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ATHENA PRESS P. B. Botd, Publisher. Entered at Athena postofllce as second-class nail matter. . Subscription tates: I'cr year. In advance . SUM . Slngleeoples In wrappers, 5c. 1 ' Advertising Kates: ' Local reading notice, first Insertion, 10c per Une. Each subsequent Insertion, 6e. All communications should be addressed to i lie PRESS Athena, Oregon ATHENA, MAY 22. .. 1908 1 It is not strange perhaps that English editors should have made a mistake in estimating the size of the American re public and the force of its people. The mistake is a very natural one, in view of the fact that the same error has been cherished by the people who live along the Atlantic seaboard. The newspapers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, but more especially those of the metropolis, have for years labored under the mistaken impression that a line drawn directly south from the cen terof New York state constituted the western boundary of all tbe territory of the United States that was great and really influential. This idea lmB been carried into finance, business, politics and everything else of interest to the American people us a whole. But the people of the east, who are really pro vincial when it comes to forming a cor rect estimate of the resources and great Daa of the republic, have learnod sever al lessons within tho past decade. They have now discovered that the great and growing West is a vital and compalling force in the republic and that it must be admitted to the national councils and heeded when it speaks.' Accordiog to the Elkhart (Ind.) Truth, it is reported that the interstate com merce commission is about to investigate the coal trust. That may or may not be true. The investigation will probably not result in much good should it be made. Thus far the interstate commerce commission has proved a failure so far as its efforts to control transportation rates are concerned. The coal trust has been in existence for a number of years, but the commission has never before seen fit to give it notice. The same may bo said of many other trusts now en gaged in interstate commerce. The Northern Securities decision has given rue to various rumors as to the proba bility of further trust prosecutions. Tbe latest and most probable is that nothing more will be done to bring ac tion against industrial or railroad com bines until after the supreme court has p issed upon the merger decision. One of our greatest protections against war is our isolation from the other pow ers of the world. Every mile of ocean voyage for a foreign fleet is worth a buttloship or two to us. To throw down tho bars that protect South America would be to deprive us of a great advan tage. It would give European govern ments a foothold in that country, where coaling stations could be established, and would thus give them a great strat egical advantage in the event of war with one or more of them. We must maintain the Monroe doctrine at all hazards. A medical journal cheerfully announc es that "lettuce is an absolute preventive of smallpox." Well as between salad and vaccination most people will declare for salad every time. All over the United States the question of good roads for the country district is being agitated. It is of equal benefit to the city property owner as it is to the farmer. A Walla Walla couple have named a youngster Theodore Roosevelt Henry Clay Paine Brandenburg, lie will probj ably be known by his schoolmates as "Brandy." China's new minister was accompanied to Washington by forty-two Chinese diplomats and a carload of Oriental rugs. Only incleiuout weather will prevent the gathering of the largest crowd of people ever before in Athena on next Tuesday and Wednesday. The occasion being the annual picnic of the Umatilla Caledonian society, every Scot aud clan ; Las for weeks been doing all in their power for the "good of tbe order" and every effort has been made toward mak ing. the big picnic the event of the year. Athena will welcome them all, extend to all a warm hospitality, and the Scots will provide the entertainment. Load up your baskets and come. President Roosevelt says the' Monroe doctrine includes the isthmian canal and all Americans agree with him But what if France had completed the ditch T A scheme for the division of Turkey is under discussion. All the powers are objecting to the piece that has the sul tan in it. After the picnic, then a rousing, old time Fourth of J uly celebration 1 LOVE'S LABOR LOST. It may be rather trying to the tempers of certain disinterested gentlemen, who from a sense of public duty only, have been industriously circulating petitions for a referendum on certain rets of the last legislature to learn their labor is all in Tain. The fact is that not one law passed at the last session of tbe legisla ture is subject to the referendum. If they who were acting had given but modicum of thought to the subject they would have been saved the humiliation of having exposed their cloven foot. If the following facts and principles are understood, there need be no trouble in arriving at a correct conclusion : . . . . First. The referendum amendment as adopted simply declares and defines right reserved by the people. Amongst other things it reserves to the people the right to have referred to a vote any laws passed by the legislature excepting those relating to tbe public health r safety, provided petitions for this pur pose are filed with the secretary of state within 90 days after the adjournment of tbe legislature. second, this amendment, no more than the other provision of the constitu tion respscting the method of amending it, w self-operative. No machinery is provided in the amendment itself to carry out its purposes, and the secretary of state without legislation, would be as helpless as a child to do anything under it. Third. At the last session of the leg islature an act was passed providing the machinery to carry into effect the pur poses of the initiative and referendum amendment. Fourth. All acts excepting those having emergoncy clauses go into effect 00 days after the legislature adjourns n'Sll -T . .m m m . . ... riuu. xt inererore follows tnat no petition can be filed or be effective until the law prescribing the method and manner of operating under the amend ment is a law. It was a law on May 21, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature, and the 90 days having thus expired within which, under the refer endum amendment, petitions can be filed, they are now too late, and every law passed by the legislature, nnless there be constitutional objections to them, will stand. We go further and maintain that the secretary of state has no authority to even file petitions. He cannot receive and file them now for there is no law in effect giving him au thority so to do. When the law becomes effective, it is then too late, for the 90 days will have expired. The editor of the Journal is not a law yer, but he will Venture to predict tbat the secretary of state will not file a pe tition until he has the opinion of the attorney-general on the question, and that the attorney general will en dorse those sad, sad words, "too late," on certain papers now being circulated "up the valley." Oregon Daily Jour nal. MOTHERHOOD The groatest ambition of Amer ican men and womeu Li to have homes blcwied with children. The woman afflicted with female dis ease la constantly menaced with becoming a childless wife. No medicine can restoro dead or gans, but Wine of Cardul does rcgulato derangements that pre vent conception; docs prevent miscarriage j does restore weak functions and shattered nerves and docs bring babies to homes barren and desolate for years. Wine of Cardul gives women the health and strength to beat heal thy children. You can got a dollar bottlo of Wino of Cardul from your dealer. l7ifJE"CAnDUI 1 Market Street, Memphis, Tenn., April 14, 1901. 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