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The Herald
D. E. STITT, Editor.
Enured u econd-cIM nutter Sptmber
kt th part oflict at Monmouth. OrKn. under the
Act of March 3,
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1911.
WILL IT PAY?
In the matter of invoking the
referendum on state appropria
tions we wonder if such movers
have analyzed their assessment
to see where the taxation comes
in. By a glance at our own tax
receipt we lind that the state
and county school tax is just a
trifle short of one-third of the
whole amount; that the school
district ami road tax is more than
one-third of the whole, as is also
the city tax.
Now, on. an appropriation of
one hundred thousand dollars,
the property of the state would
be taxed something like ten
cents on the thousand dollars
if we have calculated closely,
hence we venture the statement
that those who invoke the refer
endum on the appropriations
made for the state university,
the O. A. C., the state normal
and the state house at Salem,
generally speaking, will spend
more money to get the measure
before the people than they will
save if they defeat the action of
the legislature.
PLAYING AT STATESMEN
And now it turns out, ac
cording to the Portland Tele
gram, that certain clerical notes
have been displaced, abstracted
or otherwise, by members of the
late legislature, and that their
disappearance will materially
effect the general appropriation
law.
It is further stated that their
disappearance was the result of
a scheme to compel Governor
West to call an extra session of
the legislature in order that its
members might pass over his
head bills that it was supposed
he would veto. This looks very
much, to an ordinary individual,
as though the Oregon legislature
had not assembled in the in
terest and for the good of the
state, but that they were there
to play politics, ami the people
yes the people can foot up the
expense and put up with the in
convenience. Now it is not understood, nor
charged, that all the legislative
members belonged to this class,
as there were men there, good
and true, who desired to do that
which was rightand for the best,
but there were others whose
whole purpose seems to have
been to day politics, and the
state will be much better off if
the bunch is not called together
again.
It may be that the voters of
Oregon will t ike notice and in
due time drop out the political!
tricksters and put an end to such
methods.
Legislators should recognie-l
the fact that tb.u- u,.u i a I
" ' - H i ie n
further the best interests of the
people, and not to work for their
own individual schemes.
Secretary of War Dickinson
is kept busy these days explain
ing that the massing of troops
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Who pays in advance at the birth of
each vear.
Who lays down the money and does it
quite gladly,
And casta round the office halo of
cheer.
He never says: "Stop it, I cannot
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How welcome he is when he steps
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We outwardly thank him; we inwardly
bless him
The steady subscriber who pays
advance.
Exchange.
on the Mexican border does not
mean anything. However, all
that is necessary is to wait and
see. There are some hundreds
of millions of dollars of Ameri
can capital invested in Mexican
railroads, plantations and other
enterprises and it is not very
stra nire that mobilization is
made along the border line. J
P. Morgan could possibly sur
mise whatJthe army is there for
Later developments have
brought to light the miss
ing proof of the passage of the
appropriation bill and the cloud
of a special session of the legis
lature has dissolved. Attorney
General Crawford , and other
ollicials were of the opinion that
a special session was not neces
sary had the records not been
found.
Now conies the news that
Russia faces revolt. Russia is
a hard task master to the lower
classes of her own people and
as to the Jews within her border
she has been a tyrant and fiend
and if a thorough house-cleaning
was had she might become civil
ized.
There is no quicker way to
to take the life, growth and en
ergy out of a town than for its
citizens to be constantly holding
up the dark side of the picture
to the gaze of the inquirer. The
word "if" keeps every body in
doubt, and doubt keeps every
man from going forward with
the improvements he would
otherwise make. There is
nothing like confidence to make
a success of anything and if you
have not got any of it, don't
communicate the fact to your
neighbor, much less to a stranger
and if the bent of your mind is
to continually go asrainst everv
interest of the town in which you
live, for the sake of the town tret
out of it and go to some place
that is already lifeless and has
no interests at stake, where von
like the old lady's root beer, if
you don't do any good you won't
do any hurt-Corvallis Republi
can.
The educational annronriationa
of the legislature ha VP boon
threatened with a rpforom-l
vvivuumUi
If these referendum movements
are successful, the higher edu
cational work of the state will be
very seriously impeded for the
next two years, and Oregon will
be made the subject of very un
desirable criticism in m.mv nnrta
v VW
of the Union during the same
period. A general referendum
movement would probably excite
so much distrust that millions of
dollars of capital for investment
would be diverted from Oregon
toother states. -Blue Mountain
American.
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Arrived
Also
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Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening.
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W. W. Davis, Pastor.
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