trusts and to provide for rural credits, yet to be fulfilled, will be made--good, the people have every ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY confidence. Right at this time, no T. L. DUGGER, EDITOR aND PROP other president in the'history of oùr government, has so completely es­ SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE... $1.25 tablished himself in the confidence of the masses of the people and, the AT END OF YEAR ........................... .... 1.50 prospect is, this confidence will con­ SIX MONTHS ......... .................. ........ 75 tinue to the end of his term of office. ADVERTISING RATES:. The only discordant feature, so Local advertising, per line... ........ 5c far, in Mr. Wilson’s coiiduct of the Display advertising, per inch..... 10c government, is his Mexican policy. A great many of the people and Display advertising, long time, see members of his party as well, be­ manager. lieve the time has fully arrived Extended marriage or death notices when more drastic treatment than per line...... .................... ...... 3c the mère bombardment with diplo­ Special rates on long' time display matic hôtes, is due. Yet, as Presi­ advertising. dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan ¡are in possession of all the facts relative to.the trouble and, probably, ONE YEAR OF WILSON know which is the best course for Jthe government to pursue in the Yesterday, March 4, President Wilson entered into the second year ¡matter, the people are awaiting with confidence for the president of his administration.» That this and congress to guidé us aright. first year has been one of accom­ This we know, however, that when plishment of things promised the ¡the United States does intervene, people during his campaign in a which seems a surety for the near degree unsurpassed by any of his future, the intervention will be predecessors, all admit. It is, also most vigorous, with the full force true, that no president since the of the government employed. to days of Lincoln, has wielded so large' make short work ,of the affair. influence over congress for good, as There is no doubt but what repub­ he. lican leaders aré trying to force In the presidential campaign of intervention, hoping that the ad­ 1908, as in the campaign of four ministration will blunder, so' that years ago, the tariff was the parai their party will reap political a fl­ mount question. ' At that time both1 vantage therefrom. No doubt the political parties promised tariff re­ delay is caused by a disinclination vision. The people, not yet having on the part of the administration to lost faith in the republican party be accused of declaring war for the and having faith in the promises of purpose of protecting American Mr. Taft that the tariff would be property interests down there. reduced, placed him in the White And the Mexicans, both federal and House. Mr. Taft, evidently, was constitutionalists are misconstruing honest in his intentions to make the this hesitency and American and promises made by hiipself and party foreign lives are sacrificed in con­ good. He convened congress in sequence. special session, at once, for this The entire civilized world as well purpose. After some four months as the American people can now see of wrangling, a new tariff law was the necessity of intervention and enacted. President Taft signed the the United States would now have bill and pronounced it the best the approbation of all, whereas the tariff law ever enacted by the re-1 reverse would have ■ been true had publican party. But when thé war been declared a few months tariff schedules went into effect, the ago. President McKinley pursued average duty on importations proved a like waiting policy before declar­ the highest in the history of our ing war on Spain. The people government. fairly forced thé declaration. Presi­ The people felt and knew that dent Wilson, with this precedent they were the victims of the most before him, evidently thinks a colossal bunco game of the age. waiting policy the better, though Thé doom of the republican party he must now know that interyention was sealed as a result. Two years: is the only solution of the problem. later the lower House òf congressi However, the people are willing to was turned over to the democrats' abide the wisdom of President and in four years both branches of! Wilson and congress in the matter, congress and the presidency became believing that whatever policy is democratic. Even a large majority finally i adopted, the destinies of the of the republican party revolted’ Americans are in safe hands. against Taftism and the people’ allowed but two small states to cast their electoral vote for him, for A CONSCIENTIOUS SENATOR they looked upon him aS the chief Because Senator Chamberlain, bunco artist. Ohe of President Wilson’s first when the tariff bill was up, was official acts was to convene congress broad minded enough to consider in special session which proved to the United States as a-whole instead be the longest special session in the of seeing the interests of a few pro­ history of the government. Gon-1 tection beneficiaries in his own gress was convened, primarily, to state of Oregoh, he is now being revise the tariff and no other bitterly assailed by those shorn question of importance was enter­ interests and some Oregon news­ tained by that body until the tariff papers. Of course he voted for the was disposed of. When the schedu­ tariff bill as a whole, which includes les were published, the people found free wool, free lumber, free pulp, that many articles which were com etc. He, with his party went into sidered necessities were placed upon power pledged to reduce the tariff. the .free list and an average reduc­ This result would, probably, • never tion of 50 percent on protected have been reached had Senator articles. Then congress tackeled Chamberlain voted to retain protec­ the currency and banking laws. tion fdr the things which effected The result of the deliberations is his own state and to place the com­ the best currency and banking modities of other states on the free system in the world, so pronounced list. He could not, consistently, re­ by bankers and financiers generally. fuse' to vote for the tariff as a These two principal laws are the whole, even if it did remove the fruits of the first year Of Woodtow tariff from wool and lumber. He Wilson. That these measures have knew that but a small proportion, been productive of only good to, the comparatively, of the people of business world, is evidenced by thé Oregon were engaged in the pro­ confidence and cheerfulness of the duction of wool and lumber and that all the people throughout the nation business interests in general. That the promise to regulate were consumers of both. Therefore, Intermountain Tribune in the interest of the greatest good for the greatest number he,.patrioti­ cally, voted for the tariff bill. Men who vote against Senator Chamberlain from a purely selfish motive, that is to say,'because they i imagine free wool and free lumber will cause a small reduction in the price of those articles and thereby effecting their pocketbooks, are not good American citizens. They are ' willing that all the people shall be taxed for their benefit. They are - grafters, providing the graft is < placed in-a legalized form. But the price of neither-wool nor . lumber has been reduced because ; they are no longer on the protected list, though they may be effected somewhat in time. It is hoped that | they may be. But to censure Sena- tor Chamberlain because hé had the broadminded manhood to vote for the best interests of , all the people rather than for that of a small oer- centage of them, is the last word-in small, selfish and Sordid politics. No newspaper but those which will stoop to political filth and venality, will censure an official for doing his d uty in an unselfish manner,. Senator Chamberlain khéw hé’ would lose the support of the wool and lumber barons when he voted to place these articles on the free' list, but this fact did not feaze-him from doing his duty to the . Ameri­ can people as a whole. He knew that in casting his Vote therefor he was endangering his election at the polls next November. But, forget­ ting his personal interests, he stood for those of the American people. Oregon will make a serious mis­ take if she turns a senator who has proven true to the people, down for a man df unknown quali ties. Put Your Stock in Thriving Condition ow is the time of year that your work horses should be put in con­ dition for the hard work of spring and summer, so that when the sun shines, your horses will be rid of their old coat arid ready for business. Be sure, also, that your wilk cows are thoroughly conditioned for the long, heavy milking season, and that those with calves are vigorous and fit. N Dr. Hess Stock Tonic Is a splendid conditioner, a sure worm expeller and will put your animals in a thriving condition, make the ailing ones healthy and expel the worms WE GUARANTEE EVERY PACKAGE A. SCHOLL, Sole Agent WEET HOME - - - - OREGON S. C. STEWART Pre»ident W. M. BROWN, Vice Pres. CLARENCE INGRAM Cash. j. I. M. STEWART Vice Pres. T. D. 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Land Office at Portland, Oregbn February 20, 1914 NOTICE is hereby given that Charles Francis Corgan of Foster, Oregon, who. on December 22, 1913, made Homestead Entry, No, 0^042 for NE 1*4 Sectjon 16, Township 12 South, Jlange 4 East, Willamette Meridian, has filed noticç of intention to make Final Commutation Proof, to establish claim to the land above describe^.y before thé Register and Receiver, U. S. Land Office, at Portland, Oregon, on the 9th day of April, 1914. Claimant names as witnesses: Harry Walz, Mike Cosgrove, Hurbert Rumenap, and John Roberts, all of Foster, Oregon. H. F. HÎGBY, Register 4-2 . • ’ B<»o(m«»ooHoeoto»o(OBOnono(»