East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-23

else. such crimes as
\ Thief Is an young worden has
Ienoramus. confes sed to are
chargeable not only
10 dishonesty but to gross stupidity.
What chance has cattle thief to
escape in this county. About one
chance in thousand. A beef buyer
can tell rustler everytime, so can a
good officer like Sheriff Taylor. The
thief always carries his sign with
him try as he may to cover it up.
But even if he is not caught at once
there is always chance for him to be
detected later. There can be no rest
for a man who steals.
A young man who steals CANDLES
with fate and the chances are 100 to l
against him. This is figuring it from
a cold blooded standpoint, not from
a moral standpoint at all. The odds
are too great. A man who will steal
is numbskull as we'll as a cheat. 1t
is the custom to send such men to
the penitentiary. Many of them
could profit by instruction in the
home for feeble minded.
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The direct primary is the instru-
ment through which the people all
over the coun-
The Direct try are coming
Primary Preferable. into possession
of their own
governments. 1t is means by which
We are getting away from rule by po-
litical bosses backed by business in
terests in politics for selfish motives.
There are faults about the primary
system but they are petty faults. They
sink into insignificance compared
with the good the law accomplishes.
Many who condemn the primary do
so without giving the subject any real
study. They are influenced by un-
important defects in the law and
overlook the real features involved.
Those who favor the assembly plan
for making nominations show they
have no proper faith in the people.
They are willing to place more con-
fidence in the politicians as class
than in the common run of voters.
They are welcome to their views of
course but the East Oregonian can
not share their sentiments. Politici-
ans can be handled through manipu-
lation. The people vote their convic-
tions.
Two general lines of criticism are
being made of the Wilson admins
stration. One is
They Are that it is too weak:
Hard to Please. the other that it is
too strong. The
New York World sums up the situ-
alton very well in the following edi-
torial comment:
Our pious progressive contempor-
ary the Outlook finds that the coun-
try has gone to the dogs because this
democratic administration does not
believe in strong government. 1t is
afraid of strong government.
| Our wicked standpat contemporary
the Sun finds that the country ha!
gone to the dogs because the presi
dent has usurped all the powers o.
government and is ruling with des
potic hand.
The pious Outlook is spouting Al
exander Hamilton's maxim: IAN en-
ergetic government is necessary to th'
safety of the Union" The wicked
sun is screaming for somebody to reg
ulate and restrain the president of tn
United States on off days it recite
washington's warning against chang
es in government by usurpation.
1t is obvious that an administrator
which, as the pious outlook com
plains, fears that the strong govern
ment will be the despotic govern
ment" cannot at the same time be a.
handed tyrant, as the wicke
Sun so excitedly asseverates.
We should not think of trying t
reconcile these conflicting criticism
of President Wilson. We are putin
them on record merely as evidenc
that both factions OF the republica
party are making their usually hal
monious preparations for the ia
campaign.
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II is not surprising there should
trouble in making settlements wit
! the water system contractors. W
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