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" ' SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916. PAGE EIGHT LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Universal Ranges Best Bu Test 1 "ir I 5 S O I' ; We will sell you a range 8 ( on the easy payment 8 H r y plan and take your old a A j r '.Jj stove as first payment J ell It to I v Carr Fiiriiitufe j I Co. I the: forum They Need More Room St. Paul, Minn., August 6. An hochaearacorunculta, phuceonacum mounis, asabaenususorusnatus, phala- ceonacummunis, anguilh'.ecutorobies, and najatripoddens have all been moved. They formeily occupied space near each other, in Pillsbury hall, Uni versity of Minnesota. Now they have been put in the new biology building:. They are skeletons of pre-historic animals. For Sale AT 1902 EAST "O" AVENUE A Neat 4-Room Bungalow with large porch, woodsheds, etc., city water, electric light, and 50x170 feet of 'jrronnd $1000. 'On your own terms, $10.00 a miorith ot more as you like. AT 1810 EAST PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE A Substantial Six-Room Cnttairo. -New, City Water and Electric Light, -Willi 58x114 feet of Ground for $800. rl 'ernis $10.00 a month! or more as you like. 2001 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. New Six-Room Cottage, in first-class condition, city water and electric light. 87x114 feet of ground, for $1200, Payable in installments, $10 a month or more. 1906 Q AVENUE Desirable Six Room Bungalow, large porch, woodshed, etc., city water in Wise, elcrtric light. 58 x 114 feet titf ground. All for $900. Payable any way you want $10 a month or Taiorc. 2007 Q AVENUE VERY ATTRACTIVE BUNGA LOW with six rooms, porch front and back, cellar, woodshed, chicken house, good neighborhood, 90 x 110 feet of ground. For only $1200. You pay! it as you like, $10 a month or more. CORNER SECOND AND X' AVE- Two very desirable lots. Neat three room House, cement sidewalk and paved street. City water and electric light. Size of ground 64 x 135 feet $800. Payable on easy terms as ibove. We also have much other 'desirable property both FOR RENT AND FOR SALE Residence Lots and Dwellings in AH Parts of the City at Very Low Prices and on Most Reasonable Terms Wm.Miller&Bro. 115 Depot Street U. S. National Bank Bldg. Hughes or Wiltton? the Progressive's Dilemma. Now that Hughes Hies fired the opening gun of the campaign, we may expect that the country will be over run with as adroit a lot of political sieignt oi nana penormers as ever took the road for the confusion of the human mind. ' Special pleaders, pro and con most ly 'con"-wiIl now begin to sharpen their wits by partisan argument, as a bunch of veteran torn cats sharpen their claws on a tree before a good night's fighting. Honesty among pol iticians is party honesty, and party honesty is party expediency. Meanwhile, as a Progressive with out a party, II am in a position to look on and listen with benign complacency and the calm neutrality of an un biased observer. I am another politi- cal orphan, left on the doorstep desolation, waiting for "the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father." Col. Roosevelt has advised his Pro gressive followers that "Mr. Hughes is beyond all comparison fitter to be president than is Mr. Wilson." And all docile and dutiful Progressives, I presume, should follow their leader. Many of them have. Others, like my self, still linger on the brink of im potent indecision, ' waiting for the helping hand of conviction to let us down into the pool "when the angel stirs the waters. As a Progressive, I have a very in timate and sincere regard for Col Roosevelt. The most Dowerful sincln influence in this country during the last decade tor social and political re generation has been the influence of Theodore Roosevelt. I believe in the forgiveness of the Roosevelt sins, tlhe resurrection of the Roosevelt ideals and the life everlasting of the Roose velt spirit. May the gallant Colonel long continue to arch his neck and step proudly! n:-i! I. t .. LJisunguisnea as an autnonty on flora and fauna, birds, ibeasts, belles lettres, malefactors, molly-coddles, poetry, pussy-footers, philosophy, and politics; renowned as the rampageous Kougft Kuler of 'broncos and bosses, writer of books, wielder of the Big Stick, Warwick of the White House, slayer of the kings of the jungle, re lentless Nimrod of political jackals and packasses, the Colonel sits secure upon the glory-smitten summit of his fame, without a shadow and without a peer "a mighty one in the earth, But as a .picker of good presidents foe is a discredited mentor. It is im possible to supress a smile at the Col oners recommendation of another presidential candidate. He knows as much aout what a good president looks lik as an elephant knows about crochet work. He picked Taft for us and assured us with all the vigor of his vehement soul that Taft would make us a verit able hundred-ton-gun of a president. Shortly after we had taken his ad vice, however, he was rip-roaringly repenting of his choice, and lambast ing his protege hell west and crooked. Then, to make amends for his mis take, he undertook to pick another president for us fh the place of Taft, and inadvertently picked Wilson. Still no better suited! Taft, in his opinion, was all that could be bad in a president, and Wilson is the rest, even more so. And now the Colonel assures us that Hughes will make a better president than Wilson. Go to, Colonel! And in this instance I might add the specific locality. As a matter of fact, there are only two ' presidents of the United States who j commend the Colonel's entire and en thusiastic approval: O ne is Abra ham Lincoln, and modesty forbids the j Colonel to mention the other, j Hughes may be all that the Colonel says he is, and then again the Colonel , may be the first to find out that Ihe is ! not. If we go and elect Hughes on the Colonel's recommendation, whose legs, I wonder, will be sticking out of the ash barrel behind the White , House by the time the next inaugura tion comes round? Whose scalp, i think you? will be dangling at the belt of the big Sachem of Oystef bay? Wone other, perhaps, than the prw ent hirsute halo of Charles Evan Hughes, the latest memento of the Colonel's felicity with a tommaihawk. Versatile, vastly able inimitable charmer of men retire to the seclu sion of Sagamore Hill and there dic tate your memoirs. We refuse longer to be delivered with the docility of an j ox, led to a vicarious sacrafice by the sacred High Priest of the political temple. We would enjoy the novel sensation of choosing our own presi dent. We would judge for ourselves whether Wilson has been too ridicu lously amiable with the Mexicans. No doubt his Mexican policy has been weak, but then it might have been wicked. It may be possible that Vatchful waiting" may be a more civilized policy than cannon, corpses and coercion. Let us have the char ity to remember that the Mexican mess" is a heritage from a Republi- can president. William Taft 'handed Woodrow Wilson a basket of bad eggs with a polite request to try his hand at making good omelet of thorn. May we suggest thnt making a good ome let out of bad eggs was a culinary problem even for a Republican chef? No doubt, as Mr. Hughes points out, tho Mexican situation is very serious. There is as little doubt thnt the situation in Belgium and Poland ous. Wai.'are is always serious, whether it be in Mexico or Europe. In ternal, or international, war is al ways infernal. Tho neutral by stander, trapped between contending armies, is sure to suffer. Is it quite fair to make Wilson the sole legitee Of the horrible heritage of war? Should Wilson hove violated Mexi can sovereignity as Germany violated Belgian sovereignity? The Colonel says he should and the Colonel is an honorable man. But the Colonel says also, that the United States should have taken Germany to task for in vading Belgium. If Mexico were as strong in mili tary resources as Germany is, would there be any sentiment in favor of American intervention there? If Mexico were a powerful nation, would not the most belligerent and blatant jingo be content to let the warring factions there determine the fate of their unhappy country? Is it not be cause Mexico is -weak and the picK- ings easy, that we have a great moral duty to "butt in"' there? Let us also be charitable with Mr. Wlilson for not interfering against the invasion of Belgium. When we condemn him for not doing so we condemn Washington for not inter fering in 'France during the distrac tions of the French revolution. In the light of history, let us remember, it has generally appeared that minding one's own business has been as sound a rule of national behavior in respect to ethical results as well as national interests. If we had protested against the vio lation of Belgium our protest would certainly have been ignored, unless we had been prepared to back it up by force, and since we were not so prepared, We should have had the sole satisfaction of swallowing our chag- rin, without accomplishing anything but Germany s bitter resentment. The Good Samaritan got his immor tality, not by getting his head broken trying to avert an assault, hut by bringing succor and sympathy to the victim. Perhaps if the Good Samari tan had interferred, there wouldn't have been any Good Samaritan left to wear the laurels of his fame. The only question, for we homeless Progressives to decide in this cam paign, is this: Who, of the two can didates, Hughes or Wilson, most truly represent the tendencies and ideal that brought the Progressive party into being : The Progressives, by forsaking the old parties, demonstrated that they had small interest in the success of parties, hut a very deep and passion ate interest in Democracy. Ihe Progressive party was founded largely to give justice to labor. "Pass prosperity around" was its slogan. ine laborer and the employer of la bor Should enjoy equal rights and equal benefits before the law. In spite of our so-called liberal leg islation, labor is regarded as a com modity, to he bought in the cheapest market, and subject to the pitiless law of supply and demand. And as long as labor is so regarded, so Ion? will the laborer be subject to indus trial dependence and serfdom. Now, the Clayton bill, passed dur- ng the present administration, de clares that labor is not a commodity, uko pig iron ana potatoes, and or ganized labor, therefore, is not sub ject to the provisions of the Sherman Anti-trust law. Under the Sherman law, organized labor could be en- lomed and prohibited for being a con spiracy in restraint of trade. Thol tiayton 'bill, by declaring that labor Pioneer Day Club Topic Dr. F. G. Titus, who acted us toast master at the luncheon of the Com mercial club of Centralia recently, urged a big attendance to the South west Washington Pioneer day celebra tion to be held at Rochester on Aug. 10. The speakers will include Gover nor Lister. I m ; a ; V GLASSES IV j made by us cost no more than Kryptoks made by other opticians, but the Kryptoks supplied by us are better, being finished on specially made machines and in the finest, most com pletely equipped retail optical factory in East ern Oregon. Besides, we do all the work under .one roof from the examination of your eyes to the accu rate fitting of the fin ished glasses. J. H.PEARE&S0N Optometrists & Jeweler LA GRANDE, OREGON J Always Look To For Best Values In Front Lace Corsets The Front Lace Corsets With The Ventilo Back and Ventilo Front Shield No front lace corset without these features can possibly be as good as La Camille. A complete line of differen models always on hand. Priced At $2.00 Up is not a commodity has given or- j ganized labor a dignity and standing j it never has enjoyed before. It is the Emancipation Proclamation It is the most Dropressivn niu r I legislation ever enacted. Will Mr. Hughes and his party go as far as the Clayton law, or will he favor its repeal ? Will he favor the income tax law, which distributes the burden of taxation upon the shoul-i ciers ot the rich as well as the poor? ; Or will he oppose it. as he did at Al-1 bany; will he favor such progres sive legislation as the federal re serve act which takes the financial power out of the ihands of the Wall I street oligarchy and puts it into the nanus ot the people? In short, who most truly represents the progressive party of the United States Hughes or Wilson? ANDREW R. MARKER. La Grande, Aug. 3d. MRS. ROBT. PATTISON 1 1 uorseuere i rnone Ked 32X1 Res. 1702 Oak Our Want Ads bring results. All Quitters, Cowards and Yellow Streak Folk are Warned Not to See 'THE QUITTER" Sherry Theater Sunday and Monday Wholesale and Retail Disributors of LEHIGH PORTLAND CEMENT, ABERDEEN COAL Lehigh Portland Cement Lime Hardwiall Plaster Finish Plaster Keens Cement Beaver Board Enameled Face Brick Ornamental Terra Cotta Pressed Brick Mantel Brick Fire Brick Fire Clay Aberdeen Utah Coal Kemrnerer Coal Rock Springs Coal Wood Grain 1 Flour Dairy Salt ) v - Half Ground Salt Rock Salt Sulphurized Salt Produce Potatoes - - Hearth Tile Floor Tile Porch Tile Storage PHONE MAIN 17 Sawyer-Clark Co. and northeastern Prance is very seri
