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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Twiob-a-Week Toesdat akd Fbidat f. b. bot, pubw8hbb. Entered ss necond.elas matter, March 1, 10OI, at tbe poitofflee at Atbena, Oregon, under uo Act ot Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription (. i Vat year, in advanot 8lnglecoples In wrappers, Sc. I2.U0 Advertising flats l t.N'4i reading notloei, Orst insertion, 10c per ik. Rachiabieqnentlniertion.Se. A li commnnlcatloni should be addressed to i PKK8B Atbena, Oregon ATHENA, AUGUST 1,1905 Hearst 'a Chicago American of a re cent issue contained the following editorial, which has created no little WUMUIKUlt UU IUU JJUIfa Vi Haw generally because of the fact that it shows a spirit of fairness which does net always characterize the Ameri can's editorials. It says: "It wonld be a misfortune to the country if the few big papers in the big cities should interfere seriously with the publication of the valuable and intelligent local newspapers for upon these local newspapers the wel fare of the country very largely de pends. The metropolitan daily cannot possibly know the needs of the various localities and small cities. Only the local newspapers can protect local needs and iuilucnco local opinion. Of course we are very glad to have as many people as possible read the Chicago American in the big cities and the little cities. But we hope that in every small towu and every village there will be enough intelli gence and public spirit on the part of the local inhabitants to support earn estly and enthusiastically tbe best local nowspaper, giving encouraging approbation and a good living to the local editor, who alone can represeut and defend justice and pnblio spirit among his neighbors. The man is nufortuimto who cannot afford to take two newspapers at today's prices. . He who can afford only one newspaper, in our opinion shold display his souse of duty to his locality by taking the local newspaper." News columns of eastern papers give evidence of considerable atten tion being paid to the exposure' of blackmail methods that- have beeu 3 i -vr it , "i; j m ' pursnca iu .mow iora viiy ior some time by certain notorious and noxious publications of that city, and sur prise is expressed that prominent busi ness and social men should submit to tbe terms laid down by such publica tions. And yet the very same meth od of blackmail has Iweu practiced iu Washington at the beginning of every congress for the past ten years or moro, and there hag beeu no outcry from a single victim or intended vic tim. United States senators, rather than run the risk of being roasted or shown up, have gone into their pook -ets for anywhere from 100 to 1000 every two years, at the diotatioii of as bold and villainous scoundrels as ever worked a flim-flam in that city. At the beginning of every congress these bunco artists appear in the capitol, Icet Me at Yon oau always safely say this when you come to towu, and wiHU to muke shopping appointments with a friend. We've got a sort of comfort rooom for your convenience, and you have a standing invitation to uso it whenever you like. It's a good place to clean up, if you have had a long ride. It's a good plaoe to rest, if you feel like resting. It's a good plaoe to wait, if you are waiting. There is general ly something to read, if you feel like reading. Good place to leave you bundles, too, if you don't feel like carrying them around with you. Our store has been enlarged and our stocks are larger and better than ever before and we want yon to come and look around whether buying or not Sort of make the store your headquarters, for you are surely welcome when you come. THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-1C-1K M-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -!- WASH. call on tbe various senators, represent that they are going to issue gome book on the lives of all senators. Each senator is asked to furnish his portrait "which the company will publish' free of oost if you have a copper plate en graving." Of course no senator has a copper plate, so it costs him anywhere from $50 to $500 for the plate. Some thing extra is thrown in for writing up a creditable biography. But there is not alone one holdup artist of this sort ; there are usually three or four at the opening of every congress, and it is' a graft that is worked as regular ly as congress convenes. Life insurance costs too much by far in America. This is the great lesson of the Equitable scandal. Tbe public may demand that state or nation run the insurance business. In . Germany tbe government's industrial insurance is run at a cost for administration of only 7 per cent, of the receipts, In England the oost is only 9 per cent of receipts in the government 's ordinary life insurance, but in the average American company it is 84 per cent. Out of every dollar paid for life in surance in this country 84 cents goes for expenses, while government insur ance in England is run nt one-fourth this expense. America may well take a lesson in life insurance from Germany and England. It is - too sacred an institution to be allowed to continue without suitable regulations in the intorest of the insured. THK PLKA OF THK PIRATES. (Oregonian. ) Had Governor La Follette made the same remark a few years ago which he made at Galesburg the other, day, he would have beeu numbered thence forth among incendary anarchists. "I should like," said the governor, "to have a hand iu hanging Stuyvesant Fish." The nation does not shudder; it merely wonders why Mr. La Fol lette should limit bis sanguinary im pulse to Stuyvesant Fish out of tbe great multitude who are ripe for the halter. Indeed, a very audible sigh of regret ascends from the American people that the bolligerant reformer cannot proceed from the wish to its fulfillment. Nevertheless, Stuyvesant Fish is a great man and Mrs. Stuy vesant Fish is something more than a great lady. He is president of the Illinois Central railroad, and she has declined to be the wife of the presi dent of the United States. To be sure, she declined without being asked, but it is the feeling of the heart, we must remember, that counts, not the ex ternal circumstances. Later, and at a Chautauqua As sembly, too, where incendiary utter ances must fall on the timidly correct congregation, one would suppose, like a band of pirates upon a nunnery, Mr. La Follette violently denounced that pillar of the church, the college and society, John D. Rockefeller. It is added iu the account that what he said was applauded. Trifling iu them selves, such facts as these are far from trival when they must be taken as symptoms of a profound ethical revo lution iu the nation. They are the surface wavelets which tell something of a deep disturbance iu the ocean of society. It is not unlikely that the American people are feeling just now tbe initial stirrings of a tremendous revival,. Not a revival of ecclesia sticism, but of vital and efficient righteousness. That this is coming there are many signs. The enduring popularity of Theodore Roosevelt, who is a righteous man iu the sense of Matthew Arnold and the Hebrew, prophets, is one sign. It is another, most omiuous for evildoers in high places, that the wrath of tbe people against them does not burn itself out The public does not weary of the continuous flood of exposure and de- Davis-Kasers Mail Orders a Specialty nnnciation in the. newspapers. As people wake to the meaning "of it, they are fascinated '" and enraged. They are stricken with the whole some, old fashioned conviction of sin, not in the grafters only, but in them selves. A whole nation is crying "Lord, be merciful unto us miserable sinters." The belief is coming home to all of us that if Diogenes were to set out with his candle today toflnd an honest man, be would be still 'less successful than he was in Athens two thousand years ago. Tbe nation sick ens of its moral filth. ; How will it fare with pillars of society like Fish and Rockefeller in that day of wrath which seems to be at hand? No sane person looks for a bloody, and, possibly, richly deserved, retribution upon these men ; but there is going to be a fearful coming to judgment of some sort What can they say in their defense? They can say, for one thing, that they are symptoms, rather than causes, of the national disease. Rockefeller can successfully plead in reply to Miss Tarbell, for example, "who indicts him again in the August MoClure's, that he has not made the nation dishonest but, rather, that the dishonesty of the nation gave him his opportunity to achieve his bad eminence in piracy. He was born into corruption, and, like the larvae of certain insects, he found it uniquely adapted to his nature, and throve in it Not one of his 8ohen.es could have been manned or executed in a community of sound moral ideas. All of them must have failed in a country where adequate laws were faithfully enforced. Mr. Rockefeller found the law neither adequate to cover the conditions of modern commerce, nor ; enforced when its antiquated rules did apply. For every principle of law be found a method of evasion with as good or better standing in the courts. He has used the law as an apparatus for plun der ; but he found law and lawyers ready to his hand. He created neither of them.' Nor has he ever failed to find plenty of helpers in all his pre datory undertakings. . With the soul of a miser and the in tellect of a Bacon, Mr. Rockefeller was born at a time when lax morals and inadequate laws invited avarice to plunder. He aocepted the invita tion with determined seal, and for many years he spent all his energy in devouring his abundant and easy prey. A student of the evolution of Mr. Rockefeller would naturally call this the larva, or grub, period of his life. The student would also expect to see him emerg from this lowly estate, as all grabs do, and soar above the earth as a winged creature. Mr. Rockefeller, and all his genius,, try very hard to complete their evolution and show themselves as something of a finer nature than mere devourers. No one enjoys the hatred of bis kind. In these men the hunger for approba tion even overcomes their avarice, and, without forsaking their .evil ways, they pay enormous sums to buy the praise, or at least, the silence, of those who lead public opinion. They find both the praise and the silence for sale; but they find also that in this matter public opinion will not be led. It moves more and more strongly toward condemnation and beigns to repudiate tbe leaders who would, as it thinks, mislead. These criminals, who have so long defied the law and despised the rules of manly fair dealing, and who now wish to pose as philanthropists and benefac tors of humanity, hear nothing from the great publio but sneers and satire. They may ultimately hear something worse, for the American" people are growing impatient of hypocrisy. But, whatever may fail, they are entitled to plead that the nation which now condemns them tempted them to com mit their misdeeds by its own inade quate laws, pliant judiciary and lax morals. WHIT1 WATER IS THE OCEAX. Wls. at laterraaa l Mb ' leal It Ot the many tight wHneeeed In the ocean of the globe, one of the most curious and most weird la that de scribed by saltan as "the milky sea,' ships being surrounded for several hoars by water that appears to be a snowy whiteness. Compiled from ex perienees recorded during the last 70 years, an interesting account of the phenomenon la gWen on the Xorth At lantic and Mediterranean Pilot Tr1. The spectacle is restricted to the dark ness of night and rare rerninon, and, while it is limited mainly ro the warm-' er waters of the tropical belt, it ap-. pears to be more common in the In--dian ocean than in the Atlantic and Pacific. From the white water the light is so strong that ordinary news paper print can be read on board ship, bnt the acen all around is of an awe inspiring description. The horiion is blotted out, sea and sky seem to be come one in a sort of universal lumi nous fog, which, like a London fog. robe the observer of the sense of dis tance and direction, the deck being lit p with a ghastly, shadowless light. Last June off the west coast of South America a bucket of the white water emptied back into the sea resembled molten ... This curious sight has interested scientific inrestigatora, Dar win among them; but while it is, no doubt, related to the many phosphor escent displays common at sea, there is no difficult explanation forthcom ing of this particular manifestation or of the singular atmospheric effect re sulting from it T fare VmutiiwiMM cmotst. Take Ciwartls Candy Cathartic. 10c or tSfc I, I a. t ffu li J a 1 ., a V V w '. 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