m EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
eight thousand people like Eugene
that operated on the mind of
th» temper of the people of Eugene if kind, all warants have been paid and
the they tail to send back an answer that every couuty except .Malheur has paid
an independent paper .
as
the
coming
will have the effect of silencing the Its state taxes The general summa
decade past. The Guard grew slow-
head of the interior department, so Willamette Valley Company for all
ry of the finances of the state for the
ly. steadily through the day» of pi
guard printing co ., inc .
the best informed correspondents time, so far as its operations effect
two
years shows a balance of $415,-
Publishers
oneer development and it» Improve
state. Mr Garfield has established this city.
340.911
tn the treasury, of which sum
ment» of the last six months equal
$212,512.03 is in the geueral fund
published every Friday, Eugene, Ore. I ‘hose made during any »lx years of a reputation for energy and activity
4NKNT SENATOR B4A FRIDGE.
and well-balanced judgment, and his
and $71,883 24 in the common school
its
previous
history
More
than
like
The
Guard is an independent news
Subscription price, S1.5U per year
selection may be looked upon as
fund, This shows that the idle funds
paid in advance. $2.00 at end of ly it» complete and satisfactory plant being in the interest of furthering paper.
In pursuance of its policy
in the school fund have been reduced
I of the present will in the retrospec»
year
_
the president's desire to introduce of holding its columns open to all
from $200,361.24 to $71,883.05 In
Filtered at the Eugene, Oregon,
TIE advocates of SIMPLIFYING English spelling are
' seem absurdly insignificant a few uew
subjects in the arena of public dis
-oatofiice as second class matter.
methods in that department,
two years, the money haviug been
surprised to tin«! that their p*wition is not clearly under
cussion, The Guard Wednesday gave
| years in the future, just as the Eu I and
secure more speedy work.
loaned out at interest, Of the Irre-
stood, Many still suppose that they are in favor of so
AGENTS for the guard
space
to
the
expressed
views
of
Unit
gene of today will be remembered as
It has been announced that Mr.
ducible common school fund there is
called “EON ETIC REFORM.” They are not. They
The tollowing are authorized < ta^e a very small, unimportant communi-
ed States Senator Albert J. Bever
Garfield
expects
to
completely
over
invested in first mortgage loans $3,-
or receipt for subscriptions or trans
never have advocated ANY KIND of phonetic reform,
idge
on
"Government
Supervision
vs.
I ty compared with the splendid city
haul the department at the verv
tct other business for the Daily and
*23,539 64, and In school district und they do not intend ever to a<lv<x'ate it They believe that the two
Government
Ownership."
It
Is
net
of a few years hence.
earliest practical moment, and to
Weekly Guard.
bonds and warrants (335,325. The
peoples that s,w*»k English are far too conservative ever to consider
the purpose of the Guard to assume
We only know that the Guard is
W. C. Conner, Cottage Grove.
that end he is thoroughly studying
cash on haud is $71,383.05.
any scheme of RADICAL AND VIOLENT CHANGE in orthog
a radical position on either side of
J. L. Clark, Creswell.
a part of Eugene and Lane County, to
the report and recommendations of
Geo. A, Drury, Coburg
this question, but its duty to the pub
raphy. The phonetic reformers have never been able to make any
grow and expand as business anu
the Keep commission.
The main
The Wall street gang, it appears, serious impression on public opinion.
And this is really the reason
I population increases, printing history trouble appears to have been in the lic seems to warrant a fair aualysis
NOVEMBER 2<
THURSDAY
were forced to put up a considerable why the simplified spelling board was organized.
of the senator's argument
Phonetic reform
I from day to day, the size of each an
land office, although there has beer,
nual volume marking the steady for-
The senator's major premise is sum of money In order to elect Chas Beeined to be IMPOSSIBLE, and yet SOMETHING needed to lie
some friction and some complaint
E Hughes governor over Wm
R
| ward
done to better our chaotic and wasteful orthography.
march of the community, of about the patent bureau. Since Mr. "Government ownership violates the
Hearst,
Th«
Republican
stat«
oom
N >twithstan liug that the Guard has ! whict it is the popular organ of pub-
American priuciple that government
All who know anything about the English language are aware that
\\ arner took hold of the pension bu
been eulaiged aud the cost of publi
enterprise ought not to own and man mittee 1 has filed a statement of its ro- our spelling has l>een slowly changing for the letter. Once upon a time
licit,.
reau complaints against the methods
cation
materially increased, U e
age what individual enterprise can ceipts I and expenditures during the “sun” was “sunne," “bat” was "battc," “era” was “aera,” “music" was
Guard Printing Co. makes a special
there have entirely ceased.
Fo.'
It
own aud manage ”
RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
This premise, recent campaign and election.
offer to every new or old subscriber.
“mnsieke." At the present time “program" seems to be ousting “pro
many years that bureau was a scene
certified
that
It
received
$333.923,
of
if true, would apply equally to our
The Portland Chamber of Com-
All who will pay one year in ad
gramme" and “catalog” i« making headway against “catalogue.”
of contention, and it has been the
wane« for the Weekly Guard at , merce has had prepared by its attor
public highways and bridges, to the which $3 13,923 was in contributions
Behind these change« there is to be seen a principle at work, A
only $1.50 » yeur* wil1
kiveI‘ bls ney a railroad bill which will be pre- political death of more than one per postal system and to school houses and $20,000 was borrowed from Tim
PRINCIPLE
OF SIMPLIFICATION by getting rid of superfluous!
son who sought to direct its affairs.
choice of the Twice a-Week St. Louis
and public schools. By this princi- othy L. Woodruff, chairman of the
seented to the next legislature for en
Republic.or the “Oregon Agricultu ”
letters.
The
simplified
spelling hoard was organized with the special
Mr. Warner has Introduced
new
pie of government the sultan of Tur Republican state committee. The ex-
actment. It is designed to prevent
ralist, absolutely free for one year.
methods, infused new energy Into
Among the purpose of aiding and of accelerating thia process of simplifying
key and the emperor of China would ponses were $332,011.
The Republic is one of the larges’ , unequal and excessive freight rates
the
workings
of
the
bureau.
|
contributors
were
:
Morgan, our spelling BY OMITTING USELESS SILENT LETTERS.
J.
P
sod best family newspapers iu Amer 1 and wipe out discrimination in favor
be justified in farming out, as they
P.
Morton
&
Co..
$2 0.- It is engaged in helping along a simplification which would prob
tea uil the “Oregon Agriculturalist”
$20,000;
Levi
do, the collection of taxes, to the
| of or against communities or individ
MTION Ml ST BE TIKEL
is one of the best aud most practical
ably take place more slowly- very much more slowly—even if
Woodruff.
$10,000.
■000;
Timothy-
L.
highest bidder or to a court favor
uals.
farm, truit aud stock papers iu the
if the Willamette Valley Co. per-
and
John
1».
Rocke-
the
board had not come into existence. Tn other words, it is pro
Andrew
Carnegie
ite.
The bill provides for reciprocal de sists in pumping
West.
water from the old.
each;
C.
M
Depew
teller.
Jr.,
$5000
posing
nothing novel; it is merely urging the wider and more rapid
in hts sixth paragraph the senator
.Subscribers, old or new, may take nurrage, requires that adequate
infected well the city authorities owe
W
Higgins.
$2500
and
Governor
F.
application
of the principle which has already given us “fantasy" in
says: Government ownership means
their choice of either paper as a equipment and adequate service be
it to the people of Eugene to tako
I
each.
premium.
stead of “phantasic” ami “economic" instead of “aeconomicke.”
furnished, and that all charges foi legal steps to prevent the outrage an American bureaucracy as much
Those who failed to get the prom
greater than any other bureaucracy
IT IS AKIN TO THE STRAIGHTENING OF THE TRACK AND THE
ised premium magazines will be given transportation of persons and prop Surely the courts would not hésitai e
Americans purchased over $100. LOWERING OF THE GRADE WHICH ARE TAKING PLACE ON OUR
on earth as the American railway
their choice of either of these papers erty must be reasonable and just to issue an injunction that will stop
IT HAS THE APPROVAL OF THE IMMENSE
system is as much greater than any 000,000 worth of luxuries from for BEST RAILROADS.
in place of the magazines without Unjust and unreasonable charges are
any further action on the part of the
MAJORITY
OF
SCHOLARS.
farther cost, by sending their names
other on earth.” It Is sutficleut reply eign countries during the last fiscnl
leclared unlawful, and this provis company in that direction. There >s
It is appealing also to the practical COMMON SENSE of tho
and addresses to this office.
So
to this to ask If the senator Imagines year, according to the departmen*
far we have been unable to compel ion applies also to joint rates. Dis now on the statute books laws which that his "straw” bureaucracy, if it of commerce and labor. Forty mil
American business man. The list of 300 simplified spellings has
the Eastern publishers to keep their ■ riniination, giving and accepting re give the state board of health powe-
could be realized in the flesh, would lions went for diamonds and precious already been adopted bv hundreds of firms and companies throughout
agreement iu regard to the magazine's, bates are prohibited under heavv to protect communities In such cases
own more senators and judges and stones a like amount tor laces, etc , the country. It is l>eing taught in many of tho schools. Indeed, tho
aud feel the disappoiutmeut as keenly penalties, as is the giving of an un-
as this and If the city officials are re
maiutaln a more corrupt and despic- seven million for artificial and natu movement in favor of orthographic simplicity has been welcomed
as our subscribers.
The Weekly Guard is still clubbed lue and unreasonable preference and creant in their sworn duties then an able lobby at the capital of every ral feathers, six million for cham MOST WARMLY BY TEACHERS, who best know how much,
with the Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal lie taking of compensation other appea! may be taken to the state au state of the union, and at Washing pagne and the remainder for perfun.
time is now wasted in learning our present cumbrous spelling and how
at $2.25 a year for both papers.
han specified in the lawful sched-
i
thorities. This latter course would
ton than the railroads now own and erles, toilet articles, smokers' arti that spelling forces children to relv on their MEMORY SOLELY,
Mail all remittances and communi ules. An anti-pass provision is in- be deplorable because of the wide-
cles and opium for smoking. If to to tho disregard of their reason. So widespread is the interest already
maintain.
eaticus to
corporated, excepting from its oper- spread advertising the city would re-
GUARD PRINTING CO.,
Locally, in the light of the short this this Is added the value of to excited that tho members of the simplified spelling board feel assured:
ation the privileged persons listed ceive and that of a most lnjurious
Eugene Oregon.
age of cars, so necessary to business, bacco cigars and cigarettes imported of tho ULTIMATE success of their movement, a success which will
in either the Inter-state or Wiscon character.
But at any cost the
$125,000,000
and the general prosperity, and the the total will reach
not lx> evident today or tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow, but
health of the people of Eugene must
sin acts.
LANE COUNTY’S HOME PAPER.
knowledge that the Southern Pacific This amount is double the Imports of
which will be obvious SOONER OR LATER.
Every railroad is required, under be protected and a water famine management has recently declared an luxuries ten years ago.
It is hardly necessary to call atten-
tion to the fact that the Daily Guard the provisions of section 45, to file would be preferable to another epi unusually big dividend to its stock
has been very much improved lately on the first Monday of February of demic of sickness.
holders instead of keeping up and in
The state of Washington has suf
The Guard, in common with all creasing Its rolling stock, those ag
respect. each year a verified list of all rall-
as a newspaper in every
By Professor W I. THOMAS. University of Chicago
fered heavily by the recent floods,the
good citizens, is distressed at th“
This is because we have at last prac road passes, mileage books and tick-
grieved by private ownership and heaviest loss falling upon the town
IIERE has been develo,)< <1 a peculiar code of morals to cover
course taken by the Willamette Val-
tically completed one of the finest ets issued free or for any other that.
management would seem to have am of Castle Rock, which was half wiped
the peculiar case of woman. This may be called a MORAL
promiees and avowals of good inteu-
plants owned by any paper in Oregon actual bona fide money consideratloa
ple cause for their complaining.
out.
Railroads
also
suffered
heavily
ITY
OF THE PERSON and of the bodily habits, as con
promises and avowels of good inten
outside of Portland, and have all the at full established rates during th;
and
farmers
on
the
low
lands
lost
trasted with the commercial and publie morality of man.
tions its course of late has caused ii
facilities needed
for publishing a preceding year, together with th.-
The statement made by a Chicago nearly all their improvements and
I’uritv, coiiBtuncv, reserve and devotion are the qualities in woman
rude awakening on the part of many
newspaper that will fully cover the names of the recipients thereof, the
judge that within the last five years a great deal of stock. Oregon, slow which please an<l flatter the jealous male, and woman has responded
who were disposed
only toward
murdered and backward perhaps in many re
field. Our new linotype machine, a amounts received therefor and rea
friendliness for the corporation. In 45,000 persons had been
to these demands both really and Heemingly, Without any CON
in the United States and that during spects, Is at least the securest place
picture of which is printed in today's sons for issuing same.
the matter of providing a first-class
SCIOUSNESS of what she was doing (for all moral traditions fall in
Wide latitude is given the railroad
this year more people have been mur of residence, east or west.
paper, cost installed in the office
water and light supply at reasonable
the general psychological region <>f habit), she acta in the manner
$4000, and is one of the finest ever companies in the matter of the issu- rates it has failed miserably, and it« dered than have died from typhol I
which makes her most pleasing TO MEN. And—always with the
Sent out of the Mergenthaler facto ance of transportation, except fo- assurances that it would construct fever, is attracting much attention
Governor Chamberlain states that
ruther definite realization before her of what a dreadful thing it is to
ry, having patents upon it as late as political purposes, and a commission an electric railway in consideration of among those who make a study ol he stands for an unfettered open riv
be an old maid- she has naively insisted that her sisters shall play well
August of this year. Altogether the consisting of three members, to b*' the granting of a satisfactory fran sociology. The statement is eBpec- er from Portland to the headwaters
within the game and has become herself the most STRICT CENSOR
In accordance
new plant represents an outlay of appointed by the governor, is pro chise have been utterly disregarded. ¡ally worthy of attention, as the of the Willamette,,
of
that morality which has lateóme traditionally associated with
judge declares this condition arise, with this view he will recommend to
probably $8000, which is a large vided for.
The local management of the compa
Such a bill has many good feature.; ny is such that some of its patrons from our lax method of enforcing the next legislature the purchase of woman.
Amount of money to invest in print-
FEARING THE OBLOQUY WHICH THE WORLD ATTACHES TO
but
it is doubtful if it will be enacted are held up and virtually robbel the laws, and from the laws them- i he locks at Oregon City at a reasoi.-
ing machinery and type in a town the
A BAD WOMAN. SHE THROWS THE FIRST 8TDNE AT ANY WO
incident
showing
th*'
selves.
An
into
a
law.
since,
so
far
as
the
returns
able and Just price, so that all tolls
Size of Eugene, but the growth of the
while others are granted rates that
MAN WHO BIDS FOR THE FAVOR OF MEN BY OVERSTEPPINO
The governor
Country justifies it and present busi ! have been received, but one member are Just as unreasonably low
It delays that may occur in finally ex may be adolished.
THE MODE8TY OF NATURE.
ness as well as future increase makes of the legislature has declined to ac seems to be simply a case of getting ecuting the decrees of a court pun Is generally right on all questions
ishing offenders recently occurred in affecting the welfare of the people.
the outlay a business investment, cept a free pass from the railroad all that a consumer will stand for.
an
Eastern city. A man was tried
The Guard is one of the oldest. If company.
The general management of the Wil
and duly found guilty of an atro
Thls county exported over $18.-
lamette Valley Company's plants is
not the oldest. business institution in
cious murder. He was called before . 000,000 worth of canned goods to
Will IIIT< ll< O< K QUIT.
entrusted to a fr’n'-hlse jobber and
Lane county, and the paper has been
It looks as if the department of speculator who seems incapable o.' the trial Judge for Bentance There I foreign countries In the fiscal year o*
S regular visitor to many homes for
the interior was in line for a com realizing that the people are at last a formality usually followed, In pas, ' 1905-6. The foods thus exported
the period of an averagfle lifetime,
plete overhauling, according to au- awake to their own Interests and de ing such sentences, of asking th-' j consisted of fruits, beef, salmon, con
holding a position as a reliable dis
By H. II. Bennett
prisoner if he has anything to sav lensed milk, pork, vegetables, lari
from Washington.
Rumors
mand a square deal—one of those
seminator of the news that can never vices
and
butter.
The
value
of
such
ex
why
sentence
should
not
be
pro
have been rife for some time that
ATR off!
men who cannot realize that the con
bp shaken by any competitor.
porta in 1896 was only $11,000.000.
Along the Street tb«re comes
the president was convinced that s porations which serve the publ'" nounced against him. In this cav
The history of Lane county has
A bl iré of buglc-i a ruiiie of <lrums,
the
judge
forgot,
or
neglected
to
ask
very decided change in the busines [ must in future be amenable to the
A lio-ti of color bem-ath the sky,
been made since the first issue of the very----------
Tlic
Sari
Francim-o^rand
Jury
has
this
formal
question,
pronounced
th*'
if
that department were , laws, as well as just and honest,
Iluta off!
Guard nearly forty years ago, and is methods in
I’
The flag 1« parslug by!
long been it wishes to retain Its valuable fran sentence and remanded the prisoner indicted one supervisor, Fred
necessary,
and
it
has
to be found in its dust-covered files
to jail Suddenly he thought of fhls Nirholas.and other» are likely soon t >
commission chise rights.
Blue and crimson and white it shines
in all that time many political known that the Keep
be In the toll» of the law The prer-
It must be conceded that the ait- formal question, recalled the accused,
Over the sterl tipped ordered lines.
found the methods not only anti
Parties have come and gone, and the
Hats off!
The asked the question, and on being an I ent shakeup promises to produc*
quated. but in many case ■s wholly tn- ’ nation in Eugene ts grave
The colors liefore us fly
Pioneer generation that saw its birth
greater consternation in certain qffhr
swered
that
he
had
nothing
to
say
re
adequate to the prompt and effleien. menace of an Impure water supply
Rut more than the flag 1« passing by.
have nearly all passed away. In all
ter» than did the big upheaval of na
transaction of the government busi must be removed, and that without sentenced him. No question arises
t.iat time it has seldom, if ever, miss
Ren fights and land fights, grim mid great.
If the as to the guilt of the prisoner. n > ture.
ness, and so reported to the pres further unnecessary delay.
Fought to make and to save the state;
ed a regular issue, and at al) times
the
Willamette Valley Company goes question that he does not deserve
Weary marches and sinking ships;
ident. Especially was this the case
Wm.
R.
Hearst
says
that
he
will
has b -n a potent factor for progress
for
Cheers of victory on dying ll|*a.
back
to
the
old
condemned
supply
it
death
penalty,
but
his
attorney,
in the general land office, and t
never again be a candidate for office
And honest publicity. It is a record
is nothing less than an admission of delay, and In hope he may get his
commission Insisted in its repo-t
Day« of plenty and days of peace;
This
statement will tend to relieve
®f which few newspapers are able to
‘ its inability to meet the require client free, appeals to a higher court
March of a strong land «wlft Increase;
that a complete change In busines*
the anxiety of some ambitious Em
•°ast—one of honorable achieve
Equal Justice, right and law,
ment» of the hour, or it is an open and no one can tell how long the de
should be promptly made. This ma>
plre State politicians who will be gla I
Stately honor and reverent awe.
ment and steady advancement.
disregard for the welfare and heait.1 lay Ir. properly punishing the crim
or may not have been the cause of
to know that the editor is out of th •
The future may be safely Judged
of the city that should be regarded inal will be With such examples o’
Sign of a nation, great and strong.
the
sudden
determination
of
Secre
running.
%
To ward her people from for 'gn wrong;
fr'm the past except that the world
M a challenge to every good citizen delay, and of the failure of the court» '
tary Hitchcock to resign, for neither
Pride and glory and honor, all
1» moving more rapidly now than
| to gn forth and battle with the enemy to punish crime, is It to be wondered
Live In the colors to stand or fall.
the secretary nor the president wdl
Wm. Ft Hearst and Dick Croke.-
that the people so often take the la»
*”r before, and cities are growing
of progress. of health, of the home
nything about it. but it has be-
are still exchanging compliments in
Data off!
®" ’,e in a month than formerly In say a
If this action of the company lx to into their own bands and administer
Along the street there comes
a late Interview the former advises
come known that the resignation of
T'ars the ox team has been succeed-
be construed a« the old. arrogant condign punishment?
A Mare of bogies. a ruffle of drums;
th
Mr. Richards, commissioner
Croker to remain away from this
And loyal hearts are beating high,
M by steam and electricity. Newspa-
query of bosslam and monopoly
flats off!
¡and office, wm Mked for.
The state treasurer's annual report country "In these days of Investiga 1
"Well,
what
are
you
going
tod)
h*rs have had the benefit of the most
The flag la passing by!
His high personal regard for Mr
tion and prison penalties.''
about it?" we mistake the aplrit an1 shows that Oregon has no debt of any
•Plendid achievements of inventive
thing
Garfield was not the only
I
8 nin until the town of seven or
today possosses a better newspaper
than the city of 25.000 people of a
president when
young Ohionian
he
selected
What the
“Simplified Spelling?
Really Is
c
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