Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1913-05-06

such is the case. it is interesting to
forecast what the effect will be on
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information from Salem is to the
effect that State Printing Expert r.
A. Harris has resigned his position
and will devote his time to "clerical
work" In commenting upon the
resignation Governor West is re-
ported as having paid Harris very
high compliment and declared that
he had been instrumental in expos
ing the evils Of the state printing
office. ;" Harris, it is said, figures
that his battle has been won, and
that now is as good a time to quit
as any. Harris Is right-nOw Is a
splendid time to resign. The people
of the state Of Oregon very emphat-
ically told him what they thought Of
his state printer law at the election
last fall, and if the recent legisla-
ture had not permitted itself to be
led by the nose by the pettifogging
tactics and spread-eagle speeches Of
the "Sage Of Linn" the voice Of the
people would have been needed and
the law repealed Also. if the very
meritOrious measure introduced III
the senate by Carson. Of Marion, had
been enacted into law, there would
been enacted into a law, there
the resignation" Of the expert. and
this fat job would have been elm
mated. Personally Harris Is good
fellow, and pleasing to meet, but he
has forgotten his fairness in an en-
deavor to place his allegiance to a
trade organization paramount to
those Of the state. His petty attacks
upon State Printer Duniway and his .
unfounded allegations Of graft and
abuse in the state printing office
which have had the support and the
assistance Of the state's spectacular
have become distasteful to
those who really know the inside his
tory Of the matter 1t hasn't been
a question Of safeguarding the inter
ests Of the people with Harris and
West-it has been a long and bitter
personal warfare upon State Printer
Duniway because he refused to per-
nit a labor organization to run his
business, as a public official. And
.he majority in the recent legislature
swallowed the dose and didn t have
he nerve to repudiate the "expert"
md his cohorts, and pry them loose
rom the opportunity to use the state
printing Office and the state printer :
IS a means to play peanut politics. l
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The esteemed Itemizer intimates :
hat The Observer proprietors q
houldn't take part in boosting Dal-
as because, forsooth, they own no f
cal estate in the city, and are only
ere "for what they can get out Of q
he town" The Observer men don't
" claim to riches and affluence, and
.alize that they are at disadvan- fl
lge in not having the extensive >,
,alty interest on which the Item .
er editor pays taxes, but they have r
Dpes. 1t must be fine to own prop :
'ty and thus be enabled to take :.
fe leisurely. To flop around in an =
lsy chair on the shady side of a -
-ick building or spend the major n
lrt Of each summer afternoon in
,unding ones ear on a couch in a :,
lck room, while ones peaceful -
Ores rattle the rafters overhead
1T frighten customers in the bust
,ss office, must be the height Of !,
mfOrt, but such is not for us. In =
e battle for existence we find that :,
e must get out and hustle for bread "
Id butter and to raise the where
thal to pay the printers on Satur- -
~ night. It's nice to be rich, all
yht, and own property, and sleep
the daytime, and brag about what +,
We done for the burg, but we a. a.
We only been residents of Dallas u u
r scarcely two years and we hope =
the time we have been here 30 III
ars Wen have some property, too,
Il tbus hn cyuoroutnaI tho ,.iybt ia
e here and modestly boost just a AZ q,
tie for the good of the city. And ln
ore the summer afternoons away. ll'
ewhillikens, that II be great Speed ne
, day!
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'alifornia has the referendum as o;t
Il as Oregon and recent develop las
nts Indicate that this prpat meas