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.
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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
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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.
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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*-
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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 “
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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
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:
that every man in love knows at least one other woman who
” need. It!1-
1 been c.
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in hrstnui
should ba added to the list.
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which all n
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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.
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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,
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Every Worn«
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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\
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Tenth and Morrison, Portland. Oregon
A. P. Armstrong.
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<I.\Ve occupy two floors 65 by too feet, have a '-
employ a large faculty, give individual instruct n. n
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for
office help than
we can meet.
Our sc
jch an
; away ever■ ''•
1®c«tor:
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Câ! ‘
at any tim«-
nv business ftua n