The Heppner Gazette
1-MfibtishM' March 30, 1SS3.
ISSUED THURSDAY MORNING.
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Entered at the Postoffiee at Ueppner Oregon, as
seeond-claes matter.
For this Fall and Winter. While we have not all of ihei-e in stock now we have a
few of them, and will have tlum all later and many others which we cannot show here
Thursday Oct, 13, 1901
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
The most disturbing question
that has ever occurred in state,
county and municipal affairs in the
history of Oregon, is now before
the people to be voted upon at the
November election in the matter
of local option. Even the great
question of electing a president is
overshadowed in the agitation.
After careful study, this is not
strange, for the business world can
now readily see the results which
would be immediate under the sud
den and radical change that thej
advocates of local option propose.
Up to the time of the last issue
of the Gazette, this paper has been
sib-nt upon this question, but as
the, public mind becomes active al
ways upon questions that mater
ially affect the public pulse, and as
a teal newspaper is the greatest
exponent of publicity, then it be
comes the absolute duty of the
Gazette to comment upon this
question, and from sound judg
ment aDd reason we hope to main
tain the position of this' paper
which has already been stated.
For the freedom of the press
and the liberty of the American
people, we owe to broad minded
citizenship in careful and unpreju
diced investigation in the affairs of
government. It is not our intent
to antagonize the people who be
lieve in voting for local option,
but they shall be treated with the
greatest respect and fairness; how
ever, we do hope to show that lo
cal opfion as now proposed will
not bring the results desired and
work a preat injur n to business in
terests as well. Neither will the
Gazette oppose true temperance,
and in this controversy, so lar as
this paper is concerned, the ques
tion of fairness will predominate.
In Ihis issue the local optiooists
have a hearing as will ha seen by
an article published elsewhere in
this paper, written by one of their
advocates.
Before voting for local option,
the conservative and wise business
man and property owner will have
a whole lot to think about. It has
taken years of labor, business
judgment and economy to accumu
late what they now have, and to
have it suddenly greatly depre
ciate in value as well as the in
crease of taxatiou which would in
evitably follow, is not a pleasant
thought. Nor does this comprise all
the harm. To close up these build
ings would undoubtedly cause a
depreciation in their value. How
long it would be until the build
ings can again be utilized, no one
can foretell. There is no idle talk
about this, but it is a condition
that will follow should local option
triumph, as surely as day follows
night. If your property depre
ciates in value, then mine must
depreciate also, and from a busy,
thriving town Heppner becomes
more like a deserted village.
Heretofore, both socially and in
a business way, Heppner has been
, t iii ii
umtea in a manner mat wou:u ne
a credit to uny community. The
local option agitation has already
been a great promoter of factions,
(no wors here than in many other
place.-) Hiid a ill open a chasm that
can hardly be bridged. This dis-
fceusion and strif-s will be carried
into busiaesa and the everyday
walks of life, end the result will
be enmity and confusion that will
be injurious.
This condition will Lot only be
limited to tie towns. Morrow
Th 8 is ftn Mr- hru'.rh w a Hoot
skirt rUHflw :i: from tetv fpn Hotli
aod in the la' of ' vn
The pw tor.r
butcher btek i!
tllK'.t; sovcii t! i j
en-t with ibe
hi- ttip. prr.HrfPbt
The sbo"f t.ru.-tf tpcl jecbets are Tha most syMt.i a iit will n? ibe
still in v:tiei..crt. Muirt up of nice severely tailored irHMiiHnt, ' though
cloth. Aro ft drfP".v mmerit. the blouse front is stih .j ul.
in
TIereisprere8-i-.il-.. nc- i.tw rain coat for
la lies We have a 1. ice lit-e of these. No
two alike. We take orders lor speoial sizes
While there is nothing specially new in any
of the capes shown ior Fall they are always
pood. No two alike.
A smart jacket ior the misses, The
miicnr Dae is oroumu i:no eviueuce mo8t sensible th'np for the winter
The lonp; coat for the little ones is the
A nice
assortment is ready for your inspection.
county is a good country but is
handicapped by isolation. With a
continual squabble we cannot do
anything to help develop and in
crease values by getting more peo
ple, increasing transportation facil
ities and many other things.
What one man would do some
other would pull down and our
great resources would Hw dormant.
We have already had one prac
tical illustration in Heppner. A
lot was purchased, work was com
menced on a building to cost not
lee than SS0O0, but local option
killed the euterurise. A walk
down the east side of Main stree
will prove this. Ihebaznte can
name several other similar cases.
To pum up: Local option closes
the saloons; but to be placed
against this is increased taxation;
a vacation of many buildings,
which will cheapen all; gives birh
to and keeps forever alive faction
al strife, making the heretofoie
pleasant business relations impos
sible; and puts ns back at least
fifteen years in development.
Heppner is justly proud of a first
class hotel. This would have to go
with the rest. These are the rea
sors why we say in the beginning,
there is a good deal for the busi
ness man and property owner to
thiDk about. Having such mo
mentous changes iu mind the
Gaz-tte cm not avoid the conclu
sion that local option will do great
er injury to the general lineH of
busiurgs than to the liquor trallic.
"All I ask is a square deal f r
every man' Piesidt-nt Koufeeveit
ask the HO,jle to emtinue in
power, fVroir pt-rformunc in the
past, our proved governmental effi
ciency, is a guarantee as to our
promises for the future. Presi
dent Roosevelt.
We .re not constrained to et-p
ei'.ent on any vital quest ion; we
are divide Ion no vital q le.-llon;
our policy is i:oni'inous, HtiJ i
the same for all sections uud lo
calities. There is n-jthiug exper
imental about the Government w
Everything points to a gradual
gain of strength for Roosevelt.
The fact is, the tide is strongly
against the Parkerites, and they
know it. None of the big leaders
of the Democratic party are say
ing anything for him. Some
powerful appea's have been made
to Cleveland to get him to make a
few addresses for the candidate
but he has refused in such per.
emntory terms that tne old re
ports of his taking the stump will
not be heard again in this can
vass. The excuse which Cleve
land's immediate friends cite for
his refusal to talk for Parker is
his advanced age and feeble
health. Nobody heard anything
about these things just before the
Sf. Loui convention, when' there
was a chance that he would be
nominated- Had the candidacy
been offered to him be undoubt
edly would have accepted it. In
that event nobody would have
heard anything abont his ad-
anced year or his feebleness.
Vice Presidential Candidate Davis
is almost old enough to be Cleve
land's father, yet the Democrats
say that Davis is full of exuber
ance, and is good for a dozen
years of haul work yet. (Jeve-
and is keeping out of the canvass
for the same reason that Carlisle,
Dickinson, Fairchild, Olney and
the rest of the. old leaders of the
party are keeping out. They see
disastrous defeat close at hand for
Parker, which they could not
Avert if they tried, but in which
they would, in some degree, be in
volved if they fhould take an
active pait in the campaign.
1RST NATIONAL HANK
OF HEPPNER.
13. A.
T. A.
RITEA President
RHEA Vio-Presiilent
(1. V. CONSKR.
, ...Oasbiet
E. L. FKFEL.1ND. . Apsiptant Cashier,
Transact a General Bankincj Business.
paid on Time Deposits.
Four per cent.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
Collections made on all pomtson reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits 35,U0O.
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Drugs itl I
ledicines
WE
wish to announce
to the public that
we have secured the
services of a competent
druggist, who will care
fully attend to all prescriptions.
The store ih heiiijr thor
oughly renovated, and we
ofler a choice tnd pure
Ftotk of
CHUGS AM) MEDICINES
HEPPNER DRUG CO
Emmett Mason aged 20, of Ore
gon City, has been lost in the
mountains for three days and it is.
feared he has perished.
LOOK HERE
An Opportunity to the
Public.
Did you ever think a mo
ment where to buy your
Flour ?
The Heppner Bakery is
the place.
The quality has been tried
and I guarantee it with everv
loaf at the lowest market
price.
Fresh bread and cake
every day. with a race clean
stock of groceries ou hand.
Call and inspect,
HEPPNER BAKERY,
Otto Friedrich, Prop.