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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
THE HEPPNER HERALD
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THE PEACE CONFERENCE I
WHATEVER else the Peace Conference may be it is;
not an open comerence, and whatever else the Peace j
! Treaty may be, it will not have been "openly arrived at."
i Thus goes glimmering the first of President Wilson's
"fourteen points." 'this cannot be other than a great dis
appointment to the world, and particularly to America. We
' are not only intensely interested in what is being done,
but we are keenly alive to the significance of being deni .d
i .ill but fragmentary information.
I Yet, in our opinion, iuderment should be suspended un-
'TICK the many recent brilliant exploits of the upper til the treaty is published. Judgment need not be sus-
housc of congress which culminated the other day pended as to those who insisted upon secrecy, but
THE SENATE AND THE RAILROAD ADMNISTRA
TION
when the body adjourned sine die in a blaze of windy fil
busterisni, many otherwise conservative citizens will be in
clined to agree with the old socialist (or was it a populist)
demand that the senate be abolished as a useless wart on
the nose of the body politic.
The spectacle of Jiob Lai 'ollette, ultra radic
i 1
lames Sherman, ultra conservative, patching up their dit
jcrences and uniting their wind bags in the highly com
Meuuable work, I rum a partisan standpoint, of talking to
death the railway appropriation bill which carried with it
every meritorious measure for reconstruction and for the
welfare of the returning soldiers that had been proposed in
that fossilized body in many months, is one to make ordin
; ry people sit up and take notice.
It is not so long since rabidly patriotic senators
Sherman were clamoring for little liob.s head on a charger
we
hould not censure President Wilson for consenting to the
secrecy until we know all the facts.
No sane man can doubt that the President wanted
cpen sessions. That he finally consented to closed sess
ions is, to us, proof that, for reasons which we do not yet
know, he considered it wise to yield. He could, 'of course,
have compelled full publicity by refusing to participate in
secrecy. Events will have to show whether it would have
been wiser to have created, at the beginning the animosi
ties that, inevitably, would have followed.
The actual work of the Peace Conference at Paris ha
only well begun, and there will be time for the President
to u-;e his great power of coercion if it shall be necessary to
do so.
1 If it shall become necessary to wreck the conference
1,1. i , 1 . . . . , i i i i j. j. . j j ..
ana inrovv uuropc into revolution, u win ue oeuer 10 uo
o alter all other means of prevening an unclean peace have
ST At
because of his opposition to the declaration of war against faicd than tQ haye taken drasdc actkm before ascertaining
i'.,Tn-mi, -inrl fiihf-r ;i Csi-efl acts or pro-tjermanism ana
perhaps the reason they didn't fire him bodily at that time
was because they cherished fond recollections of frequent
times in the past 'when his copious gales of wind, prevail
ing hour after hour, saved the day for the filibusters; am!
they may have had' sufficient vision to suspect that they
might need him again. We recall an occasion several
years ago when Eal'ollette engaged in a filibuster perfor
mance during which he spouted typhoons continuouFlv
tor several days (or was it weeks) "widout stoppin' fo
1 after be irut through he claimed that
UIMI IM V 11 ".( ... '
whether patient and persistent striving might not have ac-
,iished the desired result. At least, so it apparently
seemed to the President, and in our opinion he is right.
Deprived of the information to which we are entitled,
we must trust, for the present, first to the steadfastness of
'he President and second, to the steadfastness of Lloyd
( h'oi jc. 11 we are kept in the dark as to what is going on
tiiey arc not.
The President and the British Premier have gone on
record, not once, but many times, as to the necessity of
i.: u i ..i, t .. c T.T 1, 1
he couhl have done better only that the opposition sent him fa l ,: fu ;i,;i;t nr
, i crave him nains m hic ti '-''' u uoi, "",J1,OLl-
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MONDAY, MAR-17
HI
a uiass of poisoned lemonade
tummy and brought out a cold sweat. (
Many peoile are of the opinion that the chief reason
or the recent lillibuster was a desire to embarrass the rail
road administration and make it impossible for the govern
ment to coHtinue successfully in the transportation bus
iness hereby encouraging the growing sentiment in favor
of government operation and control or even of full owner
ship of the rail lines. This must he a mistaken opinion,
iiowcver, for hasn't little Bob always been strongly in fav
or of every thing usually called radical? Why, has he,
for years been considered a pretty good socialist only
when he wan'cd to run for office and it can't tbat h
still harbors that ambition.
We hear and read much these days to tne encci uiu
future wars.
He have the word of Lloyd George that in his opinion
science has it in its power to make a war so destructive
(...it, unless effective steps are taken now to end war, "men
,uw living will see the last of this civiliation." Earnest
ness cannot go much further than that.
Lloyd George has also said that unless conscription
is everywhere stopped, ttic war will have been fought in
vain. . . ,
If the world cannot trust men like Wilson and Lloyd
George to make a decent peace in the dark if there can
ie no light we might as well blow out the lights and let 1
out some degree of mutual trust.
We feel that President Wilson is doing the best that
Admission 1 5c and 25c
plaint being that '1C can m most difficult circumstances and is, perhaps, bid
he railroads, in ,AS his time for a blow, if a blow shall prove necessary.
it ne snouui aecm u wise 10 mane compromises mat in
to nmiucsi'oxDENTs coron ooukt proceeding
the rovernment oreration of the railways during the war
has not been a success me cniei tomui.
hns deteriorated and that the
,i . i ... i---. vi rws mnrp than thov took in.
lOlo, p.uu out auui - f , . f f m9uPnmnromi.ws that would spnd Amm
We do not hear nor read so nuicu aooui me umti siuu ui .
i he sK.rv For instance there is not much said about the can soldiers to the' ends of the earth, as a matter of contin
ue! tint during the same year the government increased uous policy, to police other peoples then let the Senate re
the wages of its employees on the railroads $636,cxx),(on ject the treaty. But, first, let us wait for the facts since
;md that the compensation paid by the government to the v are compelled to wait. Reconstruction.
.-.iUvriv coivinanics is cxceedimrlv high as compared with - ' j
ilie compensation paid by the British government to the XOtick
British railway Cvir.patr.cs lor the use ot meir ro.ui. :
..... The Horald welcome rommunl'i-
Wheti the govormr.cnt took over the railroads it is tlonR from gubltcrber and the public
well known that some of the companies were in financial g,.neiaiijr touching on aubject of
,:fficu!ties due to their inability to Lorrow any more mou- gener.d intrea to the community.
Jy with which to run the roads and had the government An t pubUcaUon
not laucn them over when it did many of them would haw of h wrltcr Bot neceiUHirlly forpUb.
liroken do-wn as tliey had frequently done in the past when nfat0n but u n evidence of good
l lie government has been forced to take theln over in the faith of the writer,
hum ..t ieeeierships and pull them out of the financial Write only on one aide of the pa-
iniiddle into which they had "high -financed" themselves. M- '
. . Avoid perwinalltlei. '
No doubt the service furnished the general public writ, M iPKit,iy poiiite, pay
since the government took oxer the roads has deteriorated in particular attention to the iiii-
.1 -. .iii.li il.it ili.. -..in,,. i.-n.liT.-d I lie lrovernmcni anJ IfKlhillly of name of per-
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in the movement ot tioopN and supplies troin all over he
..i. ii.is in ilie Atlantic seaboard did not deteriorate. Gen
iii iiieii who so luti.il) cm ic he go ei nuunt's tqeratioii
'i the railways slmuM i eiiieiiiber tli.it the country was at
..:r nitM all ot the las'. e.u and the question ol the per
.iMial coin enieiice ol travelers was secondary to the move
incut of the troops and supplies so urgently needed in
I ramt while the question of cost was perhaps consid
lie. I no more by ttic railway administration than it was
by any other department ot the go eminent. This writer
fan it-call numerous occasions last summer when the
lleppncr "flyer" was from one to tic hours late gett'ng " bket
into lone because they had to wait at the junction tor the
main line trains which were "laid out" somewhere to al
low the passage of troop trains or freight trains laden
with govci mnent .supplies, but like other travelers he
alw;i) s managed to get home to a late supper at some
hour ami like alt such other patriotic citizens he quite for
got all peevishness canned by Mich minor inconveniences
when on a tt-ilaiu November evening all lleppncr in com
mon with all the world outside of Germany tore loose and
lu tied and howled and made the welkin ring with song,
ami laughed and cried and hugged each other because ot
the woii-leihil words the wires brought that WK HAM
won Tin: wau.
Winn, place, etc.
PuMlnhlni; of communications
diieit not nienn that f.ie Herald no-ii-arlly
iirr.TH with the views ex
piesM'il. The Herald, however, lie
lieve that It In the province of an
tmli'iienileiit local iioiar"'r to Rlv
nil nidi' of cvety illetlun of loi'.lt
Itlteipnt a nearly n ponnilile.
The eilllor renerve the right t.i
rejwt all matter which he conlder
Improper or unfit for publication.
Anoiiymoui articles go itralxht to
tin-rvni hand oiujamkh
County court met In regular aea
aton last Wednesday, morning with
Judge W. T. Campbell, Commlasion
er George Bleak nin, Sheriff E. M.
Shutt and Clerk J. A. Waters pres
ent.
The usual gist of bills were pres
ented, audited and ordered paid.
John Garslde was employed aa
care-taker of the county building
and machinery at the fair grounds
E. J. Merrill was appointed justice
of the peace for Hardman precinct.
A road petition from S. H. Doard
man, ct al, wa taken up. the viewer
Heppner Meat Market
H. C. ASHBAUGH, Proprietor
Now open for business in our New Shop on
East Side Lower Main Street,
with a complete stock of the finest quality of
Beef, PorK. Mutton and Veal
Call and give us a trial order.
We will treat you right.
1
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HEPPNER
OREGON
report waa approved and the road
ordered opened after the statuatory
period of twenty days If no objectlou
Is filed within that time.
A road petition from Lee White,
et st, was continued until April 2.
1919.
The matter of selling Lot 1. niock
4, was taken up and after du con
sideration the lot was ordered sold.
.Ill
Yes. people, we won the war, and by no means
Mu.illcst item ot Atnesua'- p.ut in that vut.tv wa the
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u e mi'H H i; " i re ,v. , iv .hi i.iiiu.iv t: iui, i
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tl.
Trellmlnary steps ta th organita
llotl of Hcppner's new band were
tales taut Tuci.lay evening when a
number of Ch Interested In the
new tnuatcal orMaltatlnn met at the
council chamber and perfected th
parliamentary prtanlutloa. Hr
Cochran was elected president and
Hpence Ctfor. awretary -treasurer
A cmunlttee appolnteit to draft
a et of rule riverain the orsant
t ion and 1. a committee t.i wot
with the ladie of the OMc :npioe
tnent t'liih In tH-tfectln aifanse
menu for tS benefit dance to I"
given ltch lTtti. Initial ! p wei
ali lVi-n t ... uie iritruimni f.n
th.- hn.
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Poultry
Twenty Years To Pay For
Canadian Pacific R.
Lands
Lands for all. Irrigated or non-Irricat ed. W'ht T ivct.
ixed I-arming $n.oo to $30.00 per acre buys good, rich fertile prime
wheat land and only $50.00 per acre for irrigated land inrl; "! ' P
from tire Canadian Government. aiv'
Your Opportunity
Fanners, Exchange of the Inland Empire
P. R. BROWN. MANAGER. ,,r.
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