East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-25

New YORK 10 Liverpool Is three cent?
a bushel, about one
The Road third the rail rate
To the River. from Pendleton tC
Portland. The water
rate on wheat from Portland to Liv'
erpool is approximately the same a
the rail rate from here to Portland
These facts illustrate the cheapnes,
OF water transportation when it comes
to hauling such products. We have
had other illustrations closer a
home, When the canal at Cascad,
Locks was completed the rail rate OF
grain from The Dalles to Portland
was cut 40 per cent because of the new
competition that was set up. Reduc,
tions in the grain rate and in the rates
on ether commodities were brought
about when the portage road at Celilc
was built.
Under such circumstances the farm
ers OF the Holdman country are show
ing sound judgment in planning for a
road OF some sort over which they
can get their wheat to the Columbia.
Such a road will mean great benefit
to them; it will mean benefit to all
who can secure connections with
such a road. Pendleton too needs
that road because it would insure
this place an independent connection
with the boat lines on the river.
The subject of road to the Col
umbia is the most important subject
that is up in Umatilla county at this
time. 1t is a subject deserving ear
nest study and cooperation not mere
ly on the part of Cold Springs farm
ers but on the part of all our farmers
and business men.
The idea Of freedom, Of nationality,
has dominated the whole war. There
is not an army in
The Dominant Europe today that
Motive of the War. has not its eyes
uplifted toward
the labarum, the symbolic banner.
bearing the words Freedom, Nation
ality To all the hosts of all the al
lies the time-spirit has seemed to say:
'In hoe signo, vinces." Moreover,
miracle of miracles, even the Ger
beautiful variety of Ger
man tribes"-will shortly descry the
same liberating symbol. The Ger
man chancellor, Herr Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, sought in a famous speech
N the Reichstag in 1912 to distract
the attention of the great liberal
Powers by creating a Russian scare.
But at the very first occasion given
her Russia pricked this bubble and
-aised the standard Of national free
iom of the Slavs, for the Poles, and
or the Armenians Why did Austria :
20 to war? Because the rise of Servia
lad blocked her way to Salonica. Why
lid Russia champion the Servian
ause? To prevent Hungarian vim
lictiveness and Pan-German am
'ition from sitting the self-conscious
'erbs just on the point of entering
nto their own. Why has England :
To save the Belgian
brutally violated by
'ower that had sworn to safeguard
'elgian neutrality; to assure, by the
Of an integral, and even
France, the equilibrium
Europe, a balance Of power syn
nymous with the freedom of peoples; :
nd, above all perhaps, because of its 4
elated perception of the clear variety 4
hich her idealism and her self-en-
rossment had so long prevented her (
ON seeing; namely. that when Ger
ans spoke of claiming their place
the sun" they really dreamed of =
oming so largely there as verify to n
,lipse that luminary and to fling the y
anet behind them into their shad- b
Y. Europe is full Of Alsace-Lor-
ines This is an anomaly which It a,
Ill be the destiny Of the early twen- al
eth century to abolish. Wherever d.
ere be a national soul, It must be u
lowed to breathe at ease. Nation
ity is the self-conscious struggle of IL
people to maintain its integrity W
hen it is exposed to the gravitative III
traction Of a powerful neighbor The y,
esent war is a war Of nationalities fe
is a war Of nationalities even for W
9 Germans n
From After the Great War" by n,
lillian Morton Fullerton, in the or
lristmas (December) scribner. m
ia
kI
Last nights meeting Of the Round
stockholders gave renewed evil ne
nee OF the confidence the people ed
we in the members OF the board Of W
rectors and at the same time the a.