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GOVERNOR HENRY M'BRIDE TALKS TO THE FARMERS AT THEIR ANNUAL PICNIC HELD AT ELBERTON IN WHITMAN COUNTY —H E TALKS ON RAILROAD LEGISLATION PA YS RESPECTS TO PROMiSE BREAKERS. Elbert on, Wa.-h.--A distinct and en thusiastic ovation was given Gov. Henry Mcßride when he apepared on the platform to address thousands of Whitman county farmers at th.' annual Elberton picnic. The governor was in ""<' form and his address was one of the besl ever delivered by him in eastern Washington. His appearance on the platform from which the address was delivered was the signal for an enthusiastic ■ nit hurst from Ihe assembled crowd, and his eloquent address was fre quently punctuated with applause. The governor's address was entirely free from politics, though a good por tion of it was devoted to the discus sion of tli'- manly virtues of good cit izenship. Tiie speaker referred several times to Pr< sident Roosevelt and quoted at length from the speeches delivered by the president in this state. He re ferred briefly to tiie question of the > igislaLive control of railroad corpora tions, all of such references being free from any spirit of rancor, and couched in dignified, though no less emphatic terms When he expressed the opinion that the railroad corpora tions should be made to obey the laws of th< state, and should bear their shan of the just, burdens of govern ment, his expressions were roundiy Gov. Mcßride said in part: To build a great state, in addition to natural resources and a population sufficiently large to develop these re sources, and a high type of citizenship! it is essential that the views of that citizenship be correctly deflected in | tin- laws placed upon our statute hooks and in tin- enforcement and just administration of thes<- laws. "People tail short of their duty to the state when they do not see to it that this is the case. The great ma jority—yes, an overwhelming majori ty of the people are honest, upright and fearless, believing in fair and open dealings and despising meanness in all its forms. For the bribe-giver or the bribe-taker, for boodling in leg islature, or city or town council, or her public place, or for grafting in .iiv of its many forms, or for hypocri sy and double dealing, they have the most wholesome contempt. And yet, notwithstanding all this, the people art- occassionally startled and shock ed by disclosures of bribery and cor ruption in city government, as in Minneapolis and St. Louis, for in stance, or of boodling and fraud in the legislature. When we reflect that tii' se officials are chosen from among the great body of the people them selves, how can we account for their corruption? For the fact that they regard their official position not as a public trust, but as a private gratt. and use that position to betray the interests of tin- city, or of the county, ir of the state, as the case may be? In this connection use is sometimes made of tiie remark that the stream can rise no higher titan its source, those using il intending to imply that the mass of tiie people an- no better than these, their unfaithful and cor rupt si rvants. This is a foul slander on tin people, for the great majority abhor bribery, boodling and grafting as they abhor theft, burglary, highway robbery or homicide. It is true that tiie stream cannot rise above its source, hut it may fall below it; and just pointed out probably belong to thes, who would fail far below the source——possibly t i the level of the persions up >n the people. The conduct '.d tiie public officials, who betray tin interests entrusted to them is not to are no worse than those who fleet ihem. or uj awe ling upon their sup posed shrewdness in advancing their interest.' at '.he expense of the peo- Life Is Not Easy. " I would preach to no man the doctrines ol easy life. I would preach to every man a life of work for a worthy end. a life of decency, of square dealings, <>: honest behavior in the family, among one's neighbors and io the state; and so 1 would preach to the nation not the course that is easiest, but the course that is great est. In 1861 the easy thing to do was to say that the Union was dissolved and could not he put together again. ""One of tiie least admirable qual ities of any people is the quality some time s shown by men who tend to deify mere smartness, as they call it. unac companied by any sense of moral re sponsibility. Too often you hear many say of some scoundrel. -Well, he is You say. "Yes. he i s a crook,' and the answer is: "Well, maybe he is. but he is dreadful smart.' and it is meant as praise. That kind of praise is a disgrace as much 'o the man giving it as to the man receiving it. "•More and more we must strive to tin. g about the day when the suc ceSßful rascal will be hounded down as the unsuccessful rascal is.' "These are the words of the chief executive of this nation, and such ringing words, coming from such a source, should strengthen the hand and arm of every man in his fight against wrongdoing. Why Are Officials Lax? Mut tn return to the question. Why is it thai the official stream, in point of honesty, straightforwardness, fair and open dealings and manliness of action, sometimes falls so far below the source —that is, below the people, the fountain head of the stream? Are the people themselves entirely free from blame in this matter? 1 think not. President Roosevelt, in his speech at Everett, said: 'We are not to be excused as a people if we do not have the right type of legislation, and if we do not see to it that the public servants of the nation and the state fearlessly, honestly and sanely execute the law without regard to the person affect cd.' "But why are we not t o be excused as a people if we do not have the right type of legislation—if promises solemnly made do not crystalize into legislation—if our public servants prove dishonest and unfaithful, be traying our interests at the behest of the forces of cunning and greed? We are not to be excused for this as a people Lv .'.use if we, as a people, ex ercised gn v er care in the selection of our public servants this would not happen. People sometimes become so immersed in their own private af fairs that they fail to devote the time and attention to public matters ihat good citizenship requires. It is then that abuses creep in—abuses that fat ten upon what they feed, until the ex plosion conies and the masses are startled by the exposures of the utter unworthiness of some of those they have trusted. No man performs his full duty to the state who puts off ali interests in public affairs until elec tion day. simply contenting himself with going to the polls and voting for the candidate in whose selection he has had no voice. Party caucuses, party primaries and party conventions — these are the real source of power, and every good citizen owes it to him self and to the state to take part in these so far as possible and to use iiis influence to see that none hut honest and capable men are placed on guard. In his Everett speech, the president said: To Judge a Man. " 'I ask that in civil life we judge men exactly on the principle by which you judged your comrades in the great war, by which any man, when he gets down into the stress of things, has got to judge the man on his right or his left hand; in that war in time of trial, when the marching was hard, when the battle was sore, what you cared about the man on the right hand or the left hand was not in the least whether he was wealthy or not, what creed he worshipped his Maker by. whether he came from one state or another, what his birthplace was. whether he was a banker or a brick layer, lawyer, merchant or farmer. What you wanted to know was whether he would stay put.' Choice of Public Officials. "So. for instance, in nominating and electing a in. mber of the legisla sure you should not care from what state he hails, nor by what creed he worships iiis Maker, nor whether he is a farmer .a lawyer, or a doctor; a hanker or a bricklayer or a carpen ter. But what you want to know is. will he stay put? Will he be faithful to the interests of the people, living up to tiie promises made attd pledges given before election lay; or will he betray these interests, taking his or ders from tiie infamous and corrupt railroad lobby that litis been a stench n; the nostrils of every right-thinking man, woman and child in tne state ol Washington? The forces of cun ning and greed, those selfish interests desiring to block legislation favorable to the people, or to secure legislation ■ n th, ir own interests, are always on ty caucuses, primaries and conven tions for the purpose of nominating for office, not representatives of the people, but their own creatures. In curs attempt, in which, owing to tin carelessness of the people, they are too often successful, tiny care noth ing tor political parties —all -parties looking alike to them. The only way to prevent these attempts from be ing successful on the part of the cit izens; by guarding party caucuses; party primaries and party conventions and seeing to it that the sentiments of the people are reflected in these proceedings. This performance of civic duties is the price of good gov ernment In no other way can this government be. in the true meaning of the phrase. 'A government of the people, by the people and for the people." False Pretense. "If a man obtains money or other property from you under false pre tenses what do you do? You have him arrested and sent to the penitentiary. And you owe it to yourself and to tiie state to do this—to make an example of him. to the end that others may be deterred from falling into like evil courses and society is protected. But is not the man equally culpable, from a moral standpoint, who obtains your confidence and your votes under false pretenses? And yet you cannot have him prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary, except in those rare in stances where the evidence is forth- THE EVENING STATESMAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. 1903. coming to prove that his official act ion was controlled by a money con sideration. Take, for example, ami by way of illustration, a member of the legislature; suppose that the con y. ntion nominating him declares in favor of a certain policy; suppose that he goes before the people claim ing to be in sympathy with that poli cy, and pledging his utmost efforts to wards carrying U out if elected; sup pose after his election and before or after reaching Oiympia he strays into the headquarters of a lobby skillful in playing upon human weaknesses, and detecting the yellow streak in its Victims, and then does the very oppo site of what he pledged himself to the people he would do; would he nor be doing a greater wrong to the state than the man who should obtain your horse or your ox by means of false pretenses? Yet in the one case the culprit would be sent to the pen itentiary, whiie in the other he could not be reached by the iaw. But it does not follow that he would escape punishment. He could be haled before the court of public opinion, which, after all. is the court of last resort, and there branded as a political out cast and leper. The tempter, at the time of his fall, whispers in his eat that he is foolish to let the interests of the people stand in his own light, assuring him that the people are so busy with their own private affairs that they will not observe his actions, or if they do observe them they will soon forget them. Deserves Public Scorn. "But the culprit should not be for gotten: on the contrary, he should be held up to public scorn and con tumely and made an object of public contempt, to the end that others may be deterred from committing like wrongs against the state. As I said before, the opinions of the citizen ship Of the state should be reflected in the passage and in the administra tion of our laws: and this will be done if the people exercise due dili gence in the selection of their pub lis servants and in the punishment of such of them as may prove unfaithful to their trust. From this point of view we can understand and appre ciate the force and the truth of the president's remarks that 'We are not to be excused as a people if we do not have the right type of legislation: and if we do not see to it that the pub lic servants of the nation and the state fearlessly, honestly and sa,n ly execute the law without regard to the person affected.' The Corporations. "Before closing I wish to say a few words in reference to corporations. 1 have been charged, and the people of eastern Washington generally have been charged, with being hostile to corporations, especially railway cor porations. This charge is so foolish that it should tall of its own weight. We all recognize that the railroads have been an important factor in the upbuilding of the state. But they have not been the only factor. They alone have not made th i state what it is to day. The farim r, the lumberman, the stockgrower, the miner, the manu facturer, the merchant, the mechanic —in short, every one who has assist ed in the developement of our re sources is entitled to a portion of the credit. But. it may be said, the state would not be what it is today with out the railroads. True, nor would the railroads be what they are today without the people and their praise worthy efforts in the upbuilding of the state. The men who build and manage railroads do so primarily for their own benefit; incidentally they benefit the state at large, and for this they are entitled to due meed of praise. The same is true of the man engaged in any other enterprise. He engages in it primarily for his own benefit, and where incidentally he ben efits others he. too. is entitled to his full measure, of credit for so doing. As no man is sufficient unto himself, so no line of business or no avocation is sufficient unto itself. Each is mu tually dependent upon the other. No enterprise ran prosper by itself, or suffer by itself. As our mutual ef forts have made tiie state what it is. so our interests are in common. It is foolish, then, to ascribe to any man. or set of men. or to any particular en terprise th.- entire credit, or undue credit, for the development of our re sources and the building of thi's grand and great commonwealth. The Railroads. ' I believe that own ts of railroads should be treated fairly and justly the same as any other individual. 1 believe their property should be af forded the full protection of the law the same as any other kind of proper, ty. 1 believe they should not be singled out either for attack or for the granting to them of especial priv ileges; and I believe they should be required m obey the law the same as the humblest citizen in the state of Washington. If. to believe this is to lie hostile to the railroads, then I confess to such hostility. "While 1 believe in according to the railroads perfectly fair treatment. I also believe that the managers of rail roads have no right to maintain a lob by for the purpose of attempting through corrupt moans to manipulate conventions, influence elections and control legislatures. If entering a vig orous protest against these abuses can be construed' as hostility towards the railroads, then again I confess to that hostility. Protection Is Due. "I believe that railroad property should be afforded the full protection of the law; and it is afforded such protection in this state; and it is probably true that the protection of this property, in proportion to its value, costs the state more than the protection of any other kind of property. In return for this protection afforded by the law to railroad prop erty I believe that property should bear its full share of the public bur den in the matter of taxation. It is not doing so today. If believing rail- way corporations should not be per mitted to shift their share of the pub lic burden to the shoulders of others constitutes hostility towards such corporations, then 1 must plead guilty t,> the charge of such hostility. Should be Controlled. "Kailway corporations derive their existence from the law. They live, move and have their being by. through and under the law: and as creatures of the law 1 believe they should submii to regulation by the law. The supreme court of the Unit ed States has held that the people have a right to regulate railroad cor poiations through the agency of a commission; our suite constitution authorizes the establishment of such an agency; and a majority of the sta.es of the Union have resorted to such an agency. And in no instance has harm resulted to the rai>roads, while in most instances great good has resulted to the people. As these railway corporations live, move and have their being by. through and ur der the law. so. I believe, they should be regulated by. through and under the agency of a commission establish ed by the people through their legis lature, subject always, to an appeal to the courts. "Such, fellow citizens, are my views in reference to railway corporations; and if these views can be interpreted as being hostile to such corporations, then, once again, must I confess to such hostility. "In closing, permit me to say, 1 hope to see those views crystalized into legislative enactment, and that I shall do everything in my power to that end." There is plenty of opportunity for every one in the Statesman coupon contest. EMORY SMITH TO BLAME For Irregularities in Postal Department III! SUPPRESSED IHVESTIfiITIOI Perry Heath, Former Fourth Assist ant, Used Position to P.eward Hanna's Favorites. The Washington correspondent of the Oregonian says: Much of the responsibility for postal irregularities that is thrown on the shoulders of Perry Heath, fourth as sistant postmaster-general. by the report of General Bristow, would, if all the facts were known, be distrib uted among a number of prominent men in the republican party, but no one would bear a greater share than Charles Emory Smith. It is a fact no longer disputed that when Smith was postmaster-general he was advised by General Bristow and by reports of his inspectors of gross irregularities, particularly in the Washington post office, and Smith himself admits hav ing received these reports, but he ex plains away irregularities behind the now familiar expression, '"exigencies of the Spanish war." Knew the Rolls Were Padded. Smith knew the postal rolls were padded; in fact, it is known that he himself appointed to office a number of women clerks who rendered little or no service for the salary drawn, yet he sanctioned their conduct. That Smith had knowledge of the graver frauds in the free delivery di vision is not brli,>\ed. but he was ad vised by his inspectors that the af fairs of thai office would bear close scrutiny. He ordered an examination, which was far from thorough, and gave the bureau a clean bVli. without having seriously undertaken to get at the facts. To this extent he is cul pable, but it is not believed he was aware of the money-making practices in vogue in that direction. In a word.! Smith was lenient, and allowed mm h to be done in the department "for the sake of the patty." such as the ap pointment of "heelers" and other re cognition of persons supposed to havei rendered the party a service. He had j a very full knowledge of the actions of First Assistant Heath and gave] them his moral if not written approv al. . _ , McKinley Would Shield No Grafters. Attempts 'nave been made from time to time to bring President McKinley into the conspiracy, but there is a\t parently no good authority for assu ming that he knew of the corruption that was being practiced in the postal service. It is known that during the investigation of the Cuban postal frauds President .McKinley stood firmly by General Bristow. and insist ed upon a thorough investigation. Great influence was brought to bear on him at the time to drop the case agafnst Neely and others, but he de clined to yield, even "for the good of the party." He would in no way sanction the misappropriation of postal frauds, and was never once swerved from his pur pose of unearthing the wrongdoers, and bringing them to justice. There is the best of reasons for believing that this was his attitude at all times towards the postal service generally. Abner McKinley Mixed Up In Case. Not so much can be said of his brother. Abner. At every turn con nected with every new corruption covers 125 acres- 60 city blocks. Brew House—6,ooo Barrels Daily. Bottling Works—7oo,ooo Bottles Daily. Ice & Refrigerating Plants—3,3oo Tons Daily. Malt Houses—s,ooo Bushels Daily. Storage Elevators—l,2so,ooo Bushels. Stock Houses—42s,ooo Barrels. Steam Power Plant—7,7so Horse Power. Electric Light & Power Plant—4,ooo Horse Power, Employs 5,000 People. Largest Brewery in the World All orders promptly filled by ADOLPH SCHWARTZ, Wholesale Dealer. William Jones —%rJ GRAIN He pays the I C SCOTT MoT highest market price v -'* *J\*KJ 11, '^I^l. Walla Walla, Wash. FRIDAY ! IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS IN 1 j THE WEEK TO PUT IN A j GAS~ I STOVE THE OTHERS ARE j Thursday, j Honday, j | Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday. Cheaper than Wood or Coal ICon! and Comfortable. Sold on Installments. IF YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE BUY HER A GAS STOVE. WALLA WALLA GAS AND ELECTRIC CO. brought to light in the department at this time is beard the name of Abner McKinley. While there has been no proof so far of his complicity, he is under suspicion, but Abner McKinley's shrewdness is web known in Washing ton, and there are many who believe that even though he may have profited immensely by •"irregularities in the postal service." he has covered his tracks so effectively that he can never be caught. Get in early on the Statesman cou pon contest. Site of the Battle cf Queenstcn. Buffalo. N. V.. June, 26.—At ton today there was nnvei ■ ■ terestfng ceremonies a t . to mark the site when Gene f ,. | field Scott planted a batten I opening of the battle ol U (October 13. 1812. The tablet w* ted by the Niagara Fi .-,.'.;> ! marks' association and I I was performed by des< * ff M I Major Benjamin Barton jjjj the land on which the Daw i fought. The Statesman contest is i" 5 * 1 Work for the prize now.