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PAGE SIX BATLY MAMT OKKGOlOAIf, FMNDLKTOIT, ORESOlf, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1911. EIGHT PAQES MAY RECLAMATION REPORT IS GIVEN (Special Correspondence.) Hermlston, Ore., May 22. The re clamation report for May is as fol lows: Weather conditions were favor able. The maximum temperature was Si degrees, minimum 21 degrees, and mean 62 vlrgrees, F. A. A small force was engaged in placing turn outs, and some work was done in deepening the drainage ditch, the feed canal was operated during the month. a maximum of 230 second feet being diverted from the river and about 215 second feet of which reached the reservoir from the river. The total quantity of water diverted was 10, 600 acre feet, of which 9,700 acre feet reached the reservoir. The avil able storage in the reservoir at the end of the month amounted to 49,000 acre feet of water. About 6,600 acre feet of water were delivered for Irri gation, through the distributing sys tem. Tooographical surveys of the reservoir site for the western exten sion were completed, and the topo graphical surveys of Irrigable lands were continued. Test pits were dug and three wash boring outfits were In operation at the proposed dam sites. All the homesteads have been filed on in the fourth unit, and pay ments on water right charges have been made. Other Notes. Rev. Owen Jones and wife arrived here from North Dakota yesterday and will make this their future home. Rev. Jones having purchased forty acres of land under this project In section 33. He will have this land improved at once, and it is rumored that he will start to organize an Episcopal church at this place. The K. of P. lodge will have a ban quet next Thursday, at which time the nominations for officers for the ensuing year will be closed, work In the third rank will be riven, also, This meeting is a farewell reception for George T. Root, the first Vice Chancellor of this lodge. Mr. Root win move to Portland soon to make that his future home. la RAILROAD NOTES. It Startled tbe World. when the astounding claims were It ret made for Buoklen's Arnica Salve, but forty years of wonderful cares have proved them to be true, and every where it is now known as the beat salve on earth for burns, bolls, scalds, sores, cuts, bruises, sprains, swellings. eczema chapped bands fever sore and piles. Only 15c at Koeppena, Americans in Marathon. London, May 24. Mike Ryan of the Irish-American Athletic Club of New York and Jim Corkery of the Irish American Athletic Club of Toronto are the American representatives In .the annua English Marathon Cham pionship race under the assplcea of the Polytechnic Harriers. The run will he held over the Windsor Castle Shepard's Bush course. A tremen dous crowd will witness the grilling long distance run, which is the big athletic event of the week in England. Extremes meet when the kitten plays with its tall. i Yiu Sktold Try Histttter's Sltnieh IHfers WHEN Tbe Appetite is Poor, The Bowels Costive, The liver Inactive. Its Result are Certain. II I fl The Overland Limited of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Inaugurates its 68 hour Chicago-Frisco trips next Sunday. If the people of Fort Worth will take 250.000 of the bonds of the Gulf, Texas & Western, tho railroad will be immediately extended to the city from Jermyn, a distance of about 75 miles. . The preliminary survey has already been made. Arrangements have been made by the Queen and Crescent with the Col lege of Mechanical and Electrical En gineering of the Kentucky University for tests of cotton waste used on the railroad to determine which is the most desirable for the purpose re quired. The first all steel train service to be operated west of the Mississippi has been started by the Missouri Pacific between St. Louis and Kansas City The train has broken all records for fast running across the state. On a recent run It covered the 2S3 miles between these two cities In 347 mln utes. The Lake Shore-Lehlgh Valley fast freight line is not going out of bus Iness, as has been reported. The line makes an announcement that has made changes in its methods, and is reducing unnecessary agencies. Claims will not be handled by line managers In the future, as after June 1 they will be sent to the railroads interest ed to be passed upon and authorized for payment The carriers will pro vide positions for the clerks who have been doing claim work and are no longer needed in the fast freight line offices. The Chesapeake and Ohio, Norfolk and Western and the Virginian roads are planning to make Hampton Roads Va., the greatest coal port in the world, taking the supremacy from Cardiff, Wales, which has been in the van over a century. Last year be tween 12,000,000 and 16,000,000 tons of hard coal and soft coal was hand led at Cardiff, while Hampton Roads, with three distinct piers at Lambert's point, Sewalls Point and Newport News, maintained by the three roads. handled a grand total of ,620,918 tons, distributed as follows; N. and WM 4,293,987 tons; Chesapeake and Ohio, 4,007,640 tons, and the Vir ginian, 1,139,291 tons. That the Denver and Rio Grande proposes to test the constitutionality of the federal liability law is disclos ed by its answer to the complaint of Frank Krase in a suit he has brought to recover 825,000 for damages re ceived while in the service of the com pany as brakeman. Unconstitution ality of the law is pleaded as its prin cipal defense, on the ground that the act is not a regulation, but it is di rected solely to employers who are common carriers and the relation be tween the employer and the employe. Krase was injured while attempting to board a switching train at Helper, Utah, on May 18, 1909. In addition he also seeks to recover 81,700 for lost time and expenses. Boys Will Be Boys. and are always getting scratches cuts, sprains, bruises, bumps, barns or scalds. Don't neglect such things they may result seriously if you do. Apply Ballard's Snow Liniment ac cording to directions right away and it will relieve the pain and heal the trouble. Price I Sc. Sto and II. A. C. Koeppen A Bros. Boys' Blsley In England. London, May 24. Youthful crack shots of England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, South Africa and other parts of the empire today commenced a Boys' Blsley" rifle shoot for the championship of the empire. The tournament is under the auspices of the Imperial Cadet association. 100 ACTS IN 100 UINUTE8 Hi TWIN" ELEPHANTS. 3Z INCHES TALL STRANGE AND WONDERFUL ALSO HERD OF BIGGEST ELEPHANTS SUPERB, SPECTACULAR, ORIGINAL CIRCUS, 600 People. 450 Animals BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS 40-SELLS-FL0T0 CLOWNS -40 FIGHTING THE FLAMES Gorgeous Street Parade 10:30 O'CLOCK EACH K0RNIH3 General Admission Thii Day and Date 10,000 Seats Twice Its Former Size Ericg all tht folks end set for yourself a Pifty-Oot Cir cus for 25 ceDti. 2 Complete Per forma net Dally, Ratn or Shine, at i ana p. rrt. Doors Open One Hour Earlier, Admitting of a Visit to the Big AUU Pendleton, Friday, June 2 (Continued from pace one.) ests, have known that there was this definite body of persons to resort to, and they have made terms with them. They have agreed to supply them with money for campaign expenses and to stand by them In all other cases where money was necessary If in return they might resort to them for protection or for resistance in matters of legis lation. There have been times when it was a matter of no surprise to us to learn that legislatures looked to a certain man who was not even a member of their body for the Instruc tions as to what they were to do with particular laws, and we have become cynically accustomed to the pre sumption that the instructions the received were received after the ma jority had conferred with thone who were backing him and assisting him in the business world. As to Machines. It is not alto(?"ther Just to Indulge in indiscriminate blame for this state of affairs; our legislatures being at loose ends, nobody in particular being responsible, it was natural not to say inevitable, that tsorne sort of control should spring up. Tho machine, whieh was the center of party organ ization, was the natural Instrument of control, and men who bad business iiiii-reyts to promote naturally resort ed t.j the body which -x"rcis d the control. There need have been noth ing minister about this. If the whole rn.Vter had been open and candid and honest, public criticism would not hav.: centered upon It. But thf uso of money always results in demoral ization to actual corruption. There, are two knits of corruption tho crude and obvious sort, which con sists in direct bribery, and the. much subtler, more dangerous sort, which consists in a corruption of the will. Iiuslness men who have tried to set up a control In politics through the machine have more and more de ceived themselves, have allowed themselves to think that the whole matter wag a necessary means of self-defense, have said that It was necessary outcome of our political system. Having reassured them selves In this way, they, have drifted from one thing to another until the questions of morals involved have he come hopelessly obscured an,d sub merged, i. ; , , Indirect Bribery. T,ho methods used are well enough known. Money has not only been supplied to those men In public life w ho would be serviceable to big bus iness Interests by way of promoting tho legislation they desired and pre venting the legislation they feared, but it has also been denied to those who would not be serviceable. It Is this latter use of the money power which, has attracted very little at tention, but which is after all the most Insidious and contemptible part of the whole ugly system. Most of our legislators are men engaged In one kind of business or another, or engaged In one sort of employment or another. They therefore have their own individual business Interests and connections, and again and again It has happened that individual legis lators who wished to render conscien tious and Independent public service found themselves suddenly embar rassed when they refused to serve particular business Interests which were seeking legislative favors. They have found that they could not re new their notes at the bank. They have found credit denied them and obstacles put In their way in the con duct of their business. The whole thing can be easily managed without attracting public attention and In such subtle ways that even the man Injur ed cannot always prove that there Is anything Intentional or deliberate In the injury done him but the grip of the money market tightens on him none the less and strangles him if he exercises too great independence and does not lend himself to the purpose which the machine has consented to promote at the bidding of the business men with whom they are allied. The Use of Money. Unhappily money Is necessary at every turn of the political game. It U necessary In connection with every part of our electoral process because our electoral processes have to be public, men have to be commended to the electorate by methods of one sort or another, like public speeches, literature printed and distributed through the malls by all the meth ods of publicity, which are neces sarily costly. A- man cannot get into office without the expenditure of a good deal of money, even if he con fines the expenditure to perfectly le gitimate objects. The sources of money are therefore the sources of political .opportunity and of power, and those who supply the money can generally control the nominations, that is to say, the selection of those who are to exercise the powers of government and of law-making. And opportunity does not stop at election. The men elected to office generally hope to have some political future, and they find that future in turn controlled at the source so that those who supply the "sinews of war" are too often able to exercise a kind of command which deprives representa tives of the people of their own real Independence. It requires a great deal of courage and an unusual amount of individual Initiative to serve In one of our legislatures without being touched and restrained and coerced In some degree by influences of this kind. The Tariff. One of the best Instances that could be cited is the whole disappointing business of our legislation with regard to import duties. The tariff has been the most prolific source of the cor rupt interference of business with pol itics that the experience of the coun try has afforded. Almost every kind of business is affected directly or in directly by the tariff laws and It has in recent years become notorious that the schedules of the tariff were ar ranged by the ways and means com mittee of the house of representatives and the finance committee of the sen ate with a very tender regard for particular business interests. Everybody will agree that if the tariff policy is Intended to be protec tive and to seek, the objects which It has always pretended to seek, it Is perfectly legitimate that it should have to pay a very careful regard to the business Interests of the country taken as a whole. But that is a very different matter from paying regard to the Individual Intertsts of partic ular undertakings and of particular groups of men. The long and short of the whole experience, as we now see It, is that our whole tariff legis lation has degenerated from a policy of protection into a policy of patron age. The party which has stood most consistently for the so-called system of protection has derived not a little of its power from the support of the great business interests of the coun try. I do not mean the moral sup port merely. I mean that It has been supplied with Immense sums of mon ey for the conduct if its campaigns and the maintenance of its organiza tion and that, whether it has estab lished a partnership with the manu facturing interests of tht country which has deprived it of its liberty of action in till ina'ters touching the tariff. It is bound by obligations, tacit and explicit, to Bee that those Interests are not damaged which have been Its most s'alivnrt backers and supporters. Silent Skullduggery. It has again and again happened, theref ire, to the scandal of tho wholo country, that items and clauses have been Inserted Into our tariff laws which were not even explained to the members of congress, which received no exposition at all, which were a matter of private arrangement and understanding between tho represen tatives of certain great business in terests and the members of tho ways and means committee of the house and the finance committee of the sen ate. Tho finance committee of the senate In particular during many years was the stronghold of these spe cial interests. I am not Intimating direct corruption of any kind. I am speaking now only of that subtle cor ruption of the will to which I have already referred. The will dominant in the finance committee of the sen- oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Cor. College and Railroad Sts. adjoining Planing Mill Large and Com plete Line of LUMBER SHINGLES LATH POSTS SASH MOULDINGS DOORS LIME SAND PLASTER BRICK COAL CEMENT CEDAR TELEPHONE POLES. No Orders too Large, No Orders too Small. we'll be pleased to figure with yon Rubberoid, and Flintkbte Roofing and Building Paper of all kinds.weights and sizes Header Beds and Cook Houses made to order Special: We have 120 sacks of Hy drated lime that we wish to close out Just the thing for whitewashing fences, chicken coops, eta, marking out ten nis courts and baseball diamonds. Office opposite Electric Sub-station. Phone Main O. - oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 0. 0 o o o o w o o o o o o o o o o u o o o o o o ate has for many decades together been subservient to the dictates and to the Interests of particular groups of men. Their Interests have been served constantly and often in defi ance of the well-known opinions and purposes not only of the national ad ministration but of the members of the houses as well who for reason struggled In vain against the dictates of the omnipotent leaders of the sen ate. Here displayed In Its grossest form was the intimate power of business over politics. Tho Country Aroused. The country has definitely made up Its mind that It will get at the root of this matter and of all other mat ters like it, and that It will break up this alliance. There was a time when It looked as if to accomplish this would Involve a very dangerous sort of strife between the general mass of voters in the. country and those who had exhibited splendid talents In building up the business of America. But, happily, that threat has disap peared. It Is one of the happy cir cumstances of our time that the most intelligent and progressive of our business men have seen the mistake as well as the Immorality of the whole bad business. The alliance between business and politics has been a bur-1 den to them an advantage no doubt upon occasion, but a very question able and burdensome advantage. It has given them great power but it has also subjected them to a sort of slavery and a sort of subserviency to leading politicians. They are anxious to be freed from the bondage as the country is to be rid of the Influences and methods which it represents. Leading business men are now be coming great factors in the emancipa tion of tbe country from a system which was leading from bad to worse. There are those of course, who are wedded to the old ways and who will stand out for them to the last, but they will sink Into a minority and be overcome. They have found that their old excuse that it was necessary to defend themselves against unfair legislation Is no longer a good excuse, that there Is a better way of defend ing themselves than through the pri vate use of money, and that is to take the public into thtir confidence, to make absolutely open all their deal Ings with legislative bodies and leg islative officers, and let the public Judge as between them and those with whom they art dealing in the field of politics. Publicity the Cor. fThls discovery on their part of what ought to have been obvious all along points out the way of reform, for undoubtedly publicity comes very near being the cure-all for political and economio maladies of this sort But publicity will continue to be very difficult so long as our methods of legislation are so obscure and devious and private. I think It will become more and more obvious that the way to purify our politics Is to simplify them, and that the way to simplify them is to establish responsible lead ership. We now have no leadership at all inside our legislative bodies at any rate, no leadership which is definite enough to attract the atten tion and watchfulness of the country. Our only leadership being that of Ir responsible persons outside the leg. islatures, who constitute the political machines. It is extremely difficult for even the most watchful public opin ion to keep track of the circulation methods pursued. This undoubtedly lies at the root of the growing de mand on the part of American com munities everywhere tor leadership, for responsible leadership, for putting in authority and keeping In author ity those whom they know and whom they can watch and whom they can constantly hold to account. The bus iness of the country ought to be serv ed by thoughtful and progressive leg islation, but it ought to be served openly, candidly, advantageously, with a careful regard to lotting tverybody be heard and everylntereat be consid ered, the Interest which Is not backed by money as well as the Interest which Is and this can be occompllsh ed only by some simplification of our methods which will center the public trust in small groups of men who will lead not only by reason of legal authority or the right to command, but by reason of their contact with and amenability to publlo opinion. Peqple Are Sane. It Is a refreshing and reassuring thing to remind ourselves at every turn of how safe It is to depend up on public opinion In America when public opinion is well informed. There is no revolution in tbe air except as against iniquity and secret confer ences against the publlo Interest. The American mind Is well poised and. wholesome and Inclined ito Justice, and the task tha lies ahead of us Is at every turn tha task of putting that opinion into the saddle again so that affairs may go forward by a com mon impulse that great Impulse of righteous law, that eager Impulse for the attainment of better and better things which we are proud to regard as characteristic of the country wa love. i HEADQUARTERS FOR Toilet Goods We are Sole Manufacturer! and Distributor! of the Celebrated F.'S TOILET CREAM COLD CREAM TOOTH POWDER and MT. HOOD CREAM. Tallman & Co. Leading Druggists of East era Oregon. ...HOUSE-KEEPING.... itoms In Suites of 2 Rooms Each Steam Heat Electric Lights Gas and Gas Range Hot and Cold Water Bath Good Ventilation Plenty oi Daylight INCLUDED IN EACH SUITE LOCATED IN East Oregonian Building Enquire at East Oregonian Office