The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-09-28
VICTOR MURDOCH
SCORES PRIVILEGE


on modern political conditions IN the
United States and especially upon the
inner mauipulations of the fedora
legislative bodies at the National Cap
itol. Representative Murdoek, who
is an excellent type of robust physica
manhood. strong. husky and with
thick, red hair, has a very pleasing
address and speaks fluentIy. For al
most two hours, after he had beer
! introduced by Rev. j. b. Parsons. pas
tor of the United Brethren church,
under the auspices of which the lee.
ture was delivered, he held the undi
vided attention of his audience. The
locks of the congressman, however,
are not as long as they used to be. He
explained that just before beginning
his journey westward on a very hot
day in Philadelphia, while occupying
the chair of strange barber. he fel
asleep. To his horror, on awakening
he found that his long hair, of which
he was very proud, had been closely
cropped.
The leader of insurgency began hi.
discourse by an eloquent prose poem
of his first impressions of the HOOD
River Valley, 81 like Hood River,
he said, like your beautiful homes
the superb view from Van Horns hill
or knob, the tender verdancy of your
valley, the shadows beneath your muir
muring pines, the ruby, red and wine
colored apples. kissed by the sunshine
in your unexcelled orchards, and fin
ally most of all, the cOrdiality of your
people. If | were a resident of this
| valley'I know | would sing its praises
"a hours in the day. If | had not
passed middle age ! would do the next
best thing. would marry Hood
River girl.
The greater part of the Kansas con-
gressman's address was taken up with
an attack on special privilege. He
said in part:
"A government has nothing to give.
When one man receives special priv
ilege it means another is losing.
favorite of government also means q
victim. Special privilege is the great
evil with which the American people
must contend. 1t is ever seeking ad.
vantage in the making of our laws, in
their administration and in the adiudi.
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few members OF the wire manufactur.
ers of the United States were indicted
They received sentences and it ap-
peared then to the American people
that straight and narrow way was
opening up to prisons for the rict
offender as we'll as the poor. How.
ever. what did the wire magnates dol
In an appeal to Judge Archibald OF
Philadelphia, they made the plea OF
Moro Contendere. They took adyan.
tage of technicality and went un.
touched.
''Such things as this have been the
cause of insurgency, which will wage
a bitter war, economic and political,
against privilege. Many of the off.
cials of the country are bound to the
interests. However, let me say that
among those who are faithful to the
people is DIR. Wiley.
ut is one of the fights of insurgency
| to abolish machine politics. Yet ev-
erywhere is raised the cry that lnsur.
gency does not believe in organization
This is an absolutely mistaken idea
Organization means the self surrender
of the individual. | learned one of the
principles of organization in my boy
hood. | shall never forget it. IL
illustrate my point | will tell the
story. was born on the prairies
among the booted and spurred COW
boys. In the neighborhood was the
Patterson family. They had son
Bud Patterson. Bud was the wonder
of the neighborhood. Everybody pre-
dicted great things for him. His fam
lily thought that he might be president
Well. among the other things that
were taught Bud was how to conduct
himself at the table. His table man
ners made his family proud of him
Yet, where the people were dirt poor
boys don't often get invited out to din
ner and it was one of the sorrows o.
Bud that he lver had an opportunity
to display his accomplishments. How
ever, at last the opportunity came
The most fashionable family of The
neighborhood invited the Patterson
family to dinner. Bud conducted him
self properly through all the courses
! The dessert was served. 1t was cher
ries. Bud ate with relish, proud O.
the fact that he had not made blum
der, when suddenly his tongue came il
contact with something :he. knew wal
not a cherry. 1t felt as though it haC
hairs on it. The hero of the occasion
wallowed it around and around in hi!
mouth. He told me about the affair
the next day. Finally | asked him
well what in the world did you'd
with it, Bud?" "By George" h,
finally said, | swallowed it out of re
| spect for the family
Now you know and | know anC
everyone of us knows that at somt
time in our lives all of US have swal
lowed something out of respect for oui
parties, be 1--WE members of whatever
party. But the Insurgents do not be
lieve in swallowing everything"
The congressman told of his fgh
relative to the payment by the United
States for hauling the mails. Whel
he went to Congress, he said, he founC
that the railway companies were beinl
paid on the basis of an average daily
weight. However, when the law wa
made in the early days, mails were no
carried on Sundays. The mails wer,
weighed every day except Sundays anC
the sum divided by six. The govern
ment was losing five millions of dollar,
day. His fight lost in the House anC
it took an order from President Roose
welt to make the divisor seven instead
of six.
The congressman closed his speecl
by calling attention to the concentra
tion of the country's wealth in tn,
hands of few. The time has com,
he said for people to cease to tax,
things for granted, a fault of tn,
American people. ''The destiny of tn,
country does not rest in the hands of
few but with the individual" he said
''The whole destiny of the land il
wrapped up in those who are at tn,
bottom.
In his closing remarks. Mr. Murdoch
praised the Oregon system. Its direc
primary and vote for the president, h,
said, would eventually penetrate al
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