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MORROW COV.NTY OFFICIAL PAPER
Thursday, December 31, 1914.
A CASE IX POIXT.
The recent report of the State's
experts made the treasurer of Wheel
er county short $7000; it further
stated that since the report of the
experts had been made the "short
age" had been paid. It would ap
pear, however, that there was no
shortage in fact, for when the ex
perts appeared on the scene to make
. their examination of the Wheeler
county official records, the treasurer
held in his hands this balance which
he had not deposited in the bank and
the deficit was only technical and
should never have been reported
against that official. Apparently this
was a case of the experts having to
report something on somebody to
show that they were earning their
money.
In this connection, also, it is stated
that the county court of Wheeler
county considers the bill of the Port
land experts who made the examina
tion as being exorbitant. It is eight
times the amount charged by pre
vious experts for similar work done
not many months before when the
court had the privilege of making
their own terms and arrangements
with the accountants.
This is another case in point.
It is further proof that the office
of State Expert should be abolished
Retrnchement and economy can be
gin here. So far as we have been
able to learn, there has not been an
instance where these Portland ex
perts have saved any money to the
counties. This is bound to be so as
the law provides they shall receive
ten dollars per day for their work
and there is no one to say how many
hours they shall work or how much
labor they must perform each day.
This Is certainly one job that
should be under the control of the
county court of each county. The
court is in position to get this work
done to the best advantage when it
has the say regarding who shall do
it. As in Wheeler county, as in Mor
row, Hood River, Marion, Washing
ton, and in fact practically all the
counties of the state it has cost from
twice to three times as much to get
the work done as it formerly did
under the arrangements made with
private experts. Surely the taxpay
ers have a right to demand some
trimming of expenses here.
Many Oregon counties are com
plaining about the state accountants
who come unasked to expert the
county books and charge extortionate
prices for doing it. The price charged
in Wheeler county for this year's ex
perting by these fellows was eight
times as high as Max Crandall, one
of the best experts in Oregon, used to
charge. Some increase, eh! Fossil
Journal.
Great Britain has received stern
warning from the United States con
cerning her meddling with Ameri
can shipping, and the note of our
government is intended for the whole
allied forces. There has been an un
warranted interference with the
ocean commerce from this country by
the British fleet and the government
at Washington says it must cease.
The cost of experting the books of
Marion county for the past year by
the Accounting department of the
state insurance commission was $1,
S23.ll as against an average cost in
the past of about $300.00. Simply
another of the beauties of govern
ment as compared with private enterprise.
It is said that a Joplin, Mo., man
has discovered a process of turning
water into gold. We do not know
anything about the Joplin man's pro
cess, but In very familiar ways this
transformation has been worked to
the building of many a colossal for
tune. Telegram.
The Pendleton East Oregonian
says the United States will never
hare cheaper beef as long as land
prices soar and the packers have it
in their power to adjust prices to
the growers and to the consumer ac
cording to their own sweet fancy.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., in an ar
ticle In Colliers, warns the American
people against the present tendency
toward bureauocracy. He gays that
the inevitable result of the present
course is - the development of a mon
archy in fact If not in main.
It takes 120 barrels of flour to
make a carload. Better hurry with
that donation.
A big fight is on over the speaker
ship of the next house of representa
tives. Ben Selling, of Portland
seems to be the choice of the Oregon
ian and the Multnomah county dele
gation for the place, while Allen H.
Eaton, of Eugene, and a representa
tive from Lane county since 1907, is
claiming the support from over the
state. The Oregonian makes the an
nouncement that Selling Is in the
lead and will be chosen, and there
is much talk emanating from the
Eaton headquarters that the Port
land papers, especially the Oregonian
have been unfair to Mr. Eaton in not
allowing him a hearing through their
columns.
This is a matter in which the peo
ple outside of Portland and Multno
mah county are much interested. It
undoubtedly effects the redisricting
of the state, and as Multnomah
county will try to get a bill through
that will give that section much more
power in the legislature than it al
ready has, (and this is more than
they are entitled to) it is well for
the balance of the state to get busy
and put a few blocks in the way of
the game.
As a sample of what is being un
dertaken, the following quotation is
given from a recent editorial in the
Oregnnian:
"The total population of the state.
according to the Commercial Club's
figures, is 795,587. Multnomah
county, then, has a little more than
one-third of the population of Oregon
within its borders.
"Under the present system with
a total of 90 members in the legis
lature Multnomah county should
have 30 senators and representa-
thes."
This is given as a hint to the rest
of the state and points the way to
what Multnomah county may ask for.
The single city of Portland now
sends 20 men to the legislature. It
has 12 members of the house and 6
members of the senate. In addition
it has the Multnomah-Clackamas
joint place in the house and the Mult-
nomah-Clackamas-Columbia joint
place in the senate, which two mem
bers not only represent Portland but
nearly actually live in Portland.
If under the proposed redistricting
the "injustice" to Multnomah coun
ty Is removed by giving Portland 30
legislators instead of 20, or one-third
the entire membership of the house
and senate, the additional ten will
have to come off the up-state mem
bership. For example, if all counties were
to be reduced to the same basis of
representation as that given to Mult
nomah county as per basis suggested
In the Oregonian, 1 legislator might
have to represent Sherman, Gilliam
and Morrow counties, instead of, as
at present, 2. For here in substance
is the deft Portland argument:
"We have 277,183 population and
only 20 legislators. This is one leg
islator for every 13,859 of popula
tion. Sherman county has 4,207
people for 1 legislator, Gilliam coun
ty 3,815 and 1 legislator, and Mor
row county has 4,292.
"If, now, Sherman, Gilliam and
Morrow counties are 'drought doyvn to
the Multnomah basis of representa
tion, that of one for each 13,859,
their combined population will give
them one legislator instead of their
present two, plus a joint interest
with Umatilla in one more."
Now it has heretofore been the
habit of the Multnomah county dele
gation to name both the president of
the senate and the speaker of the
house, and In most instances these
men are Portlanders, and when it so
happened that they were not the in
fluence of the big delegation was so
strongly asserted that they might
just as well have been from among
their own number. In other words
the Portland delegation has been get
ting what it wants, and this new
move will only cinch their hold on
the legislature all the tighter should
it succeed.
One good move in the direction of
checking the power of Portland over
the rest of the state would be to elect
Mr. Eaton as chairman of the house.
His platform calls for a reduction of
25 percent, and more if possible, in
the expense of running the legisla
tive session. It calls also for a new
legislative procedure that will crip
ple gang methods in the future.
Mr. Eaton contends that the pres
ent chances of election are even be
tween him and Mr. Selling, and he is
making a strong plea for the support
of legislators outside of Portland
and hopes to win through their sup
port by the country press. It is a
struggle between Portland and the
counties outside of Portland and the
outside counties are entitled to win
that the general good of the entire
state may be protected and Multno
mah county not be allowed to put
through extravagant measures for
her selfish benefit on the plea of
greater population.
We are interested from the'stand
polnt of being entitled to at least one
representative of our own, and in this
redistricting process we should. con
tend for this and get it.
smaller packing houses In Portland
and vicinity and would subject all
carcasses shipped to Portland for dis
tribution to government rules of In
spection.
It is contended by commission men
and small markets that this ordin
ance would prohibit such shipments
and compel the farmer to sell his
stock alive to the Union Stock Yards,
It is alleged In the pleadings and
made part of this case that the
slaughter house of the Union Meat
Company is the only plant in this in
dustrv that could exist and do bus!
ness at Portland.
The ordinance Is being fought by
all the independent packing firms
and many of the retail markets o
Portland. It is claimed by the plain
tiffs and appellants in this case that
the ordinance is in the interest of the
meat monopoly, and would tend to
raise the price to the consumer while
destroying a competitive market for
the producer.
The plaintiffs In conclusion allege
that the burdens and restrictions im
posed are such that the Union Meat
Co. alone can comply with them.
INFLUENCE OK THE FRATER
NITIES.
Good-bye old 1914. You
made your place In history.
have
PACKING HOUSE MONOPOLY BE
FORE SUPREME COURT.
The ordinance passed by the city
of Portland to regulate the slaughter
and sale of meats is before the Su
preme Court. It involves the meat
Industry of Oregon and Washington,
as the ordinance if sustained com-
pells enforcement of the rules and
regulations provided by the federal
government.
It would result in wiping out the
Mr. Bryan has expressed the view
that the fraternal organizations .will
prove an effective force for world
peace. He admits that after inter
national difficulties have reached a
crisis the fraternities will be unable
to avert a breach, but he argues that
prior to such time the international
ties of brotherhood would resist ordi
nary attempts to sever them. This
presumes a strength of international
membership of fraternities which
does not exist. It also presumes too
much on the strengtH of obligations
between men who have never met
each other face to face. It is proba
ble that individual members of fra
ternities would be influenced by such
obligations to temper the horrors of
war when dealing with individuals of
the same brotherhood. There have
been numerous well-authenticated
cases to support this conjecture. But
it is doubtful whether fraternal
would be stronger than patriotic ties
We have seen in the present war the
best personal friends on opposite
sides. German professors who were
regarded as spiritual fathers of Eng
lish students are defending the Ger
man cause against exceptionally bit
ter assaults from their former pupils.
International Socialists, who called
each other "comrades" and who op
enly repudiated patriotism as obso
lete narrowness, are on opposite sides
of the European conflict, each de
fending his country's cause as just
There seems to be no sentiment
strong enough to break the tics of
patriotism.
But the fraternal sqcieties of the
United States have exerted a remark
able influence in mollifying the bit
terness of patriotism and sectarian
controversies. At an earlier period
in our history men of one set of po
litical views were socially ostracised
by neighbors of another political
faith. In the border states, for ex
ample, children fought each other in
the school because of differences of
views on slavery. The antislavery
boys were not permitted to court the
proslavery girls. Religious preju
dices were equally bitter. The de
nominations spent more time fighting
each other than they did fighting the
prince of darkness, or perhaps they
thought that they best fought him
by fighting each other. The cordial
relations now obtaining among the
evangelical denominations would
have been Impossible two years ago.
That the association of men of
different religious and political views
in fraternal societies had much to do
with destroying these bitter preju
dices may well be argued. The other
day the president quoted Charles
Lamb as declaring that he could not
hate anybody he really knew. When
men met each other in lodges, under
favorable conditions, they learned to
know and to like each other. They
recognized that men could be good at
heart and filled with noble aspira
tions, regardless of their peculiar
beliefs about religion and politics.
After men had fraternized it was im
possible for them to renew their old
hostilities. The present tolerance in
religion and politics is probably moro
directly due to the influence of fra
ternal societies than to any other sin
gle cause. Globe-Democrat.
EVILS OF STATE REGULATION.
Cattlemen in various parts of the
state complain that they are driven
out of the fine stock business by too
much regulation and the evils of
growing bureauocracy.
As a practical illustration of the
working out of the agricultural
problems by farmers themselves
without state Interference take the
action of the Farmers Exchange at
Hermiston last week.
They decided to form a co-opera
tive Bull Association, to secure for
the members pure-bred bulls of good
milk-producing ancestry, and save
expense In buying and prevent in
breeding.
The Farmers Exchange is work
ing this all out for itself and has so
far not asked a state law or the Inter
vention of the numerous Domestic
Animal boards, commissions, ect.
More cows and better cows, more
and better dairy products, richer and
more successful dairy ranches, will
be the result of this movement of
the hard-headed Farmers Exchange.
The theories of bureauocracy are
falling down from the federal gov
ernment to the state and county af
fairs, and the people are revolting
1914
GREETINGS
1915
To Our Customers and Friends:
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With best wishes for your prosperity and success for
the coming year, we extend to you the
GREETING OF THE SEASON
and assure you of our earnest desire for a continuance of
the cordial relations between us.
. Respectfully,
PHELPS GROCERY CO.
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EMNANT
SALE
We are going through our stock and
throwing on the REMNANT COUN
TER all odds, ends and broken lots.
We are getting ready for our Annual
Inventory and are marking these rem
nants at a price that will go.
You will find just what you want at a
small price.
We are still giving 10 per cent, off on
Men's and Boy's Suits and Overcoats.
Thomson Bros.
against the useless tax burdens.
The chances are In favor of the
Farmers Exchange Bull Association
accomplishing more for its members
lan all the laws, boards', officials,
commissions and bureaus under the
shining sun.
THE RETRENCHMENT PROGRAM.
The business men's delegation
from Multnomah county has been
holding sessions twice a week for a
month trying to map out a retrench
ment program that shall cut oft at
least a million dollars.
They find themselves besieged by
all the boards and commissions and
expert bodies that have been created
in the past to hold their soft jobs and
even demands for new sinecures and
new appropriations.
The Multnomah businessmen In
the house tftid senate this time seem
not to be the regulation A. B. D. del
egation, but are hewing out a stiff
program that once put on the skids
will be hard to intercept.
Five Important consolidation bills
to cut out at least a million dollars
of fixed changes are being framed
and will be put. up to the legislature
with the bptlon to pass them or have
them initiated.
One will put all the various land
and water boards and engineering
and surveying projects under one
head.
Another will consolidate the va
rious labor and compensation boards
and commissions under one head.
A third will consolidate all the do-
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tions nnder one head or board.
A fourth will unite the various
medical and health boards into a sin
gle function or health department.
The fifth will consolidate five or six
higher educational boards and com
missions Into a board of three. .
These bills will be constructed to
simplify service, eliminate duplica
tion, and reduce expense.
After donating $450,000 to the
Tumalo project, Oregon Is to be gen
erously given the same amount out
of $12,000,000 collected frcyn sales
of Oregon public lands.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS.
To our many customers and
friends, we wish to express our hear
ty thanks and appreciation for your
liberal patronage and friendship dur
ing the past year. With goods as
represented and an effort to please,
we hope to see you often one and all.
May a prosperous and happy new
year be your lot.
WM. HAYLOR.
Don't forget the Poultry Show on
the 6, 7, 8, and 9, of January.
Attention Knight.
The regular Intsallatlon
of Doric Lodge No. 20, K. of P. will
occur on Tuesday evening, Jan. 4th,
and it Is desired that there shall be a
good turnout of tho membership on
this occasion.