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ATHENA, JULY 13. ......1906
Tbe mercantile and luanafactnring
classes in America have until recently
taken bat little, if any, iuterent io the
question of laud distribution. What
did it matter to tbem whether tbe
country was being divided tip into
large or small holdings? that was a
question which concerned only those
who wanted to onltivate the soil, raise
stock or live in tbe grandeur supposed
to inhere in tbe possession of many
aores. Bat the Irrigation propaganda,
and its corollary, the advocacy of tbe
small farm, have awakened those
classes to the fact that big estates
dwarf while small farms expand their
opportunities. In a short time tho al
ways powerful influeuce ot our great
cities will be solidly massed against
the continuation of conditions wbicb
make possible tho further multiplica
tion of big laud estates, and in favor
of laws tending to break up those
wbioh already exist.
Lot nobody claim that tbe govern
ment, state or national, has not the
power to break up great landed
estates wherever they exist. The
taxing power can be used to that ex
teut by either; in the states most feas
ibly, by their own legisltarues. Tbe
consentration of all taxes upon laud
and monopolized natural opportun
ities, as" urged by Henry Ueoige.,
would do it. The taxation of laud on
a graduated scale, like that adopted by
Minnesota in bcr new tax on in
heritances, the larger amount tbe
heavier tbe tax, would do it When
legislatures awakon to tbo fuot that
big laud-holdings are a menace to re
publican institutions, they will readily
Dud u way to their abolition.
Tho borax trust is one of tho great
est plunderers of the publio in a small
way. It is pro toe tod by the prohibit
ive tarilf tux of 5 cents a pound,
which is equal to over 100 pet cent.
Thus having a monopoly of tbe home
imtrkot of borax is retailed at 20 cents
a pouud, when with the tariff abol
ished tbe prioe would bo about S cents
a pound.
Laboring over copy does not always
produce a labored advertisement.
Tbe essouoe of advertising is to tell
the people what you have for sale and
attraot thorn to the store to see aud to
buy. This requires art aud skill and
experience. While wo do not favor
oopyiug tho lesults of others' thoughts,
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we do urge tho value of studying over
tbe successful advertisements of mer
chants. See bow others hare done it
and maybe you can derive some bints
of value to yourself. There are two
real methods for store advertising.
One is tbe local paper and tbe other
is tbe window. Neither should be
neglected. It pays to nse both care
fully, intelligently and liberally.
Don't believe all you bear about tbe
dullness of the Russian peasantry.
Macbnow, the Musoovite giant who
addressed Roosevelt as "emporor of
all the people of the world," not only
showed a fine sense of the fitness of
things, but also displayed a remark
able grasp of conditions for one who
has been in this country so short a
time.
One man would bang Harry K.
Thaw, bigher'n flaman and others
would put him in Sing Sing for life
and let him think it over. ,
HOBAl STANDARDS.
Portland Oregonian.
They have some strange moral
standards up at Eugene, says the
Eugeue Guard: "So Judge Tanner
has been rewarded by a full pardon
for betraying his lifelong friend and
business associate, the late Senator
Mitchell. A man made of the right
stuff would have gone to prison him
self rather than secure immunity by
sending his oldest friend there."
Though the Guard makes a false
statement, it shows its idea of what is
right In the first place, it is not
true that Tanner betrayed Mitchell.
On the contrary, he stood by him as
long as possible, even to tbe extreme
of committing perjury to save his
friend. Tanner confessed only after
tbe perjury had been discovered, and
when it would be folly to persist in
false swearing. Tbe Guard also says
what is untrue when it implies that
Tanner confessed to save himself.
The fact is that be confessed to save
his son, who had as muob claim upon
the consideration, it would seem, as
Senator Mitohell bad. Another false
hood is contained in tbe asaeition
that Tanner was sending bis old friend
to prison. If any man goes to prison
he seuds himself there, by his own
deliberate acts, aud no man who com
mits a crime has any right to expect
his friends to commit perjury to save
him.
But tbe falsity of the assertions
made by tbe Guard are of minor im
portance. The more noteworthy feat
ure of the Guard's comment is the
standurd morals hold up before tbe
young people of Eugene aud Lane
county who read that paper. Virtu
ally the Guard says to the young men
aud women whom it addresses: "If
a frieud of yours commits a crime and
thus renders himself liable to impris
onment, it is your duty to swear false
ly to save him and persist in the per-,
jury until you go to prison yoursoir.
This must be your code of houor. It
is a disgrace to uphold the law aud to
aid the courts in the exeoution of
justice. Your first duty is to your
friend who has committed a crime,
and iu order to save him you must
overthrow tbo laws of your country.
To do otherwiso is dishonor. You
must be a liar to suve your frieud,
aud iu turn your frieuds must perjure
themselves tp save you, aud your
friends" friends iu turn commit per
jury to save tbem."
Tanner merited all tbe disgrace and
trouble that fell upo'i bim, but it was
due him for swearing falsely io tta
first iustauoe, and not finally for toll
ing the truth. If the Guard voices
tbe Lane oouuty idea of honor, which
is not believeable, it is to be hoped
that some sort of moral quarantine
cau bo established, so that the mal
ady will not spread to tho rest of the
state.
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STATUS OV THE EAGLE.
Weston Leader. ," "
Nobody pays any serious atteution
to tbe Milton Eagle, and tbe Leader
is disposed to regard with tolerance
its renewed attacks upon the normal
schools. Tbe mainspring of its action
has beoome too . apparent in every
election when nobody knows whether
it will be republican or democratic
until its editor makes bis bi nnnial
trip to Pendleton. ' Deriving no pe
cuniary benefits from tbe normal
schools, tbe Eagle condemns tbem as a
'grafting system." It regards tbe the
Weston Normal as particularly ob
noxious because with its operation
fewer teachers are required in Weston
public schools. This is an awful ac
cusation, bat true, because to fulfill
its proper function tbe Normal Has
need of some of tbe Weston children in
its training school. What would
the Eagle have us do? Move tbe
Normal to Cayuse station or to the
summit of the Blues, where there is
no chance for community benefits?
KPIO OF "THE 8TMPLK LIFE."
Newark News.
A 175,000 automobile rolled through
the 160,000 bronze gates and up the
135,000 winding avenue to tbe $20,000
marble steps.
Descending from the maohine, tbe
billionaire paused a moment to view
the smiling f 500,000 landscape.
Across the $90,000 lawn a $125,000
silver lake lay sleeping in tbe shades
of early evening, and beyond it rose a
lordly $80,000 bill, whose crest,
cloaked with forests at an expense of
$200,000 glowed on the golden rays
of the setting sun.
The billionaire sank luxuriously into
a $2,000 ivory porch cbair and rested
his feet on the rose railing of the
$160,000 veranda.
"It is pleasant," he observed, "to
get back to nature once in awhile.
After tbe cares and worries of tbe
business day, I certainly love to run
out to this quiet little $60,000,000
country club of ours and taste a bit of
simple life. It is good to keep in
touoh with the soil; lor what is man
but dust, after all 1" ,
Feeling restored, be passed in
through tbe $100,000 doorway to bis
$1,500 dinner.
! Beward Offered.
Bert Warren will pay a reward of
$15 for information leading to the re
covery of two 8-year-old and one
2-year-old colt All three colts are
branded B W on tbe right shoulder.
Address Bert Warren, Atbena.
If you are in the market for pro
visions and harvest supplies,' you oan
save money by having Dupuis & Co.,
Weston grocers, figure on your order.
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DIED SUDDENLY
'I OP HEART DISEASB.
How frequently doc a head line simi
lar to the above greet us tn the news,
papers. Th rush, push ami Ptrnnuoos
noss of the American people n a strong
tendency to lead 1111 to valvular nd other
affection of tho heart, attended by ir
regular action, palpitation, dizziness,
smothered sensations and other distress
ing symptoms.
'hree of tho oromineat Inmredlents of
which Dr. Plerco s lioitlon .Moxllcal JJls
coverjr is made are recommended by somo
of the leading writers on Materia Medica
for the cure of just such cases. Golden
Seal root, for Instance, is said by tho
United States Dwpehsatorv, a stand
ard authority, "to Impart tono and In
creased power to the heart's action."
Numerous other leading authorities rep
resent Golden Seal as an unsurpassed
tonic for the niiucuhr system In general,
and as the heart Is almost wholly com
posed of muscular tissue, It naturally
follows that It most be greatly strength
ened by this superb, general tonic. But
probably the mot important Ingredient
ot "Golden Medical Discovery," so far
as Its marvelous cures of valvular and
other aftectlofts of the heart are con
cerned, Is Stone root, or Collinsonia Can.,
Prof. Wm. Paine, author of Palne's
Epttomy of Medicine, says of It:
"L not lone since, had a patient who was
to much oppressed with Talrular dlauase of
the heart that his friends wero obliged to
carry him up-st airs. Ho. however, gradually
recoTered under the Inlluenco of Colllnsonin
(medicinal principle extracted from Stone
root), and is now attending to his Dullness.
Heretofore phyalclani knew of no remedy
for the removal of so distressing" and so dan
serous a malady. With them It was all
g-uoss-work, and It foarfully warned the
afflicted that death was near at hand. Col
llnsonin unquestionably affords relief in
such cases, and In most Instances effects a
cure." - . ..
Stotio root Is also recommended by Drs.
Ilalo and Elllngwood, of Chicago, for
valvular and other diseases of tho heart.
The latter says: "It is a heart tonic of
direct and jxrmnnent Influenco."
"Goldon Modical Discovery," not only
cures serious heart affections, but Is a
most ofllclent general tonic and invigor
ator, strengthening the stomach, invig
orating tho liver, regulating the bowels
and curing catarrhal affections in all
parts of the system.
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