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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
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gallon for the same quality.
Cha*. Wearly.
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(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? Y«>u
ought not to make a mistake when
you go into the eh-ction booth next
fall and vote against your own inter
est* the interests of the great body
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