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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1913)
improved over those now govern ally and mechanically for our sailor lads, so that when their periods of ing the matter. A measure has been discussed be service expire, these sailor lads will ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY fore congress, to make literacy a be able to take their places in civic T. L. DUGGER, EDITOR aND PROP test of admission. If this measure life as useful and helpful citizens, .should become a law, it would help is most praiseworthy. Both soldiers SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE....... $1.25 matters but little; for undesirables and sailors, in time of peace, have are among the literate as well as a great deal of leisure time. If AT END OF YEAR ___________ 1.50 the illiterate. A better plan would this time could bp devoted to learn SIX MONTHS ....._________ 75 be to require the imigrant who ing some sort of useful industry, lands upon our shores, to deposit preparatory to useful citizenship, , with the government a cash bond both our soldiers and sailors would ' ADVERTISING RATES: Local advertising, per line........... 5c of $500. At the same time. he be the better for it, both while in should file his first or intention and out of the service. Display advertising, per inch..... 10c ..... -..... J paper to become a citizen, with the Display advertising, long time, see proper authority. When the proper Unless people awaken to thq tax manager. time has elapsed and the candidate proposition, property will soon be Extended marriage or death notices for citizenship has complied with the come valueless, as the tax will con pet line......._ ___ 3c requirements of the law and has ob sume all of the income. We now Special rates on long time display tained his certificate of naturaliza think our next legislature will be advertising. tion, his bond money can be return able to cut appropriations very ed. But, in case the applicant for materially. But, by the time the citizenship should come in conflict legislature assembles, there will be IMMIGRATION A MENNACE with the law pending his probation innumerable schemes evolved to ary period, either by commission of spend the people’s money. We It is so remarkably easy for. crime or false statements in his need legislators who can say “no,” foreign people to secufe entrance application, the bond would be emphatically. Let us elect them, into the United States and, in due forfeit or as much thereof as would next time. time, become citizens, that the reimburse the government for any When the government reassumes privilege has been greatly abused expense incurred because of the the sole power to issue money, as and we, native born citizens, are fault of the applicant. The bond sufferers for it. Here in Oregon would simply be a guaranty for the new currency measure provides, we are even more magnanimous good conduct and obedience to the it will be discovered very soon, that than the Federal Government and law. It would also bar out paupers, it is nonsense to pay a few people a the pedple of most of the states. alien or contract labor and be an large sum in interest, for the In these other states or in some of incentive for the applicant to obey privilege of doing so. The govern them, at least, the foreigner must law and to rapidly become posses ment might as well owe all the ,have secured his final naturalization sed of the qualifications necessary people as a few of them. If the debt was due all of the people, it certificate before he is allowed to to become a citizen. True, the compulsory loan to the will soon become apparent for the exercise the complete functions of citizenship. In Oregon, we allow government would keep out many people to tax themselves to pay the foreigner to vote six months who would become desirable citi themselvbs this interest is absurd. after he has filed his intention paper zens, but we would have no foreign Every citizen of Sweet Home ers in our alms houses and but few to become a citizen. should demand that our main street Because so many undesirable in our insane asylums and peniteh- through town shall be placed in a people come from the south of tiaries. They would be good in reasonable good condition. Go any Europe—people who leave their order to recover the bond money. direction from town and the country home lands for their country’s good, Such a law would be most effective roads are in better condition than such as paupers and the' criminally in keeping people from coming to our main business street. Even if inclined, that all European immi this country for immoral purposes. we have to borrow money, let us gration is looked upon with sus The time has arrived when the have our main business street in a picion. While many of them are United States must consider her condition for which we will not be desirable and, in time, become ex own interests and those of her citi ashamed. cellent citizens, too many by far, at zens, before she grants favors to once affiliate with our criminal people to whom she is under no President Wilson’s special session classes and add curses and expenses obligation. Congress is in duty of congress closed last week, because instead of benefit. bound to look after the interests of the regular session was billed to Most of these undesirable immi our own yeople, first, last and all open last Monday. Should the grants usually remain in our sea the time. If, to do this, the for present session hold throughout next coast cities and vicinities limited, at eigner is subjected to rules and year until December 1, congress the present time to our Atlantic and regulations which, to him, seem un will have been in session continuous Gulf coasts. But, i with the com just, it is his misfortune. Self ly for two years. This will be the pletion of the Panama canal, they preservation is said to be Nature’s record in the history of congress, of will come to the Pacific coast by the first law. It applies to nations as our government. thousand. well as to individuals. The fact that the docket of criminal courts of the Atlantic A LOST ART NATUROPATH coast cities show a majority of the criminals to be foreinners, is an Unless our farmers and butchers Deseases successfully treated with evidence that the proportion of resume the making of family bacon, out the use of drugs dr surgery by criminals among our foreign born the old-fashioned method <?f curing the Natural Methods of Healing. is much greater than among the pork products, will become a lost Chronic diseases a specialty. , native born, relatively and is a art. Consultation Free. warning that should at once attract People of Sweet Home, for in the attention of congress. We need stance, now pay the freight on fresh Member of the State and National and must have more stringent laws pork, to Portland. After it is con Naturopathic Societies. regulating the coming of foreigners. verted into bacon, according to First door east of Turners store. When the United States were packing house method, they pay the Sherman St. Lebanon, Ore. limited to a few thinly populated return freight on the bacon and a states fringing the Atlantic and merchant’s profit in addition. Mortgage Leans Negotiated Notary Public Gulf coasts, we needed these people. This is poor economy; nor is the N. M. NEWPORT We then had millions of acres of product as toothsome or healthy as wild lands waiting to be developed the bacon that any farmer can Attorney at Law into food producing farms. We make, if he uses reasonable care. (CITY ATTORNEY) could then assimilate almost any Most of the bacon sent out by number of these alien people. Now, the packing houses, is not bacon at LEBANON OREGON conditions are different. Every all; but is salt pork painted with foot of land of the then great un liquid smoke (?), so that it has the peopled and unorganized west, is bacon color a The sweet and whole now included and is under a form some effect of wood smoke is not of state government. It is said there. Beans, greens and other “beggars should not be choosers.” most enjoyable dishes, cooked with We were then beggars for immi the home cured bacon, is rarely gration and we were so anxious to seen, even upon the farmer’s table. have them come that our immigra The farmer or butcher who will tion laws were made most liberal. carefully cure a few hundred or These same laws with trifling thousand pounds 'of pork, making amendments, still exist. We are a the good old-fashioned bacon there little more particular whom we ad of, will certainly get good pay for mit now than formerly. But our the time and cost. Fancy cured tests or qualifications are far too breakfast bacon is not in it when simple and easily complied with. the home cured article dan be ob Perhaps no law, save one of total tained. exclusion, can be enacted which will Secretary Daniel’s idea to make not be' violated, in spirit if not in letter. But the law can be greatly the navy a school, both education Intermountain Tribune Slaughter in Boys Suits 1 have 30 suits of boys and lads clothing, retail price $7 to $20 per suit. To close them out these suits will be sold at just ONE-HALF THE ABOVE PRICES Now is the time to fit your boy out- with school suits - ------ We also carry a complete line of = General Merchandise, Groceries, Hardware, Etc. If you will come in and see me, we will do business. J. M. COWDREY Sweet Home - ? Oregon Subscribe for the Intermountain Tribune AND BUY YOUR Groceries OF THE Lebanon Supply Co. EXCLUSIVE GROCERS Lebanon - - - - Oregon Dr. A. A. BURRIS S. C. STEWART President W. M. BROWN, Vice Pres. J. M. STEWART Vice Pres. CLARENCE INGRAM Cash. T. D. O'BRIEN, Assistant Cashier The Lebanon National Bank LEBANON, OREGON We do a general banking business We pay interest on time deposits We have safety deposit boxes to rent We want your business and will treat you in a manner to deserve it. DON’T FORGET THAT WE SELL Poultry Supplies OF ALL KINDS Come in and get prices on the Best Mill Feed and Flour on the market : KRIEG & ZIESING Leb„on,tke.
