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FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1916.
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Monmouth
Meditations
Rumors $f shorter gowns next
season are still in circulation,
but seeing is believing.
With the present demand in
Kurope, China may have to wait
her turn for a much-needed loan.
At the present price of flour
it'll soon become popular to
sandwich the bread between the
hum.
Slowly but surely the pictures
of football warriors are ousting
the baseball cuts from the news
papers. These have surely been some
pleasant duys the weather man
has mingled with the falling
leaves.
With the beauties of war
spreading into fresh territory
American relief fuudh are liable
to hear a Macedonian cry.
However, the narrow black
strip on the western front ac
quired by the Allies doesn't as
sure a Berlin dinner next
Christmas.
The China pheasant season is
over and those unfortunates who
did not get a taste this year will
have to wait a year for another
opportunity.
They all seem to have it in
for father these days. While the
brewers are working night and
day to advance the welfaro of
the nursing mothers of Oregon
they look with cold indifference
on father and apparently be
grudge him his Hostetter's bit
ters. Off hand, we should say
that a man who can acquire a
shine on Peruna or Hostetter's
deserves something for his per
sistence and ingenuity.
Mr. U'Ren's day dreams make
very interesting reading and like
the alluring lines of Henry
George awaken sullicient inter
est so that the reader is anxious
to seo them tried out somewhere
else by somebody else. Hut
when he considers his own stake
he is apt to think the risks too
great to try the thing out on
himself. Now there is Mexico.
Mr. U'Ren might go down there
and fence off a state or two
wherein he could operate con
ditions so that each worker could
get at least 11,000 a year.
With Hour climbing skyward,
with leather fast becoming a
luxury and sugar becoming a
little more expensive every day,
there appears no limit to the
avarice of the people in position
to work the screws. There isn't
a country in Europe that would
fctand the state of affairs that
exist in this country at this time
for a minute. The sections which
are enjoying war prosperity may
take the high price of food pro
ducts as a phase of the game
they are playing but people not
benefited by war orders are fast
getting into a conditiou where
they would approve of almost
any desperate remedy.
There are thousands of homes
in the United States where the
Youth's Companion is an insti
tution. In many of them it de
scends from sou to children and
grandchildren, It forms a sort
of fraternal society and gives
people from distant states a com
mon topic of conversation in re
calling the favorite authors who
have entertained them. It is
about this season of the year
when the premium list arrives,
an institution that is older than
Montgomery Ward's cata
logue. And now when you come
across a boy lying Hat on his
stomach with the premium list
ahead of him, absorbing anew
the familiar Weeden steam en
gine, or the magic lantern, or
the roller skates, or the list of
books that can be obtained for
so many new names and so
many cents additional, it takes
one back to the days of similar
experiences. The Youth's Com
panion never grows old. It
seems to have found the peren
nial fountain of youth and long
may it prosper.
If you keep your ears open
you will hear at this stage of the
game the tariff spoken of once
in a while. From 1890 to 1914
the tariff as a political topic had
quite an extended rest. But per
haps the warmest tariff discus
sion this country has known was
between 1884 and 18'Jli. It made
and unmade two presidents
Harrison was elected on the
doctrine of protection ami was
defeated because of the McKin
ley bill. Cleveland was elected
because of the McKinley bill and
defeated because of the Wilson
hill. In those days free trade
advocates used to point to Eng
land as a model to pattern after.
England and Germany were
contrasted. England had free
trade and Germany followed the
protection principle. If any
thing is needed to vindicate
the protection idea it has been
the commercial history of those
two countries since that date.
For Germany climbed upward
in the commercial scale and
England descended. If the war
has demonstrated anything it is
the commercial importance of
Germany at the beginning of
hostilities.
It is hard to rise over precon
ceived ideas. Perhaps a Russian
Jew is as good as any Aryan or
a colored man as capable as any
Caucasian, but it takes a pile of
effort for a stiff necked genera
tion to see it. If there is any
thing a colored man likes to do
it is to institute a comparison
wherein his race is compared to
the dominant white. Thus we
have the "Black Patti," the
"Negro Burns," the "Colored
Demosthenes," etc. Likewise,
we wonder if Israel Zangwill did
not extract considerable race
pride when in his story of the
"Melting Pot" he created a situ
Hmi where an aristocratic
'Russian girl felt compelled to
humiliate herself before a talent
led young Russian Jew. Prob
ably the idea was to suggest race
equality, but from our point of
view it certainly looked like race
consciousness.
The runiinator recalls having
heard Booker T. Washington
in sunny Southern California
two years ago iu a certain large
church of the mission type of
architecture. Of course the
listeners came in multitudes and
as they filled the seats and
crowded into the aisles, Wash
ington insisted that they be
seated iu chairs around him on
the platform and on the broad
steps of the stairway that led
thereto. There was defferenee
in his every attitude, and yet
triumph. Here he was in a
white man's palace, surrounded
by white folks of the most in
telligent class, eager to listen to
a man of another race, born a
slave. Eloquent, intelligent and
entertaining yet class conscious
ness stuck out all over him. Any
one could see it was not a man
talking to his peers. The habits
and thoughts of generations are
not wiped out in a few short
years.
Among the other things which
the European war is boosting in
price is silver. Silver which in
1893 was held at a ratio of six
teen to one and valued at a
dollar an ounce dropped when
the government ceased to coin
it to about half that sum and for
over ten years held at a price
averaging 57 cents an ounce and
in 1915 reached its lowest price,
46 cents an ounce, being then
at a ratio with gold of 30 to 1.
Then its price began to rise un
til now it is valued at 75 cents
an ounce and in a short time is
expected to reach again a price
of a dollar an ounce. The ap
preciation of silver has come
from the same place its depreci
ation started in Europe. Pre
vious to the war gold was the
common coin of European trade
but with the turn of tfie balance
of trade it began to flow to this
country. The large loans float
ed in this country have served
to check the flow of gold this
way but each loan serves only as
a temporary dam in the bed of
a stream. Such gold as is left
in Europe is not in circulation
and to obtain money the warring
nations have been forced to.
largely increase their coinage
of silver. For the first time in
history the Bank of England has
issued paper notes of a less de
nomination than 5 pounds. In
order to pay the soldiers Eng
land coined thirty millions in
silver last year and will coin as
much this year. France has in
creased its coinage in silver ten
times, Russia is calling for more
silver money and on top of this'
comes a call from China for 250 '
millions with which to re-organ-1
ize its monetary system. There
fore, at present silver prices are
booming. It can be demonstrated
that the production of gold is
not even and that its value con
stantly fluctuates although its
use for money serves as a 1ml.
ance wheel. While the amount!
ot perspiration produced by a
's labor is the same and 'the
work necessary to produce a
crop the s;llne, the metal with
which it is recompensed, con-
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GEORGE SULLIVAN, Manager
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Always on Hand: Fresh and Smoked Meats, Bologna, Minced
Hams, Boiled Hams, Ham and Bacon
Fresh Fish on Fridays
The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal
and all kinds of hides.
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Monmouth,
Phone Main 2302
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Monmouth Transfer and
Feed Stable
All Kinds of Transferring Done Promptly
and on Short Notice
G0RDAN BOWMAN, Proprietor.
Monmouth, . Oregon
Independence Electric Co. f
Lighting Fixtures and Supplies
Electric Wiring and Repairing
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Free. All work
guaranteed to Hand City Inspection. We do contract work.
in with Rowe's Jewelry S ore. H. J. Rowe, Mgr.
Phone trouble and repair wo k, Main 62 1 1 . We will come
MONMOUTH DAIRY
J. M. Mc DONALD, Prop-
INSPECTED BY STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Come and see our fine herd of Jer
sey Cows and clean, sanitary barn
Phone 2405 MONwrntrrH. ORE
Wood Sawed to Order
E. E. RAKE, Successor to W. L. Phillips.
Your wood sawed for you just as you order it done
Phone 4114. c.vro,.
stantly varies, which does not
seem creditable to the iutelli
gence of a people whoinve.it the
arrangement and who are as
egotistical as we are.
BAPTIST CHURCH
G. A. Pollard, Pastor
Sunday School, - 'iafl0
Preaching Service, ll-w
C.U.E. Meeting, - 7.00 p.
Preaching Service, & P
Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 8.W P-