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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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 the arrest and
:onviction 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
md first-class work. Price list for
the. asking. ThB Burrell Studio, On
tario, Oregon. adv-l-30tf.
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE A
modern, five-room bungalow, best resi
dence section in tho city. Asphalt
pavement and all improvements. 2700,
half cash, balance easy. AH cash at
$2500. Must leave on account health.
Chas. Lowry, Marshfield, Oregon.
ENGRAVED CARDS
The Enterprise is now connected
with some of the leading engraving
houses in the country. Seo our latest
styles of engraved card work. All
work delivered within one weelt from
date of order.
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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