East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-11-27
JUDGE LOWELL
SUBMITS HIS VIEWS
ATTACKS RECORD OF PRESENT
SENATOR FROM OREGON
Believes Business Should BE Divorced
from Politics. Elimination of Lob
byist from Capitol, Dissolution of
Trusts and Canal FOrtiflcations.

idtth lOI Oulltu oNotNS
senator to succeed Jonathan Bourne,
Jr., whose term expires March A
1918. For that honor shall ask the
franchise of the republican directo-
rate and therefore submit my views
upon the issue5 OF the day
The Oregon system of government
has become a fixture in our civic life,
and is no longer an issue here. Hav-
ing had full part in it's adoption and
defense Except as to statement No. l,
which until expressly construed by the
people, regarded as applicable with
in party lines), ! endorse its wisdom.
1t is not perfect, but I believe that
with such modification of the initia-
tive as will limit the number of meas
ures which may be submitted at any.
one election. it will prove as COM
plete a scheme of popular government
as can reasonably be operative.
Public sentiment Is now focused
upon more comprehensive questions.
and a senator of the United States
during the next decade will be con-
fronted with graver problems than
have demanded attention since the
civil war. Their just solution Will
challenge the craftsmanship of the
republic. In no recent period has
there been such an impressive crystal
ization of thought upon public affairs
as Is now manifest throughout the
country. and the time is ripe for con-
structive legislation.
Business must be divorced from
politics, and the lobbyist driven from
the portals of the capitol. The
trusts must be dissolved, but without
destroying the Industrial and COM
mercial fabric of the nation. The Pa
mama camel must be fortified as ma
tional property, and its use extended
to the commerce of the world under
reasonable tolls while any attempt
on the part of private interests to
throttle its purposes must be prompt
" met by a government line or coast
ing steamers running from Atlantic
to Pacific ports The beginning al
ready made in the regulation OF IN
terstate transportation rates must be
continued until permanent bass Is
found. fair alike to railroads and
shippers. Competition must be re-
stored. and the fixing Of prices for
jobber and retailer by manufacturers
must cease. to the end that the cost
of living may be reduced. LABOR
must receive greater consideration
for manhood is more important than
money. and such legislation must De
enacted as will place the capitalls'
and workingman on so complele
equality before the law! that lndus-
trial conflict may disappear. Federal
court procedure must be reformed and
modernized, and judicial legislation
prohibited. Our banking system must
be remodeled, but in such manner
that the government shall be the
dominating influence therein, in or
der that popular confidence may De
assured. The tariff must be revised
retaining the protective principle al,
lowing schedules to mark the actua'
difference in cost of production at
home and abroad. and according the
same consideration to the producer
"a to the manufacturer. National re-
sources mus. be conserved, but so ad-
ministered as to allow every reason
able use thereof in the present, in or
der that the symetrical deVelopment
of the country may not be retarded
The law must avert the threatened
curse of alien landlordism, and make
the collection of an equitable income
tax possible. A more perfect system
of migration laws is requisite to as
sure protection to American labor
and American civilization from the
boards OF Asia and the crime and dis
ease of Europe. A navy ample to
cone with Asiatic powers must be
created and maintained in the west
ern ocean. while every Pacific harbor
should be developed and equipped
with complete and modern defenses'
Alaska, the last of our territories,
ought to be o lministered by congress
as a model rot only to the states, but
to the world
I have been a resident of oregon
for nearly twenty-one years. am IA
miliar with its resources and its
needs, and know. what It's people have
a right to demand of tho general gov
ernment, hence while impressed that
the first duty of member of the fed
eral congress is to the nation, I give
aSSuTdHCe tiial ilO iheeleSt VI tiiS seo'S
will be neglected
Disclaiming all intention to cast
any personal reflection upon the man,
and speaking only OF his public rec
ord, which in every candidate is a
proper subject of discussion, l oppose
Mr.. Bourne's re election for the fol-
lowing reasons
First-I do not regard him as
bona fde resident of oregon. In the
last campaign reputable speakers as
serted that he maintained no home
within the state, and the assertion
was never denied. He visits the state
upon rare occasions, coming as a
traveller, and stopping at the hotels
of Portland. If he has a home In
oregon, where is 1t, and when was 1t
acquired? If he is a taxpayer in Ore
gon, where are the taxes paid, and
what Is the amount thereof? The
gentleman is classed as one Of the
multi millionaires of the country.
Whether that be true or not he as
suredly is possessed of vast wealth
subject to taxation.
Second-He is apparently more
closely identified with Massachusetts
than with oregon. He Is the head OF
one OF the great cotton manufactur-
ing concerns of New England, heavily
protected by the tariff laws, and said
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