THE OREflON "STATESMAN, SAIEM. OREGON " SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1920 1 . - .4 ft GOVERNOR'S JACKSON DAY SPEECH DELIVERED Alt PORTLAND FRIDAY He Itevlewe! iHi Administration jor the Past Three Years, and Several of the Newspapers of the Stat Hare Taken This to Mean aa Out lino of the Issue; of the Campaign an They Will be Fought Oat In the Next Contest for the Office of Governor, With Himself tu a Candidate in November for Keelection. (Governor Walter M. Pierce was the chief speaker at the Jackson day banquet of the Democratic hosts at Portland on Friday ever nlnr. Several newspapers have said Governor Pieree'a speech was the initial outline of the issues to l.o fought out In the next cam paign for governor of Oregon, with himself as the Democratic rontestant. This makes of jthat speech a matter which is of wide public interest. On this account, it is worth printing in full, which is done in' the following:) Permit me to express my appre 'fVlation to the members of the Jackson Club for the conrtesiesi rJnd kindnesses extended to me fcrhrough the almost quarter of a f- century that I have Attended these I meetings. I will ever remember the high honors you have accord ed me as private citizen, as sena tor and as governor. The annual Jackson Day com ing together is the largest gath ering in this state of those who be lieve in the ideals of Jefferson and Jackson, Bryan and Wilson. It is both fitting and proper that on each recurring Eighth of Janu ary we should meet In this our metropolitan city, to celebrate in song and story the achievements of the great founders of the Demo cratic Party, the political organ ization to which we pledge alleg iance. The people of this state have highly honored me. I have served two terms in the State Senate, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Sen ator in 1912, twice the nominee of our party for the governorship and was elected in 1922 by a large ma- j Lj the use of unlimited money in jority. a victory made possible byjjthle summer of 1924. anl voted the hard, persistent work of you who are gathered around this ban-1 auet board, as well ks thousands of pers throughout the state. Hav- mg served as enter executive oi I f4e state of Oregon-for thre4 fulHpropony for primary education, B years, I come now to report to should be repealed, and in its A-you of what has Jbeen done under jplace :-n income tax law enacted, 4he present administration, which jtlijr cutire sum derived fron this f ?'jompletes tonight three-fourhs of iinrone tax to be given to primary fne term ror wnicn it waf commis- wuuru uj mil pcuiJie ui iiie mme. i .- - In the 1ST sneer hp a delivered in I the fall and summer of 19 22. I kept emphatically before the poo- ple in every address the necessity! fo? tax reduction and redlstriau-h tion of the burdens of government, j I stfil believe It to be the vital aud trt.l property tax. ,s i:rjus inade naramount issue before the neonlel foliate and antiauatd. The svs- of the state of Oregon. Ther-3 are! otner important issues, out the great, unsettled question before I t i , a i J - . rt , - I I i ue eieciorae iouay is: anait real I property in Oregon be confi&cat- f ed by taxation? fclevrn years ago this January James Withycombe succeeded Os- waid West'as governor. At that! strong boxes; fortuaei -o repre timift te cost of state government! $-infd in incomes fiom niofes- in all its activities wa $3,112,000. When I was inaugurated governor. tlee years- ago tonight, the an- r.ual Mate expense had reached the astounding total of $17,485,- i 0S7. Yhls included $2,003,000 for higher education, $2,000,000 for prlmar' education. fl.000.C00 for Foldfcrl-ald, the gasoline tax and ihe automobile license tax.; Of - .... ! tm tolal amotiar 01 state rcyenue for 19Z2. $f.37.289.11 wah de- rived rom a direct tax upon prop- Except one state, Oregon t irUomv TTiirW WaW' Liieamy, inicK, wavy Half in a Moment i, --- 1 -37 ' I I it w ' ! Girls! Try this! wnen oomuinis Ik und hrnihlnr vour hair. Just inola- II ten your hair, brush with a little ernment can be borne, with rela I I "Danderine and brush it through ;tlve ease-if so distributed that the I I Tnnfhitr The effect is startling: present untouched wealth nr ., , . ... - , 11 You can dress your pair imwui- ately and it will appear twice as thick and heavy, an hiobhw i-i y. meury, iauity in admlnistra gleamy, wavy hair, sparkling twith stion. and clumsily adjasted to the lire, tncomparaDiy son, ikf,,i - . i k..nir.ir fh nair. 3Sent bottle of refreshing, frag- e"? J d hcr; tax rant "Danderine" from any: drag (JJf" T Oregon suffer because or toilet counter will do woboot, ..... . - Arr SSn JriUl. faded or .streaked J r constant curling - hnrn the OlOr. t"VX irori any 'i woman's hair. I ! W.LHnV- acts on the'hair 1 I 'liv- fresh showers of .rata and r aunshlne act on CS roes riKht to the roots, i ates nourlshea and strengthens taxed out of existence; so may the I .-Z. .Mnninr falling half andltaluea of real nronertr disannear helping the halt to grow thickJ fcat tin:e had the highest n t cap ita i vy in the Union for stale ac tivities. A determined effort has iijeen made in many states to sup plement the general progeny tax 'tilth ': oiff erent forms of indirect tibaion. Several years ago Call- r.iii &nd Pennsylvania reached i. piace where neither l-vled a tate tax on property. North Car !Ia has now joined t?n eroiip. irul ctner states are approach i.l fr that happy situation j When I was inaugurated gov ri'r there was a deficit in the ijate treasury of almost ,000, resulting from a legislative appro rii.t.en in 1919 of a lare- sum ;han ;he state tax commission was ipo-.ved to levy under th3 six per ;nt constitutional limitation. The levy made in December, 1022, af :r I was elected governor, but be fore I was inaugurated should have been for a sum sufficient to take up the deficit in th: state (treasury, but the board as then Constituted saw fit to mifce the lvy n-ore than $400,000 less than It should have been, thus saddling my administration with the bur densome deficit. j Acting upon my urgent recom mendation, the legislature in 1923 passed an Income tax law. The state tax commission, according fi law, estimated that this income 'tax measure would provide $1.- 0,000 annually. To the aston ishment of everybody there has jbeen collected under the Income tax law passed in 1923 the sum off $2,750,000, and there is per haps $1 SO, 000 yet to be collected. Unfortunately, the voters of the state yielded to the false propa ganda that was spread broadcast it o repeal the income tax law.. U continued effort must be ircbe'e to redistribute the cost of government. The law collecting S',000 TOO by direct levy upon rffucunon. This would leduce materially uie scnooi taxes in .inv lnalirioa in i ha eta'a onH jw-ould reduce the present state joyy from $7,200,000 to $5,200,- Do. Oregon's present system of tax- fction, based as it is on tbe gen- epi is an ever growin r obstacle to tree slate s progress. T.o correct ioiution of our tax probN m Is vi- a . . a . .... . io our xuriner aav.,30 vv niie mineral property nas fiiMist xeachr I he point of soaOrr tAicn, ser' rnies that would ri-som a king: are tucked away U vaults and v.tnal earnings. 3u: ihi.ee are ed by the assessor, who is in- tent upon appraising the city hme, tne stockman s calf or the iarmer s tractor. The greatest Pri'n 01 cangiDie property Is ownea Dy people of moderate 'f'""3 ana 01 comparatively small incomes. Among these taxpayers W Der tapita wealth is very low Ann PI thfiV hnor a aI . , . t ' ' " ...j. av share of the tax bwrden. The ?2la"e8t fmount of I Pid by ,7 "l 7 " - uasc. a ai vjj yi fit system of taxation descrimin ites against the property owner. t"he Oregon ian who buys a bun galow Instead of a bond, or a farm instead of a tax-exempt security, is: penalized for his choice of in vestment, one cannot escape the assessor. The other likely will. Ihis despite the fact that one is joining his interests more insep ir&bly with the interests of the ntiLte an lncrea8ing It9 Talue elsewhere the wealth produced in this state. One becomes a home owner and stable American citi- in. while the other's onlv inter 4t in the state is the money he fan take out of it. Citizens should b taxed in measure aa ihev am ifcle to bear taxes. The vht farmer played a losing game for 8verai years. He however -con tinued to receive the annual oll ffom the assessor, often finding it pfecessary to rn to the hunk and Marrow money to nay his Utm ahiie his city brother, owning no aagioie property, paid, nothinr niperein lies the fairness of the Income tax. He who makes no '"- " uvuiiiiK. e who aoes xajcu a profit from hfa tniiv k,,ai I - - - MU ness pays m proportion to the an.ount of that profit 1 fuuc biiouiu aemana a rriodern tax system. Future state :epansion demands' that the tax jtate justice demands that the iwraen or taxation be fairly dis- upufl u me people, and ;nyoa au property, real and intan l eible. The burdens of 1 ; . . - .w is maae to pay its share. The (general property tax is fallacious u.p.,u.ouiM conditions in Oregon. It li is dlscrlmnatorv an a A-.ri i"rejun uuers Decause of th tno. 1- Tn Z BU w " It Kniited to their ihAuM... fj8 erentually suf- r , through the handicap which I PJ PUCe Upon Oregon's nrnir. hBd development. " i V"" " A state should weigh carefully tax code. Jt is an important It I prosperity. - Jnst as Buta hanv ' " J" w. " w seneracion am under the burden of taxation, for GOVERNOR WALTER M. PIERCE it i a well recognized fact that if taxes absorb the income from pro perty, the value of that property disappears. "The power to tax Is the power to destroy." Our tax code can be made a state asset. It ib now a liability. Under 'its operation money flows inevitably into intangibles. Oregon must grow. We have advanced in industry, in agricul ture, in horticulture, in education, in many ways. To grow and ex pand in the future new sources of Income must be provided if we cre'; to keep pace with our sister states. It is as impossible as it is unjust to expect the general .property tax to provide additional money for our growth and expan sion. In a very short time the state must have new buildings to take care of her ever increasing needs. Many of the institutions are over-crowded. Many are lack ing In equipment. They must have sufficient funds to carry on their , work. Oregon's educational system, the 'bulwark of our democracy, will require more revenue. The appeal of those knocking at the doors of our institutions of learn-ing-muKt be heard, funds.- facil ities equipment, space, instruct ors, must be provided. Attendance at our schools, colleges and uni versities has increased many times faster than our population. It is plain that our, ever increasing school population demands ever growing and expanding education al . institutions. The enormous wealth represented in intangible property must help bear the bur den. ' The" first rule in taxation is fairness in assessment. The in come, tax offers a way to smooth out these Inequalities and justly apportion the tax burden. The income tax is no respector of per son' or class. It exempts none but thos under its rigid- exemption rules. Taxes to pay for the protection or benefit received from the state. It is but fair that income should helpj support, the source from whhih it is derived. Good year or poorj year, the farmer faces the same amount on his tax list. Pros perity or panic, the storekeeper has jto find sufficient money to pay la fixed tax on his buildings and ) stock. Employed or out of work, the home owner watches the tax rate pile up on his bunga low.! The income tax is the erreat- Sst J It is! jeveler in taxation methods. the true index of the taxpay er's ability to pay. It exacts from every one an equal degree of sac lificie. It brings a greater num ber jof citizens to a realization of thei)- responsibilities and duties toward their state and country. It makes them as interested in the affairs of state as the home owner is interested. It's the home own er Who volunteers to defend his homje and country. ' He has some thing to defend. When citizens do iot contribute to the support of government, they are little con cerned about how the revenue is spent. I When the 25.000 of Ore gon's well-to-do citizens, now un taxed, have to pay their share for the privileges they now enjoy, the will become true, citizens, ac tively interested in the affairs of government. - Income tax returns for 1925 show that there was a net , income in Oregon " of $160, 000:000. not counting banks; , Standing timber Is faxed at less in proportion to its actual value than any other kind of property. 1 do not believe that we should sit lldlyby and see the magnifi cent forests of Oregon turned into blackened stumps and the lumber shipped to foreign ports while the citizens of Oregon r derive practi cally no "revenue from this won' derful gift of the Creator. ( 1 1 favor the collection of SI. 00 per thousand feet of all lumber cut-in this state, one-fourth to go to the state to reduce state taxes, one-fourth to go to the irreducible school fund, one-fourth .to go - to the, county where the timber is cut in order to reduce county taxes, and one-fourth to be used, for the reforestation . of cut-over lands which are not suitable for agricul ture. Based on our. present -.cut. this would mean. $1,009,000 an nually In each of these four dif ferent funds. W ore than ninety v . : is per cent of the lumber manufac tured in Oregon finds a market outside the boundaries of our state. A tax of this character would be added to the cost of the product, and therefore very little of the tax would be contributed by the residents of Oregon. This same kind of tax is collected on coal in Pennsylvania and on oil in almost every state in the union. The assessment laws of this state should be so amended that there will be an equitable, honest valuation of all property within the state for assessment purposes. It is illogical, it is a crime unpar donable, to continue to allow large, and baluable properties to escape their just and proper share of the burden. As chairman of the state tax commission I have been largely instrumental in increasing the as sessment of public utilities. When I became governor the Portland Hlectric Power Company was pay ing on an assessment valuation of I $14,479,324.91. For 1026 that company will pay upon a valuation of $20,819,931.52. At the meet ing of the state tax commission last December I prevented a re duction of half a million on this assessment. The Portland Klec tric Power Company has a net earning, after paying taxes and upkeep, of $3,326,193.48. or more than 1 6 per cent on the amount on which they pay taxes. Kven with the increased assessments of the last three years, this most val uable property is not yet paying its just share. The value fixed upon the property of this company by the Public Service Commission of the state of Oregon, upon which that company is allowed to earn dividends, is $71,575,214.62. The actual selling price of the stocks and bonds of the company, is ap proximately $61,000,000. Think of it! Such a property paying tax on $29, 819. 1)31.52. This same condition is true of other utilities in the state of Oregon. Public utilities are especially favored to day by being allowed to earn in terest upon larKe valuations for exceeding the amount for which they are assesed, often far in ex cess of the cost of reconstruction. In every department of state government we have insisted that economy, with efflccicv. be prac ticed and that each department should live within the amount ap propriated for that department. I report to you tonight that this program was carried out. In March. 1924. O- P. lloff. state treasurer, answered the final summons. I appointed: jerterson Myers. He inaugurated reforms in the state treasurer's office, espe cially in the collection of inheri tance taxes, which has brought into the trea&ury about a million dollars during the last two years. I urced the legislature to estab lish the same rate, on insurance companies that are in effect in the state of California, but tbey failed to do so4 However, the me thod of fixing the fees for the in surance premfums was changed from net to grqs and has result ed in the collection of twice as much money as formerly. That de partment now j'yteins more man $600,000 annually. The cost of state government has heen reduced in every depart ment where possible. The cost has increased only in- those depart ments where increase was neces sary by reason of caring for a larger number of Inmates. Not withstanding the severe loss of revenue when the income tax Jaw was repealed we were still able to reduce the ta levy for 1926 to $7,200,830.79, showing-a clear rer duction from the last year of the Olcott administration to the third year of my administration of $2. 175.45iT.32 in the amount levied by the state for schools, roads and other activities. Definite progress has been made in reducing and redistributing the state tax burden. I informed the legislature in session a year ago that I would under no condition consent to further Increase of the tax tipon property for state pur poses, and pointed ' the way by which they could, by law, secure increased revenue, from indirect sources. 'Acting on that recom mendation, they Imposed a tax of ten per cent upon all cigarettes and amoking tobacco. Cigar 'were omitted - as a matter of compro mise. Unfortunately, these; two revenue measures were held up by means of the referendum and will he voted on next November. I be lieve these measures will bo sus tained by the people at thepolls, anl ;if m there will be no deficit in the state treasury one year from today whep I will have com pleted my first term as governor. This: in face of the fact that we assumed and wiped out a deficit from the preceding administration of nearly half , a million, and have reduced the annual burden of tax ation by over two mHlions. The state penitentiary, a trouble under all previous administrations has run true to form under mine. In a small enclosure there are nearly 50t) men incarcerated, as a punishment to them and as a protection to society. Three years ago today few of the inmates were working. Today all- able-bodied mn are working at some useful profitable employment. Acting upon my sueffestion. the legislature appronriated the same sum of money. $ 20,000. as had been appropriated by the nrevious legislature for penitentiary main tenance, giving me the right to use $100,000 of that sum to es tablish industries. I rerort to vou and Io the electorate of the state that the penitentiary win main tained for the vears 1923 and 1924 for the $20,000. a clear savine of $100,000. and approxi mately $1X00 was returned to the state treasury unused. The firt money used from the $100,000 revolving fund was for the con struction of a livdro-electrio plant, using the small stream which had for years flowed through the pen itentiary enclosure, and which had been used onlv in a minor wny. This plant develones 240 electric horsepower. It furnishes our light and povrer. a saving to the state or $12,000 annually. This hydro-electric plant alone is worth more to the state than the entire $100,000 entrusted to me three years ago. e had iut started in a fair way in the flax industry when the disastrous fire occurred on Sep tember 17. 1923. wiping out the entire plant. With prison labor it was at once reconstructed, includ ing extensive machine shops, large sheds and one of tbe largest fireproof warehouses in the state. We have on hand at the present time a large amount of flax straw, flax seed, spinning tow. Ion line fibre and uoholstering tow. It has heretofore taken two -ears to turn flay sran- into salable products, as it is harvested so late in the summer that if cannot he retted under the old plan until the fol lowing summer. It is believed now that: a plan has been perfected at the penitentiary s whereby the straw can be retted in the winter and dried artificially, so that the summer's eron can be worked up during the following winter. In surance in the sum of $120,000 is now being carried on the flax products. It requires no compli cated mnthematical cab -illation to nrove that the flax industry will be a large factor in making the penitentiary self-sustaining. We are now manufacturing shoes for the inmates of th peni tentiary and some of the other in stitutions. We should also make the clothing. Our automobile li cense plates should be made at the penitentiary. At present the secretary of state is buying them from a Portland firm at a cost of We have a $10 Down, Balance $6 KIMBALL PIANO $95 BAUMEISTER PIANO 5185 STETSON PIANO 135 SCHUBERT PIANO .. . . $175 KRAKGUER PIANO $145 ADAM SCHAAF PIANO . $225 HEALY PIANO $225 STARCK PIANO . . . $250 BRADFORD PIANO $160 SCHAEFFER PIANO ... $190 SCHUBERT PIANO $125 , BRADFORD PIANO .L::. .. $140 STARR PIANO $130 CLARENDON PIANO .. . $365 BACHMAN PIANO $245 BENNETT PIANO ...... .. .. $350 SCHULZ PIANO $215 BEH BROS. PIAN(X 1.1 - $345 WASHBURN PIANO $345 REMINGTON Pi ANO 1 .1 1: $350 We will accept any used piano at! full purchase price any time in WILL BUILDING about- 13 cents per l pair. Ohio makes her plates In the state pen itentiary at a cost of cents per pair. Why not make a similar saving in Oregon? If would save the taxpayers many thousands of dollars. ' 1 .j. Plans are now being perfected for the manufacture of waste pro ducts from the flax industry into paper pulp for making linen; pa per. The state penitentiary can be made self-sustaining. It will re quire some time and. the unselfish devotion and cooperation on the part of the state hoard of control and of all state officials. Several years ago alav iwas passed creating the Industrial Ac cident commission, which allows employers to insure with the state atrainst accidents to their, em ployees. For several year!,,! this commission cot the taxpayers l 00,000 annually. When 1 be came governor I asked the legis lature to withdraw this contribu tion. At that time there was a 'large numler of delinquent assess ments due from employers; and manv employers of labor were re jecting the commission and in suring in private liability compan ies. I appointed two new commis sioners and thev changed the pol icy o' the commission. I report to you that practicallyall of the del innnent assessments have been collected. The financial condi tion of the comjnission is lwe than ever before, and manv of the employers who reiected the com mission in the past are now ac cepting the state insurance. Wo have a fine clinic where about 90 patients are treated daily. Many are restored to useful occupations. Iast vonr the commission cared for HO, 000 accidents, and the de pendents in I'll fatal cases. At the 'present time we are contrib uting to the support of -50 wi dows, and more than 1.000 child ren. The law should he made com pulsory in all painful occupations. The benefits of the slate accident insurance should be extended to include everv automobile owner in the state . The securing of a ftat license to operate a car sliould automatically place its owner under the benefits of this law. This would innre compensation to those who suffer from the acts of reckless drivers. Nine years ago Oregon com menced work on an extremely am bitious highway program. When I became governor. outstanding bonds and contracts which com pelled the issuance of further bonds, totaled $3S. 700.000.. It will take a . generation to pay, off this obligation. When the present administration came inro office it was compelled to face tbis enormous debt, together with manv unfinished links, bridfes. manv miles of road demanding j construction and an ever irereas- i ing cost of upkeeo. At my i-pecial reauest an additional cent was added to the gasoline tnv. The highway commission which 1 ap- : pointed has met promptly the, in- J terest on the bonds and will have redeemed $2,700,000 in highway bonds by the end of this year.; Many bridges have "been erected, j and 300, miles. of highways con structed. The total new construc tion, with the aid from the coun ties and the federal government, has cost approximately $10,000. '000 in the last three years, and IE big stock of used pianos. We offer this entire unusual prices and extremely easy terms. Mdn toward a new piano. Every piano fully guaranteed. i l i lYour Leading Music in the same period there has been expended for upkeep and better ments more than $6.000',000. The engineers of the highway depart ment have perfected a system; of oiLing the macadam which , bids fair to revolutionize road construc tion. Some of the finest highways in America today are the oiled macadams of Oregon. Seven years ago 1 wrote the, first market rnl bill in this state. Under the operation of the law, $ 1 2,000. u00-has been expendeo on the construction of 'rural roads. We have at the present time hun dreds of miles of good roads. In this state as the result of the op eration of this law. . The new boys' training-school at Wood burn is now practically completed, and 12.". boys will be moved to the new building this month. T recommended to the leg islature a year "ago that at the present site of the toys' training school there should he -constructed a reformatory, an institution intermediate between the boys' training school and the peniten tiary, for ihe purpose of cartnf? for manv of the firt offenders sent to- the penitentiary, it will be possible to bring many of these bacQ to the rieht paths of living, and they should not be confined with flie older criminals at the state prison. To this reformatory should also be sent the older 'in corrigible boys now at the boys' training school. Young' men in such an institution, if provided with the proper facilities ?nd proper management, should earn their own living while incarcerat ed. They should also lenrn some useful trade that will assist them in securing employment when thei' are discharged. - ! t The irrigation districts organ ised under state laws have pre sented a very difficult p rob rem. I'nder the operation of our sjtaf. rtes giving the state authority -to guarantee interest for five yi-ars upon irrigation bonds, a jtotalj of Stl3.0Q.n00. has been ' issued 4" by various irrigat ion districts. Inter est on many, of tlieFe bonds had been guaranteed by the state. The , state was at least morally, if jnot I legally, bound, bv reason of cm J mitments made, to finish the Jor dan YaUcv and Tnmalo projects which had been organized under t lie Carey act with partially com pleted plants. Roth projects hate. been completed and water is ,nnw available to irrigate ajl irrigable land within these two districts. Land under the Jordan Vallev nroiect wFll cost the settler abi?ut $34 an acre, including water, the cheapest project in the west. J The state now has outstanding $2,073,760 in bonds which it is sued to pay' interest- for irrigatSor - THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Norman K. Tully, D. D., Pastor 10:45 A.M. The Gommunipn and Recep tion of Nevf Members I 7:30 P. M. The Most Terrible Lock-Out If you hae no church, .home, come and worship withj us. n r r n Dealer; For 45 Years thly 432 STATE STREET districts. -Most of this. will, prove a total loss to the state. the?e bonds are a general state: nhlla-" lion they must be paid lit full by the taxpayers of Oregon. j LA carefully organized rhtpalgu is being planned at the present time with, some sof our mtjst brll-' liant men Un the background. Io compel this state to takeup aud pay the irrigation bonds Issued by the various irrigation districts. I am opposed to saddling th.so obligations npon the general tax payer. Many of these Irrigation districts ; were never desire by .the reaf farmer, but were pfomote 1 by schemers who were iseekg their own personal gain i induc ing the farmer to hocomrtjn nait of the irrigation districts. There are many hundreds of thonest. hard-working farmers who have spent- many years upon their Ir r:gated farms' who now fhd that their homes are being taken to meet the obligations of the district.- It was a : crime unpardon able to force the farmers. of this state into these irrigation dis tricts against their own iffll and iudgment and rob them If their haid-earned homes. It would bn still a greater crime to unload upon the general taxpayej-?theo irrigation protects, many of which have issued three times as much in -bonds as the project won Id cost under honest const ruction. I Personally. I am a firm believer in the prohibition law. An honest earnest effort has been ilhade to enforce all laws, including the Eighteenth Amendment, and cer tainly there is existing inlpregoti today a better condition lof law enforcement than three ye$rs ago. Worldwide travelers asseft that Oregon today f the driest state in the Union. The state rohibf tion department is being handled honestly, efficiently and fiarles'---ly. Orepon is anything but' a paf? place for the illicit distiller . or, the bootlegger. Iiw enforcement throughout this state is the same " as it is j throughout the fnation. It's success is and must be meas ured by the degree of cooperation . between citizen and official. On this 111th anniversary of the Itattle of New Orleans, we who believe in the Integrity a"V character of Andrew Jackson, he who follows so closely in the foot steps of that master builder. Thomas Jefferson, are facing a perilous situation. Our f gallant leaders. Woodrow WilsJh and Willam Jennings Dryan, sensed -the,oncoming conflict between the privlliged few and the almost un organized valient believer fit equal rights (or all and special pviliP'es for nohe. America standi today (fnntinniKl on pse 8)1 i v stock at most to mo one year r y-x a f t S ; . is . ; . ' ' ii !;-; i - I; iKWr;"' fcealthand luxuriant-