The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-05
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BRO WNSf1fIsE ENEEXES,
Rum and ruin.
Awful foggy sunday.
Everybody eouahing
We need mere street ianpa.
stop up the holes IA your roofs.
Gnt concert every night sc Nemo's.
= r Gaihn.ilh was In town satur-
day.
our fruit cannery has turned up It's
toes.
Fred Croft OF Albany was In town
saturday.
Will someone start a dog farm9 Lots
Of money Ia Is.
Two ef r. MI Braley's children AZ
sick with bad colds.
Our liremen are out at elbows; they
need new uniforms.
Trains are behind time on the Gala
pooia Valley railroad.
Died, of spinal weakness, the
Brownsville hnnrd Of trade.
Emil Hoppe arrived ia town Friday.
BE reports everything lovely IN Salem.
Wlldey lodgs !. O. q. r., Of Halsey,
viii hold public Installation of officers
New Years night.
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What a Siod-send Il would be II son.
genius would invent noiselfss piano.
That hobo who dlsplaces l,0se beards
on the sidewalk these dark nights l. n
worse aflietion than the seven-y year
itch.
The election held nc the Baptist
church Nov. - failed once more and
nobody elected up @ date. mix cum
rouse"
Candidates for city officers are very
modest. Dame Runor has not breathed
a single name Don't be tashful, gen
tlepien, ple'lse step forward.
One ~ Slntl Rrpwmsviiie's sulstan-
| tial citizens informs rs that Liberal
ball has beeu haunted ever since n
certain Mormon preacher held service
there.
Nell Stevens and Andy McFerren
were driving \ fractions horse Sunday.
1 The animal didn't like their sDcjel s
aud proceeded 70 XII K tiiem both out
/ Of the cart. Damage slight.
In dark ronm in 0sbnrn's drug
store Saina Clans has BE-, n busy pack
ing his budget for the last wetk II
some of he little girls and boys la this
1 town could see what we have seen
i they would clap their hands with de-
light. Oh, my, yum, yum.
Calapooia lodge No. 4S /. O. o. f.,
/ held their sEmi-aunual election Satur
day, Nov. -. The following were the
successful candidates: y. c., !. J..
/ Boyer; Y. c., W. o. Smith; recording
secretary, 4. l., say; treasurer, ". Il.
| kirk; trustees, Nj. Farley, u. r. Childs,
| q. Y. Standish.
The organic principle upon which
pr0hibiiion is based is that we are lust
1
Its evils. This iGea II not new. a
| glance backward over the evolution of
human thought reveals the fact that
| Il had its birth la the infancy of TIM
hgman race, bot, like the boy with his
first pants, we have. almost outerown
il. Stili it viii occasionally crop out
in the radical mind, especially when
| we fail 10 find "a remedy for some exist
ing evil. The cfuciixtun pf Christ
and the surrounding circumstance
attending his death iudItates that this
Idea WAS part Of the old Jewish law,
and the execution Of that law on that
oecasiOn has branded the Jewish race
/ with a witheFihg curse up 10 he pres
lent time. This Idea at the present day
is Incorporated as part Of the dor :
trine ot the Mormon church, and u
lc4lled tile blood aioucmeut doctrine
Ii teaches the Mormon people that
tHEh Aft Httet ststfa III HfitttiI4 ttik NtaHti
of sinner la order 90 save his soul.
4 noted general has declared that uo
indians ate wepd except the dead ones,
in other words that Ii s necessary to
ldeStroN thuse children Of nature whose
heritage We have taken in order tu
make them good Later still, bat with
"A bOldeF mien, we see this hydra
headed monster, emerging from tht
blood stained darkness of the past. In
Z & .f.fH HsF Is Egg.as a.
Tie tiin veil which its devotces have
thrown around Il, namely, the preveil
ton of intenlpemnce, dues not hide
one line of its hitleous anatomy. Ii Is
tIe same fanaticai iiend that nailed
the Lamb of Calvary 10 the cross aud
{ enacted those scenes Of cruel butcherA
which eliminated in that awful trAg
edy at Mountain Meadows. We haSt
b gn told by q delicate, refined girl
within the past week, that the enc
Justified the means This was the
motto ef the Spanish pirates Whose
deeds of raplne are not iit for publica
dion, aud whose ioathsome bodies or
pamcntcd the yard-aFns of kiuI
IGeorge's war ships century ago. @
course we were shocked at such AN ex
preston, and we blush for the moielf
! prohihiuoaist. That intemperance il
a blightlng curse 10 this fair land. n,
hohest man can or VIII deny, but tht
/. question for the honest, fair-inind,t
prohibitionist land 20 such this appea
Is E1ade; 10 The fanatic we have moth
ing to sayl &c decide Is, whether il i
right to correct these evils by the u
PRODUCTION Of . practice that has blach
6 encd and disiigured the past history &
. the human race.
We are not prohibitionist. w
could not be one IL we tried. Abov
{ we have given some uf our reasons
and If we thereby incur the displcasur
and frowus of our prohibition friend
we viii have the pleasure of knowing
that we, like many others in Browns
willie, have lived up 80 our honest con
victiuns, and we will stand the conse
iquences like a little man. MEMO.
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