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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE. PAGE &f INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Entered at the postoffice at Independence, Oregon, as,se cond class matter. Published every Friday morning. W.J.CLARK. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year in Advane Six months in Advance Three Months in Advance $1-50 .75 .50 MEMBER OF THE STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION alien quarters, to fall in with the habiU tions of a land overswept by Leity b vrtaik inb have been marvelously composed, A temous had to be waged to make an end of s Jand n.t t on inherited from the old uoicmuu uy -. d all time the progress of the great country ' his calculation; and now, with inexhaustible i ewui ces ai n ui, . D0Mmi K,.,o-a ilia nation into tne nay, w; fv,Q 0Qvr i ouenPiiRA until his intervention coum be made effective at home and abroad. unnwneS3 Surely now the Germans are realising e hopelnetf of their struggle ! When their elaborate structui e topples over and their hideous crimes stand condemned befo e a shocked and disgusted world all lovers of libei f d P10 gress win Dreauie ireeiy. . -n. si" ,"".8 of nT,im.-,fpi, spirit will follow; and once again the Voice and d sustains will be heard in countless hearts ievei er- ... i ii Iiavmi ittorinlrPQ 51 Til I Si J" ating through the councils 01 tne nauimo . 1 i... .?..!.- j i-i. ... uv v,fni hipjcinr to the un cial adjustments iraugnt wim uiiwi o coming generations. London Record. WORKING TOGETHER Across the silver streak that once constituted a bulwark against aggression we now clasp hands with the French a people whom we are beginning to know and understand ; a generous and intellectually bright race? long cramped politically and socially by inherited fetters, but now ready to take a forward place on advanced lines of progress. We and they have much to learn about one another.The won derful blending of rival parties under the pressure of a common calamity and call to action has demonstrated the fitness of this mobile and lucid people to work out its des tiny without help from pretentions rulers who claim divine right to mould mankind in the image of a discredited feu dalism. The union has leveled social and political bar riers to an extent that may well excite the envy of broad minded thinkers in our No wn land. A new France has aris en out of the older one. A higher meaning than ever has been given to the motto of the Revolution Liberte, bga Iite, Fraternite and this, once the bugbear of tyrants and their parasites, now represents the international compact which is to usher in the good time towards which tearful eyes have been straining through generations of suffer ing. The other lands which share the burdens of this un exampled conflict will bring to the recreated world civi lization their own special contribution of experience and insight. Italy, in particular, inheritor of intellectual treas ure and artistic opulence, where the old and the new exist side by side, having thrown off the shackles imposed by her arbitrary oppressors, has set out o na career of consti tutional development which can only be temporarily checked by her paucity of material resources. The later Renaissance will effect changes that may even surpass those of the earlier age.Our children's children will surely witness revived letters and arts which will link themselves with the splendid memorials of the ancient masters; a regenerate nation, with renewed vigour of every kind,may be expected to be something other and greater than the custodian of antiquarian relics of departed grandeur. Italy will stand for things both new and old, unique in its symbolic representation which outgrows its instruments while carrying forward its gains. Still it is on the Great Republic to the south of us that we must fix our regards at this crisis in the European situa tion. The ties of blood and civil tradition still hold firm ly. During the hundred years of amity which lately came to an end, and would have been impres sively celebrated but for the outbreak of war, vast im provements in every kind of resource has signled out the United States, not only as an El Dorado of limitless wealth but also as the Promised Land of freedom and growth to multitudes who gladly turned their backs upon their native shores. A host of difficulties arising out of the unprepar edness of these diverse elements, gathered from so many IS YOUR LIFE A HARD ONE? Do vou people at home feel at times that this warhas pnd what an American correspondent writes about one of our boys who had been doing nis ouiy: , , Tn o liffio fioii Wnit.nl west of Montdidier I stopped at the bedside of an American boy, one of those victims of the German mustard gas, with which the Huns were His eves were matted witli yellow pus and he could not see. His face was terribly burned. His lips were swollen and purple. His wnoie body had been turned the color of an Indian and portions of it looked like melted flesh, as though it had been lique fied. , . . "The fighting had been renewed all along the American lines, and German wounded had become coming into our hospitals. I said to this soldier: "The boys are getting their revenge for you fellows to night. He smiled through his seared lips, and in a voice so faint that I had to bend down to listen, he gasped, "God I wish I was back there with 'em!" Do you still think your life is a hard one? Help support that boy and the hundreds of thousands of others doing their duty. Buy War Savings Stamps to the limit of your capacity. AMERICANISM OR PATERNALISM In a recent great speech in New York state, Theodore Roosevelt struck some ringing blows for the principles of American democracy and initiative. Regardless of political affiliations one cannot but ad mire Mr. Roosevelt as a fearless exponent of his convic tions. First, last and all the time he is in favor of national pre paredness and pushing the war to a successful finish. He took up another subject of vital importance to the American people. He is against "government ownership' A "discreet" politician would not have spoken thus at this moment, when the government is assuming control of utility after utility and there is no end to what it is propos ed to take possession of as a war measure. But Colonel Roosevelt differentiates between what is a war necessity and the instinct of the nation in normal tim es. He is for any justifiable act that will win the war in the quickest possible time. But we are conducting a great war to save individualism and prevent the citizen from be coming a mere cog in the state wheel. ' His economic presentation is not different from what it has been in the last decade. The war has not changed his individualiism. He is for private ownership and govern mental control; big business for the sake of economy and a firm centralized hand upon it from Washington. Colonel Roosevelt struck the keynote in his speech as this issue must ultimately be decided on the clear cut line of Americanism of paternalism. To meet the critical feed situation confronting dairy and stock men of Oregon, a feed committee has been organ ized at the Agricultural College with E. L. Potter, head of the animal husbandry department a3 chairman. Other members are P. M. Brandt, dairy; E. B. Fitts, extension livestock and dairy; G. R. Hyslop, field -jrops; and Paul V, Maris, state leader county agents. "There is a shortage with high prices of hay, oats and barley in Western Oregon," says Mr. Maris. "Informa tion as to the cheapest and best sources and forms of feed is in demand, and will be assembled by the members of the committee for use of the stockmen. Close touch will be kept with the situation in the field through the county agents, and with millers in Portland and the feed adminis trator. This office will lend every assistance, possible should it develop that car lots of hay, corn, beet pulp, mo lasses or other feeds should be imported." Hogs selling at 20 cents and better on local market. Is it any wonder bacon is high. The hog raiser is due to go into profiteering class and be investigated. ' Another reformer has started a campaign against Sun day funerals. We are for it. Sunday is sad enough with out funerals. 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