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' il COB'MLUS dAZETTE iblished Tuesdays and Fridays by jazette"Puei.ishims Company. fo P' cc ie Subscription price of the Gazexz several years has been, and remain .fer annunvor -25 per cent discountifj ; ; It-13 said it -Requires i in advance. - inis paper win oe unued until all arrearages re paid' in the efficacy of those laws which were communicated to Moses amid the thunders and lisrhtnings of Sinai. So do they. Hisqlicy looks to the enforce- meip of those., laws, whence thejj approve rt.5- ,-:u-rv -- THE REASON 'WH Y. Juch ado is. makin? by the press over the admirable speech tv :&ntly made by the President at Nashville, Tennessee. It is a ti neiyand brave statement of the President's purposes, set . forth in claar, plain, direct and forci b! ; English. It merits all praise. It-makes no special appeal to man to support the presidential P" tides, yet it is the strongest, m st effective appeal to all right minded men to stand by the President. They are doing so. T ,ey will continue todos.o. this speech, possibly more th in any other public utterance of .Vlr. Raosevelt, furnishes us tho key to his wonderful popu la ricy a popularity equal to, but hardly exceeded by that of Wash ington, Jackson or Lincoln. As the people believed in Washing ton's patriotism and unbending integrity so they believe in Roosevelt's; as they believed in the courage, patriotism and honesty of Jackson and of Lin coln so they believe in Roose velt's courage, patriotism and honesty. The simple, rugged, democratic characteristics of .Jackson and of Lincoln identified them with the people and led the masses to regard them as but one of themselves. So it is with Theodore Roose velt. The people, the plain every day, common people look on him as one of themselves. He has discovered no new law for the moral government of men. I Neither have they. He believes courage for public men to. ; lake such,' a stand as the President takes. Perhaps it does. But why should it? Leading a regiment into bat tle' requires "both ' physlcaFand moral courage,, but when-its conv manderseesa thousand, glisten hing bayonets following his lead he would be a sorry coward if he faltered. ; ; The President practically -has the whole American people at his back and he cannot falter. fl to. ax e .in oar own life and continually heedless of that of others. Whether our objective be sport, pleasure or business wi ward-it at a mad pace-wMcn is ffaqght.jsvith imminent Ourselves !,and to allA w ouf path..'itvt 7S'pS .;. rassmg oy tne long ly list of fatalities occurring in the domains of sport and pleas ure, we find almost every indus trial pursuit ' is attended . by a fearful, destructions of " human life.-.-. -. , The. American Institute,. of Social Service reports that nearly 537,000 people are killed or m&im ed annually in American indus trial pursuits. These figures are annallins-. ' We cannot ' o-rnsn He is not more courageous than jthern Think of the 0AC cadet multitudes of his fellow citizens. Lnrns . Em stmrir nno nf He has no graater reverence for nor attachment to the require ments of the decalogue than have millions of Americans. His ideals and leading characteristics are American," democratic, and iden tify him as one of the people. He represents and stands for L those things in which the people believe and which they desire. His fidelity to those things ex plains their attitude toward him Any other man equally exponen tial of American ideals, purposes and conscience would be as popu lar as he. It is his good fortune that he, like L'ncoln, sees the public conscience right, knows the people and trusts them, It would be dark a day for the republic if the mass of the people should not be found in full ac cord with whoever stood up to battle for truth, justice and righteousness in both social and civic life. RECKLESS OF. LIFE. There is no civlized people on ear,th so utterly reckless of hu man life as the American people. As individuals we are reckless of them lying on the campus dead or maimed for life. Now . in crease this number 1074 times and we have an annual number of death-dealing and incacacitating causalties attending our industri al pursuits. We could not and would not long conduct a war resulting in so great a number of causalties. Much has been done by way of legislation to prevent or to minimize this waste of life and energy. Employes and owners operating mines and mills and factories have been compelled to adopt almost every conceivable safe-guard for the life and limb of their employes They are made criminally liable to heavy I fine or imprisonment or to both ' for their failure or neglect to do so, beside being liable to civil action for damages. The courts, too, by limiting and clearly de fining contributing negligence on part of the employe, have aided to make the self-interests of em ployers an active agency for pre venting conditions which menace the safety of their employes. More remains to be done. But when all that, legislation can do has been done there will yet re main a long list of fatal or ser ious "accidents" to deal with. ese are very largely the result of ignorance anil- of sheer reek ppjgsiess on part of employes themselves. The green hand is ignorant of tbe datigera; which silrround hirm "H6 , has tor learn his duties and his place and the certain danger to himself and his fellow workmen if he neglect one or get out of the other. Rude, sharp, painful the warnings he must receive and Che lesson he must learn before, he movss with automatic unconcerri and intelli gence about ... his work" . Some loose their life, others are maim ed and but few pass this '-'learning process" unscathed. .Those who do escape incapacitating "accident" have learned to keep their place and do their work whoever and whatever may be in their way. , Constant familiarity with dan ger begets contempt for it, reckless, heedless exposure to it and ultimate destruction of him self and possibly of some of his fellow workmen. There seems to be no way to avoid this. The oldest, most skilled and most intelligent workmen usually fall victims to their own negligence. The disregard for human life that marks the American people is, without doubt, a legacy of our civil war. We have not emerged yet far enough to for get that it taught us that "one man Killed does not count." Four years passed in killing and maiming men caused the value of human life to become a neglig ible quantity. This sentiment the survivors of the war carried, as employers or employes,, into the pursuits of peace. Ante-dating this, we began killing human beings soon after the" landing of the Mayflower and have practiced it quite in dustriously ever since. It is smal wonder we are careless of human life.7 We Invite , fYour inspection! of our rStockof :,"vVV.'$ tafliesr and , Misses ; Coats CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Wool Dress Goods, Cottdn ? J Wash Dress Fabrics y" - i n : , J Our Stock is Cem plete in Every Detail', at Right Prices. lienkle & Davis f WANTED LOCAL IiEPRESEXTA tive for Corvaliis and vit-initv to look after renewals and increase subscrip tion lis of a prominent monthly maga zine on salary and commis-sion basis, Experience desirable, but not neces sary. Good opportunity for right per son. Address Publisher, Box 59, Sta tion O, New York. 83-89 BANKING. THE Film NATIONAL BANK OF Cor va! lis, Oregon, transacts a general conservative banking business. Loans money on approved security. 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