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FRIDAY, OCTOBER Ml
I will sell at Public Auction my
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No. 1 1 Simplex Seperator.
SALE BEGING AT 1 O'CLOCK
IN THE AFTERNOON.
R. W.SNYDER
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Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited
Mrs. Wilhelmina Friedrich, Main St.
Are you better off now than you were under a Republican administration?
Are you satisfied?
If you believe in the principles of the Republican Party, if you are convinced that these prin
ciples are best for the country, then prove it by voting for your standard bearer, Robert A. Booth,
Republican candidate for the United States Senate.
You know that, under Republican presidents the people of the United States have good times.
You know that under Democratic presidents you have Democratic times.
Remember the prosperity under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft.
Remember the conditions under Cleveland and Wilson.
The issue in this campaign is not one of personality. It is not one of non-partisanship. It is
a question of whether you prefer prosperity under Republican administration.
Do you have eno""h work? Are your wages good? Is your business what you want it to be?
If you are sat' ' with present conditions, well and good; if you believe that the present situa
' .ter than .der McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, you know what to do.
The way to bring back prosperity is to help elect a Republican Senate. The Republican candi
date in Oregon is R. A. BOOTH.
This is a Republican year. Vote the ticket straight.
(Paid advertisement, Republican State Central
Committee, Imperial Hotel, Portland, Or.)
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WHY IS THE HEKALD?
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pose of feinting an Imaginary blow,
but were real incidents in the crea
i tion of the Harlan Horald, which
the paper should have been called.
On New Year's night of this year
the owner of the Palace Hotel gave
a little dance, as he himself said.
. in order that the poor farmers might
have a little fun and company for
once in their lonly lives. Give the
man his duo, he did not wish to
make any money out of the enter
tainment himself. He just wanted
to return some of the many kindness
es he liad received at the hands of
these said farmers. But what hap
pened? These farmers insisted on
staying all night and were so un
mannerly as to pay for their rooms,
and occasionally they got thirsty
whilst they danced, and again they
were so rude to their host that they
paid for their drinks. Now when
closing time came these unruly
guests insisted that eighteen hours
was not long enough in which to
quench their burning thirst. There
fore, though against the law, the
bar of the Palace Hotel kept open,
which was not quite fair to the law
abiding saloon keepers whi had paid
their license too. But what could
Wilkins do? He had to consider his
guests and their wishes were para
mount to the law. True he could
have given them the refreshments,
and thus been without the pale of
the law, but his guests would not
stand for such hospitality. A min
ion of the law, not understanding
the true situation and being an of
ficious sort of a fellow any way, ac
tually arrested the proprietor and a
still more unappreciative court, not
being able to see the matter as it
stood, was so dead to the laws of
hospitality that it fined him $100,
and that was more than the Palace
had made that night. I know this is
so, because Mr. Wilkins himself told
me so.
Now there was another man just
as stupid as the judge who imposed
tho fine. He was the editor of the
Gazette-Times, who actually thought
the judge was right to enforce the
law according to the oath he had
taken and he actually said so in his
paper.
From that moment his fate was
sealed; his monopoly was to cease.
However, it took some little time to
get a man who could be relied upon
to see these things in their true light.
The trouble is that the journalistic
profession as a whole Is one which
attracts men of ideals, men of hon
or, men who are so foolish that they
even forget at times who butters
their bread. In time a man was
found. This was one L. K. Harlan,
who was then managing a small pa
per in the city of lone. Harlan was
not too satisfied with the amount of
support that he was getting in lone.
True the local men of affairs had
put him on his feet and supported
him through the most trying time of
their commercial year, but it was
not enough, and now that Harlan
was getting a little independent he
wanted more than the 'merchants
could give. The town was too small
for a man of his ability, any way.
As he had recently done from Con
don, so he now looked from lone for
another place in which to make a
little raise. In his journeys in
search of the "fall guy", he met J.
L. Wilkins, and Wilkins, who was no
fool in his reading of the chapter of
self-preservation, recognized in Har
lan the man for whom he searched
long and found at last. I said in my
preoration, it will be remembered,
that this class of man enteres
through the back door every once in
a while. Wilkins was searching for
Harlan and Harlan was looking for
a Wilkins, and when they met it did
not take long to decide that they
could be mutually helpful. Harlan
was to put the Gazette-Times out of
business with the least possible de
lay and Wilkins was to find the ad
vertisers and to arrange the finan
cing of the infant until strong
enough to stand upon its own legs.
Harlan's part was easy. All he had
to do was to smear a little soft soap
over the simple farmer and hustle
around for news and advertisements.
He was there with the soft soap iu
great style; in fact he put it on so
thick that some of his subjects near
ly smothered and turned sick. As
one farmer put it to me, "What is
the use of that man saying in his
paper that I am one of the most pros
perous farmers in the Black Horse,
when every man in the country
knows that I am heavy in debt?"
"Do you subscribe for the paper?" I
asked him. "No," he replied, "but
the always sends it to me just the
same." And he is not likely to get
that man to subscribe for a paper in
which he can place no more reliance
than in the Harlan Herald.
But for a while he got along fairly
well with the smearing part of his
campaign. The news part was easy
for a man of L. K.'s versality of
imagination; if it was not at hand
it could at any rate be made. The
getting of advertisements was not
quite so easy so here Wilkins had to
help.
The Gazette-Times installed a
modern typesetting machine and it
became essential that Harlan should
have one too. Here was where Wil
kins was to be useful. But Wilkins
could not go to the public and ask
for financial assistance towards the
prosecution of his private revenge.
An excuse had to be found. Well, it
was a well known fact that the ed
itor of this paper is a strong prohi
bitionist, and although he was too
broad a man to foist his private
opinions upon the public, yet it was
pointed out by the wily one that he!
might at election time. And so it
came about that the liquor interests
were touched for a substantial da
nation. It could be paid either in
cash or in agreed monthly donations
of $5 or more, or it could be ta!en
out in advertising of a certain agreed
amount. But that deposit cn the
typesetter had to be met.
L. K. Harlan, MANAGING EDIT
OR of the Herald, lia3 said that his
paper dees not belong to a syndi
cate. I have already proven cut of
his own mouth that it does belong to
a syndicate, but that was not the one
to which L. K. thought I referred.
Had L. K. been wise enough to
take a well-merited rebuke without
giving me the lie, I would not have
disclosed the syndicate to which he.
In his guilty fear, imagined I re
ferred, but "The guilty flee when
none pursueth."
Now I distinctly wish my readers
to understand that I find no fault
with the wets for supporting their
own paper, each class of the com
munity has that privilege. Where I
do find fault with them is in their
lack of judgment in the man they
chose, and that most hurtful policy
of silence.
Mr. Harlan says his paper does
not belong to a syndicate. Mr. Har
lan might then enlighten us as to
what those men who found the de
posit for the machine are getting for
their money. Are they making him
a gratuitous present of that money?
I hardly think that any of my read
ers will believe so. If they are not
being paid in dividends they are be
ing paid in work of some kind or
another which is not of a kind that
they care to have made public.
But this is the policy of silence
to which I referred in the first part
of this article.
The Herald is similar then to the
papers, of which I spoke in the first
part of this now too long answer,
in its policy of silence, in the man
ner in which its editor was obtained,
tho class to which this man belongs,
and its dark and entirely bluffing
way of hinting at horrible and mj'S'
terious things to come. Take it all
through, it is in a fair way to be
come one of those pestilences to
which I have alluded, whose very
existence is a plague to the coismun
ity In which it is given away, and an
offence to the good feelings of the
people; I mean A YELLOW JOUR
NAL.
Mr. Harlan writes of me as being
deceptive and hypocritical. Well
well. And what does the public
think of this man who is running a
paper with the avowed intention of
breaking a man with a large family,
a man who was in this county when
the MANAGING EDITOR was "mul-
ine and nuking" in his cradle? A
man who, so far as I can ascertain
has never done any man wrong, and
whose only fault consisted in report
ing a police court case in which one
of the silent promoters of the Her
ald was fined, and rightly too.
. What does the public think of this
man who, .whilst taking money for
the continuance of bis" filthy rag
from the interest most opposed to
tho church element, and with com
mercial murder in his heart, prints
long articles on the advisability of
going to church? As if the church
element were green enough to fall
for anv such nolicv so obvious. And
this man calls me cunning.
With regard to the braggadocio
of which the MANAGING EDITOR
accuses me: I remember one eve
ning when one of the leading young
men of the town asked him if he was
running a paper in which Joe Wil
kins owend the controlling interest:
Joe Wilkins representing the saloon
interests, he denied it saying: "I
will print, as by law required, the
names of those who own this paper,
and you will find that only my
brother and myself own this paper."
And did he really suppose that
either the young man or myself
were so simple that we expected to
se Mr. J. L. Wilkin's name, or shall
we say, that of Mr. Vic Groshens,
or any other backers appear in the
list? Not much. But it was highly
amusing to see him try to deny the
allegation.
He told the young man in my pres
ence that his gift to his brother was
equal to a present of $2000 cash.
What, then, is the paper worth?
Why had such a rich journal to post
pone the payment of $50 on the
typesetting machine for two months,
and finally get an outside citizen to
guarantee the payment? $2000. Some
Bull.
I thank the MANAGING EDITOR
for his kind remarks re my charm
ing personality (which I admit is
well put), and deeply regret I cannot
return the complement.
A. L. SPARLING.
Reports of meetings of the Grange
in all parts of the state show the
farmers lined up solidly against all
the freak measures on the ballot,
$1500 exemption and eight-hour law
Included.
The Eugene Register "''Is the pro
posed $1500 exemption ndment
"Sugar Coated Single Tax.
Sclo Is to have a new prim, j
plant, a new hotel and perhaps an
other drug store.
Logged off land seems to be in de
mand around Coos Bay for small
farms.
It. L. Macleay will erect a cheese
factory at Gold Beach.
Port Orford cedar is selling for
$95 per thousand,
'WLEAOUEIf
Mj Two "Taxpayer
Waze Esrasra"
BREWERS PUT UP FUNDS
KNOWING THAT OREGON
DEY MEANS BETTER BUSI
NESS FOE ALL LINES
SAVE ONLY SALOONS.
BY ORTON E. GOODWIN,
Publicity Department, Committee of One
Hundred.
The great campaign to
make Oregon "wet" has
failed.
The exposure by Dr. Cora
Talbott, secretary of the
4 ' Taxpayers ' and Wage
Earners' League," that tho
organization consisted of two
persons, Mrs. Duniway and
Dr. Talbott, and was fi
nanced by the brewers and
distillers to make Oregon
"wet," threw the fat kilo
the fire. '.
The brewers and distillers
know that all kinds of busi
ness save theirs is better in a
dry town.
They know this has been proved
by figures and facts from Salem,
Oregon City, Roscburg, Albany,
Ncwberg, Ashland, Corvailis, Pen
dleton and many other towns.
Organization Spreads Untruths.
So they organized the "Taxpay
ers' and Wage Earners' League" to
spread misinformation about Ore
gon dry.
They know bank deposits in dry
towns have increased in number
and amount. They know bad debts
are almost unknown in all dry
towns. They know collections are
better. They know arrests from
drunkenness are almost unknown.
They know every dry town in Ore
gon U prosperous.
So, they became desperate.
Taxpayers' League Is "Joke."
Then they organized the joke
"Taxpayers' and Wage Earners'
League." Dr. Talbott was secre
tary. She became disgusted when
she learned money was being col
lected by the brewers and distil
leries by the use of her name, and
she resigned.
Then Mrs. Dumway advertised
lavishly, announcing thai the money
the "league" was using was pro
vided by the brewers.
The campaign of misinformation
carried on by employes of the
-league, who arc also employes of
the breweries nnd distilleries, is
now known all over Oregon.
Brewers Spending Your Money.
Every man, woman and child
has to spend ?20 a year with tha
saloons.
If yon do not diink, same one
else lias to pay YOL'R share.
So, it is YOUR money the Ore
gon brewers ir.ul Eastern distil
leries have been using to uersuaile
YOU Oregon wet will do . YOU
good. It is believed they expect
to spend over 200,000 of YOUR
money.
They know Oi'ejsn i:j will put
them out of business anri help every
otLer kind of business in the state.
Although the breweries and dis
tilleries know Oregon dry is for
belter business, prosperity and
more work, they are fighiing it.
No Saloons; Brtte.' Business.
We have bad bad times with the
saloon, haven't we? Why not try
no saloon? It can't make things
worse and is certain to make
things better.
The reason is:
Money spent on the saloon can
not be spent for groceries. Money
spent in the saloons much of it
goes East. Money spent for dry
goods and groceries stays in the
towns and makes better business.
The members of the Committee of
One Hundred are all Oregonians.
Most of them are business men.
They ask you to vote Oregon dry,
because they know, as the brew
ers also know, that Oregon dry
means better business, lower taxes,
more work and a return to pros
perity. For the experience of all Ore
gon dry towns has proved this to
be the case.
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Paid advsrUsement by Commutes of On
Hundrsc, 7i Morgan Bids., Fortlud, Or.
350 men are working steadily on
the big Hill terminals at Flavel.
The Tallant cannery at Marsh
field has resumed with a large force,