THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN IMH.PBNimNT M.WSI'API-K
Published
Weekly at Independence, Polk County
Oregon, on Friday.
Entered as Second Class Mutter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Undur the Act of March 3, 1879.
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA IJ. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, July 10, 1914
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Japan's Protests Against Cali
fornia Alien Land Laws Is
Absorbing Topic.
'J une fur th county canli!ate8 to get liuny.
Parker in not inclined to he
what he callti tiie "denial trust
''Painle-FH" when he treats
Former President Taft in very utill. lie
ing or finding fault with hi BiicceHor.
yearn in the presidential chair liiniHelf,
in not cnliciB
lie had four
It seems that wlien we took the Panama Canal Zone we
were not very particular how we done it. Now whether to
pay damages for our indiscretion is the question.
Humor Inn it, and iiimor Houietimes is reliable, that
Portland will noon have another morning paper. People
have been accustomed for many year to have, the Oregon
ian for breakfast and they will be slow in accepting a subs
titute. Candidate Withycombe does not take kindly to Candid
ate U'Kcn's attempt to force him into the "dry" and "wet"
fight. Whet nr Mr. W'ithvcombe can maintain a neutral
position on tli prohibition question until the November
election remains to be seen.
John Jl. Scott, general pasvnger agent of the Southern
Pacific railroad, lias a very pie using habit of visiting the government
town where celebrations are being held and mingling with
the people. Mr. Scott is to be commended for showing
the people that all railroad olliciaU do not have horns.
Washington. Japan' protests
against the California alien land law,
brought oorikjiii uouhly before the pub
lic again by publication of the corre
spondence between the Washington
and Toklo governments, was discuss
ed with absorbing interest In official
and diplomatic circles.
One phan of the negotiations dls
clohud lu the correnponilen.ee which at
tracted particular Interest In official
circlet waa said to suggest the possi
bility of an issue entirely new in the
history of the United States. In italic!
In connection with the promise by the
Jnpani-se government to grant land
ownemlilp to Americans, Rppeared the
words, "reserving for the future, how
ever, th right of maintaining the con
dition of reciprocity with respect to
the separate states."
This, it wbh pointed out, appeared
to be a distinct reservation by the
Japanese government of the right to
retaliate directly upon the Cnlifornl
ans by singling them out among Amer
ican citizens for exclusion from the
right to possess real property in Jay
pan. May Rush Railroad Land Survey.
Surveying lands embraced within
railroad grunts will be pushed rapidly
If the senate sustains an approprla
tlon of 1100,000 made by the house,
The western members, with Secre
tary Laue, want to make sufficient ap
proprlntlons each year to carry the
work to a speedy termination. It was
pointed out to the house that as long
as tho railroad lands remained unsur
veyod they were virtually the property
of the railroads, while title could not
pass and the lands could not be taxed
There Is a demand in most of the
western states to have the railroad
lands iruveyed so that thoy can be
taxod hy the states and made to bear
their proportion of the cobt of local
The congressman who has done bis duty at Wash
ington does not have to hurry home to look after his
fences. His constituents will keep out stray stock if
he does their work at Washington properly. Salem
Capital-Journal.
Don't the Capital-Journal think that Congressman J law
ley ought to hurry homer
The Seaside Itund, having met with great success in
tooting their own horns, concluded to do a little boosting
for the town ani community and have issued a 1(! page
paper, the Flashlight, winch is a very creditable effort.
After leading it from covt r to cover and looking at the
handsome pictures, one is tempted to nnne to Seaside and
live in peace and contentment until further notice,
The saying that "great minds run in tho same chan
nel" is more forcefully impressed upon us as we peruse
the editorial columns of our exchanges. There are
altogether too many self-constituted "commissions"
working the country press. Dallas Observer.
An editor wrote us rec nlly that he lets the "State Bu
reau of Industries and Statistics" edit his paper because he
hasn't the brains to do it himself, and in our reply we com
mended him highly for being frank enough to say what
others were thinking.
In a Fourth of July oration at Lents, Congressman Latt
erly declared:
"The snme blood that conned hot through the veins of American patriots
ill m, is now ticfiiiniine in to boil in Hie Americans of today A new
declaration of independence is loiitf overdue. Multnomah County has sound
ed the battle oiy in this new revolution. The eve of t'oii;rij ,! Uie
Nation are upon the (wilding struggle in this district. The issues involved
are lieur cut. I.el the battle of Concord be refought and won in Multno
mah County, November ;id, next, and vutury will follow in the entire
Nation iiisiile ol live yens."
Evidently the fate of the whole nation depends upon
Multnomah County, but we have good reason t(, believe
that Multnomah County will respond nobly and save the
natio.i.
Iikl li I 1 1 tr llt-4 . Y t t tli't U fe.Wi, nl . 1 . . .1
..,.. iv.. . ..v.... i-ntiirK mane on inr name
day ut the same place by Speaker Chirk and President
Wilson:
CLAUK WILSON
11 is written, luesae.i are urn i-eare I can never sneak in ,. r
ladles and getleineii; vou would not de-
Hut there is this .
makers tun alter ly centum k of
Christian endeavor we are prone to j sire me to do so.
smiie mo sinner.
The d:iy baa not jet arrived when
swords are beaten into plowshare or
Scni s inlo pruning hooks; and, judging
from fa U which can tie neither blink-
uni uiswnciion hel. in ,., ,i.
I i ... i Pi"' .V Hie
soldier, that he goes into an enterprise
out ol which he himself cannot gvt
f lu
re are lixtfl. v. I; ..k ... ..
ed nor denied, that era of perfect peace bard to go into d just a, hard lv
is out of sight l, the , ,Mt future in as the battles of arms; and fh.
- ' . ; '', mere will come
limit suite lunmvitiii nrai wiiisoii in glalet'i r,vi ,.,.ii,w
a blacksinitti stiop. 1 lie corporations
of captains troin .Nni.rodto Ccneral
Wood occupy mere space in t annals
of munkind than do all the statesmen,
philosophers, poem, preachers, writers
and artisans that aver lie I.
All history is but one unending story
of huniaii "butchery. All our bouaicil
and multiplied acts of civiinatmn are
but preparations for the sacrmce of
war the festival uf death.
a time of
when ...II
speak of him not only Willi admiration
uui .ui auection and with reverence
I hat is their achievement, uno.itialcd
anywh. re else in the snnsls of man
Kind, that the verv men w hom thev
overcame in battle join in praise and
gratitude that the I'mon was saved.
'lhis ting calls umn us dailv for seirv
ice, and the more quiet and ' self .deny
ing the service the greater the glory i.f
the i!;,g. We ure dedicated to freedom
and ihxt freedom means the ftvedoin
ot tlie human spirit.
Senate Secret Qet Out.
Stirred to action by the apparent
freedom with which the proceedings
of the foreign relations committe in
consideration of the Nlcaraguan and
Colombian treaties have been publish
ed from duy to day, several senators
agreed on a resolution asking for au
thority to siibpenti senators and Wash
ington correspondents to an Inquiry
to determine how the proceedings of
the committee which are supposed
to be especially secret get out.
Evidence that not all senators en
tlrely approve the Idea that the com
mlttee's proceedings shall be secret
was given by Senator NorriB, who is
not a momber of the foreign relations
oornmlttee. lie offered a resolution
that all senators be furnished with
ooples of the dally testimony before
the committee on the treaties, that
senators who were to vote on the mat
ter should have the benefit of It.
House Insists on Mileage Cut.
Amid a maze of parliamentary tan
gles that kept members guessing, the
house sent back to conference the
question of mileage of representatives
in congress.
The body voted in favor of 6 cents
a mile each way for senators, and the
defeat, 184 to 59, of a motion to re
cede from disagreement to the senate
proposition of continuing the present
20 cents a mile, sent the whole ques
tion back to be threshed out again by
the conferees.
National Capital Brevities.
Despite the opposition of Turkey the
house agreed to the senate amend
ment providing for the sale of the
' Mtleahlps Idaho and Mississippi to
-co.
C tilted States supreme court ruled
that retail lumber dealers who black
list wholesalers for selling direct to
the oonsumer violate the Sherman
ant I trust' act.
'The Interstate commerce commls
alon suspended until January 10, pro
posed increased rates on melons from
California to Oregon and Washington
Railroads are not liable for damages
for persons! Injuries to interstate em
ployes or their families who are hurt
while riding ou passua. according to
a ruling of tlie I'nlted States supreme
court.
It has beou proposed to President
Wilson that the name Culabra cut In
the al'nama canal be chauged to the
Oallliird cut In honor of the late Unit
ed States engineer, w ho harnessed the
mountain at t hat point.
Kor fe.tr that the interests of the
fall campaign would be affected, house
leaders time decided not to force a
vote now on the proposed Hobsoa
amendment providing for nation-wide
prohibition.
The new federal reserve banking
system will not get tn operation until
some weeks hence, It Is thought, as
result of the delay of the senate ii
confirming the president's nomluei--on
the hoard. The bank was to star
August 1.
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois Lead in Income and
Corporation Excise.
Washington. New York, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois paid more than half
of the $71,38.lt'l turned into the na
tional treasury in income and corpora
tion taxes during the fiscal year Just
closed. A detailed statement of col
lections made public showed that
these three states contributed $37,
931,717. New York alone paid $12,528,247.03
in individual income tax, while the
entire amount paid by individuals
throughout the country was $28,306,
S3C.C9. The empire state paid $9,766,
248.57 of the $4.1,079,810.44 paid as
corporation tax by all states.
Pennsylvania ranked second in both
Individual and corporation taxes. Its
corporations paid $6,096,305.28 and Its
Individual Income tax collections
amounted to $3,176,095.28. Illinois
was third in the list, with corporation
taxes amounting to $4,293,649.68 and
Individual Incomes aggregating $2,
076,171.11. Will Prosecute Income Tax Dodger.
Nation wide investigation of the re
turns in the income tax filed by cor
porations and Individuals has been be
gun by agents and Inspectors working
at the direction of Commissioner Os
borne of the Internal revenue, to as
certain the correctness of each pay
ment into the treasury.
Fraudulent statements In attempts
to evade or defeat the assessment re
quired by the law are held to be a
misdemeanor and the person or of
ficer of any corporation rendering
false return is liable to a fine not ex
ceedlng $2000 or Imprisonment not ex
ceeding one year, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court.
Officials of the treasury declare the
Pursuit will fee relentless and those
caught In the dragnet which is being
thrown out will he required to pay the
additional amount of their tax or face
suits of prosecution.
Borah Continues to Fight Harbor Bill
There Is little likelihood that the
fight being made against the river
and harbor bill In the senate will ac
complish its defeat, though it is be
lieved that the bill cannot go into ef
fect much before August and may not
become operative until a later dat,
Senator Month, of Idaho, who Is
holding up the bill, Intends to hold
up the conference report later, unless
congress grants some of the legisla
tion asked by the west. As a means
of accomplishing his purpose, he has
offered an amendment to the bill au
thorizing a loan of $50,000,000 to the
reclamation fund, and Is demanding
that that amendment be accepted by
the senate. His contention is that the
river and harbor bill, with few excep
tions, carries no direct benefit to the
slates, where the government is build
ing Irrigation works.
Colombian Treaty Is Likely to Fall."
The administration by a party vote
will be able to secure a favorable re
port from the foreign relations oorn
mlttee of the senate on the Bryan
treaty with Colombia, but senators op
posed to that document assert posi
tively that the administration will not
be able to force ratification by the
senate. It requires a two-thirds vote
to ratify and more than a third of the
senate are said to be opposed to the
treaty.
National Capital Brevities.
Major General Wood, former chief
of staff of the United States army,
has been ordered In command of the
eastern department of the army.
In a wordy altercation over the Nic
aragua treaty before the foreign rela
tions committee, Senators Root of
New York and Smith of Michigan
nearly came to blows.
It Is siiid that lenders are hoping
that a vote on th Hobaon prohibition
amendment to the constitution will be
had in the house about August 1.
The I'nited States has been asked
by Consul General Cheshire of Can
ton. China, to send aid for the 2,000,-
000 people who are said to have been
rendered destitute by the recent floods
in two southern provinces of China.
The house passed the bill repealing
the provision that anyone who was
In any way active on the side of the
rebels during the civil war should not
be eligible for the collection of claims
from the government. Claims total
ing $165,000,000 will thus be revived,
It Is said
President Wilson will fill all va
cancies where negroes are now em
ployed by other negroes, In accord
biico w ith a promise which he made
about the time of his Inauguration
White men will not Wike the places of
the Macks.
The San Ouminican situation con
timies to be a punier for President
Wilson. He admits having recetved a
report that the American gunboat !
Maclu.is had fired on one of the war
ring fiicttons because they had vio
lated an agreement bot to bombard
the rebel city.
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Attorney at Liw and .Notary Put
Will ; racti c in a'l C" . f the
state. Prob.itc; rmitki. -.d col
lections giveii p. .Jii)it a' ...ion.
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Independence, Oregon
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