beauty and nobleness of the woman­ phase is used to cover innumerable possess a wonderful knowledge of ing a majority of the Equitable
were limited. He forms of city government. The men, although she never married, stock, Mr. Morgan comes into con­
JS’Pttíttul. ly could character
not think with, Tennyson, fundamental and vital idea of mu­ as well as of the weakness of her trol of banking resources that in­
BY LEW. A. CATES.
that “woman is not undeveloped
man, but diverse.” He seems to
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Entered at the Cottage Grove Postoffice
as Second Class Mail Matter.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Christmas will be celebrated with
fervor and enthusiasm in Cottage
Grove. . Prosperity smiles and yule
tide cheer will gladden the hearts
of old and young in every home.
The contentment which comes of
prosperity through wholesome in-
dusty is seen on every hand. Our
land is free from internal disorder
and safe from outside molestation.
Honest labor finds steady employ­
ment at wages which give a living
at least comfortable. The poor we
have always with us, but the chill
of destitution is not widely preva­
lent, and where it is felt there are
generous hands extended in kindly
aid. We may consistently make
this a joyous festival, for ours is a
glad land today, a Vigorous people,
confident in the security of warm
homes, of family affection, of dis-,
interested friendship, and of fair
and clean conditions in public life.
So far as we observe the day in
this spirit we shall get the spiritual
benefit that should come with the
Christmas season. And it is not
simply in the giving and receiving
of gifts or the exchange of cheery
salutations that the day is best cele­
brated. There is no one of us who
cannot help to make brighter the
Christmas of someone less, fortu­
nate; and those will find their own
day the more blessed and uplifting
who bear in mind the words of the
Master whose birth it commemor­
ates, “Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the. least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
MILTON CENSURED.
And now John Milton isbpng
hauled over the coals for his views
on “the woman question.” One
text from his grand epic upon
which the criticism is based is this:
“He for God only, she for God
in him.” This, referring to Adam
and Eve, carries the old orthodox
doctrine that man is the head of
the woman to the extreme conclu­
sion that tbe woman can have no
independent relations with deity.
She must achieve her salvation
through the man. Joe Smith and
Brigham Young held substantially
the same doctrine, and upon it es­
tablished the practice of polygamy.
Under that prescription a woman
who for any reason had failed to
secure a real husband was spirit­
ually “sealed” to someone in the
faith. Milton would doubtless have
been much scandalized had he been
quoted as an authority for, plural
marriage; but it is interesting to
ask what would become of the neg­
lected spinster in the future life if
tbe doctrine implied in his above-I
quoted line is the correct one.
But, specifically, the people who
are now censuring Milton object
that Adam was a mollycoddle; that
he ducked behind the woman when
trouble came, and set an example
of domestic evasion that most men
are following yet. If Eve perforce
had to find her God in him he
should have been so constituted
that he would stand up and shoul­
der the responsibility as a God-
inspired man should. But John
Milton should not be too severely
blamed. He wrote according to
his lights. He was in advance of
his age on many moral and politic­
al questions; but as influencing his
views in regard to women it should
be remembered that his first mar­
riage was unhappy, that his three
daughters were undutiful, and that
he was stricken with blindness be­
fore he contracted his second and
third marriages. Thus his oppor­
tunities for realizing the innate
or the people. The power of local
government to protect the health of
the people and restore it when im-'
paired is unquestioned, and The
Sentinel sees no good and sufficient
reason why some stringent measure
should not be taken in the premises.
It is important that sewer connec­
tions should be made wherever pos­
sible, to the end that the health of
the general public shall be protect­
ed instead of being constantly jeop­
ardized by negligence. With the
spread of scientific knowledge
throughout the land there has been
enormous improvement along sani­
tary-lines during the past decade,
and few communities are there,
which would permit such conditions
as obtain in Cottage Grove today
to exist. Even the federal govern­
ment has, scattered through its
various departments, a scientific
service which it is now endeavoring
to combine under the direction of a
single bureàu. States and cities
have health boards, and they are
considered of the utmost impor­
tance. The instructions and orders
of these departments must be close­
ly adhered to under all circum­
stances, for in them lie the safety
of public health, and there is every
reason why the health’ officers of the
smaller towns should have equal
authority so far as their bailiwick
is concerned. If Health Officer
Oglesby is vested with authority to
order betterments in our sanitary
conditions to prevent possible epi­
demics of disease, his word should
be law, and if he is not then this
office should be declared vacant.
Under obtaining conditions it is a
farce.
THE RED CROSS.
The Red Cross stamp being in
high favor in Cottage Grove and
throughout the state, brings to mind
that after generations of waste of
money and good will, and of mak­
ing paupers by unscientific charity,
the Red Cross society té the best
custodian for funds gathered for re­
lief. Every disaster calling for in­
stant relief reveals the weakness
and wastefulness of the present
American system for providing it.
There are agencies for doing what
needs to be done in the best way
and on the instant. Public sym­
pathy with suffering provides am­
ple contributions of money as fast
as these can be brought together.
But the difficulty has been to get
the administration and the funds
together.
The Red Cross Society has put
relief of suffering from sudden dis­
aster on a new and effective basis.
The San Francisco fire is an ex­
ample of its work. While the so­
ciety in other countries has millions
invested on whose income it can
draw in case of need, there is no
endowment in this country and it
must depend on dues and voluntary
contributions, which latter general­
ly come after disaster. Money
wasted in one decade in the United
States by unscientific relief after dis­
asters would endow our Red Cross
society most bountifully, if by any
means it could be brought together.
From the sale of stamps now in
progress throughout the land the
Red Cross society receives a small
financial benefit. The aggregate
amount, however, will materially
aid in gathering funds tor emer-
THE COMMISSION PLAN.
There has been no inconsidera­
ble amount of discussion in the
middle West regarding municipal
government by commission, and the
conclusion seems to favor the plan
as first adopted by Galveston, Tex­
as. In explanation of government
by commission it should begin with
a definition, so that there is an un­
derstanding of the system. The
nicipal government by commission
is strictly non-partisan election on
a general ticket without local rep­
resentation or regard to wärd lilies.
Without departing from this idea
the members of it may be any rea­
sonable number and may hold any
fitting title.
They who use the phrase strictly
contemplate a government in which
authority and responsibility for the
various departments shall be dis­
tributed among its members, each
being responsible under the charter
to the commission as a whole and
to all the people through the refer­
endum and recall. These new ideas
ought to be considered a vital part
of the commission system, because
without them it might degenerate
into an oligarchy, self-perpetuating
through the power of patronage.
But infinite variety tnay be given
to municipal government even un­
der this restricted interpretation by
varying the number of commission­
ers and the distribution of depart­
ments under them. Some who con-
dem the commission idea as a dan­
gerous innovation offer the form of
government used by provincial
British cities as a satisfactory sub­
stitute. But the English municipal
council comes nearer to the original
Galveston commission than any
othA city government we know of,
except in the basis of suffrage and
the power to elect mayor.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
The question of the intermarriage
of Jew and Gentile was exhaustive­
ly discussed^at the central confer­
ence of American rabbis in New
York recently. In general, such
marriages were opposed not on ra­
cial, but on religious grounds. It
was held that the Scriptures, which
show all men descended from one
pair, and one humanity created in
the image of God, exclude any pre­
tensions to aristocracy of- blood;
that all Scriptural opposition to
mixed marriages is based on the
fear lest such marriages turn away
the, son or daughter of Israel from
the true religion; that the ideal
marriage requires harmony and
unanimity above all in religion, in
order that the union be not merely
physical, but moral and spiritual as
well.
This is substantially the doctrine
that prevailed among the Jews from
the earliest times. Marriage with
the people of the surrounding tribes
was permitted if the bride or bride­
groom accepted conversion to the
Jewish faith. Nor were any racial
barriers set up. According to tra­
dition,. Solomon had at least one
Ethiopian in his harem. Religion
with people of religious convictions,
is highly essential to happiness in
marriage. But among modern na­
tions science has to a considerable
extent upset the old belief in the
descent of all men from a single
pair, and has established a recog­
nized aristocracy of blood which
forbids the intermarriage of certain
races.
The white man, on all continents
and in all islands of the sea, holds
himself to be the superior of any of
the black, brown or yellow races,
and holds in abhorrence the mar­
riage of his kind with those of dark­
er hue. The same feeling exists
among the Jew of the white race,
and to this extent inter-racial mar­
riage would be prohibited by an­
tipathy, if not religion and law.
The question of inter-racial mar­
riage is one of the most serious
problems of the future, not only for
the Jew, but for the Gentile. In
spite of prejudice and. sentiment,
the barriers are being broken down
little by little. Some of the so-
called inferior races are becoming
highly progressive; individuals
among them are often educated and
cultured, and such individuals are
prone to seek matrimonial partners
among those of the so-called superi­
or race. The ease and rapidity of
intercommunication is bringing all
races more and more into proximity.
The outlook is not one to inspire
unlimited confidence in perpetual
racial purity.
own sex. In a recent address at a
suffrage meeting she said:
“Men do love us very much, and(
are very good' to us. Men will loye
and suffer and die for women, but
they never have respected them.
Women do not respect each other.
Nine out of every ten women would
accept the opinion of a man before
that of a woman, and I would be
one of the nine.”
If every woman who is out plead­
ing for woman suffrage would be
equally frank we should hear less
silly nonsense and less denunciation
of men from the suffrage rostrum.
The majority of men are undoubt­
edly anxious to do everything in
their power to make women happy.
Any man who is convinced that
the right to vote would be a real
benefit to women, and who deems
the sex as a whole worthy to exer­
cise the privilege, would be anxious
to grant it to them. If women do
not respect women, it is more im-
portaht for them to cultivate mu­
tual respect than to gain the right
to participate in the political con­
tests of the day. It is a fact with­
in the range of common observation
that a woman who is respected by
women is invariably respected by
the men of her acquaintance.
Why not organize a Booster club
in every ward in Cottage Grove?
It would almost immediately be­
come an important factor in the de­
velopment of its particular part of
town, and would prove invaluable
in the way of civic improvements.
At regular meetings all matters
pertaining to the betterment of ob­
taining conditions could be freely
discussed and action taken to se­
cure results. Parts of the town
now seemingly neglected in the way
of streets and sidewalks would thus
have more leverage upon the pow­
ers that be, and a vigorous cam­
paign and a united effort would
doubtless accomplish good. The
ward clubs, might act in conjunc­
tion with the central body—the
Commercial club—in matters of
still greater importance and be of
no inconsiderable assistance in gen­
eral promotion work where the en­
tire community is more vitally con­
cerned. Who' will start the ball
rolling? ______
“We propose to defeat the Nes­
mith County bill, if it is in our
power to do so, on the day of vot­
ing.”—Drain Nonpareil.
The progressive people of Oregon,
those who have the promotion of
the state’s material interests at
heart, have declared their intention
to make proposed Nesmith county
a reality, and with this assurance
notice is hereby served upon the
Nonpareil that Nesmith will be.
There is a movement throughout
the Pacific Northwest to “cut up
the land,” and make smaller färms,
the promoters of the movement re­
alizing that under such conditions
the development of the country will
be more rapid and its prosperity
proportionately greater. The same
pertains to smaller counties, and
the people of the state are as favor­
able to one as the other. Drain is
naturally sour on the proposition.
Never before has there been such
a prevalent idea of beautifying Ore­
gon cities as now, and the support
given the movement by the people
in all walks of life shows that this
feeling is genuine and widespread.
Cottage Grove, as compared with
other cities of similar importance,
has been somewhat handicapped by
the absence of an adequate water
supply and improved streets, but
these will come during the coming
year, and then we, too, will have
ample opportunity to make a city
beautiful.
The purchase of the Equitable by
somebody who could swing it was
necessary for two reasons, one more
obvious than the other. .The trust
by which the company has been
managed under the ownership of
Mr. Ryan expires by limitation
within a year. Shortly 'after the
ownership on bank stock as an in­
vestment by insurance companies
becomes unlawful in New York.
The Equitable and other companies
The Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw is a must sell their bank stock to some­
^roman of good sense, and seems to body who can handle it. By buy-
crease his total to nearly $600,000,-
000 against $750,000,000 of the
National City, his life insurance re­
sources to nearly a billion against
about half that on the part of the
Standard'Oil interests, and his trust
company resources to over $300,-
000,000, making a total half a bill­
ion more than those of the other
group. ____________ _
Individual deposits in Oregon
banks have increased $16,103,678
over last year, certainly a strong
evidence of the prosperity of the
state. A gain of more than $21,-
000,000 in resources of the banks
in a single year is also a. striking
proof of the advance made by Orb-
gon during this twelvemonth, in
which prosperity Cottage Grove has
enjoyed its full share.
There is some crime, some un­
happiness, some cruelty, some false­
ness to trusts, some unjust taxa­
tion, some capitalistic greediness
and some unfortunate deprivation
in this country, but the heart of the
people is sound. The springs of
prosperity afe deep, and our people
are facing the future with courage
and confidence, the muck-raker to
the contrary notwithstanding.
The sensational attack upon Sec­
retary of the Interior Ballinger,
made upon the floor of the house,
makes it practically certain that
Cannon cannot stave off an investi­
gation of the general land office
after Christmas.
Cottage Grove is populated with
an intelligent, hospitable and law-
abiding class of people, and has
room for many more like them.
Wishes
All
A Merry Christmas
AND
A Happy New Year
Our store will
close on. Christ­
mas day at 12
o’clock and re­
main closed the
rest of the day
Every resident of Cottage Grove
should boost the boosters.
Pennsylvania buckwheat’flour, unlike
other kinds in purity and flavor. You
can taste ’ it in the cakes. At Kerr &
Silsby’s.
Notice of Road District Meeting.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: No­
tice is hereby given that a meeting of
the taxpayers of road district No. 60
for Lane County, Oregon, will be held
at the Residence of B. M. Hawley the
28th day of December, 1909, at the
hour of 12 o’clock of said day
The object of said meeting is for the
purpose of submitting to the taxpayers
of said road district the question of vot­
ing a levy of an additional tax upon the
taxable property of said district for the
purpose of improving the roads of said
district.
This notide is signed by at least ten
per cent of the taxpayers of said dis­
trict.
B. M. Hawley.
F. J. Hard.
The Vesuvius Mines Company.
By F. J. .Hard, Secretary and Man­
ager.*
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1-4 off on Ladie’s LaVagUt
Suit until Christmas
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PHONE HAIN 65.
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J. C. JOHNSON
Attorney-at-Law
Practice in all Cojirts of State. Corpoi
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Collection and Insurance.
COTTAGE GROVE,
OREGOl
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Dentist
Stewart-Porter Building
A. H. KING
Attorney at Law
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
Near Bridge ; : COTTAGE GROV1
J. E. YOUNG
^Attorney at Law
Office on Main Street, West Side
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Physician and Surgeon
Special attention given to diseases of th
eye and ear. Offices in Phillips Buildin
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Office Over Bank of Cottage Grove
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First class work at moderate price