The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-03-20
EXPOSITION CRAFT.
Portland Hogs Shut Out Min
eral Exhibit.

nc OregOnlan mas never gwen edl.
torial utterance to single idea that THE
MINER could unresevedly endorse. This
statement Is not made with the intention
Of crushing that paper; nor the hope that
II will In future strive to win "our" ap.
proval, but merely as preface to these
remarks. It does, however occasionally
say something worth repeating; this, for
Instance:
ut wants few boxes Of wormy apples
and poorly dried prunes to represent our
fruit industry. It doesn't want a gold
medal for Its mining exhibit, as we got at
Omaha and Spokane, or the blue ribbon
for wheat and apples as we got at Paris
and Chicago. 1t wants cheap exhibit,
tended by cheap men, who will live on
six bits day and sleep on the floor. II
there Is prize at Buffalo for Jim Grow
exhibit and jay outfit Of attendants, the
joint ways and means committee Of our
late legislature will loudly demand II on
behalf Of Oregon. It Is theirs, hands
down."
The "it," the subject Of these caustic
sentences, refers to the recent session Of
the Oregon legislature. Though, of
course, the real animus for this roast was
the legislatures failure 10 elect the Ore.
gonian's candidate to the United States
senate, the apparent occasion Is the al.
legged small appropriation made for the
states exhibit at the Pan.American expo.
sition. No one has heard any complaint
Of lack Of funds except for the mining ex.
hibit, and the blame for this rests solely
with the commissioners. The Portland
and Willamette valley hogs have repeated
their favorite performance Of getting In
the trough and crowding out the rest Of
the barnyard live stock, and the Ore.
gonian attempts to shield them from cen.
sure, as Is its wont.
In the apportionment Of the $40 900 ap.
propriated, mining Is given S2oos, Of
which sum only $1,000 Is intended TO be
used for gathering the exhibit In eastern
Oregon, $500 for southern Oregon and
Ssos to pay the salary Of an attendant at
Buffalo.
Now here Is where the hoggishness
comes In. Forestry Is given S2Sss, agri.
culture SI6ss, horticulture S2Iss; total
S66ss. Or this amount S346s Is appro.
priated to pay attendants. These loggers,
hop and prune growers, these web foot
jays will not have to live on six bits day
and sleep on the floor. Again, there Is
set aside for the press ssos and for ad.
vertising $500, and one of the commits
sioners is designated as the "press."
What is going to be done with this
tI3o1
To add insult to injury, the president of
the board, when Messrs. Geiser and
Thompson, the eastern Oregon members,
protested against this division Of the
funds, insolently stated that individual
mine owners would be benefited by the
exhibit and II they didn't like what had
been gwen them, let them make up the
deficiency by private subscription. He
failed to state, however, how the individ.
ual mine owner will be benefited any
more than the individual owner of farm
and timber lands.
And this impudent suggestion is. In re.
ality, now being acted on In certain
quarters. THE MINERS advice Is that
the people of eastern Oregon not contrib
ute one cent towards this state exhibit.
II we must pay by private subscription for
a mineral exhibit, let 1t be separate and
distinct from the collection Of prunes,
wormy apples, hops and spruce boards.