The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-04-19

es, men should suffer and families |
be plunged into sorrow because
they have exercised a right Of con-
science guaranteed to them by the
constitution Of the country. They |
are in Jail because they simply |
worshiped their God as they saw
fit. The keeper of Saturday has
an undoubted moral right to his
conviction. Are we returning to
the days of "Cotton Mather" or the
Spanish Inquisition," which?
OWING to the fact that demand
has been found for Oregon and
Washington pototates this spring
there is danger of greatly over do
ing the business planting potatoes
in the Pacific northwest this year,
says the Rural Northwest. If it
had not been for the great drouth
which cut short the potato crop of
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, the
Dakota and other states in the east
last year, hundreds of carloads of
potatoes would have rotted in Ore
gon and Washington which are
now finding market.
LETTERsfrom different portions of
the state are still being published
in the Oregonian giving forth diff
ferent opinions asregards the needs
Of this region. The burden Of their
plant may be summed up in a few
words-more work; more enterprise;
buy less goods from abroad and
make more at home, ratronize
home industries and lend no aid to
foreign fads and fakes.
Ex-GovERNoR PENNoYER surely
is blessed with great faculty for
pardoning, as is attested by the
long list of criminals published
elsewhere in this issue, who will
walk ont from behind the grim
walls to freedom, thro ough the eni-
ency of his ex.excellency. Wonder
if his bump of generosity won't di-
minish somewhat, when his con-
sience asks for the pardon of Ger
tain newspaper criticisms.
THERE is movement on foot to
practically separate Cook county,
as county, from the state of H.
iinois. Should the move be sue
cessful, it will be governed by q gen.
eral assembly, and no tax can be
levied by the state and the county
draw no money out Of the state
treasury.
The fellow who is talking up the
building Of an electric railroad
from New York to San Francisco
which shall carry passengers 100
miles an hour may truthfully lay
claim to having rapid transit ideas,
even if he never gets the $200,000,-
900 needed to construct the road.
THE moral wave that has been
humping against the rocks in Port
land has spent its force, apparently,
and retires little discouraged. tits
charged that the officers have been
working it for what there was in it
financially.
LIBERTY's most ardent friends in
Cuba acknowledged their course
to be lost. Crombel, the great
leader is dead, and Maceo, the pat
riotic general, in captivity, the in
surgeant ranks are demolished and
freedoms banner trails in the dust.
A COMMITTEE at Baker City in !
report on the mines of Union, Bak-
er, Grant, Malheurn, and Harvey
counties says that there was pro-
duced in these counties in the year
1894 upwards Of ~, 100000,
OF wooL-PRoDUCINC countries, the
United States is third in the
list. Its product in 1894 is esti-
mated at S35,000,000 pounds. 1t
was Dut oU,oUuUUU pounds In 1861.
]. S. CLARKsoN, formerly chair
man of the republican national
central committee, has purchased
the Chicago Inter. Ocean. He in
tends to run it as a silver paper.
THE people of Oregon are becom-
ing more and more impressed with
the idea that close cultivation of no
more acreage then they can cult.
vate well, is most profitable.