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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1910
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Now is the time to Save Money by Buying A Boys' Clothes at Cost
PE
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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 !
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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-
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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
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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!
Office '
Fresh
FRUIT
(Cor.tlnTOi' on Page Three.
We Have Them.
Six pound Elec
tric Flat Irons at
$3.75
Each
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