trusts and to provide for rural
credits, yet to be fulfilled, will be
made--good, the people have every
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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
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Special rates on long' time display
matic hôtes, is due. Yet, as Presi
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¡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,
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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.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
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U. S. 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.
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Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
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was duly appointed and is now the duly qualified
and acting Executor of the estate of C. O. Gentry,
deceased, late of Linn County, Oregon.
All persons having claims against said estate
are hereby required to present the same, properly
verified, unto the undersigned executor at the.
office of Samuel M. Garland, in Lebanon, Linn
County, Oregon, within six months from the date
of the first publication of this notice.
Dated and published the first time this Sth day
of March, 1914. Last publication, April 2,1914.
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Executor of Estate of
C. O. Gentry, deceased
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