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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1910)
: 11:1 .-: , "lit ; II: ; .,-. .. if; ;!: !;! I., p. i : i PAOETWO LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1910 MCI M 1 Boys9 ' Uottti Off Slhioes 3 Now is the time to Save Money by Buying A Boys' Clothes at Cost PE G. NINGTON An Indian can be happy with- out a Piano, ' But who wants to be an Indian? STEJNWAY, LVDWIG, KERTZMANN, A. B. CHASE and C0N0VER Pianos for sale by So To Scott ! O A ft mm ' ut Glass and Hand Painted China? From now until July 17, I will make a specially low price on cut glass and hand painted China. It will pay you to examine my stock and get a good se lection before buying your gifts. 'All 1 styles of wedding rings including Tiffany, ' round, oval, etc., tit lowest prices in Eastern Oregon, Quality considered. . I will Save You Money. H. Peare, La Grande's Leading Jeweler, Opposite Land Office I DON'T YOU MISS i This Opportunity PATRIOTISM 18 HOUR'S SEED ernment in their own bands. If cor- - - V Could You use another Suit at a price? We believe you can and will, after you learn the value of the suit and the Price that will buy It. We're going to do some gr eat stunts In the way of suit selling. We Inaugurate A GREAT SUIT SALE The Suits are our best the newest we have. All fashionably cut and excellently tailored, from choice fab rics not ft Bale of old suits, but a sale of new1 suits. Suits that you can wear at any season of the year. There will be a rush for these Suits, for everybody knows that when we advertise to do a thing, we never fall to deliver the goods. Select your suit at once dont delay. Get in line with the men who will carry these suits away. Suits under their arms and savings in their pockets. Can you afford to miss this opportunity! ASH BROTHERS, Clothiers and Furnishers 4 sire that reform be made more thor ough but to discredit what 'has been done. If one sincerely desires pro gress in the way of better things, In stead of criticism he will give help in the accomplishment of the things wished for. Reform always progresses by degrees everything cannot be done In a day. , One of the obstacles to the pro gress of righteousness everywhere Is the mistaken view that It injures a city or state to prosecute wrong-doing. I have heard men deplore the ex posure of public corruption because it hurts a city; I have seen men op pose the enforcement of law against gambling and liquor lawlessness be cause it injures the state; I have heard men object to prosecuting trust and monopolies because it hurts busi ness. Such views are entirely false. No city can be Injured by the enforce ment of the people's law3; to do oth erwise is to substitute the will of the official for the laws of the peop'.o and that Is tyrrany. No state can be hurt by opposing graftin; to do oth erwise is to connive at It. There Is no secret remedy known for evils of this character. They cannot be cured by hiding them. The disgrace is not in their correction, but In submis sion to them with supine Indiffer ence. "It is well for a state to display its virtues and not parade its faults, but It Bhould not be forgotten that the highest civic virtue Is in the over throw of civic depravity. Grafters, whether in St. Louis, Phladelphla, Chicago, San Francisco, or Pittsburg, always endeavor to have it appear that a fight against them is a slander against the city in which they operate. Criminal wealth, when assailed, al ways tries to hide behind the skirts of legitimate Business, and claims that business is being attacked. Ac cording to thoir argument Krafters Bhould never bo assailed lest some assume that all In the city are graft ers; and lawlessness in business should not be fought lest, it be sus pected that nil In business Is law less. "In the work before you there is no use for the sword, but there is a stern demand for that courage shown by Americans on so many battlefields. The spirit they exhibited as soldiers of warwe should show as soldiers of peace In the noblest work to which a patriot can be called ttye supreme and sublime effort to bring a little nearer day by day. the time when brotherhood and charity shall rule in stead of avarice and greed; when spe cial privilege in every form shall be destroyed and equal rights to all en throned as the ruling principle of publir, and the guiding principle of private life. "The most conspicuous fault of state and city government In the Uni ted States today Is that they are gov ernments by the few and not by the people. There has been ilmprjbve ment In th last fw yars.but thrrm ment in the last few years, but there remains much to be done In the direc tion of better things. There Is still too much aggressive selfishnesB and avarice and too little aggressive pc.r!otlsm. If the patriot !s;ii coiiii be made as eggress've as the rctUr.ii the problem of good Jl'.vernmeat everywhere would be i upuuu are to blame. If corruption is to bo eradicated the people alone can do it. What Is needed is more of the kind of patriotism that fights for the city, state and country every day; the kind of patriotism that will go Into battles of peace as readily as Into battles of war. "If a government anywhere neg lects the people it is because the peo ple first neglected the government. The law-abiding people' are in the majority, and there is hardly a com munity In the country of which this cannot be said. They are usually quiet though, while the lawless are so vo ciferous as to deceive many as to their number. A majority of the people are honest and want good govern ment, but do not, as a rule, work for it, while the minority are pernicious ly active all the time. The lawless stand on the street and talk for their side, while the law abiding are timid and unobtrusive. A dozen law break ers can make more noise than five hundred law abiding citizens, but they do not count for much against the united efforts of the law abiding. They are always active, however, while the average good citizen be comes active occasionally. They sur round an official and sing him the si ren song of the good politics of serv ing him instead of the publld It is al ways easier for an official to Berve the 'gang' Instead of the people. Un less the official be strong he will be led astray by their' alluring prom ises. "When the lawless get a bad man In office they support him in all the evil that he does; but when the law abid ing get a man in office too often they are ready to criticize him, and leave him to fight the battles without their active aid. That's the trouble. Good men are divided and bad men are uni ted. If good citizens could only be In duced to join hands ia patriotic en deavor before the election and stay Joined after the election, the forces of error would be vanished like evil spirits, at the dawn of day. "I am not an alarmist, and I do not UUIeve that the United States of America will cease to exist as repub lic today nor tomorrow. We have last ed for one hundred and thirty-four years, a long time when compared with the average period of one man's public activity, but short in the his tory of nations. Venice had a repub lican form of government for one thousand years; Carthage endured as a republic for seven hundred years, and Athens lasted nine hundred years, though there were intermis- j sions during that time. Florence was a republic for three hundred years, and Rome for five hundred.- These government were once great factors' in civilization, and their citizens ' probably thought they would last for- j j ever, that nothing could overthrow I i them. We are likely to harbor similar ' ideas, and it is possible that they will prove to be wrong. 1 "The conditions that caused the downfall of those old republics, now almost forgotten, were the same con ditions that will cause the downfall of the American republic, if It is not to endure. The dangers He in the heart:) of the people. - "Too many are Indifferent and this indifference of voters Is the greatest menace to a republican focm of gov ernment Arouse the voters to an un derstanding of the danger, convince them that they are personally and di rectly concerned, get them moving once and they are Invincible. But while most people are honest, they are inactively so, while the vicious minority are perniciously active. It is Wilson & Brittian, Electrical -Contractors, Prompt and careful attention given all work. All work guar anteed to pass underwriters', examination. . i Best ELECTRIC IRON on the market; also ELEC1RIC FAHS One Door south of Observe! 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