Eugene weekly guard., December 13, 1906, Image 2

icism of a people—the coast is a says the New York World. Lincoln's of several hui 1 i
I purpose of getting rid of them as out of work at least 1500 millmen
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unit in opposition to Asiatic labot literary style was formed largely by
*h0;
competitors.
it is the great good and woodsmen. This is a most con-
Proved themsetve« the
The wages of and
servative estimate,
immigration — Is
certainly study of the King James version.
Pions of the coast
fortune of the whole country that
."of"
these men range from 12.25 to $6 per founded on prejudice and ignorance When Macaulay, who began his lit-
and ”1
• hey have not been able to buy or day.
career
by
learning
at
three
of conditions, Inexcusable prejudice erary
•or th« b«,uty
•
tain control of New Yorq’s greatest
I ; A ID PR IN'nN i CG., INC.
In the year past the lumber busi­
T.
-hieigj
years of age, wished to acquire a new its womanhood. '*'■
and
ignorance
in
one
so
high
In
posi
­
Publisher«
¿anal, the Erie. The Guard has pre- ness has improved rapidly. In 1904
"
We could wish
President language and he lea ned most of Divinity school and t » ^»thoije
' viously adverted to this canal in its the output amounted to 1,000,000,- tion.
emy,
and
perhaps
be
5t
of'
Published every Friday, Eugene, Ore. history, and in its Influence upon 000 feet and this year it will be 2,- Roosevelt the chance of working the modern languages -he bought did public scIoT’Xi’4**
000,000,000 feet—just double.
Ing with his hands awhile in compe- the Bibls is that language and his fa­ mented by a high schL
Subscription price, 61.50 per year the building of a great cty, and a
The railroads have not doubled
tlon with the Asiatic.
He would miliarity with it made his study easy. schools are commodiX ¿T
of paid in advance. $2.00 at end of 1 great state. Its history reads like the number of cars.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, arranged, with method. *nd M
year.
romance, between the lines of which
It Is the contention of the railroad quickly change his tune, would con­
t on and discipline Une °
Entered at the Eugene, Oregon, can be seen the future of Eugene, people that the car shortage is uni­ clude that philanthropy begins at said: “Study of the Bible will keep I city of similar size in
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postoffice as second-class matter.
any man from being vulgar in his
SUte.. To the
when it shall have become the head versal and that Oregon shippers are home—and ends there, too, so far as
point of style.” Kossuth, the great would rear his family io
no worse off than the shippers of the
Japanese and Chinese are concerned.
of navigation on the Willamette, and
Ag cuts for Tiie Guard.
East and south. Statistics at hand
Hungarian patriot, who e 'ctrifled ments of education
The following are authorized to the boats carry the products of its
has superior Indue.^
prove that there is a widespread
take and receipt for subscriptions or
The morning paper makes the American audiences by hi-> c'u<pi( nee, Eugene
offer.
transact other business for The Daily factories and tributary farms and shortage, but nowhere else is there a
startling discovery that it is fl thting was asked how he acquir'd such a
and Weekly Guard:
1 orchards to cities on the lower river, community suffering more than the
Cottage Grove—W. C. Conner.
the Southern Pacific Company single- mastery of the English language, and
■ or transfer them to ocean-going ves­ Wilamete valley. The percentage of
The niining industry
Creswell—J. L. Clark.
cars
received
in
Oregon
is
ridicu
­
Ihand. Accepting this view of the replied that it was the r- salt of county
’ 01 UJ
Coburg—Geo. A Drury.
sels en route to Alaska, the Orient,
is growing in'
lous, compared with what other case it is undeniably Mr. Harriman's studying the Bible.
ijrom
year
to
year.
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or other of the world’s great markets. states have secured.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1906.
misfortune that he lives in New
River and Bohemia district« *
|
Ground was broken for the build­
In Washington there is a move­
Eugene has manufacturing inter­ prospects are being opened
York,
far
removed
from
Eugene,
ing of the Erie canal July 4th, 1817. ment to sue the railroads for damag­
ests that contribute materially to other localities, and there
It took eight years to build it from es on account of the car shortage. where his exchequer is less accessible the prosperity of the city. There creased development
_l work
Washington is obtaining between 35 than that of the Willamette \ alley
are Iron foundries, sash and door and in every camp, t "’hat is
Notwithstanding that the Guard has Albany to Buffalo, a distance of 350 and 40 per cent of the cars it de­
Company,
which
has
no
trouble
in
been enlarged and the cost of publi­ miles. It was opened for traffic July mands. Texas, Alabama and the oth­
lumber mills, flouring mills, ex- most in this direction is
convincing the management of the celBior factory, knife works, soap fac- Hetty of the right kind— more k
cation
materially increased, the 4th, 1825, and will ever remain a
er Southern States average anywhue
Sood, hot.
tory, woolen mills, furniture factory, est advertising that win attract
Guard Printing Co. makes a special
lasting m' lument to the wisdom and between 75 and SO per cent. Ore­ morning paper that a failure to sup­
offer to every new or old subscriber.
vinegar
factory,
fruit
cannery
and
.of
means
who
are
looking
for met
gon has obtained but three per cent, ply patrons with drinkable water is
----- mi»,
Al) who will pay one year in ad­ foresight of DeWitt Clinton, than the smallest on record anywhere.
packing house, and various other in-I i Ing
investments,
.
.
' Such operations a
not at ail reprehensible. Quite like­
vance for the Weekly Guard at whom no other man merits more
dustries that are employing a good I have been going on for years *
ly
the
Southern
Pacific
could
in
a
only 91.50 a year, will be given his praise for its construtcion.
many hands the year around. Their Blue River and Bohemia, if t *
EUGENE'S SPLENDID GROWTH.
ahoice of the Twice a-Week St. Louis
similar manner cause this brilliant owners are enterprising and perse­ ' ferred to Nevada, California, fT
The immediate effect of the open­
The showing made by the banks of
Republic,or tlie‘‘Oregou Agricultu ”
enitorial mind to agree that failure to vering, because it is no small tasl rado or Idaho, would be herald*
ing of traffic was to lower the freight Eugene tell a story of wonderful
ralist, absolutely free for one year.
supply cars to shippers is a ble. sing to build up such concerns when it constantly to the world, though
The Republic is one of the larges* rates from Buffalo to New York City prosperity and growth during the in disguise, were the same influences is necessary to pioneer the way, and of dollars would be invested in tint,
past
y*ar.
Deposits
Increased
fully
50
aud best family newspapers in Amer from $100.00 to $10.00 per ton, and
Who deserve liberal home patronage and districts where now single doll»,
brought to bear upon it.
ioaand the “Oregon Agriculturalist” to stimulate canal building in Penti- per cent, and now total the very re­
spectable sum of $2,128,658.72. For knows but there may be a few shares encouragement. “Buy Eugene-made are expended. What Oregon peonl,
Is one of the tiest and most practical sylvania, Virglnit, Maryland
and a city of 7,000 people this is, indeed,
goods' is a rule that should never must learn is the full extent ot Ih.
farm, fruit and stock papers in the
of stock in the morning paper, not
be deviated from, except in regart’ resources of their own state as mt
other states. Within a few years a remarkable financial exhibit that
West.
held by the Willamette Valley Com to lines that are not produced here as the art of honestly exploit!,,
wonderful
is
explained
only
by
the
freight
rates
fell
to
$3.00
per
ton,
Subscribers, old or new, may take
“
pany, that Mr. Harriman could buy Keep the money at home and it will them.
their choice of either paper as a and from that date the future of and varied resources that are being
be constantly circulating and some
at
par
value?
developed
in
the
country
tributary,
premium.
New York City was assured,
Capital Typographical Union
of it will find its way into the pock
I making Eugene one of the important
Those who failed to get the prom­
At its inception, public opinion de­ business centers of the coast.
ets
of
every
man,
woman
and
child
210,
of Salem, has prepared a bill for
The Portland conscience has just
ised premium magazines will be given
Situated at the head of the Wil­ been aroused to the extent that the in the community.
their choice of either of these papers tnanded that sufficient tolls be
presentation to the legislature, th«
make __________
the canal lamette valley, with the developed
in place of the magazines wilthuo charged to not only____
text and object of which is to
state law against the nickel-ln the-
Senator Rayner, of Maryland,
further cost, by sending their names self-supporting, but in time to pay resources capable of being greatly
the state printing office upon a prac-
is to be enforced, wants the senate to
and addresses to this office.
So for its construction, This contention intensified, and many new industries slot machine
go g ». i record as
attracting capital and labor, it is in These gambling devices have started holding the opinion that the federal tical business basis, under the control
far we have been unable to enmpet
of a state printing commission ot
the Eastern publishers to keep their became gradually modified, and tolls the idea) location for a great city— more boys and young men on the
governmetrt has no right to enter r
agreement in regard to the magazines, i were from time to time made lower, the second in the state of Oregon. road to hell than all Satan's other
responsible state officers; to put the
into a controversy with a foreign
and feel the disappointment as keenly until 1883, when all tolls were re­ Here we have almost incalculable
state printer on a stated salary tod
devices combined. It seems so cheap
government concerning the school
as our subscribers.
moved and the canal made free to all. timber wealth and mineral deposits
to insure for the state the teaat
The Weekly Guard is still clubbed
In mountains that bound, and along to the victim—only a nickel, then It system of a state. Look out for a
Previous to this, in 1871, the state
possible expense in the conduct of
is
so
handy
is
that
it
is
aiways
with the Semi Weekly Oregon Journal
streams that fertilize and water a
California Rayner boom.
legislature offered rewards for the large area of rich soil, producing
at 92.25 a year for both papers.
the office; also to provide for tlx
ready for a game. In other gam-
Mail all remittances and communi­ best motive power, other than ani­ cereals, fruit and hops of unsur­ bling games the devotee must hunt
Even race suicide came in for a erection of a separate building for
cations to
The natural gate
mals, for propelling boats. 'More passed quality.
new
whack in the message. Really, the state printing plant, and olfl.
up and find one, two, three others or
GUARD PRINTING CO.,
than 700 communications were re­ way to Eastern Oregon, the exten­
more In mood for the game. Then it seems going a little too far to im- mately for the heating plant needed
Eugene Oregon.
ceived, twelve steamers were tested, sion of the Southern Pacific railroad
to Klamath Falls and Ontario, will some of the players may get hungry peach a man’s patriotism because he for the Capitol building.
three of which answered all require­
inevitably cause large jobbing houses and break up the game by quitting, is not the daddy of a big bunch of
FOR AN OPEN WATERWAY.
ments. There are now more than to open here as the logical distrbut-
The Y. M. C. A organization of Eu­
and all have to sleep, but this re­ kids.
With all of Eugene's great resources ¡100 steamers and 40b .reight boats ing point for a large territory.
gene is preparing to erect a suitable
morseless device with a maw huugry
of timber, mineral wealth, of water ’ on the 350 miles ui canal. The cost
What Eugene needs reflects the
The Portland Oregonian is fifty building next year, and is entitled
for
nickels
never
sleeps.
It
is
the
to liberal financial assistance. Nodi
power, of rich soil, of climate, fac- , per mile of moving freight has fallen needs of every ambitious western
five years old—a good paper in many ing is of greater value to a city \Vu
most
pernicious
form
of
gambling
city-
push,
energy
and
the
utmost
torleB, great educational institutions, .to three mills per ton. Think of it! !
ways, but old enough to know better the work done by this organizadoi
I
and possessing in its citizenship a At such a rate it would cost little faith of its citizens in the city’s ever devised.
when thoropghly equiqqed in all its
in regard to some things.
future. Two i business men's organi-
highly inteligent, moral, temperate, more than 30 cents per ton to trans­ zatlons, the Commercial Club and
branches, its influence over youg
Dr. Pundit Krishna, Hindoo, now
men being always for good, mentally,
Industrious and thrifty people, there port freights from Eugene to Port­ Merchants' 1 Protective Association,
Let
the
Oregon
legislature
pass
a
lecturing on the coast, derides the
morally and physically.
is still lacking the me qua non of land. The cost of the Erie, above are doing earnest, efficient work
oft-told tale that the Hindoo moth­ fair demurrage law and the railroads
now.
and
they
should
be
backed
up
a city of commercial importance, all revenue received, has been $40,-
Says the Albany Democrat, Call­
ers, in obedience to their religion, will get cars on hand for shippers.
The reader of this article knows, 000.000 oof which is $500.000.00 in every well-directed effort by every
They should do it anyway—but they ing Oregon the Beaver state will nev­
throw
their
babies
to
crocodiles
in
patriotic
resident
who
desires
to
see
»
without its being stated here, that per year for the eighty years it has
may not.
the city grow and prosper
er go down. It is not a beaver state
their sacred river, the Ganges. Also
the one and only indispensable con- been in use. The present cost is
at all.”
Right you are! There*
be says there are no croco-liles there.
Now it is proposed to postpone the
dition of Eugene's permanent ttp- $700,000.00 annually for the main­
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.
nothing
the
matter with good oil
Eugene is rapidly going forward But, he says, the credulous are not Cuban elections until a year from
building, and of the 1: ■ i if* prosper- tenance and betteri *nts
of
the
“
Webfoot."
all here, it being told and believed in December.
That should give the
ity of Lane county, is th ■ qit
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'.ition
of state's canals, and the people find in in the matter of civic improvements.
The donation of an ample tract of India that Christians marry their sis­ warm-blooded natives time to cool
abundant aud cheap ti importation 1 it a profitable expenditure.
The Albany Democrat puts it this
land for a city park by Hon. T. G. ters, and one man's wife is every
off.
facilities.
Products of the soil, of |
Between New York and Chicago Hendricks, upon which Improve­
The S. P. people claim the
way
the mines, of the forests and of the ■ there are eight trunk lines of rail­ ments will be made at once, was a man's wife here. He has no good
reason cars are not given for Cal-
ilecretary Root advises its to trade
factories in their distribution, seek road. whose freight rates are largely long Btep in the right direction. An word for the missionary nor Eng­
ifornia shipments is because they re
land
—
thinking
it
inexcusable
nure
with South America, Does he
electric
street
and
suburban
railway
that
the lines of least resistance as sure­ influenced by the Erie canal and the
Is to be put in operation during th» the governing country should allow know whether they could use em- not unloaded when they get there
ly as water runs down hill. Freight lake vessels. In looking abroad, like
Seme are not, others are. That i the
coming year, connecting the cities
rates are the largest element of com­ results can be seen, notably in the of Eugene and Springfield, and It i two million of his people to die an­ balmed beef and reprocessed eggs shipper's outlook. As a matter e!
merce. In illustration of this fact, , history and present influence of Dag­ the unanimous wish of the property nually of starvation. It is a terri­ down there?
fact the lumber is needed in bualness
given rates low enough. Eugene could land's great Birmingham canal, and owners along Willamette Btreet t ble tale of famine and death.
there and the consignees are avail­
Since Senator Beveridge question­
derive v princely revenue from ship­ other canals on the continent of Eu- pave that thoroughfare as soon as
The Albany
Herald takes the ed the right of any man to become a ing to receive the goods.
the track is laid
This will give
ping Willamette river water to Gold­ rope.
Eugene a city appearance, as well Guard to task for advocating the billionaire the trust busters are do­
It Is an open question whetber
field. Nevada, or Death Valley, Cali­
as being a great convenience and prom pt disposal of the Phillipine Isl-
Give to Eugene forty miles
ing
their
best
to
spoil
Mr.
Rocke
­
free
railroad passes to member* ot
fornia.
materially enhancing city property
canal, or by dredging and other
ands by this country, What has come feller's chances.
values.
the legislature will offset the effet
Much good will come from the ,provements, make the Willamette
A handsome Carnegie public li­ over the spirit of the Albany editor's
remedial legislation asked for by the ' river navigable to this potat. and Eu-
of such meetings as that held in
dreams — is he out of touch with the
A Chicago professor who lives on
late car shortage convention held in ' gene will have an open waterway of brary was completed in Eugene this
year, and the coming year will wit Republican national administration? Rockefelb-r money waltzed itnto the gene yesterday.
Eugene, and The Guard will give to 300 miles to the sea. its steamers ness the building of a 150,000
Does he forget that son-in-law Nick limelight to say: ‘Socialism is the
Elderly Mrs. Yerkts-.Mizner »*$
all rem< dial legislation its hearty | will, in the not distant future, tiavf- postoffice by the federal government
in the only speech he ever made in philosophy of failure." He is the for divorce avers that young Mr Mi*
support. But The Guard sees beyond gate the upper Columbia, through Two handsome buildings are also
congress declared that the only prop­ incarnation of nerve.
ner married her for money. Ju5t *'
the need of cars to move our present and past the state of Washington being added to the university group,
and the grounds are being improved er and wise thing to do was to get
And everybody except the old 1*^’
congested products. It see» the need and Into British Columbia, and Eu-
The news that
Mme. Gould is
and beautified under the direction of out of the Philippines, to stand not
of water transportation, and believes gene become a great manufacturing an experienced landscape gardener
marrying again must knew it all the time.
on the order of going, but to skid- thinking of
that Intelligent, ukiited action by the i city if, indeed, not the greatest <*i
These are some of the improve­
make Lillian Russell feel that it is
doo.
Some splendid speeches werv
people of Eugene and Lane county ’ the Pacific coast.
ments that are making Eugene* a
high time for her to get into the pa-
on the transport«*
more beautiful city each year, as
yesterday
can accomplish It. Whether it can
Now Governor Chamberlain has pers again.
well
as
contributing
to
hasten
the
Such meetings tend 0
question,
be best obtained by dredging and re­
i coming of the “Greater Eugene," just delivered a sound lecture to pa­
CAR SHORT NGE PROBLEM.
chrystalize public st entiment and pts-
moving the snage from the Wiliam-
At St. Louis the other day ar. au-
The Portland Telegram sums up which in due time will be the full rents who neglect their children, ir
be >W*
mote unity. There s hould
’
ette river or by a canal front Eugene the car shortage problem in Oregon fruition of our dearest hopes.
our George keeps up his present lick tomobile ran over an embankment,
of them in Oregon.
to navigable water on the river, is as follows:
he ma? in time rival the illustrious That is one thing an automobile
There are in Oregon at present
President Roosevelt knows noth­
the question for engineers to deter-
Teddy K. as a conservator of pub­ can run over without incurring the MODERN WOODMEN
nt Lie. One or the other we most 500 lumber mills, whereas two years ing about the evils and danger to lie and
EI.Et T OFFI'^
private morals.
displeasure of the pedestrians.
ago there were but 250. Of the to­ our country from Asiatic labor else
have.
tal several hundred are not directly
. At the meeting of Eugen«
Since railroads have become so affected by the car shortage, for they he would not have referred in his
Buy the Oregon City locks and
Defeated stand-patters in congress
W A., last night, the ,0 0 '
M.
common and necessary, rivers and are on rivers and scattered along the menage to the “attitude of hostility" open the \\ illamette river to naviga­ will do their standing on one foot
officers were elected for the en^
canals ire, in comparison, little coast. Fully 100 more are insignifi­ against the Japanese “in a very few tion as far as Eugene— that would during the closing weeks of their year: Dr. M L York. V. C ■
. .. . . o F Ford.b*^
in thought, especially on the Pacifis cant n ills, located in the mountains places," meaning the Pacific coast, of solve the car shortage problem in the statesmanly careers.
Warnock, M. A.;
and backwoods. These turn out a course. The Chinese, whom we ex-
S R Mother*
David Link, clerk
coast
Many do not realize their Im­
Willamette valley for all time to
watch*»-
small amount of lumber for strictly
cort;
Claude
Jackson.
Probably it is fortunate for Char­
portance as a factor In cheapening local patronage. These little mills i elude, and the Japanese are entirely come.
; Dr . 1» *■
L. H. Crenshaw, sentry
lie Fulton that he was net elected
freights by rail, It is a significant are where farmers and ranchers haul alien, come here without families
G E B*«*'
McDougal, Dr M
I
nited
States
senator
two
years
ear
­
fact, thn’ more than half of all the the lumber they buy In their own {and with no intention of making it
Welch.
Most of the great orators of Eng-
physicians; F R
canals in the United States have wagons. Of the remaining mills ev­ ' their home, do not assimilate in any land and America used the Bible as lier than he was.
for three years.
ery one dependent on the railroad
rned tM’*^
| way and when they make the money a basis of their style.
brought under the control of railroad
Mn G T. Ray rent
Brougham.
has suffered and no less than 60
brought under the control of railroad have been forced to shut down in­ they want return to their homes in Macaulay.Webster and Garfield knew
Eugene Is a city of schools nn< noon from Halsey, where
sbr-H*»
been visiting her father
companies for the side and only definitely. Those closed have thrown Asia
The president's virtual crit- the Bible better than most ministers. churches, the seat of Oregon’s sflei
•lid- university, with an enrollment been visittag her sister
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