East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-02

stand for the best interests of the city
and had the nerve TO do their duty
as they found Il, There would have
been no abuse or court proceedings
had the water board continued with
the old plant with It's Shiny and dan
gerous supply and had not crossed
the path Of the power and light COM
pany by securing a water system that
eliminated the heavy annual electric
pumping charge and contains a plan
for municipal electric plant II one
should be desired in the future.
Wen informed people have under
stood these facts all the time. Judge
Lowelrs course should make the truth,
plain TO everyone.
A New York paper. feeling the
boosting spirit, makes this sort OF a
crow:
Nothing Over Real estate oper-
Pendleton ators in New York
sold in 1914 property
assessed at sS4l. 200. 900 and probably
worth well over a billion dollars.
Only three other cities in me country
have an assessed valuation greater
than this metropolitan volume OF bus
iness in a single year. Naturally
there is some speculation in so vast a
total OF property sales. A better
measure of growth is the expenditure
in spite Of the war Of s165. 900, 900 in
new buildings and Improvements,
equalllng the total assessment Of
Hartford. New Haven or Richmond
Va"
a very fine showing and We will all
admit New York is some town. But
in proportion to its size New York did
less building during 1914 than did
Pendleton. Gotham has approxi-
mately 1000 times the population Of
this place. Now our building record
as early as the first Of December
reached $4,000. Multiply that sum
by 1000 and you have 10000, 900
or a record s5.OOO.OOO in excess OF
what New York boasts. In other
words New York would be a greater
city than it is If along with its large
Population it had the Pendleton zip.
The suffrage movement, which has
already prevailed in l.74O.OOO square
miles of United
Greatest of States territory in
Suffrage Battles. habited by 1881
sS1 persons. and
casting 81 votes in the electoral col
lege. enters on new phase during
the coming IL months.
From the west and middlewest the
stress Of the fight will be transferred
to Massachusetts,. New York. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. In each of
these four states a constitutional am
endment must be approved by two
legislatures before being submitted
TO the people. In each a suffrage
measure has already passed one legis-
lature.
The conditions under which the new
campaign must be carried on differs
Of course from those under which
past victories have been won. Illinois
still remains the most easterly state
in which women have a right to vote
on propositions other than school is
sues and bond referendums. Public
opinion is less fluid as the Atlantic
seaboard is approached. The opposi-
tion is more stubborn and the prob
lem more difficult than the one en-
countered in the receptive west and
the radical territory OF the Mississippi
and Missouri valleys.
But the women are conscious Of the
magnitude OF their task. They are
perfecting the strongest organization
with which they have ever attempted
to exert influence on official and pop
ular action and accommodating the
largest campaign fund they have ever
commanded. more than 800, 900 hav-
ing already been raised for use in
New York state alone. A triumph in
all four states would give them
preponderating voice in the choice OF
the next president.
A triumph in any one Of the four
would mark a turning point in the
movement. II New York should de-
clare for suffrage other states would
rapidly fall in line The same thing
may be said Of success in Massa-
chusetts or Pennsylvania.-st Louis
Dispatch.
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