OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 1903
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OREGON CITY. AUGUST 14, 1903
PROTECTION THAT DOESN'T PROTECT
American millers call attention to one
phase of our tariff laws that work a
direct injury to American farmers. Ow
ing to certain conditions the duty on
wheat not only affords our farmers no
protection, but actually does them barm.
Canada lacks faciliti'S for storing her
cropB, and.consequently when her wheat
is harvested it is thrown on the market,
whether there is a demand for it or not.
This results ia depressing the price and
American shippers suffer for it. Now
were our duty on wheat removed Cana
dian wheat would be sent here for stor
age, and bo our warehouse industry
would profit. It would be held to meet
demand, aud hence our wheat sellers
would not be "crowded" in the English
markets at the wrong time and suffer
loss. In othet words, the price would be
kept up inste-d of being depressed, and
our wheat sellers would profit. More
over, much of tht Canadian wheat that
would thus be sent to our elevators would
not merely be held till the proper time,
but would be ground into flour by our
mills, and bo our milling industry would
profit.
A BIRD AND A BUG.
The chinch bug is the greatest enemy
of wheat, and the quail is the greatest
enbinj of the chinch bug. Couple these
two ideas, the quail and the bug, and
only one conclusion can follow; the
quail must be multiplied In order that
bugs may diminish. With this end in
view farmers in many localities are or
ganizing clabs for the protection of
all kind of birds, especially quail,
which are invaluable as Insect destroy
era. The chinch but pest is especially
destructive in southern Illinois. 80
great indeed have become its depre'
dations in that section that farmers there
are seriously contemplating the abandon
merit of wheat growing for a while at the
oniy way of getting rid of It. In a con
certed effort to Btarve out this pest,
therefore, there may be no wheat sown
in this territory next fall. They have
become so numerous that they not only
destroy a goodly share of the wheat crop
but when it is harvested they attack
the corn with very cerious results
Meantime the wise thing to do is to pro1
tect and encourage birds of all kinds.
Several flocks of quails on every farm
will go far towards solving the chinch
Dug problem, iu tact, there ia no
salvation against insect pests except by
the aid of our bird, friends. They should
be valued as more precious than gold
THE CITY BOY AND THE COUNTRY
BOY.
Many years ago an Knglidh writer ob'
tained celebrity by a poem entitled
'The City and Country Mouse." Like
all fables it taught a lesson fr the guid
ance of men. The country mouse in
vited its city cousin for a visit, and en
tertained him on arrival with the best
he liad.in the house. He took him
through the fine barn where he lived,
showed him all the treasures of the
grain bins, the many cczy hid;ng places
and all the delights of the farm from a
mouse's standpoint. There were plenty
of things good for m;ce to est, delicious
water to drink as pumped from the
nearby well, aoft beds to sleep in made
of the new-mown hay and stray fsath
era from downy breasts. Altogstber,
the little 0 ty mouse had a mighty good
time while visiting his rural friend. Of
course, common ' hospitality requ'red
him to return the the favor, aud he in
vited his country cousin to visit him in
the urea city, promising to show niin
all ti e g its iriieseqne' was not a happy
one. Tim country Mouse found on in
spection that the boasted joys of city
life were largely delusion. Food was
scarce, and it was with ditticulty that
they obtained a 'ew crumbs of cheese.
7 hty were chafed by rat-terriurs from
one dingy abode to another, found
treacherous traps lying in wait for them
at mi point, aim altogether leu out a
precarious existeuce. Finally, in dis-gu-it,
the country mouse said to his ro
dent brother: "I depart, preferring
comfort in the country to luxury iu the
ciiv."
There is much in this fitble to parallel
the experiences of city and and country
b iy. W hen the littler invite the form
er to the country they not only have a
gOkl time, but all the pleasures are
w holesome, wading in the creeks, bath
ing in the "old swiuimin' hole," gallop
ing over the ueitihboihood on hoise
bick, d iyirg tlecowsfiom p?stu e,
feeding the poultry these things barm
no boy, but give him health as well as
pleasure. The farm boy 19 familiar from
birth with the music of nature. He
hears the chirp of the cricket, the whis
tle of the quail, the tapping of the rood
pecker and the crowing of the chanti
cleer. He ib soothed by the cowbells
as the "lowing herds wind slowly o'er
the lea, ' and enjoys the frog concerts
that give a tender melancholy to the
waning day. On the highway "the bee
tle wheels his droning flight," and in
the grassy meadows '.drowsy tinkliags
lull the distant fold." Amid such scenes
as these the country boy acquires Btout
round muscles, red corpuscles accumu
late in his blood, and bis eye grows
bright with the vivifying streams of
health. From such boys are recruited
the brawi.y men who make the world
go round: The strong men of action,
the great captains of . industry all come
from the farms. MoBt of the illustrious
statesmen, the great poets and oratorp,
acquired their first instruction amid the
rural scenes of their childhood. When
the picture is reversed and the country
boy goes for return visit to see his folks
in the city there is a marked contrast in
the surroundings. There are pleasures',
of course, plenty of them, but they are
not fill harmless or healthful. There
.are all sorts of traps and pitfalls leading
to dissipation. The slot machine tempts,
the poolroom invites to feverish waste of
time, there are ensnaring dens of all
kinds and the saloons, with their wick
ed glitter and lascivious surroundings,
point the way that leads down to hell.
It will be well if before tasting of these
dangerous joys the country boy says
like the mouse in the fable, "I will re
turn home and be content with the
peaceful pleasures of nature, which ex
hilarate but do not intoxicate," where
mother earth constantly holds forth in
exhaustless abundance those innocent
delights which are things of beauty and
a joy forever."
PLENTY OF WORK TO DO
When the reaper and the threshing
machine aucceeded the scythe and the
flail, when the self-binder and the pneu
matic stacker came in to do the work of
many men, there was much ahaking of
wise heads and gloomy forebodings of
what was to become of the laborer with
the bread takeu out of his mouth by
these tireless machines. They actually
used to get up a mob to burn labor-saving
machinery from mistaken notions of
this .kind. But experience has shown
that work begets work, and the labor
er's bread is more plentiful than ever as
tbe result o the thousand 'and one in
ventions of devices to save labor. livery
advance in machinery baa eventually
brought to the workers a greater share
of the world's wealth in return for a
given amount of toil. "
It should be Quoted that despite the
countless farm machinery scattered over
the country a demand has been going up
from the farms of every wheat-growing
state in the Union for men to help gath
er the crops. Never was farm labor
more in demand than during this sea
son, and few sections were able togit
all the men they wanted. Men are also
wanted in many other lines of work, for
railroad extensions, for building trolley
lines, for erecting telephone aud tele
graph systems throughout the country.
Truth ia that in many lines of work the
demand for men exceeds the supply.
While the statistics show that there are
more farm laborers in Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio, Kansas and other states than at
any time during our history, yet tha
offer of wages almost double those of
thirty years ago failed to get the needed
supply of harvest hands. So it still re-
mains true and never more ao than now,
that there is plenty of work for willinB
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, has recently befo-e the
Iowa Bar Association uttered sentiments
on the subject of "government by in
junction" that will rather tend to in
crease thsn allay popular fear of that
particular instrument of the courts.
The learned jurist calls this a "full
and vlgorojs power" and says it was
never more uecesBary and useful for the
best purpose of the nation than now. It
11 His belief to abolish it would be
step backward to ard barbarism."
These are quaint phrases to fall from the
ips of a supreme court judge aud appear
like ttie haunting of a red Hug In the face
of the people who have in such remark
ablrt numbers protested against the mis
uses aud abuses of linjtmctlons by the
courts.
Hie Keueral understanding of the right
of a judge in equity to issue and in
unction is that he may use such "full
and vigorous power" to prevent actions
that are about to be done to the injury
jf persons, property to their rights, be
fore the interposition of the processes or
statute law can' be applied. In such
cases a temporary injunction might be
properly issued, but only for the actual
time necessary to apply for and procure
the legal writs proper to the case. To
make such an injunction returnable at
an unreasonably remote date from its
issuauce, or to make it permanent in
casta where re uedies at law are the pro.
per remedies, Is to usurp power aud es
tablish tyranny.
Om complex civilization has, as l.e
says, produced new situations that often
come ahead of statute laws for their
governance. In such emergencies the
use of the injunction may be temporari
ly necessary. But in a democracy like
ours, with annual sessions ot congress
and in most cases annual sessions of
legislatures, permanent and perpetual
injunctions constitute dangerous pre
cedents and bench-made laws that hard
ly any king of Europe would dare to set
up for fear of his crown and head.
Tbe main objection to government by
injunction is that it is now the recogniz
ed new and arbitrary process employed
for the protection of those who asBail
human rights and defy statute laws.
Great corporations secure the appoint
ment to the bench of many United States
courts of their former hired attorneys.
They do this through politicians whom
the corporations hava put in congress
and their senators confirm these men in
their offices. Thereafter the interests of
the corporations are the case of the
courts and the writ of injunction the
sovereign instrument by which natural
and legal rights of the common people
are negatived and aboiished.
HARVESTING BY MOONLIGHT.
A strange and unusual spectacle was
wifneseed on Sunday, July 5, over a
wide area of the great Wett. The
enormous wheat crop of Kansas, exceed
ing 100,000,000 bushels, had become
dead ripe, and not an hour could be lost
if it was to be saved. So it was found
necessary to work not only all day on
the Fourth of July, but on Sunday also
and at night. Church services were
abandoned in many ruial districts, and
the congregations betook themselves to
the fields. Labor being scarce, the
women joined the men, and in many
a field the farmers' wives and daughters
might be seen working by the Bide of
fatheis and brothers. Sunday night
double shifts were put on, and the work
continued without cessation nutil the
early hours of the following morn
ing It was a beautiful and inspiring spec
tacle. As the harvest moon rose in the
east, its soft rays shone down on such a
scene as no other country than America
can produce. ' Fully 25,000 men and
women had abandoned their accustomed
places of worship, and the solemn tones
of the organs were substituted by the
lively rattle of the great agricultural
machinery. Harvesting machines, by
the thousands made music in as many
wheat fields of this busy and prosperous
commonwealth, The faimer's lovely
daughter abandoned her accustomed
trysting place on tbe porch for a seat be
hind the binder or among the men in
the rear. The youthful swains did their
courting between rests instead of as
usual on Sunday evenings under the
beeches by tbe spring. It was a scene
for a painter and a theme for the poet.
Nor was any religious principal violated
by this devotion of the Sabbath to labor,
It was a work of necessity, and as such
strictly authorized by Scripture . Christ
tught that the Sabbath was made for
man, not man for tbe Sabbath and none
can be better employed on the usual day
of rest than in' saving the grain that
could not brook delay. Come to think
of it, must any man would be willing to
work all Ight by moonlight with a
prftty girl on either side, amid the gold
en wheat waving under the influence of
the gentle summer breeze.
CANNOT KEEP IT DOWN.
They say that the money question is
settled, and yet the president is confer-
finaDcial , tion ,nd the m88.
nBte8 are , t0 e the pub.
,nt0 8ubmiMion to tneir demand8.
Speaker Cannon was called to Oyster
Bay and urged to assist in carrying out
the schemes of Wall Street, but he could
not be enthused. He was willing to al
low congress to pass such a bill, but he
would not promise to help. His as
sistance, however, will hardly be need
ed, for tbe financier will bring the
necessary influence to bear on republi
can member and Speaker Cannon would
find it quite difficult to prevent the pas
sage of any bill that Rothschild and
Morgan agreed upon. It might be well,
though for the republicans to pause long
enough to consider what Mr. Cannon
says about the increase in the currency.
He boasts that the volume of money has
increased $12(5,000,000 in the last year
aud he doeB not favor tinkering with the
currency. The quantitative theory of
m ney has been vindicated and still the
republicans refuse to make permanent
provision for an adeq late suppiy of real
money.
The fight that is coming up in congress
over tbe currency measure will give the
democrats a chance to call public at
tention to the manner in which the
uiouied element controls tbe republican
party.
Keen Companion.
There will be keen competition between
the different counties in this state, mak
ing county exhibits at the suite fair this
full. There will be no less than eight
counties competing for the different
prizes, which will make the greatest
alio of agricultural and horticultural
products ever seen in this state. Most
of these exhibits illbe taken to fct.
Louis in HUM to advertise Oregon s re-
s itirces, and we predict the t Orgon will
h ive the nuest display the has ever
made at any exposition.
THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN
HERALD PRAISES FOR PERUNA:
Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Makes Invalids of More
Women Than All Other Diseases Combined.
Systemic catarrh causes nervousness, j
poor appetite, tired feelings. Peruna
cures catarrh wherever located.
lETTERS FROM WOMEN.
MIs Anna Preoott' letter.
Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from
S16 South Seventh street, Minneapolis,
Minn., writes:
"i was completely used up last
fait, my appetite had failed and I felt
weak and tired all the time. My drug
gist advised me to try Peruna and the
relief 1 experienced after taking one
bottle was truly wonderful.
" I continued Its use tor five weeks,
und am slad to say that my complete
restoration to health was a happy
surprise to myself as well as to my
Blends." Anna frescott.
Largest Clothiers in
Panama
We get at the value A by what other stores are asking
. for equal grade. You can make the comparison
just as we did. When you compare keep these two
. pointers in mind
Don't get a two-piece Panama hatthey are "cheap,"
and look it
A split straw isn't a Panama. The Panama straw is
rounded whole straw.
It's just good luck to pay so little as
$10 for such good values in Panama Hats
All our Sennit split braids, Milans, etc.,
at half Price
Boys $5 Norfolks, Sailors and two-piece (gj
Suits this week only -----
Pe-ru-na a True Friend to Women,
Miss Florence Allan, a beautiful Chi
cago girl, writes the following from 75
Walton Place:
"As a tonio for a worn out system,
Peruna stands at the head in my esti
mation. Its effects are truly wonderful
in rejuvenating the entire eystem, I
keep it on hand all the time, and never
have that tired feeling,' as a few doses
always makes me feel like a different
woman." Florence Allan.
Peruna will be found to effect an im
mediate and lasting cure in all cases of
systemio catarrh. It acts quickly and
beneficially on the diseased mucous mem
branes, bnd with healthy mucous mem
branes the catarrh can. no longer exist.
rf&ULAR ONE PRICE HATTERS a CWTH&r
the Northwest
$10
Value
$20
Peruna Makes You Feel like a New Person.
Miss Marie Coats, a popular young wo
man of Appleton, Wis., and President ot
the Appleton Young Ladies'Club, writes :
"When that languid, tired feeling
comes over yon, and your food no longer
tastes good, and small annoyances irri
tate you, Peruna will make you feel like
another person inside of a week.
"I have now used it for three seasons,
and find it very valuable and efficaci
ous." Miss Marie Coats.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis. . ,
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
Portland, Oregon
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