East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-20

married and became parents sot
Charles, formerly a judge and nov
a senator and one of the two or three
or four republicans who purpose to
vote for the league of nations.
Charles McNary became in thought,
at first, an orchardist, but actually
cne after he had accumulated money
enough to purchase parts of his fa-
Tiers and granfatherS old farms.
This he did about IL years ago. And
now he has 10 acres of prunes, SO
acres of walnuts. % acres of cherries,
20 acres of filberts, an equal area or
hops and is acres of pears. Then
there are ether orchards of prunes
that he jointly owns with other men
In short. he is Americas prune king.
He is fond of his fruit trees, ana
has photographs OF them in his
office, but he prefers to talk of nuts,
especially filberts, concerning which
he is the countrys greatest special
list. There are perhaps 1000 trees
of walnuts in the United States he
says. Such trees will begin paying
their expenses in about Is years after
being planted. The profits are large
in 25 years. Walnut orchards will
live indefinitely.
The Free west.
Speaking of politics, Senator Nc
Nary said:
1--WE are not like the people of the
east-afraid of the foreigner. Nor
ike the people Of the south, who are
in terror of the negro. All of us,
practically. are Americans. There
fore we do as we please. Freedom
Al ne-t
thoroughly American state in the
Union.
Fundamentally, Oregon is safe
and sound. Christian missionaries
were its first white American in
habitants. You know the story of
Marcus Whitman, the medical mis-
sionary. and Henry N. Spaulding, the
preacher, who with their young and
brave wives, crossed the continent in
1895 and opened oregon as a home
to others of their countrymen. Whit
man, although he was warned that 1t
couldn't be done, took a wagon with
him. He broke the road over which
later missionaries Travelled. Emf.
grants from Tennessee, Kentuckey
and Missouri followed.
Proud of the Pioneers.
''They were daring men, all of
them; Americans to the core, adyen-
turous, intelligent and sensible. Now
1 call attention to the beginnings of
Oregon as a part of the territory OF /
the United States. AS is began so it !.
has continued.
Next came settlers from eastern |
Ohio and Iowa, and |
later from Kansas and Nebraska. |
there any better living men |
and women-in the world? That's the |
stockthat is dominant in Oregon to-
day. The settlers were each entitled
TO take up a homestead of $40 acres.
rhey became ranchers and farmers on
4 large scale. They saw themselves
heir neighbors and their country in [
| large way.
'They lived out of doors, and their
characters and their vision expanded
n the open, and they saw things TO
vfich they had been blind in their
I'D homes beyond the mountains
.cross which they had toiled behind
heir teams and oxen.
Schools and Churches II
Schools were built Churches were
established. And on the rainy days
4 winter the pioneers read books and
hought out their problems. The CONS
nd daughters CT these men learned
shat had been coue in Austraiia and
,ew Zealand. They trusted one an
II er. Their neIshborc. they believed
reI honest and Sc ls'ola. If anything
r wise were 1o1e il would he changed
nj no harm wonl1 ensue. II
Then appeared william Simon
rRen. who in time was called the
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