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'1 Saturday, November 90, 1 196 THE FALLS CITY NEWS. Sl|f j Falla (Etty Nema D L. WOOD A ON. Publish' Kiit* r» U « * •»>'t»t<»l < i i m P a t ! at tho pOBtofftcr ■ t P ill« l'tty. I*»»lk OHiittf. Oregon, uinter ttw A it of O 'ttfm n of Nf%t< h 3, 1STP. Telephone Y W t O ffice . S3. Subscription Rates: One year. $1 00; six months. 50 cents; three months, 25 cents: single copy. 5 cts. Advertising Rates: Display, 15 cent* sn inch ; Business NotUv*. 5 cent* a line . For Sale. Rent. Exchange. Want an i Pay Entertainment No tires. 5 eta. a line. t ‘ar<l of Thank« 30 eta : Legs Notices, legal rate«. Copy for now, ads. and changes should be sent to The News not later than Wednesday. OFFICIAL TilRECTOlY OF FALLS CITY H. J. Griffin. Mayor. R M. Wondcrly. «'ooncilm an at-Large t'M llip Gotlfreid H. C. Brown. C. J. Bradley Councilmen I. G. Singleton. C. L. Hopkins, R. A. Titus. C, E. MoPherren. Auditor and Police Judg Walter L. Ttooie Jr.. City Attorney. Fat Murphy. Marshal and Water 8upt. M. L. Thompson. Treasurer Hr. F. M Hell war th. Health Officer. The Council meets in regular session on the flrst Monday night of each month, at 7 3b o’clock. In the office of the Falls City News. S a t u r d a y . N o v e m b e r 20. 1915 NEWS AND COMMENT HOPE OF DEMOCRACY Speech of Congressman Nlehlos Longworth of Ohio at Republi can Meeting in New York City The one hope o f the Democracy today is the popularity, in some quarters, o f President Wilson. They are trying to capitalize that popularity into a party asset as an offset against the liabilities of their sins o f omission and commission. No one questions that President is greater than his party. His complete control, and his facile manipulations of the last Congress proved that. No one questions that he is more popular than his party. He has an almost uncanny faculty o f obtaining credit for everything of good that may hap pen, and shedding onto the should ers o f some other individual, or of the party as a whole, responsibil ity for the bad. He is the luckiest man that ever sat in the White House. Just as the country was becom ing fully awake to the disastrous consequences, both to the nation’s industries and to its revenues, of tariff law, for which he was main ly responsible, the war came and distracted public attention from affairs at home. Overshadowing as it did all else, it offered the op portunity, immediately seized up on, to transfer the blame for ap proaching national bankruptcy upon circumstances which have nothing to do with it. It artifi cially revitalized our dying indus tries by making them the main contributors to Europe’s needs. It forced up our foreign trade from a bos in the year previous o f more than twenty per cent to unheard o f proportions. It greatly relieved the international aspects o f the Mexican situation, for be well as sured that, had it not been for this war, a situation was developing, due to our faltering and pusillani mous policy in regard to Mexico, that would surelv have brought us into serious altercation, if not war, with one or more European powers. A striking piece of luck came to him when, as a result o f the war, diplomatic questions o f the grvest import were suddenly thrust upon us; his luckiest star again shone brightly when he received the res ignation o f a Secretary o f State notoriously unfit for the position. Unexampled luck has been so far the portion o f the Wilson A d ministration. but it is luck predi cated upon the greatest disaster in the world’s history and cannot and ought not forever to endure. It has seemed to me that we Republicans on the firing line have been altogether too mealy-mouthed about discussing the Wilson poli cies, foreign as well as domestic. It is as though an odor o f sanctity prevaded the maintenance of our neutrality. No doubt a very large state them is to effectively bring is true, are prosperous, hut they muster. We have known, o f course, portion o f the American people before your minds the evidence are industries which are not «up- that Mr. Wilson bus boon busy plying the American market, but would approve any policy, the re o f their complete repudiation. this summer Galling and golfing. What o f their promised rigid the markets o f the warring coun sult o f which has been to keep us But wo hud not thought that Cu out o f war. The American people economy? The fact is that the tries o f Europe. pid and the caddy had so crowd The cost o f living has not been don’t want war. We would be last Democratic Congress appro ed his duys and nights thut there foolish if we did, for we have not priated o f the people’ s money cut down. On tin* contrary* was no room for his Cabinet. been, and are not now, in the $177,000,000 more than any Re from the day that the Democratic What does ho have a Cabinet least degree prepared for war, publican Congress in history, and tariff law w as enacted it has con for? Are the councils o f his Cab tinuously risen. The law’ grant either offense or defensive. Prae- wouid hnve been far worse, by inet \ aluoless? I f so, why does ing free tolls to American coast tieally we have not been at war millions upon millions, had it not ho not select a new one? And, ' wise ships in the Panama ('anal during this Administration, unless l*e n for certain Republican Sen- it he cannot he depended upon was repealed. It matters not you count the little one that we atora, who not only waited watch- to ehoo.-e a Cabinet worth having whether the law was good or had had with Mexico at VeraCruz. ful,-v * but acted effectively, to and heeding, w hy should he be A t that tíme Uncle Sam showed check the rapacity o f the pork policy at the time o f its enact depended upon at all? ment. The Democratic party in his teeth. Through Woodrow barrel advocates. All this, and Wilson and William J. Brvan, his mind you. in the face o f falling dorsed it: Democratic leaders attorney in fact, he demanded an revenues, falling revenues in from the President dow n, praised NOTICE .apology for an insult to our flag, time o f world-peace; falling rev it. Its repeal was a flat repudia NOTICE is hereby given by the We sent the armed force o f the enues bt‘ for<* war was ever heard tion o f a Democratic pledge. So as regards our rehabilitated mer undersigned taxpayers of Road United States to Vera Cruz to en- o f or even dreamed o f; falling force our demand. It is true that revenues in spite o f increased chant marine, they have swept District Number 21, in the County that apology was never made, importations, not only before, the last vestige o f it from the o f Polk. State o f Oregon, who ure We sailed away with the taint of the war. Then came what they j Pacific Ocean and have turned it more than ten percent, o f the tax insult to our flag unremoved. The railed the war tax. a tax burden- over to Japan. If thi* law had payers o f said District, that a blood o f some American sailors. some and oppressive in the ex been drafted by the shrewdest meeting o f the resident taxpayers not many, perhaps, judged by treme; a tax imposed on objects Japanese statesman it could not o f said Road District will be held modern standards, but more than and business transactions never have served more effectively to on Saturday, the 27th day o f Nov the entire Navy lost during our before taxed in history except transfer the control o f the carry ember, in the year 1915, ut the war with Spain, was left to mingle wben this country itself was act- ing trade o f the Pacific Ocean to hour of 2 o'clock, I‘. M., of said with the blood o f peacefdl Aineri- lia'*-v at war- **ie name War the Japanese. day, at th* Public School House In O f all infractions, though, o f can men and their women out- Tax"’ is a gross misnomer. Some School District No. G O (Oakhurst) j their various plunks, that relat raged on Mexican soil, but still sucb tax was inevitable, war or in said Road District for the pur ing to the Civil Service has been we were at peace—at peace, at n0 war* to remedy the deficiency least, so far as the nations o f Eu- cajsed b^ tbe Underwood lan ti the most barefaced and brutal. pose o f voting on the question of rope were concerned. Law. It was a deficiency tax, I say, and I measure my words, whether or not an additional tax We have continued to preserve Pure ar,J simple, but even with that under this Administration sha'l lie levied by the resident tax our neutrality. Good, but why the hundred million dollars addi Civil Service has been debauched payers o f said district on all the taxiblc property in said district not? The situation is not with tional revenue that this tax rais and outraged. 1 am not speak for road purposes, under the pro ing at random. 1 know o f one ed, the deficit grew and the Treas out precedent. This is not the visions of Section (»821 o f Lord’s revenue district where in the lust ury balance continued to fall. first European war within the On the first o f July a year ago year seventeen men. all Demo Oregon Laws as amended by memory o f men here present. A the balance in the Treasury was crats, have been appointed, and Chapter 81*», General Laws of Democratic President preserved more than $110,000,000. On the! thirty men, all Republicans, have Oregon, 1918. A t said meeting our neutrality during the Crimean day Congress convened, when been removed, where the only the resident taxpayers of said War. A Republican President preserved it during the Franco- ¡ tbe Democracy started their Republicans remaining on the roll district will by a majority vote of Prussian War. Another Repub- Treasury raid, it had shrunk to are men who cannot be discharg such taxpayers levy such addit lican preserved our neutrality $€6.000.000. By the end o f June ed without cause because they ional t a x ? if any) as they may during the war between Russia had shrunk to practically noth- are old soldiers, hut the process deem advisable to improve the and Japan. * ’ n£ at ab- 1* was difficult to find o f dealing with them is about as roads o f said district Witness our hands this 4th day Granted that the present sitúa- ¡ out just what it was because the effective as discharge, because tion has been handled admirably, P°hcy o f pitiless publicity went they are not assigned to work o f November, 1915. Names: Barney Phillips, Mrs. K. but what American President, ,on a vacstion for a time, and the and can draw no pay. Can there Republican or Democrat, would Treasury balance was not given he a more flagrant debauchery o f Mack, ('has. Hartung, H. Hardt, not have done likewise? There t0 *be newspapers. A windfall the Civil Service than to drop M. I,. Thompson, Thus. Valentine, is nothing sacred about it; there (Came, though, during the last men of, in some cause, thirty J. M. Valentine, Mrs. Anna Mehr- is no reason why it should blind two or three days o f June, lhe years o f experience, for no reason ling, A. Brown, L T. Murphy, R. us to the lamentable results o f screws had been put on as they except that they are o f the Re Van Denbosh, Geo. M. Tice, Ella other Democratic policies and never had been before to collect publican faith, and to fill their DeWitt, J. J. Sammons, D. Toller, performances, either foreign or the last possible cent o f the in places with men o f no experience C. L Hopkins, J. Lowe, W. A. domestic. come tax, and on the first o f July at all solely because they are Persey, G. Fry, F. Droege, E. R. Lewis, J. C. Talbott, W. F. Nichols, It is not in accordance with the was heralded to the country Democrats? Albert Teal, E. E. Lee, F. M. Hell- American system o f government tbat tbe Treasury balance was that any man, the leader o f a something like seventy million Cupid, the Caddy and the Cabinet warth, E. G. White, R. A. Titus, E. A. La Dow, J. D. Moyer, J. A. great political party, should mo- dollars. Again the process o f The Washington correspondent Young, A. Sampson, G. W. Brent- nopolize all the credit and shirk erosion set in and the balance be o f the Philadelphia “ North ner, R. M. Wonderly, N. A. Lunde, all the blame for the results, gan to dwindle until on the last American” makes the unqualifi E. S. Rich, Laura E. Grayum, S. good or bad, o f the administra- September it was about cut in ed declaration that “ Cabinet R. Skeels, B. W. Brown, O. H . . tion by his party o f the affairs o f half, lh e treasury was run- meetings have apparently been Hudson, John Wagner. the American people. I f another n' nfi behind more than $10,000,- abandoned. The last held was Date o f first publication Novem plank o f the Democratic platform 000 a month. The policy o f piti- the memorable one when William ber 6th, 1915. is to be shattered, another solemn j less puolicity would soon have Jennings Bryan presented his re pledge to be violated, if the Pres- had to take another vocation.) signation as Secretary of State.” dent is to be a candidate to sne- The situation would not look well W h now urge all our subscriber* > That was five months ago. ceed himself—and what man to the public. They would begin Meantime, there have been to rei.ow tin ir subscription to The doubts i t - h e must stand or fall to compare the balance with R e -, several acute incidents in govern New« and get four magazine« one upon the whole record o f the publican balances, and so a new | mental management which called party o f which he has been the method was hit upon, designed for all the skill and prudence in year for only 18 cents extra i most puissant and undisputed simply and solely to fool the council which a President could W HITE Oil PHONE. leader in modern times. people. It is now , and always has been, On the first o f October the a charcteristic o f the Democratic Treasury balance was announced party to promise all things to all to be some ♦128,000,000, and ac- men and then proceed, if success- j companying it was a brief state ful in deluding a sufficient num-j ment to the effect that the freas- ber o f voters, to carry out or re ury officials had changed their pudiate just so many o f their methods o f bookkeeping. For the promises as may seem to fit the first time in a hundred years the demands o f the occasions as they Treasury accounts were juggled may arise. You remember the to make a good showing. Me- solemn protestations o f good faith thods o f high finance had found that accompanied the platform their way into the management enunciated by the Democratic , o f the people’s money. Thisme- Convention o f 1912. Each plank thod was ingenious, if you please. was a sacred pledge intended to but even it could not stop the be redeemed to the letter. That process o f erosion. Within twen-j was what they said before the ty days the balance had fallen to election. What did they do after $116,000,000. a loss o f $12,000,000 even under this .new and enligh election? Let me onumerate a few of tened method. Under the old those pledges and leav« it to you time-honored method of keeping to be the judges o f the fact o f the public accounts this shows their redemption. Rigid econ that there is today a balance in omy in contradistinction to Re the Treasury o f not more than publican extravagance; ample about $20,000,000, and with the revenues for the support o f the continued loss o f something like Government; industrial prosper- $800,000 a day it is not difficult iy under a tariff law which pro to estimate when the United vided for ‘effective competition;’ States Treasury runs dry. The American people, gentle reduction in the cost o f living; free tolls for American ships in men, under this Administratiovi, the Panama Canal; the rehabili are riding hell-bent to bank tation o f the American merchant ruptcy and paying for the privil marine; strict enforcement and ege with a war tax. Their boast extension o f the Civil service; a ed prosperity ha3 not come. single Presidential term, and Want and misery have prevailed many other things. Merely to in the land. Some industries, it profc 00 Umal Carte P H Y S IC IA N F. M . H E L L W A K T H PHYSICIAN AND SUKtiKON t (Ilice one door t*a»t ol P, O. n in e e * m i . . r * n . t 'lt y , Heal,teure I »»Olle .Hilt Or. «»II U IIU n l'H A tT IC D H . W . L . H o llo w a y CHIROPRACTIC w ill be el Fella t u r Hotel M ONPAY. WKt'NKSPAY ene FH1PAY Atlrruoona kerb Week. £ U0tiu:00 d a r t o HOTEL jfaU ôC itçlbotcl S a m p l e Ro o m s ■ s e t A c c o mmo d a t i on s F. 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