ler than now. but must be increas d
in power from year to
Hith-
erto the army has
FAM
mired ni ire
À*
money than the na
> two
branches of the sor
It
"' « ,S,,EK-
' are to chang places
Editor and Publisher_______
, We cannot be serioi
11
■ ,V Thursday at Eugene, land, nor are we Ilk
J
r.
____________ mies against whom land
' Teme, $1.50 per xear , can be conducted, lint
,,.r
00 at end of power at sea, for our d-
I be made at sea, and our
too.
. Eugene, Oregon, Lin case of need.
^E»tered «I th”
Lond-class matter.
7ÎUEENE WEEKLY GUARO
frau 1 upon the government: the other tors want to boss all the time and
NEW \ \YY that employes in dangerous trades Teddy is backing them.
can compel workmen to bear all the
risks. Two of the dec ision8 came grees will sit in the game.
real from t be supreme court of Oregon.
A motor that will propel a «ubina-
Win- Of the se one annuls the sentence of
a couf eased murderer o n a minute rine a mile a minute Is the latest '
tachntc a lit y of law; tlu* ol:bcr declares wonder, claln led to have been Inveut-
Vie’
that a leather strap is ne ither a whip
Maxlni. However, we 1
a gbtl
nor an ythlng like a whi| >. The fifth 1 ed by Hiram
V
dedalo n, made by th e California ! can't see tha t it will be put to any]
court of appeals, holds that it Is law- practical use, unless he can invent a 1
oth r Id
ful for the major of a c tty to extort crew to work it, as men will be likely 1
money from restaurant -keepers by
or its navigation laws, was then threats, and SC
sets free the notorious
j building up a large and prosperous grafter. Schmitz.
"Is not this a beautiful record?
merchant marine, and in an address
Does it tend to fortify our confidence
There’s mighty slim chance that
before b th houses on December 7, in the courts? Does it assure us that
congress will take the president's tip
I •*
..
I'lie Guard.
1796, President Washington urged they are busy doing justice or sug
<n.: a. ■ authorized to
and turn the job of picking out the
(that "to an active external commerce gest that they are doing something
Th* L®*1®*'..,! fur subscriptions or
The news of the
else? Touching the Schmitz decision. 4000 employes needed tor taking the
^^Xr bu'r-sfor The Dall)
the
protection
of
a
naval
force
is
in
I items that contradict
Judge Dunne, who is not a rasli man next ceusus over to the civil service
dispensable”.
He argued also in in speech or act, accuses the court of
Guard , „
' ries, says the Eastern
In words whose vigor matches the
commission.
The average senator
-ni
—
J
L.
Clark.
lan- appeals of something very much like
I a report from New
<T4ÌGeo- A Drury.
and
representative
feels t
guage of our present resident that corruption. The members, he says,
$dïess »11 remittances and com- [ nounced tjiat the United States Steel
business.
needs
the
pie
in
his
have
friends
and
relatives
among
the
,"to seucre respect to a neutral flag
gang of grafters
which Schmitz
| corporation distributed $3,000,000 to
requires a naval force, organized and belongs. If they were honest men.
PRINTING CO..
Senator Beveridge's bill providing
■
its
superintendents,
managers
and
0L
Eugene, Oregon.
ready to vindicate it from insult or would they have undertaken to de for a tariff commission of five, with
heads of departments as Christmas
,aggression.” The first secretary of cide his appeal? The truth is that salaries of $5000, to assist the con
presents.
the navy took his seat in the cabinet these judges were put in palce by gressional committees in gathering
the same power that created Schmitz.
A dispatch from Cleveland contains
| of President Adams on April 30, They are creatures of the Herrln- data for future tariff revision, would
word that 250 traveling sab men of
1 1798, and at almost the same time a Ruef-Calhoun eyndicate. Their au be a good thing -1 r the fiv?
a paint company will be put on the
regular marine corps was established. thority Is part of a conspiracy against who copped the jobs.
road within a week, folowing a short
I
1« announced heretofore, the
! Out of the neglect of the Jefferson civilization in Califojmia. They were I
CMrd of the first of October was ! lay-off, and that the American Ship regime the navy department lived to put in office to profwet thievery and
John Barrett, the gt ntleman
they fulfill their obligation by giv
set which
,____ Is
_ _ given away to sub-
Above is a picture of the
Mr.iw thp
I ’“Ztied to withdraw
the nff
offer of building Company, which two months win Imperishable glory in the war of ing
draws a fat salary for being at the
immunity
to
thieves."
$2.0(1 a year for the paper in ad-
¡S ui
wllh "■ ago shut down its shipyards along the
head of the Bureau of Pan-American
le housekeeper.
.
1812, and since then it lias been an
“veash in advance subscription. Ow- great lakes, has put 5000 men at factual and honored right arm of the
Republics, and spends most of his
-----------------------------
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the raise In the price of paper work in the last few days and will re ' United States. Very different in or
time in making speeches, approves of
b tag to t—- -
,
.
ter the field as an Independent can
the battleship cruise. That ought to it Is difficult to tell them from the
I the publishers were forced ' to advance instate 5000 more employes the first ganization, authority and importance
didate for congress.
of the year.
Inasmuch
as
actual
delegate
get-1
ordinary
high
brand
financiers.
an
extent
! from the young department ruling
satisfy every one.
f their price to us to such
Front St. Louis comes the new* over half a dozen frigates in 1798 is ting is the prime essential in securing
no
longer
give
the
paper
.e can 1— -
What a contempt John D. Rockefel
According to a physician, who may i
that more than 3000 men who were the present department, with 3 00 ves a national convention nomination for
Congress should at once start an
pray a« a premiu111-
ler
must feel for F. Augustus Heinze,
know
or
may
only
be
seeking
the
ad
We ar*, however, offering the Ore- thrown out of employment in that sels of all classes and more than 4 0,- president of the United States for investigation to ascertain whether
who is begging to have the measly
vertising
the
ethics
of
his
profession
city
because
of
the
financial
stringen
the
votes
are
what
create
nominees,
tile president killed the rabbit, at
na Agriculturist or the American
000 officers and men under its con
will not permit him to pay for, the ( little fine of $20,000 imposed by tho
hrwer (your choice) free with each cy, have been ordered back to work. trol, which is now signalizing the ai>art from popular or party senti- , Pine Knot, in self-defense, or has be
grip
is really a “yellow peril.” hav federal court, sitting at Helena,
It is predicted that before the end present naval prowess of the republic ment or newspaper support—there is ' come tainted with mollycoddlism.
‘b in advance subscription. Or we
ing originated in China, and not in .Mont, remitted.
IH gfve the Semi-Weekly Oregon of January all factories there will be by swinging a mighty fleet of six considerable force In the boast of the Why else should a mighty hunter
Russia.
jourMl. the best newspaper in Ore- running full and the effect of the fi teen armored ships-of-the-llne from backers of Philander C. Knox, of shoot a rabbit.
Democrats in the New York legisla
i
Pennsylvania,
that
he
is
today
the
,
nancial
flurry
will
not
be
felt
except
w with the Weekly Guard for only
the North Atlantic to the North Pa
Anyway, there's one thing that ture are making it plain that Gover
Senator
Taylor
("Fiddling
Bob
”
)
»cents extra, of $2.25 for both the by the workmen engaged in the build cific ocean.
In sheer fighting leading candidate for the Republican
nor Hughes does not stand as high
of Tennessee, has so far recovered Pittsburg won't stand for. One of its
Guard and Journal. We will send ing trades.
strength the United States navy at nomination because he has more
with them as he did last year.
police
magistrates
sentenced
a
mas
from his illness that he has put out
U e gii »'-'’ and the Weekly Orego-
the present moment is the second in "visible strength” than any other
culine
"affinity
”
to
thirty
days
In
the
a newspaper interview, just to let the
PARTY LINKS WIPED OUT
the world so swiftly and skillfully aspirant for the honor; he has sixty
With neither free drinks nor free
itin for $2.59.
folks at home know that he is in the workhouse without the privilege of
eight
voteB
pledged
to
him
by
the
IN
STATE
AND
NATION
Splendid Premium».
has there been carried forward the
railroad
passes, political conventions
game, even if he hasn't made a paying a fine and being released.
To those who do not wish to take
work of rehabilitation and Increase unanimous action of the Republican
i in prohibition states are liable to be
The Oregonian has justified its de- following the strange, temporary state convention of Pennsylvania. speech.
advantage of these clubbing offers
Some editors are so busy enumer dryer than ever before.
„ offer the following splendid pre I {claration of political independence stagnation of 1870-1882. Only the Cannop has the fifty-four votes of
ating the qualifications necessary to
Says
the
Springfield
News:
"One
When it comes to buying gold
Blum to Weekly Guard subscribers: by asserting that there is no Repub British admiralty now wields a sea ‘ Illinois committed to his support and of the wisest things that Eugene has become president of the United States
FOR onia TWO DOLLARS we lican party in Oregon, and who is power surpassing that at the disposal ’two from Michigan—fifty-six in all; ever done is the taking up of the that they overlook the most impor bricks, Uncle Sam has the world beat
will send the Weekly Guard one year, there to take issue with the Portland of the secretary and assistant secre ;Fairbanks has the thirty votes of In building and loan association. A lo tant of all—the ability to get the re a million or two miles, and he hasn't
diana solid; La Follette will unques
quired number of voteB.
sworn off yet.
and give as a premium a set of six daily on this question? Every day tary of the navy in Washington.
tionably have the twenty-six votes of cal organization of this kind will help
silver spoons, butter knife and su- adds to the confusion among the war
Politics must surety be mixed In
By this time a lot of men do not
Wisconsin; Taft has but two actually to build better and more substantial
ring factions of what was once a Re CORRUPT AXD UNFAIR
jar shell (Rogers make).
homes. Springfield would act wisely that neck of the woods, when General I need to be reminded that the new leaf
A kitchen set consisting of one publican party. Schuebel’s appoint
COURT DECISIONS pledged votes—those of Alaska—and to follow this example.”
Grosvenor, former Republican con-1 they turned over looks very much like
i the present prospect is for a split
carving knife
and
fork, one ment to an important federal posi
gressman from Ohio, threatens to en-l tho old one.
delegation
from
his
own
state
of
bread knife, one cake knife, one par tion in opposition to three-fourths of
The conviction of Editor Putnam,
‘'Necessity is the mother of inven
■ —
1 ■
ms
Ohio;
while
of
Governor
Hughes
Ing knife (American Cutlery co, the Republican delegation in con of the Medford Mail, of criminal li
tion.” Georgia already has a sub
make), one pan cake turner and one gress only emphasizes the demoraliza bel, was an outrage against public the Knox boomers remark In a for stitute for beer on sale—“Jack Frost”
egg apoon. a very useful thing to tion of what was once the dominant decency and fair play. Because he i mal statement just issued that "he is —that, according to the local papers,
party in Oregon, which now con dared to denounce a grand jury and , far from assured of the seventy-eight looks like, foams like and smells like
have in any family.
Or a pretty mantel clock that sists of a number of predatory camps, district attorney for failure to do ' votes of New York." As early as lager beer—probably our Oregon
rallying
around
the
personal their sworn duty, Mr. Putnain in-1 March, 1895. McKinley had fully 100 “Cinclnnatua” under another name.
keeps good time.
These premiums we have In stock standard of some leader like Fulton, curred thei enmity of the official , votes irrevocably pledged to him—
Mrs. Jeffries, wife of the fistic
and are prepared to deliver them Bourne, Geer or Cake, each distrust clique in Jackson county, and was and the convention was still fifteen
promptly. We know they will please ful of the other's purposes. Now found guilty by jurymen so hamper-1 months away. By January, 1896, his champion, evidently knows her rights
at the outset of a state and national ed by the rulings of the trial judge i backers could figure up considerably and gets them, even when It becomes
you.
Any one of them costs you only 50 campaign there is no unity of pur that any other verdict was Impossi ; more than half enough votes to se necessary to lead "Jim" by the ear
te requisite majority in the con
cents In addition to the regular sub- pose, no organization, no advocacy of ble. He was not even allowed his icure
By Representative CHARLES N. FOWLER. Chairman of th«
through the crowded dining room of
'
vention.
Knox has 13 1-2 per cent of one of 'Frisco's red-light restaurants
House Committee on Banking and Currency.
script’on price of the paper.
fixed principles, only the fragments right under the Oregon libel law to
I
Address
of a broken machine, from which the prove the truth of the published i the four hundred and ninety-one to do it.
SOME
REMEDIAL
BE
H ERE
CERTAINLY SHOULD
GUARD PRINTING CO.,
’v’
best elements among the voters are statement, although witnesses of high votes necessary to a choice in the
I
CAN
ASSURE
AND
FINANCIAL
LEGISLATION.
In view of the enormous cost of
Eugene, Oregon.
holding aloof, thousands of erstwhile standing in the community and state Chicago convention of 1908; Taft has
THE
COMMIT
MEMBER3
OF
YOU
THAT
THE
Republicans preferring to vote for stood ready to testify in his behalf. less than one-half of one per cent. the islands—those who know have
TEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY WILL BEND
great It has been—
JAPANESE SITUATION
Democratic candidates as a protest
This farce of a trial is largely the This is only a comparison by the “vis never told how
WHAT
WE
TO
THAT
END.
THEIR
ENERGIES
It
in
to
accuse
the
ible,
”
to
be
sure
—
but,
nevertheless,
isn
’
t
it
rubbing
AND PACIFIC FLEET against existing conditions. Oregon I outgrowth of the law enacted a few
NO
MAN
CAN
SHALL
BE
ABLE
TO
ACCOMPLISH
Republicanism is paying the penalty I years ago at the behest of the prose- keep your eye on the Pennsylvania United States of being ungenerous to
ANSWER.
BUT THAT THERE IS URGENT NEED
Hero Hobson, of the Spanish war, of machine rule, and nothing but I cuting attorneys’ lobby, abolishing man. says the New York Commercial. the Philippines?
!
FOR
HELP
NO MAN CAN DENY.
in
congress
now a representative
chaos may be hoped for until a the grand jury system, except in spec
Some few entertain the Impression ■
If these evangelists continue their
from Alabama, sought and obtained I strong, capable leader comes forward, ial instances at the discretion of the that because they registered
If this government continues its present policy of injecting
reirlatered two k f()rU much longer in Eugene, it may
> place on the house naval commit who will displace the small fellows prosecutor.
It has inaugurated a years ago that they are not required I be nocessary to draw on Roseburg, into the arteries of trade atid cotnerce a fixed bond secured cur
tee: and now he announces that he so persistently pushing their per system under which that official has
to register this year. This is an er-| Sa]enii Albany and other wicked, un- rency— by exchanging securities, by bond speculation, by treasury
will devote every energy toward a sonal claims to the fore, without povVers in criminal matters that tend ror. Under our present law the vot-
converted towns for raw material to
larger navy, with a special object of discernment enough to know that the to corruption and bribery. Even ers of this state must register every
manipulation, by executive order or by any other form of THIMBLE
work upon.
lecurlng naval bases and fortifica people are tired and sick of their > when a grand jury has been sum two years or be required to procure
RIGGING- -we shall continue to move, but with greatly accelerated
tions on the Pacific—not only on the self-asserted leadership.
moned, as in the Medford case, its six freeholders to assist them in
Still, the financial embarrassment speed, toward a commercial crisis COMPARED WITH WHICH
shores of our Pacific states, but in
On the other hand, what of the members are absolutely dominated. swearing their votes in. A moat In of a number of the country's largest
THE PRESENT PANIC IS ONLY A PLEASANT SUMMER
the Philippine and Hawaiian islands. Democratic party? Is there anything If not actually bulldozed, when nec convenient compliance,
es peclally diamond dealers is not calculated to
Hobson says the Japanese in the to it but George Chamberlain, who is essary, by the all-powerful district at when it was only through the care worry the few who do not buy dia OUT I Nt-.
Hawaiian islands are numerous the most successful "non-parti-- torney.
lessness of the voter In not taking monds.
Our recent condition has been one of REAL PROSPERITY.
*0‘>ugh to be a menace, and that Ja san"
the West ever
Judge Hanna's rulings in the case the trouble to register during the
politician
Our
crops are worth about $7,000,000,000, the products of our mine»
good
ex are a surprise only to those who do many weeks that the registration
pan will soon have a great naval produced.
fairly
Bishop Paddock says God makes
A
about
$1.400,000,000, manufactured products about $17,000,000,000,
gallery-play I not know his record, since unexpected books are open.
5*»e on the island of Formosa, a ecutive,
his
millionaires. Wonder if Rockefeller
with
»hort distance from Manila. The late attack on the State University cut out, and unique decisions have character-
and the rest of the high finance a total of $25,000,000,000.
Boxer trouble in China, he declares, he will have hard work to longer I ized his long career on the bench,
Though there are only three in bunch will not regard that as a re
Meanwhile we have had the advantage of an extraordinary con
•*a at the instigation of Japan, hold In line the old-time Democrats personal interest and prejudice ap - Wyoming's congressional delegation, flection on their financial ability?
sumption
of foodstuffs as a result of the Russo-Japanese war, the dis-
•hose people have a fanatical hatred who are wondering now whether parently controlling his judicial opin ! each of them favors a different can
The
Colonel
Watterson
is
right.
ttirlied
condition
of Russia has led to a reduced wheat acreage there,
°i all white men, and especially of they gained much, either in principle ions. Once years ago he was forced didate for president—Senator Clark
Americans. They talk of even lead- or patronage, by the success of the to resign from the circuit bench, if | is for Knox, Senator Waraen for Taft, Democratic party is full of fight, but a food scarcity prevails abroad, and consequently wo are enjoying
■og a movement for the expulsion of governor.
They are beginning to we remember rightly, for refusing to and Representative Mondall for Can a lot more discretion will have to be EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH PRICES. If all this’ were not true, but,
the English from India—awaiting, of i take stock of their assets as a party obey a mandate of the supreme court non. However, as Wyoming Is the shown in directing the blows to get
on the other hand, our business conditions had been bad, our crops
¡and find that about everything avall- in one of the many reversals he has last state to vote in the convention, results.
tourse, a favorable time.
poor
and foreign prices low, IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE
Later when the Demo it Is safe to say that all of them—
In Hobson's view of it the sailing ble in sight consists of a "non-parti- sustained.
After all. It is only Decause of in-
of our fie t to the Pacific means that son” governor and his personal ma cratic party tired of him and he was they expect to be dalegates—will be
ability to see themselves as others see TRANSPIRED!
America is to be the "bulwark of the chine, as many of its component defeated for the nomination in con found voting tor the winner, if the
them that some self-tnade men con
Notwithstanding all this and wholly because of the maladministra
•arid for stopping the progress of ¡parts being Republican as Demo vention, he declared himself a "gold nomination be made on the first bal tinually boast, instead of apologiz
tion
of our finances we are in a state of PANIC.
Democrat,” came out independently lot.
yellow peril.” It is the ambition cratic.
ing for the Job.
of Japan to lead China, and to or-
and
was
endorsed
by
the
Republicans
I
We have today in the hanks of this country about $12,000,000,-
The lesson of the present political
It was a real treat for the people
Maixe the vast forces of the Oriental ' mix-up in Oregon is plain.
Barty and elected. As a politician he is
if you happen to have $75,006,000 000 of deposits and alxiut the same amount of outstanding loans.
•orld against the encroachment of I lines have^een wiped out and party shrewd and resourceful, and in his of Eugene to have the opportunity to not i working you might communicate
Ajrainst this fabulous sum the banks hold as reserve about $900,000,-
*11 Western, or white races. But “the ¡organizations broken up because the decisions he apparently never forgets hear Kubelik, the people of no other with i the government of Prussia,
000,
or LESS THAN 8 PER ('ENT. And even of this 8 per cent
•kite races have superior resources I people are at last awake to the fact that he Is a perennial candidate for city in Oregon outside of Portland be which is in the market for a loan of
or building ships, and the white 1 that they have been whooping ituplo, J office. Although now a Republican ing given that privilege. For bring that size.
reserve nearly one-quarter, $200,000,000, is in bank notes—a mere
* bold on the supremacy of the these many years, solely to advance ! his gag rulings in the Putnam case ing the great artist here credit is due
credit, a mere promise to pay.
•
It's the fashion In these days to
**** ia the only hope of keeping a the interests of the politicians. Ore- will place the Reames democratic . Professor Glen, of the U. of O. School
Stating
it
in
another
way,
the
reserves
held
against
$2,500,000,000
I gon especially having had a bad case ring under obligations to support him of Music, who labored diligently to loudly preach against sordid money
•arid peace.”
of
our
bank
deposits
in
the
United
States
today
are
of
machine
domination.
Disgust
has
bank
notes and
^Though it is diplomatically denied
secure a good-sized audience, in the] getting; also to get all you can. This
when his present term expires,
There is ever) where accumulating hope that ft would encourage other | may be paradoxical, but it is also not gold, which is admittedly the ONLY PROPER RESERVE in
the movement of our fleet to the 1 followed the exposure of official cor
has any reference to whatever ruption. and since there is no great evidence that the courts have been I managers to book star attractions for ; true.
any country with a gold standard.
Japan, it is known by all who have national issue to aiign the voters into and are fainted with the prevailing i this city.
YET IF WE CONTINUE OUR PRESENT POLICY WHERE IS IT
Judging
solely
from
some
of
tho
had accès ss to administration circles distinctive parties, confusion worse political corruption of the times. The
Michigan's constitutional conven printed hysteria, it might be supposed GOING TO END? HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE ALL OF OUR
« Wuhi tigton that but for the un- ! confounded is a natural sequence Or decision of Oregon's supremen court
•aines. *t
s the growing pretensions egon's political
litical demoralization ii is only on the University referendum is an tion has taken the preliminary steps that the use of patronage to gain sup- BANK DEPOSITS WILL REST UPON CREDIT RESERVES? THIS 13
•*d hos’i; Hity of Japan the fleet would- a degree worse
worse than that of the na- decision of Oregon’s supreme court toward prohibiting tho manufacture port was a brand new thing In poll- OBVIOUSLY THE WORST AND WILDEST FORM OF INFLATION.
*ot have been sent. The object, of tlr.n at large, this F ear’s presidential and the Oregonian mentions other and sale of cigarettes in the state, tic?.
Yet it is rumored that sheer madness is to follow in a scheme now
indiea- corrupt or puerile decisions in the and dealers in “white coffin nails’* In
four«.- wm not to threaten Japan, campaign
giving
that
being
wrought out to add to this already OVERWHELMING bur
adjoining states are preparing to
hat to Jet
vt (t be known to the world tioti of being a pet -sonal contest in following fearless criticism:
but
meet
a
heavy
increase
in
mail
orders
‘hat ws are prepared to do something which Bryan, with his great follow-
den another load in the form of state, municipal and railroad lx>nds ca
"Five decisions have been made by
•■te!» * in the Pacific in cage of ing from ail partie g, will b© pitted our higher courts wlthhin the last few
the ba* is of our Lank currency liability. No one who has studied thia
It seems that naval "line" officers
days which outrage the common sense
*«*4
it'd it is a "practice,” or “ex- against Taft, as thf ? personal repre- of mankind. Two of them came from are only willing to take orders from
question doubts that all of our reserves, whether for deposits or any
•reijj«. »
•oyage. 8ea defenses are sentative of Roose' relt, whose sup- the supreme court of th? 1 nited the surgeons of the "staff" when they
Since burglars In many cities hare other form of bank LV*hty, ind uding Lank Dot vs, should bo gold.
^^•oiportant to us now than ever porters are about as numerous in the State«.; of these two one holds virtu are flat on their backs, while the doc- taken to burgling in evening clo'hea. I
ally that the law doe* no* turbid t
Our navy can never be smal Democratic aa the Republican party.
I t^»‘dVanCe
I I **
I 1/
I •»d *
I
Urgent Need
of Currency
Legislation.