The IJerald
W. T.FOGLE, Editor.
Entered u Mcond-ela matter September 8. 19.
at the poet office at Monmouth. Oregon, under the
Act of March S. 1879. N
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY, BY
The Acorn Press, Publishers
Monmouth, Oregon.
Subscription Rates
One year - - - $1
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, ly09
of the other normals will do we
do not know, but we believe that
the 1000 graduates and more
than 2000 others who have at
tended the Monmouth normal,
will stand loyally by her and
will provide no small sum of the
funds necessary to keep the
school running to the time when
the people of the state can say
as to whether the school shall be
maintained or not.
That the state, through its
representatives, has broken faith
with the dead is evident to those
who are aware of the conditions
under which the property at
Iielow we give in large part an Moninouth w-as acquired. Men
article wriuen ny me e.mor aim who guye the vearg of their
published last week in the Port- :... .WnnilJi i,0,00i,.M
land Journal. However we will of tlieir substanee to buiM
say mat me journal extracted an jn,tjtution of learning here,
tlie iai.asco.sai.ee aim other sea- wli0) in thdr deciil)ing years
wining matter and left it very tuni(1(1 to the gtae for the
m'l'l- thev believed was necessary to
There seems to be dissatisfac- kt.(.p the in,titution alive have
tion at the amount of the appro- passed to their reward; and it
priations, yet if one takes a sec- is perhaps well that thev have,
ond thought he will readily see for thev win not guffer t"h(J
that the sie of the appropria- humiliation that would neeessar
tion does not seriously affect the ily have Wn theirg cou,(,
taxpayers, for if the money is liave witll(1iSwl the treatment
judiciously spent it will all return ttc.cor,ie(1 the motiK,r of nor.
to the people in time and will at mais "
the same time be a potent factor Thore is a vast ,iifftfrence bo.
in the upbuilding of the state, tween the wav the Monmouth
Censure should bo reserved in normal was acquired by the state
such cases. We have no objec- and the wav the others were
tion to a large appropriation for t.rHtl.,i tL vninnn,i, i i
"v 'viiiuvuiil CV
the Agricultural College, ior it was ce,le( to the 8tate on its so
is a very necessary and usotul (Mnil t)rmilis tht. it .n.,1.l i.
school and should be liberally tak(,n iUlll maintilill0(i us a 6tate
provided for. We would even tl((rin.,it tlie others wtre creat(
.....v.,.. rl.n. iu.hiuii I" IV lict Of t ic wu .it.nro ,
100.0UU for the Crater lake road wiU Ilot UuiertaUe to discuss the
it the proper provision had been advisability- of their creation at
made to reiml.urse the people that timt, or of , t, ,
who have been keeping up a M0W ,)Ut 01H.e they were v
suite insutution ior the past two jisiK.,, ,l3 stute inKtitutions aml
years at their own expense, and carried on as such the state was
the state getting the credit for in duty bound to maintain them
it, but this was not done and for a deii'nite time. When the
further the institution was left Mate admitted students to thee
Helpless and disowned through institutions and accepted their
the efforts of those who were matriculation f,.,w it ,,w..,n,.
working in the interest of ma- ai,d legallv bound itself to carrv
chine politicians. those ,Uuhnt, th h R f "
It is a notable tact that a ma- years' course of study, provide,
ioritv of the senate was dominat- .i i: . i . -.i' .,
- ' . im viniipiieo wuu uie rules
el by tl.eOrcgonian; it is also a,.d regulations of the institu
a notable fact, though perhaps tions in which thev nii
known to tew, that tor the past 0d; and the state could not, wiih
1.) years, to the writers certain honor to itself or iti,. tn
knowlege, and perhaps longer, indents, abandon one of these
mat paper has lought the com- institutians short of four years
inon school system of this state noiiee, unless it providedanother
whenever opportunity offered. ,,llK.t. ia whidl hoy (l0u(, linish
u is a .urincr ,aci mai tne editor tho c.oursc, This iir )U,nt m ,
..i ......... I . .
u. .....t pupr, ,om no i.ppor- not i,t. in amm wjth st.ltutorv
tunity to tear down and injure enactments of this state but it
the reputations of ministers of is in accord with common law
1 rotcstant churches. W hy he ad justice and should be en
has done -this is not known to f()ned.
the public generally. Those
who remember the persistent There are moti nr at lonot
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Portland, by the above mention- J?ixh1 name of their neighbors;
ed paper, know that we are " "u dte "upicious oi every one;
si ii'ii t: i I (v the t rn
,1, who attribute ulterior motives
v., i..t ,w t,L , t all acts not in conformity to
. V, 1 ' ; t!l0ir C0(le of rals. Evidently
of the normal schools. 1 he thoy measure
Journal has well named the pre- half bushel. Too self-centered
siding genius of the Oregonian to have ever done anything to
"the hyena," for his nature is earn a home in Heaven and
akin to that of that ghoulish whose souls are too infinitesmally
animal, in that his howls disturb microscopic to receive any con-
the living while his pen be- sideration at the hands of the
smirches the dead. lie has Devil th-v will have a sorry time
fought the normal schools from wnen they go hence.
start to hnish, for what particu- A,,
i i 0' papers for sale at the Her-
lar reason we do not know, un- n - 1 aer
, , , . , aid office. Five and ten cents a
less for the same reason stitto.l buntile.
above that he has fought the . ,
" , , . t We have a buyer for a farm
common school system of the who has property ;n eat
state. He has always kept as far land worth 2 m that he wftntg
from the truth as it was possible to trade in as part payment
to keep. As to what the friends Polk County Realty Co.
if
5g Phone 331
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Real Estate For Sale.
:?:( acres on C. E. R. R. H
miles from station and school
louse. Good small house and
two barns, and other out build
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Good stock and dairy ranch at
a bargain.
0 acres, 00 under cultivation;
good house, barn and other out-
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time, o springs and running
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Dwelling of ten rooms with
rge grounds, fruit, berries and
shrubbery $1350.
Fine large dwelling with acre
of land I-25O0.
Business chances.
2i lots with a good o room.
usement cottage, with a good
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cherries, plums and other small
truit. A nargain. Inquire ot
Polk County Realty Co.
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