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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1910)
■ Xv Rovai HOME RULE MEANS NOTHING mean auythiug, or if it means any tiling, it is that the framers of the (Portland Oregonian.) i measure have lost themselves iu a The |>eople of Oregou ou Tues wilderness of couflictitig ami tau day emphatically rejected pro tological verbiage and may there hibition. They appear also to by themselves defeat the cause of have adopted the constitutional Home Rule. Whv didn’t they put amendment providing, or intend I the word “ otherwise” iu the last ing to provide, that incorporated phrase? Thirty six members attended the cities and towus shall have the recent meeting of the National right within their limits to control, I Association of Mexican War Vet regulate or prohibit the sale of in - ; It is known erans iu lndiauapolis. Their ages toxicating liquors. ranged from seventy-eight to eighty as the Greater Oregon Home Rule j seven years. At the end of the Act. Its provisions are so extraor' last session the secretary an diuary that the Oregouiau thinks uounced that they would part “ to it worth while to set them forth in The eatiug season of the year meet again on that beautiful full. is here. We have * shore, ” and asked all present to "A rticle X I , seetiou 2. Corpo rise and declare the association rations may be formed under gen adjourned forever. It will not be eral laws, but shall not be created by the Legislative Assinbly by mauy years liefore the Grand special laws. The Legislative Army of the Republic wilt lie com Assembly shall not enact, amend That appeals to the appetite for your Thanksgiving dinner. piled to draw its life to a close or repeal any charter or act of in A full basket at corporation for any municipality, with a similar touching ceremony city or town. The legal voters of every city and town are hereby Talk about publicity—all of granted power to enact and amend (Oregon has been strenuously ad their municipal charter subject to And with it the good will of vertising Cottage Grove with Eu- the constitution ami criminal laws the one who buys and the one I gene the head publicity office. of the State of Oregou and the ex who sells. Homeseekers and investors should clusive power to license, regulate, control or to suppress or prohibit t bear in mind the freak admission the sale of intoxicating liquors of Eugene that Cottage Grove and therein is vested iu such munici South I.ane is the "cream ” of rich pality shall within its limits be old Lane county. Also remember subject to the provisions of the ! the Eugene real estate dealer, local option law ot the State of Oregon.” Frasiet’s sworn statement, that No two persons agree upon the taxes have doubled and trebled exact meaning or interpretation of in Kugeue in the past year. Come Œbc Œottaflc (Breve Xcabcr the great unwieldy, undeveloped i to Cottage Grove, the “ heart of this amendment. No two persons will agree probably, until it shall and poorly governed counties of i Lane and Douglas county.” be construed by the supreme court PUBLISH R I) RVStfRY TUESDAY Oregon, that a few hotel ami shop . of the State of Oregon The \V. C. CONNER, - Editor anil Manager keepers ami |ieltv fogging lawyers I \ye predict that two years from Greater Oregon Home Rule Asso iu some old selfish, grasping | uow the direct primary will be a ciation informs us that it was the Entered at the Cottage ('.rove postoffice county seat town may wax fat,*j dead letter, and that candidates as second class mail matter intention of that organization to ami the tax tribute wrested from will be named practically as they exempt incorporated cities and >1.5o One year - .75 these remote overburdened citizens were under the old convention svs- Six months. towns of Oregon from the opera may be used to pave the streets teIUi and further than tha t, that tion of the local option law, to the TUESD AY, NOV. 15, l ‘)lo and build macadamized automo- tbe uext United States senator extent that each municipality was bile boulevards about these old f froiu 0regoI1 wili |>e elected by the to be vested with power to decide county seats. Hv all means let i legislature iu the old fashioned TO NESMITH BOOSTERS “the i*ople” ordain that no new | way> ami „ot by vote of the peo- the liquor question for itself. If this was the purpose, which ( )u view here. Admire their hand couuties shall ever be created ¡ii|ple. If this should come about the Don’t get discouraged by one doubtless it was, it seems remark some and splendidly finished cases ( iregon. That state progress may people win have no one to blame; failure; a failure or two often able that the measure could not that make them such a beautiful lte more effectually retarded, let because their votes mdieabe that makes a grand success. Don’t have been framed in language less article of fnrniture. some wild eyed, selfish and grasp tiiey wish it that w ay.— Eugene forget that the failures of this year confusing, conflicting and ambig ing laud holder draft and submit Guard, may next year bring great sue uous. It was frequently charged au initiative or referendum rneas- cesses. Boost for Nesmith! ure providing that there shall be ^ ke valuable publicity given during the recent campaign that However for their greatest quality. no more sub-divisions of the e x -j Cottage Grove the past v.iar free the framers of the Home Rule Its richness and volume prove that •IF THIS BE TREASON pansive donation land claims and would have cost thousands o f dol- amendment, though they made no our piattos are the equal of any, question of their purpose to e x MAKE THE MOST OF IT great unimproved and uneulti- *ars usual way of conducting the superior of many. And vou vated pioneer homesteads in East- l° cal publicity campaigns. The clude cities and towns from the can purchase one without feeling arbitrary requirements of county An < iregon Legislature might ern and Western Oregon, which benefit to be derived therefrom by< the cost. Ask how. prohibition, unless such munici have refused to pass an “ Oregon measure “ the people” would no Cottage Grove ami South I .atie palities should expressly consent, Dry’’ bill, but no legislative assem doubt give their loyal support and I can uot be foretold. It is already permitted the measure to go forth I unqualified endorsement at the being realized in the crowds: of bly would have ever dared to pass iu terms which no one could un such an unfair, such au iniquitous, next geueral election, that these investors and home seekers con ting I derstand. Its phraseology gives j and no doubt unconstitutional act, lands may make millionaires out [ this way._______________ color to the accusation that it was 1 of a few corporations and land as the so-called “ Home Rule Meas Editor Baxter, of the Creswe.ll deliberately intended that no one • ure,” recently endorsed and grabbers. | Chronic, agreed to give the Nes- should understand it. What ingen Pass a few more “ employers lia adopted by “ the people” of < iregon ) mith booster a dollar a head for in a general state election. "Let bility” measures, so radical as to every voter found in the Creswell ious lawyer or assembly of lawyers tlrew it? A 10-year-old boy ought the people rule" and continue to drive labor employers out of the precinct favorable to Nesmith to have been able to frame in Perpetuate a vote down schools and vote in state completely. above the original solid and loyal pla ill language such an amend- booze in Oregon and thereby 15. Gveswell gave Nesmith 48 in e r t as the Greater Home Rule attract to this fair state all the countv or seetiou of the state may votes, so its up to Editor Baxter to Association desired: but these law prize fighters, tin horns, poker wreak its vengeauce upon some ; send along his check for $3.1, and yers c ould’t or wouldn’t. worthy candidate, or other locality sharps, dive keepers and men and ! will promptly receipt him for first two sentences of the \ The or section of the state for wrongs i women of infamy, of the whole , . . ! the same, foregoin g section are contained in United States, while the investor imaginary or otherwise, by voting in legitimate enterprises, the man down these candidates, or meas-1 The Leader man is getting used the consti tution as at present. The: ufacturer, the home seeker, the ures advanced by such localities, j to defeat in county division mat- final sentences constitute the pro-i student and all good and worthy counties or section of the state, j ters. We put up just as hard a posed chatlx'e. Observe the word ........ ^ But such J semj y0ur physician’s prescriptions citizens from the cast and middle For instance, since the other fel fight for “ Mineral county” through ing of the lav*! clause municipality s.'tall within its limits i to us they will be most carefully lows turned down Nesmith county, the Leader 20 years ago, as we west flock to Washington and Cal ifornia. Make Portland a second it is in order that we vote down all did for the late lamented Nesmith "be subject to th e provisions of the i compounded and only the purest local option law of the State o f : ami freshest of Drugs will be used_ Reno and Oregon a counterpart of measures presented by them re county with the same result. Oregon.” The loc al option law of | We alwayK carry a lar«e SUpP' y ° f gardless of their merits two years Nevada. Stop the wheels of pro The Portland Journal says the gress, obstruct and delay state hence- In the language of a brother ed election of West as governor has development, inconvenience and When one by counties is I its ei*s-,lce- ' ts itor, we went into this campaign killed assemblvism. heap upon thousands of citizens studies the returns carefully it is vital purpose and abso4u'te intent. that we can highly recommend. unnecessary burden and expense lielieving the people of all parties In all cases our prices are worthy difficult to see where there is the If each municipality o f t » i e o*ate of your notice. by forcing them to travel great dis were interested iu maintaining slightest basis for this statement. ¡•of Oregou shall hereaiter, under tances to transact county business such an institution. We are ready be »*ub- over unimproved country roads in uow to admit, while we believe as Oh, well, we didn't expect to the foregoing i amendment, inur n law f t« ie of tue • je c t to tile local __ option carry Nesmith county anyway ■State of Oregon, why does it n"ot C ottage Grove, Oregon ' but Cottage Grove was in need of necessarily follow that they shall ( the free advertising. They are all and must be subject to all provis- j coming this way now. Notici to Horse Owners, ions of the law including Jt.’ie par- , J'ticular provision that enforces! ' Voting out the normal schools We can show you the goods and they are a great saving county prohibition upon all th e ; ow ing to the constant advance and voting in booze should be a upon your knees, patience and nurse when you clean house. in the cost of materials and the great advertisement for Oregon—to territory within a county? The Home Rule amendmentI heavy freight rates the price of I the riff raff of the country. runs arouud in a circle. In one j horse shoeing in Cottage Grove The census shows ten thousand clause it vests in cities and towns Wni be advanced to the scale of less farmers in Iowa than ten years th e right to control, prohibit or j prices charged at Eugene, regard- ago. T h at’s startling. All com suppress the liquor business and in | lessof the fact that freight is high- the final clause it tnaAes, or seems er from Portland to Cottage Grove, ing to Oregon. to make, an express p.'oviso (since j The new scale of prices will lie: Up and at 'em again boys. It the local option law is 1 1 > l>e in full Numbers, 0, 1, 2 atul 3, $1.75. is not a defeat and surrender, but force and effect) that th ■* right or Numliers 4 and 5, $2.00. Sixes a temporary rout and retreat. privilege shall not be x wtlidrawn $2.25 and sevens $2.50. from the county. The G reater P h il l ip H o h l . Cottage Grove saved the day for S p r ig g s B r o s . Home Rule amendment, »u the more than one candidate. 4w. A. R. H am l o th . opinion of the Oregouiau, doesn’t The goods, in the wav of votes, were delivered to West. BAKING PO\VDER fiiiuly as ever iu the principle, that a majority of the people do uot j care what kiud of a primary they l have or whether they have any at all. This was first indicated by the lack of interest in the primary election, and is confirmed by the election returns of last week. Good Things For Thanksgiving ...Everything... A Reasonable Price KERR S S I L S B Y Note The Piano Test The Tone H. C. MADSEN Pvire Drvigs Paten< Medicines Christmas Holiday Excursion TO THE CITY OF MEXICO ....VIA THE.... Suthern Pacific Company Leaving Portland December 11th and 12th, Drill and S hu Francisco December I till, 1‘>1(I. 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