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> THE SCIO TRIBUNE ISNllgD gVKRY THt'MPAY BY T. U PtMMIgK. gPITDK *NI> FBOT Entered at the txwlofflce at Sdo, Oregon aa sseond dam matter. BUMCZUrDON, IN APVANCK AT CNP OF YUAN SI.26 ___ 811 MONTH« 1.50 .75 APVKKTUINO KAT»». l*>caJ advertising. jwr line Duplay advertising, per inch 5c 10c Duplay advertising. long time, see manager. Extended marriage or death notices per line 3c S|ieciaJ rate* on long time display advertising. BY THEIR FRUITS, ETC When a republican congress enact ed its first currency measure, just at the iiegmning of the Civil war it acknowledged, by that act, the existence of a powerful and secret fora*. greater than that of congress. In placing the exception clause on the greeniwk at the dictation of the Wai! street banks, it placed the government in the clutches of the money power anil which power has dictated all cotigrewuonal financial legislation from that dale until the election of I'resident Wilson and a democratic congress. This exception clause resulted in making a com modity of gold an<i the value of the greenback simply a thing to I k * buffeted alsiut by that greatest gambling joint In the world, die New York stock exchange. When Chis same republican con* gress, a few months later, enacted the law creating our present system of national t«nks. it marked anoth er step forward in forging the fet ters which made congress suliser- vient to the wishes of the money power. This l>ank act authorized the* formation of national banks under slight federal control providing the encorporators would buy a stated amount of government bonds, when the government would return to the proposed bank. 90 per cent of the face value of the bonds purchased in l>ank currency. That is to say if $50,(HM), face value, of bonds were purchased, $45 ,IMKl would be re turned. leaving but $5ooo of actual investment. Now the government paid interest to the bank on the full face value of the bonds. At three per cent this would amount to $1500 annu ally. Hut Ha but $5000 was actually invested, the bank received 30 per cent on its actual investment. A congress which was representa tive of the people and had the wel fare of the people at heart, would never have enacted such a law. Hut if it had the welfare of the money power only, in view, just such a scheme would have been worked out. But even this graft did not satisfy the money power A few years later an amendment to the banking act. authorizing the treasury depart ment to return to the bank the full am ount of the face value of the Imnda purchased, in currency. The bank, therefore, without a dol lar actually invested, was enabled to draw down $1500 annually from the government treasury. Thus the people who support the government by paying taxes in various forms, are making a present to the national (tanks every year, of what the inter est on the governmental bonds, which the banka purchased, amount ed to. Then the excessive high tariff duties which republican congresses have imposed for the benefit of the manufacturing interests and which are at the exornsr of the great mass of th«- common people, and the lack of any attempt to correct thnae wrongs against the people, prove« conclusively, that it has ba-n the policy of that party to favor the money power and corporate inter ests, as against the welfare of th« common people. Thcsr statements are matters of history which can I* easily substantiated. On the other hand, take tin* activities of a democratic congress and a democratic president to wit ness The enactment of th«- reginol bank law. destroys the ability of th«* big New York banks to bring on a financial panic at their pleasure- and destroy the influence of the money power over the government and the people. This Is the first attempt congress has made to break this power since the tieginning of Un civil war The recently enacted Hural Credits law. is the first time since the Civil war that farmers have tx-en t reap’d as liemg «i|uallv as worthy of confidence a* the lianks The national good roads law just piuawxi. is the first time that our government has placeii the cmini.>n people and agricultural communities on an vqualitv with the railroads. Public land* have ts-en given to th«- railroads and private toll wagon r<>ada. but never a cent, until now, the rural wagon road* So that it can lie MM*n that history proves how friendly the republican ecngremrti have lieen to the money- ed interests ami how willing th«- government ha» I wen to fly to the assistance of Wall street in turn* of great financial stress. But it ha» been the proud privilege of a demo eratie congress, strongly supported by a democratic president. to dis- solve the psrtnervhip which ha* exist«*d between the goverurm-nt and the money power and to recog- nixe that farmers, backed by their farms, are a» worthy of trust as Wall street gamblers. S. D Allen, of Eugene. constitute« "log rolling’’ of the worst variety. Pendleton's duplicity toward a smaller neighbor in the same euunly that has always txx-n its loyal tribu tary. throws too much doubt upon its moral ami ethical »lAndard* to make of it a suitable piau-v for a slate school Pendleton has always coveted the Eastern Oregon normal. Some ten years ago in the l«-gida tore it tried through its agents to steal th»- school from W«r*ton, but failel. Biding its time, after the Weston school had be«-n reck lead y thrown over by th*- »tat«- senate at th«* instigation of Pendleton men, it Initial«*« a lull wh«-n Weston could not consistently du so. Not until its Nctiemc was under way did it semi out a Committee to see how Weston fu-opl«- felt sl-out it ami u< ask them to lay down.” Il is such brazen effrontery that th«’ Pendletoo m*w»|M|M’rs applaud and one ef them describes as "righu-ouMtens.” forsooth! Here are thr«*<* constucuous reas ons. we »ay. why PcndlMun d«-*i*-rVv* an admonitory squelching from Old Man Oregon A fourth la that it already has the Eastern Oregon state hosiotal and ahouki I m - satis- fied. There are <itl»«-rs, but for our present |iurj»'*** th«-«- will suffice. Weston Leader. Afraid to risk the straightforward piracy of scuttling the Weston n«i^ To Auto Owners mat in order to acquire for itsrlf a big slice of state pork, it tri«« to hoodwink the voters into fearing that the agricultural colh-ge and the university may some tin«- I m * spirit ed away by a constitutional goblin. Ito deceptive bill, as uointed out by We carry all kinds of accesaoru-s for your auto and do all kinds of general reiuuring. Vulcanizing tire* and inrn-r tubes a specialty. All work guaranteed. Chas. Wssely MORAL OBLIQUITY Any one of thr«w* good reasons ought to lie sufficient to defeat Pendleton's normal school aspiration« unless it succeees in tx-guiling th«- voters. Pendleton is misusing th«* initia tive privilege in a manner contemtu- ous of the plain mandate of the sovereign Oregon people. Two years ago the voters dedared unmistak ably that they did not want either one or two additional normal schools They should be allowed a decent ami reasonable interval in which to change their minds tM*fore being pestered with a demand for more normals. To ask them to build a <1'25.000 plant in Eastern Oregon within two years after they have voted not to restore to state use a $75,000 plant, falls but little short of pure insolence. If you contemplate painting vour Four isisM-ngvr Buick auto, model house, barn or other buildings, he 25. tiisid condition $175. Address sure and look us up We can sell L. (' Fox. Alimny. Ore. 7-20 you guaranteed jsunt at $2 per gal lon. Others are asking $2.30 per ■ AiM'Ht-w ■ gallon for the same quality. Cha*. Wearly. ‘^’OWN Hizz Hizz Reduced Newport (Comm unicat«*d I Pendleton is evasive and cowardly in that it makes its covert fight from ambush ts-himl the skirts of the Oregon Agricultural coll«*ge ami the University of Oregon. It seeks unnecessarily to "validate” th«**«- two already recognized and estab lished institutions in the bill propos ing to create the Pendleton normal. of common people. For Sale THAT $450,000 Agaia In March, 1913. F. H. N«*w«-ll, director of the ftoclamation Service, recommended that $450,000 la* set aside to co-operate with thr stat«* of Oregon in reclamation work At that tim«- Oregon h»d already ap propriated $460 000 for work on tlie Tumalo project which work Im-gun m June 1913. In August of that year Secretary Lana visited Oregon and congratulate-l the state on its progressive work and reiter ated his promt** to give us consid eration. Tlie $450,000 wa» never made available and never spent. but it 1« not the puriswe. at this time, to enter into a discussion of that matter, more than tn show that Oregon has done m<>re for herwlf in the way of reclamation than h<« any other state and has received proportionately less from the Feder al government. The state completed the Tumalo project Uy a direct appropriation of $450,000. The state appropriat«*! $50,000 to is* UM**i with a like sum from Hie government in co-uperativ«* investigations. Du-se funds were CXpend«*d and surveys made. Il was anticqiated by this state that follow ing thia co-operative work, funds would I m - made available bv the reclamation service to carry forward some of this meritorious work. Die service ha* in the |«a*t allot ted to Oregon atmut $7.iMM).tMM> but has actually exiwndrd only a little more than $3,utm.00(>. the balance reverting to the general reclamation fund. From the fact that over $10.- oOO.tMHf has been put into the re clamation fund from sale of timlier in our national forests, it •*« m* that Oregon should receive more than a third of the sum. If the entire 40 per cent of the Oregon-California grant fund, now appropriated to the reclamation fund were *|«nt in Oregon, she would yet receive I«**» than has Ix-en sup- plie«i to that fund. Mere justice to the state should cause the expendi ture of that fund here, not taking into consideration Oregon's right to proceeiis of the sale of the»’ grant lands. Which, then, of th«* two great parties has proven by its acta it» wilbngn«*«> to aid the money power ami which to aid the ptmple? 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