East Oregonian : E.O., January 30, 1906, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

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DAILY EAST OIIEGOXIAV, PENDLETON, OUEGON, TIEKDAY, JANUARY 30, lt0.
PACE THREE.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE ON REFORM
The following entertaining address
was delivered by William Allen White,
he talented story writer of Kanini,
before a recent meeting of the Na
tional Editorial- association:
This Is a day of reform. Everybody
Is engaged In reforming some one else.
The preachers are reforming the
newspapers, the newspapers are re
forming the politicians, the politicians
are reforming the railroads, the rail
roads are reforming the tariff mag
nates, the tariff magnates are reform
ing Standard Oil, and Standard Oil Is
reforming the preachers, so the happy
circle Is completed, and when the
bulldog of reform finally does catch
his tall and swallow It and turn him
self lnsldo out, we Bhull have a fine
country.
Generally speaking, most reformers
are currying their reform as a side
line. They make traveling expenses
on It. It doesn't cost the preachers
anything to reform the newspapers.
In fact, the preachers get a good deal
of top column next to reading matter
space out of It that they would hard
ly get If they devoted themselves to
the perseverance of the saints and
higher .criticism. It doesn't cost the
politicians anything to rerorm the
railroads not that any one knows of.
The politicians keep right on riding
on transportation from the law de
partment of the railroads while
whooping It up for rallrond reform.
And It doesn't cost the railroad pres
idents anything to be for tariff re
form, and, what's more. It doesn't
seem to hurt the tariff. If the rail
road magnates were as serious about
tariff reform as they are to see that
the trusls get their rebates, there
would be some tariff reform.
Tlio Nntionnl Punching Hag. '
And the beneficiaries of the tariff
aren't losing much by reforming
Standard OH. Any one can reform
Standard Oil. It Is the punching bag
In the national reformatory that we
all try our muscle on. Standard oil
and Its associates form a whole car
nival of pleasure one round of Joy
for the reformers. In one booth are
the Rockefellers and Henry Rogers
and their friends, and It coBts nothing
to throw at these babies, and every
time you hit a baby In the Standard
OH booth you get a fine cigar, two
babies two cigars, and three babies a
subscription to Everybody's Magn
zlne. The only plnce In this bright and
more or less beautiful world where
reform takes tho hair and the hide
and the tall thereto appertaining Is In
a newspaper office. It costs a news
paper to go Int othe reform business.
If you tackle the beer trust, brother
editors, you will hear from It when
you make a contract for Vlgornl and
the beef extracts.
If you tnckle the rnllroads you will
get a chance to see more scenery to
the snuare mile when you travel than
you have been used to observing. If
you tackle the politicians they will
start another paper which won't hurt
you particularly except as It Is a dis
grace to the honorable profession In
which you are shining. If you whack
away at Standard OH there Is danger
of losing your mica axle grease and
paraffin candles advertising, and If
you are for Sunday closing you are In
danger of losing your tobacco and ci
gar and malt nutrrne advertis
ing. Yet you must reform something.
The people demand reform, and If
they don't get It they will stop the
paper. After a long session of mecll
tatlon and prayer the Oasette has
come to the conclusion that the only
safe thing to reform Is the Russian
navy. It needs the reform and the
c7jir only gets our valuable papers
through a clipping bureau, and If he
should decide to blister the varnish
off several clipping bureaus no one
would care much.
Jump Onto the Oiar.
The thing for all true reformers to
do, therefore, Is to go after the csar.
Did you notice that our beloved pres
ident, the most exalted trust buster,
the reformerlsslmo, has passed a few
hot ones to the czar? That means that
he Is merely getting his breath,
sparring for position In the big home
fight. He knows it won't hurt the
czar, who Is always for peace any
way, and It will give the president a
chance to get his wind in the Panama
matter.
The president Is a successful re
former. He has done many useful
things In n fine way. He has had the
big national stage and has been under
the limelight for 15 years. He has
won the championship belt for four
years and has been In the heavy
weight class for a long time.
More than that, he gets his gate
money regularly, whether he wins
or loses, but sometimes when the tel
ephone In the Gazette office is having
a fit and the man with set mouth and
haughty air Is In the business office
DITCHING ALL WINTER,
stopping hit paper, there comes a
funny thought to the editorial mind: j
What do you suppose Roosevelt would ,
do If he were running the Oyster Bay
Tribune? Would he go right after the ,
gamblers and saloon keepers and vlo-
lators of the law who lived In his.
town? Would he prtnt the Item that;
snowea now ine local banker was
gouging In his Interest account?
Would he dare to go to the court
house and get the personal property
tax list and run It? Or would he
consider the larger good and take his
typewriter In hand and blaze away
at the practice of polygamy In Utah, !
the iniquity of the ruit trust In Call- j
fornla and the violation of the game '
laws In Mnlne?
It Is one thing to be a president
with $50,000 a year raining on the
tin roof, whether you work or noi, i
and quite another thing to be the edl- j
tor of a country paper In a board side- !
walk town, dependent upon retaining
the good graces of the people for your I
board, and keep. There Is some-
thing Inspiring In the sweetly solemn
thought that you don't fear Saturday
night that gives the president the,
courage In busting the trusts which a'
country editor, knowing thut the boys
are tired of taking orders for their
week's wages on the clothing store, ,
some way doesnt feel. I
If Itooscvclt Wore a Country Editor. '
Roosevelt Is a brave man, but if he
were running a. country paper and
found that the chairman of the print- 1
lng committee In the council was
getting a good many orders for pau
per groceries In his store, contrary to
the letter of the statute, do you sup
pose the president would open up In
the next week's paper and print all
the news?
Grover Cleveland did a brave thing
In sending the troops to Chicago, but
If he had been running the Buzzard's
Hay Weekly World do you suppose
he would have had the nere to jump
on the druggist for Illegal sales of
liquor whose wife came over to sit
up with the Clevelnnd children when
they had scarlet fever? Joe Cannon
Is supposed to be Indifferent to public
clamor, but If he were running a lit
tle country daily don In Illinois, and
a lot of advertisers came to the of
fice to tell him that they would order
out their ads If he didn't stop print
ing the news about the smallpox and
driving trade from town, what would
he do?
The eternal cheerfulness of Presi
dent Roosevelt Is remarked the
world over. A man can afford to be
cheerful who doesn't have to take
anything out In trade and gets all his
salary In cash. But, supposing after
he had plugged away for 20 years
making the best possible paper for
Oyster Bay he should find out that a
number of his neighbors and best
friends were encouraging a young
man to come down from New York
and start a bright, snappy paper and
were telling this youngster that if
some man would Just come to Oys
ter Hay with a little enterprlze he
would have no trouble In running
Rocsevelt out of town In a year or so.
wouldn't that take the kinks out of
his grin and make his face look like
nn aggravated cose of before and
after?
Preaching and Pie.
He can preach the simple life and
have pie for breakfast In his present
high estate, hut If he were running a
country paper there would be Bono
considerate critics In Oyster Bay and
vicinity who would read the flies of
his paper and papte things In the
scrnpbooks and throw them up to him
every time he changed his mind.
And now all this brings up the
question. What are we here for, and
If so, at how much s line? Here we
are, American editors, grunting our
collar buttons off on the lever that
moves the world, with the old handle
flying up every few days, knocking
out our teeth, taking 50 per cent of
the legal rate for printing, while
statesmen ore taking 150 per cent of
their pny; here we are, galloping up
and down the earth, carrying other
people's sorrow and taking our pay
In due bills on St. Peter, and all for
whnt ?
For the fun of getting the smell of
news Ink In our noses, for the Joy of
ripping open the familiar old ex
changes; for the pleasure of making
a three days' speech every 90 days at
the note counter of the bank, for the
delectation of getting complimentary
tickets to church soclnls and for the
swpet satisfaction of being too un
popular ever to be asked to act as
pallbearer at funerals.
It Is a great business, this news
paper business. And reforming the
world Is n mighty happy diversion,
and. If Andrew Carnegie forgets us
with his hero medals, there is some
comfort In knowing that as wo turn
to the right when we finally go up
we have our harp check paid for by
the best line of free church adver
tising that ever has been printed In
the world.
Working 150 Men and Over 40 Teams
on One Project.
In the dead of winter, with deep
snow on the ground, Smith & Marl
on of The Dalles, who a few months
ago Invested here In farm lands, are
building a big Irrigation ditch and
pushing It rapidly to completion un
der the direction of Engineer C. M.
Foster, In order that they may get
the benefit of the first waters, says
the Baker City Democrat.
The scheme Is to Irrigate something
like 10,000 acres northeast of Baker
City with water taken from Powder
river, about 20 miles above Baker
City, or to the west In the canyon
through which the line of the Bump
ier Valley railway passes to Sumpter.
The headworks have been made and
150 men and more than 40 teams
have been at work during the winter
In different places on the ditch. Two
asjews of men are at work In the big
tunnel In the city limits of Baker
through old reservoir hill, and an
other gang Is at work east of tho city
near the Virtue mine.
This Is the largest work of the
kind ever undertaken In this county
and the only work pushed during the
winter season. Where the ditch lines
cross Sutton creek. Just out of the city
limits of Baker, a large syphon pipe
Is being constructed 598 feet long,
over the creek. Pipe Is oelng made
by the local Iron works, whose bid
was the lowest of all contestants.
Engineer Foster says that with
no more severe weather he hopes to
have the work completed early In the
spring so that the operations on the
farm lands can proceed without let
or hindrance.
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"WHITE GHOST8 OF DEATH"
CONSUMPTION AND PNEUMONIA
are prevented and cured by the greatest of all, and strictly scientific remedy for
Throat and Lung Troubles, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, La Grippe, etc., viz :
DR. KING'S
OIL NOT A SUCCESS AT YAKIMA.
Soil Not Such as Makes a Beneficial
CniKiuiHl.
Oiled streets are not a huge suc
cess in this latitude, if the street can
be taken as a sample, says the Yaki
ma Republic. It la about as muddy
as any other street In the city, but the
mud Is not quite so deep. It is there
however, together with a little mix
ture of the oily fluid that comes out
of the earth.
This Is the kind of weather that
will test such a street. In the center
of the thoroughfare the mud Is very
soft and pliable, while on each side,
where a large amount of sand was
thrown as a covering and where trav
el has been light the surface of the
street Is comparatively smooth anl
hard.
This Improvement cost the property
owners on each side of Second street
J50 per lot. It had a beneficial effect
during the summer months. The
dust was held down, but this conveni
ence was offset by the Inconvenience
of the brown, sticky accumulations of
soil that adhered to almost everything
except the road, that they came in
contact with, particularly the good
house wife's best rugs and carpets.
For CONSUMPTION, COUGHS AND COLDS
Cared of Pneumonia After Doctors Failed.
HI had been ill for some time with Pneumonia," writes J. W. MoKlnnon of
Talladega Springs, Ala., "and was under the care of two doctors, but grew no
better until I tried Dr. King's New Discovery. The first dose gave relief, and,
by continuing its use, I was perfectly cured."
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WANT HKTTEK ARMY QI AUTEKS
Dodgo Is After Coiim-nhIoiih by
Congress.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. Gen.
F. S. Dodge, paymaster general of the
army. Is anxious to have the approval
of congress for his application for In
creasing the commutation of quarters.
He proposes to give a second lieuten
ant one room, with an additional
room for each successive grade.
This will have the effect of allowing
the lieutenant general $120 a month.
This allowance applies to officers
mostly on duty in large cities where
It Is found Impossible to obtain quar
ters within the allowance authorized.
In the case of General Chaffee, for
Instance, he has been paying $75 a
month in addition to his authorized
commutation. This allowance was
established many years ago be
was established many years ago be
fore the city rentals had reached their
present proportions and General
Dodge has been agitating the ques
tion of Increase for several years. He
first introduced the subject In 1901,
when he was chief paymaster at Gov
ernor's Island. At a recent hearing
before the house military committee
he urged on members the justice of
this Increase.
Perfection can only be attained In
the physical by allowing Nature to
appropriate and not dissipate her own
resources. Cathartics gripe, weaken
dissipate, while DeWltt's Little
Early Risers simply expel all putrid
matter and bile, thus allowing the liver
to assume normal activity. Good fT
the, complexion. Sold by Tallman &
Co.
U C Rader. Nut aed.
Ladies!
A Modern Miracle.
"Truly miraculous seemed the re
covery of Mrs. Mollle Holt of this
place," writes J. O. R. Hooper, Wood
ford, Tenn., "she was so wasted by
coughing up puss from her lungs.
Doctors declared her end so near that
her family had watched by her bed
side 48 hours; when, at my urgent re
quest Dr. King's New Discovery was
given her, with the astonishing re
sult that Improvement began, and
continued until she finally completely
recovered, and Is a healthy woman
today." Guaranteed cure for coughs
nnd colds. 60c and $10.00 at Tallman
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Iop Snow Along the I. & I. X.
Owing to the unprecedented snow
fall and peculiar weather conditions,
the I'. & I. N. railway is experiencing
?rent difficulty In getting its trains
through, the round trip frequently
occupying from 10 to 12 hours. The
total snowfall at Council for this
winter to the present time approxi
mates about 70 Inches and at Cam
bridge about 60 Inches. The snow
storms have alternated with cold
rains, and created a condition exceed
ingly difficult to combat, the Ice
freezing on the rails and often hav
ing to be cleared with a pickaxe be
fore trains could proceed. Notwith
standing this, the service has not been
suspended for a single day. Welser
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Half the World Wondors
how the other half lives. Those who
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wonder If It will cure cuts, wounds,
burns, sores and all skin eruptions:
they know It will. Mrs. Grant Shy,
1130 E. Reynolds St., Springfield, III.,
says: "I regard It one of the absolute
necessities of housekeeping." Guar
anteed by Tallman & Co. and Brock
& McComas, druggists. 26c.
The fruitgrowers of Chelan county
have organized a union, modeled after
a stock company. It Is capitalized
at $40,000, with shares at $10 each,
and has 60 members.
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