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tí. L. EDDY. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. (STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) 1.50 75 One year......... Six months . .. Three months ^be ^iliamooh 50 Ijtabligbt Fred C. Baker. Publisher. A Fight lor Civilization. the white woman is degraded into par ticipation in the crime excused as the safeguard of her delicacy. What the roughs of South Carolina do. the roughs of Georgia and New Jersey and New York come to think is’’smart’’and so' our government of law is in danger ot __ ________ ___ of civil- . subervision. May all the forces here unite to stamp out I itation every w I. — — — — — savagery wherever it rears its hand. , Let us of New York and of South Caro lina make common cause in arousing, convincing, shaming every community where lynching shows itself into making an efficient stand for law. The Tribune Farmer says; We rarely are called upon to comment upon some lynching horror in the South and urge for the sake of our common country and white civilization that tendencies to. numerous Reasons Set Out. ward batbarism be repressed butthat The following reasons are urged some of our Southern contemporaries against the constitutionality and vali persist in misunderstanding u9. in con dity of the local option law : struing our denunciation of lynching and Because it was not submitted to the the display by mobs of fiendish passion Governor for his approval, was nut as an attack upon the South. We have signed by him, nor returned with his often given assurance that such is not objections, nor tiled by him in the office our spirit. With equal earnestness we of the Secretary of State ; that the law have denounced the. lynching mania was not legally submitted to the elec- when it manifested itself right herein tors, because the petition for its sub- New York. Our’ only purpose is to en cent mission was not signed by 8 courage the law-abiding elements everv- of the voters ; that it confers an unlaw indifferent and where, to arouse the ful delegation of legislative authority of make them realize the progressive evil the County Court ; that the title does of this crime. So when we have dwelt not give notice that it is unlawful to upon the horror of setting a white girl sell liquors ; that the initiative and Io fastening a noose on a negro who had referendum act is contrary to the Con attacked her, and said that such deeds stitution of the United States, wherein a were not consistent with Southern chivalry, it was with real admiration of republican form of government is guar Southern chivalry and with the desire anteed ; that it unlawfully prohibits the that everything noble in Southern feel sale of liquor on the prescription of a ing might realize the danger to its ideals physician not engaged in practice ; that in the lynching spirit which has been it is contrary to section 21 of the Con allowed to grow up in this country and stitution ; that it unlawfully attempts nught do a work which it alone could do to delegate the prohibition question to precincts, and that it provides for illegal for our national salvation. Not from any feeling of sectional pre search warrants and rules of evidence. judice have we spoken, not from any Political Jottings. hatred of the South, but entirely from It is all right for Judge Parker to ex hatred of that savage lawless spirit deeply planted in the human breast plain where he stands on the money which, whenever it manifests itself, question, but there is nothing in the con menaces us all and demands re vention record to show that his party pression. Therefore it gives us great stands with him. pleasure to bear witness to the stand American voters will hardly forget for civilization just now taken bv the their experience when they applied the officials of South Carolina and the noble Democratic back-pedal on an up grade. words of a representative Southern A convention may be trapped to nomi paper, “ The Charleston News and nate a candidate who does not stand on Courier.” At Eutawville, S. C., a few j the platform hut it is a different propo days ago, Kitt Bookhard, a negro, went | sition to induce the voters to support fishing with six white men. When the ' such a candidate at the polls. Demo pleasure party was returning he was cratic managers admit this by giving up cursed by one of his w’hite associates, ; hope of carrying any of the Western and he cursed in return. According to j ' States which went for Bryan in 1896 another account, the partv became and 1900. boisterous, there was talk of “licking,” Captain Hobson and Democratic ora and Bookhard told one of the white men that if he didn't leave him alone he tors of that school bitterly denounce | President Roosevelt. There is no objec would “ spank him.’’ The trouble amounted to nothing more The next tion, if it pleases them, for it docs not day Bookhard was arrested for his “ in bother Mr. Roosevelt a little bit. A Drunkard’s Will Oregon State Normal School..^Monmouth. I ddy & botts , A ttorneys - at -L aw E [TO TH I EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT]. It can be written in a few short sen- ! tehees: “1 will and bequeath to my heart broken wife the memory of broken vows, blighted hopes, penury, and woe. I will I and liequeath to my little children pov- erty and shame, and to the rest of my ' kindred I will and bequeath the icco- Icctioiis of a misspent life and the mono- ! ment of a drunkard's grave.” Oh ' how many such wills are recorded in the great book ot man’s destiny and fate! How many such monuments are ound in the cemeteries all ov r ur land, not built alone over the remains of tbo e whose feeble intellects have rendered them easy victims of temptation and sip! Go where you wili—visit the cities of the I dead in every land—and there lie the re- | mains ot poets and statesmen, kings and | subjects, men of the brightest intellects j as well as feeble minds—hundreds upon ' hundreds, thousands upon thousands, yes, millions upon millions filling drunk- ! ards’ graves; for the demon that has so long devastated the earth spares neither j rich nor poor, plebeian nor patrician, but all alike are its yictims! Yes, from I eyery station in life, the demon alcohol j demandsjvictims for his altar. The hojv j vestments of the church and the sacred | ermine of justice are no protection against | this demand. Yet a Christian people will by law provide victims for the sac- ! I rifice ; will grant licenses to tempt men to sin then punish those who are tempt ed; will in the name of the law legalize and license the great source ofcrime and then punish the criminal. Shame! shame! on such a law and the people who sus- tain it. Oh, monstrous incongruity in such a people who with the right hand erect churches in the name of the living God, and ask men to repent, while with the left thev build prison-houses and scaffolds, and by law’ tempt men to oc cupy them. A Christian people license its tale by deliberate enactment of the Legislature, and sustain it by the decis ions of our courts, while thev expend millions of money to send missionaries j to the heathen, and religious tracts to the Islanders of the far off seas. Verily, there is a missionary work be done at home, and a beam to be moved from our own eve as well as mote from that of our neighbor’s. When, during the rebellion, the South ern rebels sent the infected clothing from the plague hospitals of the South to the North, to scatter disease and death over our land, the whole civilized world was horror-stricken at the deed. It was de nounced in every land and by every ton gue. And vet, Oh! most Christian con sistency, we to-dav sustain its parallel by law and support it bv license. What right has the State, for the sake of the price paid for a license to grant the proprietor of a saloon the privilege of tempting young men to get drunk, and in consequence thereof to become criminals ? What right has the State to tempt the rising generation to become drunkards ? U hat right to authorize anyone to sell insanity, or to give to another a loathsome anddeadlv disease ? Has a druggist a right to sell or give arsenic or prussic acid to one he knows w ill l>e injured by the poisons ? Has the State the right to grant a license to do so because it puts money in the public purse? We punish the defaulter to the Government who has stolen or embezzl ed the public money of which he was the custodian. Is it any meaner or more wicked to steal from the Government than for the Government to rub the citi- | zen of his health, his money, and his rep utation, by the license privilege which does all these and much more? “ ‘Little by little,’ the tempter <aid. As a dark and cunning snare he j spread For the young and unweary feet, i “Little bv little, and dav bv day, 1 i will " tempt the * careless ‘ soul away, ■ Until the ruin is complete.’ ” G. A. W alker . ■olence” and ordered to pav a fine of Col. Bryan says that Hamlet is his fa $5. In default he was committed to the vorite play. Judge Farker probably town lockup. That night half a dozen fears that the grave digger is the Col white men broke in the jail door, killed onel’s favorite character in the play. the negro, mutilated his body beyond Silver Democrats must agree with description, weighted it and threw it Kuropatkin i.i his fear of the final tri into the river. It unexpectedly rose to umph of the yellow peril. view, revealing the crime in all its Even a casual reading of the figures of horror The deed, we are glad to say, has America's growing export trade will aroused the lietter elements of the State, cure any pessimism on the part of those not merely to the atrocity of this mur who question the permanency of pros der, but, in a measure, to the danger perity under Republican policies. attached to all lynching, with its easy The republican pat tv stands pledged descent to Avernus. “ The News and to the policy of protecting American in Courier’’ say the murderers are known, dustries. The Democratic party opposes calls for their punishment, and reports this policy without offering anything in that the authorities are active and place of it. ____ earnest. It declares ; The Democrats ot the West are more “ For once, at least, it would seem interested in again securing control of that the spirit of mob violence has over the party, in 1908, than thev are in what reached itself. A h.'indlul of lawless citi will happen to Parker and Belmont in zens, with little or no provocation other 1904, than a disposition of wanton brutality, There is a general suspicion in Demo set upon a defenceless prisoner and butchered him. Their act was revolting cratic circles that Judge Parker would beyond expression, hut, shocking as it run better if Cleveland and Hill were was, they doubtless gained the temerity not so conspicuous on the coaching lines. to attempt it from the fact that scores Judge Parker's conversion to the gold of other lynchers had been permitted to standard bears a later date, evidently, do little less terrible deeds without re. than when he voted for Bryan in 1900. tribution overtaking them. But be that He allowed the New York Democratic The Liquor Dealer’s Political as it may, Solicitor Hildebrand's report convention, as late as hist April, to Power. is a pledge to the public that for once dodge the issue. The Liquor Dealers’ Association held the mob has gone not too tar. for that The trouble with the Democratic can in the citv of Philadelphia last 10th is no uncommon thing, but has gone so didate for the Presidency seems to be month from the 13th to the 16th voted tar that the authorities, the couits and that he is too radical for the conserva to send ten picked men as lobbyists to society means to call a halt.’’ tire I>emocrats and too conservative Washington to prevent the passage of Not only does it point out that such a for the radicals, and between* them anv restrictive measures, and to secure, crime unpunished would lie notice to the there is still a breach which divides them if possible, the repeal of all laws that world "that there was no act of mob irreconcilably. • are obnoxious to the liquor traffic. Thev violence so wanton, so cruel, so lawless voted that a similar committee be sent Alter all, the Republican party ’ s chief or so brutal as to demand the punish to every state capitol for the same pur- ment of white murderers ot a black man source of strength lies in the fact that its pose. I-egal counsel is to assist the in South Carolina, but it goes to the principles appeal to the rugged common lobbyists and a sum of |o,000,000 was sense of the American people. heart ot the whole matter as involving raised for defensive purposes. civilization itself, in these .vords: Now add to this the fact that last Does It Pay ? "If such a murder may go unavenged vear the government received <178,000,. among us to-day, it is only a question To bare ten smart, intelligent boys of time tiefore the aggressions of the turned into hoodlums and thieves to OOO revenue from intoxicating liquors lawless, emboldened bv immunity, will enable one man to lead an easy lite by and we have this sum total. A govern, merit held captive by the powers of the essay other deeds of equally brutal vio. selling them liquor ? fence. It is no far cry from the wanton. | Does it pay to have one thousand traffic and the same power controlling fiendish, unavenged butchery of a de homes blasted, defiled, ruined and the ruling politicians.—The Woman's Friend. fenceless negro prisoner to the assassins- turnedinto places ot disorder anil misery tion of white men and the subversion of in order that the wholesale liquor Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. those principals of )1( w and order upon dealer may ainnss a fortune? Has world.wide fame for marvellous which s-vcietv is founded, and without Docs it pay to build school houses, cures. It surpasses any other salve, lo the vindication and maintenance of endow colleges and erect churches tor tion, ointment or balm for Cuts. Corns Felons. Ulcm, which no human tight Is secure and no the purpose of ennobling and upbuilding Burns. Boils. Sores Chapped H inds. Skin Eruptions ; infnlli. man's lite is safe." a true manhood and then make legal a *‘(5 lor Cure guaranteed. Only That is the doctrine we have long traffic whkh robs m. not reason, honesty, Joe. at Chas. I. Clough. Druggist. preached concerning lynching^. North, virtue, religion, life, in tact every good The Death Penalty. South, East and West. Give the mob • nd noble impulse of his nature ? A little thing sometimes results in free rein anywhere and its deeds will fie- Does it pay to keep thousands ot men death. Thus a mere scratch, insignu come progressively fiendish and find in penitentiaries, hospitals and lunatic ticant cuts or pnnv t>oils have paid the imitators in an ever widening circle. asylums at the expense of the death penult v. It is wise to have honest, Hanging liecomes burning, the "saucy-’ industrious tax-paverx in order that a Bucklen s Arnica Salve ever handy It’s negro comes to be pumsheiijust the same tew rich capitalists may grow richer by the best Salve on earth and will prevent fat.ilitv, when Burns. as the black brute, the white man falls ' the manufacture of intoxicating liquors ’ 1 îles threaten. Ouly Sores. Ulcers and at Unas. 1. a victim to the lawlessness he tolerates. —From " Friends Homiletic Journal.” Clough. Drug Store. ginning a course in September. N otch »- ber, February and April. Complete set of Abstract Booh The Best Training for Teachers in office. Is the Normal course with its assur ance ot good positions at good ,»''«'*■ U rite tor new catalogue eo"2'"!’* information concerning cou”es training in actual teaching afforded under real conditions in town and country Schools, and full details about the ad vance course of study with the additional advantages attached. Address, . . 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