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SAUttbAY, AUGUST ij ihb PAGE FOUR i'-r " i MALHJiJtffe ENTERPMsfe 1 1H Ml 1 1 1 i 1 1 1111 11 111111 1111 Mill 1111 1111 IK i EDITORIAL I FIGHTING THE RAILROADS about the same distance from deep sea sailing as Portland, but thai does not make Portland an equal as to harbor facilities and depth of water. It is useless for any community to strive against geography or against natural barriers. The contention that river improvement has not helped Portland seems not to be well taken. Columbia improvement has done more to bring people into Eastern Oregon and Washington than any other one thing. Lowering freight rates through canalization of the Columbia has made possible the continuance of grain raising and the prosperity of grain raising communi ties all tributary to Portland. Portland capitalists were hurt through the failure of the old Oregon and Transcontinental and the Villard interests generally, but take away the present 0. W. R. N. and where would Portland stand? Interior development is what Portland needs and it is well for her to set up and take notice. If the Hill interests build from Eastern Oregon to San Francisco before the connection is made to Portland she may well bid good bye to Eastern Oregon trade which is hers for the taking. Attention to Eastern Oregon has been grudging or nil. They helped the development of Central Oregon through, construction of the Tumalo project by the State and because that work was ill advised and practically a failure they have practically refused assistance to Eastern Oregon. We have been unable to induce investiga tion of our nitrate deposits and are at least a year behind where we might have been had at tention been paid to our frequent attempts to in duce examination. Eastern capital has been obtained in some instances and their work in dicates a natural disposition to favor the com munity which favors them and one of the com panies makes its headquarters in Idaho. If vicious attacks on railroads and indus trial corporations continue, backed up by com plete indifference of Portland capital, Oregon and Oregon's metropolis will wait sometime for prosperity. Portland is advising subsidies for steam ships to carry freight. They also advocate tax ation for the same purpose. Money put into development of the interior of the state will of itself induce investment in freight carriers and if such cannot be brought to Portland without taxation or subsidy it is unworthy of consider ation. If Portland capital will not invest they will have some difficulty in getting the poorer taxpayer to help them out. The real situation which will develop later is that Portland must forget that she once claimed to be a great seaport and bend her en ergies to building up an mterior which will be hers for trade and exploitation. If she fails to heed the "tinkling of the camel's bell" the awak ening will be rude and the result ruin. A world is hers, at her command, but once headed in another direction, the last sheep will jump the bridge rather than turn back. firnC. CHAPMAN, of the Oregon Voter, ob l - J iects to the eternal and vicious warfare Wi. on the Railroads and large investors generally, and in the main we think Mr. Chapman is right. Management bureaus gov erning the country from Washington are not ideal and sometime will be changed. Yielding to popular clamor in making laws against cap ital or against centralization of capital is fully as reprehensible. We cannot develop this country without vast sums of money and that money should be permitted to earn more than a mere legal in terest; some allowance should be allowed for de preciation and rik. It does seem hard to advocate by taxation the construction of hard surface roads to con vey freight across a railroad to the Columbia river in a farming community where the rail road must pay at least forty per cent of the taxes. It is apparently unkind to tax the roads for construction of docks and elevators where by their strongest competitor is benefitted. It is burdensome for the jitney to compete with the city road without paying something toward the upkeep of the streets. This has been and should be a country of individual effort, but it has been practically de monstrated that to continue as we were headed 35 or 40 years ago would have made veritable slaves of 90 per cent of the people of the United States. The creation of our corporation law, which has made our tremendous development possible, without some kind of check, some strong restraint, would have become a genuine Frankenstein. Casting about for some. method of restraint our commission scheme was hit upon, and now the eternal cupidity of man, his veritable pas sion for power bids fair to overwhelm the coun try with a protection far more irritable and ful ly as expensive as that of the greedy monopo lists of the past decades. The destruction of the saloon has been brought about through the abuse of their priv ileges by the whiskey and beer producers through their unprincipled greed. It is precise ly the same unprincipled greed and disregard for every decent principle of manhood in busi ness which has turned the country against the railroads. They were the autocratic rulers of the country more powerful and more relentless than the Czar of Russia. They destroyed towns and built rivals. They robbed the bondbuyer and the public. The history of the transconti nental Central Pacific, Union Pacific, North ern Pacific, Atchison, rightly portrayed would made Capt. Kidd and all his ilk ashamed of themselves. With all the power of the commis sions they have not entirely quit. Through the tremendous flood of water poured into their securities by the past genera tion the present generation is made to suffer. Added to all this is the physical valuation farce going on now which will cost almost as much as one of the transcontinentals before it is finish ed and will fail to squeeze out the aqua pura. Thus it is that the people are still carry ing on the fight against the roads by endeavor ing to reduce the freight rates by increasing transportation facilities. The people know that they are paying too much for carrying their goods to market. The creators of the vast load of interest bearing securities have passed to their reckoning but the present generation is struggling blindly with the oppressive burden, endeavoring to cast off the Sinbad of debt plac ed there, perhaps by their own forefathers. The real question is the justice in the en deavor now to squeeze out water poured into their securities 20 and 30 years since. "It is a condition and not a theory which confronts us." Someone must be hurt if it is continued. In that hurt we must all suffer. Is it worth while? And lastly how are we going to get rid of the centralized government being rapidly built up in Washington. Every tendency is toward it regardless of politics. The final consumma tion will be a "man on horseback" who will of course be unhorsed, but at what fearful cost. RURAL CREDIT BILL 'THINK IT OVER" HE OREGON VOTER, under the above caption, enters into the rate matter as betwen Astoria and Portland as well as Seattle and San Francisco. The recent rate decision equalizing Seattle, Astoria and Portland seems objectionable to Portland and is, perhaps, a knock out blow for water ship ments from that city. Well, why not? Is Portland a seaport? If so why should it receive a lower rate on grain shipments than either Seattle or Astoria? Wo remember early contentions between Portland and Seattle, with Seattle always a little ahead. That town is I HE FARMER must think by this time that he must be in an awful condition, as every political booster in the country is making endeavors to save him irom one evil or another. The Republicans wish to save him with a tariff and the Democrats propose to finish his prosperous ascent with rural credit and market bureaus. The Oregon saviours from economi cal evils and wordy producers of freak laws pro pose to confiscate his property through a sin gle tax scheme and thereby relieve us all from any necessity of thinking, but compelling .us all to go barehanded to work in a garden belong ing to the state. Meanwhile another contingent of wise law makers wise from the standpoint of one who prefers to get a blacksmith rather than a lawyer to revise a law whose politics, if they have any is unknown to us, propose to save him with a rural credit bill whereby the farmer is to bond himself for money to lend himself. The Government, having passed a rural credit bill which requires the state to take some action before its privileges ai'e offered the citi zens of that state, our Oregon freebooters in the forest of law making, rush into a scheme of their own and endeavor to allure the people of the state to create more indebtedness on the ground that it will help the farmer. The proposed law has no negative argu ment in the state pamphlet but the affirmative argument is negative enough and ought to con demn it without further words. As an organization of real and painstaking knockers these same promulgators of affirma tive arguments should receive the laurel crown: "We have been enticing people into the state who find they cannot make wages on the farms in which they have sunk their savings," etc etc. Poor old Oregon land is no good must confis cate it with single tax and give it back to the coyote and rabbits everybody but these same single taxers and rural credit schemers are thieves capital must be driven from the state through one or. another freak law, and last, farmers must be made prosperous through the issuance of state bonds for the purpose of lending money to themselves. "Lord save us from our friends." Woodrow Wilson League OF VALE. OREGON D. F. FARMER, President WALTER POWERS, Secretary-Trcas. MRS. I. BLAYNEY, Vice President The space below has been purchased by the Woodrow Wilson League of Vale, and all matters appearing therein are under their direction aud upon their responsibility. WHAT WILSON HAS DONE The record of President Wilson's administration may be summarized as follows: 1 The federal reserve banking law, which takes from Wall Street the power to control the money vol umo and makes money panics im possible. 2 Law revising the tariff down ward taking the duty off of the necessaries and placing it on tho lux uries of life. 3 Election of United States sena tors by direct vote of the people. 4 Income tax law which lifts the burden of taxation from the shoulders of the masses and places it on those better able to bear it, the rich. 5 The law extending parcels post increasing weight limits reducing postal charges. 6 The law creating a federal la bor employment bureau. 7 The law creating a secretary of labor in tho president's cabinet. 8 Rural credits law givng finan cial freedom, long delayed justice, long time loans, low interest, to the farmers. 9 Federal trades commission law aiding nnd protecting honest busi ness, curbing lawless trusts. 10 Seamen's law humanizing la bor conditions on shipboard and les sening the dangers of ocean travel. 11 Clayton amendment to anti trust law preventing control of big corporations by few men, declaring that "labor is; not a commodity." 12 Alaska railway law opening America's storehouse to the people. 13 Eight-hour labor law on all government work. 14 Law providing government in Burance on ship cargoes. IB Ho furnished government mon ey to aid in moving farmers' crops to market when Wall Street- was holding money for speculative purposes. 16 He averted a threatened panic nt outbreak of the war by offering to use government money to relieve the business situation. 17 He perfected 29 peace treaties with other nations, thereby greatly lessening the danger of war. He is now urging congress to pass tho following laws: 1 A tariff commission law, tak ing tho tariff out of politics, politics out of tho tariff and regulating it on scientific business principles. 2 Inheritance tax law. 3 A law taxing munitions of war, 4 Child labor law. 6 A merchant marine shipping law curbing and controlling the great est of all trusts, the shipping trust. He has kept us out of war, main tained a strict neutrality, strength' ened and extended the Monroe doc. trine to South American countries He has refused to bo forced into a war of revenge or conquest with Mexico, has extended the hand of friendship rather than the mailed fist More progressive legislation has been enacted during the WilBon ad ministration than in the previous 40 years, vitally affecting the people's wefare. The "empty dinner pail" slogan is notably absent, much to the dis comfiture of the Republican spell binders. Candidates Hughes' speeches will be his own undoing before tho cam paign is over. In his frenzied ambi tion ho is not reckening with the good sense of the American people and presumes on their ignorance. His party managers may yet have to call him down. WHO OWNS MEXICO? Tho people of the United States do not want war with Mexico. The Mex ican people do not want war with us, And both President Wilson and Car ranza have manifestly done every. thing in their power to avert war. What is it, then, that. menaces the peace of these neighboring countries ? It dates far back of the Columbus raid. That outrage upon the rest dents of one of our border towns was the logical outcome of conditions for which tho Mexican people were in no wise responsible. Worse than that! Tho Mexican people were really in noccnt victims or traitors in our midst. For it is charged upon the highest authority that the raid was inspired and arranged for in our own country! Do you get the full meaning of that Statement? Benedict Arnold was not more guilty of treason. Tho secret service of this govern ment has a long arm and a strong arm. The net may yet be drawn on tho "higher-up." It is fair to as sume that President Wilson did not disclose all of the facts in his pos session when ho declared officially a few days after the raid that: "There were, persons alone tho bor der actively engaged in creaFtlnt fric tion between the governments of the United States and the de facto gov ernment of Mexico for the purpose of bringing about intervention in tho in terest of certain owners of Mexican properties." There you have itl The gentle- men who want war with Mexico arc the gentlemen who "have Mexican ful lot They prate about "patriotism." They clamor for preparedness. They have tried to plunge the country Into a hysteria of fear that we are going to be thrown into war with.Germany or England or Japan. These American "investors" In Mexico millionaires are using ev ery instrument they can control their money, their newspapers, their magazines, their political influence, all their "dark and devious ways," to bring about "intervention." Inter vention moans war. War means blood, and killing, and bereaved fam ilies, and unmentionable horrors. And all for what? Profits! Privilege Profits I Who owns Mexico? Really owns it? In the ownership of Mexico wo find the real menace to the peace between Mexico and tho United States. Amer lean capitalists oro desperately at tempting to have tho flag follow their investments. 7 hey who own Mexico are the ones who want war. Shall these powerful interests be permitted to succeed in their' plot? ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE. NOTE THE DIFFERENCE AN ILLOGICAL CANDIDATE Mr. Hughes is thus left in tho" po sition of a candidate with nothing to offer save quarrelsome criticism of acts which have been performed under tho most trying circumstances, to the satisfaction of the great ma jority of voting and thinking citizens of the United States. He is therefore a candidate who :an offer no logical reason why he should be elected. Harrisburg Pa triot THE GRADUAL PROCESS Here is the way Col. Henry Wat terson sizes up the situation in the Louisville "Courier-Journal:" Charles E. Hughes was strongest as an aspirant for the presidency im mediately after his nomination. He was weaker yesterday morning than he was on the day he was nominated, He is weaker this morning than he was yesterday morning. i LEFT IN THE DARK We know what Mr. Wilson is, nnd what he probably would be in a sec ond term. At least, he has been through the fire. What Mr. Hughes would be and what policies, both in foreign nnd domestic affairs, ho would most actively and forcefully promote as to all this which 19 vital, his speech leaves us more in tho dark than in the light Springfield (Mass Republican. MUST COME CLEARER He has been a statesman. He may become a statesman again. But for the present he is a politician engaged in tho politician s" business of case. makng. He is tearing down without buildng up, and until he reveals capacity for building up, the man whose vote is controlled by his intel ligence nnd not by partisan prejudice will subject his public utterances, in eluding his speech of acceptance, to considerable discount. Brooklyn Ea gle (Ind). PITIABLE Mr. Hughes' address is a little short of pitiable. How much more insplr ing his utterances would have been if he had outlined a constructive pro. gramme and offered a remedy for what he considers the dangerous po. licies of President Wibon. As it Is his speech Is base political stuff which will appeal only to the deep-eyed par tisans of the republican party. Springfield State Register. " Unable to make any headway with their slogan "Anything to Beat Wil son," tho Republicans have changed it to "Blame everything on Wilson." Mr. Hanley Is another of the strong Progressives whose principles lie deeper than party expediency, and who refuse to be delivered by George Perkins to Mr. Hughes. your rtr5 Cleaned and Wilson has opened the way for the business man to prosper. He is pros pering. Under Wilson ho will con tinuo to prosper. The people of tho United States do not wish a war of conquest in Mex ico. If Wilson is President their wish es will be respected. THE OLD ADAGE FITS Mr. Hughes is lawyer enough to know tho old adage, "When you have poor ca.?e, abuse tho other side." He has not hesitated to adopt It He tries to tear down, but he has no sug gestion for building up. It is but just to say that tho candi date has made an earnest and studi ous essay at a hard task. But it is no trumpet call, there is in it not a njptive nor a phrase nor a note to arouse the already rather dispirited republicans to ardor and the flamo of enthusiasm. It is "hard" read ing and by all tho millions of vot ers, save tho few thousands in Car negie Hall last night, it must be read or not known at all. Boston Post. The road to recovery is not always Between a "tried-out" suit that is shapeless and be-draggled, and the same suit after it has passed through our hands and received the new look which we impart to it Shapeliness and neatness take the place 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 WORK GUARANTEED Vale, Oregon. jj . CLASSIFIED ADS 1 Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii FOUND A purse near the hitching chains in Vale. Owner may have same by calling at the Enterprise office and describing the purse nnd its contents. FOR SALE One brown reed baby cariage with hood.. Call at, this offlco or phone 138-F-3. Jul. 22-tf. FOR SALE Ono three burner gas oline stove-in good condition. Cheap. Enquire at Enterprise office. 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