Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly volume 11.djvu/328

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F. G. Young

through their hands are contrived by those who under these conditions aspired to public positions. All this financial experience of the people of Oregon with regard to the compensation of the officials came about through the inadequate appreciation by the people of the means at hand in their state organization of promoting their common welfare.