The Herald
W. T. FOGLE, Editor.
Enteral a. Mcond-clan matter September 8, 1908,
t the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the
Act of March S. 187S.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908
It would seem that there is
but one party in this country
that can have a man elected
President without causing it to
go to rack and ruin. Every
0time we have a presidential elec
tion there is a tightness in the
money market and a howl goes
up that if the republican nomi
nee is not elected there will be
panics, hard times and the Lord
only knows what else. From
the standpoint of an indepen
dent American citizen, we firmly
believe, if this is actually the
condition of affairs in the United
States, that the sooner we dis
card a form of representative
government and adopt a mon
archical one, the better for the
people. This would do away
with the ever recurring strin
gency and the fear and trembling
we have to endure every four
years. As sane human beings we
must admit that we are either
colossal asses orHhere is a minus
quantity in our mental make
up. The republican leaders as
sume that a majority of the
people are foolish enough to be
lieve their sophistries and that
1 they will get a majority of the
votes cast at the Nutional elec
tion to put their candidate in
the presidential chair. Well it
is quite likely, but did it ever
occur to you that the only
reason why so many spellbind
ers, as they are called, are re
publicans is because the repub
lican party is the popular party
and has more opportunities for
grafting than any other? We
were born a republican and
have voted the republican ticket
more often than not and this
year voted one of the few straight
republican tickets in Polk county,
but we do not care to be' rated
among those who can see nogood
in a man unless he be a repub
lican. Considering that a ma
jonty of all the wealthy men of
this nation are members of the
republican party it looks as if
there were more crime and cor
rupt practice in that party than
all others combined, for no
honest man can accumulate such
vast fortunes as some of the
leading partisans of that party
are rated at. However that is
not the fault of the founders of
the party nor yet of the rank
and file, any more than it is the
fault of Christ that many persons
posing as christians are great
criminals.
town is certainly old enough
andrkrge.- enough to be out of
the infancy class and therefore
should not be dependent for any
thing that it can have as easy
as a woodsaw. Let's cut loose
from others and be a leader in
matters municipal hereafter.
.
. as a business community we
should do everything possible to
bring business here and one of
these things would be a good
stock yard, but on top of this
suggestion comes the matter of
an unjust discrimination by the
railroad in the matter of freight
rates. It costs $3.00 per car
more to ship stock from here
than from Independence. If
this matter cannot be satisfac
torily adjusted, then we should
ship by boat and see that the
Southern Pacific has no interest
in the boat.
Help us to make the Herald
the best little paper in the state
by giving us all the local news
you can think of. Tell your
neighbors about the paper. You
don't have to read a lot of patent
medicine puffs that are disgust
ing, in order to get the local
news, nor is every other local a
paid ad.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
H.
Monmouth ought to have a
woodsaw. With over 2000
cords of wood to saw annually
we have to depend on saws from
Independence to do the work.,
Aside from the aggravation of
having to wait from two weeks
to two months after it should
have been done, it means a good
many dollars of hard cash going
out of the town every year. This
Ona of the Clevereet Dlnlomata
In the World.
In the kingdom of vanity fair
ana vanity that is not fair, but
would be, there is the interpreter,
the man who makes free tranela
tions of foibles, conceits, ennrines.
He deals with human nature in the
raw and is an individual without
illusions.
He humblv calls his profession
that of photographer. His associates
know that he is more than a simple
maker of pictures. They will tell
you he is an artist, a psychologist,
a diplomat, a strategist, a person
oi magnetism and affability in
deed, a combination of those vir
tues which make him "all things to
all men."
"I want a picture like that," 6ays
a stout dame, holding up the like
ness of a symmetrical member of
her sex, who stands erect with a
bunch of roses in her hand.
Now the photographer realizes
that he is face to face with a stiff
proposition, one of many in the
day s work. He takes a dozen proofs
ana senas them for approval. One
is returned with an ink mark drawn
perpendicularly along the waist
line. If the instructions are not
written out. as thev sometimes nro.
the presence of the line moana tk
that much off mnkft m thinner
at the waist. Allowing for the fact
inai me one eye of the camera
makes a broader, flatter surface
than is seen by the two human
eyes, the photographer proceeds to
scrape or "doctor" the negative.
And what is "the result? The wom
an gets a picture that suits her fan
cy, hut really does not make her so
thin as she imagines.
One day not long ago a woman
sat before a Fifth avenue photogra
pher after spending two hours at a
hairdresser's. She came back in a
hurry with the proofs and said in
dignantly: "Why, these are awful 1
My hair has never looked like that
in any picture!"
"Did you ever have it done that
way before?" was the polite in
quiry. The woman Was somewhat em.
barrassed. "No," she admitted, 1
never did."
Then the DhotocTanher rebuked
her trentlv.
"There a a moral in tVi?a aai'A
he. "Never co to th hainli-aaa
before the photographer. It only
maKes a person look tired, and the
hairdresser's art doesn't help the
photographer."
Another woman could not under
stand why her chin stuck out so
far. but she eluridAtvl h
- - w.o aujov4j
herself when 6he eiplained that the
morning of her sitting was the first
OQ Which aha hm wnrn n v.-.,. 1
. a uiuauai-
IV hlch collar Thar . n
chanced her Rnnearanna tlT T
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