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ATHENA, ORE.. FEB. 22,
.1907
The Press has always regarded J.
M. Hays as a joke, and there Is noth
ing in his letter relating to Mayor
Plamondon printed in another column,
that changes its opinion of him, in the
least The only reason the letter is
given ' space is because it reflects on
toe integrity of Athena's Mayor, is
properly signed, and had not the Press
printed it, the artiole would have
probably . appeared in some other
oonnty paper circulating in a locality
where the author is not so well known
as he is here. This fellow Hays is a
peiiodioal buttinski and the period
cornea along about election time,
whether it be national, state or mu
nicipal. Voting "niggers" is Kansas
spoiled him and he has never gotten
over it He closes his letter with
"Yours for a better town." What has
Hays ever contiibuted to make
Athena a better town? How muoh has
he invested in Athena? How many
briok blocks does he own? In what
measure does he bring trade to Athena
that business men may afford to repair
sidewalks and property owners ma
cadamized streets? Does be create any
thing but hot air and discord? Fin
ally, what has he at stake? The Press
reiterates that Dr. Plamondon has per
formed the duties of mayor welL If
Hays has better material let him ttot
it out Athena is not a prohibition
town. It is in a looal option district,
and the Press oonsiders that municipal
affairs are conducted here as clean as
can be found in any town of like condi
tion. If the saloons are selling liquor
to minors and Hays has convicting
evidence of the fact and does not see
fit to swear out a warrant for the ar
rest of the man who sells the liquor,
be has "cold feet," and is reoreant in
the performance of his duties as the
mouthpiece of bis Law and Order En
foroemeot League. The sidewalk
qaeation is pertinent in faot it has
been so for years.
for an association of merchants and
business men right here in Athena,
without hunting up other parts of the
country to work for, if all would get
together and do the work.
And now ocmes one of those statlstio
fiends with figures to prove that sui
cidea resort to the rope oftener than
the gun. The reason probably lies in
the faot that the brain of this class of
people is growing so small as not to be
a fair mark at even 'short range. The
rope, it staunch is more oertain,
The Wallowa Sun, a new paper pub
lished at Wallowa by Prof. Jonas,
reaohed our exchange table this week.
The new publication is well edited and
newsy and gives promise of becoming
an important factor in the upbuilding
of Wallowa county. .
If gifts of money express publio con
fidenoe, the Young Men's Christian
Association of the United States en
joys it More than $11,000,000 was
donated to the association last year for
buildings and maintenance.
An exoliauge says that "In the be
ginning God created the heavens and
the earth and all things therein. He
then created man and woman and left
the loafers on the corners, and in due
time they multiplied and then spread
into post-ofBoes and depots and the
stores. In these places they sit and
explain state and natioual problems
that have vexed great minds. While
the loafer is thus engaged his wife is
out washing for her neighbors, and
the poor helpless children are left at
home taking care of themselves as best
they can. There is nothing more no
ticable than the loafer."
Of course Athena can get along
without a commercial association the
kind that has been in existenoe here
for the past year and a half. Com
mercial Associations are what their
members make 'hem. There is work
MR. HAYS IN PRINT.
Athena Feb. 14. (To the Editor.)
I wish to take exceptions to your words
of praise of our honorable Mayor, in
the issue of February 8.
Permit me to point out that he bas
not fulfilled well the duties of his
offloe.
Mr. Plamondon approached a prom
inent churoh member before his elec
tion and volunteered the information
that it would not be an open town
under his administration. Witness
how he fulfilled his promise. The
town run wide open until olosed by the
efforts of the Law Enforcement
League.
When complaints have been made
that minors were allowed to frequent
saloons, they were turned down by the
reply: "Swear out your warrant and
we will prosecute."
But oui Mayor has caused the side
walks to' be repaired partially. A
lady from the country with her baby
in her arms, falling through a hole in
the walk and threatening to sue the
city for injuries sustained, brought
this result about.
And there are walks yet in our town
that are dangerous to life and limb.
The walk in Adams street, leading to
I he Christian churoh, over which
hundreds of people pass every night,
is full of holes and so narrow that
people must pass in single file, or be
orowded off into the mud.
Yours for a better city.
J. M. Hays.
WHAT IS A LAWYER'S DUTY?
Governor Hughes bas been talking
to the New York State Bar Associa
tion saying among other things:
I want to say it will be a sorry day
for this country when the leaders of
the Amerioan bar are to be deemed
unqualified for public service. Such
men ought never to take a retainer
which arrays them against the publio
interest A man that engages in prac
tice that involves suoh antagonism is
a traitor to the interests of the people
and oommits treason.
This is a noble conception of a law
yer's duty; but it would deprive the
law-breaking corporations and many
other important malefaotors of the
benefit of a defense. Of oourse Gov
ernor Hughes did not mean that the
railroads which have been giving re
bates and the monopolies which have
crushed all competition by criminal
methods should not be permitted to
employ lawyers a right not denied.to
the meanest criminal or the greatest
murderer, such as Czologosz. What
he did mean, probably, was that law
yers who use their talents and skill to
devise ways and means for any corpo
ration or any person to evade the plain
meaning and intent of a statute are
themselves aooessories to the law's
violations, and they should be held up
And now for a Big
SPRING BUSINESS
We want you to be sure and make a trip to Walla Walla this spring
and see through our immense store, for we know yon will profit by your
trip. Our stock is larger than it has ever been and new spring stocks
are arriving every day. All we ask is a comparison of qualities and
prices and we will take pleasure in showing yon through our lines. If
you are unable to come to the city, write us for disoriptions and prices.
REMEMBER WE PAY THE FREIGHT WHEN BILL
AMOUNTS TO $10.00.
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12-14-16-1830-22 Alder 8tret,
WALLA WALLA, :- WASH
Make
Your
appointments!
Here
to reprobation for betrayal of the pub
lio interest
The lawyer who makes an aotive
and efficient defense of a client whom
he personally believes to be guilty of
crime ia not a proper subject for any
man's ' reproaohea ; nor need his con
science, if he has any, worry him.
But the lawyer wbo makes a protraot
ed teobnioal battle for a criminal
whose guilt has been fully and clearly
established after a fair trial is an en
emy of society and a disgrace to the
honorable profession of the law.
There are everywhere too many suoh
lawyers who involve the course of
justice in a maze of pleas, motions,
demurrers, and the like, all without
merit and all designed to obstruot,
delay and defeat the. proper judioial
determination of their client's cause.
Some day, we hope, the bar itself will
address itself to the task of reforming
our legal procedure and renovating
the profession by getting rid of the
criminal lawyer, or, tather the lawyer
criminal. Oregonian.
NATIONAL CHILD LABOR LAW.
The ohild labor evil cannot be left
to the states to remedy is one of the
important points brought out in Sena
tor Beveridge's defense of his bill to
create a national ohild labor law as
outlined by the senator in a compre
hensive artiole appearing in the Feb
ruary number of the Woman's Home
Companion. Senator Beveridge adds:
"The first thing we see on studying
the child labor question is that this
evil cannot be left to the States to re
medy. Of oourse there is not the
slightest reason in the world why it
should be left to the States to remedy;
but we started out one hundred and
twenty-five years ago with the notion
that eaoh State was a little nation and
that this artificial thing called a
'state had oertain 'rights.' At that
time the idea of this being a Nation,
a people living in one land, and flying
one flag bad not thoroughly developed.
There were many great men in our
constitutional convention who saw this
dearly; but there were a lot of little
men who wanted to be big men, and
could be big men only in the narrow
borders of their colonies not being great
enough for the country as a whole.
Thev insisted on the theory of the sove
reignty of the State. These little men
had the votes, and that is how it has
faauiDened that we started out the way
we did. I am talking bluntly in order
to tell the faot and this is the plain
faot. crude though it be.
"This ohild labor is not a State
affair. It is not a national affair,
The nraotioal reasons why the States
oannot deal with it is, first of all, be
cause they will not deal with it; and
second, because they would not deal
with it adequately. In the sections
of the oountry where this civic pesti
Jence rages in greatest fury, the States
will not aot. Tuey will not act te-
cause the creat manufacturing or
mining interests are so powerful in
those States that they control or at
least decisively influenoe the legisla
tures of those States. So that in these
States no effective law can be passed.
If a model bill is proposed in any of
those States, it is killed; or. what is a
&ood deal worse than killed, it is mut
ilated. That is to say, a child labor
law is passed wbiob the people are led
to believe will end the evil, but whioh
has been so cunningly ohanged that it
permits the evil to go on. Thus the
people are fooled and the praotice is
not stopped."
THE BRITISH AND SUNDAY.
Rising From the Grave.
A prominent manufacturer. W. A.
Fertwell, of Luoama, N. C, relates a
most remarkable experience. He
says: "After taking less than three
bottles of Eleotrio Bitters, I feel like
one rising from the grave. My trouble
is Bright's disease, in the Diabetes
stage. I fully believe Electrio Bitters
will cure me permanently, for it has
already stopped the liver and bladder
complications whioh have troubled me
for years." Guaranteed at Wm. Mo
Bride's druggist, Price only 50c
For Sale.
A 14-foot cut Daniel Best combined
harvester, good as new, cheap on lib
eral terms. For further particulars
Bee J. A. Keller or Geo. M. Thompson,
Athena, Oreg. 4t
"Pineules" (non-alcobolio) made
from resin from our pine forests, used
for hundreds of years for bladder
and kidney diseases. Medicine for SO
days, f 1. Guaranteed. Pioneer drug
store.
THE WRIGHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
afjmm vlMfe I
WSm
TC II T Q P U ' Q DEPARTMENT
L U I U U il O STORE
PENDLETON, OREQON
Is now brim full of new things for Ladies' wear. Every
thing new and modern i9 found here.
New Coats, Skirts, Jackets,
Suits, Waists, Hats, Shoes,
Petticoats, Wash Goods and
Wool Dress Goods, Gloves,
in the nobbiest, latest styles
We have never had such Spring offerings before. Ladies,
when in Pendleton, call and see them.
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PENDLETON
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Stable on 2nd street, South of Main street
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in
Barrett Building, - - Athena, Oregon
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Undertaking Parlors in Connection
J
Just as the French are getting into
'praotioal trouble over the notion of
enforoing a weekly rest, sometimes
called "Dominioal," the British seem
to be getting into trouble over the sec
ularization of their traditional Sab
bath. A remarkable appeal for the
etrioter observance of Sunday appears
in the London papers. Perhaps the
most remarkable thing about it is that
it is signed by the Anglican Arch
bishop of Canterbury, by the Boman
Catholio Archbishop of Westminster,
the primates of their respective com
munions, and by the "President of the
Evangelical Council of the Evangeli
cal Free Churches," wbo may be as
sumed to be the most acourate single
representative of the various dissen
ting bodies.
Another remarkable feature of the
appeal is what one may call its Sabba
tarianism. While the signers empha.
size tbe importance of the weekly rest
they are oaref ol to add :
"There is more than 'this. Under
the saored sanction which attaches to
the Lord's Day it is intended that all
should ', have opportunity, in the wor
ship of Almighty God, to escape from
the grip of ordinary cares and occupa
tions into regions of higher thought
and noblor aspiration."
While it is not for a secular journal
to take allies upon such a question as
is thus rait led, it is open to such a Jour
nal to twin t out that tbe religious ob
eervance of Sunday is already stricter
in the British Islands than in any other
part at the world, ezoepting possibly
some of th e British possessions. A gen
eral Telaxa tion in its British observ
ance . suoh as these distinguished Brit
ons appear to deplore, would denote the
disappears neo of what may be called
thf j old-fas hiooed view of the Kngiisn
speaking pt nples.
' A I Valuable Lesson.
"Six yea rs ago I learned a valuable
lesson." wr: ites John Pleasant, of Mag
nolia, Ind. "I then began taking Dr.
ling's tfew Life Pills, and tbe longer
I take them tbe better I find tbem.
Ther please eveiybody. Guaranteed
PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
ATHENA. - - - OREGON
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An ounce of Pre
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Do not fill your stomach with arsenic, calomel, quinine and
debilitate the Byntem, leaving symptoms that it takes years to
obliterate. Herblno Is purely vegetable containing nothing
injurious, and is a gentle harmless purgative.
riTnpc CONSTIPATION, CHILLS AND
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Don C. Morrison, Kisnlmmee, Fla. writeH: "I havo
used Beveral bottles of llerbine myself and have advised
several of my friends to use same. I have found it to bo
the best medicine for the liver 1 ever used. It acts gent
ly at the same time thoroughly."
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