Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-04

i few weeks ago tie Portland Ore
g0nian described the Pcndleton East
Qregonian as firm and fair-minded.
Now the Portland paper speaks con-
tenptuously OF its contemporary DIS hav-
ing small wisdom and less proprietY."
This latter statement simply shows thai
even the bigottel Portland Oregonian
accidentally makes d just remark occa-
siouallY.
Again "old man i'amborn" has been
fined $1,000 by Judge Deadly. cold
man Pamborn'' is regarded by many
who know him as an inoifensive old
man; but in spite of this he may be des-
perately wicked. He is evidently so
regarded by the federal officials in Pen
} dlcton and ON the reservation. He is
! guilty of one heinous offense: he is poor.
If he was rich, and cultivated big
farm, his living on the reservation
would not perhaps be SO much Of a tres
pass, and his evil influence upon the
Indians would not probably lie so no.
tlceabIe. But it really does seem singu.
lar that cold man Pamborn" is the ou-
ly man who has been living illegally
upon the reservation, and the only one
who has hatl o bad influence upon the
Indians for 10! these many years, or, at
least, thought worthy OF prosecution.
The idea OF liberty is being constantly
garbled, and by some people is always
exalted to the seventh heaven of absur-
dity. One of the peculiar phases it
sometimes takes is that Of allowing a
boy to follow his bent, to pursue those
studies that are agreeable to hiIn, or
for which he supposes that he has nat
! ural aptitude. There is "a plausi billty
about such palayer. Allowing boys, or
girls either, to follow the bent of their
inclination IN studyis to put premium
! on badly balanced minds and to eucour-
age the growth Of cranks. Ii a boy
''hatgs figures, it simply shows that
he possesses an hereditary OF acquired
weakness or defect in that direction.
To humer that bent is to ensure great
er distortion OF his mental equipoise.
One aim OF education should be to Sc
cure evenly balanced minds, not to en-
, courage all manner of mental deformity.
Weak points should be strengthened,
and precocious points held in check.
Fond parents and foolish teachers need
not fear thai any budding genius Is thus
Going to be destroyed. There is not the
Y least danger. Real genius cannot be so
casiIy suppressed. BY cu!tjyating the
weak points Of a boys mind lie may be
enabled to use to good advantage those
z faculties with which he IS richly gifted,
when otherwise they would run riot
without check or balance, AID prove
T the baue of his existence.
- Is it probable that men, numbers @!
them, would attempt to deceive theil
in fellows, and triae with their health
Ees, even with their lives, simply t.
make money? 1t does not seem reason
~ able Again, is it possible that mil
4 l!o's ct people can be yearly deceived
\ by those who positively assert the
> aMhty 10 cure all the ills that flesh i
heir to: l. does not see n reasonable
Now Il Is We'll known that there is no
i disease Incident to humanity 10
less which the Patent medicine man doe
" not possess an intallibie remedy, az
stl.l many people are simple enough t
; be sick, and some are silly enough t
- die. though fully informed that the
the can obtain the Misunderstanding specif
Tor dollar per bottle. There must b
!, something strangely obstinate about th
ION person who persists in 'shufling @
- this mortal coll when he could kee
Tcn wound M and in running order at 6
.I- small a cost. And how $ ad those phi
ala anthropic patent medicine men mu:
for feel to fad people who never deigned I
lse. buv bottle et their panaoal a,-;-o do
~ ~ ly, in ignorance OF its virtue. in spite
* the millions spent in maxim it know
IN to suffering humanity. Thlir d;sa,
ole pointment must be iamensA but L
On greater than the innocent ,ru1S Sfn,,e
ipt m OF the millions who deTogr the 6nfal.
ear bic cure-alis and who I'D no re,;Af f,
their various ailments. Sura,A u
~. world is full OF mysteries.