" ' SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916.
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
Universal Ranges
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5 S O I' ; We will sell you a range 8
( on the easy payment 8
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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.
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; 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
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