lamlgratloa and Protection.
Immigration under present conditions
presents a serious problem.
No one can sit at his desk and absorb
the facts that come to us in reports
without appreciating the peril that
threatens should hard times come to
this country.
I am not an alarmist, but when I see
hundreds of thousands of ignorant for
eigners coming into our great cities
every year I think I can realize in some
degree the danger that will come from
their discontent and dissatisfaction
when there are no wages to be earned.
Commissioner Sargent.
"When there are no wages to be
earned." What memories such a sup
position brings up. It carries us back
to the days of panic and idleness follow
ing the Compromise Tariff of 1S33; it
carries us back to the worklees and
wagelessdays and years between 1850
and 1860, brought on by Free-Trade; it
carries us back to the idle men and
women of 1895-6, and the loss of earn
ings due to the Free-Trade law of 1S94,
says American Economist.
With the experience and knowledge
which we gained from these awful pe-1
riods following Free-Trade legislation, j
we can well appreciate the necessity of
continuing our present excellent tariff
law to enable us to care for these mil
lions who are coming to our shores.
We must protect them by continuing to
protect our labor and industry from one
end of the country to the other. It may
be that some of these immigrants are of
an undesirable character. It may be
that better immigration laws are desira
ble. That is something that we must
leave to the wisdom of Congress.
Whatever the present law is we must
accept it and face the conditions which
are before us. It is protection and pros
perity that invites these foreigners to
our shores. They do not come in such
numbers when we are living under
Free-Trade. The same fiscal policy
which invites them must proteet them
and enable them to gain a foothold and
become profitable members of the great
American army of producers and con
sumers. It does not take so very long for a for
eigner leaving his home where he gained
an income of perhaps twenty cents a
day to become a good American citizen
earning ten times that amount per day.
Perhaps at first the foreigner is careful !
.of his dollars, and is not so liberal in his '
expenditures as the native born and !
those who have been citizens a number j
-of years. But soon he begins to aim at
the American standard of living, he be-)
comes ambitious to own his business i
-and his own home, and to dress and eat '
and enjoy the same luxuries as the
average American citizens throughout
the country.
Our home market has most apprecia-1
bly increased annually, not only by our j
own augmented wants, but by the in
"creased demands of the newcomer. In
but a fe iv years the most diligent be-,
come independent, while a few join our
wealthy classed. Among our million-1
aires today c-n La found the represen
tatives of every nation on earth, many
oi whom came to our Ehores but a few
years ago penniless. It may be that our J
immigration laws are too liberal, or it
may be that they are too liberally ad- j
ministered. At the Eame time we have !
?one on now. for over a century inviting
the poor and the weak from abroad to
this country of opportunity. There need
be no fear but what the vast majority
of theEe immigrants will in a very short
time become good American citizens,
law abiding, well to do and reputable
upbuilders of the nation's institutions.
There may be lawless characters among
them, and these must be checked with
a firm hand at the first evidence of any
outbreak against the country's laws and
customs.
No doubt a return to Free-Trade and
idleness would bring a conditions awful
to contemplate. It would bring riot and
war with the inevitable poverty .and ruin
and death which follow in the wake of
a fiscal policy giving no opportunity for
employment and no chance for compen
sation. Let us see to it, then, that we
continue our present most admirable
fiscal policy; that we continue to protect
our men as well as our industries ; that
we continue to maintain and build up
our home market, worth more than all
the markets of the world combined, and
that we do not disturb the causes of the
present splendid growth of industries,
our splendid advancement of citizenship
and our splendid standard of living,
which cannot help but invite those
abroad who have been struggling for a
bare subsistence, and have in their na
tures a single spark of ambition.
A Pitiful Case.
This was the wild cry that rang out in
Superior Judge Albertson's courtroom
and startled the, staid lawyers and hard
ened hangers-on about the courthouse.
It was the finale of one of the moat
pathetic incidents in the social life of
Seattle.
Four months ago Mrs. Sophia Nelson
was a bright-eyed sunnytempered little
lady, the chief ornament of a lovely
home, the object of a loving husband's
care and beloved by her numerous
friends and acquaintances. Last week
she was sent to the Stilacoom insane
asylum a howling maniac, believing her
self commanded by God to kill and de
vour her infant child.
It was just four months ago that Mrs.
Nelson gave birth to a baby boy, and
the loss of her mind is attributed by the
physicians to the agonies of childbirth.
When she was taken into Judge Albert
son's court to bo examined as to her san
ity the scene was pathetic beyond de
scription. The efforts of the sweet-faced
trained nurse, who had been caring for
her, and her broken-hearted husband
and brother to calm her were without
avail. Her agony at the thought that
she must obey the imaginary command
was terrible to see. She repeatedly at
tempted to check herself, screaming:
"Lord, let me sacrifice myself instead of
my boy."
As the unfortunate woman was taken
from the courtroom she threw her arms
around her husband's neck and implored
him to pray to God to release her from
the awful. promise she said she had
given.
FW Frames
to be used is very much a
matter of taste. It is import
ant, though, that the frames
set properly on the nose, and
at the right distance from
the eyes. That the lenses
be perfectly centered, and
how are you to know when
.some one is guessing.
WE
NEVER
GUESS
Glasses Right, Good Sight,
R.F.WINSLOW Je5IefMd
uyuwiau
REDUCED
All Colored Summer
Goods Reduced to
COST
We must ma&e room for New Goods
WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801.
Preparing Strawberry Plants for Fall.
Now is the time to do this. Get a lot
of 3-inch flower pots, and prepare a rich
compost for them. Go into the straw
berry patch and find the young runners
that have made little white roots an inch
or so long. Take these to a convenient
table and pot them in the 3-inch pots.
Now in an unused cold frame spread a
bed of coal ashes and on these set the
pots closely together. Water well and
shade with a screen of building laths
nailed an inch apart and then see that
the plants never suffer for water. You
can attend to a large number in this
way, and in the fall you will have a lot
of plants that can be knocked out of the
pots and set so as to get strong enough
to 'make a full crop the next spring.
The books will tell you a lot about grow
ing pot plants of strawberries by craw
ling about the patch and buving pots
and putting the runners on them to root.
But all this is a waste of time and labor,
and you can have just as good potted
plants by taking up the young runners
as suggested and potting them in a con
venient place. Growers in the trade
who o5er the potted plants by the thou
sands do not crawl over the ground and
sink the pots in the soul. They leave
that advice for those who do not know
better. Practical Farmer.
x MRS. H. E ASTON
iB prepared to wait upon old
and new customers and: friends
with a full and complete
stock of
-GROCERIES-
All fresh and of the very best
Quality. Teas aad coffees are
i specialties. Your patronage
solicited.
r c r i .
BEST
MEAL
IN THE
CITY
FOR
25
CENTS.
THE NEW
Dill!
Cor. Washington
and Main Streets
Mrs. Belle Collins
nil
Oregon
SUBLINE
ahd Union Pacific
Title Guaranteed: Loan Co.
EOaSBOBG, OBEGOX.
D. HamILTOS,
President
D C. HAXIX.TOS,
Secj. sad Tresi
Write your Farm Experience and Send-
Once in tbe Court Hock. Hare the only con
pleienet ol sbotreetbooki In Doturlu County
Abstract and Certificates ot Title lurnUhol to
Doozla county Isnd and mlnln claim. Hire
alto a complete et ol Traclnc of all towsfhlp
plate In tbe BoMbunt, Oreson, O. S. Laa d Dl
trlct. Will make blue print copies of any town
snip
Of your life if you bu y a buggy, hack or road wagon before
3ou inspect our stoclc'of John Deere vehicles.
We Are After You
Haven't missed a sale since car arrived. Finest line o
spring goods ever brought to the county.
CHURCHILL & W00LLEY
1
A. C. MAR5TER5 & CO. j
In 1902 the Southern Pacific Company
published a pamphlet entitled "Cali
fornia Industries." It contained princi
pally the personal testimonies of experi .
enced cultivators, says the Pacific Home
stead. A short description of the dif
ferent sections was given and following
this the testimonies of fruit, growers,
dairymen, etc., etc., Ehowing the number
of acres cultivated to oranges, grapes,
olives, alfalfa, etc., the cost to cultivate
the yield per acre and price the products
were sold for. This was one of the most
practical pieces of literature that could
be put out. Sir. W. E. Coman, G.P. A.
of thrt Southern Pacific Company, has
written the agents of that company in
Oregon that it is the intention to get up
a similar publication for Oregon and
asks that all who are able to give tbe
results from their farms, daries, fruit
orchards, berry patches, etc., in Oregont
write the results for publication in this
pamphlet. He says he wants only the
actual results under favorable conditions
the same as can be accomplished by
any intelligent grower under normal
conditions ; that is, he wants only honest
representations. Any of our readers in
Oregon who will take the time to give
their experiences will be doing the com
pany a court sy and the state justice.
You may send your statement to Mr
Coman, or to the Plaindealeb and it will
be forwarded to him.
DRUGGISTS
N. A. FOSTER & CO.,
GOVERNMENT
LANDS
Of every descriytion. Farms and Min
eral Lands. Oregon, Washington and
Minnesota.
(j23) OAKLAND. OEEGON
Abstract of Title to Deeded Land.
Papers prepared for filing on Govern
ment Land.
Blue Printa of Township Maps showing
all vacant Lands.
FRAME. ALLEY
Architect, Abstracter.
Plans and Estimates for all Build
ings. Special designs for Office Fixtures
Office in new Bank Building. 'Phone 415
ROSEBURG. OREGON
"God says I must kill and eat my little
boy, and I dare not disobey him. How
can I do it? Ob, how can I do it?"
FREE1 FREEH FREEH 1
The Great Majestic Cooking Exhibition
Thursday, Sept 3, 4, and b,
On a range that cannot be broken or
melted in any fire. Will bake and serve
biscuits with coffee in three minutes by
a lady from our own community. No
experts from abroad. A representative
from the factory will be present and
give free lectures on economic cooking.
Come everybody to
Stearns & Ciiexoweth,.
a27. Oakland, Ore.
THE
PACIFIC
HOMESTEAD
The Greatest Farm Taper ol the North
west. Published weekly at Salem, Orc
Kon. Edited by the Farmer of the
gKorthwest. Twenty rages. IlluMrated.
A WESTERN PAPER
FOR WESTERN PEOPLE
5 Papers lor $1.00. Less than acts each
Publication began March 1. 1900. Now
has 9,300 subscribers. Phenomenal growth
is due to it being tho best farm paper pub
lished. YOU SHOULD READ IT
HOMESTEAD AND PLAINDEALER
$2.75 A YEAR.
We Want Your Patronage
and as an inducement we offer U. S. P.
Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines,
High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti
cles, and Specialties
FOR
go to THE ROSELEAF
CIGARS, TOBACCO
HND SMOKERS' SUPPLIES.
Jackson Street, - - Roseburg, Oregon
Ft. W- FENN,
CIVIL- ENGINEER.
(Lately with tho government geographical and geological survev of Brazil
South America.) "
United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor.
OfllceoverPoatoffice. ROSEBURG, OREGON. Correspondence solicited
A. SALZMAN,
Pratical WatchmaRer, Jeweler, Optician.
Watches, Clock's, Jewelry
Diamonds and Silverware
Watch Repairing
a Specialty.