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PAGE FOUR DAILY EAST ORFGQXIAJf, PENDLETON, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1911. EIGHT PAGES AX INDEPENDENT XEWSPATEU. Published Hally, Wertl; and Semi Weekly at IVndleton, Orogou, by the AST OKKUOMAN 11 HUSHING CO. 81 nsCKU'TlON HATES. Palli. one yer, br mall J.YOO ball?, six mouths, by mall 2.S0 llly, three month, by mall 1.23 Pally, one mouth, by mail 50 Iily, one year, by carrier T.50 Illy, plx months, by carrier 8 73 lally. Hire moniiia, by carrier 1.05 Dally, one mouth, by carrier tt5 Seml Wei-kly, one year, by mall 1.50 Semi Weekly, six months. dt mall 75 Semi-Weekly, four months, by mall... .50 The lni!y East Oregonlan Is kept on sale at the Orvcon News Co., 829 Morrison treet, 1'ortiand, Kreson. NorthweHt Newt tv, Portland, Oregon. CMcaco Hurra u. ft Security RulMlng. Wahlnpton, l. C., Bureau, 501 Four teenth street, N. W. Member fnlted Press Association. Fntere1 at the postofflee at Tendleton, Oregon, as second class mall matter. Telephone Main 1 Official City and County Taper. HEART OF GOLD. Love like a flower unfoldeth, Tear not the leaves apart. Long though the white cup holdeth Secret its golden heart. Patience and faith wlthholden Dark the garden place; Longer the warm heart golden Hides from thine eager face. Loving the white flower pure ly. Glowing when days are cold. Sunshine will bring thee surely . Wealth from its heart of gold. From "Heartsease Hymns," by AVilliam P. McKenzie. THEY CAXXOT AFFORD IT. On the first of March Umatilla county will change I its system of working the county toads. It is the Intention to do away with the county roadmaster and to adopt one of two plans for supervising the road work. One plan is for each member of the court to take supervision over a sec tion of ,the county. The other plan Is for the court to name three dist rict roadmasters to have charge of the work in their respective sections and to draw pay for such time as they actually work. Of these two plans the one calling for the employing of three district roadmasters is advocated by County Judge Maloney. It is incomparably better than the scheme to leave the supervision of the work to the mem bers of the court. If the court em ploys a roadmaster for each of the three natural divisions of this county and employs the right sort of men splendid results may be obtained. Each roadmaster will live in the sec tion over which he has charge and will be Able to get Into action quick ly and work the roads when work is needed. He will be able to take per sonal charge of the work and should be able to give the county a dollar's worth of work for every dollar ex pended. If the members of the court them selves attempt to supervise this road work we will not get such satisfactory results. That plan was tried before and it did not work well. Members of the court were freely charged with "putting in time" travelling around and drawing good pay without doing the county any good. As they them selves passed upon their own bills there was no one to object or prune down claims. It was not a business like system at all and it is no better now than it was several years ago. Such a system tends to breed graft and extravagance and arouses sus picion and criticism. At this time there is a general Impression among people of nearly all classes that this county nas been badly bunkoed in the matter of road work. People know that the system followed in the past has not looked to efficiency and economy. They know that the meth ods of the past have placed a prem ium on graft and waste. They are tired of that sort of business and want a change. The members of the new court can not afford to go wrong In this mat ter and they surely will not resort again to the plan of supervising road work themselves. If they do this pa per will take steps to find out what farmers, businessmen and good roads advocates think of the matter. THE SECOND CHOICE BILL. Governor West has vetoed the sec ond choice bill with the explanation that It has an unconstitutional feature and also that his veto- Is In accord with his pre-election promises to op pose any mutilation of the direct pri mary law by the legislature. . Governor West Is himself the best judge as to what he meant by hM pre-election promise. If he, consid ered himself in duty bound to kill the Rusk bill In order to conform to that promise then he acted absolutely rlsrht In vetoing it However this pa per regrets that the ax had to fall In this Instance. The second choice pro- vision is a good one and If adopted It would eliminate one of the objections to the direct primary law. The act providing for rotating names upon the ballot Is also aimed at a weak spot in the direct primary. In the view of the East Orogonlan the second choice men in the legisla ture made a mistake In following the irocedure they did. If instead of en acting the change themselves they had passed a' resolution submitting this matter to the people at the next election thoy would then have been freed from the charge of altering a popular measure. There is a general disposition to resent any legislative changes in the direct primary law or in other measures enacted by the poo. pie. In the case of the second choice bill this resentment was increased by the fact that the bill passed the sen ate with the aid of men of the Bow erman contingent. That was a taint that spoiled the measure with thous ands of good people of iill parties and those people will applaud Governor West for using the veto. IT IS DAXGEROFS. It is explained for the administra tion that though the new treaty with Japan makes no provision for exclud ing Japanese coolies it is the under standing that Japan herself promises to keep her people at home. That sort of an agreement will do very well if the promise is observed, but the average westerner would prefer to see an exclusion provision in the treaty. This country, not Japan should sup ervise the excluding process. That is distinctly our business. There Is but one satisfactory way to settle the ori ental problem and that Is by reserv ing America for the Caucasians and leaving Asia to the orientals. If the gates of the west are opened to ori ental immigration that course will lead to riot and bloodshed and prob ably to a war between the United tates and Japan. If congress passes the sundry civil bill as now drafted there will be $35,- 000 more for the Pendleton federal building. With that amount and the sum already appropriated the govern ment should be able to erect a first class structure in this city. Here's hoping for construction of the build ing before the money voted becomes too rusty for use. Governor West has made a record with the veto ax and he has greatly pleased many people by the manner in which he has used his descretion ary powers. There can be no ques tion but that most of the measures turned down deserved such a fate. It is not up to the members of the county court to draw all the money they can personally from the county treasury. They were elected to trim expenses and to see that none of the funds are wasted. People who thought that all legis lation was concluded when the legis lature adjourned had another guess coming. Hoboes, thieves and bootleggers al so favor having the police wear uni forms. TIBERIUS GRACCHUS. It was two thousand and fourty four years ago that Tiberius Gracchus was Invested with the tribunate by the people of Rome. It Is necessary to emphasize that word people. It was the people as opposed to the patrician machine, backed up by the innumerable "interests" and "policies" that stood behind Gracchus. Immediately upon enerlng office the brave young tribune began his noble work. The "old families" and their tools had pretty nearly every thing that was worth having. The land and all that the land stood for political power, social standing; in a word, all the honors and emolu ments of the state were In the hands of the aristocracy. The plain people seemed to have no rights that the patricians were bound to respect. Tiberius Gracchus, though himself a patrician of the patricians, with the bluest blood of the republic in his veins, set himself to the task of right. Ing these colossal wrongs. He did not know what it was to be afraid. He loved Justice and hated wrong; and despising his own life, took up the gage of battle against the proud and powerful enemies of the people. He said: "The Roman lands be. long- to the Roman people" and forth with began to drive out the wealthy occupiers. Unauthorized occupiers were to be evicted, and no man was to have more than 1,000 acres. The land thus received from the greedy hands of the monopolists was to be distributed in Just allotments among the masses of the people, bo that each nan would have a home of his own end, in addition thereto, the means of that home's support. But, alas for the beautiful dreams of the generous and the Just! Grac chus was true to his convictions and .iH faithful as the North star to the people who looked to him for their salvation, but the "Interests" were, for the time being, mightier than the right, and the noble young tribune went down. The hirelings of the in iquitous lengue between the senate and the millionaire landholders killed Gracchus as they might have killed a dog and laughed a satanlc laugh at their victory over the people. But the spirit of Gracchus lived on, and today that spirit is nerving every one who Is fighting; for the rights of the Makes Home Baking Easy prat Bp POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powder made from Royal Crape Cream of Tartar koalum.no lime phosphate people against the claims of consci enceless monopoly. Selected.- THE MONEY QUESTION'. My temper, as you know, is mild. It's hard to make me mad; But one thing always sets me wild. She knows it does, begad! I gnash my teeth, I clench my fists, my eyes with fury glow When that dear wife of mine insists I stint her on the dough. i Tou see, it's really most absurd. It makes a fellow wince, For I, as you no doubt have heard, have always been a prince, Tou ask the follows If I'm not a spender for your life. That's Just the rep that I have got. But don't you ask my wife. 1 She doesn't have to beg and plead; she only has to speak; And there's no earthly sort of need of so much cash per week. But when I tell her that she sighs, and then the claws unsheath. "I know I get it," she replies, "but it j comes like pulling teeth." Allowances seem cold and hard; com mercial as can be, And so in that one regard we cannot quite agree. She thinks I'm stingy, I suppose, be cause I am not rash And know a woman never knows the way to handle cash. .37'V. !., -. That I'm no tightwad I'll maintain. I understand finance; And so it gives me quite a pain to watch extravagance. While I'm most liberal and free, waste makes me froth and foam, And I confess I like to see economy at home. Xo, I don't care about expense, as you will well discern. But I shall make no fool pretense of having stuff to burn. The lady's 'wants are all supplied. Perhaps there is a fight; But, if I think it's Justified, I'll loos en up, all right. Kenneth Harris. PENSION'S AND POUTICS. While congress Is blithely voting away a $45,000,000 Increase in fed eral pensions, the postoffice depart ment is loudly proclaiming that it Is "saving" a million or so dollars a year by crippling the postal servrce, which Is hailed as a masterpiece of "departmental retrenchment." The pension grab bill, tHedln? tt. 000 a year in fee simple to what northern and non-partisan newspa pers denounce as a horde of profes sional "enlisters," camp followers and bounty Jumpers, passed the house of representatives with a whoop and is reported favorably to the sen ate. Cartoonist Gregg elsewhere sums it up with a center shot plugging tne spigot, ignoring the bung. The Constitution, In common with all other reputable southern papers, has never opposed bona fide relief to bonafide veterans and their depend ents. But the one excuse or pallatlon of the Sulloway bill is the purchase of $45,000,000 worth of personal politi cal capital with the people to hold the bag. Those faithful watchdogs raise a perennial hue and cry about the "pork barrel." The pork barrel, In Its most Impu dent days, never made such an un blushing bid for universal denuncia tion as does the creation of Sulloway! We do not believe tho American people, wherever located, or the old soldiers who really bled and suffered for their convictions, will tolerate so flagrant an exhibition of political dough-bag methods. Atlanta Consti tution. Consul A. J. Lesplnasse of Frontera, reports that while the present demand for creosoted lumber In the Mexican State of Tabasco Is limited, there Is likelihood that the market for such lumber will be enlarged soon by the reopening of the shipyard of the Ta basco-Chiapas Trading and Trans portation company, which has been closed for several years. Good Spring Tonic "We have taken Hood's Sarsaparllla for a spring tonic and as a blood puri fier. Last spring I was not well at all. 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