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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, ORE., THURSDAY, JAN. 6, 1916 PAGE FOUR TIE ill YEAR INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK 3 TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE O. K. RESTAURANT Ma Shoot, Prop. BONDS and INSURANC INSURE IN Royal Insurance Coand Fireman's Fund AND YOUR BONDS IN I United States Fidelity Guaranty Co. Rates furnished upon request T. J. MAHONEY : : Heppner, Oregon T I Buy your 7bos from fs; ou iv get aood 7bos -not m - w a mtr "X. afi DO NOT TAKE "ANY OLD THING" WHEN YOU EUY TOOLS. BUY OURS. WITH OUR TOOLS YOU CAN DO MORE WORK AND BETTER WORK, WITH LESS LABOR. AND THEY LAST LONGER. WE WONT PINCH YOU ON THE PRICE, BUT GIVE YOU THE BEST MAKES AT A LOW PRICE. DON'T YOU NEED SOME GOOD TOOLS RIGHT NOV? COME IN. VAUGHN & SONS Tlie INDEPENDENT GARAGE KING & REDIFER AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES Tires and Tubes Vulcanized. Batter ies Recharged. Electric Equipment. MAXWELL AGENCY and service station Cars For Hiie at All Hurs, Phones: Shop 572 IteMdence 552 Heppner Located on North Main Street Oregon THE HARDEMAN HAT THE HAT FOR YOU We carry a com plete line of this ex cellent head wear in all the late patterns and standard colors. This populor $3.00 hat is waiting for you at the store of SAM HUGHES CO. 11 M'i Not In decades has the I'nited Sta tes entered upon a new year with a brighter outlook. We have garnered unprecedented harvests. Most things that we sell command unprecedented prices. The dislocations of business brought on by the world war have come to ad justment and trade Is gathering an al most torrential force in its flow. Net railroad earnings increased 169 million dollars during the past year and the roads are just entering a period of extraordinary activity. The mercantile and financial agencies tell of a commercial activity rarely equaled. The great industries swing into the new year with every wheel a-whirr and evrey machine humming. We are building ships with a fever ish activity. A Portlander bought one in the early stages of construction at a price said to be 33 per cent above the contract figure. There are or ders at American shipyards for more than one-third as much tonnage as the whole American aggregate before the war. As a result of the war, we have be come the world's banker nation. Our former debts to Europe on American securities held abroad has been about fiv billion dollars. Europe flung these securities at us when war was de clared, and though the act drove us to the verge of panic, we weathered the storm and began buying. We met every offer with gold or products steadily and in addition, loaned the allies 600 million dollars. The best authorities now insist that our ob ligations abroad do not now exceed two billions. There is every prospect that even this balance will be wiped out by the time the war ends. The war has almost certainly drift ed into a struggle of exhaustion. A conflict with its tremendous exhaus tion of resources cannot continue in definitely. The weakening process must at last have an end. It is a de plorable consequence, but it remains the fact that the weakening of Eu rope is the strengthening of America. Thus, the debts that the war has brought upon the belligerents will mean a tremendous burden of taxa tion for all the warring peoples here after. These taxes must be drawn out of the toil of workers, which means that European production for the next generation, if not longer, will be far more costly than it has been. Heavily taxed production in Europe will be in no position to successfully compete with far lighter taxed pro duction in America. It is one of tire mighty and blighting consequences of this war upon Europe which turns to the inevitable advantage of the United States. If, for the next gen eration, the European worker must carry a huge burden of taxes upon his back, he cannot produce In the open market, at a cost as low as his almost untaxed competing worker in America. This strengthened position of the United tSates is one of the greatest of the fruits of peace through which this nation has been charted. Equally important is the fact that every added billion of capital or re source that Europe destroys increases the comparative value of .American capital and resource. The known ex penditures of Great Britain now ap proximate eight billion dollars. TI13 figures form the basis for estimating the colossal total that the combined nations have burned up. They reflect the suicide of a continent in men anil treasure, and are omen of the erratly heightened comparative strength of the United States. We deplore Europe's horrible loss eg and sympathize with her stricken and suffering millions. Wo commis erate with her people upon the hid eous fact that tney are in a dea-ii grapple. But in the fact that they are at war and that we are at peaoe, in the awful circumstance that they are destroying while we are produc ing, there is the inevitable conse quence that this country is advanced in position of preeminence and para mountcy in which the future in fluence must be wholesome and salu tary upon the affairs of the world and with tremendous profit in peace and prosperity to all American citi zens. It is thus amid an abundance and strength beyond any that we have known that this country swings off into the New Year. It comes after a period of progressive legislation in which American business has been made more honest, in which the al liance between corrupt business and corrupt politics has been broken up, in which control of American credit and money has been taken out of Wall street and placed in the hands of the American people and in which the power of the few to exercise a I financial tyranny over the many lias I been broken down. j The great prosperity that Is spread i ing over the country is unanswerable ; proof that reforms giving equal priv : lieges to all instead of special privil eges to a few can safely be applied, i This realization that we can drive corruption out of business and cor j ruptlon out of politics without per : maneutly injuring the prosperity of , the country is the most reassuring 1 thought and the most delightful con ; temptation among all the hopeful signs with which we enter the New I Year. It is omen to the American people that, by standing steadily for , progressive policies and social justice In Oregon there has been a decid ed change in favor of better indus: trial and business conditions. The last legislature started a movement for tax-reduction and ceased putting over legislative experi ments. The Tax Commission and Public Utility Commission adopted conser vative policies of encouraging cap ital already invested. Conservative administration of la bor laws has also helped some in dustries to stay in existence and if there are no new displays of arbi trary power new industries will enter this field. The recent expression of Governor Withycombe, that capital must be given a square deal, was a most cour ageous utterance from a public man at a time when politicians are in clined to treat employers as persons that need watching. Portland capitalists are to be put to the test in the proposed central Oregon railroads that Mr. Strahorn seeks to finance. Whether they will show color remains to be seen. The constructive work of the new Chamber of Commerce is going to bear fruit if it is kept up on present plans and broadened to include the whole state. There is some talk of a large smel ter coming to Portland. It may go to Spokane. The cement plants at Gold Hill and Oswego bid fair to go under way and become producers during the coming year. In spite of business revivals that have long been promised, the devel opment of Oregon will proceed under slow bells during the presidential election year. The European war will keep down foreign immigration and foreign shipping. The failure to float the English-French war loan (still $200, 000,000 shy,) has a depressing in fluence on the fiscal atmosphere. Oregon is the most remote from eastern financial movements and in dustrial revivals. The transcontin ental lines to the north and south of Oregon will continue to build up the population of southern California. San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound. Oregon will advance slowly in population. TREAT NEW STATES SAME AS THE OLD (C. C. Chapman, Secretary Western Slates Water Power Conference.) "An impasse," says Secretary Lane, "results from conflict between State ownership of the water and govern ment ownership of the iand unless both state and government abandon their respective rights and consider what is wi:;e.' " Thin is about the kind of a compromise a married man has with his wife she has her own way. He announces that the government will not' permit the Western States to acquire any more public lands than have been given to them for schools, colleges and reclamation, as serting that all the states have been treated alike in that respect. So far as we have heard, none of the Western States have expected the government to give them anymore of the public domain. What they ob ject to is having over half their area permantly withheld by the govern ment by new regulations to which the older states were not subjected. Except the eleven far Western States, all the soveiign common wealths of the Union have been de veloped under a public land policy which for more than a hundred years permitted resources to be developed by private capital and enterprise and became subject to state taxation and state control. Secretary Lane's premise that the eleven western states have had an equal chance with the older states is based on the arbitrary technicality that land grants have been made to all the states on the same basis. This is misleading, as the real facts are that after the older states have had taxation and control of their en tire area, new rules have been adopt ed, the theory and effect of which is to withhold the larger part of the area of the new states from the same kind of development, taxation and state control that has built up the old states. The conservation question will not be settled until such time as oppor tunity to develop the resources of the new states is made equal with the opportunities that have been en Joyed within the older states. It is to be regretted that Secretary Lane, a western man, has become so Inoculated with Pinchotism that all he can see in fundamental states rights is a loophole for corporate thievery. si they can in the end create here a com monwealth of broader justice and more eouitable arrangements than has yet been known on the earth. Oregon Journal. Just re-opened. Everything neat and clean Best of everything the market affords, including fresh oysters and shell fish. MEALS 25c and up FOUND GUILTY! of competing with the mail order houses, such as Jones . Cash Store, Rice & Phelan Send me your orders, or write me in regard to same 1 BUY POETRY AT ALL TIMES Egg City Cash Store JOE MASON, Proprietor. 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