COTTAGE GROVE LEADER der all the industries, increasing
A FE W
OE
LITTLE TH ING S YOU
their burdens by senseless exac
M A Y H A VE OVERLOOKED
tions and making a profit in their
Published W e d n e s d a y s and Saturdays
business more unlikely and less
Eugene gets a big box factory.
possible, how can it be expected
Warrenton gets a clam cannery.
One year,_________________ $1.50 that they will increase other ex
Parma gets dairy products fac
Six months,_______________
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Advertising- rates on Application penses when it is possible to tory.
Bv F. A. MITCHEL
avoid it?
The European war is boosting
It is very doubtful if one half
J. U. Q U IL L E N , E dito r and M anager
prices of Oregon products and
My husband had been appointed
of the men engaged in manufac
will stimulate many industries. United States military attache at Ber
Entered as second-class matter January turing, mining and transporta
One new industry, the manufac lin aud hud gone there some time be
‘¿ ¡i, 1913, at the post office at Cottage
Grove, Oregon, under the Act of March tion enterprise in this country ture of peppermint oil, will be fore me In older to secure a place to
live aguimit my coming. 1 was on my
3, 1879.
are as well off today as they were
established on a large scale.
way there from I ’aris, traveling on a
ten years ago, and probably a
first class railway coach. Beside me
The new Booth-Kelly sawmill sat a umn, mid before him sat anoth
W ednesday , A ugust 26, 1914 large per cent of them would be
at
Springfield, operated entirely er man. the tw o being evidently travel
better off, if they had closed
by
electric power, will be started ing companions, for they were talk
Notice to the Public
down their business permanent
from Portland by President Grif ing very earnestly In Gerinun. a lan
All notices of entertainments^wliere admission ly during the panic of 1907.
guage I did not understand. Directly
in charged or where there is a money consider
Organized labor claims the hon fith of the Portland Commercial before me was a vacant seat, on which
ation; all cards of thntnlcs and resolutions of
condolence w ill Le charged for at the regular or for raising the wages of the club touching an electric button, I tossed my hand bag. This was very
careless o f me. for it contained all the
advertising rate—Scents per line.
working people, but I can dispute Aug. 29.
money I hud with me.
Roseburg Commercial Club has
I had been up late nights in I ’aris
this with just as many facts on my
and was very tired and sleepy. 1 fell
endorsed
the
bill
to
pension
and
side as they have on theirs. Em
into a doze and from a doze Into a
ployers that have been harrassed retire civil service employees.
sound sleep. More than an hour pass
and bullied by the professional
The state highway campaign ed before I awoke, and when I did 1
labor agitator, have come to look through central Oregon will turn found that tile man who had been seat
ed beside me was the only other per
on organized labor as organized travel through the great interior son except m yself in tile compartment.
enmity to their interests, and to the loss of the Willamette val He had changed his seat to one oppo
site me next the window and was
foes to profitable business, and ley counties.
reading a periodical.
Near him luy
treat workingmen as their worst
A large summer hotel is to be my bug. Just where 1 hud placed It.
enemies, just as the agitator says built at South Coos river.
I opened it aud looked for my pocket-
book.
the capitalist is the worst enemy
Salem issued $41,000 building
Now, 1 leave it to any woman if she
of the workingman.
on awakening from a slumber to Uud
permits last week.
The facts are that capital and
she bud been robbed o f money from a
S. A. Buck starts work on a bug lying beside a man would not look
labor
are
the
closest
friends
and
TH E PR O FE SSIO N A L AGITATOR IS
large box factory at Eugene this up at him accusingly. The man's eyes
partners, and absolutely neces
A B A R NA C LE .
were U|*ou me, and my looks told him
week.
sary, under modern conditions,
that 1 suspected him o f stealiug the
On another page will be found
The constitutional amendment money 1 had lost just as plainly as It
to the existence of each other,
a list of questions coming from
to
take over by the state sub could have been expressed in words.
and it is only when they are set
the local Socialists, called forth,
merged lands on navigable wa He looked frightened aud said some
they say, by a short editorial against each other through the ters would unsettle the title to a thing to me in German, hut be might
as well have spoken lu Sanskrit. Then
item in a reegnt issue of this pa manipulation of an interested great deal o f sawmill property he tried me lu French. 1 can speak
per. The asking o f questions is third party, like the professional and prevent investments on such a little French, but cau understand it
scarcely at all. At any rate, 1 didn't
one of the easiest things in the agitator, that they become ene lands.
catch what he had to say.
world. It is another matter to mies.
Tlie man looked so cut up that I
A finished deed to transfer the
It
is
easy
of
demonstration
that
show that the agitation that they
grew suspicious o f him. But why he
locks and canal to the United had not left the traiu with It while l
defend would in the least relieve the fights made by professional
States has now been sent to the was usleep 1 could only conjecture.
agitators
against
employers
are
the grievous situation which gave
the train had not made n stop.
not always made in the interest law department and it is believed Perhaps
them rise.
He was not a cool thief hy any means,
the property at Oregon City may for without my taking any action
The editor o f this paper has of better wages, for several of
finally be turned over to Uncle whatever lie took out a roll of crisp
the
most
persistent
and
bitter
always been a laborer, and in
hills and said to me in French:
Sam.
labor
fights
this
country
has
ever
sympathy with working people
“ Couibleii?” ("H o w much?” ) which
A force of men have resumed I understood was asking me the
everywhere, but has always op seen have been waged against
posed strikes as the poorest rem men who always paid the union construction work on the West amount I hud been robbed of. I held
up one finger and said. “ Mille francs,”
edy in the world in fact, no scale of wages or better, but re ern Union telegraph line between ineuning that 1 bad bad l.UUU francs
fused to allow the disturbers to Eugene and Mapleton on the in my pockotbook. My money bad
remedy at all.
been brnnd new. like the notes he held
dictate
how they should run their Siuslaw.
I have no data at hand to prove
in his hand, and 1 did not doubt they
business
or
whom
they
should
$25,000 is to be expended sink were mine. 1 gathered that he pre
the assertion, but I do not believe
ing oil^n d gas wells at Astoria. ferred to return uiy money rather thun
there has ever been a strike of employ.
By all means let us do justice
four weeks’ duration where the
The Star Packing Co. of Chi have me call a guard at the next sta
tion and have him arrested. He count
to
all
working
people,
and
put
a
results attained by the working
cago is putting a large clam can ed the roll iu his hand, and it amount
people have offset the loss and stop to child labor, but we do this nery at Warrenton.
ed to exuctly 1.000 francs. Then he
handed it to me, saying something In
the suffering which the strike better by peaceable means. And
The boycott for the destruction French which 1 did uot understand.
let
us
remember
that
no
employ
brought about; both the strikers
o f the Salem public market is
I was very glad to get my money
and general public being the suf er whose selling prices are regu still on, but the market is being back at nil and especially so easily.
lated by law and whose buying
When w e reached the next station the
ferers.
established on a large scale.
thief looked at me anxiously and on
price
of
labor
is
fixed
above
what
The Leader does not care to
Plans for the new $100,000 seeing that 1 made no move to call any
enter into any editorial contro he can pay, by a labor union, can University building will be opened one to arrest him drew a long sigh of
versy with its readers, but the long exist, so that the object of Sept. 10. The Portland Labor relief. This wns the only stop we
till we reached Berlin, and when
editor looks on strikes as he looks both labor agitators and legisla Council has made a fight to em made
we rolled into the station and the
tors
is
defeated
by
killing
the
on wars, as something to be re
ploy only union labor and many coach door was opened by the guard
sorted to only when all other goose that pays the taxes and contractors refused to bid on that the rascal Jumped out aud disappeared
in a great hurry.
measures have been tried and fills the weekly pay envelope.
basis, not knowing what labor
My husband hud secured a house In
failed, and many times not even
the capital, had engaged servants and
would cost.
had everything ready not only for our
then.
THREE TOASTS.
The establishment o f inde comfort, but to enable us to entertain
War is but a pitting of brute
Qiant 8tridaa In Fixing the Boundaries pendent meat packing plants guests. O f course every one o f the
force and brutal instinct, cunning
of Our Country.
in various parts o f the state are diplomatic corps must do more or less
and training against like qualities At a dinner party given by Am eri being encouraged by the farm entertaining, and since 1 brought ray
in the enemy, and a strike resem cans residing lu Paris some years ago ers as the only solution of the husband a. fortune mid we were abun
dantly able to hear the expense we
bles war in many essential par there were proposed sundry toasts con growing abuses of the meat and pro|K>scd to do our full share; blit, o f
cerning not so much the past and
course, I must go through the prelim
ticulars, with the advantage al present as I he eipected glories of the foods products trust.
inaries o f being Introduced at court.
great
American
nation.
In
the
gen
ways on the side of the capitalist.
All this had been attended to, nnd
The Hoke cannery at Medford
Strikes are usually directed eral character of these toasts geo
graphical considerations were very
is putting up a large pack of I was a full Hedged member o f Berlin
against corporations and not prominent, and the principal fact
society. The first Important function
tomatoes.
l attended was a state ball at the pal
against the individual who em which seemed to occupy the minds of
ace. I was standing talking to a lady
ploys a few men and works with the speakers was the unprecedented
P rof. J. E. Dunton Returns
whose husband was a inemlier o f the
bigness of our country.
them; and the corporation with "H ere's to the United Stntes,” snld
Prof. Dunton came in Tuesday diplomatic corps when 1 saw the em
millions o f capital behind it has the first speaker, "bounded on the night, looking real glad to get peror coming with a gentleman who
was bedizened with decorations, the
the favor of the gods on its side, north by British America, on the back home.
eni[>eror laughing at something the lat
south by the gulf of Mexico, on the
according to the greatest of mili east by the Atlantic aud on the west
During his absence of seven ter wns telling him. When they came
near enough for me to distinguish their
tary geniuses, who declared that by the Pacific ocean ”
weeks, Prof. Dunton has been features the marrow froze in my Ixmes.
“ God is always on the side of “ But,” said the second speaker, “this farmer, hay baler, land clearer, The man to whom the eui|ieror was
Is far too limited a view of the sub
the heaviest battalions."
listening was the thief who had stolen,
ject. In assigning our boundarlea we mountain climber, and has en
Then, again, all strikes injure must look to the great and glorious fu joyed every phase of the season’s then returned, my money. I shrank
away, but uot tn time. He saw me,
“ the innocent bystander” to a ture, which ts prescribed for us by the outing.
and the expression on his face denoted
manifest destiny of the Anglo-Saxon
greater or less degree, and con
A fter harvesting the crop on ns much surprise ns mine did conster
rare.
Here's to the United States,
sequently, o f recent years, the hounded on the north by the north his ranch near Molallaand baling nation. Then he snid something to the
emperor, who looked at me with an ex
striker does not have the sympa pole, on the sooth by the south pole, the hay for market. Prof. Dun pression o f amused surprise.
on
the
east
by
the
rising
sun
and
on
thy o f the public as he once had,
Calling to a Indy standing near me.
ton wound up the trip with a
the west by the setting sun.“
and the strike is becoming more Here the third speaker arose, a very climb up Mount Hood, a feat he the emperor and the thief talked to
her. and it wag evident that they were
and* '.uore unpopular with the serious gentleman front the far w est accomplished early this week.
talking atxmt me.
Theu the three
"
I
f
we
are
going,”
said
this
truly
pa
people who suffer, and conse
approached me. and the lady, after
He
is
looking
fit
for
almost
any
triotic American, "to leave the history
quently more and more unlikely past anti present and take our mani undertaking, and says he is feel making the required presentation, told
me that the th ief was Count Hein
to succeed in the future than in fest destiny Into account why restrict ing the best ever.
rich Schmieden, one o f the emperor’s
ourselves
within
the
narrow
limits
as
the past.
most intimate friends. H e had been
signed by our fellow countryman who
telling bts majesty o f how a lady on a
About the only person who has Just sat down? I give you the
O fficer Brown Capture* Rad Coon
train had lieen robbed and how he
profits from a strike is the agita United States, bounded on the north
Officer Brown ran across a bad rather than submit to arrest had
tor who draws a salary for get hy the aurora borealis, on the sonth hy “ nigger" in the S. P. yards Fri paid over the amount stolen. Just as
the procession o f the equinoxes, on
he had finished the story he espied me.
ting working people into trouble, the
east by primeval chaos and on tbs day night, and hail to resort to
The matter was considered an ad
and it is this professional dis west by the day of Judgment'*—Phil his gun before the big black mlrable Joke by the emperor and. In
turber that the editor had in adelphia Pi
would consent to accompany him deed, by the count, who claimed that
he had paid me the money not so
mind when he wrote the little
to the city lodging house. A mneh through fear o f my having him
item referred to by the Socialists.
shot fired close enough to fright- i arrested as the Inconvenience I wonld
Har Coaxing Way.
Let us admit that wages have
Is* put to at not having any money for
She- Oh. sweet hubby, be so good en him, and a few cracks on the expenses
I doubted his gallantry, but
not kept pace, in a skyward di as to make me a present of 100 marts. head with the gun, changed the
gave him credit for It. The next morn
rection, with the coat of living. H e Well. If yon need them yon may mind o f the coon, and he was ing my hnsband sent him a check for
1.000 francs
But who is to blame for this fact? have them. 8he—Oh. bow nice! N ow neatly landed in the lockup.
yon need to give roe only 300 m arts
The affair resulted In our receiving
With legislatures and referen- more for my tailor's Mil I— FU sfsnds
considerable attention from one of the
Blatter.
dums pulling the props from un
The Leader leads, others follow most Influential men in Berlin.
The paper that gives you what you want to read
A n Aristocratic
T o the Trade
T h ief
Beginning September
1, 1914-,
SIDE GROCERY will adopt the
the
W E ST
C ash S e llin g
P la n , and expects to pay spot cash for goods
and produce, as we have done in the past.
We expect to inaugurate a new profit sharing
plan in the near future.
Thanking all those have extended 11 s such a
liberal patronage in the past, and soliciting a
continuance of their valued patronage, we are
vours for a “ live and let live” policy, prompt
service and highest cpiality goods and the lowest
possible cash prices.
The W est Side Grocery
OE
TYve Greater Oregow
W ith n ew building«, better equip
ment, enlarged grounds, and m any ad
ditions to its faculty, the U n iversity
o f Q rego n w ill begin its thirty-ninth
year Tuesday, September 15.
Special training fo r Business, Jour*
nalism. Law , Medicine, T each in g, L i
brary W o rk , Music, Architecture, I
Physical Train in g and Fine Arts.
f
Largest and strongest departments I
o f liberal education.
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L ib ra ry o f m o re than 50.000 volu m es, t w o
splen did gym nasium s, e le v e n b u ild in gs fu lly
equipped.
N ew
$100,000 A d m in is tra tio n
B uilding in c o u r t « o f c o n stru ctio n
T u it io n P ré «.
D o rm ito rie s fo r m en and
fo r w o m e n
E x p e n s e « lo w est
W r it e fo r c a ta lo g and llluatrated b o o k le t.
A d d resain g R egia tra r,
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THERE IS 1 OTHEE PUCE
in town just like Short’s Grocery
There are stores that sell just as good goods. There are
other places that sell cheaper goods, but there is no other
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That Sells as Good Goods as
Cheap as Short’s Grocery
And there is no other store where everything is so new,
so fresh and up-to-date, and none giving better service.
Cash paid for
eggs.
W ood for sale.
Short’s Grocery,
Corner 7th and Wash
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In buying provisions of any kind, and
especially fresh meats, the first thing
the discriminating customer demands is
Purity— this comes ahead of price.
Our shop has been thoroughly over
hauled and cleaned up, and we w ant
our patrons to inspect our methods of
handling w hat they are to eat.
W e handle the Best in All Lines, Give Full Weight and
do not hold you up on prices.
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Beals’ Harness Shop
Light and Heavy Harness, Whips
Gloves, Robes. Harness and Shoe
Repairing. Prices that please.
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