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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1913)
U The Ontario National Bank United States Depository State of Oregon Depository For the Mat bread and pantry in town go to Mix Ontario Bakery. IB Our Bank Foar Bank ? If not, we oordiallf invite you to make our bunk lour hank. We have the umial Safeguards of Fire Proof Vault, Burglar Proof Safe, Bonded employees, and do business in a conservative manner. -:- -:- .;. Capital and Surplus. $80,000 5 Per Cent Not on Tit CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT 5. S. COOK 4 COMPANY (INCORPORATED) : J. H. COOK, Manager. Capital Stock 50,000.00 Choice Apple and Prune Lands Land and City Property For Hale One ipan mnre. one spn.it gelding", '2 saddle horses gentle, fur women or childiiD. Ca)l at the Multnomah ro mg. Get the Argun, only fl.00 Local Market Report. Corrected Feb. 5, for the benefit of Argns readers by the Malbeur Mer oantlle Company. Eggs, per dozen. 30o. Butter, per pouu.l, 30o. Oata, per hundred, 11.60. Wheat, per hundred. 11.60. Hay, per ton, IK. Potato, per hundred, 11.60. On lone, per hundred, 12.00. Applea, per box, 11.00. to Sl.lVv Oblokena, dressed, per pound, So Pork, dreaaed, 0 to lOo. Pork, live, :., to 6 He Veal. 0 to 10O. Beef, lie to 12i V. W. MARSDEN Bicycle Repairing a Specialty All Kinds of Tool Sharpening and (Grinding, Saw Filing, Scissors Grinding. Skate and Lawn Mower Sharpen ing a Specialty. Next Door to Library MAIN 8T., ONTARIO, ORE. HARRIMAN Townsite Now Open Situated near the Malheur Lake, on a high, fine gentle sloping tract of land. This site offers exceptional opportunity for making a good city. Vast areas of ara ble territory spread out in all directions. Every valley and streamlet of the distant mountains has its ranches and flourishing livestock. Considerable land in the valley is still subject to homestead entry, and with the advent of the Oregon-Eastern Railway Now building toward Harney Valley this grand new empire will teem with land seekers and people seeking business opportunities and professional locations. GET IN EARLY Good opening for a newspaper, blacksmith shop, hotel drug store, hardware and implement nouses, as well as other lines of business. A limited number of lots are now offered for sale at remarkably low prices, either for cash or on easy terms, which prices will advance when the railroad is built into the Harney Valley. REMEMBER, Harriman will be the first important point in the great Harney Valley to have a railroad. UTAH-OREGON LAND COMPANY C H. MOREHOUSE, Pre. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. HORTON, Sec. Burns, Oregon Brown & Taylor, Agents, Ontario, Oregon. Empire Lumber Company, Limited WHOLESALSER OF Sash, Doors and Weatherproof Roofing RETAIL DEALERS IN Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster and Coal. The Most Complete Line of Building Material in Ontario. The Father and Mother of Our Country 1 aW ' M .mI aPjMaanani 1M1 Y 1 mE Mat if . mm! "Bl tlf HAsh- H w V W : 7 h.v - i saMMsWaw atw W I ill' 'fill I mI I aH JB wk H wa A WASHINGTON POEM. By Tommy Traddles BF Father George and Martha, too. I'm proud as I can be. For they were parents of this land, Of which I'm part, you see. HHIS country ought to honor them, For it's mighty sure I am That if we'd had no Fa ther George We'd have no Uncle Sam. Copyricnt, in. by American Pmi Association THE ELECTIONS OF WASHINGTON By JAMES A. EOQKRTON. NEAHLY 120 yeara have elapsed alue Oeneral George Waeh lngton was nrat elected presi dent 'if tllU I lilted Stales It la a physical liiiHmall)lllt.r for any oiia now i,' i UK to picture th altuatlon of thi country at that Umt. Tb constl tutliin hail been adopted only after ro buat iihmIIIiii. The colonle had been depleted by the long irar of the Itevo lutiuii and had not much recovered un ili r the i. H in(. aud luadeunt articles of confederation. While political partlea bad not yet had time to form, there wcic hitler factional feuda and person al and aectloual Jealousies. The U,OOU,000 people of the new na tion were strung along the Atlantic couat. The ii.llroad and ateamablp bad nut yet been thought of, while the oth er great Inventions that hove changed the face of the work! were far in the future. Klertrfclty was but a avtentifle curtoalty. The a ten in engine had been Invented, but wiu not yet In general use. There wiia no other republic In the world. The revolution tbut aturted one In Krauce did not open until the fol lowing year Tbs so called Dutch n nubile was ruled by an aristocracy under a hereditary stadtholder. The I Swlaa ciint. hi.- were under a loose con federation. Not only M the world without republics, but well ulgb wltb out parliaments Oreat Hiituln bad a form of parliamentary government, but moat other untlous were absolute or slightly limited monarchies. Moreover, there bad never been on earth a republic audi as our forefa thers outlined for us. The ao called Greek and Human republics were real ly oligarchies, the muss of the popula tion belug alaves. The Itnllau repub Ilea were In souie lustauces s slight advsnee on tl.ee but eveu they fell far abort of the American Ideal. Our proposed form of government waa largely an ex(ierlmeut without prece dent auywbere In the world'e hlatory The div talon of powers between tbs federal government aud the states and the subdivision into co-ordinate depart incuts of executive, legislative and ju dicial were new and untried depar tures. It waa an adventure on aucb an un known political aeu that Washington and the first congress elected wltb him war called upon to undertake. There were atill large and Influential element grumbling about the couatitution. Ou or two co I oil i en bad failed to ratify, and abode Island continued in that attitude. Washington was unfeigned ly reluctant to embark ou tbe task of leading tbe new government, lie bad retired from public life and bad plan ued to apend bia declining years on bis Mount Vernon farm. The people of the whole country turued to blm with one accord, however, and It waa Im possible for blm to resist. No candldutea were nominated for president In those days, the presiden tial electors being left absolutely free to choose These electors were chosen at tbe same time aa tbe members of tbe new congress st th popular elec tion iu the fall of 1788. They after wurd met In their several state capitals and cast every vote for Washington. Tbe Inaugural ceremonies took place la New York Cougres waa slow in sssembllng, aud by tbe time It bad a quorum to eanvaaa tbe vot it waa March fl A messenger waa Immediate ly dlapatcbed to uotify the president ele.t vrf tbe vote, and be reached Mount Vernon on tbe 14th On the 16tb Waiita Uigtou wrote In bia diary: -About 10 o'clock I bad adlso to Mount Vernon, to private life and do nieatlc felicity and. with a mind op pressed with more anxious snd pslu fill aenaatlous tbsn 1 bar words t express, set out for New York." Practically every step of th way It was a triumphal procession. If hla own aensatloua were painful thos of tbs country were ijult tbe opposite Scarcely had be got ouUlde of hla own private estate than tbe processions and feaatlng began. Kvery child knowa the story of that flower strewn Journwy and the Inauguration that followed. One of the prettiest dlaplays waa at Trenton. Here, where the great Amor lean general had achieved one of the moat brilliant aueeesaea of the war. the women of New Jersey had erected a triumphal arch, bearing this Inserlp tlou: "The Defender of the Mothers Will He tbe Protector of the Haugh tera." Along the way mothera and daughters, dreaaed In white, strewed flowera In the path aud aaug a soug written for the occasion. The Inauguration occurred on Thurs day, April it, tbe oath being admin tatered by Chancellor Livingston on th outside balcony of til Federal ball. BaHBBBsaaHBjBa -sj r.M I v IrrWlRV ' ft ' . JasHgJp Hit . v. i b i Bar VJBV-T1 l'JP " 1 la , ' 4 Ly!m3Lmkr M Tam ! -t " y8?a5v; iKl.aa1B.rtn r - lav i M' ta r; . Z' 4' I II aF wiisM liesptte this temporary cloud, Wash Ingtou waa yet held In Mel esteem by the American people that be waa ba Ing urged to accept a third term II felt, however, that he had aacrlficed enough and was determined to rettr to a well earned repose at Mount Vr uoti It was at this time that he Issued his coletuiitisl farewell address, which waa published In the Philadelphia Ad vertiser In September. I7IM. While this was the beginning of th powerful irmlltlon against a third term In the presidency. It la but Juat to any that Washington blmaelf mad no ar guments against a third term. He ei plained that his reasons for withdraw ing were erHoiial He would bar taken such a step earlier, but waa con vinced that It would have la-en against . ill. li. policy Now. however, that dif ficulty had la-en removed. Washington says "I rejoice that the state of your con eeriia. external aa well as Internal, no longer renders the pursuit of Inclina tion Incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety and am iiersuad ti, whatever partiality may be retain ed for my aervleea, that In tbe pres ent clrcuuiBtaneee of our country yoo will not dlsupprova of my determina tion to retire " As though the first president had a prophetic gllmaie of th furor. Um burden of the farewell address was an iiiginiicnt for union snd s warning against the Krlla of partlaan division aud passion, la th memorable closlug paragraph be said Though In reviewing tbe Incidents of my administration I am unconscious of Intentional error. I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think It probable that I have committed many errors Whaicicr they may be. I fervently la-secch the Almighty to avert or mitigate the trial to which they in.iy lend I shall aNo carry with me the hoa- that my country will uv- cease to Uec them with Indulgcnco sn. I that, afler forty In e years or Bjp life dedicated to Its service with up right Mil he faults of incompetent abllltlea will he consigned to olillxluu as myself must soou b to tbe man slims of rest " BotS his country aud the world have cvriiniiiy carried out tins wisb. WASHINGTON TAEIMU OATH OF OfflUE Broad and Wall street. Nw York. The United htatea aubtreaaury uow occupies this alte, and ou the broad portico of the building, at tb exact spot where tbe Father of Hi Country took tbe oath aa tbe Oral preaid.ut. there now stauds a noble statu of him. within a stones throw Is the famoua Nw York Htock Kxchang. The president was almost as reluc tant to enter a second term aa h had ts-eii tb first. Jefferson, bis scre- I tary of state, and Hamilton. ecrtary of tb treasury, Joined lo urging blm to accept. Widely as th two war divided personally aud politically, tbey I were united ou this point Ou additional embarrassment at about this time occurred In tbe death Of a nephew, George A Washington. who had been left lu cnarg at Mount Vernou The prealdeut feared that this would "cause my private concerns to suffer very much." Nevertheless be accepted. In tbe election be received every vote of tbe electoral college, aa before Hy tbla time tbe Beat of government bad been moved to Philadelphia, where tb sec mid Inaugural occurred I Hiring tbe second administration war waa declared between England and France, and the president aud bis advisers were accused of siding with England. This waa denounced by fn. mis of France as the rankest In gratitude, tu view of the services reu- I dered by Krauce to tbe American revo j lutluiilats Out of this situatlou grew I tbe bitterest attacka ever made on tbe first president. THE SHORTEST INAUGURAL Washington's Second Address Only 136 Words Long. Th first president waa never given to much ais-iiklng His tlrst Inaugural waa, however, of average length. 1 his waa delivered lu New York at tb very beginning of our national life under tbe constitution, and the occasion de manded a more extended utterauc than the Father of Ills Country waa wont to give Th aecoud Inaugural, delivered four years Ister In Phllmlel piila. waa more In Hue with hla custom aud was ex.eedlngly brief, only 135 words long, lu fact. It Is believed to b tb shortest ever delivered by au elected president Tb address follows tu full: "Fellow Cltlaena 1 am again culled usiu by the voice of my country to ex cute the function of Its chief magis trate When tin- occasion pioper f"r It shall ui 1 1 M: I shall cudeiiw.i presa the high sense 1 entertain of this distinguished honor aud of the (out) deuce which has been rJMkMs In mo by tbe people of united America. "Previous to the execution of sny oltlclal act of the prealdeut the constl tutlon faquirs an oath of office i ids oath I am uow about to take and lu your presence: Tbnt If It shall In; found during my administration of tbe gov ernment 1 have lu any inataiic vto luted willingly or knowingly the In Junctions theieof I may itH-slde.- In currlug constitutional i uolakaMOti bs sul.Jei t to the upbrnlding or nil Who sre now witnesses of the present sol emu cciciuony