fcAGE FOUR
MALH&UH ENTERPRISE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916..
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EDITORIAL
PEOPLE'S LAND AND LOAN LAW
IHE ubiquitous single taxer has more lives
than a cat. Smashed on one side, through
the agency of our freak system- he comes
back smilingly with the other cheek presented
for another smash. Thought of a sane kind is
never put on the matter in the body of any acts
proposed. All care and consideration seems to
be saved and expended on the title in order to
make it more attractive to the unwary elector.
Full rent value to be taken. What then is
full rent value? The laws says : " f air and
just price per year as appraised by public offi
cers." There seems no provision as to selection
of public officers and if there are those elected
who know anything about land values it will be
in the future.
The renter is to have a five year lease with a
re-appraisement every five years. Yet the law
says: "There shall be no increase of rent because
of additional improvements and betterments
made on or under the land." What then can hap
pen that will make another appraisement neces
sary? If the land, through careful cultivation
and expert management, becomes far more pro
ductive with splendid buildings and convenienc
es, what will the appraiser or the renter do if
someone offers a double price for same?
The right to perpetually renew the lease
means, we presume, the right to do so under
such advances as the appraisers may decide to
be proper.
Its a great back to the farm movement. Its
a fine proposition to lower the cost of living. By
forcing state ownership and permitting only
those who are expert to cultivate the land, the
inexpert are prohibited from living. Eliminat
ing the speculator, the law also eliminates the
man of moderate ability. Poverty and ruin
threatens the state through the poverty of the
population. Production decreases and the pric
es raise. Given the same land one man will ad
vance, another stand still and the third retro
gress: Yet it is the land that is rented and its
value for productive purpose is the same for all.
Suppose one man lets a farm run down and
his neighbor builds up on the same kind of soil.
Now one makes less than the other but under the
new law one is eliminated and the price raised
on the other.
The world must get rid of two fallacious
ideas: All men were created equal The world
owe3 us a living.
Men are not equal mentally or otherwise.
The world owes us nothing. That which we can
earn is just what we can get. If, through the im
perfect management of society, injustice occurs,
we will never remedy it by destructive legisla
tion nor can we make men equal by pulling
down the unfortunate.
The old saying: "A little education is a dan
gerous thing," is what's the matter with the
world at present. We are on the outer edge of a
great field of knowledge. Someday we will know
better than to destroy with the power penned up
in nature, but will make our own life as God in
tended we should.
ROADS WITHOUT BONDS
IT being generally conceded that any bond
ing proposition will be turned down at
the election this fall, that a halt will
be called by the people on the increase of
taxes, it becomes necessary to make some pro
vision for funds with which to build roads.
The Oregon Voter proposes that the license
rate on automobiles be increased to an average
of $30.00 per car. The Editor substantially shows
that owners of cars should willingly and prob
ably would willingly incur this charge were they
definitely assured that the fund thus raised
would be spent on roads.
The fund thus raised would amount to a
million a year within a short time. Should the
state insist that the counties through the trunk
lines were to be built should bond themselves for
an amount equal to one-half the cost of the road
through the county, these same counties could
cut down their road expenses the amount of the
interest and thus lose nothing and have far bet
ter roads.
By confining themsolvcs to trunk lines the
state, assisted by the Government, would soon
have the country gridironed with splendid high
ways while the feeders would soon be construct
ed by the farming population willingly and with
out increased taxation.
The scheme is a good one and will doubtless
be advanced, perhaps not to the extent of $30.00
average but to some fair amount agreed upon
by automobile owners.
The Voter takes occasion to warn the
country people that it would be well for them not
to oppose the construction of highways or trunk
lines as there is likelihood of the urban popula
tion forcing it through taxation at a later date.
The day of the auto is here and there must
be roads suitable for their use, which will save
running expenses.
It is to be remembered that the money ($75,
000,000.00) appropriated by the government will
be spent in states where the conditions made by
the act are complied with. The appropriation
has a string on it.
NITRATES AND THE COUNTY
mHE production of nitrates and Jheir com
pounds in Malheur county will make that
county and Oregon famous the world
over. A prosperous peace or a successful war
depends upon the ability to secure nitrates. Vir
gin lands carrying vast stores of plant food can
no longer be had for the taking. Older land
which has been thoughtlessly depleted of its
plant food must have that food restored through
fertilization with chemicals of through natural
chemical production by raising legumes and
plowing them under, or by both methodfl
Nitrogen, the most inert of all elements,
which constitutes four-fifths of the air surrund
ing our globe, is the great plant food. It com
bines with sodium, with potassium in varying
quantities and numberless forms, but on account
of the solubility of these salts- occurs in nature
only in dry and arid climates.
It has been well known for a hundred years
that it occurs from Snake river to the Mexican
line, but has never before been found in commer
cial quantities on a large scale except in Chili
and Germany.
In Germany the potassium salts are not near
' sufficient to supply the needs of the war and Ger
many erected many plants in Norway and Swe
den for extraction from the air of nitrogen to
manufacture nitric acid and have resorted to
many expedients to produce the potash.
Here in Malheur county there are, evidently,
vast bodies of potassium nitrate. Sodium ni
trate, Potash alum and some specimens of Alun
ite have been brought in.
It means a great and immediate develop
ment with a corresponding increase in population.
BORROWED MONEY
ST
IT is not what you pay for money, it is not
the amount you borrow which counts;
I9g36 the question is: What are you going to
do with it? Will your business pay a
profit on a million dollars at 6 per cent? Then
it is wise to borrow the money. Is it; a specula
tion? Then it is wise to tread carefully. Are
you borrowing the money to improve a ranch
and increase its efficiency or are you borrowing
money to travel and to spend? One is good and
the other evil. '
If the land will pay out at 10 per cent borrow
the money at 6 per cent or less. If your property
will pay 20 per cent the banker will be glad to
loan you at 6 per cent because he knows you will
prosper. Bankers and loan companies do not
want property, they want their interest and if
your proposition will pay out at a high rate the
banker is willing to loan at a low rate and the
better your chances'and more certain your pro
fits the lower will be the rate.
"Do not borrow unless the money is to be
used for profit" is a good maxim. Far better
than to say: "never borrow." It is far better
to use capital than to abuse capital. In the one
case "both capitalist and borrower are prosper
ous and in the other case neither are prosperous.
Watch the nitrate development and hear
Uncle Sam howl himself hoarse about the con
servation of national resources.
Its now or never, friends. Either Bully
creek goes forward or goes to sleep Tuesday.
Bully creek will be on the map or passed to
"innocuous desuetude" next Tuesday.
Let' each piece of land perform its own func
tion and the whole will take care of itself.
Every person interested in the development
of the Malheur valley should voice a favorable
sentiment for the next two weeks.
Woodrow Wilson League
OF VALE, OREGON
B. F. FARMER, President WALTER POWERS, Secrctary-Treas.
MRS. I. BLAYNEY, Vice President
The space below lias been purchased by the Woodrow Wilson League of
Vale, and all matters appearing therein are under their direction aud upon
their responsibility.
DEPOSITS IN FEDERAL BANKS
INCREASE $3,400,000,000
Gain Under Four Years of Democratic
Rule Shows Nationwide Prosperity.
AVERAGE IS NEAR 80 PER CENT
Reports From 7,578 Reserve Institu
tions Show All Sections- Share
in Welfare.
Gross bank deposits of the 7,578
Federal member banks of the United
States, as reported to the Comptroller
of the Currency, in the call of May 1,
1016, reached the record total of $11,
135,322,000. On the corresponding date four
years ago, the national bank deposits
of the United States were $8,015,511,
000. The four-year increase amounts to
$3,403,446,000.
This is approximately a gain of 39
per cent.
It is far beyond the average four
year gain in the history of American
banking.
Reaches All Sections.
The significant and highly satis
factory phase of this analysis is the
nation-wido character of the deposit
development. It proves that our pros
perity is not dependent upon war ex
ports, but reaches every geographic
division and every industrial interest,
North and South, East and West.
It is natural, for example, that the
manufacturing industries of New Eng
land, whose exports to Europe have
expanded during the war, should swell
New England bank deposits to the ex
tent of 31 per cent.
That does not explain, however, why
the deposits of the Western States, in
cluding the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
New Mexico and Oklahoma have
made the still greater deposit growth
of 42 per cent.
Growth in New England.
The six New England States, which
have Boston as their Federal Reserve
center, show a four year deposit
growth of $191,858,000.
The nine West-of-the-Mississippi
states which pass their reserves thru
the regional banks of Minneapolis
and Kansas City, show a four,yoar in
crease of $212,219,000.
The Eastern States of New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Dplawarc,
Maryland and the District of Colum
bia which contain the two large fed
eral reserve centers of New York and
Philadelphia, the large banking cen
ters of Baltimore and Washington,
and the Government Treasury and sub-
treasuries naturally exhibit the lar
gest volume and percentage gain in
banking operations. The four-year
gain in the Eastern District is $1,
713,794,000, or 52 per cent. This
splendid banking growth of the East
ern bankers who feared that the di
vision of tho Federal Reserve system
into 12 districts would injure the fi
nancial progress of New York and
Philadelphia.
South Suffers From War.
The South has distinctly suffered
as a result of the European war be
cause of the heavy reduction in both
volume and the price of cotton export
ed. Nevertheless, the 13 Southern
states show a four year deposit gain
of $218,084,000, or 27 per cent
The eight middle West States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
exhibit a four year deposit growth
of $658,403,000, or approximately 30
per cent.
Even the eight Pacific states, whose
commercial activities have been handi
capped by tho European war through
tho transfer of Pacific commerce to
the Atlantic, show normal and heal-
by deposit gains aggregating $124,462-
000, or over 21 per cent
With the close of the European war
and the return of activity to the Cot
ton South and the Pacific West, and
greater national energies devoted to
internal development, the bank de
posits of tho United States under the
now Federal Reserve System .and tho
rural credits and agricultural exten
sion acts are likely to show even
stronger and more general development
PRESIDENT PUTS TRUST
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE
MAN IN THE STREET.
You get a good deal more light on
the street than you do in the closet.
You get a good deal more light by
keeping your ears open among the
rank and file of your fellow citizens
than you do in any private conference
whatever. I would rather hear what
the men arc talking about on the trains
and in the shops and by the fireside
than hear anything else, because 1
want guidance, and I know that I
could get it there, and what I am
constantly asking is that men should
bring me that counsel, because I am
not privileged to determine things in
dependently of, this counsel. I am-your
servant, not your ruler. From Pres
ident Wilson's address at Detroit.
One reason the Democrats have to
spend so much money on preparedness
is that sixteen years of Republican
rule left the national defense far be
low the neewnry standard,
THE NECESSITY FOR WAR
MUST BE UNMISTAKABLE,
SAYS PRES. WILSON
"The United States will go to war
only in the case of unmistakable neces
sity," said President Woodrow Wilson,
in a five-minute talk at the Union!
Station in Toledo, Ohio, last Tuesday,,
on his way back from Detroit to Wash
ington. Continuing, President Wilson
said: "Our rights, our border citi
zens and our sovereignty, must be re
spected. We will respect Mexico's
sovereignty in return."
AN ESTIMATE OF WILSON
"I have in my voting career cast my
ballot for Cleveland, McKinley, Bryan
and Roosevelt, and therefore can claim
some degree of independence," said
C. W. Alcott, of New Haven, Conn., in
a letter to the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican.
"There are so many reasons," con
tinued Mr. Alcott, "why an indepen
dent should prefer Wilson to Hughes
that I am afraid your space would all
bo taken up in the enumeration. I
will, therefore, give but three all-sufficient
reasons for tho faith within me.
"First: the president is absolutely
honest and conscientious in all his un
dertakings, and his high ideals and
moral purposes, both at home and
abroad, have spread their influence
for good throughout the nation.
"Second, many great achievements
for the benefits of mankind when
thrown into the scales against his,
mistakes of judgment so far outweigh
tho errors that, the balance in favor
of the good that ho has done cannot
be estimated.
"Third, Mr. Hughes has nothing to
offer that wc as o nation, arc not al
ready in possession of.''
Kentucky Moose Resent Betrayal.
Cincinnati The Kentucky Bull
Moose profoundy resent the action of
the Chicago conference which attempt
ed to deliver the organization to the
Republican party, in the, opinion of
M. J. Holt, chairman of tnc Kentucky
Bull Moose State Central Committee.
In a letter published in The Enquirer,
Air. liolt says:
"I feel that of the thirty delegates
who attended the Chicago convention
at least half will support Wilson, not
because of a preference for his poli
cies, but because they ressnt being
delivered as a drove of plantation
mules.
"I feci that tho Democrats who came
over to us in 1912 have been betray
ed and that our candidate for vice
president, who was nominated after
a select few knew Roosevelt had de
clined the nomination, was reprehen
sibly treated. I can concoivo of no
more discourteous political conduct."
G. O. P. Delegate Turns to Wilson
Milwaukee Fred Tenll, who was a
candidate for delegate to the Republi
can convention on the LaFollctte slate,
says he will support President Wilson
for re-election.
"I am going to vote for Wilson be
cause I think his administration has
been a most excellent one," said Mr.
Teall. "We""are not engaged in any
foreign war, and we might have been
had the President been less far seeing
and mor amenable to the claquers of
certain groups in this -country. I
think he is entitled to a good deal
of credit for", keeping us out of war
with foreign nations. And he has
accomplished this without any sacri
fice of national honor."
Progressive voters who believe in
removing the tariff as far as possi
ble from the field of politics by means
of a scientific, non-partisan tariff
board will have difficulty in disagree
ing with the Democratic program.
The country has advanced further
along the road to prosperity in four
years of Democratic rule than in the
twelve years of Republican rule. Why
attempt to put on the brakes?
Not only is tho record of tho Dem
ocratic administration for construct
ive legislation unprecedented in. quan
tity, but its quality is proved by the
fact that the Republicans don't propose
to repeal a line of it
The Republican Congressmen who
voted for the Democratic income tax
provision the other day utterly dis
regarded tho fact that Charles Evans
Hughes was tho governor who fought
the income tax amendment to the
Federal constitution.
Wilsoa believes in fighting evil
wherever it appears; but he also be
lieves that most differences can be
settled quicker and better by common
counsel.
Every laboring man in America
knows that Wilson has upheld the
dignity of labor in a fashion no oth
er President has dared, or cared, to
do.
The'troublo in this country is not
with the peace-at-any-price advocates,
but with those who apparently arc for
war at any cost
Will Uie millions of people who
want peace re-elect the man who bs
kept tht country out of wnrf
NOTE THE DIFFERENCE
I 4 Jt
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.your
Shit
Cleaned
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Jrefed
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Between a "tried-out" suit that is
shapeless and be-dragglcd, and the
same suit after it has passed through
our hands and received the new look
which wc impart to it Shapeliness
and neatness take the placo of the
"must" looking clothes they were
when they, came to us. And the change
is not only effected quickly, but eco
nomically. VALE PANTORIUM
Barney Paul, Prop.
ALL AVORK GUARANTEED
Vale, Oregon.
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S CLASSIFIED ADS
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FOUND A purse near the hitching
chains in Vale. Owner may havo same
by calling at the Enterprise office and
describing tho purso.and its contents.
FOR SALE One brown reed baby
cariagc with hood. Call at this oflice
or phono 138-F-3. Jul. 22-tf.
EOR SALE One three burner gas
oline stove in good condition. Cheap.
Enquire at Enterprise office.
NOTICE TO HUNTERS
NOTICE is hereby given that hunt
ing is forbidden on all of my ranches
on Thorn Flat, Malheur county, Ore
gon, and that all violators will be
prosecuted for trespassing.
WILL JAMIESON.
REWARD
$25.00 reward will be paid for in
formation, leading to Uhe arrest and
conviction of anyone taking poles or
wire from any of our lines..
Malheur Home Telephone Company
Vale and Ironside Telephone Co.
KODAK FINISHING
KODAK FINISHING Developing,
printing, enlarging. Quick service
and first-class work. Price list for
the asking. The Burrell Studio, On
tario, Oregon. adv-l-30tf.
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE OR .EXCHANGE A
modern, five-room bungalow, best resi
derico .section in tho city. Asphalt
pavement and all improvements $2700,
half cash, balance easy. All cash at
$2500. Must leave on account health.
Chas. Lowry, Marshfield, Oregon.
ENGRAVED CARDS
The Enterprise is now connected
with some of the leading engravings
houses in the country.. See our latest
styles of engraved card work. All
work delivered within one woek from
date of order.
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FOR SALE
FARM LOANS
Money to loan on irrigated ranches
10 years time. Partial payments.
C. C. MUELLER,
1st .Natl. Bk. Bldg., Vale, Oreg.
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! Funeral Director
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