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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1912)
(7- Lake County Examiner Warm Official Papor of Lake County, Oregon ADVERT! SINO BAIK5. Uu1r tkDdlnir ! t'.iw an loch. inl Co imn trcr. rr mo-h All tnlltt ah in(t1 Im (wlrf r. :itn. '! ot conir- urhnt1 fornl' i..chii(r. Allpcll potltlont tiir. A 1; iliort term 1. m -(1er. lor- 'viiimni. HX pr line ech In- Hon. Wm !. V. lln ioh InnTllou Urd of tritnkt- Krmlullons O. wnJo- 1 ie, Il.d0i.a t upo1. f gr-Tr-iiHenl AlTcrliiiD and Job Print ne.ch iu sdvaur. AH bill mnit b pld lh flrt ol wh mouU. SUBSCRIPTION R ATt . On mr, In idmuw, n moolhi. ' far months, " tiCO .71 It not paid In 1thp. I J SO th rf Nolle la SuhKrltwr ' Ouiwriiwrtlo tti Filnor who rt-moT j O from oni locality to mother, or rhanirt drop IhlnoWo rril to thrlr pxrcn ml drcurd to the rlgbt txtofBi". Lakovlew, Oregon, Tlmrmlrty, October at, 1012 manhood to the last hour of his life not one of ease and worldly pleasure. He courted rontact with the atern . I realties and matched his great ablli- T1IK INKV1TA1U.K KKSUIT If Governor Wilson is elected 1'reai ent of the United States next Tuesday it .an ha Tnoi'leil that VrV niand will know (s ihb eiurujr ui anu msicoo ir facturer and business man n the morrng or November 6th, that all li.ies of ariff will be radically cosn Red. Tnen will ensue many months of anxious waiting during which time businessmen and manufacturers will curtail their working forces and hus-j band their resources egi'nst the fatal low. With new tariff 1, enacted rders will go abroad for great quanti ties of goods Withdrawal of orders from American factorie will shut down plants and force mill'ons of men into idleness and line side tracks of the great railroads with empty freight oars. In order to pay bills to ioreign manufacturer mllions of dollars of American money will necessarily go abroad. This will dcolete bank re serves with consequent calli' g. of loans and the sacrificing of securities in order to raise ready cash. This is rime leader to commercial and Onan dal panic. It is well remembered that the pros- verity ot 1892 faded away in less than two years of Democratic administra tion. under the Wilson tariff law. The tiros Deri tv ot 1912. the climax of 16 rears of Republican administration wfll likewise fade away if the Demo cratic party cornea into control. It is . trie repeated assertion of Democratic rators that prosperity is the gift of God, and that it will not in any way be effected, no matter how the general electinn goes The Democratic admin istration in 1892 b gan under the most favorable circumstances. History tells as that was the year of bountiful crops and good prices. We well remember results. Wheat whi-h had teen 61 cents per btisrei in 1892. was 44 ce nts a bushel in 1S95: oar went down from 9i certs 'n 1892 to 14 rents in 1895: corn which u 37 cents oer ushtl in 1892 went down to 16 cents in 1S95; all because a PmocrHtii- administration bad enacted a Wilson tariff bill. 'Ihe prices of farm products during those four Clevlani ear were less by f4,5O0,000,O'K) than the same crops would have brought at price which orevailed during tfce preceding admin titration of Wm. H. Harrison. The aequel is that the American farmers paid for four years of Democratic rule that which was equal to one and one half times the cost cf the civil war. In reply to the Democratic statement that prosperity is the gift ot (iud, it la true in a measure. But God does not look after the markets. Tnat is man's business, and it is the market that really determines the pros perity of the farmer. The prices which he receives for hits pro'lr.ce in markets depend largely upon the chasing power of his cus-tomer. deavor against obstacles tnat might appall one less reliant. But all along that pathway are planted the flowers of friendship, of kindly and generous deeds, which have given out their aweet prefume to bless and gladden the lives of others, and which will continue to grow and shed their fragrance in the years to come. Mr. Snider was a man of untiring in dustry. He never faHere.1, even be fore seemingly unsurmountable obsta cles. He was of that class who be lieves that "life without industry i guilt." He was devoted and cot. stunt in his friendships, unyielding in his loyalty to friends, uncompromising in hit fidelity to every personal obliga tion. His personal intergity waa never questioned. Answering the "one clear call," our friend baa passed rn. But what a glorious realization it i what com fort and consolation the thought, that what is called death is not the end, but the beginning of life. "Death," the poet tella us, "is the gateway of lite It ia the transition from a life'of Bor row and care, of sickness and of death. to one ot transcendant peace, of eternal rest, of endless life. Hia day ia come, not gone: 11 is aun i risen, not set : His life is now beyond Tfce reach of death or change Not ended, but begun. COMFORTS BLANKETS Comfort Materials Gootl size, heavy silkoline Cotton lilankcts, in whito. Comfort denims ami silko- eomforts, a splendid value tan pray, and fancy, in ,;nos ; m.ll)V y at pootl sizes at "l terns and plain colors, vd., $150 $1.00 to $2.00 i2i.2c to 15c " 1 " Dark colored wool blankets " I-ancy art de.n.n comforts. in ,)rown nm, u Cotton, in full comfort good stze and weight, very especially suitable for size ready to use, full three serviceable, camping, pounds, at $2.00 $4.00 to $10.00 $1.00 r . , , Panev wool blankets for 77! 7 " Fancy sateen comforts. fnilli,V USCi in ht shnilw Wool fUece for comfort 1,1- center and border style, on!vnuulc (rom linCf S()lt ling, size 72 x S t inches, a hue material anil filling. wool, splendid filler at $2.75 j $7.50 $3.00 AILEY M ASS1NGILL The Home of Good Values : FALL SUPPLIES We are now in a position to fill vour order for Fall Stlpplit s to vour entire satisfaction- Our Stoek is complete in all lines. nr pnec are riylit. IMMl tl ie service you will L'et will be prompt. Let ns tpiote voti prices on canned fruits, vegetables, etc. in case lots cvrcals, breakfast foods. dried fruits and other sup plies in tin n t i f irs as you can use them. You wi'l be pleased with our stock, ices and service. B.& M ojiAitLi:s u. snh)i:i: The passing of Charles U. Snider his home in t VOTE 85 X YES The "Back to the Farm" movement has "ome to stay and the necessity is felt throughout the II. S. Uur boys and girls have erown op as consumers and r.ot proaucers. This movement which is taken np by the schools of Oregon i - relng felt in the state, and Ia6t year tons and ton of garden pr oucts were produced by the school children alone. In addition to this the Manual Training and Domestic Science departments In our schools are making producers of our children. While his is true there is yet an objection to the rural li'e as the country boys and girls do not have the school facilities that are furnished to to the town pupils. This also is being changed, and soon in our country dis trict" ihe school will be the education al and alo the social center of activi-l5: In som"? counties of Oregon, every boy or girl who wishes may attend a school which teaches branches above the eighth grade and may be at home nights. This condition which is ideal tose i is coming, and then these schools will have literary societies, musicial enter tainments, lectures on live topics a'.d in fact give the rural pupils the same . aivantages as their city cousins. Our ptste has taken up the matter high p.'ho'il fund, this fund to be in the systems. Switzerland it ia aaid has approached most nearly to the ideal plan. VOTER, CONSIDER THIS In considering the various measures on the ballot the citizen should not fail to mark tre vital oistinction between the initiative ana the referendum. If the voter desires to protest against the overuse or misuse ot the initiative, be aboul i vote NO? on any giveo initia tive measure. If the vo'ers should desira to protest against the ceruse or an use of tha referendum, let him vote YES on any particular measure surbmitted through the popular referendum. In the latter classification are the Univeraity of Ore gon appropriations, two bill?, and the Malarkev public utilities bill. All other measures on the ballot are there either through the initiative or through a legislative refereudjm. j It should not be forgotten, too, that certain acts are on tne ballot, sued aa the tax bills, because all such legisla tion must be by the people, aod not by the Legislature. pur- Ht ! I 1 1 u nooain.i O laic- r.,iiMinn t m ... , . . . ... f . iixjiuiiiK mill muse us ail VJ puse anu . a .., r, . . , . j , .. , ! hands cf the County Court and given think, we vw,o a.-e Un,ir,g tde oil out . , . , . ' . iL , .fi;(l. i,r , , . , to schools who comply with the law.! ot lift 9 Ian p tt f-uch a tremenduous . , , . ra e, of the The path h hiirvfcst ilHiJ ti-u we bre frorn his jour.g ! on by counties to make it effectual. 1 h on the t.allot to Tuesday. A very jfrnall tax of a fe w cent? on $1000 worth F"u3.n LiiC& W!R"2"r,'of PrcP''rty will help to make our I Lake county hm th1 ; te votod on next SUSTS country life ideal. Mark your liallot 85 X Yes. I SWe can suit your Taste, Pocketbook and Anatomy in Fall and Winter Suits. '"flflNew line now on display, ranging from $12.50 to $18.00 It will pay you to investigate This Stock! Economy Store IIELJ Till: l-WIt.MEIt It would heem that America and Americann, with all thur boaated in dustrial and commer.ial progreseive nesH, may learn a valuable lesson from some of the countries in the Old World. This fact ia emphasized by President Tatt's rpcent promulgation of a plan to mike available cheaper loans for farmers, on the security of their land. Mr. Taft cited the fact that in Ger many such a plan is now in successful operation. In Switzerland, alao, finan cial assistances rendered by municipal, cantonal and federal authorities to all undertakings which have for their pur pose the improvement ni the soil or which serve to facilitate its utilization. The history ot our industrial develop ment shows that it baa been too fre quently retarded by financial strin gency, due to the lack of an elastic currency, and the consequent lack of power to borrow on good security in time of need. President Taft haa pro posed to the governora of the several states a plan r.y which farm loans may be obtained at say an annual charge of 4 per cent. The line suggested ia along that which is now in operation in Ger many. France and other governments, it ia learned, have adopted similar Lake county, by ber innumerable acres ot unculiivated fertile farming land is worthy and deserving of a dem onstration tarm. Tha demonstration farm is the field labraiory for agri culture. It is the place where all the incidents and accidents of soil cultiva tion and crop production may be stud ied with sufficient accuracy and most practical effect. If science discovers a new and a better method in cropping, in feeding, in marketing, in the bal ancing of farm activities : or if by acci dent, as so:netimes happens, practice discovers improvement in any one of these lines, the full value and efficacy of the new method and improvement are developed at a demonstration farm. Lake county needs one of these field labratories. It is entitled to it and its citizens should feci no hesitan cy in agiuting co-operation for secur ing this one great aid. Majority Rule Amendment For the Hrr.cndii.g if Section 1. Ar ticle lV of the Constitution of the State of Oregon ho as to require a ma jority of all electors voting at any elec tion to adopt constitutional amendment and pass initiative measures and a majority vote only of electors voting thereon to reject a measure referred to the people. VOTE YES-OR NO. S22 Yea 323 No The Majority Kule amendment, as shown above, ia just aa it will appear on the ballot. This is one of the most important measures the voters of Ore gon will be called upon to decide at the coming election. It will take from the minority the much-abused power to initiate and pass law that only a small par centage of the people understand, and confirms the majority in its rights to rule. Has it not been the purpose of tbe initiaive to give the people the ma joritythe right to rule? Surely. Iiow can the majority rule if 25 or 30 per cent of the people are allowed to enact the laws? Look at it this way and you will see the danger In the law which the pro posed amendment will remedy! A cer tain clique or certain interests desire a law or laws enacted ; they send out an army of paid canvassers to solicit names for the petitions at so much pur name, the petition is filed and the measure gnea on the ballot: those who have Initiated the measure and those who signed the petitions a small per centage of the electorate vote for it, a few people who know that the pro pored law ia aimed at the rights of the people vote against it: but the major ity who read in one paper that it ia a gjoi law ana wno read in another pa per that it is a bad law frankly admit that they do not understand it, and re frain from voting. What ia the result? The people who have initiated and who are deeply interested in the measure a small minority, about 25 or 30 per cent of the electorate are counted for i', aa are those who did not vote on it at all, and it is declared panned. Thia is what hns happened in the past and what will happen in the com ing election. That is Minority Rule, not Mj ;rity Rule. The proposed amendment will safe guard the rights of the people and make tbe rule of the majority, major ity rule indeed, and not minority rule aa at present. It is right that our state constitu tion should work so that conditions could poaititily arise when less than a majority of the votes cast a an elec tion could amend the constitution? Is it not evident that this ia the weak spot in our initiative law? Ia it not true that all are affected by the passage of bad laws aa well as good laws? Is it not trje that aM must pay tne cost of such legislation? i Is it right to say that the approval of a minority of the tutnl number ot ' votes cast at an election should have the right to pass any law or amend tbe constitution when all of the people of the state are affected by such legisla tion? i la it not better to have the approval of a majority of the total number of votes cast at any election than to pass any law without it? If you carefully consider the merita of tbe Majority Rule amendment you will vote to that in the future the voters of Oregon will take n.cre inter est in legislation, for it w ill have a tendency to restrain experimenters, causing less untried and experimental measures being proposed. Thus giving the voter mors time for the considera tion of important measures. By voting for the Majority Rule amendment you will correct the abu sive use of the Initiative law. and thereby preserve it in the State Con stitution. You, Mr. Voter, are to decide thia very important auestion, and in order to deck'e it right you ahould vote 322 Yea on Novemtier S. MAJORITY RULE LEAGUE. (Paid adverfW-nent.) TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Hill HA LK 10 Here tract with Irriga tion rights. ItWHtt-ll l H(T. 19. twp. as, ranK-iM II. 1,. Dumm-II. Colusa bus, Nebr. O. 31 tf A Hav ImrMe, bald faced, xaildlx marked, lrua -eil 01, cnine to my plac-October 6. (I ner limy hnv horse lv jin.viDg for tain not lii- hikI rail In hi J. W. Thou paou'n hi old Htephcim pine .limit dmr mile. we-Hi of Lakeview, in ntnge r a I. l:il Mi KliIlsi'KIHK FOR THE EXAMINER A VALUABLE SILVER CUP tFh Best Agricultural Exhibit of jirniluds ftntwn tributary to tht Oivkuh Trunk, Sixikniit; I'lirtl.ttiil mid Srnttli; Onxttn Mtrtrfo ami L'nltnl Kys.,nt tin Pacific N. - W. Land Product Show PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 18-23 H7 bt'Khi'ii by thfso lullwiiys $9.95 Round Trip to Portland from Bend Oregon Ticket tin nuh' Xiiwmhtr !) to VI Inclusive. Ilcttiru Limit Sowmbvr Xo. iRv. bLM I ItHli UMLUUI1 .IMC. $16.75 Round Trip to SPOKANE for tlw IMATIOcMAL APPLE SHOW Th kvts on mile Xov. 11 to 10 Inclusive. Jtcturn limit Xov. it). Train leaving Central Oregon In morning arrives fortlaml 5 -.TO '. .If. ami Swkuiie U. l.i I'. M. Sctieil tiles, ilet alls, etc., will be furnished on npplhil Ion. W. E. COM AN. Con. Frt. &. Pass. Agt. J. H. CORBET T, Aat., BEND, OREGON. INITIATIVE FREIGHT RATE BILL THIS CONCERNS EVERY RESIDENT OF OREGON The initiative freight rate bill, No. 358, vote yeR, on the tiallot is a non partisan, people's meBMure. It is in tre interest of the producer, the manu facturer, the consumer, and tair to the carrier. The principal and method of rate making provided by the bill is endors ed by the interstate commerce commis sion, the foremost expert rate making tribunal of the world. The enactment and enforcement of tne bill will stimulate ali industrial and commercial development in Ore gon, reduce the price of transportation to tbe consumer, who ultimately pays all freight bills. The bill will not cancel a single com modity rate which la less than the rates fixed by the bill. It dues not take any authority from the railroad commis sioner in the making of minimum rates, nor does it open a way for the railroads to advance special or commodity ratea, or any class ratea. The need of passing and enforcing the provisions of this bill are seen in the following conditions and reasons: (Jnly five cents of every dollar spent by tbe ()rpon ennaumer for manufac tured cof on ilities is for Oregon made X 358 goods. 0.") cents of every dollar so spent goes out of the stute fur goods manufactured in other slatcB. Under thia system which is cauHed by the nrcsent freight tariffs the wealth ot the state ia being neeulesBly depleted. Under the stimulus of manufacturing Illinois increased in the 1910 decade over 800,000 inhaLitanta which ia praa- ticelly 200.000 mure population of Oregon, under 10,000 inhabitants manufactured SI to SI manufactured for the whole state of Oregon. 60 cents will buy BOO miles of first class freight transportetion under the Illinois rate schedule, and only 100 miles under the Oregon rate schedule. Tbe Oregon dollar is w..rib only 20 centa as compared with the Illinois dolUr. The heading railroads of Illinois earn about $3,000 net per mile of road ; Ne braska roads earn about S1500, net per mile, while some of the Oregon roads earn $0,000 net per mile of road. From 1908 to 1910 the O. R. & N. Co. paid S109 per share on stock of par value of S109, returning to the stock holder thu full value of the stock and S'J to boot per share. In 1908 this road paid 79 per cent on its stock. In 191U it paiil 16 per cent on its common stock and 17 per cent on its preferred stock. The Southern Pacific Company ia capitalized at, over COG millions of dol lars. Its only tangible property is 11.8 miles of railroad in California worth probably less than $250,000. Its earn ing right is on the 11.8 miles of road. than the entire or about $12,000 yearly. And yet this Illinois towns company is pavinu dividends va,K- in j ... excess or $17,000,000, and together with interest on its bonds, about S21, 000,000 yearly. Every dollar ao paid in excess of its earning righta on the 11.8 miles of road ia filched from the peo ple, therefore robbery. The people are the power. It is for you to say whether you will longer tol erate these conditions. A vote yes for the initiative freight bill is a vote for better transportation charges and the up building and blessing to the whole state of Oregon. The bill does sot fs vor any one: U does not discriminate against any one. This Is u atste measure and cannot affect interstate business. If you want to build up your com munity, vote for thia bill and secure a square deal In freight riites. OREGON EQUITABLE RATE LEAGUE, By E. A. WELCH, (Paid Adv.) Secretary. i