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TH« Fl'GEYX WÏÏKt T GUARD. THt'fWDÀY. OTTOBKn SB. 1»* experimental policies. The newspaper, indeed, should be crit ical rather than constructive. Our constitution provides for three distinctive functions of government—legislative, judicial AN INDEPENDENT PAPER CHARLES II. FISHER, Editor an<l Publisher and executive; and it is the duty of what is correctly called in England, the fourth estate of the realm, to provide the fourth %genta for Th«- Guard The following are authorized to take and receipt for subscriptions or necessity, healthful criticism for all three. transact any ether business for The Daily and Weekly Guard: Creswell-—J. L. Clark It follows that a newspaper may criticise a verdict or a de- Coburg George A. Drury. . cision of the courts, but must not meddle with the proper and All postmasters are authorized to receive and receipt for subscrip tions to the Dally and Weekly Guard. lawful handling of a case on trial. In the same way, the news paper should watch where corrupt legislation can be defeated, Published every Thursday at Eugene, Oregon. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, if paid in advance; $2.00 at end in order to drag it out into that dry light where the air is always of year , too strong for its lungs. The legislators must do the rest, and it Entered tit the Euitene, Oregon, postoffice as second-class matter. is the business of the newspaper to hold them to their duty. ~~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908 In like manner, the fullest publicity is one of the most valua ble checks upon the acts of any public official. We know that the PREMIUM PAPERS balance was most delicately adjusted by the framers of the con We are again offering either the Oregon Agriculturist or American stitution. and in this department there is a continual tendency Farmer free to every subscriber who pays his subscription to the Weekly to usurp the functions of the other two. Nothing could be better Guard one year in advance For ’h< tree offer of silver and kitchen sets for political morals than the way in which newspapers have em see advertisement on this page. You may have them while* they last.. Address GI’AKI) PRINTING COMPANY, Eugene, Oregon. phasized the correct attitude of Governor Hughes in confining himself strictly to his business, holding the other departments of THOMAS JEFFERSON AND MR. McKiNNEY constitutional government strictly responsible for theirs. In fact, a majority of the newspapers are rising above the claims Partisan speeches are too frequently made up of abuse of of partisanship and advocating good government, no matter opponents and mis-statements of facts that repel well-informed what party may be responsible for it. and intelligent voters. A sample of this kind of a speech was that delivered by Henry M McKinney in this city the other day if HOBSON WORTHY OF RESPECT Captain Hobson drew the biggest crowd of the campaign we may accept the report of the morning paper as correct when last night, probably enough to have filled the court room three it quotes the speaker as follows: “In conclusion Mr, McKinney pointed with derision to Mr. times if it had been able to get in. And it was noticeable that Bryan s ideal statesman .Thomas Jefferson, and declared that it the ladies were there in great numbers, indicating that the cap was fitting for Bryan to idealize one of his own kind; that never tain is still a hero in the eyes of the fair sex, although he is a by word or deed had Jefferson contributed to the weal of his married man now and has to be a little more careful than for country; that he never drew a sword or pointed a gun in its de merly in the distribution of his kisses. But seriously, Captain fense, and his chiefest effort during the Revolution was to keep Hobson is a man worthy of the distinction he receives, earnest away from hostilities. His statesmanship had been disruptive and sincere,, but perhaps an idealist in some of his notions re in intent, and he favored a policy whereby any state could with garding popular government. It required an initiative mind to conceive the idea of block draw from the union on small pretext. So it was fitting for Bry an to emulate this wordy but deedless statesman On the other ing the harbor at Santiago, and only a man of courage would hand, the speaker pointed with pride to the record of Taft; of have proposed to execute the plan and take his chances of com ing out of it alive, after his boat had been sunk by the fire of the his deeds and of his constructive statesmanship ’’ So Thomas Jefferson “never done nothing" according to this Spanish guns. No commonplace man is capable of such achieve obscure and ignorant little stumper, who either never read the ments, and his addresses show him to be a thinker who believes history of his country or takes it for granted that his auditors in what he says. He does not deliver a partisan speech but rath have not and seeks to impose on their ignorance. Yet Jefferson er a lecture on government that appeals to men and women who wrote the Declaration of Independence, and had more to do with take life seriously and are really concerned in the welfare of the framing the constitution of the United States than any other one "ountry more than party success. He employs few of the arts man. He sent Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Coast with a fore of the stump speaker and makes no appeal to partisan prejudice sight that was prophetic, and concluded the Louisiana purchase and is Drobably more effective with the better class of voters one of the wisest acts of statesmanship in the history of the na rhnn more eloquent and entertaining speakers, since conviction tion. He was not an orator, yet his short addresses are excelled and earnestness are essentials of the true eloquence that really only by those of Lincoln; not a voluminous writer, yet his papers moves men and women to action. and letters are a legacy of untold value to the country, and in them are set forth so clearly the principles of popular govern THE LABOR PROBLEM ment that they are as valuable today as they were one hundred years ago. As president in the early and trying days of the na The head of a great British firm of shipbuilders and steam tion, when self-government was an experiment that the entire ship operators, Sir C. Furness, has made a proposal to his em world watched with interest, his administration was a marvel of ployes that is truly extraordinary. He and his associates and wisdom that proved him an executive of rare ability as well as stockholders are weary of industrial strife—of strikes, threats, a scholar and a statesman. interruptions and disturbances, losses due to them, and the bit True, Jefferson was not a soldier in the field, neither was terness generated— and inform the workingmen that unless the Lincoln during the civil war. Yet as a member of the Continental whole situation is radically changed, and peace assured in his Congress and governor of Virginia during the dangers of the yards and shops, the shops will be closed. Sir C. Furness asks revolutionary struggle his courage never flagged and his patriot that a council be formed to decide all disputes and that the em ism was as great as Lincoln's So, after one hundred years it has remained for one Henry ployes bind themselves to await arbitration and abide by the awards of the arbitrators. McKinney, from somewhere in Oregon, the state that owes its This failing he proposes a choice of two alternatives. Let very existence to his prescient statesmanship of over a hundred the employes adopt a profit-sharing scheme and be admitted as years ago, to discover that Thomas Jefferson was a very insig partners into the great enterprise, or, if that be deemed inexpe nificant character! If Shakespeare were alive today he might dient, let them, with the aid of their unions and union funds, buy change his former wording and make Puck say: “What fools out the works at a fair and reasonable price, to be fixed by com these stump speakers be!" petent assessors, and run them co-operatively. In an editorial comment on the foregoing, the Chicago Rec GOOD ARGUMENT FROM MISSOURI ord Herald says the conference at which these remarkable pro posals were made was certainly very unique. The employes, The Kansas City Star thinks the initiative and referendum according to the opinion of that paper, will doubtless be moved suffer because of their high-sounding and curious names. De to give serious consideration to the alternatives before them. fine them truly as the right of the people to have the final word So frank and enlightened an attitude on the part of the firm for their government and everybody will see the justice and should meet with an equally frank and intelligent response from right of them. Here in Oregon we have some fault to find with the employes, who also need peace and stability in the industry the initiative and referendum system, but on the whole the peo and who cannot be supposed to prefer strikes and trouble for ple are satisfied with it, and would sustain it by a large majority their own sake. if it were put to a test vote. It has been responsible for some It is not likely that the Buying out alternative will be chosen, good laws and has defeated some acts of the legislature that though several economists, noting the growth and strength of were clearly iniquitous. To say the least it acts as an effective trade unions, have advocated the purchase of works and their brake on legislation. co-operative management, and think this the “coming policy." The Star is right when it says that the people of Missouri It is a fact, too, that in backward Russia the "artiel,” a combina ought certainly to vote for the pending constitutional amend tion of workers who contract to do all manner of jobs, small ment for the initiative and referendum It does not attempt to and big, is a recognized institution and a notable success Co do away with representative government. It merely provides operation flourishes in Great Britain, but the voting of union that the people shall not be wholly dependent upon the legisla funds to employes desirous of embarking in business is not one ture If they desire certain things done they can get them done, of the usual and familiar ways of promoting co-operation and if they desire to prevent certain other things they can pre vent those things. No legislative body of any state or the na This presidential campaign is not like that of former vears tion has been so wisely and wholly subservient to the popular will that at some time in its career it has not done things that There is a noticeable falling off of partisan feeling, and upon the the people should have had the power to prevent, or that it has surface a lack of interest closely resembling apathy B siness not left undone some things which the people should have had houses display Bryan s and Taft's pictures side by side in their windows .and few voters tag themselves with campaign but the right to accomplish. The power which the people are now to exercise to pass on tons. We take it. however, that the interest is really as great these proposed constitutional amendments is the power of the as ever .but party organizations no longer control a majority of referendum Is it not a good and just power? Who is so infal the people—they are citizens of a common republic first parti lible or wise that he has the right to say to the people, “You are sans afterward. Quietly reading and thinking for themselves, not competent to decide whether laws are good or bad"? Yet they will vote honestly and conscientiously for the candidates that is precisely what is inevitably said, in effect, if not in so they believe are best fitted to administer the affairs of govern many words, by every one who opposes the amendment for the ment. The Guard thinks this is the most encouraging sign of th® times; that the bosses will be dethroned and in due course of initiative and referendum tim® the people, not the corporations and trusts, will rule the country in all the branches of government. THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD THF IDEAL NEWSPAPER What can be accomplished in abating the white plague ,rec- DO YOU GET rp i.gnized by physicians as the worst disease prevalent in civilized --------- WITH A amb àck countries, is shown by the fact that the New York health de- partment has accomplished a decrease of 4 5 per cent in the Trouble Makes mortality from tuberculosis in that city in only fifteen years. Almost t«rvM, wh_,., * papers is sure 'to know “ ' Ma if The medical men of the country are of the beliei that the dread L.ltllcr, disorder, which has destroyed thousands of lives each year throughout the land, can almost, if not entirely, be abolished in renitilr. ** forty years. The medical profession has made great strides dur ing the past few years, and diseases which twenty or thirty years ‘‘"««nth ceao£ ago were considered fatal are now treated successfully. The Indianapolis News asserts that the six greatest women v y*- I), Kume? ra in the country are Julia Ward Howe, because of her patriotism, „ Q ?Cnt kl<*oer a spec Jane Adams, because of her reform work; Helen Keller, because bladder successfui in «"“«I.-net J of her perseverence; Maude Ballington Booth, because of her urie acid. < Bright’s 1 iiv .■1‘e1Ch “ »Kt work in uplifting the fallen; Frances Folsom Cleveland, an em form of ;.,li. Dr. Kilmer Sw a"’P-RootitIWlw bodiment of American wifehood and motherhood, and Helen ommended : butif von haw Gould, because of her philanthropy. The Omaha Bee suggests kidney, livi-r r trouble it «¿1$ found i'.i-t : that every man in love knows at least one other woman who ” need. It!1- 1 been c. '. in hrstnui should ba added to the list. we:'.: ■ 1 i "ice, aad j, B , L ■ proved m > s. I special it : which all n not all v. bot'.l . s ::: I ini’ mo-“ lindo.f :t ible. V r. i , generou.-o addresalol Newspaper men have been barred from one of ¿be swell churches in Lenox. Mass. Humph! that preacher does not need a press agent—he knows how to get publicity for himself and his church. As far as the newspaper men are concerned it makes little difference to them as they are mostly too good to need any additional saving grace, while the few who are bad are so ex l& (.'• ., I tremely wicked that all the preaching in the world would not i>:- V- fifty-cc’t save them from eternal damnation—accepting the view of their dollar si.--- sold b . "esteemed" contemporaries for it. 1 any nr • 1 , Swamp-- -........... ’ st 11, .- « err esse th«, has been made t 'Paper, who lmi ■ “ave a '•'"a book tel '""tandhowta ■ -uiderttna ■ - "ii.o.i readingth» •" -1« and send yoa nei. ii on i The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress voted down the and th • «very I m H’L- proposition of the parcel post and it seems to be the opinion of the most of the country editors that the congress did just right, unless it is the design of the government to cripple the retail dealers of the country by putting them in direct competition with the big department stores of the larger cities. Hoins of Swtap-Bwi -'rids. Don t Mi, '■t re-—-tuber the : "■ ' s Swaiuv-Roct, -“’b natoli, N. Y.,( ' Every Worn« iBLi.t. r. ?'.-i indlhoQldt • • wbbderfni ( AR V EL WhirlinaSprn lent ¡i,.irta The postal authoriteis, recognizing the liability of postmas A8R your drngjriiit for ft he cannot supply the ters to make mistakes in getting letters in the wrong boxes, It M \ Il V E L. a<-> ,-pt no other, but send stamp for book—sealed. Tt jrwi have fixed a penalty of $200 on persons taking mail out of the illustrated full particulars and directions in to ladies. M \IlV 1.1.co. office other than their own and not returning it at once. This valuable 41 East 23dStreet,NEW YORK. law includes newspapers also. The excuse that it is the post Laur-.mvlR Dr«K n master’s fault has no bearing on the case. Woodward. Clark® » Cn por,,.M CHOLERA TAKES SCORES OF HOGS IN LANE COUNTY Junction City. Oct. 25. Hog chol era has made its appearance in this section. The first instance was noted among hogs belonging to J. E. S. Nielson. He lost nine head. A few days later the herd of F. W. Thorn, who lives two miles from Mr. Niel son. contracted the disease, and 20 head were lost. At present the plague is ravaging tne large band of fat hogs belonging to Hon. C. W. Wash burn. To date he has lost 3 4 head and more are dying every day. The state veterinary surgeon was here a few days ago and he pro nounced it to lie cholera in its most violent form. He advised that all hogs having it should be killed and burned, which is now being done. It is not known how the disease gained a foothold here, as there has been no foreign breed brought in. WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT VISIT CRESWELL CIRCLE The Guards of Eugene Circle No. 16. Women of Woodcraft, paid the Creswell Circlb a fraternal visit last Saturday evening. The initiatory work was exemplified by the Eugene Guards, after which they gave a very pretty drill, which was enjoyed by all. After the close of the meeting, the doors to the banquet room were thrown open and there before us were tables loaded with all the good thing to tempt a hungry palate. The Creswell ladies proved them selves royal entertainers, and we hope this will not be our last visit with them. Those present from Eu gene were: George E Wood. Captain of the Guards; Minnie R. Frank. Musician: Guards Rose L. Wood. Olive E. Lee. Marie Williams. Anna Standish. Mar garet Adrian. Viola Welch. Mary B. Kissinger. Carrie Fuller and F. L. Snodgrass. Today's Suggestion by Ellen Stan. DAINTY SUIT FOR SMALL BOYS. HERE is not much variation in the style of boys' garments. Tbe Rns sian dress Illustrated differs from the regulation suit in that It s finished at the neck with n shield, but without tbe ordinary Mil® collar. Another attractive feature is the tucks over the shoulders: give a broad shouldered effect. They also add to the fullness of tbe skirt portion and make it more comfortable. The sleeves are in sailor style. w,tk the liottom finished by plaits laid to simulate a cuff. The closing is down the center front, which is the most convenient way of fastening a suit. Tbe bet passes under stnpa at tbe waist. Navy blue serges the material mat u sed for each dresses during the winter, but muy mothers prefer washable matertu the year around For tub suits llaa. pique, cbanibnr. gingham and gs> tea are al! iH wearing matertsi Mohair is a serviceable fabric, as it will stand MJ amount of hard wear without kwh* ing mussed or wrin kled. and ft has the advantage over oth er similar materto of launderin« ni» T 1T- With a dress cep- fed after this w* in either white !infl or flannel my I*1* man will 1* fortablT and appre priately dressed any occasion shield ** ’ pique or of tbe material as* (1re!W. If a**« color Is de—fred S’ can be gireu lshingthenerk’'"’ a land of brsn- a pretty, contr”8* McLEAN AND WIFE NOT MARRIED AT SEA color For memina*' th's model would * The Guard stated the other day that B. D, McLean, the man who was arrested a few days ago as being sus pected of the murder of Jeweler But terworth at St. John, and his wife were married at sea Such was the report circulated at the time of their marriage several years ago. but this was proven to be false We hasten to correct the error. Had a Clos«' Call Mrs. / ’ * L. Croom, ~_____ , the widely Ada known proprietor of the Croom Hts tel. Vaughn. Miss . says: “For sev eral months I suffered with a severe cough, and consumption seemed to have its grip oh men. when a friend recommended Dr King's New Dis covery I began taking R and three bottles effected a complete cure." The fame of this life-saving cough and cold remedy, and lung and throat hosier is world ” wide ” Sold at W A Kuykendall's »tore. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free. The will of William D. Mcl^ean was filed for probate late yesterdav afternoon. The value of the property * -s- ..... dainty a®1 'S bagenbl*^ with tbe «by white Pta” y. ,n'orn"Tre» braid sb« I I'***’ . fl frocks may lie made as dainty ns you pleauae. but boys' dreuM shcmal ” ‘ extremely simple. Thia dress is made with a removable shield. The pattern ■taew for boys two and four yearn of age- To copy it for » f*’y sgv It requires 2% yards of material 27 Inches wide or 1\ '*11 ------------------------ "THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY” Tenth and Morrison, Portland. Oregon A. P. Armstrong. t I B <I.\Ve occupy two floors 65 by too feet, have a '- employ a large faculty, give individual instruct n. n ' ", .« , ___ ________ . . for office help than we can meet. Our sc jch an ; away ever■ ''• 1®c«tor: i rd of its Câ! ‘ at any tim«- nv business ftua n
