THE GAZETTE-TIMES.
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jtOKHOW rOVXTY OFFICIAL PAPER
Thursday, July 16, 1914.
A tPECVLIAR FEATVRE.
There ;is a peculiar feature of the
newspaper business that probably Is
not tound in any other business on
the entire 3Ut. A newspaper is ex
pected to publish all the news about
all people md every fellow expects
to find the sews about everybody
else, good or tad, there, and all the
news about himself that is good.
When the little item comes along
that is not complimentary, then the
individual concerned swears by all
the eternals that the editor has a
spite at him and ants to proceed
straightway to get even. The editor
-who is fit to fill his place is courage
ous enough to disregard all of this
and pursue his daily work without
fear, publishing in his paper the
things that he feels obligated to his
clients to publish. He is not often a
popular individual, and he does not
care a rap whether he is or not. He
knows, if he is fit to conduct a paper,
that he must hit someone every time
lie shoots and he also knows that in
the course of a few years there will
be.many people looking for him with
a meat axe. If he is a coward he
will quail before tills condition ana
his paper will have about R3 mucu
force ,as a. wooly worm In a battle
with an alligator. In this regard,
this business is peculiar but it is an
interesting game; one gets such a
good grand-stand view of human na
ture. Referring to the made-in-Oregon
campaign the Dallas Observer very
properly says that if Oregon manu
facturers would use the methods em
' ployed by those without the state in
stead of depending upon a paid prop
aganda by paid propagandists they
might get more return for their mon
ey. About the only manufactured
product that is not widely advertised
in Oregon newspapers is the made-in-Oregon
product, and it is an estab
lished fact that advertising -sells
goods. True, money is spent on pro
fessional boosters who claim to be
able to develop public spirit that will
tiell the home made product and a
lunny s::de of it is that they expect
the newspapers who are not recog
nized by the manufacturers to get in
and boost the game. But, as the Ob
server well says, if this' money was
spent in straight-out, legitimate ad
vertising in the Oregon country news
papers there might be more practical
results even if there was less hot air
and fewer banquets attended only by
those who do not need converting.
The fellow the Oregon manufacturer
must reach if he would increase his
sales is the man who buys the east
ern made goods and he can only be
reached by the methods adopted by
the eastern manufacturer legiti
mate and skillful advertising. Hills
boro Independent.
A wheat crop of better than 71,-
000,000 bushels is being harvested
in the Pacific Northwest this season
despite the many trials and tribula
tions that the crop has passed thru
during the last few weeks. This la
according to the estimates reached
by Hyman H. Cohen, chief crop re
porter of the Portland Journal, and
one of the best informed men in this
line on the coast. He estimates that
the yield has been shortened at least
5,000,000 bushels by the unfavor
able weather conditions, but notwith
standing the crop of 1914 will have
been found to be a record breaker at
tiie close of the season. Bariey and
cats will also be bumper crops, the
former estimated at 17,000,000 bu
shels and the latter at 31,100,000 bu-thek
It is a great tribute that is un
consciously paid to Mr. Roosevelt by
one of his sons. Quentin remarks
ihat "Papa is expected to pull every
body's chesaat out of the fire." The
smart saying has its sordid side, but
It contains a great and noble truth.
Every man who thinks he is wronged
and despairs of relief from existing
political parties or leaders turns to
Mr. Roosevelt Struggling or op
pressed' causes regard him as their
champion. An immense number of
Americans consider him the tribune
and defender of the people, their
political St. George to slay dragons
of iniquity. Spokesman-Review.
What a peculiar world it is. Not
deterred by the bad luck that befell
our three Meacham train robbers
many who were, or claim they were,
passengers on that train are now
trying to pull off a little stealing of
their own. They have put in claims
that are undoubtedly padded in view
of the officers and railroad officials.
They ask for the return of twice as
much money as was stolen. Very
likely some of the claims are filed by
people who were not aboard the
train at all. They are simply trying
to do a little robbing on a safe basis.
Here for sure is the psychology of
crime exemplified in a new way. E.
O.
The contest for nomination to the
office of supreme judge between
Judge H. L. Benson of Klamath coun
ty and Judge Charles L. McNary of
Marlon county is drawing to a close
with Judge Benson standing to win
by one vote. To settle this contest
and to find out who was really nom
inated it has been necessary to make
a recount in many sections of the
state and the result in Harney county
is yet doubtful. If the vote should
stand as indicated there, Judge Ben
son will have a majority of nine
votes. t
According to word received from
Umatilla, actual construction of the
diverting dam of the West Umatilla
project will start soon. Morrison &
Knudson of Boise, Idaho, contract
ors, have unloaded supplies at that
point and a large crew will be added
at once, There seems now no chance
of work pf construction of the West
Tjniatilla project bfln? delayed
A daily newspaper, owned, man
aged, edited and circulated by wo
men, is expected to make its first ap
pearance in San Francisco within a
few days. It will serve the interests
of the Democratic party in the com
ing campaign, and it is liopsd to
make it a permanent publication of
that city.
Sherman county suffered a severe
storm of hail and rain on Sunday
evening and much damage was done
to ripening crops. The loss is esti
mated at $250,000, and the sufferers
are the farmers on the east side of
the Deschutes Valley where the force
of the storm was spent.
AVHO HURT BUSINESS?
Editorial Portland Journal.
At last, there is official confirma
tion by a great non-partisan body of
railroad corrpution.
Yesterday's report by the Inter
state Commerce Commission of
crookedness in the New Haven is one
of the most extraordinary indict
ments ever brought forward in this
country. Remembering that the
management of the road was by the
Morgan and Rockefeller group of
banks in New York City, the com
mission's finding is a dramatic and
significant event.
The commission finds that there
was a working alliance with polit
ical corruption in New York City
which cost the New Haven stock
holders $1,200,000 paid to politicians
for securing Westchester charter
changes. The New Haven was made
to pay $11,000,000 for the Westches
ter when it was not worth over $5,
000,000. John Billard was allowed to buy
from and sell back to the New Haven,
Boston & Maine, stock at a profit to
himself of $2,700,000 and was then
rewarded with a directorship in the
road. The New Haven was made to
pay $20,000,000 for Rhode Island
trolleys admittedly worth no more
than $8,000,000.
Dozens of trolley properties in
Connecticut and Massachusetts were
bought for the New Haven at almost
any price the owners saw fit to ask
One thousand newspapers in New
England were subsidized, and hun
dreds of thousands of dollars spent
on civic bodies, lobbyists, legislators
and even college- professors to in
fluor.ee uubiic continent in favor c
New Haven monopolization of tne
transportation affairs of New Eng
land. Large sums were paid in five
states to lawyers who never partici
pated in any litigation for the com
pany. The losses to New Haven
stockholders through corruption and
maladministration are placed by the
commission at $60,000,000 to $90,
000,000. Dummy corporations were
frequently employed to carry out the
malordorous scheme of corruption.
What makes this recital of dishon
est manipulation and waste extraor
dinary is the paramount fact of who
did it. The road was managed, not
by its president, not by its board of
directors, not by its stockholders, but
by certain great Wall Street finan
ciers who were supposed to embody
the highest integrity of the country.
They were Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rocke
feller and their associates, who ad
mittedly represnted the best there is
in Wall Street. Their opinions were
law in the financial world. Their
judgments were regarded as infalli
ble. Wall Street almost deified them.
Yet look at their work! In their
efforts to control the transportation
of New England, they guided a great
railroad system, one of the best in
the world, to plunder and disaster.
In their desire to ( exploit the people
of half a dozen great states, for their
own gain, they squandered $60,000,
000 to $90,000,000 of the money of
the New Haven stockholders, many
of whom were reduced to bankrupt
cy. What is more, these heads of New
York banking houses, by interlock
ing directorates, control many of the
great industrial and commercial en
terprises of America. They and their
immediate associates exercised sway
over the great world of industry, fi
nance, insurance, commerce, bank
ing and transportation. In all these
great fields, is it not almost certainly
probable that they employed the !
same vicious methods, dealt with the
same stealthy politicians, indulged in
the same corrupting of government
that they have been found guilty of
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in the New Haven management?
In the light of these criminal
transactions by the greatest banking
heads in this nation, who would turn
Woodrow Wilson back in'his effort
to make these things - impossible?
Who but special interests would re
peal his tariff bill and restore to
these groups of great financiers the
power to tax the shelter, food and
clothing of allhe people?
Who would repeal the new cur
rency bill which took from these New
Haven wreckers their personal do
minion over the credit and money of
the country and give that control into
the hands of the American people?
Who can offer a single sound reason
why the president's bill for a trade
commission to supervise the trusts
should be rejected? Who can put
forward one legitimate argument
against the president's bill to send
to jail a trust brigadier for such ex
ploitation as befell the New Haven?
Who that reads the Interstate
Commerce Commission's arraignment
of the New Haven management, can
offer one single objection to the pres
ident's bill for regulating railroad
issues of stock securities and for re
quiring the proceeds of such securi
ties to be applied to the road instead
of to the benefit of dishonest direct
ors and managers?
They say President Wilson's policy
has "hurt business." Is it President
Wilson's policy or the Morgan-Rock
efeller method of running railroads
and other great institutions that has
hurt business?"
FACTS ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper
published at Springfield, Ohio, Her
bert Quick, editor of that publication
goes on with his articles showing the
damage done to the sheep industry
of the United States by worthless
dogs. He says that there are many
reasons for the proper control of
dogs aside from their effects on
sheep. He says that dogs dissemi
nate the germs of hog cholera and
other livestock diseases from farm
to farm. But there is another rea
son for the confinement and regula
tion of dogs, and that is hydrophobia
of which dogs are the sole source of
infection. Following is an extract
from Mr. Quick's article:
"The strict muzzling of all dogs
in all seasons of the year for dogs
run mad as often in winter as sum
mer has been shown to be an ab
solute preventive of rabies. It lias
been worked out perfectly in Great
Britan since 1887. In that year and
the two following deaths from hy
drophobia in Great Britain were re
spectively 217 for 1887, 160 for 1888
and 312 for 1889. In the latter a
muzzling law was passed and en
forced. In 1890 the number of
deaths dropped to 129, and in the
j two fcllowir.s years to 79 and 39. In
THE PEACH CANNING SEASON
IS ALMOST AT HAND.
Let us know how many boxes you want
and we'll -sell them at the very lowest
market price.
The Price will be about 65c the Box
Golden State Mason Jars, half-gallons $1.50; qts.,
$1.25; pts., $1.00. Economy jars same.
Fruit or Berry Sugar, $5.50 NOW, will be higher
later. Better get your supply early.
SAM
1892 the ordinance was repealed by
the dog worshipers. Deaths from the
bites of mad dogs rose by the fol
lowing steps in the years which suc
ceeded: 93, then 248, the 672. Hor
rified by this sacrifice to unmuzzled
dogs the law was passed and enforced
again. In 1896 deaths dropped to
38. next to 17, to 9, to 6, to only 1 in
all Great Britain; rose in 1902 to 13
and since that time not a single death
has occured in England, Scotland and
Wales from hydrophobia. The muz
zling of dogs saves hundreds of trag
edies every year.
"All dogs should be muzzled for
reasons of common humanity. If
this were enforced the worrying of
sheep would be largely a thing of
the past."
Get vour Drintlng done in an up-to-
the-minute job office, one that turns
out the highest class of work In the
shortest time. Yes, The Gazette
Times I'rintery is that office.
Mrs. Ida Warnock, who, has been
spending the past three iftanths at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Minor
near town, departed on Wednesday
morning for Portland.
Virginia to Vote on Prohibition,
Richmond, Va., July 14. Out of
an estimated total of 140,000 qual
ified voters in Virginia, 68,936 have
signed petitions calling upon Govern
or Henry C. Stuart to call a state
wide election to decide whether liq
uor shall continue to be sold in the
state. The petitions were filed today
and Governor Stuart is expected to
call the election for September 22, as
provided by the enabling act passed
by the. last Legislature.
Of those who signed the petition,
57,356 live in the counties, most of
which already aro "dry."
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