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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1913)
5E wcoofq P-0 ffl bOOOCXXXXXXXMOOd bOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJ ooocococooocca I r I Advertising Rates : Display Ada, per issue, 60 cents per Inch; by the month, $1.60 per Inch. LecaL 16 cents per Hne one Insertion; 10 cents per line each additional insertion. Legal Notices, $1.00 per inch first insertion; 60 cents per inch each additional Insertion. Table or figure work, $1.60 per inch first insertion; 76 cents per Inch each additional Insertion. WE are confronted with an election that cannot cost the state less than $100,000 for the purpose of turning down untried decisions of the same voters made less than one year ago. An es tablished college doing good work in a beautiful and accessible lo cation, the pride of the state with REFERENDUM, TAXATION a nationaLjeputation for excellent AND A REMEDY results, at the behest of a dis gruntled and fanatical attorney, sore at the city of Eugene, the people of Oregon are compelled to spend thousands of dollars from which no possible benefit will be derived. The people of Oregon had plenty of time to investigate all of the laws that are to be voted on at this election and gave their de liberate judgment on them. Wherein have they failed since they have not been tried? Is the judgment of the people not to be relied on? If they fail now why not try again and thus indefinitely keep up the tur moil and continual waste of hard earned money. Suppose that the charge for the cost of the election should be put upon the signers pro rata and no election held until they came through with the estimated cost. Why should one who voted for a law once, be compelled to stand any portion of the cost for again registering his vote? If, Binco ho cast his ballot there has boen arguments that prove to him conclusively that he was wrong why should ha not pay the penalty for being foolish and put up pro rata for the expense of correcting the error? Again those who believe in propagating criminals and are more interested in this than they are in the improvement of the race should pay for the privilege. Those who registered their be lief should not be compelled to pay for re-registering it: Certainly not until it has had a fair trial. These continual expenses are beginning to have their effect and there will be a revulsion of feeling soon but it is to be hoped that it will not be delayed until all are impoverished. WHATEVER may be said for or against practical politics, all leaders should take off their hats to the Roosevelt-Pinchot-Munsey combine and carefully consider what they have accom plished and are now attempting to accomplish towards controlling votes in the next, and, or, any campaign. WILL THEY SEE THE That they were put on the National Com POLITICAL OBJECT mittee of the progressive party at the last electoral campaign, was a tribute to the intelligence of the woman's suffrage leaders, and an astute bid for their future influence. Medill McCormick, one of the committee, has an article on the subject in the September Delineator, which is a marvel of delicate flattery and a generous acknowledgment of their influence and practical knowledge of affairs of the moment. That the women are determined to deal with matters of the day and for the benefit of their posterity rather than to be con tinually harking back to the past for precedent, is evidence that the world is moving forward and that their encoachment into the political arena will be of benefit. The treatment of the delegation of suffragists at Washington upon their presentation of memorials asking for an amendment to the constitution to be submitted to the several states is another in dication that they are on the road to success. Woman's suffrage has come to stay and those states that are still hanging back better get into the band wagon. Meanwhile other parties may as well take note and follow the example of the Bull Moosers. "All roads lead to Rome." THERE has been numerous electrical storms accompanied with heavy rains that has wrecked the roads of Malheur county, accentuating the great difficulty in keeping roads in repair in a sparsely settled community. The law provides that of the tax levy 50 shall be spent in the district. ROADS, PEOPLE, AND Jordan Valley, for instance pays a 4 THE PEOPLE'S MONEY mill tax on $700,000 or $2,800 which gives them $1400 which shall be paid out for roads in that district. The other 50 goes into the general fund and may be used at the discretion of the county court. The large contributions to the fund come in the order of On tario, Vale and Nyssa and consequently they have more money than other districts. Under the system injustice may be done by diverting an excessive amount of the general fund to a favorite district and taking up the excess with the new tax levy from amounts raised the succeeding year. Again the county levy may be supplemented by money raised by an incorporated town and this amount properly expended will enable such town to have fine roads built at their own discretion. Ontario has done this and reaps a great reward by enabling would be purchasers to get into their town over good roads. Vale does not choose to do this and there are consequently complaints from outsiders and a diversion of trade to other places. Vale has still a large proportion of her 50 on hand and has also some of the worst roads in the county around her, from choice and not from necessity. The facts as to the present year are that the roads must be repaired and the loss sustained by the entire people. The people have no influence over the storm king and to say that its no use to repair the roads for a cloud burst will take them out again, h to say that no damage should be repaired because it will occur again; nothing would ever bo done on such a hypothesis. The different districts must get together and help directly and give all the assistance they ran to the county authorities. They have a right to jealously guard their own funds and to demand that the roads t re1 paired, but asking justice they should give justice In return. jffilatyeur (Enterprfee Published every Saturday, by.The Malheur Enterprise Publishing Co. JOHN R1GBY. Publisher and Proprietor VALE. OREGON. SATURDAY. AUGUST 16, 1913. THESE three are becoming inseparable and will soon go hand in hand through our fair land carrying poverty, sorrow and de struction to every community. Multiplicity of laws to relieve pov erty bring poverty upon us. In the course of time and, at the present rate of progress, those who TAXATION, LAWMAKING have success will have it taken from AND BANKRUPTCY them and opportunities for further gain will be gone, through the law making craze to legislate men honest, moral and virtuous. Engineer Lewis was pleased to compliment Malheur county on its activity, but insists that the legal complications over water re quire more legislation and better pay for those who may control its measurement. May the good Lord preserve us from either. On Willow River it will cost some $4000 to measure out water to a dozen farmers among whom there are some who don't get the water that is meas ured out to them. The board of control whose head sits at a dis tance and bids their satellites come and go at the expense of the county, who hire3 men and directs affairs in imitation of an an cient Persian satrap, without consultation with those on the ground conversant with the matter and needs, issues decrees they cannot enforce and would be unjust if they were enforced, causes litiga tion they were expected to prevent. Economy! What millions are gotten away with in thy name! $4,000 to measure water for less than 2,000 acres and those acres, many of them without water. As a matter of fact on the basis of 2,000acres Willow River would have to flow not less than 1,000 inches which is an absurd ity, for the board has no authority over the users nor the water of the Willow River Land and Irrigation Co. This $4,000 is a portion of the taxes paid by Malheur county. It is taken from the general fund, and property at Ontario, Jordan Valley, Vale, Nyssa and all over the county is assessed to the ex tent of over $4,000 to deliver water on less than 2,000 acres on Willow River. Can you beat it? JULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT, raised and educated in the railroad business by that arch railroad manipulator Colis P. Hunting ton of the Central Pacific, in "From Railroad Viewpoint," says: "When congress and state legislators squander millions, there is hardly passing comment. The money is FROM A LAYMANS easily obtained. It is raised by taxation." VIEWPOINT "The railroads, equally servants of the public, cannot raise money with such ease and efficiency. " True, is this, and the real truth is, that it is raised only upon the showing that the people can pay it back. The question of a bond issue on a railroad is one only of the people along the line being able to pay. The railroads, by their "public be damned" policy forced the government into the field to protect the people and prevent the railroads from confiscating all property in the country. There are roads managed much on the old principle mentioned above that will only take their hand from the throats of the people when the people rise in their wrath and compel it. Mr. Kruttschnitt says further; "American railways have spent $250,000,000 in equipping their locomotives and cars with automatic couplers and air brakes, which not only increase safty but relieve brakemen of the danger and labor of setting brakes by hand." An ingenuous statement: It took a determined stand by the unions backed by the power of the government to get this done and the people, not the roads, have paid, many times over, the cost. Mr. Kruttschnitt makes considerable complaint about govern mental interferance, not noting that the roads have forced the cumbersome state commissions and, in fact, all governmental in terferance, through their oppressive management and utter dis regard of the necessities or equities of the public they served. The Southern Pacific has been a model oppressor of their pub lic. They never did attempt a real reform until compelled to, and the old leven of Huntingtonism was passed on to Harriman and it will take at least a generation to rid some parts of our country with its results. RED, the color of our blood, that color that excites all animals. "Shake a red flag at a bull" is an ancient saying. Red is said by scientists to incite to violent action: The halls of mighty war riors are always represented to be hung with red. Socialists must choose some color and why not a RED FLAGS AND BLACK solid red? All flags but two have red as some portion of their color. Black, the absence of light, into the "black abysmal depths of nether hell." Night, whose black depths conceal the acts of the criminal. What more appropriate symbolic color could an I. W. W. have? One Barzee, a frequent contributor to the columns of the Ore gonian, argues on the subject of flags, at great length and with no purpose except possibly to be doing. No one cares a continental what color of flag any one of these proposed reforming associations carry as long as the stars and stripes are carried above them. Subserviency lo the flag of the country in which they are march ing should be compelled and when they march, be they what they will, instant action should be taken to compell the advancement of the stars and stripes. BURNS SOCIETY ITEM A streak of lightning aimed at the editor of Vale Enterprise glanced off his cheek nd struck the high school building, splitting the roof st one corner. -Ilsrney County News. The Harney County News U published in H um. jliril4 j, u fine town, poooocxxxicxxxoj( Subscription Rates: ONE YEAR, SIX MONTHS, Strictly in Advancb.1 i at f Via rvnat fifflra Vala n. Entered as secona-ciB iuvn - wnun, 12.00 1.00 THE laying of the corner stone of the new Examiner building in Los Angeles Monday, August 10, marked a date for the illU8. tration of the wonderful rapidity with which the western country has advanced and the tremendous strides made in modern journal- ism the past decade. But a few HEARST JOURNALISM decades ago and Los Angeles wai AND a village of mixed population the LOS ANGELES EXAMINER chief attraction of which was the old Jesuit missions. The discovery of its wonderful climate and adaptability to the production of cit rus fruits, gave the country its first grand start, which was aug. mented by the discovery of gold in the Pannamint mountains and completed by the discovery of the greatest oil field in America. This building, the largest in the world for the purpose, illus trates the growth of Hearst journalism. In 1878 George Hearst was in the Black Hills of Dakota laying the foundation of his colossal fortune with the development of the famous Homestake mine to be further augmented by large hold ings in the great Anaconda of Butte, developed in the 80's. George Hearst, at outs with the De Youngs, of the San Fran cisco Chronicle, purchased the Examiner and threatened to erect a a building from which, as he said, "he could throw his dead cats onto the Chronicle building;" then the tallest building in San Fran cisco. Upon the passing of the elder Hearst, his place was ably taken by William Randolph Hearst, who expanded by starting the New York Journal, followed by the Chicago American. Mr. Hearst, probably the greatest newspaper man in the world, an adept at combination and a determination to let nothing stand in the way of procuring the best newspaper talent in America, with a deep insight into the future of communities, established the Los Angeles Examiner, which has grown to be a power for good in that city. The Hearst papers, while disliked by some, are always for the people as against privilege. They are always ready with the news and never follow, but always lead. They are a power towards building up a community and are doing and will do, more for the improvement of Los Angeles than any other one influence. If the mountain must be removed they have faith to remove it. If Los Angeles has no harbor it will have one through the eternal staying power of the great publication about to construct the grandest newspaper home in the world. TNSTEAD of taking over the forest reserves, or fighting to take them oyer why could not the state re-forest sections 16 and 36 now remaining in their hands. Here would be an investment of funds from which our posterity would benefit so greatly as to take away some of the burdens of bonded FOREST RESERVES indebtedness that we are leaving them. AND THE STATE Thirty years of intelligent management would grow 30,000 feet to the acre of mer chantable timber which in thirty years will be worth $3.00 per thousand and the care after the first four or five years would be insignificant. The logged off lands, unfit for successful agriculture could be, repurchased by the state for a nominal sum and reserves made of them, or by some method of premium offered the owners might be induced to re-forest them. The $100,000 to be spent in a fool election this fall would pro duce something valuable were it diverted to this purpose instead of being used to assist a disgruntled citizen in revenging a fancied slight or a lot of reforming paranoics in advertising themselves at the expense of the people. COMMENTS. The condition of the roads in the county accentuates the need of government assistance as proposed by the Bourne law lately in troduced. Roads well built will be affected in only a few places by heavy storms. Promises anent railroad services on a branch line are to be taken with "a grain of salt." One day out of the week on time is pretty good for a cattle train carrying the mails. I Parcel post has come to stay and to be improved. The con scienceless express companies have got to use their brains and work for what they get It's a crime to think that these poor millionaires must think. Appearances indicate that the settler will get some consider ation from Secretary Lane. Its a good move and they need it. Nyssa papers still enthuse on the high line pumping plant. We hope they will get it started. It will do much towards helping Malheur county over the dull times. The dry land farmers will do something towards attracting attention to this country. Water is great but so is real farming. Every one should boost for the Willow Wood Stock Farm at Jamieson. Such enterprises as this are the real helps towards favorable notice. Winans Bros, are doing more to make Malheur county a well known country than are both the road companies with their mil lions. Folly Farm and Sunrise valley are to be congratulated. In commending the splendid edition of the Bend Bulletin, aight should not be lost that some of the commendation should go to the people of that section that so loyally support that paper. Jue Galloway will not grant naturalisation vr to an I. . W. ihs Judgs I right. America and th star and strlj -t-JP&-iQ a..