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THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN INDtPUNDfLNT NEWSPAPER
Published Weekly at Independence, Pclk Cour.iy
Oregon, on Friday.
Entered as Second Class Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
TAXPAYERS KINO
T0-GHAM3ERLAIH
His Salary As Office Holder,
Exceeds $1C0,CO0 Asked
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ASA B. ROB NSON JR.
Democratic C Mut Tot
COUNT! CLERK Ol POLK CO. STY
Your support for my re-election to a
second term will be appreciated.
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CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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THIS PAPFR REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
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f NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
Independence, Oregon, Friday, October 23, 1914
We depreciate the fact that Bol Booth is inclined to u
the calamity cry in his effort to break into the U. S Senate.
If the calamity howlers would pass, the Oregonian desit
,.'.! its echoes over the Mate quit, and everybody boo-t,
hen optimum would expand, capital would venture out
and Oregon would prosper.
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E. M. SMITH
Republican Nomine For
COUNTY CLERK, POLK COUNTY.
Vote for efficiency and economy.
(Taid Advertisement)
Althoueh it is a fact without an atom of doubt, is not
denied, and known to nearly every voter that Mr. IIhwIiv
is a paid official of the Woo J 'nun of the World and leave
'his public duti 8 in Washington and goes to Denver in
itteiid mee'.imjs of that society s oihcerN, his campaign
tli fulnehood. "No interests to serve bui
the public's interests" in his paid advertisements boosting
nis chief for another two years of disaster for the t lr;
district. A few weeks ago Mr. Ilawley's manager clainie
that nolitieal ODDonents were lieinsr about his chief but
none of them ever misrepresented Mr. Hawley more then
his owu campaign manager is doing.
FRED J. HOLM AN
Republican Nomine for
TREASURER Of.POLK COUNTY.
A full day's work and faithful service.
Your vote ii solicited.
(Paid Advertisement
Mr. Hawlev'a private secretary broke loose again last
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week, iell upon rreeiaent wuson ana neariy uruve mm
out of the White House. Speaking for Mr. llawiey tne
seoretarv was highly indignant because a few thousan,
Anibrican bovs have not been killed in Mexico and the
United Ntateg is not now in the middle ot the present
European hell. If Mr. Hawley is so anxious for war us
ns secretary represents him to he he should not object l
the people of the Firet district Rend Fred Hollister to con
jgiens in his place and thus give him an opportunity to go
to hu rope, wade around lntttie blood, and hear the ago
nizing moans of the wounded and the cries of mothers
wives and winter for loved ones sacrificed because politic a.
njritaiort like Mr Hawley's .ecretary harangued for war
mid swerved governments from the path of peace and pros
perity.
C. R. CAN FIELD
REPUBLICAN tiOl iINEC FOR
COUNTY SUIlVEYOh
Solicits your vote on a platforu of
Uf Iciency, tconomj and Science.
If elected all jstrona will receive
prompt attention and tha ollice will be
open during, buaineea hour aa ex
pec ted.
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JOHN W. OKR
luputlican Nominee
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My oath if it!e i my platforra,
I reaper! fuily nlicit your euppoit.
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MONITOR $1.50
BEST BUY
The Dental Trust, with all
its powerful jolitical organi
ation, is moving heaven and
earth to defeat the dental re
form bill.
In every town and city
members of the Truntare out
working againxt the hill.
The Medical Trust is help
ing the Dental Tlu-l by f-.u;.
ing nurses a tut druggist, un
der threat of ItoM't.tt, towork
Hgiinst dental rrfonn.
All kindeof campaign lies
lire he'ng cirouhited t. de
eeive the votris, Don't let
the TriHi Keare you.
The Trust nrid,- the pres
ent dental law. Under thi
law it controls the State
Hoard of Dental Examiners
ev ry member of that
board is a inmnherof the
Trust.
In this way competent
dentists are kep'. out of Ore
gon, and the Trust prevents
competition and keeps up
prices.
Vote Yes X 340
And Bust the Dental Trust
Since R. A. Booth, Republican cu
dldate for United States Senator, an
awered the question, "Where did you
set It?" Republican pa pen bar railed
the question for George E. Chamber
lain, the Democratic nominee to an
wpr, "How did you spend it?" Some
Industrious digger has compiled the
Hat of public offices Chamberlain has
held since coming to Oregon from
MiHsisslppl and calculates that Cham
borlaln baa drawn down mora than
1100,000 In money contributed by tax
payers. It is how Chamberlain spent
this money that Republicans are
curious.
Onn nnwapaper editor recounts that
Chcra'jprlain has been Attorney-Gen
eral, District Attorney. Gorernor and
United Slavs Senator, holding some
of these offices more than on term,
and that Chamberlain since entering
public Ufa has scarcely ever been off
thf? payroll, as he entered upon a new
Job before the old one was worn out.
In his explanation of "where be got
It," Booth told the atory of his life.
Democrats Bay that Booth Is an aris
tocrat and dons not belong to the plain
people. Booth's own narrative re
counts how lie was one of a family
of 12 children; that he lived In a log
cnbln, worked on a farm and took
his pay In chickens; punched cattle,
herded sheep and otherwise helped
support the family until he was 21
years old and paid for his first "store
clothes" by gathering wool front
bushes nnd taking the hides from
sheep which died on the range. He
struggled hard for an education and
acquired it. He was a day laborer,
and day laborers are supposed to e
plain people. By Industry he met
with success nnd associated with oth- I
era he built up a sawmill Industry
wnleh developed the timber resourrec
of Interior Oregon.
The following letter is submitted to tHe voters of Oregon
by the Hop Growers and Dealers Association on behalf
of 1,400 farmers representing 25.000 acres of land de
voted to the Hop Industry of Oregon i
For many years we have been engaged in the growingand marketing of Hops. One
land is particularly suited for this purpose. Our work and our energy has for years been
devoted to the development of this industry. The time has now come when you are being
asked, by your VOTE, to ruin US.
It is urged that we can "use this land to raise something else." This may be trj. How
are we going to get along however while we are waiting to "raise" something else? YOU
kno v that the hardest condition that a producer has to meet is the securing of a market for
his product. How are we going to pet along until we secure that market? Suppose that
we should decide to raise apples, prunes or loganberries, etc. You know the years it takes
to develop them. How are we to get along in the meantime? You know that each of these
products, and many others, are frequently a "plut" on the market. Suppose that we start to
produce what you are producing Then you will have more competitors the market will
be flooded YOU will receive less for what you produce.
We fully realize that many sincere peppb favor State Wide Prohibition BELIEVTN'G
that it will be the means of correcting the "Liquor Jiabit." This has NOT PROVEN to lie
the ase, for the reason that FIFTEEN States, after a full and fair trial ranging over a per
iod if from one to fifty years have REJECTED IT.
Don't you feel that if State Wide Prohibit!-.- j id been b;::u-i":ci:d that those FIFTEEN
Stat 'S that had it would have kept it and not h:-vc ' HI ECTE1) IT ? It having been proved
a FAILURE in those States how can it be a Sl'CChSS IN OREGON?
Thousands there are who favor Temperance but wh liaur the thought of Prohibition
from a moral standpoint. Liquor far below 'the standard of whiskey is bawu! and sold with
dea !y effect. Manhood and SELF KESl'ECT is weakened.
Now education is accomplishing the u'tim ite Temperance and licensed regulation of an
opei' traffic is bringing about True Temperance uliereas the history of Prohibition as a
The iry APPLIED shows it has wrecked yeais of temperance advancement, driven the dis
. tribt tion of liquor "Under Cover" and secreted it from regulation and cortrol by law.
Under our present "Local Option Laws" any community, that so desires, can stop the
sale of liquor LOCALLY. The handling of this matter is in your hands LOCALLY. Under
the proposed law it will k taken from your hands and administered by the State. Do vou
feel that the State will ha idle this matter more tfion
th-n vou can YOURSELVES?
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It is claimed that the State will save inn. y in the institutions for the Insane and Crim
inal if this measure goes into effect. Yet the Official United States Statistics show that
the State of Kansas, that is now held up as an example for Or.g.m to follow, has more in
sane and criminals in its institutions than Oregon hes per capita.
It is claimed that this proposed law will improve economic conditions, vet the same
Official United States Statistics show that the per capita wcauh of Oregon is GREATER
than that of Kansas.
Hundreds of stores will become vacant; thousands of men with families to support will
be thrown cnit of their employment without compensation, and turned adrji't in the sea of
"unemployed" which is only too huge now.
Do you feel that "times ares 0 good" tha' you can afford to experimtnt and take this
great revenue away from the State ot O egon?
Don't you feel that you have a big enough burden to bear now. and with the new
National Tax Measure now being framed at Washington it will lie HEAVIER still?
Don't you feel that the FAIR way is to ENFORCE the laws we now have, which are
fully ample in every way to govern the "I.i'iuor Abuse," and NOT pass a law that will
accomplish no good but will RUIN US?
We ask you to talk this matter over with your wife, or your frinis or your neigh
bors consider it fully and candidly consider it in the light of "FAIR I' LAY" consider
it in the light of a "SQUARE DEAL" and then we ask you to go to the polls and do for
us as we would for you under similar conditions, VOTE 333 X NO, ami save OUR in
terests from RUIN.
Remember the Local Option Laws will b- swept away if Prohibition is voted but they
will STAND AS THEY ARE: if Prohibition is Defeated.
Verv sincerelv,
HOP GROWERS' AND DEALERS' ASSOCIATION OF OREGON.
R. A. BOOTH
Booth's statement Included the dec
Isrnlion llmt nt times the sawmill he
managed employed 1300 men aad the
payroll exceeded S80.0OO a month. The
concern brought Into Oregon more
than $10,000,000 of outside money and
farmers, merchants, laborers and en
tire communities received the major
part of this sum, directly or Indi
rectly. The Republicans point out
that Booth's rise from a farm hRml
and day laborer is to his credit and
that hundreds of other Oregon bovs
are developing the psme way. They
nlao point out that the Industry which
Booth's efforts built up brought into
the state more money than the Gov
ernment has appropriated for river
nnd harhor improvements In Oregon
since the state was admitted to the
Union.
During the period that Booth was
turning timber into a stri-am of Kold
which wns flowing through interior
Oregon, spreading prosperity to work-
en nr.d merchants, the Republicans
declare that Chamberlain wns draw
ing a snhry from tax funds as an
office-holder. Having been horn in
Oreuon and lived here all his life,
llooth'8 supporters contend that he
l.nows Its people and the needs of
the mute as well 11s uny man enn and,
Imving made good, whether bs a far
mer, cowboy, shocpherder, bookkeep
er or sawmill man, he can make good
in thp M.imitA
The impression that Booth Is a mil- Jladylile. well- meaning incomve
llonaire has been gained because of j tent. He r ever mensured up tn
HOP GROWERS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF OREGON
Paid Advertisement
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actionary vote.,, He has been
card-indexed nnd tagged. He is
classified as harmless, but neces-
ary. He ha been taught to eat
out of the hoi ay hand of former
Speaker Joe annon and is one
of the few re laining cogs in the
bent and bn ken wheel which
was built u der the Cannon
.ayne regime. If he ever per
formed any r-?al service to his
constituents 1 hey never heard ot
it. If he eve ' made i brilliant
spt ech it hast ) een expunged from
the Congressi mal Record. If be
ever did anyt iinu elf e of value
aside from dr iwing his pay, the
Washington c irrespondents have
failed to recoid it, Hawley is a
FRED HOLLISTER FOR CONGRESS
Painless Parker, Dentist
6lh and Washington Sta.
Portland, Oris.
the groat commercial enterprise which
he caused to grow from nlmost noth
ing and because of the large contri
butions he has given to educational
and other betterment works. Booth
confesses that h never was a mil
lionaire anil that his holdings in the
business he uuumged was very small:
in fact. It Is about 3 per cent, or
ISS.ooo.
Insistently, acme of the Republican
paper declare tliaf It is as important
In Judging the fitness of a inn 11 for
office to know how he spends his
money n It is to know where he gets
it. They point to the large donations
made hy Booth to show w here he has
been spending his money for the ben
efit of the commonwealth, and they
keep :;sti-g britnbt rhilii. "Wliers did
yo i ipt-nj itT"
Paid Advertisement hy the Republican
State Certral Committee, Chae. H.
Moores, Chairman, Portland, Oreg-on.
(Paid Adv
A C0SCKISSI0NAL BLANK
W. C. Hawley is a congression
al blank, filed awav in the dustv
f j archives of the national capitol,
1 and is used for reference when
i 1 1 tic "olil cruard" needs a re
in's job when he was elected and
isi 1 o further advanced at the
pr. -lent time than he was when
he tir 1 re - ived his commission
of office. The re ..blicans of the
fir? t congressional district were
"stung" when they gave him his
nomination. The entire voting
population of the district was
stune arain when he was
elected.
The great majority of Oregon
newspapers concede that the
statement" made above are cor.
rect. It is not news. It is mere
ly a statement of facts which are
already quite familiar to the
thinking people of the state.
Aahlantl Tidings.
With the Clrk" Help.
"So your work Is monotonuns. is It?
Why don't you get a Job In a shoe
store?"
"Why there e:xvtal!.Tr
"Something new go;ng en all the
time." It tou Transcript.
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The eongTessional fight in the First District is not one on purely political
lines. Men and women of all parties have combined to elect Fred Hollister be
cause Western Oregon should have a representative in Confrresa who can "do
omethmi?" and Hollister "fills the bill." Eight years of the 'service" Mr.
Hawley tas rendered is enough. It U certainly tirre for a change.
(Paid Aiivenitsen.f nt ly W. J. F.ust.)