PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 19TH-POLITICAL EDITION
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VOLUME XXV
SECTION TWO
LA GRANDE, OREGON SATURDAY,' MAY 13, 1922
POLITICAL SECTIOF
NUMHKlt 188
Four Outstanding Facts
Jiulgc Kte'-ilieii A. Lowell .Discusses 1 lie Political
Situation as it Now Appears in Oregon.
' TENDLETON, Oregon, Muy la (that in many counties the prohibition
To the Editor: In response to youi law is being rendered farcial, while
invitation I am submitting the fol- lawlessness" in taw enforcement is be
lowing brief discussion of four out- coming both a menace und a public
standing factors in the approaching disgrace. The statute is probably in
primary election, all of which will be 'advance of popular sentiment, but it
carried forward to the general elec-' is the law of the laid and its cnforce
fcion in November, and all ot which1 ment is imperative, if government is
are sustaining, either by scoffiny or per cent reduction, but such outcome
silence, its violation br others.' Bo-jjs, improbable because it will require
'fore the poisoned thrones of theire cooperation of the executive and
sneaking: majesties, he moonshiner J-gi.slative departments, plus the en
jnnd tho bootlegger, peoplo deuninl'tiro corps of county officials,
respectable are bowine. With onei How to Reduce Taxes.
law openly violated, the whole morali The only way to Teducc taxation is
coda is in danger. to reduce taxation, and that will fol
Sees a tiloomy Future. low reduction of expense every-
God pity tho stato when tho next where. Luxuries must be foregone,
generation assumes authority. Stand-jThe voting of bonds and excessive
ards of morality are low enough now, levies must cease. . All millngo laws
but the majority of the men and wo- must be repealed or radically modi-,
men of middle life were at leas, fied at once. The craze for paved
reared amid the stern environment 'joads, born of the automobile, must
of law sunnmiirv. In closinir this be cured- Tho old district methods
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JlIKiE KI'KI'IIIJX A. l-OWKl.li
touch intimately the welfare of the
state, and the! happiness nnd content
ment of its people,
Kirst. The subject which candi-K-itizens in an atmosphere such
dates gcneraUy are deliberately ig
noring, namely; law enforcement, is
the most important,- the most far
reaching and most closely - inter
woven with the future of the com
monwealth. It is a notorious fart
to endure.
How, pray, can parents
their children to become law-abiding
of road care must be restored and
the endless chain of engineers dis
missed. A third of the public offices
must be abolished. The frills of the
men in charge of public institutions
(automobiles, servants and elegant
homes) must be eliminated- Tho
s.'hool system must be revised, and
tie school machine smashed. Half:
curricula may well be
niu-
subdivision licrmit me to append1
quotation from Abraham Lincoln,
worthy fhe candid consideration of all
citizens at this crisis:
"As the patriots of '" did lo the
support of the Declaration of In
dependence, so to the support of the
Constitution and the Ijiws lot every
American pledge his life, his prop
erty and his sacred honor; let every t ie current
man remember that to violate thai abandoned- The counties and
law is to trample on the blood of his nicipalities must needs get back to
father, and to tear the charter of his, t ie basis of economy where every ap-
own and his children's liberty. Let propriation is cut to the bone, nnd
reverenco for the laws be breathed by j the simple life adopted.
every American mother to the lisping! The writer is of tho opinion that
babe that prattles on her lap. Let the State University ought to oe
it be taught in schools, in scminarieSjIeonvcited into a private institution,
and in colleges. Let it be written in kindred to Stanford, and the state
primers, spelling books, and in al-'jelieved from its maintenance. There
inanacs. It it be preached from the'nre plenty of wealthy men in Oregon
pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls,jwho can endow it. . Statistician?, tell
nnd enforced in courts of justice, us that the. attendance at both the
nu, in soon, let u oeco no me po- universuy au miu... k VRto offi or Hroum, ,h n,aho(r)iny
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These movements mean a renewed
attempt, to destroy (he djrect primary
and restore the corrunt caucus andf
convention, with kindred purpose to1
hamstring the initiative land Jrefr
endum, an J to bring back the day of
boss dominated legislatures. These
Idate, and they are spending time and
money to elect him. They argue that
the cause of exorbitant tax rates is
rash legislation, made possible by the
type of men who go to the legisla
ture under the direct primary sys
tem. Pure buncombe- The same
type of men have always been mem
bers of the legislature. They arc
no better and no worse now than
they were, a quarter of a century
ngo- Tho trouble with this brood of
critics is that they believe in a rul
ing class. They have no confidence
in the plain People. As a rulo they
arc monarchists at heart. They
love a boss to whom they willingly
bow. The older men who read this
will recall the time when no man
could be nominated to any office In
a republican state convention, except
after approval by Joe Simon, Jim Io
tan, Jack Matthows, or some kiri;jred
political magnate of Portland.
It will be well for all tho voters'
to go to the polls this month. Then
political privileges a-i in the bal-
anco- It is vastly safer to trust all
the people, than to follow tho lend of
a few men who would select candi
dates and make laws behind olused
doors, in the seclusion of some pri
never, be apin disturbed by that
ghost. g
The group now active hwe seem
to have associated with them some
members of other organization.
They are making extravagant claims
of theit political strengtth. They, al
so, have a candidate, Perhaps two
candidates. They claim to be '.pro -trstants
in religion, but the most of
them ne'cr , attend any church. Thev
proclaim superlative interest in' the
public schools, yet there is scarcely
a man among them who has even
visited the schools since the days of
his childhood. They are proposing a
law compelling every child between
the ages of. 8, and 16 years to attend
the public schools. That is prepos
terous. The stato may well compel
education, but it has no right to say
to me that I shall educate my chil
dren in any particular school. I am
a protestant, and just as good an
American as any of the gentlemen
whose vagaries I am discussing, but
if 1 Prefer to educate my family in
a Lutheran, Methodist, Ircsbyterian,
Episcopal or Catholic school, itis
nobody's business except my own
The sponsors for this archaic res
urrection of a dead past are as the
blind leading the blind- They are ar
raying citizon against citiwn, fam
ily against family, friond against
friend. They are sowing serjients'
teeth. They are plucking dead sea
fruit. The electors of tlie state who
love liberty, who aro devoted to the
exalted principles upon which the re
public is founded, who believe in
free men, fi-eo press, free speech, and
the right to worship God according
to the dictates of conscience, are
summoned to the polls this year, if
never before.
I decline to discuss candidates. I
do appeal, however, to all voters to
inform themselves as to tho nun
who seek their ballots on the ivt,h of
this month. Ily their fruits Jo shall
know them, is an axiom of holy writ.
By their associations ye shall know
them Is an axiom of politics. I have
profound faith in the average Judg
ment of all tho people. The danger
lies in lethargy.
STHPHEN A. LOWELL.
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READ THE WANT ADS!
this? Upon their plastic minds
there is daily impressed a Picture of
adult disregard of Inw and order.
Men and women whose exnmple
ought to be clean are cither violating
the prohibitory statute themselves, or
No One Has lfmcdy. th youth of school age in the state.
Second Taxation in this campaign Surely there Is no duty resting upon
is the ovci'shadowing topic of dis- the public to furnish so-called higher
cussion. Electors arc anxiously look- education to that number of pupils. It
ing for a man with, a remedy for the is probable that wo must continue
economic ills of the states and ap-l the agricultural college in some form,
parontly they arc' looking in vain.becausc it is partially finuneed by
What candidate anywhere along the the federal government, and because
line, from tho gubernatorial sextctte'agriculturc is the foundation of all
to tho humblest tax spender of the . wealth, but its budget should be re
counties, has any workable program duced at least one half, and ita work
to 'reduce the back-breaking burden! measured by tho population and
expectl of - taxation under, which all are! wealth of the. state. It is now tup-
lanonng : f.ot one- Inc much heavy ana over-nmoiiious-
talked of combination of commissions,! Third One hears once .more Wie
the cabinet form of government, the labored grinding of the long unused
reduction of salaries, the proposed political machines. The saddened
income tax, all possessing some mer-iwai horses of a decadent past are
it, will accomplish little in the grand stretching their spavined limbs.. They
total of taxation. Yet reduction is'nourish a hope thnt the hands of
possible indeed as much as .fifty'time will somehow turn backward
corporation
Secret Organizing.
Fourth This is a time, in Oregon,!
when toligious bigotry and racial
prejudice reign supreme in the!
realm of politics. Since tho "Know!
Nothing" movement of the fifties i
this is the first timo in a northern;
state that a man is measured by the1
creed his mother taught him, by tho
placo of his birth or the color of his,
skin. Secret organizations mouth- j
ing Americanism are preaching in-!
tolerenco and the boycott. Nothing!
could bo more un-American than the
doctrines which they inculcate or the
methods which they invoke. There1
was something of this in, the South
during the re-construction period, i
but the. nation assumed' that the
mental poise of fanatics eviti would'
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7ote For Ralph E. Williams
Republican Candidate for Committeeman
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Mr. Williams is now Vice Chairman of the Republican National
Committee. It is next to the Highest office in the Republican Party in
the United States, and he is in line for the Chairmanship, which would
mean that the State of Oregon would have the highest rank of any State in
the Nation in Party alfairs. ; v:
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Mr. Williams is being opposed by Politicians whose careers are well Known around the lobbies
in Salem and they are riot Known as workers for the general good of the Republican Party.
A vote for Williams means a vote of Republican Organization and Republican Principles.
Committee of Republicans
Paid Advertisement Thos. . H. Tongue, Pres. Hillsboro, Ore.
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