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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUAR D, THURSDAY. FEB 17. 1910 ; it need not go into the order to it flc > "people THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUAM who sold lightning rot’s before they moved West to ply a not hero. The Guard would emphasize th«' fact, I'gain and again, that dissimilar vocation here. They camp on the trail of those dollars whut Eugene needs most—what it absolutely must have before contributed by the progressive element of that community until i'.nit-red at hMQP'lie. < tregua, itustufflee aa M*e<>ll<l-eiass mailer it can become a real city is additional transportation facilities. PubIMied «very Thursday at Fusene. Oregon. it is garnered iuto the capacious treasury at San Francisco and If these cannot be furnished by the Southern Pacific Company their commission rake-off jingles in their pockets. Portland will Su'urtcrlptiou prive, >1.6U per year. It p«ud In advance; H.uu at end we must unite in an untiring effort to reach the coast, only sev- grow in the future in spite of its advertising by the railroad— I enty or eighty miles distant, aud thus put an end for all time to and we sincerely hope Eugene will do so. However, it is au old THURSDAY. FEB. 17. 1910 railroad monopoly. Eugene and Lane county,with over $23,000,- saying that where one partner furnishes the experience and the 000 of taxable property and several millions of deposits in the other the money, at the end of the partnership the relative posi PROMOTER FREEMAN’S STATEMENT banks, would have no difficulty in building or securing the means tions are frequently reversed. Eugene, we gravely fear, is buy to build, such a road if the people would get together and pull in ing experience. a single direction. The Guard prints today a statement, written by Promotei The "Eugene way" should be a high’way of steel to the coast, Freeman, and signed by the members of the board, in which an The official statement neglects to say so, but we presume attempt is made to justify the turning over of the entire mattei that in this comprehensive contract with the Southern Pacific, and cannot be construed to mean an advertising and printing of printing and advertising to the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. which includes about everything except our reciprocal tariff re partnership with the Southern Pacific Company as long us that We hope the statement will be carefully read because it fullj lations with foreign countries, that the corporation guarantees corporation is admittedly the greatest obstacle in the way of our justifies the criticisms made by this paper. to prevent the secession of Nesmith county, which is about the permanent growth and advancement. The Guard took this matter up because it was a subject o most vital matter confronting Eugene at present. The local pa grave public interest, and not from any desire to personally at pers might, with considerable loss of business to themselves, be VIEWS OF A SUCCESSFUL •‘BOOSTER” tack any man or set of men. In fact, we were disinclined to induced by the patriotism that is characteristic of such institu enter into the discussion, having no desire to engender discord tions. to bear the brunt of this campaign, but, since the printing The growth of Boise, Idaho, has been one of the marvels in in the work of promoting Eugene's progress, and furthermore and patronage of the Commercial Club is now placed solely at Western city building, and this fact makes the views of its Com because the matter of printing and advertising is something in the disposal of the Southern Pacific Company, we presume this mercial Club manager, Reilly Atkinson, of special interest to nil which we are directly interested, and we have made it a rule sacrifice will not be required of them. Thus every cloud has its ambitious towns. Speaking before the Walla Walla Commercial not to air our private business grievances through The Guard. silver lining, even for the newspaper man, who is popularly sup Club recently Mr. Atkinson said: Were it not for the fact that a principle was involved, as well as posed to receive the reward for his many trials and tribulations Booster Is u word I do not like, but I do not know of a synonym. It the most effective method of continuing Eugene s publicity cam-j only when he shuffles off this mortal coil and joins the invisible , uieunu putting the truth about a country before a whole lot of people and I lotting them act according to their convictions. I hail a Icier from Mr paign, we should have been satisfied to let the transaction pass choir in those regions where promotion committees are un 1 Mea ham a few days ago which made me sore, it said that some people In and allow those responsible for it to learn by experience that known, and railroad railroad corporations cannot break in and | Walla Walla were sore because there had not becu a large Influx of settlors partnership with a railroad company is generally beneficial only swipe his harp and crown. In Walla Walla during th« past year A letter like thut always makes me the corporation. , hot. What would you do with a big influx of settlers? How would such a CIIAIU.ES II. FISHER. Editor and Publisher AN INUEPENDENT P a FKR condition help your city ’ What would the people do after they had arrived here? You must have employment for the bom»-seckers who cot»« to your The explanation that the railroad company will spend five locality, or they will turn around and go right out again dollars for every one it receives from Eugene sounds like a Eugene s woolen mills are making the finest blankets ever "This cannot be accomplished lu a single year, any more than a man can clumsy attempt tef be funny over a serious question. Railroads put on the market in the West. That may seem a broad state build up a gigantic clothing business, shoe trade, or any other commercial are not in the habit of doing such things and philanthropy is ment, but an inspection of the goods will prove that it is not establishment In that length of time. A publicity movement muât grow ____ r r a ¡from the foundation up. and uol from th«> top down. There are people w ho not a common virtue among them—at least, it is not of such a l overdrawn—ai * * “ . . r____________________________ . . . believe publicity means a bourth of July celebration, with lots of noise pronounced character as to be visible to the naked eye. We There is too much of a tendency to undervalue the work going) — _ | an accompaniment, but I wish to tell you that such is not the case. It know that the railroad is interested in bringing homeseekers to on around us, or to overlook it entirely. the same ns any commercial enterprise, aud must be built up gradually. the coast, to the extent that it is after their fares and freigh' Gne way to build up a city Is to (>ull<l up the territory ut>on which It de Eugene has, in fact, many industries worthy of support and business, but that it will spend its own money to work up busi encouragement. Those of her people who indulge in the smok- ,,en,la for «upport. You do not want more merchants uutll you have the su- burbau residents to buy their goods. We have absolutely cease.l advertls- ness as long as the gullible communities will foot the bill, is ing habit will find no better domestic cigars anywhere than | ¡¿ K ’1 , Ing Boise City. I would not give |5 for the twist ma.ailno advertisement passing belief. In fact, it is the rule of the railroad to pluck the those turned out in Eugene—and those are brands the local ¡ _ n ___ ¡he _______ country for ____ our ____ city, , __ . Wo are featuring our surrounding territory newcomer, as well as the community which invites him. Scarce smoker ought to call for. So you must proceed In the upbuilding of Walla Walla Increase tbo uutn- ly a car of household goods is shipped into Eugene from the We have an excelsior factory that runs night and day, and ,M‘r of r.sid. uts in your territory, and they m turn mi « bound to help th< PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES Stops Lameness Much of the chronic UrnenaM iu horse« is due to neglect. See th»t your hor»e is not »1- loweti to go lame. Keep Sloan’s Liniment on hand and apply al the hrat aign oi still new It'« wooderfully penetrating — r*» right to the »i»ot — relieve« th« sorsMas —limtara up the jolAt« and makes the niuadc« elastic and pliant. Here’» the Proof. Mr O. T. Robert* of K«»« Ga, RED No. i, H ob 4 i, writ«« ” I h-*** uwh I v»ur l.inlmanl on a I ioiw t w «»«*- n«v and •flatlod 4 thorough curu. I al- •o r*n»ovu«l a »pavln on 4 niuW I hie t|uvin »4« 4« U'ge a« a guinea rgg In my v«tiui4li<>n the lml rankly fur Liida- nett an ! ttuauaaa it Sloan’s Liniment Mr II M Glbba.ol I *«»»•«• K«»r, H V 1» No. j. »rllM “Your I IM- nunl 1« llu I«« «!>•« I haro u«“l. I Iva I a mars with an al**««» ««> I*» o*- b an.1 >na ¡0« ta-ola U *>ki««'» I lauiwol aotnah cur«d hr» I k«r,,ll aiimn.1 all thr linu f..< galla arul ««all »wvll.nga auJ lor «»«rrUMU« alaait th« rt.-vk ’ Sloan'» Liniment will kill a spa via, curb or «plint, re duce wind pull» anti swollen joints» anti la a aurc and »¡reedy remedy for tntula, sweeney, founder and thrush. East upon which the newcomer is not handed an extra charge of about $50 before he is allowed to unload his goods, although he may have a receipt for his freight paid in full from the shipping point. . Most of these immigrants pay this excess charge, rather than celebrate their arrival among strangers by the insti tution of a lawsuit with the railroad. If it is really true that the company loves Eugene so dearly that it purposes to spend five dollars in order to get one dollar of our money, it may be it has created a deficiency fund to meet the outlay with the money filched from the immigrant on his arrival among us. If this be true we should think it would inure more to the benefit of Eu gene to spend our own money for advertising and if possible at tempt to secure a pledge from the railroad company to treat the strangers fairly and honestly when they arrive here. employs many hands. Some of the finest cutlery in the world?“' I’,irlng ,l“‘ >,,,r wo •,“1 ‘‘,lb J — — , ...I llcity in the following wav» First, for the exploitation of th« lie He valley is made in Barr Bros, knife factory, and its product is in de- a « 1 Second, for the Impruvemeut of bouthern Idaho Thia territory, as It BIG CEMENT PLANT mand and is shipped to foreign countries. Incubator factories grows iu population and Improvement win throw money into Bolao. through FOR MAKING TILING are exporting large quantities of goods, and we have iron foun-1 the wholesaler and retailers, and that’s building a citj. dries and machine shops, flouring mills, sawmills, planing mills Mr. Atkinson called the attention of Commercial Club mem /ND BUILDING BLOCKS and sash and door factories, creamery, fruit canning and packing bers to the vacant land available for fruit growing in that valley, tn T •»» Guard** rrport ot th«» m«»rt- house, which combined employ many hands, and in the aggre and said. Ing of ’*»«• East Euson«* rnier gate furnish an extensive payroll. evening« a<o It «#< If we hail that land In the Bolnc valley It would be «up|x>rtlng 500 fam Glut» n that a gentleman desired t » To these industries may be added the printing offices and ine«. nil malting an easy, comfortable living You have the acboola. th« Mated lorn to i* factor» here for th«» manu churches, the theatre« everything that make« for enjoyment of life and newspapers, with a combined payroll of at least $500 a week, facture Of Crmon! r< wer Ule at I contentment. For heaven'a sake forget Walla Walla. Tell the world that bulldlm* block*. Thi* gen’’.e;uan !• and probably a number of other industries that have been over you have ten and twenty-acre tracts for sale at reasonable figure« Th« Tbo*. Faller», a resident of Eugene, looked in this hasty summary. bought property ht»rn A nd easterners want to come—but they must know whut you have before they who he hough: Will become n per ft .meni elHrrn. hwt.m« a For our building operations local brick plants have been will venture the change Hr haw a pialli that w ft a k •• * When u man tells tue I ’ m a hot air artist I feel like tt'lling him he's n »r w • r lie as I ......... I-. tnndt* kept more than busy in the past three years, and to meet the | pressing demand the FairmounF Prick Company ts installing the liar. It’s m> duty to let rteiee Easterners know bow they <a»n better tb«lr coujuo und h< r al na * I» » 11 11 *i • bow they cun give their wtvee end children a wjuure deal Ikit *uprrh> ’ to the As to the value of railroad advertising for a town, a friend most modern machinery it is possible to secure, and will employ condition. The |OI It tuk.« money to do tlxwo things. Ki »und at our elbow suggests that if he is feeling ill he may take his a force of fifteen or twenty men when they are in running order. «ht*« the It must be admitted there is a good deal of originality, and a Mr 8 choice of paying 50 cents or $1.00 for a bottle of patent cure- ► contrat* What The Guard desires to impress upon its readers is that whole lot of horse sense in what this practical “booster" says. to give th«» tile now W all, or go to a physician, possibly pay more, but receive a reme we have already in Eugene the foundation laid for a large man Fairmount and hr «ay* r dy for his particular case. In its action, the promotion board ufacturing business that should grow with increasing popula Like Walla Walla and many other Western cities, Eugene needs tile I a alien n has decided to buy a treatment of “Dr. Wm. Bite-em Weils' Gen tion, and that it is the du?y of every resident of the city to en more prosperous people on small farms. A Lane county ranch htmln«»** with if bin product eral Restorative for Run-Down Towns; warranted to produce courage such enterprises with his patronage whenever it is pos of 52 5 acres was yesterday sold to an Eastern man, when such a test he will b tract should really provide homes for at least ten families. This huwInrM thKt lor immigrants, start industries, kill mossbacks, banish that tired sible to do so. Take these industries away from Eugene and feeling, prevent the organization of Nesmith county, pave there would be little left here. We have the raw material at it can do, however, only when better means of transportation are streets, and, in fact, cure all the ills from which the Oregon hand which will justify otbe- industries, and have only one seri acquired. Not only do we need a steam railroad to the ocast in country suffers; warranted to stand in any climate, and mixed ous handicap—that of unjust discrimination in freight rates on order to reduce freight rates, but we must build or secure lhe Ul<i l>n to the queen's taste, requiring no shaking before taking; manu the part of the Southern Pacific Company. This drawback must building out of Eugene as a centre, in order to make a city h re, t field factured and guaranteed solely by the Philanthropy Department be overcome by a fight for better treatment that will last until of electric railways, which will place the farmer close to mark ’. of the Southern Pacific Company, U. S. A.” Possibly this nos it is settled right, and in our favor, or by standing together in fa Not till that time comes will the cultivation of small tra ts pay used trum will hit the right spot—sometimes these cure-alls do vor of a railroad to the coast, which will effectually settle the sufficient returns to justify the sub-division of large tracts The keynote of Mr. Atkinson's address is that if you develop Eugene took $600 worth of it a few years ago and lived through problem for all time to come. Wil- the resources of a community and its people are prosperous and Iler II it. Roseburg’s treatment lasted two years and at the end of It is along the line of the building up of our present indus-) contented, that fact a an advertisement which will bring con that time that city was strong enough to take up publicity work tries and the securing of new ones that our commercial bodies on its own account. This remarkable testimonial is given freely ought to work untiringly. When the people all come to realize stantly increasing peculation, and consequent growth of busi and permission is granted to use it in any of the company s publi that we must have railroads and industries to make a real city, ness. cations. Some communities have never used any other tonic, and the two must come together, then the btatle will be more and are said to have lost all desire for publicity since using thus than half won. prescription. The worst trouble we have to contend with now is that so I many people do not recognize that fact; they seem to think that As for the beneficent Southern Pacific Company spending , in some way, they hardly know how, the city, like the irrepress part of this money in Eugene, after they get it into the treasury, ible Topsy, will “just grow up.” They must come to understand it will be awful nice of them to do it. We, of course, should be that it must be built up by determined and concerted effort. thankful for small favors; but why should the promotion commit tee delegate the spending of money in Eugene to the Southern SOUTHERN PACIFIC HINDER’S EUGENE’S PROGRESS Pacific Company? Do they feel the need of a guardian to handle the money - of the people? If local . people are to be employed, «■ What wnai the vne oouinern Southern raciiic Pacific t/ompany Company snouiu should ao do ior for ziugene Eugene is Kansas City, Mo., Fib. 15. MlruJ Washington, Feb. 15.—The pro 1 why does not the committee employ them direct, instead of re- to substantially recognize the city by giving it adequate train ceedingH of the Bullinger-PInchot in Poarl Kellar, the nurse, who gave III« quiring them to deal with the railroad offices in San Francisco? t , service. BCiv»uc. The Wendling branch trains should be operated out of veatlgation today were dull. Vertoes, most damaging testimony at tn« In- And then some of the printing is to be let to competitive bids in Eusrene. Snrinorfirdrl counsel for Ballinger, continued the qii.-Ht over the body of < olonel 'I bos Eugene, as well as the trains over the Woodburn. Woodburn-Springfield of Glavis, and the Portland. Glorious news! Portland needs Eugene’s money, I branch. Further than this, Eugene should be made the actual cross-examination committee was In executive session H. Swope, was the first witn. - hr called tudny by th« special grand Jury In since the supply is short there—they are making loans at 4 per construction headquarters of the Natron extension. The rail- forty minutes discussing the admis vestigating the death Of the million-, sibility, at this time, of a report from cent. In Eugene we pay 8 and 10 per cent—because, of course, ■ road company professes to be interested in the upbuilding of the Seattle, giving details of the alleged alre MI hh Kellar will probably b« uie Jury two days. we are richer here and can afford to pay higher rates. Every Oregon country. Its representatives urge the people in every discovery among Glavis* effects of 2 4 before The testimony of l»r' Frank Ilnll 1 letters, which have been missing bacteriologist, who asHlsted In th« subscriber to the fund will be tickled to death to know officially town to wake up, improve their streets, advertise for people and from the official files of the land of autopsy of <'olonel Swope's body giv that the Portland printing houses were taken care of in the deal industries, and in every way to be enterprising and progressive. fice there. No decision was an en yesterday In a deposition In the nounced, but a number of subpoenas ( office of Frank |>. Walsh, has added —a less considerate board might have had all that work done in Then it.proceeds to make their work next to impossible by dis for Seattle people were Issued. a new element of doubt to the Swope Eugene and not once thought of those poor printers in Port I criminating freight rates that allow no factories to exist outside Glavis fenced with the attorneys mystery which It Is believed will skillfully and apparently Is a match land. Foreign missionary work is one of the noblest attributes of Portland, and by refusing to help with train facilities citie for all of them. He parries their cause th« prosecuting attorney to sub-' Ject every witness before the grand and when directed to an of modern civilization. Jury to a severe course of question-1 like Eugene, whose people during the past three years hav< questions, swer "yes” or "no” he always stands Ing. upon the right accorded him to fol spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in public and private im Ilnll admitted yesterday that this up with an explanation, the Ilr. vital Portland is, after five years of original and effective adver provements. If the Southern Pacific will not give the people low organs of Kwope w.-re not A CLEAN GROCERY which may run on five or ten min normal when removed. 11«: tising, to take up the railroad scheme, we are told. This does proper train service over its main line and the branches center utes or more, and In the course of entirely du.tm’i m'...' ...... «" which he usually takes advantage of said the brain was “cracked” slight A vMt to this satabllshMM «III not mean that Portland has not been remarkably successful in ing at Eugene, how can we expect to secure the enlarged trade the ly. and that the kidneys were not1 opportunity to say that he was Munn« clrnn K o .,<| h . <00(J(| th , admitted that death! its methods of the past five years—its growth has been the area necessary to justify increasing population? thus convinced that "Ballinger was might have been cnusetl from ura«ml<- '_""u ab*oltlie|y of th,. . ,.J unfit for the office he holds. Is un marvel of the country. It does mean, however, that it has taken polsonlng. Il« ,,|R(( Rnld ln ((f l*rb tlMnlln<-M of it „ml H|,„ If the railroad company will only give Eugene the practical faithful to his trust and not loyal strychnine poisoning death ensued In five years for the railroad to secure influence enough in the ’> recognition its situation and importance among Oregon towns to the interest« of the people.” Beller rtm’1"’’’."'*" ,,f o,lr h T" T'a.“’/11 h"nr" ‘ olonel ........... ’ Ä trial piircha*«* will board to make a get-away with the promotion fund, just as it deserves, no one here will ask them to spend five dollars to ont ' ii a'l rtJ" ,or 'l, v, n hours after Ur ET- J. H. and F. J. Bartels today be- Hyde had given a certain white cap has taken two years to accomplish the same purpose in the of ours for advertising purposes. We are willing and able to dr -•" «"'t In the circuit court against sule, said to contain strychnine. * 1 Herren for the restitution of smaller city of Eugene. Let the papers report that any town on i our own advertising in our own way, if the railroad as a common Fred Miss Ina Cramer of Portland Is certain personal property o rto re I the coast has raised a promotion fund of any size worth while, , j carrier will but do its duty to a town that is paying its tens oi cove damages In the sum of «200. J. s ra- C. Johnson Is attorney for plaintiff. few a.V days. l'"lt,,‘l frl,'Ul1» here for a »V. M. GREEN Fhon, Main J5 619 W'ltame««