East Oregonian : E.O., March 21, 1912, EVENING EDITION, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN. PENDLETON, OREGON, T1IITKSIUY, MARCH 21, 1012.
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The Great Central British Columbia Territory has been termed by
those who are thoroughly acquainted with the beautiful climate, the
fertile valleys and picturesquescenery,asbeingtheParadiseofthe Pacific.
A VasbNew Country to be Opened Up This Year
On Main Line of Great Transcontinental Railway
' Tlio (Jraiwl Trunk Pacific Railway lias just, let contracts am
Minting fo $i0,(i( 10,000 an.l rnsliol 10,000 extra men into Cen
tral Urilish Columbia in order to complete their roat trunk
lino through the famous Fort (leorire country this year, thus
establishing u transcontinental railroad from the Atlantic
ocean to the Pacific ocean, with Prince Rupert as the Pacific
terminal.
This preat railroad, when completed, WILL OPEN TO
SETTLEMENT IN RRITISH COLUMBIA, THOUS
ANDS OF ACRES OF THE FINEST FARMING LANDS
IN THE WORLD which are owned bv the .NORTH COAST
LAND CO., LTD., OF VANCOUVER, 15. C a company
with a paid up capital of $1 ,.100,000, and selling land over the
entire world.
The Climate of British Columbia is Ideal for Bumper Crops
The summer months have long warm days and cool nights
with sufficient rainfall for all crops, without irrigation; winter
weather is clear ami dry; no wind, occasional cold spells of
short duration.
The crops that are now leing grown with creat success are:
OATS, WHEAT, RYE, BARLEY, TIMOTHY, CLOVER,
TURNIPS, POTATOES AND ALL KINDS OF VEGE
TABLES. Wild grasses: Red Top, Peavine, Rye Grass and
several varieties of vetch.
Buy the Choicest of These Lands Now
Thousands of homeseekers will rush into this country the
coming year, so we urge you to investigate at once. Our local
agents will bo pleased to give you any information you desire.
Low Prices
down and bal-
These Farming Lands Now on Sale in Pendleton at Very
The land is being sold in 1 60, 320 and 640 acre tracts small cash payments
ance in 1 , 2, 3, 4 and 5 years with interest at 6 per cent.
Rlora SeSBing at $115 to $25. pen As
Get In With the Rush Before the Prices Go Up. For Further Information Ask For Our Special Ft. George Booklet.
North Coast Land Co., Ltd. Vancouver, i. C.
PORTLAND OFFICE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG. W. A. Seale, Pacific Coast Mgr., Parlor Suite, St. George Hclef.
BIG LOVE FEED
(Continued from page six.)
of this nation and we will Indeed be
trespassers In the land of our illus
trious futhers. For some years past
we of the competing Industrial world
have taken up the annual deficit by
mortgaging our homes, bonding our
citlos. raising the price of our farms
to a point where we cannot today pay
nix per cent Interest thereon nnd it
is now a struggle to pay taxes and ex
penses. We are forgetting the old
adage that "ho who goes aborrouing
goe a sorrowing."
I do not wish to turn back the
wheels of civilization nor see a return
of old times, but I wish we could
again see a return of the. old spirit.
Pay up before we borrow again.
History offers no solution. We are
like our fathers on untried seas. In
this beautiful land of 'ours of unsur
paslng fertility, with machinery to
do almost everything, with school
houses, colleges and churches upon
every hand, with education and
knowledge more widely diffused than
ever before, still we allow a. dozen un
crowned dollar kings to exercise n
greater power In the Industrial world
than ever lords of old.
1 do not expect this wonderful civ-
Hlaation to pass away, this marvel
ous life of the printing press, steam
engine, electricity, but I do say that
there must come out of legislative
halls and executive chambers, wisdom
enarted Into laws that will muke it
possible for the ordinary man to earn
sufficient compensation to care for
himself and his loved ones so that
he may have the necessities of life
and a share In a Christian distribu
tion of nature's luxuries which wcre
Intended for all mankind, and not the
privileged few.
It Is easy to tear down, difficult to
construct. First of all I would place
the necessities of life upon the free
list. Free sugar. Why not? Ninety
millions of people should be allowed
to buy It in the cheapest markets of
the world. It would make a saving
In every home of a cent and a half
to two cents on every pound of sugar.
Free Iron In all Its forms. Why
should we longer continue tariff on
Iron? The steel trust admits that It
is aelling iron in foreign countries
cheaper than it sells to us.
Recent Investigation shows that It
In paying labor starvation prices, not
nearly as much us you are paying
your farm hands.
I advocate a physical valuation of
all railroads and all trusts that con
trol their lines, as a basis of fixing
rates, then laws forever taking water
out of every railroad and every trust
and combination, making It a crime
to water Htock of any kind. Then a
law limiting dividends of trusts that
control, and the dividends permitted
to bo approximately the amount of
the annual increase of wealth. If
controlled' lines are allowed to con
tinue their present course of extract
ing an unjust proportion of profits
from the competing world. It is
a mathematical certainty that they
will In a few years draw to themselves
'he entire national wealth.
It Is a crime against humanity far
reaching In its results to corner the
necessities of life, creating an artifi
cial price, and compelling the people
to pay it.
Our cities are growing rapidly larg
er, our country Is being deserted. One
of the problems demanding immedi
date solution Is how to place the
landless man upon the manless land.)
Two-thirds of all the tracts on the ir
rigation projects ore abandoned by the
original locator for the reason that
ho has not sufficient money to pay
the amount demanded by the govern
ment and make the necessary im
provements. We should have a new homestead
law allowing twenty acres of irrigat
ed land to lie taken by iualified
homesteaders and after the payment
of the filing fees, the government to
furnish to that homesteader water for
irrigation free. After the homestead
er has lived on and cultivated that
land for ten years, allow him to make
proof and receive his patent from
the government. Five thousand
homesteads on unirrigated land could
be created in Oregon alone for five
million dollars This is practically
the amount that Oregon has donated
annually to the ship building trust for
years past. It is half the cost of one
dreadnought. It is only twice O"
much as the state of Oregon has paid
In the shape of direct tax upon our
sacks. It is only half .the amount
duo Oregon from the reclamation fund
that should have been spent In Ore
gon before this.
Tlie annual budget for the mainten
ance of this government is approxi
mately ono thousand million dollars.
Agriculture- receives less than ono
per cent or less than ten millions of
dollars and still agriculture is the ba
sis of all wealth and prosperity.
Several times during the last win
ter I have watched that restless group
of Idle men who nightly gather in
Portland on the corner of Seventh
and Washington and the thought has
come to mo that with all our boasted
philanthropy, with all our boasted
wealth, with all our boasted resources
we each year allow that crowd to be
Increased and augmented In numbers
by boys and then my mind turned to
all our lnnd still only scratched, not
intense'y farmed, and then the
thought has come that there must be
something wrong. Why can not these
men be allowed to work and create
wealth? Why cannot they go to the
unused, unoccupied land and grow
things to eat and sell, and then
realized that they were only lifters,
their occupation gone, as machines
are doing most of- the lifting now
Many of those men are are now too
old to learn derelicts In the stream
of human life drifting past and
through this magnificent civilization
of the twentieth century but not even
a part of it. In the plastic age when
they were boys they should have
been taught how to work. It is
wrong that we may pay dearly for if
we do not teach every boy and girl
In this broad land how to grow vege
tables, fruit and grain. How to care
for the horse, the cow, the fowls, how
to make a living from the very soil
Itself and then provide the opportu
nity for that boy and girl, the man
and the woman of the future, to grow
something of their own. Free gov
ernment is based on the right to own
private property. The movement
back to the land will be a failure un
less the strong arm of state and na
tion is extended to guide aright the
occupant of the soil. The govern
ment financially assists every state
in maintaining an agricultural school
and experimental station. Ours is at
Corvallis where we have the most
useful school west of the Rocky
mountains. We are receiving annual
ly for that institution from the na
tional government $45,000, a large
part of which sum of money we are
obliged to expend in original research
ami experimental work, valuable it
is true, but not so we can use it to
do the greatest good for the boys and
girls in attendance there. I would
largely increase the national appro
priation for agricultural colleges and
experimental stations. rne agricul
tural college In every state should be
the center from which radiates an in
fluence teaching the people the no
bility of the tradse and farm work.
I do believe in reasonable appro
priations for our navy for we ure go
ing to need it some day when oriental
civilization meets occidental civiliza
tion on the waters of the peaceful
Pacific to settle the final conflict be
tween Anglo Saxon and Mongolian,
and appropriations for increasing the
efficiency of our schools will make
possible the successful manning of
that navy In the time of final con
flict.
All the Interests of Oregon demand
that the Columbia river be opened
free to the navigation of the world.
A forty-foot channel from Portland
docks to the sea would Increase the
wealth of a!!.
We should have proper limitations
placed upon railroad rates taking
grain and products to the river banks.
Several cents n bushel ought to be
added to the price of our wheat in
eastern Oregon by an open river and
proper rates, and a clear channel to
the sea. Several cents more ought
to be added if we are given free tolls
at Panama and a law allowing Am
erica to- purchase ships built in any
country on earth, removing the pro
hibition which now says only Ameri
can built ships can ply between Am
erican ports. For years and years
that law has been on our statute
books. It has enabled the ship build
ers of the cast to build up a monop
oly. Is it any wonder the atars 'and
stripes have disappeared from tho
high seas?
I believe in an Income tax graduat
ed so as to make It impossible for an
individual to amass a fortune suffi
cient to produce an annual Income of
a million dollars or more. Force the
return to the people of these unjust
ly swollen fortunes by the means of
an Income tax. I would tax no In
come less than $10,000 and then I
would make the tax light It should
bo made impossible for men to ac
cumulate untold millions of bonds,
mortgages and stocks placing the rest
of the world in slavery to pay Inter
est and dividends thereon.
The Oregon system has made Ore
gon famous the world around. As a
people we have spoken. The system
is here to stay. You cannot unring
the bell. The people have tasted au
thority. They have seen the bosses
wince beneath their sledge hammer
blows.
There Is nothing so dear to man as
power. Nothing so prized as self
government. Mankind has never vol
untarily relinquished power once ex
ercised except to a man on horse
back Cod forbid that the military
dictator should ever come here.
Through all the centuries man has
by slow degrees been acquiring pow
er formerly exercised by the privil
eged classes. Oregon is today the
acme of the peoples government.
Forget the old convention days.
Join us in making of Oregon one
grand debating club so that we may
all intelligently exercise the new du
ties imposed on Oregon citizenship.
I have faith in the solution of the
problems of state. 1 .admit it does
not look bright today. The wage
earner sees his wages growing less
each year when measured in the
things we buy. Every one sees a con
stant and ever increasing cost of liv
ing. The business man sees closer,
sharper competition with each return
ing year. All of us feel more keenly
the constantly increasing tax burdens,
both city, county, school district, state
and nation, but somewhere, some
how, out of the dark and forboding
future there will come a solution. The
boys and girls shall be given an op
portunity to earn an honest living. We
shall see n commercial Oregon, a
manufacturing Oregon, an agricul
tural Oregon freed from the dictates
of the dividend gatherers of Wall
street. A nation of free men and not
of slaves. In the coming campaign
let our slogan be "Equal opportunity
for all in political and business affairs.
Be not faint hearted, right ultimately
wins. Victory shall be ours!
HOGS RISE 10 CENTS
AT
EASTERN MARKET SHOWS
EVEN 5REATEK ADVANCE
IVw Swine Available at Oregon Mc
troK)lls Cuttle Trade- Still Over
loaded but Prices Steady Sheen
Are Firm.
(From Wednesday's Journal.)
Hog prices were advanced K'e in
the Portland yards today, but further
advances were shown at points east of
the Rockies. Tops sold here at $7
this morning. At Omaha they were
$7.05, at Kansas City $7 10 and at
Chicago $7.25.
Only two loads of hogs were avail
able for the open trade at North
Portland today and both of these were
quickly picked up by local buyers at
the new high mark.
The extent of the advance in the
hog market here has been somewhat
greater than anticipated, but even
then it has not kept pace with the rise
at competing centers.
FOLKS PAST FIFTY
CASCARETS
What Glasses Are to Weak Eyes, Cas
carets Are to Weak llowels A 10
eent Uox Will Truly Amaze You.
Most old people must give to the
bowels some regular help, else they
suffer from constipation. The condi
tion is perfectly natural. It Is just
as natural as it Is for old people to
walk slowly. For age is never so ac
tive as youth. The muse'es are less
elastic. And the bowels are muscles.
So all old people need Cascarets.
One might as we'd refuse to aid weak
eyes with glasses as to neglect this
gentle aid to weak bowels. The bow
els must be kept active. This is im
portant at all ages, but never so much
as at fifty.
Age is not a time for harsh physics.
Youth may occasionally whip the
bowels into activity. Rut a lash can's
be used every day. What the bowels
of the old need is a gentle and natur
al tonic. One that can be constantly
used without harm. The only such
tonic is Cascarets and they, cost only
10 cents per box at any drug store.
They work while you sleep.
Total run of hogs for the day was
316 head compared with 341 last
Wednesday.
Nominal North Portland prices:
Fancy $ 7.00
Good heavy 6-90
Medium light 7.00
Rough and heavy 6.00
Stockers
I WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
Real Estate, Investments, For Sale, For Rent, Etc.
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REAL ESTATE-INVESTMENTS . I REAL ESTATE-INVESTMENTS .
lUUTISH COLUMBIA.
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of Imported
etc., 1910.
of manufae
Facts and Figure.
$4,250,000.00 was expended
roads and public works in 1911.
$14,399,000.00 value of farm pro
ducts in 1910.
$14,962,000.00 value
livestock, meat, fruits,
$35,000,000.00 value
tures, 1810.
$2C,183.00t.0 wra ot hdnerals
produced In 1910.
$17,160,000.00 value of timber cut
In 1910.
$8, 000,000. 00 value of fish .caught
1910.
$536,555,592.00, clearing house re
turns for 1910.
1.040,000.000 feet of lumber cut In
1910.
The average value of occupied farm
land in British Columbia in 1910 was
$74.00. Less than one-tenth of the
available agricultural land in B. C. H
oocupled.
Mild climate suitable to successful
farming and desirable climate in
which to live the year 'round. Close
to market, being tho same distance
from Portland, Oregon, as San Fran
cisco. There Is plenty of room for you.
North Coast Land Co., Ltd., Van
couver, B. C, paid up capital $1,500,-000.
WANTED.
HAIR WORK ANY ONE WISHING
Madam Kennedy to do their hair
work, send combings through mall,
to Athena, Oregon. Box 92.
WANTED Lace curtains to laundry.
Work done with especial car.
Phone Red 2521.
WANTED A RELIABLE INSUR
ance writer with executive ability.
A good proposition for an exper
ienced writer who wants to better
his present condition. Address with
reference. "N," this office.
EGGS from all leading varieties
standard bred poultry, express pre
paid, $2 00. Write for circular.
Simpson's Pheasant Farm, Cor
vallis, Oregon.
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