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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1916)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 191 (J. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE THEEl YOU CAN MAK I? SHAVING A JOY INSTEAD OK A BOTHER IP YOU USE OUK SOAP, TOILET WATER AND TALCUM. COME IN AND LET US SUPPLY YOU WITH YOUR "SHAVING STUFF." MAKE OUR DRUG STORE YOUR STORE FOR ALL OK THE LITTLE "DRUG STORE THINGS" YOU USE AS WELL AS FOR YOUR MEDICINES. WHEN YOU HAVE A PRESENT TO MAKE COME IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE FOR GIFTS. WE WANT YOUR DRUG STORE BUSINESS; AND WHEN YOU DEAL WITH US YOU CAN "RELY" ON WHAT YOU BUY. Levy - Vog'el Drug' Co. . PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS. TheWardrobe La Grande's Pressing and Cleaning Establishment That knows the How, Where and When of the Business We Sell Clothes That Fit and Wear It's the famous A. E. Ander son & Co. line a line that has held a reputation as the best against all comers for years. Wood Berry, Try Us We Make Good or No Cost to You pn&q GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY Retail Dept. Phone Main 8 DO YOU WANT A JOB, PERMANENT, WITH SHORT HOURS AND GOOD PAY? To get it you must be a skilled worker in some line. Business Men are calling on us for Trained Help. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY Fall Term Begins Monday, September 4th Students paying in advance before August 27th, get One Month Free Tuition Write for Enrollment Blank COMBINED COURSE (All subjects taught in the.colleee') Forty-Eight Weeks, 52 wks.'if paid as above Tmrty-six WeeKs, 40 wks. Twenty-Four Weeks, 28 wks. if paid as above $65 See us about our single courses on the monthly, or term plan; also our combined course on the monthly payment plan. Write, Phone, or Call at the Office. DO IT TODAY BAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE Phone 131 BAKER, ORE. W. P. KINION, PROP. Family Dr. says: You will enjo; your snave iryou use 2!ir Shaving Stuff, 4 4 4 4 ,4 4 THE HEAVIEST TIMBER or lightest lumber can be bad here any time in any quantity. We always have on hand an ample supply of lumber of all kinds. All sound and thor oughly seasoned, so your builder cat; figure exactly what will be needed and make lower figures as no allowance for waste it necessary where our lumber is used. $95 ...$80 it paid as above THE, FORUM SAYS A PROGRESSIVE Wilson's Deeds Reviewed by Bull Mooser. Orphan La Grande, Aug. 17. (To the Edl tor) When the famous progenitor of the Progressive party remised, re leased and forever quitclaimed all his right, title and interest n and to that party, he pinned to the foundling's cradle a farewell note, in which he expressed the wish that the child be adopted by Mr. Hughes, "who is be yond ali comparison fi'ler to be its foster father than L Mr. Wilson." As one of the orphan party. I have obediently nursed the hope that Mr. Hughes would duly qualify us our lawful guardian. I hive read his speeches with unbiased consideration and great respect, i have read them with a sincere desire to know his at titude toward those (.olicies of social and industrial justice which were the dominant planks in the Progressive platform. I have bean open to con viction that Mr. Hughes is worthier than Mr. Wilson to be the custodian of the Progressive patrimony. Thus fur, however, Mr. Hughes has disappointed my hopeful expectations. I fuil to find in his speeches that pas sion for democracy in government that distinguished the Progressive movement. They are able nttacks and aggressive arraignments of tha Dem ocratic administration. But they are cautious and reserved in their expres sion of constructive and progressive ideas. Suffused with stump speech artifice and partisan appeal, they sug gest the politician rather than the statesman. Mr. Hughes has said little so far to encourage the independent voter and less to rebuke the sordid stand patter. The war horses of the Old Guard arch their necks and step proudly to their music. Any one of the capable chief captains of the re actionary regime might have spoken them and still be true to caste. In Ms discussion of the high protec tive tariff we hear again the muffled creaking of the Aldrich party ma chine. If Mr. Hughes is elected, he will doubtless be called upon during his term to deal with the changed conditions arising from the restora tion of peace in Europe. We will have a "ruinous foreign competition" scare. Once more, as many a time and oft in the past, the "infant indus tries" will need protection against the pauper labor of Europe. Encouraged by Mr. Hughes's high tariff sympa thies, the Old Guard will have a golden opportunity to restore to the special interests the princely patri mony of a highwayman tariff. His pronouncements on prepared ness and Americanism lack the Roose velt ring and intensity of conviction, and trail off into vague generalities when he considers the possibilities of the foreign vote. So far Mr. Hughes has not spoken a single sharp sylla ble in rebuke of the subterranean schemes of a foreign power to con trol the political affairs of the United States. On domestic and economic issues, aside from the tariff, Mr. Hughes's utterances have been as nebulous as dim puffs of star dust lost in the haze of the Milky Way. As to Mr. Wil son's legislative record the most constructive and progressive program enacted since the Civil 'WarMr. Hughes is strangely silent. His guns are all long range guns, and scarcely a shell has fallen this side of Europe or Mexico. Mr. Wilson's diplomatic record is Mr. Hughes's Verdun. Naturally these attacks are highly captious and critical, but they throw no light on Mr. Hughes's own capacity as a constructive statesman. He is notably reticent concerning the pro gram he himself would follow. From his speeches so fur, we gather mainly that Mr. Wilson has shamed us before the world, that he is one of the weakest presidents we have ever had. This is putting it strong, to say the least, for one doesn't have to rise any higher in the scale of animal in telligence than that possessed by a college freshman to know that we have had some very distinguished dis appointments in the White House one in particular not more remote than the reign of Big Built Aft. In his scathing strictures on Mr. Wilson's dealings with Germany and Mexico. Mr. Hughes leaves us to in fer that if he had been president, Bel gium would not have been invaded, the Lusitania would not have been sunk, and Mexi'jo, summarily squelched and subdued, would now be a domestic decorum. 'But how he would have avoided the mistakes he attributes to Wilson, he leaves us also to conjecture. Would Mr. Hughes repudiate Wil son's policy ofneutrality? Would he join the Allies or the Central Powers? Would he demand instant and specific disavowal from Germany of the Lusi tania sinking? Would he threaten war on Great Britain for interference with our shipping and seizure of United States mail? Mr. Hughes hastens to assure us that he is not a Roosevelt fire-eater, that there is not a drop of militarism in his political veins. But how he could have brought Germany up standing uermany that did not hes itate a moment to defy the combined military power of England, France and Russia; how he would have con verted that nest of viper's eggs in Mexico into a perfectly palatable omelet; how he would have ac complished all this without a resort to cannon and corpses, would require the services and the entire Pinkerton de tective agency to determine. He is precise and definite only as to what we had a right to expect of Mr. Wil son. I Under Mr. Wilson we haveavoided Mmr with Cprmnnv nnA wnn tin anrvh. ! making diplomatic victor'. Germany has stopped her submarine warfare ! on merchant-shipping soielv on ac - ! count of the president insistence on I international law. Could we have ex- nectid more under Mr. HutrhpR? j Under Mr. Wilson we have thus far been able to successfully apply the principles of justice and Big Brother hood to cur distracted sister republic on the south, it has been u dimcult and delicate task, and naturally has not been accomplished without some friction and bad feeling. But we are now in a fair way of assisting Mexico to realise nerseli. No doubt Mr. Wil son has made mistakos in his deal ings with Mexico. Could we reason ably expect that Mr. Hughes would nave made none! Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. To have raped a helpless sister republic: to have crushed her beneath the iron heel of military despotism, might have been good politics, but it would have been a moral crime. A politician, with his eye on the next election, would have applied coercion to Mexico. Wood row Wilson, with his eye on the next generation, dared to apply the golden rule. And the nsxt generation will justify Wilson no leas surely than it will condem Germany for its invasion of 'Belgium. As an American citizen I am proud of Mr. Hughes. I am proud of the inspiring spectacle cf his unques tioned courage and moral integrity. But his integrity is not more inflex ible than is Mr. Wilscn's. His ideuls of public service are not superior to those of Mr. (Wilson. His record as private citizen and public servant iB duplicated by that of Mr. Wilson. The weight of Mr. Hughes's fame rests upon his investigation of the in surance scandals. He fought for hon esty in the insurance business and won a signal victory. But he said nothing about the corrupt relation ex isting between the great insurance re serves and the money trust. He suid nothing about how these great re serves might be made to better the old age conditions of the poor. He did nothing to destroy the underlying sys tem which made these insurance evils possible. Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, has fought the system of special inter ests wherever it has shown its Cobra head. He found the system in trenched at Princeton University, and gave it no quarter. As governor of Jersey -he again discovered it, defied it, ana wrote its death warrant into the statutes of that state. With drawn sword he followed its slimy trail into the legislative halls of the nation. Through his legislative enactments, he has curbed the predatory inter ests, reformed the currency, taken the financial power out of the hands of the Wall Street oligarchy, and put it into the hands of the people where it belongs. Through the Clayton law, he has made labor respected as Lin coln said it should do; has raised it from the status of a mere commodity and given it human rights superior to the pitiless law of supply and de mand. Through the income tax law, the "malefactors of great wealth" are no longer exempt from their just share of the burdens of taxation; they are distributed upon the shoulders best able to bear them. Under him the robber baron tariff has passed from the realm of special legislation into the fairest measure that the brains of impaitiul tariff experts can devise. I am not a Democrat. I did not vote for Mr. Wilson. - Neither am I a Bourbon Republican. - I did not vote for Taft. I have little interest in the success of parties, but a very great interest in the success of democracy. I believe in the consolidation of all in dependent voters, and the consolida tion of all Bourbon voters. And 1 be lieve in surrounding the Bourbons with all the comfort! of Sing Sing. I humbly suggest the permanent retire ment of Special Privilege; I may never have the pleasure of attending its funeral but I thoroughly approve of it. As a Progressive, I am profoundly grateful for Woodrow Wilson. With intelligence, independence, sympathy, poise, patience, and an inflexible in tegrity of purpose, he has wrought to exterminate special privilege and en hance the general bettcimcnt of man kind. And the general welfare of the people, as Alexander Hamilton re marks, "ought to be the leading ob ject of every party and the aim of evsry individual according to the measure of his power." If Mr. Hughes is elected president of the United States I shall humblv advocate a life position for Woodrow Wilson as the President Emeritus of Hu manity. For the foregoing lessons I still ponder the question: Why should a Progressive vote for Hughes in pref erence to Wilson? , ANDREW R. MARKER. Red Tape in France. Paris, Aug. 18. French red tape reached its highest efficiency when a Portuguese man contributed 6,000 francs to the fund for war munitions received a statement for 25 francs receipt taxes which the state requires on all moneys they receive. CHICHESTER S PILLS fsr? TUB U1AUOND ft RAN I). 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Remember that ine xenowstone is yoursr This booklet has been reprinted for distribution by the UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM POPULAR ROUTE TO YELLOWSTONE and may be obtained upon application to any N representative. Let us help you plan a tour of the Park, either direct, or in connection with this season's Eaetbound Low -fire Tours. J. H. KEENEY Agent "Spokane Interstate Fair and Live Stock Show Sept. 4-9" I Miss Tru Bhi Will Serve You Tru Blu Biscuits CITY GROCERY & BAKERY Today, Fri. & Sat. LET TRU BLU BAKE FOR YOU ft WALLOWA The Switzerland of America JOSEPH, For Rest and ) Recreation Spend your vacation among the pines and mountains, xne laeai sum mer resort of the Northwest. Boating, Bowling, Dancing, Bathing, Etc., Rates: Tent with beds and bedding, ' y $5.00 per week and up; room $8.50 . per week and up: $6.50 meal ticketu, $5.00. EXCURSION RATE 1 Y3 Fare for Round Trip at Wallowa Lake "Telephone It" Why waste time and energy when a telephone will save both. 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