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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, ORE.. THURSDAY. DEC 7. 1816 PAQI THREE P O Jl TBADE We are offering tor trade or Mor row County Wheat Land an eighty acre (arm seven miles from Oregon City, forty-five acres of which la In a high state of cultivation, the rest be ing pasture and some good timber. This land is adapted to truck farm ing or dairying; has a fairly good house and a large dairy barn and a number of outbuildings; has a splen did orchard, and also a number of nut trees, all well fenced. Five good cows go with the place and all of the farm implements.' This place Is lo cated on two public thoroughfares and Is considered one of the best 'farms in that section of the country. To anyone desiring a home In the Willamette Valley this would be an opportunity they could not afford to overlook. If Interested come ana see us. SMKA1) & CRAWFAKO. WE SELL PURE WHITE FLOUR NONE BETTER HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION . WAREHOUSE CO. WE HANDLE WHEAT AND WOOL. HIGHEST PRICES PAI DFOR HIDES AND PELTS. GAZETTE-TIMES Advertising Pays. For this there i a reason: Circulation which includes practically ALL the people in Morrow and Northern Grant Counties. 7 ! Wood if n HEPPNER WOOD YARD N. A. CLARK, Proprietor, SUCCESSOR TO E. E. BEAMAN FINE ROCK SRINGSNUT COAL g U $11.00 Phone 396 - i ROY V. REAL ESTATE, FIRE, LIFE, STOCK AND AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE. List Your Property With Me For Quick Returns. t 1 ALL KINDS OF FARM AND TOWN PROPERTY AND f - RENTALS HANDLED. J t I . Office 2nd door north of Minor & Co.,. formerly occupied $ by Dr. Culbertson. - f f I School Supplies A Good Position. Can be had by any young man or young lady in the field of Railway or Commercial telegraphy. Since the passage of the eight hour law by Con gress, It has created a big demand for telegraph operators. Positions paying from $75 to $80 per month, with good chances for advancement. It will pay you to write Railway Telegraph Ins't, of Portland, Ore. for full particulars. See Beach & Allyn, Lexington agents, for a trade on your old car for a new Ford. For Rale Nice Winter apples at $1.- 00 per sack at the C. P. Bowman ranch on Butter creek. Your friends can buy any thing you can give them except your photograph. Sijsbee Stud'.o. , Per Ton Heppner, Oregon I WHITEIS and Coal I A full line of Tablets, Note and Composition Books, Pens, Pencils and Ink. Phelps Grocery WHY HE REFUSES TO RATIFY 15th AMENDMENT Heppner, Oregon. November, 29, 1916 To the Editor- In last Tuesday's Issue of the Ore gonian there is an article by G. W. Bowen, under the caption Race Pre judice, Not Ignorance. Quoting from same, referring to the Negro Suffrage Amendment on the late ballot, the Oregonian has on several occasions applied the words "Predujice," Ignor ance, Narrow-minded, mistaken etc. To those who voted, NO, and many of those who so voted are the same peo ple that the Oregonian praised for the intelligent way that they voted on other measures and candidates. Sunday, November the 19th, the Oregonian says the Negro Suffrage Amendment was defeated through an evident misunderstanding. Now, Mr. Editor, I voted NO on that Suffrage Ameudment, and if you will grant me a little space, I will tell you why I did so. Quoting . from your appended statement to Mr. Bowen's article, you say the Oregonian was in a favorable position to observe the cause for de feat of the Negro Suffrage Amend ment. That it received by letter, and telephone inquiry from all classes ef persons including business and pro fessional men., as to whether negroes could now vote in Oregon. There was quite a -number of wealthy Influ ential citizens in Portland who signed the petition to place the Uren Single Land Tax Amendment on the ballot, these Influential citizens said the real purpose of the amendment had been misrepresented to them by the per sons who got them to sign the peti tion. Suppose they had written to the Oregonian and been, correctly In formed what the real purpose and probable results the Single Land Tax Amendment would have, if enacted '-..to law: by their own statements they never would have signed Uren's petition. The fact that a ia.r?e num ber of people asked the. oregonian if 'the negro could now vote in Oregoil does not imply that they were Igno rant, but It does prove that they are a safe class of people to intrust with the ballot. Quoting farther the Oregonian says: Race Predujice was doubt !tSs a predominating fetor In the re sult, but ignorance laid in the ?3C that this prejudice could be exercis ed. No such belief existed in the minds of those who voted NO on the Negro Suffrage Amendment, and it is not true that they were influenced by race prejudice. It is the conviction of those who voted NO, on the Negro Suffrage Amendment that the success or failure of our Government depends almost entirely upon the way the right of suffrage is exercised. If all the people who are entrusted with the ballot will correctly inform themselves so they can vote intelli gently upon all question at Issue, then self-government would be an ideal government, but with so many of our voting population depending upon the statements of Soap Box Ora tors and reading only such papers as the appeal to reason, it behooves" us to guard the ballot as carefully as possible, and instead of recklessly ex tending the right of suffrage, and as in the case of this Negr-j Suffrage Amendment where we are asked to ratify with our vote that which we are unalterable opposed to, because we voted in accordance with our con viction, exercising our right of suff rage as was intended to be the right of every electorate, the Oregonian has called us Ignorant, Narrow-Minded, Mistaken Prejudice and etc. I found the Chinese to be a very intelligent and honest people, and if a Chinese is ynur friend, baring your wife and mother, he is the best friend you can have. My convictions are that it is unwise to give the right of Suffrage to any race that we are unwilling to have marry Into our families, and what kind of a white American citt ern could be satisfied with a Chinese or Negro son-in-law. Again quoting from the Oregonian Co. It it is the correspondent's idea that this predujice Is botmUly based on the illiteracy of negroes, here are some contradictory figs res: Accord ing to the last censes the a umber of illiterate whites fa Oregon over ten years old was I&02, of these 3682 bad the necessary birth qualifications to make them citizens without naturli zation. The number of illiterate ne groes in Oregon was 16. I guess we can throw a different light opoa this. The total white population of Ore gon was 656,030, the total negro po pulation was 1492, the percentage of illiterates whites was one and four hundred and ninety six one thousand ths per cent, fonnd as follows: 9802 divided by 655.090 eqnats .01496, equals per cent of illiterates. The percentage of negroes that are illite rate is three and eight one hundred ths per cent fonnd as follows: 46 divided by 1492 equals .0308 equals the per cent of negroes that are illi terate. To put this in a more comprehen sive way, in a population of six hun dred and fifty five thousand and nine ty whites, there are ninety eight hun dred and two illiterates over ten years old. In a population of six hundred and fifty-five thousand and ninety negroes there would be twenty thousaad one hundred and ninety il literate negroes. In other words there are more than twice as many illite rate' negroes in a given population as there is illiterate whites in the same population, and yet the Oregonian says that it is the correspondent's idea, that predujice is based on the illiteracy of negroes. Here are some contradicting figures: Hasn't the Oregonian proven itself ignorant? If it has not. B-gosh I have.. The number of Illiterate negroes there would be in a population of 655,090 was found as follows: 46 to 1492 as X to 655,090, 46 times 655,090 divid ed by 1492 gives 20,197. There is no agent of learning nearly so help ful to us as the leading newspapers Because this is true a great responsi bility ts placed, Upon these news Papers, U seems to me it ought to be the highest ambltjon of every news paper to attain this distinction and prove itself worthy of that distinction and., after the Oregonian has made such a blunder as I have just shown it did make, how can we place any confidence in what is says. Quoting farther, the Oregonian take this occasion to say that the Importance 6l ihh Amendment's de feat 1b wholly abstract. The Oregonian is tar wrong In' this as it was in the percentage of illite rate negroes. - The importance of the amendment's defeat . Is that - it has proven, that the majority of those who. voted on the Negro Suffrage Amendment refused to express their approval hy ratifying this negro Suff rage Amendment with their votes. And Mr. Oregonian we are intelligent enougii to know that your motive iu abiv.ing and insulting our intelligence is to whip us into line so thai when we vote 'again on this Nego Suffrage Amendment we will vote, YK3. It has come to pass when an electorate must be insulted and humiliated by the Oregonian because he had the courage to vote in accordance with his honest conviction. Quoting farther from the Oregon ian: No one's Status as a -voter would have been changed by its adop tion. No negro is denied Suffrage by its defeat. We are well aware of all those claims. Vi'e did not vote NO in an effort to change the result, but we did vote NO on the Nego Suff rage Amendment because we posi-'' tively refused to express our approval by voting for it. The Oregonian says the result is interesting only as disclosing a lack of knowledge of the fundamentals of Civil governments, and as one revealing the existance of a race predujice not due to presence of a consequential number of negroes or the illiteracy of the comparative few negroes in Oregon. The Ore gonian had to draw entirely on its imagination for these deductions. ' I wish I had the exact vote of the I Negro Suflrage Amendment, the fact I that is was defeated proves that many thousands voted NO on the Negro sunrage Amendment, n is amazing that the Oregonian would insult and abuse so large a number of the vot ing population of Oregon, and be cause the Oregonian lias insulted our Intelligence, I would deal the Ore gonian a- Solar-plexus punch and to give the greatest possible force to that punch I must be accurate in all I say to preclude the possibility of the Oregonian, asking it to give the white population and the negro po pulation in Oregon by our last cen tus. I insert the night wire I receiv ed from the Oregonian. Portland, Oregon November 27th 1916. Mr. Harry Cummlngs, Heppner, Oregon. Oregon's total population last census 672,765 composed as follows: whites I 655,000, negroes, 1,492, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindus, Koreans, and Plipines, 16,183. (Signed) The Oregonian. It does not matter if above figures are not correct as long as they come ! from the Oregonian and are not used for any other purpose than to refute the statements tpMq by the Oregon- ' Ian. Now I want to say to every per son that voted NO on this Negro Suff rage Amendment, don't be bluffed out, but vote in accordance with yotlf convictions, changing immediately you believe you are wrong. i HARRY CUMMINQS. I Glasses fltted satisfactorily by Dr. wlnnard. or money refunded. 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