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The Herald
W. T. FOGLE. Editor.
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ISSl'KD KVKRY FRIDAY, BY
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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.