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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. OCTOBER 27. tion of a few years before the present ex likely to put. seems to have little to do ports of 4,000 tons will be but a small with the consumption. An intemperate man is not likely to drink more because fraction of the total amount. One year................................................. 1 Six months ............................................. it is cheap, nor less because it is dear. Three months......... .............................. Prohibitory Law and Personal The difference between five cents a glass and six makes no appreciable difference Liberty. to him. it does make a great difference to be <T iltam ook ìjcaòligbt cP V TO THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. his family. While I do not believe that prohibition M r E ditor ,—Whether it is wrong, of itself, to buv or sell intoxicating alone will stop the sale of strong drink Opposition Butts In Again. liquors, is a question which looses its any more than a prohibitory Jaw will It looks as though there is to bcopposi interest in the face of the acknowledged stop the continuance of gambling, or of tion in thetransportation business again, and appalling evils with which the liquor theft, or any other crime, I would make not that there is room for an additional traffic confronts us. It is not easv to it clear by statute that it is a crime, be steamer to butt in and divide the trade exaggerate these evils, even if this were lieving, with Mr. Gladstone, that “ it is where there is hardly business enough for possible. There is no single channel a duty of Government to make it as one steamer. True there is some dissatis through which such depths of misery hard as possible for a man to go wrong, faction with merchants regarding freight flow over the human race as through and as easv as possible for him to go rates. More we look into the matter, this. No ravages of disease, no devasta right.” There was a time, back in the twilight more are we convinced that the people of tion of nature, no kinds of vice orcrime this county have not looked at the trans work so much woe as this. Such a of civilization, in almost every country, portation and towing business from a statement no intelligent person will be when stealing was common and little “community of interest’’ .standpoint, nor likely to doubt, and no honest one to thought of; that theft, in one way or do they realize that owing to the want deny. The liquor traffic is responsible another, was licensed. In France and of a tow boat on Tillamook Bay that for a very large portion of our poverty, Germany still it is thought wise to at the present stagnati m in lumbering is crime, disease, vice and wrong—to say tempt to control the bawdy-houses by attributable. For instance, arid we will nothing of taxation, which makes every license ; and, even in parts of this country, the same is true of gambling. not go farther back than last week to other evil insignificant. illustrate what we mean. The schooner Now, it is undoubtedly true that all The great question in that early age was Glen, now loading at Hobsonville, was these evils have a moral source. They shall the law be put against stealing ; beating about ten days outside, and it root themselves in the choices of a free shall the privilege of stealing be pur would have been three or four days longer will. They would all disappear if the chaseable by the few ? Then, as now, if the steamer W. H. Harrison had not moral purpose of every man's life were doubtless, it was argued that “license is happened along and towed her in and in set upon virtue. And it is equally true restriction’’ ; that it is “ partial prolii- towing the lumber schooner C. H. Hill to that a virtuous purpose must be free. tion.’’ But, finally, when theft was sea, which was detained for want of a No man is made virtuous by compulsion. made an outlaw—completely, unequivo tow. With that state of affairs, it is no Ills virtue is not put upon him or placed cally—a mighty step upward was taken. wonder that one after another ol the saw within him, save as he himself originates The time will come when to legalize a mills have closed down and gone out of it in his own choice. I have no dispute, saloon will he thought as hurtful to business, to the injury of the county, for therefore, with one who tells me that social order, as is deemed to-day the every lumber schooner that loads here la w is not sufficient for virtue. 1 know legislation of a bawdy-house or a fa ro leaves from $15,000 to $30,000. The very well that good laws do not make bank ; and then an open saloon on a transportation and towing business is the goodness. Evil remains in the human public street will be as rare a sight as most important question we liaye to heart and in society under the best laws. will be a house of ill-fame or a gambling contend with, and if the past is any cri But it is a prodigious mistake, there hell. terion to go by, it looks £S though ano fore, to argue against all restraint of Right here rests the strongest argu ther shuttlecock play is to be made. We human conduct except by moral means. ment for no license ; with the masses have very littleconfidence in the outcome. One ignores the actual facts of human the most potent educator is the law. When the people and the business men nature who denies the necessity of phy With them that which the law permits open their eves and see how important sical coercion among men. If the infant is right and that which the law forbids it is that the transportation and towing Hercules could strangle the serpent in is wrong. The law is the great school services should be dominated by Tilla his cradle, unnumbered other infants, master for the masses. We may spin mook people, with an idea of encourag with a genuine life, would be strangled ever so fine theories, touching license, ing industries and getting their products bv the monster unless he were kept from this will remain true in all of its tremen to market with as little delay and with creeping upon them by a power stronger dous educational effect over the minds as small cost as possible, and also with than he. While we would do every thing of the multitude, the selling, buy the idea of encouraging home seekers, we can to bring men to control their ap ing and drinking * of liquor as a then something will be done that counts. petites by their own self mastery, let I beverage is not wrong, for it is per When the people of this county grapple us not ignore the need, or renounce the mitted by law. The Nevada Liquor with this question from that standpoint I privilege, or throw away the power we Dealers' Association several years ago and a ‘’community of interest’’ idea, then have of helping them, by all means, to passed this resolution : it may be said the lumber industry will this self-control. In the present condi “ Resolved, That so long as our busi begin to boom—and not before. We tion of the world we may not adjust ness is licensed by the United States, have not the least confidence in this but our laws to the resources of the actual State and County, we consider it per ting in, freezing out, buying off, cut rates heroes, and forget the requirements of fectly legitimate and honorable, and do and then high rates, for instead of doing the possible ones. not think that we deserve the censure Tillamook any good, the merchants, the Most persons, however, admit that which is constantly being heaped upon people and the county get it in the neck men, as they are, cannot be governed us.’’ every time.__________________ In Paris the educational effect of the without force, and that the liquor traffic needs to be regulated by law. The law on the side of prostitution is horri Farming and Divorce It is said that Western Liquor Dealers’ Protective ble beyond thought. nearly fifty per cent of the children born The Inland Farmer holds that life on Association some time ago expressed annually in that city are born out of the farm, with its varied labors, its rest itself as decidedly convinced of such a wedlock. A gentleman who, as com ful surroundings and its many interests, need. The question, therefore, relating missioner, had charge of the business of tends not onlv to build up and maintain i to the liquor traffic, is not between law licensing bawdy-houses in Paris, tells a a healthy body, but assures its owner of and law, but between one kind of law story of an old woman whose license he and another. And, practically, the pro a clear and healthy mind. Census statis had often renewed. She wrote to him tics show that the smallest number of i gress of discussion has narrowed down thanking him for his uniform kindness to divorces have occurred among persons to the question, whether we should her, ending her letter by saving that she license the traffic, or prohibit it. engaged in farming. These cold census ' was four-score years and over, and figures give the student and thinker a I Now, I compare all possible good would soon depart for her home beyond deep insight into the innermost recesses j which tnav come from the traffic with its the skies, but that her business would be evils, and a preponderance of evil is so of human life. They show how a man's conducted by her granddaughters, and occupation helps to fashion his charac enormous that any conceivable gain is obliterated by the over-whelming loss. she bespoke for them the same consider, ter, his thoughts and his actions. ate care from his hands that he had The highest average of martial discon 1, therefore, disregard gain—questionable shown her, and that she from heaven at the best — and addressing myself to tent—resulting in divorce—is found would bless him. There was not. seem among soldiers, sailors and marines. the enormity of the loss, I would do my ingly, the slightest suspicion in the mind Comment on this is unnecessary. Then, utmost to remove it by the destruction of that woman that her business was the next highest averages are found of its source. Instead of attempting to not a proper one. And why should there among hostlers, actors, agricultural la restrict, I would prohibit absolutely the be ? She had complied with the law, borers, bar tenders, servants and wait traffic, believing that we may thus im and she felt that the law had its mighty mediately and greatly lessen the evils ers, musicians, photographers, paper arms of protection about her. To the hangers, barbers, lumbermen and so on. which we hope thus ultimately and vast majority the law is the one visible, decreasing in numbers to the lowest, and wholly to destroy. My reason for such concrete form of right or wrong. a position may he briefly stated. this, as stated above, is the farmer. 1.—A restriction which permits the It is a frightful blunder to place the It would be difficult, nav, impossible, to find the true interpretation of these trade and simply limits the traders to educative power of the law on the side facts. But it is evident that constant those who are licensed to sell, sets no of wrong. Let the thunder of the legal contact with the great forces of nature limit upon the buyer. His opportunity code be “ Thou shalt not.” Back yonder, gives men and women a broad view of is not diminished. He can get his liquor, in the distant twilight, Moses might life. The farm is the proper place to rear if he wishes it, just as copiously as be have said, ” 0 Lord, the people are not a family. If the United States is a “na fore. One saloon will supply the craving ready for those prohibitory laws. Public tion of homes,” then the best, noblest of five hundred—or five thousand, for sentiment is not educated sufficiently. that matter—as well as many. The They will lie and steal and worship and happiest must be the farm homes. evils, therefore, of the traffic are not idoh. Give them license laws, low necessarily reduced hv reducing the num license tor worshiping a calf; high Market for Dairy Products. ber of those engaged in it. The abolition license for worshiping a full grown Canadian dairymen for a number of of places where liquor is sold, rather cow.’’ No ; “ thou shalt not’’ has thun years have found a good market for their than their reduction, is what we need, dered down the ages, educating all the excess products in the mother country. and ought to seek. time up toward its level. For the first five months of the present 2—License, high or low, takes away “ But you confound things that are year the increase in their exports of but what ought to be, and in a healthy com. sinful with things that are simply ter to England amounted to 40 per cent. munity, would be, an important moral dangerous. We prohibit a sin ; we regu The manner in which the Canadian pro restriction, from the seller. It removes late things that are dangerous. A ducts dominate the English markets is from him the condemnation of the com bawdy-house is wicked ; a saloon is further shown by the fact that of the munity, and justifies him. It makes his dangerous.’’ Again, for argument’s 3O1.76S,090 pounds of cheese imported act legal. His moral sense, easily sake, grant this distinction. It is not into the United Kingdom during 1903, blinded by the gigantic profits of his I true that we never prohibit things that 68.6 percent came from Canada, 13 4 trade, is thus paralysed, He becomes | are dangerous. We prohibit the building percent from the United States. It.2 per thus, what we find him to be. obdurate, of frame houses inside the fire limits. .... evil ____ i___ who i- ! ii’t i . i , cent front Holland and 6 8 percent from 1 rapacious, an man ___ and i __ seducer, Whv ? Not because the building of such all other sources combined waxes worse and worse. I do not wish J houses is sinful, but because it is danger, But even though England does favor to condemn him, or any man, but I dp ' ous. In localities we prohibit absolu its colonies, there is much room for in not know of any other trade so demoral tely slaughter .houses, bone factories, creasing our exports of both buffer and izing to the trader—any other class of powder mills, etc., soleiv because these cheese, and any surplus in this country sales which does the seller so much things are dangerous. Prove the saloon should be easily disposed of. Of the 219. moral mischief—as that in intoxicating to lie always a menace to the public OOO tons of butter that England imports drinks. And to this damage the com welfare, and vou have ground sufficient every vear, Canada can supply but a munity contributes by licensing him in lor no license. And is it not such a portion, and as the United States is onlv his trade. It makes the community menace ? exporting about 4,000 tons, it is very itself a partv to wrong doing. It lowers There is no new principle involved in evident that there is plenty of opport un its moral tone. the prohibitory law. no unusual trespass itv for disposing of any surplus that may 3.— The revenue from license falls on persona) liberty. It is a gross cari arise as the dairy products of the conn, heaviest where the burden ought to lie cature to sav that prohibition seeks to trv increase. American butter is gaining least. The cost of the license, while it regulate what a man shall eat ordrink, favor m the markets of Europe, ami if may add to the price of the liquor sold, and control actions which lie within the exporters show good judgment and give does not. so fdr as I can learn, diminish range of his personal wisdom and the people of the old world what they the amount of liquor bought and con pleasure. It seeks to do no such thing. want instead of trying to educate them sumed. Practically, the cost of liquor It seeks to protect the industrious tousewh.it we have, it is only a curs within the limits which nnv license w against the waste of the disripn tr«l RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ( STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) 1904. innocent against the crimes of theguilty; the home against the merciless hands that destroy it ; and generations unborn from the inheritance of weakness, pov erty and vice which is ready to over whelm them. If in attaining this urgent object of society, the pleasure-seeker is deprived of a portion of his liberty, we can only say that it is a regretable inci dent of not much account in a great and progressive movement. If a man drives a horse in a crowded street, he must drive so as to consult the safety of those about him. In managing his own house hold, he must be held subject to the direction of the board of health. Not to pass and enforce prohibitory laws when they are called for would he to disregard the fundamental principle on which civil government rests, which is the priority of the interests of all over the interests of any one man. Temperance societies are now all radi cal. They strike at the root of the man ufacture, traffic and use of alcoholic beverages. The only associations that in this day pretend to advocate the principle of moderate drinking as a pre ventive of intemperance, are leagues and conventions of liquor dealers. The ex perience of millions and the experiments of centuries testify to its terrible absur dity. On the same plane of truth, legislation against all kinds of vice,immorality, and crime must be radical, or it is not onlv useless, but it is false and fearfully mis chievous. The alcohol traffic is either right or wrong. If right, it should be free, for in this land of freedom there should be no chains imposed on art, labor, or commerce outside of prison walls. If it is an organic wrong, which wrongs the people, it should die, and all laws that pretend to regulate, to sanc tify and to save it are treason against God and the nation. This is a high question of truth and right, which can be solved by no compromise. “ Policy may divide a principle with the devil or a demagogue, but not with God, not with the conscience of an honest man.” For God’s sake and for the sake of humanity, men, let us cease to .vote as we pray—that is, with our eves shut. G. W. W alker . George J. Gould recently shocked the bull-dog fanciers of two continents by paying .£ 1,(100—$5,000—for “an old- fashioned bulldog” that can bile and fight and do anythingelse that a build« g ought to do. The modern fancy bulldog is worthless. He can’t bring his teeth together to bite, he is sprauling, clumsy, slow and supremely ugly. Why not breed bulldogs to do what bulldogs should do ? And the same principle ap plies all through. Whv breed collies with long, narrow heads when the other kind have most brains ? Whv breed cows to give so lit tie milk or so rich that they can’t raise their calves ? Why breed fowls for feathers instead of eggs or meat ? Why breed a sow so fine that she hasn’t any room for pigs ? And so on. Mr. Gould has laid hold of the right principle, whether it be applied to bull dogs or other animals—breed them for what they are good for and not for something else. M Oregon State Normal School, limolile The Best Training for Teachers Is the Normal course with its s»iur mice of good positions at good \V rite for new catalogue containing tul! information concerning courses of studT training in actual teaching afforded and^ real conditions in town and country schools, and full details about tbe ai vu nee course of study with the additional ¿. B; Add...., I i Mica Axle „"ou,h. Fir and Spruce Lumber. Spruce and Cedar Shingles. Cheese and Butter Boxes a specialty. 4 Orders tor Lumber promptly attended to. TILLAMOOK LUMBER. COCDPÆNY, The Best Hotel THE ALLEN HOUSE, J. P. flULEjM, Proprietor Headquarters for Travelling Men. Special Attention paid to Tourists. A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation, Pacific Navigation Co. STEAMERS--SUE H. ELMGRE, W. II. HARRISON. ONLY LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI, BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE. Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. and also the Astoria & Colombia River R. R. fol San Francisco, Portland and all points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA, OR B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon. . . (O. R. & N. R. R. Co . Portland. A8(‘nt8 * c. K. R. Co„ Portland. Sue H. Elmore carries Wells Fargo Co.’s Express A. K. CASE, PROPRIETOR Tillamook Iron Woks General Machinists & Blacksmiths. Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging. Fine Machine Work a Specialty. TILLAMOOK, In every town and village may be had, the Monmouth, ’‘tril VMr Begins if« its ‘ 23rd year September 20tk 1904, four terms in each school affording equal opportunities for i* ginning a course in September, Nove« ber, February and April. ® OREGON. TILLAMOOK HOTEL. VOGLER & HAMILTON, Proprietors. We have remodeled and thoroughly renovated, repapered aK newly furnished the hotel from the basement to the roof, ant have provided the best accommodations for the public tobtj found in Tillamook. We want the Commercial Traveler to make this his ho® while in our city, every convenience of a modern hotel is in tk< house. We have changed the name of the hotel from the Palace, t»i the Tillamook Hotel. that makes your horses glad. TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK. Saloon in connection, where all the best Wines and Spirit» can be obtained. ( incorporated ), TILLAMOOK CITY, ORE. PAID UP CAPITAL. 410.000. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. DirectorsM. W. H arrison , W. C urtiss , B. L. E ddy *. Cashier w M. W. H arrison . Liberal Prices Paid for gilt edge securi ties of all kinds. LATIMER, BROS., BARBER ANO HAIRDRESSER. SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING SHAMPOOING, ETC J- S. LAMAR WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. I have the largest and best assorted stock of old Wines and Liquors that has ever been imported into this City. I Whisky, $2.25 to $8.00 per gal. * •-> Wines, $1.00 to $3.00 per gal. J Don't drink cheap doctored stuff when you can buy it pure and unadulterated from me. Electric Baths nicely fitted up. Ooodfor persons suffering with rheumatism. Quick Brothers, HOUSEHOLD MOVERS AND DRAYMEN. Heavy Teaming a Specialty with us Our Delivery wagon delivers to couatrv nr ci tv Centrally Uoeated. Rates, $1 Per D*)1 LARSEN HOUSE, M. H. UARSEN, Proprietor. TILLAMOOK, The Ro«» Hnfol fn the e(ty OREGON Xr Chirfr F.r’flnre«». » ■