THE GAZETTE-TIMES.
Th Hppn-'' GaiUfe, Established Match 30, 1 SK3
ThHeppnr Tw E;abhheJ No. 18. 1697
Cor.ioiiiattd February 15. 1912.
VAWTER CRAWFORD. . Editor and Proprietor
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When a man ain't got a cent, and he's
feeling kind ol blue,
An' the clouds hang dark an heavy,
an' won't let the sunshine thru.
It's a great thing, oh, my brother, for
a teller just to lay
His hand upon your shoulder In a
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James Whitcomb Riley.
OVERHAULING THE PUBLIC
' UTILITIES.
The Oregon Railroad Commission
is engaged in overhauling the records
of nearly every public utility corpora
tion In Oregon. In some cities the
people want reduced rates. In others
the community wants public owner
ship. In others it is being done on
complaint of individuals, or by init
iative of the Railroad Commission
itself.
Sixty-two such cases are pending
before the above commission, which
is known by a new law as the Public
Utilities commission, and it has pow
er to employ experts to make valua
tions of the corporate property, to
call for the books and records of the
corporation, to summon witnesses,
and to employ legal experts.
In one city in the Willamette val
ley this kind of an Investigation has
been going on for over a year. A
water company that for over twenty
years never declared a dividend and
has lost money for several groups of
citizens who were owners, at last de
clared a good dividend in 1913 wheri
it made some money. Pending this
investigation the company has sus
pended all betterments or extensions
There are two objects In having
this company overhauled. There is
a strong movement in this particular
city for public ownership, and the
Public Utility Commission is used to
beat down the purchase price which
the owners ask for the property. The
other purpose is to show that, the
water company should not earn over
eight per-cent dividend in any one
year.
If the business of this corpora
tion is taken over a period of twen
ty or thirty years, and for half that
period no earnings were made, but
all the earnings and other capital
that was borrowed were put into
the property, and at last it begins to
pay, and then the earnings are lim
ited to eight per cent., what will be
the result upon all such properties in
Oregon?
Will it be possible to get capital
in Oregon or from the east to go in
to such properties and develop them?
If the owners cannot invest in such
property and sell it at a profit as
anyone would a sawmill,, a farm, a
bank or a newspaper, who will want
to put a dollar into a water, gas, elec
tric or street railway plant in Ore
gon? These are serious questions.
What should be a good sound pol
icy for any state to pursue? Do we
not want the benefit of competition
between public ownership and pri
vate ownership? 'Will not the people
get the best results if private cap
Hal goe3 into all the development en
terprises possible and when a com
munity can better itself let the com
munity be free to install plants for
public service.
If the policy is established that
public utility corporations shall have
their values fixed b the state, and soioutious to master the laws and
have their power to declare dividends j amedments submitted to vote in each
and earn profits upon the investment j election and ascertain the qualifies,
curtailed, will it be possible to petitions of candidates. But the chief
anv nu'side. monev into development j danger in the amendment would be
enterprises in a new and thinly set
tled state? Is there any public util
ity in making it impossible to get
outside capital into Oregon?
Our good friend, Gus C. Moser
everybody yknows Gus has been
making a most active campaign for
nomination to the office of governor
on the Republican ticket. In this
issue we present to our reader! his
platform in a few concise words. He
stands for economy, efficiency, and
dignified taw enforcement. He
also boasts of the fact that while
state senator in the last legislature,
he voted against the present tax law,
and he stands for a reduction of
taxes, this to be brought about by
doing away with the numerous ard
useless commissions and the com
bining of many of the state boards
that now create places and salaries
for an army of employees and tax
eaters. Gus C. Moser Is a wide
awake little fellow; he Is on to his
job alright and appeals to us as
standing well in the lead of the num
erous republican aspirants for the
governor's toga.
The fight in the Democratic camp
over the governorship would seem
in a large measure to be narrowed
down between Judge A. S. Bennett,
of The Dalkd and Dr. C. J. Smith of
Portland. Dr. Smith has been mak
ing a strong campaign on a reform
and law-enforcement platform and
should he be nominated and elected,
he is expected to carry forward the
West policies; he is, In fact the man
that Gov. West has decided on for
his successor. On the other hand,
Judge Bennett has made a canvas of
the state on a platform of law en
forcement by a man who knows the
law. Between.these two men. there
Is no comparison as to ability as we
view it, and we should be pleased to
see the Democrats of the state give
their endorsement to Judge Bennett.
There might be such a thing as the
election of another Democratic gov
ernor In Oregon, and should this
happen it. would be a fortunate cir
cumstance that Judge Bennett were
the man.
This paper has refrained from tak
ing any active part in the primary
election and In the promotion of the
Interests of any Individual candi
date. On tomorrow the people of the
county will have the privilege of go
ing to the polls and selecting their
standard bearers. So far as the
county ticket goes, those individuals
who are asking favors of the people
and are aspiring to the different of
fices, have conducted a quiet and de
cent campaign, free from personal
ities and abuse of any kind, and this
Is as it should be. After the nom
inations are made, then comes the
general election, and whoever is suc
cessful In the primaries and becomes
his party's candidate should have the
support of his party, and there
should be no back biting on the part
of those defeated. The pleasant re
lationship that has existed between
the various candidates leads us to
believe that this will be the result,
Let the people rule, and may the
best man win.
For the Supreme bench of Oregon
four men are to be nominated. These
four should be Thomas A. McBride,
Henry J. Bean, Charles L. McNary
and Laurence T. Harris. Three of
these are now serving on the court;
in fact Judge McBride has been there
for a number of terms and Is no
doubt the leading candidate" for re
nomination. Judge Bean is from our
adjoining county and has proven his
excellent worth, and Judge McNary
a native son of Oregon is admitted
to be one of the brightest men in the
race. The record that Judge Harris
has made on the circuit bench in the
second judicial district entitles him
to this promotion and he should be
nominated.
A BAD MEASURE.
Oregonlan.
The constitutional amendment re
lating to voting qualifications filed
at Salem by the Socialist party is not
a measure creditable to an organiza
tion that pretends, at least, to stand
for clean and Intelligent government
This measure, if adopted, would
permit any voter who has lived In
the state thirty days to participate
in an election. The residence period
Is now six months. No other state
has a shorter one.
Residence qualifications have been
adopted by all states for two prime
reasons. One Is that the elector may
have some knowledge of state need3
in choosing candidates and the other
is that colonization of voters may be
prevented.
in uregon it is a pnysicai impossi -
billty for a newcomer who is
its invitation to the Importation of
voters from other states to carry a
measure or ticket. The amendment
would be provocative of corrupt poli
tico such as Oregon has largely elim
inated. It, Is antagonistic to otr
boast of clean elections. It is wholly
reactionary. We can think of no
argument in its favor that isnot dis
graceful and outrageous.
ECONOMIC TRANSITION
Journal.
The striking changes in the eco
nomic and industrial systems of the
world were outlined by Logan G.
McPherson in a recent lecture at
John Hopkins University. Point
ing out that political development
followed similar lines. The struggle
is between the many who hold that
the leaders in finance and industry
are their oppressors and who de
mand what they regard as a more
equitable distribution of the fruits
of industry and commerce and those
of the leaders who contend that the
demands of the many are becoming
so onerous as to Interfere not only
with the beneficial distribution of
wealth, but with its very production.
Treating of the growth of collect-
lvelsm through partnerships and
through the corporation Mr. Mc
Pherson said development which led
to the corporation had been bene
ficial to the people as a whole. In
terwoven with it was the working of
competition which had been for good
so long as it enforced the element
of thrift.
Competition though had been in
jurious when it forced producers to
dispose of their products at unre
muneratlve rates.
A notable effect of combination on
a large scale had been the strength
ening ot another combination, that
of trade unionism. - Under unre
strained combination or unrestrained
competition it is the efficient that
survive. As with all things else
industrial competition when carried
to the extreme meets opposing forces
that bring reaction, forces that tend
toward combination.
So does combination when carried
too far meet resistance and lead to
unrestrained competition. As busi
ness tends more and more to" become
an organic whole it becomes more
and more an Instrument of social
service.
Mr. McPherson emphasized the re
sponsibilities of Industrial leaders
and the importance of knowledge as
a basis for regulative legislation.
He found much hope for the future
in the fact that the speculative pro
moter and financial buccaneer are
being eliminated from the boards of
directors of the great Industrial cor
porations. Citizen of Eight Mile Indulges In a
Little Political History.
Eight Mile, Morrow County,
May 11th, 1914
To the Editor, Gazette-Times;-
Havn't the Socialists of Morrow
County in their "declaration of prin
ciples" drawn pretty strong on the
capitalist twins, W. S. U'Ren and C.
W. Barzee? In a lengthy declara
tion sent out to the Socialists of the
county they have incorporated a lot
of meaningless, deceptive trash that
has no bearing whatever on the
principles or ethics of Socialism.
Here are a few "we endorse" meas
ures in question.
1st We endorse the abolition of
the Senate.
2nd We endorse the $1500 ex
emption whereby citizens with prop
erty, etc.
3rd We endorse a right to work
measure, etc.
4th We oppose the Bourne anti
paid petition measure. 0
Now the four above measures have
nothing to do with Socialism, and the
concluding paragraph, "we favor as
an immediate demand an amendment
to the constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in Oregon," is foreign to
anything ever proposed in any Soc
ialist measure. The entire platform
is in the Interest of W. S. U'Ren of
Oregon City, candidate for govern
or. The $1500 exemption is a single
tax entering wedge and this fellow
U'Ren has been snowed under on
the proposal twice in the state, in
spite of his tricky, dishonest meth
ods of submitting it in initiative pe
titions. But he is trying again and
hopes to bunco some of the Morro-v
county Socialists into voting for him.
The idea of U'Ren "prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of Intox
icating liquors." Has he forgotten
I the Eldridge-Block Salem legislptive
: noid-up wiiere he and his friend
con-'Bourne (since, It seems, have parted
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THOMSON BROS.
political partnership) -dispensed
booze and other "delectable luxur
ies" to the solid eighteen populist
bunch? Does U'Ren remember how
we turned out all the republican and
democratic Clackamas county offi
cials and substituted populists?
And what then? Why, when U'Ren
went to Salem to take his seat in the
legislative assembly the "intoxicat
ing liquors" which U'Ren wants to
prohibit were so strong in evidence
that U'Ren failed to qualify as a leg
islator. .Then what assurance have
we that if elected governor of Ore
gon which Heaven forbid he
would qualify for the office? None
whatever. The fellow cannot he de
pended upon, he will resort to all
manner of displcable, tricky, methods
to carry his point and generally fails.
Let the Socialists remember his
wrecking the Populist party, the sin
gle tax party, and now it will be the
Socialist party if they adopt his
brainless views, and the prohibition
party If they are simple enough to
nominate him, to say nothing of the
Oregon Pioneer Seth Lewelling's six
hundred acres of land in Clackamas
county which U'Ren bankrupted in
three years management or rather
mismanagement.
Socialism has nothing to do with
the U'Ren-Barzee freak measures.
Its aim is to collectively own and
democratically operate the public
of the country, or as Sliakespearre
puts it;
"Thou whom the heavens plague,
Let the lust dieted man who slaves
your ordinance
Who will not see because he does not
- chansringf Time
feel,
Feel your power quickly;
So distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough."
A READER.
Says Our Hear Story a Little Mixed.
Stacy Roberts, who was down from
Toll Rock on Wednesday, says that
we were a little off on facts in our
bear story of last week. This was
no fault of the editor, however, as
we gave the story as it was told us
and if we failed lu getting all the par
ties in who were entitled to mention
it was because it was not made
known who they all were. Holly
Leathers should have credit for do
ing the artillery work, and' it was
he that "killed the bear." Friend
Morrill still holds the honors and is
entitled to the laurels for the picket
duty performed but as it was Mr.
Leather's gun that was brought into
action, he could not be induced to
let anyone else perform the execu
tion. It was all the same to the bear,
however, and we have not yet learn
ed who claims the pelt.
C. W. Post Suicides.
Charles W. Post, the millionaire
cereal food manufacturer of Battle
Creek, Michigan, committed suicide
with a 30-30 hunting rifle at his
winter home at Santa Barbara, Cal
ifornia, last Saturday.
Mr. Post was convalescing from a
recent illness, during which time he
underwent a major operation In the
Mayo Brother's hospital at Roches
tre, Minn. His rash act is attribut
to his poor physical condition.
Rev. Chas. H. Powell, general
missionary of the Episcopal church,'
will hold services at the local church
next Sunday, both morning and eve
ning. You are cordially invited to
attend. .
L. K. Friedrirh Dies.
Louis E. Frledrich, better known
in Heppner as "Frledrich the Tail
or," passed to his final reward early
Monday morning after an illness ot
about two weeks. The direct cause
of death was dropsy, which came
upon him rather suddenly and in a
severe form. Mr. Frledrich had not
been well, however, for some years
and he suffered very seriously at
times from chronic rheumatism He
would keep at his work, however,
and during the past nine years that
he resided in Heppner he lost lutv
little time from his work, putting la
many days at a time at his trade
when he was suffering intense and
excruciating pain. The end came to
him peacefully at his home In his
tailor shop on Monday morning.
A short funeral service was held
on Tuesday afternoon at the homo
of E. C. Maddock, an old-time friend,
Rev. W. N. Ferris of the Federated
church officiating, and interment was
made in Masonic cemetery.
L. E. Frledrich was born in Sax
ony, Germany, July loth, 1858, and
died in Heppner, Oregon, Monday,
May llth, 1914, after a' short illness..
He came to America some thirty
years ago and conducted business in
various cities and towns of the north
west. For the past nine years he
has been a resident of Heppner. His
only surviving relative in this part
of the country is his wife, Mrs. Wil
helmina Frledrich.
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