The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-01-17
Cast OF the Mask of ID plieity

Cast UH the Mask OF ID plieltl.
In lengthy editorial headed PRO
posed DivisioI OF Wasco County"
The Dalles Curonicle misrepresents,
evades and pdblishes statements that
are misleading to the border of un-
truthfulness Lnd Seeks to Ienounce all
obi cations to the word OF its county
officials and business men.
We infer that the Chronicle speaks
officially as ito uses the names OF Rep
resentatives Knowles and Hendricks
and Senator VI healdon in lending col
or to its misstatements and says that
the former two members OF the lower
house OF the legislature were electe0
on the issue OF anti county division
and that Senator v healdoD has al@ays
beer opposed to it and is now. III Mr..
Whealdon has given voice to this
effect at The Dalles 1t is very evident
that he has more courage in that city
than he has abroad as he made NO
such statement while here or to the
committee which aiterwerd met hin
and the other members of Wasco
county's delegation in Portland.
However il this is the senator's at
titude it is well to know it as there ID
nothing so dangerous as hidden en-
emy OF one who conceals his motives
behind mask Of duplicity.
One of the main points the writer
of the article of subterfuge tIies to
impress on its readers is that HOOD
River people are preparing to include
Mosier in the proposed new county
against their expressed wish, not TO
be included within its boundaries.
This is gross Misrepresentation as
the writer we'll knows and is done for
the purpose of trying to work up pos
sible opposition to the proposed new
county that has heretofore taken no
part In the matter. Every one who Il
familiar with the boundaries as pro
posed and submitted to the county
officials and business men CT The
Dalles knows that it was stipulated at
the time the boundaries we're made
that IL they were placed this side oi
Mosier they would raise no objection.
The Mosier people understand this to
be the case and so does everybody
else concerned except those who are
looking for loophole to release them
selves from an obligation which they |
thought they would never be called |
upon TO make good The Mosier peo-
pie have not been asked to come into |
the new county and their attitude in
the matter is one that they. are them
eelves free to govern
The statement that it will be neces-
sary to create new judicial district
and add an extra expense to the state !
is without foundation and gratuitous
on the part OF the writer as there is
no intention or desire of the people |
ct Hood River to be in another judicial
district than the one they are now In.
A canaid Of this kind may find
Judgement in { 10 brain of some unin-
formed legislator, for whose benefit
it was written, but we doubt 1t.
This mendacious compiler OF untIuths
then digs into statistics and says that
although the assessed valuation oil
Dalles City is II, COL, 726 and that OF
the proposed new county but 81, l6l,-
225, the taxpayers Of the county seat
are not complaining of the great bur.
den of their taxes As matter OF
fact the assessed valuation of the new |
county according to figures taken |
from the assessment roll of 1906 Ii |
81, ,6lS, ,670 or half million more dol |
lars than acre lifted it by our evasive
friend, who has evidently taken the
figures from an assessment roll several
years old.
In his Arguments the writer admits
that the territory of the new county |
contains everything to make OF 1t a
county that will be prosperous and
progressive. That it contains one
half of the river front of the present
county, including railroad, telegraph |
and telephone lines, that its territory
is fruitful and productive, that 1t has
all OF the timber lands not included
in Moser valley, that Is outside OF
the forest reserve, that the land IN
Hood River valley is worth from 500
to S400 per acre and that city proper
ty in Hood River is worth az much as
it Is in The Dalles, that 1t contains
many valuable improvements and
for that reason he wants Hood River
to remain In Waseo county. And the
chief reason for wanting 1t to remain
is so it can Offset the valueless and
worthless land in the eastern end Of
the county. He wants the progressive
and industrious residents Of Hood
River to pay tribute to the other parts
of the county that they may ease the
burden of its taxes. This is the sole
and whole argument tor opposing the
creation of the new county.
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The Polk County Enterprise pro-
phetialley remarks that of any State
ment No. legislator desires to bury
himself so deep politically that he will
never be heard uf again just let him