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'PAGIMUr- .''THURSDAY, SEPll'BER 28, 19iif'-- THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS Editor fend Owner, Catered it the sostoEce at La Grande as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BITES ally, single copy ........... Eslly, r week tSDy, per month. 5 ..nfSEPTEM'BEll 19H pE I All TtWI Tl Fj 5 j I I I viW 11118 9. 121112 13 1415 m 17 10 10 22 23 CONGRESSMAN MUItPOCK. berg of the human family when they start on one course, he probably went too far In some instances. That, how ever, is a matter for the public to de cide. . . , But the fact remalm that Vic Mur doch taught the Insurgent game In Kansas. He is the master of the art In that state, and from his school has sprung, such characters as Joseph Bristow, now In the senate from Kan sas, and Walter Roscoe Stubbs, .a widely quoted governor. Murdock has this over Bristow: It never could be charged that he was a member of the old machine and that the machine, first made" him as in Bristow's case. Mur dock may. have been too young to have had the same experience, and again, he might not have permitted the machine to do as much for him as It did for Bristow. States. There has been sufficient time, elapsed since tho Canadian election for this proof to'prt In an appeariQi e and the proof has net been very tardy in doing bo. The very fact that Can ada rejected the measure would indi cate that It was a good movement for this country, and the further evl.lcnce of price tearing in mediately follow ing the -innouncement of the rsM'l In Cannla show beyond question th.it the large combinations of capital in this country appreciated the lifoat of the irif asure. ; There is this aboul Taft, and wreth er you "ire a democrat. Insurgent t r regular, you must not overlook It. He s the best and deepest thinker ri the party today, ri ? is positively, nil ps( and r.ucere and no matter what members if his pnrty may coutenJ against him, he will, if successful. In Regardless of all this, Victor Mur-.!,ls "utlIn'ei1 course, bring the country dock is an Insurgent of Btrong type. ,out tn a prosperous road. He is a forceful young man, a keen At present the future for Taft looks thinker, and those who hear him this evening will enjoy what he lias to say ven if thy cannot entirely agree with him. .vis vis fiTY's cine I t V Thlfl evening.. Victor Murdock will i lecture in L Grande, just what he Ul choose for hi subject jpafcet lit tle difference, for it goes without ssy- ing regardless of the subject choiea the congressman's talk will lead up to and include insurgency, du:k. No one can see success even if he Is nominated, but to people who have the love of this nation uppermoat In their heart, this is not discouraging. Better by far stay with Taft even if he loses than td be a fly-by-night and " " : ' , . shift from one ism to another for the "If you should call on Mayor Brown.sole purpose of being with the popu- of Kansas City, on. any Monday after- ilar side, i noon, you would see him holding what he calls his 'mayor's cabinet' a luart to heart session with a repre- Now, listen. ' When Taft cornea to Oregon the Portland Commercial club sentatlve group of merchants, "doc-1.1" Soing to entertain him at dinner. tprs, Uwypfi, wlvmt, and journa lisfs about the affairs of the communi ty,", says Muntey'i Magazine editor- Mr, Mordock. la one of, tb; orlglni.1 .7 Insurgents. He waa tletted to con- "Here is a precedent which helps to Creaa In Kansas, probably to his own, divorce politics from the business of urprlse as well as many others, but running a ctty. It happen because a lie at once took the bull by the horns, I dear headed and practical man Is In aa It were, and began making himself heard. Many things ; be advocated needed attention, but .like moet Insur gents, or better yet, like most mem- 1;, - . ..:. ,-;'.,7 , , "Thumb 1- PrinU'-Vltaeraph. i 1 Drama. Identification of a crlm inal by the thumb print. A f atrong dramatic story worked f out by the popular Vltagraph players. "The i Backwoodsman's fius Iclon" S. and A. Drama. A .western, story by the western company. "During Cnerry Tim" Lu bln. A delightful comedy full of real life. ths mayor'a chair,. When Mr. Brown assumed hla office he said: " 'I don't think that any man la able to rutt a city, as it should be run if he must depend' solely upon the ad : vice, counsel, and assistance of party I If filter a ". an4 ' twOttlvallo nlante.. m ' leaders and ; politically elected offi cials. - I know that I am not wise enough to do this. I need help.' ;, "So he asked a group of private clt- ) izens to meet with him and the headB j of the .various city departments once a week, and vto talk over the city's business frankly and Informally, "Thf hard sense of the vlocal mer chants Is projected Into1 the question1 of appropriations. , The seasoned ex perlence of leading doctors is used to protect the health of the community. The best minds at the clty'a bar help to safeguard the taxpayer, and so on. In short, a large and varied talent Is crystallized for the general good. The cabinet ; has nothing to do with legislating; Ita function is to injtct practical methods into the- city ad ministration. - "This Kansas : City eitperlment marks a radical departure from the ayBtem which haa created more in efflchncy and graft In our civic "af fairs than anything else. Kansas City Is showing the way. She Is making public business really public Song by Miss '-Tonight Will Again." Stephenson Never Come WAS TAFTS POSITION PIKOTES! Those who so bitterly attacked the 'l ,'Yg4 nirsWent-hpon-hrTmplT s$t nt 3&flrvfty ! 1'OItAKK' ALWAYS WELCOME i ' ; ir r - T --t wtl' e w eminently right -In-t'in-' KpoSeeloset? twBnlBah'fUTlon'har a I contention that reciprocity would have loen . good thing for- the Unite! MM I MM IIIU1 MMM I Hill I HMM1 III 111 IIMf A Strong Modern ank Efficiently conducted, not enly In the Interc t f Its stock .holders, bat of Its depositors and patrons as well; .Wits officials well known and trusted. In the community. Witk capital, sorplns and nndlrlded profltt of 1210,000.000 nd total resources of 11,000,000.00. The La Grande Katlonal Bank offers to firms, corpora. . tlons and Indlrldoals the best banklag service, and Its off), eers ask a personal Interview with those contemplating ehaaglnt; acconnta or opening new ones. La Grande NationalJBank LA GRANDE, OREGON. CAPITAL . .SURPLUS RESOURCES Fred J. Holmes, Pres. F. L. Meyers, Cashiei . $ 100,000.00 . , . 105,000.00 . . .. 1.000.Q00.00 W, J. Church, Vxe Pret. Earl Zundel,ss'i. Cashier It was Intended to have China ph-ea sants on the menu. But an Oregon reforTfier, hearing of the intended plan arose ID his wrath to protect the proud birds, and t commercial clufc tela down, withdrew th pheasants froni the menu and will probably feed the president on choice cuts of Grande ROnde beef. Yet the same t: former hout-ed hlffiBelf Hoarse with Jo'jr when itoosevelt -wVhl to Africa ftnd killed more game than the entire state ot Oregon could consume In a week's time. Who was It coined that word, consistency, anyhow The white slave traffic is getting Into the light of day In Oregon, just as It should. ' Portland her al leged ' decency her1 pronounced deter mination not to permit) redllght dis tricts, appears to be the. commercial center for White slavery tin Its worst form. Quite a few of th. pious peo ple who Bhout so much In the metron olls think they are tresa frbm sin be cause they oo not see It. TJhls may be a good planjto follow but. U really does not accomplish much ,'good In the end. Some one has said, "Better sweep th dirt into the middle of, the floor rather than hide U hehlnd the door." 1 i 1 1 'Y AW MM ' VI i I kauMM Jsjsuiiia--yrV .:. . . .u . Just twenty of these attractive styles in garments that the custom tailor would charge $40 or more to duplicate. The Colors Brown Tweeds with shading of Red, Green and Blue Gray Tweeds and Diagonals, Blue Serges and the popu lar Double Faced Golf Cloth in shades of Brown, Blue and Gray. The Styles Some with wide sailor collar effects and long roll lapels, and others in the popular Norfolk styles with belted back. Skirts are. very plain tailored with or without 1 i u.i, tMSVI W . w to The Price $ 0 7 .5 0 See them oh display in our windows and in our suit department. V y (Continued from page one) Morgan is putting up and his effort to Inject real told n to the J500.000. 000 'gold brick' the United States steel corporation 'Bluffed' off on an otner wise . substantial money ; marWt Is wonderful. Just think ot it live 'hun dred inimon dollars of watered stock In that one trust. F1e hundred mil lion dollars In stock given away' a bonuses and sold to unsuspecting buy ers who remained in Ignorance of the Our Nferehdfl disc is taUr best advertisement Tte Quality Store . . . . . water department amounting to ?500. 000,000. Just Imagine a mighty man like Morgan out fighting the govern ment , "If the government can get the trust business to a well-defined Issue It can be fought ont JRlght now Wor- gan stands forth and. says that- the Bteel trust la operating within the pre cepts of the' anti-trust law. Is lawful and not in restraint of trade. The government is Urged by Morgan to bring suit to settle the unquiet con dition. In this Morgan Is bluffine. It Is a trust in restraint of trade and cannot escape dissolution tinder the 'reasonable' clause of the late Stand ard decision. It is all rotten : and wrong. ;,.' "Give us officials who will actually prosecute, and let us have the trust problem simmered down to a well-de fined Issue and we will soon, as a na- tion, put the trusts trot ot business, for you know I don't see where the Standard was 'bumped' much by the recent decision. "Morgan says his trust Is lawful; the government says not. Morgan's reputation as the faoney king is at stake; holders of f00.000.000 watered stock without a cent of capitalisation back of It hope something will happen to save them their holdings. Don't you thing, the whole question Is one of much interest? Advises Anolle Contendere Plea., -, "It seems to m ' that. Mr. Morgan should hurry a pica of anolle con tendere aa did the officials of the wire trust a few days ago; it would cer tainly be cheaper than fighting the Issue-as he. is." Congressman and Mrs. Murdock Mrs, burdock is taking her first trip trip through the west, though the con gTWrnmaa stumped for Miles Poindex trr tn Washington last winter and Is acquainted with thj Pacific statesi are safgts today with Circuit Court Judge and Mrs. J. W. Knowles. The congressman and the' Judge are olc1, rronVs of boyhood days In Wichita. Mr. Murdock out and out politician that he Is has tut eye for realty, newver, and after touring the yaltey wilts Geo; H- Carrey today came bacH ttwtfldent that n-eal eatate about La Grande Is worthy of Investment . suggested that tho , interstate com merce commlBslon' might have power to suspend such an order for 60 da'ys and look Into its reasonableness, and that If It be found unreasonable it should not be permitted. . . I invited attsutlon also to the com plaint of the shippers that tuy did not have the power to direct the routs over which their shipment snould past to destination, I recommended that this be glv.n them, subject to such reasonable regulation as the commis sion might prescribe. j All these provisions in one form or i another were enacted Into the law. In i addition, the house of representatives added to tho jurisdiction of the inter state commerce commission the power to declare reasonable rates In respect of ,trleg.rsph, telephone and express companies. A modification was made .in the senate regarding the long and short haul clause, which gave more discretion t6 the interstate cotrimerca "commission than that ' which it had. theretofore exercised under the' decf sions'of the supreme court The time during which the commission could suspend the raising of a rate was en larged to four months, and after that, if necessary, to six months longer, in stead of the 60 days which I had rec ommended. I had submitted the ques tion s of he proper ' amendments to the attorney general and the solicitor general, to the chi.f of the Interstate commerce commissiohv , to Commia slcner Prouty, and to Senator Town send, then a number of the house of representatives, and 1 .ic commended to congress for Inclusion in the bi' the piovisions which they recommend- d to mo The blll was enacted in the foroi !n which 1 have indication. There were certain amendments that I rec ommended that ' were not - approved. - (Continued on page Five) . . ' 'TV!' fcV'alrifcrtaTwtnt; any pTopos: shipment in advice In writing -with a penalty tor a failure to furnish It. ' t r ' I recommended that the commission Ve authoTl2a to act on Its own Initia tive, as well as upon the complaint of any Indlvldttal pespectmg the reason ableness of any rate or the fairness of uny practice, and that the commission should be empowered to pass upon the classification T commodities, as well as npon their Tates, that having been left In doubt under the previous law. I also Invited attention to the in jurious delay ot remedy which was oc casioned to the shippers whenever un reasonable advances In rates wtrft mad. The Interstate commerce com mission might find the advance unrea sonable only after a long hearing, and f after it had gone Into effect, and after the unreasonable rates had been col- a considerable period. T fasTM' lected for GO?o B. B. NUTTER for I Paints, Wall Paper, Varnish Etc. 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