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IS THERE AN EMERGENCY?
Does an emergency exist that
genuinely justifies a legislature act
ing in good faith to tack an emer
gency clause onto a $10,000,000
road bonding act? That is a ques
tion which is concerning not only
legislative members but some of the
Toad boosters who are concerned lest
there be a revolt of popular senti
ment against a road program carried
through by high-handed methods.
Highway Commissioner Thompson
put it up to the legislature squarely
that "if enough members had the
nerve to put the emergency clause
into the bill so it could not be refer
ended by petition to popular vote,
public sentiment would sustain and
applaud them." His suggestion cap
tured the progressive sentimSnt of
the legislature, but some of the more
thoughtful men were filled with mis
givings. Would it ba fair to the people to
take from them, by a trick of legis
lation, their constitutional right to
petition for a referendum of any
measure that was not a genuine
emergency measure? Would not such
arbitrary action by the legislature.
while tickling 'the road enthusiasts
Into paroxysms of applause, give
offense to the general run of people?
'V i:Ui tlwic- l;e a -(ion of public
scilia.cat U.ul wu.u do more harm
'.o the good roads cause In the long
run than the g. ;i Oat would be
; r.o v- the immediate spending of
millions? Would It he honest and
Hit f r the legislature to resort to
the emergency subterfuge for the
s 'lo and only reason of forestalling
" delay that might be caused by
invol.'i:;; the referendum?
Commissioner Thompson's sug
gestion was natural as coming from
i man who is direct in his methods
and believes that the shortest dis
tance between two points is in a
straight line. He feels that the
people want the, roads built as
rapidly as they can be built, and that
no clique of road obstructionists
should be permitted to tie up the
road program by a referendum
petition.
C. E. Spence, Master of the State
Grange, already had served notice
that the referendum would be ap
plied to the $10,000,000 bonding bill
did it not include a guarantee thai
all the work done would be done by
the highway commission itself, buy
ing its own materials and employing
its own day labor, and not by the
contract system. He asserted openly
that ample funds were available to
finance the expense of securing the
25,000 signatures necessary to a ref
erendum petition. His threat was fir
the sole purpose of obstructing the
road program unless there was a
condition in It that met his vi?w?.
Mr. Thompson is of the type of
man who does not rest easily under
malice by the one man who is best
known as an opponent of any prac
tical state highway program. His
a threat, especially one made with
suggestion was for the legislature to
take the one step that would protect
the bill from such assault. But to
adopt his suggestion would cause
the legislature deliberately io com
mit a fraud,- unless a genuine emer
gency existed. And if the legisla
ture stultified itself by committing a
fraud, even in a good cause, would
not it hurt itself and the cause per
haps more than it would help the
qABRAHAM LINCOLN
February 2 ' the Anniversary of the Birth of the "First American"
IT IS THE GREAT BOON of such characters as Mr. Lincoln's that
they reunite what God has joined together and man put asun
der. In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and
the goodness of real greatness. The twain were one flesh. Not
of all the multitudes who stood and looked up to him for direction
with such loving and implicit trust can tell you today whether the
wise judgments that he gave came most from a strong head or a
sound heart. In him goodness and intelligence combined and made
their beat result of wisdom. For perfect truth consists not merely
in the right constituents of character, but in their right and in
timate conjunction. This union of the mental and moral into a life
of admirable simplicity is what we most admire in children; but in
them it is unsettled and unpractical. But when it Is preserved Into
manhood, deepened into reliability and maturity, it is that high and
revered simpllcty, which shames and baffles the most accomplished
astuteness, and is chosen by God to fulfill his purposes when he needs
a ruler for his people, of faithful and true heart, such as he had who
was our President.
The Shepherd of the People! that old old name that the best
rulers ever craved. What ruler ever won it like this dead President
of ours? He fed us faithfully and truly. He fed us with counsel
when we were in doubt, with aspiration when we sometimes fal
tered, with caution when we would be rash, with cr.lm, clear,
trusted cheerfulness through many an hour when our hearts were
dark. He fed hungry souls all over the country with sympathy and
consolation. He spread before the whole land feasts of great duty
and devotion and patriotism on which the land grew strong. He fed
us with solemn, solid truths. He taught us the Bacredness of govern
ment, the wickedness of treason. He made oul souls' glad and vig
orous with the love of liberty that was his. He showed us how
to love truth and yet be charitable how to hate wrong and all
oppression, and yet not treasure one personal Injury or insult. He
led all Ills' people, from the highest to the lowest, from the most
privileged to the most enslaved. Best of all, he fed us with a rev
erent and genuine religion. He spread before us the love and fear of
God just in that shape in which we need them most, and out of his
faithful service of a higher Master who of us has not taken and
eaten and grown strong? "He fed them with a faithful and true
heart." Ye?, till the last. For at the last, behold him standing with
hand reached out to feed the south with mercy, and the north with
charity; and the whole land with peace, when the Lord who had
stnt him called him, and his work was done!
He stood once on the battlefield of our own state, and said of the
brave men who had aved it, words as noble as any countryman of
ours ever spoke. Let us stand in the country he has saved, and
which is to be his grave and monument, and say of Abraham Lincoln
what he said of the soldiers who had died at Gettysburg. He stood
with their graves before him, and these are the words he said;
"We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and (load, who struggled here
have consecrated It far beyond our power to add or detract. The
world will llttla note, nor long remember, what we say here, but
it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather
to he dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government
of the people, by the people, end for the people, shall not perish from
the earth."
-May God make us worthy of the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
PHIPLIPS BROOKS
s-itu-ition?
Is there an emergency? The fact
that Oregon needs the roads cannot
justly be regarded as an emergency
of the present hour. We have needed
the roads for years and will continue
to need them until they are built.
There ia nothing in the nature of an
emergency about that need. Like
, the poor, it always has been with us.
But is there not, or is there, an
actual emergency presented in the
industrial situation? Will there be
thousands and thousands of unem
ployed as a result of the returned
: soldier situation, the shutting down
of shipyards and sawmills, and of
the industrial crisis that is expected
by so many far seeing men? If
there is such a crisis imminent, if
as Secretary of Labor Wilson says,
it is necessary immediately to pro
vide employment in roads and public
works in order to meet the situation,
iho emergency is genuine. In the
face cf an actual industrial crisis,
the legislature would be justified, in
declaring an emergency in an act
that would provide employment on
road work in every county of the
state, as would the proposed $10,-
000,000 bonding act. But unless the
legislature believes that such a crisis
exists, and acts iu good faith, it can
not put the emergency clause into
this bill without stultifying itself.
Simply to put it in as high-handed,
arbitrary means cf defeating the
constitutional provisions of a refer
endum for the sake of getting good
roads in a hurrah of hurry, would be
indefensible.
tt
Representative Woodson of this
ccunty has introduced iu the House
a bill which has for its object the
curing of the habit of sheriff's of
holding large quantities of county
funds in their hands that should be
turned over to the county treasurers
for disbursement to the various
funds of the county. The bill should
certainly pass.
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REVOLUTION VS. LAW AXD OR
DER CAN IT WIN?
The "Seattle Revolution" as It is
called by strike leaders, is on and
they boldly state it is only a begin
ning. They brag about closing eaery in
dustry and say that the whole coast
will soon be closed as tight as
Seattle.
lliey have broken all agreements
with their employers and the govern
ment and boast about it.
Thousands of soldiers and police
are on duty In Seattle. The soldiers
are equipped with rifles, with bayo
nets fixed, hand grenades and mach
ine guns ready for action. . ;
And this state of an'alrs has been
brought about by labor leaders, yho
have torn up their union contracts
like so many "scraps of paper."
They are worse profiteers than any
we have had to contend with as they
virtually advocate force of arms to
gain their demands as their action
has proved they will abide by no
decision which fails to grant any
demand they make.
They have cowed the working
population of SeaUie, for a man
takes his life in his hands if he tries
to work in defiance of their orders.
Think of it in free America and iu
the face of the fact that it is less
than two months until the present
wage agreement will terminate. That
i agreement, was readied by arbitra
, tion and collective bargaining, the
I very plan that many employers long
' denied workers. If an agreement
under surh bargaining is to be torn
up, as has been done at Seattle, the
public will conclude that collective
bargaining is a failure. The public
; will say what is the use of collective
bargaining if the workers will not
keep their contracts. There could be
: no harder blow to collective bargain
ing, the idol, the d renin, and the very
foundation for successful operation
of worker's organizations,
i At a time such as this when
4,000,000 soldiers are returning and
industry is straining Itself to the
utuost to absorb the unemployed,
i when prices are fi lling ami when
j general uncertainty prevails, siritces
' such as this paralize t; reconstruction
program and bring nothing but
narusiiip.
Worse still the action of the Seat
' tie strikers is killing the very in
dustry on which they depend for a
living, namely ' shipbuilding. Al
ready the cost of building ships in
foreign countries has fallen so far
below cost of production in this
country that there is no hope of
getting foreign business in our
yards and our own government can
not wa.-te the taxpayers nu.ney
building ships at exorbitant prices
merely for the special benefit oi one
class of laborers, hence has cancel
led many contracts in our own yards.
If shipbuilders cannot rely on a
contract with workers, if after a con
tract is made, workers deliberately
tear it up as has been done at
Seattle, builders can have no faith
In taking other ship contracts, be
cause tliny cannot know what they
may figure on relative to payment
of wages. If they cannot depend on
workers keeping their contracts,
they cannot successfully bid for con
tracts. Nor will the Emergency
Fleet corporation have confidence In
awarding contracts to builders whose
workmen cannot be trusted to keep
their agreements.
No government In all time has
done more or tried harder to aid the
worker than has the present govern
ment at Washington. It has used
the newly established department of
labor as an activity to promote in
dustrial equality and democracy, to
establish collective bargaining, and
lo apply the great Biblieal maxim
that "the laborer is worthy of his
hire."
This disgraceful spectacle is dis
gusting the public as it knows there
is not the slightest Justification for,
such action.
If Seattle revolutionists of the
Bi lsheviki type can use such meth
ods as this and win, there is no
longer any safety for' the individual
or property in this nation until such!
ar. un-American element , is over
come. Manufacturer.
The period between Lincoln's
birthday anniversary, February 12,
and the anniversary of the birth of
Washington, February 22, will be
observed throughout the United
States as a means of promoting
thrift. Stores will arrange attractive
window displays using the pictures
of Lincoln and Washington with that
of Benjamin Franklin as American
exponents of thrift. Merchants in
the Twelfth Federal Reserve District
are planning to aid the thrift cam
paign in this manner.
1H)WX IX AUSTIN.
The city cf Austin, Texas, has only
three members of the President'3
cabinet left. The resignation of Attorney-General
Thomas W. Gregory
strikes one Austiuite from the official
roster. But Postmaster-General Bur
ieson remains, as does Secretary of
Agriculture Houston (long an Aus
tlnite) and Col. House, who is a Cab
iueteer without portfolio. It is 'doubt
ful whether one little city ever mon
opolized more of presidential favor
and influence than this fortunate
Texas municipality under Mr. Wilson.
In the whole story of the government
since its birth, all Michigan has had
but six Cabinet members Secretary
of State Cass under Buchanan, Secre
tary of War Alger under McKinley,
Secretary of the Interior McClelland
under Pierce, Secretary of the In
terior Chandler under Grant, Secre
tary of the Navy Newberry under
Roosevelt and Postmaster-General
Don M. Dickinson under Cleveland.
In one administration Austin, with a
population of perhaps 40,000, has
done almost as well as Michigan in a
century and a half. Some town!
Heretofore, once in a while a Pres
ident has found it necessary to take
two members of the same cabinet
from the same big city like New
York but rarely; and even two
simultaneous members from the
same state has usually been consider
ed a dubious concentration of au
thority. Thirteen states never had a
Cabinet Member in their ambitious
lives. Austin gets the equivalent of
four in one jump. Indeed, our good
President is a precedent-smasher!
Austin has hung up a record which
will never be duplicated again. It
is so unusual and so ludicrous (con
sidering the size of America and the
widespread availability of self-sacrificing
politicians) that we shall be
perfectly willing to have Austin re
tain her monopoly of the presidential
ear if Col. House can arrange among
his neighbors for some other member
of the Austin bar to leave Texas long
enough to maintain the official quar
tette unbroken. It Is a wonderful
thing to live In Austin. It is more
wonderful to live In Austin on good
terms with Col. House. Grand
Rapids Herald.
"It goes without saying that there
must and will be another big Bond
Issue. Having put our hands to the
plow we must not look back. We
cannot afford to. Because while the
world war Is really .over, it Is not
technically ended until President
Wilson Issues a proclamation to that
effect. We still have a huge army
oversoas and while it should be
brought home as soon as ships can
bring our soldiers back, until they
get back, they must be fed and
clothed and otherwise cared for. It
would be an everlasting shame not
to do that. So people should sub
scribe for the impending loan and
purchase War Savings Stamps as
readily and liberally as they sub
scribed for the past loans. It's for
the support of our soldiers and noth
ing is too good for them." Speaker
Champ Clark.
CHRISTIAN CHl'KCH.
Sunday School 10:00 a. ni.
Morning Worship at 11:00.
C. K. at 6:30 p. m.
Regular preaching services al 7:30.
THE I'EDRKATEI) (iU K( II.
Sunday School 9:45 a. in.
International Lesson,' "The Ten
Commandments."
Morning Service, 11:00.
Sermon Theme, "Soldiers' Re
ligion." Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p. m.
Topic, "Our Relation to God
Trust."
Evening Service 7:30.
H. A.'NOYES, Pasor.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES.
I. O. O. F. Hall.
Sunday at 11:09 a. m. Subject:
"Soul."
Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting at Mrs. Gene Slocums.
Everybody is welcome.
Jtor
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Pure Bred
Belgian Stallion
BOURDON PRINCE No. (8807), was foaled June
18, 1914. Weight at present time 1975. Is full bro
ther to Grand Champion Mare of Iowa, Jollie De
Thimson No. (4117).
Will sell for cash or take in exchange young stock,
horses or cattle. Would consider taking automobile
in good mechanical condition.
He is sound, well broke, kind disposition, with no
bad habits. Sure foal getter. Offspring can be seen
at my place.
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