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INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
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Entered at the postoffice at Independence, Oregon, as se
cond class matter. Published every Friday morning.
W.J. CLARK.
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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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