The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-03-20
AND WE REMEMBER.

oNeP
court In relation to high taxes amounts
to practically nothing, and the friends
Of MIR. Gilliland are welcome to make
all out of 1t they can for campaign
purposes. The orux of the tax ques-
tion goes beyond the PROBATE court
ofany county. When You place it
where it actually belongs 1t rests with,
the legislature. There may be honest
differences of opinion in the oontruo-
tion Of county roads, for instance.
But the present high taxes are not
caused by road building 10 Umatilla
oounty-no, not on your tin-typs.
The apportionment for roads in this
county this year is but 1-2 mills, so
let US proceed direct TO the real tax
factory. Recently the Portland Jour
nal took this squib from the Portland
Oregonian as text for an article:
THE state must be extricated from
the tax bog in which 1t has been
plunged by too literal expenditures OF
public money. The OIegonian does
not at all say that Governor West is
solely RESPONSE BILE for present eondi-
tions. Everybo is responsible"
--OreRonian. aeR
None more than the Oiegonian, re-
plies the Journal. 1t applauded the
senate and house machine, organized
in secret to ride rough shod over
Vests vetoes of appropriation bills at
the 1918 session.
The ambition of the gang was to
override every veto no matter what
the merit of the measure. II was
sufficient that proposal for economy
emanated from the governors Office
down with 1t was the slogan of the
senate and house machines, and with
1t was the voice of the Oregonian.
The Oregonian laughed when the
gang laughed. 1t wept when the gang
wspt. 1t was glad when the gang
was glad. 1t was for putting the gov.
ernor lin hole'' whenever the gang
was for putting the governor ''in
hole"
Whenever West vetoed an appro.
piiation bill and the machine crowd
passed 1t over the veto. the Oregonian
pointed to the result with pride. 1t
patted the gang on the hack. It en-
couraged the bandits to new endeav-
ors. II called the state to witness
how the patriotic legislators were
the foolish governor" his
plaoe.
The Oregonian simpered and smiled
when the gang passed the notorious
Lhousand-dollar Carpenter appropria-
lion over the governors veto. II was
when The oonspiratoIs
passed 10 bills raising officials salar-
!, In IL counties over the governors
Geto.
1t applauded when the machine
passed the $l,eFO.O 900 general appro.
,riation bill over the veto In which
here we're nearly 100000 Of Items
Il foreign appropriations to which the
governor bitterly objeoted. II ap
'roved when the gang put the emer-
ENJOY clause on the vetoed bill SO the
'eople couldn't reach 1t with the ref
rendum.
The total appropriations for the
wo years az a result Of the gaug's au-
aoious operations are s6,S50, 908.4s. !
hat is the sum Taxpayers must dig
p for 1918 and 1914, {
History cannot be repealed. 1t is
ut a year since the facts herein de-
critad transpired, The oregonian
sas part of the conspiracy in the Q
sst legislature. 1t was the publicity
nedium. II backed the gang. 1t
the program. 1t tossed the !
osses. II lubrioated the machine.
Its cant about high taxes 10 about Q
be "high taxes" It helped to make.
THE SNAKES HEAD" Q