Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-29
The CORVALLIS GAZETTE
TUESDAY, sEPrEMBERse, 1903.

Did 1T ever strike you that tue
man who does good farming sci
dom has an unfavorable season.
More crop failures are due to the
farmer himself, than to droughts,
floods or untimely frosts. The
man who plows deep early i'll the
season, who cultivates frequent
" aud late in the season, who
looks after his trees and sprays
them when needed, who looks as
carefully to bis business as a mer--
chant or banker in a city does to
his, seems to stand in with Provi-
dence much better, and have bet
ter success than the man who
scratches his land and puts the
blame of his own ignorance and
ineficiency on that convenient
scape goat, the weather. Thin K
the matter over, gentlemen.
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One of the tender hearted
young ladies of Corvallis thinks
. that an article against the "hor-
rible cruelty practiced by some
of Our neighboring nations"
would be very appropos at this
time. She is not so particularly
bitter against the Turks, because
that is so far away, but right
here near home they are prac-
ticing such cruel sport that it
deserves a reprimand. Only a
few days ago, at bull fight in
Jaurez, they killed bulls and
horses, and those brutal Plea
dors-and that horrible matador
and they say that young girls
really laughed and clapped their
hands, and shouted 'Bravo,
Torop' when a horse was wound
ed, and she doesn't see how any,
one can like such cruel wicked
sport; how any one can be so
real barbarous-and if I would
be so good as to give them fits
about in, and-"Oh! aren't you
SO glad that the football games
commence next month. !'
The yellow journals of the
country are parading the crimes
of the Turks and the horrors of
Mohammedanism in an effort to
involve this country in a war
with Turkey. Such talk is the
rankest kind of nonsense. This
IS one the times when the policy
of n1inding your own business is
the best thing and the hotheads
should not be permitted to lead
us into a quarrel for which we
have no just cause. Germany is
weeping and wailing at the cru
elites practiced on the poor
Christians of the Balkans, and at
the same time is quietly making
an honest groschen by furnish
ing Turkey with improved fire
arms and snokeless powder.
Russia wakes indignant at the
horrible 1nassacres in Macedonia,
but closes one eye when it is a
case of Jewish outrage in her
own cities of Kishinef and
Gomel. England, with her heart
overhowing with pittie rushes a
war vessel to the Dardanelles,
only to bring back an interest
payment on her bonds, paid from
the forced taxation that caused
all the trouble. If Providence
would only bring an earthquake
where it would do the most good.
Europe would almost be obliter-
ated.
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When the plucky express mes
senger on the o. R. & N. met
the advances of the train robbers
with bullet, he furnished the
best solution of the hold-up
problem. The most rigorous
laws have been passed in many
states, but the hold-up industry
has not been discouraged in the
least. These men are naturally
towards. They can be restrain
ed only by fear. Introduce into
their business the element of
positive danger, and you have
taken a long step towards its
suppression. One thing Sure
the man who catches the bu llet
retires permanently from the
business, and you have got the
balance of the gang scared. There
is altogether too much lawlesness
among the youth of the land. The
great need is a lesson that they
will take to heart. It is from this
class that the ranks of hardened
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