Cbe Cottage
Crovc Sentinel
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER WITH PLENTY OF BACKBONE
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ELBERT BEDE, Editor
BEDE A ORANT, P u b lia h e r i
A
flrst-clasa publication entered
at Cottage
Grove
as second class
matter.
Wednesday, March 10. 1915.
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Y o u w ould be likely to let out a big hol
ler if a bank charged you 10 per cent in
terest on a year’s loan. But w e give you
tlje equivalent of 10 per cent on your
money for 10, 20,30 or 60 days. Suppose
you have got to have an order of $100
worth of merchandise within the next
month. By buying the goods from us be
fore March 16 w e will give you a 10 per
cent discount, which is equivalent to l O
per cent on your money in 3 0 days.
There is nothing in the store reserved,
and our shelves are full of fresh goods in
season’s latest styles. See the latest here
in Millinery, Gloves, Hosiery and Spring
D ry Goods.
per line.
Be Sure to Get Stop Over
at Cottage Grove.
Be Sure to Get Stop Over
at Cottage Grove.
PRO TECTIVE TREE TRADE.
•‘ Ah, provident! Ah. sage! Ah, gener
ous king!
That seta the emaciate wolf to dog the
flock.”
0 8 SOME considerable time the
citizens o f this great land of
the free and home o f the brave
have been laboring under the impression
that we are enjoying the privilege ot
living under a beneficent free trade
ta riff that invites competition of
United States industries with those of
the whole world. We have been proud
to think that we were not afraid to
challenge the entire world to compete
tion. (Without seeming to be irrele
vant we would state that even the un
employed have been laboring under this
impression.) We have been led to be
lieve that the iniquitous high ta riff
walls of the more iniquitous Republican
party
were
obliterated
as
com
pletely as if they had stood the brunt
o f a German invasion.
0
Can it be possible that we have been
hoodwinked, bamboozled aud befuddled
by the party which made such great
promises to lead us out of the land of
bondage into the land o f milk and hon
eyt Let us see.
The Department o f Agriculture re
cently issued a letter of instructions for
the information o f customs officials and
state inspectors collaborating with the
Federal Horticultural Board in the en
forcement o f the plant quarantine act.
The following amusing and highly inter
eating facts are elicited from a perusal
of the reference list appearing in that
document which was prepared for the
purpose of showing the plants and plant
products excluded from the United
Btates by the various quarantine or
dera issued up to December 31, 1914:
“ Irish potatoes from Newfoundland,
the islands o f 8t. Pierre and Miquelon.
Great Britain, including England, Scot
land, Wales and Ireland, Germany and
Austria Hungary.— Quarantine No. 3.
“ A ll citrus nursery stock, including
buds, scions and seeds, from all foreign
localities and countries.— Quarantine
No. 19. ”
Here we have— brought out in strik
ing eolors— the hitherto undiscovered
microscopic difference ’twixt tweedle-
dee and tweedledum.
Schoolmaster
Woodrow Wilson and his official family
of democratic pundits are reducing the
high cost of living; furnishing employ
ment to the unemployed; bringing order
out of chaos in Mexico, etc., etc., by
wiping the protective ta riff o ff the
statute books and instituting instead
thereof a system of quarantine orders
minus the revenues derived from cus
toms— far more drastic and inflexible
than any protective ta riff yet enacted
and the delay and publicity connected
with taking such a matter before con
gross is conveniently done away with
and the making of protective tariffs
becomes the function of the Department
of Agriculture.
Then, too, under this new order of
things, places and fat salaries are pro
vided for an immense army o f emaci
ated democratic officeholders to en
force and uphold the majesty o f Wood
row W ilson’s “ New Freedom,’ ’ other
wise known to us as “ Quarantine Or
der! Nos. 3 to 19, Inclusive.’ ’
The grotesque incongruity and farci
cal absurdity of this entire procedure
leminds us o f the Harvard divinity stu
dent who was sent out to a country dis
trict to supply a pulpit one Hunday.
tin his return, his professor, who was
much interested in him, inquired as to
how he had succeeded. “ Fine,” replied
the student. “ Glad to hear it ,’ ’ said
the professor, “ and what was your
tex t! ’ ’ “ W ell,” said the student, “ I
look for my text the passage, ‘ How
r-hall we escape if we neglect so great
n salvation!’ ” “ A fine text,’ ’ said the
professor, “ and I am curious to know
how you treated this interesting sub
ject.”
“ W ell,” replied the student,
“ I divided my sermon into two parts.
I first told my congregation what a
great salvation this was and then I told
them how they might escape i f they
neglected it .”
Having covered potatoes, cotton seed,
seed cotton, oranges, lemons and other
egetable products behind a quarantine
wall, the next thing We expect is to see
iron ore quarantined to prevent a spread
o f foreign rust, to have wool goods
«.uarantined to prevent a spread of for
ign breeds o f lice, to have foreign hides
j quarantined
to prevent a spread o f the
foot and mouth disease, and so on ad
infinitum. The brain that conceived a
quarantine wall to supercede a ta riff
wall is certainly to bo complimented for
its sagacity, if for uothing else.
This ta riff game is a great game— at
which the consumer never wins.
F A IR
B
PLAY
AND
S E L F IS H N E S S
C O M BINED .
S T A T E M E N T that should re
ccive serious consideration was
made by J. 8. Medley at the re
cent meeting o f the Commercial Club.
The statement was in substance that
there is but one railroad that has ever
done anything for Cottage Grove, that
without this railroad there would as
yet be no city here, not a foot o f our
lumber could be marketed and all our
supplies would have to be hauled in,
that this railroad has for years em
ployed a half dozen or more men at its
station and has maintained a large crew
at its tie plant, that there is no other
railroad from which we ran at this
present time hope to get anything in
railroad service, that regardless of what
may have been its attitude before rail
way regulation began, this road is at
the present time endeavoring to serve
us to the best o f its ability and to muke
whatever improvements the receipts of
the local station and the condition o f
the company’s exchequer warrant, that,
whenever possible, we should spend all
money used for railway tickets with the
only railroad from which we can at the
present time hope to get anything.
Many had not thought of the proposi
tion from this standpoint, but it is a
fact which cannot be controverted that
despite the welcome it would receive
were it to extend its lines here, the
Oregon Electric has not ns yet spent a
dollar in Cottage Grove, nor do we
know that it ever will. The only rail
road that we have has no means of
making improvements except with the
money received from patrons or by bor
rowing money on securities whose val
ues fluctuate as the earnings o f the road
fluctuate. From a spirit o f fair play
we may owe it to this road to give it
whatever business we have, but it is
certain that from a purely selfish busi
ness standpoint it is to our interests to
do so.
R E T U R N IN G HOM E.
UGENE Guard: There is some
thing strikingly pathetic about
a brief despatch which came
from Geneva, Switzerland. The first
trainload o f maimed German prisoners
o f war who are to be exchanged for
wounded French soldiers arrived there
from Lyons, homeward bound, Tuesday
night, it states.
The flower of a nation— men who in
the full bloom of life went forth to war
—crushed and robbed o f its glory has
been discarded. No longer fit for life
in the trenches these helpless cripples
are to be permitted to eke out an ex
istence at home.
A father, blinded by a bursting shell,
returns to his w ife and babies whom
be cannot see. The sons of happy homes
of a few months ago, with parts o f legs
and arms dangling to their bent bodies
and with hideously disfigured faces,
return to sweethearts they no longer
can embrace, to cloud and burden the
lives o f those whom the Creator had
planned they should make happy. Much
is the homecoming of these exchanged
prisoners— a homecoming which should'
make the whole world shudder and its
people cry out against war.
But it is not so. The people elamor
for the blood o f their fellowmen,
against whom they can have no griev
ance, but with whom in the service of
the Fatherland, they know not why,
they are at war.
Why are these men figh tin g! Nobrdy
knows. What makes them fig h t! False
patriotism, an emotion that causes men
to attack men of another territory with
every brutality simply because their
rulers have quarreled. A fter the people
get through maiming and killing, the
rulers will meet somewhere and draw up
a treaty o f peace.
What a difference it would hnve made
if this treaty of peace had been drnwn
first!
What a difference it would
have made in the homes most directly
affected by this homecoming o f help
less victims o f war! What a difference
it would have made to millions o f homes
in Belgium, France, Germany, Great
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Britain, Her via, Austria and Turkey!
Wbat a difference it would have made
to the so called civilized World!
The other day a British trench was
blown up and Hir John French in his
war office statement said: “ Our loss
was triflin g.” Two hundred and forty
maimed Germans mentioned to be ex
changed in the despatch from Geneva
in the language o f this belligerent are
“ triflin g ” in comparison with the hun
dreds o f thousands who are counted
among the dead and the millions more
who are now being marched to the
slaughter.
The world can only pray and hope
that the carnnge will end soon; that
Darkness Masquerades as Light— Fool
sanity will return; that when wnr is
ish Words Mislsad the Ignorant.
done there shall be no thoughts o f war;
Christians Often "Babas In Christ.”
that the final homecoming shall be suf
Few Have Their Senses Exercised by
ficiently impressive upon all people
Reason of Uao— Biblo Study Novor
that they may understand the blessing
More Needed Than Now—"W hat Say
of an enduring peace.
the Scriptures!” Not, What Say the
Preachers. Evangelists and Creeds!
Eugene is going after a lace factory
New York, Mar.
in a manner that indicates that it in
7.- Hpeuklugut tlui
tends to put on a few more frills.
Billy Sunday Challenged--Doas
He Deny The! Jesus Is
the Son of 6od?
R E G U L A T IO N N E E D E D .
The recent failure o f three mutuul
fire insurance companies in Oregon
shows the need of more stringent in
vestigation and regulation of the fire
insurance business and more care on the
part o f policyholders in buying insur
ance. For two years these companies
had been paying in losses more than
they were receiving in premiums while
muking public statements that their af
fairs were in good shape. An inveatiga
tion by the new Insurance Commissioner
brought about a receivership. The fu
ture o f these companies would not lie
so serious a matter if policyholders were
not compelled to dig down in their
pockets to make up the deficit. Those
able to puy the assessment will he com
pel led to do so. Those against whom a
judgment means nothing will have had
cheap Insurance at the expense o f the
other fellow. Those against whom a
judgment is collectible will probably
find that their insurance has cost them
as much as i f it had been taken in a
company with a safe reserve fund while
they have been encouraging unfair
competition with safe business.
The Hentinel has no fault to find with
the principles o f mutual insurance, but
it does believe in a square deal to those
companies fmtual or otherwise) that arc
amply protecting policyholders, and be
lieves that purchasers should take a
care that they are not fooled as policy-
holders in these three defunct companies
were fooled.
Calling
Cards— The
Hentinel
office.
New
York City
T • ni p I •
today,
i ' i s t o r itunscil
took for his text
John 1.34, "1 saw
and bare record
that tbla Is the
Hon of GotL” IIo
declared
that
about
three
fourth» of all tbe
preaebeni are bis
cuemlen. Because
they c-auuot resist the force of bis Bi
ble teachings, they misrepresent them
and vilify his reputation, that thus
they may hinder good people from
hearing aud from reading. “By their
fruits ys shall know them," said tbe
Master; and evidently many clergy
men must be seriously wrong of heart;
else they would not bear these un
scriptural
fruits — unmanly
fruits—
“ works o f the flesh and o f the Devil.”—
Galatians 5:19-21; 1 John 8:&
Rut tbe Pastor would not alack hla
efforts to make known the true char
acter of the God of the Bible, so In
contrast with tbe Satanic god of the
creeds. Thousands of letters from all
purts of tbe world tell him of new life,
new Joy In the Lord, through hla ef
forts; and he Is encouraged to go on
ward In the narrow way which the
Muster and tbe Apostles trod.
He
would not render personal abuse In re-
tn 1 In tion. To do so would be contrary
to the W ord and Spirit of the Lord.
But the creeds and false doctrines hs
would continue to smash with all the
power granted him, that thus hunger
ing, thirsting souls might be delivered
from error Into the Joyous liberty ef
the children of God.
Denying the Son of God.
Billy Hundar I—a ; » i n i « U u i s w a
ge lists and preachers In the slanderous
nilsatiitemeuta that Pastor Ituaaell de
nlea that Jesus Is tbe Hou of God. By
such false statements, said the Pastor,
they seek to prvveut (ieople from coming
to hear me and from reading my Bible
expositions. Yet how foollah It la for
them to make such dclltierate misstate
ments; for eventuully their falsehoods
will lie found out! Ieople who learn
o f the gross misrepresentation realise
that ouly desperation, attempting to
support a weak cause, could lead men
professing to be ministers of the Truth
to thus do It rlolence.
Really. It Is I who believe tbat Jesus
Is the Hon of God, while the great m l
Jorlty of preachers and evangelists do
not clearly so teach.
They confuse
their argument and bewilder their
hearers by telling In one breath tbat
Jesus Is the Hon of God, and In the
next breath that He Is Ills own Father.
According to them, n s la Jehovah
God, who sent Ills Hon Into the world
to die, and He Is the Hon who sent
Himself, as God. When He prayed to
the Father It was a mockery; for IIo
was the F ath er-"o n e In person."
When he sold, “The Father Is greater
thaD I,” Q e misrepresented tbs facts,
according to these preachers, evan-
gel Is ts and creed-makers. He spoke of
the Cup which the Father had poured
for Him. and aald He could do nothing
of Hlmaelf, and that Tie would return
to the Father. lie prayed, "M y Godl
My God!
W hy hast Thou forsaken
M a r aud aald to Mary. “I have not
yet ascended to My Father and your
Father, to My God and your God.”
But these wiser than tbe-BIble teach
ers contradict Him, and feel like say
ing, “Jesus must have been a Millen
nial I>awner! But ire know better!”
Huch teachers make void tbe Word
o f God through their tradltlona.
In
claiming that Jesua ts Jehovah God,
they really deny that He la tbe Hon of
God; for common sense tells everybody
that a son rscelves Ids life from the fn
ther. This la exactly wbut the Bible
tells ua respecting Jesua.
Truthful Criticisms Invitsd.
1 Invite truthful criticisms of my
teachings: but tny op[H>nenta know
that to treat ine fairly, Justly, would
|>e to turn all thinking (ieople to my
side—the Bible aide- the reasonable
side.
For thirty years they Ignored
my presentations, lest (ieople should
find out; but as my sermous uow reach
millions, they are alurmed for the safe
ty of their musty creeds, mid resort to
rank falsehoods, misrepresentations and
slanders—tbe weapons of moral cow
arils, who realize their own weakness.
I f they would charge me with dlslie
llevlng the doctrine of the Trlulty—
that three ones lire one—I would cheer
fully admit It, and point them to the
fact tbat the word Trinity ts not found
In tbe Bible, and that the thought o f a
trinity Is not there, except In one paa-
v a g w h i c h *JI scholars o| all denom-
luatlons admit la a forgery of Ihe Sev
enth Century—1 Jobu 5:7. 8 Bee lie
vbu-d Version.
I believe In tbe Heavenly Father. Je
bovah God. I believe lu Ills Ron, edr
Lord Jesus Christ, who left tbe H eav
enly nature, took the human nature,
died for our sins, and was afterward
highly exalted to Hie Divine nature. I
believe lu tbe Holy Spirit, the Spirit
of the Truth, the Spirit of God. the
Spirit of Christ
My < rluie Is tbnt I do
not believe that the Father, tbe Hoti,
aud the H oi/Spirit are "one In person,
equal lu power nud glory," neither one
exlstlug lie fore the others, neither oue
the Sou nnd neither one tbe Father,
really. The lllble any a nothing of this
kind: and I sm glad that my bead Is
not so Illogical aa to lead me to deny
the lllble and common sense for the
sake of being In harmony with creeds
made lu the Dark Ages.
"W ho Art They, Lord!”
"Jeeusl”
The Bible makes no mystery of who
Jesus Is; nnd we would not hare lieeii
lu confusion bad we relied solely upon
tbe testimony of Jesua, tbe Asiatics
nnd tbe ITophets.
Our misleading
tame during tbe twelve hundred years
when tbe Bible wsa Ignored, because
it w-is Itellevcd that tbe living bishops
were Apostolic nnd had the plenary
(lowers of tbs original A[ssitlea. This
serious error Jesua emphatically warn
ed ngnlust In advance.—Revelation 2 2.
The Bible tells of Jesus' present glo
rious station, "fa r above angels,” "par
taker of tbe Divine usture.” But many
Ignore this, nud claim that Jesus la a
inn» In Heaven, completely out of
touch with Hla surroundings; for a
man. according to the lllble, Is “a lit
tle lower than angels,” whereas Ihe
Apoatle declares Hint Jesus, at Ills res
urrection. was exalted far above an
gels. This glorious One, although o f a
different nnture. Is the s n iu s One who,
while on earth, was “the Man Christ
Jesus,” “a man of sorrows and ac
quainted with grief.”
Ht. I’aul tells
us how Jesus left the Heavenly glory,
how He humbled Hlmaelf to taks a
bondman's fo rm -to take the same na
ture as humanity, which had coins Into
bondage to sin.
The Bible explains how Jeaus could
he of our race, and yet lie “holy, harm-
leas, iindt-flled, separate from alnners.”
It tells us plainly that Jesua had a hu
man mother, blit tbat Ills Ilfs came
not from a human father; anil tbat
therefore He was (s-rfect and able to
lie the Ransomer of the race by giving
to God oacrlflclally a full correspond
ing pries for Adam, whoso life was
forfeited liecnuse of sin. Thus the Bi
ble explains thst Jesus’ death ts sufll-
dent for Adam’s sin and tbs sins of
the whole world; for the world was
not condemned Individually, but mere
ly partook of Adam'a condemnation to
death-
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