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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1917)
THH 1NDEPBNDBNO0S HNTERPRI3H LNDflFIlNTJJCNCfl, OnSOOH PAGE F1VB. . 1 W. J. CLARK, Publisher Bantered at tUa poatoftloe at lade BvnUence, Oregon, M second cls matter. PUBLISHED EVKRT FRIDAT SUBSCRIPTION KATES Db year In advance fl.Btf tlx months In tdrance - - .T5 Three months In advance - . .SO GIVE UNCLE SAM A FAIR SHOW. MEMBER OF THE STATE EDITOR IAL ASSOCIATION. Friday, Hay 25, 1917. America, to thee We pledge our loyalty. Mind h.art and hand; Thy laws be wisely made And faithfully obeyed. Thy honor ne'er betrayed God keep our land, EVILS OF DUAL REGULATIONS. THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT. It is e'asily apparent that with con gress and the Interstate commerce Commission pursuing one course and the legislature and railroad com missions, of 48 states pursuing an other, it is only a matter of a short Non eof U8 U8ed to think much time until the railroads of the United about ft when we saw raJIroad States Will be forced bv impaired ere i companies scrapping to the Collier's edited by Mark Sullivan is not noted for reactionary or stamtpat oonser atlsm. It is progres sive In spirit whiv h is not true of all politicians. But it takes American view points in placing business Interests fore most and giving Unolc Sam an equal break in the markets of the world a free field. It does not believe in giving rail roads, foreign shipping-, manufactur ing and other large interests the as for merely temporary political effc It publishes an interview with Judge Gary of the V. S. Steel Cor poration in which he says: "Corpor ation managers should from high motives of honor and integrity live up to their great public responsible ties and where these motives are inoperative, they should be forced to do so." As to real preparedness to hand le the commerce of the world Judge Gary says: "The first step, how ; ever, is the repeal of existing laws hinipcring the chance of develop ment. The LaFollette Act should be r;pealed; also any other restric tions should be repealed or modi fied which deter capital from such an enterprise. The time has come when the need of sufficient trans- potation facilities in our own hands is felt more than ever by large ex porting con.erns. Capital would be forthcoming as never before if Am eri an capital - were given a fair show in competition. Our own com pany would proDably buy forty or fifty ships tf we could operate them without these vexious restrictions. HATS OFF TO THE AMERICAN ENGINEERS. dit to abandon Improvement better ments and extensions and, what is worse, begin to lower the quality of the service. The efforts of congress and the Interstate Commerce Commission have been largely confined to reg ulation of rates and service, practic ally the only two phases of railway regulation involving the general wel fare and in which the public is at all concerned. The efforts of state legislatures have been largely devoted to passage of "stuffed" crew las-t dit,ch to prevent being1 put under Jurisdiction of state railroad com missions. The railroads have now of their own accord asked that they be plac ed entirely under the control of one national regulating body in order that conflicting rulings may be done away with and red tape and expens es caused by 4S state commissions eliminated This is the logical outcome of the movement to regulate freight and ho passenger traffic in the U. S. and lawn the roads are to be commended for train limit laws, electric headlight i volutarily asking for it instead of law, laws requiring numerous and in waiting until it was forced on them, many respects useless reports, and i Tne tlloe 18 now on e other foot, other laws whose only purpose is to j however, and different officials on require more pay for less work and ' state railroad commissions are the employment cf men with nothing 'fighting tooth and nail to prevent general federal regulation. The main argument seems to be that the state would get no service for them to do, while the state com missions have been largely engaged es umpires between rival communi ties, hacking away at rates because ; under such a system one community thought that another We can aee no force t0 tnlB M lt community encroached too far on its j1" 8n sdmitted fact that federal reg territorial monopoly.with little or no ulation is always more severe and thought f the vitally economic fact effective than local regulation for that 85 p?r cent of the commerce of jan illustration take the national this country is interstate and that banks. No one wi 1 claim a national the thing which concerns the public ka.nk is not as well regulated as a luott of all is a system of reason- state bank and the system is uni able interstate rates. This is essen-j form- tially true of the long-haul west j The amusing part is to see state whose products must be moved on in-; officials instead of the railroads tterstate rates thousands of miles to fighting f'deral regulation. the markets of the (East. The "stuffed" crsw laws (erron eously called full-crew) enacted by the various states for the sole pur pose of creating more jobs have in creased the cost of service to the public more than $4,000,000 a year and apparently the end ia not yet, and other companion legislation has raised this burden to $28,000,000 a year. Laws and orders of commissions re quiring reports have occasioned an Increase of 88 per cent in the num ber of general office clerks! and an increase of $44,000,000 a year in the cost of general clerical service. Here alone when added to the $28, 000,000 is an increase in cost of ser vice of $72 000,000 a year, practic ally wasted, whereas if left in the trea -ury of the ri'roads would have served as a bisls cf $1,440,000 of cre- Round-Up Program June 15-16 Event No. 1. Maveric Race. Steer to have fifty ftet start, first man to have rope on both horns wins $5.00. Event No. 2. Pony Express race, for champion- ' ship, one mile. Riders to start in front of grand stand and change ev ery quarter mile. Each rider allowed catcher and holders. Best total time in two day wins. Event No. 3 Goat roping contest for champion ship of the world. Goat to have fif ty feet start, man to ride to and roap goat, leave horse and tie goat three feet crossed. Best time in each day wins. Event No. 4. Riill.rtnirlnc f-nntf'P.t StAfr to dit for new construction betterment. t American ingenuity and skill again tops into th) lime light with nine regiments of railway engineers be ing organized to go to France and fctraUuten but work on lines of com tnunlcatilon. The regiments will be raised from the great railway 'canters cf the U. S. and w ill fee railway engineers and officials. The fact that American engineers from private railroads are to be the first men sent to the front to work .on lines of government opera ted systems of privately owned and operat.d railroads. It Is an admitted fact that we have the finest trains, running on the fastest time with lowost rates and be t accommodations of any country in the world and yet there are many politicians nad well meaning people ho advocate the European system of government ownership in the U. S. BLAMES OFFICIALS Bud imnrovements of the service. Due to th se various laws and or der of commissions the railroads in the yea r 1915 w re required to make 2,991,776 reports th" expense of and throw steer and hold one hand in the air,each man allowed one help er. Event No. 5. Cow Girl Relay Race for champion shin b tween Bertha Blanchit, the ch' mDir n girl relay race rider of which rm Into the millions. .... . . M - M l.nwmanA r-O . B.tner m me lorrnot IB....-- th(j wor,d and Jennie TayJorj cnam, VI - p on girl elay race rider of Arizona, Riders to start in front of grand st nd nnd 'hango qnarter mile, each rid r t h v catcher and holders. b st totri t me in two days wins. Event No. 6. fKck'ng - ontest for championship deny must ultimately fall cn the pub lic. All of which emphasizes the m-portan-e of the pcnI-g congression al inves'isatlon of the conditions for the purrose, let us hop' , of investing some f-derrl trbunal wn excuwivt- of wnrd frfm furnl8hed and regulatory authority over arteries, of nulbDed by management, each rider commerce. Steamer Trunks t MOOBBJ ft WAJLKFR. to ride any horso and as many times as Ji-d s th nk necessary, all hor- s in re rlden with halter and sin- g'e rtln, fio Rbure of horses allow- tZJLzs- The Louisville Courier-Journal has this to say about Dry Georgia: An Internal Revenue agent who Is assigned to duty in Georgia says that it is impossible to catch moonshiners in some of the counties because the county officers will not co-operate with Federal agents, but on the contrary protect the makers of whisky. In such counties moonshine stills are running night and day. Federal officers must avoid county offlcers if they would nourish a hope of detecting proprie tors of Illicit stills. The situation is familiar in other States. The local "still house," as It is called, can not be abolished by leg. islative enactment, as the large II censed and regulated distilleries might be. It can be hidden, behind the brush and behind the coattalls of sympa thetic sheriffs, and must be found be fore it can be closed or destroyed. is a simple, cheap outfit which can be replaced and put again into operation when the backs of officers are turned. Confiscation. The reputable distillery, operated under the law, and paying its part to ward the expenses of the state and county governments; contributing to the schools, the roads and to occasion al enterprises planned for the public benefit, may be put off of the -map by the making of a law. It is not going to slink in the woods with the fox, bur row In the ground with the woodchuck, or "fix" the county officers with part of the proceeds of its business. There's an end of distilling as a large business when there's an end of its legalised distillery, but the obieure neighbor hood whisky factory may continue. The elements entering lnte the make up of whisky are home-grown and easily secured. A sympathetic neigh borhood, even where the county offr cers are austere and Incorruptible, acts as a network of protective alarm signals for the moonshiner. Where laws have been passed to abolish bookmaklng at race tracks, and where there has been an effort to enforce the laws, public gambling on races has ended, but the concealed, more deadly down-town, all-the-year poolroom has not been closed. The races were ended In some states. The revenues derived from them were topped. The breeding of horses was discouraged. Legitimate enterprise was dealt a hard blow, but the book makers continued to fatten on the fa vor of the police and the folly of the piker in gambling places which posted odds on races all the way from Winni peg to Kingston. Where the abolishment of distilling is contemplated the question for the sincere advocate of the uplift to con sider is not whether dfstlllers and sa loon owners can be put out of busi ness, but whether the making and sell ing of intoxicants can be ended by put ting the distillers out ot business, and sacrificing upon the artar of social welfare the substantial rewues which arise from a legalized and regulated wholesale and retail distention of In toxicants. The little local "still house" is a large and a known quantity in the equation of the seeker for true and universal temperance, or the advocate of universal abstinence. m-m HOW) do you icnow where the honeysuckle grows ? ose JMiows and with equal certainty your nose knows good tobacco. Pure fragrance is the soul of things. A tobacco with a satisfying, pure fragrance will prove a smoke with a soul. 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Oreoen Vote "Yes" on the $e,000,000 road bond bill at the special election June 4th. Because Oregon needs good roads. Because a dollar's worth of road is assured from every dol lar expended. Because every favorable vote is a vote to help pull Oregon out of the mud. Because the state is now spending $4,000,000 annually without getting adequate re sults. Because all sections of the state will benefit directly from the roads to be constructed. Because good roads increase real estate values both in the city and throughout the state. Because proposed bond issue will provide good roads at no greater cost than state is now paying for poor ones. BECA1 Sli GENERA L TAXES WILL NOT BR INCIifcAS'CD SSI ! CALL ELLSWORTH The VetterJnarlan Corner 4th and D Streets. Phone 3122 uicr, ,ncea and E(jgs Direct DO YOU KNOW? That a deposit of $10.00 month in our Savings Department will amount to $1,477.00 in ten years. rarmers State Bank . J. R. 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