year. This will be a loss of 85,- |bllity, positions of trust, positions 000,000 bushels from last year, but requiring reliability and regularity will, st the same time, show a pro are being closed against him. He an independent paper duction equalled only five times in may not see that he is bounced be the country's history. cause he Isn't honest, for he may be (HOILES H. FISH EH, These figures c orrespond wi'h the able to swear with clear conscience Editor and Publisher. results of a canvass made among rail that he never took so much as a way presidents and traffic managers nickel In his life that did not belong oi' roadg a ghQrt { timt* a<o. to him. But he has taken liras that did not belong tu him He has had Subscription p’ice, *1.50 per year 'hat the railway» would ‘T aU', to be sent for. He hasn't been faith an ful. Ke has lied as to why he was U paid io advance; *2 00 at en<i of (enormous b(J8iness versal sentiment ts.. he un|- out late, aud as to where he was last Entered at the Eugene, Oregon, •otlrely b“> •» night. He has gone upon the theory that it was nobody's business how p^tuflee as second-class matter. he occupied his time outside of bus iness hours. Yet the growth of a bad Agents lor The Guard. „.t ” ""»• »">• character. If you are at all close to The following are authorized to it, is about as obvious as the growth tale and receipt for subscriptions or | of a corn field. The prudent business yaasa^t ether business for The Daily I 'U' man does not always wait until he -ad Weekly Guard: Creswell—J. L. Clark. has a case in court. He prefer» ’.a crowded with ° r adi “ r ® Coburg—Geo. A. Drury. settle the little things with his em ^Kht. and u tbev r> h»°' her klOd Of Address all remittances and com | haul from the gr/in^TL“0 'UUCh ployes before they have gone that munications to GUARD PRINTING CO., make a record filiy Un t *,U far. Business is becomiug more and Eugene, Oregon. year. All over th P t0 th“’ of last more exacting on the point of indi I-re buJ0:7XdX7th?ere r vidual character. It is looking out e THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 can carry promptlv and ? dS for integrity, and it 13 saying that I «on the tracks are so J 27 ** whatever the head of the house ts ¡loaded ea-s that m covered with the salary list must be clean This T.4LK WITH WEEKLY is Impeded. move,9««‘ of traffic' demand opens a wide door to the I GUARD SUBSCRIBERS girls, aud there is only one way in The publishers of the St. Louis Re. uiand at t " rkln8men are In de ¡Which it can be closed against them, public (semi-weekly) have been prosperity are *.ag<3nd th<> 8|Kns °f and that is ti meet the competition, forced to raiM the price have of their pa- and corner of ^Parent ln ^very nook and by the removal of it through per to us (owing to the Increase in Hurries „„ no ionger 7, worry n<1‘ t^roumS consolidation. fflf EB6EIE WEEKLY GUARD ■s» word of this. And I wall make good son the cars have been packed tight if It takes every farthing of my pri er. ea< b carrying more boxes than ev vate fortune."' Statement of Pres- ident Moore, of the defunct Oregon er before. Approximately one-third Trust & Savings Bank, to a Portland received from Southern Califor Telegram repo: ter. nia fruit goes to the railroads fur Mr. Moore may be honest aud sin icing charges at the rata of about By Admiral BARON YAMAMOTO of Japan. cere in this statement, but he wants *380 a car, or a total c f about î 1 to finish where he should have be 000,000. The other $20.000,000 |> |T is now over fifty years since America first gun. He is willing to risk his pri divided lietween the growers aud opened intercourse with Japan and introduced vate fortune" if necessary In order to shippers and for charg s of packing Us to the nations of the west. We all know promote certain, stocks and bonds. and material. That is what he should have done iu what we owe to the United States for the de New banking institutions, new the first place it he had sufficient velopment of our industries and commerce confidence in these securities to un hotels, mills, schools, chur'hes. hos and also for the education of a number of dertake their promotion at all. lu- pitals aud residences; street paving our countrymen. WE ALSO ESPECIAL aud electric railways,- and yet E« stead of that he kept his owu means tuc ked safely away in some bank that has Just begun to grow, Hu LY APPRECIATE THE SYMPATHY he had more confidence in than his people are waking up and are ro- SHOWN US BY THE AMERICANS own, and risked the money of work termined to take advantage of their DURING THE LATE WAIL opportunities, They have taken the ingmen and women, who had been Our interests, commercial and otherwise, Induced to trust their savings to his advice of an expert, who says, Either run a town with a vitu, or keeping. areao INTIMATELY INTERWOVEN and Mr. Moore should certainly be Just sell out and loaf. One thing the cerdial relations between us of fifty years’ given an opportunity to rede«;» him must be doue—run the town for all standing are of so firm a nature that I can con self. As the first step, however, in that it is worth, get up steam ami keep it up. Do you want trade? Bid fidently aflirm that THEY WILL NEVER this making of a real man from a piece of distorted human clay, a for it. Do you want business to BE DESTROYED by mere trifling incidente. twelve months' sentence in jail—the come to your town? Encourage LATELY SOME LITTLE DARK CLOUD DID IT IS TRUE THAT limit of punishment—weald serve a what you have, Do you want a pros- OF THE SKY, BUT LT IB NOTHING APPEAR IN ONE QUARTER porous town? Thcn never permit most excellent purpose It would DOES NCT IN ANY WAY REPRESENT BUT A LOCAL SQUALL ALD give the high-toned gentleman time the Jealousies to rule your action«, ANO EVEN THIS THE GENERAL STATE OF THE WEATHER. but work together for common pr >s- to reflect upon certain business eth SLIGHT CLOUD WILL SOON BE DISPERSED. ics that he has evidently overlooked perlty and mutual benefit. during his dizzy whirl in the realm of R R R Reduced to plain English the de high finance. Should it be found mands now being made by high 11- By General STEWART L WOOLFORD, former Mlnleter to Spain. convenient to put Mr. Moore at the ninclers through that portion of the highly useful work of breaking rock press under their control or suscept Ttt the seventy years of mv life I have seen two wars brought on the price of news paper), and we at large, and attract little attention with a sledge hammer, the lessbu ible to their influence is: Give us by the thoughtless and ill considered action of the newspapers. «.not afford to give It away free rsade from the multitude would not be altogether lost upon immunity for all past law-breaking h ' newspeper with ill the continue Weekly this Guard. However, Qr„ him, in shaping his future career. and license to ignore laws whenever THOSE WARS MJG1IT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. offer up to Oc- readers more than pTslinTimerest'VSe I we wi.. ***' ~ ----- - TODAY ALL THE INTERESTS WHICH CENTER AROUND THIS Some of the state papers are just It might serve to remind him of the it is to our Interest to do so, or we ll toner ;::7. at which time it wfl). conflicts between the bulls an i i h NATION —THE THOUSHTFUL BUSINESS MEN—ARE OPPOSED TO now discussing the country school character of the toll by which the tober 1, 1907 be POSITIVELY withdrawn. All who of speculation. ear* plunge the country into a financial BEING AGAIN DRAGGED INTO A USELESS ANO AN UNNECES dollars, dimes and pennies were ac [teacher problem. Most of these edi- (A • and Industrial panic. Meanwhile the : tors, learned as they may be on oth cumulated before they were garnered administration stands pat on the slo SARY WAR. pay one year ----- in advance to that ---------- up *" ------------ - SUMMING I'P OF RECENT er subjects, have little real knowl- Into the vaults of his trust company gan of the MiaHses time (*1.50) will receive both the "Ixx-k up all War Ix'tween the United States and Japan would be a crime against RAILROAD LAWS e(jge of the work of the teacher and to be Invested in stocks and bonds of Weekly Guard and Semi-Weekl»' Re convicted law-breakers.” history. War bctwecu us and Japan woujd be a crime against religion, public, but after that date the Re | In the Review of Reviews for Au are therefire able to write volumln- doubtful value. Such an experience for in no place in the world is more toleration shown to religions of should enable the bank president to Eugene Is not going to have a ously , unhampered by such stub public will no longer be given free. gust, Robert Emmett Ireton makes born things as facts. The editor of view life from an altogether differ building boom, but there will be a all kinds, und we have established onr ruligiou in the land of the We shall continue to give the two ----- v .h- n, i,n •«’alysls of the general results the Guard taught school several years ent standpoint and might induce him lot of building done within the agricultural papers, ° K • , __!of recent railroad legislation which mikado. egon Agriculturist and the American shows that passenger fares were and, therefore, has less to offer of In to put that ''private fortune" he next year fa order to keep up with War between us and Jajxin would be a critno against commerce. guarded so tacredly i.om the clutch-¡the demand for business houses aud terest than these erudite theorists. Farmer, the same aa in the past either actually reduced or affected Speaking of country school teach ea of bankers like birrrelf to such | residences. Keep in mind the ta t Between us let tliere be rivalry, let each do bis beet, and may that Oar subscribers well know that the in twenty-one states: Alabama, Ar that Kugene is destined to double SPIRIT Of FAIR PLAY exiat which says let the beat tnan win. Weekly Guard has been greatly im kansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, ers an exchange offers the following uses .is will benefit his fellows. j in population In three years or less ‘ which is respectfully submitted as proved during the past year, having Iowa. Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, War lietween Japan and the United States would be against tiie NEM’BPA PRES Mt'HT aud while building operatkins may affording food for a little thought: been enlarged from a six-column, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, i "Teaching a country school is look STRIKE HAPPY MEDIUM have the appearance of a boom, it ( spirit of the age. eight-page paper to a twelve-page, Nebraska, North Carolina, North ------ [will In reality be only a solid, sub 1 seven-column publication—almost I Dakota. Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, ed upon by many people as a rather I A man, who, by the way, is a close stantlal growth humble occupation to be avoided. In double In size. The price of the pa-1 By Viscount AOK1. Japan«»« AmBeteeder to the United States. ______ 4 South Dakota, Virginia, West Vlr- good times, when there is plenty of and consistent reader of all of the'. per has not been increased, and we ____ Z, -. - I liave naid time and again that THERE IS NO JAPANESE- . , . i , , . glnia, _____ and __________ Wisconsin To-ecnt rates newspapers that he ce i get an oppor- | That it is within the power of the feel that we are giving our subscri now prevail in Arkansas, Indiana, employment in other fields, it Is dif magnates of high finance to throw AMERICAN SITUATION. There exi t between the two govern tunity to peruse, and whose knowl ficult to get teachers enough of mer bers the , best _______ the country into a panic may be true, „ newspaper . in .. Oregon , Illinois, ________ Minnesota, , Missouri, Ne outside of Portland, and their pat braska, Pennsylvania, and Wiscon it to supply the district school. Some edge In .-egr-rd to general questions I more's the pity; but that they will ments no different»» or ill feeling of whatever sort All this talk of and Issues of the ’ ty la remarkably ronage Is proof that they also know sin; and in Ohio, since 1906; two- thing in town, even though it yields possible tr >uble between the two nation«, so devoted to each otlier, is a smaller wages, i« preferred. This good for that reason, was heard to use their power for such a purpose, it and are appreciative of the fact. and-one-half-cent rates in Alabama rather than obey the laws, is In- MERE PHANTOM CREATION OF WILD IMAGINATION newspapers that the idea is a mistake. Town life may complain The constant raise in the price of and North Dako a. North Carolina afford more pleasure and more chan gave too much space to San Fran- !Conceivable, not to mention the per that ever seer.is to haunt the minds of irresponsible story makers andi news paper, owing to the paper mill has established a two-and-one-quar- ces to spend money and to fall into cisco, to the trial at Boise, to the gonal danger in pulling off such a trouble hunters. combine, is working a hardship on ter-cent rate; West Virginia, a two- evil ways, but In character building war rumors and to the thousand and stunt. publishers, and our subscribers may j cent rUe fo|> rallroadg over fifty There is not the slightest cause for anxiety in the American-Japa no occupation has proven more effi one other subjects that make tip the The plumbers of Goldfield, Neva help us bear the burden by prompt re- mlle8 H IeDKth; Iqw> a sliding cacious than country school teaching. news of the day. He thinks that If nese relations, and if there is any it is not liecauae of the actual exist da, are striking because they can't mfttances, resting assured that thev The pure air and regular hours of just about half of the space was de get $0 for eight hours' work u day. ence of any difficulty between the two countries, but because of the will be given Just as good a paper all m||e; Michigan, a two, three and the country give physical health and voted to boosting for their communi the time as the circulation and bust- four-cent rate- Kansas, Maryland vigor ,as well as mental strength. ties the newspapers would be the real Thia Indicates that labor union tyr dogmatic influence of gome UNWARRANTED PRESS TALK and Mississippi two-cent rates for More men and women of note in the help. Now there's a lot of truth in anny is as unjust and unreasonable that often tends to drive even the calmest temper of the public into a ness justifies. as capitalisation tyranny when it pos Thanking all for their liberal pat- mileage bcoks; the railroad commis United States were country school what he says. sesses the power to enforce its de whirl of tempestuous rage nonage In the past, we are determined sions of Georgia and South Dakota teachers In their early lives than Discussing a similar point of view mands. R R R have been authorized to establish came from any other calling." to merit yonr future confidence. a California exchange abates that it is By Rear Admiral JOSEPH B. COG H LAN. U. ». N.. Retlrnd. a two-cent and two-aud-oue-balf- CHARLES H. FfS.iER, The storm-stricken people of the probable that such a man would be cent rite, respectively; and Oklaho- I HANK WRECKERS SHOI IJI Publisher. We of this country ar* jealous of the friendship of Japan. W* the tiret one to criticise the borne lower Willamette valley would do I tr.a specifies In Its new constitution a RE SENT TO PRISON papers If they took that stand. and well to move down to lane county, discovered it. Th* friemlship which was framed maximum, charge of two cents for he would probably be the first one to where they will be assured that the BIG CROIS ANSARE between us even at that tiin*, when hereditary feel Of co»* no panic will result make invidious comparison« between cyclone aud thunder storiu will never < ONTINUKI» PROSPERITY passenger fare. Virginia's Corpora tion Commission has adopted a two- from the failure of the Oregon Trust the home papers and those from oth destroy their property or endanger ings made each of tia look upon the other as bar Sunnier-anting the to'a!'- »-■! *3ti- cent rate for trunk roads, a three- company bank in Portland. It wa er cities. The Issues la the graft I their lives. barians, has grown greater as we learned the STER mat»< of t>e ;neornment cro" report, rent rate for minor roads, and a one of those iqstltutlons, not con canes are teaching great lessons to LING WORTH of the other. While the race of mow ing ma-1 the N w York Journal of Commerce I three-and-one-balf-cent rate ou one ducted along legitimate banking the people of the country iu their set Japan has even since then been ready to accept ►as ccmoil'd special reports from i or to lines. Kansas may adopt a flat lines, organized to speculate w’tt tlement. The trial at Boise may be chines to be pulled off at the Du 1300 correspondents In the grein belt 'two-cent rate on the supposition that the savings of poor people. Its fail preliminary to the awakening of the Page (111.) county talr Is o t-nslbly and adopt the BEST OF OUR IDEAS, and we of the nation, resulting In a showing what is remunerative in Nebraska ure. sooner or later, was inevitable, people to the fact that the la lust, ia! I for charity, it may in reality be a tuu Larveau.1 m « have been und are adopting what we think are some t.alniug stunt should prove equally remunerative and that it came as early in ’ its ca troubles must be settled by the gov for August that puts the laugh on of speed to beat out will ueed a lot ' in Kansas. Georgia ’ s legislature is reer was fortunate, because it might ernment and th»- people, gnd not bv of the U-st of hers. One bad one she has taken from all of the calamity predictions made a few months ago when s'“ding, cul still in session and hat measures af in time have enlarged Its scope of the parties to the trouble» in a con Uncle Sam. “yellow journal" talk and “faked" interviews. tivation and all other work nf the fecting railroads it will enact Is yet operations until many more indi flict which sets aside and ignores Talk about a financial panic Is FRIENDSHIP, FORMED WITHOUT BLOODSHED AND viduals would have been fleeced of to be determined. THAT THIS Jaw. The governmental question« are farm v as delaved by mins and un- arrant nonsense. With good crops, •O BENEFICIAL TO BOTH COUNTRIES, MAY EVER REMAIN FAST their savings when the crash did Important to people who are desirous ses»">n»bly cold weather. The Jour- i high prices and a d arth of workl ig come. The cashier was a real "high of being goed citizens. AND FIRM IS. I AM SURE. THE FERVENT WICH OF ALL CLEAR Mt cf Commerce and the government men, a panic Is impossible. To pre flyer,'' and the o.her active officials It is possible that sometimes a lit HEADED PEOPLE OF BOTH COUNTRIES. s'rtistl far s sg.-ee that favoring Au-! were more interested In get rich tle too much is published to suit cer pare for a panic we must lave II; ■ gu«t weather, such as now prevails, The truth is that the girls are get quick speculations than In looking tain persons on crrtaln subjects; In ’rops and low prices for two or three will bring ‘.he crop totals almost up T ting the better of the boys In many after the Interests of their depos- other cases possibly not enough Is years, and a throng ot id.e men. I to last year’s re*ords. That Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pa THE t'KOU N OF IXIVE The I tors, whose savings had been large- published to satisfy them Wise is f*1* outlno't for th* corn *ron J lines of genteel employment. Official anouncement has been per which has offered Governor Var ly gathered up through the distri the editor who strikes e happy medi li. ' boys may complain of this as they partlci'.larly satisfactory. The condi- , God lead your footsteps la the light. . The young bution of small patent savings um. Each one must work a" -.ording [made that pulljanirm has been erad- daman *7500 a year to become its And I am happy, though there bs 1 - :a Ji’y 1 ahowed that while ------ win, ,__ I Icated on the Island of Leyte, one ot editor may be placed iu a very em banks, scattered over the city by v oman In this, and many other towns In His good will but Stygian jig it to his own lights. the grnwi-~ *om In the gr*it nroduc- I the Philippines, and accompanying it barrassing position financially if h< And outer darkens» Lett tr me. after a certain hour are quite as hired canvassers. But when the person r- furred to I T b*lt w - t ■ -’••le-Iy healthy. It The other banks of Portland were suggest the giving of more space to was a naive statement that only fou should call its bluff by accepting the much In evidence on their way to God guide you with hka tender am vas sever: I weeaa late. The condi- work as the young m»»n; and the right In refusing to help bolster up the "boosting* of this section he i palljanes were now alive on the Isl- job. Life's devious pathway g>,n- y t on r'oor'ed on August I Is suffi adn. such an Institution as the Oregon down, should 'onsfd r wtat th«-people them- ciently gmtlfy -e to remove all doubt man at the window can see that they It's mighty lucky for thrive who And I nail not care.thcHtgh th • tv?!;» hold up their heads as if they were Trust company. It was far better selve« o -e doing, certain men hav» »• to the site of the crop for the pres Why should that Vermillion outi do not want war with Japan that 1 cower 'neath Hi» sternest fronti. ready to meet the wo.'id and their for all concerned to stop and take an formed ai'ocla'ions ail are adver ty, Illinois, min go to the experts« Senator Bob Taylor and Representa ent year. Weather condition» In Jnly is doing employers. They have none of the Invoice of assets and make a clean tising the caucty. The pr r*re particularly favorable for the of erecting a monument to the mem tive Hobson, both of whom will take So with Love's rose-wrought coro net. appearance of having deprived them up and distribution of those that Its part. Rv try news item brims Vow lug erop which Is now, aecord- ory of a prize rooeter, while the em their seats next December, will not Your fair white brow Hix hand selves of the necessary amount of are of value. Some day there ought with advertising of the resources blem of the democratic party re be in the same branch of congress. 1 I to re-erts from the fifteen corn adorns, EJ tor lai co in- or of corrying a headache to be law’s in Oregon and every and o-pcrtunlti? • I know no pang« ot old regret. p -’ducing stat*», just about normal sleep, mains unchanged? other state of the uni'ia. Imposing with them. Indeed, on a fros- the risk of meet has be°n nr.rd» r But praise Him for my crown ot Eugene's banks are among the Yhs Journal of Comm*rce predicts along thorns. along with them. Indeed, on a crisp severe penalties upon those who rake repetition and attracting th* accu most solid in the west, probably be » *nvTi crop ot 2,700,000.000 bushels, Lawyer Guggenhelmer, of New — Reginald Wright Coffman. morning It is pleasant to see how and scrape together the saving« of sation of playing a fid. Bit still most cause they are located In the shot»» *oual to the crop of 1905, and They are getting the th* frugal poor for th* purpose of there are some people who think the York, went all the way to Paris to prosperous section of Oregon. LIFE frcr'>l*d in the country's history only cheeks glow. beys because th y can Investing them in wild-cat specula members of the pr ;nrtlo.i and pub express the fear that the Roosevelt- ?v the bumper crop of 2,927.0r0,ft0<t better of the or-busters were engaged In a little licity committees and the newspapers be trusted to come to their work in tions. Today a bundle swathed In down. WHATM THE WORF,? bnsbel» last y ear. The improvement The only panic tnat could result should do all the work. What are job of king-making. Better come Tomorrow, boy like, tanned and good form. They niay not be as good form. I- th« condition of the corn is par- home, Guggy, and help head 'em off. The shades of night were falling fast brown? strong S3 the boys, but they take care i from such a failure, if our laws were these critics doing themselves? Vntl rly noticeable Iti Hllnoir. Iowa village streets When through the they should be, would be con- what of their strength. They don't smoke, Today, a lover true and bold, there passed •nd Nebraska, the three states that We hear a great ileal about the While there Is more or less edi they don't chew, they don't gamble, fined to the rogues who constitute Tomorrow, striving hard for gold. A score of people, all who asked: Frmf’iee about one-third of the corn value or the corn, wheat and cotton torial spluttering on the subject, they don't drink, they don t loaf. ¡So the boards of directors of these "What's the score?” but there are others, the fruit some serious but the most of It face t*-* nation. Today, a triumph and a name, ciety puts up arbitrary rules for the swindling concerns. There la an crops, Tomorrow, ‘ What Is wealth and Take the state tious, we haven't heard ot any can The night wore on, the curfew bell The winter wheat harvest is well crop, for Instance aching void in the penitentiary for girls, and they must abide by them fame?" Mvuaced and In many «‘itrf-ts fin or lose caste. The boys are suf such men that should not longer of California alone, where the esti didate for the presidency advocating Began to toll Its hoodlum knell, Still up the street was beard a yell: mated value of the orange and lemon getting rid of the Philippines. ished Threshing reports Indicate re- Today the last descending sun. "What's the score?” fered to make their own rules and be unoccupied. crop this year is placed at *30.000,- •"lts much better than were expect Tomorrow? Life on earth is done. take the consequences. Many a boy —Byron William*. No careful reader of recent news Far, far from borne in other climes 000, according to the Los Angeles ed • month ago. both as to quantity thinks he can be gay and deceive ev Times. So far this season 26.408 could fall to be convinced that there Amid the crash of war at times •nd yield. The average yield In nine erybody, and he runs along until be Simon Klovdahl states that he ha* carlods of oranges and lemons have la aa much lying In a big strike as Tts said the soldiers' voices chime: •teat states Is given te 17.5 bushels. finished bis sis miles of location "What's the icore?” loses his Job. By that time he is been marketed east of the Ro^ky In a political campaign. PS ring with 18.7 bushels per acre vest of Eugene for the Siuslaw road, "If I am left alone, unhampered apt to think that somebody has un Mountains. Of these 23,338 were or but has not heard anything more Perhaps In that far distant land. y«ar. While there has been a dermined him, and to look quite past by thia threatened arrest and proa- anges and 3070 lemons Based upon from Carver In regard to the matter Even before Harriman confessed Where angels flit on every hand. R'jht deterioration In the condition sec ut ion, I shall be able, within the himself in an attempt to locate the next 3<) days, to realite on the bank's further work. He states that th* the capacity of the cam compared that he would like to own all the We'll h*ar them shout to beat the ot H spring wheat, the ewtlmate« place distance to Hlachley and that coun> Business is all the “ time band ” "*"* — securities to an extent that will per with last season this would amount railroads la the country It was sus *te t tai wheat production of the guilty party. i try la nearer to Euggne than to Cor* "What's the score’" bars against the gay mit us to pay off every cent we owe — Exchange. ' valEa. tenntry at 850.000.POO bushel’, com- putting up 1 mean every to over 28,000 carloads, for this sea- pected that be had such hankerings. Positions of responai- , o f oar depositors. tet-d with 735,000.000 bushels last young man. War With «Japan Would Be a Crime '“„J“.'*'’ •' I * •» •» ‘i"