MALIIEUR ENTERPRISE
Saturday, July,3it
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1913
MALHEUR ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL SECTION
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GERMANY'S REPLY
many to President Wilson's note
has been the sinking of a ship
flying the flag of the U. S. car
rying contraband, without war
ning or investigation. The ship
remained afloat long enough for
the crew to escape. It is time the administra
tion took cognizance of the fact that Germany
means business; that Germany is still a vandal
Hun ; that Germany is controlled by a Prussian
war lord with the in
tention of exceeding
Alexander by conquer
ing all of the world.
(o) We have no desire to war with Germany but we
muse eitner piace ourselves in a position to pre
vent Germany from attacking our country or
expect to have her attack us the day she settles
with Europe. We can prepare a defense which
can be made good against the world. It will be
expensive in money but millions of lives will be
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saved, suomannes, suDmarine destroyers ana
aerial navigation with a million soldiers will
save us. We are not in need of many dread-
(g) naughts as we shall not attack. Guns, and am-
munition are what we need or at least ability in
(g) the way of manufacturing plants to supply them
Time is a factor in this defense and two years
will carry us far on the road toward safety.
It is not necessary to be a jingo to advise
preparation. We have been shown its ne
cessity. England's unpreparedness has delug
ed the world in the blood of innocents. He who
objects to preparation is mildly designated as
"mollycoddle."
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HF, Orporm "Vctinr is nlpnsprl t.n
Rj giye "a road to public owner-
reasonableness and disadvan
tages of such ownership. There
are other reasons for this
; course and another road to-
wards administration of public utilities by the
people. We do not believe that, under our de-
centralized system of government, public own-
j ership will ever prove economical. The misman-
agement of our var-
ANOTHER ROAD TO ious departments in-
H PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, dicate this to be true.
Our grossly misman-
Jgj aged postal affairs indicate where we would land
jgj with other complex enterprises: nevertheless
W there is great danger of that very thing coming
Jgj about and this trail leads to, and accounts for,
the possibility.
jj t Private enterprise secured gifts and fran-
chises from the people. Seizing the opportunity
offered by an undeveloped and rich country and
not satisfied with great legitimate profits,' they
jgj fraudulently increased the original costs and
g created huge unearned overhead charges; they
g deliberately imposed upon the people ; they fore
go ed patrons to pay exhorbitant charges; they
treated the public with scant courtesy ; they ig-
nored just complaints as to service and charg
es es ; they entered politics and debauched the law-
making power of the people ; they discriminated
against individuals and communities; they com-
bined to unduly force high prices. Thus they
exasperated the public and in retaliation laws
were enacted curtailing their power; investigat-
iuk cuinmiuees aavisea a vase network oi regu-
lation, complicated and expensive; the people
thave moved in anger and with indiscriminate
hornet like stings are hurting just and unjust
(fa business alike. This is the road we are now tra
veling. Will it turn into a broad channel of pros
perous business built upon honest management
which will naturally disarm the public or will it
continue along the tortuous trail of suspicion,
distrust and bitter enmity on the one side and
desperate attempts to continue the evils of wa
tered securities, high interest rates for the pro
ducers and unfair discrimination in favor of
wealth? Who knows?
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patrons of Oregon are
paying more than twice as
much money each year for
school books that are printed in
the east as the same books
would cost, if produced by our
state printing: office. This fact
is conclusively shown by a comparison of the
orices paid in Oregon with those paid in Cali
fornia, where the state printing office produces
all the school books used in the state. Oregon
business men and
FOR SCHOOL BOOKS manufacturers are
THAT ARE very much interest-
MADE IN OREGON. ed at this time in a
campaign for made
in Oregon goods, and the Enterprise believes
that a campaign alongthe same line, which will
save the school children one-half of the expense
for books, and at the same time leave a half mil
lion dollars of money in the state each year, that
is now being sent east, would not only be patrio
tic but business like.
The printers at the state capital have taken
this matter up, secured the data, and are asking
the people of the state who are paying two pric
es for an eastern product to assist in having
his work done in Oregon, thereby saving half
the cost of school books and at the same time
making more work for Oregon printers.
Everyone who has looked up the figures in
this matter, and knows that there is an actual
H4- -MH HE Oregon
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job," says
Bankers are on the
an exchange. They
sure are if the statements now
running in the papers are true,
and they are of course in accor
dance with the facts. Banks in
trpt hieher interest
than can eastern banks. They will help the far
mer to loans, perhaps long time loans, but tne
interest rate will not be a rate which the farmer
can pay. The company organized by Switt and
Portland bankers where
SURELY THEY by men raising stock
ARE ON THE JOB. might obtain money at
8 per cent helped to
some extent, but farmers cannot pay more than
six per cent and live through it. That there
may be some few exceptions to this is possible,
but practically all Oregon and Washington far
mers have made their big money through in
crease in values rather than from producing
crops.
The man who got a donation claim for noth
ing and sold it after 30 years for $100 per acre,
made good money ; the man who secured a home
stead and sold it during the boom made money;
the man who got a timber claim for $2.50 per
acre and sold ten million feet of logs at $2.00 per
thousand made money. None of these men
made it by producing crops at the same time
paying ten per cent interest. Banks can loan
all the money they can get at ten per cent, but
saving by having the work done in the state railroads are not paying ten per cent, yet their
printing office, is both willing and anxious to
quit sending east for books and have the work
lone at home. But to do this an organized ef
fort will have to be put forth and a demand
made for the change in our present system. The
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iLciit; priming uuice win neea additional equip
ment, but the saving of half a million dollars an
nually, as shown by the report of the Text Book
Committee published elsewhere in this issue, will
furnish a splendid modern equipment for the
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wiv printing omce ana sun snow a Dig pront to
the people over the prices now being paid for
Eastern made books.
Another item suggested by the printers, has
ippealed to the writer ever since the new school jthem.
security is the farmers ability to produce ton
nage, in fact their loan is secured on the land of
the producer, indirectly, for of what value will
any rolling stock, or other personal property
have if the country produces no tonnage?
The farmer is entitled to an equal show in
the money market. He asks no special privilege.
He asks for money at an equal rate and equal se
curity on equal time. He has a special privilege
now, however, he has to pay more interest on
better security than any other class in the coun
try. The time is at hand when the people who
produce shall have an equal opportunity in the
money market with those who are exploiting
text books were adopted. It is the fact that the
readers are filled with illustrations and read
ing lessons descriptive of places and conditions
in Vermont, New Hampshire and other "down
east" points, to the exclusion of the West. The
problems in the arithmetics are based upon dis
cances between Dover and Boston, Augusta and
Concord, etc., which are of no practical benefit
or interest to the western dudiI. Bv infusine-
some Oregon and western literature in the read
ers and propoundiner problems of local interest.
the practical education of the children would
be promoted, and local pride increased, while
saving monev and patronizing home industrv.
The whole proposition of printiner the school
text books in the state printing office appeals
both to the patriotism and pocket books of the
school patrons of the state and should be given
mougntrui attention.
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3 HIS is a country of free speech :
mis is a country where the
humblest has the right to ex
press himself in regard to the
government and its administra
tion ; this is a country where
free speech is abused; this is a
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nt-l- -MlfH HE Postal Department is run, as
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is any oiner ousiness,as a whole
We may not single out any par
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ncuiar nan and say mis pays
too much and this tob little. The
question is the greatest good to
the greatest number. The peo-
pie uemana me parcel post, the income from
this alone need not necessarilv be self sunnort-
ing. The present rate of first class postage falls
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Jgy not hardly on the people generally and pays a
JU great revenue. Cutting it down
ONE CENT helps the people not at all if th
(Oi piitu is to ue raised on oiner
d . lines. The attack is directly
against second class matter. It is well known
kQ) fViaf tYa l"l(n w nnf 1
viiuv mv ui.v hiii nui lv i iii.nii wn wii" pal lt'l pusi
to offset the loss on first class reduction. Second
class matter is carried to the people at an ex
ceedingly low rate. To advance this rate means
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h) that the people must nay it. Advertising hist
(9) at present, is at its zenith of use and etllciency,
It will decline. I he people have tlv Mils to foot i
and if the rates are lowered to one cent, the big
department stores will havo made a further
paving which will enable them to antagonize the, as euphonius but
small dealer in a givaU r degree.
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country where the doctrine of lese majestie is
not in force ; but when a number of our people
(fortunately a small number) take it upon them
selves to publicly advise a course which every
page of history shows to
MOLLYCODDLES, be suicidal, it is time to
call a halt. Bryan, in his
haste to accomplish his political ends, has done a
vast amount of damage. He has caused Germa
ny to believe that the country is divided; he has
caused the unthinking to take a course which if
successful would result in our complete destruc
tion ; he has brought his doctrine of piffle into
prominence and that it is a doctrine of noise is
not understood by other countries, England per
haps excepted.
Those who are advocating signatures to
peace at any price documents are attempting in
finite harm. Have theya right to insist upon a
course of almost certain destruction to our in
terests Whether or no, they will do it. and we
therefore presume we must endure, but a slight
touch of German imperialism would soon change
meir tune.
The oratorical rant about our brave sons
rallying to our defense has but one object and
no sensible meaning. Its object is political ad-
inctment and its meaning meaningless. One
mill ion brave men unarmed and without exper
ience would fill the earth with dead and the en-
my with laughter.
Our inventors will defend us? Yes if given
ime and are backed with amunition and train.
ed nun. Where can we get either imor fivo
years? "Mollycoddles" is easy. There are oth
er terms of designation more appropriate, fully
more suitable on different
paper. j
To get this equal show thev will have to get
legislation without, and in spite of, the banking
fraternity. The much vaunted Rural Credit bill
proposed by the last congress is but a thinly veil
ed joke. No rural bank could be successful un
der its scheme. The only reason that special
legislation is needed in this important matter,
is that financial interests are very loth to let the
farmer escape from their clutches, congress is
their only hope.
The government went into the townsite bus
iness in Alaska, and has mulcted the public in
a bolder and a more successful manner than
the wildest town lot speculators in Ameri
ca. They averaged $300 per lot for worthless
tide lands and at a point which will never am
ount to anything, the navigation of the sur
rounding waters being dangerous. They have
either attempted to destroy Seward or they have
played a bunco game.
Is it the intention of the big department
stores to control the business nf thp
They are attacking the present rate of postage
uu icuns lur nu oiner reason than mat it will
reduce their expenses.
p. -MR! HERE is much agitation in re for.
eigntiaue. mis is well, but
why congress should be expect. I
ed to offer aid to this and at the I
same time neglect our home af- 1
fairs is a mystery. Big ousj" I
ness must have help but tL (i
farmer can get along as best he may. Big bus- I
iness must have legislation enabling it to place
its money in foreign countries but irrigation
which places people in homes and tends to re-
duce the cost of living
FOREIGN TRADE, may do as it best can
Manufacturing countries
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and manufacturing centers are not places of
home owners, iney are mvariaoiy districts of
low wages and poverty. Even mighty and im
perial Germany is anything but a country of
homes. The people house with their stock and
live on a tithe of what it takes to support an
American family. Crushed under the mailed
trod of Emperor in Germany; groveling in the
dust made by an aristoracy in England ; the la
borer in those countries producing for foreign
consumption is underfed, badly housed and un
derpaid. In our own country we have poverty ram
pant in every manufacturing center, from Mas
sachusetts to Colorado. Irigation, rural credits,
local improvement will build up homes, but the
owners are and will be independent and perhaps
this is what's the matter. Perhaps there is a a
conspiracy of wealth and determination to ere-
ate an aristocracy as against a democracy. iJer- d
haps that is why there are peace at any price a
propogandists, they are really working for an a
imperial government. Republics are uncongen-
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ial associates for imperialistic rulers.
The uncalled for attack on "hyphenated"
Americans amounts but little. We are all for
eigners except the Indian and there is no reason
to believe that the descendants of any of the
many nations are other than patriotic citizens
of this country. 1 hey may and will have their
desires as to the result in Europe, but will stand
solidly in line for the country they have adopted.
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Germany will let Austria and Italy fight it
out. If Austria whips she is satisfied. If Italy
wins it will be but a short campaign for her to
whip Italy and annex Austria. Italy is not to
be taken seriously.
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It is time Americansvtook a hand in the
game. The peace at any price propagandists
are beginning to take themselves seriously and x
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need to be sat upon thoroughly.
The mighty has returned and the celestial
bird still retains his accustomed elevation above
tidewater.
Hessians were Hessians. So Oregonians
are Oregonians, even though a future historian
might class them as from the United States.
That creamery argument reminds us that
dry farming is also under the ban except at
points under immediate control of the "City of
six or more) Rivers." It do beat h-1 !
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