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' PAGE EC8. . ' . THE ENDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE ' ' INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE II J Entered at the postoffice at Independence, Oregon, as se cond class matter. Published every Friday morning. W.J. CLARK. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in advance Six months in advance . . Three months in advance . $1.50 ,. .75 .50 MEMBER OF THE STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MY PLEDGE . I. Cttiien of the United States, willingly subscribe to the Third Llbwty Loan in order that: My Country may never be ashamed of ME: I may be a true gentle man gentle woman: I may work earnestly at what ever it is my privilege " to under take: I may honorably accomplish MY part to uphold our Liberty, our Manhood, our Womanhood the best life offers: I may EARN my right to Na tlonal Liberty; that I may honestly defend in ALL ways at all times my heritage of Freedom that it is our privilege to Fight for, Live for, Defend at any sacrifice. I shall NEVER fail my good friend, MY COUNTRY. That has given me home, education, pro tection : My children shall be able to state with pride, "MY father and MY mother are Americans and Patriots!" I shall ever honestly respect my God-given rights to "Liberty, Life and Pursuit of happiness": that may support my Country with my life, my fortune, my sacred honor; that I may give give Love Loyalty and Obedience'. I.will to "the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." fully realizing the magnitude of my trust and the value of National UNION for collective and individ ual happiness, life, liberty, PEACE! I may live "with malice toward none, with Charity Love--f or all! I subscribe to "A Government of the people, by the people and for the people," obedient to the ONE RULER, God; to the LAW of God for "Liberty is the fulfilling of the Law. AMERICAN BLOOD WETS TRENCHES Have YOU Proved Loyalty ry Buying Liberty bonds BY JOHN LEISH TAIT There are some tremendous lssnn to be learned from the Dresent status of the world strife. One of tie most momentous of thm all is a lesson to America and Amer. icans a lesson to you and me a personal lesson which we "shall da well to accept invits fullest. application. It is the lesson of IN DIVIDUAL INTEREST in this war ine mood of American soldiers is wet upon the trenches, and the hnn hospitals are ministering to Ameri can wounded. The shadow of th Death Angel, "made in Germany," nas raiien across your threshold and mine. It is no longer a Hint tached and apart from us. We are in It The blood of our sacrifice reeks upon the altar. It la now a ner. sonai anair. We you and I must bant mil hnra in the trenches, or forever rm tn claim rank and title as Amarienn. The time has come when ther but two classes in thl Americans, who are for the war in whfcli our boys are Dourinsr out thir uiooa, ana traitors, who r ith against the war or indifferent toward it. And indifference is now. if uung, .more despicable than antago nism. mere is one thine, at leant thr most of us can do to prove our aware ness or tne situation and our ivAit to thoae who are fiahtina? ntrR h.m.. over there; most of ug-f.aa subscribe, in iome degree, ia the i Third Liberty Every dollar triat Is epent to arm a soldier or a sailor, to feed or clothe one; every dollar that is spent for munitions or cannon, for coal to drive our warships and transport supplies, must come from the Treasury, and the Treaeury has n source from which to obtain money except the people of the United States. BUY LIBERTY BONDS and furnish the means to arm and feed our sol diers and make them victorious. Loan. it is totally beside the imn. point out that these bond r . - svwm investment. The investment feature is not the thing in question. It may require some sacrifice to convert nra. ent holdings into holding wan Bonaa. But as far as we can manage it, you and I, if we accept the great lesson of the hour and take our part in tne baptism of American blood which is for the cleans! tions and the rehabilitation of the world, we must "come across" and come quickly and with thankfulness that it is given to us to do even so littia. Industry, saving and lending to the uovernment are national needs and national debts. BUY LIBERTY BONDS. SERIOUS SITUATION. Men and industries are being worked to the limit in these trying times and managers of large enterprises lay awake nights figuring how to meet new conations arising every 24 hours. Take the western metal mining and refining industries as an illustration. They have been called on to double their output and then double again. They have met the government requirements at every turn, furnishing metals such as copper at established prices far under quotations at ucgiiiiimg ui war. At recent conference of copper proudcers with War In dustries Board in Washington, it was decided to continue price of 2Zy2 cents on copper for seventy-five days. Commenting on this the Mining Congress Journal says: "The smaller copper producers were greatly disappoint ed at this decision as their mines had been kept in opera tion at a loss in anticipation of an increase in price. "It is feared that manv nf small 17 v "M"Vi s V A CiVUl fcj Will Kf X KJL L- ed to discontinue operations. "In the face of the shortage of copper any plan which en tails the shutting down nf thp ous if not disastrous. "It was brought out at the recent hearing that one of the larger copper companies in order to increase its produc tion has very largely increase the cost, and that the price fixed by the Government was not sufficient to permit this accelerated production and still leave a profit. ( In other words, the speeding up of the industry, so as to meet the war demand, naturally increases the cost of production. In this particular mine itwas shown that an increase of one- thirH flhnvp normal nrndnptfrm Viar! romad flio on'v, i ...v. vuuv- wiv, oavaiig from 71 per cent to 62 per cent of the metal content of the ore. If the government price is to be fixed below a pro per cost, companies must either stand a loss or reduce production. Vndor the heading "Democratic Ty ranny," the Louisville Courier Journal descants thus: Congress has voted to submit to the Legislatures of tho States a constitu tional amendment tor national prohibi tion. If three-fourths of tho Legisla tures vote to ratify the amendment thon It becomes a part of our organic law and one year thereafter no man in this country will have the rijsht to make, sell, transport, export or Import intoxicating liquors. In other words, three-fourths of. the State Legislatures will have denied the other states the rlRht to legislate for themselves and will have denied mil lions of citizens of all the states the personal liberty to make a drink or take a drink If they choose. No Majority Rule. Advocates of this proceeding affirm that it is in accordance with the rule of the majority in our system of demo cracy. But It is not in accordance with the rule of the majority; though even If It were It would be Inconsistent with the spirit of real democracy, which never Intrenches, except in ex traordinary emergency like war, be yond certain lines on the personal lib erty of the individual. If this amend , nient be ratified as required by the Constitution it will not have been sanctioned by a majority of the people, who will not have voted on it at all directly. In the case of Kentucky if the present Legislature ratifies the amendment the people of Kentucky will never have voted on it even in directly, and in the cases of the Legis latures which are to be elected the question of the approval of this amend ment will not be popularly voted on unconfused with other questions and the personal equations of the candi dates, always largely influential in the election of a Legislature. Our experience In following our own theory of democracy has proved that the founders of our system, to the ex tent to which they meant the functions of our Legislatures to be a medium of democracy rather than a check on democracy, made a mistake. This mistake has been acknowledged and corrected in the method of our choice of United States Senators. The evils of delegating to Legislatures the Drer gatives of the people were so clearly demonstrated that we changed the Constitution, took away from the Legislatures the power to elect United States Senators and imposed it direct ly on the people. An election by a Legislature and one by oonular vo'e are notoriously very different things, both in methods and results. The Legislature, composed in the main of politicians, Is so small, comparatively, as to admit of manipulations and In fiuences difficult or impossible in the larger field; and the "logrolling," 'pork" trading, the wheals within wheels and thn manv tudtran lated And sinister factor which enter Into the final result of a vote by thi Legislature are often not only not rep resentative of the DODular will, hni positively misrepresentative of it. Raps State Legislatures. That is why we have taken awav from the Legislatures the nnwar tn elect our United States Senators. But we have not yet taken awav from them the power to amend our Constitution. This plays peculiarly into the hands of those who subordinate all else to prohibition; for the devious ways by which Legislatures are worked are Just the ways the prohibitionists like most to employ and with which they have been moat successful. The manner in which they have worked our National LeelHlature at Washington to submit this amendment is pertinent to this point; for nobody pretends that Congress has reflected popular sentiment In this matter or even reflected its own sentiment. A constitutional amendment estab lishing national prohibition will de prive millions of American citizens of their rights without even the ascer tained approval of a majority of Amer ican voters. From The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. 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