Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

gives a chance tor such NAL
contents as General Weyler and
the military faction TO obtain
control, and their Influence Can
only be bad for the country.
What with a young king, easily
Influenced, ard a rabid ministry,
SPANS future has gloomy lcok
But it may work for the good IN
the end, and hasten the day
wien Spain will take her place
among the world'sRepublics. A
consummation much to be de-
siredand one which is inevitable.
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The meeting in Newport las,
week, to consider the advisable
ity and practicability of further
improvement Of Yaquina Bay
harbor was fully attended, but
the report of the board will not
be made public for some time
vet. 1t is we'll to note that the
Oregon delegation in Congress is
a unit in favor of the improve
ment, and even if the report of
the board is adverse it does not
necessarily mean the final settle
ment of the matter, as our dele
gates can carry the fight iAto
congress, and might make win
ming after all. Let us wait and
hope for the best.
A clergyman in Forest Grove,
at the commencement exercises
of the Pacific University paic
his respects to the game of foot
ball, and severely reprimandee
those college teams who were
offering money to secure the ser
vices of professional talent CT
their teams. He denounced tn.
practice as ''underhanded ant
disreputable, and urged them, a.
men OF honor, to refuse to pla,
with teams whose lineup is fllet
in this manner The gentle
man announced himself as il
favor of all out door sports, onl,
drawing the line a intercollegiate
football as now practiced. H
also intimated that such cours
practically shut, out the smal
colleges, leaving it to be inferre
that they hadn't the coin to pu
put up themselves. This re
minds US of the old gentleman
who on his dying bed gave hi
last parting advice to his sor
'Johnny, honesty is the bes
policy. I've tried both.
The great, sympathetic heal
humanity continues to beat, an
the pulses of the Christian worl
Indignantly to throb, at the tale
of Turkish atrocities which con
stantly fill the columns of tn
dallles. In one town eightee:
children were thrown into a
oven and baked to death. i
another two hundred women an,
children were massacred in re.
venge for the killing of on
Turk. These acts almost equa
in cruelty and heartlessness tn
atrocities committed by the Ger
mans and English in Tientsin
during the memorable Boxer Re
bellion, when Christian Europ
and America sent their armies +
teach the heather of China les
sor in modern civilization, an,
China learned the lesson at th
expense of a million lives. Tru
ly the world is growing no bet
ter very fast, and it still make
all the difference in the worlt
whose OK is gored.
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The gambling graft seems t.
be the question of the hour il
Portland. We are inclined t.
think that the stand taken b,
Mayor Williams is the correc
one. The question resolves it
self into choice of evils, wheth
er it is better to have corrupte,
system of government with tn
gamblers money going to corrupt
ed officials, or a system unde
which the gamblers should pa,
their money into the city treasury
Earnest and honest efforts hav
been made by the city govern
mcnt to suppress gambling
Men have been arrested, bu
every one of them acquitted. Il
fact, not a single conviction wa
obtained. Its only result was t,
drive gambling behind close,
doors, and to degenerate square
games into system of robbing
If Dr.. Hill and DR.. House, AM
the rest of their organization
will reform their own followers t,
the extent of preventing then
from the practice of playin.
tie sic tmachines when they bu,
their morning cigar. and from