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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1911)
—y——1 our country’s laws and »pend her revenues, the neglect of the people's interests can, in jmrt at least, be accounted for. But, thanks to the agitation of the real patriotic statesmen of Isith jiarties. the number of congress men and legislators, who dare to stand for the Politicanti Independent interests of all the people, are rapidly growing in number. The day will soon be at hand when the laws which tend to make, at the same time, million Entered at the |Mj*tofhre nt Scio, Oregon, s* *econd-ciaas aires and paujHTs, will be repealed. Even Presi mail matter. dent Taft ia beginning to read “the handwriting on the wall,” and is pressing, with all the vigor he possesses, the adoption of the treaty of recipro city with (’añada. If the present congress does PUBII8HED EVERY FRIDAY BY not ratify the treaty, the next is sure to do so. T. I., nuoci ER And our state legislators seem to be imbued w ith Kiirrott *** l'»<>r»i*n*i. ¡ the same spirit of serving Hjx cial interests. Nearly every member, w hen he takes his seat in that ! body, has a bill in his jxjcket, asking for a large SI'IISCKII'HON HATMM: appropriation for some pet project or institution in <: 25 his {»articular locality. He cares not whether the Ow year in advance............ 1 w project is of or will be beneficial to the people in On* year, at en«l of year .. 1 75 One year, at rod of 2 year» general. His county wants the money and he is •> (Ki One year, at end of 3 yeara willing to resort to logrolling or any other old 7 * n,. month« In advance , scheme in order to accomplish his purpose«. Nor is GO Three months in advance U6 it strange that we find legislators from the four or Single copy in wrapper ... five counties, which draw mor»? money from the state treasury than they pay to it, standing solidly for appropriations for which each of them was ADVEKTISIXC) KA'riCMt elected to secure. Car of thanks ............................................................................. ■ 5<> The only safe plan for the {»eople to pursue, that S(>wi*l obituary notice*, per line................................................. «3 this matter may be remedied is. to refuse to vote Extended wedding comment*, per line ..................................... uCI for these grafters for any office whatever, no Display **i*. to b* changed weekly if drsire*d, on« column wide each insertion, per inch ................................................15 matter what his politics may la«. We have no us** Business local* per line first insertion ......................................... 10 for the Aldriches. Baileys and Cannons in congress, Each *ubse«|uent insertion per line ................................ ...05 nor the Bowermans and men of his ilk in the state |*»ng time standing *>ls. contract* made on application. legislature. The people must not expect their inter ests to be taken care of in either congress or legis lature. unless they elect men as members thereof, whom the) know to I k * true and wholly uninflu .1/ ore patriots seeded ced by corporation or institution. We want patriots not partisans or servants of public service a ... .* i -. Nor 'I** we ITIIER PATRIOTISM bus degeneratedgn«at- want men who are known to be pledged to the ly, since the Revoluntionary and Civil wars service of our state colleges. placed the meaning of the word upon a high Whenever it is known that a candidate for offic«. base of interpellation, else patriotism, placehunt especially the legislature or congress, is closely ing an<l grafting have supplanted that love of allied to either a state college or a public service country which h:w made American soldiers and corporation, he is a good man for the people not to aailora the admiration of the world, In the day* of ’76 and ’61 day» which tried men’s souls, vote for. The {»resent legislature is likely to appropriate “Patriotism” meant a willingne»» on the part of $6,000,000 or over. Whose fault is it? Whois to the citizen to place his all. including his life, upon blame for electing legislators who think they are the altar of his country. And because of the greater than the {M*ople who eleettd them and who bravery and fortitude of the patriots of those days, dare to attempt to repeal a law enacted by the we established and |»n«serv«*d a government based {»eople? The Answer is easy: The men who voted u|»on the principle that all men should be equal be fore the law. But this was not wholly true until for these legislative misfits. The people should know. by this time, that the Ixiys of ‘61 knocked the shackles of bondage from more than 4.000.000 of black men, held as corporations and our hig state colleges, have no politics. A legislative favor, either appropriation human slaves. Most of our congressmen and legislators seem or other favor, is just as valuable no matter which to think and act as if they had been elected to political party grants it serve special, rather than the interests of all We want congressmen and legislators who will the people. And the ability which a congressman stand for the interests of all the people, first, last or legislator manifests to secure large appropria and all the time. Nor does it make any great tions from the nation or state for projects in his difference what political colar candidates for these own particular locality, is. too often, regarded as offices wear, other then that they must I m « men of the measure of his success. When such men rnnke integrity and who an* patriots. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Carefully |»re|»;<re«l by c<»in|M«teht an I »•x|M«ri«,iice<i employes thoroughly fai liliar with the records of Linn County. Accuracy, ne»itness and dispatch is our motto, U ** are now abstracting lhe instrument* tib-d'iuilv ¡ir.d can serve the iiiiblie most efficiently. We um * th«- rnoxt m<»d«-rn and up t<* «hit<* system <*t ab stracting ’ An unlimited amouut of money to loan on <5 j>«*r cent, per annum on approved farm security noni rin»st.< is the office telephone or write Albany Abstract Co., I i I «► I •o STA TE! The Oregon legislature shows no fiurpoae to hold its appropriations down to reasonable limits. In I!* >9 the re con, aggregate of 11,000,000 for the biennial period staggered the burdened taxtiayer. but now we hear that the |4.U00,(XX) maximum is to I m * so fsr exceeded that the total for 1911-12 will reach W.OKO.OUO la Oregon a fd.OOO.OOO state? Are its productive resources so varied ami so readily available that so vast a sum can be turned into the state treasury Without sacrifice or In some case* actual bankruptcy? How can the legislature possibly justify itself for piling so great a load on the shoulders of the poor taxpayer, already perplexed and embarrassed by the mststrnt demands for taxes from county, city, school dis trict arnl the like? How much of thia great sum is being wrung from the taxpayer's pockets to meet the genuine needs of the state, and how much to support ornamental boar la and com- missions, pay for uaelesa public print ing. extern! an already heavily padded payroll, provide for "higher education" free for people well able to pay ami furnish th* luxurious establishments of state functionaries with automobiles. Wilton carjiets, mahogany sidehoards and cut fglaaa wine seta? How much goes into the dally fare of the r.nhappy inmates of the state institutions at Salem, and bow much into the living of a long list if superflucu* public em ployee? What percentage of this vast expenditure of fG.ixW.OOii will represent ■ to the state value received and how j much sheer waste and wicked extrava- Jgancs? The Oregonian is the last to protest | against the investment by the state of 1 moneys into necessary public inatitu- 1 tion*. such as the insane asylum, the i home for th«* feeble-minded, the re- I form school* and the orphans* schools, I all of which represent the generous spirit of an enlightened humanity; or i such as the penitentiary, which society ' must maintain for it* own protection, j Nor would it deny to superintenilents . and officers of these institutions the means of comfortable living. But it is | profoundly concerned in the wise and I judicious expenditure of the state's funds in channels not absolutely neces sary to a reasonable development of , the state's interest* and not strictly a part of the public activities. It would j remind the legislature that the State of Oregon ha* only 700,000 people, and that it is folly for ua to endeavor to compete in public expenditure* with the State of Washington, with 1,300,- 000, or the State of California, with 2.4OO.OOO. It i* with ■tifili- reluctance, ami at th* risk of being misunderstood that Th* Oregonian mentions the appropri- ation for the State University, which exceeils l.’sxi.OOO this to be addetl to the |2&).(MX> biennial sum heretofore voted by the legislature ami approved through the referendum by the tax-1 and we suggest to the active promoters of this great appropriation that they are taking serious chance* of another referendum, with les* prospect of en thusiastic support by many who have heretofore insisted that the university should have sufficient fund* for main tenance. equipment and buildings There is too much of the ok! flavor of the reprehensible logroll about this ap propriation, and Repr*-*entative Thomp son was correct when, in the House last Saturday, he insiste«! that the item* ought to tie separated and con sideration of the whole appropriation proceed on its merits, disassociated with anv other legislative interest or influence. It is the practice at Eugene to com pare the merits and needs of the State University with the institutions at Seattte, Moscow (Idaho) ami Berkeley (California), and to show that the Ore gon school is asking for les*. The State University at Seattle is the only ini|>ortant educational institution west of the Cascade Mountains in a state with nearly twice Oregon’* population; at Moscow, Idaho supp«irt* a combined State University and Agricultural Col lege, and at Berkeley, California has similarly united the two institutions. If the appropriation for the Oregon univrreity thia year »hail be 1753,000 (IncliMitng the fi’Al.OX) fixed appropria tion), and for the Oregon Agricultural College $570,(MM), the total for three two will reach the immense sum of > l«ayers. The university is agrowing II.323.000. That i* certainly going and beneficent Institution, and if it is some! to l*e maintaineil it must have ade«|uaU It i* invalwlous. no doubt, to mention funds. But w* submit that D«M»,(MXi item* in th* stupendous 16,000,Out) total; for a »ingle biennium is more than the state shouk! be called on to provide. ’ (Continued on page 5) I I i 1 WALL PAPER A o Largest Stock of Portland outside Samples and Estimates on Request ♦ ♦ FISHING TACKLE Camera supplies, etc Expert Truss fitting * I Woodworth Drug Co., Albany, ore -<p ........................ 1 -to .......................................................... ....... ; a Standard Liquor Co. WHOLESALE. DLALEF : IS OREGON A f 0,000,000 <0 4> •O <e> <í> <*> j, u. CURL Manacr (• Hi : Wines, Liquors and Cigars : Tekpbwx Mam I UJ 15* Comuerciil St. A. G. IVAGERS, Prop. Salem, Oregon ! * i light, exiviiod only by sunlight. Burns ordinary kero- *<‘.ic or void oil, the cheapest of all illuminating fuels. S«>. ¿ess Oil tkaa Aay Otter Las? W Equl CsaJIc Povrr Aladdin Lamps are most durable In construction—easi est to tako tare of—simplest in operation. 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