The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-26
WE IRE GOING TO HAVE
FAIR.

1t is not, we DelleVe, generally known
that the governors veto of the district
fair bill does not affect the law already
in existence making an appropriation of
$500 each for three district fairs,-two
in Eastern Oregon and one in Southern
Oregon. These annual fairs which in
cludes our own will be held as before
and have the same appropriation. The
bill that the governor vetoed was an
amendment to the existing law, and ]
made provision for four district fairs in
stead of three-two in Eastern Oregon,
one in Southern Oregon and one in
Western Oregon, the latter intended to
include all the counties not contiguous to
Salem or jacksonville. The amended
law also provided that each district fair
should have an appropriation of
$4,000 year, instead of $500
as under the old law. The amended bill
was, we believe, the work of the jealous
members of our own fair association and
was in every respect a perfectly just and
equitable measure. The amount asked
for each district was in no way excessive.
Farmers cannot be expected to bring
hundred and fifty miles for an exhibit,
when even if assured of the highest
premium such premium would not meet
their necessary expenses. Besides dis
trict fairs are right in principle when we
take into consideration the immense size
of the state and the i1npossibility of the
greater portion of it ayailing itself of the
Of fofa foir ha
fair held at Salem is, geographically,
nothing but a district fair and such
it must for ever remain. Yet the
Salem fair gets from the state
funds a yearly appropriation of 5000
and when other districts equally as large,
relatively of az much importance and
financially in more need ask the paltry
consistently and unjustly interposes
with his veto. But this is not the worst
of it, as far as the governor is concerned.
His excellency, we are reliably informed,
most emphatically promised that he
would not veto the bill and then went
clean back on his word and did it. Two
members of the legislature and gentle
own political persuasion, had the assur-
ance from his own lips. To the gentle
man from The Dalles he said: "Go and
telegraph to your friends its all right"
and he did so. The next thing heard
was that the governor had gone back on
his word. The governor had played it
fine, too. The bill had received such
large support that its friends have not
the least doubt that had they known in
time the governors deception they
could have passed it over his veto.
Mentally he is singularly constructed, is
the same governor. A $4,000 portage
road was all right, although it must
be frankly admitted that more than one
half of the state will receive no direct
benefit from it. 5000 dome on the
capitol was all right, although no part
of the state will ever receive any benefit
from it at all. Even the $4,000 appro-
priation for the state fair, is we suppose
all right, although three-fourths of the
state gets no benefit from it, while a
measure that would have benefited, and
that equally, the whole state must be
vetoed.
The long and the short of it is we are
going to have fair in spite of the Gov
ernor, and the CHRONICLE may be relied
upon to do everything in its power to
make it a success. A meeting of the fair
com missioners will be held in this city
on the Sd of April next to make all
necessary arrangements, and when these
are made due notice will be given.
Meanwhile we ask the farmers for whose
benefit the fair is gotten up and without
whose aid it cannot be success, to bear
it in mind, while their crops and garden
truck are growing during the coming
season. We have only to add that we
hope the commissioners will have learn
ed from past experience to fix the time
for holding the fair, as far as human
foresight can do SO, when it will be most
convenient for the farmers to attend
Walt Whitman is popularly represen
ted as having no sense of humor. This