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Official City and County Paper.
THE XEW AGE.
Awake! awake! the stars are
pale, the east Is russet
gray;
They fade, behold the phantoms
fade that keep the gates
of Day;
Throw wide the burning valves
and let the golden streets
be free;
The morning watch is past
the watch of evening
shall not be.
Put off, put off your mail, ye
kings, and beat your
brands to dust;
A surer grasp your hands must
know, your hearts a bet
ter trust;
Nay, bend aback the lance's
point and break the hel
met's bar
A noise is on the morning winds
but not the noise of war!
Ah! still depressed and dim
with dew, but yet a little
while.
And radiant with the deathless
rose the wilderness shall
smile,
And every tender living thing
shall feed by streams of
rest,
Xor lamb shall from the fold
be lost, nor nursling from
the nest.
For aye, the time of wrath is
past and near the time
of rest.
And honor binds the brow of
man, and faithfulness his
breast
Behold, the time of wrath is
past and righteousness
shall be.
And the Wolf Is dead In Ar-
cady, and the Dragon in
the sea!
John Ruskin.
A XATIOXAL OUTRAGE.
There is stirring need of a con
gressional investigation of the brutal
affair at Lawrence. If such actions
as that are to go unpunished then
America should tear down the statue
of liberty and put a golden calf upon
Itv pedestal. Our republic is a fake
and a mockery if it tolerates such
business.
The authorities at Lawrence are not
enforcing law and decency. They
are hirelings of the mill owners who
crack the master's whip around the
feet of people who live in nothing
more or less than industrial slavery
It Is anarchy by the rich and it is
the cause of anarchy by the poor.
It is significant In connection with
this affair that both the United Press
and Associated Press carried stories
setting forth the same essential facts.
The associated press "tamed-down"
its story as it usually does when there
are stories unfriendly to vested in
terests. But both press associations
heralded the fact that the trouble
arose over the action of the police
and soldiers in preventing parents
from sending their children away to
other towns where they might be eared
for.
The explanations made in behalf
of the mill owners are also damnable, i
It Is said there is no necessity of
sending children away to keep them
from starving because they can be
c&red for in Lawrence at the city
poor farm. But iarents naturally re
sent sending their children to the
poor farm and they have a right to
do so. They have a right to send
them away where they may be fed
by more friendly hands.
If parents have not the right to
peacefully send their children away
to other towns where there are peo
ple ready and anxious to look after
thern then something has dropped
jSSm YflO
stomach tPoipVI VO
aWi I la I
Be persuaded
to try the
Bitters today.
It improves
health and
prevents
Ioor Appetite,
Indigestion,
CostiveneiM,
Cokla, Griipe.
out of our constitution. If we are to
have a government like that at Law
rence then we ehou'd wipe the stars
from off the fing am l.vsctlbe the
dollar mark upon the nation's ban-ner.
A Qt ICK AXSWKK.
If reports are true then the prayer
of the Umatilla county good roads as
sociation, expressed Saturday, for the
county bonding plan for constructing
good roads has been answered quick
ly. The amendment giving counties
the right to bond themselves is now
in force and needs no further legis
lation says n story from Salem. The
Jackson county case fell down through
improper procedure, not because fur
ther legislation Is needed.
If this is the case then all is lovely
for Umatilla county and our good
roads men may proceed at once to get
busy so as to have the bonding plan
voted upon by the people of the
county next fall. There is no occas
ion for delay.
It will be interesting to see how
the people of the county will take to
the bonding plan. It is the ideal way
to build roads in Umatilla county if
the people will only vote the bonds.
There are many who think they will
and the East Oregonian is of the im
pression that view is well founded.
But no doubt there will be object
ors. There always are. Some will
criticise the plan from one standpoint,
some from another. It is barely pos
sible that the objectors will get away
with the game and block any bond
issues for road purposes.
If they do and the county refuses
to act of Itself then good roads men
may well pray for the success of
some sort of a state wide good roads
plan. One of the chief merits of state
participation in road work is that it
would force action by the counties
and therefore would bring results
which is the thing needed.
DOX'T LET IT GET AWAY.
It is evident from the statements of
Councilman Dyer and- others of the
committee that visited the proposed
'power site near Milton yesterday thai
the scheme looks good from a Pen
dleton standpoint.
It is interesting to note that when
the councilmanio- committee called at
the power plant of the Pacific Power
& Light company they were denied
admittance. "Why such discourtesy?
The people of Pendleton spend over
$50,000 a year with the electric trut.
Why should chosen representatives of
the people be denied the privilege of
inspecting the light plant. Others
have not been barred when they have
called at the plant.
It seems a fair presumption that
the electric trust's power factory 's
not all that it might be. Perhaps Mr
Strain's friends are right in their dec
laration that they have a proposition
that is much better than the one now
in use.
Meanwhile it would be well for the
city to get a firmer and longer option
upon the site so as to permit of fur
ther investigation and of the develop
ment of the scheme in the event the
people see fit to take it over.
THE TROUBLE WITH BARRETT.
At the good roads meeting Saturday
C. A. Barrett attempted to assail the
motive of Governor West in connec
tion with his good roads policy. Theic
was no call for it. As to the gover
nor's views on good roads there .is
room for differences of opinior. It
is a complicated subject and many
nocrt men disagree as to the methods
of procedure.
But no fair minded man will ques
tion the honesty and t'neerity of t'ie
governor's purposes. His action
plainly show he Is trying earnestly to
advance the cause of giod road.? In
this state. He is not over deeply com-
Mitted to any special policy. He is
trying to serve the people of the state
and is doing effective work. He has
made the subject of good roads a live
ii-sue and the movement is now in bet
ter shape than it was before he cham
pioned the cause.
It Is not hard to guess what Is the
matter with the man from Athena
He dislikes Governor West, not mere
ly because of his good roads views,
but because the governor ousted Bar
rett's son-in-law from an office to
which he had no earthly right; an of
fice that was wholly unnecessary and
which had it been continued wonltf
have been a shameful and unneces
sary graft upon the state.
Under the circumstances the op
position of Barrett is creditable to
Governor West and that expresses it
mildly.
A Popular Lad.
"Taas, I've stopped smoking."
"Swore off to please some girl, no
doubt. I wouldn't stop smoking to
please a girl."
"I did it to please five girls."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Ho'a Precocious, Too.
Distracted Parent Hush-a-by, ba
by!
Baby G'wan! Edison says
sleep too much. New York Sun.
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FROM THE PEOPLE
HOW OUR IJiGISLATORS VOTED
mrinc-rn Union Lookout IUkui Re
port on Wlmt He Saw at Sahiu.
Milton, Ore., Feb. 26.
Editor East Oregonian:
Having been sent by the Farmers'
Union to attend the twenty-sixth ses
sion of the Oregon legislature, part
of my duty was to report to the far
mers how their representalves acted
on measures in which they are direct
ly intrested. This is the first of a se
ries' of articles.
Principal or A&ent.
Every representative government is
a history of the struggle for mastery
between the people on the one hand
and . their newly elected representa
tives on the other.
Such a government is founded with
the hope and belief that a represen
tative will work to carry into effect
the will of the people. This is fine
in theory but does not exist in fact.
Many representatives are prone to
make fine promises before election
and to forget Immediately after. And
are then actuated solely by personal
feelings either of gain, ambition or
election debts.
These forged that representative
means agent or factor and think that
it means principal. This has been
the history of our national congress.
It has been the history of the Ore
gon legislature.
We, the farmers, believe that when
the majority of the voters show by
their ballots that they desire a cer
taiu measure to become a law, a rep
resentative has no right to substitute
his beliefs for ours and try to defeat
us. if he does this he ceases to be
a representative and becomes a prin
cipal. We have suffered much from such
misrepresentation In the past and to
correct these abuses we secured the
enactment of the initiative and ref
erendum laws. Two great bulwarks
against the encroachment of the leg
islature upon the rights of the peo
ple. We thought this final. But our last
legislature showed that their desire
was still to be supreme by annulling
an initiative law and substituting one
of their own. This was House Bill
No. 218, introduced by Pierce, car
ried by both houses, but vetoed by
the governor, to change the Rogue
river fishery law, enacted by the peo- j
pie at the last election. '
The reason given by some was that
the people did not understand tbe
bill w-hen they voted for it.
If the power to annul one initia
tive law is usurped for- this reason,
our representatives may give this rea
son for annulling all of them, and
our initiative law becomes a dead let
ter. The umatilla delegation voted as
follows to change our law:
Senator Barrett, yes.
Senator Burgess, yes.
Representative Peterson, no.
Representative Mann, yes. .
A. R. SHUMWAY,
Legislative Committeeman.
AX AUTO IX THE SAHARA.
We stood on the edge of the desert
and looked out over it. Then we
looked at each other. Then we talk
ed of other things, neither wishing
t be first to suggest the mad idea.
Then we read in the guide book: j
"Eiskra to Touggourt, about one hun-j
dred and thirty miles; a track possible!
for wheeled traffic, but sandy in parts!
anil swampy in places In bad weath
er; it would be imprudent to venture '
upon it on a bicycle or in an auto-j
mobile." Next day we looked again.
and at last one of us put the thought!
of both into words: "Well, I suppose'
we shall have to try it!"
The most modest traveller, like,
ourselves, soon discovers that it is not
the sandy plain of his school days. He
finds, from time to time, great or lit
tle spreading mounds, or dunes, of
golden sand called "barchans" in
whi6h only a camel does not sink
ankle deep, and these, wind-created
and wind-impelled, move forward al
almost like live things. Engineers em
ployed in laying our desert railways
have made costly, and even fatal,
mistakes by not recognizing the fact,
now established, that "desert dunes 1
are not anchored Or stationary hills i
of sand, but mobile masses, advancing!
at a very appreciable rate in a defi-l
nite direction." These dunes begin to!
move, according to another scientific '
observer., as soon as a light breeze ,
blows; the air Is perceptibly charged
with sand in a moderate breeze; and
during storms their progress may be
nearly two inches an hour, while their
average advance is fifty feet a year, j
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Many a once flourishing oasis Is now
burled forever beneath the great
sand dunes, wheh, "ever slowly wid
ening, silence all;" nothing stops their
insidious advance;" in some localities
extensive and prosperous settlements
have been overwhelmed and blotted
out of existen They form however
but a minute part of the surface of
the desert. This is a mass of gyp
sum, clay and stones, dotted over ev
ery few yards with mounds from six
inches to three feet high. The orig
in of these is a tough bush of a kind
of succulent samphire, with a small
cream-colored acacla-like flower, and
tamarisk with woody stem and gray
leaf. These grow very slowly in dense
close bosses, and the sand drifts and
packs Into them, forming a ' solid
mass. But for these an automobile
could travel fast in almost any di
rection. As it Is to"go a hundred
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M. E. CHURCH MASS
Tuesday, February 27, 1912
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Our entire stock of building'material
is selected with care and good judg
ment. We keep it in good condition
and sell it reasonable-that's whats
bringing us our over increasing business. We believe
. in smellier profits and faster selling it amounts to the
same thing in the end.
NATURES CURE
o FOR BLOOD POISOU
yards, a score or more of them have
to be leveled and since it takes five
minutes' hard labor with the shovel
to level a single one, any lengthy
progress is very slow and fatiguing.
From "The Automobile in Africa," by
Sir Henry Norman, M. P., In the
March Scrlbner.
Absent Minded.
A very absent-minded professor
was busily engaged in solving a sci
entific problem when the nurse hast
ily opened the door of his library and
announced a great family event. '
"The little stranger has arrived,
professor.
.v"Eh?" said the professor.
it is a litle boy," said the nurse
"Little boy. little boy," mused the
professor. "Well, ask him what he
wants."
Tender Moats
Cu! right
Kept rUht
We will choose your
phone orders carefully
and deliver promptly.
DRESSED POULTRY
EVERY SATURDAY
Prohibition Candi
date for President
of United States in
- 1908
WILL
LECTURE
At Pendleton
COURT HOUSE
2:30 p. m.
MEETING 8:00 P. M.
ADMISSION FREE
Tim
OSCAR MAHLER, Manager
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Weather
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Koeppen's
The drug store that serves
you best.
BRING IN
YOUR
PONY
VOTES
In order to avoid confusion
aa to standing of contestants In
our big Pony Contest, wt would
like to have all votes cast as
soon as possible.
Standings of each boy and
Klrl In the contest, are now dis
played at our store.
Tallman & Co.
The
Pendleton Drug
Co.
la In business for
"Your Good Health"
REMEMBER THIS WHEN
IOU HAVE PRESCRIPTIONS,
OR WANT PURE MEDICINES
Two Old Maids
Anna What do you think Mr. Kk.
lund charged me for sewing on a pair
oj soles on my shoes 7
Clara Don't know and don't care-
Anna, he only charged me 6 So and.
did fine work too yes, but I don't
like him.
Anna Well, well, you evld ntly do
or you wouldn't care.
Men's soles sewed on for 80c
Full line of men's fine shoes.
A. EKLUND
Main Street
You'll get the best meal
in Pendleton at the
QUELLE
Particular cooks
Attentive Service.
For Breakfast
Ranch Eggs
Buttermilk Hotcakes
Good coffee
Every day
We Invite your patronage and
aim to please you.
A clean kitchen
Regular Meals
25c
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La Fontaine Block, Main Street