rAGE FOUR.
DAILY EAST ORECONIAX. PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1911
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-AlU) I.AXCJ SYXK."'
Should aull acquaintance bo
forgot
And never brought to min"?
Should auld acquaintance be
forgot
And days o" aula lan syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear;
. For au'.d lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lar.g syne!
We ta has about the braes
And pu'd the gowans fine.
But we've wander" d mony a
wear foot
Sin' auld lang syne
We two hae paidl't i" the burn
Frae morning sun ti! dine.
But seas between us braid hae
roared
Sin" auld lang syne.
And here's a hand, my trusty
friend.
And gies a hand o';hine.
And we'll tak a right guid
willie-waught
For auld lang syne.
And surely ye'U be
stoup.
your pint
And surely I'll be mine.
And we'll Tak a cup o' kindness
et
For auld lang syne.
Burns.
THE BOXDIXG PLAN'.
There are some splendid features
about the plan to bond the county to
secure money for permanent high
vays. The only way to get good roads
Is to construct them. Good roads
conventions, articles In newspapers
and speeches from the stump during
campaign time all have their value.
But talk alone wont build good roal.
It takes money to do the work and
the bonding plan will provide the
money. It will probide the money and
do it in such a way that the taxpay
ers will not be heavily burdened. The
bonds will be met through a sinking
fund augmented from year to year.
Meanwhile we will have a perma
nent highway system and the people
will be getting the good from the
mime. The roads will be paying for
themselves, through their benefits,
vhile the bonds are maturing.
There can be no doubt at all that
the bonding plan furnishes a very
feasible way of getting good roads. It
Is not probable we will get perma
nent highways until the bonding plan
ii taken up. It is impossible to build
a system of permanent roads
tnrough use of money from the regu
lar road fund. Besides that is not
the equitable way to pay for roads.
The future as well as the present will
share the benefits of permanent
roads. Why not let the future assist
In paying for them?
In advocating the bonding plan for
this county in the event the supreme
court rules that the constitutional
amendment is operative Judge Ma
loney is upon the right line. If the
county court puts the proposition up
to the people n-xt fall the plan will
have many earnest supporters.
GETTING INTO I.IXE.
The East Oregonian is glad to hear
the Pilot Rock I'.ecord, Senator Bur
gess and others advise farmers on
such streams as Birch and McKay to
make water filings with the state en
gineer even though the water is
seemingly all taken.
This action Is in line with advice
given by this paper several weeks
go. While the controversy over the
Extension was underway the East
Oregonian called attention to the fact
that such filings should be made. We
pointed out the utter foolishness of
asking the government to relinquish
any part of the water appropriated
for the Extension when local people
were not In line to get the water
should it be released. Farmers were
advised to get in line and then talk
ti the government.
But Mr. Burgess and his followers
had lost their heads and they spurned
such advice at that time. Apparent
ly they were inspired by an all absorb.
Jng desire to "soak" the government.
They wanted to make the government
abandon the adjudication suits and
give up some of the water it had filed
upon. This, although such a relin
quishment would have done the form
ers no good because they had not filed
on the water and would not have got
ten it. It would have gone to Dr.
Ai drew C. Smith and others having
filings down the river.
The advice to farmers t- f.U -v
water is good advice. They should
not stop because the water seems t.i
be appropriated already. Filing on
water is but one step towards its ap
propriation. The water must be put
to beneficial use or it cannot be heli.
I'ntil the water has been put to ben
fnl.il use it is not gone and mean
while settlers should file upon it and
thereby gt options that will become
effective should older filings be released.
CONSISTENCY!
The Tilot Rock Record spits and
s.-'ails at the Kast Oregonian and at
the Pendleton Commercial club be
cause of the local attitude In regard
to the West Extension. At the same
t'me the Record comes into line and
tells farmers on Birch and McKay
creek to take our advice and file up
on water which advice by the way
was about the only counsel worth any
thing that was given those farmers
during the recent controversy. The
question now arises, why it is. if this
paper is so faulty, that the Pilot Rock
Record comes trailing in our wake
We did not have a White Christ
mas but the weatherman may do bet
ter by Pendleton on New Tears.
Old 1911 was an odd year anyway
La Follette is making brisk head
vny with his campaign for his speech
es have a fiery ring that will please
the country. The Taft steam roller
will have to put on full speed or it
may get lost In the rear.
A HO IT SINGLE TAX.
Portland, Dec. 30
Editor East Oregonian:
Assessor C. P. Strain of Umatilla
county writes to the Oregonian against
single tax, and says the aim of well
informed single taxers is to confis
cate private property. He is mistak
en. His confusion in regard to single
tax is probably due to his believing
what he reads in the Oregonian. Let
me give him . an example of actual
and proposed "confiscation" by some
land owners.
I am part owner of 2000 acres of
land in Texas. Only one of us own
ers has ever seen the land; not one
of us lives nearer to the land than
800 miles; not one of us expects to
I've in Texas or to use the land. We
have never Improved the land in any
way. It has been rented for graz
ing purposes and the rent has paid
the taxes and a fair interest on the
"investment." We shall sell when
we get our price. We shall get our
price as soon as the community is
comfortably sett'ed.
The land was bought some 35 years
ago at 23 cents an acre, or a total of
$500. Its present market value is
9 an acre, or a total of $18,000. So
in 35 years the increasing population
and industry of Texas have added
$8.75 an acre to the value of the land,
or a total of $17,500. That is an av
erage of $500 a year or 25 cents an
acre, the residents of Texas have add
ed to the value of that land by their
general industry. But we. the own
ers, have not turned a hand except to
sign leases giving workers the right
to use the land and pay us for its
use.
Each family that moves into that
district adds a little to the value of
our land. But we owners have added
nothing to the land or to Texas. The
people of that community hope for a
branch railroad to be built into the
district So do we owners of the 2000
acres. The railroad will bring the
market nearer to the settlers, and
nearness to market will bring the land
to our price.
As I say, the 2000 acres were
bought for $500 and are now worth
$18,000. which is an increase of $17.
500 over the original cost. Mr. Stra'n
seems to believe that the $17,500 of
increased value is the "private prop
erty" of ns owners. I be'ieve it is
public property of the people of Tex
as, because they added that value to
the land. We owners have not added
a riekel to its value.
The land itself is the private prop-
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Gus. La Fontaine
i La Fontaine Block, Main Street.
erty of the owners; but the Increased
value that has been added to the land,
that is be'ng added every day by the
industry of the people of Texas and
by every family that moves into the
community, does not belong to us
owners becau-e it Is neither directly
nor Indirectly the product of our la
bor. Xow, If Mr. Strain has a new meth
od of arithmetic by wh'ch he can fig
ure that the $17,500 increased value
of that land belongs to us owners,
merely because the land itself be
longs to us. I shall be very glad to
see the result of his figuring.
S'ngle taxers don't propose to "con
fiscate" that $17,500. They propose
to put a stop to our confiscation of
any further increased values created
by population and industry. Every
year we are confiscating part of the
product of the men who use 2000
acres of Texas land on which we have
not spent a n'ckoi for improvements
and we call that confiscation "rent."
In addition to that annual confisca
tion, when we sell the land we shall
"confiscate" the value added to the
2000 acres by the people of Texas In
the last 35 years.
Oregon single taxers propose to en
courage Industry and discourage spec
ulators like the owners of the 2000
Texas acres by exempting a'l pro
ducts of labor from taxation and rais
ing needed revenue by putting a sin
gle tax on community made land val
ues as the $18,000 value of our 2000
acres. That it not a measure of con
f'scation. It is a proposal to put a
stop to confiscation.
Perhaps Mr. Strain knows of 2000
acres of Vmatilla land that are be
ing held as we are holding our Tex
as acres. Possibly he knows of some
vacant Pendleton lots, worth as much
as our 2000 Texas acres, that are be
'ng he'd out of u-"e until increased
population and Industry bring them
up to the price demanded bv the
owners W. G. EGGLESTOX.
PasOme pictures please all.
Blood Stumors
orrmonly cause pimples, bolls, hives,
i r.ep-a or salt rheum, or some other
,'orm of eruption; but sometimes they
:ist in the system. Indicated by feel
r.js of weakness, languor, loss of ap--.eiite,
or tron.ral dobl'lty, without
rjuing any breaking cut.
They are expelled ani the whole sys-e-n
Is renovated, strengthened and
;cned by
Hood's Sarsaparilla
G'-t it today In usual liquid form or
tablets called Sarsatabs.
"She is Waiting"
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and ao are ihose she is waiting
on. And mind you, a good
high-ball la well worth waiting
for. Good, pure, wholesome
Rye Whiskey, like the brands
we are now selling, will make
one wait patiently, but enjoy
the wait when the liquid arrives
cool, comforting, and refresh
ing. If you are a high-ball
lover, better try a bottle of thU
splendid Whiskey of ours. To
will always want that brand
afterwards. And the price will
satisfy you, too.
TheOlympia Bar
Phone Main 188
and
Pioneer Bottling Works
Phone Main 177.
PETERS A MOIUUSON, Props.
DIFFERENT STTLES
in plumbing appliances are aa
much In evidence with us as
In any other avenue of bus
iness. SANITARY BATH ROOM
APPURTENANCES
are as requisite for health as
a doctor la when you are sick.
Our estimates on plumbing
will prove satisfactory.
PLUMBING
HERE IS Al.
QUICK ACTION COMPRES
SION COCKS.
This la the only plumbing
shop In Umatilla county that
keeps this latest and most up-ta-date
device. It saves time
and trouble and many plumb
ing bills.
Bed do w& Miller
Pendleton's Only Exclusive
Plumbers.
Court and Garden Streets.
Phone Black 8S68
Remedies are Needed
Were wj perfect, which we are not, medicines would
not often be needed. 'ut since our systems have be
come weakened, impoi.cJ and broken down through
indiscretions which have Cone on from the early ages,
through countless generations, remedies art needed to
aid Nature in correcting our inherited and otherwise
acquired weaknesses. To reach the seat of stomach
weakness and consequent digestive troubles, there is
nothing so good as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
ery, a tilycerio compound . extracted
inal roots solj for over forty years with great satisfaction to all users. For
Weak Stomach, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Pain in the Stomach after eating,
Heartburn, Bud Breath, Belching of food, Chronic Diarrhea and other Intestinal
Derangements, jthe "Discovery" is a time-proven and most efficient remedy.
The genuine has on Its
outside wrapper the
Signature
You can't afford to accent a leoret
holio, medicine of known composition, nut even though the urgent dealer may
thereby make a little bigger profit.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigoroto stomach, liver and
bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to tuke as candy.
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Two Through to Chicago. One Through to St. Louis
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Via Minneapolis and St Paul to Chicago.
W. ADAMS, Agent, Pendleton, Ore.
is always pleased to quote through rates and furnish full
information.
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A choice "Central" ljonst.
A "Central" gtcuk that's tender.
A Scahdilpt oyster dinner.
A "Central" linm for lunch.
A "Central" fisli or jxmltry or
der Insures satisfaction.
Phono the Sanitary Market.
Main S3.
CENTRAL
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PENDLETON, ORE
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OrS cuth
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Hotel
St. George
Bar
GEO. DARVEATJ, Proprietor
Pendleton's Popular Gentle
mens Resort,
Anheuser-Busch's famous
BUDV7EISER
on draught, 5C glass
Electrle Mixed Drinks Served at
this Bar.
Finest Wines, Liquors and
Cigars.
Distributors of Echo. Spring and
Old Crow Whiskey.
First class Cafe and Grill in
connection A La Carte.
THE
Aftermaih
OF THE
Season's Tokens
will find accepted acknowledg
ment If noted on
Whitings
Stationery
of which we carry a nice line.
Koeppen's
The druq store that serves
you best.
ST. PAUL'S
SCHOOL
Boarding and Day
School for Girls.
t Primary, Intermediate, AV
t ademio Special and Post
I Graduate Courses. Depart
ments of Music, Expression
1 1 and Art.
J! PERSONAL ATTENTION
1 1 REFINING INFLUENCES
TROROUGU WORK
Nettie M. Galbraith
Principal
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
minim
Ihe
Pendleton Drug
Co.
ts In business for
V
"Your Good Health"
REMEMBER THIS WHEN
YOU RAVE PRESCRIPTIONS,
OR WANT PURE- MEDICINES
BRING; IN
"YOUR
PONY
VOTES
In order to avoid confusion
as to standing of contestants in
our big Pony Contest, we would
like to have all votes cast as
soon as poswlblo.
Standings of each boy and
girl In the contest, are now dis
played at our store.
Tallman 2& Co.