Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

EDITORIAL COMMENT.
We wonder if there is any real necessity for low
ering the asbestos curtain between the Chamber
lain vice presidential boom and the democratic
party.
The name of the president who pulled dowr
the flag in Hawaii is Grover Cleveland. And th
is claimed to be the best that democracy offe
to the loyalty Of the country.
A republican congress is another name for wis,
national progress. 1t is the best express ion of the
genius of the American people. The duty we owe
to posterity is to maintain it in its integrity.
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Nothing like taking advantage of your oppor
tunities as they turn up. The Mormon elders who
proselyting in Idaho encouraging the '1eaI
year doctrine" Now, ladies, speak up lively.
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Fresh-laid eggs are like gold dollars; they are
either good or bad. There is no middle GROUND
for them to occupy When all right each has
standing value that nothing take away from
it. When bad they worthless, except in King:
Valley, where they are found useful in enforcing
needed lessons in the social status of visitors.
Delaware witnessed on Saturday last, an act O.
justice for which she is to be commended. brute
by the name of Corbett Lee, at Newcastle in that
State, was fastened to the whipping post and
received ten lashes. we'll laid on, for wife beating
This is to be followed up by month in prison
The gentleman probably deserved what he got
and we hope he enjoyed it.
Isn't it strange that the first thought with
which democratic politician approaches any sub
ect of national interest to whether any polit
cal capital can be made out of it. There is nc
thought as to how the interests of the United
States are advanced by any policy which the ad
ministration has adopted; the one question eve,
present in the democratic mind is whether the Incl
dent cannot be distorted in son1e manner to the
purpose of exciting some prejudice in some minds
against the administration. What misfortune il
must be to be democrat, anyhow!
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One of the most fascinating myths of our child
hood days was certainly the story of Atlantis-the
tabled continent which was said to exist in the At
lantic ocean, between, America and Europe.
How the Imagination reveed in the wondrous tales
of its spendor and its power, its palaces and its
pyramids. How fancy run riot in picturing its
marvels. But the inconoclastc hand of science is
tumbling traditions about our ears. The fairy
tales of myth and fable, the dim traditions of an
almost forgotten past-the haunting memories Of
vague and shadowy legends, are, by the aid Of
modern science and research, shaping themselves
into actual historical facts. Recent paleontoogi.
cal researches have established the fact of there
having really existed an Atlantis-a land connec
tion between Europe and America-in the ter.
tary period. This was continent says the early
Egyptian records, lying against the Pillars o.
Hercules, in extent greater than I4ibya and Asia
put together, and was the passage to other islands,
and to another continent of which the Mediter
Tanean Sea was only the harbor and that within
the pillar of the empire OF Atlantis reached te
Egypt and Tyrrhenia. A little while later there
earthquake, and the great island of Allan
tbs with its o4 COO, 900 Inhabitants sank beneath
the sea. From this continent branching out from
the Mediterranean, Europe-and Africa received it
6rst people and its hrst civilization; civilization
that has left its impress on Egyptian history, ane
which the boasted progress of two thousand year
has hardly eaualed and seldom surpassed. Atlantis
is of the stern and stubborn facts of histor,
and cannot be ignored