THE EUGKNE WEEKLY GUARD. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, !»<*
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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
CHARLES H. USHER, Editor anti Publisher
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1908
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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
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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.”
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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.
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This town is Onlv
home, but I nke ¡/
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main permanently. Whe/r ”* >
of the mint 1
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town like this m another«
after a time I was sent
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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
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city. I caught bint looking b“ bl{
mall order catalogue
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found my voice and said msT .1
was a dentist, by the war
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let me stay in this town iM’
late around and do vou
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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At the home of the bride
Pass on Monday. 2|OT' "-nd MW
Chris Marx. Jr . of Eugene.
Hazel Hodklnson
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side at the home of the g. < .
ents until they can
house to live In. Mr. M
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ted with hi« brother
t-ri’LherenR?1SP.M» I*
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ownership
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lived here for .... s< ne
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ployed as bookk<
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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
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