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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1915)
Pajjc Four MALHEUR ENTERPRISE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE SECTION n W HICH is best for us : to earn a mo derate living from labor or se cure a better living through manipulation of the advantages civilization has given us by cre ating a medium of exchange? The theoretical answer to this we can leave to the student in philosophy and metaphysics, but the practical answer is that every civilized human being today desires pleas es: ures and luxuries which wealth gives him. Pai- ly labor may produce a fair T SPECULATION living but not either wealth or luxury. Hidden by nature jgv in the sea and on the land are many things desired by men for their use as comforts or pleasures. How shall they obtain them? Certainly not by individual effort. It is thus that they are invited to put their surplus ygv earnings into the hands of others, who, through gs this concentration of the product of labor insti- )g tute the search for, and production of, the hid- den treasures scattered lavishly throughout the world. g Success brings wealth and luxury, failure g brings some small loss and disappointment. This I ;l -ipa T is not necessary to question the ; sincerity 01 uswaiu west m mo j attack on timber and power monopolists and support of the ; governmental conservation pol- j icy in order to combat a number , of his conclusions. His article! read before the commonwealth conference is but little else than a condensed rehash of over worked, if true, statements regarding the seiz ure of timber lands and power sites by those able to seize them. That the POLITICS OR lieu land scheme was un PHILANTIIROPY? righteous in its inception and bold in its deliberate exchange of worthless lands for fine timber lands no one has the temerity to deny; but this m n E presume that it is on the theory rii hat the "hair of a dog is good for his bite" that the Maltnus ians and Single Taxers are war ring with ponderous words in Portland just now. The Mal thusians wish the government to be carried on with the proposition i always m view that 2 in a geometrical Progression with infinity for the number of terms, produces in finitT That is, beginning with two people a future date will see the eartn SENSE AND overwhelmed with population NONSENSE doomed to death and destruction Thp Sinde Taxer finds that our present tax laws permit those who own money and other personal values to avoid payment ot entire scheme was worked through and by gov- their just proportion of society s demands a na A i. i i .u . ' au-nv the little they ernment and government officials, through and by the system Mr. West is supporting. The con servation of forests and power are not connected in practical use. Denuded forest lands, if not re forested are a loss, if replanted and cared for, their growth is slow and requires far different management than does power. Water power is perpetual. Flowing to the sea through canyons is speculation in its legitimate iorm. It is no , far above the clouds, made to turn the many tur more gambling than that entered into by every man who starts a business, the majority of bines in its descent, or spread over the desert plains for the benefit of mankind it is returned whom fail. He who takes a reasonable chance; to hills through the power of nature to be again in helping, with his small or large surplus, in .turned into power or food or both. prospecting for gold, silver, copper, lead, pot- ash or any other useful mineral; assists in the (g) development of an oil field; helps the promotion (g) of manufacturing enterprises or enters into any i commodity" into one where the commercial mo 5t i i i i it. a. i i . ji - i i ii i i scneme Denenciai 10 me community ai large, isnopoiisi nxes me price wnicn me people must, In the management of forests and forest timber, the government has reversed the old maxim "the surplus makes the price for any doing the best that can be done for himself and for his community. 122 HE supreme court has passed the "buck to congress m their decis ion of the suit for forfeiture ot the lands granted to the Oregon California II. R. in 1SG4. The court decrees the land to be the property of the railroad. It de crees that the railroad must sell the land under the terms of the grant, i. e. to actual settlers at $2.50 per acre with not more than 100 acres to the settler. It decrees that congress may take the land back bv paving THE DECISION AND the road .$2.50 per acre. POSSIBLE RESULTS It decrees that congress may then d as they please with the land should they elect to take it back. It gives the road and Congress six months to make an agreement. The intervenors are still on the fence. Some six thousand of them are endeavoring to pose as actual settlers. Probably 1 in 10 might become pay for timber. In no locality where the gov ernment deals in timber has that timber stump age been sold at less than the market rate made by the big outside holder. We have no desire to find fault with a management that makes all the money it can, but we question the sincerity of a conservation policy which raises the price to the consumer. If the manufacturer is to make such a price as he chooses and is to be fol lowed by the government what becomes of the benevolent theory of the conservationist which claims to be holding the timber for the people and their benefit? If it is contended that it is better to have tim ber preserved and denuded lands reforested than to have it all destroyed, and that the price is only an incident, even though the common peo ple pay it, we are interested to see how this can be applied even to water power. On the same theory of leasing and govern mental control and conservation, the monopolist will control the price of that owned by the gov ernment. Overhead charges on construction and installation can be increased at will, and the uvvuui uvtbii u x i uuiiui y a in j. j uncut v uuiv t 1 i j ji actual settlers under ordinary construction of famc management would permit the government .... . 47 i wv vin a t nn onwrt v"v"t rr thnr id moin htr t i-int- that term, hut far tho P-reatpr irmior tv aro mprn '"aivc..l.,'t "111C 1"C .10 u. Jsuler, seen what Congress will do Where can the people gain by govern ment control? In fact, if the government were 4.. 4 ii ; r ui.u i Ao ,!,., ,. iof n... u u,rA i 'iiiLv iu luc mam uuiauun ui uuui puwtr ami nuestion that thoct,to would ho far. Mhoad shniil.l ltlmbcr lan.ds by th monopolists they could de- the road be compelled to sell to settlers who will i v,s.e " heme which would better please the actually work the ground which is susceptible therefore proposes to throw away me i u do pay and put it all on land, for the only reason that land cannot escape, and thus force either its productive power into activity or ' its rever- sion to the state, witn me lauti Via tain. ....... .i j Disregarding the fact that ammais anu juw er man product offspring in far greater num bers than do civilized man ; f orgetting that the Z with which the Malthusian starts are in fact the production of an infinite number of ancestors as is so well shown by Judge Blackstone, who said:" it is much more certain that ev ery man had ancestors than that he will have posterity, and it is still more doubtful whether he will have posterity to twenty or an indefinite lumber of generations ;" these doctrinaires de nand government based on fatuous dreams. The theory that land "wears out" is com pletely exploded. The fact that it has been bad y cultivated and improperly cared for may be true, but nature itself will care for its productiv ity with intelligent management. European lands cultivated for a thousand or more years are more productive today than ever. Sense points out that we should confine our selves to the solution of our economical difficult ies through practical endeavor leaving the day that never comes to deal with theory. Today is here and ours, tomorrow never comes. "TOMORROW! Why tomorrow I may be Myself, with Yesterday's sev'n thousand years." There's a decision for you. The supreme court says that the Oregon California grant is to be sold for $2.50 per acre. Everybody howls with delight, until their attention is called to the fact that the United States can buy it at that price and then sell it for any price they choose. Watch papa conservationist get in his deadly work. EE332 ECRETARY Lane strongly fav. private owners than that now in operation. Small owners cannot obtain timber and practi cally force the timber baron to buy it at a fair market price, but the government comes in and takes it from the market and furthermore scat ters fire fighters throughout the country to pro tect the aforesaid timber monopolist. It is difficult to see the difference to the con sumer of power whether he pays five dollars per II. P. to a private concern or to the govern ment. If the government reduces their price . .... . . . Q to cultivation and let small investors, semi sett lers such as are the majority of the intervenors, - have the timber land. Should the timber land eventually drift into the hand of already large holders it will be only after they have paid a (g) substantial price for it; which funds will bo in the state, swelling the bank accounts of numer- ous depositors, while every acre will be subject to taxation by and for the state. (S) No man can tell what Congress will do. Thev () are contr (S) is impract I i j. j f ., . J .. " . .... live h n Ptiflh P tnp mnnnnn net tn nav hiiflro mr, (S) their own section. Whether there vi be su c- ' V Y u j . S ient politics in the matter to bring the powerful 'erh7hh?f p? "Hu t a& rise izht zp ,.,, . t, x..x v..... . , l.iwi LnM1nni1t h'K lint inrOOOOH tllfl IvtMsia fVi mnn,. .....ww.v ...... 4vv v v c . ' v v Jl IV.V. Ul H1C IllltllU Once out of touch and the newspapers will show a man from Missouri (or Nebraska) what the American people think of him. ors the leasing system, follow! ing me iciiuency oi the dpmn A cratic party to more and more 30 thought for political purposes. i-Nu stiitiiie yet proposed can so successfully prevent exploitation and develop, ment as the system proposed by the consent tion ists and backed bv the present adminis". tration. That system whereby personal endoav. or has before it a future; the THE LEASING system where individuals 'may SYSTEM hope to find a competence from hidden treasures, where rapid transition from poverty to affluence allures the venturesome prospector from comfort to priva tion and war with nature, is the system which will, eventually make strong and self reliant citi zens and give progress and prosperity. Seizing upon lands which have been discov ered by a hardy prospector and refusing him and and others, deserved beneficial results discour ages development and harms the entire commu nity. Not one mining or industrial enterprise in a thousand can be successfully handled by the poor man, and therefore he is to be shut out from obtaining the comparitively small benefits gain ed through sale to a corporation, or through pro motion through their own efforts, and the prop erty held back for leasing to those who have the means to go forward with development and mo nopolize the market through and by the aid of the government. Governmental red tape and obstruction has held the entire northwest in its grip for years and has all but throttled Alaska. The construct ion of the railroad will fail in development unless the private individual may unhampered find re ward through successful search in the wild hills and tundra of that country of unlimited possi bilities. Secretary Lane deprecates this red tape and governmental control from a distance as to Al aska, but what better will be the result if private efforts may not be rewarded? What induce ment for searching the hills and prospecting the canyons, drilling for oil, or searching for potash, if their hard earned success in finding is to be taken from them by a system of mismanagement and withdrawal? I I s There is no such thing as a law of "dimin ishing soil returns." The law is: Intelligent man agement will increase soil returns to a degree far beyond the comprehension of humanity today. Now that the Russians are out of Lemberg all parties are just where they started from, ex cept that Germany has Belgium, which she will keep. That prophesy about the man "Napoleon" coming from the north seems late in being ful filled. Looks now like a lot of Napoleons going towards the north. itrolled by the southern delegation which the 1 management will be condemned by our actical ami whose justice is measured by tastT? statesmen and they will be strongly cen hey can get out of the pork barrel foriilf Single taxers are meeting in Portland to night to discuss whether it was Malthus or Me- jthusalah who was afraid the population would overcome land production. Never mind boys. Methusalah, Malthus and single tax have whiskers. iorman eai. locator, but locking it up and maintaining the TWO WAILS Some say that there is no rhyme for "Jit ney." Others, principally street railway men, go farther and say their is neither rhyme nor reason for it. Kansas City Journal. Now the "poet" irerm has bit me: And in comfort down I sit me; Happy that this thought has hit me; You with grammar must not twit me; As I show the rhymes with jitney. Of malice you'll acquit me; Hut adjudge it hard to stick me; Though true you may like to kick me; You'll admit some rhymes with jitnov. r if r What ! For "jitney" there's no reason? What! Though in ami out of w.-isdh, Occupants their clothes get grease on? And each strap carries disease on? Wooden neat h you boil or fiviv.e on ? While the city'n wealth they wi.e on? While the card the people Mjuree on? J'ur the "jitney" there twin ivumui! aininer price for the big holder, it appears that the pub lie is loser by just the amount the big holder might have paid the locator. The argument that many roads hold unsur veyed lands not subject to taxation is a poor ar gument for the government to take them over and perpetually withold them from taxation in reserves. Sometime the railroad will be compel- rii io urmg uicm into puonc use Oswald West proposes to reform Oregon politics if he has to elect another Chamberlain to do it; or himself. That little job of Hercules was a mere trifle to getting rid of U'Ren. sinde tax and frpp trade. That was a dandy statement that LookwnnH put out at Portland. The Oregon Voter said 'careful examination of competent nothing which could be subject to controversy " What a diplomat he would make. Secretary Lane says: "there is no way for anyone to take potash or nhosnWp Iq" if the Hon Sect'y will come to Malheur county we will show him. J Grain made up of so much 1 ' " lilUV.ll lydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, lime, magnesia Unity vegetarians object to destruction of animal life of any kind on the grounds of jus tice. "God made them and they should live their lives." Note that sweet little rattler basking in the sun just where the babies play, shake the scorpion gently out of your sock and place the tarantula carefully in his nest ! Quoting the Bible in support of a vegetarian diet as of, or from, God, we see no reference to Leviticus. We wonder why not? Tremendous beating of tom-toms indicate that the 1916 campaign is on hand. That tariff reduction on sugar recedes as 1916 approaches. Railroads, potash and water ought to bring Malheur county to the front ! Swamp lands sold by Oregon under agree nent to reclaim are now used to prevent con struction of irrigation projects, setting up the iact that the irrigation project will result in taking the water off from the swamp lands. That (wner wants both horns of the dilemma. It might be safer to stay at home when there is a not in town, but will thnt f.qrt pxmiso the rioter if he kills someone? Pro-Germans think nat over. That fierht in Gal as tne whole of MnlVion. niir Tfo mile to Moscow as well as a long road to Tipper-ary. T P A 1. , . . ' I ii e are to nave a paternalistic government r:"rvlll """"'is. nnimais made up of nra. let us at least understand it and go into it with icaly fhe same elements: every element in ei- iship are twin brothers in the conservation fam-i8' tnat tne laml wears out when every particle ilv. of every element must return to th fli ua , ana water. ' If you know Where thprp nro nnv nntassilim compounds in this section or any other better grab while the grabbing is good. Papa conser vation will come along soon! ii Wh nt nations talk it over for a year? liiyan has talked for 25 years and is still talk ing , 9 a Ami finally: it is axiomatic that whatever the price charged by the government for tim ber or power, the people will lose, as the cost will exceed the income. Bryan has got Teddy backed off the first ate. Hurrah for peace down with Mars. Taft has put one over on Hryan. His peace Villa wants to i-taml in with Wilson and jpaeily Mexico. Villa has done his hhare to wards pacifying the country if he can get a little lelp he will pacify the ret of it. The A. II. ( Commuter will preach the funeral ermon. Horah for president would sound rood to h-xml ll X ut (T over on Ilr. the west and to the country, if New York S Ip I looks sowiat practical, made to see it. 1 lK I M. ll-.Gwmn would make some whirlwind uunpa.gn m Idaho if he hhould take hold I No one makes a whit lu in ( aini, eeon. hat' why ll'ltm yet by w MIDDOSO n.'ltlnnc t 1 i I 1..1..K' iull. ..." . "i ui a league io iiommuh v .uott a nation refusing to abide by the d ri.- league? That would be" deadly as '""k' as trade rules the world. aie.ii in Or- It It hi. K'X luiijipman and Dean Collin have ei up pro.se un,j KUIK. nia,j (nrJ. jiuvj,MVJ.ri lo, t V V v a a to r.