The Boardman Mirror
Boardman, Oregon
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
MARK A. CLEVELAND, Publisher
.'00 rEF: YEAR IN ADVANCE
Entered as second-class matter April
22, 1991, at th:i post office at Uma
tilk, Ore ., under act of Mar. 3, 179
The people will demand good offi
cials in office, but they are also de-!
mandlng application of business
principles in public administration.
The Farmer and Freight Rates
Whenever some radical politician
wishes to draw national attention
and try to curry public favor, he
There's no excuse for a state or directs his stream of oral abuse at
county or city government not having 'he railroads or any other industrial
Printing is the Inseparable com
panion of achievement, R, T. Porte
FOREIGN AM) DOMESTIC
A beckoning hand from a body
submerged In the mires of dismay
and despair is waving to America
for the straw which humanity is
balanced upon. The craven is perched
upon Ihe waving hand and the eyes
of .1 mil lee are closed by Ihe mires
o( hatred, A "homey" America in In
trenched behind ihe doctrines of an
early day diplomacy. The swish of
the plane, the word under ihe sea
OJ Hie sermon from I tie air tells,
our vaccinating government nothing.
Entangling alliances must not be
though our fate is enmeshed in all
mankind. If the crux of the chemist
crumble! no will also the loi'dly
chimney, The cry goes oul in the
World for B great leader. What the
World need is more man in Ihe in
dividual. Until man finds himself, not
on the one hundred per cent basis,
bin on a 50-50 basis, just so long
will our lares be (he wrongs of a
i oil erlng World.
Abroad) an oil concession precedes
the milk from mother's breast.
The mangled forms of infants is
the stairway to trade channels.
Domestically, t h highways are
the pawns for village Supremacy.
Openly Or covertly Ihe designing
doen "night shade" I heir birth
rights for the jingle Of gold in the
bottom l Ihe gas tanks. The rights
of Others is relegated beneath the
garrulOUS spouts of town pumps of
.Main Streets. The llrothcrhood of
man Is scrolled with the dollar sign,
Instead of service and not self We
live a pari of imlay regretting those
things which we overlooked yester
day; Ihe balance of Hie day In an
ticipating the morrow.
I.il's start this New Year, not on
the one hundred per Oenl basis, nor
a 25 -75. but on a 60-50 busls. Dive
and lei live. No one cutoff Wet eut
oli another cu I off . To the end of
time man will take ihe most direct
route, whether he be business man
or tOUliSt Short cuts will be buill
from ttmi tO timS regardless ejf
misty minds and infantile upbuild
rrs. Sanity must start from some
where. Lai it roil back from where
rolls the Oregon until the suds from
the back wash cleanses Ihe blood
dripping lingers of Ihe I'hosphorns,
at lenst as good a system of conduct
ing affairs as a bank or corporation.
The bluff of budgets made by thos-'
who want, the money out of the
treasury, and who demand ever
more and more, has never been pub
licly exposed.
The budget system of expenditures
as now planned is made by those
who are trained in the profit-sharing
system of offico-holding.
They do not care how high taxes
go. They have cunning devices for
saying "We are not to blame! The
people voted these taxes on them
selves." Others hide behind plans for
shifting the burdens of taxation.
They say the system is unjust. Oth
ers should pay. They never say cut
down.
The average state has about an
hundred boards and commissions and
all are interested in getting larger
appropriations and levying more
taxes.
At least i hat is Ihe way it works
out. Taxes have gone up two to four
hundred per cent in the average
state: population and wealth half
as much.
If ibis is not reversed where will
we be al the end of the next ten
years? That is the record for the past
ten
The cabinet or department system
reverses ibis and sets team work in
motion to cut oul duplication, dead
limber and professionalism.
Under the department system
there is an efficiency department, and
all depart merits are bound by its
findings where retrenchment is pos
sible. The beads of Ihe departments
meet each week to confer with the
governor as to what can be done to
economise here and there, give bet
ter service.
Thai is what they are created for.
The old spoils system put men and
women into places lo see how much
they could make oul of it for them
selves, Are we capable of Ibis step of
progress or shall .state and local
government continue to mean the
exploitation of the people? That is
Hie IsSUS.
group that best suits his purpose.
At the present time farmers are
told that freight rates are the eaus
of depressed prices for crops anr'
that the railroads are to blame for
the general agricultural depression.
As a matter of fact, James R.
Howard, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, shows that
the farmers bill for freight and pas
senger railway transportation is
$1,103,000,000 annually out of an
nual total of farm expenditures of
$9,784,000,000 for the purchase of
materials, interest and taxes.
If Mr. Howard's estimate is cor
rect, the farmer's expenditures for
railroad transportation is only 1 1
per cent of his total outgo and his
expenditure for freight alone is not
more than $800,000,000, or only 8
per cent of his outgo is for frenght
transportation.
This is not an argument against
reducing transportation costs to the
farmer or any other industry as
soon as the raidroads can do so, but
it is an argument to show that there
must be many things besides freight
expenditures which have caused de
pression in the market for farm products.
BOARDMAN MORROW COUNTY. OKFCON A NEW AND GROWING TOWN
Corn is produced in every State
In the Union, production ransnni'
years. I bey blame it on Ihe war. fmm ,i on nnn u....u,.. .
, . v,.jvv uumicis a year
in Nevada to over 450,000,000
bushels in Iowa, according to re
ports of Ihe United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
RECLAMATION ACT FALLS DOWN
ST ATI1! T REDUCTION
Every WeStWa stale has a battle
on lor tax reduction.
Coventors an' preparing their mes
SafM to make this the foremost Issue
to be presented lo Ihe legislatures,
They are lacking their brains lo
see how l hey can keep their cam
paign promises lo H i ii the overhead
In some way
The old souk SOOUI the three de
partments of government, adintms-
trative, judielarj and legislative,
lias done service in Ihe past.
Hut Ihe people who pa) tiixen
know Hint so hir a.s they ate con
cerned, these three departments (lo
team work when ll comes lo getting
the money.
V . . i . . . .
"use can in. ciicu where one
Sepexttneal has ever laid " straw
In the way of another depart men I
Increasing taxes only by a gover
nor's veto.
In most of the western stales there
Is strong talk of Junking so called
useless or superfluous boards and
commissions if there are any such.
It will be denied by all of them
that they are llflh wheels on the
wagon; all will contend ihe state
could not gel along without them.
Just the same Illinois. Idaho.
Washington, and other suites lime
Junked them and reduced taxes.
The trainers of the declamation
Act twenty years ago made three
mistakes: They assumed Hint the
settlers would be uble not only lo
transform raw sagebrush land Into
productive farms within ten years
from the arrival of water, but to
repay in that period the entire cost
of reservoirs and canala; they failed
to make adequats provision against
the speculative rite of laud values
on Reclamation Service projects and
they presented the settlers and land
owners with an unearned gratuity
worth twenty or thirty million doll
ars when they neglected lo charge
a reasonable Interest rate on public
money used for private benefit.
More than 1130,000,000 has been
advanced out of ihe treasury of the
United Stales tor the construction
of dams and ditches now irritating
1,500,0110 acres The settlers are
required to repay this principal sum
In Instalments spread over twenty
years, bin they need pay no inter
est, By this remission of Interest
the grateful country is making the
land owners a gift amounting at
present lo more than five million
dollars and totaling more than fifty
per cent of Hie principal if the set
tlers repay ll in twenty vents.
Hut Ihev ilim'i. Why should they
hurry lo repay a loan that costs
Hum no Interest? Until June :t0th,
1U22. they had repaid only $12,
S20.000, less I bun ten per cent of
Ihe total investment. Only one pro
ject. Orland. California, had conic
unom n with Hie full amount of all
instill ills due and payable; Ihe
Klumaiti, Oregon, project stood .sec
ond with u delinquency of less than
jpUNCHETTES
Rev. M. A. Matthews, n. J L. L. D.
OUR RIGHTS
The Constitution of the United
Slates guarantees to each certain
fundamental rights. Those rights
are lo be exercised within the boun
daries tlxed by law.
No man can assume to be I lie law
in ihe exercise of his rights. No
man has liberty except the liberty
that is guaranteed lo him by law
while he is within the confines of
absolute obedience to law. When
he steps beyond Ihe confines of law
he ceases to have rights except Ihe
right of a fair and Impartial trial by
an impartial jury.
We seem to have forgotten the
Constitution and have entered upon
a policy of abuse of the rights guar
anteed to US under the Constitution.
The Constitution guarantees to us
the right of free speech. That
means the right of appeal, of peti
tion, of protest, of trial, and of con
structive. amendment to the Constitu
tution according to the rules of law.
No government, civil or military,
can deny us the right to petition, to
plead, or to protest.
This provision of the Constitu
tion' is abused today The term,
'free Speech" Is interpreted to
mean unbridled license to talk.
There Is a vast difference between
speech and talk. There is a vast
difference between petition and un
guarded, treasonable, and hlasphe
mous ullerances. We do not need
any more free speech. We need
lair argument, honest statements.
and truthful utterances.
Ihe Constitution lUiarantees to
us a free press. That means the
right to own and to publish Hie
news if published accurately, truth
fully and fairly.
It means a press beyond the dic
tation of any power be it political,
military or financial. We need un
der that right a fair press, an hon
est press, a truthful press, an accu
rate press, an unbiased press, and
a press that rccounizes that the re-
portorial and news columns belong
lo the public in which utterances
be fairly, accurately, and truthfully
reported
The Const it in ion guarantees to
us the right of amending ihe Con
stitution Km ii must be amended
dumped hundreds of useless otllcials, one per cent Though the settlers I according to the Constitution's rule
and still exist
Left to a legislature the evils of
these ulcers Hupping Hie revenues an, Ihev
lite blood id I he coliilitonu cull h. will
1101 be abolished. They rule
Where the najtidlaoua sxcreseen
ces have been scraped off Hie body
politic. It has been done by heroic
uction of some chief executive.
l.owden in Illinois slid Coventor
Hurt in Washington, backed t
strong business men, used the club
on the legislature and got reuslis
Without attacking the schools or
the development of Hie highway, a
number of states have got great re
lief by adopting the cabinet system
Then the governor and the heads
on Ihe True Lee-Carson project Ne
vada have hud n fairly hard lime.
fell behind in their payments
only I I per Seat, On the. uiher bund.
Hie richest and most productive of
all the projects, the Salt (Over, Ari
zona, urea, is a lull f.O per cent be
hind in us payments.
The Keclamulion Act should be
redrawn. The period or repayment
should be extended to years. A
reasonable interest rule should be
provided for If private land Is pro
vide! wuh Irrigation facilities
through the use of public funds, the sire them
price hi which the bar, bind tun be also send
for amending it
The Constitution must In
spected, obeyed and followed
this government is to stand.
re-if
Write Him It Von Want Any
Conureesiuan N. J. Sinnott has no
tified this puper that he will make
distribution of government seed!
allotted to him this year through
the iuiper In his district, a.s this
method has proved so successful for
several years in getting game into
Ihe hands of those who most de-
Congreesman Sinnott will
seeds to any constituent
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in i tie interest of Hie people instead proveiuents
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button after the first
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THE CLIMATE IS GOOD
THE PEOPLE ARE
SOCIABLE
INTELLIGENT
ENTERPRISING
TOWN IS NEW AND GROWING
LOCATION WELL CHOSEN
HALF WAY BETWEEN THE DALLES
AND PENDLETON ON O.-W. RAIL
ROAD ON COLUMBIA RIVER
SOIL WILL RAISE AN YTHING
WATER FOR IRRIGATION FROM
WEST EXTENSION OF UMATILLA PROJECT
McKAY CREEK DAM
WILL BE BUILT
ASSURING MORE ACREAGE
UNDER WATER
Boardman is a New
Town But Not a
Boom Town
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