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Thursday. March 16. ll'lti.
THE LAST WKST.
A very few years ago the home
Feekers and honiebuilders, residents
of the New England and other east
ern states, headed for what they
termed the West: Illinois, Iowa, In
diana, Missouri and other now Middle
West states. The vast Oregon coun
try was always referred to as the far
West. Today the center of popula
tion is in the state of Indiana and is
not so slowly progressing westward.
Oregon of the three Pacific coast
states is the only one which has not
yet reached the million mark in pop
ulation. Whether or not Oregon's
failure to advance as fast along all
commercial lines as either California
or Washington, is due to restrictive
legislation which lias been passed in
this state there can be little doubt.
Restrictive legislation keeps out cap
ital and it takes capital to start the
wheels of commercial activity and
keep them going. But we are glad
to say that the people of Oregon are
finally coming to themselves and
have decided to put their shoulders to
the wheels of progress rather than to
continue devoting their time in pass
ing freak laws which have in the past
proved such a hindrance to the devel
opment of the state. Oregon is the
last of the WTest, but In another dec
ade, she will have passed over the
line and joined in with the other
states of the Union who are making
the best of their natural resources as
well as creating new industries.
Oregon is the last of the West and
Morrow county is near the end of
the line in the counties of the state.
Not near the last in size by any
means, but last in development. In
the line of opportunity we can proud
ly say, and it is no idle boast, she
stands at the head of the list. No
county in Oregon has better land for
tho price and it would be conserva
tive indeed to say that land is cheap
er today than it ever will be again in
the future. Oregon will undoubtedly
have a wonderful development with
in the next few years, when the real
influx of population begins, and it
will then be that those incoming
homemakers will turn their eyes to
Morrow county, for we have the best
propostion here in the last of the
last West that the homeseeker will
be able to find.
HERBERT W. COPELAXD.
new .Nation Clllieeneu "-j
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal." Without
an army they fought the greatest of
existing world empires that they
might realise this vision. A third
of a century later, without a navy
tliey fought the greatest navy in the
world that they might win for their
Nation the freedom of the seas. Half
a century later they fought through
an unparalleled Civil War that they
might establish for all time on this
continent the inalienable right of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A third of a century later they fought
to emancipate an oppressed neighbor,
and, victory won, gave back Cuba to
Cubans, sent an army of schoolmas
ters to educate for liberty the I'hil
ipinos, asked no war indemnity from
their vanquished enemy, but paid
him liberally for his property. Mean
while they offered land freely to any
farmer who would live upon and cul
tivate it, opened to foreign immi
grants on equal terms the door of in
dustrial opportunity, shared with
them political equality, and provided
by universal taxation for universal
education.
The cynic who can see in this his
tory only a theme for his egotistical
satire is no true American, whatever
his parentage, whatever his birth
place. He who looks with pride up
on this history which his fathers
have written by their heroic deeds,
who accepts with gratitude the in
heritance which they have be
queathed to him, and who highly
resolves to preserve this inheritance
unimpaired and to pass it on to his
descendants enlarged and enriched,
is a true American, be his birthplace
or his parentage what it may.
LYMAN ABBOTT.
Herbert W. Copeland, for the past
few years a teacher in the rural
schools of Morrow county, has an
nounced his candidacy for the office
of county school superintendent. At
the present time Mr. Copeland is
teaching in the Pilot Rock Junction
school just below Pendleton.
In speaking of his candidacy, Mr.
Copeland says, "For the past several
years I have been registering and vot
ing as a Socialist, being a member of
the Socialist party, but now I have
decided that I am a Republican, in
fact have always been a Republican
at heart, so I am seeking the nomin
ation at the hands of the Republican
party."
Mr. Copeland attended the So
cialist convention in Portland two
years ago and has been an active
member of that party in this county
up until the present campaign. "The
issue," says Mr. Copeland, "will be as
to whether the office shall be held by
a man or a woman." He is opposed
for the nomination by Mrs. C. W
Sliurte, a woman who is well known
throughout Morrow county as an edu
cator and a woman who has had
much previous experience in the
work of school supervision.
The Wool Situation,
It is reported that strenuous ef
forts are being made in the Condon
country to contract for wool on the
sheep's back at 19 to 21 cents. These
prices do not appear attractive to the
sheepmen at the present time for the
reason that there is not enough ad
vance over last year's prices to war
rant them to contract at this time
According to wool men, clips will he
at least one pound short in weight
over last year which will necessarily
mean lighter shrinkage and this will
off-set any damage that might be in
curred through breeding wools from
lack of feed or thin sheep. Pelts are
reported extremely high and agents
operating in the local field recently
were offering prices far below value
PATRIOTISM.
A nation is made great, not by its
fruitful acres, but by the men who
cultivate them; not by its great for
ests, but by the men who use them
not by its mines, but by the men who
work in them; not by its railways,
but by the men who build and run
them. America was a great land
when Columbus discovered it; Amer
Jeans have made of it a great Nation
Jn 1776 our fathers had a vision of
now holds to the presidency is quite
likely. But he has not said, has never
said, that he would refuse the nom
ination if giveu to him, nor is it prob
able that he will say it. For one
reason he would be reluctant to re
fuse a thing that had not been for
mally offered to him. But the great
er reason, we think, lies in his high
ideal of public duty. He feels, he
must feel, that if the call for him
should become imperative he would
have to heed it. No man of his char
acter could refuse the demand of his
partv that he serve it in the highest
office in the gift of the people. How
ever reluctant he might be, however
unwilling to establish a precedent op
posed to the traditions of the su
preme bench, the higher duty would
forbid that he refer to the possibil
ity of such a demand. All he can do
with propriety is to protest against
the use of his name in that associa
tion, and that he is doing with as
much emphasis as he can give to it.
Justice Hughes may not, and prob
ably does not, want the presidency,
but he is not the sort or man wno
would make his nomination impossi
ble by such a positive declaration as
that of Gen. Sherman: "1 win not ac
cept if nominated and if elected I
will not serve." There were reasons
for Sherman's curt refusal that do
not exist in this case and the circum
stances are not at all parallel. Jus
tice Hughes, notwithstanding his ju
dicial office, is a statesman by educa
tion, training and instinct; Sherman
was a soldier. Mr. Hughes is, no
doubt, the strongest man in the Re
publican party today. It is the pre
vailing opinion that he would be the
nominee if he would announce a will
ingness to permit his name to go be
fore the convention. There is no
probability that he will do that, but
it is conceivable that he may be nom
inated despite his objections. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
IX MEMORIAM.
Alone on the cepot platform,
Dathed in the cold winter s Dreeze,
Stands an empty eight-gallon Deer
Wlth'nothing in it to freeze.
Shorn of its former glory,
Drained of its last amber dreg,
Beerless. bungless and friendless,
Stands an empty eight-gauon Keg.
Arco (Idaho) Advertiser.
OVR LOSS OX WOOL.
The January imports at the port
of San Francisco amounted to more
than $13,000,000 and about $5,500,-
000 of this were on Australian wool
en route to the manufacturers of the
Atlantic seaboard. This wool weighed
nhnnt 2(1.(100.000 pounds ana was
valued at about 20 cents per pound
which is more than the best western
wools are now worth.
Did we lose that five and one-half
million dollars? Evidently not, as
we never had it, but we did lose the
opportunity to supply this wool and
it was partly, at least, our own fault.
We do not have the sheep, in the first
place, though there are thousands of
unused acres out here that lairiy
ache to be pastured with sheep.
And then, we don't have the qual
ity of wool to compete wun uiai
which pays for the long haul from
Australia and then sells for more
monev than do our home-grown
wool.
The wool market will be good for
a long time to come, in all probability
and western sheepman can supply its
demands by proper sorting and grad
ing the fleeces in the shearing sheds
to meet this foreign competition on
quality and by increasing the number
and quality of their slieep.
Do we want these millions oi aoi
lars? We do. Let's go aner mem
with better methods. Rural Spirit.
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Representative Hawley and Sena
tor Lane of Oregon, have introduced
intn the halls of Congress a bill
which will provide for the establish
ing of a naval base at the mouth of
the Columbia river. Lnder tne pres
out nlan of nreDaredness the bill
ehniilrl. and in all likelihood, will
carry. The Astoria naval base com
mittee is asking for preparedness
without "pork."
The Committee insists that the Co
lumbia river is nature's outlet for a
vast empire. It Is the shortest, most
mobile route from the Pacific to the
Middle West and the Atlantic. It is
a route which, if unprotected, an in
vading army from over the Pacific
would select for its march to the
Mississippi valley, with ample sup
plies in its great productive store
house for commissary, arsenal and
hospital. It is the route and the
region over which and within which
our own military forces would travel
and be maintained, with a base of
supplies adequate for extensive and
prolonged operations for the defense
of the Pacific coast.
The committee contends that this
is no time for little, pickyunish poli
tcal dickering and trading it is time
for action of the highest type of
statesmanship and patriotism.
The Inland Empire has gone these
years without carrying a policy of
preparedness insurance. Its poor
business on the part of the govern
ment and unfair to the citizens who
Inhabit the land.
Tom, the Chimney Sweep
Elmer Bucknum
Plnocchio Duck Lee
Pied Piper Howard McDuffee
Cinderella Elizabeth Huston
Aladdin Andrew Baldwin
Pollyanna Olive Boten
The mother of Mary and John was
Reatha Owen.
Rose Ellen Hale and Gladys Brown
favored the audience with a piano
duet.
The sixth grade gave a charade,
proper noun, two syllables, tnree
acts. A well known author whose
Doem "March" was read by Nellie
Clark in the last act. The first act
a spelling lesson, words pronounced
by Charlotte Wlnnard, teacher or the
school, and words spelled and mis
spelled by Lawrence Wilkfns, Ellii
Irwin, Conrad Johnson, Linley Pot
ter, Edward Groshen, Baird Patter
son, Freda Brown, Nellie Clajk,
Ailene Sprouls. Second act, a quar
rel or dispute over the worth of
Rockefeller and Carnegie. The whole
charade, Wordsworth.
Elizabeth Huston played a piano
solo.
A playlet that brought forth much
merriment was "Oh You Teacher" by
pupils of the sixth grade. In the ab
sence of the regular teacher Herman
Hill was delegated to take charge of
the class until the first rece3S period
He had a very unruly class but man
aged them quite successfully. The
pupils were: Edwin Bucknum, Paul
McDuffee, Tom Mahoney, Conser Ad
kins, Allen Case, Jack Howard, Lin
ley Potter, Agnes Boyd, Vera Cowins,
Vivian Robison, Anita Turner.
Song, "Down by the Shore," by the
following girls: Florence Cason,
Frances Parker, Agnes McDaid,
Blanche Groshens, Ruth French, May
Chan, Erma Ashbaugh, Evelyn Hum
phreys, Edna Brookhouser, Ruth
Tash.
Another comical skit was "Seeing
the Animals" by Carl Cason, Violet
Merritt and Fay Young. The charac
ters were a swell hotel clerk, a suff
ragette, and a spoiled child. The
parts were well sustained and created
much merriment.
Violet Merritt played a piano solo.
The closing number was a play,
"Patriotic Peanut Stand," by pupils
of the seventh and eighth grades.
The first act was a meeting of the
Young Citizens' Club to plan the
means of making money to improve
their town. Yankee Jones, a leader,
suggested a peanut stand when the
circus came to town, which met with
the approval of all.
Act II represents the peanut stand
and the various scenes which take
place on circus day. The result of
the adventure was gratifying to all
for the club made more money than
was expected. The leading charac
ters were seventh and eighth grade
pupils. They were assisted by the
fourth and fifth grades, making sixty
characters.
The program was attended by one
of the biggest and best satisfied
crowds since the completion of the
high school building.
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JUSTICK HUGHES AX1) THE
PRESIDENCY'.
Justice Hughes has made it quite
clear that he is not a candidate for
president, that he does not want to
he considered as a candidate, and
that he does not think it proper for
a justice of the Supreme Court to en
ter into, or be brought into, the swirl
of national politics. That he is sin
cere in this attitude no one questions.
That he prefers the exalted office he
ft30,000 Sale on Butter Creek.
Two hundred acres of seeded al
falfa land near the mouth of Butter
creek was sold this week to the
Thomas Richards family by Pete
Sheridan for $30,000. The land is a
tract across the road from the home
place of Sheridan. Glenn Richards
will move onto the place soon and
will improve it for the owners.
Echo News,
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from three of the most reliable seed
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Christian Doctrine, 11:30 a. m.
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