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.
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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
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