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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1908)
) The Herald W. T. FOGLE. Editor. Entmd M Mcond-clM mattor StptamtMr S. M th. pot t Monmouth. Onvon. undar th ActofkUrcki. 187. ISSl'KD KVKRY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One yer Six months $1 60 cU FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1908 We want to call the attention of the people to the efforts being made by the saloon subsidized press of the state to thwart the will of the majority of the legal voters. When it is considered that machine politics and the saloon are one and inseparable, the action of many of the little monkey sutelites of the Oregon- iau is easily understood. The alitor of this paper is not u pro hibitionist, nor yet a hypocrite, but he is diametrically opposed to the saloon and all its con comitant evils, among them be ing the machine politician. The people of this state must unite to save to themselves those laws that were enacted to give them a chance to have a voice in making the laws to govern them selves. Before the enactment of tlie initiative and referendum, the common people had as much voice in making our laws as a hog has in the disposal of his carcass after butchering time. If the saloon element can suc ceed in overthrowing Statement No. 1, the next move will be to abolish the direct primary, the initiative and referendum and the re-establishing of the saloon in all the dry counties. Will, the better element submit to this? With our legislatures cor rupted, our supreme courts sub sidized by the corporate interests and our men in high places un trustworthy, what are the people to do? Isn't it about time we quit being blind slaves to tradi tion and wake up to the fact that we are men and are living in the present? Isn't it about time the people put a stop to decisions of the supreme court based on mere technicalities and have them based on FACTS? If a conviction of a man, high in machine politics, is secured, an appeal to the superior court se cures a reversal on one pretext or another, as in the Schmitz case in California. Failing to get out that way they use some of their saloon hangers-on to commit murder as was attempted Friday on Francis J. Heney in San Francisco. We may be one of the republicans that desire to wallow awhile yet in the Popu listic mire, as one of our con temporaries puts it, but there is one fact standing out promi nently, and that is that we are not one of the saloon subsidized papers of this state, nor of this county, nor ever shall be. The shooting down of Francis J. Heney in court in San Fran cisco by a hired assasin is thecul mination of the graft trials. The law abiding citizens have be come aroused and if the courts do not do their duty, there will spring up an organization sim ilar to the one that cleansed that city during its early history. It looks like that is the only way to get action on such cattle This nation has become so per meated with graft and briWry I that it is almost impossible to bring a man of wealth or politi cal influence to justice. Mr. Heney was the first lawyer of prominence to raise his voice in protest against the universal fashion. He has devoted his private fortune, some of the best years of his life and lias placed his life in jeopardy more than once in pursuing what he be lieves his duty as a man and a citizen of this repub lic. It is no great wonder that he has been stricken down on the eve of a successful termina tion of the great graft trials; the only wonder is that he has not been assasinatcd long ago. Let us hope that his life may be spared and that he may live to bring all his traducers, all his enemies, to justice. Some progress has been made in the matter of a union high school district, but nothing de finite has been done so far as we are able to learn. There seems to be a feeling among some o" the people of Indepen dence that the school should bec located inside the citv limits of that place, but Monmouth will not stand for anything, of that kind. The location of the buil- 1 1 . .i ing win nave 10 appear on tiie petitions that are presented to the people in order to get the matter to a vote at the next re gular school meeting and it will also be placed on the ballot so that we will vote not only on the establishment of a union high school, but also on where it is to be located. Indepen dence has but twodistricts aside from Monmouth that may be called a part of her union high school system, while Monmouth has no less than four, therefore if the location cannot be had at a place fair and equitable to both towns, we do not have to go in with Independence, but can form a union high school dis trict of our own. Let's be rea sonable in this matter. Following tho Cat. "I can write" said a little crirl aged five to her aunt when she came in from school one day. "I'm delighted to hear it," replied the aunt. "And what can you write?" "I can write cat and mat and bat," said the child. The aunt gave her paper and pencil. "Write cat here for me," she said, "and let me see." The child wrote the word fairly, but put the letter C with its back to the A. "That is very good," said auntie, "only look, dear, you have made the C the wrong way." The child gazed at the word for a moment. "But the cat was going that way!" she exclaimed. French and English Tattoo. How far does the great "healthy British public" like to see exhibi tions of the horrible ? Certainly not like the French, for, although Paris has abolished the publicity of the morgue, a French company like the Grand Guignol can go on year after year, and French newspapers will publish pictures of the corpses and all that sort of thing as English newspapers would not dare to do. To call it "morbid" is begging the question. It is simply different from ourselves. London Tatler. Bargains in Hoathon Doitios. There is an old curiosity shop in London which makes a specialty of heathen deities. All kinds of im ages, small and large, handsome, hideous and grotesque, are on view. You can choose an antique Aztec god from Mexico, carved in heavy stone and hideous enough to scare a burglar; you can purchase a mar ble deity from Mandalay, a wooden atrocity from the Ju Ju land of west Africa or a gilt josi from the Chinese temple. White Front Furniture Store HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE TO SELL! Carpets, Art Squares. Linoleums, Mattings, Shades, Lace Curtains, Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Sewing Machines OUR NEXT SATURDAY'S SPECIAL WILL BE ON Mattings 1 5 per cent off For Cash BOGERT &. SON V. O. Boots FIR 15 LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A. N. Poole Contractor and Builder. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 Real Estate For Sale. 330 acres on C. E. R. R. 1 miles from station and school house. Good small house and two barns, and other out build ings and a good young orchard. Good stock and dairy ranch at a bargain. 80 acres, 00 under cultivation; good house, barn and other out buildings; 2 miles from rail road station. Will sell for cash, or half cash, balance one years time. 5 springs and running water on place. big lots lying on Main street in Monmouth, will sell cheap. 2b lots with a good 5 room, basement cottage, with a good pantry and closet. Apples, peurs, cherries, plums and other small fruit. A bargain. Inquire of A. N. Hallkck, Monmouth, Oregon. Students Contest Ballot Five Votes For. Pharmacy Under Management of Graduate Pharmacist Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Prices Right. Come in and investigate our Up-to-date line of Brushes, Stationery, and Toilet Articles Full Line of Paints, Oil and Glass. We carry the solo agency for the Williams Paints. well known Shcrwin- Pure Drugs, Reasonable Prices Hotel Hampton ' D. M. Hampton, Proprietor 15 years in Monmouth Under Same Old Management Everything strictly firstclass Go to P. E. Chase, for Pure Home Made Candies Sold under positive guarantee Why eat sweat shop, factory made stuff, when you can get a clean, healthful article made at home? Monmouth Livery and Feed Barn Graham & Son, Proprietors. General Transfer and Delivery Business. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month.
