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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1906)
CQRVA 1" Ck)RVALUS, Benton County, Oregon, Friday, Afrit, 6, 1906. NO . 3 0 .LIS (Tit At H 1 1 1 mmr- . tv:.iE.'Mii, ? m. & . mm .mm mm , mm m m . FAVORS LOCAL OPTION. "Wants to Maintain Present Con. ditions in Corvallis. Ed.' Gazette: If our city as a municipal government is respon sible for the violation or obser vance of social laws, or lawsof in telligence, ot morals and of tem perance, then obviously ei ch individual citizen is responsible for that standard of public moral ity which he advocates and to which his civic life gives sanc tion and support. If this be so, nowhere so much in the world as-in our city, the seat of learning, ought our cit izens to be on guard in order ser viceably to defend the Christian principles that bear on the civic life of our city, as well as those bearing on our own individual life and the lives of the youth of our state who seek learning within our gates. An armed camp would not be idle with an enemy prowling through the ranks of its troops. The last skulking intruder would be apprehened and if not im prisoned he would find it unsafe to remain within reach of those whose duty it is to clear the camp of every disloyal fellow. The vultures of the whiskey traffic lost their legal status in Corvallis a year ago as the result of the oft repeated crimes and felonies " traceable to their commercial business and now they hover with cir cling wings ever their moral . wrecks. They will seek at our coming municipal election to re store the broken sceptre of Rum that it may again rule our city with a rod of iron. The people ot Corvallis will never again restore, a whiskey ad ministration for our city gov ernment. We may continue to suffer from onr late guilty co partnership with the whiskey traffic, but our people will - never authorize a commercial business that logically leads to brutal drunkenness. Our people will never again legalize the dehu manizing business of making drunkards a business that con sumes with its liquid flames like a burning desolating sirocco. There is stored up in the whiskey arsenals a fiendish, subtle power more destructive to the moral life of the race than disease or famine with outstretch ed wings over the world. The armory of strong drink is the incubator of disease and the mother of moral famine in the world. It paralizes and shatters the manhood of the race and leaves its helpless physical wrecks as desolate and powerless on the shores of time as the land that rocks and reels with convulsive earthquakes. Our people will never restore its degrading co partnership with the whiskey business, a business that carries on its front the mask ot Cain in every land and clime where it is licensed, legalized, or toler ated. Its criminals outnumber the stars of Heaven and are found in the dens of vice in every city in the world. Our people will not legalize a traffic that makes men insane and robs them of their reason, and fills their lives and the lives of their helpless families with unutterable woe, poverty, sorrow and despair. Our people know of the mon strous iniquity of the whiskey traffic; innumerable witnesses bear testimony, all covered with the scars and wounds received at the blood-stained hands of the advocates of license for the prim ative traffic of the ages of bar barism which has grown under the impulse of the special legal privileges nntil it is more power ful than the legions of dark ness. Bat its power is ' broken in Corvallis; we smote it hip and thigh a year ago through the free maa't ballot let the next con . . mm . test demonstrate wnose uod is the Lord the Dagon of Whiskey that invisible power which has summoned bis people to the de tense ot the good name ot our city and all that we hold sacred and precious in every household, against that withering blight that fades with its touch and smears the Heaven given tints of glory from the brow of man hood's earlv morning, and would burn to ashes at Meridian the golden ti uths of life spun from the spotless fleece of immortal life. . T. J. Thorp. Cake Opposed to Trusts. Every combination of capital known as a trust should be placed under the ban of the law, not onlv should trust corporations themselves be barred from doing busitess, but the individuals re sponsible for the combinations t . should be punished as provided by law, says H. M. Cake, candi date for United States Senator, There is 'probably no other man in the state of Oregon more pronounced in his opinions upon this subiect tnan Mr. uake. as evidenced by his actions and past utterances. He is not the .attorney for, is not interested in, nor does he represent, directly r indirectly, any trusts. He believes in the absolute freedom of competition in all lines of business the preserva tion of the equal rights of the entire citizenship of the country free from interference by . com binations of capital. Mr. Cake is a firm believer in right of the American work ingman to protect himself by means of labor organizations against oppressions ot organ ized capital. The great common people of the country can depend upon it that Mr. Cake, is friendlv to their interests, for he is one of the com mon peopled, i, -.;. 4 - - He is friendly to every section and interest of the state, and if elected to the senate, will do everything he can for the de velopment and prosperity of all Oregon. The Primary Tickets. An unusual condition exists in Benton county today in things polit ical, so far as the democratic brethein are concerned. Instead of there being seekers for office this campaign, there has been a seeking for men to fill the offices, and even in that there has been only partial success. Tne time for filing petitions for nominations for the primary election expired at midnight Wednesday and the two tickets show the following aspirants for office: On the republican ticket, for state senator, Hon. E. H. Belknap and A. J. Johnson; re presentative, Virgil A. Carter and J. H. Edwards; County judge, E. Woodward, J. B. Irvine and A. J. Williams; sheriff, Fred C. Peii; Clerk, T. T. Vincent; treasurer, S. H. Horton; record er. T. W. 'Crawford. E. T. New ton; com misssoner, W. A. Jolly, George W. Smith. On the democratic ticket there is no candidate for state senator, none for representative, none for county judge and none for com missioner. Those who have filed petitions are M. P. Burnett, sheriff; Victor P. Moses, clerk; Harley L. Hall, recorder, and W. A. Buchanan, treasurer. Good Judgement. Is the essential characteristic of men and woman. Invaluaole to good busi ness men and necessary to housewives. A woman shows good judgement when she boys White's Oream Vermifuge fer her baby. The best worm medicine ever offered to mothers. Mamy indeed are the sensible mothers, who write their gratitude for the good health of their children, which they owe to the qbo of White's Uream Yermuuee. beia by Graham St Wortham. Have your job printing done at the Gazette office AT NATIONAL CAPITAL Matters of Importance to Oregon and the Coast. A question often asked . about the national capital is regarding Oregon's aiche in the hall of fame. It will be remembered that the state has no marble figure there of her most cherished hist oric son. She is not entirely alone in the shortage, but such does not prevent the curious from in quiring when Oregon will be ready to designate who shall go down to posterity as her - most potent and loved character. The Hall of Fame contains some of the most historic charac ters of the nation. Revolution ary days, of course, were produc tive of a major portion of the men who are honored there. For a time it seemed that revolutionary duties were the essential qualifi cation, as no other achievements approached those in popular favor. , But new states and the lapse of a century make Revolu tionary heroes impossible for a heavy psrtion of the nation's ranks of statuary fame. Oregon and several other new states have not found it expedient to place either of the statues allotted each of them, and does not indicate any desire for haste in the mat ter. Oregon being the mother state of the Northwest is natural ly expected to have the most material for such uses, and the quizzical direct their attention to Oregon's lack of representation rather than to any other Western state. - Japanese encroachment in the fishing waters of Alaska will be brqught to a close this year. Senator Fulton's bill prohibiting aliens from taking fish in the waters of that northern district, is on the house calendar at last, and is assured of final enactment there, since the " senate'' already has passed the measure. -'. For some time, especially last year, tne Japanese nave oeen pressing their ; fishing operations further and further on .the, Amer ican side of the Bering sea and north Pacific ocean. , . , United States vessels found them last year far in the Alaska fisheries, catching salmon in large quant - ties, and pickling the fish for re turn to Japan. No siezures were made, but most of the Jap vessels took to flight when ob served. That this matter may be out in a certain state of pro tection, the bill was introduced by the Oregon senator, and henceforth care will be observed by the government to patrol the fishing grounds during the season when poaching has been practic ed. ' While the government is de bating whether to have the Pan ama canal work done by contract or turned over to thef engineer ing department of the navy for execution, the splendid achieve ments of the latter are borught generally to attention. Some of the figures cite4 to prove that the army engineers are well qualified are taken from work done on the Columbia, where both canal at the Cascades and jetty at the mouth of the river, attest effi ciency. The Columbia jetty has always been regarded an especial ly difficult piece of work, owing to the exposed condition of the bar and strong litoral currents sweeping against the discharge flow of the river. The construc tion work on the jetty has been kept below estimates, where money was furnished with any thing like fair constancy, and had this contract been put on a continuing basis, as many other great works of the East and South, it would have been finished for far less than the original cost of the enterprise. Hindoo-American Association. There has been in progress for some months at the Agricultural College an organization "known as the Hindoo-American Associa tion, whose aim and work is mutual helpfulness and the pro motion of a more intelligent un derstanding of one of the oldest nations of antiquity, as to its language, art, literature and history. And on the other hand, to pass over from the latest to come in the world's -civilization, American ideas of agriculture, commerce and science. That these educational ad vantages may not be housed by college walls, it was decided at the last meeting of the club to open its doors to outsiders, who by the payment of 50 cents for the remainder of the year, or 15 cents for eace meeting may par ticipate in the discussions of each evening. The association meets the second Monday of every month, the next meeting being Monday. April. 9th, at 7:30 p. m. at Col lege Chapel, when the following program will be , rendered : Discussion- How Best to Study India . Ld by Judge W. S. McFaddeH Piano Solo -Miss G. B. White. Some Lessons in Hindoo Cookery , Mr. Mustnram Paper on Hindoo Music - ' Prof. Taillandier Ramayana, the Hindoo Epic, Mr. Sinha. E V, CARTER? Candidate for the Repub lican Nomination for STATE TREASURER. How to reduce your taxes Mr. Carter says? - . 1 am not the candidate of any clique, faction, organization or eociety. Eastern Oregon, Multnomah County and the nor thern section of the state feave many fn didates for TJ. 8 Senator and for the o .ber state and district offices and it is a reasonable claim tnat Southern Oregon is entitled to this place tin the ticket. Oregon hai never received any of this interest paid on its money and if elected State Treasurer, I wilt pay over to the state every dollar of interest earned on its funds whether a law be passed requir ing me to do so or not. This will result in a saving to the taxpayers of this state of from $15,000 to $20,000 per annum. A Friend of OAC, E. V. Carter, of Ashland, Ore gon, who is a republican candi date for the nomination for State Treasurer, has been in our city in the interest of his candidacy. Mr. Carter has many friends and acquaintances in Benton county who will remember that he has always been a staunch iriend of the Oregon Agricultural College and that while speaker of the House in special session of 1898 and the regular session of 1899 he aided the institution in .very way possible. Again as a member of the Sen ate ways and means committee in 1903 and 1905 he was ot aa ve assistance in securing the app priations asked for. Mr. C" r is well qualified for the posiu u of Stare Treasurer and his can' dacy is being well receiv. throughout the state. STEAMER POMONA For Portland and way points, leaves. Corvallis Monday Wednesday and Fri day at 6 a m. Albany 7 a. m. Fare to Portland, $1.75; round trie 98.00. 1S3U H. A. anxAKr Agu; THERE IS A GIRL IN THE CASE. Perhaps it's your intended, or maybe a daughter. Either way if the watch is one I sold it's a good one. . WATCHES ; that keep correct time are the kind I deal in. It makes no difference if the time piece I sell you is a silver-cased one or a lewelled gold-cased chronometer; they both bear my warrantee. I sell at a low margin and that increases my sales. My goods and prices are both satisfactory. Albert J. Metzger WATCHMAKER Occidental Building, - - - Corvallis Figure any way you will. The man or woman who makes a purchase at our store actually saves money. We do not claim that all our goods are sold at cost, but we do claim that our customers are not deceived That our goods are sold, only at a profit consistent with the times, and that marking some goods AWAY UP and some AWAY DOWN is not allowed in our store. A SQUARE DEAL to everybody is our motto. . Before commencing house cleaning drop in look over our prices (all in plain -figures) and see what we have in FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, WALL PAPER, LINOLEUM, ETC. LARGE LINE OF COUCHES. GRANITE and ' TINWARE A Specialty We are making a specialty in the form of the latest and most up-to-date eye glass mounting, ever offered to the public. This eye glass mounting is "The Heard" guaranteed to stay on where others absolutely fail. If you care to investigate call at my store'any time. E. W. S. PRATT, Jeweler and Optician.! SEEING IS BELIE VESTO Then come in and see my line of Sporting Goods and be con vinced that it is the best and most complete line ever brought to your city, consisting of Guns and Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Base-baU Goods, Bicycles and Sundries, Pocket Knives, Razors, Sewing Machine Supplies, etc. Gasoline and Dry Cells for sale. Agent for the Olds Gasoline Engines and Automobiles . Guns and Bicycles For Rent. First-class Repair Shop. M. M. LONG, Ind. Phone 126, Residence 324. ' CORVALLIS, - OREGON. J. F. TYLER. Take The Gazette for all the local news- Just Because. Yoar cough is only in the throat and does Dot trouble you now, don't think that it needs no attention. When it has not had mach of a start is the time to eck it. The slightest congb easily lead to pneumonia, bronchitis, and ccnamnption. ' A bottle of Ballard's Horeboauu Syrup will care that congb. The price r-i-ta it within reach of alL Sold by G-auam & Wortham. SPENCER'S Hair Invigorafcr And Dandruff Eradlcator XI 3 s 3" 2. s s aa e a o 3 o a S a 3 1 s s s " rm i a 3 1 raw lart Kegisnru. i Price, - Fifty Cents Manufactured by The Vegetable Compound Company Corvallis, Oregon 9tf NEW LINE OF GO-CARTS. STOVES and t RANGES We Fix Everything Trial Solicited. Work Guaranteed. New Line of Bicycles. Columbias and Ramblers. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought- Bears the Signature of RHEYSEEIETTAI?