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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1890)
BE7 1 4 t Editoii. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1890. KDITOltlAI, XOTKh. ,A i,aii(ik deposit of ghfs sand has ' been discovered nenr the mouth of 'QWia river, Washington, which it is . , . , in. glass factory. Thk Baker City Blade expresses the opinion of everybody whci it gays: "It would be a good two-to-one bet that half of the bona fide residents of eastern Oregon have not been enumerated." Thk United States Treasury is now empty. Tho bugbear of a surplus does not trouble tho American citizen. Be fore Harrison's administration is over tho government will be borrowing money. lv I were going to draw a picture of the United States government at the present time, I would make a per simmon tree with 05,000,000 people under it, each with a long pole. West Shore. W. P. Guuss who made such a suc cessful failure in trying to run a demo cratic paper at La Grande recently is now going to start a Republican paper at Woiser. Thero are lots of things that Mr. Glenn is better fitted for than running a newspaper. Hknky Villain) has made a prophe cy. It is that within ive years every kind of machinery will bo propelled by electricity, and thero will not be a ateam locomotive engine on any mil road in tho Union. He declares it as if he know it for a fact that marvelous improvements in electricity as a mo tive power nro on tho point of being introduced. Thk Daily Signal, published by Ivanhoo & Wellis, at Enterprise, agrco ably surprised us by making its ap pearance at tho sanctum of Tin: Scott this week. Its aim is to chronicle daily all tho local news in tho vicinity where it is published, and judging from tho first number the aim is being ful filled. May tho Daily Signal grow and keep apaco with tho thriving little city in which it is published is Tin: Scout'h greeting. Lkt us have reciprocity (freo trade) with South Amorica. I think friendly bartor tho highest form of protection and tho host way to promote trade. James G. Blaino. Tho wiley Jim is getting to bo quite a freo trader in his old days. I Io can see about as far ahead as any one and is evidently trim ming his Bails to run before tho galo that will swoop over tho country in 185)2. Ho cannot steal Cleveland's thunder and thero is no use for him to try. Thk Philadelphia Times says: It is charged that Blaino's reciprocity theory moans freo wool and freo iron ores for tho languishing manufactures of Now England. Of courso it does, and it would bu valueless if it meant anything else. 4 Ho sees what tho less or party leaders either can't or won't sco viz : that wo must have froo raw materials oven to save our home mar ket to our homo industries, and that tho utmost cheapness of product con sistent with well paid labor must bo at tained to enable our industries to ou ter tho markets of tho world. Tin: Daily Champion, of Atchison, Kan., founded and edited by tho lato Gov. John A. Martin, canto out square ly a fow days ago for freo trade. For thirty years it has been a stalwatt Republican organ and tho active do fender of the protective idea. While still maintaining its Republican prin ciples it says to-day that tho West has no nso for protection. "Tho Western farmer," it says, "has no intorest what ever in a protective tarill'. His intor est lios in tho direction of freo trade and access to all markets wherever his products may ho in demund." Chnhi's Supervisor Strange, in try ing to Hinootho over tho outrageous re sults nf the census taken under his supervision has written a lotter to Superintendent Porter in which among other things, ho states "I have yet to bco tho first complaint from a paper in this district after tho work was com pleted," Thn fact is thero is hardly a paper in tho district but what has com plained and expressed its dissaproval freely with tho exception of the l.a Grande Gazette Strango has evident ly iot read tho newspapers recently. Wo hardly think that a Sunday wjhool ' teacher and as pious a man a he it . ifi . would Ho about it. Amos K. .Tonus. A aiKUITnl) OIIASTlSaiKNT. The Portland Orugoninn speaking of the alleged census recently taken in Eastern Oregon snys: Mr Strange the suporvitor for the eastern district, joins Mr. ItruM in the hopeless attempt to defend the inde fensible hotch the throe official incapa hles have made of the ccnetis of Oregon. Mr. Kelly, whose work in the western hiil It la KnifStio 1i!tn in j . ... ! . , comparison with the-other, is silent so far. Mr. Strange, would bettor have been silent than to attract ne v notice to tho supreme and climacteric failure of a life not distinguished for brilliant success. Mr. Strange, wo believe, has been a school teacher, a dentist, ti doc tor, a lawyer, a politician and finally an editor, and failed in every capacity, but tho monument failure of his life was his attempt to take the census of Eastern Oregon. Tho vote, the school census, all collateral evidence, shows that the population of Eastern Oregon on a fair count would have been at least 20,000 more than Mr. Strange gives it. Eastern Oregon owes this loss of pres tige which was its due, owes the proba ble loss of a direct representative in congress, first to Mr. Strange, then to the senators who satisfied his lifo-long itch for ofiico with the pettiest crumb at their disposal, if Mr. Strange had valued tho office of census supervisor for any thing oW than tho insignificant revenue it yields; if lie had felt any pride in making a justly favorable showing foi his state; and if that pride had aroused in him a proper energy and spirit, he would have given Eastern Oregon 00,000 instead of 70,000. J lis statement that the people aro satisfied with his work, is contradicted by all the evidence open to the public. Nearly all the important cities in his district have telegraphed protests to Washington. Nearly every paper that comes to this ofiico from Eastern Ore gon denounces the census there as inollicint and imperfect, and laments the consequent loss of prestige and re presentation. If this is tho way Eastern Oiegon behaves when it is pleased, what would it do to Mr. Strange if it wore to become discontented? A COI.OKKI) .MAN'.- OI'INION. Thomas W. Swann, a prominent and intelligent colored man, writes as follows of tho probable results to the negroes of tho passage and enforce ment of tho pending Force bill: "What has tho negro to gain by all this stiifo and commotion? What bonofit can ho possibly rceoivo by being brought in antagonism with the whites? llow can tho Eorce bill bene fit him? Has the Republican party ever failed to affiliate- with tho rebel whites when t hoy could be used? And have not many of thorn been hon ored? And now look at the kind of rebels, somo of whom bceamo Repub licans because it was better for thoir necks, the execution of Worlz striking' terror to thoir hearts. Tho guerrilla chief, Mosby, who ravaged his own sec tion, ami who did not take any priso ners if tho shorter method was handy ; Longsttrot, who hung a squad of Union soldiers at Plymouth, N. C. ; Chalmers, who slaughtered tho negro at Fort Pillow have been honored as also Whcolor, Mahone, Orr, and others, hut tho black man U wanted simply to vote. I care nothing for any special party. As a black man I insist that tho Rep ublican party is doing him more harm by tho Korea bill than by any other measure. It will deprive him of his ballot by 'voting hint and counting him,' irrespective of his preference. His ballot will be counted by men who caro nothing for the negro but only for tho parly. It will bring down on tho negro tho hatred of tho while, and tho result will bo that ho will be re placed by white labor, just as is being done by his Republican friends in tho North, who have crowded him out of every workshop, and every industry except tho waiter, tho footman and tho kitchen. The protended friendship and pro tection of the black man is simply hy pocrisy. Tho object of tho Force bill is party ascendency, and tho 'colored' brother is only an excuse, and ho will gain nothing by it, although ho will have much to lose. It is an outrage on tho 'poor black man' as well as up on all truo Americans." MMMMMMMMIMOO TWO KIMI.S Of KniTOHS. Kditors are of two kinda, the lcgllt mate and tho illegitimate. The rim- j mous of tho legitimate editor are tho 1 product of his own fertile braiu and air clothed in his own peculiar language. ; Tho illegitimate editor i an udept at ! manipulating nriHor, and nine out of owrv ti'ii f lb.' Mitii'b ai'pt'.uing on hi idci I'-IL'' H' lb ' ll '11- l'.' t' '! ( (!u f oi nit' i'i in.T , w ii. ' r 'i'ii . i l i i . . - I I tiuiu mid thullght tupiiJuii, Hiu'iitl Eastern Oregon editors arc addicted to this habit of unccrimoniously taking from thoir exchanges articles of more or less merit, and publishing them rrrbatim el literatim, without giving credit to the source from which they came. The particular person to whom Thk Stout alludes presides at tho helm of o Baker City daily, and it is a safe assertion that original editorials in his paper are as scarce as teeth in a hen's mouth. The editor-in-chief of Tin: Hroi;T has been off duty for the past three weeks, and it is certainly not very encouraging to tho person in charge during the absence of tho edi tor who is aspiring to gain a promi nent place in tho literary field, to see his efi'usions published in other jour nals ns the product of their labor, with out having any credit therefor. It is not a penitentiary ofi'ense to assume the authorship of another's article, but the rules of journalism dictate that it should not be done, and it is high time the aforesaid Baker City editor should make the discovery. now it is noxK. The Pittsburg Post says: "Wc have before us a circular from one of these claim agents who is 'hustling' for his ten dollar fee, which after stating va rious inducements for tho recipient of it to apply for a pension, explains that there is nothing to pay 'until you get your pension,' and that tho claim agent will take his chances for the if 10 for 'the Pension Office is now under splendid management.' But the most significant paragraph is this : 'Understand, you do not have to prove that you contracted a disease or disability during your army service. Aro you disabled now? That is the question. It has been twenty-five years since the war closed, and what veteran now living is there who is freo from some kind of disability to-day.' What a vista of perjury and fraud this opens up! Docs it not fully sus tain Bishop Potter's criticism that the least deleterious cfi'ect will be tho de pletion of the Treasury? It is aimed at manhood and honesty." Tin: Scout is in receipt of a letter from tho same fellow who generously oilers to "divide a big thing" with ns if we will use our ellbrts in scaring up as many cripples and decrepit men in this section of the country as possible. Verily this government, under tho re publican party management is going to the diminutive bow-wow's very rap idlv. re TlIIRTIiliXTlI ANNUAL EXHIBITION Under tho management of tho Oregon State JJoord of Agriculture, will be held on tho Mate fair grounds near Sa lem, commencing on Hominy, September l f, '00 And lustini; one week,- CASH PI.KMIUM.S Ottered for agricultural, flock and me chanical exhibits, for works of art and fttnoy work and for trials of speed. Kaducod rates for faro and freight on nil tritnsimrtution linos to and from the fair. I iiiporlant improvements have been made upon the grounds ami increased facilities aro ottered exhibitors. E PAVILION will be open four nights during tho week. A splendid Held of horses entered in tho t-peed duimrtimmt, ami line exhibitions of racing will bo given each day. TJntrlet for premiums ulose Monday at T:30. in, IJxhtblUirs aro urired to innke in many of Uieir entrltw on Saturday be fore the fair a pomtblo. woods, mihntiU mid urtii h i. (or exhibition must bo in their ll.uii io p.m. on Monday, minis or admission. M m tiny Uekel Woman' day ticket. Mttu' m)uoii ticket Woman souou ticket in! li' tin' m i'. t tar) u i f ii .i if hiuiii i-i '. Ah' if'.' .VI jl 00 ut I'arllaiut, Ore- 11 II I OON'KY. 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