The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-04-30

lie at this time.
Performance, lot Promises.
IEditoriitl
The above paragraph OF news lis eyi-
dence of activity on tie part OF Enter
prise i'll tile matter of railroad outlet
to the north. 1t is well known by
leading citizens OF every community
along the line OF the proposed route
that Enterprise men have been work
ing on this project for mole than six
months.
And they are not pulling alone in
their work in this county as the great
promi. er who edits the WalloNa Sun
will one day wake up and see.
This weeks issue of the Wallowa
Promiser needs only pictures to be a
comic supplement. In one paragraph
it SCOTS at the idea OF town the size
of Enterprise doing anything toward
building railroad to the North Coun
try, and in the next breath promises
that Wallowa, half the size of Enter
prise, will surely build half the road
up Whiskey creek-if Flora will build
the other half.
In their mad desire to hog all the
offices, and relying nn4the word of .
few irlesponsibles from other towns
at SO much per word, or lump sun
for SO many sigr atures to their county
seat petition, Wallowa engineers of the
countv seat scrap threw down the
candidates from other sections, particu
: larly the north end. Now realizing
their hlunder, the Sun is abject in it;
fawning and cringing, and even invent'
lie out OF the whole cloth, that Mr.
Locke was in favor of a 100000 cour
house.
''The people of this city would hav,
been glad to support a man from thC
. north end for commissioner" says the
Sun. Yes, how glad? Mr.. Locke wal
out weeks before Mcdonald and hac
the united support of the NORTH
Country. But the Jonas rush insisted
. on trotting out the strongest man ii
J their whole community to down Lock,
and the north end. How "glad" they
were After trying to hog every thing
the Sun now snaps and sns rlS, anc
accuses l4ostine and the North Country
OF high treason because they wouldn'i
do as the Wallowa bosses dictated
"This, of course is di,couraging," as the
Sun says.
The Suns frenZed promises of fail
treatment will not he swallowed by
Lostine and the North Country aftel
the throw-downs at the primary by
Wallowa. Promises don't go.
1t is Enterprise performance agains
Jonas promises. Enterprise offers tn,
best site in Walowa county for thu
court house, and 5000 Of real money
. the Jonas push promises-hot air
, Enterprise treated all sections OF tn,
county fairly in the primary, excep
avowed enemies Of this town. Th,
Jonas push-well, it's history, ant
.. they can't dodge the record, but my
} they are promising for the future.
Aud it is the same with the railroad
Enterprise has been working alonl
that line for hall year long befor
the county seat question passed th
\ petitioh stage. aud has created what
4 ever sentiment that now exists for Tia
4 road. Representatives from Enter
prise have visited Walla Walla capital
: lists aud laid the resources OF the count
before them and got them interesteC
Y Other railroad builders have been III
4 terested, and Enterprise will never le
: up until the road is completed, not 70
4 political reasons but because it vii
help Enterprise commercially. Th
people OF the county know this is
y town t!lat does things--peIfornanc,
not promises.
D And the Jonas pus..--promises, he
] air, nothing doing.