PublÎBhed every Thursday at
Nyssa. Oregon
THE JOURNAL PUB. ASSOCIATION
ìrmer
■
man
$500 :
Wee!
Entered as second-class matte.
April 14. 1910, at the post office
at Nyssa, Oregon, under the Act
of March 3,1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year, in advance ..............$1.50
Six months, in advance ............... 7K
Three months, in advance...............bo
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O F F IC E S
AND
C H IC A G O
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
ONE CENT POSTAGE.
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peci'ssf
YORK
portunt mail. To create a still
larger surplus and au addition-
al gewgaw in his cap of dignity
he no doubt would have con-
signed these moulders of public
opinion to the tender mercies of
the pony express or the m o r e
bull
team
of the
prosaic
prairies. There is less demand
for a reduction in postal rates
than there is a fast gruwing in
sistance that the telegraph and
the railroad and some other
public utilities be taken over by
the government and run in the
interest of all the people and
not for the pecuniary benefit of
the favored few.
The greater
the deficit run be made to ap
pear in the postal department
because of a reduction in the
postal rate the stronger will be
the argument that will be ad
vanced by those behind the
National (Jim Cent Postage as
sociation in its fight against
governmental control of the
telegraph and other public util
ities.
A nation-wide campaign has
been inaugurated to secure a
one-ceut letter rate through the
postoffice.
The preliminary
work is being conducted under
the auspices of the National
One Cent Postage association.
The
erroneous idea that
Many newspapers are enlisting
might
ever
did make right is
in pushing forward the propa
ganda of cheaper rates, while a again being indulged in by the
still larger number are opposing miners in the troubled coal
Southern Colorado.
as inexpedient at the present! fields of
time a reduction in the receipts fh at *^ie en<^ justifies (he
of
the postoffice department means> ^ie officials of the
from this source.
The recru mineis' union in that section
descence of this question from declares their intention to cut
time to time, and the insistence off the state’s coal supply from
of those ad vocating it,backed bv outside sources. The sufferers,
a subsidized press through the to be sure, will be the v,omen
potent influence of the advertis and children and coworkers in
ing department and the cash «.ther lines of activity in Colo
drawer, in which the brainery rado, and from these the coal
of some newspapers is at the miners themselves expect to be
behest of the men who manip replenished by brotherly con
ulated the payroll, exposes the tributions to the empty larder
big mit of big business. The during the winter months. Re
postoffice department is, for the fusing to mine the coal them
selves, the miners insist that
firsttim e since its creation,
self-sustaining segment of the the mines of other sections shall
great wheel of government. To not be permitted, through the
reduce by one-half its present free masonry of orthodox un
leceipts from this source would ionism, to supply needed fuel
again place it in the dependent during the rigors of the ap-
list, a supplia.it for the neces proaching winter months.
sary funds to prolong its exist
Tho Hill system contemplates
ence.
Needed reforms, new
putting in a line of steamers be
schemes for still greater effi
tween Pacific Coast points and
ciency in this department in
Europe within the next fifteen
the past have been passed up months. This fact no doubt, will
on the plea that lack of suffi be agreeably received by Euro
cient funds make it impossible pean laborers who have an eye on
to do that which the people the United States as a field for
would like to see done. To rob the exploitation of their prowess
in the field of labor. Competition
one department of government w ill naturally reduce the cost of
to enable another and a more im steerage passage to this countiy,
portant arm of government, to a surplus of labor means a reduc
exist, is In accord with the idea tion in the price of that commod
ity, and thus Mr. Hill and his co
of robbing Peter to pay Paul. workers will be enabled to get a
To successfully cut in half the modicum of muscle and brawn at
present letter rate the postoffice a figure which will yet spell great
gobs of gloom and trouble for
department, to continue its ef somebody.
ficiency and serve the people as
The daily market report con
was intended in the beginning,
would necessarily be compelled tains somethings that, to the lay
to load the resultant deficiency man, is as opaque and void of
upon some other commodity penetration as a well baked brick.
For instance, eggs are quoted at
handled by the service. The
$11.75 to $12 per case. To the
magazines and the newspapers average man, unaccustomed to the
have felt the pinch and injus- hen and her ways and the dubious
ice of this under other post ways of the commission merchant
who handles the product of Bid
master generals, notably Mr.
dy’s activities, a case may contain
H itchcock. In his eagerness to a gallon, a tierce, a bundle or a
proclain the postoffice as self- whole passel of hen fruit. But as
sustaining for the first time in to how many eggs are considered
’case" is a case that requires
its history, he forced many elucidation to the uninitiated.
magazines and other periodicals Some case* of eggs, no doubt,
to utilize fast freight trains in would stnell no sweeter than if
enumerated by the dozen. So.
the dissemiuation of this itn- what’s the difference?
| ET out your steed! He wants a feed, and also wants
a rest.
nspect our hay and oats, some day. Y ou ’ll find we
keep the best.
V a c a n t stalls and "H orse Highballs’’— we_ buy, sell,
”
trade or rent,
p^ach rig is right; we treat you white, or you d on ’t
pay a cent!
1>obes that’s clean; no help that’s “ green” — we’ ve
fired every slob!
V e a r in and year out we go the route. W e’ re always
on the job.
I
E A S T S ID E L IV E R Y B A R N
SM ITH A M< MANIS, Props.
AML F
the last hope for a cheap power*
producing producton on the farm,
That sanity, apparently, h a s(»r. the shop and for whatever use
assumed a place in the opera- an economical fuel can be used.
STATEMENT OF THE MALHEUR COUNTY BA
A GLEAM OF SANITY
tion of the Interior Department,
under the
administration of
Secretary Lane, augurs well for
the best interests of tbeh om e-
seeker and homebuilder in the
West. The red tape that here
tofore hedged about the auto
cratic department of a pseudo
democratic government is rap
idly disappearing, and it is not
assuming too much to predict
that the vacant domain of the
great West will soon resound
with the activities of that class
of empire
who have
made the w o n d b e ^ B because of
their having
it. Sim
plicity, directness of action and
the enforcement of the laws in
spirit as well as in word, and a
liberal interpretation of the in
tent and purpose of those who
frame such law’s, should be the
aim of the department heads at
Washington. Such, heretofore
has not been the case
Every
hair-splitting
obstacle, every
impedimenta in the law’s en
forcement, have in the past
characterized the department’s
dealings with
the
Western
homeseeker.
The hegira of
landseekers to Canada from the
United States a few years ago
was the result of the senile ad
ministration of the Interior De
partaient and the proneness of
bureau officials to entail all
manner of unnecessary trouble
upon homeseekers in quest of
lands. The enactment of the
three-year homestead law was
due solely to the desire to coun
teract the tendency of Ameri
cans to seek a vine and figtree
in a land where the entangle,
ments of red tap and depart
mental arbitrariness could be
avoided.
The people of the
country should be grateful to
Secretary Lane because of his
avowed intention to inject more
of common sense into his de
partment and the obliteration
of red tape and circumlocution
as necessary features of official
efficiency.
The currency question and the
tariff question should be removed
from the pale of partisan consid
eration. The two are too inti
mately interwoven in the fabric of
the country’s life to be made the
s uhject of political advantage or
personal expediency. The people
are becoming exceedingly aweary
of being made the vicarious goat
of tinhorn political montebanks
and that other eminently respect
able class of the favored few who
would sacrifice the prosperity of
the masses through the shambles of
greed. The lust for privilege and
uurighteous gain, of conscienceless
graft and injustice, may triumph
against the protests of the weak
for a period, but the ultimate as
cendancy of equality, of right and
of humanity is as sure to come us
that day follows the silence and
darkness of night, That the under
class has heretofore borne the
consequences of ill-advised and
corrupt legislation, is patent to all
who read and think and haye the
manhood to recognize the evils
that have become as poisonous fun-
gii on the body politic. It is an
axiomatic truth that it were well
to rfefrain from doing that which
yonr adversary would have you do.
Special interests have long had
the ear of the legislator, the judge
and the executive, and the inter,
ests of the favored fe*- have been
looked after with the tender solic
itude born of the knowledge that
the vulture is considerate for its
kind. The signs of a change for
better conditions are appearing on
every hand. An accounting is yet
to be made between the classes
and the masses, and it is dollars to
doughnuts that when that time
does come the masse« will have
come into their own. That a read
justment of present conditions will
be made is as sure to come as that
wrong cannot always prevail—
that justice will yet resume do
minion over the actions of men,
and the scepter of the House of
Greed will cease to represent the
unholy alliance between the law
makers of the land and those who
would despoil the people of that
which is their only inheritance—
the opportunity to work and a just
share of that which they produce.
From a recent Associated Press
PROFESSIONAL.
report we learn that the State de
partment at Washington has been
asked to assist Paul Pferdner of C. E. Me REYNOLDS
Portland in getting information
P H Y S IC IA N & SURGEON
for Senator Lane regarding the
making of denatured alcohol in Homedale
•
•
Idaho
Germany. That this inquiry was
not undertaken earlier is due, no
W B. H O X IE
doubt, to the activities of the
N O T A R Y PU B LIC
Standard Oil lobby at the capital.
Office at residence
The fact that the waste products Nyssa
Oregon
of the household and the farm
can be utilized in the manufac
ture of alcohol suitable for gener D r . J. J. SARAZIN
P H Y S IC IA N A SURGEON
ating power for many and varied
uses, and that, too, at a nominal Office between Second and Third
cost, has no doubt had the effect
on Main street.
of stimulating the great oil com Nyssa
-
.
Oregon
pany in its desire to suppress the
tendency to learn more of the P, J. PH ILLIPS
method of manufacturing this
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
economical power producing com
modity.
The manufacturers of Nyssa
-
-
Oregon
gas, gasoline and other engines
of the consumptive cough variety C. C. WILSON
have also shown a remarkable de
LAW YER
gree of inactivity, since de
Real Estate
Insurance
natured alcohol can now be pro
•
-
Oregon
duced without government super Nyssa
vision, and for a fraction of the
W. H. BROOKE
cost of gasoline, in not preparing
R. W. SW AGLER
to meet changed conditions To
adapt the present type of engine to A T TO R N E Y S A T L A W
the requirements of alcohol, many
Wilson Bldg
Ontario, Or.
changes no doubt will have to be
made in iheir construction. This
evidently has not been done, and M c C u l l o c h , w o o d
the neglect to do so speaks little
& ECKHARDT
for Yankee ingenuity and that
Attorneys-at-Law
spirit of
progressive
effort
which has heretofore kept pace! Qntarj0
Oregon
with the needs of the times. How-1
ever. it should not be forgotten
that it took forty years of patient M ALH EU R COUNTY
and unceasing effoit to write the ABSTRACT COMPANY
pure food laws in the statute
TH O S. JO N E S, M A N A O E R
book, and we should not complain
VALE. OREGON
that the Standard Oil company is
able to stave off for a time the Abstracts of title to all lands and
coming of denatured alcohol as
town lota in Malheur Connty.
NYSSA, OREGON
At the Close of Business October 21 , 1913.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts ............................................................. $ 791
Overdrafts................................................................................
Bonds and Warrants.............................................................
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures.............................
91
Cash on hand and due from banks........................................ 24 ]'
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock.......................................................................... $ 25, i
Surplus
...................................................
5 j
Undivided Profits
........................................................... .
D eposits..................................................................................................... g(j
Certified Checks...................................................................
KNOW N
FOR
IT S S T R E N G T H
*113,
AND SERVI
. . THE . ,
Merchants’ Lunch Roo
Free to tl
r ith
the nan
Stove.
Next dour to r'oatoffice
Billiard Hall
For two r
dian Head Sc
them.
H ARRY EARP, Prop.
NYSS^
Lumber and
Building M a t e r i a l Oregon-ldi
..il
of all
kinds
Ê,
Exclusiv
Laths, Lui
Windows
The E m p ire L u m b er G o . P Lt<
Cement,
NYSSA, OREGON
ing Papt
RuCK SPRINGS AND HIAWATHA COJ
RIAL.
NATIONAL
APPLE SHOW
We carry a compie1
Let us figure yoi;
Yard on Front St., near E
The Nyi
SPOKANE
N ovem ber 1 7 - 2 2
FEED AND
Excursions via
Oregon Short Ulne ftoflroad
W ILM ER &
ST-GASS TURNOUTS
ALSO S
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TICKETS ON SALE
November 14, 15 and
16; LIMIT, November
30th.
Good Avenue
..
f l e s s a UT
See any O. S. L. Agent
for rates and furtuer
particulars or write:
H. BU
D. E. BURLEY.
General Pass. Agt.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
F resh an<
■Home-Cured Bacon
YELLOW STONE
W H IS K E Y
Clear and pure is every
1 assful of wine or liquor that
ou buy here, because we are
ery particular in toying
rom wholesale houses so that
may conscientiously sell
our patrons. Yon will like
le flavor and the strength of
i • ines and Liquors, and
Iter the first trial we shall
xpect you to become a regu
ar patron.
j
B. TETER,
I We Carry a Full Supply of
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GATE CITY JOURNAL
[School Supplie
Books
¡Pencils
¡Tablets
Inks, Etc.
oster’s Drug Store
PIONEER BLACKSMITH SHOO
LEUCK A COOK, Props.
General Blacksmiths
PATENTS
m a r k * and cop y rig h t* obtained orrt
mi model, «ketches o r photo« and &>
fo r P M t S F A R C H a~* w»>ort
> patent ability.
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