THURSDAY, BBPTEWBHR T, If Iff THE ONTARIO ARGUS (Established 1896) First Showing of Millinery, Dresses, Waists, Skirts and Dress Goods Something new coming in every day and placed on display. Let BOYER BROS. & CO. help outfit the boys and girls now, with the right kind of clothes for school. MO K. AIKKN. Kditor and Publisher Published Thursdays at Ontario, Oregon nnd entered at the Ontario post office for distribution as 2nd class matter SUBSCRIPTIONS: $1.00 Three Months .60 Single copies One year Six Months $ .35 .05 the Ontario arqus NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS: AH copy for dispiay tdvartklng iboold be at this office by Wednesday noon. To insure position copy should be in this office on Tuesday. RKPl'MJCAN ('ANDIDATRH: For president Marlon Evans Hughe. Vic President -Charlea Warren Fairbanks Representative In congress N. J. Innott. Secretary of Stale Ben W. Olcott. Justice of the Supreme Court George II. Ilurnett, Frank A. Moore Dairy and food commissioner John I) Mlckle. Commissioner of public aervlce -H H. i.M-y State aenator Jullen A. Hurley. Repreaentatlve Charlea M. (ran tell. District Attorney Itobert M. Dun can Sheriff Emory Cole. County Clerk V. It Stapler County asaeaaor L. E. Hill. County treaaurer C. C. Mueller. County aurreyor James K. Mil tor. County rommlsalonar J. K. Wea ver. i i unity School Superintendent Eat c I la Conklln. JuHtlce of the Peace 0 L King ConNtuble J II Dcnlson. TIIK PI III. K S LOSS. Will the settlement of tin' tjireiit eiinl rallroHtl Ntrlke ax out llnt'tl In the AiliuiiHon hill to proe a perma nent mil ut Ion '.' Ik the cjut-Ht lent imitat ion tin' iiiIihIk of business nii'ii and the pulillc generally tlMM duya. It la ninaiK.il.il-. too, how general is the opinion t hut the AiIuiiihoii hill Will prove unsatisfactory to hoth purlieu to the recent wage coulrover ay. There can he no ilouht that the leaders of tin- tour ,rcHt brother IiooiIh Injured the cause of their fol lower by their precipitate calling of i in' alrlke while negotiations were till pending for a aeltlement even i ho It waa manifestly uullkely that auch a reault could be reached The public la accepting the poiiltlou that In calling the atrlke, aa thay did, tha leaders of the men coerced congress into the pussage of a meuKure which, in apirit, It doeH not approve and which will rise some day to haunt It Whether by great captains of in duatry or by capttans of labor, the people do not rellHh the Idea of hav ing the representatives in congress bullied Into the pannage of cIuhh leg lalatlon. Thia Adamaou bill la In deed if not In law. claKh legiHlatiou for It define tin- li-ngth of time one claaa of men In Interatate commerce ball work, and ouly one. The AiIuiiihoii hill goo. further In the regulation of a great indiiHlry lli.iu rteii thi musi rudlrul adherent of the ili'inoi rulic purly conlil huve h iMini-il tin ii'.iu ago. ami what ik the reault? Tha gowrniiient ihuhi aa the result ot this hill throw open tin' doors fur luiliscriiiiiule rise in i .uli ,1,1,1 raits all down I In' Hue. Ill' giiMTiinnnl thru staluli' .iml court ileclhloiiH u,h I'liiiiiciated the principle tiiai a railroad is Mtltlad in earn seen per MM on its present Valilallun vv II limit respet I to tin- rap Hal niM'.-tiil Now it lias said to the i'iiiilu.ii s nf these coniians, 'you cannot work more than eight hours hut ou must he paid tnr leu hours Since the railroads could make but wini ier cent with the men winking in hours, the i.Ui must he raise, I it the new onler is tu he uhe eil Whole will tin.-, end'' Nexl Hie of floe employees, the section men, the bop employes ami other railroad lllell will eek Ine eight hour ,1,1 and it the engineers ami firemen are entilleil to It, these men are more entitled to consideration. With each reduction in hours ol service there will he a new rise iu rates and the general public will pat the lulls and It will be a general public that la not given court assiir auce that H may earn seven peraeut on Its intestine in either. While there i mi ilesire extant for a great railroad strike it might have been better In have had the trlke this week ami have it hut with It ik tune that there lie a .show down to see who is running this country. Hie four brothel 'hoods he.uN or the week-kneed congressmen who are candidates for reelection and feared to vote their honeat convic tions lest they lose a few rotes at the polls IS TIIK DM Tl UMNO? A haa been generally predieted the hitherto neutral, or apparently neutral, Halkan states have evacu ated their undesirable position and are getting into "the game." For the paat two years men who have been following the trend of popular opinion in Rumania and Greece have declared that they were but waiting to see on the standard of which of the contending groups, the falcon of victory waa to light. If this Is the rase .then the gamblers who have been backing (he entente allies may start to collect their beta. That the ultimate victory will rent with the entente allies has Inen the general belief ever alnce Von Kluck was turned hack at the Marne Then, ami only then did Germany and her allies have an opportunity to win. Germany waa prepared. France, was only partially prepared, while Kng land waa almost helpless ho far aa land forces were concerned If Ger many could not win with her prepar ation opposed to iinpreparednesH then how could she win iigulnst num in. ,ilh superior foes equally pre pareil However, tho she his German) haa demons! rated a marvelous super iorlty. to the allien, In inuny ways The world haa never Keen audi ef ficiency and the leaaona of this war demoiialrallng aa they do what the German people can accompllah when united will serve for years aa an ex ample to (he world It may mean that to com hat thia efficient Germau ayatem that a semi socialistic ayatetn. auch aa uow employed In England will have to be continued ao that there will be no lost energy among her competitors for the world's lr m - a, ..,. J ONTARIO B fml OWEGON J IV I:PIITMKT HTOItK There's a reason If never before why you should Ttalt thia store often this season. You want the right materials, the right colorings, the correct styles, the right price. Thia season you will find them hard to find in many places, but you will find we have what you want at this store with a less price than in many largo city stores. Why! Because of our personal Interest In our own store, our own community, our buyers have never work ed ao hard to get together complete lines for the fall season ai they have this year and which are now being placed on dlaplay from day to day. Mjl ONTARIO (LMW fml QHtcoNj IV DKIWHTMKAT HTOItK, viewpoint of the teacher, realising history of the district. Such an ob that the taak of directing the active ' Jecl is worthy of sttainment. young minds Is one that Is wearying on hoth the nerves and body. The summer's experience should, and to many no doubt will, dull the apirit of criticism which too often injures the work of the public schools It will he to the Immense advantage of both the teachers and pupils If the parents of pupils In the scIiooIh take an active Interest In the work which la being accomplished and en deavor by a ahow of that Interest to incite the boya and girls to greater efforts. It will not require a great deal of that co-operation to make the present school year the most Hurceasful In the The best teacher is that one who Inspires In the pupil a love for the subject taught. Given a liking for a subject the boy or girl will eek: further knowledge without much ur-j ging. It doea little good to tell them ao, but the boya and girls of Ontario who are starting achool thia week are to be envied. From 9 a tn to 4 p m. with an hour and a half off for lunch ia even leas than an eight hour day. Malheur County Woolgrowern and Thane Who Want Woolgrawera to Prorp r Read and Think ItKI IHIM. aiiiiionn III these daya when wealth lends respectability, or ia generally ton ceded to attach a mertain amount of that generally desired commodity, it Ik decidedly unusual to hear of any one refusing auch a sum aa f 100.000 whin the amount la offered for his aervlcea. Yet that la exactly what Charles K Hughes did And he didn't wait until he waa a candidate for president lie did this while he waa a Justice of the supreme court and years before lie was even lueniioiied for president Here are the facta: When Joseph Pulitzer, the great New York publisher, wrote his will he looked oter the entire field of America for trustees who would ad minister fairly, Judiciously ami H pertly the great property which he planned to heiueath in (rust to his helra He named Charles F.vuns Hughes, then a liiellihcl nl tin- I 11 It ed Si.iii-s supreme court, and fixed $100,000 as his compensation Justice Hughes declined the r,.n mission .mil the fee So great an amount lor an east joh was no temp tation to a man who hud high i.h-.il-for himself as a judge and for others ami who lived up to them Such a men is the nominee of the republican parly for presiilent Cot inte Sentinel Nothing could more completely demonstrate the falacy of the demo cratic tariff policy or ita Injurious effect on Oregon cltitena than the following news atory clipped from the newa minimis of June , 1913. ahortly after the passage of the pres ent I uderwood tariff. Thia abould aerve to remind Mal heur county cltitena ot the condition of the wool market iu 1913 prior to the war and cause them to ponder, whether or urn when the war reuses they wish tins coudllion to be re peated The following ia the news atery: At the present low price at which wool la selling In this .late, owlug to the democratic free trade bill, the Oregon growers are receiving from 7 to 10 cents a pound leaa than they would under a protective tariff law The prices at the 1913 public sales are within about -' cents of the 1912 ing "t having free wool. Such he llefs as liiese, however, will receive a Hide awakening, for all the wool in .nit all-wool ault of clothes in your slate did not bring the wool grower more than $2 00, and the average wool In an all-wool ault doea not bring the wool grower $1 75 If I remember correctly, your wool laat year sold at i cents per pound, and If you use 10 pounds of thia wool In making a suit, the wool In the suit would only have amounted to $1.(5. Therefore, the talk of cheaper clothing because of free wool In nonsense, and moat people here recognise that It ia nonaenae. Any way, the people do not wear raw wool. Clothing la made out of fin in d cloth, and these democrats have not put cloth on the free list. In the new democratic bill the duty on cloth made out of wool or mohair rangea from 36 to 50 per cent; If made out ot cotton, the duly is aa prlcea, but the woola thia year are ' ,.,,, .. . . .., . ,.,,. ou, . ... ----- . . - ilk the duty runs up to 50 per cent of 10 to 1 i pii lent lighter shrink age than laat season, and thia makes the price from four to five centa lesa The foreign marketa are now about three cents higher than a year ago Therefore, the sheepmen are loalng from seven to ten centa on every pound of wool they produce, because of the I'nderwood hill All thia new bill doea is to take away from Oregon $4,400,000 on its wool, and Irausfera It to a lot of jobbers and middlemen down east here We Pay More. "Now while thia bill places your Hr S V Mci'lure. secretary of the wool, mutton and sheep hides on the1 National Wool Growers' Association. I free list, it also places high dutieaj tthn i uow iu Washington, ! C, on everything you buy Since most writes to one of the leading wool of the products that Oregon buya are growers of PUol Hock, Ore., aa fob made In the east, I am wondering if Iowa I ,oti ll.ii High Abroad 1 am just receiving i epulis from thia ia going to prove much of u hen-: efit to your slate Your sheep are branded with lamp black and linseed Oregon wool salea, showing the pricea oil; the duty ou lamp black will be limn twn to tour cents per pound be ' 15 per cent, on linseed oil 12 centa lots last yeur, while the reports I get 1 1 mil London show the foreign price to be two to three cents a pound above lust year. The low prices in Oregon are due entirely to tin n,i per gallon. Your wool ia tied with paper twine and sacked in Jute bags; the duty on twine will be 25 per cent, and ou sucks 25 per cent If ou buy u hut, the duty Ia 40 per V TIO. KOIt MOTH Kits With the opening of school for the tall and winter term Una week many Oatajrk) mothers, ale no doubt exer cising their sides with sighs of relief Tins is natural, for the noise of health) aclite children, together mth the inter ending stream of uuestious which they pour forth la enough to tire out the most robuat. And there is no escape from the ordeal until "school starts.'' Having passed thru u summer of perpetual queatiouiug the parents ,,f au city should he in an excellent lame of in i ii 1 to in operate with the school authorities and teachers They should he ready uud willing to look at (he hot ami girl problem from the wool bill now in congress, for hud it cent; on a pair of gloves 40 per aj m , not been for this, your wool growers on a fur coat 50 per cent, on collars would huve received from two to ' and cuffa 30 per cent . on a silk hand three centa more than they did last kerchief 50 per cent; on u mohair year This free wool bill ia going to foat 50 per cent; on u shoddy over- Loss .', I nils I'er round. cost the state of Oregon about five and one-half cents on each pound of wool produced in your state. Ore gon will, therefore, lose annually about $1,100,000, and in four years. for that is a.s long aa this measure will laat, your state will have lost the neat sum of $4,400,000 ou wool alone to say nothing of the loss that will reault by reason of the fact that maiit men will have gone out of1 forks bulm as ' One might look ou this loss with less apprehension if Oregon stood to gain anything by it 1 know tour people have been led to believe that ihet are going to get cheaper cloth coat 35 per cent; on ati Axinnister carpet 50 per cent; on a pair of sus pended 35 per cent: ou a piece of oilcloth 3 5 per cent, on lace cur talna 45 per cent; on a pair of cotton gloves 60 per ceut; on tobacco from 35 cents to $4 50 per peund: on corduroy pants 40 per cent; on a pair of nippers 30 per cent; on an automobile 45 per cent; on an um brella 35 per cent: on knives ami 35 per ceut. shot guns audi titles 35 per cent; rice 48 cents! tier bushel, butter I cents per pound; leather glovea 40 per cent; harneaa and saddles 20 per ceut. Then, on i Continued on page eight) Bartlett Pears It is no longer tutetwuf for the lins'wivcH of Ontario to worry alimit fruit FRUIT FOR THE TABLE FRUIT FOR CANNING FRUIT FOR PRESERVES W? iirc now r lying eacb day nir-c, lium Bart lett Pears just right for canning, Alberta Peaches About September lOtfa wt will reoeive i liun sliipiiiciit ot Mjiclif.s from BrojjHii. (live us your onler how um be pNptvsd. No long waita-No short weights All ofdera delivered right on the dot. WILSON BROTHERS GROCERS THE UNIVERSAL CAR NEW PRICES AUGUST 1, 1916 Tha following priest for Ford ears will be effective on ami after Auguii 1st, 1 5l : Runabout .... $345.00 Touring Car 360.00 Coupelet 505.00 Town Car 595.00 Sedan 645.00 f. o. b. Detroit These priest arc positively guaranted against any reduction before August 1st, U17, but there is no guarantee against an advance in priee at anv time. FORD OARAGE Ontario, Oregon ,! V Cm f mmWmmm hi i .