be in the way of demolition. For Oregon has spe cifically provided machinery to elim inate the representatives elected by the people. Xo more interesting case has come to the supreme court in many years than this one. and certainly few more Important. The initiative and refer endum movement is making progress whose like 13 difficult to recall in our history. If the supreme court should declare that the whole plan is unconstitutional, It would certainly precipitate a crisis whose ultimate significance few would dare to conjecture. LOOK TO COMPETENCY. A move is on to place the state printer on a flat salary. It is a pro per move but the legislature should go farther and abolish that office as employed by the state board just as the state house janitor is employed. Or else let the printing work out by contract. It is a silly plan to have the state printer an elective official. Let the board employ a man for his technical fitness and get the best man possible, no matter whether he la a resident of Oregon, Indiana or Ber lin. The rule of the survival of the fittest prevails in private business. It should also prevail in the public ser vice. Ey this same argument the state food and dairy commissioner should be changed from an elective to an appointive official. He should be se lected by the state board or by the state board of health. He should be an expert and if when seeking a pro per man for the place the board could rot find a good man In Oregon then they should go beyond the borders of j this state. By this same argument county school superintendents should be em ployed, not elected. It is silly for a big county like Umatilla that has something like 100 school districts and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars maintaining schools, to have to elect a superintendent from the people of this county. There may -be nc competent man within the county vho wishes the position. Then who ' ever comes forth has to be chosen. The right way would be to elect coun ty superintendents upon the same basis city superintendents are chosen. Employ men upon their qualifications aj) educators. It should not matter whether a man Is from Umatilla county, from Portland or from Ohio. It is competency that should count. With these sentiments In view the East Oregonlan has criticised the Huntington bill which looks to pro viding more supervision for rural schools. Supervision for rural schools there should be. But this paper sub mils that the first step towards pro viding such supervision should con ist in getting the most capable coun ty superintendents possible. Plainly the best men cannot be obtained un- - Jer the present method of election Of course In opposition to the claim that school superintendents, the state printer and the food commissioner should be appointed and not elected the argument will be made that such a change would take power away from the people. Still there are some pow - era which the people should delegate to others rather than exercise them . directly. Only a demagogue will maintain the contrary. HQwerer, - the beat argument for tha change proposed abora Sa not so much that tha aelectln oowtr would ba lm- In a communication to this paper yesterday H. J. Taylor, president of the county good roads association, had some pointed things to say about the good roads legislation and about the grange and farmers' union lob byists who worked against the meas ures. Being a prominent farmer himself Mr. Taylor's views are of par ticular Interest. They show that all the farmers of this county are not op posed to' the good roads bills. It is the firm belief of the East Oregonlan that nine-tenths the farm ers of the county would favor the good roads bills as Mr. Taylor favors them if they fully understood the sit uation. The only way to get good roads is by constructing them. The good roads association had a syste matic, business like and very equit able plan for carrying on road work. Had the legislation asked for been granted we would have gotten re sults. Within the next two years the lob byists who worked against the good roads bills will have an opportunity to explain their actions to their peo ple. That some legislators who op posed the good roads bill have al ready heard from their constituents Is already known from the fact that a move is on in the house to ressurrect the state aid bill. FEBRUARY 17 IN HISTORY. With Russia about to engage In some sort of a war with China, with the Mexican revolution on in full blast and with a Haytlan insurrection jst being concluded It would seem that there Is some need for the 110,- 000,000 peace fund recently offered y Carnegie. That new high school should be a irst class structure that will be credit to the city for many years. High school work is advancing all the time and the Dercentaee of high school graduates increases each year. Pen dleton wants no building that will soon be out of date. 1S29 James Wallace, the English tragedian, made his first American appearance at Washington. 1830 Fourteen hundred troops em barked from Spain for Manila and 3000 for Havana. 1835 Five volcanoes burst forth simultaneously in Central Ameriii, attended with tremendous earth quakes, which sunk three large towns besides many villages. 1854 Two Russian squadrons, mis taking each other for Turks, rotignt battle near Klafat, with great loss of life before the error was discov ered. 1864 Twenty-seven of the hundred federal officers who had tunneled out of Libby prison at Richmond, Va., ucceeded in reaching Washington. 1865 Louisiana ratified the con stitutional amendment. 1865 General Sherman entered Columbia, S. C, and burned the city. 1874 Gladstone tendered his res ignation as premier to Queen Victo ria at Windsor and Disraeli summon ed to form a new cabinet. 1SS0 Unsuccessful attempt made to kill Russian royal ramny at at. Petersburg. ' 1880 British house of commons defeated a bill to make franchise in Ireland equal to that In England and Scotland. 1884 General "Chinese" Gordon arrived at Khartoum and proclaimed E. Mahdi sultan. 1895 Field Marshal Oyama In command of the Japanese at Welhai- wei announced the surrender of tie Chinese on sea and land. 1909 A tariff commission at In dianapolis demanded a permanent commission to adjust schedules. 1910 More than 2,000,000 acre of land were withdrawn by Secretary Ballinger for conservation purposes. Champ Clark's little Joke was evl- lently not understood by the Eng llsh. Maybe they will see the point later. We will have an angler's commis sion and the Job of fish warden will cease to be a political snap. Hooray. One more day of lawmaking. How many Jokers will slip through during the closing hours? Evidently it Is hard for the weather bureau to keep track of our climate, THEY BELIEVEB HER. I GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD MONEY IN THE BANK 2iMKY DONT YOU SANK BF RTTFR Watijfied with 7y V FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS. They are telling a story of the fa vored suitor of a Cleveland society girl who called at the house of his Inamorata recently and found a new parlor maid at the door, says the Cleveland "Plain Dealer." "Is Miss Blank in? This Is Mr. Dash," he explained. The maid smiled brightly. "Oh, yes, sir," she replied and led him In to the drawing room. Here he wax ed the better part of an hour, when he finally summoned the maid again. "Did you forget -to tell Miss Blank that I was here?" he asked impatient ly. "No, sir "answered the new maid. "MiBs Blank hasn't got back from shopping yet." "But you told me positively that she was In?" "Yes, sir. She told me positively that she was always homo to you, sir." County option seems to be one of the spirit of the times. Husband (to wife, who has return ed from Dartv in tears) My Dear Ethel, what on earth Is the matter Are you 111? 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