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7 J HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1911 IK FULTON FOLPD tug mit1 '" - 1 No. 250 AH steel frame covered in black, green and brown; 'ten-in. wheels, fitted with the best quality of one-half inch rubber tires; adjustable dash and back spring seat Price $9.SO No. 451 Steel and hard maple frame, f i n ished in fin est French enamel;sear, back and hood in ma roon, green, gray, black and brown; nickel plated running-gear, patent ten-inch wheel, 5-8 inch rubber tires. Price $11.50 The most convenient because of their unequaled light weight, great durability and ease of folding. They are the Most Stylish, Luxurious Go-Carts, and one which you would feel proud to possess. $6.25 One Week Only $6.25 One Week Only NO. 50. Although well introduced by us last season, in order to give every mother an opportunity to possess one, we will make a special price on the above style FOR ONE WEEK ONLY $6.25 No. 701 DE LUXE GO-CART All steel tub ing frame; wood handle; seat, back and hood all colors; black enamel running gear; large 12-inch wheels with best 1-2 inch rubber tires. THE BEST CART MADE TODAY Price $14.50 No. 201 Steel and hard maple frame, finished in Tuscan rose wood ;Aarbian green, brown, gray or jet black; adjust able dash and back and easy spring; 10-inch steel star wheels, fitted with best quality 1-2 inch rubber tires. Price $12.00 Rambler No. 20' DO NOT FAIL TO LOOK OVER OUR LINE BEFORE PURCHASING Hood River, Oregon j. FRANZ COMPANY Underwood, Wash. -I--1- I I I t t lI t 1 I S I I I I t II 1 I S I I- -I 1 I I I I I I I I J I I 1 1 I 1 I I Il 1 I I I E- To Our Country Patrons We now operate a country delivery service without extra charge. WEST SIDE TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS EAST SIDE-MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS We carry a full line of Staple and Fancy Gro ceries, 1 lour, Feed and all kinds of Fruits and Vegetables in season. City orders promptly filled and delivered. Phone 78 Kinnaird & Kinsey MASON GRILLS BOOK BEHIND THE SCENES vict labor, either State or County, oh sueh!ro!ids, is due to treachery on Jthe part of the so called Oregon Good f announcement A TTENTION, CUSTOMERS! The main question rv of the day is, "How to reduce our living ex penses." In order to aid in this work the Central Meat Market will, on April 1, go on a cash basis and take oil its free delivery, thereby reducing expens es, and thus enabling us to cut prices, and you will gain the benefit of this reduction. Hoping this plan will meet with the approval of the public in general and that all can see the feasi bility of it, we will always be ready to welcome you at our market, and by prompt and ready attention to your requirements will endeavor to merit your patron age. We are adopting this plan to enable our regu lar customers to procure their living necessities at much lower figure. a S Central Meat Market P. C. YOUNG. Proprietor Merchants' Express and General Delivery. Schedule West Side Tuesdays and Fridays. East Side Mondays and Thursdays. Be Sure and Order from your Merchant by Noon ond Day of Delivery. We are In a Position to Handle Tonnage, Figure with us, for we can o Your HAULING CHEAPER with our AUTO TRUCK Than you can by Team. Phone 115-K. A. O. HERSIIEY. Hood River, Ore., April 2',, 1911. Editor Glacier 1 huvu before mo a copy of a booklet entitled, "lluhind The Scenes" at Salem, Ore., during the Legislature of Hill. This booklet is being distributed all over the state (for the profit in it) and were It not for the fact that it so mis represents the work done by the Ex ecutive body of the State Orange and that it makes a personal attack upon myself, 1 would not waste valuable time in answering it. In the preamble of this booklet, the following language is used. "It has been the aim of the authors to follow facts." If their aim was such, they surely bad a very poor gun or it was loaded with treacherous ammunition. For they have positively missed the mark. Their title lines on (iood Road Legislation says, "RuralJ .suspicion Kills (mod Konds. 1 his assertion will certainly bear inspection for truthfulness. The last Legislature pussed four (iood Road Hills; of these, two were very important, viz., the state highway commission bill and the County bonding bill. The latter stand ing paramount to them all. 1 only wish that eveiy voter in Oregon could have a copy of each of them to read and study. Hut who killed these (Iood Road bils? None other than "The dog-in-the-manger" fellows of Portland who masquerade under t he title of the (iood Roads Association. It was through their efforts in mis representing these bills to (lov. West, that they were vetoed. We could give testimony favorable to these bills from hundreds of prominent taxpayers in Oregon, besides the majority of the DO Legislators who voted for theni, but at this time, we desire to call to the witness stand some memher-i of the State liood Roads Association who were on the ground and assisted : materially in bringing about the com promise w hich gave us the four (iood Road Rills that passed both houses of our last Legislature. Judge Lionel R. Webster, the man who bus done more to educate the people of Oregon on the necessity of better highways than any other man in the state: The man who has tieen the paid representative as well as (Jen. Manager of the (Iood Roads Association since its organiza tion : The man who represented the Association at the last Legislature more than any other member, and the man to whom the (iood Roads Associa tion of Portland entrusted the fate of their tive liood Road Rills, recently said at a Portland banquet : "The liood Roads Association made the greatest possible mistake, when its members urged upon (iov. West the veto of the Highway Hills, and the (iovemor made a great mistake when he vetoed those bills. The gentlemen destroyed the finest piece of legisla tion we have had in this state fur years and gave nothing to take its place." Hanker J. 11. Albert, of Salom, Ore., a man who was identified with the liood Roads movement and in whom the supposed good roads people of Portland placed the utmost confi dence during the entire Legislature, has this to say, in the Unity Orcgonian: "The fact that Oregon today has no system for the building of permanent roads, no authority for the appropria tion of one dollar toward the building of such roads, no power to create an indebtedness for the building of them under the provision of the recent amendment of Sec. 10 Art. 11 of the Constitution nod no power to use con- Roads Association or of certain parties wrongfully claiming the right to rep resent that body. Kvery one of these four bills passed by the Legislature, could have stood alone and did not depend upon the provisions of any other bill. They were all slain in the house of their friends. Their blood is upon the hands of the Oregon Good Roads Association. You can not wash out the stain. All the perfumes of Araby cannot sweeten them." I could quote many similar public expressions from many members of the Oregon liood Roads Association who are sincere in obtaining better highways and who wanted our Good Road Hiils to become a law, especially the County Bonding Act. The authors of this booklet accuses us farmers of not understanding the five (iood Road Bills which the Portland "Dog-in-the-Manger" fellows wanted. That we were lull id tear, prejudice and sus picion. 1 he fact is, wo were fearless, unprejudiced and fully understood their scheme and were so well posted on (iood Road Leigslation, that we were given credit of being a factor in securing the four bills vetoed by the Governor. If there is any truthfulness in the write up in this booklet, on the Good Roads Legislation, I presume it is in the list of these who voted aye and nay. However I can not vouch for the accuracy of this, for I have not the records of the Senate and House with which to make comparisons. The accusation Unit we were Grange lobby ists perhaps is true, but wo were even more than thai, we were the watch dogs of the farmers' interests, and judging from the rumpus we made we surely did our duty well. An answer to the personal attack in this booklet made upon myself is not of much in terest to the public, but sutuce to say that their statements are exagger ated, misleading and untrue. A per sonal attack is the last argument of a coward. 1 fully realize that I was not their ideal of a man for I fought against some treacherous measures of their friends. The authors of this booklet were too closely connected with those who were playing road politics to give a fair and truthful statement of the work 'Be hind The Scenes" at Salem during the last Legislature. Had I gone to Salem, "said nothing, done nothing and been nothing," per haps 1 would have caused them less trouble. For my acts I have no apology to oiler. I did my duty in performing the work entrusted to me. If it does not please those Good Roads people who are in it for ulterior pur poses I care not. 1 desire at this time, to set the public right upon one misrepresenta tion in the public press. The Oregon State Grange and Farmers' Union legislative committees who were at Salem during the entire legislature watching the making of laws that effects the farmers, were at no time opposed 1 1 Good Road Legislation. The punlic press has branded us as Anti's, Obstructionists, etc., but we were simply opposing some well laid Good Road political schemes that we thought deserved defeat and we accom plished our desire. And for doing this the "Dog-in -the-Manger' fellows of Portland asked the Governor to veto the (iood Road hills that the Legisla ture passed and then they say we are to blame for no Good Roads Legisla tion. "Consistency, Oh ! thou are a jewel." We farmers made no fight on three of the five Good Road Bills presented by the Oregon State Good Roads Asso cition. The State Aid bill was a jest throughout the entire legislature. It was used as a will o' the wisp. The Multnomah delegation in the house never intended it to become a law and we farmers only smiled at their wasted energies in trying to make us believe they were philanthropists. We knew it was done for a purpose. We offered substitutes for both the Highway Commission and County Bonding Bills. At the last of the session, after the most objectional features of their Highway Commission bill had been corrected by both houses, we were then forced to a compromise and accept their amended Highway Commission bill in order to obtain our bonding bill. This is the other system of law making in Oregon nn which we hear but little comment. To say it is vicious is putting it mildly. Our whole fight at Salem on Good Road legislation may be summarized as follows: They wanted the Governor to appoint a Highway Commission of three mem bers from ditfrent parts of the state. We wanted to save this expense and put it on Good Roads. They wanted this comission to appoint a Highway Commssioner. We wantd the state engineer to appoint him. They wanted the Highway Commissioner to be a dictator. We wanted him to be an advisor. They wanted him to be "well versed in'road building." We wanted him to be a civil engineer and a prac tical road builder. Instead of the Highway Commissioner being a dictat or to our county courts, we wanted him to hold the same relation to them that our State School Superitedent holds to our public school boards. An instruct or, educator and statistician. Our substitute bonding bill which passed both houses and was vetoed by the Governor would have solved the whole Good Roads movement had it become a law. But the "Dog-in-the-Manager" fellows of Portland would not permit it, and why? It can be told in one sentence. They could not con trol the location of the roads upon which the bonded money was to be spent. We asked that the people who vote for the bonds shall have the power to say upon what road or roads the money shall be spent. Is there a man in Oregon who dare say that this is not right? It would be most just, most practical and most satisfactory. This one power in the hands of the people was about the only difference between their bonding act and ours. For fighting for this principle we were accused of saying the county courts were not honest, la a county official dishonest because we compel him to give a bond? No, but for fear we may get one who will be dishonest, we use this protection. Just so with locating the road or roads upon which we desire to spend our money. We desire to name them for fear we might ;get a county court who could be influenced to betray a public trust for selfish pur poses. As my article is already too long, I must close by asking every voter to study these or the future Good Road bills carefully and also investi gate the motives and character of work done by the Legislative Committees from both The Farmes' Union and The State Grange of Oregon during the last Legislature. Our record is an open book. We worked for Good Roads Legislation with all our might and main and will continue to do so until we obtain laws that are free from political trickery and that will permit us to build rural roads unexcelled in any country. Yours respectfully, A. I. Mason. LESLIE BUTLER, Pres. TRUMAN BUTLER, Cashier Established 1900 Butler Banking Company Hood River, Oregon Capital and Surplus $ 1 00,000.00 Savings Department Safe Deposit Boxes The Middle Valley Mill Is now in operation and ready to fill orders for LUMBER Three and One-half Miles South of Odell PHONE 6X1 Mt. Hood Milling Company THE 5-10-15 CENT STORE Heilbronner Building'. 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