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ATHENA, ORE., JAN. 29,.
T907
You are the owner of a large depart
ment Btore or employ hundreds of men
in a faotory. Yon have a manager
and superintendents of departments
who see to it that all work is done
' properly, and business is transacted
correctly; in fact yon entrust the
thousands of dollars you have invested
in stock and plant to their care, capa
bility and honesty. Aud should your
manager or one of your superinten
, denta prove dishonest or reoreant in
, any degree to your interests, you
would "fire" him, wouldn't you?
Now, in comparison, wherein is there
any difference between an individual
dishonest act or disqualification
through incompetency, on the part of
your manager or superintendent whom
you hire to fill a position of trust and
that of the official whom you elect to a
position of public trust? You aro bound
to allow there is none whatever, exoept
the publio official is serving the in
terests of others while he is serving
yours, and dishonesty or incompetency
on his part would affect in addition
to you, these others be represents in
his official oapaoity. But yon and
others who gave him his position by
voting for him, cannot "fire" him,
and he can pursue his incompetent
work or continue his dishonest acts to
the expiration of bis term of office.
Does it not appeal to you that the
other fellows and you, who do the
hiring of this official by voting for
him, should be given power in law to
oust him for incompetency or dishon
esty? It is just that the people should
have the power to reoall the dishonest
official. He is not tolerated in private
business affairs and should not be in
public affairs.
Senator G. J. Smith has introduced
a bill that with its passage will be of
considerable importance to Umatilla
county. The bill is oalendaied in the
senate as No. 13, and provides for the
manner of payment of county warrants
in Umatilla county, to regnlate the
rate of interest thereon and to provide
for publio notice by the Gouncy Treas
urer when he has funds to redeem
outstanding orders, and to provide a
penalty , for the failure of the County
Treasurer to perform his duties uuder
the act. With the enactment 01 this
bill into a law, the influence of banks
iu tm' Klot'tiou of the County Treasurer
will be eliminated, for the reason that
the official will not " be permitted to
carry a large surplus of county funds
on deposit. The text of the measure
follows: j , . .
Section 1. , The County Treasurer of
Umatilla county shall pay all orders
of the County Clerk when presented,
if there be money in the troasury for
that purpose, and write on the face of
such order the date of redemption and
his signature. . If there be no funds to
pay such order wbeu presented he
shall endorse thereon "Not paid for
want of funds" and the date of such
And now
SPRING
We want you to be sure aud make a trip to Walla Walla this spring
and see through oar immense store, for we know you will profit by your
trip. Onr stock is larger than it has ever been and new spring stocks
are arriving every day. All we ask is a comparison of qualities and
prices and we will take pleasure in showing yon through our lines. - If
you are unable to como to the city, write us for disoriptions and prices.
REMEMBER WE PAY THE FREIGHT ...WHEN BILL
AMOUNTS TO $10.00.
Use
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WALLA WALLA, :- WASH
presentment over his signature, which
shall entitle order thenceforth to draw
interest at the rate of five per oent per
annum: provided, that such interest
shall cease from the date of notice by
publication in some newspaper printed
or circulated iu bin county to te given
by the County Treusurer that there
are fuuds to redeem such outstanding
orders, which notice such treasurer
shall give when he has as muoh as one
thousand live hundred dollars in the
county fund. Any County Treasurer
failing to comply with the require
ments of this section for the period of
ten days shall upon conviction thereof
be punished by a fine not less than five
hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars.
Say t A railroad monopoly exists in
Oregon. An investigation by the
interstate commerce, commission at
Portland, last week, developed this
astounding fact For fifteen years
the newspapers of the state have been
mauling this intelligence into the
minds of the dear people, and the
commission had a dead easy job down
in Portland. But the job is not yet
completed that is by the commission.
It is now up to it to give us a remedy
for the evil.
"BACK TO THE LAND."
This cry goes up with growing
earnestness, iu Great Britain and in
France, as statesmen discern more
clearly the evils whioh already attend
the over-concentration of population
in manufacturing and mercantile cen
ters, and even greater ones whioh wait
upon the future. It is seen that the
end of manufacturing growth will be
reached in the glutting of the world's
markets through over-prodnotion. That
already Europe faces a "yellow peril"
in the industrial competition of
Asiatic 'races, which may be as disas
trous to European manufacturing su
premacy as a war. That the attrac
tions of the oities draw the rural pop
ulation as does a brilliant flame the
moths the' end, destruction. M.
Meline, the former prime minister of
France, is described in the Boston
Transcript as being especially aotive
in measures for holding the rnral pop
ulation re the farms, by making coun
try life more attractive, by improving
the rural publio schools, and by en
couraging the formation of co-operative
societies among the farmers, for
cheapening transportation, economiz
ing labor and securing from the mid
dlemen for the produoer a larger share
of the profits on his produots. The
writer in the Transoript regards this
co-operative movement as the most
important ol all the instrumentalities
at work to keep population "on the
land." The societies in 1903 number
ed 600,000 members, and their suc
cesses were marked.
In Great Britain, John Burns, as pres
ident of the Local Government Board,
is making strenuous efforts for the re
lief of the congested population of
oities. The sympathy of the Liberal
party is with him, and the miuistry is
endeavoring to pass a measure for the
benefit of tenant farmers, which iu
effect proclaims "that the farmer and
bis men, the bone and sinew of the
rural regions of the oountry, should
no longer be forced to live on tho
sufferanoe of great landlords whose
idea of their lapd is that it is pri
marily intended for their sport."
Lord Carrington, speaking for the
ministry, recently declared that the
great object and ambition of the gov
ernment is that it "shall not come to
an end without having done some
thing to get tho people tack to the
land, two or three or four, back to
the land where at present there is
only one." And the prime minister
declares that the land must! become
"less the pleasure ground of the rich,
and more the treasure house of the
nation." Maxwell's Talisman.
WALL STREET OPPOSES HIM.
We imagine that the real vigor of
the oppositon to Mr. Cortelyou will
diminish, if not, iudeed, disappear,
with the sudden departure for Europe
of Mr. James Stillman, of the City
for a Big
BUSINESS
Make
Your
appointments1
Here
f res
Mltaai to
To Attend the Big Sale now going on
Big Department Store
ATURDAY,
Has been set aside as ATHENA DAY
And not only will special inducements in prices be offered to the people
of Athena tor that day, but if vour purchases amount to $15 we will pay
your' railroad fare to Pendleton and return. This Big Sale will close Feb.
6 and the greatest money saving opportunity you ever had will have
Come to an end.
Go to the
NATIONAL BROKERAGE & SALES
in Charge, Meaker & Cochran,
Bank, a most inconsiderate step on
his part, and one which hag deeply
wounded the susceptibilities of Air.
Roosevelt's, interstate commerce com
mittee. All the charges bandiod abont in re
lation to Mr. Gortelyou's appointment
to the Treasury have been dishonest
aud disingenuous, and havo been in
spired by disreputable motives. Not
one of them would bear investigation,
or if looked into, would reflect in the
slightest degree upon his fitness for the
Secretaryship or upon Lis anility to
perform his duties. Mr. Roosevelt
has long meditated Mr. Cortelyou for
the place; and The Sun long since and
when many matters were vastly differ
ent , gave its hearty approval to the
selection. It believed then as it be
lieves now that a better man cannot
be found, or one who possesses more
exceptional qualifications; and there
is only one regret worth mentioning,
and that is that he was not installed
there long ago.
We entertain very well defined ideas
about the Secretaryship of the Treas
ury. We woula like to see the office
wholly taken away from Wall Street
influence and from personal relation
with individual banking interests; and
we should like also to see its duties
discharged without any solicitude on
the incumbent's part for bis own polit
ical advancement. Mr. Cortelyou we
take to be the kind of man who will
realize those aspirations and win the
respect and enjoy.the confidence of the
whole people. New York Sun.
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la., says: "Dr. King's New Life Pills
are rightly named; they act more
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feel better than any other laxative."
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store.
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big yellow
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Chicago, Iu,., Oct. 22, 1902.
For nearly four years I guffeml
from ovarian troubles. The doc
tor insiHteti on an operation as the
only way to pet well. 1, however
strongly objected to an operation.
My husband felt disheartened m
well as I, for home with a sick
woman is a disconsolate place at
best. A friendly druggist adviscil y
niui w get a Dome or wine or j-
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I began to improve m afew (lavs and
my recovery was very rapid. With- f '
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