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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OCT.. THURSDAY. OCT. 5. 1916
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The tire mileage is unusually high
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Is $785 (f. o. b. Detroit)
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SHALLL PRESIDENT WILSON BE CRITICISED?
(From the Portland Telegram.)
The most astounding obsession that has ever seized upon
an intelligent body of people is, that it is little short of criminal
to criticize any act of President Wilson. Instead of patriotism
this is simply flunkeyism. There never was a man in the pres
idential chair who was not criticized and oftentimes wfth bit
terness and malevolence. No man ever was more bitterly as
sailed than Washington and, as for Lincoln, he was a perfect
target for abuse North and South.
We have had no sacred public characters in this country,
at least until after they were dead, and even then they some
times didn't stand much show when their friends go through
reniiniscensing about them.
Sac-redness attaches to no political character, not even
President Wilson. Emerson said " Light is the best police
man." Without it, in a republic like ours we would soon be on
the rocks. Nobody should be permitted to escape it; When
that happens then goodby to democratic institutions .
Place a president on a pedestal, pour the sacred oil on his
lead and say he and his acts are above and beyond criticism and
our next step, when we get used to that species of idiocy, would
)e to place the supreme court in the same category. A little la
ter governors and congressional representatives would be de
manding and, by the same species of flunkeyism be able to
exact, the same immunity and then the mayors would naturally
want to climb into the same boat. What sort of government
would we have then with our. public servants transformed by
our own acts into masters and autocrats? Anybody with half
an eve mav figure out for himself.
President Wilson and his acts are going to be vigorously
criticised during the present campaign. If they were allowed
to go bv default we would simply be inviting an autocracy that
would steal away our liberties. For the first two years of his
administration President Wilson was practically immune from
criticism
stituencv. He
But, in the bel
adjusted everything to the measure of his political ambitious
and began to plav for a renomination. From that moment he
lost Ids sense of proportion and sunk from the advocacy of po
etical principles into an erratic advocate of acts of political ex
lediency and opportunism.
Oj' coin s;, he will be criticised, measured, weighed and corn
ered and the ease fully presented will go to the great tribunal
of the American people next November and whatever their ver
dict mav be everybody will abide by it; but neither now nor
atcr.will lie or should he escape the full measure of criticism
that mav be his due.
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OUR NATIONAL PARKS.
Through the courtesy of Congressman N. J. Sinnott of the
Second Oretron District, we have received a beautiful port! olio
of the National Parks of this country. The portfolio was issued
Mfter pnnsiderable work of assembling photographs and data,
from the Department of the Interior.
ti .i.,. 11 iiiitmmii Tinvl-s m tins country, in wliicli are
ijn iv tiiy- .n iKMi'juui '
contained the natural scenic wonders of America. Many of tin.
scenes found here are not surpassed in the old country and many
loyal Americans pronounce home grandcures far more pictur-
esoue and beautiful than those of the Alps.
The laying off of public parks and the building of national
hiirhwavH is making that slogan "See America First" more
popular with our own people each year. The rampage of war
is destroying the historic points of interest in many parts of
Europe. This will give added impetus to the slogan
tional Parks system works out for the benefit of tourists and all
those who have a love for the beauty of nature.
Tl.o nnitfolio Muitaina detailed information pertaining to
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all our national parks and excellent maps suow u.e mon-at
routes by which thev may be reached.
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CAN YOU CONCEIVE OF SUCH A SITUATION.
The so-called "Land and Loan Measure" (Single tax) on
the November ballot provides for loaning $1500 without interest
for 5 years to anyone who with his lamny nas laueu to wrcuiuu-
late property to a total value of $2,250. Its hard to imagine
a more absurd proposition. Every pauper in the U. S. would
come to Oregon.
A sane man cannot conceive of such a condition. A man
and his family who have failed to accumulate a home are unfor
tunate. Would it help them, however to loan them $lo0U. Noth
ing is easier to get rid of than cash and the next thing the bor
rower would know, his money would be gone and he would be
worse in the hole than ever.
A man who has failed to accumulate a home would stand
small chance of paying back $1500.
Why not change the law and simply give the propertyless
person $1500 outright. There would be as much sense to it.
The proposed Laud and Loan Law penalizes thrift and puts
a premium upon thriftlessness and extravagence at taxpayers'
expense. '
From an industrial standpoint it would kill the state, as in
dustry could not assume such a burden and survive.
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GOVERNED BY FORTY-NINE COMMISSIONS.
(From the Fresno Herald.)
The people of the United States are on-the brink of suffer
ing from their own laws, and from their own failure to investi
gate the management of railroads from the point of view of
what is best for the railroads, what is best for railroad em
ployees and what is best for the people.
We have in this country' some 49 commissions one to every
state which are picking at the railroads first in one state and
then in another until the railroads do not know what to do.
Government by commission is only satisfactory when there is
one centralized commission, with centralized interests, and
which rules for all the railroads in all parts of the country.
It is obviously ridiculous, for instance, to have one state
demand such a rate for interstate commerce and for another ad
joining state to demand a different rate, either higher or lower.
This situation merely means that the railroads are operating
under different conditions in every state.
The railroads are left in an even worse condition than ever,
for noAV they are not only subject to control by 49 commissions,
but by Congress as well.
How do they know what to expect? How can they plan for
the future? They have no security that some state will not take
I fall out of them next.
In this period of readjustment there are just two courses
open for the proper management: one is government owner-
hip; the other is one federal commission having lull power
over the roads.
It is impossible that the railroads favor government owner
ship, but they would undoubtedly receive with open arms the
dictates of one commission.
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sympathetic con-
was a sort of conscience-keeper for the nation,
ief.of many, he fell from his high estate when he
ON THE QUESTION OF AN AMERICAN'S NEUTRALITY.
Can an American who sincerely believes in the principles
of his own government be neutral in sentiment about the out
come of the European war? In 1G, when we were hghting
against the exactions of an autocratic king, the men ot liberal
mind in France and even in England sympathized with the
struggle. During the civil war, also, the federal agents were
able to win the sympathy of liberal England although our
blockade vitally damaged the prosperity of the liberal cotton
manufacturing counties. French liberal thought also iavored
the north because it fought for liberty, although that was not
the technical cause of the war. Now the liberal government
of Europe are all on one side of a great struggle and fight for
democracy and liberty. They tight not so much because the
technical cause of the beginning of the war had to do with the
iberty of a small nation as because, if they are defeated, lib
eralism will have received a serious setback. The German-
American is faced' with a clash between the principles of his
country and the blood of his ancestors. It was the same choice
that faced the men who fought in our revolution and the men
who fought in the German revolution of 1848. Because the men
of 1776 chose to take hold of liberty even in the face of fighting
their own kin, we now have a nation; and many of our citizens
of German descent are here because their fathers had the
courage to make the same decision World's Work.
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FOOLING THE PEOPLE.
The simple and unadorned fact is that the really valuable
agricultural land in the Oregon & California grant was sold otl
long ago. The railroad did not want to retain anything but
the timber. The so-called agricultural land that still remains
is either worthless in character or is w completely isolated
that making a living on it would be impossible. The grant
lands are valuable principally for their timebr, and land with
300,000 feet of timber to the forty cannot be taken up. It is
not right to lead the people to believe that happy homes are
waiting for them in the O. & C. grant and then cruelly disap
point them. Eugene Register.
, HURRY UP AND REGISTER.
Mr. Citizen do you wish to vote in the November election?
If you do you had better take advantage of the two remaining
days and register. If you were registered for the primary
election last May it is not necessary that you register again,
unless you have changed your party affiliations or have moved
out of one precinct into another. Register now and you will
be saved this trouble for all time to come. Registration books
will close on the 7th of October, just one month before election.
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Freak laws in Oregon have about seen their day, we hope.
It is gratifying to note the general sentiment among the taxpay
ers regarding initiative bills that would put laws on the statute
books hampering industry and holding ttie old state up to ridi
cule before the entire nation. A better law would be one which
would prevent every Tom, Dick and Harry from trying to put
through some pet hobby at every election, f . . .
"Nobody forftuglies but the people." iWi:&;iv&'Jl