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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1909)
The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. Entered aa aecond-class matter September 8, 19t8. at the poat office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year - - - $1 Six months 50 eta FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1909. Volume Two With this issue we begin a new year. The past year has been fairly prosperous and we hope this coming one will be more so. With a single excep tion the merchants have been loyal in their support of 'the paper. This exception promised us not less than fifty dollars worth of business during the year, but has fallen considerably shy of that amount, in fact has done no advertising or other business with the Herald for the past four months and when we asked him for an ad we re ceived an insulting answer. The Herald has at all times tried to be loyal to the town and its institutions notwithstanding that we have had offers of better business and much larger sub scription lists if we would move to other towns. We believe that the great majority of the people of Monmouth and vicinity ap preciate the paper and what it lias tried to do, but this appre ciation must take on a substan tial form if we are to stay here and maintain the paper at its present standard. We must have a larger subscription list so that we can get enough out side advertising to enable us to hire help. With loO new sub scribers in the south half of the county we will have a much larger list than any of our com petitors, provided that all our present subscribers renew. Then it will be no trouble to secure business enough to keep steady help. With the special offer to be made during the next month our friends ought to be able to help us secure that number. This paper has constantly hammered away at the liquor trallic, but so far as any increase in business is concerned, we have gained nothing by it, in fact the only thing that we have gained bv advocating the teni perance cause has been the priv ilege of contributing to the funds that have been raised for various purposes "and at the same time driving away from eight to ten dollars a mouth in advertising that we could have from the whiskey houses in Portland and elsewhere. If the temperance people want a paper to help them during the next campaign in this county they must get busy. preliminaries. There is another) class that go to some school of technology and as soon as they are turned out of it with a smat ering of the technical knowledge that is necessary in any trade, they then demand even better wages than the man who has had years of experience. We be lieve in such schools but also believe that those who graduate from them should put in a num ber of years work before being allowed full wages. In union towns there is a tendency to limit the apprentices so as to keep the supply down ami the wages up. The system employed by unions today is the greatest foe to expert labor there is. They demand as much from the employer for a man who can earn only halt pay that the best man gets and by so doing are defeating the end sought by all honest men. Labor should be organized to protect itself against organized capital, or rather to counterbalance the grafting cap italists, but as it is now it is a greater graft than capital dare be. The leaders graft the cap italists and then in turn graft the members of the union. By carefully manipulating strikes they are enabled to keep the la bor situation in a turmoil and thus turn everything to the good for themselves. It is only a question of time when the un ions will die out unless radical changes are made. The most radical of all unions is the typo graphical union and it is pur suing the very course that will kill it in time, in fact the death knell of the best paying part of the business has already been rung, so far as the union is con cerned in the establishment of schools where the handling of the linotype is taught in its full est sense. It will not be live years until expert machinist op erators can be had for but little more than is now paid for hand composition. Kvery boy should learn at least one trade and the aptitude of the hoy for some particular trade should be as certained in the country school by the establishment of manual training as a branch of the com mon school system. ft ' HAMMOCKS HAMMOCKS From $2.50 up BOGERT & SON Monmouth Oregon Phone 331 What is to be the status of skilled laborers in this country in the next twentvtive years? It is about impossible to get boys to learn a trade in the good old way. They prefer to sit around the greater part of the year and let "the old man" rustle a living for them; or if by chance they undertake to learn a trade they expect to have the top wages after a few months learning the It is reported that the Brother hood of Booze Fighters held an indignation . meeting Friday after the Herald appeared, be cause of a local notice of the change in proprietors of the drug store. The former pro prietor is not a druggist and therefore the statement made by the Brotherhood is without foun dation in fact. It has always been known that booze affects the brains of those indulging to excess, butwherethere is scarcely a thimbleful to start with the results are us a matter of course more 'noticeable; therefore we presume that to this cause we must attribute the outburst on that occasion. It may become necessary to name some of the more prominent members of the organization, but we hope not. Apples and Pears Wanted. The Monmouth Cannery wants pears and apples for canning. In apples the Gravenstein or Waxen preferred, but any good cooking apple will do. Call at Cannery or write for particulars and prices Monmouth Evaporating & Canning Company, Monmouth, Oregon. . Watch for Our Free Cash Offer V. O. Boots FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A. N. Poole Contractor and Builder. Blue prints made to scale from original drawings. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 A. B. WESTFALL Painter and Paper Hanger Monmouth Oregon J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts. Perkins Pharmacy Has changed hands Now in charge of the owner who is a practical pharmacist and licensed physician. Too Biasy Selling Candy and Soft Drinks to an Ad P. E. CHASE t
