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THE EUGKNE WEEKLY GUARD. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, !»<* 4 THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD AN INDEPENDENT PAPER CHARLES H. USHER, Editor anti Publisher Published every Thursday a’ Eugene, Oregon. Subscription price, 11.50 per year, if paid in advance; $2.00 at end of year. Entered at the Eugene, Oaegon, postoffice as second-class matter. i ■ ■ — ■ " ■ — — AfoBta for The Gwrd The following we astteeriaed So take and recWpt for aubeertptioos or tra»aa :t any other busiaeM* for The Daily and Weekly *«ar4: Creewoll—J. L, Clark Coborg— George A. »very All poet Bootare are aatbertaod to receive and rseety t for aoheerl> tions to the Dolly and Weekly Guard THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1908 PREMIUM PAPERS We are a«nln offering either the Orwysnn Agriculturist or American Farmer free to every subscriber who pays his subscription to the Weekly Guard one year in advance For the free offer of silver and kitchen sets see advertisement on this page You may have them while they last.. Address GUARD PRINTING COMPANY, Eugene, Oregon. ♦ 4 + 4444444444444-* 4 4 4 4 4 4 »444444 + 444 4 4 Till-: IJTTLE ON’KK 4 + • . ■ - - 4 + The little one leads the leaders, 4 ♦ 4 And the old truth lives again. ♦ 4 That faith 1» the food of children, And they are the fathers of men. 4 ♦ The little one mounts the morning, 4 + And after the little one climb 4 ♦ ♦ The sons of the serving masters ♦ 4 In the multiple of time. | M ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ The little one sees more wonders ♦ 4 In a blossom beside the path 4 4 Than Graybeard sees in an eon ♦ 4 Of fuss and fuming and wrath; ♦ 4 And what are the swords of system, ♦ 4 And what are the tests of toll. * 4 But the cups of full-bloomed marvel ♦ A The little one lifts from the soil? ♦ 4 —Baltimore Sun. ♦ 4 4 4 44444444444*444*4+4+44+44+44 4 4 ♦ * 4 + learn that they are not college graduates. Such men and wo International Paper Company, controlling the larger part of the men are of that determined type of character that make of life output of American mills. With a high tariff shutting out Cana a success. What has especially impressed the writer is the dian pulp and paper the trust has absolutely controlled the mar-; amount of time some people spend dilly-dallying over work that ket and during late years has only run part'of the mills in order with a trained mind could be grasped more quickly and often ac to keep the supply and demand close together, carrying little or complished in half the time. What they need is to be awakened no surplus stock in the warehouses. Now a famine in the com mentally and trained physically, aroused to the posslbilties that modity is imminent because of the unusual drought prevailing in the East for months has caused almost a complete shut-down of they themselves possess. “Asleep at the switch is the trouble the mills, and there is no immediate prospect of a change in con with too many people. ditions. Tom Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has lost his fortune. The trust representatives are now in Washington attempting The dispatches give out the information that he lost the money to influence the ways and means committee to leave the tariff rates undisturbed, while Mr. Norris, representing the Amercian through his devotion to the affairs of his dead brother s estate. Publishers' Association, is arguing for free trade, givnig many The real facts are that it was frittered away doing politics. John figures to show the protection afforded paper manufacturers son is said to be an honest man, .and we have no doubt of the is responsible for the unreasonable prices with which the pub truth of the assertion. Under present conditions the strictly honest man seems to be out of place in office, for it is always lishers are contending. The protective tariff is the mother of trusts and it is robbing sure to result disastrously to his private affairs. He is expected not alone the publishers of newspapers but every consumer in to give liberally to every charity and public enterprise, and his America. Its reduction to a plane justified by present-day con salary is never sufficient to keep up to the steady drain. Besides ditions would do more to smash the trusts than all the suits that all this he neglects his private business affairs for those of the can be brought against the robber combines in a hundred years. public and the result is inevitable. ARCTIC EXPLORATION Scientists and daring and hardy explorers are daily evolving more feasible and obviously more wise and nearly successful methods of reaching the North Pole, according to the opinion of a California exchange, which gives editorial sanction to a scheme set forth by one E. B. Baldwin, who has endeavored to enlist President Roosevelt in aid of his plan. This man Baldwin, it seems, intends to utilize as a mode of travel one of the immense ice floes that drift from the Behring sea across the Arctic ocean and eventually reach the coast of Greenland, which will consume about three years and a half. He expects to take with him a party not to exceed twenty- five men, including scientists, naturalists and artists, and de signs the establishment of a portable camp and scattering of COMING OF THE OREGON EASTERN barrels of oil and logs, presumably to be used, if necessary, for fuel, over the floe. He believes that in this way it is not only That is good news which comes from Klamath Falls to the possible to attain the pole, but also to ascertain scientific facts effect that the Harriman engineers have begun work on the per and make observations and photographs hitherto unobtainable. manent location of the Oregon Eastern at that end, working to Many will look upon the scheme as Quixotic and worthy only of ward Natron. For three years past work has been going on this ridicule, but two facts should be remembered before the sub side of the summit of the Cascades, and it is generally under ject is dismissed lightly. First, investigation has proved that stood that the line is ready for actual construction work, which these floes, starting south of Behring strait, drift in a regular may be announced to start at any time in the near future. course across the Arctic, and it is known that portions of the The building of the Oregon Eastern will make a city of the I wrecked Jeannette anr drift casks started from that point have first class of Eugene because it will mean the junction here of been picked up off the Greenland coast. Second, the idea is in two of the largest railroad system.» in ‘he West, insuring job dorsed by Admirals Melville and Schley, both of whom are ex bing and manufacturing interests, as well as shop and terminal ceptionally familiar with the Arctic conditions. The first was yards in this city or Springfield, across ti e river, which will em with the Jeannette expedition and the latter rescued the surviv ploy hundreds of men ors of the Greeley expedition. Mr. Baldwin expects to do by Eugene’s future is brighter today than ever before in its his traveling on a drifting floe what DeLong expected to do on the tory, because the people arc keenly awre of the natural ad Jeannette, and he will not be in danger of having his transporting vantages of its location, and rrc taking advantage of it by push means crushed. And, after all, there is nothing mo’e wild in the ing the city ahead in every material way. Fine business blocks, idea advanced by Baldwin than there is in the many dirigible beautiful homes, splendid schools, paved streets and electric balloon or airship plans that have been proposed by a number of railways are laying the foundation upon which will be built the Polar expedition enthusiasts. real growth of the Greater Eugene that will come with the con It is probable that the Baldwin plan will eventually be tried, struction of the Oregon Eastern across the mountains. for the lure of the pole seems to be such that when once man is attracted he in some manner is able to put his ideas into execu PAPER FROM CORNSTALKS tion. Still, to the man who has been accustomed to traveling on Chemists of the bureau of forestry and of the bureau of plant modern express trains and other rapid means of locomotion, the industry of the department of agriculture, says a Washington idea of sitting down on an ice floe and remaining there for three dispatch, believe that they have solved the problem of a cheaper or four years to wait for it to drift along to the north pole or to paper that will dispense altogether with the use of wood fibre. some other place, real or imaginary, may seem to be a trifle The new material, from which already five grades have success humdrum and not calculated to create a great deal of excite fully been made, is the ordinary cornstalk, and officials of the ment, yet there is not so much between that sort of thing and department predicted that the new product when made on a going up into the Polar regions to be caught in the ice and re larger scale will be at least 50 per cent cheaper than the print maining there for one or more years. The whole matter of Arc paper now made from wood pulp. tic exploration seems to be somewhat of a joke to the average The two bureaus have been working on the problem for man and woman. ye..re, but not until now have the results been so positively suc- ce: fill as '.o permit of any announcement. The first practica ble sa> .pies have been manufactured by Dr. H. S. Bristol and his FRANCE’S VANISHING POPULATION assiriants at the new laboratory on Pennsylvania avenue. Frederick Courtland Penfield contributes a suggestive article Dr. Bristol has already carried his experiments to the point of making the paper in five shades. One grade is dark gray, to the November number of the North American Review entitled thick and heavy like parchment and almost as tough as the sheep “France and Her Vanishing Population.” Mr. Penfield gives skin Then there is a lighter shade of the same character, two some appalling figures in relation to the decline of French popu lation. In 1902 the excess of births over deaths was 84,000; shades of yellow and one of white. The white paper is made from the hard outside shell of the in 1903, 73,000; in 1904, 57.000; in 1905, 37.000; in 1906, stalk, and the yellow grade from the pith. The yellow grades 27,000, and in 1907 it not only reached zero, but passed it, for have a much longer fibre and resemble paper made from linen there were 20.000 more deaths than births. The main cause to which Mr. Penfield attributes this alarming decline in the num rags or cotton. It is very soft and pliable. Millions of tons of cornstalks will be available for this new ber of French people is the thrift for which the French are famed manufacture, according to the department of agriculture. At but which Mr. Penland regards as synonymous with greed. He present the stalks are annually destroyed in enormous quantities says: “When obliged to divide his property equally among his to get them out of the way. or else are simply turned under the children, and when he knows that the same restrictions will be soil with plow to a .d slightly to the fertilization of the next applied to their children when the time comes, the citizen of year's crop. The process of manufacturing the new invention is much France usually elects to have a limited family. The dowry sys easier than that involved in reducing wood pulp to paper. The tem, again, operates in the same direction. Everywhere an ad chemists have used in their experiments the “soda cooked pro ditional child means additional expense; in France it means an cess .which has been found to be the best for making the finer extra dowry as well, and that is an added reason why the French grades of wood pulp paper. But the cornstalks only need about have few children. So long as the present property law exists, two and a half hours of cooking in this process against the thir and the dowry custom obtains, there can be no solution of French depopulation. France is manifestly deriving from her teen or fourteen hours needed to soften the wood pulp inheritance policy an immense diffusion of prosperity and cer The department will at once take steps to have the manufac tain publicists are applauding the national policy, and boldly as ture of the new paper undertaken on a larger scale. serting that it is more than wise to promote greater equality in the distribution of wealth.” PAPER TRUST AND PRICES There is to be a print paper famine and the highest prices known in years, so the press dispatches tell us. It means that publishers are to face a condition that will force many of the weaker into bankruptcy because prices are now so high that their profits have, in many instances, been cut to nothing, due to i the fact that subscription rates were fixed when print paper was much lower and now it seems impossible to raise them with out serious loss of patronage. This condition in the paper market is unquestionably trace able to the operation of the combine or trust known as the This morning’s Oregonian says: “The citizens of Eugene have set themselves to the task of raising $50,000 for the con- struction of a Y M. C. A. building. So earnest and active have been those who have the details of the work in charge that something like $31,000 has already been pledged and there is every reason to believe that the entire sum will be raised. The example set in this manner by Eugene is one that might be com mendably followed by other prosperous valley cities. The Uni versity town is certainly entitled to credit for the public spirit displayed in this undertaking. Without doubt the desired end will be gained.” ** PERSONAL MEMOIRS 0F A silver M l U| mayb” butMe var- an; proud of myself fOr cu ation. I am not , ^''’it ’j- dollar—not I. ‘omomg-, — This town is Onlv home, but I nke ¡/ MoPte( main permanently. Whe/r ”* > of the mint 1 .» n 1 town like this m another« after a time I was sent B« city, many miles aiaj to ‘ inmall order house For „¿“I1!*4 15 I stayed in that city Jnu ‘ bought cigar, with me uSi that, for ! believe in the {J J me to thWown' and’e““ was so glad to get back her- ■ town that I determined to perate efforts to stay malte One day a citizen of tbf.t«. about to send me back T city. I caught bint looking b“ bl{ mall order catalogue °’w < found my voice and said msT .1 was a dentist, by the war “ "Now look here doc if . let me stay in this town iM’ late around and do vou . V you buy a bee(. ,.,k w. the butcher will buy zrocerb..' “d the grocer will buy drv g-J!' the dry goods merchant Th doctor s bills with me. and the tor will spend me with a farmed oats to feed his buggy horse farmer will buy from the butcher, and the botcher wil come around to you and set-£ tooth mended. In the long run yt see I 11 be more useful to you ¿J at home than if you'd send me «».- forever. ■■ Doc said it was a mighty «tiff., gument. He hadn't looked at is ight before. So he went ard boa* the beefsteak, and I began to c’-‘ culate around home again Now, just suppose all' the other dollars that are sent to Chicago » some other big city were kept in cir culation right here at home Yoi could see this town grow HONEST. NOW,—AIN'T I RIGHT? Ttr Harney County News, cx-Speaker Frank Davey’s paper and strongly Republican, contributes the following to the State ment No. 1 controversy: “The strongest reason urged to justify the violation of the pledges of Statement No. 1 legislators is the decision of the supreme court of North Dakota that such a pledge is unconstitutional and cannot be legally exacted, and can therefore be ignored without betraying any trust.” There may be strictly legal truth in this, but we believe the moral rea SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT soning is false. The Oregon candidate for the legislature took OF PAPER TRUST his pledge freely and voluntarily. He took his chances as to the effect such pledge would have upon his candidacy before the pri Washington, Nov. 22.—A seres maries and again at the polls. Is it not too late now for him arraignment of the so-called Piper to seek excuses to go back on it?” A conference of the officers of the State Dairy Association at Salem has determined the details of that convention Decem ber 10th and 11th. The sessions will be held in Ye Liberty thea tre, while a commodious hall has been secured for the exhibits. The Board of Trade of that city will receive exhibits and care for them so that they will be in excellent condition for display. Messrs. Wm. H. Ladd, Dr. E. N .Hutchinson, and Dr. James Withyccrcbc are among those on the program. Says the Coos Bay Harbor (Rep.): “If the people could have the opportunity to elect our United States senators by a direct vote that trouble between Chamberlain-Fulton forces would have been eliminated. As it is the people have spoken in favor of Governor Chamberlain and it seems to us that it would be a case of misplaced confidence if their wishes in this selec tion were not carried out. The case of General Gomez proves that trouble-makers do sometimes win out. Two years ago he was in jail, charged vdth conspiracy against the Palma government ¡now he is pres ident-elect. It is barely possible that the Cuban voters thought it would be cheaper to elect him than to have him leading a re volt. Madam Anna Gould aud her Prince de Sagan have bobbed up aguln into the spotlight, and there promises to be another sen- sat.onal divorce suit. The Lord preserve us from further afflic tions from Anna and her worthless French nobility! Once upon a time Anna was a real good American girl, but that was before her father s millions bought her a title from Europe. The governmen building will be commenced at once and the $50,000 Y. M. C. A. will follow closely. Now it would seem that a modern hotel building is about all that is left of Eugene's most pressing needs. A strong pull all together ought to assure that before many weeks roll around. The big tobacco war has closed, with honors about even. There is not much chance for the trusts to fight long enough to work any considerable injury to themselves. They know when to quit fighting and come together for their own protection, and that is just what has happened in the present instance •------------------------------ In announcing his willingness to be elected senator by the Ohio legislature. "Private’' Dalzell declared he had neither’gold silver, trust nor official pull. Now the practical politicians are wondering how he can figure that he has a ghost of a chance. When the Daily Guard was running 1500 papers to supply its subscribers it was satisfied that the limit of circulation had about been reached. Now it prints 2200 and is growing faster than ever before—pretty good evidence that Eugene and Lane county is going some in the way of increasing population. A pretty fair census of Eugene might be taken on Multnomah field in Portland today. And if the enumerator was to size up There is one thing that pays a large dividend for the time in - i the crowd by the noise it made, we might be credited with hav vested, and that is four years spent in getting a college edvea-1 ing the largest population of any city on the Pacific coast. tion, says the Benton Republican. Such time spent conscien- 1 tiously in hard study and careful training and discipline so pre- Still, if the stage stars must be continually swapping wives jare one s mind that he has that trained capacity for mental I and husbands, they would better do it with the assistance of di work, rapid, intense, and sustained, that those without it cannot vorce lawyers and the courts. It may not make much moral dif cope with him. unless thay have in some other way received ference. but it s certainly more conventional. training equally good, which is not often the case. Occasionally, however, we find self-educated men and women whose education One of the principal troubles in dealing with the man who is so thorough, so scientific, that we are astonished when we talks too much is that yo* cannot make him believe it Trust” was the feature of today'i tariff hearing before the House com mittee on ways and means, which was in session until nearly midnight After hearing arguments mainly for a protective tariff, which occupied their attention until after 5 o'clock the committee listened to testimony of John Norris, representing 'he American Newspaper Publishers JU- soclation. Tariff Hud Feature. Mr. Norris argued for free trade In pulp and print paper, giving muy figures to show that the protection afforded the paper manufacturer»by the present tariff resulted in unre» onable prices. Reports of the typographic»! en gravers, pressman’s and stereotypes and electrotypers' unions supported Mr. Norris’ contentions with the ad ditional argument that the Increased cost of paper reduced the size of newspapers and gave less, work and lower wages. The paper manufacturers occupied the rest of the time and were sharp ly questioned by Democratic men- bers. Arthur J. Hastings of S’» York, president of the Amencin Paper and Pulp Association, adm-- ted that dividends as high as 24 per cent had been paid by the Cliff ro per Company of Niagara, of which :e Is the head, In addition to which the company had earned in 20 yew $400,000 on a capital of $10°... Chester W. Lyman, assistant » the president of the Internationa. per Company, the so-called Trust.” read a statement, ginn? »• tailed information regarding J* company. Trust I’l rfectly (ontentnl "We are opposed to any whatever In the duties spec-M - pulp,” said Mr. Lyman e most emphatically opposed to “r reduction in the print paper as it applies to newspapers, » ; as this company Is concern*. * content to leave the tariff *• with the exception of .’ .., clause and a possible *4dltl „ administrative acts of the ur -- which will prevent foreign mM“* turers selling their outpu ; ” country at lower prices than pre tn their home markets. +40444444+» ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦•••****» ♦ married ?♦♦♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦***ttfM< At the home of the bride Pass on Monday. 2|OT' "-nd MW Chris Marx. Jr . of Eugene. Hazel Hodklnson !*Xy p eymoon trip to points no ■ .. T rived in Eugene Sund.y side at the home of the g. < . ents until they can house to live In. Mr. M • # jt ted with hi« brother t-ri’LherenR?1SP.M» I* ' Eugene ownership £ :.v! ... of the cW’^1 Works ar. I - >° -1 promising young time. lived here for .... s< ne :-jrfortbe^ ployed as bookk< prévins to t for some time 7 riage. Their many friend- congratulations. An attractive wedd Miss Inez U Wilc 't.jhe^ daughter of Mrs Portland, and J« Eugene, th'- eon c pioneer family of ding took place " in the Cathedra O'Hara officiarir Matlock will rest« Mr. Matlock Oregonian s
