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About The Twice-a week guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1910-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1910)
THE TWICE A WEEK GUARD HAMPTON’S MONDAY, DEC. 26, 1910. Eugene, Ore., December Twenty-four Nineteen Ten We thank you for your many past favors and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a happy and prosperous New Year The most Important REMOVAL SALE Will start TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 1910 STORE CLOSED Ail Day Monday Dec» 26 WE MOVE TO OUR NEW HOME Corner 6th Street» end Willamette Street» Watch the daily papers For Announcements Until then we will conduct the most gigantic sale in the history of this establishment. Prices reduced in every department Our only thought will be SELL, SELL, SELL. This great stock must be turned into cash to save the tedious task of invoicing L——___ THE EUGENE TWIGE-A-WEEK GUARD CHARLES H. FISHER. Editor and Publisner AN INDEPENDENT PAPER 11.50 Subscription price per year, in advance Agents for The Guard I The following are authorized to ’r it aud receipt for »aoscnptlonr. or l ansact any other business tor The Doily and Weekly Guard: Creswell—J. L. Clark. Coburg—Georee A. Drury. h Application-rnade'fFjr-entrance at Eugene? oFigon, postoffice"as se bond class matter. _____________ ____ vnyniv tifu 1910 ’ We'll all be cordial, blithe and gay, as usual, on Christmas day. Our faces will be wreathed in smiles, of foreign and domestic styles; we'll radiate a sunny glee, and show how genial we can be, and bless the children as they play; we’ll all thaw nut on Christ mas day. And when the Christmas day is done, we’ll turn again to coining mon, with frowning brows and eyes severe—why not be gay throughout the year? On Christmas day we'll all be kind, forgetful of the workday grind; we’ll loosen up without a groan, forget to pinch the shining bone; we'll send some doodads to the poor, and swell their happiness, for sure. And when the Christmas day is gone, we’ll say: "Time lost, so help me, John.” And then we’ll break our foolish necks to nail the shekels and kopecks, with toiling hands and faces drear—why not be glad throughout the year? Why not into the world of toil, endeavor, scheming and turmoil, import some Christmas atmosphere, and keep it there throughout the year? —WALT MASON. Copyright 1510 by George Matthew Adams. Immediately they began to lose ground, and the next two years showed the Democratic control only 94. This term of 1893 to 1895 marked the end of the Demo- ' cratic congressional era. From that time to the present, a mat ter of fifteen years, the Republicans held control, with Joseph Cannon wielding the gavel. Next fall, when the new congress be gins its labors, Democrats will once more be in control with a majority of 64. The present status of the house is 217 Republi. I "ana an< 274 Democrats, a Republican majortiy of 43. The next | congress will be 227 Democrats, 163 Republicans and one lone, lorn Socialist. 11 wU1 do the Dem°crats Kood to 8et a tryout—they have i been squelched for fifteen years, and now they have a chance to i work on party pledges and make or mar their reputation. Uncle Joe Cannon foresaw the landslide, for when asked ' along in the spring if he would aspire to be speaker of the next house, he replied with a wink: “If you’re going to make a hare pie, first catch the hare.” In other words: “If you want to elect a Republican speaker, first get a Republican majority.” The majority is gone, but Un cle Joe remains. HOW TO BREAK THE BLOCKADE In commenting on a Guard editorial, the Oregon’an says: Meanwhile let the Eugene paper curb its Impatience and refrain from counselling Lane county to rash enterprises in paper railroad building. Mr. Hill wllj be there in good time with a real competing railroad. n here in the valley we have been curbing our impatience for yetsls. Patience, in real truth, has ceased to be a virtue, as was remarked once on a time. Self-satisfied Portland, with com peting roads from all points of the compass and terminal rates Only ten years out of the past 39 did Republicans rule the that give it a monopoly of jobbing and manufacturing interests, CONGRESSES OF THE PAST can well afford to view with complacency the situation and ad vise less favored communities to wait for something to turn up, just as they have been doing for half a century. Blouse. Beginning with 1877 and ending wtih 1913, Democrats The situation at Eugene, however, is akin to that which ex ■j tad majorities ranging from nine votes to 148, during the ses- isted at Lewiston, Idaho, up to five years ago. The Hill and Har f ions they ruled. The congress from 1875 to 1877 had a Dem- riman interests entered into a truce regarding the territory, and t »cratic majority of 61. In the next two years they had a major- the Riparia grade along the Snake river remained unfinished for 1 q ty of only nine, and two years following this they increased it to years, stages and freight wagons continuing to afford transpor » HL 9. Beginning with the year 1881 the Republicans had an inning tation facilities for the farmers and miners of the Idaho country two years, but they lost this back when in 1883 the Demo- to the south. Every spring for ten years railroad surveyors ¡rats got control again with a majority of 74. came into the territory, ran lines in various directions, and then 3 Two years later the Democrats won two more seats, but in went away. Uj^.887 the Republicans made gains and cut down the Democratic Finally, about five years ago, on an eventful night immedi ■ H najority to 15. Two years later the Republicans woi control of ately following the annual exodus of the surveyors, the people of & >' he house, which they kept during the years 1890 and 1891. Lewiston met in mass meeting and pledged the funds to build the The greatest landslide ever known for the Democratic party Lewiston-Grangeville railroad, and did it in a manner that left ^■'yas in 1891, when Cleveland was triumphant. The grand old no doubt of their intention to get busy. What was the result? »arty had but 88 representatives to the Democrats’ 236, and In forty-eight hours the Northern Pacific and 0. R. & N. were f ] he Democratic majority reached the scandalous total of 148. jointly working to complete the Riparia line, as well as the Lew- <11 £♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* * ( Iston-Grangeville road, both of which were finished without interruption. THINGS WE THINK: THINGS OTHERS THINK And What We Think of the Things That Others The Chicago American, in reference to the efforts of the Think large dailies to supplant the local newspapers in their home field . (Uy Elbert Bede.) has this to say, which citizens generally should ponder well: Don't I»* ashamed to <1° » »Ki»*. “It would be a misfortune to the country if the few big cities Your example »III often stiffen up the backbone of the man who Is fal should interfere seriously with the publication of valuable and tering. • • • intelligent local newspapers—for upon the local newspaper the Tlx* first preliminary to letting you welfare of the country very largely depends. The metropolitan in on a "good tiling" is to take your daily cannot possibly know the needs of the various localities money away from you. • • and email cities. Only the local newspapers can protect local There is only om> perfect man In interests and influence local opinion. We hope that in every the world and Huit'* tlx* one you marryliiK. small town and every village there will be enough intelligence kept your wife« from • • and public spirti to support earnestly and enthusiastically a lo “Don't be so outrageously respect cal newspaper giving encouraging approbation and a good living able that you can’t say a kind word to the struggling ones below you. to the local editor, who also can represent and defend justice • • • and public spirit among his neighbors. The man is unfortunate It Is not always fair Io judge a man by the company he keeps—It may who cannot afford to take two newspapers at today's prices. sometimes be his relatives. • • • He who can afford but one newspaper, in our opinion should dis A man knows just about what to play his sense of duty to this locality by taking the local paper.’’ PLEA FOR THE LOCAL PAPER expect from his boys by reminiscing on his own delivery when a kid. • • • The morning paper says that during the Manerud damage When you go looking for some case it contained no headlines like “Testimony Looks Good thing along the matrimonial line, for City.’’ Certainly not; its sympathy has always been the some one Is going to get roped In. * • • other way and it is “agin the government,’’ and for the private Kissing Is sinful- nn<l yet the men corporate interests first, last and all the time, opposing in turn will take all the girls give them and municipal ownership of the water system, the building of a city still call them * angels. • « power and lighting plant and the installation of a filtration Roosevelt's lecture on "Peace” Is plant. Still it did kick o • the ’* traces when the electric com- .stirring things up. • • • pany insisted that it should pay the same rate for power and Many disciples Walton light that other people do. “The Register’s platform still catch most of their of fish Isnnc by the tale. • • • stands,” as we were reminded during several city campaigns, but some of the planks are pretty rotten and most of the under Senator La Follette has had his stones removed but he aaya ho pining has been knocked from under by the voters of Eugene. is gall still in politics. • • • Gaynor's doctor bill amount With a big coal mine, operated by experienced miners and ed Mayor to $34,000. It costs money to gel other employes, the United States bureau of mines is about to advertised these days. • • • start experimental work on the largest scale ever attempted in any country. The Pittsburg Coal company has turned over to the bureau an important mine at Bruceton, Pa., and the work will begin next week. Experts in the employment of the bu- rau will experiment in the production of mine explosions, giv ing lessons in rescue work under actual conditions, show the proportion of pure air needed for each employe, explain ven tilation in its every phase, but particularly as it applies to work following an accident, test mining machinery and give care to the elimination of dust as a possible cause of explosion. Steel rails have advanced In price —and here Is winter just coming on • • • You never see a pirnsing face on the person who Is snturnlne at heart. Undertaker Gordon says that bnsl ness In his Urn Is lighter right now and has been all winter than during any previous winter since ho began business here. This Is a pretty good Indication that the weather this win ter has been conducive to good health most of the time.
