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
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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.
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cent front Holland and 6 8 percent from 1 rapacious, an
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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.
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Fir and Spruce Lumber.
Spruce and Cedar Shingles.
Cheese and Butter Boxes a specialty.
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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.
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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
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