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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1915)
TIIK fJAZKTTK-TIMKS. HKPPXER. OHK.. THI f!M) V, APIUI, I, loir, PAf.F TIIP.F.F Made THE PRODUCTS OF THE HEPPNER FLOUR MILL NflDNE BETT PANORAMIC HEW OF 0RE60N SOLON Prices and Quality Guaranteed Our payroll is larger than any manufacturing concern in the county To the Right Parties: I will allow the use of several of my Jacks, for a reasonable charge. Call on me at the Eastern Oregon Jack Farm, east of Lexington, or address me at Lexington. Let your wants be known 1 also have GOOD JACKS FOR SALE f you do not find as good Jacks liore as there are in the Northwest or the United States, 1 will pay expenses of your trip both ways, providing you are a competent judge and know a good Jack when you see it. I keep no high salried men to sell my Jacks and any one in the market for Jacks who can come to my farm will save commission fees, etc. B. F. SWAGGART LEXINGTON OREGON THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HEPPNER We Invite Your Banking Business We pay four per cent, on funds left with us in the form of a Time Certificate, for either six months or a year. We also pay four per cent, on Savings Accounts. We rent safety deposit boxes by the year at reasonable rates. Information cheerfully furnished regarding the above. THE First National Bank OF HEPPNER People's Cash Market Phone Main 73 All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and Pelts. HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor Advertising Will Pay You If You Use The G.-T. j L'y li. V. Swaggurt. The j;uk, jennet and mule indus tries are fields of activity of great im portance to tile development of the resources of Orosan, and capable, un der favorable legislative enactments, of great development. In order to make the most of these industries must have favorable laws thereunto so that we who are engaged in stock raising of this class can compete with the corresponding stockraisers of other states where good statute law concerning these Industries ob tain. The acclimated Oreson-bred jack altho superior in constitution, con formity, vitality, longevity, endur ance and symmetry of body and limbs, to the jack raised in the East and to that of the South, is now class- ed as "mongrel-bred," a perversion of a fact which is incompatible w truth. The Standard Jack and Jennet Registry of America, incorporated under the laws of the state of Mis souri, by the Association of Jack and Jennet Breeders of America, in which my jacks and jennets are registered, Is the largest and best in the world and yet not recognized by our Legis lature, and therefore, compels me to license my stock as "mongrel bred." Having requested of both state senator and representative to use their influence in passing a more fa vorable law as to the jack and jennet registry, we received the following reply: "By tacit agreement we can not pass any more bills." And tho we have made several previous at tempts to induce our solons to so modify the present registry law as to he of assistance to this industry they have always turned a deaf ear to our appeals, stoically ignoring that which is of paramount Importance to this class of stockraisers in Oregon. The last Legislature made many blunders that the Supreme Court has been kept busy to modify and cor rect the measures. If it were only possible to instill into the minds of our solons that one assembly is not to outdo the precceding one in the number of bills presented! Quality, not quantity, should be considered, It is hardly conceivable that a thous ond bills were clamoring for recog nition, awaiting the molding of legis tive enactment. Because the less ink and paper Is wasted In printing use less bills, the better pleased will be the people of the Webfoot State. -According to the report of the Sec retary of State, the apportionment expenditure for the years 1915, 1916 will be nine million dollars, six mil lions of which must be raised by tax ation. It seems to be by one million dollars greater than that which was I spent in the preceeding biennial per iod. The tax rate must be increased if the Assembly grants all the re- i quests made upon It uy the various state departments. It is hardly nec essary to say that state, municipal, and county governments should co operate with the one collective view, that is, to economize in all public affairs, and to temper all their en- ! actments by the economics of justice, By a small majority of approxi mately 150 votes the measure abol ishing capital punishment in Oregon was carried last November. The ambiguity of the wording of this law, with its theoretical bombast and psit taceous vacuity, caused confusion and uncertainty as to tho punishment of criminals of first degree murder. And to prevent such persons to go free the Governor commuted their sentence into life imprisonment after the result of the November election was known. Then there was con fusion as to the time when an initia tive measure should go into effect. The Assembly of 1913 passed ap proximately 100 bills. With few ex ceptions, the Twenty-eighth Legis lative Assembly has no constructive legislation, and tho it has been cred ited with 400 measures, only a few are good, others detrimental to the welfare of the people; still others in discord with the Constitution. The laws vary in importance from a very insignificant one to an amendment of the constitution giving the Governor power to veto single items in appro priation bills. Following the practice of its not very worthy predecessors, the last Legislature, before closing, provided for the holding of a special election next November upon the prohibition measure which is a subject to the referendum. Such elections cost the state approximately $100,000, which greatly increases the burden of the already over-burdened taxpayer. The need of having effective legislature for the enactment of the prohibition measure after January, 1916, and the fear that the act passed at the last session would be subject to the ref erendum, caused them to choose the special election; yet its alternative, a special session would have been far less expensive to the State. As n general rule voters are less Inter ested in measures than in men, and do not turn out en masse at the special election as they do at the reg ular election. And, as a consequence, a minority of the electorate would likely decide the fate of the prohibl- tion measure and such other meas I urea as would come up of decision by the collective vote of the people. Some years ago our tax law pro vided for the payment of taxes in April, or (me )iuif j April and the other hail' in S-ptember. After it had been modil.i-d so as to make the taxpayer r.-ru it all of his or her taxes in April, a.id an increasingly monthly interest and a fine was added by our pedantic srd ostensible law makers. Since then the law has been changed again. In retrospection of the above state ment would it not be advisable to confer the functions of the legisla ture to the Suprene Court, which, by the way, must pass upon many laws crea'.ed by the solons. Some are unconstitutional, others are in discord with other laws, others are Ambiguous as to phraseology of the measures, and having a destructive rather than constructive tendency. Lcononncs of justice should al ways prevail. It means a reconstruc tion In laws, improved method of procedure and opinions cleansed from dross of selfishness, greed and graft. Persons who have attained moral stamina will come to the front from the ranks and file of the people. It is time for us to take new and liv ing symbols; and tear the bandage from the eyes of justice. To discover the wolf masquerading in sheep's clothing. We must see that the scales of justice do balance; that the ballast of evidence is right opinions and not flimsy expression, precedent, and preginatic technicality. As class consciousness reigns now supreme on the mundane sphere of activity, there is no equality today in the value of man. Abe Lincoln, the illustrious statesman of yore, whose earthly pilgrimage was so characteristic of purity, humility, selfless love and impersonal love, and whose pure deeds of love are immor talized upon the scroll of heaven, lived up to his motto: "Charity for all; enmity to none." Does our standard of conduct and meteing out of justice compare favor able with that of the sainted states man, now sojourning in Kealms of Light? To man alone of all creatures in the Infinite domain of nature's vast laboratory, is given the power to create his own character. His pow er Is the sum total of ills powers and faculties in action. The all-wise Creator bestowed upon him the light of reason and the transcendental fac ulty of intuition to direct his activity purpose. After all, in the last analy purpose. After all, in the last enaly- sis, the results remain with the indi vidual, whether preacher, banker judge, law-maker, printer or manual laborer, because the collective stan dard of our State is conditioned by the individual units that compose it Justice is an attribute of the Infi nite. A power given to man to transmute discord into harmony; cor ruption into purity; suburban in stinct into intuitive perception; paro chial egoism into selfless and im personal love, so characteristic of the gentle Naznrene whose earthly pilgrimage was a constant radiation of purity, humility and impersonal love, the mystic solvent of all human shortcomings. Only through the economics of justice, tho imperfectly manifested in and applied to human needs, shall we solve our problems by the medium of the alchemy of impersonal love, Thus, and thus only, shall we be triumphant in attaining our standard n the economics of justice promul gated to us by the omnipresent, om niscient and omnipotent Creator of the infinite universe. JUST RECEIVED by A carload of FAIRBANKS & MORSE Gasoline Engines direct from the factory At Greatly Reduced Prices At least 25 per cent un der last year's prices We are fully equipped for installing Deep Well Pumps and Irrigation Systems of all kinds, and guarantee all work to give satisfaction When you want water get our prices before closing a deal L. E. McBee, the Cecil stockman, was in Jieppner last Saturday. L. V. Gentry spent several days In Grant enmity last week looking over the sheep situation. O. IL Forbes, well known farmer of the lone section was a business visitor in Ileppner on Friday last. With Mr, J. A. Keihu, of lone, Mr. Forbes is interested in the Percheron stallion, Kalimacon, and we call the attention of those interested to their advertisement of this animal in an other column. Geo. II. Hayden, Hardman citizen, was in Ileppner the last of the week. He is rebuilding the sawmill on the Geo. Hendrix place on the Spray Iioad about ten miles south of Hard man and will again engage in the business of manufacturing lumber for the citizens in that part of the country. Any number and breed of young calves furnished. All orders shipped on one day's notice, Prices and par ticulars on application. N. E. MELCHIOR. Tillamook, Ore. FOIl 8 A LB OR TRADE. One pood young Mammoth Black Jack for sale or trade. Also some good work horses to trade for cattle. Inquire of Frank Anderson, Heppner, Oregon. Local and long distance phones. lm. WOKK HOUSES VOH SALE. I have a number of good work horses which I will sell on eight months time. Want approved se curity. 1 also have a Superior disc drill for sale. A. S. AKERS. WAXTK1V RKiHT AWAY. About 50 head of horses to pas ture. One section of fine grass close to Ileppner. Plenty of water. Iu- LicensedEmbalmer Lady Assistant J. L.YEAGER FUNERAL DIRECTOR Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon I &he PALM P has a complete line of CONFECTIONS, CIGARS and SOFT DRINKS Try our Pop Corn always fresh. R. M. HART I rLUWLKj fUK ALL ULLAolUiNo I FUNERAL DESIGNS OUR SPECIALTY The Jewell Green Houses I THE DALLES, OREGON 3 Phone B. 2721 t CITY MEAT MARKET J. FRANK HALL, Prop. Best in the line of meats handled at the lowest possible prices. FINEST HOME-MADE LARD AND FRE.11 AND CURED MEATS. See Me Before You Sell Your Fat Stock. HEPPNER WOOD YARD E. E. BEEMAN, Prop. Dealer In Wood and Coal Leave orders with Slocum Drug Co. or phone Main 60. Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and Posts, for Sale by HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION WAREHOUSE CO. Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Pelts. 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