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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1915)
THE ONTARIO ARGUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 1915 THE JNTARIO ARGUS fftlrllUfMT KVBKY THUHHDAT Enteral in the tioMoflire Ht Ontario, Oregon, for Iraupmicpioa tlirongh the mails hx second -cIhh matter. W. C MARSH Kven tbi voters tl)emselvc8, in their most expanded ranks, help on the movement towards oligarchic, or bureaucratic rule, par- , ticularly when they take away from the inhahitants or towns the : right to regulate certain matters of traflic within their own hord- ers and confer it upon an autocratic commission, the member" of which may never have seen the town in question. This is not a strange phenomenon, for some of the most grinding tyrannies that ever oppressed a people wtre set up by popular vote. It is undoubtedly true that you cannot fool all the people all the tune, but you ciiii fool a sullicient number of them from time to time if you present tor their acceptance or rejection a large number of An Important Question. t An article by Professor Moses, one of the most distinguish ed men of today illustrates in a clear and disinterested manner that our government ha- reached a point where olliieialisni and A New Institution of Learning. A course of study in oup of the most practical and useful professions is now open to the young women of this district, since the school of nursing has been established in the Holy Rosary Hospital. No tuition is charged and pupils may enter at any time so that the opportunity can he embraced !v all. About three thousand dollars is spent every year for nursing in Ontario which has been paid mostly to outside nurses, now it will be paid to local nurse, which it ought to be. Another advantage this -cliool will bring is that girls wish ing instruction in nursing will not have to go to Boise, Portland, law- or ammendments to laws, eompU. -at. id, and far-reaching in' 80me owf qwu fop jt , , H(iverft, 9Uch Cft8e8 ,mve .I...:.. ..rff I ...-.:i : i . 1 l i . I. : 1 1 -.. i their effects, and written in the involved and technical language which few persons besides the courts have the ability to under stand thoroughly. "The extention of the suffrage, the referendum and the recall are designed to maintain equality how otherwise may it be maintained " " be was asked. "The quality you are thinking of," replied Professor Moses, "can be maintained, 1 fancy, only under conditions that do not admit of social progress. The inhabitants of some of the mount occured and much useless expense bai been incurred, is to be congratulated on this educational institution. Ontario regulation arc -lowly but surely leading us toward an oligarchic ami bureaucratic rule where private initiative will le discouraged, lain canyons of Switzerland maintain a good degree of equality. As free American oitiKcus do we want this Btate of affairs' Wei No one can hecoine rich. And all have about the same amounts do not. (Government regulation and control have run wild for of property and essentially the same occupation. If they had the past ten years until today private cupital and enterprise are i more abundant opportunities, some would become richer than the afraid, hense the decline in our industrial activity and the result ant army of unemployed men and women. The intelligence of the American people is unlimited and they will correct this state of affairs as soon as they are fully aware of it. The time has ar rived when the public should he informed on these matters and we should all take down our school history and read over once again the constitution of the United States so that we can intelle gently try lo get back to the fundcmeutal principle of our gov ernment. In other words a government of the offloe holders for the ollice holders and by the otlice holders should be relegated to a hack shelf. I'Vw men in thll country are better qualified to talk 00 all that pertains to government than l'rofe--oi M., . -. I'm ( hise on to forty year- he held the chair of political sciences and histor in the 1'nivcr-it y of California. As one of a notable com mis-inn. when the Pliillipinti became a United States possession, he was i,t to establish there a civil government, with .fudge W. II. Taft, who wii- to become president of the 1'iiited States, as chairman Of the commission. Between the year of 1906 and 1010 be was sent to South America on affaii ol talc as minister Plenipoten 1 1 1 1 1 . ac member of the American Hoiontiflo CongreM, Hantiago de Chile, and a- delegate o! the International Couferenos of American Btatee al Buenoi Ayree, In between he found limi lo Contribute aoienlifl article! to the leading magazines, and to wnie mil notable treati aa "Federal Government in Switzer land, " "Democracy and Social Growth of America," "The Eetah liehment of Spanish Rule in America," "The Railsay Revolution in Mexico," "The Betabliahment of Municipal Government in Sin Kratiolseo," "South America on the Eve ol Emancipation1 "The Government ol the United states." lie has just oomph ted his greatest and latest work, "The Spanish Dependencies in South America." "All my Hie," said Professor Moses, "has been devoted 1 0 CO quiring accuracy. The least inaccuracy in iioting me inflicts an injury exactly as a physical wound. Your roqOOtt for an opinion i pecting the tendency ol DUblio affairs in California iscmharas sing. Knowing little about the happenings in California, during my recent i ,ii of choCUM abroad, of OOUrie, I w.i- naturally more Of less shocked 00 arriving in New York City to hear per son peaking ahoul California a being even more radical than populiltio Oklahoma. Their notion teemed to he that in attemp ting to bring about a larger no. e-ui c ii equality California waa to he ruled bj an arislm ia. y, or an oligarchy of comini "We must not mistake popular government for representat ive government. The makers of the government ol ths United States bad the reasonable idea ol constructing a government in which the laWS lilOUld be made bj ilitellegent person.- Belootod no thai purpose bj their fellow citixens, In departing from that plan, we run the nsk ol substituting toe commission government lor a representative government. The e ii- ol itch i change ill not be manifeel al first, it will only make its appearanoo 11 the commission should be appointed by some powei not the people Then it will develope us real bureauoratio oharaoter, Popular government may defeat Iteell like a machine in which the Iriotion counteracts all the power thai is applied to it. Whenever the machinery ol government becomei oumberaomci or diHioull to operate, by rcaSOU of elaborate and rOUUdaboul luethod.s, and the unwieldy niultitude of persons involved in its activity, by doubling the number ol voter.-, as with women s uf- lraget without raising the average political intelligence and by frequent appeal- to the whole body oi the people lor the decision of important and fur reaching qUCStione, as in this last election, where you say the people were expeotod to vole on some forty eight propositions, couched m involved and highly legal terms, and any one of which w.i.- a task for I Specialist, the social frict ion of the government has reached a point wheic in the COUIM ol time a modification of the method of operating will he found to be necessary. "An early Step In this modification will be a decline iii the es timate of the BigniUcaUCe Or importance of the popular VOit, Al ready not onlv here, but also in other part of the Uepubhc, there is manifest a desire to remove the vital ami practical operations of government farther than ever before from the great body of the citiens. This is illustrated not only in commission. governed cities, but also in commission governed transportation and COUltnisioU - governed bank-. You state that the Railroad Com- missiou includes within its jurisdiction all public utility oorpor atious ol gaSj light) power and street railway "Tin- movement i.- undoubtedly III the line of greater eihcien v but i( doe--not lead towttt - that ideal democracy, which is laid U I i i ud sought it lation ol thi - ut rest, and with their richct would come different occupations, bet ter opportunities for education, and a style of living that the rest could not afford. Social inequality is an incident of progress, and cannot he eliminated from social growth. Hog; Business in Peril. From figures recently compiled at the Portland Union Stock yards, it would appear that unless there is a radical change on the part of the farmers in the handling of the hog business, in a short time Oregon will be right back in the position occupied a few years ago almost no breeding stock on hand, record break ing prices in the local market on account of the inevitable short age of supply and another hurry call on the Middle West for brood sows to restock the empty pen. A 1 1 1 this deplorable- con dition is being brought about by the proseut abnormally high j price of wheat, and also by the fact that a large number of hog raieori throughout the State neglect to grow the necessary feed on which to finish their crop of pork and on which the surplus stock can he economically carried through the winter. During a period of seven consecutive day . euding the past week, 12,000 hogs were received at the Portland yards, only a I small percentage ol which were really lit lor killing, the balance apparently having Keen -hipped to avoid the I xpense of carrying i tin in until spring. The certain result " these excessive ship ments will be a ruinous falling off in value-, a wiping out of the hog surplus of last pall. Oregon so and climate is suited to the production of corn, held bOei and alfalfa, all ol whioh are splendid hog feed, and until the fanner plants more cxten-ively of these crop- ami thus make- himself independent of outside a--lietanoCi the hog industry will he at the mercy of any influence which may effect the prices of wheat ami other grains in the Northwest, The Real Economy Program. The big reform bills to reduce overhead expenses half a mil lion were introduced last week at Salem. There are live big measures to consolidate boards and com missions and abolish useless functions. One of these bills will consolidate all the medical boards and commissions and State Board of Health. Another is to put all the domestic animal ami live stock in spection hoards under one head animal industry. Six hoards of regents and commissions dealing with bighct education are to be consolidated into one Board of Kducation. These bills are backed by a joint committee on consolidation measures, headed by Speaker Selling and President Thompson. Railroads Must Now Help Iocal Territory. A new policy in regard to interior developement bv the tranu I 'ontiuental railroads may he expected. Heretofore the policy of thii railroad- has been to build Up the terminal- -o as to insure good freight traffic across the continent. The interior point were left lo work OUt their own development and coiiseijuently W( oil the OOaetS far In advance of thi1 interior. Of course it is natural that the OOMtS should he somewhat farther ahead than the interior but as it is now the interior has been neglected lo I great degree, Now a new condition confronts the railroads. Bind the opening of the Panama canal, freight from coast to coast has been going that way. It was always known that it would be cheaper to ship by water as watei 1 1 an-portattoij is the cheapest in the world. But that it would he a saving of time also was never ex pei ted, but BUCh il the case and the OOttOeqUenOO is that the rail roads have loot most of their transcontinental freight traffic, Now in order to make up for this deficiency the railroads will have to reveres their policy of building up the terminals instead Of the interior. Their source of revenue from now on will be the interior and SO their policy will he to develop the interior. Thev will loetei and encourage new Industrie-, develope new districts, build feeders to their main lines and CnCOUragC colonization. The developement in the next ton years should surpass that of the last fifty. How to Help Industries. (Commwiosisd, ) Some politicians can think of nothing but passing new labor laws, or taxing banks or corporations or industries. Some can think of nothing but appropriations for boards and commissions, and creation of new offices by law. The State Mining Bureau and Geologioal Survey wants 60, 000 and that would not be so bad if industries resulted, l'uit with the Blus Sky Law hampering mining operations, and refusal of the State to OSS Oregon stone 00 public buildings, what is the use " If the architect and State hoards in charge of public work would co-operate ami help use Oregon building material, the in vestment of A0,000 in a State mining bureau might not he so had. There is no co-operation ou the part of officials lo boost Ore gon industries when public money is expended, hut they all co operate when it conies to boosting appropriations. 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