East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-11-13

lation a Few weeks ago. It was to the
effect some members of the board
were drawing salaries of Sl25 per
month in violation of the law. The
story was a absolute falsehood and
1t died the moment the light was
turned upon it.
As a matter Of fact the water COM
missioners are not being attacked be
cause Of the pay given Mr.. Kelsay or
for any OF the other reasons that have
been advanced at different times. The
real ana only genuine sin of the water
commissioners is that they have stood
firm and persistently for a gravity
water system for Pendleton. This
has been displeasing 10 some people.
Il has been particularly displeasing to
the electric company which makes
$500 a year by pumping water for
the city under the present system. So
we have seen the water commission
ers subjected TO organized and con-
tinuous attack. They have been Will
! fled and threatened in various ways
and stories reflecting on their integ-
rity have been circulated by men who
dare not make such charges in the
open.
Not only has the water board been
. forced to endure unfair attacks from
without but four members of the
board have had to stand unreasonable
and exasperating work by DR.. Best, n
J member of the board, who has been
hand in hand with men who have not
wanted a gravity water system and
have tried to harass the board at every
opportunity.
1t is not fair to Messrs Moore,
Brown. Ladow and Jack to force them
to stand for such stuff. Those men
are giving their time and best efforts
/ to serve the city and do so without
pay. They are entitled to support,
not to continual annoyance and mis-
representation.
/ The people of Pendleton who favor
a mountain water system should go
to the polls on election day and up
hold the board by reelecting Messrs
Brown and Jack and by kicking DR.
Best off the board, if he persists in
being a candidate. He has it coming
Again, the Oregonian impresses up.
on US its utter impatience with Presi-
dent Wilson'S Mexi-
A Diplomatist can policy, says tn
Ignored. Journal with much
scorn. "If the presi-
dent does not involve us IN a long and
costly adventure in Mexico" it says
''it will be due TO good luck rather than
good management"
Alas, poor Woodrow! We knew
him well Painful as is this blight
upon his public career. We are re-
signed, though it does seem as If we
could never smile again.
With profound knowledge of inter
national relations. our newspaper nei-
ghbor has made it all perfectly plain
AS this paper said August 7th, "let
him (the presiden) recognize the
Huerta regime, automatically closing
his eyes to the story made by Madero':
blood" AS it said November 5. what
the president should have done at the
outset was to have notified "Huerta
that he and all those associated with
him must get out"
3 No diplomacy could be clearer. Al
the same moment President Wilson
. was recognizing Huerta as the consti.
tutional president, he should have
been ordering Huerta out of office as
an unconstitutional president. With
the United States thus laundering fore
and aft at Huerta. diplomatically
catching him a-comin' and a-gwine
as it were, the delicate and refined
Huerta must have felt the need OF
a change of air, and all the world
would have been Uncle Sans.
Like Colonel Sellers sore eye medl-
cine. or his hog raising scheme, the
Oregonian's diplomacy has millions
in it,"
If President Wilson had only kept
Huerta in power and kicked him out
of power at the same time, the Sci.
lers sale OF eye medicine in the ORR
ent would have been made to look like
&c cents.
But alas, President Wilson has ir-
reparably botched the job. He didn't
do IT the Oregonian way and. Huerta
there he is.