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THE Kl'GKNK WEEKLY GUARD, THURSDAY, JANUARY’ 2. 1MM 3 I Ä WEEKLY GUARD »‘JJ.«®’""' .. ----- H. FISHER, Editor and Publisher._______ ^7 . eterv Thursday at Eugene. pillili«'1 Oregon. __________ advance; 22 00 e“d °f If p* • »*’ red at the Eugene, Oregon, second-class matter. _____ _________________ L .or The Guard, fm^wtng are authorized to ™ a* receipt for subscriptions or ^«^Kr business for The Dally •'•f^ekU Guard. Cf* *_Geo A Drury, address all remittances and com- ••‘‘“cUUD PRICING CO., GL Eugene. Oregon. yHUBSDAY^^ ARY 2, 1908 ----- ^OUR SI KSl RIBERS announced heretofore,the „f the first of October was Spiled to withdraw the offer of * . Louis Republic free with ev- caab in advance subscription. Ow- u, to the raise in the price of paper ’, publishers were forced to advance “ ‘ price to us to such an extent “'fan no longer give the paper a as a oremlum. We are, iowever, offering the Ore- I0a Agriculturist or the American hrner (your choice! free with each jl! ¡B advance subscription. Or we ,ul give the Semi-Weekly Oregon journal, the best newspaper in Ore- »uh the Weekly Guard for only 75 cents extra, of »2.15 for both the Guard and Journal. We will send Ue and the Weekly Orego- »ian for »2 50- Splendid Premium«. To those who do not wish to take advantage of these clubbing offers „ offer the following splendid pre- Biun. to Weekly Guard subscribers: j ' or ONLY TWO DOLLARS we till send the Weekly Guard one year, ud give as a premium a set of six giver spoons, butter knife and su- jar shell (Rogers make). A kitchen set consisting of one one arving knife and fork, bread knife, one cake knife, one par- inj knife (American Cutlery Co. uk»>, one pan cake turner and one eg; spoon, a very useful thing to hire in any family. Or a pretty mantel clock that keeps good time. These premiums we have in stock ud are prepared to deliver them promptly. We know they will please you. Anyone of them costs you only 50 cents in addition to the regular sub- scrlpcon price of the paper. Address GUARD PRINTING CO., Eugene, Oregon. AWl’i :, yEATIi RATE IN OUR COAL MINES It would hardly be in accordance with the facts to say that the people ef the United States were "shocked" at the news of the late terrible min ing disasters in which several hun dred lives have been snuffed out. Disasters of this nature have come on n with such frequency that they bare in a degree lost their power to treate a shock, except perhaps in the iMnedia:e vicinity of the tragedy. When death rides on the wintry gales ud gathers in the aged and infirm »ho have lived out their allotted *Mo of years, w? philosophically ac- the decree as one of the benign »«king» of Prov.dence. Apparently, ky the same line of reasoning, we ha»» come to regard these wholesale darvesu of death in a similar light. This at least would seem to offer *>“» explanation for the lack of in- lerBlt la and lack of laws to pre- ,"t auch wholesale tragedies as entire communities into •ovrning »nd leave behind them a *Me of distress and sorrow which Aonsmds will find no alleviation * this life. *»s a time when the earth young r, and the finer instincts humanity had not been completely ¡«gated by the craving for money '•»ch a value was placed on life precaution was considered ^.*XI*r‘<1Te t0 UB* in preventing That this ancient belief has ® abandoned in other coun- f*»dj ample evidence in official Yhich show that the coal Hg °f le 1 ni’-ed States kill three btany men per thousand em- • *» as are killed by the mines of j?**’ countries. on!f ls the death rate per „ aT*^ 0 country three times M 11 lg ln Europe, but it is ths- 11 4n a'arming rate, while hg t, E’fbP* 1» actually decreas- IHm of greatly-increased Yk.< .< 01 mines In Europe th, »f«^. s*1<1 to dtxe to t*o* ( f ln,nlnff legislation in tig • ’ !or safeguarding n °f the lives of the The government report. which was writtea before either the l>v one of the important factors in Alabama disaster or the Monongah bringing this about, and the city's disaster, prophetically says; ge ¡graphical situation as an ideal "Both the-number and seriousness distributing point when the several of mtde explosions may be expected electric railways headed in this di to increase, unless, thrum; t investi rection are i .niiph ted. and K.e build gations such as have proved effec ing of the Oregon Eastern across the tive lu other coal-producing coun mountains will be another. Through tries, information can be obtained its milling industry Eugene is bene- and published concerning the explo- ftted now b). ,he > roH of i vuu iiaml !>■> gives used, » the conditions under I any city in the state outsidy of Port which they may be used with safety, land, and this will be augmented and the general conditions which rapidly with future growth and de- make for health and safety, Such velopment in the Upper Willamette information may serve as an intelli-1 valley. gent basis for legislative enactment To become a manufacturing centre and for agreements among persons Is a most laudable ambition on the associated with mining operations." part of any community. You may It is absurd for a country so far take the dullest and most prosaic progressed in arts, science and inven town and erect within its borders a tion as the United States to set up busy, thriving manufacturing instltu- the plea that coal mining cannot be tlon, where large numbers of work- made as safe in this country as it is men are employed, and a new life is in Europe. None, in fact, attempt to at once imparted to the place. The make such a plea. It is simply a dull monotony of the past gives way case of coining the life blood of min to the sound of the steam whistle and ers into dollars through neglect to the clangor of the shop. The streets employ proper precautions which no longer look deserted. People would add an infinitesimal fraction move with an active restlessness In to the cost per ton of mining coal. strange contrast to the times when Our railroads, like our coal mines, no manufacturng was carried on in also have the unenviable reputation their midst: The liveliest towns of killing more men in proportion to that we have in this country are the number employed than are killed those wholly devoted to manufactur on any other railroads in the world. ing. The dreariest towns, where dry- That this is also a needless secrlfict rot is visible on every hand, are those of human life is shown by the re wherein no workshops are to be sults achieved on the Union Pacific, found. Manufacturing towns are not which has spent >2,000,000 in Instal only more active, but as a rule they lation (of safety devices and as a result are prosperous, as well as being far finds a decrease in the list of killed more enterprising and affording bet and Injured front 2097 In 1896 to ter socal and commercial advantages. 1209 in 1907. The typical manufacturing towns In the mad rush for wealth in this are to be found in New England, in country our coal barons as well as fact the Connecticut river may be other Industrial masters have woful- said to be lined with them. It is in ly cheapend human life, the most vigorating to the mind, as well as precious of all things. If the long the sight, to travel through these overdue reform can be accomplished towns, which justly may be termed in no other way, some of our mis "bee hives" of industry. An air of sionary societies should temporarily thrift and enterprise is everywhere abandon their crusades in behalf of displayed. The proprietors of the the foreign heathen and work for industrial institutions, the tradesmen, the salvation of the honest workmen the artisans and other citizens exhibit who are being murdered by thous- every outward Indication of that con ands at home. tentment and happiness which arise from a prosperous condition. '¿'here is a reason for this—a so RUSSIANIZED METHODS OF SOUTHERN OR EXKIN cial as well as a business reason. First, the presence of workshops and Jackson county judges and pros factories in Che midst of a community ecuting attorneys have a penchant is in itself a source of activity. These for making fools of themselves, institutions drawing to them dally Several years ago one Lionel Web- their scores and taeir hundreds of ster, circuit judge of that district, workmen« bring life and activity, not attempted to jail Editor Kaiser, of for a week, or a month, but as long But in the Ashland Record, for criticizing as they are in operation. towns purely commercial, or In lazy, hlB judicial conduct, only to be turn ed down by the supreme court. Soon seaport towns where the bulk of the after the ambitious Webster became male portion of the population is at a candidate for the attorney-general sea, there is a too perceptible lack of ship of Oregon, and, largely because life and animation. This can be bet of his tyrannical attempt to muzzle ter observed than described. But to the press, was defeated by the dem one standing in a manufacturing ocratic candidate, Geo. E. Chamber- town at the morning hour, at noon lain, thus giving that successful pol or at night, when the workmen are itician his start up the ladder of wending their ways to and from work, there need be little said to fame. prove whence the vitality of the town The latest case of this kind in arises. George Putnam, publisher of volves the Daily Tribune at Medford, who had the temerity to criticize the EUGENE BOY SCORES SUCCESS AS AUTHOR course of a number of the ancient and illustrious family of Reames, A former Eugene boy, a native of now filling the office of district at torney. This breach of etiquette was the University city, has achieved wide 30 flagrant that Mr. Reames had his fame as a traveller and author, al grand jury indict Mr. Putnam for his though still at the beginning of his assault upon the peace and dignity career. The Guard has secured a copy of of the commonwealth, which for many years pact haB provided fat Charlton Brustow Perkins’ book, en public places for the Reames family titled "Front Occident to Orient, or and their servitors in Jackson coun From the Grandeur of the West to ty. Editor Putnatn, ignorant of his the Mysteries of the East.” It is a indictment, had started for Portland large volume, handsomely printed on to spend Christmas with his mother, heavy paper, and illustrated w’lth and upon reaching Roseburg was photographs and maps, making It a pulled out of his berth on the train veritable travellers' guide. The pub and thrown into a dirty cell in the lishers are the Charlton B. Perkins county jail there, used mainly for Company. Mew York City. In looking through the book one the incarceration of hoboes. It was not until the next day that his is surprised at its completeness, ex and the vast I friends were informed of his predica cellence of arrangement valuabli informa- ment and bailed him out, and he was quantity of ’ really valuable tion it contains, making it really a allowed to proceed on his journey. This proceeding was as flagrant high class reference work, aside an outrage as was ever perpetrated from its interesting sketches of in the state of Oregon. No matter sights and experiences during a jour- about the mer’t of the case, which ney around the world, Mr. Perkins' would depend largely upon the jus style as a writer is clear, vigorous tice of the criticisms printed in his and entertaining, this book being one paper, the treatment accorded him of the most interesting of its kind was inexcusable. He is a man whose we have ever had the pleasure of pe business interests demanded that he rusing. The author’s Eugene friends will remain and face any charges that might be brought against him. This be glad to know that he Is now fair his enemies knew, yet they humil ly started on a successful literary ca iated him, using their official power reer, and his future work will be to "square" their personal grudges. watched with Interest here, where No matter how III advised the of any triumphs he may achieve will be- fensive article in the Tribune maj come a source of local pride. q have been; because we are ignorant of the case, the course taken by Dis trict Attorney Reames. with the as sistance of the circuit judge, who should have been Oslenzed years ago. Is a complete vindic n of i s criticisms, Any arraignment of such an official gang as th at dominating the Jackson county c urts could not be too severe. TWO NEGLECTED TOMBS OF NATION’S HEROES Time plays curious pranks with the hopes of men; just at the moment when President Roosevelt, In a mes sage to congress, urged an appropri ation to care for the Hermitage. An drew Jackson’s old home. A. 8. Col- yar, a venerable citizen and patriot of Tennsesee, who had long Insisted ADVANTAGES <>F MANI F DTI RING TOR NS upon a juster recognition of Jackson’s services to his country, was called to his final reckoning. Much of Colonel will in time become an Eugene manufacturing centre Colyar’s life was spent in accnmulat- important H, electric power will ting date for a pondero«, history of Cheap and am; Andrew Jackson, a work weakened somewhat by a too bitter resentment of Parton and Sumner’s estimates of Jackson, but still of considerable val ue because of the vast amount of re liable information it contains. There is a degree of irony in the passing of Colonel Colyar just at the time when the nation is urged by the president to do ample justice to the home of Andrew Jackson. True, the Hermitage has not been wholly ne glected; it Is in much better condi tion that Andrew Johnson's grave, which is now almost lost in the foot hills of Tennessee. It is not in the least creditable to this big nation, nor to the state of Tennessee, that the tombs of two presidents are thus uucared for in large measure. Johnson, to be sure, was not of Jackson’s stature, nor was Jackson all that he might have been, in the eyes of some critical students J of national history, but both had been president of this republic, one in the ' formative period, and the other in the hour of the nation's greatest trial. The country should care for and pre serve their tombs. History depends as much, and the patriotism of the nation should exact it, without regard to the faults or failures of the men. ment depends upou the future opera tions of this company and there is every reason to believe that they will carry out their plans as announced without any unnecessary loss of time To be the terminal of this great ’ electric system will of Itself be suffi cient to make Eugene an important commercial centre. A prominent writer thinks that he sees the dawn of the fraternal age. So they thought In France long ago I when they madly followed the slogan of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." So they thought in the Dark Ages when the great brotherhoods of the church grew so strongly despite the general darkness and desolation. So they thought in the time of Plato; but it’s a long way yet to the real dawn, and battleships and magazine rifles continue to find purchasers; murders and mob massacres proceed in Russia ln a manner anything but fraternal, and here in the United States we are spending millions on new battleships, and by sending the greatest fighting fleet every mobil ized around the world, are giving the nations an object lesson in anv- thing but traternallsm. Editor Putnam, of the Medford Tributjp, who was thrown into jail at THE LIVING DEATH IN MEXICAN PRISONS the Instance of the prosecuting attor ney the other day, was assaulted Sat- ! urday by an irate politician because! Some time ago when three Amer ican swindlers and murderers were mention of his candidacy for mayor ' about to be shot by the Mexican gov was made in the Tribune. Evident-1 ernment a wave of protest was lv a live newspaper Is something the sweeping in their behalf through the Medford people are so unacustomed yellow press of the West, says one of I to that they are "up lu the air"—but our exchanges. Hulbert, Mitchell i they'll get used to it if Putnam pos and Harle, who insured Mitchell's ■ sesses the grit to hold the fort for half brother for »36,000, and then a while longer. Above is a picture of the kitchen set which IS given away to sub scribers of The Weekly Guard who p ay »2.00 a year for the paper in ad vance. It is a very useful present fo r the housekeeper. clear field on the republican side, j unless H. M. Cake, of Portland, de- [ cides to enter the race. "EVIL IS NOT POWER.” (Christian Science Sentinel.) An article tn tue October Arena If the self-appointed correctors of has unwittingly exploited the sup the slips in grammar made by news posed power of evil, so-called, and papers and public men will turn to has conceded to this self-asserted and the acknowledged classics of litera self asserting phenomenon of mortal ture they will find slips enough to mind a place in human experience keep them busy tho remainder of which it could not occupy without their lives. dethroning God, good, and robbing Hint of His place as the one supreme murdered him to secure the money, Sparks may cause > real conflagra Infinite Mind who governs and guides Foreigners must bo puzzled after used every effort to save their lives, from the chlcancery of Mexican law tion in Nevada no joking about it. all our blowing about the fighting the universe according to His will to a demand to the American consul. He has decided to call the leglsla- : preparedness of our navy to see- in and pleasure, which will and pleasure Better had the murderous trio ture in special session to enact laws; print—so "many defects ln our bat must ot neceastt; oe In accora with Americans know, of Ills own divine nature. taken the death penalty than to have , for the protection of the Goldfield tleships." The belief of power in evil is a be sought the living death of Mexican mine owners, who are now guarded course, that the knocker is always lief in fhe power to harm yourself by regular troops. The legislators, with us. and to harm others, to lie, to steal, convict life. to murder, to break all the command To those who are acquainted with however, are radical union sympa Congressman Herbert Parsons, ments of God. That this belief should the prison system in Mexico it Is thizers ajid are more likely to prevail is possible only because the known that there is little chance for pass laws that will tend to assist the credited with being Teddy’s personal truth of being is not dearly under strikers than to do the work the gov representative in New York county, stood. That it is a mistaken belief any of the condemned men to leave must have been asleep at his post is easily seen from its own contra the penitentiary alive. The first six ernor has mapped out for them. when the Republican Club, by a vote dictory Character. Jesus said, "A years that they must spend in con The men who run the newspapers of 291 to 9, indorsed Hughes for good tree cannot bring forth evil finement will be worse than the fruit;" and if we start with the ad of the country are enjoying anything president. mitted fact that God is omnipotent, worst imaginable torture, if the rules but a picnic of late, says Farm and that He is Infinite good! we can nev which apply to criminals of their Field. The cost of publication has Even If Secretary Corteiyo»: should er admit that there Is a power op class are carried out. increased 40 per cent In the last ten I find the cabinet atmosphere union- posed to Him and to His nature. That They are even forbidden to utter years, and 25 per cent of this in genial, he is not likely to resort to evil Is real or has power is an un thinkable proposition, unless we ab a sound with their voice, either to crease has been tacked on in the last the want column for a job. His New solutely deny the infinitude of God, animate or Inanimate objects. They five years. The newspaper is the York friends control a bunch of good. No form of evil can do the will be cut off from all association only commodity which is costing the banks, all of which have to have work of Truth, or have the power or with other prisoners. Each man will entity; evil can do nothing but dea consumer no more and yet nobody ap presidents. lt toy Itself. If evil with its train of occupy a solitary cell. Their inter predates the benefit. sin, sickness, and death could have course, not only with the outside Sterilizing convicted criminals is power, God, good would be dethroned world, but with the Inhabitants of Btuyvesant Fish, who has been in —would not be omnipotent. Such a the priBon itself, will be wholly cut dulging In profanity, because of the the lestest scientific proposal for proposition must be rejected by ev stamping out crime, but as we under ery Christian, by every monotheist. of«'. shrinkage in the paper wealth of the At the end of six years of solitifde rich, has got the thing sized up wrong stand it the unconvicted criminals are Evil Is no more real, because it seems the prisoners may associate to some —it is not the unmentionable place responsible for the most harm to so to be real, than a wicked or painful dream In sleep is real. extent with the other convicts, and for the man owning several millions ciety. What are we going to do to But the individual who attempts letters may be written and received to lose even half of them, but It is them? mentally or physically to produce the belief of sin, disease, or death, is by them at stated intervals. It is not for the wage-earner with a family to The London editor who wrote guilty of the attempt to commit a infrequently the case that six years lose his job. “This American fleet would crumble murder, and Mrs. Eddy says scienti of silence and solitude brings chaos fically and prophetically that at no to the strongest mind. Unlike the | Mark Twain ha»d better stick to up and disappear before the forces of distant day the mental assassin will Japan ” should change his brand of be punished legally as certainy as American prisons, the Mexican prts-I selling words at 30 cents per. He’s on doors do not swing both ways. up against another business failure— dope, unless he hankers after a bug the man or woman who sends a bul let into a man’s heart. Today even the bankruptcy of a company man house wind-up. the mental assaBBln Is punished mor The Monongah mines relief com ufacturing food products, of which William J. Bryan has just been ally. for no one can desire to commit, mittee has issued an appeal for as he is vice president and acting pres appointed a senator from Florida, murder without incurring the penalty sistance to the American people. ident. He has frequently said he to succeed Stephen R. Mallory, de named In the Scripture, “Ye know that no murderer hath eternal life The organization states in effect that knew nothing about business, and ceased. But this particular Win. J. abiding In him.” In other w >rds, the Monongah is a mining town of about it was no joke. is not the perennial candidate for criminal can experience no harmony 3000 inhabitants. This disaster has unless he repents and reforms. In president. destroyed almost one-half of its Divine Science Life Is God, and Grat You can hope that the high court bread-winners. The other half Is of justice created by the Central Is infinite, all; but to the personal A distinguished jurist recently told senses the belief of death is as real composed of the employes of two oth American peace conference, to decide ln a public address of the happiness as the fact of life, hence the belief er mines of the same company, and of all international disputes ln Central of his wedding day, and added that that says, "I can kill a man mentally the usual stores, etc., which go to America, will make good, even if ex and not suffer for it,” may be father happiness has followed him ever since to the thought of committing the make up the purely mining commu perience Is against banking heavily nity. Fully 250 widows and 1000 on Central Americans being goood, —so it has a good many couples, and ' crime of trying to kill a man. since- as a man " thinketh in hbt heart, so never caught up with them. children are left without any means , except by spellB. is he.” of support. The most of these fam Christian Science combats the false It seems to be up to the Cincin Rumor says that Nebraska also has Hies live in the company’s houses at[ nati preacher who said: "The great belief of power ln evil and frees man kind from the effect» of this delusion. Monongah, the remaining ones In va an aspirant to the vice presidency ln est tyranny on earth Is the tyranny Its leading postulates are that God hr rious countries of Europe. The com the person of Senator Burkett, who of a nunsanctified labor union" to the only power, that evil Is not pow pany has generously declared that the is said to be willing to take the sec hand out the receipt for making a er. The perverted beliefs which find families occupying their houses may ond place on the Hughes ticket. But their foundation in the supposed sanctified labor union. reality of matter and godlessness do remain until other provision is made how about the Taft pledge given by disappear when the truth of being is for them, but operations cannot be the state convention? Nevertheless and notwithstanding, j understood. Mrs Eddy writes in resumed at the damaged mines until ' /___________ __ If Senator Jeff Davis should offer to "Science and Health,” page 18«. Nothing slow about Congressman lead a lynching party to go after the. "Evil Is a negation because it is the these houses are available for the new force. Many of the resident faint Richmond P. Hobson. Though he Is Wall street bunch, he would not lack absence of truth. It is nothing, be cause it Is the absence of something. lies will want to return to their rela- 1 cutting his first congressional teeth, followers. It Is unreal, because it presupposes ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 tives in their native countries ln Eu-! be is said to aspire to the responsibl ■ the absence of the omnipotent and rope. The other resident families position of floor leader—speaker, If We gather from a Chicago publlca- ■ omnipresent God. Mortals must learn must seek a community where they! the democrats carry the next house tlon that widows In that town are that neither power nor reality belong can earn a livelihood; Aid must be ' —tn the next congress. Maybe he Is considered eligible for re-marriage to evil,” and again on page 183. "To now be given these families to reach { one of those born for leadership, but | until they pass the age of 72. Huh! suppose that God constitutes laws ot Inharmony la a mistake; discords their new abodes and help them to he’ll have to prove it. we never have any widows that old. j have no support from nature or di establish themselves, and the families vine law. however much as is said to And now the sugar trust is charg-' the contrary. Truth casts out all ev living abroad must be provided for I Secretary Loeb never kicks for until they can adjust themselves to I publication, but he would be justifia ed with having robbed the govern- 1 ils and materialistic methods with the actual spiritual law. the law their new conditions Contributions ble in kicking hard against being ment for years by a scheme of short-: which glvei sight to the blind, hear weighing cargoes of foreign sugar. ing to the deaf, voice to the dumb, may be Bent to J. E. Sands, treasurer blamed for what happens to the feet to the lame. If Christian Science of the relief committee, Fairmount. booms of members of the cabinet. Still, there are trust-defenders. dishonors human belief, ft honors West Virginia. He draws a salary for being buffer to Nothing astonishing In the allega splrltzial understanding; and the one the president, but not to every mem mind (God. goed) only Is entitled to tion that former Secretary Shaw still honor.” This year the Oregon Elecetrlc Co. ber of the administration. hears the buzzing of the presidential! The only possible sonree of evil Is has completed a railway line from bee- that seductive sound once heard the belief that evil is real and has Portland to Salem and trains will be Governor Sparks, of Nevada, can't I power This belief 1» rapidly being running regularly over it by January be convinced that the "big stick" is is always heard. dispelled by Christian Science, and 1st. The work of construction has out of business, or limited In reach; mankind Is awakening to the unlver- After all. this naval criticism Is | a| dom'nloti <>r ¿--I. <>• h ’bright been done quickly and well, showing and he will think twice before again ■ getting a lot of free advertising for of the sons and daughters of God. Je an abundance of capita) and brains flim-flamming the president into or- ' the magazine that printed It. and sus said "None is good save one, that behind the project. The next step, d’rhig the United States army to do that ,as we take it, was the main ob-J is, God.” so the officials of the company an police duty for him. Ject. nounce, will be the extension of the Frank George arrived here this Fr»d A. Mulkey and Joseph Simon | road to Eugene, and the building of John D Rockefeller should not morning from the Blue Ledge copper "feeders" from this city and other have both announced their with- 1 throw oil cans at money-hoarders as1 mines In Southern Oregon to visit his important towns In the valley. Much drawal from the senatorial contest, long as he continues to hang on to , parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. K. George. He has been keeping books for the in the way of development and settle and Charles W. Fulton will bavs a that »29,000,000. company that is operating the mines.
