The Cottage Grove sentinel., January 07, 1910, Image 4

bued with the spirit ofjbuilding up its
own industries and of supporting its
home town with local pride, is sure to
be the“'emost'''prosperous; there can be
no gainsaying'this fact.
desperate partisans like Geronimo and
MORE STRINGENT LAWS.
wise politicians like Spotted Tail. The
There seeiiis to be a disposition on
biographies will weave into history far
BY LEW. A. CATES.
more stirring and pathetic than that of • the part of the municipal authorities to
the abortive nation swallowed up in the make more stringent laws and to more
Subscription Rates.
rigidly enforce the laws which we al­
British Empire in South Africa.
One Year______________ __ _
$1.50
OUR CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.
The death of Red Cloud almost closes ready have, and in this determination
Six Months______________ __
.75
Three Months._____________ _
.40
the volume of three centuries of bril­ they should not only have the commen­
Although comparatively early for the liant and moving history by removing dation of the community, but its hearty
No subscription taken unless paid for
in advance. This rule is imperative.
municipal campaign to open, several •nearly the last Indian chief who devel- co-operation and support. The adoption
'names, including the present incumbent, ope.d in the' free"'exercise of war and of an ordinance Monday night prohibit­
Advertising Rates.
Display 12J cents per inch under sixty are being mentioned in connection with policy in his own tribe and with his ing loafing an loitering on public thor­
inches; 16 cents per inch over sixty inch­ the mayorality. Cottage Grove is rap­ white neighbors. Red Cloud was more oughfares is a move in the proper di­
es. Reading notices, 5 cents per line each idly assuming pretentious proportions;
rection.
insertion. Want 'ads. 1 cent per word; its permanent population is constantly warrior than statesman. He won emi­
nence by personal prowess and kept it , The Sentinel believes that all right­
no ad. less than 15 cents. Rates on posi­
increasing, And the immediate future by sound strategy. For ten years he eous laws should be enforced at what
tion made known on application.
must produce some important improve­ led the Dakota nation he had amalga­ ever cost. Our laws are the highest
OFFICE, FIFTH ST., SOUTH OF POSTOFFICE ments. There should be progress along
mated out of tribes in war more glor­ standard in matters involved. They
all municipal lines, and the next may­ ious to him than the government. For are the commandments of the sovereign
Entered at the Cottage Grove Postoffice or of Cottage Grove must declare him­
twenty-five years he has lived in retire­ will of the people given out of the best
as Second Class Mail Matter.
self in favor of this forward movement. ment he preferred to the surrender his light and under the clearest convictions
And behind this declaration must-be wiser nation made to the overpowering of right. They are absolutely supreme
LET US REASON TOGETHER.
the character of man in whom the peo­ strength, of the whites.
until changed, and should be enforced.
ple have confidence that he means to
No executive or administrative officer
Not infrequently has The Sentinel keep pledges made; he must be a man
THE WORLD IS WEAK.
may choose to neglect or partially en­
urged the people of Cottage Grove to offering no quarter and no apology,
force our laws. He has no choice. He
“build a fence around the home dollar,,’’ but open and above board, at war with
It is a mean thing to take advanage
presenting as comprehensively as. possi­ the spirit of cobwebism and the policy of the weakness of human nature, is sworn to execute laws, not to make
ble the innumerable benefits to be de­ of standstillism; one who knows naught whether it be in making men drunk or them; not to arbitrate cases of infrac­
MAIN STREET.
rived from such procedure, but whether but honesty in the public service; one in scattering printed stuff for morbid tion, but to apply the law. The law is
the
accepted
order
of
things
by
which
or not its sermonizing on this theme who recognizes no cause but that of his or yicious appetite. There is little that
has been productive of good, only those constituency — the people — and who is worse than putting out poison for we all agree to act, and any departure
who traffic in commodities can definite­ pledges himself with a character of the mind, for the source of all good is therefrom causes confusion—confusion
first in business relations of life, and
We wish to call your at­
ly determine. The facts in the case courage and intelligence to back it.
with the mind. There are those weak next in the mind and heart as of prin­
are incontrovertable. Every dollar Cottage Grove has outgrown the who are easily led estray. There are
tention to our line of Staple
spent in Cottage Grove comes back to ways of the crossroads village, and it those doubting themselves who are ciples of action. When law is enforced
and Fancy Groceries.
him who lets go of it either directly or demands a chief executive who will un­ easily made receptacles for the deposit no man is at a loss to know what his
fellowmen
will
be
compelled
to
do,
and
indirectly. The town grows, it sup­ sheath his sword in the cause of muni­ of prejudice and the anger and bitter
We carry all the leading
ports better stores, more churches, bet­ cipal betterments and the upbuilding of retaliation of it. The. betterment of likewise as to what men ought to do. A
brands
of Canned Goods
law,
national,
state
or
municipal,
not
ter schools to which he can send his the. city industrially and otherwise, the world is through the good of it. To
and Teas, Coffees, and cater
children, furnishes better near-at-hand throw the scabbard away and know no magnify evil is to give expansion to enforced, destroyes teachings. The
markets for -his products, and finally cessation until we are possessed of those wrong; to subordinate strength to teacher says it is wholesome and must
to the best trade by keep­
increases the very value of his land. things which are rightfully ours. This weakness; to tear down, and not to be rigidly observed, but practice breaks
ing our stock
it
and
the
mind
is
confused
until
no
As a good illustration, let us say that city's entering upon an era of pro­ build up. It is altogether unwholesome
Cottage Grove has a population of 2,- gress, and the head of the municipal to engage in constant appeal to the conviction can be fixed.
Fresh and Up-to-Date.
500, and that the town’s life depends government must be a progressive, passions of men; to teach them unceas­ To execute and obey law is the path
of
human
progress.
The
authorities
of
largely upon its retail trade. If it prudent, conservative, sagacious man; ingly that there is no place where they
secures the entire purchasing business one who has demonstrated by his past may lodge confidence in the honorable Cottage Grove are of the many mar­
it must of necessity grow rapidly. The record that he is. capable and willing. intensions of their fellows If the more shals of the day stationed through the •
land to asist the .procession of human
enormous mail order houses sent out
Let the public-spirited citizens of Cot­ dependent are taught the lesson of re­
their great four or five-pound cata­ tage Grove—business and professional taliation, instructed in the old doctrine affairs by insuring the compliance with
logues describing everything under the men, merchants and miners, capitalists of revenge, and to do evil for evil, with that law, and we would be unworthy
sun. Suppose that instead of spend­ and laborer—regardless of party affilia prejudice and fear serving as arbiters, subjects did we not lend them our aid
ing, say $600 a year in Cottage Grove tions, clique or creed, get' together as all the agenices of charity are crippled and support. An executed law put a
for living expenses each person in the a unite and name such a candidate, and and the powerful are challenged to self rebel outside of Eden and maintained
' community diverts 50 per cent of bis “the man who beats him will be may­ defences. Such teaching and the ex­ peace and virtue within; an executed
law excluded Satan from heaven and
trade from his home town and sends or. ’’
PROPRIETORS
ample add immeasurable to the pover­ insured the angels in their rights and
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$300 a year to the catalogue houses, it
ty of the world. To put man against preserved a home of purity and delight
ABOUT PRIVATE DIVORCES,
means that half of the business of the
man, numbers against numbers, mis­ for the souls of men. Nature’s laws
town is gone. It may be conservative­
statements against fact, falsehood have no excaped criminals and no de­
In
suits
for
divorce,
as
in
other
un
­
ly estimated that there are 750 families
against truth, in whatever name it may partment of arbitration or mercy. The
pleasant
cases,
judges
have
the
right
in Cottage Grove. Three hundred dol­
be done, is to work at cross purpose great first cause applies the laws of
by
law
to
hear
testimony
in
private
in
lars a year in trade from each means
with
every moral influence for the bet­
Frank Ebby’s old Stand on 4th
that $225,000 annually is taken from the interest of public morality. We do terment of mankind. The pretense of science with jealous care. The least
atom of matter, the lowest form of street. All work guaranteed.
not
know
how
far
this
wholesome
law
the home town. In the course of ten
service in thus doing is hollow in its
Phone Main 321.
years this means $2,250,000. Averag­ differs in different states. It must mockery. Talk of reform under such life, the mightiest force and most
ponderous
system
must
give
strictest
grant
everywhere
wide
discretion
to
ing the profit on this vast amount at 20
debasement is addressed to the cheap­
per cent, it means that in a decade’s the judge and this may include power est and most perverted qualities of so­ account. And shall man be the only
time $450,000 profits are Sent to con­ everywhere to suppress the decree as cial beings. Poison is put into the outlaw on earth. Take away law, and
Carlton Nursery Co.
cerns who have no interest whatever in well as the evidence and to seal the heart and against its contamination-the disorder, and wreck, and ruin prevails Large growers of local stock. Sup­
in
any
community.
Uphold
and
execute
whole
record
file
so
that
it
never
can
be
us or our town. Now, on the other
strongest as well as the weakest are*
pliers of commercial plants—clean, vig­
hand, should the 750 persons used as an examined by the public. That practice challenged to make such resistance as good laws and the people are happy, orous and true trees. Heavy on apples
prosperous
and
content.
has
prevailed
in
New
York
city
for
a
illustration, instead of sending their
the instincts of life make mandatory.
in Spitzenburg. Newton, etc. In pears
money to foreign places 'for goods, give long time, though it was not brought Men whose lives refute the isidious in­ The Sentinel commends the ferreting Bartlett, Anjou, Comice, etc. In cher­
out
of
crime,
whether
it
be
in
high
or
to
general
public
notice
until
census
all his trade to Cottage Grove its busi­
sinuations made against them are given
ries R. Anne, Lambert, Bing, etc. In
ness would be immediately doubled, and officials sent by President Roosevelt to rankle under conscious sense of injus­ low places, and hopes a more energetic peaches 2 Crawfords, Muir, Sharlotte,
crusade
against
violators
of
the
laws
obtain
statistics
of
divorce
found
them
­
with twice the employment for people
tice. Every measure of injustice care­
Salway, Elberta, etc. In prunes Italian,
in the commercial fiela. Year after selves confronted in New York with lessly given to the wind adds to the cor­ will be made. But let the municipal etc- Small fruits, bushes, etc.
year, the profits made by the merchants sealed records in locked safes. These ruption of the atmosphere in which all legislators make plain what they would Be Sure Get Onr Prices. It Will Pay You
Send list of wants. a Stock carefully grown
would be retained in the town, would cases are invariably those of rich and men must live and from which they •have Us do, for no man is conversant and
shipped. We can handle .your order
seek investment in starting new indus­ prominent families, or persons p ssess- must draw the inspiration of their be­ with local laws promulgated nearly two rightly and at right prices. Catalogue free.
decades,
ago
and
hidden
away
from
the
ing
an
equal
influence
with
the
Courts.
tries, and at the end of the ten-year
Carlton Nursery Co. Carlton, Oregon-
This is a shameful abuse for protec­ ing. The world at best is weak and public gaze. Cottage Grove has no or­
period there would be 1 a remarkable
society
at
best
is
buffeted
by
many
con
­
dinance,
accessible
to
the
public,
and
i
change for the better and all lands tion of privileged classes of a law flicting doubts. But if the time shall
would be materially enhanced in value. strained from the original purpose of come when neighbor may not trust while ignorance of the law is no ex­
Calculating on the same basis, it can protecting public morals. It is one neighbor, and when there shall be no cuse for offenses it is well that the peo­
be plainly figured out that the individ­ thing to prevent demoralizing recital I power of cohesion save that which has ple know what is expected of them in
ual farmer who would divert his trade in open court and another to cover up its thong in the hatred of sordid pas-, any instance. There should be no
to some other foreign city, in the course evil whose example would be whole­ sion, then the time will be at hand absence of a knowledge of what Cot­
of ten years would send away $3,000. some to society. The cause of public when anarchy shall be ripe and price­ tage Grove ordinances prohibit, as is
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If it were possible that he could save morals is not aided but injured, by al­ less heritage out of the years shall be the condition which obtains today.
Sales - Promptly - Effected.
lowing
persons
of
wealth
and
station
10 per cent on this amount, in ten years’
The
seventh
annual
meeting
of
the
made
cheap
for
sacrifice.
There
need
Office corner Main and Second Sts.,
time he would save $300. His only concealment of vices which are ruth­ be no worry about the power of recep­ Western Retail Lumbermen’s Associa­ one
block west of depot. ’ Phone Main
compensation would be a poor home lessly exposed when practiced by hum­ tion ; the need is for the larger power tion will be held in Portland, February .921
no35mch!9
bler
persons.
There
can
be
no
reason
market and no increase in the value of
of
resistance.
To
deliberately
wrong
14
to
February
16
inclusive.
has real estate holdings. On the other for this discrimination but some form or blight the name of a good man is the
S. E. WALLACE
hand, by giving his patronage to the of bribe, whether paid in larger fees acme of moral offense for which the
It is gratifying to learn that the de­
for
secret
hearings,
as
direct
honorar
­
home town, even though - he must pay
cause alleged qan bring no adequate pot park at Eugene is finished. Now
the merchant 10 per cent more than ium to court officers or a tribute to the excuse. If there is anything worth we’il probably get some real news
the foreign house, the result would be political organization by which they are thinking about this is worth thinking from the county seat.
Chimneys, Fire Places and
like this : On account of increase in controlled. Why should the Astor family about.
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The new year begins in Oregon with
farm values, 160 acres of land worth be broken up in secret, while the frail­
Repairing a Specialty
A MODERN JUDAS.
approximately 500 miles of new rail­
$10 more per acre, $1,600; or, $1,300 ties of John Smith and his wife are ex­
road actually under construction.
Cottage Grove, - Oregon
better off in ten years than if he gave posed to the public and spread upon the
half his patronage to the foreign con­ record unless it is because they pay for The late George Preston Sheldon was
Phone 673
Unallotted lands in the Klamath In?
cern. His home town is a lively one, the privilege? These secret records for years president of the great Phoe­
all public improvements, all modern are kept with peculiar care, and like nix Insurance Co. and was rated as one dian reservation are to be opened for
conveniences, high schools, to which he the secret archives of government, will of the captains of industry in the east. settlement in 1910, if the plans of the
could send his children cheaply, good make interesting reading for posterity. A few months ago. it was discovered commercial organizations of Klamath
that he had systematically plundered Falls do not go wrong.
churches and everything that can add
the company, which had honored and
THE AMERICAN INDIAN.
to the comfort and happiness of its res­
The state board of equalization caught
trusted him, of several hundred thous­
idents, and those who reside near it.
The race of American Indians has and dollars. He not only embezzled the boosting spirit so pervalent in Ore­
Notwithstanding, that the farmer’s disappeared from history without van­
gon. It boosted Lane county’s assess­
land is enhanced in value, his taxation ishing from the earth. We are told funds but bribed public officials charg­ ed valuation from $22,006,920 to $28,-
ed
with
the
investigation
of
insurance
will be but little greater, as the busi­ that it is probably still as numerous as
205,960. A bunch of other counties al­
ness interests of the town will pay the when its tribes ranged the American companies in order that false reports so got the hooks.
burden of taxation, and the amount of forests and contended for mastery in might ¡be made that would cover up his
each taxpayer will be iess in proportion wars as heroic as those of Greeks or tracks. It is almost beyond compre­ There may be some delay in the wat­
hension how susceptible men are to the
All work guaranteed satisfactory.
to carry on government.
Germans. If there is any veracity in, wiles of the devil when once he ap­ er works program, but it will be pulled
Phone 114.
While the country household, in look­ historical analogy, only the occupation proaches them with filthy lucre. We off in good time.
ing over one of the big catalogues and of their -country by a race not individ­ marvel at the audacity of Judas but
Vote for Nesmith county 1910.
sending an order for $50 worth of goods, ually superior, but more numerous and the present day can furnish on short
With its 75,000 farms Oregon pro­
■may be able to figure out an immediate better armed, prevented the American notice a whole lot of such fellows.
saving of $5 or $6, even after they Indians
:
from slowly working out a so­ This man Sheldon divided his swag ducts amonuted to $114,000,000 in 1909.
have paid the freight, there is no ques- cial
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civilization and political empire with the insurance inspectors just as War has been declared by President
Suitable for inside walks, No. 1
tion as to the final outcome, if the like those finally obtained by the des­ the sugar trust contributed to the sal­ Taft against the inaugents in Congress,
practice is .persisted in by all the people cendents
i
of Latin shepards and Ger­ aries of men trusted by the government and a pretty fight is in prospect.
common and better;' dressed on
of any. particular locality. The home i man woodsmen. Causes were already to weigh the sugar that was shipped
four sides. While it> lasts, $8.00
town will suffer,' the home marxet will in
j operation when the whites came to in. But, after all, there is much en­
Card of Thanks.
per thoueand feet.
fail to increase, if it does not decrease, . America that promised a center of crys­ couragement in the fact that where one We desire to return our heartfelt
Brown Lumber Co.
as will also the value of the farm lands, tallization
i
for Indian power and civili­ man entrusted with great responsibil­ thanks to the many kind friends who
Undoubtedly the catalogue houses can zation
i
in the dominant confederacy of ity goes wrong there are thousands of rendered such able assistance, and con­
ECONOMY IS WEALTH
sell goods cheaper than the average the
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Six Nations.
them who do not. It will not do to lose tributed flowers, after the death of our
country store, for they do a cash busi­ Sometime the history of this abortive faith in humanity because of these evi­ beloved husband and father, the late
ness—you send on your cash with your civilization
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and government will be dences of dishonesty that crop out ever John C. Long. Especially do we wish
order. There is no risk in the cata- written
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sympathetically from abundant and anon.
to thank the Masons who conducted the
last sad rites.
logue or mail order house business. ; material. So far we have little but
of P ortland , O regon .
Possibly if you arrange to do business 1 biographies of eminent men, statesmen
Mrs.
Margaret
J.
Long.
I
f
Y
ou
D ie , it costs no more than or­
“Nothing expect the mint can make
on the same basis with your country and
;
warriors both like Pontiac and Tus-
Mrs. Mary Wells-Reynolds. dinary Life. IF YOU LIVE, it is more
money without advertising,” is a good
profitable than Endowment. Life insur­
G. W. Long.
merchant—cash down with your pur- cumseh,
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generals like Red Cloud and
ance is a great protection to our families.
E. P. Long.
chase—you could get as favorable Chief
i
Joseph, dreamers like Sitting motto to be inscribed, on the walls of
TOM AWBREY has the most reason­
L. R. Long.
prices. Every community which is im- Bull and the nameless ghost dancer, I every business house.
able plan known.
This Week We
LOOK!
Will Give
h Off
Johnson & Co.
General
Merchants
On all ladies’, men’s
and children’s
Ready-
to-Wear
Goods
This is an honest re­
duction and a good
opportunity to get
your goods at a
very low
price
Come and See Us
Spriggs Bros
CARRIAGE AND
REPAIR WORKS
Friday and Saturday
Special—Ladies’
Kid Gloves valved at
$1.25 for
•
98c
LURCH
Beaulieu & Woodard
REAL ESTATE
Brick & Cement Work J.
HARNESS SHOP
REPAIRING ALL OF KINDS.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
C. JOHNSON
. Attorney-at-Law
Practice in all Courts of State. Corpor­
ation, mining and Probate law a specialty
Collection and Insurance.
COTTAGE GROVE,
OREGON
F. L. INGRAM
Dentist
Stewart-Porter Building
A. H. KING
Attorney at Law
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
Near Bridge .
: COTTAGE GROVE
J. E. YOUNG
^Attorney at Law
Office on Main Street, West Side
COTTAGE GROVE
•:
OREGON]
SIDEWALK LUMBER
J. O. VAN WINKLE, M. D.
$8.00 PER 1,000
Physician and Surgeon
||U
Special attention given to diseases of the]
eye and ear. Offices in Phillips Building!
P hones —Office, Main 193; Residence, 6311
D r .
E. C. macy
DENTIST
FIRST CLASS WORK
Office Over Bank of Cottage Grove
PHONE 583
Miller’s Machine Shop
All kinds of Mill Repair |
Work and Blacksmiting 1
First class work at moderate priced