Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-21
PHILoMArH, o t17, 1904.

seen fit to make liquor license an
issue in the approaching election
lit becomes us as citizens inter
!ested in the public welfare to care
fully investigate the wisdom of
the policy of the past and the
proposed innovation to the time
honored custom, for it is said
that when policy prevails SO
long that the mind of man goeth
not to the contrary that the
policy becomes law. | do not
suppose that any one has any
thing against the liquor deal
er as such, for as electors
they are as good as those
who vote the same policy and
stand for the license SYSTEM.
The phases Of the liquor traffic
are as numerous as the facets OF
the rehectors of the kaleidoscope;
but in this article we only want
to consider its effect on our in-
stitutions of learAing. ~
A few years ago was secre-
tary of the Intercollegiate Asso-
cation of Oregon and at one OF
/ its sessions resolution was in
troduced and passed unanimous
Ily asking the several boards OF
regents and trustees of the lnsti-
tutions of higher education in
Oregon to join in a petition to
our State legislature to pass law
forbidding the licensing of sa-
looms within five miles of any in
stitution of secondary education
in Oregon. While the resolu-
ton was pending and under dis
cussion the president of the Ore
gon Agricultural College made a
strong plea for the. resolution
saying among other things that
in his canvass for students
throughout the state he found
many parents who absolutely re-
fused to send their children to
the OAC because of the tempta-
tions thrown in the way of young
people by the saloons of Corvallis.
And in canvassing for students
for Philsmath College I can say
that 1 have found many parents
who said that they would like
very much to avail themselves of
the excellent facilities of the OAC
for the education of their child
rem, but could not afford to sub
iiect them to the pernicious in
huences:: of the saloons ef Cot
wallis. 1t am sure that the pa
tronage of the OAC would be
largely increased, by the enact
ment OF the proposed policy.
The faculty of Philomath Col
lege has been put to more tiou-
BILE from drunkenness caused by
liquor obtained from saloons of
Corvallis than from all other
causes put together. am salts
fed that the city council of Cor
wallis is not cognizant OF that
fact for they recognize the uni
versal principle that one mans
rights cease where the other
mans rights begin; that they
would not barter away the III
terests of these two institutions
of learning for the paltry license
fees paid into the city treasury.
Nightwatch Osburn told me
ilastspring that the city required
him to visit each saloon every
night for said he, you know i
there is any devilment brewins
lit is sure to be in the saloons
The brewery brews beer and the
beer devilment, according to the
testimony of the nlghtwatch, ane
in popular parlance we woule
, say his head is level. 1nstitu
tions that brew deviltry do no
!. make good environment for ir
J stitutions of education. If there i!
one professor of the OAC wht
: thinks that saloons are beneh
to that institution I would like t
have him state the fact and rea
sons for so thinking and pu
itover his signature and give i
to the public; it would Civ
: some comfort to Bishop Potter.