East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-30

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the travelling expenses OF the delegate,
and makes other changes.
such bill should not pass The
people adopted the law now in force
and they are capable OF changing il
any time they so desire, The legisla
ture will go astray II 1t makes any
fundamental change in the law.
The direct payment by the state OF
the expenses OF delegates TO the ma
tional conventions is good thing,
The people by their votes instruct the
delegates as to whom they shall sup
port for president The delegates no
longer represent themselves and they
should not have TO meet their own
expenses. Many men Of moderate in
comes will decline to be delegates II
in addition to the loss OF time they
must also spend several hundred dol
lars in cash. But such plan win
not bar the politician Of the stripe
who will go willing to take a chance
on getting his money back and more
in exchange for his vote in the con-
vention.
From the standpoint Of results II is
cheaper for state to pay the ex-
penses Of delegates than to let some.
one else foot the bill. The Smith
bill is among other things a bill to in
vite political corruption.
The figures OF exports and imports
Of the United States for the month of
December are in
A Healthy structlve. Incidental
Trade Balance ly they prove GER
tain things that a
good many persons were not quite
sure OF.
In the first place the December i'm
ports were only s114.4O2,sTo. or s6s.-
'22,sO1 less than in December of 1918.
That spikes the standpat lie number
me, which was TO the effect that our
imports had not been greatly lessened
~ the war, but were still pouring in.
! terrible menace to American indus
ries and labor.
In the second place. our exports for
December exceeded our imports by
'131,s63,077. giving a trade balance
n our favor to that amount. That
Iails standpat lie number two, which
Tas to the effect that the Underwood
ariff had turned the balance Of trade
gainst us" AS matter OF fact the
rade balance for the entire year 1914
Tas in our favor by the neat little
um of sss5,2s5,11s.
Dismissing for the time the ques-
on whether this arithmetical balance
I trade in our favor is all that the
olitical economists crack II up to be.
he figures may be taken as import
mt in showing up the falsehoods and
ophistries Of those who are still
'orshipers of exalted protection and
ent on attributing every extraneous |
! to tariff reform.-Boston Post.
The activity Of federal officers and !
zeal officials in cleaning out the
bootle g gers is {
'oing Good Work. wholesome and l
will have the sup
ort Of rightminded citizens. There
re too many impoverished Indian
lmilies, too many derelects among G
he redmen and too many murder s
'ials as a result of traffic in whiskey
the Indians. The business is some
ling that should be wiped out. not d
My on moral grounds. but for the v
Did blooded economic reason that
,ber. industriaus Indians are assets y
the community while Indians who G
rink constitute a liability and a liza II
lity that will become greater as year, n
, by II the bootlegging business is
ot stopped. s.
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Evidently the owner OF the Dacia Il
,es not care how much trouble II $,
It's this country into.