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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1907)
THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE Published Tuesday and Fridays by Gazette Puei.ishing Company. The Subscription price of the Gazbtts or several years has been, and remains $i per annum, or 25 per cent, discount if paid ,in advance. This paper will be continued until all arrearages are pail. A MEXICAN LESSON. The advocates of government al ownership of railways point to Mexico as a practical and satis factory example of the benefits of such ownership. They claim too much. The Mexican government does not o-Afu the railroads, nor any of them, of the country. It has a controlling interest in several of the main railways, but the re maining interest is in private hands. The control and oper ation of these roads are thus in the combined interest of the government representing the people, and of private citizens representing themselves. It was held that this arrangement would protect the people from corporate greed, give ttiem the lowest poss ble rates for trans portation service and at the same time insure private capital a fair and equitable return on its in vestment. Thi3isa beautiful theory. It is the basic theory of those who argue for government ownership in this country. But, like the theory of free-trade and other purely academic theories, it fails when an attempt is made to put it in practice. The government expects to get, and is just as fully entitled to receive, as fair and reason able a return on its investment as the capitalist is on his. Here we find two considerations in fl'iencinar the government. It must protect the people and it must receive a fair return on its own investment. Ownership has thus placed two burdens on thegovernment when government control places but one that of protecting the people from cor porate greed. Ownership, dimply a controll ing ownership by the govern ment, opens wide the door to governmental stupidity cupidity andrapacity. One or more of these elements are sure to be in evi dence where control rests on ownership, whether ownership is by the government or by private individuals; nor does a divided ownership either obliterate or minimize such elements. Turn again to Mexico. The policy of the Mexican govern ment has long been to promote the mining industry in all reason able ways. It has given miners low rates of transportation on their ores, and has employed low and direct taxation to secure the mine owner's contribution in support of the Federal and the the State administrations. Pur suing this policy mining, agricul ture, manufactures and other in dustries have been encouraged, stimulated and developed great ly to the benefit of the country. For some reason the govern ment now requires greater rev enue, and it has raised the freight rate on the transporta tion of ore. Of course this is opposed by the mine owners. They ask: "Why this increase of rate?" They are told that the government sjmply seeks to realize a fair return on its in vestment. When asked why rates are not raised on other com modities no reply is made. The mine owners charge that because their traffic is heaviest it is taxed, and taxed with all the traffic will bear, for some hidden reason, since for years there has been no complaint by the government of too little return on the capi tal it has invested. The situation there has caused the Mexican socialist- to do what he is little accustomed to do stop and reflect. It should con firm Americans in the view that control, without any ' part in ownership, is the only practicable and safe method of protecting the people against the rapacity of transportation corporations. SENSELESS CARPING. The President js made the subject of much misrepresenta tion and a lot of carping, foolish criticism. Of the first is the hue raised by the monied interest that he is waging an indiscrimi nate war on all kinds of corpor ations and ' trusts, and would surely precipitate a disastrous panic. Wall street tried to make this assertion true, with the re sult that it only blistered its hands in a fire of its own kind ling. Wall street might cause a bad panic, but it was never less able to do so than at present- The country is too healthfully prosperous tox be frightened easily by buga-boos. Manufac turers, farmers and merchants were never before so well able to move along without Wall street. It is certain Wall street would have to work hard, and practi cally destroy itself, to create a general panic For this reason it will not do anything of the kind. Besides this the people at large know the President is not run ning amuck among the corpora tions and trusts. He is simply, earnestly and courageously en deavoring to enforce the laws against the iawless. So much for misrepresentation. The latest carping at the Presi dent was because he summarilly suspended the license of a steam boat Master for three months. "Holy horrors!" the fault finders cried, and proceeded to i characterize the act as illegal, J presumptive, harsh and unwar ranted. Usually the navigation laws are administered or execu ted by a cabinet officer through a bureau in his department. This cabinet officer is simply an aid to the executive and is under his direction. Certainly the princi pal may do whatever he may bid his agent do. A magistrate, on examination suspended the Master's license for six months. What now be comes of the criticism of the President? It is seen to be senseless. The people have con fidence in him, in his honesty of purpose, his courage, his inde pendent spirit, his patriotism. He does things does things that some of his predecessors should have done but neve'r did. This sometimes may startle us but it should not betray us into voicing carping criticism of his acts. Let his enemies, if he have any, inis repesent him; they cannot deceive the people. A Good Trade. Every boy, no matter how rich or how poor bis ancestry, should learn thorough ly some good trade, so that if bis circum. stances become reversed at any time he could immediately do service at bis trade and start again on a successful road to prosperity. The printing trade is not only artistic when completely learned, but it is also highly educational in every particular, and one of tbe best trades tba anyone can learn, as opportunity tor labor is ever ready each working day in tbe year. There is one of the beat opportunities in a'l the land for a young man cf steady habits, good principles, well educated' having a will to work and excel, to learn the printing trade in the Gazette office. Proper explanation will be given oa ap plication, r ovu j Jersey Bull For Sale. Descended from Grand Coin and Gold en Glow; imported cow testing 18 lbs. batter fat, 'in 7 days, with first calf. Ad dress, M. 8. Woodcock, Corvallis, Ore gon. 72t We Invite Your inspection of our Stock of Ladles' and Misses' Coats Wool Dress Goods, Cotton Wash Dress Fabrics Our Stock is. Com plete in Every Detail at .Right Prices. Ilenkic & Davis CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CXA88IFIKU .DVEBTI8EMKNTS : Fifteen words or less, 25 cts for three successive insertions, or 60 cts per month; for all np to and including ten additional words. j cent a word for each insertion. For all advertisements over 25 words, 1 ct per word for tbe first insertion, and i ct per word for each additional inser tion. Nothing inserted for less than 26 cents. Lodge, society and church notices, other than strictly news matter, will be charged for. PHYSICIANS B. A. CATHEY, M. D..PHYSICTAH utoxorgeon. Booms 14, Bank Build ing. Office Hours : 10 to 12 a. m.. to 4 p. m. Residence: cor. 6th and Ad ams Sta. Telephone at office and res idence. Oorvallia, Oregon. ATTORNEYS J. F. YATES, ATTORNE Y-AT-LAW. 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