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About The east Oregonian. (Pendleton, Umatilla County, Or.) 1875-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1904)
I I Àliti with h P up every Friday at Pendleton. Oregon, by the OREGONIAN PITllI-lllNt. COMPANY. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••esessessssesss • • • • • • • • • < ► FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1504. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. • < ► • < ► • < > • • • • • • • • • • • • • • :: Published EAST An honest man here lies at rest. As e’er God with ills image blest; The friend of man. the friend of truth. The friend of age. the guide of youth; Few hearts like his with vir tue warmed. Few heads with knowledge so informed; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this. —Robert Burns. Back from the summer vacation the high school maiden has come; from the combat at arms with Dan Cupid, to the musty old "sentence” and “sum"; the sweet goo-goo eyes so bewitching will pour over books in the night, and the perilous plots of the seashore, will rush from the mind in affright! The mashed and the masher will vanish, the plot and the plotter will flee, and only desert of knowledge will flaunt its wierd phantoms for thee’ Forget the sweet words of the charmer; shake off the sweet dream of the shore, for soon the professor’s tall shadow will measure its length on the floor’ i l rr i i; are printed today, is written in the literary president’s usual forceful, style, and gives evidence of much study and genuine polish. The most noticeable characteristic in the entire letter is an apparent nervousness, which Indicates between the lines that I lie president is serious ly wondering which point Judge Par ker and the opposition press will tack ’most vigorously. Every statement is fortified with sweeping justification, so there be no unguarded point, every is retrenched with studious care with every policy supported abundance of argument. The letter is of exceptional literary merit and is up to the standard of Mr. Roosevelt’s productions, but his attempt to justify the large navy, th, expensive army and general extrava- gance in war preparations, will not satisfy a large proportion of American people. His defense of canal and the necessary up to ■ the acquisition of tl r this government is able and shows the Governor LaFollette. of Wisconsin, is the C. P. Strain of the “Badger State." His break with the regular trust republicans of Wisconsin was over the question of raising rail road assessments. He contended that they did not pay taxes In pro- portion to their earnings, and that the farming communities and visible property were being oppressed to keep up the state expenses. He also stands for a direct primary law and an Inheritance tax and is one of the most advanced thinkers in the party. of Wisconsin Yet the monopolies are trying to down him for fear of the success of his righteous princi- plea. It now looks as if Wisconsin might be reckoned in the Parker column, if the surface dissatisfaction is "nervy” enough to scratch tickets in the voting booths. One of the most happy conditions that could be imagined. exists in Umatilla county financial circles. It is found in the tact that scarcely a dollar of foreign capital is drawing interest out of the county. What few farm mortgages and other In terest-bearing debts exist pay inter est to local capitalists and local banks and the interest money is thus kept in circulation in the county, Formerly thousands of dollars in mortgages were held by t'ureign com- - pan les. vast sums of interest being sent out of the county every year.. This interest bill was alwacs paid first, too. as it was usually impossi ble to "stand it off." Local debts could be left alone to accumulate, but the foreign interest charge must be paid. This condition has changed until very little, if any outside of local capital and state school funds, is carried in Umatilla county. This condition does not mean that invest ments have been discouraged, but that local institutions have become strengthened until they are able to meet local demands. Finding the meeting of the demo cratic editors to be one of the most representative assemblages ever con gregated in Sew York, and failing to hear a disrespectful remark against the administration or its policy, for it to attack, the Associated Press (which is Just an innocent newt- gathering affair, by the way.) can say nothing against this representa tive meeting of American editors, except that it gave the "rebel yell." as the correspondent alleges. Thus does this collossal monopoly try to poison the minds of the present gen eration by printing only the side of the story that would appeal to preju dice. It leaves the impression that this meeting was a disorderly rabble of revolutionists, ready to overthrow the government. This kind of “news" is unjust to the American public, and is poisonous for the young generation to read, because it is false, and builds up 1 false impres- sions. where the truth and right would answer much better. The morning Oregonian in Oregon and other leading papers in the country will | put this false impression for- ward, , and conduct a campaign of p> ejudice with which to poison the minds of the young. The constant complaint of Gover nor Carter, of Hawaii, that the laws of the United States are ruinous to the islands, is but one of the pin pricks of imperialism. The land laws of the United States applied to the islands i prevent development, Long leases cannot be obtained on government land; it will not pay sugar companies to expend enormous sums in preparing plantations for but five year leases and so capital is turning away and the resources are not being rapidly developed. Rev. W. E. Potwine graphically outlined the situation in Hawaii in a letter to the East Oregonian some time ago, when he said the natives were indignant to think that all the reve- nues now raised on the island iridus- tries go to the United States treas- ury and not into local improve ments, as formerly, industry lan- guishes and the people are dissatis fied. Laws must be made to fit every colony or we must go out of the colonization business. You can not force the full-grown state and the struggling ocean island territory There are w< ■ak points ment. as there are in ail state pap' no matter who prepares them. taken as a whole, it is an al fense of republican principles, dash of fearlessness and ardor to give it spice. An Eastern capitalist w ho vi Umatilla county recently, in cor sation with this paper, expressed sur prise at the extremely democ ralle spirit of Western capitalists and wealthy men. In the course of a day this stranger was introduced to about 10 men in this city whose net income from wheat this year averaged l»5e clear profit, after ail expenses paid, Their gross amount to »20.009 these men was found in a pal overalls on the street mingling the crowd, talking hog. alfalfa, tie. wheat and p wing, and coui be singled out from the c their appearance of their acti< This provincial Easterner dout their prominence in the financial i business world, after he had sun ed their overalls an« Such an income in the Ea>t u have puffed up the little capita until it would have been imposa to reach them with a to-foot p much less, touch sho in a crowd of farmers an*, men in the street. Comm money and democratic spir ed is the charm of the XV enticing the best people East to the broader sph< West. The statement in the East Oregor ian recently from Vice Preside! George A. Peebles. iit the Easter Oregon State Normal School to the effect that the school needs a new dormitory, should be remembered the legislators from this county, the coming session of the legislature The need of this worthy institution is being more and more thoroughly felt, year by year, as it offers an op portunity to Eastern Oregon students to finish a useful education, near at home, at a minimum cost. The s< should be so equipped with accor dations that it would Invite stu until its greatest capacity is rea> It is one of two state institution* it. Eastern Oregon, the other being th< experimental farm at Union. Th- state institutions are grouped within a small territory in the western part of the state, and the legislature < an- not fail to realize the need for the fullest development of the Weston school, in order to accommodate the growing population and consequent demand for education in this part Oregon. About 110.009 Worth of threshing machines and combined harvesters have been destroyed by lire in Urna tilla county this season, fully thirds of this loss having been ed by smut explosions in the chines. It seems that it was tit the farmers to begin a fight on in wheat fields, just as the orchar<l- lsts are fighting pests in the orch- ards. The repetition of these farm losses is assured as long as the ges of smut continue and the bility of insuring machinery fainter every time these happen. The Oregon J Agriculture College should be able to furnish tl farmer with a certain cur The formaldehyde application ii ommended by the Washington lege. The formaldehyde can be pur- chased at about 50 cents per pound, and one pound will treat from 4o to 59 bushels of wheat. The treatment kills the smut without killing the germ of the grain, and is applied the same as vitriol. Count Okurna estimate» that if the Russo-Japanese war shall continue into next year, and Japan's territorial army be called into service, Japan's expenditure will rise to 2,000.090 yen (about 11.090,000) a day, and that at the end of i hat year, even with the strictest economy, there will be a de flcit of 500.090.090 yen, which will have to be met by war loans and ad- Vances from the Bank of Japan, "After two years’ war service,” the count says, "over halt of our ships will have been used up, and a consid erable sum will be needed to provide new ones in their places and repair the others. The majority of the big war guns will be useless and new ones will have to be made. 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