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THE conservative Boston paper that, about a year ago,
claimed no possible way for the settlement of the Panama
canal tolls question could be found other than in the the repeal
- . of that clause which gave Ameri-
ASLEEP AT THE HELM. can coasting ships remission of the
'tolls, has now found another and
extremely rational method to settle the dispute:
"There is' a way out of the canal toll contro
versy which will end overseas resentment and .at the
same time not involve national retreat, and that is
by collecting a uniform rate from vessels of all
nations. If the United States will ' compute all the
tonnage of the Panama canal and apportion the. rate
to all nations who use it, no one can then dispute the
right of the United States to permit her own ships to
have free use of the canal. The United States must
settle for the maintenance from her own treasury,
and the exemptions granted United States ships must
come after a computation of all tonnage, includ
ing that of the United States, has been given a pro
rata charge." ,
We take great pleasure in citing for the benefit of these conser
vatives that this is precisely what was done when the charge per
tt n was made. Senator O'Gorman showed in his speech, giving
Uie figures and explicitly setting forth that for this . reason
England had no ground to complain unless she should should
''laim the right to protest against all of our internal policies.
England and Canada do claim to the right to dictate to us
our transportation policies because of the close international
relationship of the Canadian Pacific railroad to our transcon
tinental business. England claims the right to interfere any
where and everywhere and of course will exercise that right
unless gently, but firmly, pleaded with.
Three battleships a year, a few destroyers and flying bomb
slingers, until they cry, enough, is the only arbiter. While the
dove of peace is hatching, while the Mexican war-dogs are bark
ing while the Japanese are building, let us join in the great game
with the certain assurance that plenty of warships, guns and
ammunition will cause the gaunt specter of war to pass us by.
Meanwhile the tolls question seems to be satisfactorily settled,
and, as this paper said about a year ago, there is nothing to
arbitrate and nothing to quarrel about England, however,
should worry arid build a canal of her own.
T HE wise and beneficent lawmakers in congress assembled
through a discriminating and unfair tariff handed the
farmers a gold brick. Having had the good fortune to hold
their own in one or two of the late elections they considered
that the people liked
GOLD BRICKS FOR THE FARMER gold bricks and have now
handed them another.
The currency bill provides that banks may make long time
loans with a small percentage of their capital to farmers on their
land. Meanwhile they compel the country bank to put up 6
per cent of their capital as capital for the regional reserve bank.
Thus . preventing that much from earning anything on long or
short time.
.; Country banks cannot loan money on long time now,
not only because of the law, but because they have no money to
loan on long time to farmers or anyone else. All western country
banks can loan more money on short time than they can get to
loan, and along comes a democratic currency bill that takes away
a portion of their now limited capital and then says you may loan
to farmers on long time a small proportion of your money.
Nothing but earthquakes, volcanic eruption or a panic will
do any good!
L.ESE MAJESTJE brings forth a reprimand from His Majesty
;( of t the White House and that will suffice for this time.
Next time the Bastile or worse.
The press and all citizens are warned by this act that com
ments unfavorable to the
VIVA LE ROI ! administration and its pol-
DOWN WITH THE CARABAOS ! icies will not be allowed to
go unnoticed. What! Com
ment derisively on the acts of the great professor who has been
elected King of America and Intervenor Extraordinary to the
Mexican Republic and Keeper of the Dove of Peace?
Go to! Note the result when there is any comment made
by someone that his majesty can get at, get to, hit, smash, jam,
jab on the solar plexus! They shall be reprimanded and struck
real hard oh the left wrist, nearest the heart.
It s a dangerous thing for one of the navy to make fun of
the reckless policy of manana which Prof. Wilson and Lecturer
Bryan support. Huerta can tell about this: Huerta, that is
served with a new ultimatum every day, just as a Waldorf guest
is served with grape fruit, and just as sour.
The professor is right. The policies of the administration
are no joke. Those who are now smiling and commenting will
soon reali2e that their smiles are turning to tears. The vast
army of income tax collectors will be unable to collect enough
to pay their salaries. The tariff collections will continue to de
crease as no one will have money to buy with. The banks will
be unable to supply funds for business except in the regional cen
ters and the government presses will break down under the
load of producing fiat money fast enough for the expanding de
mand. ; Sugar beeta will find their way into the channels of trade
alongside of warehouse receipts for rutabagas and radishes and
cold storage eggs. Good times are coming but you must not make
fun of the administration. Bold Knights of Carabao, beware'
beware !
QTANDING in with the Morgan interests, who made him a
J miUionaire and upon their recommendation ostensibly
quitting their fold that the people might be more easily deceived
and plundered through the manipulations of their stocks, and
THE WRECKER, ALIAS THE PLUN- IV
DERER, ALIAS GEO. W. PERKINS fictitious luVitie, upon
i r vj in t. tno unsuspecting and
delved public, it now .Ppw. on the surface a, though aome
trad, had been made whereby the wrecking of th rmubliea
party eUrted in 1912 m to continued J, I9W tyTt aiJh
Jfflalfieur (Enterprise
Published every Saturday, by The Malheur Enterprise Publishing Co.
.... JOHN RIGBY. Publisher and Proprietor
VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 3, 1914.
ONE YEAR,
SIX MONTHS,
Subscription Rates:
Strictly in Advance.!
Entered aa second-class matter at the post office, Vale, Orego '
wrecker and plunderers' tool, Geo. W. Perkins.
Mr. Perkins comes out with a progressive propaganda from
the Munsey building in Washington full of past acts and pro
- phetic might have beens. "Roosevelt would surely have been
' elected," says this prognosticator of past events, "the republican
party is responsible for the present hard times, because it re
. fused to let Roosevelt steal the nomination," is the meaning of
the abracadabra which Mr. Perkins puts forth with madly
waving arms and swinging tongue.
"The republicans are shouting hard times and the wish is
father to the thought," goes on this great leader of the plun
derbund. "No one," says Mr. Perkins, "regrets more deeply than
do I the deplorable state of political affairs in this country at the
present time, but the fight must go on it's a question of prin
cipleof morals and cannot be compromised."
Deplorable indeed, and the only real solution of the terrible
condition would be the nomination of Roosevelt and Perkins.
Says Mr. Perkins "They (the republicans assembled in
Washington) believe that if the unfortunate condition of the
country continues they, the republicans, will be elected to power
at the next election the proposition is one of the most brazen
and monstrous that has ever been presented to the American
voters " and so on and so forth.
Well, well. Wicked men. Knowing from bitter experience
just what is coming they are preparing to take advantage of it
and put the country back into the hands of those who have con
ducted the people to the greatest material prosperity the world
has ever seen. How on the other hand, my dear George, if the
. democrats be right, if their policies prove correct, if there is no
panic, no hard times, if the present stringency is only a tempor
ary condition occasioned by the transition from one policy to
another? What then shall it do, poor thing? What occasion
then for the loud shouting progressive conversationists (also con
servationists) ?
If they are right why bother about the Rooseveltians and
their stake-holder Perkins, better let the democrats have the
sway for a while longer, had we not?
If they are wrong, having taken the road opposite to the
road that has been followed to prosperity, what use have we for
the aforesaid P. C.'s? Why not put the party back into power
that has fought for a prosperous nation? Progressives are
eliminated from either horn of the dilemma.
George and Gifford are getting their foot, both feet, in
their mouths every time they open them and they are open
most of the time.
Mr. Perkins quotes Col. Carter's famous note illustrating
the republican action at New York a short time since. "As
soon as possible after date I promise to pay to my beloved niece
as much as I can afford, for value received."
The progressive letters remind us of Col. T's time check
which the Irishman described as "A piece of paper with a few
scattering remarks on its surface and signed Col. C. W. T."
TUST passed is the most glorious day of the human world:
The new year day. The one day of all when humanity
casts off the ills and sins of the past and puts on a new clean robe
of good resolutions. The kind that it is supposed hell is paved
with. If there is any hell,
" NOW THE NEW YEAR the good resolutions would
REVIVING OLD DESIRES" make good paving for it.
They ought to be good for
something and they seem to be but little good for anything else.
Glancing back over the past 365 days we seek to find
something we have done that is lasting and behold it is not.
Each day's endeavors have been covered with the dust of indif
ference, if not of mis-directed effort.
That which we have deemed good, that which we deemed
of the best, that which swelled our heart with joy and our
head with pride, behold it is ashes and is "blown with restless
violence round about the pendant world."
The day has been full of joyous resolutions by the resting
democrats, resolutions to continue in the good work of destroy
ing illegitimate business and preventing the telephone com
panies from lowering their absurdly high rates. They have
carefully studied the situation and concluded that the most
noise can be made by attacking these companies who are about
to beat them to it by lowering their own rates; and noise
is what counts nowadays.
Our own governor joins in the everlasting noise that wins
votes; (perhaps). He talks about $50,000 to put 9,000 men to
work, not permitting the fact to crop out that $50,000 would
last less than six days at a dollar a day. But we were talking
about resolutions: Like Old Rip we will take one more and
swear off. We have concluded not to lie (more than is necessary
to be polite); not to steal anything (that is nailed down) ; not
to quarrel with Ontario (only occasionally) ; not to find fault
with the railroad company (that is, not often) ; not to converse
in a loud tone about townsite booms; not to find fault because
pwple don't advertise (perhaps they cannot make good) ; in fact
,we are going to be a helover good fellow and take after Faul
conbndge (if someone don't take after us first) ;
"And why rail I on this commodity?
But for because he hath not woo'd me yet;
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,
When his fair angels would salute my palm;
But for my hand as unattempted yet,'
Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
ell, whiles I am a beggar I will rail,
And say, There is no sin, but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be,
To say There is no vice but beggary;
Since kings break faith upon commodity.
Gain be my lord; for I will worship thee !
Meanwhile, progressive charlatans and Pinchot-Roose-velt
conservation conversationalists will turn over a new leaf
and read us the same story from the blank pages of their well-'
to otrice. (I . S. : It a blankety, blank book all right!)
v. in 9yvn we wisn a11 u haIW prosperous New
hey will make five year loan to country paper. If they will
InUrot will I no ,,,j-t (to the paper). '
I
N another page of this issue will be found a letter froj
Chas. Coopey, being tne substance oi a paper read byitf
Coopey before the wool growers' convention assembled in p0r
land last month. Another item will be found giving the ne,!
that that one of MaJheJ
AT LAST WE KNOW THE CAUSE county's largest groe
has just disposed of U
last season's clip for ten cents per pound less one per centj
for tags. Prof. Thos. Shaw, in the Chicago Interocean,, fa
some more reasons for the depletion of the sheep industry.
It has been well known that there were other causes that'
in connection with the tariff tended to keep the price of veoof
down below its real value, ui course witn wool selling at U :
cents and an 11 cent tariff it was by no means expected thai
wool would drop the entire 11 cents. But every item haa
its due effect. The manufacturer takes advantage of the tariff
cut to press the price a little lower, just another point or two thai'
will just let the grower live. J
Mr. Coopey is a strenuous fighter for that which will take
the wool man entirely out of all danger of tariff and other'
changes. That is, a pure fabric law, that will compel manufat1
turers to mark the make-up of their cloth. This will put cheajS
goods and expensive goods on their merit. It will In no war
reduce the price of first class goods nor will it cheapen cheap"
goods, but it will permit the purchaser to get what he pays for,
If he desires a cheap suit he will get just what he asks for
and the man desiring a better grade will know just what he il
Knvinir Pure Orporm wnnl will hp vircin wool from the kIipot'i
-- - - w - r
back, and shoddy will cease to masquerade as Oregon wool, j
Prof. Shaw has found that dogs destroy so many sheej'
that the numbers of sheep kept by farmers has gone steadily1
down for many years. Not thoroughbred dogs, either, ha',
vagrant dogs that lie in darkness all day and at night steal'
forth to hold a carnival of destruction. The old story of tin
wolf that concealed himself in the skin of the shepherd dog mnt
be a myth.
These wicked dogs of corporate cities lie around on tin
curb all day and in huge packs seek the bands of sheep andd
stroy them ere morn. Says this wise man of the sheep ranges::
"This is a sore evil. Those worthless dogs are a'
costly luxury. It would be interesting to know hoi
many farmers have gone out of the industry becau
of the decimation of their flocks by dogs. It wouM
be equally interesting to know how many have been
deterred from investing in sheep because of the fear,
of loss from dogs. In both instances the number can
only be fitly represented by the term "legion." Hon
effectively to cope with this evil is a question that has
not yet been solved. If a tax so high was put upon
dogs that the keeper of the ill-fed dog could no longer
afford to keep him it would go far toward bringing
auuui ct uicui&tr. uui now cctii Luc enactment ui aucn
a law be brought about in corporate places? The '
voters there are usually more concerned about their
dogs than about the farmer's sheep.
"Could the vagrant dog question be satisfactorily;!
disposed of the outlook for the future of the industry
i j i
Now wouldn't that jar you to a frazzle? At last we know!
what drives the sheep from the ranges, not the low price for!
wool, not the tariff, not anything but the wicked, wicked city
pup, vagrant pups at that.
Soon in congress some one will rise and say "Mr. Speaker,
if there is no objection I would like to have the following com-!
munication incorp rated in the record that we may place before
the people the reason for the depletion of the sheep ranger
of the country. The majority, Mr. Speaker, have been accused;
of throttling a great industry and this communication will :
disabuse the mind of the people from that idea and place their!
ideas in a correct channel. Dogs, Mr. Speaker, vagrant dogs,
are the ones to blame for all the odium heaped upon the demo-
cratic party by western radicals."
There being no objection it will be incorporated in the'
record and never seen nor heard from again.
rp HE house resolution advising the president to join with
England and to use his best influence with other nations
to bring about a naval holiday for one year, passed with an
overwhelming majority. We expect it will receive unqualified
endorsement from HuerU
MORE LEMONS FOR THE and loud banzais from Japan,
MAN THAT DOES THE WORK the one unable to build and
the other unable to stop. Id
this worthy resolution we have looked in vain for some advice
to the president as to what provision shall be made for the
100,000 men engaged in the business of building battleships,
cruisers, airships and colliers. While the war business is some
what StrenUOllS nnrJ nprVinna .11 aA,inA !t ! fopf that
laborers are criminals and unworthy of consideration.
A man who has been brought up in a machine shop wffl :
make a poor farm hand for a while and a blacksmith would not
do well selling ribbons for a season.
It is perhaps true that there is to be some arrangement
such as was reported of the Moonites in a novel some time
since: Men were raised (eugenically) for the purpose of
performing certain work; telegraph and telephone men were
raised extremely thin and long with only telephone building
brains; blacksmiths were built tough and powerful for the
business; professors were large of brain and weak of body. I
case of a surplus of any kind of labor they were taken out Into
a held and given an opiate that suspended animation until
needed and given an antidote when wanted.
Just what opiate is being prepared for the million of men
now out of work and the many thousands they are preparing to
dispense with, we have not st-on reported. At the present writ
ing in this government, for the people, by the people, to do tM
ptHjpo, It Mm like Htai-vation. Starvation U a good op",tt;
all right, but i.lov in its op. iati.ni. Administered easily, but
inn-s the Mil.jeit revolts. It' a ynut world for one who h
but rather dillinilt for one who has not. Anyway we will hvt
peaty if we have to Marie u million men to eel jt.
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