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THE GAZETTE-TIMES
which is fast approaching the day of
materialisation. Will it materialise
I like the forest rcsvrvo atul bo under
Kovernment supervision and owner
ship. The people of Harney want the
lands surrounding these lakes for their
own use. Is this unreasonable or un
fair? The people of Harney are oppos
ed to this measure. And they have a
right to be, and they have a rlKht to
expect their friends to stay with them
in this opposition. The people of Grant
like the people of Harney. They are
friends and friendly. And Grant coun
ty people ought to vote against this
measure and stay with their friends.
We ought to make the opposition un
animous. We know something nbout
this government supervision of our
lands. We know something about the
government taking 55 per cent of our
lands off the tax rolls, and charging us
every time we set a foot on the lands.
Let's help to free Harney from this
threatened danger. Let's make our op
position unanimous. Blue Mountain
Eagle.
ith a Chamberlain in Congress to look
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after our interests?
The sheep and cattlemen of Eastern
Oregon are feeling the results of free
trade. It was good In '.he days of the
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war when nations were at each others'
throats and production in Europe had
Published tv.rjr Thursday n-.ornlns; by
and .nt.r.4 at th. rostoffie at H.pp
a.r. Oregon, as second-class matter.
come to a standstill. A hungry world
had to be fed and that condition still
exists. Yet what Is the stockman and
the farmer for that matter, getting for
his products?
Robert N. Stanfield Is committed to
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a policy of a protective tariff and his
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C. W. McNamer, lone and Heppner
meat merchant, was here Wednesday.
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WHERE $100,000,000 WENT.
Answering a correspondent who ask
ed if there had ever been any account
ins of the 1100,000,000 which Congress
gT the President as pocket change to
spend during the war, the Albany Knickerbocker-Press
very properly points
out that when the President asked for
the money he expresly stipulated that
he ahould not be called upon to render
any account of how it was spent Sir.
Wilson felt and said that it might be
"embarasaing" for him to be so called
upon.
This is now quite understandable
But our Albany neighbor reminds its
corresponednt, and the rest of us. of
certain Items supposedly met from the
little hundred-million-dollar "chicken
feed" benevolence. There was, to begin
with, the grand European joy ride
which has kept us out of peace for the
last two years. That alone must have
coat a pretty penny. The supberb
steamer George Washington had to be
practically remodeled to carry our rov
ing autocrat abroad. Then there was
the battalion of 50 count 'em 50
chefs commandeered from one of our
large hotels, together with a very large
and very expensive orchestra to fur
nish music for the Chief and the
swarming hordes of beneficiaries on
the eleemosynary floating palace dur
ing its voyage to make the world safe
for Democracy. Of these there were
some MOO, including sociologists, as
tronomers, cartographists, historlogra.
phers, biologists, photographers, fi
nanciers, favorite "run-alongs," to say
nothing of the innumerable throngs of
private secretaries, secretaries to pri
vate secretaries, clerks, stenographers
and so on, together with their sisters,
their aunts and their cousins galore.
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1 u o liic man fur ou and mc, mother."
And everybody on a high salary and all
expenses paid. As for automobiles,
there was a whole ship-load of them
and the supply scant enough at that,
for the Taris people could hardly hire a
taxicab in the city, so many of them
were in use by the swarming hordes of
the White House Court suite.
We don't know whether Mr. Wilson
paid for all of this and the rent of an
entire Paris hotel, with an incidental
bill of a million dollars for damages,
out of his hundred million-dollar slush
fund or not It he did and if he paid
out of it also the cost of the royal pro
gress through all the accessible capi
tals of Europe, that alone must have
eaten appreciably into the demnition
total of the fund. Our recollection,
snwever, is that a special appropriation
of $5,000,000 was made to cover these
expenditures.
And then there were the three othei
George Washington trips across tht
Atlantic. Of course, a hundred million
dollars will go a good ways, but you
can get within hailing distance of the
bottom of even that pile if you indulge
in free-for-all international migrations.
And that, too, even under the restrict
ing obligation of giving the nations of
the earth a close-up view of the stern
simplicity of Jeffersonian Democracy.
How much might have been left of
the hundred millions after this trans,
oceanic blow-out is pure speculation.
But if the President paid all these bills
out of the loose change Congress gave
him, how could he have enough left to
dump 540,000,000 into that Muscle
Shoals ni,tro plant? And this to say
othing of financing the valuable Creel's
international army of misinformation
experts!
The fact of the matter is that that
Muscle Shoals investment was a pretty
rank bit of gold brick financiering: the
best you can say of it. For 30 years
the Muscle Shoal crew had been hang
ing around Congress to unload the
thing on the country in some way. But
it was a case of "nothing doing" until
the war came, and then everything was
loing aid the American tax-payer was
lone done brown .
Muscle Shoals, it will be remembered.
was a tremendous water power proposi
tion. There was the little defect that
there wasn't any water power, and so
the first thing the War Department did
after Congress had dumped in $20,000,
cOO of tax-payer money and the Presi
dent had dumped in $40,000,000 more
likewise tax-payer money was to
build a 60,000 horse-power steam plant
and buy more horsepower from a dis
tant electric company.
To date, the entire concern has cost
$100,000,000. But it is not all lost It
is estimated that by spending another
million dollars on it, the plant might
ha;e a salvage value of $S00,000. Thus
the easy-going American tax-payer
only stands to lose about $99,200,000.
Harvey's Weekly.
What Has He Done?
What has George E. Chamberlain
done for Oregon?
This was a pertinent question asked
from the platform In this city the other
evening by Walter L. Tooze and it was
aptly illustrated by Mr. Tooze with a
little story concerning the Senator's
recent visit in Malheur county.
As Mr. Chamberlain stood and viewed
that wonderful stretch of country out
from Ontario, with the endless fields
of green alfalfa and the abundance of
vegetation with which nature endows
after we have provided nature with the
fundamental water, he grew eloquent
and said, "I have not words to express
the feeling such grandeur brings to
me," and he went on at some length,
but was finally cautioned by a Malheur
democrat to lower his voice, as the
wonderful scene which he was viewing
was across the border line and most of
it was in the state of Idaho.
For four years Mr. Chamberlain had
the benefit of working unhampered
with a democratic administration. But
the south was in the saddle. The west
got but little and Oregon got nothing.
Mr. Chamberlain was on the military
affairs committee of the Senate, in
fact was chairman of that important
committee. He was in Washington for
twelve years and should have looked
somewhat to the state's interests, but
he didn't. Twelve million dollars from
Oregon for reclamation and but $5,000,
000 spent in this state on irrigation
projects. There Is the great John Day
TwoF
ordson Tractors
are now at work plowing both sides
of a side-hill farm.
Come in to Latourell Auto Company
and they will take you but to
see how it is done.
One-Half Mile From Town
Latourell Auto Company
Authorized Ford and Fordson
Sales and Service
I
own experience under the necessary
Industry of stock raising, both as a
woolgrower and in the livestock busi
ness generally, has proved to him the
necessity of the application of the Re
publican policy of a protective tariff.
Ruinous competition Is facing the
American farmer and stockman unless
he gets this protection. A vote for
Stanfield will put a man In Congress
who can work with Senator McNary in
getting something for Oregon.
An Unsound Law.
Constitutional Amendment fixing le
gal rate of Interest In Oregon.
314 Tes: S15 No. Vote So.
This measure Is to be voted on at the
general election to be held on Novem
ber !, 1920, and is the most deserving
of any measure on the ballot to receive
an unqualified NO from the voters of
Oregon. Money has it's price the same
as any other commodity and that price
is governed by the law of Supply and
Demand. Today there is the greatest
demand for money In this country that
we have known for years, not only for
development purposes alone but for the
repayment of maturing mortgages on
farms.
This demand for money by the farm
ers Is the strongest known in years
From the Big Bend district of Eastern
Washington where farmers were of
fered money by the mortgage brokers
at rates from 5H to 7 per cent as re
cently as a year ago, but the tables are
reversed today and the farmers are
offering from 8 to 8 per cent for
money to renew their maturing mort
gages. The farmers of the famous
Twin Falls and Idaho Falls districts of
Southern Idaho, the cream of the irri
gated districts, are offering 9 per cent
for money to pay ofT their mortgages.
What chance has the Oregon farmer
to obtain money at the maximum rate
under the proposed law In competition
with such offerings? What is going
to happen when the lenders withdraw
their money from the state and loan
elsewhere at more remunerative rates?
The courts will be cluttered with fore
closures and the state will be covered
with farmerless farms
If your home is burning you will try
to put out the fire. Put out this fire by
VOTING NO.
Same Here.
There is a fine feeling of friendship
existing between the people of Grant
and the people of Harney. The people
are pretty much the same. They both:
look upon the livestock Industry as the
chief source of their revenue. Their
relations have always been most friend
ly and cordial. On election day there
will be a fine opportunity for the peo-
pie of Grant county to express this
friendship in a very substantial way.
What is known as the Roosevelt Bird
Reserve bill proposes to set aside the
big lakes In Harney and the lands
surrounding the same and turning
them over to the federal govenment as
a duck pond. They will be set aside,
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room insures healthy refreshing I t
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p"'J ly Protected by suitable bedding. Jl fij ;.
I''$ff K'fc'l't mow we are offering Blankets tV I
, the coltl can't get through, ami even ' ''W-k&M
ic$M though tliey are extra quality, we "ffiX 1
gp: have marked them at a low Fiee. IW J I
10 Cotton BLANKETS, $2.50 to $7.50. pl&;
Wool BLANKETS, $8.50' to 14.06. j
$'. Thomson Bros.
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