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RICHARD B. SWENSON
Editor & Publisher
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FRIDAY, JAN. 2G. 1917.
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Monmouth
Meditations
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What is left of them by the Ger
mans might well be called Kemani
ans.
The weather never ceases to be of
interest although it has fallen some
what into disrepute as a topic of
conversation.
In the matter of consolidation and
economies in the state governmental
machinery, it seems to be a case of
"Let us alone and try the fellow
next door."
Prof. Pittman says the Herald is
becoming a family institution in his
household and that even the baby
cries for it, using it as a substitute
for a rattle. How is that for a
slam?
Judging from the favorable im
pression Mrs. Alex Thompson, the
lone lady legislator of The Dalles,
made in Monmouth, it is the loss of
the state that there are not more
like her in the legislature.
Old Oregonians arise to remark
that we are having a very dry wint
er, but here's suspicioning that af
ter the legislature adjourns we will
have a succession of winters that
will be considerably dryer.
To get an idea of what the train
ing school teachers are doing for
their pupils in the way of art, Mon
mouth parents should visit room 12
at the Normal this week. The ex
hibit shows some very creditable
work.
Uncle Joe Craven says the ex
peri mentors at the 0. A. C have
in perfecting a
crowless rooster. He is prepared to
demonstrate this for he has one.
This may be considered the height
of rooster breeding. Large hens
which will lay as many eggs as the
smaller breeds have been perfected
and now that the crowless rooster
is evolved nothing else need be
sought for.
There are sections of Oregon
where the penny is unknown and
the people pride themselves that
they do not make any change
smaller than a nickel. There is also
a tendency in many places to culti
vate charges that were all right
when the country was new and
freight charges high, but have long
since lost all legitimate reasons for
existing. There is no reason why
the price of merchandise or of labor
should be higher than in the east.
If the west is to develop manu
facturing importance it must de
velop conditions that will enable it
to meet eastern competition.
The following from the Western
World of iLndoa contains some
hard sense on the taxation matter:
"There is a move on foot to or
ganize a county tax league. Such
an organization can be of service to
the taxpayers providing it is com
posed of men who are representa
tive of the best interests of the
county.
"The writer has had the oppor
tunity to witness the manner in
which several such leagues operated
in other parts of the Pacific North
west. They started out splendidly,
but invariably the membership sim
mered down to a small bunch uf
radical conservatives, (usually land
poor) , who completely lost sight of
the original objects of the league,
and used the organization to fight
anything and everything, no matter
how badly it was needed, so long as
it cost the taxpayers something.
"A tax league is a fine thing pro
viding it retains sufficient progres
sive element to keep it rational."
It must be admitted, now that the
deal is consumated, that Denmark's
lone deliberated agreement to sell
the islands is much more agreeable
to our dignity than a greedy ac
ceptance of our $lr),000,(.XK) would
have been.
The Monmouth creamery believes
in participating in the profits all the
way up and to this end has signed
with the Dairy Exchange in Port
land which is aimed to distribute
the product of the creameries of the
state to the best advantage and dis
tribute the profits among the butter
producers.
1 he art of advertising receives
some curious twists and considera
ble space is devoted these days to i
peculiar stunt pulled off by the sec
retary of the Salem Commercia
club recently. This gentleman
looked over his atlas and found that
there were Salems in twenty-eight
states in the Union and the fact
suggested to him an idea. These
Salems range all the way from
cross roads hamlets to the old
original Salem of witchcraft fame
in Massachusetts. But to the mayor
of each and every Salem the Oregon
Salem man sent a letter, asking that
the town written to get a change of
name so that the Oregon Salem be
the only Salem on the map, as it
really was entitled to the honor, be
ing progressive and worthy, etc.
The tone of the letter was irritating
and was calculated to arouse the
Salem addressed to a pitch of indig
nation, which it did all right. The
bright men of the different towns
sat up nights to concoct something
sarcastic, mean and vitriolic to fire
back to the presumptious citizens
of the capital of Oregon. There-
stop fighting until they have con
quered Germany. For the presi
dent says that no permanent peace
will result from the peace of a con
queror and as long as one side is
victor and the other vanquished
there will be no peace until self
considered wrongs are avenged.
radically speaking the president s
latest move is a rebuke to the Eng-
ish assumption that she alone is
entitled to play the role of a benev
olent world despot.
In taking the initiative we believe
the president has made one of the
really important moves of history M
and as the struceline nations oflrri
Europe battle on they must realize
that he has brought to their atten
tion some important truths. But
viewed in many of the smaller de
tails the president's latest address
is calculated to make one wonder
whether he has a sense of humor, j
For instance, he who was re-1
elected president because "he kept!
us out of war advocates that we
shall cease to maintain friendship
with all and shall enter into en
tangling alliances which might
force war at any time, while he
has at sundry times tried to bring
peace to little Mexico he proposes
that we enter into an agreement to
keep the whole world at peace.
While he is anxious to establish a
league to enforce peace he ignores
the fact that such a league would
be useful right now and proposes to
wait until peace is acquired by some
other means. This is equivalent to
saying: "Suppose my neighbor's
property is on fire; I will wait until
he has put it out himself this time,
and then if it catches fire next time
I will help him put it out."
The president has some great pre
ceedents for inconsistence. Jeffer
son was inconsistent when he
pushed through the Louisiana pur
chase. Jackson was inconsistent
when he denied states rights to
South Carolina. Lincoln, Grant and
Roosevelt have all been inconsist
ent. To carry out the president's pro
gram will require the cultivation of
a much greater military spirit than
prevails with us just now, but it
aims with doing away with militar
ism entirely and in the end would
obtain the object at which the pa
cificists aim.
But the greatest strength of the
president's proposal is not its reali
zation at some future date. It is
that the proposal holds up an ideal
right now that will soften the tem
pers of angry nations. It suggests
without offering it, a meeting
ground on which a draw in inter
national warfare may be acknowl
edged, a basis on which terms of
peace may be struck without ac
knowledging either a victor or a
vanquished.
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Some day Oregonians will realize
that while scenery and climate are
the big asset of California, they are j upon the Oregon Salem man wrote
only an incidental in this state. It
is a fine thing to have scenic high
ways, but the main highway work
should be done on thoroughfares
that lead from the farm to the
market.
Unmarried men in Virginia, who
do not reside with their parents,
w ill not be permitted to receive the
monthly quart ot whisky which the 'given
state allows each individual. Even
imperial Rome never thought of a
more ingenious scheme for promot
ing marriage.
back to each, saying that Salem s
claim to fame was due to the fact
that it was the home of the logan
berry juice, a beverage that has the
endorsement of W. J. Bryan, and
sending sample bottles to the mayor
and aldermen, asking that they
sample the same and also send back
whatever clippings ot newspaper
publicity the incident had been
People who have a shouluVr to
the hub and are 'boosting Mon
mouth, when they obsrv the dis
couraging tendency of certafn fel- were fighting over,
Sober second thought will con
vince most people that President
Wilson's latest move on the inter
national checkerboard is a good one.
Viewed as a w hole it is a reinforce
ment of his first note in which h?
asked the warring powers what they
More than that
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