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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Rank Financial Fallacy
Discusing President Harding s re
commendation for a constitutional
amendment, to do away with tax-exempt
securities Mr. rord s newspa
per, me Dearoorn Independent, edit
orially suggests that a long step
mignt be taken in that direction with
out waiting for a constitutional
amendment an dcloses:
"ASny should any class of private
or corporate property be exempt
trom taxation f iomeone has to
pay. Just as the general public has
to make up revenue lost in rebates
and free passes, so the rest of us are
forced to pay a double share to make
up for the exempts and delinquents."
It should be remembered that the
very existence of tax-exempt securi
ties is forcing taxation in more un
just directions.
The cry is giong up to tax all forms
of mercantile and banking credits,
like money, notes, accounts, bank de
posits, etc.
The varius forms of taxing liquid
credits have all proven failures and
even the tax on banks to guarantee
deposits has broken down.
The days of rebates and free pass
es are about over, and the exemption
of any forms of bonds and stocks
from taxation should go too.
Taxation of one class of farm loan
securities and exemption of others
is a rank financial fallacy. The Manufacturer.
ourse heine the lareest item of ex- s
and I rote her a note m reilse jn tt,e conducting of the
v witch I sed in it that ..-honk The thought also occurs to E
when she looks at me I jIlanv that mere might be a reduction
get so Rattled I dont no'0f expenses by eliminating some un- E
necessary studies and activities. E
These things are being discussed ,
freelv over the state, and touching r
C. diffrence wether shejon mese matters the Gazette-Times E
"looks or not. nf rnrvallk. savs: !E
"We think there could be a mater
ial savin? in school taxes if we would
is skared it mite hurt his cut 0ut a lot of nonessentials that
bisness but he says they! have crept into the curicula. The1
reiiow up on main imeh schools nowadavs are aping the
colleges, and the grade schools are!
aping the high schools. The extras!
that they teach are all very well and j
fine when vou can afford them, but
loafing earlier and have more time ,hev 20 far bevond the reasons fori
in witch to tend to it in. the establishment of free public :
Sunday stayed for chirch today schools. Free public schools were!
and it was to wet to play any thing i established for the purpose of abol-!
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enny thing and she ntes
back that she gesses it
dussent make very much
diffrence wether she
looks or not.
Saturday Pa wont
mention names for he
A. M. EDWARDS
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Grants' Economic Forecast
Grant as a president has been cen
sured or patronized by writers who
admit the importance of his milit
ary services. It is said, and with
truth, that he had no political ex
perience but the real cause of the
attacks is that he had a fault not
common to the majority of the race,
a serious handicap in the struggle
for honors, but perhaps one that will
be pardoned at the last accounting
Grant was slow to believe evil of a
friend, especially a comrade. He
preferred to defy public feeling, to
endure pen-and-ink denunciation, to
be abused as credulous and stubborn
rather than to credit anything said
against one of his intimates. This
was indiscreet, it got him in trouble,
it reflected on his judgment. Still
we may have known prudent and
practical men, really on a moment's
notice, to save themselves trouble
by dropping a friend, who were less
worthy of regard than the man whom
Queen Victoria called" "the bullet-
headed soldier."
Ulysses S. Grant kflew a great deal
about this country of ours. He had
worked on the farm and in the tan
nery. He had gone through West
Point, fought in Mexico, crossed the
Isthmus, served out West and lived
near St. Louis, before the Civil war.
When he spoke of agricultural or in
dustrial conditions he spoke with
force as one who knew what he had
to say.
in the year of his hrst inaugura
tion President Grant said: "The ex
tension of railroads in Europe and
the East is bringing into competition
with our agricultural products like
products of other countries." What
he said then is now being said in
everj' agricultural couniy in the
Lnion.
The forecast of Grant did not re
ceive the attention it merited. For
years there were plenty of Southern
agriculturists who dreamed that they
would grow wealthy if they could
frighten the freedman from the polls
A number of Western men fancied
that prosperity would sweep over the
land if they smote the railroads hip
and thigh. Nearly a decade after
Grant's words there were so-called
humorous paragraphs over the bare
possibility of Chinese eggs in the
American market.
But today there is not a state
which the shadow of Oriental com
petition does not fall across the
farm. Chinese eggs have been sold
here. East Indian grain may com
pete with the crops of our own mea
dows. The coolie can work on dis
tant sugar plantations. Cotton from
far away lands may be sent into our
harbors. In the South more than
in any other section this dread is felt.
Within the last month the most anx
ious expressions have sounded from
the rice swamps of the South. It is
felt by practically all the agricultural
organizations below Mason's and
Dixon's line that the Chinaman
their competitor, and that low duties
have offered him a chance he is not
slow to take.
This fear is not manufactured by
Republicans. It arises from well
known facts, it is based on logical
reasoning, it is spreading from plant
ation to plantation. From Baltimore
to St. Augustine, from Charleston
to Galveston, it is understood that
what Grant predicted fifty-three years
anv w av. 1 gess it was a good ser
mon but I got to wandering how a
deef and dum man wood tell a blind
news boy witch kind of shoe strings
he wanted and diddent get much out
of the sermon.
Monday I was a reading in the
ourt house News where a woman
was give the control ot ner child
the judge. All I got to say is that
ma dont need no judge to give her
Control of her child. Or pa neither.
Tuesday Pa was late to supper
because he stopped a long wile to
watch sum men building a house.
Ma says they are all ways to kinds
of fokes around when a house is a
getting built. Them witch has bis-
ness there and them witch hassent
anv bisness no wheres. Joe Luce
went and pawned his Pajamas &
when pa ast him why he done it he
sed he had tuk a job as nite watch
man and woodent need them no
more now.
Wednesday Mrs. Gillem rote to
a Co. and sent 25 cents to find out
how to avoid Falling arches and they
rote back and sed for her to Step out
of the Way when they begun to Fall.
Thursday Jake has got a unkel
out in the country witch is eighty
8 yrs. old and has never got to ride
in a ottomobeel nor eat a sandwitch
I gess mebby that is the reason he
is eighty 8 yrs. old.
Spring has arrived-
-maybe.
Hints to Stock Buyers
Anyone tempted to speculate in oil
stocks would do well to observe the
following precautions:
Speculation in the stock of an en
terprise that has not had the approv
al of. a competent geologist is so
risky that there is practically no
chance of success.
Become financially interested only
in a company that controls a traca
sufficiently large to contain several ,
wells and which is not unduly nar-1
row. :
Unless interested in wild-cats, see '
that there are producing wells on at !
least three sides of the area to be;
drilled, and as close as possible there
to preferably within a few hundred
yards.
Select a company with sufficiently
high capitalization to pay for drill
ing several wells, providing there is
no doubt of the company's intention
to drill a number of wells.
Avoid companies with excessive
capitalization. Other things being
equal, the lower the capitalization,
the higher the shares will go if oil is
struck.
Do not buy a share of stock in any
company until assured that the offi
cers of the company are honest and
capable men, and that not over one-
third of the capitalization will be
used for promotion.
Do not speculate in oil at all un
less you can well afford to lose the
money expended.
Attention of ex-service men is
called to the fact that May 25th is
the last day on which the filing of or
iginal applications for aid under the
state bonus act can be made. There
may be many ex-service men yet in
the county who would like some time
to receive help under this act, and
they will be shut out unless they
make their applications prior to May
25.
isning illiteracy, mere is no oinerj
excuse for them. They are necessary .
in a democratic form of government. 1
"But when grade schools and high ;
schools take on the extras, dress;
making, house keeping, cooking, vo-'
cal and instrumental music, carpen-j
try, painting, printing and the Lora
only knows what, they are going be-1
yond the limit that the taxpayer
should be expected to pay for. Those
things are the function of the col
leges and we have no right to ask
the taxpayer to carry on that kind
of work in the grade schools.
"We know very well what the ans
wer to that is and we know very well
that criticism of the "progressive
ness"'of the public schools is not
popular. Neither are taxes."
Frank Sloan of Stanfield would
like to have a place in the state sen
ate and will .contest for the place
against Colon R. Eberhard of La
Grande. We do not have any inform
ation as to just what following Mr.
Sloan may have in his home coun
ty but we are of the opinion that Mr.
Eberhard is a leader in the race so
far as Morrow county is concerned.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldon Rhea, of
Westland, arrived in Pendleton yes
terday, en route home after a visit
in Portland. Miss Irene Rhea, who
is a teacher in the public schools of
Pilot Rock, and her sister, Mary
Louise, who has been visiting in
Pilot Rock, spent the day here with
Mr. and Mrs. Rhea. East Oregon-ian.
Shoe Repair Work E. N. Gonty
Shoe store is now prepared to take
care of all shoe repair work. There
is a good man on the job. Bring
your shoe troubles to Gonty. Adv
Oxfords
Ladies' and Grown Girls' Oxfords
Price $4.00 to $6.00
Misses' Oxfords, Brown and Black
Pnc? $2.75 to $4.00
I am now prepared to take care of all repairing.
A good man is on the job.
I have received my certificate in PRACTIPEDICS
the science of giving foot comfort.
E. N. Gonty
Spring Suits
Spring woolens now in and you will enjoy looking theni
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Reducing School Taxes
In the general discussion of the
subject of reducing taxes, the pub
ic school system of the state ot Or
egon is coming in for its share. There
seems to be many and varied ideas,
but it is realized that it is necessary
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