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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1908)
DRY TOWNS NOT WEEDY. ' Mayor Matlock Proclaims the Gospel of Dryness at Oregon City, v Oregon City, May 10. Mayot Matlock of Eugene fin d another gun last evening in the Clackamas County local option campaign. A very enthusiastic audience greeted the Mayor and loudly applauded him in bis statements. He said in part: "I come to you not as an orator hut as a farmer of Lane County and by good fortune, the mayor of Eugeoe. I come not seeking political honors, be cause my best days aie gone, but I come in behalf of good government, the elevation of character and good citizen eliip. "Eugene went dry two years ago un der very unfavorable circumstances. The mayor of the cify at that time, a man honest in his convictions and a good man, too, was not in favor of y, because lie honestly believed that there was not sufficient public sentiment in Eugene to make the law effective. Tuere were predictions of failure on every hand and it was said that our prosperity would be trampled in the dust. "But what are the facts abont Engene today ? Instead of grass growing in the streets we have paveJ miles ot them, under prohibition. The eleven empty saloon buildings were soon rented Eueene prospered in spite of the loss of oaloon revenue. The last two years have seen the largest increase in busi ness and money in banks, in fact, in bank deposits Eugene stood at the head the list in Oregon, leaving out Port- We have better collections. Factories and mills are running on full time. Last year we put up from 200 to 300 dwellings, with an increase of popu lation of 4,000. "Let me give you a fair sample of business prosperity in the case of my own son. He was doing a business of amount of capital necessary to give em ployment to one wage earner, $2,377. Capital invested io breweries, 82,138, 842. The wage earners that should Yp employed by the breweries In proppr of tlx lanu. The First thing to consider in depositing money in a bank is SECURITY. The capital and surplus are the depositor's protection funds. The National government superintends and examines this bank. Our stockholders and direct ors are responsible, well-to-do (business men. This Bank has been established over 20 years, dur ing which time it has served the bank ing public faithfully and built up a large and prosperous business. The best ser vice possible is none too good for all our customers and the people of Heppner Captal Stock . . Surplus and Undivided Profits Total Working Capital Cash Shoe Store The Place to Save Money 30,000 a Year. After the first year of lion to the capital invested in the State prohibition it was increased to $45,000, is 900, but tbey actually employ but 151 the second year 8(S0,O0O, and this year or 749 persons less than they should as it is larger than ever before. I compared to other industries "The first year of prohibition we de-1 The wages gaid bv the manufactnring creased our city debt by 82,000, besidea industries of Oregon in 1905 was $11,- purchasing a site for a new citv park, 443,512. Average paid to individual a team and chemical engine and hiring worker, 8018. The amount paid by the an engineer and surveyor and all this at I breweries in propo:tion to the capital au expense ot $12,000 over the last year, invested should have been $550,000, No, the grass is not .growing in Eugene I Yet they paid the insignificant sum oi streets; they were paved to the extent $136,905. . In fact they employ but two of $15,000 worth during prohibition and per cent of the labor of this countrv. this year we are making public improv- My wouldn't the laboring man miss ements to the extent ot $15,000 and the them if that cnpital were invested in building department bIiows that $83,000 some legitimate line of industry. in permits was taken out in a month for suppose it were saw mills. Oregon dwellings alone. has only five times as much capital in "Eugene has two daily and three sawmills and yet employ 43 times as weekly newspapers, and all ot them are many wage earners and pay 10 times as prospering." much for raw material as the "gin mill" ' brewery. Our flour mills with less than SOMETHING twice the capital give employment to npQ. PONDER. OVER 2 time9 aB man'r was earners and ' expend 17 times as much for raw matei- ial as do the breweries. With half a Figures tO Refute Some million less capital the planing mills of Claims bf the LiqUOr Oregon employ 7H times as many wage j earners and pay three times as much for interests. rftW material as the breweries. Our creameries pay each year three t'mes There is a great hue and cry raised by the amount as to invested capital for tbe liquor interests about the number of raw material and our meat packing es- people who will be thrown out of era- tablishments pay twice tbe amount of ployment now de endent on tbe busi- invested capital. But our brewerien, so ness and how much tbe farmers will necessary to thrift and prosperity, pay lose by the shutting down tbe breweries, only a little more than half the amount Hence the necessity of keeping "or. en of invested capital for raw material shop." Lets notice briefly some figures Yes, Mr. Farmer, you would miss this and see. glorious instiution the all important In 1905 thero was invested in the I and all-necessary Jnstitntion, without manufacturing industries in the State of which you and the state and the nation Oregon $44,023,548. Wage earners em- would "bust." Oh think what it does ployed by this capital were 18,523. ' The for you, not counting the loss of labor land vexation that comes to you in ha vest when vour men come to town and get on a "whiz' and let yo t sweat for a few days while your otop is bein dam aged. That ia a small think: when we consider the great privilege yon heve of sel.ing the enormous amount of 5 tenths of one per cent of your orops to tbe breweries, besides the comfort you have in tha know!eds that that glorious in stitution is responsible fo' the lo s ot 1,373,000 live9 because of drink. Yes, you need the salojn aud the brewery mare than the labir. You must have the money for that five tenths of one per cent of yt ur crop even if you lose the honor and manhood of your boys and the virtue of your girls; and ha'f of the remainder of your crop is lost be cause of tho "whiz" your men insist on getting on on Saturday nignis, Sundays, Mondays and half of the week. Oh it is glorious "aiu't it ?" In fact we would all miss it. The The laborer who would onlv have 900 chances for work instead of 151. The tVin-T would miss his five tenths of ore per cent of crop eold. The manufacturer would mis four tenths of one per cent of pales. We would nil miss the lovely s.ueil iiH we pu-iH tho places where it used to be. We would miss tbe greater per cent of a l the suicides and 90 per cent of the 10,000 mimlevs annually; To per cent of all the crime. We would miss ;5 000 fallen yiils, 100.00(1 Iramps,' and 100,000 deaths from drink, the 1 200,000 di unkarda, oct-an1 of sorto. noes end tears every year, het-i Je tie privilege of paying eut 1,045 000,000 ioi drii'k besides the boon of paying out ureal :hunks of money foi the prosecu tion of crime. Oh what wou'd we do without the saloon. Ciiah. II. Poktkk. It is to , be remembered that Cake was pue of tbe republicans who bad the nerve to stand on a Statement Xo. 1 platform when it looked as though that meant de feat; he stood for the popular election of the United States Senator whether it profited him or not; Chamberlain has stood for it because it was his sole chance of ever landing the place. The vast difference between be ing pood because you hope it will pay, and because it is right, repre sents tbe difference between the 6tand of Chamberlain and Cake. 30 Him ioiooLOjiiaLmaL tO ShiJflL OTUL3T V i lEiIoirocBS Minor Ik Go, Reliable Merchants $ 50,000.00 63,798.54 $113,798.54 Department Store SIGN OF THE BOOT Elmer Beaman Successors to C. O. Huelat Tom Mahoney is a Morrow count v man and tins county is certainly entitled to a representa tive, lie knows our wants and he is the iuhq that will work for u? Well, thev (Jon't grow better men tii an Tom. - . Mrs. Otto Mctschan returned to her home in Portland, Sitnrdpy. CJl ft..ni, n.i ,i A.l In lai cicfai1 'Miss Juanita Matlock, who will make her home with Mrs. Mets chan. rVonder if all these gamblers and dope gentlemen have flocked back to Heppner to vote for Shutt and local option? , The ordinary employment of artifice in business is the mark of a petty institution, guided by petty minds, and it most always happens that they who use it to cover themselves in one place, uncover themselves in another. It o-ives us no small amount of pleasure to look back upon our pst career with the knowledge that we nev er attempted to gain business by deceit, and every "kriock" o-jven us has been a "boost." The ones who first supported us in our efforts to lower prices in Hepp ner are still with us, because we have merited their confidence, because the raxls were as repre- sented and the prices were the lowest possible. All lines of merchandise in our various de partments are up to the past standard of ex cellency and marked in plain figures, one price to all. Especial attention has been iven to our Ready to Wear Clothing; YVe present to the men of Heppner a com plete stock, embracing 42 different and dis tinct patterns and all sizes from 48 stouts down. Price and quality have both been Kep t in mind. The Sitits we are offering at -$10 to $15 will be a pleasant surprise to any one who has not yot examined them. Alwavs welcome at Marquardsen's Department Store Heppner, Oregon w . u A i ! (0PYHIGNT I9C8. KI'a' eRAcGt wnij:Dt.inn fif li 9